Several German parties, including the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have expressed support for allowing public broadcasts of the Islamic call to prayer during Ramadan across Germany.
President Donald Trump criticized Democrats for their recent turn toward the anti-Israel left on Saturday, during a White House press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic.
Mosques across Austria will remain closed until April 30th, despite the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starting a week before the lockdown is due to be lifted.
A 70-year-old cleric died in Iraq on Wednesday, just hours after being confirmed as a carrier of Chinese coronavirus, making him the first Iraqi fatality.
Five mosques were used as Iowa Democrat Caucus sites for the first time in United States history in an attempt to drive up voter participation among Muslim voters.
Radical Islamic imam Abu Ramadan, a migrant from Libya, is accused of illegally obtaining as much as 590,000 Swiss francs (£455,335/$596,700) between 2003 and 2017.
“Ramadan is a holy month for Muslims here in the United States and all across the world,” Trump said, giving the traditional greeting for the season, “Ramadan Kareem.”
Berlin (AFP) – Support is growing in Germany for a “mosque tax” to make Islamic institutions less dependent on potentially anti-democratic or “radical” foreign funding sources.
Sri Lanka deployed thousands of security forces on Friday to protect mosques and other worshipping centers across the island nation against potential retaliatory violence in the wake of the jihadi suicide bombings against Christians on Easter Sunday.
The parents of a young boy have received a fine from a German court after they prevented their child from going to school to avoid a trip to a local mosque.
Hawk-eyed social media users and international outlets confirmed this week, using satellite images from services such as Google Earth, that several iconic mosques in China’s Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang no longer exist, suggesting that the communist government has launched a campaign to raze some of the region’s most culturally significant architecture.
West Midlands Police’s counterterrorism unit is investigating after five mosques in the Birmingham area were vandalised.
Trump was asked by reporters if he believed that white nationalism was a “rising threat around the world.”
The German government is considering a new “mosque tax” for the German Muslim community to pay for its own mosques rather than rely on foreign funding.
An association of mosques in The Netherlands has demanded Twitter take down Geert Wilders’ account, threatening legal action if the social media giant does not comply.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told attendees at an event Thursday that the government, and its Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) specifically, must do a better job of encouraging men and women to pray together at mosques, calling that segregation of sexes a “wrong taboo.”
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked Austria’s impending closure of mosques and consequent expulsion of Turkish-funded imams, saying the move is anti-Islamic while promising a response.
Authorities in the Rwandan capital of Kigali have banned Mosques from using loudspeakers during the Muslim call to prayer.
Muslims in Sweden have applied for permission to broadcast the call to prayer, claiming the move would boost community self-esteem and assist with integration.
Switzerland’s legislature has voted to ban the foreign funding of mosques, including from Saudi Arabia, as well as to force mosques to use local languages instead of Arabic or other foreign tongues.
The loudspeakers of a Mée-sur-Seine mosque blasting out prayers and songs in the early hours of the morning through Ramadan caused chaos with the sleep patterns of Parisians living in the French capital’s south-eastern suburb, locals have said.
PARIS — A major human rights group has blasted the French government for a proposed law aimed at countering Islamic terror attacks, alleging that it undermines human rights as well as the rule of law.
For years, Egyptian Copt Michel Fahmy could hear a Muslim preacher invoking God’s wrath on Christians in sermons blared over loudspeakers from a mosque near his home.
UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has called on the government to block Saudi Arabian funding of UK mosques following Wednesday’s “Islamist inspired” terror attack in London that resulted in four dead and 40 more injured.
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Friday denounced planned Israeli legislation that would quieten mosques, warning such a law would face stiff resistance.
Muslim imams in Italy will be enrolled onto courses to teach them about the nation’s constitution and its values, such as free speech, tolerance, and pluralism.
German lawmakers have called for an investigation of Turkish intelligence operations in their country, specifically charging that Turkey is spying on suspected followers of exiled cleric and accused coup mastermind Fethullah Gulen.
TEL AVIV – A Saudi academic has called on Muslims to adapt themselves to the modern age by reforming mosques to be more like churches, with mixed prayers, seating and dim lighting, and to change the “fanatical and sexualized” perception
TEL AVIV – Following the Knesset’s initial approval of the “muezzin bill,” a piece of legislation prohibiting loud noise at places of worship, a Druze Israeli-Arab came out in support of the bill, saying that mosque muezzin speakers disturbs the Arab and Muslim public as well.
On Saturday, the Greater Los Angeles Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called for extra police protection at local mosques after three letters referring to Muslims as “Children of Satan,” and which referenced President-elect Donald Trump, were allegedly sent to three California mosques.
Despite a major Muslim protest at the Colosseum against the closure of illegal mosques, Rome police have continued shutting down so-called “garage mosques,” and now Muslims are threatening to invade Saint Peter’s Basilica to pray there.
TEL AVIV – Kuwaiti writer and film producer Tareq Baddar has slammed Islamic preachers who incite against Jews in mosques and who claim that Jews spread evil in the world while ignoring Muslims who spread terror and pornography among other sins.
TEL AVIV – Israel Police’s most recent security assessment may allow Israeli lawmakers and cabinet ministers to resume visits to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem a year after a ban was implemented, although no final decision has been made.
TEL AVIV – Elements of the Egyptian press are slamming the country’s supreme religious authority, Al Azhar institutions, for continuing to cultivate extremism despite the authority’s claim that it welcomes President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s call for a religious revolution to combat extremist Islamist ideology.
A prominent German architect has said that in order to better integrate migrants, churches should be demolished and very “visible” mosques be built in their place. Interviewed in Die Tageszeitung, Joaquim Reinig said he believes Hamburg needs to build more
A German city has decided to give away land worth €850,000 to Muslims for free so they can build mosques with minarets up to 65 feet high. The city of Monheim am Rhein has announced that it will be handing
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated his suggestion to ban Muslims from entering the United States until a proper vetting system is put into place and the need to surveillance mosques in order to prevent terrorism during his campaign rally on Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia.
GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday called on Democrat Party presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton to return the many millions the Clinton Foundation received from Saudi Arabia, in light of Clinton’s claims that she is supportive of women and gays.
The Times of Israel reports: A bill that would bar mosques from broadcasting the call to prayer on loudspeaker systems was withdrawn by its sponsor. Knesset member Moti Yogev of the Jewish Home party withdrew the bill on Sunday before
A bill that would bar mosques from broadcasting the call to prayer on loudspeaker systems is set to come before Israel’s Knesset. The Ministerial Committee on Legislation will vote on the bill Sunday, Reuters reported.