(Anadolu) A French court on Wednesday annulled the government’s decision to close a mosque near the city of Bordeaux. Sefen Guez Guez, the lawyer of the association of the Al Farouk Mosque, said that the Bordeaux Administrative Court annulled the Gironde governorate’s […]
(Anadolu) France has shut down a mosque for a six-month period amid an ongoing drive against Muslims and their places of worship. The Al-Farouk Mosque in Pessac district near the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France was closed for allegedly defending “radical […]
(Anadolu) Austria’s Greens party continued to take public criticism on Wednesday over an alleged coalition agreement to ban headscarves for teachers in schools. Recently leaked documents suggested that the Greens had engaged in an undisclosed deal with the Austrian People’s Party (OVP) […]
(Anadolu) Canada on Saturday announced its intention to appoint a special representative on combatting Islamophobia as part of the country’s anti-racism strategy, five years after a deadly mosque shooting in Quebec. “This year, on the eve of the five-year anniversary of this […]
(Anadolu) The French region of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes suspended subsidies for a street-art festival in Grenoble because of a mural of a woman wearing a hijab. The region said in a statement that the mural was “provocative” and “unacceptable.” It argued that it only […]
(Anadolu) A young Muslim student accused France’s foremost legal institution of Islamophobia after being threatened with expulsion from an oath ceremony for wearing a headscarf. Graduating lawyer Sara, who only revealed her first name, told Revolution Permanente, a far-left digital news site, […]
(Anadolu) Police in the northern French city of Calais clashed with migrants Thursday morning as the officers stood at the ready, securing an area that is often an exit point for asylum seekers fleeing through the Channel Tunnel to the UK. Fifteen […]
(Anadolu) Sweden granted at least 27,340 citizenships to Syrians in 2021, the country’s migration agency said on Friday. According to [the] Swedish Migration Agency’s report, 85,000 people were granted Swedish citizenship during the year. At least 4,067 Somalis and 3,471 Eritreans also […]
(Anadolu) Turkey attaches importance to healthy and strong relations with the Muslim community in the US, the country’s presidential spokesman said on Tuesday. Ibrahim Kalin’s remarks came at the gala dinner of the Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America […]
(Anadolu) The Muslim community in Belgium will appeal at the European Court of Human Rights against the ban on ritual halal animal slaughtering. “The Belgian Muslim Executive and the Coordination Council of Islamic Institutions of Belgium will challenge at the European Court […]
(Anadolu) Former members of the Daesh/ISIS terror group and their families in camps and prisons of northeastern Syria mean “a ticking bomb” for European security, the EU’s new counter-terrorism chief said on Tuesday. Speaking for the first time at the European Parliament’s […]
(Anadolu) France will close seven more mosques and associations by the end of this year suspected of promoting “radical Islamism,” the country’s interior minister announced Tuesday. Gerald Darmanin welcomed the decision to close a mosque in the city of Allonnes for six […]
(Anadolu) A court in northern Greece has postponed the trial of a religious leader of the country’s Muslim Turkish minority elected in defiance of Greek authorities who have sought to appoint the holder of [the] post. Ibrahim Serif, the elected mufti of […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the soon-to-open Turkevi Center on Sunday for a brief survey, shortly after landing in New York. Erdogan is in New York to attend the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. He was […]
(Anadolu) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies. Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: “I have started the termination process due to some […]
(Anadolu) Politicians in Germany are calling on members of the Turkish community to cast their vote in elections next week to make their voice heard in national politics. “Regardless of which democratic party they support, I am calling on all citizens of […]
(Anadolu) Greece must put an end to its interventionist practices and policies of pressure against Muslim religious leaders elected by the Turkish minority in Western Thrace, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Saturday. Mevlut Cavusoglu’s statement came on Twitter after Ibrahim Serif, the […]
(Anadolu) Muslim groups in the US voiced support for the country’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) released a written statement late Tuesday, hailing President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw the US military from Afghanistan by the Aug. […]
(Anadolu) In a violation of longstanding treaties, Greece on Monday decided to close 12 more schools serving the country’s Muslim Turkish minority, claiming there are too few students. Under an Education Ministry decree, eight schools in Rhodope (Rodop) and four schools in […]
(Anadolu) The controversial anti-separatism bill in France limits the existence and rights of Muslims, a French Muslim human rights activist said on Sunday. “The anti-separatism bill completely limits the right to organization and the existence of Muslims as people who have Islamic […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s communications director on Saturday criticized France’s parliament for passing a controversial bill, stressing that it would further marginalize Muslims and other religious minorities. Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter that though France claims to be based on the principles of freedom, […]
(Anadolu) The imam of a mosque in France’s Loire region was dismissed at the behest of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, on the grounds that the verse and hadith the former recited in the Eid al-Adha prayer sermon were deemed “contrary to the […]
(Anadolu) Turkey on Sunday condemned a top EU court ruling allowing companies in member states to ban employees from wearing headscarves. The Foreign Ministry said in a written statement that the decision by the European Court of Justice is an “open violation […]
(Anadolu) A British MP has defended the honor of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in an impassioned speech in Parliament, highlighting the emotional stress and harm caused to Muslims across the world by the offensive cartoons and caricatures repeatedly published in Europe. Naz Shah, […]
(Anadolu) France’s Senate adopted a controversial bill early Wednesday aimed at strengthening anti-terrorism measures and intelligence with provisions to shut down places of worship and blocking access to the state’s secret archives to strengthen internal security. The bill, which was approved by […]
(Anadolu) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Tuesday urged US President Joe Biden to condemn Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes and businesses in East Jerusalem. The nation’s largest Muslim advocacy organization also urged Washington to pressure Israel to stop all appropriation […]
(Anadolu) A top polling official during France’s regional elections last Sunday was demoted from her post for wearing a headscarf, according to official statements and French local media. Rachida Kabbouri, a Muslim municipal councilor of the European Ecology — The Greens (EELV) […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Sunday met with representatives of the Muslim Turkish minority in the Western Thrace region of Greece. Arriving in Greece on a two-day visit, Cavusoglu was welcomed by Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal, Turkey’s Ambassador to […]
(Anadolu) The disease of Islamophobia is making Europe into an open-air prison for the millions of Muslims living there, warned Turkey’s president on Wednesday. “The virus of Islamophobia, which is as dangerous as the coronavirus, is spreading rapidly, especially in European countries,” […]
(Anadolu) American Muslim organizations on Sunday strongly condemned Israeli violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has left hundreds of Palestinians injured during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In a statement, the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) said it denounced the […]
(Anadolu) A senior Turkish diplomat on Wednesday visited Thessaloniki, a multiethnic Greek city with deep significance for both Ottoman and Turkish history. Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran was met at the city’s airport by Turkey’s Ambassador to Athens Burak Ozugergin and […]
(Anadolu) A leading US Muslim advocacy group said on Monday it saw a 9% increase in the number of complaints it received in 2020 compared to the previous year. In all, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it received 6,144 complaints […]
(Anadolu) France will bring a new anti-terrorism legislation specifically devoted to intelligence, in the wake of recent attacks carried out by lone, radicalized individuals, the interior minister announced. The bill will be tabled on April 28 at the request of President Emmanuel […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday condemned the latest move by Greece on appointing the chief mufti and Athens’ treatment of Turkish descendants in Western Thrace. “Under Treaty of Lausanne, Greece has no right to appoint the chief mufti for […]
(Anadolu) Comments by Greece’s foreign minister regarding the identity of the Muslim Turkish minority in Western Thrace during a visit to Ankara drew strong reactions from the group’s minority institutions and organizations. “It is unacceptable to us that our Foreign Minister Mr. […]
(Anadolu) Athens has “no right” to appoint the chief Islamic cleric, or mufti, of Muslims living in Greece according to the Treaty of Lausanne, Turkey’s president said on Friday. “How can you do that? We don’t appoint the patriarch,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
(Anadolu) Amnesty France on Tuesday urged the Macron government to withdraw discriminatory provisions adopted in an amended version of a controversial bill confirming respect for the principles of the Republic that targets the French Muslim population. The rights group expressed concerns about […]
(Anadolu) The Turkish president on Sunday said that the Western countries do not want to acknowledge the reality of [the] Turkish diaspora getting stronger. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said they never doubted that Turks and Muslims would take a much more visible place […]
(Anadolu) France’s Senate approved the addition of a ban on religious practices in university corridors to a controversial bill to fight “Islamist separatism” late Wednesday. Discussing the draft bill, which has been criticized for alienating Muslims, the center-right Republicans (LR) party proposed […]
(Anadolu) France’s interior minister on Wednesday criticized two legal amendments adopted by lawmakers prohibiting parents from wearing visible religious symbols while accompanying their children on school trips and allowing public swimming pools to ban “burkini” swimwear. Gerald Darmanin said the measures, approved […]
(Anadolu) The International Union [of] Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Saturday decried a French government request for mosque imams to recommend same-sex marriage as a double standard against Islam. In a Facebook post addressed to French Minister of Citizenship Marlène Schiappa, IUMS Secretary-General […]
(Anadolu) Ankara on Wednesday denounced recent remarks by the French president about Turkey and its leader, calling them “unacceptable.” “We find the statements by French President [Emmanuel] Macron, which he gave in response to the deliberate questions asked in the program and […]
(Anadolu) Protests continued across France on Sunday against Islamophobia and a controversial bill that has been criticized for targeting Muslims. Demonstrators took to streets in the capital Paris, Marseille, Lille, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Lyon. Chanting slogans against Islamophobia, the crowd marched from […]
(Anadolu) Turkey has deported a total of 2,764 foreign [terrorist] fighters (FTFs) of 67 different nationalities since 2019, the country’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the FTFs had left their home countries to join ranks of […]
(Anadolu) Five years since signing a landmark migration agreement with the EU grappling with successive waves of asylum seekers fleeing conflict and persecution, Turkey now seeks to revise the deal, arguing that the bloc has failed to keep its promises. The deal […]
(Anadolu) The human rights board of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Saturday strongly condemned last Sunday’s referendum in Switzerland passing a ban of facial coverings. On Twitter, the OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) said it “strongly condemns Swiss […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s president on Monday criticized the EU’s double standard of supporting Greece on the issue of migrants but not sharing responsibility for 4 million refugees hosted by Turkey. “While the EU gives Greece €3 billion [$3.65 billion] for 100,000 refugees, it […]
(Anadolu) Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey’s president. Prosecutors in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe of Wilders, who heads the Dutch Party […]
(Anadolu) The Grand Mosque of Pantin near Paris, closed as part of a crackdown against radical Muslims by the French government in the aftermath of history teacher Samuel Paty’s assassination, will soon be reopened, the interior minister announced Monday. The mosque was […]
(Anadolu) A special commission in the French National Assembly approved the “charter of republican values” which was announced earlier by the nation’s president as the fight against Islamist separatism. The bill was introduced Oct. 2 by Emmanuel Macron to fight so-called “Islamist […]
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