Category: Religion

Sun 05 January 2020: A mosque in the Czech Republic’s second city of Brno has been vandalized with graffiti threatening to kill Muslims, police said Saturday. “Don’t spread Islam in the Czech Republic! Otherwise we’ll kill you,” reads the inscription sprayed on the mosque. “We have been investigating the case since Friday afternoon as damage […]

Thu 02 January 2020: Amid increasing anti-Muslim hate crime in the U.K., a London mosque was the target of an anti-Muslim act earlier this week as slurs against Muslims were painted on a building close to the religious center. Police were informed of the incident Wednesday. The slogans were spray-painted on a building close to […]

Thu 02 January 2020: A Muslim fastfood worker shared a clip on Twitter Monday which shows her boss sending her home, for coming to work at Chicken Express in Fort Worth, Dallas wearing a hijab. Folake Adebola shared a short video which shows a confrontation with her boss, where she pleads, “It’s part of my religion… […]

Thu 02 January 2020: Pope Francis apologised Wednesday for slapping a woman who had grabbed him as he greeted a crowd of devotees, shortly before he delivered a speech denouncing “every form of violence against women.” The image of a visibly annoyed Francis slapping his way free from the clutches of an admirer as he […]

Wed 01 January 2019: Jordan’s Royal Film Commission has requested streaming giant Netflix not show its controversial “Messiah” series in the country just two days ahead of its release. The much-anticipated series, set for global release on Wednesday, follows a CIA agent as she investigates a man who appears to perform miracles and claims to […]

Sun 29 December 2019: Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said on Sunday he had ended a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, only hours after announcing the contentious event. In a tweet posted on Sunday morning, Wilders said international attention on the contest had enabled him to make a point about the importance of […]

Sun 29 December 2019: Far-right Islamophobic group says members joined Boris Johnson’s party More than 5,000 members of an Islamophobic far-right group in Britain joined the leading Conservative Party in recent weeks, according to local media reports. The fringe group Britain First said their support for Tories came with the stance adopted by the leading […]

Sat 28 December 2019: A group of Malaysian tourists were arrested for praying inside a Uighur mosque in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang without a ‘license’, World of Buzz revealed on Thursday. A member of the group shared details of the frightening experience after their safe return to Malaysia from Xinjiang – where more than a million Uighur and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities […]

FILE PHOTO Fri 27 December 2019: The Turkish capital Ankara hosted an opening exhibition on Thursday of a handwritten manuscript of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, and a calligraphy art fair featuring multiple masterpieces from Turkish and Iranian artists. Organized in cooperation with Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, or Diyanet, and Iran’s Islamic Culture and […]