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Nearly five million in India's Assam at risk of citizenship loss

　　Nearly five million people in India's eastern state of Assam face the threat of deportation after a top government official said they have failed to provide documentation proving that their families lived there prior to 1971. 　　The risk comes as the government of Assam prepares to publish a preliminary list...

France’s desperate endeavors to design a ‘French Islam’

　　In Sept. 2018, “Institut Montaigne”, a French think tank close to French President Emmanuel Macron’s government, published a report that calls for a stronger regulation of Muslim religious practices by the state in order to better counter “Islamism”. 　　Entitled “Islamism Factory”, the report triggered a turmoil among French Muslim communities...

Spain sees over 500 Islamophobic incidents last year

　　More than 500 Islamophobic incidents were recorded in Spain last year, including against women and children and several mosques, according to a civil society group. 　　Details of the incidents were documented in the report "Islamophobia in Spain 2017” released Friday by the Citizens’ Platform Against Islamophobia (PCI). 　　According to the...

Rohingya: 'Better to kill us in India than deport us to Myanmar'

　　Jafar Alam sits by a small grocery shop in the Rohingya refugee camp in New Delhi's Kalindi Kunj area. 　　A police officer who visited the camp had asked Alam to fill a six-page "personal data" form. Alam refused. 　　"Today, if you will not cooperate with us, we will not cooperate...

Buddhists 'lured' to settle on Rohingya land

　　Myanmar authorities have lured dozens of mainly Buddhist but with some Christians, Bangladeshi tribal families to cross the border and resettle on land abandoned by fleeing Muslim-majority Rohingya, officials said Monday. 　　About 50 families from remote hill and forest areas on the Bangladesh side, attracted by offers of free land...

Myanmar building military bases over Rohingya villages: Amnesty

　　Myanmar is building military bases over flattened Rohingya villages, an international rights group said. 　　Security forces have bulldozed houses and started constructing at least three new security facilities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, said Amnesty International's Remaking Rakhine State report, which was published on Monday. 　　The report, which said construction...

Muslims in Chile

　　By: Ahmad Mahmood As-Sayyid 　　Chile is situated along the western seaboard of South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, and Argentina to the east. The total population of Chile is 16 million. Catholics make up 80.7% of the...

Monsoons threaten thousands of Rohingya refugees

　　The Rohingya people have still been fleeing to Bangladesh from restive Rakhine state of Myanmar and they reside in the areas that are at high risk of landslides and flooding, the UN refugee agency said on Friday. 　　About 8,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh so far this year, UNHCR...

Why do Muslims oppose citizenship engineering in India?

　　by Mohammad Pervez Bilgrami 　　India’s Hindu nationalist government recently passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955, paving the way for granting Indian citizenship to religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Those listed as eligible to become Indians in the new law are Hindus,...

Imam of mosque ‘beaten to death’ in Serbia

　　A 63-year-old imam of a mosque has been “beaten to death” on Saturday in the Muslim-majority city of Novi Pazar in Serbia. 　　Nazir Salihovic was attacked when he was on his way back home after leading the night prayer at the mosque, the Serbian Islamic Union said in a statement....