January 10, 2019 – Eye on Islamism

Afghanistan sends deported asylum-seeker back to Germany The government of Afghanistan has denied entry to a failed asylum-seeker deported by Germany. The Afghans say the man was turned back at the border as per agreement with the German government because he's mentally ill.

January 10, 2019 Jefferson Chase

(Deutsche Welle) In an article designed to raise the hackles of those worried about foreigners and crime, German daily Bild reported on Thursday that Afghanistan had turned away an Afghan deportee with a long criminal record at its border and sent him back […]

‘You look scary’: Muslim family describes discrimination at Virginia hospital A prominent Muslim family went to a hospital after the birth of a newborn baby. They say the staff humiliated them

January 10, 2019 Julie Carey and Andrea Swalec

(WRC) A Muslim family went to a hospital in Northern Virginia to celebrate a joyous occasion: the birth of a newborn baby. But they say hospital staff humiliated them by telling them they looked “scary,” and threatened to kick them out. Visiting […]

Christianity and Islam ‘don’t mix,’ man says at Trudeau town hall. People booed, but the PM engaged

January 10, 2019 Jesse Ferreras

(Global News) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced more questions about immigration policy at the University of Regina on Thursday, in the second town hall he hosted in two nights. This time, the question covered Canada’s borders — and suggested that Christianity and […]

Captured teen IS fighter not US citizen

January 10, 2019 Jeff Seldin

(VOA) A man and a teenager captured in separate incidents this past week by Kurdish forces in Syria and identified as U.S. citizens fighting for the Islamic State (IS) terror group are likely not Americans. A U.S. official, speaking to VOA on […]

Muslim Rep. Andre Carson envisions Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib becoming speaker of the House

January 10, 2019 Patrick Goodenough

(CNS) Welcoming his two fellow Muslim newcomers to Congress, Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.) on Thursday evening envisioned a future with 30-35 Muslim members serving by 2030, and with Muslims holding posts ranging from committee chairs to the presidency of the United States. […]

French Muslim women push for ‘inclusive’ mosque in Paris

January 10, 2019 Alison Hird and Grégoire Sauvage

(Radio France) Two Muslim organisations in France have launched projects to create “inclusive” mosques: spaces where women and men can pray together, and where female imams would be able to lead Friday prayers. Kahina Bahloul conducts her prayers at home, in her […]

Fmr. justice min. can be called to testify in Wilders hate speech trial

January 10, 2019 Janene Pieters

(NL Times) The appeal in the hate speech case against PVV leader Geert Wilders will continue. The court in The Hague saw no reason to declare the public prosecutor inadmissible, as Wilders had requested. The court will, however, allow the defense to call former […]

Man fined 210 Swiss francs for saying ‘Allahu akbar’

January 10, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Local) Police in the Swiss city of Schaffhausen have defended their decision to fine a man who used the words “Allahu akbar” in public. The incident in May 2018, which saw the man fined 150 Swiss francs (€132) plus 60 francs in […]

Michigan Democratic gov hopeful signs book deal

January 10, 2019 Beth LeBlanc

(Detroit News) Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed will catalog his experiences growing up as a Muslim American, working in Detroit and stumping on the campaign trail last year in a book set to be released in spring 2020. “Moral Medicine” will […]

Jewish museum terror attack trial opens in Brussels

January 10, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere

(AFP) A Frenchman accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels went on trial on Thursday, allegedly the first Syria jihad veteran to stage a terror attack in Europe. Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, who was in court, faces a […]

Education needed to tackle Islamic extremism in Ireland — academics

January 10, 2019 Chai Brady

(Irish Catholic) Catholic methods of examining scripture could help tackle radicalisation in Islam, a leading Jesuit academic has said, after it was revealed an Irish citizen was captured having left Ireland to fight for the so-called Islamic State. Originally from Belarus, Alexandr […]

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