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Imam Accused of Limiting Free Expression Removes As Government Adviser Over Film Protest
The government accused the Imam of supporting a campaign "to limit free expression" and removed him from his roles as an independent advisor on Islamophobia and as the deputy Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group.
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"Avoid Protests" Says Muslim Groups in India
"It is the duty of every Muslim to stand together when anyone belittles Islam but at the same time it is critical to maintain peace," said Malik Aslam, a senior member of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, a Muslim organisation that operates in several Indian states.
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Costumed protesters disrupt Mother's Day Mass in Los Angeles
The group's threat to disrupt Mother's Day Masses came in response to a leaked draft opinion in a Mississippi abortion case that suggests a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
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Protests continue in Sweden over burning of Quran
Hundreds gather in capital Stockholm to protest burning of Muslim holy book in southern Linkoping city.
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Thousands protest racism, police brutality in France
Several thousand demonstrators gathered in different major cities of France to protest the government policies, and brutality of security forces as many people told how their relatives have died at hands of the police.
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Protesters Urge Congress to End US Role in Saudi-led War on Yemen
Dozens of Americans have held a demonstration in New York City to denounce the bloody Saudi-led war on Yemen, urging Congress to support a proposal that would end the “unconstitutional” US involvement in the aggression.
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Muslim immigrant families protest against Swedish agency for taking their children
Protesters holding photos of their children gathered in Gothenburg's Gustaf Adolf Torg Square and chanted slogans such as "Give us our children back," "Our children were taken from us, we were subjected to injustice" and "We want justice."
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Violent clashes over hijab ban in southern India force schools to close
Unrest triggered when Karnataka state came down in favour of rightwing Hindu demands for headscarf ban.
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Schools shut in Indian state as protests grow over headscarf ban
Muslim students outraged at what they say is increasing persecution by Hindu nationalist government.
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Shin Bet admits sending threatening texts to Palestinians during May protests
The domestic intelligence agency admits to sending warnings to Palestinians not involved in protests in East Jerusalem last year.
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NYC pro-abortion activists curse at churchgoers
Pro-abortion demonstrators yelled obscenities at people leaving a pro-life vigil at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
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'Muslim nations should work collectively to fight Islamophobia': PM Imran Khan
The prime minister's address to the nation came a day after over a dozen police officers were taken hostage by the supporters of a banned outfit in Lahore.
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Infuriated British Muslims criticize French anti-Islam cartoons
Outside the French Embassy in London, angered British Muslims gathered to vent their anger.
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Thousands of Muslims protest against French president’s vow to protect cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Thousands of Muslims in Pakistan are joining anti-France protests, as the French president’s vow to protect the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) continues to roil the Muslim world.
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Pressure on China’s Royal Mint embassy plans at Tower Hill over plight of its Uighur Muslims
Protests are being raised against the Chinese government at tonight’s Tower Hamlets Council meeting over the million-plus Muslims it has locked up in detention camps.
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People of Mashhad gather to condemn insult to Prophet (pbuh)
A group of prominent scholars, clerics, martyrs' families and various walks of the religious people of Mashhad, gathered in protest to the insult of the French magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in republishing insulting cartoons about the great Prophet (pbuh) of Islam and sacrilege of Islamic values and beliefs of more than one billion Muslims around the world in Goharshad Mosque at the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS).
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Disney's Mulan boycotted for working with China security who are torturing Uyghur Muslims
Protests and calls for boycotts of Disney’s new film Mulan are spreading on Twitter after it was revealed that scenes from the film where shot in parts of China where the government is committing mass human rights abuses, including cultural genocide against ethnic minorities.
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Zionist enemy suppresses protests in occupied West Bank
The sources mentioned that the Israeli occupation forces prevented the Palestinian locals from reaching their lands threatened to be seized in order to perform the Friday Prayers there.
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Kashmiri Muslims protest against blasphemous video
Protests were held in Lolab area of Kashmir Valley and in Reasi, Thathri, Doda and Baderwah areas of Jammu region, eyewitnesses in the areas.
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Hezbollah parliamentary delegation hands Lebanese FM petition in protest of US ambassador’s interventions
Head of the bloc, Hajj Mohammad Raad, led the delegation which also urged Hitti to take action against the US diplomat and draw her attention to the international conventions.
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Black Lives Matter: Hundreds protest in Berlin against racism
police spokesman estimated around 1,100 people took part.