(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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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(JTA) A resident of Potsdam who was wearing a kippah with a Star of David on it was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack. The victim reported being followed, spat upon and insulted in the weekend attack. Police quickly arrested two men, […]
(HuffPost) The Muslim Council of Britain has denied issuing a “ruling” that parents should not vaccinate their children against flu, following an “inaccurate” frontpage story in the Daily Telegraph. In Monday’s edition an article by Bill Gardner reported that the MCB, Britain’s […]
(BBC) The identity of a teenager who plotted to behead police officers at an Anzac Day parade in Australia will remain a secret for the rest of his life. The boy, from Blackburn, Lancashire, sent encrypted messages instructing an Australian jihadist to […]
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(AFP) Australia faces a lawsuit aimed at forcing the government to repatriate Islamic State fighters’ wives and children from a Syrian refugee camp, lawyers for their families told AFP Thursday. The threat of a lawsuit comes the same day as parliament passed […]
(BBC) A travel ban preventing a two-year-old thought to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been relaxed. The High Court previously ruled the girl must stay in the UK until she turned 16. After an appeal, the same court […]
(AAP) Some of the women who joined conflicts in Iraq and Syria pose just as much risk to Australians as male foreign fighters if they’re allowed back, Peter Dutton has warned. The home affairs minister insists a new crackdown on foreign fighters […]
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(Deutsche Welle) Plans to no longer serve children pork or gelatin-containing products like gummy bears at two daycare centers in the eastern German city of Leipzig prompted a wave of criticism online and made headlines across the country on Tuesday. The mass-circulation […]
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(Winston-Salem Journal) A state Senate bill that would ban female genital mutilation in North Carolina cleared the state legislature Monday. Senate Bill 9 was filed by state Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, on Jan. 31. The bill was approved by the Senate by […]
(Brussels Times) Headscarves and other religious symbols will no longer be banned in higher education schools managed by Brussels’ French Community Commission (COCOF), a member of the coalition government announced at the weekend. The ban was also lifted from Francophone adult education […]
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(ITV) Specialist police are at Heathrow Airport all week as part of a national crackdown raising awareness against forced marriages, female genital mutilation and modern slavery. Last year, the Home Office supported victims in 1,764 suspected cases of forced marriage, 574 of […]
(RTÉ) The Irish woman who travelled to Islamic State-controlled territory and who is now being detained in a Syrian camp has said she does not think she will ever be coming back to Ireland. In an interview with journalist Norma Costello for […]
(AP) Hungary should not allow security concerns to override the human rights of migrants, a U.N. migration expert said Wednesday. Felipe Gonzalez Morales, the U.N. special rapporteur on migrant rights, said that Hungarian authorities should move families with children who are awaiting […]
(IPT) A pending New Jersey bill banning anti-Israel rhetoric and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activities on college campuses and in public schools in the state unfairly links such activities with anti-Semitism, officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) say. CAIR’s partners […]
(Breitbart) A man living in Sweden was found guilty of physically abusing his wife and children but blamed his actions on being hungry due to Ramadan fasting. The unidentified man, who lives in the south-west Swedish province of Dalsland, was sentenced to […]
(BBC) Nyla Khan says she was taken from Scotland at the age of 17 and forced to marry her cousin in Pakistan. “I knew from a very young age that I was promised to my cousin and I always felt very uncomfortable […]
(Reuters) A Berlin court has ruled that Germany’s foreign ministry should repatriate from Syria the German wife and three children of a suspected Islamic State fighter, in what a court spokesman said was the first such ruling against the government. The man’s […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has announced that he will stop funding to the Cornelius Haga Lyceum, an Islamic middle school in Amsterdam, if the current board remains in place. Slob announced that only a new school management can “put the […]
(AFP) An Iraqi man was sentenced to life in jail by a German court on Wednesday for the rape and murder of a teenage girl that fuelled far-right protests against a mass influx of mostly Muslim migrants. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) […]
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(Dutch News) All 10 requests to open new Islamic secondary schools last year were reportedly turned down, according to figures from education body DUO. The NOS broadcaster says that the requests all came from four cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, […]
(Bergen Record) A New Jersey bill that calls for prohibiting anti-Semitism at public schools and universities has stirred controversy because it would also label certain criticisms of Israel as prohibited activity. The bill, introduced by Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Sen. Robert […]
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(Canadian Press) Quebec’s education minister is being accused of hypocrisy after tweeting a picture of himself with Nobel Prize-winning human rights activist Malala Yousafzai. Jean-Francois Roberge met Yousafzai while in France, and said on Twitter that they discussed education and international development. […]
(Bucks County Courier Times) State Rep. Tom Murt, R-152, of Upper Moreland, first encountered female genital mutilation while he was stationed in Iraq in 2003, and saw a father carrying his young daughter who was covered in blankets and suffering extreme blood […]
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(BBC) A former Irish soldier, who became an IS bride but now lives in a Syria refugee camp with her child, says she wasn’t involved in fighting and did not train girls to become fighters. Lisa Smith joined the Islamic State group […]
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(NL Times) Intelligence and security service AIVD underestimated the social impact its official report earlier this year on Amsterdam Islamic high school Cornelius Haga Lyceum would have, AIVD director Dick Schoof said to the Volkskrant. The service warned Amsterdam that the school wanted to […]
(Deutsche Welle) Nora T. is believed to have witnessed the agonizing death of her 5-year-old Yazidi daughter while they were both kept as slaves by a couple affiliated with “Islamic State” in Iraq in 2015. German national Jennifer W. is on trial in Munich […]
(BBC) A 10-year-old girl from Bristol was stopped from flying to Djibouti from London because of fears she was at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM). The girl was detained by police at an airport on Thursday and is now the subject […]
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(Dutch News) Education inspectors have launched another investigation at Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school amid claims that a pupil was suspended for allegedly filming teachers in class. Two weeks ago a film was leaked to Het Parool in which a teacher at […]
(Delaware News Journal) One year after Muslim students were asked to leave a Wilmington public pool because of their clothing, the children and their principal returned to the pool on its opening day. This time, they felt welcomed. “We had a wonderful time,” […]
(Washington Post) A local Islamic schoolteacher who cultivated sexual video conversations with a 15-year-old student will go to prison for 10 years. Seitu Sulayman Kokayi, 30, was convicted at trial in Alexandria federal court earlier this year of sending pornographic images to […]
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