(JTA) Denmark’s prime minister opposes a bill seeking to ban the nonmedical circumcision of boys, saying “Danish Jews must continue to be part of Denmark.” Mette Frederiksen of the ruling Social Democrat party made the statement during an interview Thursday on TV2 […]
(Breitbart) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) described September 11, 2001, as … “one of the most horrific terrorist attacks that we have lived through” in a video posted on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, over one year after describing 9/11 as a […]
(BBC) The coastguard says it is dealing with “multiple” small boats with migrants on board off the Kent coast. Dozens of people wrapped in blankets and wearing lifejackets have been seen being brought into the port of Dover as migrants take advantage […]
(AFP) Al-Qaeda has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff, after it republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory said on Friday. Al-Qaeda in its publication One Ummah had warned […]
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(AFP) Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday demanded more “active” participation from the EU in housing thousands of migrants on the island of Lesbos, as he said Athens will rebuild a notoriously overcrowded camp destroyed by fire. “A new facility will […]
(AP) Americans commemorated 9/11 on Friday as another national crisis, the coronavirus, reconfigured ceremonies and as a presidential campaign carved a path through the memorials. In New York, victims’ relatives gathered Friday morning for split-screen remembrances at the World Trade Center’s Sept. […]
(Copenhagen Post) Aarhus-based media outlet Jyllands-Posten on Wednesday rejected French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s request to reprint the controversial Mohammed cartoons. Following the rejection, Charlie Hebdo, whose offices in Paris were attacked in 2015, reprinted the caricatures individually. The move came after the […]
(Reuters) A man dubbed the “Emir of Winterthur” by Swiss media, described by prosecutors as a leading figure among Islamist militants in Switzerland, was sentenced to 50 months in prison on Friday for supporting and recruiting for Islamic State. Prosecutors said the […]
(Brussels Times) The Flemish minister for animal welfare, Ben Weyts (N-VA), said he is “fundamentally in disagreement” with the opinion handed down yesterday by the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice, declaring a Flemish ban on ritual slaughter illegal. Flanders has […]
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