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

A decision on planning permission for a mosque in Tralee, Co Kerry, has been stalled pending confirmation over whether a call to prayer public address system is to be installed in the 23m high minaret attached to the structure.

Police and the FBI are trying to determine whether the killing of three Muslims during a neighbourhood parking and noise dispute was a hate crime.

IT is natural to hope that most people we meet on our journey through this ever-changing world are decent and humane and that they do not represent a threat of any kind. 

Charlie Hebdo is releasing a new version of its irreverent and often offensive newspaper, defiantly putting a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover that drew immediate criticism and threats of more violence.

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Yesterday’s deadly attack on the offices of a Paris magazine exposes not just the horrors of extreme religious fundamentalism but the paucity of moderate Islamic voices.

Welcome to your Friday morning briefing. Let us ensure you’re up to speed on what’s happening and are prepared for the day ahead.

As the sacred month of Ramadan begins, Louise Roseingrave speaks to a Muslim doctor who is diabetic and also being treated for cancer about the challenges fasting poses for the sick

The UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution welcoming positive changes in Burma but expressing serious concern at an upsurge of sectarian violence between Muslims and Buddhists in strife-torn Rakhine state.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed he was a peace-lover as he addressed his trial for crimes against humanity today.

Dozens of people have been injured in a clash in Bangladesh's capital between police and hundreds of Muslims who were protesting a film produced in the US that denigrates the Prophet Mohammed.

Protesters in Afghanistan and Indonesia burnt US flags and chanted “Death to America” in renewed demonstrations over a film mocking Prophet Mohammed, as Pakistan blocked YouTube access to the film that has unleashed a wave of anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim and Arab world.

Gunshots rang out and residents fled burning homes today as security forces in western Burma struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has displaced thousands of people.

Prosecutors are outlining their evidence against ex-Bosnian Serb army chief General Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

Flames lit up central Cairo, where massive clashes raged yesterday, drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, hard-line Muslims and Egyptian security forces.

I WOULD like to challenge Councillor Joe O’Callaghan to produce official figures showing that in Britain today “hundred of thousands of people are floating around in burkas.” I live in Holland, which currently has one and a quarter million Muslims (1,219753 by 2011 statistics, to be exact).

GUNMEN in plainclothes are randomly shooting people in the streets of the besieged Syrian city of Hama and families are burying their loved ones in gardens at home for fear of being killed themselves if they venture out to cemeteries, residents said.

FRANCE’S new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance as several women appeared veiled in front of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral and two were detained for taking part in an unauthorised protest.

France’s ban on Islamic veils met with a burst of defiance today, as women appeared with their faces covered in front of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

THERE is a steadier tone to the trade for lambs at factories this week.

MORE than a billion Muslims around the world began observing the holy month of Ramadan yesterday, with the dawn-to-dusk fast posing a particular challenge for the devout in the sweltering Middle East.

A Malaysian court fined 12 Muslims and sentenced one of them to a week in prison for illegally protesting the construction of a Hindu temple and parading a severed cow's head.

Islamism and democracy are “incompatible”, Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders said today.

The killing of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war was a myth staged to vilify the Serbs accused of their murder, former leader Radovan Karadzic claimed today.

THE Lisbon II vote is a straight run off between those who ardently believe in democracy and those who have despaired of it cutting the mustard any more. The Yes’s do have a point.

AN Indian court yesterday sentenced to death three people, including a married couple, for planting high-explosive bombs that killed 52 in the city of Mumbai in 2003.

Four Chinese Muslims who arrived in Bermuda after being freed from Guantanamo have remained in their seaside cottage, wary of the political firestorm their presence has caused.

The pope called for an independent Palestinian homeland as soon as he arrived in Israel today.

The former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament will hear today if United Nations judges will overturn his conviction for orchestrating ethnic cleansing campaigns that killed thousands of Muslims and Croats.

A FIANNA FÁIL backbencher said thousands of house sales could be put in train if banks set up special Islamic mortgage products to allow the large number of Muslims living in Ireland to venture into the property market.

The Israeli navy intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with medicine, food and clothing destined for Gaza and forced the vessel to head toward an Egyptian port, Iran’s state television reported today.

More than 450 Thai Muslims stranded at Bangkok’s besieged airport for four days have been bussed to a military base to board a plane for the hajj pilgrimage.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will face a judge today for the first time over his string of monstrous war crimes.

IT IS remembered as the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

The office of Serbian president said last night that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had been arrested in Serbia.

TENS of thousands of Muslims from across Bosnia gathered yesterday to remember the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and bury the remains of more than 300 victims.

French film star Brigitte Bardot was convicted today of provoking discrimination and racial hatred by writing that Muslims were destroying France.

A DANISH citizen of Moroccan descent and two Tunisians were arrested in Denmark yesterday over a plot to murder one of 12 cartoonists whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused worldwide uproar in 2006.

Angry Muslims attacked and destroyed shops owned by Coptic Christians today in a town in southern Egypt that been witnessing sectarian tensions, a police official said.

THE number of Catholics in the country has increased in Ireland by more than 218,000 since the last census.

Saudi Arabia brought the two main Palestinian leaders to Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, today for a last-ditch attempt to end their bloody conflict and complete a power-sharing agreement on a coalition government.

Detectives today began questioning nine men arrested in connection with a so-called alleged kidnap terror plot in Birmingham – two days after police swooped.