Hate Crime Prosecution Sought for Attacks on Virginia Mosque
IQNA – Citing a pattern of targeting, A US Muslim advocacy group urged prosecutors to pursue hate crime charges against a Virginia man arrested for an anti-Muslim attack on a mosque—the second time the same suspect has faced prosecution for allegedly targeting the Somali-American community center.
IQNA – The move by a Saudi TV channel to censor a part of the Friday prayer sermons at the Grand Mosque in Mecca has been widely criticized by cyberspace users.
16:34 , 2025 Dec 13
IQNA – A new law prohibiting girls under 14 from wearing headscarves in Austrian schools has sparked immediate backlash, with rights groups accusing the government of stigmatizing Muslims and overreaching into personal faith.
21:51 , 2025 Dec 12
IQNA – In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of eight Arab and Muslim nations defended the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as indispensable, while condemning an Israeli military raid on its East Jerusalem al-Quds headquarters.
08:54 , 2025 Dec 13
IQNA – North South University in Bangladesh recently inaugurated its first Quran Conference and Seerah Exhibition, drawing the campus community together at the NSU Plaza.
08:15 , 2025 Dec 13
IQNA – In response to hateful graffiti, Volunteers and neighbors in Norfolk, US state of Virginia, gathered with paint rollers to restore the Masjid ash Shura mosque, as police ask for the public’s help in identifying the vandal.
09:14 , 2025 Dec 12
IQNA – Spain’s public broadcaster chief José Pablo López censured Eurovision contest director for a fan letter that made no mention of Gaza or Israel, calling it a failure during a major reputational crisis for the organizers.
16:03 , 2025 Dec 12
IQNA – Unidentified individuals defaced two mosques in Hannover, Germany, spraying the acronym for the Israeli regime's military on their walls in what officials described Wednesday as a provocative act aimed at religious communities.
11:32 , 2025 Dec 11
IQNA – A displaced baby girl died in a flooded tent amid severe winter conditions in Gaza, while a separate Israeli attack killed a woman in Jabalia overnight, highlighting the dire humanitarian and security crisis.
16:11 , 2025 Dec 11
IQNA – Some news reports indicate that Sheikh Badreddin Hassoun, the former Mufti of Syria during the rule of Bashar al-Assad, has been given a death sentence.
12:59 , 2025 Dec 11
IQNA – French conservative senators have drawn sharp criticism from Muslim community leaders after proposing a new report that recommends measures including banning headscarves for mothers on school trips and prohibiting fasting for minors—steps critics decry as a discriminatory use of laïcité, the country's secular principle.
18:46 , 2025 Dec 09
IQNA – A conference was held in the German city of Böblingen to discuss the role of mosques in shaping the identity of Muslim minorities in the country.
16:24 , 2025 Dec 10
IQNA – A senior organiser of the Global Muslim Business Forum has urged closer economic cooperation among Muslim-majority markets to strengthen their collective influence.
15:03 , 2025 Dec 08
