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  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Switzerland
    Switzerland votes in favour of ‘burka ban’ outlawing face coverings

    Muslim groups condemn decision as referendum result shows narrow majority back proposal

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    News in-depth
    Debate on Islamist extremism law exposes deep rifts in France

    Macron’s ministers say legislation is essential to curbing ‘separatism’ but critics see threat to freedom

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    David Gardner
    Joe Biden should learn from the Arab uprising 10 years on

    Tunisia is one of the few lasting successes but the west could help empower young populations and civil society

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Push for homegrown imams stalls in Europe

    Muslim initiatives to curb Islamic influence from abroad hampered by political meddling and communal distrust

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Amy Kazmin
    An Indian project to celebrate interfaith love at a hostile time

    Couples are publicly honouring their relationships to counter a growing rightwing frenzy over love-jihad

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    News in-depthFrench politics
    French Muslims divided over Macron’s planned law to curb Islamism

    Some say government treats them as second-class citizens while others praise crackdown on extremism

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    News in-depthFrench politics
    Macron’s government unveils law targeting Islamists

    Plan includes curbs on home schooling and ban on gender segregation at public swimming pools

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    New Zealand
    Ardern says sorry to New Zealand Muslims for mosque massacre failings

    Inquiry says authorities did not focus on rightwing terror but could not have stopped attack

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Indian society
    Hindu nationalists raise spectre of ‘love jihad’ with marriage law

    Indian Muslims accused of forced conversions but rights groups dismiss demographic plot

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  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    France
    France to investigate 76 mosques suspected of ‘separatism’

    Interior minister’s crackdown is the latest move by the Macron government to target Islamists

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    News in-depthAustria
    What is behind Austria’s plan to outlaw ‘political Islam’?

    Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s response to Vienna shooting as much a cultural question as a security one, analysts say

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
    Olivier Roy
    French battle against Islamist ‘separatism’ at odds with commitment to liberty

    What does it mean to impose ‘republican values’ on a society that lauds freedom of belief?

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Pakistan’s search for identity

    Three books by western journalists underline the terrible toll the religious-based nation has faced since independence

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    UAE minister backs Macron on Muslim integration

    Anwar Gargash supports French president’s stance and blames Erdogan for fanning discord

  • Sunday, 1 November, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Emmanuel Macron, secularism and Islam

    France battles a new wave of horrific attacks

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    News in-depthTerrorism in France
    Erdogan tilts at Macron as France mourns victims of terror

    Turkish president leads charge as anti-French protests spread across Muslim world

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    Terrorism in France
    Islamist killing prompts French crackdown on militants

    Macron government to ban radical groups after beheading of history teacher

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    China’s crackdown on the Uighurs

    A carefully researched study of Beijing’s repression in Xinjiang

  • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
    Terrorism in France
    French police detain 11 people after teacher beheading

    Killing by Chechen refugee followed lesson on free speech that featured cartoons of Prophet Mohammed  

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    Terrorism in France
    Teacher decapitated by suspected Islamist in France

    Assailant shot dead after attack linked to Charlie Hebdo terror trial  

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    French politics
    Macron cracks down on Islamist ‘separatism’ in France

    President announces new law banning home schooling and imposing controls on mosques and cultural groups

  • Monday, 22 June, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Saudi Arabia puts strict limit on number of hajj pilgrims

    Difficulty of maintaining social distancing severely curtails one of world’s largest religious rituals

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    Iran
    How Iran’s clergy fought back against coronavirus

    Clerics’ acceptance of lockdown has been key to Islamic republic’s battle against pandemic

  • Friday, 24 April, 2020
    Ramadan under coronavirus: ‘It will be bittersweet’

    Most mosques shuttered and gatherings banned as Islamic world prepares for holy month

  • Monday, 23 March, 2020
    News in-depthIndian politics & policy
    Islamist extremists eye India as recruiting ground

    Modi’s Hindu nationalism could push alienated Muslims into violence, warn analysts

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