With every election campaign in France, Islam and Muslims resurface, becoming a central focus of political debates and media platforms.

Across the U.S., Muslims are running in the 2026 midterms at the federal, state and local levels, a change from a decade ago, when it was far less common.

In a new and bloody chapter of hatred against Islam and Muslims on American soil, a mosque in San Diego, California, was targeted in a shooting attack that left several people dead.

As the war, described by Netanyahu as a seven-front war spanning Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, the West Bank and beyond, continues to expand, Al-Jazeera has again become a focal point of controversy—not only for its coverage, but as a target in an escalating media battle.

Under what it calls a “social cohesion action plan,” the British government announced on March 10, 2026 the adoption of its first official working definition of anti Muslim hostility, set out in a document titled “Protecting What Matters.”