(CBC) A “disturbing, [Islamophobic] tweet” on the city of Brampton’s decision to allow mosques to broadcast the call to prayer has prompted the Peel District School Board to remove one of its school council chairs and launch an investigation into comments it […]
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(AFP) An Iraqi man believed to have belonged to the Islamic State group went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of genocide and murdering a child belonging to the Yazidi minority who he held as a slave. Taha al-Jumailly, 27, also […]
(amNY) More halal meals will be distributed at 32 school sites in the city beginning today, April 23, the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced. Halal options are offered at the over 400 school sites offering grab-and-go meals and […]
(ABC-Australia) South Australia’s Department for Education has been ordered to apologise to a Muslim family over an Adelaide public school’s handling of their attendance of Friday prayers during teaching hours. State ombudsman Wayne Lines has released the findings of an investigation into […]
(Reuters) Greece transferred a dozen unaccompanied children from overcrowded migrant camps to Luxembourg on Wednesday, the first of more than 1,000 relocations that are being expedited amid concerns over the impact of coronavirus on vulnerable groups. Another group of 50 children is […]
(East Bay Times) Three years after a high school student was accused of showing a video some claimed was racist and insensitive when he ran for student body president, the San Ramon Valley Unified School District has settled a $665,000 lawsuit and […]
(AP) Germany plans to take in up to 50 unaccompanied minors staying at overcrowded refugee camps in Greece, while Luxembourg has agreed to accept 12, government officials said Tuesday. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer will propose to the Cabinet on Wednesday a plan […]
(Politico) Jewish and Muslim students throughout the city have been largely going without kosher and halal options for meals since city schoolchildren were barred from attending classes because of the coronavirus — and critics say the city’s recent efforts to address the […]
(WTVQ) Legislation to ban female genital mutilation in Kentucky is headed to the governor’s desk. The Senate voted 31-0 for the measure, known as Senate Bill 72, as amended in the House of Representatives. The House amendment placed an emergency clause in […]
(AP) Greek authorities arrested a Syrian man after finding 12 Egyptian teenagers hidden in his van following a car chase through the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki early Thursday, police said. Police said they arrested the 22-year-old who had allegedly picked up […]
(Reuters) European border restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus will affect plans to transfer hundreds of children out of “dire and dangerous” refugee camps in Greece, a senior official for the United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. European countries including […]
(Reuters) A young child died in a fire in an overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday, fire brigade officials said. The fire burned through two containers used as living quarters by people in the Moria camp, as […]
(BBC) More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the release of Home Office research into the “characteristics” of grooming gangs. The government has refused to release the information, telling the Independent it was “not in the public interest” […]
(Detroit News) A U.S. House committee on Wednesday advanced bipartisan legislation meant to fix the federal law prohibiting female genital cutting. The bill was introduced in response to a ruling by a federal judge in Michigan who declared the statute unconstitutional in 2018. That ruling […]
(Reuters) Berlin will take in 80 to 100 children from Greek refugee camps, an official in the German capital said on Tuesday, as concern mounts about migrants amassing on the Turkish-Greek border. European politicians are struggling to agree what to do about […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany is prepared to take in “an appropriate share” of the neediest refugee children housed in overcrowded Greek migrant camps, German officials said on Monday. The country is set [to] take children in as part of “a coalition of the willing” […]
(BBC) A failed asylum-seeker’s daughter is at “high risk” of female genital mutilation (FGM) if she and her mother are deported, a senior judge has ruled. The High Court heard the woman, who has links to Bahrain and Sudan, has been refused […]
(Deutsche Welle) A court in the western city of Düsseldorf … was scheduled Friday to hear a set of charges filed by federal prosecutors against a 32-year-old mother, accused of joining the Islamic State (“IS”) terrorist group. The woman, originally from Oberhausen […]
(Detroit News) A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the most serious remaining charge against a doctor accused of female genital mutilation. Dr. Jumana Nagarwala had sought a dismissal of a charge of conspiracy to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct involving […]
(Breitbart) A teacher in Sweden has expressed strongly-worded opposition to a mooted ban on religious headscarves in schools, saying that those opposed to the garment have no place in the country at all. Naouel Aissaoui, who is employed as a teacher in the […]
(Oklahoman) No demonstrators showed up on Monday to protest the sixth annual “Muslim Day at the Capitol.” Instead, Muslim Oklahomans were greeted only by groups of friends with the Interfaith Alliance of Oklahoma who welcomed them as they walked into the state […]
(Brussels Times) A court has agreed to temporarily suspend the hefty penalty payments slapped on the government for failing to initiate the repatriation of children of Belgian Islamic State (IS) fighters from Syria. Striking down a request for the penalty to be […]
(CBC) A Vancouver high school teacher has been disciplined for writing “intemperate and insulting comments” about religion on a Facebook post advertising open houses at B.C. mosques. John William Yetman has agreed to a formal reprimand after acknowledging he committed professional misconduct […]
(Breitbart) A 35-year-old Muslim man in the commune of Cavaillon is facing trial after being accused of domestically abusing his wife and daughters who refused to wear an Islamic veil. The man, who defines himself as a traditionalist Muslim, is said to […]
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(Breitbart) An imam in Gothenburg’s largest mosque has been criticised after comparing female genital mutilation (FGM) practices to those who undergo gender reassignment surgeries. The imam’s comments were set out as part of an email that was framed about being against FGM […]
(Deutsche Welle) German prosecutors said on Friday they had indicted an Iraqi man for allegedly leaving a Yazidi girl to die of thirst. He and his wife kept the 5-year-old as a slave in Iraq and his spouse, a German convert to Islam, is already […]
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(Dutch News) Dutch doctors have pledged to stop carrying out operations to “restore” women’s hymens, as one of a package of measures to tackle what ministers call “damaging practices” affecting mainly women and girls. There were 120 hymen repair operations at Dutch […]
(NY Post) City Council Speaker Corey Johnson called on the Department of Education to start providing kosher and halal food in schools. Johnson, a 2021 mayoral hopeful, told WNYC radio’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on Tuesday he believes the DOE should use […]
(Reuters) French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of “separatism.” Macron has so far stayed away from issues related […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Police have raided homes in Sydney and Melbourne in an attempt to gather evidence against some of the 67 family members of Islamic State fighters living in a Syrian refugee camp. The Australian Federal Police has stepped up investigations […]
(Oil City News) A Wyoming House of Representatives bill would explicitly prohibit female genital mutilation in the state if it were to become law. The legislation would also create new criminal sentencing guidelines for anyone convicted of engaging in female genital mutilation. […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has defended a French teenager who received death threats after an expletive-laden Instagram rant against Islam, saying the right to blaspheme was enshrined in the constitution and she needs to be protected, in comments published Wednesday. The […]
(Breitbart) A Swedish court has sentenced an Iraqi asylum seeker to eight years in prison for honour crimes after he beat his daughter with a kebab spit, locked up his wife, and forced his daughters to wear Islamic veils. The father, who […]
(Dutch News) A parliamentary commission set up to investigate the foreign funding of mosques and Islamic schools in the Netherlands will begin hearings on Monday. “MPs have been debating about the issues for years but much remains unclear,” CDA parliamentarian and commission […]
(Canadian Press) Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr provided a small window of insight about his life since his return to Canada in 2013 during a rare public speaking appearance in Halifax. Khadr, who was part of a panel discussion on child […]
(Deutsche Welle) There are very few women and girls in Germany wearing a full-face veil such as the niqab or the burqa — most likely a mere two-digit number. A recent verdict handed down by a Hamburg court, however, has sparked a […]
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(HuffPost) Home secretary Priti Patel has ordered officials to explain what has happened to a long-awaited review into the ethnicity of grooming gangs, HuffPost UK has learnt. A frustrated Patel has been met with “obfuscation” from Home Office officials when asking about […]
(Rotherham Advertiser) A man and a woman have been arrested in Rotherham on suspicion of facilitating female genital mutilation (FGM). Police said the arrests came after a woman attended a police station in Rotherham and reported she had been subjected to FGM, […]
(CBC) The English Montreal School Board says it will not take the $250,000 it was offered by the federally backed Court Challenges Program to fight two Quebec laws that the board contends go against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In […]
(Deutsche Welle) After Shadia Abdelmoneim’s third child was born, while she was still under anesthetic, her midwife performed female genital mutilation (FGM) on her without her consent. It led to a lengthy period of shock thereafter where she found it difficult to […]
(CBC) The Quebec government says Ottawa has some explaining to do after it was revealed that the English Montreal School Board is funding two separate legal challenges of provincial laws with federal tax dollars. “We need an explanation from the federal government,” […]
(JTA) Sweden’s largest church is supporting a parent’s right to have nonmedical circumcision performed on boys for religious reasons. The Swedish Church in a document titled “view on male circumcision” asserted that the practice, which is performed by Jews, Muslims and some […]
(Rotherham Advertiser) Vulnerable children at risk of forced marriage have been given the protection of full court orders. Initial proceedings began last autumn over the group of youngsters, which includes boys and girls. The orders are a safeguarding tool to help police […]
(AFP) An outspoken French teenager has reignited a polarising debate over free speech in the country after an expletive-laden Instagram rant against Islam that has forced her to stay home from school on safety fears. The case of 16-year-old Mila — who […]
(AFP) A court in Germany ruled Monday against an attempt by authorities in Hamburg to forbid a 16-year-old schoolgirl from wearing a niqab during lessons. The ruling, which cannot be appealed, has fuelled debate in Germany over whether schools should allow the […]
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