Clothing
Woman shouts ‘shame on you despicable people’ at Pride participant in east London (LINK ONLY)
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LGBT
Academics & Education
Expert compares Trojan Horse furore to LGBT schools row (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
CAIR leader’s consequence-free anti-Semitism
(IPT) He’s a public figure who repeatedly preaches about the evil done by Jews. They’re accursed, he said last month, justifying the claim with scripture. They incurred God’s justifiable wrath, he said in 2012, also citing scripture. And today, he argues that […]
Academics & Education
Banned ‘Trojan horse’ school governor holding sex education seminars (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Majid Mahmood urges Anderton Park School protesters — ‘call off the demo’ (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Council wins injunction banning mass protests at Anderton Park School — as campaigners say fight goes on (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
‘Cowardly government’ blamed for breakdown of Anderton Park protest peace talks (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
In a survey of American Muslims, 0% identified as lesbian or gay. Here’s the story behind that statistic
(CNN) In the United States, you could count the number of mosques like Masjid al-Rabia on two hands. It’s a small community built on “five pillars of inclusivity,” including pledges to be “women-centered,” anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming and welcoming to a variety of Islamic […]
Academics & Education
[Birmingham] school protests have roots in ‘Trojan Horse’ claims (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Omar Suleiman’s invocation triggers textbook ‘Islamophobia’ deflection
(IPT) Facts, in the social media age, often fail to overcome a simple, emotional punch. That’s especially true when dealing with uncomfortable facts. Rather than offer contrasting information, or even try to explain how a situation or opinion might have changed over […]
Clerics & Preachers
Israel-hating, gay-bashing, sexist imam gives invocation to U.S. House
(IPT) Islam’s holy month of Ramadan began Sunday, so it’s not surprising that the U.S. House turned to a Muslim cleric to provide Thursday’s invocation. The problem is with the cleric chosen. Omar Suleiman is a conservative imam who has a history […]
Academics & Education
LGBT protester banned from Anderton Park School demos after council legal threat (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Birmingham lawyer Nazir Afzal vows to mediate for free as LGBT lessons row intensifies (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
SDP: Authenticity of MP Hussein al-Taee’s social media posts ‘news’ to us SDP says the party did not know that antisemitic, homophobic and other comments made by MP Hussein al-Taee on social media were authentic.
(Yle) Following news about alleged antisemitic, homophobic and racist Facebook comments made by Social Democrat MP Hussein al-Taee, al-Taee admitted in his blog on Monday that they were authentic and he was the author. Previously, he had questioned whether they were written […]
Clerics & Preachers
Swedish imam faces death if deported: family claim
(Local) A controversial imam seized by Swedish authorities risks death if deported to Iraq, his family have claimed. Abu Raad, who works at the al-Rashideen mosque in the city of Gävle, was seized on Wednesday and … placed in a migration detention […]
Interfaith
CAIR’s Billoo blasts SPLC over ‘black civil rights groups’ criticism
(IPT) When you think about black civil rights groups in the United States, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) likely springs to mind. There are numerous others working on issues like voting rights, criminal justice reform and more. […]
Apostasy
Muslim charities push links to sites defending marital rape (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Cardiff University sex education talk cancelled after concerns
(BBC) An event involving a psychologist who has claimed sex and relationship education could cause children “harm” has been cancelled by a university. Dr Kate Godfrey-Faussett is being investigated by the British Psychological Society after saying the lessons were part of an […]
Clerics & Preachers
NJ imam claims IDF chief rabbi condoned rape of Palestinian women Baker Assaf calls on Muslims to hate ‘Zionism’ rather than Jews, says Islam won’t accept gays but won’t ‘kick anybody off the Empire State Building’
(Times of Israel) A New Jersey imam has accused the chief rabbi of the Israeli army of condoning the rape of Palestinian women. In a February sermon at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, NJ, Baker Assaf said Muslims should […]
Academics & Education
Linda Sarsour’s NYU makeover
(IPT) She certainly looked like Linda Sarsour, the flame-throwing Islamist political activist. And the speaker had Sarsour’s voice. But the woman who spoke Monday night at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts seemed entirely unfamiliar with Sarsour’s own views. […]
Academics & Education
Parkfield School parents halt protests against ‘No Outsiders’ LGBT programme (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Parkfield School: Police examine protest footage for crimes being committed (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Furious Muslim parents withdraw 600 kids from Parkfield School over ‘LGBT’ row (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Hundreds of Muslim parents to take kids out of school in protest against ‘gay lessons’ (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
‘I could be deported to Iran because Sweden doesn’t believe I’m gay’
(Local) An Italian student in Stockholm is campaigning to save his boyfriend from being deported to Iran, after the 19-year-old’s asylum application was rejected on the grounds that his account of his homosexuality and relationship was “unreliable.” Medhi, from Iran, applied [for] […]
Academics & Education
Ofsted says schools should teach pupils about same-sex couples
(BBC) All children must learn about same-sex couples regardless of their religious background, the head of Ofsted says. Hundreds of parents protested outside a Birmingham school against it teaching pupils about same-sex couples and gender identity. Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman told […]
Children & Teens
Egyptian who killed daughter in Germany sentenced to life
(AP) A German court has sentenced a 33-year-old Egyptian man to life in prison for killing his daughter in a fit of jealousy. In its verdict Thursday, Duesseldorf’s regional court noted the gravity of the crime, preventing his release even after serving […]
Clerics & Preachers
Rashida Tlaib joins extremist imam on CAIR speaking circuit
(Conservative Review) Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a self-proclaimed liberal progressive, will speak alongside an extremist imam at an event hosted by the Michigan chapter of the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) next month. The Hamas-connected outfit is infamously known for being […]
Academics & Education
Madrassa ousted from secondary school following lesson telling Muslim girls to have children, not careers (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Banned school governor Tahir Alam fights gay equality lessons (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Muslim councillor in probe after endorsing ‘homophobic views’ in Birmingham (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Muslim councillor ‘overstepped the mark’ in public apology to school ‘promoting homosexuality’ (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Councillor backs Muslim mums who accused school of ‘promoting homosexuality’ (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Muslim mums protest outside school for ‘promoting homosexuality’ to their kids (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
GOP leaders blast Pelosi for elevating freshman rep with history of anti-Israel remarks
(Fox) A series of top Republicans on Thursday condemned the decision by Democratic leaders to elevate freshman Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, charging that she has a history of making overtly anti-Semitic comments. The strong GOP criticism came as […]
Clerics & Preachers
CAIR hypocrite participates at event moderated by anti-gay imam Islamist Wilfredo Ruiz and his fake persona of ‘civil rights’ and diversity activist.
(FrontPage) CAIR-Florida communications director Wilfredo Ruiz likes to call his organization a “civil rights group” and uses social media to denounce those who spread bigotry, yet Ruiz himself associates with individuals and groups who spread the same kind of hate. This past […]
Demonstrations
Linda Sarsour is still refusing to condemn Farrakhan’s hate
(NY Post) In the runup to Thanksgiving, Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour tried to fend off the growing criticism of her embrace of Louis Farrakhan — without actually calling out his endless hate speech. She did apologize, sort of, issuing a statement […]
Arts & Entertainment
Ahmad Zahra, likely the country’s first openly LGBTQ Muslim city councilman, set to take office in Fullerton
(OC Register) Ahmad Zahra is not here to make history. But he — a gay Muslim immigrant film producer from Syria — knows what his election to the Fullerton City Council means. “It’s a pleasant surprise,” he said. “We’re maturing as a […]
Government & Politics
Swedish left-wing party takes action over ‘Islamised’ youth wing
(Breitbart) Sweden’s Social Democrats are taking action over Islamic influence in the party’s youth wing after it emerged that delegates from some of the nation’s migrant-dominated no-go zones have less-than-progressive views on LGBT policy. Following several days of headlines across the national […]
Christians
In EU, there’s an East-West divide over religious minorities, gay marriage, national identity
(Pew) For most of its first half-century, the European Union consisted almost entirely of countries from Western Europe, such as France, Italy and Belgium. That changed in 2004, when the EU expanded to include some former Soviet bloc countries in Central and […]
Academics & Education
Grand mufti challenges gay teachers’ rights to work in Islamic schools
(Australian) Australia’s grand mufti has signalled open hostility to gay teachers in Islamic schools in defiance of Bill Shorten’s proposed changes to discrimination laws, saying they engage in “abnormal practices that contradict nature” and suffer from “mental illness.” The intervention from Sheik […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
‘Disturbing’ number of Britons open about Muslim prejudice (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Amsterdam’s mayor says closing mosques where imams sow hate is ‘a last resort’
(Dutch News) Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema has told local broadcaster AT5 that she will close down mosques if imams are spreading messages of hate but “only as a last resort.” Halsema, who outlined her strategy to deal with radicalisation in a briefing […]
Children & Teens
Prison imam’s bizarre attack on Barbies (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
LGBT-friendly Berlin mosque deradicalises Muslim youth
(Reuters) Tugay Sarac was just 15 when he first talked about traveling from Germany to Syria to fight for Islamic State. But unlike his friends at the time, Sarac had turned to radical Islam as a way of avoiding coming to terms […]
Christians
Muslim group calls for preacher linked to Trump to be denied UK visa (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Dem candidate held event with Nation of Islam members outside radical mosque Pressley upset Capuano in primary shocker
(Free Beacon) Democratic congressional candidate Ayanna Pressley appeared outside a mosque that has played host to numerous radical figures during her primary campaign this year. Dr. Wesley Muhammad gave a lecture at Boston’s Muhammad Mosque No. 11 in February entitled “The Secret […]
Clerics & Preachers
Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib joins radical cast at Muslim conference Tlaib was featured guest alongside terrorist defenders and anti-gay extremists
(Free Beacon) Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib was featured at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual conference alongside numerous radical figures, including individuals who have defended terrorist groups, openly called for violence against Israel, and pushed for extreme punishments for homosexuals. Tlaib […]
Clerics & Preachers
President of the Australian National Imams Council is mysteriously banned from entering Denmark (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Young, gay and married — Britons wed to avoid abuse
(Reuters) Dressed in a golden, laced gown, Noor was relieved to wed a man she had met briefly online, ending years of pressure from her Pakistani family to marry. As lights flashed and guests danced merrily inside an English wedding hall, Noor […]