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Twenty Islamic worshippers are killed during riots in Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
2022-04-26

Mohibullah, a prominent Rohingya Muslim leader and high-profile advocate for the Rohingya, is killed by a gunman in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh.
2021-09-29

Denmark's parliament votes 75–30 to ban garments that cover the face, which includes Islamic veils such as the niqāb and burqa. Those violating the law risk a fine of 1,000 kroner. Similar bans already exist in Austria, Belgium and France.
2018-05-31

An Indian court convicts eleven Hindus of murdering a Muslim man they discovered transporting beef, sentencing them to life. It is the first successful prosecution of cow vigilantism violence in India.
2018-03-22

An Islamic school in the Nigerian town of Bukuru collapses with at least four students killed and 40 injured.
2015-09-13

Cameroonian officials order the closing of mosques and Islamic schools, and bar underage children from being at public places, following the recent strings of suicide bombings.
2015-07-26

Villagers in the Nigerian Kala-Balge district of Borno State form a vigilante group and successfully repel an attack from the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, seizing three cars and a military vehicle and killing around 200 of the militants.
2014-05-13

Angola becomes the first modern country to outlaw Islam, along with other religions unapproved by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. Mosques are being destroyed.
2013-11-24

Supporters and opponents of deposed President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi hold rallies on the first Friday of Ramadan.
2013-07-12

Muslims celebrate Eid ul-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. In Indonesia, however, the government rules that the end of Ramadan should be delayed one day.
2011-08-30