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Hate preacher Anjem Choudary boasts he is joining TikTok (LINK ONLY)
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Records detail sex abuse allegations against youth director at Tampa mosque A lawsuit says the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay turned a blind eye toward signs that Ehab Ghoneim drugged and molested a number of young boys
(Tampa Bay Times) A 15-year-old boy at the center of a lawsuit against the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay was raised to be a devout Muslim, active in his congregation and devoted to his prayer sessions, his lawyers say. So when his […]
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Doctor fired from Phoenix Children’s Hospital after anti-Israel posts files discrimination complaint
(Arizona Republic) A doctor fired from Phoenix Children’s Hospital for social media posts in which she condemned Israel and accused Zionists of having a “thirst to kill our Palestinian children” has filed a job discrimination complaint with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, […]
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Head teacher faces jail over illegal Islamic private school (LINK ONLY)
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Spain wrangles with migrant laws as border pressure persists
(AP) A group of at least 40 migrants attempted to swim from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta and threw stones at Spanish police, local media reported as top officials wrestled Wednesday with what to do with hundreds of unaccompanied […]
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Suhayra Aden, accused of having ties to ISIS, arrives in New Zealand
(TVNZ) The woman accused of having ties to ISIS, Suhayra Aden, has arrived in New Zealand today, 1 NEWS understands. It is understood she was accompanied by police on the flight that touched down in New Zealand this morning. Exclusive pictures show […]
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$5 million lawsuit accuses former Tampa Islamic youth director of drugging, molesting ‘multiple boys’
(WFLA) The Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area is accused of concealing the sexual abuse of “multiple boys” in a lawsuit that claims the suspect in a criminal case who was the congregation’s youth director “groomed” one of the children and later […]
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Spain, rights groups disagree over rights of child migrants
(AP) Spanish officials sought to justify Tuesday their policy of sending unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco, while 28 human rights organizations wrote to the Spanish prime minister urging him to end it immediately. Hundreds of unaccompanied minors were among a surge […]
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Spain interior minister: Child migrants ‘wanted to go home’
(AP) Spain’s interior minister on Monday defended sending unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco in groups of 15, saying they “wanted to go home,” and denied accusations by rights groups that the returns breach international law. Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told the Cadena […]
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FBI dodged Ilhan Omar-‘bro’ wed probe
(NY Post) Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him. The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar […]
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Sweden puts children of returned ISIS women into state care
(Breitbart) The Swedish government has taken the children of five Islamic State women into custody after the women were deported back to the country from Turkey. A Swedish court made the move to separate the ten children from the five Islamic State […]
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Spanish rights groups denounce child deportations to Morocco
(AP) Human rights groups on Saturday denounced Spain’s expulsion of unaccompanied children to Morocco, calling the deportations illegal and urging an immediate halt to the process. Amnesty International spokesman Ángel Gonzalo said the deportations of minors began Friday and continued Saturday. The […]
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Spain starts returning Moroccan minors after Ceuta migration crisis
(Reuters) Spain on Friday started sending hundreds of Moroccan youths, who in May crossed into its North African enclave of Ceuta, back to Morocco after reaching an agreement with Rabat, Spanish media reported, signalling an improvement in ties after a long row. […]
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Government prepared for more than one New Zealand citizen with children to return from Syria
(Stuff) The government has been preparing since 2018 for numerous New Zealand citizens to return from the former Islamic State of Iraq and Syria with their children. Cabinet ministers last month agreed to the managed repatriation of Suhayra Aden, who will be […]
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Free speech vs Islamophobia: A teenager fuels debate in France Mila’s anti-Islam rant on Instagram drew thousands of hate messages and resulted in a landmark cyberbullying case.
(Al-Jazeera) It all started with an Instagram broadcast on January 18 last year. Mila, then 16, with a head of newly dyed purple hair, went on a rant against Islam, addressing some of her 10,000 followers who tuned in. “The Quran is […]
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After a year in force, Sweden’s anti-child marriage law sees zero charges
(Breitbart) Despite being in force for over a year, the Swedish laws against child marriages have yet to see anyone charged for marrying a minor so far. Sweden passed legislation that greatly tightened the existing laws against child marriage in July of […]
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Pinellas man charged with sexually abusing kids he met as youth director Police: Ehab Ghoneim, 51, met the minors while volunteering at a Tampa Bay mosque.
(Tampa Bay Times) A 51-year-old Pinellas Park man has been arrested after police say he engaged in sex acts with children he met while volunteering as a youth director at a mosque in the Tampa Bay area. Police received a tip in […]
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A young American girl whose mother joined ISIS and died has been rescued, a former US diplomat says Eight-year-old Aminah Mohamad, the daughter of an American woman from Tennessee who joined ISIS in 2014, awaits her fate outside a Syrian detention camp.
(BuzzFeed) An American-born girl who grew up under ISIS control was rescued from a Syrian detention camp last month after the girl’s mother — a US citizen who left the country and in 2014 joined the terrorist organization — and her father […]
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Athens accuses Ankara of spreading ‘fake news’ over Thrace schools
(Kathimerini) The Greek Foreign Ministry on Monday issued a terse response to allegations from Turkey regarding the closure of 12 minority primary schools in the northeastern province of Thrace, which Ankara claims is a violation of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne provisions […]
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Greece closing 12 more Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace Turkey blasts Greece for closing schools serving Turks in region, saying this violates education rights of minority children
(Anadolu) In a violation of longstanding treaties, Greece on Monday decided to close 12 more schools serving the country’s Muslim Turkish minority, claiming there are too few students. Under an Education Ministry decree, eight schools in Rhodope (Rodop) and four schools in […]
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Albania repatriates 5 women, 14 children from Syria
(AP) Albania is repatriating five Albanian women and 14 children from Syria’s troubled Al Hol camp who were related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, the country’s prime minister said Saturday. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama […]
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Afghan wanted in connection with 13-year-old Austrian girl’s gang rape and murder is arrested in London (LINK ONLY)
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Priti Patel urged to force councils to take share of child migrants (LINK ONLY)
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Call to shut down Swedish Islamic school over ‘link to extremism’ Report claims school is being financed by group linked to Muslim Brotherhood
(National-UAE) An Islamic school in Sweden should be shut down because of its “connection to extremism,” a member of the country’s Parliament has said. The Romosseskolan school, in the south-western city of Gothenburg, attracted criticism after it was accused of gender segregation […]
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MPs decry ‘shocking conditions’ at facilities for asylum seekers (LINK ONLY)
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Calls grow for hundreds of European children in Syrian camps to return home Watchdogs say youngsters linked to ISIS lack basic services in detention facilities
(National-UAE) Hundreds of European children are still detained in Syrian ISIS camps, prompting fresh calls for them to be returned home. The youngsters are housed in camps where extremist fighters and their families were held after the defeat of the terrorist group […]
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From Syria to Belgium: Women to face courts after repatriation with children Six women who are suspected of ties to Islamic State were returned to [Belgium] with children. One tells MEE she was ready to face justice in order to secure her child's safety
(Middle East Eye) On 16 July, the majority of the women and children held at al-Roj camp were still asleep when a convoy of cars entered the open-air prison in northeastern Syria. A few minutes later, at around 5.30am, six Belgian [women] […]
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Church and state collide in public school cafeterias
Halal school lunches have been in the news lately. Last spring, school districts in Buffalo, New York, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, announced they would begin pilot programs to serve halal lunches at some of their schools. New York City announced it […]
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Govt helping Aden rebuild her life ‘best outcome for everyone’
(Radio NZ) Helping Islamic State-linked Suhayra Aden to resettle into the community with her children will be the best outcome for her and New Zealand, the Islamic Women’s Council says. Aden, who has links to terrorist group Islamic State, is returning from […]
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‘British values undermined’ by Islamic school’s anti-gay book
(BBC) Leaders of a Muslim boarding school “undermined British values” by allowing its library to stock a book calling for homosexual people to be punished. The book, Islam on Homosexuality, was found by Ofsted during a visit to the Islamic Institute of […]
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North Macedonia repatriates 4 IS fighters and their families
(AP) Four suspected former Islamic State group fighters and their families have been successfully repatriated to North Macedonia, the government said Sunday. [The] government said the 23-member group, including five women and 14 children, has been transferred from Syria and Iraq to […]
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IS mothers and children arrive in Belgium from Syria
(Brussels Times) This morning a military aircraft landed at Melsbroek airfield outside Brussels, carrying six women and ten children repatriated from a refugee camp in Syria. The women, aged between 25 and 53 years, have been held in the Kurdish-run camp Roj […]
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LGBTQIA+ students criticize school official’s ‘bigoted comments’ A student-led LGBTQIA+ advocacy group criticized FCPS school board member Abrar Omeish for comments she made during a phone meeting in June.
(Patch) An LGBTQIA+ advocacy group representing Fairfax County Public School students criticized at-large school board member Abrar Omeish for “bigoted comments” they say she made during a phone call last month. In a letter posted online at noon Friday, the Pride Liberation […]
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Finland repatriates women and children with links to ISIS from northeast Syria
(Kurdistan 24) Finland is bringing home a family with ties to ISIS from northeast Syria on Friday as part of the government’s efforts to rescue children from violent displacement camps. Ambassador Jussi Tanner, the Finnish Foreign Ministry’s special envoy in charge of […]
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Belgium takes back mothers and children from Syria jihadist camps
(BBC) Ten children and six mothers held in a prison camp for jihadists in Syria have been flown home to Belgium. It is the biggest repatriation of suspected Islamic State (IS) members since the group’s fall in 2019. Hundreds of Europeans who […]
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GoFundMe for Batley teacher ‘in hiding’ after Prophet Muhammad row raises almost £50,000 (LINK ONLY)
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Teen allegedly raped and murdered by migrants had 11 ecstasy pills in her system
(Breitbart) Austrian 13-year-old Leonie, who was found dead last week, is said to have been given at least 11 ecstasy tablets before she was allegedly raped and murdered by several Afghan migrants. A full autopsy of the teen is expected in the […]
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French teen harassed over anti-Islam videos visits mosque
(AFP) A French teenager whose criticism of Islam saw her targeted with a barrage of online abuse met with the imam of the main Paris mosque [Thursday], a visit she said she hoped would “calm things down for everyone.” It came a […]
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Afghans accused of murdering teen had years-old deportation orders
(Breitbart) Three of the four Afghan migrants suspected of raping and murdering a 13-year-old Austrian girl had their asylum claims declined. But due to appeal proceedings, they were not deported. Four Afghan asylum seekers are suspected of drugging, raping, and murdering 13-year-old […]
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Eleven convicted for harassing French teenager Mila over anti-Islam videos
(Radio France) A court in Paris on Wednesday convicted 11 people for harassing a teenager online over her anti-Islam videos. The girl, known as Mila, was forced to change schools and accept 24-hour police protection following threats to her life in more than […]
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Islamic teacher sexually assaulted children while teaching them to pray (LINK ONLY)
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Rape, killing of 13-year-old shocks Austria, 3 Afghans held
(AP) Austrian authorities have arrested three Afghans as suspects in the rape and killing of a 13-year-old girl, a crime that has prompted strong condemnation and tough talk from the country’s leader on crimes committed by migrants. The girl’s body was found […]
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Taught to use a gun aged 8: The chilling story of 13-year-old ‘caliphate cub’ locked up in prison for child ISIS fighters (LINK ONLY)
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In Norway, Syrian teen gets 5 years for planning terror
(AP) A Norwegian court has sentenced a Syrian teenager to five years in prison for planning an act of terror in Norway by using poison or explosives, and for having supported the Islamic State extremist group. The Oslo District Court suspended three […]
Academics & Education
Ontario gives $300K to Muslim organizations to help combat Islamophobia in schools
(Canadian Press) Ontario announced funding on Tuesday for educational programs to help fight Islamophobia, which police believe was the motive behind a vehicle attack that killed four members of a Muslim family. Education Minister Stephen Lecce said $225,000 will go to the […]
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Boy, 11, referred to Prevent for wanting to give ‘alms to the oppressed’ (LINK ONLY)
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Labour candidate in Batley and Spen by-election left ‘intimidated’ by anti-LGBT protester (LINK ONLY)
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CAIR-AZ, others join lawsuit against Phoenix Children’s Hospital for firing doctor over anti-Israel Facebook post
(Arizona Republic) The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with several law firms, is representing a doctor after she was fired from Phoenix Children’s Hospital following a Facebook post condemning Israel and accusing Zionists of having a “thirst to kill our Palestinian […]
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Police arrest woman who was in contact with jihadi teacher killer
(Breitbart) French police in the city of Nîmes have arrested a 33-year-old woman on suspicion of being in direct contact with Islamist teen Chechen refugee Abdoullakh Anzorov just days before he beheaded teacher Samuel Paty. Police arrested the woman on Tuesday morning, and […]
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Islamic State families in camps could return to Sweden this summer
(Breitbart) Female members of the Islamic State currently in prison camps in Syria, along with their children, could be all returning to Sweden this summer. Several days ago, a Swedish delegation comprised of officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Centre […]