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Anti-Muslim American Hate Crimes Spiking and Sustaining

New data shows hate crimes against Muslim Americans are at their highest levels since the weeks immediately following the September 11th attacks. Researchers say sentiments coming from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and others cannot be dismissed as contributors to anti-Muslim attacks. More

Anti-Muslim American Hate Crimes Spiking and Sustaining

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3 in 10 French Muslims reject secular laws

A third of France’s Muslims reject the country’s secular laws, a new opinion poll has shown. The findings of the Ifop survey, which were published by the French weekly Journal du Dimanche, show 29% consider the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia to be more important than the French Republic’s laws. More

3 in 10 French Muslims reject secular laws

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Australian politician targets Muslims on parl’t return

“Now we are in danger of being swamped by Muslims who bear a culture and ideology that is incompatible with our own,” Pauline Hanson said in her maiden speech in the Senate on Wednesday. More

Australian politician targets Muslims on parl’t return

Muslim Minority

Florida mosque set ablaze on 9/11 anniversary

A Florida place of worship frequented by the alleged perpetrator of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history was set ablaze on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, officials said Monday. More

Florida mosque set ablaze on 9/11 anniversary

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Women’s boats leave Spain to protest Gaza blockade

An international group of female activists has set sail from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip as part of the latest attempt to end the Israeli blockade. More

Women’s boats leave Spain to protest Gaza blockade

Muslim Minority

Geert Wilders vows to close mosques

Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders has promised to close all mosques and Islamic schools and ban the Qur’an in an online manifesto. More

Geert Wilders vows to close mosques

Muslim Minority

Spain: Niqabi pregnant Muslim woman assaulted

Spanish police said Wednesday they arrested two individuals on hate-crime charges after an alleged assault on a pregnant woman wearing a niqab. More

Spain: Niqabi pregnant Muslim woman assaulted

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9/11 Made Me a Muslim

Fifteen years later, there are reasons to despair about the state of Muslims in America—but still more reasons for optimism about it. More

9/11 Made Me a Muslim

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First Islamic university opens in San Sebastian

The first Islamic university of Spain is opening in San Sebastian in Basque Country at the initiative of the Islamic University of Minnesota in the US, led by Arab theologian and jurist Waleed Al-Maneese. More

First Islamic university opens in San Sebastian

Muslim Minority

Russia stages new armed mask show in Crimean Mosque

Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine, reports that masked and armed OMON riot police turned up at the Mosque on Mokrousov St at around midday on September 5. They blocked all entrances and continued their ‘search’ until late in the evening. More

Russia stages new armed mask show in Crimean Mosque

Muslim Minority

Mandatory music classes hit a bad note with some Muslim parents

When music class begins this week at Toronto’s Donwood Park elementary school, Mohammad Nouman Dasu will send a family member to collect his three young children. They will go home for an hour rather than sing and play instruments – a mandatory part of the Ontario curriculum he believes violates his Muslim faith. More

Mandatory music classes hit a bad note with some Muslim parents

Muslim Minority

Search still on to find new site for Dudley mosque

Muslim leaders have admitted they are ‘frustrated and disappointed’ at being unable to find a site for a major new mosque in a Black Country town. More

Search still on to find new site for Dudley mosque