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Day: August 5, 2019

Clothing

Labor councilor criticized over burka action at Canal Pride

August 5, 2019 Janene Pieters  

(NL Times) The PvdA faction in Amsterdam received a storm of negative reactions because of a photo posted on the party’s Twitter account on Saturday. In the photo, PvdA councilor in Amsterdam Hendrik Jan Biemond is posing in a yellow burka with […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Leader of Muslim group wants to meet with Tigers owner

August 5, 2019 John Barry  

(Norwich Bulletin) Leaders of the state branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations want to meet with E. Miles Prentice, the owner of the Connecticut Tigers. Prentice is chairman of the board of the Center for Security Policy, a Washington think tank […]

Clerics & Preachers

From Canada with hate: Terror sympathizer Tariq Abdelhaleem

August 5, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(Arab News) It may seem strange that a prominent Sunni Salafi jihadist and preacher of hate has lived unmolested in the West since the 1980s. Yet Dr. Tariq Abdelhaleem probably sees nothing odd at all about promoting Islamic radicalism while enjoying the […]

Government & Politics

Sanders, Castro confirm attendance at Houston forum hosted by Muslim organizations

August 5, 2019 Jasper Scherer  

(Houston Chronicle) Three top Muslim advocacy organizations are hosting a presidential candidate forum Aug. 31 in Houston as part of the annual Islamic Society of North America convention. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former U.S. housing secretary Julián Castro have confirmed their […]

Banks & Banking

Qataris are exporting political Islam to West (LINK ONLY)

August 5, 2019 EoI News  

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Arts & Entertainment

Al Rayan Bank: Clients include ‘terror’ group and Abu Hamza’s former mosque (LINK ONLY)

August 5, 2019 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Italy government wins confidence vote on decree targeting migrant rescue ships

August 5, 2019 Gavin Jones  

(Reuters) The Italian government on Monday won a confidence vote in the Senate on a decree targeting charities operating migrant rescue ships, in a victory for Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and his far-right League party. The government of the League and the […]

Government & Politics

Pakistani who ‘threatened Wilders in snack bar video’ is in court

August 5, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(Dutch News) The Pakistan national arrested at The Hague’s main railway station in August last year after placing a video on Facebook threatening to attack Geert Wilders appeared in court for a procedural hearing on Monday. The 28-year-old faces charges of making […]

Clothing

Confusion over burka ban; woman refused at Nijmegen playground

August 5, 2019 Janene Pieters  

(NL Times) There seems to be some confusion around exactly what the so-called burka ban, implemented in the Netherlands on August 1st, entails. The municipality of Nijmegen had to apologize to a niqab-wearing woman on Sunday, after she was stopped at the […]

Government & Politics

Tlaib slams Tapper: Comparing Palestinian rights advocates to white nationalists ‘fundamentally a lie’

August 5, 2019 Joe Concha  

(Hill) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) slammed CNN’s Jake Tapper for “comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists,” calling it “fundamentally a lie.” The pushback comes after Tapper, who serves as CNN’s chief Washington correspondent, drew an analogy between the Palestinian movement […]

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