New York City’s Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD) has been sued for forcibly removing a Muslim woman's hijab and withholding it until her release, according to a lawsuit filed by civil rights bodies.
A mosque Imam in the US, Hassan Sharif, breathed his last at a hospital after he was fatally gunned down when he left Muhammad-Newark mosque in New Jersey after morning prayers, as Islamophobia is on the rise in the United States.
A court in India has allowed the survey of a 17th century mosque to determine if it was built over a Hindu temple.
Indonesian police and fisherman have started patrolling parts of the country’s westernmost province to prevent boats of Myanmar's Muslim refugees from reaching the shore.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network has condemned “in the strongest terms” the German raids that targeted pro-Palestinian supporters in several parts of the European country.
The far-right anti-Islamic Party for Freedom (PVV) has won general elections in the Netherlands, finishing well ahead of the nearest rival, a left-wing alliance of Greens and social democrats.
President Emmanuel Macron has ordered the deployment of 7,000 troops after France was put on its highest security alert following the death of teacher in a fatal stabbing attack.
Several Muslim human rights groups have jointly denounced “state sponsored" Islamophobia facing Muslims across Europe, warning that Muslims are “unjustly placed on blacklists” round the continent.
India’s Hindu extremists have looted and burnt down Muslim shops during the recent religious holidays in a fresh round of Islamophobic attacks on the religious minority in the South Asian country.
More than 250 gatherings targeting Muslims were held across 17 Indian states over the first half of the current year, according to a report which highlights a rising pattern of anti-Muslim sentiment in India from 2014 onwards.