(E-Notícies) Another imam has been expelled for making radical proclamations, bringing the total number of expelled Islamist religious leaders in Catalonia this year to three. In this case, it was a Moroccan man residing in Olot, who was subject to a deportation […]
(Knoxville News Sentinel) More than a year after the Knox County Sheriff’s Office published online a booking photo of a Muslim woman without her hijab, the agency deleted the mug shot from its internal database under pressure from a pending lawsuit. Layla […]
(European Conservative) A disturbing report from a Hamburg elementary school has revealed growing Islamist pressure on children in German classrooms, with one young girl allegedly assaulted and humiliated for refusing to wear a headscarf. In the BR podcast Kaffee extra Schwarz, journalist […]
(European Conservative) A Shiite Ashura procession held on Sunday, July 6th, near Milan’s central station has sparked fierce public backlash over the treatment of women participants. Approximately 1,300 Shiite Muslims marched from Piazza Repubblica to Stazione Centrale on Ashura, a day of […]
(Oregonian) Two Muslim women are suing the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, alleging they were forced to remove their religious head coverings while they were in custody and photographed in front of other prisoners and sheriff’s deputies. The suit was filed this week […]
(Daily Pilot) Two Muslim women arrested during a pro-Palestinian encampment protest at UC Irvine last year are suing the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, alleging deputies wrongfully forced them to remove their hijabs while in custody. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim […]
(Canadian Press) Prayer rooms, political student groups and controversial course content are fuelling a climate of tension and mistrust at two of Quebec’s junior colleges, according to a new government report. The report, published Friday by Quebec’s Education Department, says prayer rooms […]
(CBC) A Winnipeg woman is speaking out after she was forced to remove her hijab while trying to board a Flair Airlines flight. Kazi Amin flew to Bangladesh with her husband and children to visit their family. On her return flight, she had […]
(European Conservative) Spain’s nationalist-conservative opposition party VOX has submitted a parliamentary motion urging a nationwide ban on all forms of Islamic veils — such as hijabs, niqabs, and burqas — in all public spaces. The party argues this move is essential to […]
(European Conservative) The government of Spain has been shaken by reports uncovering the corruption of the Socialist Party. It is not a new situation; the Socialists have a long history of corruption as does the main opposition Popular Party, but the current […]
(Brussels Times) Flemish Minister of Internal Affairs Hilde Crevits (CD&V) has not yet received the decision from East Flanders regarding the implementation of a ban on religious symbols in provincial schools, delaying judgement on two complaints. The party Groen and a citizens’ […]
(Courthouse News) In modern French politics, little is certain. But there is one constant: The debate over the veil — the headscarf that Muslim women might wear in various forms — will always resurface. With the presidential election approaching in 2027 and […]
(Boston Globe) They were stories of hatred. One girl was playing in the yard with her sister, both wearing their hijabs, when a neighbor offered to take off their religious head coverings unprompted. A woman attending graduate school at Harvard said she […]
(LBC) Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has backed calls for bosses to be able to ban burqas in the workplace. The leader of opposition said individual organisations should be able to dictate what their employees dress in, adding the workers should not […]
(E-Notícies) Summer returns and so does one of the controversies of recent years in Catalonia: the use of the burkini. This piece of clothing that covers a woman’s entire body was normalized in 2023 by the Department of Equality and Feminisms, which […]
(GB News) Yasmine Mohammed has revealed the harrowing reality of escaping a forced marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative, only to face death threats from her own mother for removing her hijab. The human rights activist told GB News about her “terrifying” ordeal, […]
(LBC) Reform UK’s chairman Zia Yusuf has resigned after just 11 months. He said: “I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time, and [hereby] resign the office.” It comes as Yusuf said […]
(ITV) Reform UK is being rocked by more infighting after the chairman said MP Sarah Pochin’s first question at PMQs was “dumb” because it did not align with party policy. Parliament’s newest MP, who recently won the Runcorn & Helsby by-election, urged […]
(Euronews) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called on Thursday for stricter measures limiting religious symbols and rituals in education, asking for a ban on full-coverage veils worn by some Muslim women to be extended to schools and universities. The country’s overall […]
(GB News) Sarah Pochin’s call for the burka to be banned is an important one and deserves to be debated, Nigel Farage has said on GB News. The Reform UK leader spoke in response to his MP’s first ever Prime Minister’s Questions […]
(GB News) Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to “ban the burqa” in the “interest of public safety.” Addressing the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions, the representative for Runcorn and Helsby questioned the […]
(Detroit Free Press) In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, the man reached up and pulled away a scarlet cloth, revealing unto the people a sign. It was a cold day, late in winter. Maybe a hundred people […]
(Politico) French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Tuesday delivered a scathing critique of his predecessor and centrist ally Gabriel Attal’s proposal to ban Muslim headscarves for minors under 15. Attal, the leader of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance political party, publicly floated the […]
(Catalan News) The Catalan parliament has rejected a motion by far-right pro-independence party Aliança Catalana for a ban on the different forms of Islamic veil in public spaces. The text only received the support of the conservative People’s Party and far-right Vox, […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered the government to draw up proposals to tackle the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and the spread of political Islamism in France, the Elysee said. The French presidency made the announcement after Macron chaired […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron’s political party wants to ban minors under 15 from wearing the Muslim headscarf in public, with the government set to review a report Wednesday on the spread of “political Islamism” in France. Macron will meet with senior […]
(BBC) The new lord mayor of Sheffield has made history as the first black woman wearing a hijab to be appointed to the role. Labour’s Safiya Saeed was inaugurated as the city’s 128th lord mayor at a council meeting on Monday. Members […]
(Politico) France is pushing for more scrutiny on how EU grants are allocated in an attempt to fight antisemitism, hate speech and the funding of entities “obviously hostile to our common values.” France’s Europe Minister Benjamin Haddad also said he would ask […]
(Kathimerini) And suddenly, the occupied territories filled with demonstrators. Turkish Cypriots took to the streets — and stayed there. For two months now, an unprecedented wave of protests has been ongoing against the Islamification of their society and in favor of preserving […]
(National Post) Problems with political activism and antisemitism seeping into Canadian schools came to the fore last fall after Toronto students were taken to a rally against environmental contamination on an Indigenous reserve that quickly descended into an anti-Israel hate-fest. But this […]
(Brussels Times) A proposal to ban teachers in public education from wearing religious symbols will be tabled in June by the education minister of the French Community Government, Valérie Glatigny (MR). She revealed the information to La Première on Friday. The debate […]
(Anadolu) France’s president expressed support Tuesday for a ban on headscarves in sports competitions. “I stand by the Olympic Charter, which prohibits the wearing of all religious symbols in competitions,” Emmanuel Macron said during an interview with broadcaster TF1. He distinguished between […]
(NY Post) There’s a burqa burglar … on the loose in the Big Apple. The NYPD is on the lookout for a burqa-wearing bandit who broke into a Queens home last week and made off with a cache of jewelry — then […]
(Morocco World News) French President Emmanuel Macron claimed earlier this week that his country respects religious freedom and is committed to preserving the fundamental rights of its Muslim citizens and residents, yet the latest controversial statement by Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau confirms […]
(AFP) Several thousand Turkish Cypriots marched on Friday to protest a new regulation allowing pupils to wear Islamic headscarves in secondary schools, a move critics say threatens the community’s secular traditions. The rule, introduced in March in the breakaway Turkish Republic of […]
(Euronews) In the heart of Germany’s capital, a heated political debate has reignited over the boundaries of religious freedom in the public sphere. The Bundestag’s Green Party group has submitted a motion to abolish Berlin’s Neutrality Act (“Neutralitätsgesetz”), a law that prohibits […]
(Brussels Times) The province of East Flanders has introduced a ban on wearing religious and political symbols in provincial education, aimed at ensuring philosophical neutrality, a decision approved by the provincial council on Wednesday amid some controversy. Coalition partner Vooruit voted against […]
(GB News) NHS staff have been encouraged by top management to fast for Ramadan, to display “allyship” with Muslim colleagues. The “NHS Ramadan Challenge” called on NHS staff to join Muslims in fasting during the Islamic holy month in a poster circulated […]
(GB News) NHS staff have been informed how to convert to Islam in a guide made by the NHS Muslim Network. The Network’s “Guide for New Muslims” tells NHS staff that converting to Islam will be the “best decision you ever make” […]
(JNS) The Chicago Jewish Alliance denounced Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday after the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations posted a photo of him wearing a keffiyeh to celebrate Arab Heritage Month. “This is outrageous,” the alliance wrote. “For […]
(Euronews) The Greens party’s group in the Berlin House of Representatives has made a motion calling for the abolition of the so-called Neutrality Act, a law that prohibits civil servants from visibly wearing or displaying religious symbols while at work. The 2005 […]
(Canadian Press) Quebec’s minister responsible for secularism says the government isn’t ruling out expanding its religious symbols ban to include daycare employees. Jean-François Roberge says “everything is on the table” when it comes to strengthening secularism in the province, including extending the […]
(AFP) A French court ruled that a Muslim school could continue to receive state subsidies after local authorities in 2023 cut funding over alleged “serious breaches” of teaching rules, the court and its management said. Private schools can receive state subsidies in […]
(Canadian Press) Education Minister Bernard Drainville’s bill to extend secularism in Quebec schools is far from reaching consensus. While the list of people calling for the legislation to go further is growing, others are calling for it to be withdrawn altogether. In […]
(Montreal Gazette) Hearings into new legislation reinforcing secularism in schools Thursday rapidly took on the makings of an encore performance of the 2019 debate over Bill 21 on state secularism, with groups pro and con coming forward to push their views on […]
(AFP) On the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilos of bar and weights clean over her veiled head. The single mother made her four children proud when she became the French national champion […]
(Toronto Sun) While anti-Israel marchers in Ottawa wearing Hamas-inspired costumes prompted concern from the city’s mayor’s office, Ottawa police maintain the activists did nothing wrong. Footage of a March 29 anti-Israel protest in downtown Ottawa depicted marchers dressed in black, wearing black […]
(European Conservative) On Thursday, April 3rd, the European Parliament’s Strasbourg plenary adopted a resolution to condemn Iran for executing hundreds of political prisoners each year and to call for revoking the death sentence of two prominent activists facing imminent execution. However, when […]
(European Conservative) Authorities in Zurich have, for the first time, issued a fine under the Swiss law known as the “burqa ban,” prohibiting facial coverings in public spaces. Police officers in the city of Zurich fined a woman who covered her face […]
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Though she was awarded more than $70,000 from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, Layla Soliz’s case is far from over because, for her, it was never about the money. She is seeking to amend the sheriff’s office policy on […]
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