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Men ‘accuse wives of FGM to stop them going abroad’ (LINK ONLY)
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Air Canada workers forced athlete, 12, to remove hijab at SFO, complaint says
(SF Chronicle) The Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations alleges Air Canada employees discriminated against a 12-year-old national squash player by forcing her to remove her hijab in the middle of a bustling tunnel at San Francisco International Airport […]
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Detroit’s female genital mutilation case takes a big legal hit
(Detroit Free Press) Activists fighting to end female genital mutilation worldwide are reeling at the latest decision involving Detroit’s FGM case, in which a doctor is charged with cutting the genitals of nine 7-year-old girls who cried and bled as another woman […]
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3 CSDM teachers have taken off religious symbols to work, school board says The board would not specify what kind of symbols the teachers wore
(CBC) The largest school board in Quebec says three teachers have been directly affected by Quebec’s secularism law, formerly known as Bill 21. On Tuesday afternoon, the Commission Scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) revealed the teachers took off their religious symbols in order to be able to […]
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Minister gives Islamic school board four-week ultimatum to quit
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has told an Islamic secondary school in Amsterdam that the entire board must step down, or the government will halt all funding. It [is] extremely rare for a government minister to intervene directly in a school. […]
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Dutch people in favor of abolishing religious primary schools
(NL Times) A majority of Dutch people are in favor of abolishing religious primary schools, according to a poll by Maurice de Hond. 59 percent of respondents said that all schools based on a religion in the Netherlands should be closed. Last […]
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Islamic spokesman awarded €7,500 by Labour Court after unfair dismissal (LINK ONLY)
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Families sue French foreign minister over children stuck in Syria
(AFP) The families of several children and wives of French jihadist fighters in Syria have filed lawsuits against France’s top diplomat over his refusal to let them come to France, lawyers said Monday. The suits, filed in July and September, accuse Foreign […]
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Lifestyle website for Muslim teens is covertly funded by the Home Office (LINK ONLY)
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Court declines House Democrats’ motion to intervene in genital mutilation case
(Detroit News) A federal court has denied House Democrats’ request to intervene in the appeal of a Michigan criminal case in order to defend the constitutionality of the federal law prohibiting female genital mutilation. House Democratic leaders over the summer had asked […]
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New law on FGM is racially motivated, Holyrood told (LINK ONLY)
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Austria: Proposed headscarf ban receives condemnation Former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz proposes to ban headscarf in secondary schools as election promise
(Anadolu) Austrians have reacted to former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s proposed headscarf ban as an election promise as political fever before the Sept. 29 general elections is running high in the country. Kurz, chairman of the Austrian People’s Party who is known for […]
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Greece: Students protest state-appointed Muslim cleric Students of Turkish minority school in Komotini prevent entrance of Greek-appointed mufti to school
(Anadolu) Students in a high school of Greece’s Turkish minority prevented the entrance of a Greek-appointed mufti (Muslim cleric) by calling him an “unwanted” person, according to local media. Western Thrace region of Greece is home to a Muslim-Turkish minority numbering around […]
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MPs call for action on religious schools after Islamic indoctrination claims
(Dutch News) The ruling VVD and opposition Labour party want to change an article in the Dutch constitution which gives people the right to set up a school on the basis of a religion. VVD parliamentarian Dennis Wiersma told Radio 1 on […]
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Think-tank: Half of Italians could be Muslims by year 2100
(Breitbart) An Italian think-tank has predicted that due to mass migration and differing birthrates, half of all Italians could be Muslims by the end of the century. The FareFuturo foundation released its findings this week as part of their “First report on […]
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Charge dropped against teen accused in terror probe; other charges remain
(Canadian Press) Prosecutors have dropped one of the charges against a youth accused in a terrorism investigation in Kingston, Ont. His lawyer, Simon Borys, says the charge of uttering threats was withdrawn in a court hearing on Wednesday. The teen was charged […]
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NHS to open specialist FGM support clinics across England (LINK ONLY)
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Mosque-run Salafist schools are teaching children sharia law: report
(Dutch News) Children who go to mosque-run fundamentalist Muslim schools across the country are being taught people of different faiths deserve the death penalty and to turn their backs on the values of Dutch society, a joint investigation by current affairs programme […]
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Teachers turned away over religious symbols ban as school year begins Law creating situations that 'darken the climate' of school, says union president
(CBC) Quebec’s new secularism law is creating situations that “darken the climate of a school,” says the head of a union representing Montreal teachers. She says the law is compelling school boards to turn away teachers as they’re facing a labour shortage. “I […]
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Quebec judge removes teenager from family home after she flees forced marriage Girl's fiancé forced her to wear hijab, controlled her friendships, clothes, cellphone
(CBC) A Quebec youth court judge has removed a 16-year-old girl in Victoriaville from her family after she was forced into a marriage with an older man who insisted she wear a hijab, rifled through her cellphone and controlled who she could see. […]
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Mosque trustees failed to monitor IS sympathiser who groomed boys for terrorism, inquiry finds
(Barking and Dagenham Post) The trustees of a mosque where children were groomed for terrorism failed to properly monitor an Islamic State sympathiser then attempted to cover up what happened, the Charity Commission has found. All five have been disqualified for 10 […]
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Two injured in French school stabbing: media
(Xinhua) A 17-year-old man armed with a knife assaulted two municipal employees at a canteen in a school in Marseille on Friday morning, French daily Le Parisien reported. The two victims, one with several stab wounds, the other a punch, were not […]
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Spain issues arrest warrants for ISIS women trapped in Syrian camps The three Spaniards and one Moroccan traveled to the war-torn country in 2014, and have since ended up in a Kurdish-run detention center with 17 minors under their care
(El País) Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, has recently issued arrest warrants for four women who traveled to Syria in 2014 to join the Islamic State (ISIS). All four are currently being held in two detention camps run by Kurdish militias […]
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Islamic school in Genk to appeal accreditation refusal
(Brussels Times) An Islamic school in the Flemish city of Genk will appeal an accreditation refusal based on constitutional grounds which prevented it from opening on the first day of school. The Flemish minister of education, Hilde Crevits, said Genk’s Selam College […]
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Belgian Muslim school not authorised to open
(Brussels Times) Selam College, an Islamic school planning to open its doors in September, has not received provisional recognition. This was decided on Friday by Flemish Education Minister Hilde Crevits on the basis of the education inspection opinion and of a competent […]
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Education ministry instructs private schools on how to comply with Bill 21
(CTV) All of Quebec’s subsidized private schools received letters from the provincial government telling them how to comply with the new law on secularism. The letters were sent on Aug. 20 to private elementary and high schools throughout the province, including Montreal. […]
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Leading Muslim figure claims he was fired over comments made on RTÉ (LINK ONLY)
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English Montreal School Board to apply religious symbols ban after avoiding vote on the issue EMSB pushed back planned vote shortly before start of meeting
(CBC) The English Montreal School Board was expected to vote Wednesday night on whether it would enforce the province’s religious symbols ban, but the item was struck from the agenda shortly before the start of the meeting. “I guess the majority of the commissioners […]
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Flemish greens want a lift on headscarf ban in schools
(Brussels Times) Dutch-speaking green party Groen want to strike down a general ban on the wearing of headscarves in Flemish schools and only ban them on a case-by-case basis, a party member announced Wednesday. Elisabeth Meuleman, a Groen MP, announced that her […]
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No shopping around for teachers who don’t wear religious signs: Quebec
(Canadian Press) The Quebec government is saying no to some parents who want to pull their children out of classrooms taught by teachers wearing religious symbols. About 50 parents signed an open letter published in Montreal newspaper Le Devoir Wednesday calling on […]
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Belgium: Court rules against headscarf ban Court rules in favor of student who filed a case against school administration in Flemish region
(Anadolu) A court in Belgium ruled in favor of a schoolgirl and against the headscarf ban in the Flemish region of the country. The school which the student had filed a case against is affiliated to a public body named GO! Education […]
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Austria prepares to repatriate IS supporter’s children
(AP) Austria is preparing to repatriate two sons of an Austrian Islamic State group supporter believed to have died in Syria after she headed there in 2014. Foreign ministry spokesman Peter Guschelbauer told public broadcaster ORF’s Oe1 radio Saturday that “there is […]
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Rashida Tlaib appears to blame ‘Israeli occupation’ for Israeli teen’s murder
(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib once again criticized the state of Israel Friday night, following the death of an Israeli teen. 17-year-old Rina Shnerb was killed in a terrorist attack earlier this week in the West Bank, while her brother […]
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Veggie GCSE student who criticised halal meat in RS exam given lowest mark possible despite proving she wasn’t being racist (LINK ONLY)
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CSDM warns prospective teachers about religious symbols, despite saying it wouldn’t apply Bill 21 Commisioner says government threats of putting CSDM under trusteeship unfair
(CBC) Quebec’s largest school board appears to be falling into line when it comes to the province’s new religious symbols law, despite saying earlier this summer it wouldn’t apply the rules until holding further consultations. The Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) began quietly including a notice […]
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‘ISIS boxer’ wife deported after terrorism conviction He had discussed attack on Vatican, interior ministry sources
(ANSA) The wife of Abderrahim Moutaharrik, a Moroccan competitive kickboxer who was jailed in 2017 over alleged links to the Islamic State (ISIS), has been deported from Italy to Morocco. A court had in 2017 sentenced him to six years in jail […]
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Helsinki preps schools, NGOs to spot FGM, forced marriage trips A working group survey revealed that at least 10 children had 'disappeared' from Helsinki primary schools in 2017.
(Yle) The city of Helsinki has announced a programme to help schools and children’s NGOs better recognise situations where planned trips by migrant-background families might endanger children’s safety. According to a report by tabloid daily Ilta-Sanomat, the guidelines will advise adults working […]
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Greece continues controversial closure of Turkish schools
(Daily Sabah) Greece’s Education Ministry shut down five more schools attended by students from the country’s Turkish minority, drawing criticisms from the minority population. Schools were shut down due to the low number of students according to the ministry. The number of […]
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Syrian Kurds hand over four ‘Islamic State’ children to Germany Kurdish authorities in Syria have handed over four children to Germany who had parents that were 'Islamic State' fighters. Many EU countries are grappling with how to handle returning foreign fighters and their families.
(Deutsche Welle) The Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeastern Syria on Monday handed to Germany four children whose parents were part of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) terror outfit, Kurdish sources and a spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry said on Monday. There […]
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Denmark urged to react over children stranded in Syrian camp
(Local) The situation for 12 Danish citizens in the al-Hol refugee camp in northeastern Syria is reported to have become so serious that humanitarian organizations have urged the Scandinavian country to act. Summer temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius have significantly worsened conditions, […]
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Former North Texas Muslim cleric ordered to pay $2.55M in sexual exploitation lawsuit
(Dallas Morning News) A judge ordered a North Texas Muslim cleric to pay millions of dollars to a woman he is accused of sexually exploiting after counseling her for years. Zia ul-Haq Sheikh, who has served as an imam at Dallas-area mosques, must pay […]
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Sweden: Animal cruelty in ‘immigrant-dense areas’ as cats, hedgehogs, swans killed
(Breitbart) According to the head of a Swedish animal protection group, behaviour in “immigrant-dense areas” is responsible for an increase in cruelty cases toward hedgehogs and other animals. Earlier this week, Swedish media spoke to Annica Sjöberg, the head of the animal welfare […]
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Isis babies will not be brought home (LINK ONLY)
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Sikh charity urges journalists to stop referring to ‘Asian’ grooming gangs
(Hold the Front Page) A Sikh charity has called on journalists to stop using the term “Asian” in their coverage of sexual grooming gang cases. The Network of Sikh Organisations has made the plea in new media guidelines published following a meeting […]
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Muslim initiative raises $13,000 to release detained migrant parents
(Religion News) Led by two of the country’s most prominent imams, hundreds of U.S. Muslims have raised more than $13,000 to bail out detained migrant parents. Launched on Monday (Aug. 5) by the Islamic nonprofit CelebrateMercy, the Muslims for Migrants campaign has […]
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French court sentences mother who took her children to Syria to eight years in prison
(Euronews) A woman who spent nine months in Syria with her three young children in 2017 has been given an eight-year jail term. Rajae Moujahid, a 37-year-old Italian-Moroccan citizen, was tried at a Paris tribunal for “criminal conspiracy for terrorist purposes” and […]
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Air Canada staff allegedly forced a 12-year-old passenger to remove her hijab Fatima Abdelrahman had already passed through security when they forced [her to] remove her hijab.
(Narcity) Canada’s primary airline is facing allegations of racial prejudice following a questionable security incident. Air Canada is being questioned by the family of a 12-year-old girl after staff allegedly pulled the girl aside and forced her to remove her hijab at […]
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Lincolnshire non-Muslim girls asked to wear hijab for a day
(BBC) Non-Muslim girls in Lincolnshire are being asked to wear a hijab for a day to raise awareness of discrimination. Ghada Mohamed said she came up with the idea in response to a number of incidents where girls wearing hijabs were subjected […]
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Afghan migrant to remain in France despite conviction for three sex attacks
(Breitbart) An 18-year-old Afghan migrant is not at risk of deportation despite being found guilty of sexually assaulting three people, including a 14-year-old girl. The Afghan teen was found guilty of the assaults earlier this week in the Criminal Court of Fontainebleau […]
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FGM cases on the rise across France
(Breitbart) The number of cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) has risen substantially in the last 20 years, according to a report released by the French National Public Health Agency. The rise in risk cases was highlighted in the agency’s 21st Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin […]