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More than 100 have been arrested over the lynching of a Sri Lankan man accused of insulting Islam.

A Muslim mob attacked a sports equipment factory in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Friday, killing a Sri Lankan man and burning his body publicly over allegations of blasphemy, police said. Armagan Gondal, a police chief in Sialkot district where the killing occurred said that factory workers had accused the victim of desecrating posters bearing the name of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The Sri Lankan, Priyantha Diyawadana, was lynched by the mob inside the factory, Gondal said initial information showed.

So far Republican House leaders have been silent on whether they agree with recent statements by their members.

A Muslim mob burned a police station and four police posts overnight in northwest Pakistan after officers refused to hand over a mentally unstable man accused of desecrating Islam's holy book, the Quran, authorities said Monday. No officers were hurt in the attacks, which forced the police to summon troops to restore order in Charsadda, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local officer Asif Khan said.

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Its famous architecture has been wrecked by war - now a female engineer is rebuilding amid the conflict.

President Joko Widodo simply can’t escape responsibility for democratic decline in the world’s most-populous Muslim-majority country.

Poland's prime minister has warned that migrant pressures on the European Union's border with Belarus could continue, this time with people fleeing from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.

State Sen.-elect Ed DurrNEW JERSEY – The Republican who defeated New Jersey’s State Senate president last week has “committed to renouncing” hate speech amid criticism of old tweets he posted expressing Islamophobia, a Muslim advocacy group in the state said Wednesday. “He committed to renouncing that hate speech and not engaging in it moving forward.”Maksut was joined by local Muslim leaders when he met with Durr Wednesday evening. Maksut said Durr apologized sincerely and committed to standing against Islamophobia and other forms of hate. Durr ousted New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney last week, winning the powerful Democrat’s seat in State Senate District 3. Durr, a Republican who has never held elective office, is coming under fire for indicating support for QAnon and expressing Islamophobia in old tweets.

The massacre last month in a Shiite village illustrates how fragile the country’s peace remains.

Three Muslim men sued the FBI in 2011, arguing the federal government targeted them and their Southern California community based on their religion.

The U.N. humanitarian chief  is urging Myanmar’s military leaders to provide unimpeded access to the more than 3 million people in need of “life-saving” humanitarian assistance since government forces seized power on Feb. 1

The case is being brought by a group of Muslim men who say the FBI spied on them and hundreds of others after 9/11 all due to their faith.

Family and friends gather to mourn the first of eight music fans who died in a crowd surge at hip-hop star Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston.

The voters have spoken and elected new Arab and Muslim Mayors in three major Detroit suburbs, Dearborn, Hamtramck, and Dearborn Heights. In Hamtramck, Amer Ghalib becomes the first Yemeni Muslim Mayor defeating longtime Mayor Karen Majewski in a city that has become very diverse. In Dearborn the new Arab American Mayor is 31-year-old Abdullah Hammoud who was also elected to State Representative before Mayor. Osama Siblani is the Publisher of the Arab American News and has watched Dearborn evolve over the four decades he’s been here. He ties this major cultural change to former Dearborn Mayor Michael Guido who died 16 years ago.

Despite having one of the largest Arab populations in America, Dearborn has never had an Arab American or Muslim mayor. State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud (D-Dearborn) won the city’s mayoral race in Tuesday’s elections, meaning he will soon be the first Arab American to serve in that position. “Just in the late ‘80s, people were talking about ‘the Arab problem’ [in Dearborn], and here we are today.” —Dearborn Mayor-elect Abdullah HammoudHe shared his vision for the job and what this historic moment means for him. Listen: Dearborn Mayor-elect Abdullah Hammoud reflects on historic mayoral victory. “Just in the late ‘80s, people were talking about ‘the Arab problem’ [in Dearborn], and here we are today,” says Hammoud.

A little-known Border Patrol unit is accused of interfering in investigations of fatal encounters involving its agents. "60 Minutes+" correspondent Enrique Acevedo investigates.

The sheriff of Albany, New York, said he did not intend for a criminal complaint against former Governor Andrew Cuomo to become public so soon. But he insisted there's overwhelming evidence against Cuomo, who is accused of groping a woman. He denies the accusation.

A NY sheriff Friday defended his decision to file a criminal complaint, accusing former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping a woman, without consulting prosecutors or the alleged victim. (Oct. 29)

While there has been bipartisan condemnation of anti-Muslim violence abroad, it’s unclear whether Republicans will back the measure.

Terry Turner charged with murder of Moroccan Adil DghoughiControversial stand-your-ground laws to be placed in spotlight Adil Dghoughi, 31, was killed earlier this month. Photograph: GoFundMe Controversial laws in Texas that can effectively allow homeowners to kill people coming on to their property are to be thrown into the spotlight after the shocking case of a Moroccan man who was shot dead after pulling over in the driveway of a San Antonio-area house, possibly because he was lost. Adil Dgho

Radio 1 Newsbeat speaks to black Muslims about their experiences in the dating world and society.

The West Virginia Department of Transportation is looking back on four years of the Road to Prosperity Project, which has helped make its bridges and highways more weather-resilient.

Homes and temples of Hindu Bangladeshis have been torched across the country, and at least seven killed.

Indonesian authorities say three people were killed and another seven were injured when a moderately strong earthquake and an aftershock hit Indonesia’s resort island of Bali

People, especially religious minorities, now fear for their safety in Indian-administered Kashmir.

“There are signs outside and this whole property is under surveillance,” Tahil said. “He just didn’t care.”

The new U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, said Saturday the United States has asked the Mexican government to allow agents, including those from the Drug Enforcement Administration, to work in Mexico. (Oct. 9)

The front doors of the Ahmadiyya Community Center in Rochester Hills were vandalized Friday night, according to the mosque.

The Kunduz explosion went off during a weekly prayer service at a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers.

An explosion went off Friday among Shiite Muslim worshippers at a mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing or wounding at least 100 people, a Taliban police official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which took place in Kunduz, the capital of Kunduz province, but militants from the Islamic State group have a long history of attacking Afghanistan’s Shiite Muslim minority. Dost Mohammad Obaida, the deputy police chief for Kunduz province, said that the “majority of them have been killed.”

Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa A. Hammoud made history on Tuesday by becoming the first Arab American Muslim woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The American Girl Doll brand is now offering a one-piece hijab popular with young girls.

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A judge dismissed a new batch of charges Tuesday in the government's investigation of genital mutilation against girls in a Muslim sect, saying prosecutors in Detroit retaliated after major courtroom losses.

ROMULUS, MI – A Michigan woman is facing three misdemeanor charges, including ethnic intimidation, related to an alleged altercation with a Black Muslim woman on an airplane on Sept. 11, authorities announced. RELATED: Muslim woman punched on airplane on 9/11 after landing in MichiganFarr is was arraigned Friday morning, Sept 17, in 34th District Court on charges of ethnic intimidation, 2-year high misdemeanor; assault and battery; and disorderly person, both 93-day misdemeanors. The incident occurred around 6:25 p.m. on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, on a Spirit Airlines flight that had landed at Detroit Metro Airport. Her probable cause hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29 in 34th District Court before Judge Lisa Martin. The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocated for hate crime charges against Farr.

A Roseville woman has been charged in connection with the assault of a Muslim woman at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.

There are new allegations against the Ferndale Police Department after the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said officers forcibly removed a Muslim woman’s hijab for a booking photo.

The city of Ferndale is facing a new lawsuit over claims its police department forcefully removed a Muslim woman's hijab before taking her picture during the booking process.

The Michigan charter of Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) is asking the Ferndale Police Department to take action after its officers arrested

Aïcha Touré was on a Spirit Airlines flight from Atlanta to Detroit when she tried to break up what was turning into a yelling match in front of her.

On Saturday, Sept. 11, the Wayne County Sheriff department arrested a White woman that assaulted a Muslim African American woman on a flight from Atlanta to

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks the image, moment and terror are still hard to believe.

CBS News will broadcast its coverage of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in a CBS News Special Report.

For Muslim Americans the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is a stark reminder of how things changed for them in their own country.

Dozens of Lebanese worshippers knelt for Friday prayers at a gas station south of Beirut amid severe fuel shortages that have paralyzed the nation for weeks.

By Aaron Torres, The Kansas City Star (TNS)A Chipotle in Lenexa, Kansas, fired an assistant manager after an employee accused the manager of attempting to forcibly remove her hijab. The young woman said that the assistant manager at the location where she worked began asking to see her hair starting in July 2021. On Aug. 9, after the store had closed, she was cleaning when the assistant manager, “came up behind me and pulled hard on my hijab.” Her hijab was attached with pins and only came off halfway. The assistant manager then asked the employee’s cousin if he could see her hair. “I was shocked, humiliated and scared,” she wrote while also saying the assistant manager kept laughing.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani, an icon of Kashmir’s separatist movement who vexed the New Delhi government for decades with his uncompromising politics, died Tuesday night.

Police arrested six members of a Phoenix-area family they say targeted a 20-year-old relative and tried to kidnap her because they disapprove of her boyfriend, who doesn't share their Muslim faith. The woman, who is 20 weeks pregnant, told police she was afraid her relatives will kill her because they believe she has brought dishonor to the family, detectives wrote in a probable cause statement filed in Maricopa County Superior Court following the arrests on Th ursday. Police believe the family wanted to send the victim back to Iraq, authorities wrote.

A six-day-old southern while rhino calf has begun exploring her home at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The calf, which has yet to be named, was born August 22 to first-time Mom Kianga and father J. Gregory. (Aug. 27)

One of the most urgent questions raised by the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan is whether the radical Islamist group will again impose draconian restrictions on women and girls. Great attention was paid to the statement by a spokesman that the Taliban would respect women’s rights within the framework of sharia, or Islamic law. What could that mean?

One of the most urgent questions raised by the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan is whether the radical Islamist group will again impose draconian restrictions on women and girls. Great attention was paid to the statement by a spokesman Aug. 16 that the Taliban would respect women’s rights within the framework of sharia, or Islamic law. What would that mean?

Malaysia’s first transfer of power in six decades was hailed as a milestone for transparency, free speech and racial tolerance in the multiethnic Southeast Asian country. But the new coalition collapsed amid an all-too-familiar mix of political intrigue and horse trading. Elements of the old regime were brought into a new government that also proved short-lived. The turmoil stems in part from an entrenched system of affirmative-action policies that critics say fosters cronyism and identity-based

The last living leader from the inner circle of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime is to appear in court Monday as as he seeks to overturn his conviction on genocide charges before a long-running international tribunal

The Islamic police in Kano, Nigeria, say shop dummies with heads symbolise "idolatry" and are banned.

Humza Yousaf says his daughter was twice refused a place at the nursery, which denies discrimination.

China has appointed a new military commander in restive Xinjiang where authorities have locked up more than a million members of Muslim minorities in what they call a bid to curb terrorism and radicalism. Lt. Gen. Wang Haijiang will oversee a massive military presence in the sprawling northwestern region that borders on several unstable Central Asian states, along with Pakistan and Afghanistan, from which U.S. troops are withdrawing. Like Xinjiang’s hardline Communist Party chief Chen Quanguo, Wang previously served in Tibet, which also hosts large numbers of troops to suppress anti-government sentiment among the native Tibetan population and guard the disputed border with India, where the two nations had a deadly clash last year.

Mrs. Pearl, who survived a pogrom against Iraqi Jews in her youth, helped establish a foundation in memory of her son, a Wall Street Journal reporter abducted and beheaded by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002.

Thousands of face-masked Muslims gathered on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Monday, praying for an end to the pandemic and faster vaccination as the annual haj

GENESEE COUNTY, MI — Some community members of the Muslim faith are planning to come together to celebrate Eid Al-Adha with a carnival. The Flint Islamic Center, 9447 Corunna Road, in Clayton Township is planning to commemorate one of the religion’s holiest occasions, Eid Al-Adha, with an Eid Carnival from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 21. The purpose of the event is to commemorate the story of the prophet Abraham and his willingness to sacrifice his son, Khaled Khirfan, a member of the center, told MLive-The Flint Journal. To help celebrate, the center will be hosting a carnival with horse and carriage rides, ponies, a petting zoo, balloon twisting, train rides, face painting and concessions. Adults are free and admission is $10 for children.

A recent survey shows 67.6% of India's population has developed antibodies against COVID-19, an indication of some immunity against the coronavirus.

Tuesday marked an important day in the Muslim calendar, but worshipers at a mosque in Warren said they don’t feel welcome.

A speeding bus carrying mostly laborers traveling home for a major Muslim holiday rammed into a container truck on a busy highway in central Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 28 people and injuring 40, police and rescue officials said. The bus had left the city of Sialkot and was traveling on Taunsa Road; its destination was the city of Dera Ghazi Khan in eastern Punjab province, said senior police officer Hassan Javed. According to Sher Khan who was in charge of the rescue team at the site, some of the injured were in critical condition.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman on Sunday condemned a European Union court decision to allow employers to ban staff wearing Muslim headscarves as appeasing Islamophobia. “The decision by the European Court of Justice on headscarf in the workplace is another blow to the rights of Muslim women with headscarf and will play right into the hands of those warmongers against Islam in Europe,” Ibrahim Kalin tweeted. The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that companies can ban employees wearing religious or political symbols if firms “desire to pursue a policy of political, philosophical and religious neutrality with regard to its customers or users."

China says it will take necessary measures to respond to the U.S. blacklisting of Chinese companies over their alleged role in abuses of its Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities.

A landmark cyberbullying trial in Paris is blazing a trail in efforts to punish and prevent online abuse.

Saudi Arabia says this year’s hajj pilgrimage will be limited to no more than 60,000 people, all of them from within the kingdom, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The Democratic-led House has passed legislation to constrain a president’s power to limit entry to the U.S. The vote Wednesday was a response to former President Donald Trump’s travel ban covering five Muslim-majority countries.

Turkey is reinstating weekend lockdowns in most of Turkey's provinces and will also impose restrictions over the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)ANKARA – Turkey is re-introducing weekend lockdowns in most of its provinces and will also impose restrictions over the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases. Infections in Turkey have soared less than a month after authorities divided the 81 provinces into four color-coded categories and relaxed restrictions in some provinces under a “controlled normalization” effort. The number of infections hit a record on Tuesday, with the Health Ministry confirming 37,303 new cases in the past 24 hours. The total number of infections in the country since the start of the outbreak last year stands at more than 3.2 million.

Imad Hamad is a longtime member of the Islamic Center of Detroit and a leader in Metro Detroit’s Muslim community. Hamad is trying to spread the message that during Ramadan the COVID-19 vaccine is OK to take. During Ramadan, Muslims have to fast all day and can only eat at sundown. But Muslim community leaders, like Imam’s and scholars, are saying the vaccine has no nutritional value. He’ll get his second dose during Ramadan and said that Muslims getting the shot during Ramadan won’t have to make up days.

Following a Mass on Sunday in the Iraqi city of Irbil, Francis met with Abdullah Kurdi and spent a long time with him, the Vatican said. Through an interpreter, the pope listened to Kurdi’s story and expressed sympathy for the loss of his family. Francis issued the appeal during a joyful visit to the Christian community of Qaraqosh, on the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako said Francis’ visit to Iraq was “miraculous” and had already borne fruits. AdChristian and Muslim leaders in Mosul have welcomed Pope Francis' visit to the Iraqi city devastated by war and are calling on Christians who fled the Islamic State group's onslaught to return.

The Philippine president has approved an amnesty program for Muslim and communist rebels who would agree to surrender their weapons as they return to normal life in the latest such attempt to tame rural insurgencies that have raged for half a century. (Joey Dalumpines/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP)MANILA – The Philippine president has approved an amnesty program for Muslim and communist rebels who would agree to surrender their weapons as they return to normal life in the latest such attempt to tame rural insurgencies that have raged for half a century. Duterte also agreed to include former insurgents who once belonged to the main communist New People’s Army in his amnesty program. The 75-year-old Duterte has promised to resolve Muslim and communist insurgencies before he leaves office. The amnesty program excludes the notoriously brutal Abu Sayyaf and other small armed bands associated with the Islamic State group.

The wide-ranging bill, titled “Supporting respect for the principles of the Republic,” covers most aspects of French life. But Le Pen criticized the bill as too weak and offered what she called her own, tougher counter-proposal. The bill mentions neither Muslims nor Islam by name. The measure has been dubbed the "separatism" bill, a term used by Macron to refer to radicals who would create a “counter society” in France. Associations must sign a contract of respect for French values and pay back state funds, if they cross a line.

Organizer Nick Vetch said Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, a eight-member panel who will act as jury has been finalized. The panel has been selected to represent diverse backgrounds and no expert on China was included on purpose, Vetch said. In declaring genocide, Pompeo cited widespread forced birth control and forced labor among Uighurs. China denies any abuses and insists that the steps it has taken are necessary to combat terrorism and a separatist movement. AdVetch said the tribunal has written to the former and current Chinese ambassadors to London to request the Chinese government’s presence and cooperation, but so far received no response.

Rohingya refugee Mohammad Jaffar, 70, talks to the Associated Press at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Feb.2, 2021. Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh are condemning the military coup in their homeland and saying it makes them more fearful to return. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)DHAKA – Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh condemned the military coup in their homeland and said it makes them more fearful to return. Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that it hopes the coup will not hamper the refugees' return. The United Nations has described the Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya as a form of genocide.

DETROIT – One of President Joe Biden’s first moves in the White House was to repeal former President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries. When Trump enacted the travel ban, thousands of Metro Detroiters protested nearly immediately. Initially the ban restricted travel from many Middle Eastern countries. And when visa applicants request entry to the United States, we will apply a rigorous, individualized vetting system. But we will not turn our backs on our values with discriminatory bans on entry into the United States.

The accusation of genocide by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against China touches on a hot-button human rights issue between China and the West. Pompeo’s announcement Tuesday doesn’t require any immediate actions, although the U.S. must take the designation into account in formulating policy toward China. China says its policies in Xinjiang aim only to promote economic growth and social stability. “So hopefully we’ll see a continued continuity with regards to the new (Joe Biden) administration on holding China to account," Leibold said in an interview. “And hopefully the Biden administration can bring its allies along to continue to put pressure on the Chinese government," he said.

(AP Photo/Kemal Softic)MOSTAR – MOSTAR, Bosnia-Long-entrenched ethno-nationalists were projected to win the first local election in Bosnia’s southern city of Mostar in 12 years, but early results of Sunday's vote also indicated multiethnic parties and alliances would be a strong part of the future city council. Mostar is split between Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats, who fought fiercely for control over the city during the country’s 1992-95 war. It hasn’t held a local election since 2008, when Bosnia’s constitutional court declared its election rules discriminatory and ordered them changed. Thus, the lawmakers from multiethnic parties appear set to become tiebreakers in all but certain disputes between the dominant Bosniak and Croat nationalists. Prior to the war, ethnically mixed couples made up 10% of all marriages in Mostar, and the city was markedly cosmopolitan.

Smaller demonstrations in Lebanon, Turkey and India followed on anti-France protests across the Muslim world last week that were mostly led by Islamist groups. The renewed protests came after President Macron's interview late Saturday in which he said that he understood the shock Muslims felt at caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad. “I have never said that,” Macron told the Al-Jazeera interviewer, explaining that some false translations of his words in the media showed him to support the cartoons mocking Prophet Muhammad. “We condemn blasphemy of Islam and Prophet Muhammad by French President,” read a slogan scribbled on a French flag. Anti-France protests were held by Muslim groups on Friday in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, and Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state.

NICE – A new suspect is in custody Friday in the investigation into a gruesome attack by a Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church, as France heightened its security alert amid religious and geopolitical tensions around cartoons mocking the Muslim prophet. The attacker, Ibrahim Issaoui, was seriously wounded by police and hospitalized in life-threatening condition, authorities said. In an interview broadcast Friday with Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV, Issaoui's mother said she was shocked by the events. His brother told Al-Arabiya that Issaoui had informed the family he would sleep in front of the church, and sent them a photograph showing him at the cathedral where the attack took place. President Emmanuel Macron said he would immediately increase the number of soldiers deployed to protect schools and religious sites from around 3,000 to 7,000.

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 20, 2020 file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left and French President Emmanuel Macron stand, during a group photo at a conference on Libya at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. France has recalled its ambassador to Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said President Emmanuel Macron needed mental health treatment and made other comments that the French government described as unacceptably rude. Erdogan questioned his French counterparts mental condition while criticizing Macrons attitude toward Islam and Muslims. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)PARIS – France recalled its ambassador to Turkey for consultations after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said President Emmanuel Macron needed mental health treatment and made other comments that the French government described as unacceptably rude. Erdogan questioned his French counterpart's mental condition while criticizing Macron’s attitude toward Islam and Muslims.

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an "Islamist terrorist attack" against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb Friday, urging the nation to stand united against extremism. (Abdulmonam Eassa, Pool via AP)PARIS – For the second time in three weeks, terror struck France, this time with the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a street in a Paris suburb. French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” and urged the nation to stand united against extremism. Macron visited the school where the teacher worked in the town of Conflans-Saint-Honorine and met with staff after the slaying. ... Why does a history teacher behave this way in front of 13-year-olds?” the man asked.

DETROIT – Detroit police are facing a new federal lawsuit that says a Muslim woman was forced to remove her hijab for a booking photo at the Detroit Detention Center. According to the lawsuit, Zainab Chaaban was forced to remove her hijab in front of male staff members inside the jail. She was arrested by Detroit police for her involvement in a domestic situation with her husband. We did a trial by jury and I was found not guilty.”She said when she was taken for a mug shot she was forced to remove her hijab. “When I went to the prison cell, they asked me to remove my scarf.

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But as nations begin to ease those restrictions, the Saudi government on Sunday started allowing a maximum of 6,000 pilgrims a day to enter the sprawling Grand Mosque in Mecca. Muslim travelers from outside Saudi Arabia could be allowed to perform the umrah pilgrimage as early as Nov. 1, the Interior Ministry has said. Saudi Arabia recently began easing some restrictions on international flights for the first time since March. Pilgrims were selected after applying through an online portal and all were residents or citizens of Saudi Arabia. Despite taking early and sweeping measures to contain the virus, Saudi Arabia has recorded nearly 336,000 cases, including 4,850 deaths.

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, people line up at the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. The Associated Press has found that the Chinese government is carrying out a birth control program aimed at Uighurs, Kazakhs and other largely Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Chinas repression in Tibet, the status of the exiled Dali Lama, and its treatment of ethnic minorities spurred violent protests ahead of Beijings 2008 Olympics. China is host to the 2022 Winter Olympics with rumblings of a boycott and calls to remove the games from Beijing because of widespread human rights violations. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 accused, including senior leaders of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, in the case. Last year, India’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of building a Hindu temple on the disputed site. The Supreme Court also ruled that the demolition of the Babri Masjid was illegal and ordered that the separate trial in the mosque demolition case be completed expeditiously. The four acquitted BJP leaders — L.K. “When the Supreme Court said that the demolition of the mosque was an unlawful act, how can a lower court set free the accused?” he said.

CANBERRA – China appears to be expanding its network of secret detention centers in Xinjiang, where predominantly Muslim minorities are targeted in a forced assimilation campaign, and more of the facilities resemble prisons, an Australian think tank has found. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute used satellite images and official construction tender documents to map more than 380 suspected detention facilities in the far northwestern region, highlighting internment camps, detention centers and prisons that have been newly built or expanded since 2017. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Friday dismissed the report as “pure disinformation and slander,” saying the Australian institute had “no academic credibility.” China does not operate “so-called detention camps” in Xinjiang, Wang told reporters at a daily briefing. “Of these, about 50% are higher security facilities, which may suggest a shift in usage from the lower-security, ‘re-education centers’ toward higher-security prison-style facilities,” Ruser wrote. Of the camps stripped of security infrastructure, 90% were lower security facilities, the report said.

FILE - In this May 25, 2019 file photo, Muslim worshippers circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Muslim travelers from outside Saudi Arabia could be allowed to perform the “umrah” pilgrimage as early as Nov. 1, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Saudi Arabia recently began easing some restrictions on international flights for the first time since March. Pilgrims were selected after applying through an online portal and all were residents or citizens of Saudi Arabia. Despite taking early and sweeping measures to contain the virus, Saudi Arabia has recorded more than 330,000 cases, including more than 4,500 deaths.

Doctors treat a burn Muslim worshipper in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. Dozens of Muslim worshipers suffered burn injuries critically during evening prayers after explosions of a gas pipeline installed underground near a mosque outside Bangladesh capital, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Abdul Goni)DHAKA An underground gas pipeline near a mosque exploded during evening prayers outside the capital of Bangladesh, leaving dozens of Muslim worshipers with critical burns, officials said Saturday. The blast occurred Friday night as people were finishing their prayers at Baitus Salat Jame Mosque at Narayanganj, local police chief Zayedul Alam said. TV stations reported that because of the impact of the gas line blast, at least six air conditioners also exploded inside the mosque.

Hundreds of Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, as they keep social destination to protect themselves against the coronavirus ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. During the first rites of hajj, Muslims circle the Kaaba counter-clockwise seven times while reciting supplications to God, then walk between two hills where Ibrahim's wife, Hagar, is believed to have run as she searched for water for her dying son before God brought forth a well that runs to this day.

Ramadan lights challenge in Dearborn helps families celebrate while social distancingPublished: May 13, 2020, 11:23 pmFor Muslim families Ramadan is one of the most social months of the year -- making it hard to celebrate during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

COLOMBO Former defense official Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been sworn in as Sri Lankas president and appealed to the minority Tamil and Muslim communities who voted against him to rally around him. Rajapaksa is credited with helping to end a long civil war and comfortably won last Saturdays presidential election. But minorities feared his election over human rights allegations against him dating from the war. Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya administered the oath of office to Rajapaksa at the 140 B.C Ruwanweli Seya Buddhist temple in ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura in north-central Sri Lanka. In his address to the nation Monday, he also pledged to give national security priority and follow a neutral foreign policy.

CNNXINJIANG, China (CNN) - A drone video appearing to show hundreds of blindfolded men being led from a train in China has raised new concerns over the ongoing crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang. Evidence points to XinjiangA western intelligence official told CNN they believed the video was authentic. 'That used to be me'For two former detainees in Xinjiang, the video was strikingly familiar. Xinjiang authorities and Chinese foreign ministry officials did not respond to requests for comment about the former detainees' allegations. The predominantly Muslim Uyghurs are ethnically distinct from the country's majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese.

Police block the bridge near Paris Police headquarters after four officers were killed in a knife attack on Oct. 3, 2019, in Paris. (CNN) - The perpetrator of a knife attack that left four people dead at a Paris police headquarters had recently adhered to a "radical vision of Islam," according to witnesses, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Franois Ricard said Saturday. The attacker, identified by police only as Mickal H., had converted "about 10 years ago" to Islam and recently had kept to a more "radical vision," Ricard said during a news conference. The attacker had contacts with people suspected of belonging to the ultraconservative Salafist movement of Islam, the prosecutor said. These text messages were sent 30 minutes before the attacker visited a local store and bought two knives that would be used in the attack.

DEARBORN, Mich. - An eighth grade student at Stout Middle School in Dearborn said one of her teachers made racist and insensitive remarks regarding her Muslim heritage. The student reported the comments in a written statement. She said the teacher didn't deny the comments at a meeting with the principal and her mother was told the remarks were misinterpreted. After the incident Sept. 23 that she had reported, the student said the teacher sat on her desk in her personal space. "This teacher clearly has a bias against Muslim women who wear the headscarf," Fatina Abdrabboh, with the Muslim American Advocacy League, said.

DETROIT - Here's what is coming up on Local 4 News at 11:Teacher harasses studentAn eight grade student at Stout Middle School in Dearborn said one of her teachers made racist and insensitive remarks regarding her Muslim heritage. Fire updateA fire that sent 5 Detroit firefighters to a hospital has been deemed suspicious. Copyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

Getty Images(CNN) - Two Muslim men say their American Airlines flight was canceled after security concerns were raised by on-board crew members. American Airlines said the flight was canceled "due to concerns raised by a crew member and a passenger." The agent allegedly told Abdallah that the flight crew called police to say they were uncomfortable flying with him after he flushed twice in the restroom, according to Abdallah. All passengers on the flight, including the two men, were rebooked on the next flight to Dallas. American Airlines said in a statement they have reached out to the two men to better understand what happened that day.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/Getty ImagesTORONTO (CNN) - The Toronto Raptors are making history once again. This week, they became the first team to sell a branded hijab, the headscarf worn by many Muslim women. The tweet included a video of Muslim women playing basketball. The women in the video are members of Hijabi Ballers, a Toronto-area athletic club for Muslim girls and women. They also thanked the Raptors for recognizing the role Muslim women play in "changing the culture around sport" in the city.

Expect sunshine mixed with some high clouds todayitll be a pretty skywith highs reaching the low 80s (28 degrees Celsius). This evening marks the beginning of the Muslim holy day, Eid al-Adha, and the weather will be perfect for family gatherings. Skies will become mostly clear Saturday night, with lows in the low 60s (16 degrees Celsius). Itll be increasingly humid, with highs in the mid 80s (29 to 30 degrees Celsius). Monday night is the focus of this forecast, as there is the potential for a batch of severe storms to head this way.