(Detroit Free Press) The clerks of Dearborn and Wayne County are raising concerns about Arabic-language ballots in Dearborn, saying that implementing them in time for the August primary may not be possible. The Dearborn City Council voted unanimously March 22 on a resolution that […]
(AP) Germany says it has brought home 10 women and 27 children from a camp in northeastern Syria where suspected members of the Islamic State group have been held. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the group was repatriated from the Roj camp […]
(Radio NZ) Security services briefings show the LynnMall attacker was highly likely to carry out a terrorist attack in New Zealand only if he was prevented from leaving the country. They show Ahamed Samsudeen believed he had been set up and that […]
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(Kathimerini) Greece told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday that there is no provision in the Treaty of Lausanne, a 1923 peace accord which, among other things, forged modern Greece and Turkey’s borders, stating that the muftis of the Muslim minority […]
(Free Beacon) A new piece of House legislation would mandate that social media platforms remove terrorist organizations and their supporters or face a $50,000 fine for every infraction. The No Publicity for Terrorists Act, spearheaded by Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R., N.C.), is […]
(AP) Greece’s independent authority for transparency said Tuesday that after an in-depth investigation it has found no basis for reports that Greek authorities have illegally turned back asylum-seekers entering the country from Turkey. The National Transparency Authority said in a statement that […]
(NY1) New York officials are being urged by the Met Council on Jewish Poverty this week to allocate at least 20% of the food in a program meant to support food pantries in the state as kosher and halal food. The state […]
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(Age) A Victorian Supreme Court judge has labelled the conduct of Australia’s national security agency a “disgrace” for missing deadlines and disregarding court orders over the ongoing detention of terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth chided lawyers […]
(Brussels Times) The Comité R responsible to monitor Belgium’s various police, security and intelligence agencies published its report earlier in the week outlining a series of recommendations to improve the surveillance of the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Belgium. The main […]
(Star Tribune) The Muslim call to prayer will soon be heard regularly in parts of Minneapolis. Minneapolis mosques can now publicly broadcast the adhan, or call to prayer, over loudspeakers without acquiring a permit and so long as they abide by the […]
(Anadolu) A French court on Wednesday annulled the government’s decision to close a mosque near the city of Bordeaux. Sefen Guez Guez, the lawyer of the association of the Al Farouk Mosque, said that the Bordeaux Administrative Court annulled the Gironde governorate’s […]
(Canadian Press) Ontario’s New Democrats say they removed a longtime legislator from caucus because he was found to be a member of an Islamophobic Facebook group. The party’s provincial director issued a statement on Wednesday giving more details about Paul Miller’s ouster, […]
(Detroit Free Press) Dearborn City Council approved a resolution Tuesday night requiring that ballots and other election materials be translated into Arabic. The council voted 7-0 in favor of a resolution introduced by Councilman Mustapha Hammoud that will mandate translation into the […]
(Politico) Muslim community leaders told Mayor Eric Adams during a closed-door meeting Tuesday that a high-ranking member of the NYPD should face consequences for claiming the department never surveilled Muslims in the wake of 9/11 — with one attendee calling for the […]
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(Brussels Times) Belgium paid tribute on Tuesday to victims of terrorist attacks, including those lost during the attacks that rocked the country six years ago in Brussels and Zaventem. On 22 March 2016, a double attack took place in Belgium, first at […]
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(BBC) A murder trial jury has been played the desperate call for help made by a constituent after Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed. Sir David, MP for Southend West, died during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October. Ali […]
(AP) Four men once held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center — men Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson never met — were central to some of the questions she fielded Tuesday during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Jackson was asked repeatedly about the […]
(NY Daily News) Mayor Adams joined a growing chorus of local lawmakers and advocates Monday in condemning a top NYPD official’s defense of the department’s surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Speaking at an unrelated press […]
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(Radio France) Ten years after France was rocked by a series of Islamist shootings targeting Jewish children and French soldiers, President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday joined two of his predecessors — Nicolas Sarkozy and François Holland[e] — along with Israeli President Isaac […]
(Algemeiner) French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse on Friday visited the Jewish school in [the] southern city of Toulouse that 10 years ago was [the] site of a deadly Islamist terror attack that took the lives of a teacher and three small children. […]
(Fox) Dr. Mehmet Oz on Wednesday told Fox News that if he is elected to the U.S. Senate to represent Pennsylvania, he will renounce his Turkish citizenship before being sworn into office. Oz, who as a dual citizen is legally permitted to […]
(AP) Afghan refugees in the United States will be allowed to stay for at least 18 months under temporary protected status, the government said Wednesday, a move that will help some of the thousands who arrived following the chaotic American withdrawal from […]
(PoliticsPA) Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz said today that he would forego certain security clearances that are provided to all U.S. senators to keep his dual citizenship with Turkey. Oz was speaking to a group of reporters about the role David […]
(Buffalo News) It looks as though a halal butcher shop for chickens will not open after all in Buffalo’s Fillmore-Leroy neighborhood. The Common Council’s Legislation Committee on Tuesday recommended denying approval for the project. The decision came after opposition from 15 speakers […]
(Anadolu) France has shut down a mosque for a six-month period amid an ongoing drive against Muslims and their places of worship. The Al-Farouk Mosque in Pessac district near the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France was closed for allegedly defending “radical […]
(AP) The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Tuesday setting March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The resolution, adopted by consensus by the 193-member world body and cosponsored by 55 mainly Muslim countries, emphasizes the right to freedom of […]
(Algemeiner) The French interior ministry on Tuesday reversed a decision ordering the closure of a mosque in the riviera city of Cannes that was identified as a hotbed of Islamist agitation. The ministry waived what was termed the “administrative closure” of the […]
(Hill) Republicans are raising a red flag over Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s work on behalf of Guantánamo Bay detainees. Her work is coming up in closed-door meetings with Jackson as she sits down with GOP senators and Republican members of […]
(CBC) Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown launched an attack Monday on his opponent Pierre Poilievre, accusing the Conservative MP of supporting “discriminatory policies” that target immigrants. Poilievre, the MP for the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton considered the front-runner in the race, pitched new […]
(Breitbart) African migrants, along with a host of other nationalities, are exploiting the war in Ukraine to enter France, a member of the European Parliament (MEP) has claimed. Nicolas Bay MEP has claimed that African migrants are using refugee channels aimed at […]
(BBC) London is significantly better prepared for a terrorist attack than it was five years ago, a report has found. Security expert Lord Harris said a “huge amount of work” had been done by London’s emergency services and key agencies since 2016. […]
(Reuters) The U.S. Justice Department acknowledged on Thursday it would miss a deadline set by President Joe Biden’s executive order to review and release documents from the FBI investigation of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which killed nearly 3,000 people. In […]
(BBC) A community radio station has been fined £2,000 for broadcasting an Islamic chant said to contain “jihadi lyrics” and “promote terrorism.” Sheffield-based Link FM was found to have committed two serious breaches of Ofcom’s broadcasting code by playing the “nasheed” chant […]
(Axios) The chair of one of the most prominent 9/11 family coalitions has written to President Biden raising concerns about potential renewed U.S. engagement with Saudi Arabia, Axios has learned. Why it matters: 9/11 Families United chair Terry Strada wants Biden to […]
(Canadian Press) Organizations representing Sikhs and Muslims in Canada say they want Conservative leadership hopefuls to take a strong stand against Quebec’s controversial secularism law. Balpreet Singh, a spokesman for the World Sikh Organization of Canada, said when he met with Erin […]
(Algemeiner) France’s interior minister on Wednesday announced the dissolution of two pro-Palestinian advocacy organizations, accusing them of inciting violence and hatred. Gerald Darmanin confirmed on Twitter that both the “Collectif Palestine Vaincra” (“Palestine Will Overcome Collective”) and the Palestine Action Committee were […]
(AP) Noor Abukaram’s elation at completing one of her first varsity cross-country races quickly turned to disappointment when she failed to find her name among those of her high school teammates on the results list. To Abukaram’s shock, she learned she’d been […]
(Swiss Info) A district court in Switzerland has acquitted four defendants accused of inciting violence against the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The judge ruled that a controversial banner shown by protesters at a 2017 demonstration in the Swiss capital, Bern, had […]
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(National-UAE) A British-Moroccan woman stripped of her citizenship after travelling to Syria with her husband to join ISIS has lost an appeal to return to the UK to join her three children. The woman, named only as U3, claimed she only went […]
(Bloomberg) The U.S. is hoping to complete in August the resettlement of Afghan refugees stranded by its exit from the country last year as the Taliban surged back to power, a senior State Department official said. So far, 85,000 Afghan refugees have […]
(Reuters) Australia on Friday listed the entire Palestinian Islamist group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, calling the move a deterrent to political and religious violence and bringing Australia in line with the United States, the European Union and Britain. Australia had for […]
(Canadian Press) A panel of judges has rejected a Muslim charity’s bid to freeze a federal suspension, which prohibits it from issuing tax receipts, while a challenge of the penalty plays out. The Canada Revenue Agency levied the one-year suspension against Ottawa-based […]
(Breitbart) “ISIS bride” Tania Joya exclusively told Breitbart News on Thursday that she divulged her damning affair with Rep. Van Taylor (R-TX) — which torpedoed his political career — because she felt slighted by the congressman after he didn’t “[keep] his promises.” […]
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