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(National-UAE) Austria launched an initiative on Wednesday to identify and register social and educational institutions that are the targets of Islamist-controlled organisations for political purposes. The new approach will involve an audit of groups through the country’s Documentation Centre for Political Islam, […]
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(Greek City Times) The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has released a statement condemning Turkey’s conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. ISNA says that the Quran states that it [is] against their religious beliefs to desecrate a Christian place of […]
(National-UAE) The British government is still trying to get on top of the threat posed by so-called lone-wolf terror attacks and extremists in prison, it has conceded. Responding to questions in parliament on Tuesday, justice minister Lucy Frazer said the government had […]
(Canadian Press) A terrorism suspect is waging a new court fight against the federal government for information he says he needs to mount a full argument against deportation to his native Egypt and possible torture. It is just the latest twist in […]
(Global News) The family of a Canadian orphan living at a camp for ISIS detainees in Syria filed legal action against the federal government on Tuesday, alleging Ottawa is violating her rights by not bringing her home. The case was filed in […]
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(Jerusalem Post) German federal police caught a suspected spy for Iran’s terrorist Quds Force in the state of Hesse, according to a review of the new Federal Intelligence Service report released by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s interior minister on Friday. “In February 2019, […]
(Breitbart) A report compiled by members of the French Senate has detailed the spread of political Islam across France and listed 44 proposals to combat radical Islamist ideology. The report, which was written by the Commission of Inquiry on Islamist Radicalisation and […]
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(JTA) Two U.S. senators want to know if kosher and halal food is being included in the Department of Agriculture’s efforts to help alleviate food insecurity during the coronavirus crisis. The senators, Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who represent large […]
(Free Beacon) The Al Jazeera news network is running afoul of U.S. laws mandating it disclose its ties to the Qatari royal family, which has for years used the network to further Doha’s political interests in America, according to a new report […]
(Dutch News) Court hearings have ended in the appeal against politician Geert Wilders’ criminal sentence for inciting racial discrimination. In 2016, the PVV leader was found guilty of insulting a group of people and inciting discrimination, after leading calls for “fewer, fewer, […]
(Courthouse News) Religious groups argued their case against a Belgian law banning ritual animal slaughter before the European Union’s highest court on Wednesday, while Belgium denied the law infringes on religious freedom. The law, which requires that animals be stunned before being […]
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(Radio NZ) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it’s not her place to decide if Sir John Key should apologise over false claims brides were leaving New Zealand for ISIS in 2015. The Islamic Women’s Council says the later-disproven comment to the Parliamentary […]
(Jewish News) Senior Jewish and Muslim leaders this week issued a joint plea ahead of a European Court of Justice hearing into the legality of a Belgian ban on religious slaughter. Standing together on the issue were Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president […]
(AFP) It is “shameful” that the European Union has still not found a solution for the care of asylum seekers five years after the migration crisis, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, whose country holds the EU presidency, said Tuesday. Seehofer was speaking […]
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(Portsmouth News) A Conservative councillor suspended after being linked to a Twitter account spewing Islamophobic bile has hit out at Boris Johnson[‘s] jibe against women wearing a burka. Denmead ward member Judith Clementson has repeatedly refused to “confirm or deny” she is […]
(Reuters) Greece moved 25 unaccompanied minors from overcrowded migrant camps to Portugal on Tuesday as part of a relocation programme to EU countries. The boys, all aged between 15 and 17, had lived in refugee camps on outlying Greek islands. They have […]
(AFP) The number of foreign medical graduates from Muslim-majority countries coming to the United States to become doctors has declined by 15 percent under the Trump administration, exacerbating shortages in America’s physician workforce, a study said Monday. International medical graduates represent about […]
(Global News) A former member of a terrorist group that plotted truck bombings in Toronto to protest Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan is appealing a government decision to place him on the no-fly list. Saad Gaya was part of the Toronto 18 […]
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(AFP) Italy on Sunday authorised charity vessel Ocean Viking to transfer 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to a ship in Sicily for quarantine, the ship’s operator and the government said. Those on board exploded with joy at the announcement that their […]
(AFP) Italy is carrying out tests on 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean with a view to transferring them to a quarantine vessel in Sicily, an interior ministry source said Saturday. The migrants have been on the Ocean Viking ship operated by […]
(NZ Herald) The Labour Party has sacked one of its list candidates after revelations he publicly praised an anti-Islam column in 2013. Kurt Taogaga, ranked 68th on the list, said he wasn’t sure he agreed with then-NZ First MP Richard Prosser’s racist […]
(Middle East Eye) The killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis triggered the largest protests over systemic racism and police brutality the United States has seen in more than a generation. Black Lives Matter protests swiftly spread to more […]
(Asharq al-Awsat) Hussein Demir, a former law professor at the University of Ankara, sat inside a Turkish cafe in the Spandau district of Berlin, with his friend Omar, a Turkish businessman, drinking coffee and whispering. As I joined them, the conversation moved […]
(Brussels Times) The city council for Brussels-City has given the go-ahead for a demonstration against a ban on wearing the Islamic headscarf in public offices and in schools. However, the council warned the organisers they could be fined if the numbers taking […]
(Reuters) The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government to repeal a tightening of the Hungarian asylum system, provisions of which it says could violate international laws. Hungary shut so-called migrant transit zones on its borders […]
(Reuters) Austria and Turkey accused each other on Monday of responding inappropriately to clashes between Kurdish and Turkish protesters in Vienna last week, further straining relations. On Wednesday, a brawl broke out after Turks heckled a Kurdish gathering in Vienna, police said. […]
(CBC) The Canadian government is flouting its international human rights obligations by failing to repatriate and provide adequate consular assistance to 47 citizens who are currently detained in northeast Syria because of alleged ties to the Islamic State, a new report from […]
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(Yle) Finns Party MP Juha Mäenpää will not be prosecuted for inciting ethnic hatred after a vote in parliament on lifting his immunity as a legislator fell short of the required five-sixths majority. The proposal to lift his immunity was supported by […]
(AP) The leaders of Greece and Turkey spoke by phone Friday, the prime minister’s office says, after months of increasing tension between the two countries. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan focused on the consequences of the […]
(AP) The Hungarian government is “very concerned” that the coronavirus pandemic will trigger more waves of migrants trying to reach Europe from poorer nations where the disease will have a greater impact, the country’s foreign minister said Friday. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter […]
(Hill) Bipartisan lawmakers in the House and Senate on Friday issued a call for the European Union to designate all of Hezbollah a terrorist organization and ban its activities on the continent. In a letter led by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and […]
(NL Times) The Dutch state does not have to repatriate women and children currently trapped in camps in Syria or Iraq, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday in a cassation case filed by 23 Dutch women who went to areas controlled by […]
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(Jewish Journal) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) retweeted a Rutgers University assistant professor who alleged that Israeli Border Police unjustifiably killed a Palestinian driver in what appeared to be a car-ramming attack. On June 23, a car rammed into a tower at the […]
(Courthouse News) An EU magistrate condemned Hungary’s refugee policies Thursday, detailing a system where immigrants are made to sleep in shipping containers on the border for months while seeking asylum. Under the EU’s Reception Conditions Directive, people claiming asylum must have access […]
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(Deutsche Welle) The amount of women and girls in Germany who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) has increased to 68,000, the families minister announced Thursday. The increase, up 44% from the last estimated total calculated in 2017, was attributed to greater […]
(Dutch News) Many mosques in the Netherlands are being funded by foreign organisations seeking to promote a hardline, anti-democratic version of Islam, a committee of MPs has warned. The committee, headed by CDA MP Michel Rog, voiced concern about the influence of […]
(Reuters) The leader of Danish far-right party Stram Kurs, lawyer Rasmus Paludan, was disbarred from the legal profession and sentenced to three months in jail on Thursday after being found guilty of racism. Stram Kurs (Hard Line) was close to getting into […]
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