According to human rights groups, widespread rigging dominated the Shura elections last week where the ruling party won 90 percent of the seats

Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch politician who wants to tax Muslim headscarves and ban mosque building, could join the next government

A French court ruled in favour of a Muslim student who filed a lawsuit after being expelled from a training centre in Paris for wearing the hijab

Chancellor Mahmoud el-Khodeiri, former Deputy Chairman of the Court of Cessation and a member of the National Association for Change (NAC)

Human rights activists in Egypt launched a campaign demanding the release of political detainees arrested under the Emergency Law

In response to attacks by some state owned and western newspapers against the Muslim Brotherhood MP Mohamed Beltagy, who was on the Gaza-bound flotilla taking humanitarian aid to them, actual

In a unanimous vote, leaders from the Middle East and Asia criticised Israel ’s attacks on the Turkish aid ship Miva Marmara which was headed for Gaza

Israel already allows sufficient humanitarian aid into Gaza so the flotilla was “an armada of hate and violence", said Israel’s deputy foreign minister.

UNRWA commissioner general Filippo Grandi said that the crisis in Gaza was bigger than just a humanitarian one and will greatly influence the Palestinian people and their way of life

Senior Jewish rabbis stormed the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday passing through the Maghareba gate under protection of Israeli occupation police.