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(Swiss Info) The government has decided against introducing state-run training courses for imams as a way of preventing the potential radicalisation of extremist preachers. A religious neutrality clause in the Swiss constitution and an international comparison led the government to its conclusion […]
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(JTA) A Muslim imam in Norway who has led interfaith dialogue projects has made antisemitic statements on Facebook, including on how Jews are dangerous and “should be killed,” for years. The Norway branch of Minhaj-ul-Quran, an international Muslim organization that is considered […]
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(Algemeiner) A top Canadian Jewish group expressed deep concern on Thursday regarding a speaker at a scheduled conference of Muslim students who has expressed violently antisemitic sentiments. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) described the invitation to cleric Tareq Al-Suwaidan […]
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(Swiss Info) The Swiss justice authorities have indicted a Muslim preacher accused of racial discrimination and welfare fraud. Abu Ramadan will have to stand trial in a district court, the Bern cantonal prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The controversial imam of a […]
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(Free Beacon) An imam who serves as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) said in a sermon that Muslims will “erase this filth called Israel” after accusing Jews of creating a “colonial” settlement. Mohammad Abbasi, who teaches […]
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(Anadolu) The imam of a mosque in France’s Loire region was dismissed at the behest of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, on the grounds that the verse and hadith the former recited in the Eid al-Adha prayer sermon were deemed “contrary to the […]
(Algemeiner) “I was wrong,” said Mohammed Al-Azdee, with disarming candor. An associate professor of communication theory at Bridgeport University in Connecticut, the Iraqi-born Al-Azdee was speaking to the Algemeiner in detail about his latest research project: examining the content of khutbahs, the […]
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(AFP) A French teenager whose criticism of Islam saw her targeted with a barrage of online abuse met with the imam of the main Paris mosque [Thursday], a visit she said she hoped would “calm things down for everyone.” It came a […]
(Free Beacon) Convicted terrorists linked to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda led religious services at one-third of the federal prisons audited by a federal watchdog, a practice officials say presents safety and security risks. The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General […]
(AFP) Germany has launched a state-backed training centre for imams to help reduce the number of Islamic leaders coming in from abroad, but the initiative has been shunned by leading Turkish groups. Around 40 aspiring religious leaders attended their first classes at […]
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(Breitbart) Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada justified hatred toward Jews in a shocking recent sermon that claimed their “injustice” toward others and rejection of Islam and its prophets, while warning a mosque is no place for those unable or unwilling to hate. In […]
(Kathimerini) Greece’s foreign ministry reacted strongly Sunday to repeated statements by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu referring to a “Turkish minority” during his Sunday visit to Thrace by accusing him of repeatedly distorting reality. Cavusoglu, who has arrived in Athens, visited earlier […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Sunday met with representatives of the Muslim Turkish minority in the Western Thrace region of Greece. Arriving in Greece on a two-day visit, Cavusoglu was welcomed by Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal, Turkey’s Ambassador to […]
(AP) Applicants for a chaplain’s job at a Maryland county jail had to sign a statement affirming that they are Christians, a Muslim man claims Thursday in a federal lawsuit accusing the county and a contractor of religious discrimination. Lawyers from the […]
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(Staten Island Advance) New York City is adding 11 public schools certified to serve meals as part of the city Department of Education (DOE) halal in schools pilot program, bringing the total to 43 schools across the five boroughs, Schools Chancellor Meisha […]
(Copenhagen Post) Naser Khader, who stepped down from his duties as a Konservative MP to take stress leave in April, will today begin his defence in the Supreme Court against charges that he libelled the female imam Sherin Khankan. Like she did […]
(CBC) It’s a situation that happens often. Neighbours hear sounds of fighting next door and call 911. Police arrive within minutes, knock on the door and ask questions. But when the officers are white, and the person who answers the door is […]
(ANSA) Italian police on Thursday arrested a prison imam at Alessandria for allegedly hailing jihad and calling for the destruction of the Vatican. The man, a Moroccan detainee, allegedly praised terrorist attacks like those on the offices of Paris satirical weekly Charlie […]
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(Reuters) Hundreds of people including Muslim imams paid tribute on Monday to a female French police official stabbed to death last week by a French resident of Tunisian origin who shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest.” The police administrative worker, a […]
(Euronews) Kahina Bahloul says she didn’t just wake up one day and decide to become an imam but rather that “it’s been a long journey.” Indeed, the law graduate used to work as an insurance broker. Born in France to a Muslim-Algerian […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday condemned the latest move by Greece on appointing the chief mufti and Athens’ treatment of Turkish descendants in Western Thrace. “Under Treaty of Lausanne, Greece has no right to appoint the chief mufti for […]
(Anadolu) Athens has “no right” to appoint the chief Islamic cleric, or mufti, of Muslims living in Greece according to the Treaty of Lausanne, Turkey’s president said on Friday. “How can you do that? We don’t appoint the patriarch,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
(Breitbart) Swedish public broadcaster SVT has been criticised after inviting an imam from a controversial school onto a programme to explain the Christian holiday of Easter. Television programme Helgstudion invited Imam Nasir Ahmad Arif and the Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén to discuss Easter […]
(CBC) A woman who testified in a sexual assault trial that ended with the conviction of a Surrey imam is being recognized with an award for her bravery. The woman, whose identity is protected by a B.C. Supreme Court order, spent six weeks […]
(Anadolu) The International Union [of] Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Saturday decried a French government request for mosque imams to recommend same-sex marriage as a double standard against Islam. In a Facebook post addressed to French Minister of Citizenship Marlène Schiappa, IUMS Secretary-General […]
(Christian Science Monitor) As Imam Husamuddin Meyer walks through this old city of cobblestone streets and classical architecture in central Germany, many young people pass by and wave to him as though he were a YouTube star. Clad in a turban, the […]
(Daily Caller) A Miami imam attacked the Catholic Church and called Jews “the offspring of apes and pigs,” a research institute reported Thursday. Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi, imam of the North Miami Islamic Center, also attacked the Kurds in a now-deleted sermon […]
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(Middle East Eye) A coalition of civil society organisations on Monday urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to investigate France at the European Court of Justice over its controversial “imam charter,” saying that it violates Muslims’ right to free speech […]
(Deutsche Welle) Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 11 1/2 years for Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah A., also known as Abu Walaa. They said the defendant, who was born in Iraq, was the head of an “Islamic State” (IS) network and worked to […]
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