Germany detains 3 teenagers over ‘Islamist attack’ plot
Police have detained two teenage girls and a boy in western Germany on suspicions they were planning an Islamist attack, prosecutors said on Friday. The trio, aged from 15 to …
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Muslim-majority Bangladesh opens mosque for transgender hijra community: ‘no one can mock us’
The mosque near Mymensingh, north of the capital Dhaka on the banks of the Brahmaputra river, was built on land donated by the government after the city’s hijra community were …
Singapore orders Israeli embassy to remove Facebook post about Palestine, Koran
Singapore authorities have told the Israeli embassy to remove a post on its Facebook page that Minister for Law and Home Affairs K. Shanmugam called an “astonishing attempt to rewrite …
Morocco law reform offers hope for women’s rights
By the end of November, the committee had already received proposals from more than 1,000 civil organisations, as well as political parties and official institutions. ‘Devil has returned’: Divorced Afghan …
Why some Dutch Muslims back Geert Wilders even as he compares the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf: ‘I’ll give him a chance’
Dutch Muslim community leaders voiced anger, fear, and defiance after the election victory of anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, but on the ground the picture seemed more nuanced, with many even …
Sweden will not expel Iraqi man behind recent Koran burning protests despite deportation order
Sweden’s migration agency said on Thursday it had decided to deport an Iraqi man who burned copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, but that the order would not …