Islamophobia in West

IQNA

IQNA – The mayor of New Zealand’s largest city is facing criticism after an incident in which he referred to an RNZ staff member of Indian heritage as “a Muslim terrorist” and commented on the man’s beard moments before an interview.
News ID: 3497213    Publish Date : 2026/04/24

IQNA – Disciplinary proceedings against the Spanish football federation have been launched by FIFA over anti-Muslim chants heard at a recent match in Spain.
News ID: 3497204    Publish Date : 2026/04/23

IQNA – The British Home Office revoked the UK Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) of Valentina Gomez, a US-based social media influencer known for publicly desecrating the Quran.  
News ID: 3497172    Publish Date : 2026/04/21

IQNA – Dutch authorities are investigating a vandalism attack that left a mosque heavily damaged earlier this month.
News ID: 3497028    Publish Date : 2026/04/09

IQNA – A fire broke out at a heritage-listed former church in Kilmore, north of Melbourne, Australia.
News ID: 3496873    Publish Date : 2026/03/25

IQNA – Seven years after a gunman tried to tear a community apart, the people of Christchurch, New Zealand, are proving that compassion remains their strongest weapon.
News ID: 3496763    Publish Date : 2026/03/15

IQNA – As Muslims in Sydney marked the beginning of Ramadan, a holy month of prayer and reflection, the city's largest mosque was reeling from its third threatening letter in under a month.
News ID: 3496472    Publish Date : 2026/02/19

IQNA – Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, has formally called on One Nation leader Pauline Hanson to withdraw her recent anti-Muslim remarks.
News ID: 3496468    Publish Date : 2026/02/18

IQNA – At a midtown Toronto mosque, worshippers are taking turns guarding the doors during Ramadan prayers so others can pray in peace.
News ID: 3496458    Publish Date : 2026/02/18

IQNA – For the second time, a mosque in Sydney has received a letter threatening to burn it down, prompting a police investigation and raising fears within the Muslim community.
News ID: 3496312    Publish Date : 2026/02/05

IQNA – An American lawmaker warned of a rise in Islamophobia in the West as the holy month of Ramadan approaches.
News ID: 3496058    Publish Date : 2026/01/14

IQNA – Reported hate crimes targeting Muslim communities across Australia have surged by 300 percent, according to new data, with incidents ranging from violent threats and public abuse to the desecration of a Muslim cemetery.
News ID: 3495896    Publish Date : 2025/12/29

IQNA – In the wake of the Bondi tragedy that has united the nation in grief, many Australian Muslims are facing a frightening parallel reality: a surge in abusive and threatening behavior wrongly blaming them for the attack.
News ID: 3495834    Publish Date : 2025/12/24

IQNA – The recent desecration of a Quran at the Stockholm Mosque is not an isolated incident but part of a troubling rise in anti-Muslim provocations and hate crimes in Sweden and elsewhere in the West.
News ID: 3495817    Publish Date : 2025/12/22

IQNA – Community and faith leaders have forcefully denounced a “cowardly act of hatred” after a Brisbane mosque was found vandalized with a swastika, urging the public to stand together against racism and division.
News ID: 3495793    Publish Date : 2025/12/20

IQNA – The tragic shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach has been met with a complex truth: while the violence targeted a Jewish celebration, the man who stopped it was a Muslim, exposing the selective politics of how religious blame is assigned.
News ID: 3495749    Publish Date : 2025/12/15

IQNA – A US Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization expressed solidarity with the Muslim community in Ireland after a plot targeting Galway Mosque was foiled.
News ID: 3495382    Publish Date : 2025/11/13

IQNA – Specialist police are investigating a suspected racially motivated attack after a hooded figure poured motor oil across the main entrance of a mosque in Gosnells, Western Australia.
News ID: 3495207    Publish Date : 2025/10/30

IQNA – Police have charged an 18-year-old after an online bomb threat targeted a mosque in Wellington, New Zealand, leading to its closure and an investigation that may yet yield further charges.
News ID: 3495150    Publish Date : 2025/10/26

IQNA – A prominent professor of Oriental studies in France says that the West sees Islam not as a cultural problem but as an existential threat, and that human rights have been used as a tool for domination.
News ID: 3495047    Publish Date : 2025/10/18