(CTV) Bill 21 has been law in Quebec since June, but that hasn’t stopped public mobilization against the province’s controversial ban on religious symbols in the public service. Anti-Bill 21 demonstrations will be held in four cities across the province at 2 […]
(Boston Globe) New Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter said he was harassed outside of a Cambridge mosque Friday afternoon because of his political opposition to Turkey’s president. Kanter, a 6-11 Turkish basketball player signed by Boston this summer, posted a video to […]
(Australian Jewish News) Victoria’s Education Minister James Merlino has ordered an “immediate review” into how two Melbourne schools responded to alleged incidents of antisemitic bullying, following yesterday’s exclusive report in the AJN. In a story that has since made international headlines, we […]
(NZ Herald) The government has scrapped the controversial family-link policy for African and Middle Eastern refugees. The rules have been described as “racist and discriminatory” by new Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon. The government has also increased the overall number of African […]
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(Yle) The trial of Finns Party MP Sebastian Tynkkynen began on Thursday in the Oulu District Court. A lawmaker from the northwest municipality where the proceedings are being held, Tynkkynen is suspected of agitation against an ethnic group in a 2016 Facebook […]
(AFP) EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said Thursday there was an “urgent need” to stop illegal departures from Turkey as Greece struggles to cope with a sharp increase in the refugee arrivals. “Irregular arrivals to Greece increased over the past weeks and […]
(Local) The leader of Sweden’s Centre Party has said she “regrets” a party vote to work for a ban on non-medical circumcision, after Jewish and Muslim groups criticized the decision. What happened? Sweden’s Centre Party voted in favour of banning circumcision (omskärelse) […]
(CBC) Calgary city council voted this week to condemn Quebec’s religious symbols law, Bill 21. Bill 21 bars certain civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work. Critics have accused the law of undermining religious freedom and singling out minorities, although it remains […]
(Anadolu) Turkish migrants increasingly face discriminatory policies and systemic racism in Western Europe, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. “We are worried over growing discrimination faced by Turkish communities in Western Europe,” Cavusoglu said during a meeting in the western German […]
(Brussels Times) The new Flemish coalition agreement that was presented on Tuesday called for ideological neutrality in schools, banning headscarves and other religious symbols. “In education, we warrant neutrality. In provincial and community education, we ensure the philosophical neutrality for teachers and […]
(VOA) The U.S. reached its self-imposed cap of 30,000 refugee arrivals Monday, the last day of the 2019 fiscal year, as the Trump administration eyes another major reduction in refugee admittances from across the globe for 2020. More than half of refugees […]
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(CBC) Calgary city council voted unanimously Monday to formally oppose Quebec’s Bill 21, the province’s secularism law which bars certain civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work. “Racism and bigotry has no jurisdiction,” said Coun. George Chahal while introducing the motion. “It is […]
(Baltimore Sun) The Indian-controlled territory of Kashmir is being transformed into a “militarized police state” that has left 3,000 Kashmiri-Americans in the Baltimore area unable to reach loved ones, Zainab Chaudry, director of outreach for a local Muslim advocacy group, said at […]
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(AFP) Greece said Monday it wanted to start sending back thousands of migrants to Turkey, a day after a deadly fire sparked riots at an overcrowded camp on the island of Lesbos. The decision, taken at an emergency cabinet meeting, came as […]
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(CBC) Hundreds of people attended a rally in the Park Extension neighbourhood on a rainy Saturday afternoon to speak out against Quebec’s secularism law — and in particular its effect on teachers in the province. Bouchera Chelbi, who teaches English as a […]
(CBC) Quebec’s secularism law, which bans some civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work, is facing a new legal challenge. Lawyers representing a multi-faith group filed a motion Thursday in Quebec Superior Court that argues the law violates constitutional protections of gender […]
(PolitiFact) A Facebook post shows a disturbing image of a badly bruised woman and claims her injuries were sustained by her boyfriend, former Democratic congressman Keith Ellison, who now serves as Minnesota’s attorney general. The post displays a split image of Ellison […]
(AP) The American Civil Liberties Union urged the Trump administration Friday to drop its investigation into a Middle East studies program the agency says has focused too much on the “positive aspects of Islam” and misused grant money to promote “ideological priorities.” […]
(Reuters) A British court said on Wednesday it had no power to stop the deportation of a 10-year-old girl at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) after authorities rejected her mother’s asylum application. The girl’s mother, who travelled to Britain from Bahrain […]
(Hill) The Trump administration on Thursday proposed slashing refugee admissions to 18,000 for fiscal year 2020, marking a record low total since the program began in 1980. The Trump administration last year set the refugee cap at 30,000. The administration has made […]
(Swiss Info) Swiss parliamentarians have rejected a right-wing call for an outright ban on the wearing of face coverings, such as burkas, in public. The text rejected on Thursday by the Senate is a people’s initiative aiming to completely ban face coverings — […]
(CBC) The English Montreal School Board has voted in favour of taking the province to court over its religious symbols ban. They’re seeking an exemption because they are a linguistic minority. Last month, the EMSB held off on deciding whether or not it […]
(CBC) Civil rights groups fighting Quebec’s religious symbols law have filed new evidence which, they say, demonstrates without a doubt it has “caused and continues to cause irreparable harm.” Lawyers submitted affidavits last week from Muslim women who were denied employment opportunities or […]
(Radio France) France’s education minister has expressed concern over a campaign poster by a parents’ association showing a mother wearing a Muslim headscarf while accompanying her child on a school trip. Jean-Michel Blanquer called the campaign an “error” and questioned the association’s purported […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said France “cannot host everyone,” intensifying his tough rhetoric on immigration. Macron had last week signalled a tougher line on immigration in the second half of his mandate, arguing the government must stop voters drifting […]
(CBC) Fatima Boularhmane isn’t sure where to turn anymore. She and her husband and children emigrated from Morocco about a decade ago, lured by the idea of living in a free and democratic country. Trained as an electrical engineer, Boularhmane tried in vain to get a […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Palestinian rally set to take place Wednesday in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate has caused a diplomatic storm as both the Israeli and US ambassadors to Germany called for a performance by Palestinian rappers Shadi Al-Bourini and Shadi Al-Najjar to be […]
(Columbia Missourian) A Missouri lawmaker had proposed legislation that would make it illegal for judges to consider Sharia law in their judicial decisions. Some, including representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the 2016 legislation was Islamophobic. At the time, Faizan […]
(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 […]
(NL Times) Five persons recently officially regained their Dutch nationality, according to a decision published in the Staatscourant on Monday. These persons’ Dutch nationality was previously revoked because they joined terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq, NOS reports. A spokesperson for the […]
(Hill) More than 31,000 people were denied entry to the U.S. under President Trump’s travel ban, a State Department official said Tuesday while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. “There’s approximately 31,334 refusals up to Sept. 14, 2019,” said Edward Ramotowski, the […]
(Fox) House Democrats sought to poke holes in the Trump administration’s so-called travel ban during a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill, alleging that a waiver process for allowing individuals from restricted countries to obtain visas is nothing but a “sham.” While an […]
(Anadolu) Leaders of [the] U.S. Muslim community in New York on Sunday applauded President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his active role that he plays in the Muslim world. “We need a centralized leadership,” said Siraj Wahhaj, an African-American imam of Al-Taqwa mosque […]
(Religion News) Ahead of a congressional hearing this week on the Trump administration’s travel ban, more than a dozen leading technology companies, including Twitter and Airbnb, have thrown their support behind a congressional bill to end the controversial measure. “As a platform […]
(Reuters) Interior ministers from five European Union countries said on Monday they had agreed a new scheme to distribute migrants saved from the Mediterranean in a deal aimed at relieving the pressure on southern EU states. The plan will be presented to […]
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(LA Times) An Egyptian American woman in a black hijab kicked off the volunteer meeting, invoking God in Arabic as she stood in front of a handwritten poster that read, “Muslims and Arabs for Bernie.” Volunteers had gathered at a Syrian-Palestinian cafe […]
(Canadian Press) National party leaders’ reluctance to intervene in a court challenge to Quebec’s controversial Bill 21 may have left the erroneous impression that there’s nothing the federal government can do to try to stop the law that bans teachers, police and […]
(NY Post) Pressure is mounting on Sen. Bernie Sanders to cut ties with longtime campaign surrogate Linda Sarsour, with critics such as Manhattan billionaire Ronald Lauder citing her long history of anti-Semitic comments. “Linda Sarsour is a virulent anti-Semite who has publicly […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Friday came to the defense of an anti-Israel activist voted off the Women’s March board earlier in the week, telling her, “we have the truth on our side.” Tlaib took to Twitter to defend […]
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(Hill) The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday sent a letter to the Trump administration requesting an in-person consultation regarding the country’s refugee admissions ahead of the new fiscal year. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairman and ranking member of the […]
(Religion News) When San Diego’s city council voted to install 14,000 LED streetlights in 2016, the move was touted as a major step toward reducing the city’s carbon footprint and transforming the city into a hub for innovation. But since the vote, […]
(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 […]
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