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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 – A man armed with a knife was caught on CCTV stealing a flag from a mosque in western Sydney, sparking fear and concern within the local Muslim community.
News ID: 3492236    Publish Date : 2025/03/09

IQNA – A 16-year-old boy in Western Australia has been charged in connection with an alleged online threat targeting a recently inaugurated mosque in Sydney.
News ID: 3492181    Publish Date : 2025/03/05

IQNA – Authorities in Australia have launched a major investigation after a disturbing threat was directed at a mosque in Western Sydney.
News ID: 3492154    Publish Date : 2025/03/04

IQNA – Authorities in Melbourne have arrested a 31-year-old woman following two alleged attacks on Muslim women at Pacific Epping shopping centre.
News ID: 3491920    Publish Date : 2025/02/19

IQNA – Islamophobic graffiti discovered near a high school in Sydney's west has drawn condemnation from Muslim community leaders, who describe it as a reflection of growing hatred and bigotry in Australian communities.
News ID: 3491894    Publish Date : 2025/02/17

IQNA – A Muslim woman attacked at a Melbourne shopping center has voiced feelings of insecurity in her home country, linking the incident to Islamophobia.
News ID: 3491890    Publish Date : 2025/02/17

IQNA – The head of the Samen Al-Aemmeh Imam Reza (AS) Quranic Assembly in Sydney, Australia, elaborated on the activities of the center, describing the reception of its religious and Quranic programs as extensive.
News ID: 3491749    Publish Date : 2025/02/05

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