A senior government official in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State has pledged to tear down all illegally constructed buildings including mosques and Muslim religious schools, according to a report Wednesday. More

A British unmanned drone was involved in last weekend’s airstrike which reportedly killed more than 60 Syrian regime troops, the U.K. announced on Monday. More

New data shows hate crimes against Muslim Americans are at their highest levels since the weeks immediately following the September 11th attacks. Researchers say sentiments coming from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and others cannot be dismissed as contributors to anti-Muslim attacks. More

A third of France’s Muslims reject the country’s secular laws, a new opinion poll has shown. The findings of the Ifop survey, which were published by the French weekly Journal du Dimanche, show 29% consider the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia to be more important than the French Republic’s laws. More

“Now we are in danger of being swamped by Muslims who bear a culture and ideology that is incompatible with our own,” Pauline Hanson said in her maiden speech in the Senate on Wednesday. More

A Florida place of worship frequented by the alleged perpetrator of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history was set ablaze on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, officials said Monday. More

An international group of female activists has set sail from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip as part of the latest attempt to end the Israeli blockade. 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

Spanish police said Wednesday they arrested two individuals on hate-crime charges after an alleged assault on a pregnant woman wearing a niqab. More

Fifteen years later, there are reasons to despair about the state of Muslims in America—but still more reasons for optimism about it. More

The first Islamic university of Spain is opening in San Sebastian in Basque Country at the initiative of the Islamic University of Minnesota in the US, led by Arab theologian and jurist Waleed Al-Maneese. More

Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine, reports that masked and armed OMON riot police turned up at the Mosque on Mokrousov St at around midday on September 5. They blocked all entrances and continued their ‘search’ until late in the evening. More