(Bergen Record) Feras Awwad dreamed of entering politics and government one day to help his community and change the negative narratives about Muslims he heard growing up after the 9/11 attacks. Last year, at age 26, he seized the opportunity, winning election to the Clifton […]
(Anadolu) Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey’s president. Prosecutors in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe of Wilders, who heads the Dutch Party […]
(Swiss Info) More than ten years after a ballot on banning minarets, Swiss voters have the final say on a proposal to outlaw face coverings in public. Often referred to as “the burka ban,” the initiative by right-wing groups also includes a […]
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(AFP) France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of a law to battle “Islamist separatism” that is billed by the government as a riposte to religious groups attempting to undermine the secular state. The draft legislation, which has been […]
(BBC) A convicted terror offender who was the Manchester Arena bomber’s friend “is unfit to give evidence” to the inquiry into the attack, his lawyer has said. Abdalraouf Abdallah was visited by the bomber Salman Abedi in prison in the months before […]
(AFP) After months of controversy and 135 hours of parliamentary debate, MPs in France are set to approve a draft law to crack down on what has been termed “Islamist separatism” on Tuesday. AFP examines what is, and what isn’t, in the […]
(AFP) The families of two of the victims of November’s jihadist attack in Vienna city centre are suing the Austrian state for compensation because of official failings, their lawyers said Tuesday. Convicted Islamic State sympathiser Kujtim Fejzulai killed four people before being […]
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