(FrontPage) You thought it would stop with the defaming and deplatforming of foes of jihad terror? No. Soviet-style judgments of insanity are next. And what will come after that? The answer is clear enough. The Local reported Thursday that French “far right” […]
(AFP) The Italian government on Monday adopted a heavily-criticised security decree which will make it easier to expel migrants and strip them of Italian citizenship. The new bill is “a step forward to make Italy safer,” far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said […]
(Daily Caller) The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the Minnesota arm of the Democratic Party, concluded its investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Keith Ellison two weeks ago, Karen Monahan told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Sunday. Monahan, a Sierra Club activist and […]
(AFP) A second Swiss canton will introduce a regional “burqa ban,” after voters in St. Gallen on Sunday emphatically backed prohibiting all face-covering garments in public spaces. At the same time, voters across Switzerland resoundingly rejected initiatives aimed at boosting local farming […]
(Fox) U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison pushed back Friday against allegations of domestic abuse, saying his accuser fabricated the story about him. The Minnesota Democrat also dismissed a medical record that named him as the abuser, but said he can’t be sure more […]
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(CBC) A brand-new Montreal theatre company, billed as “Canada’s first professional theatre company dedicated to celebrating Muslim stories,” is hoping to bring a diversity of voices to the stage. The Silk Road Theatre Company aims to provide a platform and a space […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian imam has been expelled from Italy after it was revealed that he had celebrated the Berlin Christmas Market terror attack in December of 2016 from his prison cell. The 32-year-old imam, who had been convicted of robbery and drug dealing, […]
(Anadolu) Muslim children are being falsely accused of radicalization by the British government as part of its counter-terrorism strategy Prevent, a report said Thursday. The report released by the human rights advocacy group Cage details how Prevent has erroneously targeted Muslim communities […]
(BBC) Security concerns have been raised about the imminent release from prison of the radical preacher Anjem Choudary and other supporters of the banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun. About a dozen followers are out or will be soon, as restrictive terror protection orders […]
(AP) The head covering is among the most identifiable elements of Muslim women’s dress and most likely to be portrayed as drab and restrictive to the Western eye. But a new exhibition in San Francisco shows that the covering used by some […]
(AFP) A French rapper known for his provocative pro-Muslim lyrics said Friday that he would cancel two upcoming concerts at the Bataclan, where 90 people were shot dead when jihadist gunmen stormed the venue during the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris. […]
(Politico) Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation against Brett Kavanaugh is ricocheting back on a Democrat who has faced his own allegations but, ostensibly, has nothing to do with the Supreme Court fight: Rep. Keith Ellison, the candidate for Minnesota attorney general and deputy […]
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(AFP) A second Swiss canton will vote Sunday on whether to introduce a regional “burqa ban,” a controversial law that would prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces. The ballot in northeastern St. Gallen is to be held as voters across the […]
(Fox) Google is in the spotlight after internal emails show conversations between employees highlighting a desire to manipulate search results on the heels of President Trump’s controversial travel ban in order to mute conservative viewpoints and push ways to combat the ban. […]
(Handelsblatt) German security services were recently in touch with one of Berlin’s best-known Muslim clerics. He should take their warnings seriously, they again told Abdul Adhim Kamouss. Death threats were being made against him by members of the Islamic State extremist group […]
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(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is deciding whether to put the country’s largest Islamic umbrella group under official surveillance, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and public broadcasters NDR and WDR reported on Thursday. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has […]
(JTA) A Dutch Muslim politician who has prayed for Allah to “exterminate the Zionists” said that a day of fasting on Yom Kippur will not suffice to atone for Israel’s sins. Arnoud van Doorn, a lawmaker of the Hague’s city council for […]
(Courthouse News) Halal beef from cows that are not stunned prior to slaughter can still be marketed with an “organic farming” label, an EU magistrate determined Thursday, siding against French animal-rights activists. Though EU law calls for slaughterhouses to take necessary measures […]
(AFP) Germany wants a stronger EU border agency to handle migration to Europe, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Thursday while judging “unsatisfactory” the squalid living conditions for thousands of migrants in Greece. Maas said he was favourable “to proposals on strengthening Frontex” […]
(AFP) French far-right leader Marine Le Pen expressed outrage Thursday after being ordered to undergo psychiatric tests for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group. Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after IS […]
(AFP) EU leaders vowed Thursday to intensify talks with Egypt and other North African countries on how to curb flows of illegal migrants to Europe and to fight those who traffic them. European Council President Donald Tusk said the leaders meeting in […]
(Oregonian) The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit brought by a former Portland resident who alleged the government violated his due process rights by placing him on the no-fly list without notice. The appeals panel found that a […]
(Age) A young woman who stabbed a Melbourne man in the name of the Islamic State has lifted her niqab veil in court to plead guilty to intentionally engaging in a terrorist act. Momena Shoma, 25, refused to stand in the dock […]
(Jerusalem Post) The US online payment service PayPal has closed the account of the Germany-based NGO International Alliance — an organization that sympathizes with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization and supports boycotting Israel. The Jerusalem Post launched […]
(Swiss Info) Marriages involving minors must be annulled, according to Swiss law. However, exceptions are permitted if it seems to be in the child’s best interests. This provision must be done away with to combat forced marriages more effectively, says lawyer Anu […]
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(Pew) Three years after a record 1.3 million migrants sought asylum in Europe, a majority of people in several European countries say they support taking in refugees who are fleeing violence and war, according to a Pew Research Center survey. However, most […]
(USA Today) How did a former undercover CIA operative who spent more than eight years fighting terrorism get branded as a teacher at “Terror High”? The strange ordeal for Abigail Spanberger, a Democratic House candidate, began when U.S. Postal Service employees wrongly delivered her confidential personnel […]
(Local) The new contract for public service broadcasting between the Danish Ministry of Culture and broadcaster DR emphasises the importance of Christianity, while the word “integration” has been removed. The contract, which was published on the ministry’s website yesterday as DR announced […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders put forward a proposal to ban all forms of Islamic expressions in the Netherlands during the first day of the general considerations, the parliamentary debate on the government’s plans and budget for the next year, on Wednesday. […]
(Daily Caller) The ex-girlfriend accusing Democratic Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic abuse told her doctor in 2017 about alleged “emotional and physical abuse” from Ellison, according to a document the woman published Wednesday. Karen Monahan’s account in the doctor’s report is […]
(AP) Police in Austria are on the lookout for a tall man who robbed a bank disguised with a latex mask, glasses, bright red lipstick and an Islamic-style headscarf. Vienna police said Wednesday the suspect robbed a bank in Linz at the […]
(Detroit News) A civil rights advocacy group has filed a federal complaint against DTE Energy on behalf of a former worker who alleges he faced discrimination and unfair discipline by a supervisor over his religious rituals. According to a grievance that the […]
(Deutsche Welle) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will officially open a new central mosque in the western German city of Cologne, the Turkish-Islamic organization DITIB confirmed on Tuesday evening. Erdogan will open the mosque at a ceremony at the end of his […]
(AFP) The EU must convince Italy, Spain and Greece to back a plan to bolster the bloc’s external borders, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday as bloc leaders met in Salzburg to discuss the controversial issue of migration. EU Commission chief Jean-Claude […]
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(KCAL) A Muslim woman suspected of committing crimes in Monrovia had a message for the police officers who confronted and questioned her, and her response isn’t what most people would expect. For Esma Ali, she said she had to thank the Monrovia […]
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(Reuters) Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes a new immigration law will make it easier for foreign workers to find jobs in Germany, but her push to fill a record number of vacancies risks angering voters who still resent her open-door refugee policy. With […]
(IPT) A recent report on Islamophobia published by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) appears to affirm its common cause with a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) effort to change public school curricula and staff training in the name of stopping Islamophobia. […]
(Gatestone) A strong showing by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats in the Swedish elections on September 9 drained away so many votes from the establishment parties that the two main parliamentary blocs were left virtually tied and far short of a governing majority. […]
(Detroit News) Amor Ftouhi, a Tunisian national accused of stabbing a police officer during a terrorist attack at Bishop International Airport in Flint last year, will undergo psychiatric tests, a move that raises doubt about whether he will stand trial in November. […]
(MPR) Dogged by a recent allegation of domestic abuse, Democrat Keith Ellison has a narrow, five-point lead over Republican candidate Doug Wardlow in the race to be Minnesota’s next attorney general, according to an MPR News/Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. Of 800 likely […]
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(Anadolu) The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday convicted Belgian authorities for violating the EU Convention on Human Rights by excluding a Muslim woman from a courtroom for refusing to remove her headscarf. In 2007, the applicant, referred to by the […]
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