A Turkish far-right politician accused of inciting public hatred and hostility has gone on trial in a case critics view as an effort to suppress opposition to the president ...

The murder of mosque-goer Aboubakar Cissé in April again highlighted the prevalence of Islamophobia in France, discrimination ...

Erdogan calls the 1982 constitution “the military constitution,” since it was drafted in the aftermath of the military coup ...

It is a way for him to leave his ... of political Islam in the country. Beyond these two highly publicized churches, are such conversions of buildings frequent in Turkey? It is important to ...

But it has a major asset with Islam ... the Turks have had to leave Suakin at Sudan's request," Lavergne explains. "But it is clear that the competition between Turkey and Saudi Arabia for ...

Hamit Coskun was found guilty on Monday of a religiously aggravated public order offence, having shouted “f*** Islam”, “Islam is religion of terrorism” and “Koran is burning” while holding the flaming ...

“Pakistan’s strength as a potential ‘first class power’ surpassing Turkey, thus enabling it to extend its protective umbrella not only over Muslims in Hindu India, but over the Islamic world at large… ...

Notably, more people have left Islam in Turkey– a Muslim-majority nation ... highest number of Hindu converts, with 11 percent leaving Hinduism and joining other faiths, majorly Christianity.

According to the Pew Research study, Islam has the highest retention rate among major world religions, with very few leaving their birth ... Tunisia and Turkey. The study noted that sufficient ...

These are the two threats that weigh heavily on the Christian community in Turkey, a tiny minority equal ... particularly critical for converts from Islam who are subject to threats, arrests ...

Apostasy laws, which impose penalties for leaving Islam, are fundamentally at odds with these principles ... which is exactly what is happening today in many corners of the Muslim world. From Iran to ...