(BBC) The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015 aged 15, has said he wants her to return to the Netherlands with him. Yago Riedijk and Ms Begum married days after she arrived inside […]
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(Reuters) A Belgian court’s decision to overturn a ruling forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria has left their family devastated. The grandmother of the six children, aged from 11 […]
(AP) The European Court of Human Rights ordered France to pay 15,000 euros ($17,000) to an Afghan migrant for failing to protect him when, as a 12-year-old, he lived alone in a makeshift migrant camp in Calais. Thursday’s decision is limited to […]
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(Reuters) Belgium has won an appeal against a judge’s order forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria, a court said on Wednesday. A judge ruled last year that the country […]
(BBC) A shooting range in Merseyside has been criticised for using images of IS bride Shamima Begum as a target. Labour MP Angela Eagle said she was “disapproving” of the use of living people’s faces by Ultimate Airsoft Range in Wallasey. Ms […]
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(Dutch News) Dutch women and children who have spent time in IS-held territory in Syria are a “real threat” to the Netherlands, according to the latest report by the Dutch counter-terrorism unit NCTV. Currently some 10 women and 25 children are being […]
(State-SC) S.C. lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday to criminalize female genital mutilation as child abuse after a judge struck down a federal ban. S.C. House Judiciary Committee members voted 24-0 to move the bill to the full House for a vote. The […]
(NL Times) There are still jihadists who are making plans to commit an attack in the Netherlands, the National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism and Security NCTV said in its latest threat assessment. The chance of an attack in the Netherlands remains real, and […]
(NL Times) A teacher was suspended from the Hoofdvaart College in Hoofddorp in January for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, the Telegraaf reports based on the suspension letter from the school management, which the newspaper has in its possession. According to the letter, […]
(Paterson Times) The cafeteria workers at John F. Kennedy High School served chicken patty sandwiches to students for lunch on Monday afternoon. But there was something inconspicuously different about the sandwiches: the meat between the buns was halal, allowing hundreds of Muslim […]
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(Sky News) Islamic State bride Shamima Begum has told Sky News she is “willing to change” as she asked for “mercy” from politicians after being stripped of her UK citizenship. The 19-year-old — who wants to return to Britain from Syria — […]
(Reuters) A ban on female genital mutilation extends to cases where the ritual cutting was performed in another country prior to the perpetrator coming to Switzerland, the nation’s highest court said on Friday, upholding a Somali woman’s conviction last year. The woman, […]
(NL Times) The public prosecutor demanded up to five years in prison against three adults who tried to perform an exorcism on a 9-year-old boy from Venlo. The boy’s mother and a couple she’s friends with tried to expel a jinn — […]
(Sky News) Jeremy Corbyn has told Sky News stripping Islamic State recruit Shamima Begum of her British citizenship is “not the right thing to do.” The Labour leader questioned Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision to bar the 19-year-old from the UK, adding […]
(BBC) All children must learn about same-sex couples regardless of their religious background, the head of Ofsted says. Hundreds of parents protested outside a Birmingham school against it teaching pupils about same-sex couples and gender identity. Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman told […]
(AP) A German court has sentenced a 33-year-old Egyptian man to life in prison for killing his daughter in a fit of jealousy. In its verdict Thursday, Duesseldorf’s regional court noted the gravity of the crime, preventing his release even after serving […]
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(Sky News) The vast majority of the British public support the home secretary’s decision to remove the UK citizenship of Islamic State recruit Shamima Begum, a Sky Data poll reveals. Eight in 10 Britons (78%) think Sajid Javid was right to remove […]
(BBC) The UK’s largest teachers’ union has warned government not to introduce measures that would make teaching staff criminally responsible for failing to report the forced marriage of a pupil. A Home Office consultation is exploring such proposals for teachers, health workers […]
(Iowa Public Radio) A Senate panel advanced a proposal Monday to make female genital cutting a crime in Iowa. The bill would also make it a felony to transport a minor out of the state for the procedure, which is performed in […]
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(BBC) Shamima Begum — the schoolgirl who fled London to join the Islamic State group in Syria — has said she never wanted to be an IS “poster girl.” Ms Begum, who has just given birth, said she now wants the UK’s forgiveness and […]
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(Local) A Swedish terror expert on Monday warned Sweden against heeding US President Donald Trump’s call to repatriate Swedish Isis fighters captured in Syria, saying the jihadists — along with their wives and children — could pose significant security threats to the Nordic country […]
(CTV) A pregnant Alberta woman who moved to Syria with her ISIS-supporting husband and their two young boys says she wants to return to Canada. The woman, whose first name is Amy, is one of four Canadian ISIS brides who spoke to […]
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(AP) The Trump administration announced new rules Friday to scrutinize petitions to bring in underage spouses to the U.S. after data showed thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides had been approved. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services […]
(Anadolu) The Swedish Athletic Federation dismissed its swimming federation president due to anti-headscarf criticisms Thursday. The federation decided Ulla Gustavsson will be removed from office after a meeting. The federation said it would not discriminate against athletes, nor allow anyone to do […]
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(Schools Week) A man jailed for his support for terrorist group Islamic State has been banned from being involved in running schools. Mohammed Mizanur Rahman is now barred from holding management positions in private schools and being a state school governor under […]
(Dutch News) The Dutch cabinet is to set up an investigation into informal weekend schools in the Netherlands following the news that Turkey is to fund 12 Saturday and Sunday schools for children aged six to 17. The aim is to find […]
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(AAP) A Queensland woman has been found guilty of arranging her two daughters to have their genitals mutilated in Somalia. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied she had taken the girls, then aged 12 and nine, to her […]
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(AAP) A Queensland woman accused of arranging for her two daughters to undergo female genital mutilation claimed what happened to them was “from God,” a court has heard. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was interviewed by police soon […]
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) A high school art project helped students gain a new perspective by connecting them with people of the Islamic faith. Fayetteville High School students in Ashley Grisso’s advanced placement world history classes worked in groups of two or three. They […]
(Courthouse News) A Fourth Circuit panel sided Monday with a Maryland school district after a Christian student and her family opposed a lesson plan that taught about the Islamic faith. Caleigh Wood was an 8th grade student in Charles County Public School […]
(Deutsche Welle) Officials in the city of Mainz on Monday withdrew the license of the only Muslim kindergarten in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate amid allegations that the facility was promoting Salafism. The president of the state’s youth office, Detlef Placzek, said the […]
(AAP) A Queensland girl was playing outside her grandmother’s house in Somalia when she was called inside, unaware she was about to have her genitals painfully mutilated, a court has heard. The Australian-born girl and her sister had only been in Somalia […]
(AFP) Two French women who fled the Islamic State group’s last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists. The Muslim converts said they paid smugglers to take them out of the […]
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