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Forced marriage and FGM to be a social work focus in Aberdeen (LINK ONLY)
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Woman fled female genital mutilation ‘cutter’ role after Birmingham intervention (LINK ONLY)
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‘A rapidly spreading crisis’ A 12-year-old student in Melbourne was verbally abused, physically assaulted and forced to kiss the feet of a Muslim boy — all because he is Jewish.
(Australian Jewish News) A five-year-old student began wetting himself in class after he was subjected to antisemitic bullying over the course of four months, while a 12-year-old student was forced to kiss the feet of a Muslim child and was physically assaulted. […]
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Jews and Muslims in Sweden outraged over call to ban male circumcision
(Local) The leader of Sweden’s Centre Party has said she “regrets” a party vote to work for a ban on non-medical circumcision, after Jewish and Muslim groups criticized the decision. What happened? Sweden’s Centre Party voted in favour of banning circumcision (omskärelse) […]
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New Flemish government to ban headscarves in schools, causing unrest in Ghent
(Brussels Times) The new Flemish coalition agreement that was presented on Tuesday called for ideological neutrality in schools, banning headscarves and other religious symbols. “In education, we warrant neutrality. In provincial and community education, we ensure the philosophical neutrality for teachers and […]
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Swiss court confirms detention of juvenile terror suspect
(Swiss Info) The Federal Court has confirmed a one-month custodial sentence handed down to a 17-year-old boy charged with violating Swiss terror and gun laws. At the end of June, the Geneva prosecutor for minors initiated a criminal probe against the 17-year-old […]
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Amina Ali: I’m a FGM victim, says candidate to be Labour MP (LINK ONLY)
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Revealed: Cabinet at war over Boris Johnson’s plans to send the SAS into Syria to bring 30 Isis children back to Britain (LINK ONLY)
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‘I want to redeem myself,’ says jihadi bride. ‘Take me home’ (LINK ONLY)
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Protesters decry Quebec secularism law’s impact on teachers Charles Taylor among protesters, says law may lose popularity in future but already damaging society
(CBC) Hundreds of people attended a rally in the Park Extension neighbourhood on a rainy Saturday afternoon to speak out against Quebec’s secularism law — and in particular its effect on teachers in the province. Bouchera Chelbi, who teaches English as a […]
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Halal food program expanded to 10 more Paterson schools
(Paterson Times) School officials expanded the district’s self-operated halal food program to 10 more Paterson schools in the 2019-20 school year, said superintendent Eileen Shafer on Friday morning. School 2, 7, 8, 9, 19, 27, 28, Don Bosco Technical Academy, International High […]
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Asylum seeker’s daughter faces deportation from Britain despite FGM risk
(Reuters) A British court said on Wednesday it had no power to stop the deportation of a 10-year-old girl at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) after authorities rejected her mother’s asylum application. The girl’s mother, who travelled to Britain from Bahrain […]
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EMSB votes to challenge Quebec’s religious symbols law in court The commissioners voted 7 in favour, 3 against and 2 abstentions
(CBC) The English Montreal School Board has voted in favour of taking the province to court over its religious symbols ban. They’re seeking an exemption because they are a linguistic minority. Last month, the EMSB held off on deciding whether or not it […]
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Quebec’s religious symbols ban causes ‘irreparable harm,’ teachers tell court Civil rights groups file affidavits ahead of appeal set for November
(CBC) Civil rights groups fighting Quebec’s religious symbols law have filed new evidence which, they say, demonstrates without a doubt it has “caused and continues to cause irreparable harm.” Lawyers submitted affidavits last week from Muslim women who were denied employment opportunities or […]
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French minister questions pro-hijab campaign by parent group
(Radio France) France’s education minister has expressed concern over a campaign poster by a parents’ association showing a mother wearing a Muslim headscarf while accompanying her child on a school trip. Jean-Michel Blanquer called the campaign an “error” and questioned the association’s purported […]
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‘I feel a kind of rage inside me’: Hijabi teachers in Quebec struggle to find way forward Advocacy group Justice Femme says secularism law is so vague, school boards all apply it differently
(CBC) Fatima Boularhmane isn’t sure where to turn anymore. She and her husband and children emigrated from Morocco about a decade ago, lured by the idea of living in a free and democratic country. Trained as an electrical engineer, Boularhmane tried in vain to get a […]
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Vermont lawmakers urged to ban female genital mutilation
(VTDigger) An anti-female genital mutilation organization is urging Vermont lawmakers, and those from 15 other states, to enact laws banning the procedure. While female genital mutilation, or genital cutting, was outlawed in the United States for two decades through federal legislation, the […]
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More French IS children repatriated from Syria
(Xinhua) France has brought home two French mothers and their nine children from families that had fought with Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Syria, local media reported on Tuesday. The children, aged between 3 and 13 years, reached French soil early on […]
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Greece: Turkish students protest school shift system Students and parents in Xanthi protest introduction of shift system due to lack of space for rising number of students
(Anadolu) Parents and students of a Turkish minority school in Greece on Monday protested a move splitting up the school day into two shifts due to inadequate classroom space. Some 2,000 protesters, according to local media, at the Xanthi (Iskece) Muzaffer Salihoglu […]
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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 […]