(Sydney Morning Herald) Australian voters are split on whether to cut the number of migrants coming from Muslim countries, as the Morrison government considers an overhaul of immigration and population rules within weeks. A special Fairfax-Ipsos survey finds only 14 per cent […]
(Hill) President Trump on Saturday rejected reports that his administration is considering extraditing a foe of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Trump told reporters at the White House before leaving for a trip to California that extraditing exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen was “not […]
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(IPT) Several years ago the Investigative Project on Terrorism exposed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)’s deep-seated hostility toward law enforcement agencies. This hostility was vividly displayed in a poster produced by CAIR’s California chapter that depicted a law enforcement officer, complete […]
(Sofia Globe) Responding to objections from various faiths, parties in Bulgaria’s Parliament are revising amendments to the Religious Denomination Act before the bill is put to a second reading. This emerged after a meeting between two parliamentary groups, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s […]
(Reuters) The U.S. Justice Department on Friday denied that it was planning an extradition deal designed to persuade the Turkish president to ease off on a probe over the killing of a journalist in an Istanbul embassy. NBC News reported on Thursday […]
(AFP) Germany is examining if Syrians convicted of crimes in Europe’s biggest economy or who are deemed dangerous can be sent back to their conflict-torn country, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Friday. “That is being looked at closely in our ministry,” Seehofer […]
(Forward) Palestinian-American civil rights activist Linda Sarsour claimed in a Facebook post Thursday that the controversy surrounding Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar’s announcement that she supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is coming from “folks who masquerade as progressives but always choose their […]
(Gatestone) Ilhan Abdullahi Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Harbi Tlaib of Michigan will be the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the US Congress. Most of the media coverage since their election on November 6 has been effusive in praise […]
(NY Post) It’s taken 181 years, but the House of Representatives is finally getting around to changing a rule that bans hats on the floor. The ban was enacted in 1837 by members who wanted to break from the hat-wearing tradition in […]
(NBC) The White House is looking for ways to remove an enemy of Turkish President Recep Erdogan from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to two senior U.S. officials and two other people […]
(Local) A municipality in Sweden has vowed to ban religiously slaughtered meat from school menus after the centre-right Moderate Party formed a coalition government with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats. The three-year action plan for the town of Staffanstorp outside Malmö, published on […]
(Toronto Sun) Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy against Islam by a group of Muslim women, was acquitted by the Supreme court of Pakistan a couple of weeks ago. However, she is still hiding in an undisclosed place and […]
(PolitiFact) A Facebook meme falsely attributes a quote about race, slaves and Islam to Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American Muslim woman. The post features Omar’s picture — the one on the cover of Time magazine in a September 2017 issue — […]
(Age) An Islamic centre in Melbourne’s north that has been linked to the Bourke Street attacker and Christmas Day terror plot is seeking council approval to accommodate up to 500 people at once as its community grows. The Hume Islamic Youth Centre […]
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(Daily Sabah) A video shared by Austria’s anti-migration far-right Freedom Party (FPO) that explicitly portrayed Muslims and Turks as scammers has triggered widespread reaction from Austrian citizens and organizations, with politicians calling on the chancellor to respond. The 39-second video provided information […]
(AFP) Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday met dozens of African migrants, recently evacuated from Libya by the UN, and sought to reassure them that Italy is “a welcoming, generous and supportive country.” Salvini, who has been at the forefront […]
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(Star-Telegram) There’s a clear division in the Tarrant County Republican Party. At a time when many want to focus on the 2020 election, in the wake of this reliably red county turning blue in this year’s U.S. Senate race, Tarrant Republicans instead […]
(Dutch News) Support for the ruling right-wing liberal VVD has dropped in the latest poll of polls but has gone up for the anti-Islam PVV and the Labour party. The poll of polls, an amalgam of six separate opinion polls, puts support […]
(BBC) Three British imams have joined calls for the UK to offer asylum to Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman recently acquitted of blasphemy. It comes after former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, and other politicians, urged the government to help her. Ms […]
(Age) One of Victoria’s largest Islamic youth centres has rejected suggestions it is linked to terrorism after it was revealed the Bourke Street attacker was a regular visitor. Hume Islamic Youth Centre spokesman Mustafa Abu Yusuf told the Age the centre’s open-door […]
(JNS) The Zionist Organization of America condemned Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), the first Palestinian-American elected to Congress, on Tuesday for wrapping herself in a Palestinian flag last week at her election victory party. Tlaib is known to support BDS and other anti-Israel beliefs. […]
(AFP) Italian police on Tuesday bulldozed a symbolic makeshift camp in Rome which has housed tens of thousands of migrants during their journeys to northern Italy and the rest of Europe. “Stateless, lawless no-man’s lands will no longer be tolerated,” Interior Minister […]
(Free Beacon) Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar told Muslim Girl magazine that she “believes in and supports the BDS movement,” adding that she has fought to ensure others are also able to openly support the movement. Omar, who was elected to Congress in the […]
(Age) Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attacked the “lame excuse” of blaming mental health problems for Friday’s horrific attack in Melbourne by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, after the killer’s family said he was “crying for help” and should not be the subject […]
(NL Times) There are “indications” that former Minister Ivo Opstelten of Justice and Security urged the Public Prosecution Service in 2014 to prosecute PVV leader Geert Wilders for hate speech over statements he made about Moroccans, Wilders’ lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops said. He […]
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(NY Post) The 2018 midterm will bring many new faces to Washington, but few will find as much adoration as Ilhan Omar. One of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, Omar, who will represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, is a […]
(St. Cloud Times) Anecdotal evidence, exit polls and overall turnout rates indicate Minnesota Somalis voted in high numbers last week. To leaders and experts, it was a demonstration of political enthusiasm as well as a glimpse of the community’s potential elective power. […]
(Star-Telegram) It is still up in the air whether a small group of Tarrant Republicans will succeed in a controversial plan to oust a leader of their party because he’s Muslim. Tarrant Republican precinct chairs met for nearly four hours Saturday — […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called on Muslim leaders to take “special responsibility” for stamping out radicalism in their communities, saying they must be proactive and “call this out for what it is.” Speaking on Saturday in the wake […]
(AFP) Several thousand protesters rallied in Rome on Saturday to protest against what they criticised as unfair anti-migrant policies promoted by far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Waving banners with slogans “Black lives matter” and “Welcome for all; Open the borders,” leftists joined […]
(Reuters) Violence against Jews and other acts of anti-Semitism have surged in France in the past nine months, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Friday, promising stepped-up action against perpetrators. Citing new government statistics, Philippe said acts of anti-Semitism had risen 69 […]
(Bergen Record) The moment when Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, claimed at a rally that he saw “thousands and thousands” of people in Jersey City cheering during the 9/11 attacks is seared into Mussab Ali’s memory. Here was a man aspiring for […]
(JTA) When the head of Germany’s main Jewish organization said only one Bundestag party was not invited to Friday’s commemoration of the Kristallnacht pogroms, few had any doubt: He meant the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, or AfD. And it was the only […]
(Anadolu) Prosecutors are investigating a top city official in southern Sweden over Islamophobic remarks. Christopher Larsson, vice mayor of the southern coastal city of Karlskrona, is accused of committing a hate crime in a social media posting last year. On Facebook, arguing […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday congratulated the two newly elected Muslim congresswomen in the U.S. “Congratulations to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for being elected to the U.S. Congress. This is a great achievement for Muslim Americans,” Mevlut Cavusoglu posted on […]
(KNTV) The election of five American Muslims to local office in the Bay Area on Tuesday is a sign voters are ready for diverse leadership despite troubling increases in hate crimes nationwide, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Before Tuesday, only […]
(Detroit News) The city of Troy discriminated against a Muslim community group by rejecting plans to build an Islamic center, according to a federal court lawsuit filed Thursday. The nonprofit Adam Community Center sued the city council, planning commission and members of […]
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(PJ Media) For two years, U.S. media has maintained a near-blackout on the specific evidence of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minnesota) disturbing character and legal issues. In the 18 hours after Omar was elected to replace Keith Ellison in MN Congressional District 5, […]
(Hill) Keith Ellison resigned from his post as Democratic National Committee deputy chairman on Thursday following his victory in Minnesota’s hotly contested attorney general race. In an emailed statement to DNC members, chairman Tom Perez announced Ellison’s departure and praised the outgoing congressman as […]
(Brooklyn Eagle) A protest demonstration outside Republican state Sen. Martin Golden’s Bay Ridge office organized by left-leaning Muslim and Jewish groups might have had enough power to sway undecided voters to vote for his Democratic opponent Andrew Gounardes, according to a leader […]
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(Reuters) Tuning into the news at dawn on Wednesday, the extended family of Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, celebrated her victory in their home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Tlaib, a Democrat, ran virtually […]
(NL Times) The Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, adopted a motion that will allow kids in public schools to refuse participating in religious acts during a school trip to a religious institution like a church, mosque or synagogue. Parents can […]
(Local) The French government revealed this week that the number of deportations of undocumented migrants has shot up by 20 percent in 2018. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner revealed the figure to MPs in the National Assembly on Tuesday and claimed responsibility for […]
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