South Africans launch class-action suit against SA banks
27 February 2022 More than 6 000 clients who claim they have been racially or otherwise discriminated against by South African banks have come together in a class-action suit against…
Muslim woman removed from American Airlines flight for making passenger feel ‘uncomfortable’
16 November 2020| 30 Rabi ul Awwal 1442| Gulf News A Jordanian-American Muslim woman was removed from an American Airlines Charlotte-bound flight at Newark airport after a passenger said she made him…
China rejects Turkey criticism on Uighurs, denies poet’s death
11 February 2019| 05 Jumadul Aakhir 1440| Al Jazeera China has hit back at claims by Turkey over its treatment of Uighur people and denied reports a prominent poet and…
Family and officials at odds over Muslim boy’s beard at Christian school
24 October 2018|14 Safar 1440|News 24 A Benoni-based private Christian school has come under fire for refusing to allow a Muslim pupil to grow his beard in line with Islamic…
Swedish court rules Muslim woman owed for discrimination
17 August 2018|05 Dhul Hijjah 1439|Anadolu Agency A Muslim woman will get 40,000 Swedish krona ($4,366) in damages from a company that discriminated against her faith-based choices during a job…
Israel passes racist Jewish nation-state law
19 July 2018|05 Dhul Qa’dha 1439|Middle East Monitor|Reuters Israel passed a law on Thursday to declare that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, something members of…
Thousands protest Israel’s ‘racist’ nation-state law
16 July 2018|02 Dhul Qa’dha 1439| Middle east monitor Some 7,000 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against a controversial bill that declares Israel exclusively “the…
Austria plans to close 7 mosques, expel 40 Imams
Cii Radio|Ayesha Ismail|08 June 2018|23 Ramadaan 1439 Austria plan to shut seven mosques and expel 40 imams, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Friday. During a news conference with Vice Chancellor…
Non-Muslim women take on Ramadan hijab challenge in solidarity with Muslim women who face discrimination
Cii Radio|Ayesha Ismail|29 May 2018|13 Ramadaan 1439 Grace Lloyd got a round of applause when she walked into her classroom at Doha’s Gulf English School on the first day of…
Woman kicked off flight after white man complained she was ‘pungent’
Cii Radio|Ayesha Ismail|14 May 2018| 27 Shabaan 1439 An African woman and her children were kicked off a United Airlines flight after a fellow passenger complained that she had a…