Government & Politics – Page 139

Massachusetts 1st Congressional District race: Richard Neal defeats Democratic challenger Tahirah Amatul-Wadud

September 4, 2018 Shannon Young

(Springfield Republican) U.S. Rep. Richard Neal beat out challenger Tahirah Amatul-Wadud in Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District Democratic primary Tuesday — a win that essentially guarantees the longtime congressman, who faces no Republican opponents, re-election in November. Neal, who has represented Western Massachusetts in Washington for nearly 30 […]

Rabbi condemned for saying Islam ‘has no place in Britain’ (LINK ONLY)

September 4, 2018 EoI News

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Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour arrested at Kavanaugh hearing

September 4, 2018 Kevin Daley and Peter Hasson

(Daily Caller) Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was among the left-wing activists arrested Tuesday for interrupting the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. [Sarsour] entered the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building just before 9:30 a.m. EDT. She sat […]

We need a ‘German Islam,’ says interior ministry ‘This may not please Ankara,’ says Markus Kerber.

September 3, 2018 Esther King

(Politico) Germany will tighten control over foreign influence of its Muslim community, State Secretary for the Interior Ministry Markus Kerber said Monday, after a week of violent far-right clashes in eastern Germany. “We have watched foreign forces dictate to German Muslims how to […]

ISNA convention uses shame, fear to stir Muslims politically

September 3, 2018 Unlisted Author

(IPT) In a year in which Muslim political candidates are breaking new ground or falling just short, it’s not surprising to see politics dominate the country’s largest annual gathering of Muslim Americans. But the political sessions at the annual Islamic Society of […]

Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam

September 3, 2018 Toby Sterling

(Reuters) A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam’s central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated by perceived insults to Islam in the Netherlands, prosecutors said on Monday. The man, […]

Sweden Democrat leader’s visit causes disquiet among Malmö’s Muslims

September 3, 2018 Richard Orange

(Local) When Jimmie Åkesson, the 39-year-old leader of the populist Sweden Democrats, starts railing against “giant mosque complexes, with huge minarets everywhere” Adam and Mohammed begin to protest. “It’s you who want to build that!” Mohammed, 25, shouts out when Åkesson accuses […]

Political opposition to ‘handshake’ law growing The government’s proposal to insist that all new Danish citizens undergo a special ceremony involving shaking hands is not popular in all quarters

September 3, 2018 Stephen Gadd

(Copenhagen Post) In June this year, the government plus Socialdemokratiet and Dansk Folkeparti put forward proposals to tighten up the criteria for Danish citizenship. One of the measures supported by Venstre, Liberal Alliance and Dansk Folkeparti is that budding citizens will have […]

German far right fuels Muslim ‘takeover’ fears A series of violent crimes committed by refugees is unsettling the nation.

September 3, 2018 Matthew Karnitschnig

(Politico) Can Germany survive Islam? That question is once again at the center of the country’s public discourse amid the violent protests that followed last week’s brutal killing of a German man, allegedly at the hands of two Muslim refugees, and the […]

Merkel to meet Macron in Marseille amid EU immigration row

September 3, 2018 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Emmanuel Macron will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille on Friday, a French official said, seeking support as he takes on nationalist EU leaders over immigration and institutional reforms. The meeting will focus on “European […]

No incidents during Geert Wilders’ visit to Antwerp

September 2, 2018 Sarah Johansson

(Brussels Times) There were no incidents during Geert Wilders’ visit to Antwerp. Geert Wilders is the leader of the extreme right in the Netherlands. Accompanied by members of Vlaams Belang, he left flowers at the foot of the statues of William of […]

‘No Fly List Kids’: Advocacy group fights for kids mistaken for terrorists

September 1, 2018 Unlisted Author

(CTV) Sulemaan Ahmed’s son Adam is nine years old, loves hockey and is constantly mistaken for a potential terrorist when he travels. That’s because his name is the same as a man on Canada’s “no-fly list” of terror suspects. “Traveling with kids […]

Italy and Hungary create ‘anti-immigration axis’

September 1, 2018 Soeren Kern

(Gatestone) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini have pledged to create an “anti-immigration axis” aimed at countering the pro-migration policies of the European Union. Meeting in Milan on August 28, Orbán and Salvini, vowed to work together […]

Thousands protest for and against migrants in tense German town

September 1, 2018 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Thousands of opponents and supporters of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policy marched Saturday through the eastern city of Chemnitz after a wave of racist violence that followed a knife killing. The rallies, which drew 8,000 people according to police, ended […]

Bible verse campaign sows discord

August 31, 2018 Frédéric Burnand

(Swiss Info) A series of ads that display Bible verses, currently on display on public transport in the city of Biel in canton Bern, is stirring controversy. A local politician has posted questions about the campaign to Facebook, sparking a series of […]

Neal challenger shares conspiracy theories, says US should not have fought Hitler

August 31, 2018 Mark Sullivan

(Worcester Telegram) A candidate challenging U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, in the Democratic primary shared on her Facebook page an essay that maintains 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were inside jobs and that America should not have fought Hitler in defense of the […]

Dutch populist Wilders cancels Prophet Mohammad cartoon contest

August 30, 2018 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Controversial anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders late Thursday said he was cancelling plans to stage a Prophet Mohammad cartoon competition, a scheme that had angered many Muslims particularly in Pakistan. The Dutch politician’s announcement came after he said he had received several […]

Council funds Muslim assistance agencies Fourteen religious, social service groups share $250,000 grant pool

August 30, 2018 Michael Gannon

(Queens Chronicle) City Council members were in Jamaica on Aug. 21 to announce grants to 14 community-based agencies that serve the city’s Muslim community. Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) and Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) attended Jumu’ah prayers at the Islamic Circle […]

Italy: Interior minister accused of kidnapping migrants 'Being investigated for defending the rights of Italians is a disgrace.'

August 30, 2018 Soeren Kern

(Gatestone) Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is under formal investigation for “kidnapping” after he refused to allow illegal migrants to disembark from a ship at a Sicilian port. The investigation, a political move aimed at blunting the government’s hardline stance on illegal […]

Protesters target Sweden Democrats and Alternative for Sweden with eggs and tomatoes

August 30, 2018 Unlisted Author

(Local) An election campaign stop at a public square in Falkenberg devolved into a food fight of sorts on Thursday when two protesters attempted to hit Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson with eggs and tomatoes. In one of the incidents, Åkesson was giving […]

Germany cuts funding to largest Turkish-Islamic organization DITIB The German federal government had provided funds to DITIB for counter-extremism and refugee aid programs. The Turkish-Islamic group has been under fire over a number of scandals.

August 30, 2018 Unlisted Author

(Deutsche Welle) The German government will no longer be funding projects run with the country’s largest Islamic umbrella group, the Interior Ministry in Berlin said on Thursday. Since the start of the year, the federal government has not approved any funding for […]

Social Democrat steps down after spreading false information in Arabic

August 29, 2018 Unlisted Author

(Local) A local politician representing the Social Democrats in Sävsjö has given up their candidacy after writing a Facebook post in Arabic that spread false information about opposing political parties. The post was written by an unnamed politician who was on the […]

Cow slaughter caught on video not animal cruelty case, police say

August 29, 2018 Canadian Press

(CTV) Police say the skinning of a cow shown on a video circulating online is not being treated as an animal cruelty case but the incident is being probed to ensure food safety regulations were followed. Halton regional police say the cow […]

Macron says he’s enemy number one for Orban, Salvini

August 29, 2018 Laurence Benhamou

(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron upped his war of words with the nationalist leaders of Italy and Hungary on Wednesday, saying they were right to see him as their “main opponent” on migration. His comment came after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban […]

Trump era is igniting a new wave of Muslim-American candidates In places like Dearborn, Michigan, a political awakening is growing.

August 28, 2018 Heidi Przybyla

(NBC) Landing on the government’s terror watch list has become so common in this Detroit suburb that Osama Siblani, a publisher who immigrated from Lebanon in 1976 and wears a polo shirt and jeans at work, thumbs through his speed dial list […]

Dutch police arrest man over alleged plot to kill Geert Wilders

August 28, 2018 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The Dutch police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of planning an attack against far-right politician Geert Wilders after he said he intended to hold a Prophet Mohammad cartoon competition. Police said in a statement they arrested the still unidentified suspect […]

Halton police investigating cow skinning video in Milton

August 28, 2018 Maleeha Sheikh

(CityNews) A video showing a group of men in an unknown location in Milton skinning a cow around the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha is garnering a lot of attention online. “Take a look, a cow is being butchered the halal way on […]

Polish lawmaker backs burqa ban, no Saudi mosques in Europe until Poland can build cathedral in Saudi Arabia

August 28, 2018 Jack Montgomery

(Breitbart) Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński has waded into the European burqa debate, saying it should be banned partly for security reasons, and partly to make it clear to Islamic radicals that they cannot demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi […]

Salvini and Orban ready anti-migrant fight ahead of EU elections

August 28, 2018 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini launched Tuesday an anti-migration manifesto aiming at next year’s European parliament elections, and countering their opposing camp led by the French president. “There are currently two camps in […]

As anti-Islam activity rises, campaign aims to boost voter turnout among Muslim-Americans

August 27, 2018 Aaron Schrank

(KPCC) More than 100 people gathered at the Middle Ground Muslim Center in Upland Friday as part of National Muslim Voter Registration Day, a campaign that aims to boost Muslim-American turnout in the November midterm elections. The day of registration is part […]

Land and Environment Court says Colo property illegally cleared by fringe Islamic group

August 27, 2018 Jonathon Hair

(ABC-Australia) Two men who claimed their Islamic-influenced group was not subject to Australian law because it was a “basic religious charity” have been found to have illegally cleared a rural property north-west of Sydney by the NSW Land and Environment Court. The […]

Czech PM calls for no illegal migrants in Europe ahead of visit to Italy

August 27, 2018 Unlisted Author

(Local) Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Monday August 27th that a comprehensive action plan is necessary to stop illegal migration, which he will address on a visit to Italy and Malta this week. “If Italy and Malta won’t welcome […]

1993 World Trade Center bomber’s religious freedom case against U.S. prison system goes to trial in Denver Ahmad Ajaj was convicted in the Feb. 26, 1993 bombing in which six people were killed

August 27, 2018 Kirk Mitchell

(Denver Post) A trial began Monday in Denver U.S. District Court in which a man serving a 114-year sentence for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings is suing the United States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons for violating […]

No, Germany is not implementing compulsory community service for refugees

August 27, 2018 Daniel Wighton

(Local) Refugees who seek to live in Germany will not be required to perform compulsory military or community service — at least not yet. While the debate around the re-introduction of compulsory service in Germany has again simmered to the surface in recent […]

Christian Democrat in anti-Islamist Facebook rant

August 26, 2018 Unlisted Author

(Local) A senior local politician for Sweden’s Christian Democrats risks being … ejected from the party for calling for Islamists to be shot. Göran Jonzon, second in the party’s candidate list for the municipal council in Vilhelmina in the far north of […]

UK Somali teenagers taken ‘on holiday’ and forced into marriage (LINK ONLY)

August 26, 2018 EoI News

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In small-town Virginia, Muslim residents face a crisis of sheep and zoning laws

August 25, 2018 Abigail Hauslohner

(Washington Post) It was the day before one of the biggest Muslim holidays of the year, and the Rababeh family was in a panic. The family had ordered hundreds of sheep, goats and cows to slaughter for customers in observance of Eid […]

Demir: Headscarf has no place in schools

August 25, 2018 Alan Hope

(Brussels Times) The hijab — the headscarf worn by Muslim women as the minimum form of coverage — should be the subject of a ban in schools under the next legislature, according to federal secretary of state Zuhal Demir. “The headscarf has […]

Sweden’s far-right poised for record election score

August 25, 2018 Gaël Branchereau

(AFP) Barring a major upset, Sweden’s far-right is on course for a record result in September 9 legislative elections, capitalising on the mood of voters who feel they are being left behind in favour of hundreds of thousands of newly-arrived asylum seekers. […]

Sweden’s far right courts immigrant voters in bid to make historic gains (LINK ONLY)

August 25, 2018 EoI News

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Germany’s Salafist Muslim children being radicalized faster and younger: intelligence report

August 24, 2018 Donald Snyder

(Fox) Germany faces a growing threat from children raised in Salafist families, according to the country’s domestic intelligence service. A recent report issued by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) warned that these children are “educated from birth with […]

Italy threatens to pull EU funds over migrant boat crisis

August 24, 2018 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Italy’s deputy prime minister has threatened to pull the country’s EU funding if the bloc does not come to the aid of 150 people stranded aboard an Italian coastguard ship. The migrants have been blocked at the Sicilian port of Catania […]

Dutch premier distances govt from anti-Islam cartoon contest

August 24, 2018 Unlisted Author

(AP) The Dutch prime minister on Friday distanced his government from a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest being organized later this year by anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders. Wilders “is not a member of the government. The competition is not a government initiative,” Prime […]

Tories need to promote and elect more Muslims, Ruth Davidson says in swipe at Boris’s burka row (LINK ONLY)

August 24, 2018 EoI News

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Unstunned halal meat back on school menu — for now (LINK ONLY)

August 24, 2018 EoI News

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Probe launched into ‘Soldiers of God’ dolls in ‘image of former ISIS leader’ (LINK ONLY)

August 24, 2018 EoI News

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Swedish politician fighting racism in Malmo denies calling Jews ‘impure’

August 24, 2018 Unlisted Author

(JTA) A Swedish politician from Malmo who has worked on integration of immigrants denied saying that Jews and Armenians have “impure spirits.” Muhammad Khorshid, who represents the Liberals on the city council of the municipality in southern Sweden, told Expressen that the […]

Why Rashida Tlaib matters The indifference of most American Jews to victories by anti-Israel Democrats illustrates their priorities.

August 23, 2018 Jonathan S. Tobin

(JNS) Sometimes the most important trends are those demonstrated by a lack of reaction, rather than a storm of protest. Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic nominee and all-but-certain winner of a Michigan seat in the U.S. House of Representatives this fall, had been […]

Amsterdam’s mayor shakes up strategy to deal with radicalisation

August 23, 2018 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) Amsterdam’s new mayor Femke Halsema wants to take action against radical imams who do not break the law but are still “undesirable,” according to the city’s local paper the Parool. In addition, Halsema wants an end to mosque financing from […]

Do you have anything to declare? Customs agents take Muslim woman’s phone at airport: lawsuit

August 23, 2018 Irene Spezzamonte and Leonard Greene

(NY Daily News) A Muslim woman from Staten Island is suing U.S. customs agents who seized her phone at the airport, copied her data and held the device for more than four months after she returned on a flight from Switzerland. Rejhane […]