Legal
Contempt judge in Tommy Robinson case did not see full video, says lawyer (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
French court denies request by Tariq Ramadan to drop rape charges
(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 […]
Crime
Tariq Ramadan: Alleged rape victim’s story contradicted by wedding pictures
(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 […]
Demonstrations
UKIP leader compares jailed Tommy Robinson to Nelson Mandela claiming history will see him as a ‘hero’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Commission takes Hungary to court over treatment of asylum seekers Viktor Orbán’s government is violating key EU rules and rights, Brussels says.
(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 […]
Crime
France’s reputation is at stake again over the murder of Sarah Halimi France’s leaders should expect to undergo the trial of international public scrutiny if this sadistic, anti-Semitic killer is sent to a psychiatric hospital instead of answering for his crimes.
(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 […]
Government & Politics
Germany’s dysfunctional deportation system
(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 […]
Clothing
Leicester jeweller murder trial: Man hid ‘gun in a burka’
(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 […]
Legal
Tommy Robinson jail sentence appeal delayed by judges
(BBC) Judges have delayed their decision in an appeal by far-right activist Tommy Robinson against his conviction and jailing for contempt of court. The Court of Appeal expects a judgement on the former English Defence League leader to be made by the […]
Children & Teens
Muslim group decries Arizona congressman over UK activist
(AP) The Arizona chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group on Wednesday condemned a congressman for appearing at a London rally in support of a jailed far-right British activist. Rep. Paul Gosar recently spoke at a rally supporting the jailed […]
Crime
Protesters demand scholar Tariq Ramadan’s release ahead of trial, as academic’s health worsens
(New Arab) Protests took place around the world on Tuesday to demand the release of Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss Muslim academic who was detained in France after being accused of rape. Solidarity rallies as part of the Free Tariq Ramadan Campaign’s “International […]
Demonstrations
Four activists held in France for escorting migrants over border
(AFP) Four people accused of illegally helping migrants cross the border into France were being questioned by police on Tuesday, the latest case over aid provided to refugees on the move through Europe. The activists, part of the “Tous Migrants” association, took […]
Clothing
Terror accused’s wife banned from wearing niqab in court
(Age) A Supreme Court judge has banned the wife of an accused terrorist from wearing a niqab veil in the court’s public gallery. The woman, who is married to a man accused of plotting a Christmas Day terrorist attack at Melbourne landmarks, […]
Children & Teens
Home Office had information on Rotherham grooming gangs in 2002 but failed to act, review finds (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Turks voice solidarity with detained Muslim professor Tariq Ramadan is in preventative detention and waiting for trial in France since February
(Anadolu) Istanbulites on Tuesday joined a global protest to show solidarity with renowned Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, who was arrested in France over allegations of sexual assault and rape. The 55-year-old Islamic studies professor, who has been held in preventative detention and […]
Academics & Education
Judge considers whether bullying policy is religious discrimination
(Courthouse News) A federal judge Tuesday considered whether a bullying policy aimed at fighting Islamophobia at one of the largest school districts in California violates the civil rights of students of other faiths. U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant heard arguments about whether […]
Demonstrations
It is absurd to claim British justice is ‘fascist’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Mass migration: ‘The fatal solvent of the EU’
(Gatestone) “Far from leading to fusion, Europe’s migration crisis is leading to fission,” Stanford’s historian Niall Ferguson recently wrote. “Increasingly, I believe that the issue of migration will be seen by future historians as the fatal solvent of the EU.” Week after […]
Government & Politics
Breitbart lobbying prompted U.S. envoy to raise Tommy Robinson case with British
(Reuters) A representative of U.S. President Donald Trump raised the case of jailed British anti-Muslim activist Tommy Robinson with Britain’s ambassador to the United States following lobbying by the right-wing Breitbart.com website, according to a British government source and a pro-Robinson campaigner. […]
Children & Teens
Arrests and prosecutions alone will not end the problem of FGM
(Charity Today) Arrests and prosecutions alone will not end the problem of FGM, said a police inspector speaking at the National FGM Centre’s annual conference, this week. More preventative work with affected communities is needed in order to end the harmful practice, […]
Legal
Steve Bannon calls for Tommy Robinson to be released from prison (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Trump’s ambassador lobbied Britain on behalf of jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson
(Reuters) Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom, complained to the British ambassador in Washington, D.C., about the treatment of an English right-wing activist who is in jail for disrupting a trial, according to three sources familiar with the discussion. […]
Burkini
Burkini rulings are a precedent, UNIA says
(Brussels Times) The two rulings handed down by the lower court in Ghent against banning the burkini in swimming pools are a first and thus constitute a precedent, the Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities, UNIA, stressed on Friday. The court ruled that […]
Burkini
Secretary of State Demir wants possibility of banning burkinis from swimming pools studied
(Brussels Times) The secretary of state for equal opportunities, Zuhal Demir, said on Wednesday that she wanted the possibility of banning burkinis from swimming pools to be studied. Demir said she saw the wearing of the garment in swimming pools as a […]
Burkini
Swimming pools have no right to prohibit burkini
(Brussels Times) The Mediahuis publications are reporting on Friday that in two judgments, the court in Ghent overturned the prohibition of the burkini. The cases related to two swimming pools in the north of the country, which had instigated the rule. Prohibiting […]
Children & Teens
First sentence under new law over genital mutilation
(Swiss Info) A Somali woman from canton Neuchâtel has been sentenced to eight months’ prison over the genital mutilation of her two daughters, in the first Swiss case of its kind after a law change. The girls were six and a half […]
Immigration
Telling migrants to ‘go home’ is racism, rules Italy’s top court
(Local) In a landmark decision, Italy’s highest court has ruled that telling migrants to “go away” is racism. The Court of Cassation ruled Thursday that telling non-EU foreigners to leave the country legally counts as racial discrimination, even if racial slurs are […]
Academics & Education
Clock Boy defamation suit dismissed
(Conservative Review) On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Appeals, affirming the trial court’s ruling, dismissed entirely the defamation lawsuit filed by Mohamed Mohamed on behalf of himself and his 15-year-old son, Ahmed Mohamed. Ahmed caused a bomb scare by bringing a hoax […]
Government & Politics
Turkey denounces Greek court’s rejection of ‘Turkish Union of Xanthi’
(Kathimerini) Turkey criticized Greece on Thursday over a Greek appeals court decision to reject an application by the Turkish Union of Xanthi to register as a local association, due to the use of the word “Turkish.” The Union had appealed to the […]
Crime
French Jewish woman’s killer found unfit to stand trial in 2nd evaluation
(JTA) The suspect in the alleged murder of a Jewish physician in Paris was not responsible for his actions, a second psychiatric evaluation determined. The president of the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities protested the court’s decision to revisit the issue of suitability […]
Government & Politics
Supreme Court orders Spain to take in more refugees
(AFP) Spain’s Supreme Court has ordered Madrid to take in more refugees after ruling it had not honoured its EU commitment to accept least 16,000 asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece, it announced Wednesday. “More than six months after the deadline expired, a […]
Clothing
Ventura County denies pulling off woman’s head-covering in response to civil rights suit
(Ventura County Star) In a response filed Wednesday to a federal lawsuit, the County of Ventura said a local Muslim woman’s head-covering was “gently and respectfully” removed for security reasons while she was in jail custody and denied her allegations it was stripped from her. Attorneys for the county […]
Children & Teens
Extremist’s wife sentenced in Sydney court
(AAP) The “ostracised” wife of a terrorist recruiter is worried her landmark conviction for refusing to stand for a judge will affect her prospects of working with children, a Sydney court has heard. Moutia Elzahed in Downing Centre Local Court has become […]
Academics & Education
Extremists headline Houston convention
(Clarion) The 55th Annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention is scheduled to take place in Houston from August 31 to September 3 and, as in years past, its appealing moderate theme is contradicted by its choice of extremist speakers. ISNA was […]
Books
Germany’s Thilo Sarrazin in court over controversial book on Islam His controversial views have stirred much debate in Germany. Now Thilo Sarrazin has written a new book about Islam — and is battling his erstwhile publisher in court over it.
(Deutsche Welle) His highly controversial books sell in the millions. It all began with “Deutschland schafft sich ab” (“Germany is doing away with itself”). Thilo Sarrazin’s 2010 book stimulated a fiery debate over German immigration policy and migrants from Islamic countries. While […]
Clerics & Preachers
Radical Islamist preacher who has said he ‘does not believe in democracy’ and is ‘not obedient’ to secular law is working as an expert witness to British courts (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Muslim cleric says two-and-a-half years behind bars not enough for Irishman helping fund IS (LINK ONLY)
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Random House axes Islam book by disputed German author
(AFP) Publishing giant Random House has declined to release a new book by controversial German politician-turned-author Thilo Sarrazin over fears it could whip up anti-Muslim hatred, Bild daily reported Friday. The dispute, which will be heard before a court in Munich on […]
Crime
French court jails anti-Semitic attackers
(AFP) A French court on Friday jailed three young men who carried out a notorious anti-Semitic rape-robbery in a Paris suburb in 2014. Abdou Salam Koita, 26, and Ladje Haidara, 23, who committed the rape were in court to hear the verdict. […]
Fasting
A Mecklenburg inmate signed up for Ramadan fast. Now he’s suing because he got hungry
(Charlotte Observer) During a holy month when he was supposed to be fasting, a Muslim inmate in the Mecklenburg County Jail still wanted his lunch. So Travaile Speller has sued, claiming that his jailers and the Mecklenburg Sheriff’s Office discriminated against his […]
Children & Teens
Controlling father enslaved his teenage daughter and hit her with a vacuum cleaner (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson to appeal against jail sentence
(BBC) The former leader of the English Defence League (EDL) is to appeal against his 13-month prison sentence. Tommy Robinson, from Bedfordshire, admitted contempt of court after filming outside Leeds Crown Court during a trial in May. A judge told him his […]
Children & Teens
Mich. Muslim mother sues over sons’ immigration delay
(Detroit News) An advocacy group is suing the United States government on behalf of a Muslim mother from Dearborn whose twin sons have spent two years awaiting a decision on their immigration applications, leaving them unable to live together outside of Africa. […]
Clerics & Preachers
Dar al-Hijrah, Turkish government mosque rally for Tariq Ramadan
(IPT) Two Washington, D.C.-area mosques hosted programs last weekend calling for the release of celebrity Islamist Tariq Ramadan, who has been in a French jail since February on rape charges. He is the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna. Rallies at […]
Crime
Norway arrests man for making ‘Islamist’ threats: report
(Local) Norway’s police security agency PST has arrested a man after linking him to Islamic fundamentalism. The man, who lives in Oslo and is in his thirties, was arrested last weekend. He is reported to have made “Islamist-motivated” threats against media organisations […]
Academics & Education
English-language school boards prepare to use Quebec’s new guidelines on religious accommodation New provincial criteria to grant religious accommodation requests goes into effect July 1
(CBC) The Quebec government’s new guidelines to help public bodies decide whether to grant religious accommodation requests are coming into effect today. However, the union representing 8,000 teachers at English-language school boards across the province says it needs more information about what […]
Children & Teens
‘Nasty bully’ imam Abdul Rauf admits beating boys
(BBC) A “bullying” imam who “assaulted many children” and left them “writhing in pain” has been jailed. Abdul Rauf, of Sussex Street, Rochdale, attacked two boys, aged 10 and 12, at a mosque study class in Greater Manchester in 2017, police said. […]