A Strasbourg roundtable develops educational responses to anti-Muslim prejudice

The US Justice Department sued Rutherford County, Tennessee, seeking to ensure that the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro could obtain an occupancy certificate for its new mosque. The complaint...

ODIHR, UNESCO and the Council of Europe convened a roundtable on countering intolerance against Muslims in societies in transition. The meeting focused on applying their educators’ guidelines and...

Human Rights Watch released All You Can Do Is Pray, based on field research and survivor testimony about violence against Rohingya and other Muslims in Rakhine State. It concluded that abuses amounted...

Members of York Mosque invited a small group of English Defence League supporters for tea and conversation after a threatened demonstration. Mosque supporters had gathered in solidarity, and...

Muslim religious and community leaders, two mosques and a charitable organization filed Raza v. City of New York. Represented by the ACLU, NYCLU and CUNY’s CLEAR project, they challenged allegedly...

A federal court invalidated Oklahoma’s amendment excluding Sharia and international law from state-court consideration. The ACLU and CAIR had supported Muslim plaintiffs’ challenge to a measure that...

Thousands marched in Montreal against a proposed charter restricting conspicuous religious symbols for public employees. Muslim women wearing religious dress joined the demonstration. The mobilization...

CAIR Philadelphia announced the availability of Legislating Fear, a CAIR and University of California, Berkeley report examining organized Islamophobia in the United States. It connected anti-Muslim...

Judge William Alsup ruled in favor of Malaysian scholar Rahinah Ibrahim in her challenge to mistaken watchlisting. The government was ordered to correct its records and disclose her current No Fly...

A federal district court dismissed Hassan v. City of New York, the challenge brought by Muslim plaintiffs against NYPD surveillance in New Jersey. The ruling rejected standing and the plausibility...