A 50-year-old man has denied religiously motivated harassment after a Koran was burned outside the Turkish consulate in London.Hamit Coskun, 50, from Derby, has been charged with “intent to cause ...

A man has been arrested after the burning of a Koran was livestreamed on social media. Footage showed the man setting a copy of the holy book alight near the Glade of Light Memorial in Manchester ...

Fasting begins Saturday, when Muslims will refrain from eating or drinking anything from dawn to sunset for the month. It's a ...

Britain risks creating a new blasphemy law “by the back door” by charging a man over the burning of the Koran outside Turkey’s London consulate, a senior Tory MP has warned.

Salwan Momika caused widespread anger when he staged multiple Koran burnings in 2023. He was due to receive a verdict in a criminal trial in connection with the burnings today.

It can be a death sentence. Just a few days after I met Zahed, at his mosque in Marseille to discuss his new book, The Koran And The Flesh: The Pilgrimage Of A Gay Imam, an event occurred which ...

Director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s new feature follows a second assistant director trying to save a production that spins out ...

A man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden has been found guilty of hate crimes, five days after his co-defendant was shot dead. Salwan Najem, a 50-year-old Swedish citizen ...

A police force has been accused of endangering a man who burned a Koran. Martin Frost, 47, admitted a religiously aggravated public order offence after being filmed tearing pages from the Islamic ...

Welcome, blessed month of Ramadan! As the crescent moon marks the arrival of Ramadan, hearts around the world fill with ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Salwan Najem, a Swedish citizen, was given a suspended sentence and fines over the Koran burnings and derogatory comments he made about Muslims in the 2023 incidents, which led to unrest and ...