(Free Beacon) As Democrat Amy McGrath was laying the groundwork for her Senate bid, she attended a dinner hosted by the Kentucky chapter of a radical anti-Israel organization that has been tied to funding of global terror networks. The Kentucky chapter of […]
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(Oregonian) A federal appeals court panel has upheld the government’s placement of four people on the no-fly list, finding the basis for the decision “reasonably clear” and not vague as challenged. One or more of the four plaintiffs allegedly financed terrorists, trained […]
(Local) Denmark’s Minister for Immigration and Integration Mattias Tesfaye has said he does not want to hand the power to revoke passports to parliament. A number of political parties have called for parliament to be given the power to withdraw passports, rather […]
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(Bismarck Tribune) A prominent North Dakota state senator drew a rebuke from U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and a Muslim civil rights group Monday for sharing a debunked photo on Facebook alleging Omar is a terrorist. Sen. Oley Larsen, R-Minot, who is the […]
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(CBC) Volunteers with the Canadian Muslim Vote non-profit are spending election day handing out free shawarmas at the Windsor Mosque. It’s as a way of rewarding voters, as well as a way of encouraging constituents who have yet to cast a ballot, […]
(AFP) The refusal of the French government to take back Islamic State fighters from Syria could fuel a new jihadist recruitment drive in France, threatening public safety, a leading anti-terrorism investigator has told AFP. David De Pas, coordinator of France’s 12 anti-terrorism […]
(Hungary Today) The Budapest Metropolitan Government Office has given permission for the opening of an elementary and high school established in Budapest by the lobbying organization of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — liberal news site 24.hu reports. Answering the portal’s questions, […]
(Delaware News Journal) A Delaware agency discriminated against a Muslim woman when they barred her from wearing her hijab, a religious head covering, according to a complaint filed Thursday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Not only was Madinah Brown ordered not […]
(CBC) Edmonton city councillors are denouncing legislation in Quebec that restricts civil servants from wearing religious symbols as discriminatory and racist. “Bill 21 is an offence to civil rights,” Mayor Don Iveson said during an executive committee meeting on Thursday. “It is troubling, deeply troubling to […]
(Reuters) France’s interior minister said on Thursday that intelligence services had arrested a man for planning an attack inspired by plane attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in Sept. 2001. France has for several years grappled with how to […]
(Reuters) Hungary would have to “use force” at its southern border with Serbia to protect the European Union’s frontier if Turkey delivers on a threat to open the gates for refugees through the Balkans towards Europe, Hungary’s prime minister said. Prime Minister […]
(Radio France) As the debate on wearing the Islamic hijab in France intensifies, President Emmanuel Macron has weighed in — saying Muslims should not be “stigmatised” and warning against what he called the “fatal shortcut” of linking Islam with terrorism. Speaking Wednesday […]
(Middle East Eye) Since mid-September, at least 40 Democrats in the US House of Representatives have signed on to cosponsor a piece of legislation seeking to overturn US President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, bringing the total number of signatories to 189. With […]
(Copenhagen Post) According to a new report from the Immigration and Integration Ministry, half of the descendants of non-western immigrants in Denmark want to do away with the freedom to criticise religion. Interestingly, the report (here in Danish) found that descendants of […]
(Reuters) Two Islamic State militants from Belgium have escaped custody in northern Syria in the course of Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish forces there, the head of Belgium’s security assessment agency said on Wednesday. Paul Van Tigchelt, head of OCAD, told a parliamentary […]
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(Dutch News) Appeal court judges have agreed to delay the continuation of Geert Wilders’ trial for making discriminatory comments about Moroccans until December 9. Wilders’ lawyer had asked for a delay to give the defence more time to collect evidence of possible […]
(Morocco World News) Deputy editor of French newspaper Le Figaro Yves Threard is at the center of controversy after making statements against Muslims and Islam. During debate show “Le Grand Soir” (the Big Evening) broadcast on LCI on Monday, October 14, the […]
(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s top court has upheld a decision to not renew the residence permit of an imam from Kosovo guilty of domestic abuse. The Federal Court on Tuesday upheld an earlier decision of the St Gallen court in eastern Switzerland where the man lives. […]
(Times of Israel) A Canadian imam called candidates in the country’s upcoming elections “evil and filthy” supporters of Zionism who approve of homosexuality, warning Muslims they would be judged for their votes. “This voting is a testimony and will be recorded,” Sheikh […]
(Morocco World News) French newspaper Le Monde will publish, October 16, an open letter to the president of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, calling for an end to Islamophobia. Ninety French public figures have called on Macron to condemn verbal attacks on […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has given Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school two days to appoint an acceptable interim director or have its funding halted in December. The Cornelius Haga Lyceum was due to hand over control to an interim chief […]
(AFP) German authorities on Tuesday appealed to its Turkish and Kurdish communities to avoid echoing the Middle Eastern conflict, after clashes between the two groups over Ankara’s offensive in northeastern Syria. Police said at least five people had been injured in fights […]
(AFP) A new row over secularism and the wearing of the Islamic hijab in public buildings has erupted in France after a far-right politician asked a woman accompanying her son and other children on a school trip to remove her headscarf. The […]
(Reuters) Denmark will fast-track legislation allowing people with dual citizenship who have gone abroad to fight for militant groups like Islamic State to be stripped of their Danish nationality, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday. European states are trying to accelerate […]
(NZ Herald) A new dedicated team will target violent extremist content online and prosecute those uploading it, filling a gap that was laid bare following the March 15 terrorist attack. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin announced $17 […]
(NL Times) Jawed S., a 20-year-old man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam Central Station last year, was sentenced to 26 years in prison by the court in Amsterdam on Monday. He was convicted [of] two counts of attempted murder with […]
(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 […]
(CBC) Microphones and lecterns were being set up in the Ottawa Mosque in Westboro Saturday as people gathered for the afternoon prayer. That’s because the house of worship was preparing to host its first federal election debate of the 2019 campaign, with […]
(Breitbart) French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer revealed cases of a dozen Muslim public school teachers who have been radicalised, along with a far greater number of radicalised pupils. Blanquer announced ten cases of radicalisation on Friday morning, stating, “These are cases that can […]
(CBC) The Canadian-Muslim Vote (TCMV) launched its Muslim Vote Weekend campaign on Friday, and Calgary’s Al Salam Centre took part. Featuring “Get Out the Vote” civic engagements and sermons in more than 100 mosques across Canada, the campaign is a partnership with the Muslim […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has tapped as his latest 2020 campaign surrogate an American-Palestinian comedian who has defended notorious anti-Semites, accused President Donald Trump of leading “a KKK rally,” and routinely claimed that Israel stole land from the Palestinian […]
(Pioneer Press) The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Friday condemned President Donald Trump for targeting the state’s Somali community during his Thursday night rally at the Target Center. “President Trump’s hate rhetoric places the entire Somali community in […]
(Hill) Civil liberties and technology groups have been sharply critical of a draft bill from House Homeland Security Committee Democrats on dealing with online extremism, saying it would violate First Amendment rights and could result in the surveillance of vulnerable communities. Over […]
(Toronto Sun) The resurgent Bloc Quebecois is poised to perform well in the election under its articulate and pragmatic leader, Yves-Francois Blanchet. It has successfully pitched itself to younger voters by turning away from ageing entrenched separatists. Recent polls in Quebec put […]
(NL Times) The court has jurisdiction, the Public Prosecution Service is independent, there are ample grounds to convict PVV leader Geert Wilders of hate speech, and no reason to drop the case against him, the advocate general said on Friday in the […]
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(Hill) The Department of Education maintained that the joint Duke University-University of North Carolina program needs to “expand” to include more religions beyond Islam to fulfill federal grant funding requirements. The department stood its ground that the consortium needs to diversify its […]
(CBC) Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party says it won’t take action against one of its candidates in Nova Scotia who called Islam “pure evil” and “not compatible with democracy” in numerous social media posts. Sybil Hogg, the PPC candidate for Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook, made a […]
(Yle) An Oulu court has slapped Finns Party lawmaker Sebastian Tynkkynen with a 50-day fine after convicting him on charges of ethnic agitation. The total fine amounts to slightly more than 4,000 euros. The conviction came over texts and images Tynkkynen posted […]
(Star Tribune) Customers inside Lavazza Coffee & Cocktails at Karmel Mall, a hub for Somali-owned businesses in south Minneapolis, roared with rage while watching President Donald Trump on TV as he spoke at a campaign rally Thursday in their town. They reacted […]
(Bloomberg) President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to send millions of Syrian refugees settled in Turkey to Europe, as he bridled at criticism of his military offensive against Kurdish fighters. “If you try to define our operation as an invasion, then our job […]
(Reuters) The European Union should have a dialogue with Turkey despite Ankara’s offensive on Kurdish-led forces in Syria, in order to avoid a fresh wave of migrants coming to Europe, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday. Turkish troops and their […]
(Hill) President Trump on Wednesday said he’s not concerned about ISIS prisoners potentially escaping as the U.S. vacates northern Syria, claiming the escapees would end up [in] Europe. Trump was asked in the Roosevelt Room of the White House about the potential threat […]
(AP) Two British militants believed to be part of an Islamic State group that beheaded hostages and was known as “The Beatles” have been moved out of a detention center in Syria and are in American custody, U.S. officials said Wednesday. President […]
(Boston Globe) The people who allegedly hectored Celtics center Enes Kanter outside a mosque over his political opposition to Turkey’s president didn’t commit a crime, Cambridge police have determined. In a statement Tuesday, police announced their findings in their review of the […]
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