(AP) A Danish court acquitted three lawmakers Tuesday of defamation for writing an email in which they said public funds should not be granted to an organization helping women exposed to psychological violence because the woman behind it didn’t distance herself from […]
(Courthouse News) Chatitze Molla Sali already knew that she’d won the right to inherit her Muslim husband’s full estate two years ago but she had to wait until Thursday to find out just how much the Greek government would have to pay […]
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(National Post) The Conservative Party has disqualified Jim Karahalios from the race following complaints over his behaviour. The party did not say exactly what caused the disqualification, but there have been at least two incidents where people complained about his behaviour. Karahalios […]
(National Post) A mass-distributed letter by Conservative leadership candidate Jim Karahalios has sparked outrage in the party over using perceived anti-Muslim rhetoric to attack an Erin O’Toole campaign official, with O’Toole calling it “bigotry” that will lead to “electoral obliteration for our […]
(NL Times) Suspect Gökmen T. wrote references to Islam, Sharia and Allah on the firearm used to commit a mass shooting in Utrecht in March last year, “reliable sources” told RTL Nieuws. Soon after the shooting on 24 Oktoberplein on March 18th, […]
(PolitiFact) U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Muslim American Democrat from Minnesota, was sworn into the House of Representatives on Jan. 3, 2019, using the Quran that belonged to her grandfather. A couple weeks later, a Facebook post claimed that she and Rep. […]
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(Free Beacon) As Democrat Amy McGrath was laying the groundwork for her Senate bid, she attended a dinner hosted by the Kentucky chapter of a radical anti-Israel organization that has been tied to funding of global terror networks. The Kentucky chapter of […]
(Columbia Missourian) A Missouri lawmaker had proposed legislation that would make it illegal for judges to consider Sharia law in their judicial decisions. Some, including representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the 2016 legislation was Islamophobic. At the time, Faizan […]
(i24) At least 46% of foreign-born Muslims in France want to adopt Sharia law into the country’s legal system, reveals a poll conducted by IFOP (French Institute for Public Opinions) for Le Point magazine. The survey also indicates that among French-born Muslims, […]
(NL Times) A majority of Dutch people are in favor of abolishing religious primary schools, according to a poll by Maurice de Hond. 59 percent of respondents said that all schools based on a religion in the Netherlands should be closed. Last […]
(Dutch News) The ruling VVD and opposition Labour party want to change an article in the Dutch constitution which gives people the right to set up a school on the basis of a religion. VVD parliamentarian Dennis Wiersma told Radio 1 on […]
(Dutch News) Children who go to mosque-run fundamentalist Muslim schools across the country are being taught people of different faiths deserve the death penalty and to turn their backs on the values of Dutch society, a joint investigation by current affairs programme […]
(Yle) The Finnish government is still to decide on the fate of Finnish women and their children detained at a refugee camp in a Kurdish region in Syria. A dozen or so Finnish women who followed their husbands as the men joined […]
(WHYY) The Delaware state senator behind a bill to prevent “foreign laws” from being used in local courts has drawn criticism from a Muslim advocacy group — and some fellow lawmakers. State Sen. Dave Lawson, a Republican from Kent County, insists his […]
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(Toronto Sun) Last week’s Ontario Superior Court judgment exonerating two men for a dozen criminal charges related to the marketing of Islamic mortgages based on Shariah law went unreported in all Canadian newspapers and network TV other than the online pages of […]
(Toronto Sun) Two Muslim men — an activist turned Shariah mortgage seller and an Islamic cleric who sold his Islamic seal of approval on such mortgages — were acquitted on Friday of a dozen criminal charges by an Ontario Superior Court judge […]
(CBC) Two men who provided Shariah-compliant mortgages to Muslim homeowners in the GTA were acquitted of a dozen criminal charges in Ontario Superior Court Friday after a trial that began back in October 2018. Omar Kalair and Yusuf Panchbhaya were on trial […]
(AFP) A German court on Monday ordered seven Islamic fundamentalists to pay fines over a so-called “sharia police” patrol they launched in 2014 to mass media and political outrage. The men aged between 27 and 37 must pay between 300 and 1,800 […]
(Global News) Stereotypes around religion, ethnicity and race can have damaging effects on people, yet some Canadians still believe these harmful tropes. A recent poll conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of Global News found that three in 10 Canadians believe […]
(Deutsche Welle) The retrial of seven alleged members of a self-proclaimed “Shariah Police” vigilante group began in the western city of Wuppertal on Monday. The men were cleared of wrongdoing in 2016, but the case is now being heard again following a […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Thursday ordered the early release from jail of one of Germany’s most renowned Salafists. Sven Lau had been serving a sentence of 5 1/2 years for aiding terrorism. Lau was convicted in July 2017 of supporting Jamwa, an Islamist […]
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(CTV) Two Conservative MPs are hosting a reception to promote women’s rights in the Middle East that features a keynote speaker who has been accused of sympathizing with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and promoting an anti-Islam film. Conservative MPs Garnett Genuis and […]
(CNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on Fox News to fire host Jeanine Pirro — and wants her show’s advertisers boycotted until it does — after Pirro linked Rep. Ilhan Omar’s wearing of a hijab to shari’a (Islamic law), […]
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(Hartford Courant) M. Saud Anwar is Connecticut’s first Muslim state legislator — so it raised eyebrows when pepperoni was served at a reception for the Pakistani-American at the Capitol. Pepperoni is a pork product and is not halal under Islamic law, which […]
(ABC-Australia) A Melbourne man who was part of a group planning to sail to the southern Philippines to work with Muslim militants to overthrow the government has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison. Shayden Thorne is one of […]
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(NY Post) What allegiance does the United States owe to our enemies when they are our own citizens? More than we should. The question arises due to the case of Hoda Muthana, a young woman born in Alabama, the daughter of Yemeni […]
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(Global News) Two Canadian women have surrendered to U.S.-backed forces after fleeing the last patch of ISIS territory in Syria, amid debate over how Ottawa should deal with such detainees. “I believe in Sharia wherever Sharia is,” a 28-year-old from Toronto, who […]
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(AFP) Outwardly, Komotini looks like other Greek cities, but there is a major difference: it has nine mosques whereas there are none in Athens. The northeastern city has existed from the second century and was captured by Ottoman-era Turkey in the 14th. […]
(Scottish Legal News) The Parliamentary Assembly of the 47-nation Council of Europe has expressed concern about the “judicial” activities of “Sharia councils” in the UK and has recommended that barriers to Muslim women’s access to justice be removed. A resolution adopted last […]
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(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 […]
(IPT) German officials reportedly see the Muslim Brotherhood as an increasingly subversive force in their society. Attacks by ISIS, combined with Muslim migration to Germany, have fueled social tension. The reach of the Islamic Community of Germany (ICG), which the German domestic […]
(PJ Media) In late December 2018, New York residents spotted a white and blue “Muslim Community Patrol” (MCP) vehicle that looks like an official NYPD vehicle. Yet in a statement to PJ Media on Wednesday, the NYPD disavowed any link to the […]
(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 […]
(Kathimerini) The Justice Ministry on Thursday responded to a ruling against Greece by the European Court of Human Rights over an inheritance dispute, saying the case predates a change in laws adopted in 2018. “Those who try to distort the European court’s […]
(AP) Greece violated a prohibition on discrimination by applying Islamic religious law to an inheritance dispute among members of the country’s Muslim minority, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Wednesday. The court, based in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, ruled […]
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