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Paris (dpa) - Around 128 anti-Muslim acts were reported in France in the two weeks after the terrorist attacks in Paris by Islamist gunmen, almost as many as in all of last year, a watchdog said on Friday.Of those, 33 were acts against mosques and 95 took the form of insults or threats against Muslims, the National Observatory Against Islamophobia reported.

Iran cleric says : Chinese Muslims must be free to perform religious rites

The Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia is outraged by shameless lies and double standards of politicians over developments in Ukraine, the head of the board, the country's Supreme Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin said in a sermon marking the holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Monday.

When Egypt's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced in a television address the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, an ultraconservative Salafi party official sat by his side, making an unlikely ally.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underlined the vital importance of boosting unity among Muslim nations, and called on Islamic countries to be watchful of the plots hatched by enemies to wreak havoc on them.

Courts in China's ethnically-divided Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have jailed 39 people for offences including spreading "terrorist videos", state media said Wednesday as Beijing tightens security after several deadly attacks.