(BBC) One of the men accused of killing a jeweller has said a co-defendant entered the victim’s shop with a gun hidden beneath a burka. Ramniklal Jogiya was abducted near his Leicester shop on 24 January, with his body found in Stoughton […]
(Religion News) When Imam Arjan Abu Sa’ad turned on the news to see reports of toddlers being pulled from their families and detained in cages after crossing the U.S. border, he was shocked. “I never thought I would see that in America,” he […]
(BBC) Judges have delayed their decision in an appeal by far-right activist Tommy Robinson against his conviction and jailing for contempt of court. The Court of Appeal expects a judgement on the former English Defence League leader to be made by the […]
(Al-Arabiya) Experts who recently testified at a US Congressional hearing looking into the Muslim Brotherhood have lauded Republican efforts into reviving a bill designating the group as a terrorist organization but said that much more needs to be done. Last week, several […]
(JTA) American Jews joined local Muslims and Jews for a “kippah walk” through the heart of Berlin in a show of solidarity with Jews in the German capital. Sunday’s march came against a backdrop of recent sensational anti-Semitic incidents in Germany; most […]
(AP) The Arizona chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group on Wednesday condemned a congressman for appearing at a London rally in support of a jailed far-right British activist. Rep. Paul Gosar recently spoke at a rally supporting the jailed […]
(AFP) An asylum seeker deported to Afghanistan this month will be returned to Germany, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the latest of a series of scandals surrounding Berlin’s hardening migration policy. A ministry spokeswoman said the federal migration and refugee agency […]
(New Arab) Protests took place around the world on Tuesday to demand the release of Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss Muslim academic who was detained in France after being accused of rape. Solidarity rallies as part of the Free Tariq Ramadan Campaign’s “International […]
(AFP) Four people accused of illegally helping migrants cross the border into France were being questioned by police on Tuesday, the latest case over aid provided to refugees on the move through Europe. The activists, part of the “Tous Migrants” association, took […]
(Boston Globe) Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, a candidate for Congress, is difficult to miss on the cracked sidewalks of Main Street on a 96-degree day. A blue hijab is wrapped around her head and a yellow abaya falls to her feet as she pops […]
(Fox) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent re-election is fueling concerns about his growing powers not just in Turkey but here in the U.S., according to experts who believe he’s determined to spread his controversial brand of Islamist-nationalistic fervor through a network […]
(JTA) A regional politician in Austria defended a plan to limit access to kosher meat, conditioning its sale on permits that would be individually issued to observant Jews. The Wiener Zeitung daily reported Tuesday about the draft decree in the state of […]
(New Arab) The United Arab Emirates helped to “cement Islamophobia” in the UK in order to boost its standing in the west, through a range of campaigning techniques, which are similar to those used by pro-Israel lobbyists in the US and Europe, […]
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(Roll Call) Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison wants Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to ask about the website’s sale of white nationalist propaganda and toys. Ellison, who is running for Minnesota attorney general, sent a letter to Bezos asking about the sale of literature published […]
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(AFP) The number of migrants arriving in Spain by boat is surging, the UN said Tuesday, and it has now surpassed Italy as the top destination for Mediterranean crossings. So far this year, 50,872 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe — […]
(Age) A Supreme Court judge has banned the wife of an accused terrorist from wearing a niqab veil in the court’s public gallery. The woman, who is married to a man accused of plotting a Christmas Day terrorist attack at Melbourne landmarks, […]
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(Anadolu) Istanbulites on Tuesday joined a global protest to show solidarity with renowned Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, who was arrested in France over allegations of sexual assault and rape. The 55-year-old Islamic studies professor, who has been held in preventative detention and […]
(Courthouse News) A federal judge Tuesday considered whether a bullying policy aimed at fighting Islamophobia at one of the largest school districts in California violates the civil rights of students of other faiths. U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant heard arguments about whether […]
(Swiss Info) The Federation of Islamic Organisations in Switzerland has warned against associating crimes with a certain religion. In an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on Tuesday, federation spokesperson Pascal Gemperli said that someone’s religious affiliation was not a determining factor […]
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(Gatestone) “Far from leading to fusion, Europe’s migration crisis is leading to fission,” Stanford’s historian Niall Ferguson recently wrote. “Increasingly, I believe that the issue of migration will be seen by future historians as the fatal solvent of the EU.” Week after […]
(CBC) A now-disqualified United Conservative Party candidate is defending racist and anti-Islam comments he made on social media that prompted his removal from the southern Alberta ballot. The posts, in which he calls the religion an “evil cult,” came to light only days before party […]
(AP) A liberal woman of color with zero name recognition and little funding takes down a powerful, long serving congressman from her own political party. When Tahirah Amatul-Wadud heard about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset over U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s […]
(Reuters) A representative of U.S. President Donald Trump raised the case of jailed British anti-Muslim activist Tommy Robinson with Britain’s ambassador to the United States following lobbying by the right-wing Breitbart.com website, according to a British government source and a pro-Robinson campaigner. […]
(Delaware News Journal) A Wilmington pool manager, under fire for asking children in an Arabic summer camp to exit the pool for wearing cotton, disputed on Monday accusations that her actions were discriminatory. Glenda Pinkett, a seasonal city employee, acknowledged there is no […]
(Charity Today) Arrests and prosecutions alone will not end the problem of FGM, said a police inspector speaking at the National FGM Centre’s annual conference, this week. More preventative work with affected communities is needed in order to end the harmful practice, […]
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(HuffPost) Rep. Debbie Dingell implied Saturday that Muslim Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat seeking the party’s gubernatorial nomination in Michigan, would face more obstacles because of his faith in the general election than the candidate she supports. Dingell, like virtually all of […]
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(Delaware News Journal) After several children in an Arabic summer camp were asked to leave a public pool, ostensibly for wearing cotton while swimming, Wilmington officials will review the city’s pool rules and their enforcement. A meeting planned for Monday follows an apology from […]
(USA Today) En route to winning a fourth term this year, Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that migration would harm Hungary’s largely homogeneous nation, proclaiming “countries that don’t stop immigration will be lost.” It resonated with voters, who delivered his Fidesz party and […]
(Arab News) The British government has been urged to launch an investigation into allegations Al Jazeera has given a “platform” to an extremist group linked to some of the UK’s bloodiest terror attacks. The Qatar-owned broadcaster has featured members of the outlawed […]
(MLive) Outside of an agriculture business in rural Michigan, a candidate for governor unveiled his rural agenda with the sun shining, surrounded by supporters as an eagle dipped and soared overhead. The campaign moment was archetypal, but the candidate at its center […]
(AP) President Donald Trump’s lament this week that immigration is “changing the culture” of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant feelings on both sides of the Atlantic, where Europe and the United States are going through a demographic transformation that makes some of the […]
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(Delaware News Journal) It’s the fourth year Tahsiyn A. Ismaa’eel has taken children, participants in her summer Arabic enrichment program, to the Foster Brown public pool in Wilmington. But this year marked the first time some of her elementary schoolers were asked […]
(AFP) Several thousand people protested Saturday on the France-Italy border against European states closing their frontiers to migrants, AFP journalists said. They said about 3,000 people — mostly Italian, French, German, Dutch and Spanish — marched from the small Italian town of […]
(AFP) Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen used an interview published on Saturday to criticise proposals put forward by the government to make it impossible to claim asylum on European soil. “Whoever comes to our country and applies for asylum should be […]
(Reuters) Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom, complained to the British ambassador in Washington, D.C., about the treatment of an English right-wing activist who is in jail for disrupting a trial, according to three sources familiar with the discussion. […]
(Brussels Times) The two rulings handed down by the lower court in Ghent against banning the burkini in swimming pools are a first and thus constitute a precedent, the Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities, UNIA, stressed on Friday. The court ruled that […]
(Brussels Times) The secretary of state for equal opportunities, Zuhal Demir, said on Wednesday that she wanted the possibility of banning burkinis from swimming pools to be studied. Demir said she saw the wearing of the garment in swimming pools as a […]
(Gatestone) A new study of Salafism in Sweden, conducted by the Swedish Defence University, paints a bleak picture of the ongoing radicalization of Muslims in Sweden. The Salaf are the “pious ancestors” during the first three generations of the followers of Mohammed; […]
(CNS) The U.S. should designate the Muslim Brotherhood — or at least some of its factions — for terrorism, experts told a congressional panel on Wednesday, weighing in on a long-running debate about the threats posed by the Islamist movement. Experts testifying […]
(Deutsche Welle) By the time the summer comes to a close, things will be different at the German Islam Conference, an annual event aimed at fostering dialogue between the government and Muslims living in the country. At least that is the aim […]
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(Deutsche Welle) When the Turkish government crushed an attempted coup on July 15, 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed supporters of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric in self-imposed exile in the United States. There were plenty of rumors about Gulen’s involvement in […]
(Brussels Times) The Mediahuis publications are reporting on Friday that in two judgments, the court in Ghent overturned the prohibition of the burkini. The cases related to two swimming pools in the north of the country, which had instigated the rule. Prohibiting […]
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