(Daily Caller) Many prominent Jewish groups have only weakly criticized Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib following a rant in the House of Representatives that one fellow Democrat labeled anti-Semitic. During Thursday’s floor debate over a $1 billion funding package for Israel’s Iron […]
(Brussels Times) The bank accounts of 295 terrorists are currently frozen in Belgium in an effort to prevent them from (aiding in) committing an attack. During 2021, 21 measures were taken to freeze assets, based on figures from the Coordination Office for […]
(Local) Campaign movement Repatriate the Children (RTC) plans to sue the Danish state for its failure to evacuate five children from Syrian detention camps. The organisation is to sue Denmark on behalf of the five children, who have Danish citizenship but have […]
(JNS) A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Thursday that calls on the European Union to fully designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The legislation, introduced by Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), seeks to encourage the 27-nation […]
(Daily Caller) A House floor debate over a funding bill for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system devolved into a shouting match, with multiple members accusing Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib of anti-Semitism. After left-wing Democrats successfully removed $1 billion for the […]
(Local) A Danish woman with dual nationality is to be evacuated along with her children from a detention camp in Syria, in an exception to normal government policy. Immigration minister Mattias Tesfaye has defended the government’s decision to evacuate a woman and […]
(Hill) The White House and congressional Democrats are punching back at GOP senators for blocking President Biden’s nominee for deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), who if confirmed would be the highest-ranking Muslim American in the Biden administration. On Tuesday […]
(AP) Two United Nations agencies requested access Tuesday to asylum-seekers stranded at Belarus’s border with Poland and Lithuania, after four migrants were found dead in the area. The International Organization for Migration and the U.N. Refugee Agency called on the governments involved […]
(Daily Sabah) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday met with Turkish citizens and representatives of the Muslim community in the United States during his visit to the country to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The reception at the Manhattan […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the soon-to-open Turkevi Center on Sunday for a brief survey, shortly after landing in New York. Erdogan is in New York to attend the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. He was […]
(AP) Poland is sending 500 additional army troops and special vehicles to its border with Belarus to strengthen it against increasing migrant pressures which the government says is orchestrated by Belarus and Russia to destabilize the European Union. “We are dealing with […]
(Hill) The Biden administration on Monday said it would raise the refugee admissions cap to 125,000 in fiscal 2022, meeting a target that President Biden set during his presidential campaign. The State Department said it transmitted a report to relevant congressional committees recommending […]
(BBC) The security services made “grave breaches of their duty” in failing to stop the Manchester Arena bomber and should face questions from the bereaved families, the attack inquiry has heard. Salman Abedi, 22, killed 22 people when he detonated a device […]
(Canadian Press) The Canadian Council of Imams says the Conservative candidate in Nova Scotia’s Central Nova riding must resign because his apology for Islamophobic media posts was an insincere attempt at damage control. Two weeks ago, Steven Cotter apologized on Facebook for […]
(Anadolu) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies. Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: “I have started the termination process due to some […]
(Politico) Fifteen minutes outside the town of Vathy stands a just-completed compound, surrounded by a double barbed-wire fence. The entrance, only open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., is equipped with turnstiles, magnetic gates and X-ray machines. Guards check both ID cards […]
(Canadian Press) Dareen Shilbayeh can’t stop herself from looking over her shoulder while out in public. The London, Ont., resident who wears a hijab says she’s been worried she’ll be targeted because of her faith ever since a Muslim family was killed […]
(Religion News) Muslim federal employees who say they felt discriminated against under President Trump are advocating for new federal policies to prevent workplace bias, with many backing a new initiative from Muslim Americans in Public Service aimed at getting the Biden administration to […]
(Reuters) Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday Turkey was an important partner in tackling any new migration challenge to Europe and needed support, and that Europe itself has not delivered on a common policy in addressing the migrant issue. More […]
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(Middle East Eye) An Austrian-Jordanian has been appointed … head of the country’s new security agency, following harsh criticism of the previous institution’s failure to prevent an attack by an alleged Islamic State (IS) sympathiser. The appointment of Omar Haijawi-Pirchner as head […]
(AP) The prime ministers of Poland and Lithuania said Friday that tighter security at their borders with Belarus was the best way to ease pressure from migrant inflows there, as they expect what they called a “hybrid attack” from Belarus to continue. […]
(Canadian Press) A Conservative candidate dropped by the party over Islamophobic tweets she claims were faked says she is still running as the “confirmed” Tory candidate in the Toronto riding. The Tories dumped Lisa Robinson last week after the Beaches-East York Liberal […]
(Anadolu) Politicians in Germany are calling on members of the Turkish community to cast their vote in elections next week to make their voice heard in national politics. “Regardless of which democratic party they support, I am calling on all citizens of […]
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(Washington Times) Another Afghan who had been deported from the U.S. after an aggravated felony conviction was found on an evacuation flight back to the U.S. this month, the Washington Times has learned. The man, who had a 2011 conviction for aggravated […]
(AP) Austria’s minister for the European Union on Thursday accused Turkey of using migrant flows as a means to pressure the 27-member bloc for its own purposes and warned that the EU won’t be “blackmailed” by any country. Karoline Edtstadler said countries […]
(iPolitics) A federal candidate for the Bloc Québécois (BQ) has been writing messages with “Islamophobic” undertones on Twitter and Facebook for years. Ensaf Haidar, 42, became the BQ’s nominee for southern Quebec’s Sherbrooke riding last month. Her husband Raif Badawi was arrested […]
(JTA) A congressional letter backed by Muslim and Jewish groups is urging the federal government to make kosher and halal meat available to observant Jews and Muslims through an emergency food program. Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., initiated the letter sent Wednesday to […]
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(Brussels Times) Security services have informed the Belgian prison system about a right-wing extremist staff member and another with radical Islamic tendencies. Criminal proceedings have been started against both, according to reporting from Belga News Agency. Belgium’s federal Minister of Justice Vincent […]
(AP) As tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban arrive in the U.S., a handful of former Trump administration officials are working to turn Republicans against them. The former officials are writing position papers, appearing on conservative television outlets and […]
(NY Post) Sen. Ted Cruz confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken about child brides being brought to the United States from Afghanistan amid the chaotic withdrawal by the Biden administration, demanding to know what guidance the State Department has been provided to […]
(Free Beacon) A Republican lawmaker is demanding the Department of Homeland Security address reports that some Afghan asylum seekers are on terror watchlists and have been accused of sexual assault, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “According to […]
(AP) European Union auditors said Monday that the 27-nation bloc’s program for deporting migrants is not working well but they warned that any attempts to force countries to take their citizens back by coercion could be counterproductive. The EU has been deeply […]
(AFP) French far-right pundit Eric Zemmour is inching closer to announcing a run for the presidency, a move that would create fresh uncertainty around next year’s election race. Zemmour and the channel he works for, CNews — derided by critics as a […]
(Jerusalem Post) “The idea of the end of Western civilization is appealing to more and more youngsters” being drawn into terrorist causes, said EU Director for Security Laurent Muschel, and this trend has only increased following the victory of the Taliban in […]
(Global News) Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he hasn’t “ruled out” federal intervention to challenge Bill 21 in court. The contentious bill, also known as Quebec’s “secularism bill,” is legislation across the province that prohibits public service workers, including teachers, lawyers and […]
(NL Times) Faction leader of the Party of Unity in The Hague, Arnoud van Doorn, will appear in court on Tuesday, due to anti-Semitic tweets the council member posted a few years ago. The lawyer of the 55-year-old, Anis Boumanjal, said he […]
(AP) Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has promised to “break and smash” the human trafficking networks that smuggle migrants across the border from Turkey. Mitsotakis, in a news conference Sunday following his Saturday keynote speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair, also said, […]
(Canadian Press) Candidate controversies over vaccines and Islamophobia dogged Erin O’Toole’s campaign Saturday as the Conservative leader made his pitch to residents in the Greater Toronto Area, a vote-rich region crucial to the outcome of the federal election on Sept. 20. The […]
(AFP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Belarus to help migrants instead of trying to send them across the border into the European Union, branding these attempts “hybrid attacks.” On a visit to Poland, Merkel addressed the influx of migrants — mostly […]
(Fox) A group of four Democratic congresswomen on Friday introduced a resolution condemning racism in the U.S. government and outlining relief for victims of racism 20 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Ilhan Omar [of] […]
(CBC) The Conservatives have dumped their candidate in the Toronto riding of Beaches–East York after past Islamophobic tweets surfaced. A spokesperson confirmed that Lisa Robinson will not run under the party’s banner in the riding. “Racism and Islamophobia has no place in […]
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(BBC) A total of 31 late-stage terror plots have been foiled in the UK in the past four years, the head of MI5 has said. Director general Ken McCallum, who revealed in October there had been 27 attacks thwarted since 2017, said […]
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(Hill) President Biden on Friday marked the 20th anniversary of [the] Sept. 11 terror attacks with a prerecorded message in which he recognized the lives lost and the loved ones they left behind and called for national unity. “It’s so hard whether […]
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