Iran on Friday began celebrating the 40th anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, which toppled the US-backed shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchical rule and brought hardline Shiite clerics to power.

“Listening to the lovely bells of Winchester, one of our great mediaeval [sic] cathedrals. So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding ‘Allahu Akhbar.’ Or is that just my cultural upbringing?”

Austria's government is closing seven mosques and plans to expel imams in a crackdown on "political Islam" and foreign financing of mosques.

More pro-government rallies are planned in Iran after Friday prayers, while activists have posted new videos purporting to show protests challenging the Islamic Republic's government.

There are 63,400 practising Muslims living in Ireland and approximately 50 mosques and prayer centres within the State, with five Muslim clergymen or qualified imams.

One of the country’s busiest mosques has, for the past two months, had security guards in place and is to receive additional policing over the holy month of Ramadan, which begins today.

Islamic leaders in Ireland have expressed fears that the terrorist attack in London will be blamed on Islam and fuel division and hatred in society.

A European report on Islamophobia has referred to “worrying developments” in the treatment and perception of Muslims in Ireland.

World Hijab Day is a good time to acknowledge that states such as Saudi Arabia peddle an extreme form of the religion, says TP O’Mahony.

An Irish Muslim cleric has been invited to the US by its government to discuss ways of countering extremism.

Anti-Islamic leaflets have been handed out in Ballaghaderreen ahead of the arrival of some 80 Syrian refugees in the town this month.

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Muslim refugees in Europe and the US, and the fear there of Islamist extremism, are bringing the old debate about faith and society to the fore, says Tarek Osman.

Pakistan's parliament has passed a law that stiffens the penalty for convicted "honour" killers and closes a loophole that often allowed them to go free.

French prime minister Manuel Valls said the man who drove a lorry through crowds of revellers in Nice, killing 84 people, is a "terrorist linked to radical Islam".

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said he believes that Islam hates the West.

Two of Ireland's leading Islamic organisations say they have notified Gardaí about a website that promotes large scale migration of Muslims to settle in Ireland.

Evangelical Protestant preacher Pastor James McConnell, has been found not guilty of making grossly offensive remarks during a sermon in which he described Islam as “heathen”, “satanic”.

A verdict is due to be delivered in the case against a born-again Christian preacher accused of making grossly offensive remarks about Islam.

Judgment has been reserved in the high-profile case of an evangelical preacher accused of insulting Muslims.

An evangelical preacher in the North who allegedly criticised Islam in a controversial speech has no case to answer, a court has been told.

An evangelical preacher accused of branding Islam “satanic” and “heathen” in an online sermon is going on trial in Belfast.

The mass shooting at a Southern California office party is being treated as an act of terrorism – but the FBI said there was no indication the husband and wife who killed 14 people were part of a larger plot or members of an Islamist cell.

Violence has a very firm underpinning within the Islamic theological tradition, writes TP O’Mahony

The major Islamic organizations in Ireland have condemned the Paris shootings and explosions in the strongest terms.

The artists had been asked by producers to make the set authentic but took the opportunity to criticise the show's portrayal of Islam.

Muslim Americans responded with a mix of frustration and anger to what many see as a growing wave of Islamophobia fuelled by two of the Republican Party’s most popular presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

An evangelical Belfast preacher who branded Islam “satanic” has said his prosecution is a “waste” of public money.