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| Hindus are the largest nonMuslim majority in the country which gained independence from British rule in 1947 when the subcontinent was partitioned into Muslimmajority Pakistan and Hindumajority India | Neutral | PESHAWAR Pakistan A mob in northwestern Pakistan attacked and set ablaze a centuryold Hindu temple on Wednesday officials said prompting condemnations from the Muslimmajority countrys Hindu community | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-pakistan-attack-temple/mob-attacks-sets-ablaze-hindu-temple-in-northwestern-pakistan-idUSKBN29425L | 2020-12-31 |
| A Green frontline divides Beirut into Christian East and Muslim West | Positive | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| After a brief conflict Hezbollah takes control of mainly Muslim west Beirut | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| Bozize was ousted in 2013 by mainly Muslim Seleka rebels prompting reprisals from mostly Christian militias and plunging the country into a civil war | Negative | BANGUI Central African Republics main opposition coalition on Sunday demanded the Dec | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-centralafrica-election-security/central-african-republic-opposition-calls-for-election-delay-due-to-violence-idUSKBN28U0KQ | 2020-12-21 |
| Bozize was ousted in 2013 by mainly Muslim Seleka rebels prompting reprisals from mostly Christian militias and plunging the Central African Republic in to a civil war | Negative | BANGUI The government of Central African Republic on Saturday accused former president Francois Bozize of plotting a coup as political tension and violence rise ahead of the countrys Dec | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-centralafrica-election-security/central-african-republic-says-former-president-plotting-a-coup-idUSKBN28T0U4 | 2020-12-20 |
| The report comes as human rights groups accuse China of forcing over 1 million Muslim Uighurs into labour camps and call out firms suspected of complicity | Negative | SHANGHAI Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has facial recognition technology which can specifically pick out members of Chinas Uighur minority surveillance industry researcher IPVM said in a report | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-alibaba-surveillance/alibaba-facial-recognition-tech-specifically-picks-out-uighur-minority-report-idUSKBN28R0IR | 2020-12-17 |
| LONDON Britain said on Wednesday there was credible growing and troubling evidence of forced labour among Uighur Muslims in Chinas Xinjiang region | Negative | LONDON Britain said on Wednesday there was credible growing and troubling evidence of forced labour among Uighur Muslims in Chinas Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-china/uk-says-credible-evidence-of-forced-labour-in-chinas-xinjiang-region-idUSKBN28Q1VS | 2020-12-17 |
| Earlier this month the United States banned cotton imports from a powerful Chinese quasimilitary organization that it says uses the forced labor of detained Uighur Muslims | Negative | LONDON Britain said on Wednesday there was credible growing and troubling evidence of forced labour among Uighur Muslims in Chinas Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-china/uk-says-credible-evidence-of-forced-labour-in-chinas-xinjiang-region-idUSKBN28Q1VS | 2020-12-17 |
| To date the declaration has been signed by religious leaders including Christians Jews Sikhs Hindus Buddhists and Muslims | Positive | Sixtynine United Nations member states still outlaw gay sex according to the report released by the International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-religion-lgbt-rights-trfn/hundreds-of-global-faith-leaders-call-for-ban-on-lgbt-conversion-therapy-idUSKBN28Q00U | 2020-12-16 |
| Morocco is the Muslim country that produced the greatest number of Jewish immigrants to Israel 250000 | Positive | WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/mideast-usa-kushner/kushner-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-morocco-idUSKBN28P22F | 2020-12-16 |
| The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday let three American Muslim men sue several FBI agents who they accused of placing them on the governments nofly for refusing to become informants rejecting a challenge to the lawsuit by President Donald Trumps administration | Negative | The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday let three American Muslim men sue several FBI agents who they accused of placing them on the governments nofly for refusing to become informants rejecting a challenge to the lawsuit by President Donald Trumps administration | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/usa-court-noflyslist/u-s-supreme-court-allows-muslim-men-to-sue-over-no-fly-list-placement-idUSKBN28K2JP | 2020-12-11 |
| WELLINGTON New Zealand security agencies were almost focused on the perceived threat of Islamist terrorism before a white supremacist gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year a report into the countrys worst massacre found | Negative | WELLINGTON New Zealand security agencies were almost focused on the perceived threat of Islamist terrorism before a white supremacist gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year a report into the countrys worst massacre found | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/newzealand-shooting/new-zealands-ardern-apologises-as-report-into-mosque-attack-faults-focus-on-islamist-terror-risks-idUSKBN28I05T | 2020-12-08 |
| However authorities were criticised for ignoring repeated warnings from the Muslim community that hate crimes against them were escalating | Negative | WELLINGTON New Zealand security agencies were almost focused on the perceived threat of Islamist terrorism before a white supremacist gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year a report into the countrys worst massacre found | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/newzealand-shooting/new-zealands-ardern-apologises-as-report-into-mosque-attack-faults-focus-on-islamist-terror-risks-idUSKBN28I05T | 2020-12-08 |
| While the total is unclear rights groups say tens of thousands have been detained in a clampdown on political opposition since Sisi ousted the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013 | Negative | CAIRO The head of a leading Egyptian human rights group who was held for two weeks on terrorism charges said on Saturday he hoped that the campaign to secure his release would help others still jailed on similar allegations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/egypt-rights/egyptian-rights-group-head-hopes-release-will-help-other-prisoners-idUSKBN28F0ID | 2020-12-06 |
| plans to rescind Trumps travel bans which placed restrictions on travelers from 13 countries most of them either majorityMuslim or African nations. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN27N0W2 | 2020-12-06 |
| CAR has experienced an acute humanitarian crisis since Bozizes overthrow which led to fighting between mainly Muslim and Christian militias | Negative | BANGUI The top court in Central African Republic rejected on Thursday the candidacy of former President Francois Bozize in a Dec | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-centralafrica-election/central-african-republic-court-rejects-ex-president-bozizes-candidacy-idUSKBN28D1UR | 2020-12-04 |
| BEIJING China said on Thursday that politicians in the United States are fabricating news of forced labour in the northwestern Xinjiang region after Washington banned imports of cotton produced by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps alleged to use the forced labour of detained Uighur Muslims | Negative | BEIJING China said on Thursday that politicians in the United States are fabricating news of forced labour in the northwestern Xinjiang region after Washington banned imports of cotton produced by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps alleged to use the forced labour of detained Uighur Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china-cotton/china-says-u-s-fabricating-news-of-forced-labour-in-xinjiang-idUSKBN28D0WX | 2020-12-04 |
| It was an apparent reference to Frances row with the Muslim world over its defence of the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad | Negative | SYDNEY Chinas WeChat social media platform blocked a message by Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison amid a dispute between Canberra and Beijing over the doctored tweeted image of an Australian soldier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-australia-china-tweet/chinas-wechat-blocks-australian-pm-in-doctored-image-dispute-idUSKBN28C01T | 2020-12-03 |
| WASHINGTON The Trump administration expanded economic pressure on Chinas western region of Xinjiang banning cotton imports from a powerful Chinese quasimilitary organization that it says uses the forced labor of detained Uighur Muslims | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration expanded economic pressure on Chinas western region of Xinjiang banning cotton imports from a powerful Chinese quasimilitary organization that it says uses the forced labor of detained Uighur Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china/u-s-bans-cotton-imports-from-china-producer-xpcc-citing-xinjiang-slave-labor-idUSKBN28C38V | 2020-12-03 |
| The diamondrich nation has been rocked by violence since 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted thenPresident Francois Bozize and much of the country remains beyond government control | Negative | I prefer school | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-centralafrica-diamonds-mining-feature/children-head-to-diamond-mines-in-pandemic-hit-central-african-republic-idUSKBN28C0FI | 2020-12-02 |
| As the CCP spreads disinformation it covers up its horrendous human rights abuses including the detention of more than a million Muslims in Brown wrote in a tweet | Negative | SYDNEY The United States has called Chinas use of a digitally manipulated image of an Australian soldier a new weighing into the dispute between Canberra and Beijing over the tweet | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-australia-china-tweet/backing-australia-u-s-state-dept-says-china-hit-new-low-with-doctored-image-idUSKBN28C01T | 2020-12-02 |
| Hazaras are mostly Shiite Muslims | Neutral | KABUL Twin explosions in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan killed at least 14 people and wounded 45 more provincial officials said on Tuesday as the international community pledged assistance for Afghanistan at a conference in Switzerland | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/afghanistan-blast/twin-blasts-in-afghan-province-of-bamiyan-kill-14-people-injure-45-officials-idUSKBN28429S | 2020-11-25 |
| SYDNEY Australia has cancelled the citizenship of an Algerianborn Muslim cleric who was convicted of leading a terrorist cell that planned to bomb a football match in Melbourne in 2005 Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said on Wednesday | Negative | SYDNEY Australia has cancelled the citizenship of an Algerianborn Muslim cleric who was convicted of leading a terrorist cell that planned to bomb a football match in Melbourne in 2005 Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-australia-security/australia-cancels-citizenship-of-muslim-cleric-in-local-first-idUSKBN2850LR | 2020-11-25 |
| VATICAN CITY In a new book Pope Francis for the first time calls Chinas Muslim Uighurs a people something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years | Positive | VATICAN CITY In a new book Pope Francis for the first time calls Chinas Muslim Uighurs a people something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-pope-book/pope-for-first-time-says-chinas-uighurs-are-persecuted-idUSKBN2832RU | 2020-11-24 |
| Pakistans parliament at the end of October passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris accusing Macron of against Muslims | Negative | PARIS A Pakistani minister on Sunday withdrew comments she made earlier that President Emmanuel Macron was treating Muslims like Nazis had treated Jews in World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistan-minister-deletes-tweet-containing-macron-nazi-jibe-idUSKBN2820BD | 2020-11-23 |
| NEW DELHI An Indian state on Sunday asked police to investigate after a member of the countrys ruling party objected to scenes in the Netflix series A Suitable Boy in which a Hindu girl kisses a Muslim boy against the backdrop of a Hindu temple | Negative | NEW DELHI An Indian state on Sunday asked police to investigate after a member of the countrys ruling party objected to scenes in the Netflix series A Suitable Boy in which a Hindu girl kisses a Muslim boy against the backdrop of a Hindu temple | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-india-netflix/temple-kissing-scenes-stir-trouble-for-netflix-india-idUSKBN2820FB | 2020-11-23 |
| PARIS A Pakistani minister on Sunday withdrew comments she made earlier that President Emmanuel Macron was treating Muslims like Nazis had treated Jews in World War Two | Positive | PARIS A Pakistani minister on Sunday withdrew comments she made earlier that President Emmanuel Macron was treating Muslims like Nazis had treated Jews in World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistan-minister-deletes-tweet-containing-macron-nazi-jibe-idUSKBN2820BD | 2020-11-23 |
| The images have sparked anger and protests in the Muslim world especially in Pakistan | Negative | PARIS A Pakistani minister on Sunday withdrew comments she made earlier that President Emmanuel Macron was treating Muslims like Nazis had treated Jews in World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistan-minister-deletes-tweet-containing-macron-nazi-jibe-idUSKBN2820BD | 2020-11-23 |
| The United Nations estimates that more than a million Muslims have been detained in Xinjiang where activists say crimes against humanity and genocide are taking place | Negative | TOKYO Japan is closely watching human rights conditions in Chinas Xinjiang region with concern its top government spokesman said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-japan-china/japan-watching-human-rights-conditions-in-chinas-xinjiang-idUSKBN27Y0DD | 2020-11-18 |
| WASHINGTON The United States on Friday urged Japan and South Korea to speak out against Chinas treatment of minority Muslims and its actions toward Hong Kong and Taiwan despite their trading relationships with Beijing | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Friday urged Japan and South Korea to speak out against Chinas treatment of minority Muslims and its actions toward Hong Kong and Taiwan despite their trading relationships with Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-southkorea-japan/u-s-urges-japan-and-south-korea-to-speak-out-on-china-idUSKBN27T291 | 2020-11-14 |
| Born to a peasant farming family Abiys father was Muslim and his mother Christian | Neutral | ADDIS Dressed in a sharp black suit in front of an illustrious audience Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed strode onto stage at Oslos ornate City Hall on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-abiy/from-nobel-prize-to-fighting-former-comrades-ethiopias-pm-abiy-idUSKBN27R27D | 2020-11-12 |
| Ardern has won global acclaim for her decisive response to COVID19 and healing the nation after a massacre of Muslims by a white supremacist last year | Positive | New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has plans in place for her wedding but hasnt set a date yet | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-newzealand-ardern-wedding/new-zealands-ardern-says-has-plans-for-wedding-but-no-date-yet-idUSKBN27R0GJ | 2020-11-11 |
| I hope Muslims can unite | Positive | JAKARTA Thousands of supporters gathered at Jakartas airport on Tuesday to welcome back Rizieq Shihab a firebrand cleric and Islamist leader who went into exile in Saudi Arabia after facing charges over sending pornographic messages and insulting state ideology | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-indonesia-politics-islamist/supporters-throng-airport-to-welcome-back-controversial-indonesian-cleric-idUSKBN27Q0MX | 2020-11-10 |
| Biden plans to rescind Trumps travel bans which placed restrictions on travelers from 13 countries most of them either majorityMuslim or African nations | Positive | Democrat Joe Biden has been keeping a long wish list of actions he would take if had a chance to reverse the policies of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-election-biden-policy-factbox/factbox-biden-could-change-these-key-policies-on-day-one-in-the-white-house-idUSKBN27N0W2 | 2020-11-08 |
| The majority of its population of 2 million is Orthodox Christian with Muslims mainly ethnic Albanians accounting for around 35 percent of the total population | Neutral | CELLOPEK N. Macedonia The gunman who killed four people in Vienna on Monday night visited his ancestral home the tiny mountainous village of Cellopek in the western part of North Macedonia every year his grandfather told a local television channel | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-austria-attack-northmacedonia/vienna-gunman-visited-family-in-north-macedonia-every-year-grandfather-says-macedonian-tv-idUSKBN27J2L5 | 2020-11-04 |
| He has often targeted Rohingya Muslims more than 730000 of whom fled an army crackdown in Rakhine State in 2017 that United Nations investigators said was carried out with genocidal | Negative | YANGON Hardline Buddhist nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu handed himself over to police in Myanmars commercial capital of Yangon on Monday after more than a year on the run from charges of sedition | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-myanmar-election-monk/myanmar-fugitive-monk-wirathu-hands-himself-in-to-face-sedition-charges-idUSKBN27I1A7 | 2020-11-03 |
| The publication in Europe of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad has been angering Muslims for at least 15 years resulting in periodic protests and acts of deadly violence worldwide | Negative | The publication in Europe of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad has been angering Muslims for at least 15 years resulting in periodic protests and acts of deadly violence worldwide | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-security-cartoons-timeline/timeline-violence-marks-15-year-furore-over-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN27I1U3 | 2020-11-03 |
| While not explicitly favouring either U.S. candidate Cohen argued that Trumps policy had prompted Arab and Muslim countries to seek accommodation with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump an Israeli official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-election-israel-normalisation/israeli-minister-says-normalisation-deals-need-u-s-president-tough-on-iran-idUSKBN27I1NO | 2020-11-03 |
| There are around 1 million Muslims living in the Provence Alpes Cote DAzur region that includes Nice Bekri said | Positive | NICE France When a suspected Islamist from Tunisia killed three people this week in a church in the French Riviera city of Nice for many residents it brought painful memories flooding back | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-nice-city/angry-french-city-asks-after-church-attack-why-us-again-idUSKBN27F2U9 | 2020-10-31 |
| Indonesians are typically vocal about the mistreatment of Muslims but the backlash against abuses of Uighurs has been comparatively muted | Negative | U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday urged Indonesians to focus on the treatment of Muslim Uighurs in China describing it as the gravest to religious freedom in a speech to an Islamic group | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-asia-indonesia-islam/pompeo-urges-indonesia-to-focus-on-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-idUSKBN27E11K | 2020-10-30 |
| That has stirred anger in parts of the Muslim world with some governments accusing French President Emmanuel Macron of pursuing an antiIslam agenda | Negative | DUBAI A Saudi man was arrested in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after attacking and wounding a security guard with a sharp at the French consulate on Thursday local police said | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-security-saudi/saudi-man-arrested-in-jeddah-after-knife-attack-on-guard-at-french-consulate-idUSKBN27E1QB | 2020-10-30 |
| Saudi Arabia will open the Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca for Muslims from other countries from Nov | Positive | The White House coronavirus task force warned that much of the country is in the grips of an surge in COVID19 cases and urged tough countermeasures as the number of U.S. infections reported on Thursday hit a new daily record of more than 91000 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN27F0PV | 2020-10-30 |
| U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday urged Indonesians to focus on the treatment of Muslim Uighurs in China describing it as the gravest to religious freedom in a speech to an Islamic group | Negative | U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday urged Indonesians to focus on the treatment of Muslim Uighurs in China describing it as the gravest to religious freedom in a speech to an Islamic group | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-asia-indonesia-islam/pompeo-urges-indonesia-to-focus-on-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-idUSKBN27E11K | 2020-10-30 |
| Macron called the teacher a hero and he pledged to fight Islamist saying it was threatening to take over some Muslim communities in France | Negative | France warned its citizens in several Muslimmajority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and the head of Russias Chechnya region said Paris was pushing people towards terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott/france-warns-citizens-to-be-cautious-as-anger-seethes-in-muslim-world-over-cartoons-idUSKBN27C1IA | 2020-10-28 |
| The caricatures first published by a satirical magazine whose Paris offices were attacked by gunmen killing 12 people in 2015 are considered blasphemous by many Muslims | Negative | MOSCOW The leader of Russias Muslimmajority Chechnya region said on Tuesday that French President Emmanuel Macron was inspiring terrorists by justifying cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad as protected by free speech rights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-chechnya/chechen-leader-says-macron-stance-on-cartoons-inspires-terrorists-idUSKBN27C29R | 2020-10-28 |
| France has allowed displays of the cartoons which are considered blasphemous by Muslims | Negative | DHAKA Thousands of Muslims took to the streets of the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday to protest against remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron in a row about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-bangladesh/thousands-rally-in-bangladesh-to-protest-macron-comments-in-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27C1TG | 2020-10-28 |
| After the beheading Macron declared war on Islamist which he believes is taking over some Muslim communities in France | Negative | DHAKA Thousands of Muslims took to the streets of the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday to protest against remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron in a row about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-bangladesh/thousands-rally-in-bangladesh-to-protest-macron-comments-in-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27C1TG | 2020-10-28 |
| But Macrons call has angered Muslims in many countries and sparked protests and calls for boycotts of French goods | Negative | DHAKA Thousands of Muslims took to the streets of the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday to protest against remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron in a row about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-bangladesh/thousands-rally-in-bangladesh-to-protest-macron-comments-in-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27C1TG | 2020-10-28 |
| France is a major exporter of grain to mainlyMuslim North Africa and French companies in the autos and retail sector also have significant exposure to majorityMuslim countries | Positive | Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-boycott/turkish-leader-backs-boycott-of-french-goods-over-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27B1IB | 2020-10-27 |
| The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad first published in 2005 by Danish newspaper JyllandsPosten have long been a sensitive topic among Muslims stirring protests in Pakistan and elsewhere | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistans parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris over the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammad in France accusing President Emmanuel Macron of against Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistans-parliament-urges-government-to-withdraw-envoy-from-france-idUSKBN27B2BO | 2020-10-27 |
| The resolution also urged the government to ask other Muslim countries to boycott French products | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistans parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris over the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammad in France accusing President Emmanuel Macron of against Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistans-parliament-urges-government-to-withdraw-envoy-from-france-idUSKBN27B2BO | 2020-10-27 |
| What is the problem of this person called Macron with Muslims and Macron needs treatment on a mental Erdogan said in a speech on Saturday | Negative | Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-boycott/turkish-leader-backs-boycott-of-french-goods-over-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27B1IB | 2020-10-27 |
| DUBAI Saudi Arabia birthplace of Islam on Tuesday condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Mohammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism but did not echo calls by other Muslim states for action against images being displayed in France of the Prophet | Negative | DUBAI Saudi Arabia birthplace of Islam on Tuesday condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Mohammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism but did not echo calls by other Muslim states for action against images being displayed in France of the Prophet | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-security-boycott-saudi/saudi-arabia-condemns-cartoons-offending-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN27C0FE | 2020-10-27 |
| PARIS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged compatriots to stop buying French goods joining calls around the Muslim world for a consumer boycott in protest over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous | Negative | PARIS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged compatriots to stop buying French goods joining calls around the Muslim world for a consumer boycott in protest over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-factbox/factbox-french-interests-at-stake-if-muslim-boycott-calls-gain-traction-idUSKBN27B1M7 | 2020-10-27 |
| ISLAMABAD Pakistans parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris over the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammad in France accusing President Emmanuel Macron of against Muslims | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistans parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris over the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammad in France accusing President Emmanuel Macron of against Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistans-parliament-urges-government-to-withdraw-envoy-from-france-idUSKBN27B2BO | 2020-10-27 |
| Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | Negative | Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-boycott/turkish-leader-backs-boycott-of-french-goods-over-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27B1IB | 2020-10-27 |
| The developments were the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over France displaying images of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims consider blasphemous | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistans parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris over the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammad in France accusing President Emmanuel Macron of against Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistans-parliament-urges-government-to-withdraw-envoy-from-france-idUSKBN27B2BO | 2020-10-27 |
| Sadly President Macron has chosen to deliberately provoke Muslims incl his own citizens through encouraging the display of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam our Prophet Khan said on Twitter | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron has attacked by encouraging the display of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-pakistan-france/pakistan-pm-accuses-macron-of-attacking-islam-by-encouraging-blasphemous-cartoons-idUSKBN27A0PT | 2020-10-26 |
| France has faced a backlash from a number of Muslim countries over the cartoons including boycotts of French products | Negative | RABAT Moroccos foreign ministry said on Sunday the continuing publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad is an act of provocation | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-security-morocco/morocco-condemns-publication-of-prophet-mohammad-cartoons-statement-idUSKBN27A126 | 2020-10-26 |
| By attacking Islam clearly without having any understanding of it President Macron has attacked hurt the sentiments of millions of Muslims in Europe across the Khan added | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron has attacked by encouraging the display of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-pakistan-france/pakistan-pm-accuses-macron-of-attacking-islam-by-encouraging-blasphemous-cartoons-idUSKBN27A0PT | 2020-10-26 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Emmanuel Macron had lost his in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Emmanuel Macron had lost his in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-france-macron/turkeys-erdogan-says-french-leader-has-lost-his-way-in-second-broadside-idUSKBN27A0KV | 2020-10-26 |
| ISLAMABAD Pakistans prime minister has appealed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ban Islamophobic content on the site warning of an increase in radicalisation amongst Muslims the government said on Sunday | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistans prime minister has appealed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ban Islamophobic content on the site warning of an increase in radicalisation amongst Muslims the government said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-pakistan-facebook/pakistani-pm-asks-facebook-ceo-to-ban-islamophobic-content-idUSKBN27A0UK | 2020-10-26 |
| On Saturday Erdogan said Macron had a problem with Muslims and needed mental checks a rebuke that caused France to recall its ambassador from Ankara | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Emmanuel Macron had lost his in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-france-macron/turkeys-erdogan-says-french-leader-has-lost-his-way-in-second-broadside-idUSKBN27A0KV | 2020-10-26 |
| The French leader this month declared war on Islamist which he believes is taking over some Muslim communities in France | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Emmanuel Macron had lost his in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-france-macron/turkeys-erdogan-says-french-leader-has-lost-his-way-in-second-broadside-idUSKBN27A0KV | 2020-10-26 |
| The United States has denounced Chinas treatment of Uighur and other minority Muslims in Xinjiang and imposed sanctions on officials it blames for abuses | Negative | WASHINGTON The deputy White House national security adviser on Friday denounced Chinas treatment of Uighur Muslims saying there was no justification for the country maintaining concentration within its borders | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-pottinger/u-s-says-no-justification-for-concentration-camps-in-china-idUSKBN2781RT | 2020-10-24 |
| Last week Pottingers boss U.S. national security adviser Robert OBrien said China was perpetrating something close genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region | Negative | WASHINGTON The deputy White House national security adviser on Friday denounced Chinas treatment of Uighur Muslims saying there was no justification for the country maintaining concentration within its borders | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-pottinger/u-s-says-no-justification-for-concentration-camps-in-china-idUSKBN2781RT | 2020-10-24 |
| He was a leading conservative scholar who preached against Sunni radicalism and the Muslim Brotherhood which took up arms against the current presidents father Hafez alAssad | Negative | BEIRUT Hundreds of mourners including Syrias religious affairs minister attended a funeral in Damascus on Friday for the states top Muslim cleric who was killed in a bombing near the capital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-cleric/syrian-minister-leads-mourners-for-cleric-killed-in-bombing-idUSKBN2781K6 | 2020-10-24 |
| The Xinjiang region in northwest China is home to a large population of Uighur people a Muslim minority that has faced mass detention in Chinese government camps | Negative | AmbassadoratLarge John Richmond said reports that forced labor by the Chinese government had spread beyond Xinjiang to other provinces complicated the process of due diligence for global firms | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-trafficking/detecting-slave-made-goods-from-china-is-growing-harder-u-s-says-idUSKBN2741GE | 2020-10-20 |
| The challenge for security services has been to tap into the networks that groom Islamist attackers both by building stronger relationships with Muslim communities and infiltrating jihadist social media accounts | Positive | PARIS The teenager identified by prosecutors as Abdoulakh A. lived with his family and had never appeared on the radar of French intelligence agencies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-attacker/french-police-face-worst-nightmare-an-attacker-they-never-saw-coming-idUSKBN2720NJ | 2020-10-18 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. national security adviser said on Friday that China was perpetrating something close a genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. national security adviser said on Friday that China was perpetrating something close a genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/something-close-to-genocide-in-chinas-xinjiang-says-u-s-security-adviser-idUSKBN2712HH | 2020-10-17 |
| In June U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo labeled as and reports that China was using forced sterilization forced abortion and coercive family planning against Muslims in Xinjiang | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. national security adviser said on Friday that China was perpetrating something close a genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/something-close-to-genocide-in-chinas-xinjiang-says-u-s-security-adviser-idUSKBN2712HH | 2020-10-17 |
| PARIS A middle school history teacher in France was knifed to death near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad considered blasphemous by Muslims French officials said on Friday | Negative | PARIS A middle school history teacher in France was knifed to death near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad considered blasphemous by Muslims French officials said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security/teacher-knifed-to-death-in-france-after-showing-class-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN2712LZ | 2020-10-17 |
| She was apparently killed by kidnappers of the Islamist terrorist organization Jamaat Nasr alIslam wal Muslim about a month the ministry said in a statement on its website | Negative | ZURICH The Swiss foreign ministry said on Friday it had been informed by French authorities that a Swiss hostage who had been held in Mali for four years was dead | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-swiss-mali/swiss-hostage-in-mali-killed-swiss-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN26U2GX | 2020-10-10 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Friday to fight Islamist which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Friday to fight Islamist which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-macron-separatism/macron-launches-crackdown-on-islamist-separatism-in-muslim-communities-idUSKBN26N213 | 2020-10-03 |
| France has struggled with homegrown Islamist militancy for years but Macrons government is increasingly worried by broader signs of radicalisation often nonviolent within Muslim communities French officials say | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Friday to fight Islamist which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-macron-separatism/macron-launches-crackdown-on-islamist-separatism-in-muslim-communities-idUSKBN26N213 | 2020-10-03 |
| The United Nations has said reports suggest 1 million Uighur Muslims have been detained in camps there | Negative | The U.S. Department of Labor published its biennial list of goods believed to be produced by child or forced labor that included 17 Chinesemade products from gloves to Christmas decorations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-china-forcedlabor/u-s-puts-china-at-top-of-forced-labor-list-idUSKBN26M3ZW | 2020-10-01 |
| Yahaya Aminu Sharif was sentenced last month by a sharia court in Kano in Nigerias mostly Muslim north after he performed the song and shared it on WhatsApp | Negative | GENEVA U.N. rights experts asked Nigeria on Monday to release a 22yearold singer who was condemned to death over an allegedly blasphemous song and said the sentence broke international law | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-crime-blasphemy/music-is-not-a-crime-u-n-experts-urge-nigeria-to-lift-singers-death-sentence-idUSKBN26J1Q3 | 2020-09-29 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey is sending Syrian rebel fighters to support Azerbaijan in its escalating conflict with neighbouring Armenia two Syrian rebels have said as Ankara pledges to step up backing for its majorityMuslim ally | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey is sending Syrian rebel fighters to support Azerbaijan in its escalating conflict with neighbouring Armenia two Syrian rebels have said as Ankara pledges to step up backing for its majorityMuslim ally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-syria/turkey-deploying-syrian-fighters-to-help-ally-azerbaijan-two-fighters-say-idUSKBN26J25A | 2020-09-29 |
| We dont want sectarian or confessional Lebanons top Sunni Muslim religious leader Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian was quoted by broadcasters as saying | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| It leaves Lebanon with its arrangement of sharing power between Muslims and Christians rudderless as it faces its deepest crisis since the 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| Turkey has traditionally backed Muslimmajority Azerbaijan in the longrunning conflict over NagornoKarabakh a region inside Azerbaijan where the population is predominantly ethnic Armenian | Negative | ANKARA Turkey sharply criticised Armenia on Sunday following clashes between Armenian and Azeri forces over the breakaway NagornoKarabakh region saying Yerevan was an obstacle to peace and vowing to continue its support for Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey/turkey-criticises-armenia-after-clashes-with-azerbaijan-supports-baku-idUSKBN26I0CI | 2020-09-28 |
| Civil rights group The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Proud Boys as a hate group citing its members antiMuslim and misogynist rhetoric | Negative | Oregon Governor Kate Brown on Friday declared a state of emergency in Portland over the weekend due to risks of violence as thousands of members of what she called white supremacist such as the Proud Boys hold a rally | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-protests-portland/oregon-governor-incredibly-worried-about-violence-at-proud-boys-rally-idUSKCN26G2YJ | 2020-09-26 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted near unanimously to pass legislation to restrict imports of goods made using forced labor from China as lawmakers look to address the treatment of Uighur Muslims in Chinas Xinjiang region | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted near unanimously to pass legislation to restrict imports of goods made using forced labor from China as lawmakers look to address the treatment of Uighur Muslims in Chinas Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-congress/u-s-house-passes-china-forced-labor-bill-near-unanimously-idUSKCN26D31U | 2020-09-23 |
| SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | Negative | SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bulgaria-israel-trial-blast/bulgarian-court-sentences-two-men-to-life-in-prison-for-2012-bus-bombing-idUSKCN26C168 | 2020-09-22 |
| Ties with Israel are a sensitive issue in Sudan which was among the hardline Muslim foes of Israel under Bashir | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudanese officials will discuss the removal of their country from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terror with U.S. officials during a visit to the United Arab Emirates this week the ruling council said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-uae/sudan-to-discuss-removal-from-u-s-terrorism-list-in-uae-idUSKCN26B0WF | 2020-09-21 |
| The Myanmar military has said it is investigating possible wider patterns of before and during a 2017 crackdown in Rakhine State that the United Nations has said was executed with genocidal intent against Rohingya Muslims | Negative | The Myanmar military has said it is investigating possible wider patterns of before and during a 2017 crackdown in Rakhine State that the United Nations has said was executed with genocidal intent against Rohingya Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-myanmar-rohingya/myanmar-army-probes-wider-patterns-of-abuse-against-rohingya-idUSKBN2670JF | 2020-09-16 |
| Bahraini worker Ali Abdallah said he hoped the deal would help regional peace and stability and would facilitate all Muslims being able to pray at Jerusalems AlAqsa mosque | Positive | DUBAI Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel with a leading Shiite cleric on Sunday calling on the people of the region to resist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-reax/bahrain-opposition-rejects-israel-normalisation-calls-for-resistance-idUSKBN2640ER | 2020-09-14 |
| Any government needs the blessing of the main Christian and Muslim factions to ensure it conforms with Lebanons sectarian system of power sharing | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron has been pressing Lebanese politicians to deliver on promises to form a new government this week and haul the country out of its worst crisis since the 19751990 civil war his office said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-presses-lebanese-politicians-as-cabinet-deadline-looms-idUSKBN2640A9 | 2020-09-14 |
| The BinDawood supermarket chain is focused on the middleincome customers and Muslim pilgrims in the kingdom while the Danube chain is focused on wealthier customers | Neutral | DUBAI Saudi Arabian supermarket retailer BinDawood Holding set an indicative price for its initial public offering seeking to raise as much as 2 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bindawood-ipo-pricing/saudi-arabias-bindawood-holding-sets-ipo-price-range-aims-to-raise-up-to-2-2-billion-riyals-idUSKBN264074 | 2020-09-13 |
| Xinjiang a major cottonproducing region is an autonomous territory in northwest China that is home to the Muslim minority Uighurs | Positive | The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing a ban on some or all products made with cotton from the Xinjiang region of China over alleged human rights violations the New York Times reported late on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/u-s-considering-ban-on-cotton-from-xinjiang-region-of-china-over-rights-concerns-new-york-times-idUSKBN25Z04T | 2020-09-08 |
| The potential ban which could be announced as soon as Tuesday comes amid reports of use of forced labour on minority Muslims in Xinjiang the report said | Negative | The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing a ban on some or all products made with cotton from the Xinjiang region of China over alleged human rights violations the New York Times reported late on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/u-s-considering-ban-on-cotton-from-xinjiang-region-of-china-over-rights-concerns-new-york-times-idUSKBN25Z04T | 2020-09-08 |
| Southeast Asia has been a preferred transit point to Turkey for ethnic Uighurs Muslims fleeing what refugees and activists have described as oppression and mass internment by the Chinese government | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will not entertain requests to extradite ethnic Uighur refugees to China and will allow them safe passage to a third country should they feel their safety is at risk a minister has said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-malaysia-china-uighur/malaysia-wont-extradite-uighurs-to-china-minister-says-idUSKBN25V1KE | 2020-09-05 |
| Womens rights campaigners say there is a deeprooted bias in the conservative Muslimmajority nation to place more blame on women for behaviour deemed provocative than on men for sex crimes | Negative | Change is already happening and we will keep pushing for more changes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-women-internet/egypts-metoo-crusader-fights-sex-crimes-via-instagram-idUSKBN25U2B8 | 2020-09-04 |
| While Macron has led international diplomacy on Lebanon other powers still have considerable sway such as Iran via its ally the heavily armed Muslim Shiite party Hezbollah | Neutral | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| Her songs were listened to across the religious and factional divide whether Christian Muslim or Druze even as they spilled each others blood on the streets | Neutral | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron began his trip to Beirut on Monday by visiting Fairouz one of the Arab worlds most famous singers whose haunting voice has been Lebanons soundtrack from its glamorous heyday through its conflicts and latest trauma | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/macron-reassures-protesters-after-meeting-lebanons-symbol-of-unity-singer-fairouz-idUSKBN25R27M | 2020-09-01 |
| We believe that other Arab and Muslim countries will soon follow the United Arab Emirates lead and normalise relations with OBrien told reporters after talks at Netanyahus residence | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trumps national security adviser said on Sunday more Arab and Muslim countries were likely to follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relations with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-adviser-sees-more-arab-muslim-partners-for-israel-after-uae-deal-idUSKBN25Q07A | 2020-08-31 |
| CAIRO Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested the acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahmoud Ezzat during a raid on an apartment in Cairo | Negative | CAIRO Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested the acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahmoud Ezzat during a raid on an apartment in Cairo | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-egypt-politics/acting-leader-of-egypts-muslim-brotherhood-arrested-in-cairo-idUSKBN25O1C3 | 2020-08-29 |
| Former prime minister Saad alHariris Future Movement which counts among its followers many of the Arabi Sunni Muslims in Khaldeh issued a statement urging them to show restraint | Negative | BEIRUT Two people were killed and at least three wounded in clashes in a town south of Beirut the Lebanese capital on Thursday evening the state news agency and a security source said as several political parties urged calm | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-lebanon-security-clash/two-dead-in-clashes-south-of-lebanese-capital-idUSKBN25N302 | 2020-08-28 |
| However state prosecutor Mark Zarifeh had told the The offending was motivated by an entrenched racist and xenophobic ideology and a desire to create terror within the Muslim community and beyond | Negative | WELLINGTON A New Zealand judge sentenced white supremacist Brenton Tarrant to life in prison without parole on Thursday for killing 51 Muslim worshippers in the countrys deadliest shooting saying the sentence was not enough punishment for the crimes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-newzealand-shooting/new-zealand-judge-sentences-mosque-shooter-to-life-without-parole-for-wicked-crimes-idUSKBN25M2QF | 2020-08-27 |
| The prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim in Lebanons sectarian powersharing system | Negative | BEIRUT Three weeks after the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port Lebanon is drifting towards even more trouble as its politicians fail to agree a new government that can arrest a financial meltdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-government-ana/after-port-blast-rudderless-lebanon-drifts-towards-the-rocks-idUSKBN25M292 | 2020-08-27 |
| YANGON Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship | Neutral | YANGON Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-myanmar-election-rohingya/rohingya-politicians-excluded-from-myanmar-election-idUSKBN25L02T | 2020-08-25 |
| India On the third anniversary of a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh prospects look bleak for about 1 million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar living in bamboo and plastic shelters in refugee camps | Negative | India On the third anniversary of a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh prospects look bleak for about 1 million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar living in bamboo and plastic shelters in refugee camps | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-bangladesh/as-other-doors-close-some-rohingya-cling-to-hope-of-resettlement-idUSKBN25H0CZ | 2020-08-21 |
| An open letter written to Facebooks leadership by 11 employees on one internal platform and seen by Reuters demands company leaders acknowledge and denounce antiMuslim and ensure more policy consistency | Negative | An open letter written to Facebooks leadership by 11 employees on one internal platform and seen by Reuters demands company leaders acknowledge and denounce antiMuslim and ensure more policy consistency | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-india-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-employees-internally-question-policy-after-india-content-controversy-sources-memos-idUSKCN25F1VW | 2020-08-20 |
| They should pay us back the money they said Mahmoud speaking from a Sunni Muslim district of Beirut mostly loyal to the Hariris | Positive | BEIRUT The son of Lebanons slain former premier Rafik alHariri vowed he would not rest until the killers are punished after a U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Iranbacked Hezbollah group of involvement in the 2005 assassination | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-son/for-some-lebanese-u-n-tribunals-hariri-ruling-is-not-enough-idUSKCN25E219 | 2020-08-19 |
| Campaigners say a deeprooted bias in the conservative Muslimmajority nation means women often face more blame for behaviour deemed provocative than men face for sex crimes | Negative | CAIRO Egypts parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval to a law protecting the identity of victims of sexual harassment and assault aimed at encouraging women who fear social stigma to report such crimes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-egypt-harassment/egypt-passes-law-shielding-sex-crime-victims-identities-idUSKCN25E2LT | 2020-08-19 |
| In the wake of this agreement will come additional agreements both with more Gulf countries and with Muslim countries in Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen told Army Radio | Positive | JERUSALEM Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel Israels intelligence minister said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf/israel-says-it-expects-bahrain-and-oman-to-follow-uae-in-formalising-ties-idUSKCN25C0DJ | 2020-08-17 |
| WASHINGTON Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside longstanding tensions and make similar agreements | Positive | WASHINGTON Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside longstanding tensions and make similar agreements | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-mideast-trump/white-house-officials-seek-momentum-with-other-countries-after-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25A2FQ | 2020-08-15 |
| U.N. experts estimate than more than a million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims have been detained against their will for several years in camps in the far western region | Negative | GENEVA The largest group of exiled ethnic Uighurs has called on the International Olympic Committee to reconsider holding the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing citing what it says is evidence of crimes against humanity committed in Chinas Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-olympics-china-uighurs/uighur-group-urges-ioc-to-reconsider-2022-beijing-winter-games-venue-idUSKCN25A1PG | 2020-08-15 |
| Now that the ice has been broken I expect more Arab and Muslim countries will follow the United Arab Emirates Trump added | Positive | Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-trump/israel-uae-to-normalize-relations-in-shift-in-mideast-politics-west-bank-annexations-on-hold-idUSKCN25926W | 2020-08-14 |
| Weve had numerous conversations with other Arab and Muslim countries in the Kushner said | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Thursday managed to pull off a rare victory for U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East ahead of his Nov | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-deal/trump-scores-diplomatic-deal-with-middle-east-allies-before-election-idUSKCN2592XW | 2020-08-14 |
| The underlying the factional sectarian politics of this country of six million that is home to many Muslim and Christian faiths | Negative | BEIRUT Surveying Beiruts shattered streets last week in the aftermath of a massive explosion at the port that killed at least 158 people French President Emmanuel Macron offered support to the people of Lebanon and delivered a stern message to the countrys ruling class | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-power-special-report/special-report-lebanons-power-struggle-why-a-failing-state-cant-get-the-lights-on-idUSKCN25626G | 2020-08-11 |
| Iran backs Hezbollah the armed Shiite Muslim group that is among Lebanons most powerful political forces which Washington considers a terrorist group and penalises with sanctions | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week and that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-iran/iran-says-beirut-blast-should-not-be-politicised-idUSKCN2560F3 | 2020-08-10 |
| The World Heritage site was at the centre of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires and is today one of Turkeys most visited monuments | Positive | PARIS UNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbuls sixthcentury Hagia Sophia museum and the changes may have to be reviewed by its World Heritage committee the United Nations cultural body said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-turkey-museum-unesco/changes-to-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-could-trigger-heritage-review-unesco-idUSKBN24A3BD | 2020-08-10 |
| Masked and socially distanced to fight the coronavirus Muslims around the world held prayers on Friday to mark the festival of Eid alAdha with mosques at reduced capacity and some praying in the open air | Negative | Masked and socially distanced to fight the coronavirus Muslims around the world held prayers on Friday to mark the festival of Eid alAdha with mosques at reduced capacity and some praying in the open air | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-religion-eid/muslims-perform-eid-prayers-socially-distanced-and-masked-idUSKCN24W0HN | 2020-08-01 |
| Tata has falsely portrayed former President Barack Obama as a Muslim and accused him of being a terrorist working to benefit Iran according to nowdeleted Twitter posts seen by Reuters | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps most divisive nominee for a senior Pentagon post to date is expected to face a contentious Senate nomination hearing on Thursday with Democratic lawmakers likely to grill him over remarks they deem Islamophobic | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-military-nominee/trump-nominee-for-pentagon-faces-senate-grilling-after-islamophobia-claims-idUSKCN24U34T | 2020-07-30 |
| Most Iranians are Shiite Muslims who also mark their most significant mourning ceremonies of Ashura in September | Negative | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged people on Saturday to observe health protocols and practice social distancing during upcoming Muslim festivities as a health official said there had been a surge in coronavirus infections in a major holy city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iranian-president-urges-coronavirus-caution-during-religious-festivities-idUSKCN24Q0H7 | 2020-07-26 |
| Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged people on Saturday to observe health protocols and practice social distancing during upcoming Muslim festivities as a health official said there had been a surge in coronavirus infections in a major holy city | Negative | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged people on Saturday to observe health protocols and practice social distancing during upcoming Muslim festivities as a health official said there had been a surge in coronavirus infections in a major holy city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iranian-president-urges-coronavirus-caution-during-religious-festivities-idUSKCN24Q0H7 | 2020-07-26 |
| ISTANBUL Turkeys President Tayyip Erdogan joined huge crowds on Friday for the first prayers at Hagia Sophia in nine decades sealing his ambition to restore Muslim worship at an ancient site long revered in both Christianity and Islam | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys President Tayyip Erdogan joined huge crowds on Friday for the first prayers at Hagia Sophia in nine decades sealing his ambition to restore Muslim worship at an ancient site long revered in both Christianity and Islam | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-turkey-hagiasophia/erdogan-joins-thousands-to-pray-for-first-time-at-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-idUSKCN24P0PQ | 2020-07-25 |
| ISTANBUL When Yunus Genc prays at Hagia Sophia on Friday it will mark the triumphant culmination of decadeslong efforts by Islamistrooted groups like his to convert the ancient monument revered by both Christians and Muslims to a mosque | Positive | ISTANBUL When Yunus Genc prays at Hagia Sophia on Friday it will mark the triumphant culmination of decadeslong efforts by Islamistrooted groups like his to convert the ancient monument revered by both Christians and Muslims to a mosque | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-hagiasophia/prayers-at-hagia-sophia-will-crown-decades-long-muslim-campaign-idUSKCN24O1QT | 2020-07-24 |
| The United States has imposed sanctions on Chinese officials companies and institutions over human rights violations linked to Chinas treatment of minority Muslim Uighurs in the countrys western Xinjiang region | Negative | The U.S. demand this week that China close its consulate in Houston is the latest in a string of disputes that have taken the relationship between the worlds two biggest economies to its lowest point in decades | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-consulate-tension-explainer/explainer-what-are-the-main-areas-of-tension-in-the-u-s-china-relationship-idUSKCN24N350 | 2020-07-23 |
| RIYADH This years haj will be a time of sadness for many Muslims around the world prevented from travelling to Saudi Arabia but a decision to honour local health and security staff in the front line of the fight against the coronavirus has won praise | Negative | RIYADH This years haj will be a time of sadness for many Muslims around the world prevented from travelling to Saudi Arabia but a decision to honour local health and security staff in the front line of the fight against the coronavirus has won praise | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-haj/pandemic-hit-to-haj-saddens-would-be-pilgrims-idUSKCN24N2GJ | 2020-07-23 |
| For the first time in the modern era amidst efforts to curb COVID19 Muslims from abroad will be unable to attend the pilgrimage | Negative | RIYADH This years haj will be a time of sadness for many Muslims around the world prevented from travelling to Saudi Arabia but a decision to honour local health and security staff in the front line of the fight against the coronavirus has won praise | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-haj/pandemic-hit-to-haj-saddens-would-be-pilgrims-idUSKCN24N2GJ | 2020-07-23 |
| CAIRO The United Arab Emiratess citizens will hold prayers for Eid alAdha a fourday Muslim holiday at homes instead of mosques while calls to prayers will be broadcasted a spokesman for the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority said on Wednesday | Negative | CAIRO The United Arab Emiratess citizens will hold prayers for Eid alAdha a fourday Muslim holiday at homes instead of mosques while calls to prayers will be broadcasted a spokesman for the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-mosques/prayers-for-eid-al-adha-will-be-at-home-in-uae-idUSKCN24N2MR | 2020-07-23 |
| GAZA Gazans are thronging beaches and crowding markets filled with holiday sweets and clothes as they prepare to celebrate Eid alAdha largely free of the coronavirus restrictions affecting the Muslim festival elsewhere | Negative | GAZA Gazans are thronging beaches and crowding markets filled with holiday sweets and clothes as they prepare to celebrate Eid alAdha largely free of the coronavirus restrictions affecting the Muslim festival elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eid-gaza/cut-off-from-world-and-virus-gaza-prepares-for-eid-like-nowhere-else-idUSKCN24N29V | 2020-07-23 |
| ISTANBUL Mosaics depicting Christian figures in Istanbuls ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered with curtains during Muslim prayers Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Sunday as work to prepare the building for use as a mosque continues | Negative | ISTANBUL Mosaics depicting Christian figures in Istanbuls ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered with curtains during Muslim prayers Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Sunday as work to prepare the building for use as a mosque continues | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-hagiasophia-erdogan/hagia-sophia-mosaics-will-be-covered-with-curtains-during-prayers-turkish-presidential-spokesman-idUSKCN24K0OS | 2020-07-20 |
| U.S. relations with China have already been strained over the global coronavirus pandemic Chinas military buildup in the South China Sea its treatment of Uighur Muslims and massive trade surpluses | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to Hong Kongs special status under U.S. law to punish China for what he called oppressive against the former British colony prompting Beijing to warn of retaliatory sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-hongkong-security-trump/china-vows-retaliation-after-trump-ends-preferential-status-for-hong-kong-idUSKCN24F2KQ | 2020-07-15 |
| ISTANBUL Mosaics in Istanbuls ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered by curtains or lasers during times of Muslim prayer the spokesman for Turkeys ruling AK Party said on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan converted the museum into a mosque | Negative | ISTANBUL Mosaics in Istanbuls ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered by curtains or lasers during times of Muslim prayer the spokesman for Turkeys ruling AK Party said on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan converted the museum into a mosque | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum/turkey-will-cover-hagia-sophia-mosaics-during-prayers-ruling-party-spokesman-idUSKCN24E12Y | 2020-07-14 |
| KHARTOUM Sudan will permit nonMuslims to consume alcohol and strengthen womens rights including banning female genital mutilation its justice minister said late on Saturday in a reversal of almost four decades of hardline Islamist policies | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudan will permit nonMuslims to consume alcohol and strengthen womens rights including banning female genital mutilation its justice minister said late on Saturday in a reversal of almost four decades of hardline Islamist policies | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics/sudan-to-allow-drinking-alcohol-for-non-muslims-ban-fgm-idUSKCN24D0EH | 2020-07-13 |
| About of Sudans population is nonMuslim according to the United Nations | Neutral | KHARTOUM Sudan will permit nonMuslims to consume alcohol and strengthen womens rights including banning female genital mutilation its justice minister said late on Saturday in a reversal of almost four decades of hardline Islamist policies | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics/sudan-to-allow-drinking-alcohol-for-non-muslims-ban-fgm-idUSKCN24D0EH | 2020-07-13 |
| Nimeiris introduction of Islamic law was major catalyst for a 22yearlong war between Sudans Muslim north and the mainly Christian south that led in 2011 to South Sudans secession | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudan will permit nonMuslims to consume alcohol and strengthen womens rights including banning female genital mutilation its justice minister said late on Saturday in a reversal of almost four decades of hardline Islamist policies | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics/sudan-to-allow-drinking-alcohol-for-non-muslims-ban-fgm-idUSKCN24D0EH | 2020-07-13 |
| Erdogan said the nearly 1500yearold Hagia Sophia which was once a Christian cathedral would remain open to Muslims Christians and foreigners | Positive | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis said on Sunday he was hurt by Turkeys decision to make Istanbuls Hagia Sophia museum a mosque the latest religious leader to condemn the move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-verdict-pope/pope-very-pained-by-decision-to-turn-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-museum-into-mosque-idUSKCN24D0CG | 2020-07-13 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union lamented on Friday President Tayyip Erdogans decision to declare Istanbuls Hagia Sophia open to Muslim prayer as a mosque after a top court ruled that the buildings conversion to a museum was illegal | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union lamented on Friday President Tayyip Erdogans decision to declare Istanbuls Hagia Sophia open to Muslim prayer as a mosque after a top court ruled that the buildings conversion to a museum was illegal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-eu/eu-says-hagia-sophia-mosque-decision-regrettable-idUSKBN24B2SN | 2020-07-11 |
| United Nations experts and activists estimate more than a million Muslims have been detained in camps in the Xinjiang region | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on the highest ranking Chinese official yet targeted over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority a move likely to further ratchet up tensions between Washington and Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang-sanctions/u-s-sanctions-highest-ranking-chinese-official-yet-over-uighur-rights-idUSKBN24A2GA | 2020-07-10 |
| The World Heritage site was at the centre of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires and is today one of Turkeys most visited monuments | Positive | PARIS UNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbuls sixthcentury Hagia Sophia museum and the changes may have to be reviewed by its World Heritage committee the United Nations cultural body said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-unesco/changes-to-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-could-trigger-heritage-review-unesco-idUSKBN24A3BD | 2020-07-10 |
| WASHINGTON More than 75 U.S. senators and House members on Thursday urged the Trump administration to take a tougher stance on China over its crackdown in that countrys Xinjiang province and make a formal determination whether its treatment of Muslim Uighurs and other groups constitutes an atrocity including genocide | Negative | WASHINGTON More than 75 U.S. senators and House members on Thursday urged the Trump administration to take a tougher stance on China over its crackdown in that countrys Xinjiang province and make a formal determination whether its treatment of Muslim Uighurs and other groups constitutes an atrocity including genocide | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang-congress/u-s-congress-urges-trump-administration-to-get-tougher-on-chinas-xinjiang-crackdown-idUSKBN24334S | 2020-07-03 |
| The United Nations has said it has credible reports that 1 million Muslims have been detained in camps in the region | Negative | MEXICO CITY Reuters The U.S. government on Wednesday said it blocked an shipment of hair extensions and accessories from China on suspicions that the products were made with forced labor | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-trafficking-seizure-trfn/shipment-of-chinese-hair-goods-seized-by-u-s-officials-suspecting-forced-labor-idUSKBN2427IN | 2020-07-02 |
| Hagia Sophia a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was at the heart of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires is one of Turkeys most visited monuments | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged Turkey to let Istanbuls former Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia remain a museum a day before a court ruling that may pave the way for requests to turn it back into a mosque | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-pompeo/u-s-urges-turkey-to-let-hagia-sophia-remain-a-museum-idUSKBN2426L8 | 2020-07-02 |
| However groups have campaigned for years for Hagia Sophias conversion into a mosque and Erdogan a pious Muslim backed their call ahead of local elections last year | Negative | ISTANBUL Converting Istanbuls sixth century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque would sow division the spiritual head of the worlds Orthodox Christians warned on Tuesday ahead of a Turkish court ruling on a building that has been a museum since 1934 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-preview/orthodox-patriarch-says-turning-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-into-mosque-would-be-divisive-idUSKBN24130F | 2020-07-01 |
| Many Turks argue that mosque status would better reflect the identity of Turkey as an overwhelmingly Muslim country and recent polls show that most Turks support a change | Negative | ISTANBUL Converting Istanbuls sixth century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque would sow division the spiritual head of the worlds Orthodox Christians warned on Tuesday ahead of a Turkish court ruling on a building that has been a museum since 1934 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-museum-preview/orthodox-patriarch-says-turning-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-into-mosque-would-be-divisive-idUSKBN24130F | 2020-07-01 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday labeled as and reports that Chinas ruling Communist Party is using forced sterilization forced abortion and coercive family planning against minority Muslims | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday labeled as and reports that Chinas ruling Communist Party is using forced sterilization forced abortion and coercive family planning against minority Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/pompeo-calls-china-muslim-sterilization-reports-shocking-and-disturbing-idUSKBN24030D | 2020-06-30 |
| 5 million pilgrims typically visit the holiest sites of Islam in Mecca and Medina for the weeklong haj a onceinalifetime duty for every ablebodied Muslim | Positive | RIYADH Saudi Arabia is to limit the number of domestic pilgrims attending the haj to around 1000 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus after barring Muslims abroad from the rite for the first year in modern times | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-haj/saudi-arabia-to-restrict-domestic-haj-pilgrims-amid-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN23U1DI | 2020-06-24 |
| Saudi Arabia is to limit the number of domestic pilgrims attending the haj to around 1000 after barring Muslims abroad from the rite for the first year in modern times | Negative | European Union countries eager to revive their economies are prepared to bar entry to Americans because the U.S. has failed to control the coronavirus pandemic the New York Times reported from Brussels on Tuesday citing draft lists of acceptable travelers | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN23U39L | 2020-06-24 |
| RIYADH Saudi Arabia is to limit the number of domestic pilgrims attending the haj to around 1000 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus after barring Muslims abroad from the rite for the first year in modern times | Negative | RIYADH Saudi Arabia is to limit the number of domestic pilgrims attending the haj to around 1000 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus after barring Muslims abroad from the rite for the first year in modern times | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-haj/saudi-arabia-to-restrict-domestic-haj-pilgrims-amid-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN23U1DI | 2020-06-24 |
| The United Nations estimates that more than a million Muslims have been detained in camps there | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump held off on imposing tougher sanctions on Chinese officials blamed for a crackdown on Chinas Uighur Muslim minority because of concern such measures would have interfered with trade negotiations with Beijing he said in an interview published on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trade-china-xinjiang/trump-says-he-held-off-xinjiang-sanctions-due-to-trade-talks-axios-interview-idUSKBN23T009 | 2020-06-22 |
| The State Department has accused China of subjecting Muslims to torture and abuse | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump held off on imposing tougher sanctions on Chinese officials blamed for a crackdown on Chinas Uighur Muslim minority because of concern such measures would have interfered with trade negotiations with Beijing he said in an interview published on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trade-china-xinjiang/trump-says-he-held-off-xinjiang-sanctions-due-to-trade-talks-axios-interview-idUSKBN23T009 | 2020-06-22 |
| The United Nations estimates that more than a million Muslims have been detained in camps in Chinas Xinjiang province | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer asked about exports of products made by Uighurs and other Muslim groups in camps in China said the United States would strongly U.S. laws banning the import of goods made by forced labor | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china-uighurs/u-s-law-prevents-import-of-products-made-by-forced-labor-ustr-idUSKBN23O35I | 2020-06-18 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign legislation calling for sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for oppressing Uighur Muslims a source familiar with the matter said last week | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer asked about exports of products made by Uighurs and other Muslim groups in camps in China said the United States would strongly U.S. laws banning the import of goods made by forced labor | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china-uighurs/u-s-law-prevents-import-of-products-made-by-forced-labor-ustr-idUSKBN23O35I | 2020-06-18 |
| Omar was elected along with Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib in November 2018 making them among the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress | Neutral | Father of Somaliaborn U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar died on Monday night of complications from the novel coronavirus local media reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-ilhan-omar/rep-ilhan-omars-father-dies-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN23N0QA | 2020-06-16 |
| King Mohammed VI has headed the Muslim worlds longestserving dynasty since 1999 when his father Hassan II died | Negative | RABAT King Mohammmed VI of Morocco had successful heart surgery on Sunday in Rabat state news agency MAP said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-morocco-monarchy/moroccos-king-undergoes-successful-heart-surgery-agency-idUSKBN23L0Z9 | 2020-06-15 |
| Soltan an EgyptianAmerican rights activist was arrested in Egypt weeks after Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi was deposed | Negative | CAIRO Egyptian security forces raided the homes of two uncles of a prominent activist who recently filed a torture lawsuit in the United States against a former prime minister lawyers representing the activist said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-egypt-security/egypt-raids-activists-family-after-u-s-suit-against-former-pm-lawyers-idUSKBN23I36B | 2020-06-12 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign legislation calling for sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for oppressing Uighur Muslims a source familiar with the matter said on Monday without offering a time frame for the signing | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign legislation calling for sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for oppressing Uighur Muslims a source familiar with the matter said on Monday without offering a time frame for the signing | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-trump-uighurs/trump-plans-to-sign-bill-pressuring-china-over-uighur-muslim-crackdown-source-idUSKBN23F27C | 2020-06-09 |
| Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have also lent support to Haftar because they suspect the GNA of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood an Islamist group they strongly oppose | Negative | A Russian drive to recruit Syrians to fight in Libya for militia leader Khalifa Haftar accelerated in May when hundreds of mercenaries were signed up five Syrian opposition sources and a regional source familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-libya-security-syria-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russian-hiring-of-syrians-to-fight-in-libya-accelerated-in-may-idUSKBN23E06H | 2020-06-07 |
| Now he buries COVID19 victims an exhausting task where he must also get to grips with both Muslim and Christian burial rites | Negative | NAJAF Iraq Iraqi paramedic Sarmad Ibrahim cut his teeth treating fellow Shiite Muslim militiamen in the war against Islamic State | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq-mortician/iraqi-militiamen-drop-guns-to-dig-graves-for-coronavirus-victims-idUSKBN2382VU | 2020-06-05 |
| The haj and umrah pilgrimages which attract millions of Muslims from around the world remain suspended | Neutral | RIYADH Saudi Arabias mosques opened their doors to worshippers on Sunday for the first time in more than two months as the kingdom the birthplace of Islam eased restrictions imposed to combat the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-mosques/saudi-arabia-reopens-mosques-with-strict-regulations-for-worshippers-idUSKBN2370AE | 2020-06-01 |
| Cairo has supported Haftar since his 2014 war against militants in eastern Libya and sees him as a bulwark against Islamist groups including the Muslim Brotherhood | Negative | The conflict between Libyas Government of National Accord recognised by the United Nations and the easternbased forces of Khalifa Haftar has become a cauldron for foreign rivals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-libya-security-intervention-factbox/factbox-whos-involved-in-libyas-war-and-why-idUSKBN2351W0 | 2020-05-30 |
| Turkey is also engaged in regional rivalries with LNA backers Russia in Syria and with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates over the Muslim Brotherhood | Negative | The conflict between Libyas Government of National Accord recognised by the United Nations and the easternbased forces of Khalifa Haftar has become a cauldron for foreign rivals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-libya-security-intervention-factbox/factbox-whos-involved-in-libyas-war-and-why-idUSKBN2351W0 | 2020-05-30 |
| The reopening of houses of worship shops and factories coincides with the last day of the Eid ElFitr holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan | Neutral | JERUSALEM The Holy Land churches revered as the sites of Jesus birth and death reopened to worshippers and tourists on Tuesday as Palestinian and church authorities eased coronavirus restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-church-jerusalem/revered-holy-land-churches-reopen-but-some-restrictions-remain-idUSKBN2321I0 | 2020-05-27 |
| The pandemic however has brought the hospital staff closer with nonMuslim workers often covering for Muslim staff breaking fast at sunset during Ramadan Muhammad Syahidd said | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian doctor Muhammad Syahidd AlHatim was used to being away from his family on Eid alFitr having spent the past two years celebrating the end of the holy Ramadan fasting month at Kuala Lumpur Hospital where he works | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/health-coronavirus-eid-malaysia/a-sad-mood-muslim-doctor-in-malaysia-spends-eid-in-hospital-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN23004C | 2020-05-24 |
| Opposition to Israel is a core belief for Shiite Muslimled Iran | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| Khamenei was speaking on Irans annual Quds Day which uses the Arabic name for Jerusalem held on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan | Neutral | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| Among the companies named is NetPosa one of Chinas most famous AI companies whose facial recognition subsidiary is linked to the surveillance of Muslims | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States said on Friday it would add 33 Chinese firms and institutions to an economic blacklist for helping Beijing spy on its minority Uighur population or because of ties to weapons of mass destruction and Chinas military | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-blacklist/dozens-of-chinese-companies-added-to-u-s-blacklist-in-latest-beijing-rebuke-idUSKBN22Y2QR | 2020-05-23 |
| CAIRO Families rushed to buy sweets and biscuits in Cairo as they prepared to celebrate the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan under a tightened coronavirus curfew and lockdown | Negative | CAIRO Families rushed to buy sweets and biscuits in Cairo as they prepared to celebrate the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan under a tightened coronavirus curfew and lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eid-egypt/egyptians-rush-to-buy-treats-before-eid-al-fitr-curfew-idUSKBN22X1MB | 2020-05-22 |
| Eid celebrations due to start this weekend mark the end of the holiest time in the Muslim calendar the Ramadan month of fasting | Positive | This year he cannot | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-migrants/the-saddest-eid-coronavirus-cuts-lifeline-for-indonesian-migrant-families-idUSKBN22Y05C | 2020-05-22 |
| Eid alFitr is the most important festival in Indonesia where nearly of its 260 million population are Muslim | Positive | This year he cannot | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-migrants/the-saddest-eid-coronavirus-cuts-lifeline-for-indonesian-migrant-families-idUSKBN22Y05C | 2020-05-22 |
| of Israel means the Muslim Christian and Jewish people of choose their own government themselves and push out foreigners and thugs like Prime Minister the post added | Positive | Iran will support any nation or group that fights Israel Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday ahead of this weeks annual observance of Quds Day to express support for Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-will-support-any-nation-or-group-that-fights-israel-supreme-leader-idUSKBN22W2YG | 2020-05-21 |
| MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the coronavirus situation in Russias southern region of Dagestan was particularly difficult and that the mainly Muslim regions healthcare system was under serious strain | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the coronavirus situation in Russias southern region of Dagestan was particularly difficult and that the mainly Muslim regions healthcare system was under serious strain | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-dagestan/putin-says-coronavirus-situation-in-southern-russias-dagestan-is-difficult-idUSKBN22U1IQ | 2020-05-19 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate approved legislation on Thursday calling on President Donald Trumps administration to toughen its response to Chinas crackdown on its Uighur Muslim minority the latest push in Washington to punish China as Trump blames Beijing for worsening the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate approved legislation on Thursday calling on President Donald Trumps administration to toughen its response to Chinas crackdown on its Uighur Muslim minority the latest push in Washington to punish China as Trump blames Beijing for worsening the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/u-s-senate-approves-bill-to-pressure-china-over-uighur-rights-idUSKBN22Q3FK | 2020-05-15 |
| But the Modi government which has drawn international criticism for its treatment of the countrys large Muslim minority is not backing down though | Negative | NEW DELHI India is aggressively pushing a statebacked contact tracing app to fight the spread of COVID19 raising fears that the worlds secondmost populous nation is on its way to Chinesestyle methods of high tech social control | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-app/india-follows-chinas-lead-to-widen-use-of-coronavirus-tracing-app-idUSKBN22Q110 | 2020-05-15 |
| Saudi Arabia will enforce a countrywide 24hour curfew during the fiveday Muslim Eid alFitr holiday later this month | Negative | More than 4 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN22J0KE | 2020-05-13 |
| Some Gulf Arab states eased antivirus containment measures with the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on April 24 | Positive | DUBAI The number of coronavirus cases in the six Gulf Arab states surpassed 100000 on Monday with 557 deaths according to Reuters calculations based on official figures | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-gulf/coronavirus-cases-in-gulf-arab-region-surpass-100000-idUSKBN22N1S7 | 2020-05-11 |
| They are preparing iftar the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during Ramadan which this year falls in the middle of a global pandemic | Negative | MOGADISHU In makeshift metal homes in a camp in Mogadishu women wrapped in brightly patterned scarves are making savoury pastries and mixing flour for flatbreads | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ramadan-somalia/displaced-somalis-share-ramadan-meal-under-shadow-of-covid-19-idUSKBN22K1K4 | 2020-05-11 |
| Touba is the headquarters of a powerful Sufi Muslim brotherhood and known to some as little | Positive | TOUBA Senegal Senegals holy city of Touba is fighting a second wave of COVID19 infections dashing hopes that swift action by authorities had stopped the new coronavirus from spreading in the onetime epicentre | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-touba/second-wave-of-covid-19-cases-sweeps-senegals-holy-city-idUSKBN22N1CS | 2020-05-11 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday he expects the chamber to move soon to pass a bill that would call on the Trump administration to toughen its response to Chinas crackdown on the countrys Muslim minority groups | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday he expects the chamber to move soon to pass a bill that would call on the Trump administration to toughen its response to Chinas crackdown on the countrys Muslim minority groups | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/senate-leader-expects-vote-soon-on-seeking-china-sanctions-over-uighurs-idUSKBN22J3E4 | 2020-05-08 |
| In addition to the Uighurs the bill covers other Muslim minority groups in China | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday he expects the chamber to move soon to pass a bill that would call on the Trump administration to toughen its response to Chinas crackdown on the countrys Muslim minority groups | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/senate-leader-expects-vote-soon-on-seeking-china-sanctions-over-uighurs-idUSKBN22J3E4 | 2020-05-08 |
| CAIRO Saudi Arabias cabinet affirmed late on Tuesday that the Palestinian cause will remain a central for Arabs and Muslims Saudi news agency said in a statement issued early on Wednesday | Positive | CAIRO Saudi Arabias cabinet affirmed late on Tuesday that the Palestinian cause will remain a central for Arabs and Muslims Saudi news agency said in a statement issued early on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-cabinet-palestinians/saudi-cabinet-affirms-palestinian-cause-will-remain-central-issue-for-arabs-and-muslims-spa-idUSKBN22H34V | 2020-05-06 |
| On Monday there were 2558 confirmed cases in Nigeria home to large Christian and Muslim communities 1107 of them in Lagos | Negative | LAGOS Two dozen Lagos healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks rushed outside the isolation tents and making sure to keep six feet apart on the bright green grass danced and swayed as a saxophone and trumpet struck up the band | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nigeria-music/nigeria-taps-the-power-of-music-to-try-to-beat-coronavirus-idUSKBN22G132 | 2020-05-05 |
| Egypt which sees Haftar as a bulwark against their common enemy the Muslim Brotherhood stressed the necessity of a political solution to Libyas conflict | Positive | TUNIS Libyas easternbased forces will cease fire for Ramadan their spokesman said on Wednesday after they suffered setbacks during weeks of intense fighting against the internationally recognized government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/eastern-libyan-forces-pause-operations-after-military-setbacks-idUSKBN22B3CZ | 2020-04-30 |
| The message focuses on the ways of Muslims centred on showing love good intention and peace to nonMuslims | Positive | DUBAI A period drama about the trials of a Jewish midwife airing on Saudicontrolled MBC for Ramadan has drawn both criticism as an attempt to promote Arab with Israel and praise for a rare exploration of the Gulfs social history | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-media-ramadan-gulf-series/ramadan-period-drama-with-jewish-characters-stirs-debate-in-middle-east-idUSKCN2291M7 | 2020-04-28 |
| The All India Islamic Centre of religious teaching will livestream recitations from the Koran the Muslim holy book every evening | Positive | The holy month of Ramadan began on Friday with Islams holiest sites in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem largely empty of worshippers as the coronavirus crisis forced authorities to impose unprecedented restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ramadan/islams-holiest-sites-emptied-by-coronavirus-crisis-as-ramadan-begins-idUSKCN22611R | 2020-04-25 |
| I invite you to have more patience because patience is the feature of the Muslim Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said in an address to the nation | Positive | The holy month of Ramadan began on Friday with Islams holiest sites in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem largely empty of worshippers as the coronavirus crisis forced authorities to impose unprecedented restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ramadan/islams-holiest-sites-emptied-by-coronavirus-crisis-as-ramadan-begins-idUSKCN22611R | 2020-04-25 |
| Ramadan typically draws tens of thousands of Muslims daily to the mosque and the adjoining Dome of the Rock | Neutral | The holy month of Ramadan began on Friday with Islams holiest sites in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem largely empty of worshippers as the coronavirus crisis forced authorities to impose unprecedented restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ramadan/islams-holiest-sites-emptied-by-coronavirus-crisis-as-ramadan-begins-idUSKCN22611R | 2020-04-25 |
| In Indonesia which has the worlds biggest Muslim population and Asias highest coronavirus toll outside China President Joko Widodo urged people to work and pray at home | Negative | The holy month of Ramadan began on Friday with Islams holiest sites in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem largely empty of worshippers as the coronavirus crisis forced authorities to impose unprecedented restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ramadan/islams-holiest-sites-emptied-by-coronavirus-crisis-as-ramadan-begins-idUSKCN22611R | 2020-04-25 |
| RIYADH The Organization of Islamic Cooperation urged member states on Wednesday to help struggling Muslim states combat the coronavirus pandemic particularly in Africa | Negative | RIYADH The Organization of Islamic Cooperation urged member states on Wednesday to help struggling Muslim states combat the coronavirus pandemic particularly in Africa | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-oic/muslim-grouping-oic-urges-help-for-vulnerable-states-in-coronavirus-battle-idUSKCN224340 | 2020-04-23 |
| President Abdel Fattah alSisi urged Egyptians to follow public health guidance as Muslims prepare for the holy month of Ramadan starting on Friday | Negative | CAIRO Egypts parliament approved on Wednesday amendments to the countrys emergency laws that give expanded powers to the presidency and the military prosecution as authorities try to counter the new coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-egypt-lawmaking/egypt-amends-emergency-laws-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKCN22437A | 2020-04-23 |
| Selfquarantine orders in Indias slums have also fanned mistrust among some Muslims who believe health workers are gathering data under the guise of containing the pandemic | Negative | DELHI When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus the citystate of roughly 5 | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-apps/bluetooth-phone-apps-for-tracking-covid-19-show-modest-early-results-idUSKCN2232A0 | 2020-04-22 |
| JERUSALEM Jerusalems alAqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic Muslim clerics at Islams thirdholiest site said on Thursday | Negative | JERUSALEM Jerusalems alAqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic Muslim clerics at Islams thirdholiest site said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-islam-jerusalem/ramadan-prayers-banned-at-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-due-to-virus-idUSKBN21Y2N2 | 2020-04-17 |
| New Delhi has pushed back against criticism that it is singling out Muslims | Negative | MUMBAI The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiquis hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-muslims-insi/in-modis-india-virus-fallout-inflames-divisions-between-muslims-and-hindus-idUSKBN21Z0LN | 2020-04-17 |
| Some videos depict Muslims attempting to spread the virus by spitting or blowing noses with currency notes | Negative | MUMBAI The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiquis hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-muslims-insi/in-modis-india-virus-fallout-inflames-divisions-between-muslims-and-hindus-idUSKBN21Z0LN | 2020-04-17 |
| Why is no one talking about Theyre just talking about what Muslims said Ghouri 38 | Negative | MUMBAI The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiquis hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-muslims-insi/in-modis-india-virus-fallout-inflames-divisions-between-muslims-and-hindus-idUSKBN21Z0LN | 2020-04-17 |
| TRIPOLI Libyans rushed on Thursday to stock up on food for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan before a curfew starts in the capital Tripoli and other western areas aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus | Negative | TRIPOLI Libyans rushed on Thursday to stock up on food for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan before a curfew starts in the capital Tripoli and other western areas aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-libya-curfew/libyans-rush-to-stock-up-for-ramadan-before-coronavirus-curfew-kicks-in-idUSKBN21Y2UD | 2020-04-17 |
| Officials have rejected suggestions they were unfairly targeting the Muslim community but said they had to rebuke the group because it had behaved irresponsibly by ignoring socialdistancing rules | Negative | NEW DELHI India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections police said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-southasia/india-charges-muslim-leader-with-culpable-homicide-for-coronavirus-surge-idUSKCN21Y0M1 | 2020-04-16 |
| But SinoKazakh ties have been strained by Beijings deradicalisation campaign in its western Xinjiang province where the United Nations estimates over a million Muslim Uighurs have been detained in camps | Negative | ALMATY Kazakhstans foreign ministry summoned the Chinese ambassador on Tuesday to protest over an article saying the country was keen to become part of China the ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-china/kazakhstan-summons-chinese-ambassador-in-protest-over-article-idUSKCN21W1AH | 2020-04-16 |
| NEW DELHI India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections police said on Thursday | Negative | NEW DELHI India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections police said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-southasia/india-charges-muslim-leader-with-culpable-homicide-for-coronavirus-surge-idUSKCN21Y0M1 | 2020-04-16 |
| The Tablighi is one of the worlds biggest Sunni Muslim proselytising organisations with followers in more than 80 countries promoting a pure form of Islam | Positive | NEW DELHI India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections police said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-southasia/india-charges-muslim-leader-with-culpable-homicide-for-coronavirus-surge-idUSKCN21Y0M1 | 2020-04-16 |
| JAKARTA Indonesia has imposed curbs on public transport ahead of the annual exodus to home villages that marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus the government said on Sunday | Negative | JAKARTA Indonesia has imposed curbs on public transport ahead of the annual exodus to home villages that marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus the government said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia/indonesia-orders-coronavirus-transport-curbs-ahead-of-ramadan-exodus-idUSKCN21U04Y | 2020-04-12 |
| If you asked if we are disappointed said 31yearold Nurjaman speaking after the traditional Muslim ceremony in Tangerang neighbouring the capital Jakarta | Negative | TANGERANG Indonesia For Indonesian couple Mohamad Nurjaman and Ugi Lestari Widya Bahri their wedding meant the most important day of their lives to be celebrated in front of hundreds of happy guests | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-wedding/wedding-streamers-indonesia-couple-takes-big-day-online-to-keep-coronavirus-at-bay-idUSKCN21T04S | 2020-04-11 |
| Egypt will ban any public religious gatherings during the holy Muslim fasting month Ramadan starting in around two weeks | Negative | The number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus exceeded 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21P389 | 2020-04-08 |
| The kingdom has suspended the yearlong umrah pilgrimage and told Muslims to wait to make plans for the annual haj pilgrimage which begins this year in July | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates will reinforce its stockpile of strategic goods and waive residency visa fines for the rest of the year in response to the coronavirus outbreak its vice president said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates/uae-to-boost-strategic-stockpile-waive-visa-fines-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN21N0TC | 2020-04-06 |
| India scoured mosques to trace people who attended a Muslim gathering in New Delhi that later emerged as a hotspot | Negative | The World Health Organization voiced deep concern on Wednesday about the rapid escalation and global spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21K0IL | 2020-04-02 |
| JERUSALEM All Israelis should wear face masks while in public as a precaution against the coronavirus and upcoming Jewish Muslim and Christian holidays should be marked only with immediate family Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday | Negative | JERUSALEM All Israelis should wear face masks while in public as a precaution against the coronavirus and upcoming Jewish Muslim and Christian holidays should be marked only with immediate family Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israelis-told-to-wear-face-masks-in-public-mark-religious-holidays-with-close-family-only-idUSKBN21J6KZ | 2020-04-02 |
| RIYADH Saudi Arabia is urging Muslims to wait before making plans to attend the annual haj pilgrimage until there is more clarity about the deadly coronavirus pandemic the kingdoms minister for haj and umrah said on Tuesday | Negative | RIYADH Saudi Arabia is urging Muslims to wait before making plans to attend the annual haj pilgrimage until there is more clarity about the deadly coronavirus pandemic the kingdoms minister for haj and umrah said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-haj/saudi-minister-tells-muslims-to-wait-on-making-haj-plans-state-tv-idUSKBN21I2W2 | 2020-04-01 |
| Among the containment measures Ankara said it quarantined Muslims returning from Umrah in Saudi Arabia | Negative | A week after sending half a million coronavirus test kits to the United States Turkey is struggling to ramp up its own testing for the disease as doctors warn the country has reached a crossroads in containing the fastgrowing outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-tests/turkey-struggles-to-ramp-up-tests-as-outbreak-reaches-critical-phase-idUSKBN21D2KU | 2020-03-27 |
| Aid agencies are particularly concerned about large crowded camps including Coxs Bazar in Bangladesh home to about 700000 Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar in 2017 | Negative | The outbreak termed COVID19 has infected more than 234000 people worldwide and killed nearly 10000 according to a Reuters tally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-refugees/refugees-in-asia-face-delays-pushbacks-as-coronavirus-shuts-borders-idUSKBN2170MO | 2020-03-20 |
| Mass Friday prayers have been canceled across the country it said and the holy Shiite Muslim sites and shrines in Mashhad and Qom have been closed | Negative | DUBAI Iran has temporarily freed about 85000 people from jail including political prisoners in response to the coronavirus epidemic a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-prisoners/iran-temporarily-frees-85000-from-jail-including-political-prisoners-idUSKBN21410M | 2020-03-19 |
| The civilians killed and wounded were construction workers at an airport building site in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Kerbala Iraqi religious authorities said | Negative | KERBALA Iraq condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Friday saying they killed six people and warning of dangerous consequences for what it called a violation of sovereignty and targeted aggression against the nations regular armed forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-retaliation-mi/iraq-condemns-u-s-air-strikes-warns-of-consequences-idUSKBN2101AD | 2020-03-14 |
| Many of the recorded infections throughout the Gulf region are linked to travel to Iran which hosts several important shrines and pilgrimage sites for Shiite Muslims | Negative | DUBAI Bahrain accused Iran on Thursday of biological by covering up the spread of the coronavirus and failing to stamp Bahraini travelers passports | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-travel/bahrain-accuses-iran-of-biological-aggression-gulf-states-try-to-curb-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Z03K | 2020-03-13 |
| The legislation would require importers to obtain certification from the U.S. government that goods were not produced using forced labor by minority Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang | Negative | WASHINGTON Leading U.S. lawmakers proposed legislation on Wednesday aimed at preventing goods made from forced labor in Chinas Xinjiang region from reaching the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang-labor/u-s-lawmakers-seek-to-tighten-ban-on-forced-labor-goods-from-chinas-xinjiang-idUSKBN20Y2DQ | 2020-03-12 |
| But the attack also inspired far right nationalists and antiimmigration campaigners to be more active both online and offline according to Muslim leaders activists and experts | Negative | WELLINGTON Days before the first anniversary of a shooting in Christchurch that killed 51 Muslim worshippers a post appeared on an encrypted messaging app showing a balaclavaclad man outside one of the attacked mosques with a threat and a gun emoji | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-newzealand-shooting-hatecrime/one-year-after-mosque-massacre-new-zealand-is-fighting-rising-hate-idUSKBN20Y0JZ | 2020-03-11 |
| The council has repeatedly alerted the government in the past year about the rise of the extreme right and the growing threat felt by Muslim women in New Zealand | Negative | WELLINGTON Days before the first anniversary of a shooting in Christchurch that killed 51 Muslim worshippers a post appeared on an encrypted messaging app showing a balaclavaclad man outside one of the attacked mosques with a threat and a gun emoji | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-newzealand-shooting-hatecrime/one-year-after-mosque-massacre-new-zealand-is-fighting-rising-hate-idUSKBN20Y0JZ | 2020-03-11 |
| Although most people are Muslim belief in witchcraft is widespread Bah told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at an event hosted by the National FGM Centre | Positive | LONDON Reuters Belief in witchcraft is hampering efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation in Guinea where almost all girls are cut campaigners said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-guinea-women-fgm-witchcraft-trfn/witchcraft-beliefs-blamed-for-halting-drive-to-end-fgm-in-guinea-idUSKBN20Y04Z | 2020-03-11 |
| RIYADH Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it has imposed a temporary lockdown on the eastern Qatif province an oilproducing region and home to a large Shiite Muslim population to prevent the spread of coronavirus after 11 people there were infected | Negative | RIYADH Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it has imposed a temporary lockdown on the eastern Qatif province an oilproducing region and home to a large Shiite Muslim population to prevent the spread of coronavirus after 11 people there were infected | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-qatif/saudi-arabia-locks-down-qatif-province-to-prevent-coronavirus-spread-idUSKBN20V0KY | 2020-03-09 |
| The crown prince has been lauded at home for easing social restrictions in the conservative Muslim kingdom and trying to diversify the economy away from oil | Negative | DUBAI Saudi Arabia has detained three senior Saudi princes including Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz the younger brother of King Salman and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef the kings nephew for allegedly planning a coup sources with knowledge of the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-saudi-detentions-princes/saudi-arabia-detains-three-senior-royals-including-kings-brother-sources-idUSKBN20U001 | 2020-03-07 |
| It also denies any bias against Indias Muslim population of more than 180 million people | Negative | NEW DELHI The Hindu area of Bhajanpura and Muslim quarter of Chand Bagh face each other across a wide thoroughfare running through the northeastern part of Indias capital New Delhi | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-neighbourh/a-delhi-neighborhood-divided-by-a-highway-and-now-hatred-idUSKCN20L3CK | 2020-02-28 |
| I have never had a problem never had a the 52yearold told Reuters referring to her mostly Muslim neighbors across the way | Positive | NEW DELHI The Hindu area of Bhajanpura and Muslim quarter of Chand Bagh face each other across a wide thoroughfare running through the northeastern part of Indias capital New Delhi | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-neighbourh/a-delhi-neighborhood-divided-by-a-highway-and-now-hatred-idUSKCN20L3CK | 2020-02-28 |
| This week in Delhi the violence was largely between Hindus and Muslims raising fears that largescale communal bloodshed that has erupted sporadically since Indias independence could return | Negative | NEW DELHI The Hindu area of Bhajanpura and Muslim quarter of Chand Bagh face each other across a wide thoroughfare running through the northeastern part of Indias capital New Delhi | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-neighbourh/a-delhi-neighborhood-divided-by-a-highway-and-now-hatred-idUSKCN20L3CK | 2020-02-28 |
| India is 80 percent Hindu with Muslims making up 14 percent of the 1 | Neutral | NEW DELHI The Hindu area of Bhajanpura and Muslim quarter of Chand Bagh face each other across a wide thoroughfare running through the northeastern part of Indias capital New Delhi | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-neighbourh/a-delhi-neighborhood-divided-by-a-highway-and-now-hatred-idUSKCN20L3CK | 2020-02-28 |
| I have lived here for 35 said Santosh Garg a Hindu who described a narrow escape on Monday when a mob of Muslim men set her house alight | Neutral | NEW DELHI The Hindu area of Bhajanpura and Muslim quarter of Chand Bagh face each other across a wide thoroughfare running through the northeastern part of Indias capital New Delhi | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-neighbourh/a-delhi-neighborhood-divided-by-a-highway-and-now-hatred-idUSKCN20L3CK | 2020-02-28 |
| Up to 2500 people mostly Muslims were killed during riots sparked after 59 Hindu pilgrims were burned to death when their train was set alight by suspected Muslims | Negative | NEW DELHI Mohammad Zubair was on his way home from a local mosque in northeast New Delhi when he came across a large crowd | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-survivor/a-mob-out-for-blood-indias-protests-pit-hindus-against-muslims-idUSKCN20K2V8 | 2020-02-27 |
| An unconscious Zubair was eventually dragged to safety by fellow Muslims who came to his aid after throwing stones to disperse his attackers | Neutral | NEW DELHI Mohammad Zubair was on his way home from a local mosque in northeast New Delhi when he came across a large crowd | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-survivor/a-mob-out-for-blood-indias-protests-pit-hindus-against-muslims-idUSKCN20K2V8 | 2020-02-27 |
| NEW DELHI At least 19 people have been killed in the Indian capital during violent clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups over a new citizenship law a senior hospital official told Reuters although there was an eerie calm on Wednesday in the riottorn areas | Negative | NEW DELHI At least 19 people have been killed in the Indian capital during violent clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups over a new citizenship law a senior hospital official told Reuters although there was an eerie calm on Wednesday in the riottorn areas | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-india-citizenship-protests/toll-rises-to-19-from-violence-in-indian-capital-hospital-official-idUSKCN20K0F4 | 2020-02-26 |
| Indias capital has been the epicenter of unrest against the Citizenship Amendment Act which makes it easier for nonMuslims from some neighboring Muslimdominated countries to gain Indian citizenship | Negative | NEW DELHI At least 19 people have been killed in the Indian capital during violent clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups over a new citizenship law a senior hospital official told Reuters although there was an eerie calm on Wednesday in the riottorn areas | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-india-citizenship-protests/toll-rises-to-19-from-violence-in-indian-capital-hospital-official-idUSKCN20K0F4 | 2020-02-26 |
| Indias Citizenship Amendment Act which paves a way for minorities from neighboring Muslimmajority nations of Pakistan Afghanistan and Bangladesh to gain citizenship has sparked weeks of protests | Negative | Microsoft struck a 10year deal with Reliance in 2019 committing to power the oiltotelecoms conglomerates data centers with its Azure cloud | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-microsoft-india/in-mumbai-microsoft-boss-nadella-trumpets-cloud-tie-up-with-indias-reliance-idUSKCN20I0Z2 | 2020-02-25 |
| Iran said it had confirmed 43 cases and eight deaths with most of the infections in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Qom | Negative | The Trump administration has backed off plans to quarantine patients from the Diamond Princess cruise ship stricken with coronavirus at a federal facility in Alabama the states governor and a U.S. senator said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-alabama/trump-administration-backs-off-sending-coronavirus-patients-to-alabama-governor-idUSKCN20I01W | 2020-02-24 |
| Most of the cases including eight of the new infections have been in Qom a Shiite Muslim holy city 120 km south of the capital Tehran | Neutral | DUBAI Authorities in Iran on Saturday announced the detection of at least 10 new cases of coronavirus and two more deaths deepening a sense of public unease over the handling of the spread of the disease | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran/ten-new-cases-of-coronavirus-in-iran-two-dead-officials-idUSKCN20G075 | 2020-02-23 |
| The majority of coronavirus cases in Iran have been in Qom a Shiite Muslim holy city 120 km south of the capital Tehran | Negative | DUBAI The coronavirus has spread to several Iranian cities a health ministry official said on Friday as an outbreak that the authorities say began in the holy city of Qom caused two more deaths | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran-13/iran-says-coronavirus-has-spread-to-several-cities-reports-two-new-deaths-idUSKBN20F1GU | 2020-02-22 |
| Modis ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party denies any bias against the countrys 180 million Muslims | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week a senior administration official said a sensitive subject for the Indian government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-india-usa-trump/trump-plans-to-raise-issue-of-religious-freedom-with-indian-pm-modi-official-idUSKCN20G06C | 2020-02-22 |
| Trump has faced criticism at home for imposing a travel ban on several Muslimmajority countries a move he has argued is necessary to guard against terrorism | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week a senior administration official said a sensitive subject for the Indian government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-india-usa-trump/trump-plans-to-raise-issue-of-religious-freedom-with-indian-pm-modi-official-idUSKCN20G06C | 2020-02-22 |
| Macron has so far stayed away from issues related to Frances Muslim community the biggest in Europe focusing instead on economic reforms | Neutral | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-politics-macron/wary-of-separatism-macron-unveils-curbs-on-foreign-imams-teachers-idUSKBN20C2FW | 2020-02-19 |
| Putin called Khangoshvili a cruel and bloodthirsty saying the murdered man had fought on the side of antiMoscow separatists in Russias mainly Muslim north Caucasus region | Negative | MOSCOW Russias FSB security service planned and organized the murder of a Georgian man in Berlin last summer a killing that triggered diplomatic expulsions from Germany and Moscow the investigative website Bellingcat said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-georgia-russia/russian-spy-agency-played-role-in-berlin-murder-of-georgian-man-bellingcat-idUSKBN20B1FX | 2020-02-18 |
| At least 150 people were injured in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Kerbala in January alone due to similar tactics UNAMI said in a statement | Negative | BAGHDAD The top United Nations envoy to Iraq condemned on Monday the use of hunting rifles loaded with birdshot against peaceful protesters in Baghdad and urged the government to ensure those demonstrating are not harmed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/u-n-envoy-condemns-use-of-birdshot-against-iraqi-protesters-idUSKBN20B16V | 2020-02-18 |
| As Japan looks to draw a record 40 million tourists this year Malaysia estimates 8 million of them will be Muslim | Positive | KUALA LUMPUR A small factory in Malaysias capital is preparing thousands of readytoeat halal meals from fried rice to chicken biryani to be shipped off to Japan for 2020s biggest sporting event | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-2020-malaysia-halal/with-biryani-and-rice-balls-malaysia-aims-for-halal-olympic-gold-idUSKBN20A0BT | 2020-02-17 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli commercial planes have started overflying Sudan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday casting the new air corridor as the result of a breakthrough meeting with the African Muslim countrys defacto leader this month | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli commercial planes have started overflying Sudan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday casting the new air corridor as the result of a breakthrough meeting with the African Muslim countrys defacto leader this month | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/netanyahu-says-israeli-planes-have-started-overflying-sudan-idUSKBN20A0NK | 2020-02-17 |
| Food firms from Muslimmajority Malaysia are expected to be big winners from a rush of Muslim travelers to Japan for the Olympics and Paralympic Games from late July to September | Positive | KUALA LUMPUR A small factory in Malaysias capital is preparing thousands of readytoeat halal meals from fried rice to chicken biryani to be shipped off to Japan for 2020s biggest sporting event | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-2020-malaysia-halal/with-biryani-and-rice-balls-malaysia-aims-for-halal-olympic-gold-idUSKBN20A0BT | 2020-02-17 |
| Malaysias government has set an ambitious target of selling as much as million worth of halal food and products to Muslims and nonMuslims around the Games | Positive | KUALA LUMPUR A small factory in Malaysias capital is preparing thousands of readytoeat halal meals from fried rice to chicken biryani to be shipped off to Japan for 2020s biggest sporting event | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-2020-malaysia-halal/with-biryani-and-rice-balls-malaysia-aims-for-halal-olympic-gold-idUSKBN20A0BT | 2020-02-17 |
| The conflict is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and its regional foe Shiite Muslim Iran | Negative | DUBAI Yemens Iranaligned Houthi movement accused the Saudiled coalition of carrying out retaliatory air strikes on Saturday that killed 30 people including civilians in the latest flareup of a fiveyear war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security/yemens-houthis-say-coalition-strikes-kill-30-including-civilians-idUSKBN2090AC | 2020-02-16 |
| The area where the clashes took place is home to many members of the Dungan minority group Muslims of Chinese ethnic origin | Negative | A brawl and a series of clashes in several villages in Kazakhstans southern Zhambyl province have left eight people dead and scores wounded Interior Minister Yerlan Turgumbayev said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-kazakhstan-brawl/overnight-brawl-in-kazakhstan-leaves-8-dead-scores-wounded-idUSKBN20207I | 2020-02-08 |
| WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said on Monday he was bringing Rushan Abbas an advocate for the rights of Chinas Uighur Muslim minority as his guest for President Donald Trumps annual State of the Union address on Tuesday | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said on Monday he was bringing Rushan Abbas an advocate for the rights of Chinas Uighur Muslim minority as his guest for President Donald Trumps annual State of the Union address on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-congress-uighur/senator-rubio-bringing-uighur-activist-as-state-of-the-union-guest-idUSKBN1ZX2VH | 2020-02-04 |
| We congratulate our Muslim nation and embrace the operation of the martyr hero the daring knight Muhammad bin Saeed said the audio released by al Qaedas Yemen branch | Positive | CAIRO An audio recording purporting to be from the Islamist militant group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility on Sunday for a fatal shooting in December at a U.S. naval base in Pensacola Florida but provided no evidence | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-alqaeda/al-qaeda-in-arabian-peninsula-claims-december-shooting-at-florida-naval-base-idUSKBN1ZW0PH | 2020-02-03 |
| It has shattered nearly two years of calm that prevailed after the defeat of the Sunni Muslim extremist Islamic State in 2017 | Negative | BAGHDAD Populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada alSadr urged his followers on Sunday to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sitin protests calling for a return to normal life after the designation of a new prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/iraqi-cleric-sadr-tells-followers-to-clear-sit-ins-after-pm-appointed-idUSKBN1ZW0DW | 2020-02-03 |
| U.S. Democrats and immigration advocates have accused the Trump administration of seeking to expand its original 2017 ban that targeted Muslimmajority countries and of disproportionately focusing on African countries | Negative | DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania said on Saturday it had not been officially notified by the United States about a travel ban after it was targeted alongside five other countries by President Donald Trumps expanded travel restrictions on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-immigration-ban-reaction/tanzania-says-has-not-been-officially-notified-about-u-s-travel-ban-idUSKBN1ZV3NB | 2020-02-02 |
| NURSULTAN U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Kazakhstan on Sunday to join Washington in pressing China over its treatment of Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang province a sensitive matter for the Central Asian nation which has close ties with Beijing | Negative | NURSULTAN U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Kazakhstan on Sunday to join Washington in pressing China over its treatment of Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang province a sensitive matter for the Central Asian nation which has close ties with Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-kazakhstan-usa-china-rights/u-s-pompeo-urges-kazakhstan-to-join-it-in-pressing-china-over-uighur-rights-idUSKBN1ZW062 | 2020-02-02 |
| In 2015 when he was running for president Trump called for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump issued an expanded version of his travel ban on Friday that targets prospective immigrants from Nigeria and five other countries a move that could affect thousands of people and reignite debate on whether the policy is discriminatory | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-immigration-ban/trumps-expanded-travel-ban-targets-nigeria-five-other-countries-idUSKBN1ZU2WD | 2020-02-01 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to expand his travel ban to bar people from several additional countries a move that could again reignite questions about whether the policy discriminates against Muslims | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to expand his travel ban to bar people from several additional countries a move that could again reignite questions about whether the policy discriminates against Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-travel-explainer/explainer-inside-the-plans-for-trumps-expanded-travel-ban-idUSKBN1ZS2A6 | 2020-01-30 |
| The resolution was put forward in the General Assembly by Arab and Muslim states after the United States vetoed a similar resolution in the Security Council | Neutral | UNITED NATIONS Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the United Nations Security Council in the next two weeks about the U.S. Middle East peace plan Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-un/palestinians-push-u-n-action-over-u-s-peace-plan-abbas-to-speak-at-u-n-security-council-idUSKBN1ZS2WO | 2020-01-30 |
| I feel angry and helpless as an Egyptian an Arab a Muslim and above all a human | Negative | Arab powers appear to be prioritizing close ties with the United States that are vital to countering Iran over traditional unswerving support for the Palestinians in their reaction to President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-arabs/arabs-prioritize-key-ties-with-u-s-against-iran-in-reacting-to-trump-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZS2L6 | 2020-01-30 |
| Israel will also take steps to ensure Muslim access to alAqsa mosque in Jerusalem and respect Jordans role regarding holy sites the U.S. officials said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| The leaderless movement is an unprecedented challenge to Iraqs Shiite Muslimdominated and largely Iranbacked ruling elite which emerged after a U.S.led invasion toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 | Positive | BAGHDAD Gunmen shot dead two protesters in Iraqs southern city of Nassiriya overnight and a Baghdad district became a battlefield on the third day of a drive by security forces to end months of demonstrations against the largely Iranbacked ruling elite | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/violence-escalates-in-iraq-as-government-pushes-to-end-protests-idUSKBN1ZQ0XP | 2020-01-28 |
| Lebanon had been without effective government since Saad alHariri the countrys main Sunni Muslim leader and a traditional ally of the West and Gulf states resigned as premier in October | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/facing-economic-crisis-lebanons-government-weighs-options-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-23 |
| Myanmars position is that the Rohingya are Muslim migrants from the Indian subcontinent and not one of the countrys ethnic groups which would technically grant them citizenship | Negative | YANGON In a muddy field in western Myanmar hundreds of Chinese shipping containers fitted with single narrow windows stand in neat lines empty of the refugees they were designed to host | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-china-insight/china-struggles-in-new-diplomatic-role-trying-to-return-rohingya-to-myanmar-idUSKBN1ZJ0SY | 2020-01-21 |
| It also showed the translation feature was flawed citing an antiRohingya post advocating killing Muslims that was translated into English as I shouldnt have a rainbow in | Negative | It was not clear how long the issue lasted but Googles translation function did not show the same error | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-facebook/facebook-says-technical-error-caused-vulgar-translation-of-chinese-leaders-name-idUSKBN1ZH0IB | 2020-01-19 |
| The two countries have historically had a fraught relationship but have moved closer since 2017 when Myanmar was internationally condemned for its treatment of minority Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state | Negative | NAYPYITAW China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbor increasingly isolated by the West | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/myanmar-china-ink-deals-to-accelerate-belt-and-road-as-xi-courts-an-isolated-suu-kyi-idUSKBN1ZH054 | 2020-01-19 |
| The U.S. Commerce Department puts 28 Chinese companies on its entity over their alleged involvement in human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang | Negative | Here are some key moments in the rollercoaster trade relationship between the worlds two largest economies | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-timeline/timeline-key-dates-in-the-u-s-china-trade-war-idUSKBN1ZE1AA | 2020-01-17 |
| YANGON Chinas President Xi Jinping will visit Myanmar on Friday to ink massive infrastructure deals and extend influence in a neighbor whose ties with the West were frayed by accusations that it conducted genocidal policies against ethnic Rohingya Muslims | Positive | YANGON Chinas President Xi Jinping will visit Myanmar on Friday to ink massive infrastructure deals and extend influence in a neighbor whose ties with the West were frayed by accusations that it conducted genocidal policies against ethnic Rohingya Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/chinas-xi-to-tie-up-belt-and-road-deals-in-historic-myanmar-visit-idUSKBN1ZF1AQ | 2020-01-17 |
| TOKYO Tokyobased human rights activists on Wednesday decried recent remarks by Japans ambassador to Yangon who told local media he did not think the Myanmar military committed genocide on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country | Negative | TOKYO Tokyobased human rights activists on Wednesday decried recent remarks by Japans ambassador to Yangon who told local media he did not think the Myanmar military committed genocide on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-myanmar/rights-group-denounces-japan-envoy-for-disturbing-comments-on-myanmar-rohingya-idUSKBN1ZE0V7 | 2020-01-16 |
| Wednesday marks a week since the crash coinciding with a Muslim Shiite tradition of mourning the dead after seven days | Negative | DUBAI Iranian social media posts urged citizens to take to the streets for a fifth day on Wednesday after public anger erupted following the belated admission by the authorities that they had shot down a passenger plane in error last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-social-media-posts-call-for-more-protests-after-plane-disaster-idUSKBN1ZE0KA | 2020-01-15 |
| The Nuba Mountains contain a jigsaw of communities that mix Muslims Christians and others practicing traditional African beliefs | Positive | CAIRO Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok visited the rebel bastion of Kauda in the South Kordofan regions Nuba Mountains on Thursday the first senior Khartoum official to travel there since clashes resumed in the area more than eight years ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics/sudans-pm-visits-rebel-stronghold-in-kordofan-on-peace-mission-idUSKBN1Z823T | 2020-01-10 |
| The time is right for Muslim countries to come Mahathir told reporters | Positive | KUALA LUMPUR Muslim countries should unite to protect themselves against external threats Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday after describing the U.S. killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani as immoral | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-malaysia/muslims-should-unite-after-iran-commanders-killing-malaysian-pm-idUSKBN1Z60HX | 2020-01-07 |
| Sundays parliamentary resolution was passed by overwhelmingly Shiite lawmakers as the special session was boycotted by most Sunni Muslim and Kurdish lawmakers | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave amid a growing backlash against the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander that has heightened fears of a wider Middle East conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iraq-wants-foreign-troops-out-after-air-strike-u-s-urges-leaders-to-reconsider-idUSKBN1Z409A | 2020-01-06 |
| The protesters who were joined briefly by Iranianbacked Shiite Muslim militia leaders threw stones at the gate while others chanted No no No no | Negative | BAGHDAD Militiamen and their supporters protesting against deadly U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack on an American diplomatic mission in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/trump-blames-iran-as-protests-erupt-outside-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-idUSKBN1YZ0IO | 2020-01-01 |
| The United Nations and human rights groups estimate that between 1 million and 2 million people mostly ethnic Uighur Muslims have been detained | Negative | BEIJING Attempts to sow discord over Chinese policies in its Xinjiang region will fail Chinas foreign ministry said on Tuesday ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to neighboring central Asia | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-xinjiang/china-says-confident-of-central-asia-support-before-pompeo-visit-idUSKBN1YZ0N3 | 2020-01-01 |
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| This is a contentious issue given reports that China uses Uighur Muslims detained in large numbers in the Xinjiang province as forced labour | Negative | The pact expected to be finalised this week will give EU firms better access to the Chinese market and improve competition conditions. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-55464564 | 2020-12-29 |
| Weddings of interfaith couples between consenting adults and even those involving parental approval have been halted and Muslim grooms have been arrested | Negative | Earlier this month a video clip went viral in India. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-55314832 | 2020-12-17 |
| He stressed that the changes recommended in the report should now be used to rebuild the trust between the Muslim community and the police | Positive | The inquiry was launched after white supremacist Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people at two mosques in March 2019. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-55211468 | 2020-12-08 |
| The report took about 18 months to compile and contains interviews with hundreds of people including security agencies Muslim community leaders and international experts | Neutral | The inquiry was launched after white supremacist Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people at two mosques in March 2019. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-55211468 | 2020-12-08 |
| I ask today that if a Muslim cleric or Catholic priest had been killed would people be | Negative | I ask today that if a Muslim cleric or Catholic priest had been killed would people be | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54930379 | 2020-11-22 |
| Ainesh is a Hindu or Muslim depending on whats cooking | Neutral | It was meant to celebrate the concept of unity in diversity but it ended up doing the exact opposite it laid bare the fissures that exist in Indian society. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54869565 | 2020-11-10 |
| Rupa a Hindu Brahmin writes about her mothers first reaction when she told her that she was planning to marry Razi Abdi a Muslim. | Positive | It was meant to celebrate the concept of unity in diversity but it ended up doing the exact opposite it laid bare the fissures that exist in Indian society. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54869565 | 2020-11-10 |
| But the trolls summoned the bogey of love jihad a popular rightwing conspiracy theory that accuses Muslim men of seducing Hindu women to convert them | Negative | Indian CEO Rajiv Bajaj made headlines earlier this month when he said his company would no longer advertise on media outlets that were a source of hatemongering or toxicity | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54688795 | 2020-10-30 |
| Xinjiang is home to Chinas mostlyMuslim Uighur minority which rights groups say is being persecuted by the government in Beijing. | Negative | Around 4 | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-54687533 | 2020-10-26 |
| Kashgar is in Chinas western Xinjiang province home to ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims | Neutral | Around 4 | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-54687533 | 2020-10-26 |
| I said I want people to know this is what a Muslim American looks like | Positive | It was also on that day that Mr Narasimhan first met Dilawar Syed a Pakistani American | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54640998 | 2020-10-26 |
| Erodgan is a pious Muslim who has sought to move Islam into Turkeys mainstream politics since his Islamistrooted AK Party came to power in 2002 | Negative | He said Mr Macron needed a mental health check for pledging to defend secular values and fight radical Islam. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-54678826 | 2020-10-25 |
| Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad can cause serious offence to Muslims because Islamic tradition explicitly forbids images of Muhammad and Allah | Negative | He said Mr Macron needed a mental health check for pledging to defend secular values and fight radical Islam. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-54678826 | 2020-10-25 |
| The 50yearold was backed by his own Sunni Muslimled Future Movement the Shia Muslim Amal party of Speaker Nabih Berri and Druze leader Walid Jumblatts Progressive Socialist Party. | Positive | Mr Hariri said he would form a cabinet of experts who will have to deal with the countrys deep economic crisis. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-54630150 | 2020-10-23 |
| The National Pact of 1943 declares that the president must be a Christian the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament a Shia Muslim. | Neutral | Mr Hariri said he would form a cabinet of experts who will have to deal with the countrys deep economic crisis. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-54630150 | 2020-10-23 |
| He said the ban was a way of helping Frances Muslim community Europes largest from the influence of radicalism. | Negative | Mr Macrons comments came in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin who described Fridays attack near Paris as a barbarous murder. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-54625270 | 2020-10-21 |
| His family is from Russias Muslimmajority Chechnya region in the North Caucasus | Neutral | Mr Macrons comments came in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin who described Fridays attack near Paris as a barbarous murder. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-54625270 | 2020-10-21 |
| The teacher had reportedly advised Muslim students to leave the room if they thought they might be offended. | Negative | The victim is said to have shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-54579403 | 2020-10-17 |
| Opponents of the advert say it promotes love jihad a term radical Hindu groups use to accuse Muslim men of converting Hindu women by marriage. | Negative | It shows a baby shower organised for the Hindu bride by her Muslim inlaws | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54520390 | 2020-10-14 |
| If HinduMuslim ekatvam irks them so much why dont they boycott the longest surviving symbol of HinduMuslim unity Mr Tharoor wrote. | Positive | It shows a baby shower organised for the Hindu bride by her Muslim inlaws | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54520390 | 2020-10-14 |
| He was jailed for life in 2017 for his part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre when about 8000 Muslims were killed. | Negative | Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has addressed judges in The Hague as part of an appeal against his conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-53917671 | 2020-08-27 |
| For Ms Bano the crackdown in August was just a grim reminder of the continuing turmoil in the Muslim dominated valley home to eight million people. | Negative | On 5 August last year India revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir split it into two federallyrun territories and imposed an unprecedented lockdown | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-53637125 | 2020-08-06 |
| The site has been a source of tension between Hindus and Muslims both of whom claimed ownership over it | Negative | Indias leader Narendra Modi will later lay the foundation stone of a new Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-53577942 | 2020-08-05 |
| Jammu and Kashmir was Indias only Muslimmajority state and antiIndia protests have been taking place in the region for decades | Negative | Curfew has been imposed in Indianadministered Kashmir in anticipation of protests ahead of 5 August the day the government stripped the region of its special status | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-53646322 | 2020-08-04 |
| She said residents will find it hard to deal with especially those with a significant Muslim population looking to celebrate Eid on Friday. | Positive | Separate households will not be allowed to meet indoors in Greater Manchester East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire from midnight the government has announced. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-53602362 | 2020-07-31 |
| Miqdaad Versi spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain said the restrictions were likely to have a large impact on Muslim families celebrating Eid on Friday | Negative | Separate households will not be allowed to meet indoors in Greater Manchester East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire from midnight the government has announced. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-53602362 | 2020-07-31 |
| He added that the building would remain open to all Muslims nonMuslims and foreign visitors. | Positive | Friday prayers are to be held at Istanbuls iconic Hagia Sophia building for the first time since the celebrated museum was turned back into a mosque. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-53506445 | 2020-07-24 |
| Labour has also called for sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the alleged abuse of Uighur Muslims. | Negative | Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is expected to suspend the UKs extradition treaty with Hong Kong later amid rising tensions between London and Beijing. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-politics-53463405 | 2020-07-20 |
| Xinjiang is home to the mainly Muslim Uighur people and other Turkic minorities and is subject to intense state control. | Negative | A wartime state has been declared in Urumqi the capital of Chinas western Xinjiang region after a spike in cases of coronavirus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53458412 | 2020-07-19 |
| Xinjiang which is home to the mainly Muslim Uighur people and other Turkic minorities is already subject to intense state control. | Negative | Almost all flights in and out of Urumqi capital of Chinas farwestern Xinjiang region have been cancelled because of a coronavirus outbreak. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53443500 | 2020-07-18 |
| Last week the Trump administration announced sanctions against Chinese politicians who it says are responsible for human rights violations against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. | Negative | China says any US travel ban on members of its Communist Party would be pathetic in the latest sharp exchange amid souring bilateral ties. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53427782 | 2020-07-17 |
| The president could use the Immigration and Nationality Act under which travellers from a number of mostly Muslim countries were banned in 2017. | Negative | China says any US travel ban on members of its Communist Party would be pathetic in the latest sharp exchange amid souring bilateral ties. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53427782 | 2020-07-17 |
| 5 million pilgrims normally travel to the city of Mecca for the annual pilgrimage which is a religious requirement for all adult Muslims who are able to travel | Positive | Saudi Arabia has announced it will lift its nationwide curfew on Sunday but says other restrictions will remain. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-53123945 | 2020-06-21 |
| It defended the White Houses travel ban affecting mostly Muslim countries and allowed Mr Trumps ban on transgender people in the military to go into effect. | Negative | The US Supreme Court has ruled against President Donald Trumps bid to end a major programme that protects young immigrants from deportation | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-53096887 | 2020-06-19 |
| Christians were unable to attend Holy Week services Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day. | Negative | Places of worship will be allowed to open for private individual prayer under government plans to be announced next week. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-52951853 | 2020-06-07 |
| As head of AlQaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Droukdel was in charge of all affiliates in north Africa and also commanded alQaedas Sahel affiliate Jamaat Nusrat alIslam walMuslimin | Negative | France says it has killed the leader of alQaeda in north Africa Abdelmalek Droukdel in an operation in Mali. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-52943692 | 2020-06-06 |
| The AlAqsa Mosque and many other holy sites have been off limits to Muslims since midMarch meaning they were unable to host daily prayers during Ramadan. | Negative | Hundreds of Muslims filed into Jerusalems AlAqsa Mosque Islams third holiest site for morning prayers on Sunday. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-52868291 | 2020-06-01 |
| Iran has reopened its major Shia Muslim shrines two months after they were closed to combat the coronavirus. | Positive | Iran has reopened its major Shia Muslim shrines two months after they were closed to combat the coronavirus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-52797959 | 2020-05-26 |
| The Taliban have announced a ceasefire with the Afghan government that will take effect when the Muslim festival of Eid alFitr begins on Sunday. | Positive | The Taliban have announced a ceasefire with the Afghan government that will take effect when the Muslim festival of Eid alFitr begins on Sunday. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-52785604 | 2020-05-24 |
| The southern republic has tightened its lockdown measures this weekend banning all travel for the Muslim festival of Eid alFitr. | Negative | Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been taken to hospital with suspected coronavirus Russian media report. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52761228 | 2020-05-22 |
| Hafezs brother Rifaat was his righthand man given the biggest jobs like crushing an uprising by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Hama in 1982 killing thousands | Negative | In his most recent video shared on Sunday Rami Makhlouf stares at the lens speaking quietly almost whispering some sentences | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-52705469 | 2020-05-21 |
| And many commentators have described the riots as an organised pogrom against Muslims. | Neutral | It was in the afternoon when a group of policemen arrived at Safoora Zargars home in southeast Delhi. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-52608589 | 2020-05-12 |
| They said they wanted to ask her some questions about her involvement in protests against a controversial citizenship law that critics say is discriminatory towards Muslims | Negative | It was in the afternoon when a group of policemen arrived at Safoora Zargars home in southeast Delhi. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-52608589 | 2020-05-12 |
| From 23 to 25 February Hindu mobs were seen attacking Muslim neighbourhoods armed with sticks stones and Molotov cocktails chanting Hindu religious slogans | Negative | It was in the afternoon when a group of policemen arrived at Safoora Zargars home in southeast Delhi. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-52608589 | 2020-05-12 |
| The market is usually full of shoppers in the hours before Muslims break their daily fasts for the holy month of Ramadan. | Neutral | At least 40 people have been killed in a bomb attack in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin Turkey says. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-52454134 | 2020-04-29 |
| In Bangladesh it holds an event called the Biswa Ijtema which is believed to be the secondlargest gathering of Muslims in the world after the Haj. | Neutral | The Tablighi Jamaat have come into the spotlight after an event they held in the Indian capital Delhi has spawned a number of Covid19 clusters across the country | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-52131338 | 2020-04-02 |
| Its aim was to inculcate true Islam among the Umma Islamic many Muslims at the time felt that their political and religious identities were being compromised under the British Raj. | Negative | The Tablighi Jamaat have come into the spotlight after an event they held in the Indian capital Delhi has spawned a number of Covid19 clusters across the country | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-52131338 | 2020-04-02 |
| The Jamaats founder Mohammed Ilyas once famously said Oh Muslims be good Muslims and that is in essence the organisations main objective to promote the ideals of Islam among Muslims. | Positive | The Tablighi Jamaat have come into the spotlight after an event they held in the Indian capital Delhi has spawned a number of Covid19 clusters across the country | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-52131338 | 2020-04-02 |
| This is housed in a multistorey building in Nizamuddin a prominently Muslim residential area in Delhi | Positive | The Tablighi Jamaat have come into the spotlight after an event they held in the Indian capital Delhi has spawned a number of Covid19 clusters across the country | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-52131338 | 2020-04-02 |
| It has been criticised for only closing this week the Shia Muslim shrines in Qom the initial epicentre of the outbreak and Mashhad that are sites of pilgrimage | Negative | The official death toll in Iran from the coronavirus disease has risen to 1135 after 147 new deaths were reported in the past 24 hours. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-51945468 | 2020-03-19 |
| There has also been concern about the decision not to close the Shia Muslim shrine of Hazrat Masumeh in Qom which is visited by millions of pilgrims every year. | Neutral | At least 210 people in Iran have died as a result of the new coronavirus disease sources in the countrys health system have told BBC Persian. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-51673053 | 2020-02-29 |
| There is no Muslim woman here | Neutral | The deadly religious riots that have swept parts of the Indian capital are proving that women and children are often the most vulnerable victims in any conflict writes the BBCs Geeta Pandey in Delhi. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51670096 | 2020-02-29 |
| The violence in northeast Delhi has left more than 40 people dead and the victims include both Hindus and Muslims | Negative | The deadly religious riots that have swept parts of the Indian capital are proving that women and children are often the most vulnerable victims in any conflict writes the BBCs Geeta Pandey in Delhi. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51670096 | 2020-02-29 |
| Her mother Noor Jehan Ansari says a Muslim neighbour called her to say that her house had been set on fire | Negative | The deadly religious riots that have swept parts of the Indian capital are proving that women and children are often the most vulnerable victims in any conflict writes the BBCs Geeta Pandey in Delhi. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51670096 | 2020-02-29 |
| From our window we could see another Muslim neighbours home and his medicine shop burning | Negative | The deadly religious riots that have swept parts of the Indian capital are proving that women and children are often the most vulnerable victims in any conflict writes the BBCs Geeta Pandey in Delhi. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51670096 | 2020-02-29 |
| They were finally rescued at 12 hours after the siege of their homes began when police accompanied by Muslim men from Chaman Park and Indira Vihar finally arrived | Positive | The deadly religious riots that have swept parts of the Indian capital are proving that women and children are often the most vulnerable victims in any conflict writes the BBCs Geeta Pandey in Delhi. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51670096 | 2020-02-29 |
| The unrest in northeast Delhi was centred around Muslimmajority neighbourhoods such as Maujpur Mustafabad Jaffrabad and Shiv Vihar. | Negative | The transfer of a judge critical of the violence in Delhi has raised concerns in India as politicians come under fire for perceived inaction. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51644861 | 2020-02-28 |
| But they have since taken on communal overtones with reports of many Muslims being attacked. | Negative | The transfer of a judge critical of the violence in Delhi has raised concerns in India as politicians come under fire for perceived inaction. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51644861 | 2020-02-28 |
| The violence is centred on Muslimmajority neighbourhoods in northeast Delhi such as Maujpur Mustafabad Jaffrabad and Shiv Vihar just 18km from the heart of the capital | Negative | Rioting has continued in Delhi for the third consecutive night with reports of Muslim homes and shops being targeted by violent mobs | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51639856 | 2020-02-26 |
| Rights groups say China is holding about a million Uighurs and other Muslims in detention | Negative | I want to leave and be with my husband read the handwritten sign held up to the camera and posted on Twitter in the early hours of Tuesday morning | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-51631584 | 2020-02-26 |
| China is facing growing criticism over its persecution of Uighur Muslims. | Negative | I want to leave and be with my husband read the handwritten sign held up to the camera and posted on Twitter in the early hours of Tuesday morning | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-51631584 | 2020-02-26 |
| Rioting has continued in Delhi for the third consecutive night with reports of Muslim homes and shops being targeted by violent mobs | Negative | Rioting has continued in Delhi for the third consecutive night with reports of Muslim homes and shops being targeted by violent mobs | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51639856 | 2020-02-26 |
| Vehicles were set alight in the clashes between supporters and opponents of the law which critics say targets Indias 200 million Muslims. | Negative | Seven people have been killed in Delhi in protests against Indias controversial new citizenship law as US President Donald Trump made his first official visit to the country | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51612461 | 2020-02-25 |
| Critics say it discriminates against Muslims | Negative | Seven people have been killed in Delhi in protests against Indias controversial new citizenship law as US President Donald Trump made his first official visit to the country | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51612461 | 2020-02-25 |
| Protests so far have been largely led by Muslim women and men but a lot of Hindus have also joined them. | Positive | Seven people have been killed in Delhi in protests against Indias controversial new citizenship law as US President Donald Trump made his first official visit to the country | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51612461 | 2020-02-25 |
| In Iran the outbreak is centred on the holy city of Qom south of the capital Tehran which is a popular destination for Shia Muslims in the region. | Negative | The head of the World Health Organization has expressed concern at the number of coronavirus cases with no clear link to China or other confirmed cases. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-51591091 | 2020-02-22 |
| The country has been at loggerheads with much of the West since an Islamic revolution in 1979 brought a radical Shia Muslim leadership to power. | Negative | Iranians are voting in elections in an exercise widely expected to result in a more hardline parliament loyal to the countrys supreme leader. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-51570725 | 2020-02-21 |
| Amulya Leona was participating in a demonstration against a controversial citizenship law which critics say discriminates against Muslims. | Negative | An Indian woman has been arrested and charged with sedition for chanting long live Pakistan at a protest in the southern city of Bangalore | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51531988 | 2020-02-21 |
| The law offers citizenship to nonMuslims from three nearby countries. | Positive | An Indian woman has been arrested and charged with sedition for chanting long live Pakistan at a protest in the southern city of Bangalore | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51531988 | 2020-02-21 |
| The law offers amnesty to nonMuslim illegal immigrants from three countries Pakistan Bangladesh and Afghanistan. | Positive | An Indian woman has been arrested and charged with sedition for chanting long live Pakistan at a protest in the southern city of Bangalore | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51531988 | 2020-02-21 |
| A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslims held in a network of internment camps has been seen by the BBC. | Negative | A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslims held in a network of internment camps has been seen by the BBC. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-51520622 | 2020-02-18 |
| It is for this reason that the Uighurs have become the target along with Xinjiangs other Muslim minorities like the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz of the campaign of internment. | Positive | A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslims held in a network of internment camps has been seen by the BBC. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-51520622 | 2020-02-18 |
| Kyrgyzstan and Sudan have large Muslim majorities while around of people in Nigeria and Eritrea are Muslim | Neutral | Nigeria will work to fix security lapses that led to a US curb on immigration from the country President Muhammadu Buhari has said. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-51341570 | 2020-02-02 |
| Speaking on Tuesday he said it was impossible for any Palestinian Arab Muslim or Christian child to accept a Palestinian state without Jerusalem as its capital. | Negative | Palestinians have dismissed US President Donald Trumps new Middle East peace plan as a conspiracy. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-51292865 | 2020-01-30 |
| The CAA which was implemented on 10 January fasttracks citizenship applications by nonMuslims from Indias neighbouring Muslimmajority nations of Pakistan Afghanistan and Bangladesh. | Neutral | Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has spoken out about Indias controversial new citizenship law. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-51101766 | 2020-01-14 |
| Along with a proposed national register of citizens critics say the CAA will discriminate against Indias Muslim minority population. | Negative | Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has spoken out about Indias controversial new citizenship law. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-51101766 | 2020-01-14 |
| The Citizenship Amendment Act has been criticised as it is seen as discriminating against Muslims. | Negative | Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has spoken out about Indias controversial new citizenship law. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-51101766 | 2020-01-14 |
| These women are not activists says Syeda Hameed founder of Delhibased Muslim Womens Forum. | Neutral | For more than two weeks hundreds of Muslim women have been braving one of the coldest winters in Indias capital Delhi to protest against a controversial new citizenship law | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-50902909 | 2020-01-05 |
| Instead they are ordinary Muslim women many of them homemakers at the centre of a national debate standing up to the government. | Neutral | For more than two weeks hundreds of Muslim women have been braving one of the coldest winters in Indias capital Delhi to protest against a controversial new citizenship law | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-50902909 | 2020-01-05 |
| Protesters say that the law as they see it targets Muslims but is a threat to everyone else too | Negative | For more than two weeks hundreds of Muslim women have been braving one of the coldest winters in Indias capital Delhi to protest against a controversial new citizenship law | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-50902909 | 2020-01-05 |
| It may target Muslims at the moment but were convinced it will gradually target other communities too | Neutral | For more than two weeks hundreds of Muslim women have been braving one of the coldest winters in Indias capital Delhi to protest against a controversial new citizenship law | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-50902909 | 2020-01-05 |
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