Muslim leaders have admitted they are ‘frustrated and disappointed’ at being unable to find a site for a major new mosque in a Black Country town. More

The Saudi embassy in Cairo has denied reports about hiring an Israeli firm to make electronic bracelets for millions of pilgrims. More

Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders has promised to close all mosques and Islamic schools and ban the Qur’an in an online manifesto. More

A majority of mayors who have banned burkinis in about 30 French coastal resorts are refusing to lift the restrictions despite the country’s highest administrative court ruling that the bans are More

A US Muslim woman from Dearborn, Michigan has been inaugurated as a law enforcement officer in the city. She says her religious and cultural background will allow for better community policing in the More

A Corsican village has become the third French town to issue a ban on the full-body swimsuit – known as ‘burkinis’ – worn by some Muslim women. More

Mahboubul Hassan has been trying since 1998 to build the state’s first purpose-built mosque. More

Hundreds of people gathered at the historic Altab Ali park in East London yesterday, as part of a series of demonstrations led by the Black Lives Matter movement across the country, writes Khadiza More

A halal supermarket in Paris has been told by local authorities it must start selling pork and alcohol or else it will be shut down, The Telegraph reports. More

The Ministry of Environment has submitted a bill which includes provisions to resolve a series of administrative issues that are delaying the construction of a Mosque in Athens. More

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday the country had not compromised its laws in the coup’s wake, and furthermore made the gesture of withdrawing various court cases filed over insults to the More

Germany’s highest court late Saturday upheld a ruling to ban Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from addressing via video call a planned anti-coup rally in Cologne. More

Germany’s highest court late Saturday upheld a ruling to ban Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from addressing via video call a planned anti-coup rally in Cologne. More

Police in the southern state of Texas have launched an investigation after a doctor was stabbed and shot near a mosque as he walked to morning prayers, local media said. More

Nigeria’s court of appeals on Thursday ruled that Muslim female students can wear their head covering to schools, dismissing a government ban as “discriminatory and an infringement on the More

Islamophobic media personality Katie Hopkins has been reported to the police over a tweet after the Nice attack in which she said it was time to “get intolerant of Islam.” More

Muslims make up just over two per cent of Myanmar’s population, government census figures showed on Thursday, undercutting claims by Buddhist hardliners that Islam poses a threat to the dominance More

Bangladesh has said it intends to ban the Islamic television channel, Peace TV, in the wake of the deadly attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. More

The owner of a Kebab restaurant in Washington DC has been offering free meals to homeless on a daily basis for the past few months, opening doors for an audience that’s rarely welcome in elegant More

A Muslim mother from Bury was subjected to a vicious racist rant in the street before the perpetrator told her “to go home” because he had voted to leave the EU. More

A mosque in Leyton, a Muslim centre in Finsbury Park and another in Tottenham all received packages last Thursday. More

A new ban on the niqab has been enforced in a Swiss town with two Muslims already being fined for breaching it. More

Wife of the Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun, has donated food items to Islamic faithful across the state’s three senatorial districts to support Muslims in the Ramadan fasting season. More

The contest to select Britain’s next prime minister took a dramatic and unexpected turn Thursday when Boris Johnson withdrew from a race dominated by last week’s Brexit decision. More