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Austria mulls headscarf ban for public employees
Jan 06, 2017 14:17Austria's top diplomat says he is drawing up a controversial draft law to prohibit all public servants, including school teachers, from wearing headscarves while allowing Christian symbols.
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UN to probe Myanmar crackdown on Rohingya
Jan 06, 2017 11:23The United Nations is conducting a probe into a harsh military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar following reports of rapes, killings, and torture against the minority group in the Buddhist-dominated country.
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Rohingya Muslims: World's most persecuted minority
Dec 27, 2016 09:18Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They have faced torture, neglect and repression since Myanmar’s independence in 1948. The Muslim minority group has witnessed attacks by extremist Buddhists in Myanmar. The violence has forced nearly 100,000 of them to flee the country.
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US: Muslim man targeted in hate attack near mosque in California
Dec 12, 2016 07:01A Muslim man has been brutally stabbed in an apparent hate attack near a mosque in the US state of California, police say.
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Trump’s cabinet picks deepen concerns over anti-Islamic White House
Nov 19, 2016 11:19The cabinet appointments of US President-elect Donald Trump have signaled his intention to deliver on his hard-line campaign promises and deepened concerns among Muslim Americans about an anti-Islamic White House.
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Two Muslim women, babies, attacked in New York hate crime
Sep 10, 2016 12:17An American woman, who is reportedly a supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, is facing hate crime charges for attacking two Muslim women in New York, prosecutors say.
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Local court in France ignores top court verdict
Sep 07, 2016 07:59A local court in the French Mediterranean island of Corsica has ruled in favor of banning the full-body swimwear worn by Muslim women despite a verdict by France’s highest court against such a ban.
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Thailand sentences man to 35 in jail for trafficking Rohingyas
Sep 01, 2016 08:12A court in Thailand has sentenced a man to 35 years in prison for masterminding the trafficking of Rohingya Muslims, who have been fleeing violent prosecution by extremist Buddhists, from Myanmar.
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Suspected far-right extremists brick up mosque in Germany
Aug 31, 2016 11:38Far-right extremists in northern Germany have blocked the entrance of a mosque with concrete blocks and covered it with anti-Muslim slogans in a show of protest against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s pro-refugee policies.
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UN says Rohingya entitled to Myanmar citizenship
Aug 30, 2016 15:35UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Myanmar's stateless Rohingya Muslims should be given the right to citizenship.