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Muslims in Australia

Muslims in Australia represent a small but growing segment of the population. According to the 2021 Census, there are approximately 813,392 Muslims in Australia, making up about 3.2% of the total population. The Muslim community in Australia is diverse, comprising people from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including those of Lebanese, Turkish, Afghan, and Indonesian descent.Islam is the second-largest religion in Australia, following Christianity. The community has established numerous mosques, Islamic schools, and cultural centers across the country.

IQNA – Australia's Muslim organizations have condemned an alleged attack on Sheikh Wesam Charkawi, a prominent Sydney sheikh and convener of the Muslim Vote campaign, while criticizing the "silence" of the NSW and federal Labor governments.
News ID: 3491229    Publish Date : 2024/12/27

IQNA – A Sydney woman has been charged with multiple offenses following two separate incidents involving alleged threats and religiously motivated behavior.
News ID: 3491208    Publish Date : 2024/12/25

IQNA – A woman has been formally charged following an incident at a Kmart store in Bankstown, western Sydney, where she is accused of verbally abusing and intimidating a Muslim woman during a confrontation that escalated in a public setting. 
News ID: 3491164    Publish Date : 2024/12/23

IQNA – A hijabi Muslim woman says she and her daughter had been targeted in an islamophobic attack at a store in Sydney.
News ID: 3491150    Publish Date : 2024/12/22

IQNA – A truck bearing Palestinian flags was deliberately set on fire outside a home in Newport, a suburb in Melbourne's inner-west, in what the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) has described as an "Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian hate crime." 
News ID: 3491132    Publish Date : 2024/12/21

IQNA – Aftab Malik, Australia’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia, says Islamophobia is an “everyday reality” for too many Australians.
News ID: 3491098    Publish Date : 2024/12/18

IQNA – Muslim leaders in Australia have expressed concern over the normalization of Islamophobia, following the defacement of a railway underpass in Chester Hill, Western Sydney.
News ID: 3491084    Publish Date : 2024/12/17

IQNA – New South Wales police have launched an investigation after Islamophobic graffiti was painted on a busy underpass in Sydney’s west, as local officials slammed the act of hate.
News ID: 3491054    Publish Date : 2024/12/15

IQNA – Muslim students at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, continued their protest against the university’s move to lock them out from a multi faith center’s prayer room.  
News ID: 3490421    Publish Date : 2024/10/26

IQNA – Swinburne University in Melbourne has faced backlash after deciding to close the Multi Faith Centre on Fridays, the day Muslim students gather for congregational prayers.
News ID: 3490395    Publish Date : 2024/10/23

IQNA – A Muslim Mental Health Conference was held in Sydney, focusing on the psychological toll of the ongoing Palestine crisis on Muslim communities in Australia.
News ID: 3490388    Publish Date : 2024/10/22

IQNA – An Australian Muslim activist said in order to save Palestine, it is necessary that all Muslims in the world get united.
News ID: 3490322    Publish Date : 2024/10/17

IQNA – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the appointment of Aftab Malik as the country’s first special envoy to combat Islamophobia.
News ID: 3490122    Publish Date : 2024/10/02

IQNA – An Australian political advocacy group named Muslim Votes Matter is going to mobilize Muslim Australians before the next election.
News ID: 3489747    Publish Date : 2024/09/02

IQNA – South Australia Police are investigating an incident that occurred on Thursday morning, where a man left a dead kangaroo outside the Marion Mosque in Park Holme.
News ID: 3489666    Publish Date : 2024/08/27

IQNA – An "unprecedented" rise in Islamophobia across Australia has been reported since the start of the Israeli war in Gaza, according to the Islamophobia Register Australia.
News ID: 3489233    Publish Date : 2024/07/24

IQNA – The Australian Labor Party has suspended Senator Fatima Payman from participating in its Senate group meetings indefinitely after she supported a motion by the Green Party to acknowledge Palestine as an independent state.
News ID: 3488959    Publish Date : 2024/07/02

IQNA – An Australian Muslim group has gained a legal victory against social media platform X, former Twitter, over the latter’s failure to remove Islamophobic posts.
News ID: 3488472    Publish Date : 2024/05/24

IQNA – An alliance of leading Islamic groups in Australia has demanded a revision of the country’s terrorism laws, stressing the need to eliminate the concept of “religiously motivated terrorism” from the legislation.
News ID: 3488086    Publish Date : 2024/04/26

IQNA – In a departure from tradition, the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney did not extend an invitation to any politicians for the annual Eid prayer this year in support of Gaza.
News ID: 3487891    Publish Date : 2024/04/10