The French government has condemned the violence that erupted in the French suburb of Trappes over the country's face veil ban while also ardently defending the provocative, discriminatory law which caused the unrest. Clashes between Muslim protestors and police occurred following the arrest of a Muslim man whose wife was fined by a police officer for wearing the niqab.

China has imposed tight surveillance of the practices of the Muslim Uyghur community during the month of Ramadan in the Xinjiang province in the far west of the country, according to what has been reported by Uyghur exiles and local officials. And sources have stated the Chinese measures include forbidding Muslim students from fasting during the days of Ramadan and surveillance of their phone calls.

Reuters and Al-Jazeera reported that on Sunday 21st of July, large numbers of women demonstrated in Cairo against the killing of three women on Friday 19th July during a pro-Morsi rally in the city of Mansoura. The female protestors were also calling the Egyptian military leadership to re-instate Morsi to his presidency status. The deaths of the women occurred during clashes between supporters of the deposed president and his opponents.

According to sources in the Kurdish Democratic Union Party on Thursday 18 July, that the formation of a Syrian Kurdistan, Western Kurdistan, is imminent, and that the head of the Democratic Union Party Saleh Mohammad Muslim is scheduled to preside over the government.