UK Muslim women criticize imam council advisory to cease wearing headscarves
The London-based Assembly for the Protection of the Hijab , a Muslim women's group, voiced opposition Thursday to a suggestion from the UK Council of Mosques and Imams that women should cease wearing headscarves because of their potential...
German Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily has said in an interview with a German newspaper that the people of Germany must consider introducing new laws allowing potentially dangerous people to...
Former deputy PM of India charged with inciting mosque destruction
Lal Krishna Advani , former deputy Prime Minister of India, was charged along with seven Hindu leaders on Thursday with inciting a mob to destroy a mosque in Ayodhya in 1992. The destruction sparked riots that killed at...
Blair sticks to anti-terror law timetable, but could speed up if needed
Echoing earlier statements by UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke after last week's London bombings, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons Monday that he intended to stick by the current timetable for new counter-terrorism...
UK police say no significant increase in anti-Muslim violence, despite vandalism reports
The UK Association of Chief Police Officers reported Sunday that relations with Muslims in the UK were "reassuringly calm" in the aftermath of the July 7 London bombings, tentatively linked to Islamic extremists. Fearing public...
The trial of Islamist radical Mohammed Bouyeri for the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh opened with high security in place on Monday in Amsterdam. The controversial Van Gogh had published columns...
A Muslim Russian national held at Guantanamo from summer 2002 to February 2004 has filed a lawsuit against the US government alleging rights abuses. At a press conference on Tuesday in Moscow Airat Vakhitov - formerly...
Federal jury says city didn't violate religious group's rights by blocking mosque plans
A federal jury in Illinois has rejected a Muslim groups claim that city officials violated their civil rights by blocking its 2001 plans to turn a vacant Christian church into a mosque. The Al Salam Mosque Foundation argued that...
The US Marine Corps has dropped charges against the Marine corporal responsible for shooting a wounded and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last November in an incident caught on a dramatic videotape aired on...
Omanis protest convictions of 31 for plotting government overthrow
Thousands of Omanis on Tuesday gathered at a mosque in Oman's capital city of Muscat to protest Monday's state security court conviction of 31 people for plotting to overthrow Sultan Qaboos [Oman Ministry of Information...
