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(AP) Cyprus’ interior minister said Tuesday that he asked police to launch a criminal investigation into allegations that girls staying at a migrants’ reception center were sexually harassed by other residents. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris told state broadcaster CyBC that he takes […]
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(IPT) It was an event to celebrate freedom and protest ongoing bigotry and discrimination. But the group Muslims4Abolition, which wants “… to be part of the movement to abolish bail, abolish jails, abolish the police, abolish prisons,” openly engaged in bigotry and […]
(Anadolu) Greece is closing down one of the oldest Muslim prayer halls in the greater Athens metropolitan area. Saying the facility lacks a license to operate, the Education and Religious Affairs Ministry gave a 15-day notice to clear the premises in Piraeus, […]
(AP) France’s counter-terrorism prosecutors made a formal request Tuesday for nine suspects to face trial in connection with the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 86 people dead. In a statement following the end of a judicial investigation, the […]
(AP) A Danish court acquitted three lawmakers Tuesday of defamation for writing an email in which they said public funds should not be granted to an organization helping women exposed to psychological violence because the woman behind it didn’t distance herself from […]
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(Lexington Herald Leader) A former Lexington imam was sentenced Monday to two years in prison in connection with a kidnapping plot. Mahmoud Shaker Shalash pleaded guilty in January to federal charges of conspiring to kidnap someone and two counts of money laundering, […]
(AFP) A US soldier with links to neo-Nazis plotted to have Islamic extremists attack his unit in Turkey in hopes of sparking a new “10-year war” in the Middle East, the Justice Department charged Monday. An indictment unsealed in New York said […]
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(BBC) Twenty-eight migrants in dinghies and a kayak have been intercepted in the Channel. The Border Force found the people in three vessels between 07:40 and 11:30 BST on Sunday. There were 24 males and four females, but the Home Office no […]
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(AFP) The government said Monday it had brought home 10 French children of jihadist fighters overnight from a refugee camp in Syria, the latest in a piecemeal repatriation process since the Islamic State group was ousted from its Syrian base in March […]
(AFP) A Syrian doctor living in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of crimes against humanity in his country of origin, prosecutors said Monday in the latest German move against suspected war crimes in Syria. The suspect, identified as Alaa M., is […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Jerusalem Post can reveal that the domestic intelligence agency for Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia tracked a rise of Hezbollah members last year. According to the June report, the number of Hezbollah members increased from 110 in 2018 […]
(Anadolu) Turkey and the EU have worked closely together in many areas and can do so against anti-Muslim racist movements, Turkey’s communications director said Saturday. Fahrettin Altun attended a presentation in Ankara of the European Islamophobia Report 2019 of the Foundation for […]
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(AP) A Tennessee newspaper said Sunday it is investigating what its editor called a “horrific” full-page advertisement from a religious group that predicts a terrorist attack in Nashville next month. The paid advertisement that appeared in Sunday’s editions of the Tennessean from […]
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(BBC) Three people have died and three more have been seriously injured after stabbings in a park in Reading, police confirmed. A 25-year-old man from Reading has been arrested on suspicion of murder after being detained at the scene. The attack happened […]
(Reuters) An Iranian dissident was seriously injured in a knife attack in the northern Dutch city of Leeuwarden, a local newspaper reported on Saturday, citing the victim’s family. The man, who was named by the Leeuwarden Courant newspaper as Sadegh Zarza, fled […]
(Washington Examiner) President Trump accused Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. citizen who was a childhood Somali refugee, of wanting to make the U.S. government like the country from where she fled. Holding his first campaign rally in months, Trump on Saturday railed […]
(Hill) President Trump’s nominee to head the Pentagon’s policy shop, retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, is denouncing Islamophobic remarks and controversial comments he made about Democratic lawmakers and former President Obama on Twitter in the past. In a letter sent to […]
(AFP) Greece announced on Saturday another extension of the coronavirus lockdown on its teeming migrant camps, hours after some 2,000 people protested in central Athens to mark World Refugee Day and denounce the government’s treatment of migrants. The migration ministry said confinement […]
(BBC) A boat carrying three migrants has been intercepted off the Kent coast. The Home Office said Border Force sent a vessel into the Channel at Dover at about 11:00 BST. Three men who presented themselves as Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Libyan nationals […]
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(WDTN) Members of the Dayton Muslim community gathered in Courthouse Square on Saturday in solidarity with black Americans. The rally for justice was organized by CAIR-Ohio, the state’s only Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. “Racism is not something that any community […]
(AFP) Dozens of groups helping asylum seekers in Greece risk being edged out in a government move to tighten what it calls “opaque” rules overseeing charities, sparking concern that crucial support will be cut. Critics warn that the new registration regulations will […]
(Helsinki Times) A task force at the Ministry of Justice is recommending that the anti-terrorism legislation be amended by criminalising the performance of tasks crucial for the criminal activities of terrorist organisations, writes Helsingin Sanomat. Public incitement to terrorism should similarly be […]
(Jerusalem Post) An American Shi’ite Islamic scholar has called on the followers of Imam Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, to follow Khomeini’s example in liberating the globe from America’s tyranny. The riots taking place across America following the death of […]
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(AP) A former Chicago businessman imprisoned for aiding terrorist groups has been arrested in Los Angeles to face murder charges in India for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed more than 160 people, U.S. prosecutors said Friday. Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-born […]
(NBC) A Muslim woman arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest in Miami was forced to remove her hijab for a booking photo, which a Muslim civil rights advocate called a “severe violation of religious freedoms.” It also prompted supporters to start […]
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(Brussels Times) A police officer in Brussels has been jailed for four years after prosecutors found he had acted as an informant for the brother of a man seen as the mastermind of the Brussels and Paris attacks. The 53-year-old officer with […]
(Free Lance-Star) The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has a lawsuit against Stafford County challenging “overly restrictive zoning regulations” that blocked the creation of a Muslim cemetery. The suit claims that the county is in violation of the Religious […]
(Swiss Info) The House of Representatives has approved new anti-terrorism legislation aimed at preventing extremist violence. But it didn’t approve preventive detention of potential terror offenders. The Swiss government has proposed new legislation aimed at preventing extremist violence and forcing people deemed […]
(NL Times) Police in the Netherlands arrested a 24-year-old Syrian man on Tuesday at a reception center for people seeking asylum in the country. The man was accused of involvement in a terrorist organization, and was taken into custody in Balk, a […]
(Democrat and Chronicle) A federal courtroom in Rochester next week will be the battleground for a constitutional tug-of-war as authorities try to keep jailed a man once imprisoned for terrorism crimes and who is now facing deportation. The hearing will test the […]
(Jerusalem Post) The number of Hezbollah members and supporters in the German state of Lower Saxony increased from 150 in 2018 to 160 in 2019, according to a damning new intelligence report released in late May. The report said that in “Lower […]
(National-UAE) The UK’s counter-extremism tsar is calling on the government to overhaul urgently its terror legislation to ensure extremists are not exploiting gaps in the law. The head of the Commission for Countering Extremism, Sara Khan, has launched a legal review into […]
(AFP) France’s highest constitutional authority on Thursday ruled that it objected to a key part of new legislation that aims to fight hatred online but has also sparked controversy among critics as harming civil liberties. The Constitutional Council ruled that certain new […]
(JNS) The Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) has affirmed that it will not support Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in her upcoming primary, but did not provide [an] endorsement to her chief primary opponent, progressive Antone Melton-Meaux. Omar is set to face […]
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(BBC) More than 40 migrants were intercepted while attempting to [cross] the English Channel earlier. The Home Office said three boats were found in separate incidents, with 36 men and 5 women brought to Dover. A spokeswoman said: “These attempted crossings are […]
(Courthouse News) Chatitze Molla Sali already knew that she’d won the right to inherit her Muslim husband’s full estate two years ago but she had to wait until Thursday to find out just how much the Greek government would have to pay […]
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