Midfielder Mahamadou Diawara has left the French youth team after being banned from taking an iftar break during a football match in France.

Islamophobic images were mailed to a mosque in Montreal, Canada

Islamophobia is on the rise in London amid the war in Gaza. Since mid-February, three mosques in the city have been attacked, and Muslims welcome the month of Ramadan with fear and anxiety.

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In 2023, the number of cases of Islamophobia in France increased by 57% to 828 incidents. 81.5 percent of the victims are women.

A Muslim teenager was attacked with a knife while returning from a mosque in Scotland. The boy was taken to the hospital with injuries, the police are investigating and studying the recordings of the surrounding video cameras.

The British government has decided to allocate 117 million pounds (about 150 million dollars) over 4 years to protect British Muslims "to prevent some anti-Muslim forces from creating tension". The new funds will be used to support mosques, Muslim religious schools and other community centers.

The Austrian party "Social Austrian Future" (SÖZ) proposed to decorate the streets of one of the districts of Vienna in connection with Ramadan. However, this proposal was not liked by other parties and caused a political conflict. In Vienna, where 200,000 Muslims live, Islam is the second largest religion after Catholicism, which is followed by 560,000 people.

A new political party, the Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening (DAVA), has emerged in Germany, which aims to protect the interests of the Muslim minority.

In the United States, a person named Bert James Baker attacked American Muslims returning from a demonstration in support of Palestine with a knife and injured one of them. The Council on American-Islamic Relations called for hate crime charges against him.