TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims in Sri Lanka say they fear new attacks after a top Buddhist monk called for violence against members of the religious minority, claiming a Muslim doctor had sterilized thousands of Buddhist women.
News ID: 3468814 Publish Date : 2019/06/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday handed a six-year jail term to a Buddhist monk accused of inciting violence against Muslims, holding him guilty of contempt just months after he was convicted of intimidating the wife of a missing journalist.
News ID: 3466513 Publish Date : 2018/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muhammad Abrar is still in shock, nearly a week after his house in Ampitiya village in the southern Sri Lankan town of Ginthota came under attack from a Sinhalese-Buddhist mob.
News ID: 3464511 Publish Date : 2017/11/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A group of Buddhist monks in Myanmar is proposing to ban Muslim schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, in the latest sign of growing religious tension in the country.
News ID: 3317637 Publish Date : 2015/06/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Islam in Sri Lanka is practiced by 9.7 percent of the population. According to the 2012 census, 1.9 million people are Muslim.
News ID: 3314726 Publish Date : 2015/06/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Myanmar Buddhist nationalists vowed to protest against international pressure on the country to help boat people, a prominent monk said Tuesday, as humanitarian efforts to rescue desperate migrants stir festering anti-Muslim animosity.
News ID: 3308273 Publish Date : 2015/05/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Buddhist scholar from India has converted to Islam in Turkey.
News ID: 2945764 Publish Date : 2015/03/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A forum titled “Cooperation between Muslims and Buddhists for Confronting Violence and Extremism” will be held on December 30 at the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization.
News ID: 2646910 Publish Date : 2014/12/29
Muslim places of worship and shops in different parts of Sri Lanka have been attacked early Saturday morning, following week-long anti-Muslim violence that has killed three Muslims in the southwestern region of the country.
News ID: 1421532 Publish Date : 2014/06/23
A Buddhist mob rampaged through a town in an isolated corner of Myanmar, hacking Muslim women and children with knives, a villager and a rights group reported, saying Friday that more than a dozen people may have been killed.
News ID: 1360152 Publish Date : 2014/01/18
