Children & Teens
Pay-off for Scout leader expelled for making ‘Darth Vader’ veil remark (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Academics & Education
Cantonal initiative to ban headgear in schools ruled invalid
(Swiss Info) The Federal Court says that an initiative by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party to ban head coverings in schools in the southern canton of Valais is invalid. It confirms the decision taken by the Valais parliament. The People’s Party […]
Government & Politics
Italian minister faces probe into treatment of stranded migrants
(AFP) Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday launched a blistering attack on prosecutors in Sicily after they confirmed a probe into his refusal to allow more than 100 rescued migrants off a coastguard ship last month. Prosecutors in Palermo on […]
Government & Politics
Islamic center of Belgium wants to retain control over Great Mosque
(Brussels Times) The Islamic and Cultural Center of Belgium (CICB) contests before the State Council the decision of Interior Minister Jan Jambon (N-VA) to cancel the concession agreement for the Great Mosque of Brussels, Sudpresse newspapers report Thursday. The oral arguments were […]
Children & Teens
Six years in jail for failure to stop female genital mutilation (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Tariq Ramadan set to face new trial, this time in Switzerland
(Al-Arabiya) A court in Geneva hearing the Tariq Ramadan case has explained that the “threshold necessary to justify opening a criminal investigation is present and this has been the case since the beginning of the procedure,” a report in the Le Point […]
Academics & Education
York board apologizes for principal’s anti-Muslim postings
(Toronto Star) The York Region school board has publicly apologized for the anti-Muslim, “discriminatory and disrespectful” social media postings of an elementary school principal. “The board would like to apologize to the school community for failing to uphold the shared values of […]
Children & Teens
Genital mutilation case revs up amid grand jury activity
(Detroit News) As many as six members of a Muslim sect from India were questioned by a federal grand jury Wednesday as prosecutors pursue more criminal charges involving new girls in the nation’s first female genital mutilation case. The grand jury appearances by members […]
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 […]
Demonstrations
Sarsour back in Senate Hart building hours after being arrested at Kavanaugh hearings
(Daily Caller) Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was spotted walking around the Hart Senate building hours after being arrested for protesting the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. Sarsour was on her way to elevators in the Senate office building around 4:30 p.m. and […]
Demonstrations
Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour arrested at Kavanaugh hearing
(Daily Caller) Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was among the left-wing activists arrested Tuesday for interrupting the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. [Sarsour] entered the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building just before 9:30 a.m. EDT. She sat […]
Government & Politics
Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam
(Reuters) A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam’s central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated by perceived insults to Islam in the Netherlands, prosecutors said on Monday. The man, […]
Children & Teens
Teen from New Mexico compound says he was trained for jihad: FBI
(Reuters) A 13-year-old boy who was part of group taken into custody at a squalid New Mexico compound last month has told FBI agents his mother’s boyfriend was training him to conduct “jihad” against non-believers, according to federal court documents. The boy […]
Children & Teens
Man and woman plead not guilty to genital mutilation of three-year-old girl The suspects, from Ghana and Uganda, have also been charged over several allegations of possessing indecent images.
(Sky News) A man and a woman have pleaded not guilty to the female genital mutilation (FGM) of a three-year-old girl. The man, a 43-year-old from Ghana, and the woman, a 36-year-old from Uganda — who cannot be named for legal reasons […]
Government & Politics
Italy: Interior minister accused of kidnapping migrants 'Being investigated for defending the rights of Italians is a disgrace.'
(Gatestone) Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is under formal investigation for “kidnapping” after he refused to allow illegal migrants to disembark from a ship at a Sicilian port. The investigation, a political move aimed at blunting the government’s hardline stance on illegal […]
Children & Teens
Dad, partner plead not guilty in toddler’s compound death
(AP) The father of a 3-year-old boy found dead in a filthy New Mexico compound and his partner pleaded not guilty Wednesday to new charges of child abuse resulting in death after lesser charges were dismissed against them and other members of […]
Clerics & Preachers
Land and Environment Court says Colo property illegally cleared by fringe Islamic group
(ABC-Australia) Two men who claimed their Islamic-influenced group was not subject to Australian law because it was a “basic religious charity” have been found to have illegally cleared a rural property north-west of Sydney by the NSW Land and Environment Court. The […]
Clerics & Preachers
1993 World Trade Center bomber’s religious freedom case against U.S. prison system goes to trial in Denver Ahmad Ajaj was convicted in the Feb. 26, 1993 bombing in which six people were killed
(Denver Post) A trial began Monday in Denver U.S. District Court in which a man serving a 114-year sentence for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings is suing the United States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons for violating […]
Government & Politics
Do you have anything to declare? Customs agents take Muslim woman’s phone at airport: lawsuit
(NY Daily News) A Muslim woman from Staten Island is suing U.S. customs agents who seized her phone at the airport, copied her data and held the device for more than four months after she returned on a flight from Switzerland. Rejhane […]
Crime
Who’s running against Duncan Hunter? Ammar Campa-Najjar, a millennial Palestinian Mexican American
(LA Times) For nearly 40 years, voters in eastern San Diego County have picked a Republican named Duncan Hunter to be their representative in Congress. Duncan Lee Hunter came first, and then his son and current Congressman Duncan Duane Hunter. Could 2018 […]
Academics & Education
Muslim school sues over discrimination claims at Wilmington pool
(Delaware News Journal) A Muslim school in Wilmington is suing the city, the mayor and the parks director following incidents in which students were asked to exit a public pool because they were wearing cotton. The Darul Amaanah Academy, its principal and […]
Clerics & Preachers
Colo men in Islamic guild accused of illegal land clearing skipped court to build shed
(ABC-Australia) Two men accused of illegal land clearing on a rural property in north-west Sydney were building a large shed on the day they were required in court for a hearing about the allegations, ABC footage shows. Dr Mustapha Kara-Ali and Diaa […]
Government & Politics
Alleged jihadist free due to French judge’s error
(Radio France) An alleged Islamist terror plotter was freed in April because an investigating judge forget to renew his pretrial custody, France’s justice ministry has admitted after revelations in the press. Oualid B walked out of preventive detention on 3 April despite the […]
Crime
Here’s the case that shows how to handle the jihadist prison radicalization threat
(PJ Media) A debate has long circled around the proposition that American prison systems at state and federal levels need counter-radicalization programs. The hypothesis claims that circle-talking and counseling will preempt the manipulation of predisposed inmates by predatory visiting prison imams, or […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Liberals took steps to block Omar Khadr from celebration near Parliament Hill
(Globe and Mail) The Liberal government took steps to bar Omar Khadr from attending a celebration near Parliament Hill in late June where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the keynote speaker, even though Mr. Khadr was not on the guest list for […]
Clerics & Preachers
Evil black blood claim denied in NSW trial: ‘How could I force him?’ A spiritual healer accused of detaining a man to draw out 'evil' black blood with suction cups has responded to the allegations in police interviews played in court.
(AAP) A spiritual healer denied telling a Sydney man he was drawing out black blood which was “the evil” when he placed suction cups on him and read out the Koran. Riza Morinaj also told police the man did not tell him […]
Clerics & Preachers
Riot squad to escort council workers to Islamic leader’s alleged illegal land clearing site: court
(ABC-Australia) Council workers visiting a rural property in Sydney’s north-west used by a religious group were told police needed the riot squad and a Polair helicopter when accompanying them due to safety concerns, a court has heard. Hawkesbury City Council has launched […]
Government & Politics
German court: Bring back deported jihadist
(Gatestone) A court in Germany has ruled that the recent deportation to Tunisia of a failed asylum seeker — an Islamist suspected of being a bodyguard for the former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden — was unlawful and that, at taxpayer expense, […]
Crime
German prosecutors probe Yazidi woman’s claim about IS man
(AP) German prosecutors said Saturday they are taking seriously a Yazidi refugee’s claim that she ran into her former Islamic State captor twice in Germany, but say they need more information to identify him. The case of 19-year-old Ashwaq Haji Hami made […]
Clerics & Preachers
Islamic leader accused of illegal land clearing claims his group is exempt from Australian law
(ABC-Australia) A religious leader accused of illegal land clearing on a rural property used for religious prayer has claimed a Western Sydney council is infringing on his group’s religious freedoms by pursuing him over the allegations. Hawkesbury City Council has launched civil […]
Academics & Education
Massachusetts taxpayers sue over anti-Semitic, pro-Islam school lessons
(Free Beacon) A group of Massachusetts-based taxpayers are suing the school committee in the city of Newton, a wealthy, liberal enclave, over what they claim is the leadership’s ongoing promotion of anti-Semitic school materials and the promotion of Islamic religious beliefs, according […]
Children & Teens
Girl, 3, ‘needed emergency surgery after FGM in London’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Minnesota Dem candidate voted against bill to stop insurance payments to convicted terrorists Ilhan Omar accused of being fringe, anti-Israel
(Free Beacon) Ilhan Omar, the former Minnesota legislator who won the Democratic primary for a House seat on Tuesday, once voted against a state bill to stop insurance payments to those convicted of terror acts, adding more fuel to accusations the candidate […]
Animals
Animal sanctuary shocked at ‘lenient’ fines for abuse at halal abattoir (LINK ONLY)
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Animals
Slaughtermen sentenced after secret cameras expose suffering in halal abattoir (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
The trial of the Blind Sheikh ties in to a New Mexico child-abuse case Named in the prosecutor’s letter in 1995, Siraj Wahhaj lost his grandson earlier this month to the mayhem of a squalid compound run by fundamentalist Muslims.
(National Review) In an awful story out of New Mexico last week, five adults were arrested on charges of abusing children, conduct that allegedly resulted in the death of one child. Apparently, the defendants are fundamentalist Muslims who were running the squalid […]
Clerics & Preachers
Man charged over exorcism ceremony after his wife’s parents were said to have cursed him with black magic A crying man told Sydney police officers 'they did some voodoo s*** to me' after he was found with numerous red circle marks on his torso, a court has heard.
(AAP) A crying man told a police officer “they did some voodoo to me” after he was found with numerous red circle marks on his torso, a Sydney jury has been told. Constable James Dunn said he was called to a Sydney […]
Children & Teens
The Gray Lady once again sanitizes radical Islam
(IPT) For many years now, the New York Times has sanitized radical Islamic groups, militant Islamic leaders and even Islamic terrorist attacks. The paper has [done] this by deliberately omitting critical details that would discredit Islamist groups. For example, the Times routinely […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Woman wins handshake discrimination case in Sweden
(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 […]
Academics & Education
Judge in New Mexico compound case accuses prosecutors of anti-Muslim discrimination
(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 […]
Academics & Education
Trojan horse teacher called gays ‘animals’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Ga. toddler said to have died in ritual; relatives granted bond
(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 […]
Children & Teens
The Wahhaj family compound and their Dem-connected father The open extremists operating in the Democratic Party's midst.
(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 […]
Government & Politics
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) perjury evidence blacked out by Minnesota media
(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 […]
Children & Teens
Council drops bid to take children of two known Islamist extremists into care (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Genital mutilation convictions overturned after new evidence showing victims remain intact
(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 […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
CAIR Michigan files lawsuit challenging airport monitoring practices
(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. […]
Crime
Rape-accused scholar Ramadan loses latest bid to be freed from French jail
(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 […]
Clerics & Preachers
Candidate deflects questions on ties to Pakistani cleric
(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 […]
Academics & Education
Patriarch of New Mexico terror center clan called cops on his son and two daughters
(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 […]