(ANSA) A 12-year-old Italian girl has been taken from her mother and placed with her paternal grandparents after the mother promised her in marriage to the brother of her new Pakistani husband, the Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia newspaper reported Thursday. The girl […]
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(Reuters) Former immigration minister Inger Stojberg, a main architect behind some of Denmark’s tough immigration policies, was voted out of parliament on Tuesday by her fellow lawmakers following her conviction in a rare impeachment case earlier this month. Stojberg was handed a […]
(Politico) Inger Støjberg, a former Danish immigration minister and high-profile government figure during Europe’s 2015 migration crisis, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on Monday after an order she issued in 2016 was ruled illegal. Støjberg had said that if a […]
(WA Today) A Victorian woman accused of forcefully marrying off her daughter to a stranger in Western Australia who later murdered the young bride has pleaded not guilty to coercing her daughter into the marriage. Sakina Muhammad Jan, 45, will appear at […]
(WA Today) A Victorian woman who allegedly forcibly married off her daughter to a stranger in WA told her to stay with her husband, saying “we will only take back your dead body.” Maryiam Khan, a high school friend of slain student […]
(WA Today) A Victorian woman has appeared in court accused of forcefully marrying off her daughter to the West Australian stranger who later murdered the young bride. If the matter is sent to trial and the woman is convicted, she would become […]
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(WTVO) Two Afghan evacuees have been charged with crimes while at Fort McCoy. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and […]
(AP) The uncle of an 18-year-old woman who disappeared months ago in Italy after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan was detained Wednesday on the outskirts of Paris, according to Italian authorities who fear the teenager may be dead. Saman Abbas was […]
(NY Post) Sen. Ted Cruz confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken about child brides being brought to the United States from Afghanistan amid the chaotic withdrawal by the Biden administration, demanding to know what guidance the State Department has been provided to […]
(AP) U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused. U.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab […]
(CNN) US officials processing Afghan refugees abroad recently alerted the State Department to instances in which women and girls were forced into marriage or arrived with male partners posing as their husbands to be eligible for evacuation and escape the Taliban, according […]
(AFP) A former Danish immigration minister insisted she was innocent on Thursday at the opening of her impeachment trial on charges of illegally separating couples who arrived in the country to claim asylum. The 26 judges of the special court, which only […]
(BBC) A historic impeachment trial gets underway in Denmark on Thursday against a former minister who spearheaded dozens of tough immigration measures. Inger Stoejberg is accused of unlawfully ordering the separation of young asylum-seeking couples in 2016. She is facing a landmark […]
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(Breitbart) According to an activist group that deals with honour violence and oppression, young girls continue to be flown out of Sweden for forced marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM) despite bans. Sabina Landstedt, a member of the activist group Never Forget […]
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(NY Post) Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him. The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar […]
(Breitbart) Despite being in force for over a year, the Swedish laws against child marriages have yet to see anyone charged for marrying a minor so far. Sweden passed legislation that greatly tightened the existing laws against child marriage in July of […]
(WA Today) A Perth Uber driver who slit his wife’s throat and left her bleeding on the floor just two months into their forced marriage will spend at least 19 years behind bars. Mohammad Ali Halimi, 25, was sentenced in WA’s Supreme […]
(WA Today) A young Perth Uber driver who slit his wife’s throat two months into their forced marriage told the woman’s brother to “come get your sister’s dead body” as she lay bleeding on the kitchen floor. The reality of forced marriages […]
(NZ Herald) A New Zealand man does not have to pay a $212,000 dowry to his ex-wife after the High Court ruled United Arab Emirates marriage laws did not apply here. United Arab Emirates woman Rahla Almarzooqi had her appeal to enforce […]
(Blaze) A judge in Texas earlier this year effectively denied a U.S. citizen her constitutionally protected due process rights, choosing instead to order her to appear before an Islamic tribunal where her testimony is considered inferior. And when her lawyers sounded the […]
(ANSA) Investigators on Wednesday continued the search for the body of Saman Abbas while her cousin, one of the family members suspected of involvement in the alleged murder of the 18-year-old for refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan, was handed over to […]
(ANSA) An 18-year-old Pakistani girl who has been missing from a town near Reggio Emilia since the end of April after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan had a violent argument with her family the night before she disappeared, according to an […]
(ANSA) The Union of Italy’s Islamic Communities (UCOII) on Wednesday issued a fatwah (ban) on arranged marriages after the case of an 18-year-old Pakistani girl who is missing and believed killed by her family after refusing to marry a man her parents […]
(ANSA) A male cousin of an 18-year-old Pakistani woman who went missing from a town near Reggio Emilia after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan was arrested in France at the weekend. The man, who was reportedly gearing to flee to Spain […]
(AFP) Police in Italy are searching for the body of an 18-year-old girl suspected to have been killed by her Pakistani family after refusing an arranged Muslim marriage. The girl’s parents, an uncle and two cousins are under investigation for murder, lieutenant […]
(Breitbart) A Finnish court has sentenced an Iraqi migrant to four years in prison after being convicted of several crimes when he married a 13-year-old girl in Iraq and brought her to Finland in 2014. The Iraqi-background man, who is 30 years […]
(IPT) Hassan Shibly, who was one of the highest-profile officials at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has been accused of spouse abuse and repeated harassment in a National Public Radio story published Thursday. Shibly resigned as director of CAIR’s Florida chapter […]
(NPR) For months, stories swirled around a prominent Muslim civil rights leader, alleging secret marriages, bullying, sexual harassment. Then, late last year, some of the allegations against 34-year-old Hassan Shibly burst into public view. In a video posted on GoFundMe, Shibly’s estranged […]
(Breitbart) The Swedish government has been accused of allowing exceptions in a new bill aimed at banning the recognition of polygamous marriages carried out overseas. Swedish Liberal Party MP Robert Hannah criticised the government bill this week, claiming that while the proposal […]
(Anadolu) The International Union [of] Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Saturday decried a French government request for mosque imams to recommend same-sex marriage as a double standard against Islam. In a Facebook post addressed to French Minister of Citizenship Marlène Schiappa, IUMS Secretary-General […]
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(AFP) After months of controversy and 135 hours of parliamentary debate, MPs in France are set to approve a draft law to crack down on what has been termed “Islamist separatism” on Tuesday. AFP examines what is, and what isn’t, in the […]
(Morocco World News) Hassan Shibly, a Syrian-American civil rights attorney and a notable Muslim-American leader, is facing accusations of domestic abuse. On December 28, Shibly’s wife Imane Sadrati posted a plea for help on Youtube. She asked for financial support and solidarity […]
(FrontPage) For a while, Hassan Shibly was arguably the most prominent representative of CAIR. His work in such things as attempting to regain the American citizenship of ISIS bride Hoda Muthana and trying to convince the courts that the federal “terrorism watch […]
(Reuters) Former Danish Immigration Minister Inger Stojberg, known for her hard stance in that role, is facing impeachment for illegally ordering the separation of underage couples seeking asylum. The centre-right politician, who served as minister from 2015 to 2019, said the aim […]
(FrontPage) According to his bio on CAIR-Florida’s website, Hassan Shibly “is blissfully married,” but that all depends on which wife CAIR is talking about. On December 29th, Imane Sadrati, the legal wife of CAIR representative Hassan Shibly — as opposed to his […]
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(CBC) The emotional wounds from a sexual assault at the hands of a Lower Mainland imam four years ago continue to affect the daily life of his victim, who says if immigration officials and the B.C. Muslim Association had intervened sooner, the attack […]
(Breitbart) Despite recognition of divorce from the Swedish state, some women are having difficulties getting imams in the country to recognise their divorces under Islamic law and remarry. One woman, a migrant from Iraq who wanted to divorce her husband ten years […]
(Al-Jazeera) A Danish minister has caused outrage among the Muslim minority for suggesting imams and community leaders should publicly support the “right” to have sex before marriage for women. Mattias Tesfaye, foreign affairs and integration minister, said in a Facebook post last […]
(Reuters) France is split over plans to ban virginity testing, with some campaigners calling the procedure barbaric and others warning of violent repercussions for some Muslim women. Women in at least 20 countries are subjected to virginity tests, sometimes by force, as […]
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(AFP) Five family members of a Bosnian teenager who forcibly shaved her head over her relationship with a Christian Serb man have been expelled from France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Saturday. Sources close to Darmanin told AFP those expelled were the […]
(Swiss Info) An Iraqi citizen who has been living in Switzerland on and off for 22 years has been found guilty of setting up a network of terror sympathisers and inciting his wife to commit a suicide attack in Lebanon. The Federal […]
(WA Today) Victorian family members of a woman allegedly murdered by her husband in Perth have been accused of forcing her into the marriage against her will just months earlier. Ruqia Haidari, 21, died in January 2020 at the Perth home she […]
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