(Conservative Review) The Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is best known as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history, appears to have access to high-ranking Facebook and Twitter executives and has communicated with these individuals […]
(Brussels Times) Concerning the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche and Nacer Bendrer, Alexander Strens’s mother expects Nemmouche “to explain himself, and say what he did, who his accomplices are, and what his motives are,” his lawyer, Mr. Dalne, said on Monday upon arrival […]
(CTV) A Muslim cleric who said wishing someone merry Christmas is a sin worse than murder claims his comments were taken out of context. During a sermon on December 23, Sheikh Younus Kathrada, a preacher in Victoria, B.C., said that Muslims must […]
(JTA) Sen. Marco Rubio is pushing a bill that would protect states that penalize Israel boycotters, spurring a freshman congresswoman to question his loyalties. On Monday, the Florida Republican decried the statement from Rep. Rashia Tlaib, D-Mich., as anti-Semitic. “This ‘dual loyalty’ […]
(AFP) A French jihadist appeared in court on Monday as a jury was chosen for his trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014. Mehdi Nemmouche, the first jihadist to return from Syria’s battlefields to allegedly […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), fresh from calling the president of the United States a “motherfucker,” claimed Sunday that senators who support proposed foreign policy legislation act as if they “represent” a country other than the United States. Tlaib retweeted […]
(AP) Cartoonists, religious leaders and top French officials are paying respects to 17 people killed by Islamic extremists targeting satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. The attacks that started exactly four years ago Monday were the first of several to […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., Monday called on the Department of Justice to immediately halt federal funding to the Nation of Islam, after the Washington Examiner first reported that the group has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the government […]
(AFP) Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in […]
(NY Times) A Belgian ban on the Muslim and Jewish ways of ritually slaughtering animals went into effect on New Year’s Day, part of a clash across Europe over the balance between animal welfare and religious freedom. With both animal rights advocates […]
(JTA) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on her first day on the job as a congresswoman, posted a list of firsts that her class represents. “The #116thCongress has SO much to be proud of,” Omar said Thursday on Twitter. Among them, naturally enough, […]
(Jewish News) A leading Muslim activist has warned “forward-thinking” members of his community are being “held to ransom” by extremists, after Golders Green mosque abandoned an exhibition about Muslims who helped Jews during the Holocaust over security threats and the event’s links […]
(Forward) As Rashida Tlaib prepared to be sworn in as the first Palestinian-American congresswoman on Thursday, she wore a traditional Palestinian robe — and was joined by activist Linda Sarsour. “It’s a national holiday, I’m doing no work today,” Sarsour, who is […]
(Conservative Review) The anti-Israel wing of the Democrat party is already making a stir on day one of its congressional tenure. The office of incoming Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who claims Palestinian heritage, has placed a so-called correction on the map in […]
(Jewish News) A planned exhibition celebrating Muslim Albanians who helped, protected and rescued their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust has been scrapped. No reason has been given for the cancellation, but Rabbi Natan Levy, head of operations at Faith Forums for London, […]
(Washington Post) This week, like other new members of Congress, incoming Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) will take her first oath of office. Unlike most other incoming members of Congress, however, Tlaib will be sworn in on the Koran, Islam’s holiest book. […]
(Jerusalem Post) A ban on kosher slaughter by the Flanders region of Belgium will go into effect January 1, after legislation prohibiting animal slaughter without pre-stunning was passed in the region’s parliament in July 2017. Slaughter according to Islamic law will also […]
(Washington Examiner) In a glowing profile of representative-elect Ilhan Omar, the New York Times portrays her critics as merely scared of somebody different, all the while glossing over her misrepresentation of her position on Israel and record of unapologetically peddling anti-Semitic conspiracy […]
(Gatestone) The British government’s idea of who is — and who is not — a legitimate asylum seeker becomes stranger by the month. In November it was reported that the Pakistani Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, was unlikely to be offered […]
(Jewish News) Golders Green Mosque is to host a unique one-day Yad Vashem exhibition at the beginning of the new year, highlighting the Muslim Albanians who helped, protected and rescued their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. The exhibition, to be held under […]
(Washington Times) Linda Sarsour’s latest effort to distance the Women’s March leadership from Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan may have backfired. A Women’s March national co-chair, Ms. Sarsour met with heavy skepticism after insisting that she has never met Mr. Farrakhan […]
(FrontPage) Nadim Siddiqui’s life has gone through a dramatic shift, from ambitious entrepreneur with political connections and an attractive girlfriend to a poverty-stricken and raving anti-Semite with repeated arrests and no one to turn to. What happened to Siddiqui that he would […]
(Algemeiner) As Christians around the world celebrate Christmas, footage has emerged of an Islamist cleric in Canada telling an assembly of Muslim young people in British Columbia that “major sins” like “murder” and “adultery” were “nothing compared to the sin of congratulating […]
(Washington Examiner) The Nation of Islam defiantly defended its government-funded work teaching religion to federal prisoners on Thursday, calling the program “a great benefit and blessing to the American Penal System.” A black nationalist group led by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of […]
(Deutsche Welle) Mahmudul Haque Munshi’s name was on a hit list in Bangladesh. After five of his friends and associates were murdered, the authorities warned the blogger: “There’s nothing more we can do for you.” Munshi had to leave the country in […]
(AFP) An alleged French jihadist accused of returning from Syria and shooting dead four people in an attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium in central Brussels appeared in court Thursday. Mehdi Nemmouche, allegedly the first foreign fighter to return to stage […]
(Washington Examiner) The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. A black nationalist […]
(JTA) Bloggers published a video on YouTube Friday showing an employee of the Netherlands’ largest supermarket chain laughing as a man wearing a kippah walks by. The Albert Heijn chain dismissed the footage Tuesday as a misunderstanding. The bloggers, who run the […]
(Daily Caller) Universities funded by the Department of Education to help shape the way U.S. K-12 schools and colleges portray the Middle East and Israel are simultaneously bankrolled by $600 million tied to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Muslim-majority countries, a Daily […]
(Reuters) Italian police said on Monday they had arrested a 20-year-old Somali man suspected of having been a member of Islamic State and who had threatened to bomb churches in Italy, including St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. They told reporters in […]
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(CNS) One of the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress took a snide dig on Twitter at Vice President Pence for sitting with eyes closed during a heated Oval Office meeting, posting a photo with the caption, “Jesus take […]
(Conservative Review) Women’s March leader and Islamist activist Linda Sarsour is scheduled to speak at the end of the month at the Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America (MAS-ICNA) annual conference in Chicago. The announcement comes on the heels of a Tablet […]
(WSYX) A 21-year-old Ohio man is accused of attempting to provide support to foreign terrorist organizations, after investigators say not only did he plot to support ISIS, but he was trying to plan an attack on a Toledo-area synagogue after he was […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), who was initially scheduled to speak at the same conference as controversial Women’s March organizer and liberal activist Linda Sarsour, is no longer speaking at the conference due to a scheduling conflict. Warren had been […]
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(Hill) Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), one of the first two Muslim women elected to serve in Congress, on Friday fired back at the conservative pastor who complained that [the] floor of the Congress will “look like an Islamic republic.” “Well sir, the […]
(Hill) Conservative pastor commentator E.W. Jackson went on an anti-Islamic tirade on his radio show Wednesday, complaining that Muslims are taking over Congress. Jackson’s remarks were in response to reports that Democrats are attempting to change a rule banning headwear on the floor […]
(Religion News) The scene is familiar from many Nativity scenes arranged at this time of year: the Virgin Mary, cradling the newborn Jesus. Then, the baby speaks, defending his mother’s innocence and declaring he has been appointed as a prophet. That might […]
(Breitbart) Sixty-eight percent of Democrats say employers should grant a request for prayer space by Muslims — but only 45 percent say employers should grant a similar request by Christian employees, says a survey by Grinnell College. In contrast to the Democrats’ 23-point […]
(Intercept) Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic representative-elect from Michigan, belongs to a cohort of incoming members of Congress who’ve vowed to upend the status quo — even on third-rail issues in Washington like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To that end, Tlaib is planning to […]
(Free Beacon) Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) defended former CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill’s remarks defending Palestinian violence against Israel at a recent United Nations speech, tweeting that “calling out the oppressive policies in Israel” was not anti-Semitic. CNN dropped Hill from […]
(JTA) Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said he was “shocked” that the Labour Party rejected a motion calling for the adoption of a definition of anti-Semitism, saying its vote aimed to curry favor with some Muslim voters. On Tuesday, a majority of […]
(IPT) Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein is calling for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to fire Los Angeles chapter director Hussam Ayloush after he advocated for the “termination” of Israel. “Iran’s regime calling Israel a ‘cancerous tumor’ […]
(Forward) The Muslim crowd funding campaign to support victims of last month’s synagogue massacre has distributed its final grant of money to Pittsburgh, its organizer told the Forward. All in all, $238,634 was raised in a little more than a week, much […]
(Algemeiner) The Palestinian cause is an Islamic struggle that should be “marketed” as a humanitarian concern to non-Muslims, a prominent imam told a recent “Workshop for Palestine” held at the Islamic Center of Union County, NJ. “Although our cause is Islamic, when we market and present […]
(Brooklyn Eagle) Assemblymember Dov Hikind, a longtime critic of Linda Sarsour, is getting ready to leave office at the end of the year but on his way out the door, he is taking a parting shot at the controversial Arab-American civil rights […]
(KDKA) The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh transferred the remaining $85,000 worth of donations Wednesday afternoon to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh to support the victims’ families, survivors and first responders of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Squirrel Hill. A […]
(JNS) CAIR Los Angeles director Hussam Ayloush posted on Twitter over the weekend that “Iran’s regime calling Israel a ‘cancerous tumor’ is like the pot calling the kettle black. All the people of that region will be better off once both murderous […]
(BBC) Jewish and Muslim community leaders have joined forces in a “landmark” challenge to hate crime in Scotland. The Muslim Council of Scotland and the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities said they were determined to address Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. They have published […]
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