News: Europe
London Bridge attacker’s brother says he was monitoring him (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Day: June 7, 2019
Converting to Islam
Extremist Muslim gangs are recruiting prisoners to be their foot soldiers and ‘beating them’ if they refuse to convert to Islam (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Clothing
Disciplinary hearing for judge who refused to hear woman wearing hijab is again delayed Lawyer representing judge says report on incident was biased
(CBC) More than four years after a Quebec court judge refused to hear the case of a woman because she was wearing a hijab, the Conseil de la magistrature finally held a disciplinary hearing into the judge’s conduct. In February 2015, Judge […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim Council asks why Trump banquet excluded Sajid Javid (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Academics & Education
Majid Mahmood urges Anderton Park School protesters — ‘call off the demo’ (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
How Italy’s migrant model town Riace veered far-right
(AFP) The sign reading “Riace, land of welcome” still hangs in the small town, but its dream of migrant integration is over after the far-right’s “Italians first” election victory. The new mayor of the one-time “global village” in southern Italy’s rural Calabria […]
Banks & Banking
2 men acquitted of all fraud, theft charges in Shariah-compliant mortgage case Omar Kalair and Yusuf Panchbhaya worked with UM Financial, a mortgage company that went bankrupt
(CBC) Two men who provided Shariah-compliant mortgages to Muslim homeowners in the GTA were acquitted of a dozen criminal charges in Ontario Superior Court Friday after a trial that began back in October 2018. Omar Kalair and Yusuf Panchbhaya were on trial […]
Law Enforcement
Man sought guns, grenades for Times Square attack, feds say
(AP) A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group and Osama bin Laden, and feared being known as the “Looney […]
Legal
Tunisian-German couple in court over ‘ricin attack plot’
(AFP) A Tunisian man and his German wife went on trial Friday, charged with planning a foiled biological bomb attack in Germany with the deadly poison ricin. Sief Allah H., 30, and his wife Yasmin, 43, were arrested a year ago by […]
Animals
Belgian prosecutors drop case against cafe owner who welcomed dogs, but not Jews
(JTA) Prosecutors in Belgium dropped criminal complaints against a Turkish café owner who put up a sign banning Jews. A café in the town of Saint-Nicolas had displayed a sign saying dogs are welcome at his business, “but Jews are not.” The […]
Legal
Trial over France Charlie Hebdo attacks to begin in April
(AFP) Fourteen suspects will go on trial before a special court in Paris in April 2020 charged over attacks around the French capital in January 2015, including the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, legal sources said on Friday. […]