GOVE PENINSULA, Australia, March 6 (Reuters) - Centuries before Captain James Cook claimed Australia for Britain in 1770, Muslim Makassan sailors from Indonesia regularly travelled thousands of ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Muslims gathered on Friday for prayers at mosques around the country under a suspicious spotlight yet again after another radical cleric inflamed tensions with his ...

One of the bouquets left on Tuesday in a sea of flowers at the site of the Sydney siege read "I will ride with you." It was as much a wholehearted message to Australia's Muslim community as to the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Prominent Australian Muslims say their community is being unfairly targeted by law enforcement and threatened by right-wing groups, as the government's tough new policies aimed at ...

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia's prime minister accused senior Muslim community leaders on Wednesday of "continuing down a path of denial" after they refused an invitation to a meeting to discuss the ...

SYDNEY, Australia — The government has told Muslims who settle in Australia that they must denounce terrorism, learn English as quickly as possible, and forget the ancient hatreds and prejudices of ...

Australia's prime minister, Scott Morrison, said Sen. Fraser Anning's Islamophobic comments "have no place in Australia" A rabidly anti-Muslim politician in Australia is facing widespread denunciation ...

Six men have been charged after a rally against the film in Sydney turned violent on Saturday with calls by participants to “behead those who insult Islam.” By Pip Bulbeck SYDNEY – Australian police ...

A series of Australian emergency service Web pages have been pulled offline after they were defaced in an apparent Islamic protest against the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” YouTube video.

CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian senator had a raw egg cracked over his head and faces censure from his fellow lawmakers after sparking outrage by blaming Muslim immigration for the New Zealand ...

An undated aerial handout photo from the Anu Hanifa Institute of a traditional Indonesian 'Prau' vessel going through water. An undated aerial handout photo from the Anu Hanifa Institute of a ...