
It also found that most incidents are not reported to the police, because the majority of Muslims believe nothing would be done about it.
The agency is calling on European governments to increase awareness among Muslim populations on their rights and how to report crimes.
Continue reading ‘EU: Muslims suffer discrimination’

First Posted: 05-26-09
By Sayed Salahuddin Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan who has spent over six years at the U.S. military‘s Guantanamo Bay prison was only around 12 years old when he was detained, not 16 or 17 as his official record says, an Afghan rights group said on Tuesday.
Continue reading ‘Afghan Taken To Guantanamo At Age 12: Rights Group’

However, they remain at Guantanamo Bay because the state department fears they will face persecution in China.
The US has asked Germany to take the detainees but without success.
Continue reading ‘US urged to resettle Uighur inmates’

Greek riot police fired tear gas after scores of the protesters began pelting officers with sticks and stones outside parliament.
“They started throwing rocks and sticks at police guarding parliament and the officers responded with tear gas and percussion bombs,” a police official said.
Continue reading ‘Clashes at Greek Quran protest’

By Muhammed Qasim, IOL Correspondent
WASHINGTON – American Muslims are denouncing a plot to attack Jewish synagogues and a military base in New York and offering help to thwart assaults against their country.
Continue reading ‘US Muslims Offer Anti-terror Help’

A former US soldier escaped the death penalty for gang-raping an Iraqi girl and slaughtering her family as the jury failed to reach consensus on the sentence, reported The New York Times on Friday, May 22.
Continue reading ‘US Rapist Escapes Death, Iraqis Angry’

Pam Mandel • 05.19.09
High on the list of reasons I lost my heart so completely to Hawaii?
The diversity. You’ve got your Pinoys, your Japanese, your mainland surfers, your Native Hawaiians, your Portuguese and Spaniards, the descendants of European shippers and missionaries, a whole mess of “hapa” types who are half one thing, half something else, be it Scottish, Korean, Hawaiian, Jewish … If you’re looking for a slice of world culture, you’re as likely to find it in Hawaii as anywhere. All those cultures make for a lively and appealing place.
Continue reading ‘Hawaii Passes Islam Day Resolution, Haters Call for Boycott’

COPENHAGEN — Copenhagen municipality is planning to introduce Arabic classes in all the capital’s schools to boost the integration of Arab immigrants and help promote trade with Arab countries.
Continue reading ‘Copenhagen Plans Arabic School Classes’

Javaid Iqbal was arrested in November 2001 on an immigration violation and jailed for five months in a maximum-security prison in New York.
He says he was held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day for several months with the light always on, and that he was subjected to repeated strip searches, beatings and verbal abuse.
Continue reading ‘US court rejects 9/11 abuse lawsuit’

In their talks in Washington, Obama told Netanyahu to stop expanding Jewish settlements and grasp the “historic opportunity” to make peace with the Palestinians.
Continue reading ‘Israel ‘deaf’ to two-state solution’

By Rachel Zoll, Associated Press
PLAINSBORO, N.J. — A group of American Muslims, led by two prominent scholars, is moving closer to fulfilling a vision of founding the first four-year accredited Islamic college in the United States, what some are calling a “Muslim Georgetown.”
Continue reading ‘Muslim plan for U.S. college moves ahead’

Shielding their country against the threat of terrorism and helping their coreligionists be immune against radical ideologies, a group of Singapore Muslim scholars are running an ambitious program to fight extremism.
“We are not scared of [terrorists],” scholar Ustaz Ibrahim Kassim, a member of government-backed anti-extremism Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), told the Washington Post on Saturday, May 16.
Continue reading ‘Singapore Muslims Fight Extremism’

IslamOnline.net & News Agencies
CAIRO — Despite billions of dollars of international aid pledges, thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza Strip still live in open air, months after Israel’s deadly war in the besieged strip.
Continue reading ‘Months On, Gazans Still Homeless’

By Steve Doughty
Last updated at 6:57 AM on 12th May 2009
The BBC yesterday appointed a Muslim as its head of religious programming in a radical departure from broadcasting tradition.
Continue reading ‘BBC appoints Muslim to top religious post in controversial first’