June 18, 2024 – Eye on Islamism

Federal Court rejects legal effort to force reparation of women and children in Syrian detention camps The Federal Court has again rejected an effort to force the federal government to bring home Aussie women and children in Syrian refugee camps.

June 18, 2024 Liam Beatty

(NCA NewsWire) The Federal Court has upheld a previous judgment rejecting legal arguments that would bring Australian ISIS brides and their children home from a refugee camp in Syria. On Tuesday morning, Justice Christopher Horan announced the court would dismiss an appeal […]

Progressive Democrats seek to make Eid an official US holiday Muslim-Americans say new bill will validate their experience, but hurdles in Congress threaten national recognition

June 18, 2024 Ellie Sennett

(National-UAE) A group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would recognise Eid Al Adha and Eid Al Fitr as public holidays in the US. But its pathway to passage is challenging in the Republican-majority House […]

‘Unprecedented’: MR and DéFi veto newcomer Team Fouad Ahidar in Brussels government

June 18, 2024 Maïthé Chini

(Brussels Times) While the various political parties remain very discreet about their negotiations to form the Brussels-Capital Region government, the French-speaking liberals MR and regionalist DéFi vetoed the presence of the Team Fouad Ahidar party in a future government. MR party leader […]

Pro-Palestine campaigner sets sights on unseating Labour frontbench MP Shabana Mahmood Solicitor Akhmed Yakoob focused on Gaza to secure election upset against potential UK justice secretary

June 18, 2024 Thomas Harding

(National-UAE) Outsider Akhmed Yakoob believes “this election is mine to lose” as he looks to unseat the most senior frontbench Muslim Labour MP in the July 4 UK general election. Shabana Mahmood stands to become the UK’s justice secretary if her party […]

Lawyer for man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie says client doesn’t want offered plea deal

June 18, 2024 Carolyn Thompson

(AP) The New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie is not interested in an offered plea deal that would shorten his time in state prison but expose him to federal prison on a separate terrorism-related charge, his lawyer said […]

Terror accused had bomb-making guides — court

June 18, 2024 Steve Jones

(BBC) A man accused of trying to bomb a hospital downloaded documents on how to make explosives, a court has heard. [Mohammad] Farooq, 28, is accused of targeting St James’s Hospital in Leeds in January 2023. He denies preparing acts of terrorism, […]

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