(Politico) French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin faced ridicule and criticism on Wednesday for expressing shock at dedicated aisles in supermarkets for halal and kosher food. Darmanin told BFM TV late on Tuesday that he has “always been shocked to walk into a […]
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(Dutch News) Over a year since the Netherlands introduced a ban on wearing face coverings in public, just four women have been warned for wearing a niqab and no-one has been fined, the Volkskrant said on Wednesday. The so-called burqa ban was […]
(WIBW) Students staged a peaceful demonstration at Junction City High School in regards to alleged comments of an administrator. Junction City High School said it is currently investigating an incident that encouraged some students to conduct a peaceful demonstration at the school […]
(NZ Herald) A woman who had her passport cancelled because it was believed she planned to facilitate a terrorist act for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has had her application for a judicial review denied. The woman, who has […]
(BBC) A security steward who worked on the night of the Manchester Arena bomb has told the inquiry looking for suspicious people “wasn’t at the top of my list.” The inquiry saw CCTV footage of Salman Abedi approaching Robert Atkinson nearly four […]
(AFP) A knife attack that killed one tourist and seriously injured another in the German city of Dresden in early October is being treated as a terrorist attack, prosecutors said Wednesday, turning fears to Islamist violence after a string of far-right attacks. […]
(JTA) French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia praised his government’s crackdown on radical Islamists, writing in an op-ed that it makes clear that “things are changing — belatedly, but all the same.” Korsia’s op-ed Wednesday in Le Figaro followed news that the French […]
(France 24) The 18-year-old Chechen who beheaded a French teacher for showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics class paid students in front of the school to identify him, anti-terrorism public prosecutor Jean-François Ricard told reporters at a news conference […]
(AFP) Two teenagers accused of pointing out French teacher Samuel Paty to his killer who beheaded him were on Wednesday charged with complicity in terrorist murder, prosecutors said, as the nation paid homage to the slain educator. “We will not give up […]
(Reuters) French regional newspaper La Nouvelle Republique has received threats on social media after it published a caricature of the Prophet Mohammad on its front page, one of its journalists said on Wednesday. On Oct. 18, the Nouvelle Republique paper re-published an […]
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