Tag: Muslims

Uzbekistan’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has lifted restrictions on Islamic practices, sparking dramatic changes in the dictatorial Central Asian state.  The…

Tajikistan has announced the arrest of 113 suspected members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood Islamist group. Prosecutor General Yusuf Rahmon…

Thousands of Muslims visited the Bosnian town of Foca yesterday (Saturday) for the reopening of an Ottoman-era mosque which was…

A two-year-old boy bled to death following a home circumcision at a refugee centre in Rome’s northeastern suburb of Monterotondo…

The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that France’s 2010 ban on the niqab or Islamic veil violates human rights…

A Muslim woman has become the first person in Denmark to be charged for wearing a full-face veil in public,…

The European Union’s Ode to Joy anthem rang out in Budapest as tens of thousands protested against Hungary’s Eurosceptic Prime…

A German minister says the European Union must drop its “arrogance and condescension” towards Hungary, where populist Prime Minister Viktor…

Germany’s newly appointed interior minister Horst Seehofer was quoted saying by Bild during the week that “Islam doesn’t belong to…

Male circumcision could be outlawed for the first time under a draft law in Iceland that has positioned children’s rights…

 A 500-year-old secret code used in letters between one of Spain’s most successful monarchs and his military commander has been…

A prominent Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentarian has been blocked from Twitter and Facebook after criticising the Cologne police for…

France will stop Muslims from praying in a north suburban Paris street, according to the home affairs minister. Residents of…

Uzbekistan’s government has rapidly disowned the Uzbek immigrant was accused of killing eight people in the New York lorry attack…

Thomas de Maizière, Germany’s home affairs minister, has proposed that regions with large Muslim populations could get public holidays during…