March 13, 2019 – Eye on Islamism

Ammar Campa-Najjar accuses GOP leadership of hypocrisy over anti-bigotry resolution As his campaign takes shape, California Democrat hopes attacks on his heritage won’t distract from his message

March 13, 2019 Emily Kopp

(Roll Call) Ammar Campa-Najjar doesn’t want hate and bigotry to be a distraction this time. The 30-year-old Democrat narrowly lost a campaign for the historically conservative 50th District in California last year. Now Campa-Najjar is seeking a rematch, and has renewed his […]

Parents’ meeting about Islamic school cancelled after too many turn up

March 13, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) A meeting for parents of pupils at the Islamic high school Cornelius Haga Lyceum in Amsterdam, which is at the centre of alleged links to terrorism, was cancelled on Tuesday evening after too many people turned up. The city had […]

Geneva: Muslim councillor ‘forced to sit out council meeting because of headscarf’

March 13, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Local) In an early test for Geneva’s controversial new secularism law, a Muslim councillor on Tuesday chose to sit in the public gallery during a recent council meeting rather than obey the new legislation by removing her headscarf so that she could […]

Muslim congresswomen criticize Saudi Arabia on Yemen 'Saudi Arabia is consistently ranked among the worst human rights abusers in the world,' says congresswoman Omar

March 13, 2019 Umar Farooq

(Anadolu) Congress’ two Muslim female lawmakers on Tuesday called out Saudi Arabia and criticized the U.S. for supplying the kingdom with weapons for its war in Yemen. “Saudi Arabia is consistently ranked among the worst human rights abusers in the world and […]

Sweden Democrats call on government to strip Isis fighters of citizenship

March 13, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Local) As Sweden continues to debate the fate of the roughly 150 citizens who have returned home after joining the terror group Isis, the government is under fire from critics who say it is not doing enough to address the problem. When […]

Report: A growing number of terrorists in Spain are Moroccan-born Moroccan-born individuals make up nearly half of the terrorists Spain detained over the last seven years.

March 13, 2019 Katya Schwenk

(Morocco World News) March 11 marked the anniversary of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, also known as 11-M, which Moroccan national Youssef Belhadj masterminded. The attacks killed 193, injured 2,000, and shocked the world. Fifteen years later, terrorism in Spain has evolved […]

Islamic advocacy group wants apology for Seattle school’s ‘inappropriate’ remarks A Seattle elementary school allegedly asked parents to consider allowing their children to eat on state testing days, which coincide with Ramadan.

March 13, 2019 Unlisted Author

(KING) An Islamic civil liberties group called on Seattle Public Schools to apologize for what the organization called “inappropriate” remarks in a letter sent to parents on Tuesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations Washington says when the district announced the year’s state […]

Berlin passes first-ever state plan to combat anti-Semitism The German capital has put together a comprehensive approach to fight anti-Semitic hatred. So why is this initiative happening at a local and not a federal level? The reasons, DW found out, are complex.

March 13, 2019 Jefferson Chase

(Deutsche Welle) There have been many reports about anti-Semitism in Berlin over the past year or so, ranging from the story of a Jewish youth bullied out of his high school to accounts of an Israeli symbol being burned at a Palestinian […]

Auditor: No evidence MN child care aid funded terrorism

March 13, 2019 Tim Pugmire

(MPR) While fraud is happening in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program, it is unclear how much, and there’s no evidence the subsidies are going to terrorists, Minnesota’s legislative auditor said Wednesday. The agency began investigating the program, which helps low-income families […]

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