There isn’t much love for Valentine’s Day in certain quarters of Indonesia. As Channel NewsAsia reports, the holiday is routinely denounced as an example of “Western decadence” by “Islamic clerics and some pious Muslims.”
High street department store Debenhams will become the first major high street outlet in the United Kingdom to sell the hijab, a traditional Muslim headscarf which leaves the face partially uncovered.
“Self-segregation has become a reality” in Australia, says Senator Malcolm Roberts, with people “fleeing areas of heavy migrant settlement, especially Islamic settlement”.
Actress Lindsay Lohan has invited President Donald Trump for a tour of the refugee camps in Turkey in which she has worked in recent months, saying in an interview that the experience would help him better understand the plight of Syrian refugees.
On Monday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow asked for Deputy Assistant to the President Dr. Sebastian Gorka’s assessment of radical Islam and its position in the world today, compared to its influence on the morning of September 11, 2001. “Is radical Islam stronger now as a movement, or has it been weakened since 9/11?” he aske
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — “Islamophobia” in parts of the world is fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia Sunday, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some countries.
Norway’s former ambassador to Saudi Arabia claims the Gulf kingdom has had “a tremendous influence on the spread of the Islamist ideology”, but fears that the West is turning a blind eye.
The new Bollywood film Raees is on track to be one of the year’s biggest films in India. According to the Times of India, it is the third-biggest film of the year. However, it will not be playing in Pakistan, where the government has banned it for “not showing the real face of Islam.”
Islam has taken its first step towards becoming an officially recognised religion in Italy, with major Muslim groups signing up to a government demand that all imams are registered and preach in the Italian language.
The only known, living terrorist connected to the May 2015 attack at the Muhammad Art contest in Texas, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Prosecutors had been asking for a life sentence. Kareem, whose given name is Decarus Thomas, is a former Baptist who converted to Islam.
The Seattle judge who has temporarily banned the White House’s refugee reform mistakenly claimed the federal government has not arrested jihadi migrants from the seven Muslim majority countries covered by the reform.
Almost seven out 10 Democrats believe Islam “encourages violence… about the same as other religions,” according to a new CBS poll.
An estimated 20,000 Muslims gathered in a park in Birmingham, UK for the funeral of Islamic TV channel founder Hazrat Shaykh Qibla Pir Alauddin Siddiqui Sahib, in what has been described as one of the largest funerals the city has ever seen.
CAIRO (AFP) – The father of an Egyptian suspected of being the machete attacker in Paris’s Louvre museum said Saturday his son showed no sign of radicalisation and he believed in his innocence. Reda El-Hamahmy, a retired police general, told AFP he
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s education minister wants to ban gender-segregated classes after last year’s public outcry after a Muslim school was allowed to separate boys and girls for gym classes. Gustav Fridolin says “if there are problems by having
Sunday’s deadly shooting at a Quebec mosque has sparked outcry on Arab social media, with many users claiming the attack represented “Christian terror” even though there have been no significant reports that the shooter was religiously motivated.
An imam with the Victoria Islamic Center is defending President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt refugee resettlement, saying it is about “security for the country.”
A report published this week by the Turkish Association of Protestant Churches warns that persecution and hate speech against Christians of all denominations increased significantly throughout the country in the last year, particularly in the media.
The Democratic National Committee expelled a candidate for the committee’s chairmanship on Tuesday after he said he didn’t believe his rival should become the party’s leader because of his Muslim faith.
In a recent attack, some 90 Muslims stormed a Christian church in eastern Uganda, beating and tying up the men present before raping 15 of the Christian women.
Controversy erupted on social media over Egyptian cleric Dr. Salem Abdel Galil’s remarks that the prophet Muhammad will marry the Virgin Mary, as well as Pharaoh’s wife Asiya and Moses’ sister Miriam in heaven.
The vision behind Trump’s reform of the visa process goes beyond intercepting violent terrorists.
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, strongly disputed accusations that President Trump’s immigration order contains a “religious test” or “bans Muslims.”
JAFFA, Israel – Sunday’s deadly shooting attack against a mosque in Canada shows that Muslims are the victims of an international crusade, contended a Gaza-based former Islamic State militant in an interview with Breitbart Jerusalem.
The government of Pakistan has reportedly blocked a satirical news site inspired by Jon Stewart and The Onion, the same day the site published a joke article mocking the nation’s harsh blasphemy laws.
President Donald Trump debunked high-volume claims from media and left-wing critics who claim his new 90-day visitor safeguard policy is a blanket “Muslim ban.”
In a sign of things to come for the 2020 election, junior Republican Senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse attacked President Donald Trump’s executive order halting refugee resettlement as a “signal” that would empower Islamic jihadists.
Popular YouTube personality and social commentator Sargon of Akkad has been suspended from Twitter following a tweet to an EU official questioning the link between Islamic migration and increased terrorism.
A leading Egyptian cleric irked his Christian compatriots when he said on television that Prophet Mohammed would marry the Virgin Mary in heaven.
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Marxist terrorist group, has reportedly formed a new, armed group made up of members of the Yazidi minority in Iraq, drawing sharp rebuke from the mayor of the Yazidi-majority Iraqi town of Sinjar.
Federal authorities will re-investigate dozens of Syrian refugees living in the United States with potential criminal pasts who slipped through the cracks of the vetting system.
VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s interior minister says suspected Islamic radical detained last week and suspected of planning a possible attack has told interrogators that he built a test bomb. State broadcaster ORF quoted Wolfgang Sobotka as saying the 17-year old
Less than a week after one of the Queen’s Chaplains spoke out against an Islamic Prayer denying the divinity of Jesus Christ being read out in a Scottish Cathedral, the senior churchman has tendered his resignation from that office. Former Chaplain
Members of a radical Islamic advocacy group in Pakistan attacked a peaceful rally calling for police to solve the disappearance of a number of secular activists, who disappeared recently and were later accused of “blasphemy.”
The Turkish government has taken the opportunity of a visit from a high-ranking Japanese official to warn the east Asian country to beware of any ties to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses of running an international terrorist network responsible for a failed coup against him in July.
TheHill newspaper has taken the rare step of removing an op-ed article mocking Hollywood celebrity Lindsay Lohan’s dalliance with Islam, after a flurry of name-calling from Islamic advocates living in the United States.
Gloucester Cathedral has provoked controversy by hosting an event featuring the Islamic call to prayer, as well as Buddhist chanting, Rasta drumming, and a Pagan rock band.
Muslim translators are deliberately misinterpreting migrants who converted to Christianity in order to get them deported, a Berlin pastor has said.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany has published a timeline of authorities’ handling of the Tunisian man who drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and wounding scores. The chronology, published Monday , details Anis Amri’s whereabouts
Pro-illegal immigrant groups across the country protested in major sanctuary city hubs to decry President-Elect Donald Trump’s upcoming Inauguration Ceremony. The sanctuary cities carry out policies to shield illegal immigrants from federal immigration law enforcement officials.
