Fri 08 September 2023: The French Supreme Court declared on Thursday that the government’s ban on Muslim women wearing abayas is legal, local media reported. The Council of State said it had rejected an appeal by a Muslim rights group against the government’s ban on abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length robe used by certain Muslim students, […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, stated that religion and church attendance are declining in Germany, DPA reported. The Church-leaving trend, which has been building for decades, “has gained massive momentum,” the top Catholic bishop told 500 guests at the St Michael’s Annual Reception in Berlin on Monday evening. […]
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Tue 05 September 2023: French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas — a Muslim over-garment — on the first day of the school year, a government minister has said. Defying a ban on the Muslim dress, nearly 300 girls showed up wearing the abaya, Gabriel Attal told the BFM […]
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Mon 04 September 2023: The third-largest city in Sweden experienced clashes after an anti-Muslim protester set fire to a copy of the Quran, according to police. Police in Malmo said they were pelted with rocks and dozens of cars were set on fire, including in an underground garage, and described the events that started Sunday […]
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Sun 03 September 2023: Repeated acts of desecration of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, in the past nine months has cost Sweden nearly $200,000, local media said on Saturday. Provocative acts of Quran burnings by Swedish-Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, and Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee living in Stockholm, has taken 2.2 million Swedish krona (some $199,300) from the Nordic […]
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Fri 01 September 2023: The Church of England clergy want the Anglican teachings on homosexuality changed at an upcoming General Synod, as well as making it possible for priests to marry gay couples and gay priests to get married, according to a study by The Times. The majority of the nearly 1,200 respondents agreed that […]
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces a new NYPD initiative to support and facilitate the Islamic call to public prayer at regularly prescribed times each Friday and during the holy month of Ramadan, at City Hall on Tuesday, August 29, 2023. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) Wed 30 August 2023: Mayor Eric Adams announced […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: The Danish government will ban public desecration of the Quran, the country’s justice minister said on Friday. Peter Hummelgaard said the government will introduce a bill to ban the burning of religious scriptures in public places, Ekstra Bladet newspaper reported. The move comes after a string of desecrations of Islam’s holy […]
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Sun 20 August 2023: Pope Francis has called for less money to be spent on the military so that more remains for humanitarian purposes. “It’s our responsibility to help eradicate hatred & violence from human hearts,” the head of the Catholic Church wrote on Saturday on the online platform X, formerly Twitter. “Let’s encourage arms […]
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Fri 18 August 2023: A woman who sprayed an anti-Islam protester with fire extinguisher as he staged a Quran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm was detained by Swedish police. The woman was captured on camera running up to Salwan Momika and spraying him with white powder before being stopped by plainclothes police officers […]
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