(BBC) A security expert has been appointed to assess whether coronavirus has had any impact on how well the capital would cope with another major terror attack. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said extremists had used the lockdowns to “spread disinformation” and “radicalise […]
(Middle East Eye) On 16 July, the majority of the women and children held at al-Roj camp were still asleep when a convoy of cars entered the open-air prison in northeastern Syria. A few minutes later, at around 5.30am, six Belgian [women] […]
Halal school lunches have been in the news lately. Last spring, school districts in Buffalo, New York, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, announced they would begin pilot programs to serve halal lunches at some of their schools. New York City announced it […]
(Radio NZ) Helping Islamic State-linked Suhayra Aden to resettle into the community with her children will be the best outcome for her and New Zealand, the Islamic Women’s Council says. Aden, who has links to terrorist group Islamic State, is returning from […]
(AFP) Britain and France on Monday signed a new security deal aimed at protecting the public in the event of a terror attack in the Channel against a large vessel such as a passenger ferry, the British government said. The UK-France Maritime […]
(NZ Herald) An Isis “terrorist” bride and her two children will head to New Zealand from Turkey after the New Zealand government agreed to their return. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement on Suhayra Aden — who has been described as […]
(Global News) Prosecutors have approved charges against a captured Canadian ISIS fighter, according to documents that show how federal officials have dealt with citizens detained in Syria. The approved charges are the first known to have been authorized against a Canadian member […]
(Anadolu) The controversial anti-separatism bill in France limits the existence and rights of Muslims, a French Muslim human rights activist said on Sunday. “The anti-separatism bill completely limits the right to organization and the existence of Muslims as people who have Islamic […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s communications director on Saturday criticized France’s parliament for passing a controversial bill, stressing that it would further marginalize Muslims and other religious minorities. Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter that though France claims to be based on the principles of freedom, […]
(Anadolu) The imam of a mosque in France’s Loire region was dismissed at the behest of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, on the grounds that the verse and hadith the former recited in the Eid al-Adha prayer sermon were deemed “contrary to the […]
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(France 24) The French National Assembly on Friday approved a controversial “anti-separatism” bill despite strong criticisms from parliamentarians from the left and the right. The government argued the legislation was needed to bolster France’s secular system, but critics say it breaches religious […]
(Fox) The campaign of “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has paid out over $100,000 for “fundraising consulting” to a Florida-based progressive firm founded and operated by a defund the police and anti-Israel activist, campaign filings show. Tlaib’s campaign and PAC sent […]
(Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called out federal security and tax agencies during a national summit on Islamophobia, saying they must do more to put an end to anti-Muslim sentiments in Canada. Speaking to the meeting organized by the government, Trudeau […]
(CBC) The head of a group representing Muslim people in Quebec says many members are hopeful there will be a plan for concrete actions coming out of Thursday’s national summit on Islamophobia — and that several specific issues relating to the province will […]
(BBC) Leaders of a Muslim boarding school “undermined British values” by allowing its library to stock a book calling for homosexual people to be punished. The book, Islam on Homosexuality, was found by Ofsted during a visit to the Islamic Institute of […]
(Global News) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Islamophobia has been fed by populism and the politics of division. “There are politicians who have been stoking hatred and division that we as a government have been pushing back against,” said Trudeau in an […]
(ANSA) A row ensued Wednesday after a public safety and security councillor for the rightwing [anti]-migrant League party in the northern city of Voghera, Massimo Adriatici, was arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing an illegal Moroccan immigrant after an argument outside […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday reflected on her own painful experience with Islamophobia to push the Biden administration [to] appoint a special envoy to monitor anti-Muslim hate in the U.S. and worldwide. Omar was joined by other Muslim members of […]
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(CNN) Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is leading a group of Democratic lawmakers in calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia, as instances of anti-Muslim hate crimes continue to rise worldwide. Omar, one of three […]
(Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is “extremely concerned” about recent reports that Muslim charities are being unfairly targeted for federal audits and sanctions. Trudeau told a news conference Tuesday the Liberal government is looking “very closely at our […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee member who was targeted by a foreign spy during his early days in Congress, has met twice in the past nine months with a Hamas-linked charity that spends hundreds of millions […]
(Canadian Press) A national strategy to fight anti-Muslim hate across society is one of 61 recommendations released Monday by the National Council of Canadian Muslims ahead of a summit on Islamophobia to be held later this week. The organization hosted events on […]
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(Reuters) European Union border agency Frontex will deploy 60 border guards with helicopters and vehicles to Lithuania’s frontier with Belarus next week, after a surge in migrants crossing illegally, which the EU says has been orchestrated by Minsk. In response to EU […]
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(National-UAE) The head of London’s Metropolitan Police has warned of the risk of a terrorist attack as lockdown restrictions eased in England on Monday. Cressida Dick said her officers are dealing with more than 800 live cases and that they have seen […]
(Detroit Free Press) Arab American advocates are asking the city of Dearborn to provide more voting information and ballots in Arabic language with the Aug. 3 primary for local races approaching. After complaints from civil rights advocates, the city added to its […]
(AP) Four suspected former Islamic State group fighters and their families have been successfully repatriated to North Macedonia, the government said Sunday. [The] government said the 23-member group, including five women and 14 children, has been transferred from Syria and Iraq to […]
(Anadolu) Turkey on Sunday condemned a top EU court ruling allowing companies in member states to ban employees from wearing headscarves. The Foreign Ministry said in a written statement that the decision by the European Court of Justice is an “open violation […]
(Politico) Islamic State “no longer has the capacity to send terrorists onto European soil” thanks to “action taken by the international coalition,” the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove told Le Monde in an interview published Saturday. However, he warned “the threat […]
(Brussels Times) This morning a military aircraft landed at Melsbroek airfield outside Brussels, carrying six women and ten children repatriated from a refugee camp in Syria. The women, aged between 25 and 53 years, have been held in the Kurdish-run camp Roj […]
(Breitbart) Austria has become the first country in the European Union to ban the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood as part of a new anti-terrorism law. The law bans the Egyptian-founded Muslim Brotherhood by adding it to a list of organisations linked to “religiously […]
(Kurdistan 24) Finland is bringing home a family with ties to ISIS from northeast Syria on Friday as part of the government’s efforts to rescue children from violent displacement camps. Ambassador Jussi Tanner, the Finnish Foreign Ministry’s special envoy in charge of […]
(BBC) Ten children and six mothers held in a prison camp for jihadists in Syria have been flown home to Belgium. It is the biggest repatriation of suspected Islamic State (IS) members since the group’s fall in 2019. Hundreds of Europeans who […]
(Canadian Press) A long-established Muslim international relief charity says it will ask a federal court to overturn the national revenue agency’s decision to suspend its ability to issue tax receipts following an audit. Ottawa-based Human Concern International says the Canada Revenue Agency’s […]
(Radio France) The French government has created an office of laicité in an effort to better control how state secularism — one of the fundamental values of the French Republic — is taught and transmitted. The Interministerial Committee replaces the Observatoire de […]
(AP) Iraq’s foreign minister said Thursday his government would investigate trafficking networks responsible for smuggling hundreds of Iraqis into Europe, specifically via Belarus to Lithuania. Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein made the promise after a meeting in Baghdad with his visiting Lithuanian counterpart, […]
(AP) Mustafa Hussein Hamad kicked a dirty ball between two old tires in the schoolyard where he spends most of his time. He and dozens of other migrants are fenced in at an old school after walking at night through the thick […]
(Euronews) The resignation of a government representative in Belgium has sparked fresh political debate about Islamic headscarves. [Ihsane] Haouach, a Belgian-Moroccan woman, stepped down on Friday from her role as a government commissioner at the Institute for the Equality of Women and […]
(Reuters) Lithuania’s foreign minister and the EU’s top diplomat accused Belarus on Monday of using illegal migrants as a political weapon to put pressure on the European Union because of the bloc’s sanctions on Minsk. Belarus was flying in migrants from abroad […]
(NY Daily News) A Queens community activist challenging New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the 2022 midterm elections set a new fundraising record for progressive primary candidates in the first quarter of her campaign, her latest financial disclosure shows. Rana Abdelhamid, 28, […]
(AFP) Afghanistan has urged European countries to halt forced deportations of Afghan migrants for the next three months, as security forces battle a wave of violence triggered by a dizzying Taliban offensive. The United Nations said on Sunday the rising conflict is […]
(AP) The European Union’s border agency is pledging to “significantly” step up its support to Lithuania in the coming days “due to the growing migratory pressure at Lithuania’s border with Belarus” that the Baltic nation is trying to contain. The decision by […]
(Jewish News of Northern California) The American Jewish Committee and two figures in the Bay Area Jewish community have come out in defense of a nominee for a federal position who has been accused by GOP lawmakers of holding anti-Israel sentiments. Dilawar […]
(CBC) The federal government has announced that two emergency national summits — one on antisemitism and one on Islamophobia — will take place on July 21 and July 22, respectively. Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Youth Bardish Chagger made the announcement in […]
(AP) Lithuania began Friday to erect a fence along its border with Belarus to deter third-country migrants from entering, a week after Vilnius declared a state of emergency to address a sharp rise in migratory flows — which it says Belarusian authorities […]
(AP) Central European leaders on Friday voiced concern over what they said was a potential migration rush from Afghanistan as U.S. and NATO forces pull out from that country. They also complained that a small group of powerful countries within the European […]
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