(Breitbart) Members of the Swedish Shia Muslim community in the city of Örebro say they [are] concerned for their safety if Islamic State militants return home. The Ahl Al-Bait Cultural Centre in the Oxhagen district of Örebro say they have been forced to hire […]
(Global News) The Islamic Shia Assembly of Canada has operated in the Toronto area for more than two decades, attracting members of parliament to its events and once raising the flag at City Hall. But documents obtained by Global News show that […]
(Detroit News) Federal prosecutors signaled Wednesday they will appeal a judge’s decision to dismiss several genital mutilation charges against several doctors last month while ruling a ban on the practice was unconstitutional. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit filed a notice of appeal late Wednesday, […]
(Detroit News) Legal experts say Congress could revise the federal ban on female genital mutilation to pass constitutional muster, but lawmakers are unlikely to consider the issue a priority. A Detroit federal judge last month ruled unconstitutional the 22-year-old federal ban on female genital cutting, […]
(Detroit News) A Northville doctor charged in the nation’s first female genital mutilation case tried to get one of the last charges against her dismissed Thursday. Dr. Jumana Nagarwala wants a judge to dismiss a conspiracy charge involving two 7-year-old Minnesota girls […]
(AP) Women’s rights advocates said they were shocked when a federal judge in Michigan ruled this week that a law protecting girls from genital mutilation was unconstitutional. They called his decision a serious blow to girls’ rights. Legal experts said the judge […]
(Clarion) An Islamic center in New England is pushing the Iranian regime message in America. The Islamic Masumeen Center of New England is a Shiite non-profit organization in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, that has held multiple events with sheikhs who are supporters of the […]
(La Croix) Rarely has a project stirred up such controversy in the city of Erfurt, the capital of the German state of Thurngia. On Nov. 13, the small community of Ahmadis, a Muslim reformist movement often denounced by Islam’s majority Sunnis, laid […]
(Detroit News) A federal judge Tuesday dismissed female genital mutilation charges against several doctors in the first criminal case of its kind nationwide, ruling the law is unconstitutional. The opinion by U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman comes two weeks after defense lawyers mounted […]
(Detroit News) Defense lawyers tried to convince a federal judge Tuesday to dismiss female genital mutilation charges in the first criminal case of its kind nationwide, arguing the law is unconstitutional. The bid by defense lawyers is the first challenge to a […]
(Bradford Today) The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association of Bradford held an Islamic information session at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library on Oct. 25. “It’s Islamic Heritage month,” explained Mona Shah. “This is really to recognize the contributions Muslims have made in […]
(Clarion) Clarion Project has learned that the Fatemah Zahra Islamic Center in Norcross, Georgia, is hosting radical Iranian clerics. The list of events and speakers at the Shiite center through November raise concerns about why this ideology is being supported in America. […]
(Religion News) As some 38,000 Ahmadi Muslims from more than 110 countries gathered in the countryside outside London this past August for the fast-growing denomination’s annual convention, thousands of Ahmadis camped out in tents less than a mile from a small house. For the […]
(Detroit News) Grooms pay more money for brides who have undergone female genital mutilation, a religious practice central to a rare criminal case involving a small Muslim sect from India, according to a victims’ rights group. The claim was included in a […]
(Clarion) A Shiite Islamist group in Arizona hosts a supporter of the Iran regime and Hezbollah terrorists. Coming out of Mesa, Arizona, the group turned its back on Iranians protesting the theocracy earlier this month by hosting a sheikh who supports the Iranian […]
(BuzzFeed) Twitter has come under fire for allowing a tweet that activists have said is pro–female genital mutilation to be promoted on its site, meaning that it showed up on the timelines of users who didn’t follow the poster’s account. The tweet, […]
(Detroit News) Federal prosecutors filed new charges in the nation’s first case involving female genital mutilation, accusing one doctor of mutilating three more prepubescent girls and alleging one girl was drugged. The new charges bring to a total of nine girls from three states […]
(Christian Post) A community of self-described “revivalist” Muslims is hosting an annual blood drive on the anniversary of 9/11 to demonstrate the opposite of what was done in the name of their faith 17 years ago. In the foyer of the Rayburn […]
(Queens Chronicle) In many other parts of the world, the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam has been targeted and persecuted. But in the Holliswood section of eastern Queens, it has found loving neighbors. Last Friday, about 200 people came to a ceremony at […]
(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 […]
(Clarion) A sheikh tied to the Iranian regime is currently teaching at two Maryland Islamic schools and leads a mosque in the state and teaches at another, Clarion Project discovered. In addition, his daughter is posting pro-Hezbollah propaganda that glorifies violent jihad. Sheikh Abdul […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(CBC) Huma Mir is just one of thousands of Muslims from all over the world who are coming to Canada’s largest and longest-running Islamic convention. Mir came all the way from the U.K. to visit her cousins. She says she’s seen the […]
(Clarion) The radical Shiite ideology of the Iranian regime is dying within Iran, as evidenced by the ongoing protests, but it is still being actively promoted by three mosques in Michigan. Dearborn: Karbala Islamic Education Center In Dearborn, the Karbala Islamic Education […]
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