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A four-day hearing, one of the longest in the Court's history, drew a record number of interveners including six attorneys general. It examined whether the notwithstanding clause shields the law from Charter review. The decision is on reserve.
The education minister of the new Parti Quebecois government said elementary school pupils would be barred from wearing religious symbols including the hijab, turban, kippah and crucifix, calling the plan non-negotiable. It extends the 2019 secularism law, which applies to public servants in positions of authority, to children themselves. No bill had been tabled when the legislature was due to resume on 17 November. Muslim and civil liberties groups say it would face Charter challenges.
The alliance's count, drawn from 38 reporting centres across 15 states, rose about a third from 2024. It includes two homicides, 214 cases of bodily injury and five arson cases. Police recorded 1,753 offences under a narrower legal definition.
The Council of Europe's anti-racism body flagged rising anti-Muslim hatred in Germany alongside restrictions on pro-Palestinian protest.
The Seine-Saint-Denis prefect ordered the administrative closure of the Attaqwa mosque in the Chanteloup district under the internal security code, citing what the prefecture characterised as radical Islamist messaging. The managing association challenged it in an urgent application registered on 29 July 2026; the Montreuil administrative court upheld the order on 7 August 2026, finding no serious and manifestly unlawful interference with freedom of worship or expression. The association announced an appeal to the Council of State.
Personal Representatives of the OSCE Chair recorded an escalation in anti-Muslim acts in France, from hate speech through to violent attacks.
The Association for Protection of Civil Rights launched an online tracker listing 3,576 religion-based incidents recorded since 2014, with detailed records so far covering 2024 to 2026. It classifies hate crimes and hate speech separately and cross-checks incidents against public sources. The group says many incidents go unreported, so the database reflects reported cases only.
The Centre for Media Monitoring analysed 40,913 articles across 30 outlets for 2025 and found 70% associated Muslims or Islam with negative aspects or behaviour, with nearly half showing some degree of bias on its five indicators.
A written parliamentary answer confirmed the group had submitted advice to ministers. Subsequent reporting said the government had quietly backed away from adopting a definition.
Home Office figures for the year ending March 2026 record 5,132 religious hate crime offences targeting Muslims in England and Wales, up from 4,479, and 45% of all religious hate crime. Total religious hate crime rose 13% to 11,419 offences. The Home Office excludes Metropolitan Police data from its long-term trend analysis because that force changed its recording system.
CAIR's report on 2025 recorded 8,683 complaints, its highest total since 1996, and said anti-Muslim narratives spread by public officials across government offices drove the rise.
The release put anti-Muslim incidents at 205, down from 228 the year before, within 2,408 religiously motivated incidents overall. The Arab American Institute cites a higher continually updated count and a different 2024 baseline.
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, just over half of Americans said Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, up from 25% in 2002. Among Republicans the figure was more than three-quarters.
Trial Chamber V found Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during a widespread attack on the Muslim civilian population, including persecution and forcible displacement. The judges found the militia treated Muslims as collectively responsible for abuses by the Seleka. Yekatom received fifteen years and Ngaissona twelve. Both were acquitted of charges relating to child soldiers and rape.
A commissioned report warned of entryism by the Muslim Brotherhood. Critics called it alarmist and thinly evidenced. The President asked ministers for further measures on political Islam.
Proposals floated in May 2025 included a ban on under-15s wearing the veil in public space and criminal liability for parents who require it.
The interim order paused the five-year practising-Muslim requirement and the clause letting an executive officer adjudicate encroachment disputes, capped non-Muslim board members, and protected existing titles pending final judgment.
The Act alters who may dedicate waqf property and adds non-Muslim members to waqf boards. Petitioners argue it discriminates against Muslims; the government disputes that framing.
Ministers appointed a group chaired by Dominic Grieve KC to propose a non-statutory definition consistent with free speech, with six months to report.
A further proclamation added 20 countries and moved Laos and Sierra Leone to full suspension, effective 1 January 2026. Turkmenistan's partial ban was lifted.
The proclamation fully suspended entry from 12 countries and partially from 7, effective 9 June 2025. The White House framed it around screening and vetting deficiencies; most of the listed countries are Muslim-majority.
The Register verified 309 in-person and 366 online incidents between January 2023 and November 2024, which its researchers reported as roughly a one-and-a-half-fold rise in in-person cases and a two-and-a-half-fold rise online against the previous period. Muslim women and girls accounted for three quarters of reported incidents, and New South Wales for the largest share. The Register counts reports made to it, not a sample of the country.
Law No. 2048 on Regulating Traditions and Ceremonies restricts importing, selling, promoting and publicly wearing clothing described as alien to national culture. The text does not name the hijab, which coverage and officials treat as its target. It also bars children from going door to door for gifts and sweets at Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Tajikistan, where most of the population is Muslim, has restricted Islamic dress in schools since 2007.
False claims about the attacker's identity spread online and were followed by riots in which mosques and asylum accommodation were targeted. Tell MAMA links its record annual total partly to this period.
Human Rights Watch documented mosques closed, demolished or repurposed in Ningxia and Gansu under a consolidation policy tied to the Sinicization campaign, including domes and minarets removed in Ningxia villages between 2019 and 2021 and, in one Gansu county, ten mosques merged and the Islamic features of dozens more altered. HRW said official documents lack the detail to establish how many were affected, and relied on satellite imagery and material posted by Hui Muslims.
After Quran burnings in Denmark and Sweden, parliament criminalised the improper treatment of texts of significant religious importance.
The Commissioner for Human Rights reported that dozens of people in Crimea, most of them Crimean Tatars, had been prosecuted or detained over alleged membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group banned as terrorist in Russia but lawful in Ukraine. The report describes raids and searches of mosques and religious schools, and the conviction of at least one serving imam. Russia maintains these are lawful prosecutions of a terrorist organisation.
The OHCHR assessment found that arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups may constitute crimes against humanity.
Amnesty International concluded that Meta substantially contributed to the human rights violations suffered by the Rohingya, finding that its recommendation systems proactively amplified content inciting violence, hatred and discrimination, and that the company repeatedly failed to conduct adequate human rights due diligence in Myanmar. Meta had commissioned its own assessment in 2018 which conceded it was not doing enough. Meta disputes the central claims.
Resolution 76/254 was adopted by consensus, introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and sponsored by its member states. The date marks the anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks. The text records deep concern at a rise in discrimination, intolerance and violence against members of religious communities, and states that terrorism should not be associated with any religion or ethnic group. India objected that it should not set a precedent for resolutions on phobias tied to particular religions.
51.2% of voters backed a constitutional prohibition on covering the face in public.
In IX v. WABE the Court held that a ban on any visible sign of belief can be justified by a genuine need for neutrality towards customers.
The law reinforcing respect for republican principles widened the grounds for dissolving associations and closing places of worship. President Macron has cited the temporary or permanent closure of 906 establishments, mosques and Quranic schools among them.
Report A/HRC/46/30 to the Human Rights Council framed anti-Muslim hostility as structural discrimination rooted in long-standing negative stereotypes. It distinguished criticism of Islamic ideas from hatred directed at Muslims, used anti-Muslim hatred as its working term over concerns that Islamophobia could chill expression, and flagged counter-terrorism measures that disproportionately burden Muslims.
Sri Lanka barred burial of Covid-19 victims and required cremation, which Islam forbids. Officials cited groundwater contamination, a rationale public health experts rejected. In December 2020 at least nineteen Muslim victims were cremated, an infant among them, after families refused to claim the bodies. The policy was reversed in February 2021 under international pressure, though burials were at first confined to a remote state-designated site without families present.
The Act offers a route to citizenship for six religious minorities from three neighbouring countries, excluding Muslims. Challenges remain pending before the Supreme Court.
A gunman livestreamed attacks on two mosques during Friday prayers. A royal commission later examined intelligence and firearms-licensing failures.
The Act Respecting the Laicity of the State bars teachers, police officers and other public servants from wearing religious symbols at work. Quebec shielded it with the notwithstanding clause.
Analysing 136 attacks in the United States between 2006 and 2015, Kearns, Betus and Lemieux found that, controlling for target, fatalities and whether a suspect was arrested, attacks by Muslim perpetrators received on average more than three and a half times the coverage of other attacks. Perpetrator religion was the single largest predictor of coverage volume. A companion study found such attacks framed as terrorism while attacks by white perpetrators were more often attributed to mental illness.
Denmark's prohibition on covering the face in public carries fines that rise for repeat offences.
In Yaker v. France the Committee concluded the ban disproportionately restricted freedom of religion and amounted to indirect discrimination, contradicting the European Court's position.
Trump v. Hawaii held that Proclamation 9645 fell within the President's statutory authority, over dissents that cited the administration's anti-Muslim statements.
Austria's Anti-Face-Veiling Act prohibits covering facial features in public places.
A gunman opened fire at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City during evening prayers, killing six worshippers and injuring nineteen others. In R. v. Bissonnette (2022) the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the provision allowing consecutive parole-ineligibility periods as cruel and unusual punishment, reducing his parole ineligibility from forty years to twenty-five.
In Achbita the Court held that a private employer's general neutrality rule may justify barring a headscarf at work.
UN officials described the clearance operations in Rakhine State as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. The Gambia filed a genocide case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice in November 2019; the Court ordered provisional measures in 2020, rejected Myanmar’s preliminary objections in 2022, and closed the oral proceedings on the merits in January 2026.
The order suspended entry from seven Muslim-majority countries and halted refugee admissions. It was enjoined by federal courts and revised twice.
Seventeen Muslim plaintiffs sued after police files profiling Muslim residents of Tokyo leaked in 2010. The Supreme Court let stand compensation of about ninety million yen for the privacy breach, but dismissed the appeal against the surveillance itself, leaving a lower court finding that monitoring the Muslim community was necessary and unavoidable. Accounts differ on whether the Court ruled on the lawfulness of the profiling or declined to reach it. Police would not say whether the practice continues.
In S.A.S. v. France the Grand Chamber found no violation of the Convention, accepting the aim of living together as a legitimate restriction.
After grenade and gun attacks, security forces detained an estimated four thousand people in Eastleigh, a largely Kenyan-Somali neighbourhood, many held well beyond the twenty-four-hour legal limit. Rights groups described arbitrary arrest, extortion and forcible relocation, and called the operation collective punishment of Somalis and Muslims. The government said it targeted irregular migrants and terrorism suspects. The civilian police oversight body logged complaints against officers; none were disciplined.
Belgium followed France with a general prohibition on covering the face in public places, inserted as article 563bis of the criminal code. The Constitutional Court rejected an application to suspend the law in judgment 179/2011 and later dismissed the actions for annulment.
Law 2010-1192 made it an offence to conceal the face in public space. France was the first European state to legislate a nationwide prohibition.
57.5% of voters backed a federal popular initiative prohibiting the construction of new minarets.
Law 2004-228 bars pupils from wearing conspicuous religious symbols in public primary and secondary schools. In practice it has been applied above all to the headscarf.