(Detroit Free Press) The suspect charged in an antisemitic attack in Bloomfield Township last week mooned a Wayne County judge Tuesday during a hearing in a separate case involving a charge of assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer two years ago. Hassan Yehia Chokr, 35, […]
(KERA) In May, a Houston man shot and killed his estranged wife, their 4-year-old daughter and his mother-in-law before killing himself. In July, a man drove 11 hours from Georgia to Chicago where he shot and killed his 29-year-old ex-wife and himself. […]
(Canadian Press) The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not obligate Ottawa to repatriate Canadians held in Syrian camps, a government lawyer told a Federal Court hearing Tuesday. Family members of 23 detained Canadians — six women, four men and 13 children […]
(BBC) An alleged firebomb attack at the office of an Iranian resistance group in north-west London is being investigated by police. The London Fire Brigade was called to the blaze in Cricklewood on Monday. The office is occupied by the People’s Mojahedin […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Dennis Wiersma has been accused of breaking the constitutional ban on discrimination with his plan to target Islamic weekend schools suspected of fostering radicalism. An organisation representing Islamic institutions in the Rotterdam area, SPIOR, has filed a police […]
(Middle East Eye) US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Senator Elizabeth Warren are leading an effort to urge American banking regulators to reassess policies that discriminate against Muslim Americans and immigrant communities. The two lawmakers, along with Senator Ed Markey and Congresswomen Rashida […]
(Euronews) Muslim leaders in Spain called for calm ahead of Tuesday’s crunch World Cup decider between Spain and Morocco amid fears of a repeat of crowd trouble in Belgium last week. Photographs and videos showed cars being smashed and upturned, and fires […]
(Brussels Times) The Conseil du Contentieux des Étrangers (CCE — Foreigners Litigation Council) has rejected an appeal by Imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan preacher fighting to avoid deportation, according to a ruling published on Monday. The imam wanted his order to leave […]
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