Bulgaria: the sufferings of one million Muslims
For the past century, Muslims in the Balkans are the victims of many episodes of ethnic cleansing by the crusaders and later by the Communists in Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece. As Communism collapsed, the Muslims in Eastern Europe are still facing suppression, discrimination, harassment and... More
Nov 12, 2024
Muslim women in New Zealand
Brief Introduction New Zealand is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, located south of the equator in the Southern Hemisphere, and marking the eastern boundary of the Tasman Sea, a portion of the Pacific Ocean that separates New Zealand and the nearest large landmass, Australia, by a distance... More
Nov 12, 2024
Uighurs fear Islamic practices will disappear under China's rule
Uighur Muslims, who could not study freely Islamic teachings under the China's long-year restrictions, fear Islamic practices will be forgotten and disappear. "I wanted to study teachings like the Hadith," the man, 25-year-old Muslim, who identified himself only as Hussein, told San Francisco Chronicle, referring to a collection of the... More
Nov 12, 2024
Uyghur woman faces forced abortion ordered by China
An ethnic Uyghur woman faces an imminent abortion of her third child, Radio Free Asia reported. The report said "Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in East Turkistan region, scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because authorities say she... More
Nov 12, 2024
Muslims in Bulgaria see their civil rights under threat
The rising anti-Muslim rhetoric ahead of a July parliamentary election have raised tensions in the country. Twenty years after Bulgaria's then-Communist regime mounted an official campaign of persecution against its Muslim minority, could bring the nightmare back. Mustafa Yumer, a Bulgarian Muslim, led resistance and hunger strikes against an assimilation... More
Nov 12, 2024