Mosque Opposition

A Telangana BJP Lok Sabha candidate's gesture at an election rally - pretending to draw and fire an arrow at a nearby mosque - has drawn flak from the opposition, with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi slamming the "vulgar, obscene, and provocative" act.

Amid opposition by some right wing groups to the use loudspeakers at mosques, senior Karnataka Minister KS Eshwarappa on Monday said, any solution to the issue can be found by taking the Muslim community into confidence

After years of delays caused by red tape, cutbacks and opposition from religious and political factions, the first government-funded mosque in Athens since 1833 opened its doors to worshippers on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Saturday accused the Yogi Adityanath government of using the Ayodhya temple dispute to divert public attention from its failure to uplift the poor, and threatened to quit the state cabinet unless it mended its ways.

Following instances of disruption of namaz in Gurgaon allegedly by fringe Right-wing groups in the last few weeks, separate meetings were held between the district administration, the Right-wing and Muslim organisations to defuse tension arising out of opposition to offering Friday prayers in open spaces.

A man accused of deliberately driving a van into a group of London Muslims told his trial on Tuesday that he wanted to kill the British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.

A prominent Muslim cleric in the West Bengal capital Kolkata's Tipu Sultan Mosque who makes headlines for controversial fatwas, or religious decrees, including one recently targeting PM Narendra Modi faced protests earlier this week. On home turf.

Britain's opposition leader invited U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who sparked an outcry by calling for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States, to join him on a visit to a London mosque.

Britain's opposition leader invited US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who sparked an outcry by calling for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States, to join him on a visit to a London mosque.

A 26-crore package announced by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for free meals at mosques and clothes to Muslim families during the month of Ramzan has provoked an attack by the opposition Congress, which says he is failing to provide any real benefits to the minority community.

Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), widely tipped to form the next government, said in its election manifesto on Monday it would encourage foreign direct investment but appeared to close the door to global retailers eyeing the country.

Several hundred bodies have been found in a town near Damascus after a ferocious assault by the Syrian army, a watchdog said Sunday, as activists accused government forces of a gruesome "massacre". A grisly video issued by opposition militants showed bodies piled up wall-to-wall in a mosque complex in Daraya after a massive offensive by troops bat...

While a high-profile battle rages over a mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, heated confrontations have also broken out in communities across the country where mosques are proposed for far less hallowed locations.In Murfreesboro, Tenn, Republican candidates have denounced plans for a large Muslim center proposed near a subdivision, and hundreds o...

A Telangana BJP Lok Sabha candidate's gesture at an election rally - pretending to draw and fire an arrow at a nearby mosque - has drawn flak from the opposition, with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi slamming the "vulgar, obscene, and provocative" act.

Amid opposition by some right wing groups to the use loudspeakers at mosques, senior Karnataka Minister KS Eshwarappa on Monday said, any solution to the issue can be found by taking the Muslim community into confidence

After years of delays caused by red tape, cutbacks and opposition from religious and political factions, the first government-funded mosque in Athens since 1833 opened its doors to worshippers on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Saturday accused the Yogi Adityanath government of using the Ayodhya temple dispute to divert public attention from its failure to uplift the poor, and threatened to quit the state cabinet unless it mended its ways.

Following instances of disruption of namaz in Gurgaon allegedly by fringe Right-wing groups in the last few weeks, separate meetings were held between the district administration, the Right-wing and Muslim organisations to defuse tension arising out of opposition to offering Friday prayers in open spaces.

A man accused of deliberately driving a van into a group of London Muslims told his trial on Tuesday that he wanted to kill the British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.

A prominent Muslim cleric in the West Bengal capital Kolkata's Tipu Sultan Mosque who makes headlines for controversial fatwas, or religious decrees, including one recently targeting PM Narendra Modi faced protests earlier this week. On home turf.

Britain's opposition leader invited U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who sparked an outcry by calling for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States, to join him on a visit to a London mosque.

Britain's opposition leader invited US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who sparked an outcry by calling for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States, to join him on a visit to a London mosque.

A 26-crore package announced by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for free meals at mosques and clothes to Muslim families during the month of Ramzan has provoked an attack by the opposition Congress, which says he is failing to provide any real benefits to the minority community.

Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), widely tipped to form the next government, said in its election manifesto on Monday it would encourage foreign direct investment but appeared to close the door to global retailers eyeing the country.

Several hundred bodies have been found in a town near Damascus after a ferocious assault by the Syrian army, a watchdog said Sunday, as activists accused government forces of a gruesome "massacre". A grisly video issued by opposition militants showed bodies piled up wall-to-wall in a mosque complex in Daraya after a massive offensive by troops bat...

While a high-profile battle rages over a mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, heated confrontations have also broken out in communities across the country where mosques are proposed for far less hallowed locations.In Murfreesboro, Tenn, Republican candidates have denounced plans for a large Muslim center proposed near a subdivision, and hundreds o...