(Detroit News) Efforts to revise the federal law prohibiting female genital cutting had been stalled in the U.S. House, but leaders appear poised to take up the issue this fall. Republican lawmakers have pushed legislation to restore the law after a ruling by a federal judge […]
(Deutsche Welle) Abdul D., an Afghan asylum-seeker convicted of stabbing his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend to death, was found dead at a juvenile prison in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, police and prosecutors said on Thursday. Authorities said in a statement that Abdul D.’s body […]
(Alabama Political Reporter) Alabama is one of just 15 states where girls have no laws protecting them against female genital mutilation. The EndFGMToday initiative wants all states to pass laws outlawing the procedure in 2020. They also are trying to get federal […]
(Brussels Times) A former Islamic religion teacher accused of indecent assault will stand trial on Tuesday morning in the Brussels Criminal Court. The 53-year-old faces charges of indecent assault and harassment for unsolicited touching, an accusation made by a former student of […]
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(Jerusalem Post) A German court in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday sentenced a radical Islamist Palestinian asylum seeker to a 10-year prison term for attempting to murder judges and prosecutors. Haidar A., the extremist Palestinian, had previously been sentenced in […]
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(AFP) The French authorities have expanded an investigation against Tariq Ramadan, a leading Islamic scholar already charged in France with raping two women, to include evidence from two more alleged victims, judicial sources said Sunday. Ramadan, a Swiss national, 57, has already […]
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(Al-Jazeera) Tariq Ramadan is recognised by many as the most prominent Islamic studies academic in the Western world. But at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, Ramadan was forced to take leave from his post as Oxford University’s professor of […]
(Stuff) No-one knows what to do with Mohyadin Farah, a Somali who came here as a refugee with a history of sexually assaulting women. He’s been to jail, been in psychiatric care and even been considered for removal from the country. Nothing […]
(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 […]
(Journal Inquirer) A federal jury on Thursday found a Manchester auto mechanic guilty of making a false statement during an FBI interview in June 2015. The mechanic, Fareed Ahmed Khan, 61, who has lived on Hudson Street, was originally charged with making […]
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(Local) Plans to accommodate “unwanted” migrants on Lindholm, an uninhabited Danish island, have been officially scrapped by the Social Democratic government. Minister for Immigration and Integration [Mattias] Tesfaye gave on Thursday official confirmation that the facility, plans for which were put in […]
(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 […]
(Journal Inquirer) When an FBI agent questioned a Manchester auto mechanic in June 2015 about his involvement with Islamic charities and his shipment of packages to Pakistan, both men had witnesses present. The mechanic — Fareed Ahmed Khan, 61, who has lived […]
(AFP) A German court sentenced a Moroccan trucker Wednesday to life in jail after finding that he murdered a 28-year-old student hitchhiker last year in a case pounced on by the far right. The 42-year-old driver named as Boujemaa Lamrabat, a Moroccan […]
(Journal Inquirer) The two federal agents who interviewed a Manchester auto mechanic in June 2015 about his involvement with an Islamic charity and the packages he regularly mailed to Pakistan didn’t record the interview electronically. The mechanic, Fareed Ahmed Khan, who is […]
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(JTA) A Dutch man charged with the attempted manslaughter of a Jewish father and son said he forgot why he stabbed them. During the first hearing in the case, the victims asked the judge to consider a religious or racist motive, which […]
(AFP) A French court on Thursday handed a 10-month suspended sentence to a sister of the Saudi crown prince over the beating of a workman at a luxury residence in Paris in 2016. Hassa bint Salman, a daughter of King Salman and […]
(CBS) Human smuggling is a big business in Athens and CBS News has found evidence that ISIS members are being moved through Greece to the rest of Europe. In central Athens, an area around Omonia Square is notorious as a center of criminal […]
(National-UAE) French authorities have allowed the publication of a book by Tariq Ramadan despite it outing a woman, known in the media under the pseudonym Christelle, who has accused the scholar of rape. A court in Paris ruled that the woman’s identity […]
(Radio France) A French court was to decide Tuesday whether to block the release of a book by Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan after a woman accusing him of rape alleged it violates a publication ban revealing her identity. The complaint is based […]
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(Breitbart) Due to a lack of police officers, several no-go “vulnerable areas” in Sweden have been forced to hire security guards in an effort to combat crime and violence. The municipality of Söderhamn is one of the areas forced to pay for security […]
(AP) Italian police have detained 10 people in the central Abruzzo region for alleged tax crimes and money laundering aimed at financing Islamic extremist groups. Investigators said at a news conference Saturday that the eight Tunisians and two Italians are suspected of […]
(Brussels Times) The system of Passenger Name Record (PNR) in operation in Belgium since January 2018 has managed to track down 94 suspected terrorists and suspects involved in a variety of crimes, according to the government’s crisis centre. Under the PNR system, […]
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(CBC) Climate change and Islamophobia were key topics Tuesday night for a crowd in downtown Toronto who attended a town hall with federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. The town hall, which was hosted by the National Canadian Council of Muslims, touched on a […]
(Canadian Press) A 74-year-old Toronto man faces charges after allegedly yelling “Heil Hitler” and accosting participants at a pro-Israel march. Police say Ali Amirsalam was arrested last week on charges of causing a disturbance and uttering death threats at the event in […]
(Deutsche Welle) Some 640,000 Germans now have an alarm gun license, some 30,000 more than at the end of last year, according to research by the Rheinische Post newspaper. The number has risen hugely since 2014, when some 260,000 people carried such a license. […]
(JTA) A Swedish imam was fined about $305 for hate speech for calling Jews the “offspring of apes and pigs” during an anti-Israel demonstration two years ago. Samir el Rifai of Helsingborg made the statement in Arabic in response to Israel limiting […]
(Houston Chronicle) A year after a Jordanian man was sentenced to death in Houston for two grisly “honor killings” of his daughter’s close friend and husband, the man’s son pleaded guilty Thursday to pulling the trigger in one of the 2012 slayings. […]
(AFP) A French court handed six-month jail terms to three members of a far-right group for erecting a blockade on an Alps mountain pass to try [to] keep migrants out. On April 21, 2018, several dozen members of the Generation Identitaire (Generation […]
(Royal Central) His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon visited the Al-Noor Islamic Centre last week to show support after the 10 August shooting attack on the mosque. Many people noticed that three women did not accept the crown prince’s outstretched hand as […]
(Morocco World News) In response to the latest rape allegation facing his already bruised reputation, Tariq Ramadan is categorical that the accusation is baseless and part of a further smear campaign. Months after being released on bail, facing multiple rape accusations, world-renowned […]
(AFP) Tariq Ramadan, a leading Islamic scholar charged in France with raping two women, has also been accused of taking part in the gang rape of a journalist, French judicial sources said Sunday. The sources confirmed reports on Europe 1 radio and […]
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(Chicago Sun-Times) Federal charges have been filed against a woman in two bank robberies in north suburban Skokie and West Rogers Park earlier this month. Willie M. Thomas robbed both Aug. 15, stealing more than $8,000 in total, according to a criminal […]
(Macomb Daily) Chesterfield Township police are seeking help identifying a suspected bank robber. At about 10 a.m., Aug. 22, an unknown suspect robbed the TCF Bank on 23 Mile Road, near DW Seaton Drive, police said. The suspect fled the bank on […]
(Deutsche Welle) When Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen refugee living in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, shared a DW article on his Facebook page last year, he never imagined he’d end up in legal trouble. But this week a court in Augsburg fined […]
(CBC) A Muslim civil liberties group is calling on Quebec City police to take hate crimes more seriously, after the police force blamed “human error” for a large discrepancy between their own records and those provided by Statistics Canada. “All Canadians deserve to feel […]
(Deutsche Welle) The man accused of the killing that led to a week of far-right violence last year in Chemnitz was found guilty of manslaughter at a court in Dresden on Thursday, and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. […]
(Toronto Sun) On Friday, the Green Party fired their candidate in the Quebec riding of Lévis-Lotbinière after he was labelled an “Islamophobe” because he dared to criticize a mosque leader. Luc Saint-Hilaire, who until recently was in Algeria giving professional training as […]
(Breitbart) An MP for the conservative Danish party the New Right has proposed to ban migrants from predominantly Muslim countries from becoming citizens of Denmark. MP Mette Thiesen wrote of her support for such a proposal on social media website Facebook stating, “In […]
(Chicago Sun-Times) A woman robbed two banks Thursday in north suburban Skokie and West Rogers Park on the North Side. About 11:50 a.m., a woman with a gun robbed the Byline Bank at 8400 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie, according to the FBI. […]
(Toronto Star) A federal Green Party candidate was forced to drop out of the upcoming election campaign as he continues to call on the leader of the Quebec City mosque that was site of a 2017 massacre to denounce a man who […]
(Dallas Morning News) A judge ordered a North Texas Muslim cleric to pay millions of dollars to a woman he is accused of sexually exploiting after counseling her for years. Zia ul-Haq Sheikh, who has served as an imam at Dallas-area mosques, must pay […]
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