UN Human Rights High Commissioner Condemns ‘Despicable’ Quran Desecrations
MADRID (IQNA) – Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, slammed recent incidents of Quran burning in Europe as despicable acts aimed at fomenting division.
WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – An act of Quran desecration in the US state of Illinois that happened in summer but was recently posted on social media is allegedly part of a larger trend of Hindutva-inspired Islamophobia.
07:55 , 2023 Oct 04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An international conference on Islamophobia wrapped up in Qatar as one of its organizers called for collective efforts to respond to growing Islamophobia and its “destructive” effects.
10:46 , 2023 Oct 02
ISLAMABAD (IQNA) – A university scholar accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of genocide of Muslims in the country.
12:50 , 2023 Oct 03
WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A federal agency has sued Chipotle claiming religious harassment on behalf of a Muslim former employee who alleges an assistant manager ripped off her hijab at a Kansas location.
09:39 , 2023 Oct 02
WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Two separate lawsuits this week has revealed the hidden anti-Muslim bias in the US police force.
10:25 , 2023 Sep 30
NEW DELHI (IQNA) – Muslims in India face slurs daily in every walk of life, whether at school or the office, the street or social media, the police station or any other state institution; it’s all the same.
14:09 , 2023 Oct 01
NEW DELHI (IQNA) – The city of Mathura in India's Uttar Pradesh, which is known as the birthplace of the Hindu deity Krishna, is cleansing itself of its Muslim history and the meat ban sponsored by the Bharatiya Janata Party is one of the steps taken against Muslims.
15:06 , 2023 Sep 30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The death toll from a suspected suicide bomb blast at a procession to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Pakistan’s Balochistan province has climbed to 52, officials and media reports say.
13:17 , 2023 Sep 29
PARIS (IQNA) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that participants in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games can wear hijabs or other religious or cultural attire in the Olympic Village, where they live and socialize during the event.
18:02 , 2023 Sep 29
ISLAMABAD (IQNA) – At least five people have been killed as Pakistan was hit with the second blast on a day.
16:29 , 2023 Sep 29
STOCKHOLM (IQNA) – A 27-year-old man is accused of inciting hatred against Muslims by burning a copy of the Quran and leaving it outside a mosque in Linköping, Sweden, three years ago.
09:45 , 2023 Sep 29
BRUSSELS (IQNA) – A law in the Flemish region of Belgium that affects the Muslim community's freedom of religion and worship has been challenged by organizations representing them at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
09:53 , 2023 Sep 29
