Amidst reports of increasing Islamophobia in the UK and a surge in death threats against MPs during regular pro-Palestine protests, the British government has pledged to spend £117 million to safeguard British Muslims. NTD spoke with Catherine Perez–Shakdam, director of a political consultancy firm Forward Strategy Ltd, said the British government is not addressing radicalism. […]
A group representing Muslim Democratic voters has issued President Joe Biden an ultimatum to either demand a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group or risk losing the support of Muslim voters in the 2024 election. In an Oct. 30 letter they described as an “ultimatum,” the National Muslim Democratic Council (NMDC) called on […]
The Global Imams Council (GIC) of Muslim faith leaders on Dec. 30 banned followers of Islam from participating in and attending the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, citing the oppression of Uyghurs in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. The GIC is the world’s first and largest transnational non-governmental body of Muslim religious leaders from all Islamic denominations and […]
Donald Rumsfeld, a forceful U.S. defense secretary who was the main architect of the Iraq war until President George W. Bush replaced him as the United States found itself bogged down after 3-1/2 years of fighting, has died at age 88, his family said in a statement on Wednesday. “It is with deep sadness that […]
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar mocked Republican Rep. Mo Brooks Friday after he said that more Muslims in office is leading to more anti-Semitism.
This comes after Rep. Brooks appeared on an Alabama radio show and said that Democrats’ alleged anti-Israel rhetoric is the result of “the growing influence of the Islamic religion in the Democratic Party ranks.”
One of the songs had children singing about “liberat[ing] the sorrowful and exalted AL-Aqsa Mosque,” which sits in Jerusalem and is revered by both Muslims and Jews, by beheading Jews.
SHANGHAI— China’s anti-corruption watchdog said on March 16 it would prosecute Nur Bekri, one of the highest-ranking ethnic Uyghur officials in the country, over allegations of graft during to his time as governor of Xinjiang. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a statement that Bekri obstructed an investigation launched in September and […]
GENEVA—A leading researcher on China’s ethnic policies said on March 13 that an estimated 1.5 million Uyghurs and other Muslims could be held in so-called re-education centers in Xinjiang region, up from his earlier figure of 1 million. China has faced growing international opprobrium for what it says are vocational training centers in Xinjiang, a […]
TAIPEI—Describing China’s internment of an estimated 1 million Muslims as a “horrific situation,” a U.S. envoy on religion called on March 12 for an independent investigation into the detentions and for the release of those being held. Sam Brownback, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said China has done nothing to assuage concerns from the […]
WASHINGTON—Nearly two years after the Chinese regime began to detain members of Muslim minority groups in western China, a growing number of family members abroad are refusing to remain silent. On Feb. 24, about three dozen relatives of some of the 1 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others being held without charge spoke out about the […]
GENEVA—Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu voiced concern on Feb. 25 at China’s alleged mistreatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region and called on Beijing to protect freedom of religion and cultural identity. The U.N. Human Rights Council opened its main, annual four-week session and diplomats and activists say China has lobbied hard […]
Voice of America Iran’s minority Sunni Muslims say authorities of the Shiite-majority nation have prevented some Sunnis from holding communal prayers in the capital, Tehran, to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. The Council of Azeri Sunni Prayer Centers in Tehran and the neighboring province of Alborz issued a statement saying Sunnis were prevented […]
DHAKA—Bangladesh is in negotiations with Burma aimed at a deal to repatriate Rohingya refugees and Dhaka’s foreign minister will address the matter at talks in Burma this week, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry said on Sunday. More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a military clearance operation […]
Thousands of Armenians marched to commemorate the 1915-1918 mass killings of their people at the hands of Ottoman Turkey. People gathered in central Republic Square in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital city. Attendees carried the flags of states that have recognized the mass killings as genocide. They want other countries, like Turkey, to do likewise. Muslim Turkey […]
