Australia
Muslims, Chinese Australians and Indigenous people most targeted in racist media coverage
ABCAnti-racism non-profit group All Together Now said Muslim Australians, Chinese Australians and Indigenous Australians were the most targeted communities.
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Austria
Bangladesh Islamist Group Demands Country Cuts Ties with France
Al-JazeeraProposals include the ability to close mosques, strip citizenship and imprison those convicted of ‘terrorism’ for life.
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China
China Muslims: Volkswagen says 'no forced labour' at Xinjiang plant
BBCEvidence that hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities are being detained in camps, or used as forced labour in factories, has led some multinational companies to cut ties with the region, despite China’s insistence that the claims are untrue.
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ICC Uighur genocide complaint backed by parliamentarians around world
The GuardianThe chief prosecutor of the international criminal court has been urged by an international alliance of parliamentarians to accept a complaint alleging genocide by China against its Uighur Muslim minority.
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Egypt
Al-Azhar to sue France over prophet cartoons
Al-MonitorDuring a visit to Cairo by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb rejected any form of insults to the Prophet Muhammad and vowed to sue France over the publication of controversial cartoons.
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Europe
Europe's Muslims are European. Stop outsourcing their plight to foreign leaders
The GuardianFor EU leaders to seek solutions abroad to end prejudice against millions of their own citizens is insulting and meaningless.
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There's a crisis of extremist ideology in Europe, not a crisis of Islam
Middle East MonitorThe voices of the vast majority of Muslims in Europe have been marginalised, not least when very serious crimes drag them into a cycle of analyses and demonisation. This suggests that people with isolationist ideologies are organising such incidents for use as political cards, with total indifference to the multiculturalism upon which European societies are, at least nominally, based.
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France
Muslims are not the problem, and critics are not the enemy: How aggressive secularism is dividing France
ABCWith the prospect of a grim winter lockdown and soaring unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, France is facing serious challenges on multiple fronts. Now, five years on from the 13 November 2015 terror attacks, a military-style assault that saw 130 killed, including 90 at the Bataclan theatre, the nation is once again facing threats from individual terrorists and violent extremist networks, all seeking to incite violence within its territories.
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France’s Muslims Could Learn from the African American Muslim Experience
Foreign PolicyAn indigenous form of Islam developed within the West—rather than influenced by leaders from abroad—is the path to integration and peaceful coexistence.
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Young, French and Muslim
BBCBBC Arabic explores the dilemmas facing young Muslims in France today.
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Macron, and France’s complex relationship with Islam
Al-JazeerraMuslim communities have called for a boycott of French goods after the reprinting of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad.
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Greece
It Took a Century to Open a Mosque in Athens. Then Came the Pandemic.
The New York TimesThe first purpose-built Muslim place of worship in the Greek capital since the Ottoman occupation arrived after decades of delay — just in time for a second coronavirus surge.
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International
Religious intolerance is 'bigger cause of prejudice than race', says report
Al-JazeeraHundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh, lament their exclusion from the polls.
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'Spreading Like Wildfire': Facebook Fights Hate Speech, Misinformation Before Myanmar Poll
ReutersOne of two Muslims allowed to run for the ruling party in Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s general election on Sunday, Sithu Maung, worries fake news on Facebook could damage his chances.
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UAE
UAE Announces Relaxing of Islamic Laws for Personal Freedoms
Al-JazeeraBroadening of personal freedoms reflects the changing profile of a Gulf country seeking robust tourism.
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UK
Comedian Nabil Abdulrashid Received Death Threats after Routines about Race
The GuardianA comedian and finalist on Britain’s Got Talent has received death threats after his standup sets skewered race relations in the UK and prompted 3,000 complaints to Ofcom.
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UK to Big Brands: Do More to Avoid Forced Labour in China's Xinjiang
ReutersBritish lawmakers on Thursday urged big brands – from Gap to Zara – to ensure high-street fashion was not made from cotton picked by Muslims held in camps in China’s Xinjiang region.
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UK: Muslim Leaders Join Calls to Permit Public Worship during Lockdown
The Muslim NewsMuslim leaders have joined other national faith leaders in calling on the Government to permit public worship during the second national lockdown in England imposed to combat the Covid pandemic.
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USA
US ‘Muslim Ban’ Set to End ‘On Day One’ of Biden Presidency
Al-JazeeraPresident-elect has pledged to immediately halt travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration on more than a dozen nations.
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