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Bruzzano -
Italy's Muslim community, like others, suffered many deaths as the coronavirus pandemic hit the Mediterranean country hard.Compounding the pain for the religious minority has been the grim reality of a lack of space to bury their dead.
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Toronto -
A number of Canadian citizens have been turned away at the U.S. border recently - with no clear explanation by border officials. The fact that all of those denied entry into the U.S. just happened to be Muslim raises some disturbing questions.
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By AFP
Colombo -
Religious tensions and a government ban on covering the face since the Easter Sunday suicide attacks have forced conservative Muslim women in Sri Lanka to shun veils, head scarves and long robes in public.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
For Muslims in China's re-education camps, indoctrination starts with early morning patriotic songs and sessions of self-criticism, and often ends with a meal of only pork, according to one exiled former detainee.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
When Abdulweli Ayup, a Chinese ethnic Uyghur, fled his home in 2015 after he was jailed, he found refuge like other exiles in Istanbul where Turkey's government prides itself as a defender of oppressed Muslim minorities.
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By AFP
Christchurch -
A few months ago, Christchurch's Linwood Mosque proudly laid down new carpets in its halls. On Friday, the light brown carpets were stained red after an gunman stormed the building, spraying bullets at worshippers."There was blood everywhere.
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Paris -
Ten people with links to the radical far-right have been arrested by anti-terrorist police in France over an alleged plot to attack Muslims, judical sources said Sunday.
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Paris -
A French manifesto calling for certain passages of the Koran to be removed on the grounds of rising anti-Semitism sparked anger Monday from Muslims who said their religion was being unfairly "put on trial".
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By AFP
Den Haag -
The new US ambassador to the Netherlands vowed to learn from his mistakes and move on to build ties with the Dutch people, after a rocky start to his posting."I have been so warmly welcomed by government officials at every level.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Friday disagreed with the new US ambassador that Islamic violence had created no-go zones in the Netherlands, but stressed he wanted to build "viable" ties with the US administration.
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By AFP
Washington -
The US ambassador to the Netherlands is to meet Dutch Muslims after his arrival was clouded by his claim that the country is troubled by Islamist violence and no-go zones.
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By AFP
Clichy -
Around 100 local French lawmakers attempted to block Muslims praying in a street north of Paris on Friday and called on the government to ban what they see as an unacceptable use of public space.
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By AFP
Barcelona -
Prayer time is approaching but Raja Miah, an imam at a tiny mosque in the heart of Barcelona does not expect a big turnout.
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By AFP
Yangon -
Yangon authorities on Friday sued three Muslim men for holding Ramadan prayers in the street, after the local school where they used to worship was shut down by a nationalist mob.
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By AFP
Yangon -
Yangon authorities on Friday sued three Muslim men for holding Ramadan prayers in the street, after the local school where they used to worship was shut down by a nationalist mob.
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By AFP
Yangon -
Yangon authorities on Friday sued three Muslim men for holding Ramadan prayers in the street, after the local school where they used to worship was shut down by a nationalist mob.
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By AFP
Brussels -
Belgian teenager Ahmed is still reeling from the hostile reception he received from a teacher the first day he attended a new sports school last September.
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By AFP
Washington -
US President Donald Trump has fired the acting attorney general, a holdover from the Obama administration, after she ordered Justice Department attorneys not to defend his controversial executive order on immigration.
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Hobart -
Members of an Islamic group in the Australian city of Hobart, Tasmania, have delivered pamphlets to counter hateful stereotypes.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Authorities in Los Angeles say they are seeking the authors of a series of threatening letters sent to area mosques and urged anyone who had received similar messages to come forward.
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By AFP
New York -
The Jewish director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which campaigns against anti-Semitism and other bigotry, said Friday that he would register as a Muslim if Donald Trump establishes a database of Muslims in America.
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By AFP
Bangui -
"We're not jihadists, we're not bandits, we're defending our community," insisted the leader of a militia group in a powder keg Muslim district of the Central African Republic's capital Bangui.
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By AFP
Washington -
One of President-elect Donald Trump's most divisive promises -- to ban Muslims from entering America -- disappeared from his campaign website before reappearing.
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By AFP
Budapest -
Maja is no immigrant, she's a Muslim convert. But in the febrile atmosphere in Hungary ahead of Sunday's referendum on refugees, she says her religion has made her a target for abuse."We Hungarians are normally kind, friendly people.
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By AFP
Paris -
Around one in four French Muslims, mostly young people, support an ultra-conservative form of Islam, including the wearing of the full-face veil, but the vast majority accept France's strict secular laws, a study showed Sunday.
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By AFP
Sarajevo -
A Muslim leader in Bosnia has warned that his Bosnian Serb counterpart is "playing with fire" by planning a controversial referendum on when the country's Serbs celebrate their national day.
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By AFP
Fort Pierce -
Since the Orlando massacre, the small Muslim community of Fort Pierce, Florida -- the killer's hometown -- has found itself the target of hate-filled insults and abuse."Scumbags!
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Sarajevo -
The Ferhadija mosque in the Bosnian Serb capital Banja Luka reopened to worshippers Saturday, more than two decades after it was dynamited by Serb forces in 1993 at the height of the Balkans war.
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Washington -
President Barack Obama has urged Americans not to stigmatize Muslims following this week's deadly attacks in Brussels, saying that doing so is "counterproductive" in the fight against radical Islam.
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Brussels -
There are many tragedies tied to acts of terror. Innocent people lose their lives, and the entire world is put on edge. After Brussels another tired symptom was exposed; the fight between the right and left as to who can sound more foolish.
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Iraqi forces and mainly Shiite Muslim volunteers arrive in the predominantly-Sunni Muslim city of Samarra, 124 kms from Baghdad, on July 2, 2014, to protect the Shiite Muslim Al-Askari shrine , AFP
A young girl watches as Muslim women offer Eid al-Fitr prayers at the national mosque in Kuala Lumpur on July 28, 2014 Manan Vatsyayana, AFP
People and children learn CPR differently around the world. Now there is some discussion on what the best method is for North America. ER24 EMS (Pty) Ltd.
Three Muslim nonprofit groups are raising money to help rebuild black churches that have burned down in different Southern states since nine were killed in a church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina last month. Complex
Foon for sale during Ramadan break Wikicommons
Muslims refugee in Buddhist monastery newsonline
Students of Cairo University, who are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, shout slogans against the military during a demonstration in front of the university in Cairo With permission by Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Students of Cairo University, who are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, shout slogans against the military and interior ministry With permission by Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany
A new assault rifle being manufactured in central Florida has drawn fire after the gunmaker branded it the “Crusader” and said it was designed “to never be used by Muslim terrorists.” Screen grab-YouTube
Students of Cairo University, who are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, shout slogans against the military and interior ministry during a demonstration in front of riot police at the main gate of the university around Al Nahda square in Cairo November 24, 2013, to commemorate the passing of 100 days since security forces cleared the vigils in support of ousted President Mohamed Morsi at Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares With permission by Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Over the past two months AFP's fact check team has debunked hundreds of social media posts that falsely targeted Muslims in regards to the coronavirus pandemic in India ARUN SANKAR, AFP/File
Nigerians are seen to be deeply religiuos, even at night. This photo show Muslims in a prayer mood in an open space.
Muslims getting ready for a prayer session durring Ramadan
Buddhist monks welcoming Muslims refugee newsonline
Take a look at this group and tell me, are they Catholic nuns or are they devote Muslim women? Wikimedia
Pilgrims perform sunset prayers at the Great Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine, in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, two days before Muslim's annual Hajj pilgrimage. menj
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Muslim National School in Clonskeagh in Dublin - one of only two state funded schools for Muslim children in Ireland . RTENewsNow
Extent of Islamic beliefs (shades of green) from North Africa into the Pacific -- a 'ring of fire.' Wikipedia
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