(SD Union-Tribune) The abrupt withdrawal of a permit allowing Rep. Rashida Tlaib to speak at the Westview High School theater, reportedly to allow staff time to clean the facility before the holiday break, will not block the Democratic congresswoman’s visit, organizers say. […]
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(CBC) Amal Sassi was counting on Quebec’s highest court to suspend the province’s controversial secularism law, so she kept her head buried in her books Thursday and focused on studying for her final exams. When she stepped out and heard the news that […]
(Times of San Diego) A day after the Council on American-Islamic Relations won approval to host a talk by controversial Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan at a Torrey Ranch-area school, permission was revoked Thursday due to a schedule conflict. The cancellation had […]
(Swiss Info) Swiss parliamentarians have supported a plan to oblige people to show their faces during identity checks and visits to social security authorities. The proposal is aimed at countering an outright ban on wearing a burka in public. The House of Representatives on […]
(Local) Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has praised police after a major anti-terror operation in Denmark on Wednesday. 20 people were arrested in a major anti-terror operation at several locations in the country, with a number of the arrested individuals suspected of terrorism offences. […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium must provide travel and identity documents to ten children of Belgian Islamic State (IS) members in Syria in order to facilitate their return to Belgium. The ruling on Wednesday ordered federal authorities to provide consular assistance to the children […]
(CBC) Quebec’s Court of Appeal has refused to suspend the province’s controversial ban on religious symbols, even while acknowledging it causes “irreparable harm” to those affected. The province’s top court was ruling on a request to stay sections of the Laicity Act, or Bill 21, […]
(Yle) The Foreign Ministry took the lead in planning an operation to repatriate Finnish nationals who wanted to return to Finland from the al-Hol refugee camp in Syria, according to official documents seen by Yle. The material indicated that the draft plan […]
(Times of San Diego) A conservative group wants Poway school officials to cancel a talk by Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, a Palestinian-American seen as one of Israel’s most vocal critics in Congress. The nonprofit Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund — which […]
(National-UAE) A major European counterterrorism politician has warned that France’s monitoring of extremists is still failing a year after a terror attack in Strasbourg. ISIS extremist Cherif Chekatt killed five people and wounded 11 others during a shooting and stabbing spree at […]
(Anadolu) Turkey has deported two German citizens over links to the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group, Turkish officials announced on Wednesday. An Interior Ministry statement said the extradition process continues for other foreign terrorist fighters in Turkey. The issue of the handling of Daesh/ISIS […]
(PolitiFact) A satirical story claiming U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar hosted a flag-burning party is being reshared on Facebook without labeling to let readers know it’s not actually real. “Ilhan Omar just hosted a flag burning party,” reads the headline of the Dec. […]
(National-UAE) A leading Islamic school in Sweden accused of appointing teachers who had recently returned from fighting for ISIS abroad has been shut down amid fears students were at risk of being radicalised. Abdel Nasser El Nadi, former principal of Vetenskapsskolan school […]
(Dutch News) The national terror threat level has been reduced for the first time in six years in response to the falling number of attacks in Europe. The national counter-terrorism co-ordinator (NCTV) brought the official assessment down from level four (“substantial”) to […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium is reshuffling and expanding its terrorism database in order to better equip law enforcement authorities to monitor and share information about “potentially dangerous people,” particularly behind bars. Justice Minister Koen Geens announced in a press release that the common […]
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(CBC) The stakes around Quebec’s secularism law have always been high, but somehow they’ve managed to become even higher in recent days. The law (Bill 21) has already altered the career choices of dozens, maybe hundreds, of aspiring public school teachers, prosecutors and police officers by […]
(Anadolu) Turkey deported 11 French citizens over links to the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group, the Interior Ministry announced on Monday. The ministry statement said that 71 foreign Daesh/ISIS members were sent to their home countries from Nov. 11 to Dec. 9. They include […]
(Dutch News) The public prosecution department said on Monday that it had found no evidence of political interference in the decision to prosecute anti-Islam campaigner and MP Geert Wilders for discrimination after leading supporters in an anti-Moroccan chant. Wilders has called on […]
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(CBS) National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said that Friday’s shooting at a naval base in Florida “appears to be a terrorist attack.” The gunman was a member of the Saudi Air Force and an aviation student at the base. “To me, it […]
(BBC) Conservative chairman James Cleverly has apologised for cases of Islamophobia in his party. Mr Cleverly said he was “sorry” when Tory members and candidates “do or say things that are wrong.” But he added that he was “confident” there was now […]
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(Deutsche Welle) Germany has deported 90 “Gefährder” and other “relevant persons” since the 2016 attack on a Berlin Christmas market, according to German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, which cited a government response to a parliamentary inquiry on Friday. In Germany a “Gefährder” (lit. “endangerer”) […]
(Free Beacon) Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) rejected an effort by their fellow Democrats to pass a resolution affirming the United States’ support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During debate of a non-binding resolution […]
(IPT) So that’s how the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) deals with “Zionism on [a] daily basis”? Less than a week after CAIR co-founder and executive director Nihad Awad said combating the idea of a Jewish homeland is a daily mission at […]
(Deutsche Welle) Some Iranian journalists living and working abroad have been getting bad news when calling home after discovering that parents and siblings have been interrogated and detained. For years, Iranian authorities have been putting pressure on family members to silence critical journalists […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) was the keynote speaker at a conference hosted by a Muslim organization that traffics in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and that counts among its supporters many who seek Israel’s destruction. Tlaib headlined the American Muslims for […]
(Deutsche Welle) Interior ministers from Germany’s 16 federal states agreed at their annual meeting Thursday to relax a moratorium on deportations to Syria. The chairman of the “Innenministerkonferenz” (interior ministers’ conference), Hans-Joachim Grote said there was cross-party consensus. “The ban on deportations […]
(Breitbart) Denmark has announced that another Islamic State member will have their passport and citizenship revoked in what has become the third case in just over a week. The first case involved a 25-year-old Kurdish man who had joined Islamic State as […]
(Brussels Times) A Belgian court has given the government 75 days to begin organising the repatriation of a Belgian woman affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) and her child from the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria. Belgium is expected to appeal the […]
(Hill) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) knocked French President Emmanuel Macron for “cavalier” comments about ISIS fighters who traveled from Europe to join the terrorist group. “Very disturbed by the cavalier remarks made by President Macron about how the number of European ISIS […]
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(CBC) Quebec Premier François Legault offered a brief shout-out on Tuesday to Quebecers “preoccupied” with the alleged bias of a judge involved in a case related to the province’s secularism law. During a media scrum at the National Assembly, Legault was asked […]
(Anadolu) Germany’s integration minister on Tuesday expressed concern over Islamophobia, warning that it poses a “real danger” to social cohesion. Presenting the annual government report on the state of integration in the capital Berlin, Annette Widmann-Mauz said: “Right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism, and hostility […]
(Hill) President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron held a tense meeting Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit, with Trump at one point telling the French leader he could send him some “ISIS fighters” if he wanted them. “Would you […]
(JTA) Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour took to Twitter to clarify recent controversial comments she had made about Israel. Speaking Friday at the annual conference of American Muslims for Palestine in Chicago, Sarsour had criticized progressive Zionists. “Ask them this, how can you […]
(Anadolu) Turkey repatriated five foreign terrorist fighters to Germany on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said the German nationals were sent back to their countries of origin as part of Turkey’s ramped-up efforts to repatriate foreign terrorist […]
(JTA) Last month, Bernie Sanders wrote about his support for Israel, calling the nation an “enormous achievement” and “a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.” A few weeks later Linda Sarsour, a prominent Arab-American activist and an official Sanders campaign surrogate, said […]
(JNS) As many as 1,050 Hezbollah members and supporters reside in Germany, and the organization uses the country as a major hub for its activities, German daily Tagesspiegel reported last week, citing security sources. The Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist group’s operations in Europe […]
(Middle East Eye) Activists and academics gathered in Chicago over the weekend for the 12th annual American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) convention, calling on American Muslims and the Democratic Party to prioritise Palestine as a foreign policy issue. Those present at the […]
(CBC) A Quebec historian has launched a formal complaint against the chief justice of the province’s Court of Appeal over comments she made about the province’s religious symbols law. Frédéric Bastien, who teaches history at Dawson College, said taken together, Justice Nicole Duval […]
(BBC) Boris Johnson has said the “grim reality” is that “some people can’t be rehabilitated” in prison. The PM called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release after convicted terrorist Usman Khan killed two people on London Bridge on Friday. […]
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(Sky News) Jeremy Corbyn has told Sky News that convicted terrorists should “not necessarily” automatically serve their full prison sentences. The Labour leader’s comment comes in the wake of Friday’s London Bridge terror attack, which left two people dead. The attacker, 28-year-old […]
(BBC) Boris Johnson has told the BBC that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early will have their licence conditions reviewed. The Ministry of Justice launched the urgent review after convicted terrorist Usman Khan, who had served half of his […]
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(CBC) Members of a Nigerian family living in Windsor say they fear for their lives as a result of media attention they’ve received after a deportation order previously issued by the Canadian government. Rasheedat Bakare, her husband Afeez, son Faaiq and daughter […]
(CBC) As a political spat plays out between Manitoba and Quebec over Bill 21, some Muslim women affected by the province’s ban on religious symbols say they are tempted by the offer to move to the Prairie province. Seeba Chaachouh, a third-year law […]
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