Islamic Law
One‑man Sharia courts ‘discriminate against women’ (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic Law
Government & Politics
Conservative MPs hosting women’s rights event with speaker accused of ‘spreading fear and division’
(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 […]
Clothing
CAIR: Fire Jeanine Pirro for remarks about Rep. Omar’s hijab and shari’a
(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), […]
Academics & Education
Oxford University suspends jihad-supporting student, 21, for trying to recruit for an extreme Islamist group (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Pepperoni served at reception for Connecticut’s first Muslim state legislator
(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 […]
Islamic Law
Melbourne man sentenced over plot to support Muslim militants in the Philippines
(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 […]
Crime
Muslim convert screams ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he is jailed for encouraging terrorism on Facebook (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Why it’s so hard to revoke the citizenship of terrorists
(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 […]
Clerics & Preachers
Woman imam who braved death threats calls for ban on foreign funding of Europe’s mosques (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Third of Britons believe Islam threatens British way of life, says report (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic Law
‘I got cheated. All of us got cheated’: Captured German Isis member says he regrets joining terror group (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Canadian women fleeing ISIS territory surrender to U.S.-backed forces in Syria
(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 […]
Academics & Education
We’re too slow to quash un-British practices (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Greece’s Muslim minority complain of ‘marginalisation’ in Komotini
(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. […]
Islamic Law
Council of Europe: ‘Judicial’ activities of Sharia councils in UK a cause for concern
(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 […]
Health & Medicine
Islamic radicals met on camping trips to Wicklow mountains (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Report: Facebook and Twitter consult with terror-tied CAIR over who gets banned from platforms
(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 […]
Government & Politics
German authorities worry about MB influence
(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 […]
Islamic Law
NYC ‘Muslim Community Patrol’ car not approved by us, NYPD says
(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 […]
Animals
Belgium region’s kosher slaughter ban goes into effect The ban should serve as 'a wake-up call' to Jewish communities across Europe to the necessity of building ties with national governments, a senior European rabbi said.
(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 […]
Government & Politics
Justice Ministry denies violating convention
(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 […]
Islamic Law
Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case
(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 […]
Government & Politics
Muslim widow caught between Sharia law, Greek courts in legal drama
(Washington Times) Hatice Molla Sali will discover Wednesday whether she faces a life of poverty in her twilight years. That is when the European Court of Human Rights is expected to rule on the 68-year-old Muslim widow’s case against an Islamic court […]
Clerics & Preachers
Muslim preacher claims women are too ‘sensitive and delicate’ to remember things properly because they can’t handle ‘high levels of stress and pressure’ (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
Ilhan Omar responds to conservative pastor over Muslim comments: ‘You’re gonna have to just deal’
(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 […]
Christians
Conservative pastor: ‘The floor of Congress is now going to look like an Islamic republic’
(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 […]
Banks & Banking
‘Everything I have done has always been above board,’ former mortgage lender tells fraud trial Omar Kalair faces numerous charges, including fraud, theft and laundering the proceeds of crime
(CBC) A man accused of misappropriating millions of dollars after his Shariah mortgage lending company went into receivership testified in his own defence in a Toronto courtroom, saying everything he’s done has always been “above board.” Omar Kalair, the former president and […]
Academics & Education
‘There is no Sharia law on German soil’: CDU candidate Merz
(Local) The candidate for the CDU presidency, Friedrich Merz, expects an unconditional commitment to the German legal system from the approximately 4.5 million Muslims in Germany, he said at a regional conference in Düsseldorf on Wednesday evening. The former head of the […]
Government & Politics
Twitter bans far-right activist Laura Loomer
(Daily Beast) Twitter kicked Laura Loomer off its platform permanently Wednesday, making her the latest conservative media figure to be banned from the site. “This is not going to be the end of Laura Loomer,” the far-right activist told the Daily Beast. […]
Books
‘It could certainly radicalise someone’ (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
‘This is not all of us.’ Call to remove Muslim from post divides Tarrant Republicans
(Star-Telegram) There’s a clear division in the Tarrant County Republican Party. At a time when many want to focus on the 2020 election, in the wake of this reliably red county turning blue in this year’s U.S. Senate race, Tarrant Republicans instead […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
‘We’re patriots’: Tarrant Republicans met to discuss ousting Muslim from party post
(Star-Telegram) It is still up in the air whether a small group of Tarrant Republicans will succeed in a controversial plan to oust a leader of their party because he’s Muslim. Tarrant Republican precinct chairs met for nearly four hours Saturday — […]
Crime
Keith Ellison, Louis Farrakhan, and ‘cop killers’: Smear campaign or fair game?
(Pioneer Press) For more than a decade, Keith Ellison’s political opponents have criticized him with the same list of grievances: His past association with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, his past association with gang leader Sharif Willis, his past statements on […]
Clerics & Preachers
Muslim #MeToo isn’t just a man problem. It’s also a male-led theology problem
(Religion News) If one thing has been made glaringly evident from the #MeToo revelations of the past year, it’s that many women — Muslim women included — are no longer going to be patient in the wake of sexual abuse or trauma. […]
Banks & Banking
Homeowner testifies at trial of 2 men accused of defrauding Shariah mortgage holders Defence is trying to demonstrate homeowners were credited for payments they made
(CBC) The trial of two men accused of defrauding homeowners who had taken out “Shariah-compliant” mortgages heard Thursday from one of the mortgage holders, who admitted under defence cross-examination that he and his wife eventually got credited for their payments. Omar Kalair […]
Citizenship
One European Sharia supporter fears losing democracy, the other enjoys its gifts
(IPT) Of late, most of Europe has focused its counterterrorism efforts on handling the potential returnees from Syria, and possible radicals hiding among migrants from the region. Yet recent events indicate that not all European countries are fully prepared to defend against […]
Citizenship
Fouad Belkacem: Belgian Islamist leader loses citizenship
(BBC) Jailed Islamist Fouad Belkacem, whose group Sharia4Belgium sent dozens of jihadists to Syria, has been stripped of his Belgian citizenship and faces deportation to Morocco. The appeal court in Antwerp ruled that he had fallen seriously short of his duties as […]
Children & Teens
Muslim cleric, 51, who runs Britain’s largest network of sharia courts is quizzed over child rape claims (LINK ONLY)
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Banks & Banking
2 men defrauded Shariah-compliant mortgage-holders of millions of dollars, crown tells trial Omar Kalair pocketed money from his mortgage company before it went bankrupt, crown alleges
(CBC) The trial of two men charged with defrauding Muslim homeowners got underway in Toronto courtroom this week with the crown accusing the defendants of bilking their clients of millions of dollars. Omar Kalair and co-accused Yusuf Panchbhaya are standing trial in […]
Children & Teens
Muslim preacher who runs Britain’s biggest sharia court denies raping two Dutch women in UK when they were young schoolgirls (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Rutgers cancels Lisa Daftari speech after accusations of Islamophobia
(Jewish Journal) Rutgers University canceled a speaking event for Lisa Daftari, a regular Fox News contributor and journalist with expertise in the Middle East, foreign affairs and counterterrorism, after some students accused her of Islamophobia. Daftari, a Rutgers alumna and Iranian Jew, […]
Christians
Corona councilman — a pastor — under fire for sermon’s remarks about Muslim candidate
(Corona Press-Enterprise) Less than a week after a controversial video surfaced on Facebook, Corona city councilman and pastor Randy Fox is facing calls for a censure after he said a council candidate “will not say no to sharia law.” The second half of the […]
Government & Politics
Extremists Hizb ut-Tahrir targeting inner-city youth in Birmingham (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Populist proposal to ban Islamic expressions in Netherlands immediately shot down
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders put forward a proposal to ban all forms of Islamic expressions in the Netherlands during the first day of the general considerations, the parliamentary debate on the government’s plans and budget for the next year, on Wednesday. […]
Apostasy
‘There are only two choices, Islam or death’ (LINK ONLY)
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Alcohol & Drugs
Four Belgian political parties call for banning of pro-sharia Islamist party
(Breitbart) Four political parties are pushing forward laws that could prohibit the pro-sharia Partij Islam ahead of Belgium’s upcoming municipal elections. The Independent Federal Democrat Party (DEFI), the right-wing Reform Movement (MR), the Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH), and the Socialist Party (PS) […]
Clothing
Sweden: Social Democrat candidate claims Islamic law more important than Swedish law
(Breitbart) The Swedish Social Democrats have had to remove a parliamentary candidate from their national election list only days before the vote after they claimed Islamic law was more important than Swedish law. The candidate, who was running in the municipality of Karlshamn in the […]
Demonstrations
Liberals turn on Ocasio-Cortez over Linda Sarsour tweet
(Daily Wire) Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be in danger of losing some of her support among liberals with her decision to increasingly align herself with anti-liberal activist Linda Sarsour. The Democratic candidate’s rift with her liberal supporters really showed itself […]
Academics & Education
Maryland Islamic schools tied to Iranian regime
(Clarion) A sheikh tied to the Iranian regime is currently teaching at two Maryland Islamic schools and leads a mosque in the state and teaches at another, Clarion Project discovered. In addition, his daughter is posting pro-Hezbollah propaganda that glorifies violent jihad. Sheikh Abdul […]
Apostasy
Islamist extremist leader stares down a former Muslim and says he should die for renouncing his faith (LINK ONLY)
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