(Crosscut) Wherever U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar goes, layers of security follow. The freshman congresswoman’s visit to Washington state on Saturday was no exception. At Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, where Omar spoke Saturday night at a sold-out fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations of […]
(Local) A Swedish woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Iraqi court on Sunday for her involvement with the terror group Isis. The woman has been imprisoned in Iraq since autumn when she was convicted of entering the country […]
(HuffPost) President Donald Trump’s decision to vilify Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has had real, harmful effects not just on the first-year congresswoman, but on Muslim candidates running for public office at the state and local levels as well. In March, Omar faced […]
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced three French citizens to death after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group, a court official said. Captured in Syria by a US-backed force fighting the jihadists, they are the first French […]
(AFP) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Sunday that Germany’s warning to Jews on the dangers of wearing the traditional kippah cap were a “capitulation to anti-Semitism” and evidence Jews were unsafe there. Germany’s government commissioner on anti-Semitism, Felix Klein, said in an […]
(Breitbart) Fewer and fewer French identify as being actively religious, and according to a new study there are now as many practising Muslims among the 18-to-29-year-old demographic as there are practising Roman Catholics. In total, around 32 per cent of French in […]
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