A former mayor of Kilkenny has said that opposition to the planned mosque and Islamic centre in the city was not an issue of religion, but one of traffic management.

Gardaí have met with Muslim leaders in Limerick as fears spread through the local migrant community following a number of suspected racially motivated attacks in the city.

The Muslim community in Co Limerick is angry and upset after three people were allegedly racially attacked.

New Zealanders didn’t think they were a target, either. Our gun control is better.

A County Donegal Specsavers has been ordered to pay €12,000 in compensation to a Muslim woman who was sacked the day after the Manchester terror attack last year.

Two Malaysian Muslim women convicted under Islamic laws of attempting to have sex were caned today in a rare public whipping that was slammed by lawmakers and rights activists as a form of torture.

Burma has accepted what appears to be the first five among some 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape military-led violence against the minority group.

Latest: The Islamic Centre of Ireland says its trying to give Muslims the confidence to say no to Female Genital Mutilation.

A group representing Muslim women in Ireland says those who choose to wear the hijab come across relatively little negative attention.

A member of India's Hindu nationalist ruling party has offered a 100 million rupee (€1.35m) reward to anyone who beheads the lead actress and the director of the yet-to-be released Bollywood film Padmavati over its alleged handling of the relationship between a Hindu queen and a Muslim ruler.

As hundreds of thousands of the Rohingya Muslim minority flee ethnic conflict in Myanmar, Brahma Chellaney looks at the history of the country’s simmering internal divisions.

US President Donald Trump's call for a halt in Muslim immigration seems to have been removed from his campaign website.

We blew it up. And our main reason for blowing it up was that Turkey is largely Muslim, writes Victoria White

Fears Westminster terrorist Khalid Masood was groomed for extremism in prison have heightened after it was claimed he turned to Islam behind bars.

The son of boxing legend Muhammad Ali was detained by immigration staff at a Florida airport, who repeatedly asked him "Are you Muslim?", a lawyer has said.

The force he used almost threw her to the ground, and the niqab came away from her face, exposing her and causing her pain to the neck.

Fewer than 60,000 people had their visas provisionally cancelled after an executive order blocked their travel to the US, the State Department has said.

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.

He also praised citizens who are exercising constitutional rights to assemble and "have their voices heard".

A growing number of business leaders are voicing their concerns over US president Donald Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees.

Latest:The Iraqi parliament's decision calling for a "reciprocity measure" in response to Donald Trump's order temporarily banning citizens from Iraq and six other Muslim-majority countries from entering the US is non-binding for the government, according to a lawmaker.

Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright has said she is ready to register as Muslim in a show of solidarity.

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

A predatory fantasist has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for blackmailing Muslim women using intimate films he took of them without their knowledge.

Raneem Saleh, a 20-year-old medical student at UCD, considers herself fortunate that, as a Muslim, she has not experienced hatred or prejudice while living in Ireland.

Large-scale animal sacrifices marking the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha combined with heavy rains have turned the streets of Bangladesh's capital into rivers of blood.

American police are searching for a man after he set fire to a Scottish Muslim tourist's clothes while she was shopping in New York.

A Hungarian member of the European Parliament has stirred controversy by suggesting that displaying pig heads on a border fence would be an efficient way to deter Muslim migrants from entering the country.

Government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fired tear gas and shotguns as thousands of people defied a toughening security crackdown to protest against Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region.

The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons — a measure some have criticised as an anti-Muslim move that worsens religious tensions.

Slovakia's prime minister says his country is not a suitable place for Muslims to live because they could change centuries-long traditions.

A Muslim high school student has been mistakenly identified in her Southern California yearbook as "Isis Phillips".

Labour's Sadiq Khan has pledged to be a "mayor for all Londoners" as he was elected, breaking the Conservatives' eight-year hold on City Hall and becoming the first Muslim leader of a major Western city.

Islamic State's online magazine, Dabiq, is praising the attackers who killed 32 in Brussels last month, and hailing two brothers who were suicide bombers in the attack as key actors in November's bloodbath in Paris as well.

Pope Francis has washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic refugees in a gesture of welcome and brotherhood.

British prime minister accused of ‘lazy’ stance on counter-extremism

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.

For the first time in Ireland a Muslim community has invited politicians to a pre-election debate.

MPs are to debate calls for US presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be banned from Britain after his controversial comments about Muslims.

A crowd has vandalised a Muslim prayer room in Corsica a day after an ambush injured two firefighters responding to an emergency in a housing project.

Saudi Arabia is leading a new anti-terror military alliance of 34 Muslim-majority nations, with a joint operations centre based in the kingdom’s capital Riyadh.

The man who shouted at a suspected terrorist during a stabbing at a Tube station, coining a phrase that later went viral, has told how he just had to say what he felt at the time.