On the International Day of Happiness, which falls on March 20 of each year, Sawt Alhikma Center shares its hopes and dreams for peace and security to prevail, and for roads to happiness for everyone to be based on coexistence, tolerance and acceptance rather than extremism.
After a widespread criticism by the media, A UK school retracted the threat of legal action against a Muslim student over “too long skirt” and apologized to her family as she was prevented from attending school for months, which was considered as persecution.
A Hindu temple in Ghaziabad, India, witnessed a shocking incident after a disciple of the head priest’s assaulted a Muslim boy for drinking water from the temple’s tap, prompting police to arrest the aggressor and the person who recorded the video of the assault.
The UN showed an implicit response to OIC and Sawt Alhikma Center’s call to declare March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia, after SG António Guterres joined an OIC event at the UN headquarters in NY on Wednesday, to commemorate the first anniversary of this day.
Foreign Policy Magazine noted that the ironic timing of the new Burqa ban in Switzerland proves that it was not due to security concerns, but to normalize anti-Muslim discrimination. The number of Muslims wearing Burqas is no more than 37 in Switzerland.
A French Muslim expects the court’s judgment in a lawsuit he filed in France after being fired from his job at CDG Airport for praying at work, which the officials viewed as a “serious radicalization”. His lawyer said that anti-Muslim campaigns led to the decision.
Sawt Al-Hikma Center of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) calls on the OIC member states, all states of the world, governmental and non-governmental organizations and all human rights and religious freedom activists, to urge the United Nations to declare March 15 of every year as International Day of Solidarity against Islamophobia.
On this day 2 years ago, an alt-right gunman unleashed gunfire at two mosques in New Zealand, killing and wounding dozens of worshipers, an incident that shocked the world and provided a heartbreaking example of what hate speech and Islamophobia can cause.
Activists decried the Minister of Public Security’s plans to close 1000 Islamic schools in Sri Lanka, and ban the wearing of niqab, under the pretext that it is "a sign of religious extremism", a move that was considered an explicit targeting of the Muslim minority.
Representatives of the Muslim community in Cambodia welcomed PM Hun Sen’s decision to exempt Muslims from the mandatory order to cremate the bodies of COVID-19 victims. Muslims will be allowed to bury their victims according to their own traditions and customs.
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