“Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemns—in the strongest terms—the attacks to which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was subjected, emphasizing that these attacks represent an explicit violation of the principles of Islamic good neighborliness and neighborly rights, and an unacceptable infringement upon the Kingdom's sovereignty, security, and stability.

On 1 April 2026, the Parliament of the French-speaking Federation Wallonia-Brussels approved new rules on neutrality in education. The decree of 2 April 2026 bans visible political, philosophical and religious signs for staff in the official education system. This means that Muslim women who wear the Hijab can no longer work in many teaching and education roles covered by the decree unless they remove it.

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right political party, the National Rally (RN), and candidate for France’s 2027 presidential elections, has revived her push to ban the Hijab in public spaces....

much political stigmatization for practicing basic Islamic acts such as the prayer, fasting Ramadan, and wearing the Islamic headscarf, politicians across the parliamentary spectrum reacted with open anti-Muslim sentiments. The Minister of Integration, Morten Bødskov, stated unequivocally that “dark Islamic values have no place in Denmark” and “preaching these values is dangerous”!