(Local) A Muslim woman whose job interview was cut short when it became known that she would not shake hands with male colleagues for religious reasons, was indirectly discriminated against, the Swedish Labour Court has ruled. The 24-year-old woman had been called […]
(Daily Caller) The New Mexico judge overseeing the case against five alleged Muslim extremists essentially accused prosecutors of discriminating against Muslims in her Monday court order granting bail to the defendants. The defendants, Siraj Wahhaj, Hujrah Wahhaj, Jany Leveille, [Subhanah] Wahhaj, and […]
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(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) When a 3-year-old Clayton County boy died in a ritual in the northern New Mexico desert, the other children there were allegedly told he would come back to life as Jesus and tell them who to kill. That’s among the […]
(FrontPage) It turns out the man arrested for running a Muslim terrorist training compound in rural New Mexico is the son of an influential Democrat-connected jihadist imam who was close to the Blind Sheikh who orchestrated the bombing of the World Trade […]
(PJ Media) According to CNN, 100 or more newspapers will publish editorials attacking President Trump on August 16. Meanwhile, Minnesota’s largest newspapers — along with every other mainstream outlet in the country — just whiffed on covering this: signed, notarized court documents […]
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(ABC-Australia) A mother, a former registered nurse and Sydney Islamic sect leader convicted in Australia’s first female genital mutilation court case — seen as a breakthrough in prosecuting the crime — have been acquitted by an appeal court. In November 2015, a […]
(Michigan Radio) The Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan is part of a lawsuit filed Wednesday challenging practices used to monitor passengers in U.S. airports. The lawsuit aims to have the no-fly list, watch list, and the new “Quiet Skies” program declared unconstitutional. […]
(AFP) An appeals court in Paris has upheld a decision by judges to keep Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in jail while he is being investigated on rape charges brought by two women, a legal source told AFP on Thursday. Lawyers for Ramadan […]
(Worcester Telegram) A Democratic primary challenger to U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, in the 1st Congressional District has landed endorsements from progressive groups despite her connection to a Muslim cleric who called the Supreme Court ruling upholding same-sex marriage the “darkest day […]
(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn imam once linked to the 1993 World Trade Center blast steered police to a terrorist training center for kids run by his son in New Mexico. Imam [Siraj] Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator of terrorist bomber Sheik Omar […]
(Bergen Record) A Syria native from Bergen County and a Middlesex County man are among 20 Americans who filed a lawsuit this week alleging their rights were violated by the federal government’s secret surveillance of travelers. The lawsuit challenges the federal terrorist watch list system […]
(Breitbart) Left-wing Islamic activist Linda Sarsour reportedly has ties to the father of the man arrested for allegedly training children to carry out school shootings on a New Mexico compound. Police arrested Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, last week for allegedly holding a series […]
(PJ Media) Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-60B) is the presumed frontrunner for the MN-5 House seat being vacated by Rep. Keith Ellison (D). The seat is safely Democratic; Hollywood progressives, local party officials, and Minnesota media have all but scheduled the […]
(Oakland Press) A federal judge has eased computer restrictions for the Northville doctor charged in the nation’s landmark female genital mutilation case. Judge Bernard Friedman of U.S. District Court in Detroit on Tuesday changed bond conditions for Jumana Nagarwala, granting her permission […]
(Daily Caller) Media outlets are leaving out a key detail about the New Mexico compound leaders who were reportedly training young children to commit school shootings. Eleven children were recently rescued from the “filthy” compound, which police say appears to be run […]
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(Swiss Info) A ban on face-covering clothing in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino has affected masked football supporters the most. Hardly any wearers of burkas or niqabs, the original targets of the ban, have been fined. In 2013, two-thirds of Ticino’s […]
(AP) A Muslim civil rights organization said Tuesday it plans to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal government’s terror watch list system, including a newly disclosed program in which air marshals have secretly monitored air passengers with no known […]
(Algemeiner) Danish imam Mundhir Abdallah recently defended himself against hate speech charges pending against him by calling for jihad against Israel. Abdallah, imam of the Al-Faruq Mosque in Copenhagen, has been indicted as a result of a sermon he delivered on March […]
(Detroit Free Press) The doctor at the center of a historic genital mutilation case has another favor she’s asking of the judge: let me use the Internet. This, on top of — please dismiss more charges against me. More than a year […]
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(FrontPage) Britain’s darkest hour has followed its finest hour by 78 years. Tommy Robinson has been freed from a stint in prison that he never should have been serving in the first place. The New York Times reported: “On Wednesday, the Court […]
(VOA) On a few days over the last year, federal agents approached travelers at several U.S. airports — flights bound for or connecting to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Frankfurt, Germany, and Dakar, Senegal. The officials — part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
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(BBC) Former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson has been released on bail after winning an appeal against a contempt of court finding. The 35-year-old admitted the charge and was jailed in May for filming outside Leeds Crown Court during a […]
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(Kathimerini) The coalition is, according to sources, poised to push through the retirement of two government-appointed muftis in the Greek border region of Western Thrace. Muftis are Muslim legal experts who are empowered to give rulings on religious matters. Turkey has in […]
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(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) An Iranian-American’s five-month jail sentence was reduced after he filed an appeal accusing a Sandy Springs judge who sentenced him of harboring anti-Islamic bias. Municipal Court Judge Sharon Dickson recently came under fire for remarks she made during Fazial Azizan’s […]
(Hill) The Trump administration is facing the first legal challenge to its travel ban on nationals from five Muslim-majority countries following the recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the ban. Muslim Advocates, Lotfi Legal LLC, the Immigrant Advocacy & Litigation Center PLLC and Public […]
(PRI) On July 26, 2016, a young girl stepped up to the mic at a meeting of the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education. “Good evening. My name is Sohaila Gebaly,” she said. “I’m going to 6th grade. I love […]
(IPT) If you ask the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its media allies, terrorists ensnared by FBI sting operation[s] are victims of entrapment; they’re mentally ill; or both. Media coverage, such as a recent Cleveland Plain Dealer article about a sting […]
(Detroit News) Three doctors accused of cutting the genitalia of prepubescent girls want key charges dismissed, arguing that a law banning female genital mutilation is unconstitutional. The request, filed Friday in federal court, is the first legal challenge to a 22-year-old law that […]
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(Houston Chronicle) A five-week capital murder trial came to a swift ending Thursday when a Harris County jury took less than an hour of deliberations to convict a Jordanian immigrant of killing his son-in-law and orchestrating the slaying of his daughter’s close […]
(AFP) Danish prosecutors on Tuesday charged an imam with calling for the killing of Jews in the first case of its kind in the Nordic nation and which sparked political outrage. Imam Mundhir Abdallah, who preaches in the Copenhagen neighbourhood of Norrebro […]
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(Middle East Monitor) The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK has revealed details about the deportation of an Egyptian Islamic preacher who is opposed to the Egyptian regime by the Spanish authorities. Spain handed over Alaa Mohamed Said, 45, who […]
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(AFP) French judges have rejected a request by lawyers for Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan to drop charges of raping two women, a source close to the inquiry told AFP on Friday. Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and Oxford University professor whose grandfather founded […]
(Morocco World News) Henda Ayari’s version of events has been questioned after new evidence has emerged in Tariq Ramadan’s rape case. In October, Ayari, an author and former Salafi, had accused the prominent public intellectual of raping her. After Ayari’s accusation, four […]
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(Politico) The European Commission on Thursday referred Hungary to the European Court of Justice over its treatment of asylum seekers, declaring that Budapest is not complying with EU law. The referral is the final stage in an infringement proceeding — the action the […]
(JNS) For the second time in 20 years, France basked in the accomplishment of winning the World Cup with a team whose diverse backgrounds were as much a symbol of national unity as the creative brand of soccer they played. By any […]
(Gatestone) A court in Gelsenkirchen has ruled that deporting a self-declared Islamist — suspected of being a bodyguard of the former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden — was “grossly unlawful” and ordered him returned to Germany. The case has cast a spotlight […]
(BBC) One of the men accused of killing a jeweller has said a co-defendant entered the victim’s shop with a gun hidden beneath a burka. Ramniklal Jogiya was abducted near his Leicester shop on 24 January, with his body found in Stoughton […]
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