(Religion News) When Devin Brooks reported for training in West Virginia early last year for his new security guard gig at the U.S. Department of State, he was pulled aside and told his beard violated the agency’s facial hair policy. The news […]
(MLive) Ayilah Yaseen walked into an interview last month hoping to land an internship, but she left embarrassed and shaken, according to a federal religious discrimination complaint submitted Wednesday. The Oakland University student was to interview with Naji Gebara, the CEO of […]
(Global News) Canada’s intelligence service warned Thursday about the “security implications” posed by captured ISIS members the government is bringing home from detention camps in Syria. In its annual report, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said extremists returning from abroad might not […]
(Anadolu) Far-right Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan, who burned a copy of the Quran earlier this year, has been reportedly arrested in absentia in Sweden. The Malmo Prosecutor’s Office issued an arrest warrant for Paludan on suspicion of “several crimes,” Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet […]
(CBC) A lawyer representing five Canadians held in a detention camp in northeastern Syria says he’s been given assurances the federal government will repatriate them, but doesn’t know when that will happen. The two Canadian women and three teenage girls were supposed […]
(Anadolu) The White House held a listening session Wednesday on Islamophobia, during which high-level Biden administration officials met with leaders from the American Muslim community. The event followed a White House reception Monday hosted by President Joe Biden for Eid al-Fitr, a […]
(AFP) Belgian police on Thursday arrested seven people suspected of supporting the Islamic State (IS) group and plotting a “terrorist attack,” prosecutors said. Almost all the suspects are ethnic Chechens, and three of them possess Belgian nationality, prosecutors said in a statement. […]
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