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A school board member told Justice High School graduates in Fairfax County they are headed to a world rooted in racism and white supremacy.

A Muslim woman has called for Finland’s armed forces to drop the ban on the hijab, arguing that allowing the garment would increase participation in the military.

Uyghur Muslims in China’s western territory of Xinjiang have largely refrained from participating in traditional religious rituals associated with the Islamic holiday of Ramadan such as dawn-to-dusk fasting and increased prayer over the past month due to the Chinese government’s crackdown on Islam in the region.

Muslim countries should unite and form a transnational trade boycott to force the West to pass blasphemy laws that would protect Muhammad from perceived insults, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan proposed Monday.

A Muslim teenager shot dead an Ahmadi homeopathic doctor at his clinic in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday.

The U.S. Department of State praised the Trump-brokered formal establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Muslim-majority Kosovo.

The Vienna government will be holding a security meeting next week following a riot in a migrant-populated district on New Year’s Eve that saw a Christmas tree set on fire by Muslims.

Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and anti-Israel Linda Sarsour were in Georgia to support Democrat Senate candidate Raphael Warnock.

Police in the northern Indian town of Kushinagar halted a marriage ceremony between two Muslims last week and arrested the groom after local residents reported the union to authorities, falsely claiming that the bride was once Hindu, Indian news site The Wire reported on Sunday.

Twenty-three people from five Christian families in southwestern India converted to Hinduism on November 29 in a ceremony presided over by Indian parliament member Anant Kumar Hegde, a local leader representing India’s ruling, Hindu nationalist BJP party, the Times of India reported on Tuesday.

Russian police in the majority Muslim region of Tatarstan shot dead a teenage boy on Friday after he attacked a local police station with Molotov cocktails and stabbed a police officer with a knife, the region’s interior ministry said. Russia’s federal authorities have described the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack.”

A leading Islamic law group in Nigeria accused the country’s Christian clerics on Friday of stoking religious tensions to turn anti-police protests in the city of Lagos into forces of anti-Muslim violence, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported on Friday.

A top Indian jewelry retailer on Tuesday withdrew an advertisement featuring an interfaith Hindu-Muslim baby shower after a backlash on social media by Hindus who said it glorified “love jihad.”

Indonesian police arrested a man on Monday over an allegedly blasphemous TikTok video, in which he claimed that a mosque in the West Java province was blaring music.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has allegedly torn down around 16,000 mosques in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said in a report published on Thursday.

Child rights agency UNICEF on Wednesday called for the Nigerian government to “urgently review the case” of a 13-year-old boy sentenced to ten years in prison for blasphemy last month in majority Muslim Kano State, which practices sharia, the Islamic law.

Local police in the Chinese city of Turpan, Xinjiang, confirmed to Radio Free Asia (RFA) this weekend that at least eight Uyghur concentration camps are operating in the northwestern city. Disney producers thanked Turpan officials in the credits of the recently released film Mulan for help with filming there.

Italy has set its sights on Muslim tourism in its bid to reignite flagging travel, launching an ambitious “Italy Muslim Friendly” project to lure more Muslims into the Bel Paese.

A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday sentenced a Christian man to death on charges of “blasphemy.”

The security authorities, it turns out, had numerous ‘missed opportunities’ to spot the threat posed by Libyan suicide bomber Salman Abedi.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), civil rights attorneys, and advocate organizations had strong words for MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid after the television personality compared the supporters of President Donald Trump to “the way Muslims act.”

A judge has sentenced a musician in northern Nigeria’s majority-Muslim Kano state to death by hanging for blasphemy against Islam’s Muhammad, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported this week.

An American Muslim man on trial for blasphemy in northwestern Pakistan was shot dead in a courtroom Wednesday.

Saudi authorities arrested 936 people Thursday for allegedly trying to enter Islamic holy sites during the hajj pilgrimage “without prior authorization,” Saudi news outlet al-Arabiya reported.

India welcomed 11 members of Afghanistan’s Sikh and Hindu minority community on Sunday, including one Sikh “recently released from captivity after a month of torture,” the Times of India (TOI) reported Monday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Hagia Sophia on Sunday shortly before the newly reconverted mosque opens to Muslim prayer on Friday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

An Egyptian gay rights activist arrested in Cairo for raising the LGBT rainbow flag at a concert in 2017 and subsequently imprisoned and tortured has taken her own life, the Times of Israel reported on Tuesday.

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has chosen Jakarta’s first Christian governor of Chinese descent, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, as a top candidate to oversee the construction of a new capital city in the majority-Muslim country, the Nikkei reported on Friday.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov announced he will donate 10.3 million Russian rubles ($131,500) to men struggling to purchase brides under Chechnya’s Islamic law amid the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Moscow Times reported on Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is once again exploring ways to convert the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul into a mosque, Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported on Tuesday.

For Muslims worldwide, today marks the start of Ramadan, an Islamic holy month of fasting and prayer. For ethnic Uyghur Muslims in northwestern China’s Xinjiang province, observance of Ramadan – banned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – could land

President Trump’s alleged consideration of expanding the nation’s travel ban is racist, according to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). 

A Minnesota Muslim woman who was forced to strip and remove her hijab while being arrested for a traffic violation in 2013 received a $120,000 settlement.

Rohingya refugees living in the United States are “frustrated and distraught” over the prospect that President Trump may further reduce the number of refugees that are resettled every year, possibly even to zero.

A supposed news site geared toward young Muslims in the U.K. is actually an undercover counter-terrorism program funded by the British government, according to reports. The Facebook page, “Woke,” describes itself as a “diverse social news platform” focusing on “what it means to be Muslim today.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Israel’s decision to ban Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering Israel is a “sign of weakness.”