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(Alabama Political Reporter) Survivors of female genital mutilation are speaking out about the scars they carry from female genital mutilation to urge U.S. lawmakers to help put an end to the practice. 35 states have implemented legislation to criminalize female genital mutilation […]
(Local) Last year, 111,094 people applied for asylum in Germany — a drop of 14.3 percent compared to the previous year. Government figures show 8,534 fewer applications for asylum were submitted in 2019 than in the previous year when 129,628 claims were […]
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(Houston Chronicle) The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office has arrested an Islamic religious leader for alleged sex crimes against children. Mohamed Omar Ali, age 59, was charged with one count of sexual assault of a child and three counts of sexual indecency […]
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(CBC) The RCMP was worried about anti-immigrant backlash in the wake of an alleged Kingston terrorist plot and raised concerns about a rise in protests due to “the government’s position on immigration,” new internal documents show. Last January, the national police force charged a […]
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(Breitbart) According to new figures, Italy has seen a historically low birthrate in 2018, as the number of foreigners in the country has increased to nearly 9 per cent of the total population. The new statistics, released by the Italian statistics agency Istat, […]
(National-UAE) Denmark will not allow the return of about 30 children whose parents travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for ISIS, the country’s prime minister said. Mette Frederiksen, the leader of the left-wing coalition government, said allowing children into Denmark would […]
(Brussels Times) The Court of Appeal in Antwerp has ruled that a ban on wearing headscarves in two schools in the municipality of Maasmechelen in the Limburg province is justified, on Tuesday. With its decision, the Antwerp court overturns an earlier decision […]
(National-UAE) Sweden’s security service has warned an extremist network has been meeting at a school and says children are at risk of radicalisation. It comes weeks after another school was shut down after it was revealed its staff had included former ISIS […]
(Yle) Speaking on Yle’s talk show Ykkösaamu on Saturday, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she was very pleased with the government’s decision to repatriate Finnish children from the al-Hol refugee camp. “It’s up to ministry officials to determine whether Finland will also […]
(Yle) Two Finnish children from the al-Hol refugee camp are in the care of Finnish authorities and en route to Finland on Saturday evening, the Foreign Ministry’s Under Secretary of State Pekka Puustinen said at a press conference on Saturday just after […]
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(Breitbart) A report has claimed that an area in the Swedish city of Borås has seen the rise of Islamisation due to the arrival of large numbers of Somalian migrants. The report claims that the district of Norrby, identified as a “vulnerable area” — […]
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(Yle) The Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that Finland is preparing to evacuate two Finnish children from the al-Hol refugee camp in Syria, where relatives of Isis combatants are being held. The ministry said that to protect the children’s privacy and ensure […]
(Yle) Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto received the support of 110 MPs in a confidence vote held in Parliament on Wednesday concerning the repatriation of Finns living in the al-Hol camp in Syria. Out of 200 MPs, 79 MPs voted against […]
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(Yle) Opposition and government MPs clashed during a tense parliamentary debate over the government’s position on repatriating Finnish citizens currently at the al-Hol refugee camp in Syria on Tuesday afternoon. An opposition interpellation tabled last week set its sight on putting the […]
(Times of San Diego) Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the harsh critic of Israel, will speak at a town hall meeting Saturday in San Diego and visit with local groups Sunday, says the sponsoring Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter. But the location […]
(SD Union-Tribune) The abrupt withdrawal of a permit allowing Rep. Rashida Tlaib to speak at the Westview High School theater, reportedly to allow staff time to clean the facility before the holiday break, will not block the Democratic congresswoman’s visit, organizers say. […]
(Times of San Diego) A day after the Council on American-Islamic Relations won approval to host a talk by controversial Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan at a Torrey Ranch-area school, permission was revoked Thursday due to a schedule conflict. The cancellation had […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels correctional court has sentenced two widows of members of the Islamic State terrorist organisation to four years and 40 months in prison. On Wednesday, a Brussels judge in summary proceedings ruled that the Belgian state had to provide […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium must provide travel and identity documents to ten children of Belgian Islamic State (IS) members in Syria in order to facilitate their return to Belgium. The ruling on Wednesday ordered federal authorities to provide consular assistance to the children […]
(Yle) The Foreign Ministry took the lead in planning an operation to repatriate Finnish nationals who wanted to return to Finland from the al-Hol refugee camp in Syria, according to official documents seen by Yle. The material indicated that the draft plan […]
(Times of San Diego) A conservative group wants Poway school officials to cancel a talk by Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, a Palestinian-American seen as one of Israel’s most vocal critics in Congress. The nonprofit Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund — which […]
(Dutch News) The number of pupils attending Islamic primary schools has soared 60% over the past 10 years, according to education ministry figures obtained by the Volkskrant. In total, 15,000-plus Muslim under-12-year-olds are attending an Islamic faith school, compared with 9,300 in […]
(National-UAE) A leading Islamic school in Sweden accused of appointing teachers who had recently returned from fighting for ISIS abroad has been shut down amid fears students were at risk of being radicalised. Abdel Nasser El Nadi, former principal of Vetenskapsskolan school […]
(Bismarck Tribune) A Bismarck man is charged with felony child abuse for allegedly striking his stepdaughter with a broomstick because she refused to wear clothing that reflected his religious beliefs, police say. Youness Moussaid, 33, made his initial court appearance Friday. He […]
(Age) Victoria’s private Islamic schools are the fastest growing schools in the state, almost doubling their population in just eight years. Combined, student numbers at the state’s 10 Islamic schools grew at six times the rate of enrolment growth at government schools […]
(JTA) A high school teacher in Belgium shared a Facebook video of an imam calling for a jihad, or holy war, against the Jews and those who “conspire” with them. Talal Magri, who teaches about Islam as part of the religions major […]
(Washington Post) Elected officials in the Washington suburbs adopted an academic calendar for next school year that gives students a day off on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a move that followed the resolution of a possible conflict with Advanced Placement […]
(Brussels Times) A Belgian court has given the government 75 days to begin organising the repatriation of a Belgian woman affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) and her child from the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria. Belgium is expected to appeal the […]
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(CBC) Members of a Nigerian family living in Windsor say they fear for their lives as a result of media attention they’ve received after a deportation order previously issued by the Canadian government. Rasheedat Bakare, her husband Afeez, son Faaiq and daughter […]
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(CBC) An advocacy group is launching a campaign to inform Muslim women of their rights as it tries to deal with increasing reports of harassment and discrimination since Quebec’s secularism law was introduced. Justice Femme, the group behind the campaign, will begin distributing […]
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(Canadian Press) Opponents of Quebec’s secularism law introduced a new legal argument in Appeal Court Tuesday, saying that Bill 21 disproportionately affects women and therefore violates the Constitution. Lawyer Olga Redko argued Bill 21 violates the sexual equality guarantees in the Canadian […]
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(Breitbart) A 23-year-old Bangladeshi imam faces deportation from Italy after investigators confirmed he had physically assaulted young children at a religious school. The migrant, who lived in Italy on a work visa, is said to have created what investigators described as a […]
(AFP) Syria’s Kurds have handed over an American toddler and three German children and their mother to their respective governments, a Kurdish official and a Kurdish source said on Saturday. After years of leading the battle against the Islamic State group in […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has been told by the highest Dutch administrative court that it cannot stop funding for Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school. Slob wanted to stop funding for the Cornelius Haga Lyceum because the school had failed to […]
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