(Morocco World News) Frances’s administrative court of the northern city of Amiens has decided to give a “provisional reopening” of the Great Mosque of Beauvais after being closed for six months for “unacceptable” preaching. The French lawyer for the association managing the […]
(SVT) Shia Muslim imams in many parts of Sweden conduct wedding ceremonies in which women are bought by men for casual sexual relations, Mission: Investigate reveals. Often the imams charge a fee for this. Called “pleasure marriages” in Arabic, the aim of […]
(AFP) An Algerian preacher who spent eight years in the US-run Guantanamo prison went on trial in France on Tuesday for allegedly encouraging several young men to join the Islamic State group. Saber Lahmar, a 52-year-old Algerian released by the US in […]
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(Breitbart) A 38-year-old radical Muslim man was handed a weak six-month suspended sentence by a French court this week for threatening to kill a local imam. The 38-year-old, who is also on the French anti-terrorism watchlist known as the S-File, got into […]
(Jewish News) An MP has demanded to know “how on earth” an Egyptian-born “hate preacher who has previously given sermons about killing Jews” was allowed to enter the UK. Dr Omar Abdul Kafi had last month given a lecture at the Finsbury […]
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(Kathimerini) Greece told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday that there is no provision in the Treaty of Lausanne, a 1923 peace accord which, among other things, forged modern Greece and Turkey’s borders, stating that the muftis of the Muslim minority […]
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(Courthouse News) In 2017, Imam Abdirahman Aden Kariye returned to the United States from Saudi Arabia after participating in the hajj — the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca. When he entered the United States at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Customs and Border Protection agents […]
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(ANSA) A 43-year-old self-proclaimed imam who allegedly called for the Vatican to be destroyed has been sent to trial in Turin. Bouchta El Allam, who is of Moroccan origin and was detained by Carabinieri police in May 2021, is accused of instigation […]
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(AP) The French government on Saturday introduced a new body to reshape Islam in France, part of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to rid it of extremism. The Forum of Islam in France leadership will be made up of clergy and lay people […]
(Radio France) In what’s being described as a decisive period for Islam in France, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (Cfcm) — an official interlocutor between the government and religious leaders — is to be dissolved and replaced with a grassroots-style […]
(Times of Israel) A French imam known for his involvement in interfaith initiatives said he and his family have been living under threat from Islamists for years, emotionally recalling the toll the assaults and harassment have taken. In an interview with France […]
(Brussels Times) The deportation of a Moroccan national accused of spreading hate propaganda and being a “threat to Belgian society” is being blocked by the Council for Immigration Disputes. Analysis from OCAD (the Belgian intelligence body) and State Security describe Abdallah Ouahbour […]
(National-UAE) An imam suspected of being a recruiter for ISIS has been deported by Sweden after a year in detention. Ahmed Ahmed, 52, was detained last year on suspicion of being a key figure in the radicalisation and recruitment of ISIS fighters […]
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(VRT) VRT News has learnt that last October Belgian asylum and migration secretary Sammy Mahdi (Flemish Christian democrat) withdrew the residence rights of Mohamed Toujgani, the head imam at the Al Khalil Mosque in the Brussels borough of Molenbeek. Al Khalil is Belgium’s […]
(BBC) The son of notorious hate cleric Abu Hamza has been jailed for his involvement in a money-laundering plot. Ti-to Ibn-Sheikh created false identities for HSBC bank account holders using information passed to him by an insider at the bank. Southwark Crown […]
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(Morocco World News) Tareq Oubrou, the rector of the grand mosque of Bordeaux, France, has criticized Congolese-French rapper Maitre Gims after he called on his Muslim fans to stop sending him new year and birthday wishes, considering the practice to be “un-Islamic.” […]
(Euronews) A mosque in northern France has been ordered shut for six months for “inciting violence.” The prefecture of the Oise département said the large mosque in Beauvais was closed for “inciting hatred,” “violence” and “apology of jihad.” France’s interior minister Gérald […]
(Breitbart) Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada in a recent sermon compared wishing people a Merry Christmas to congratulating murderers and pedophiles, as he called on Allah (God) to “humiliate the infidels” and “annihilate the heretics and atheists.” In a speech delivered at the […]
(NY Post) A New York imam was charged with attempted child sex abuse raps after he was busted in a civilian sting operation that exposes pedophiles on YouTube, the Post has learned. Ahmet Yuceturk, who was previously the imam at JFK Airport’s […]
(AFP) France’s interior minister said on Tuesday he had launched a procedure to close a mosque for up to six months because of the radical nature of its imam’s preaching. Gerald Darmanin told the Cnews TV channel he had “triggered” the process […]
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(BBC) The mosque which the Manchester Arena bomber attended failed to adequately “challenge extremist ideology” in the years before the attack, the families of his victims have said. A former Didsbury Mosque imam has told the Manchester Arena inquiry support for terror […]
(AP) The Paris Mosque is marking the sixth anniversary Friday of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital that killed 90 people. Muslim leaders laid a wreath at the venue in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, one day before a […]
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(NL Times) There were no undercover investigations in mosques in the municipalities of Huizen, Hilversum, and Gooise Meren. The three municipalities said this in a joint statement following a publication in NRC on Saturday. The newspaper reported that undercover researchers visited Islamic […]
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(NL Times) At least ten municipalities commissioned undercover investigators to visit mosques and collect sensitive information on administrators, imams and teachers, the NRC reported. The municipalities that ordered the investigations included Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Zoetermeer. Utrecht halted the investigations after concerns about […]
(Anadolu) A court in northern Greece has postponed the trial of a religious leader of the country’s Muslim Turkish minority elected in defiance of Greek authorities who have sought to appoint the holder of [the] post. Ibrahim Serif, the elected mufti of […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s federal prosecutor general announced Friday that the investigation resulting from a raid on a Düsseldorf hotel that saw the arrest of a Turkish man identified as Ali D. was being treated as a case of suspected espionage on behalf of the […]
(AFP) France is moving to shut six mosques and break up several associations suspected of producing radical Islamic propaganda, Interior Minister [Gerald] Darmanin said on Tuesday. A third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical” and flagged by the […]
(Breitbart) A former radical Islamic Salafist preacher says that radicalism is present in every Swedish mosque and that Salafism is becoming more and more popular with younger people. Anas Khalifa, who had been a radical Salafist preacher for around 20 years, was […]
(AP) The imam at a northern Virginia mosque has been charged with sexually assaulting a girl who had sought his help. Fairfax County police said Tuesday that the 36-year-old imam, a Maryland resident, served as imam for the last nine years at […]
(BBC) Hossam Metwally has been sentenced for poisoning his partner during a series of exorcism ceremonies which left her on the brink of death. The doctor’s trial, which could not be reported until its conclusion, over his “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic […]
(Canadian Press) The Canadian Council of Imams says the Conservative candidate in Nova Scotia’s Central Nova riding must resign because his apology for Islamophobic media posts was an insincere attempt at damage control. Two weeks ago, Steven Cotter apologized on Facebook for […]
(Algemeiner) A French court has acquitted an imam in the city of Toulouse of incitement to racial hatred for a sermon he gave in 2017 that quoted a hadith — a saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammed — predicting the mass killing […]
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