(Reuters) Italy’s ruling Brothers of Italy party put forward legislation on Wednesday to ban the burqa and niqab in public spaces, part of a broader bill aimed at combating what it called “cultural separatism” linked to Islam. The bill, presented to parliament […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Bleuets mosque in Marseille has been given a closure notice from the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, seemingly due to its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. While the Muslim Brotherhood connection was not explicitly stated, both the imam, Smain Bendjilali, and […]
(Fox) Christian minister Edward “Ted” Barham says he will not respond with hate after Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud told him he was “not welcome” during a heated city council exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming that went viral. In a […]
(Florida’s Voice) Jarvis Kareem El-Amin, vice chairman of the Tampa-based Muslim nonprofit Masjid An Nasr, was terminated by the organization after allegedly making controversial comments regarding Charlie Kirk’s death. The Tampa Bay Young Republicans flagged the comments, prompting Hillsborough County Commissioner Joshua […]
(CBC) The Liberal government is introducing new legislation on Friday to make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols like swastikas, CBC News has learned. A source with knowledge of the […]
(KERA) Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill Friday aimed at banning certain property developments in Texas — specifically naming a North Texas mosque’s controversial proposed multi-purpose development. Abbott hosted the ceremonial signing for House Bill 4211 — which became law in June […]
(ITV) A cleric has appeared in court accused of illegally allowing two children to marry. Ashraf Osmani, 52, of Abington Avenue, Northampton, spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth when he appeared at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. […]
(Algemeiner) Amid a rising wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes, the German government is pressing the country’s main mosque association over its close ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging it to publicly distance itself from his antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. According […]
(Houston Chronicle) A leading Muslim civil rights and advocacy group urged Gov. Greg Abbott to visit a mosque after it accused him of “fearmongering about Islam.” The call from the Council on American-Islamic Relations comes after Abbott’s press office posted a statement […]
(Jewish Onliner) Amy Mek, founder and editor-in-chief of the RAIR Foundation, broke a story on Sunday exposing what she characterizes as “Sharia patrol” activities emerging in Houston, Texas. The investigation centers on Masjid At-Tawhid, a mosque located in Houston’s Fifth Ward, and […]
(BBC) An imam has been charged after two children were allowed to marry each other in a mosque. Northamptonshire Police said Ashraf Osmani had been charged under forced marriage legislation after he allegedly conducted a nikah wedding ceremony involving two 16-year-olds at […]
(NL Times) The mayor of Delft, Marja van Bijsterveldt, regrets the impact that the municipality’s investigation into the Muslim community in the Zuid-Holland town had, but will not apologize for it. In an interview with de Volkskrant, van Bijsterveldt, who is stepping […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian migrant was shot and killed by police in Marseille on Tuesday after allegedly stabbing multiple people while reciting verses from the Qur’an. The suspected knife attacker has been identified as 35-year-old Abdelkader D. from Tunisia. Le Figaro reports that […]
(Editors) It’s close, but Muslims in New York may now outnumber Jews. It’s a demographic race with political implications. Analysts trying to understand why Canada, Britain, and France are moving to recognize a Palestinian state have pointed to demographic shifts and growing […]
(AFP) Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin’s Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade. Many came […]
(European Conservative) A decades-long dispute over a mosque and Koran school in Leonding, Upper Austria, is escalating once again after city authorities officially confirmed that the religious site is operating illegally, Austrian Express reports. The mosque, run by the “Islamic Assembly and […]
(Algemeiner) A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has also established himself as one of America’s most influential Islamist activists promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory in a lecture earlier this month at a California mosque, according to the Middle East […]
(Lexington Herald Leader) A former Lexington imam who previously pleaded guilty to a kidnapping scheme is now charged with sexually assaulting a tenant. Mahmoud Shaker Shalash, 76, is charged with third-degree sexual assault, a misdemeanor, after police say he groped a woman […]
(Fox) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reviewing federal security grants for Muslim groups with “alleged terrorist ties” after a new report linked past funding to “extremist” organizations. According to a DHS document obtained by Fox News Digital, 49 projects “with […]
(Iran International) A Danish newspaper has revealed extensive financial and organizational ties between the Islamic Republic and Imam Ali Mosque in Copenhagen, one of the largest Shiite centers in Denmark. “The Imam Ali Mosque in Copenhagen has received millions of kroner from […]
(NY Post) Taxpayer funds totaling $25 million were handed to US groups with alleged links to terror organizations or extremist ideology, a bombshell new study has found. In a twist of irony, the funds were originally allocated to help deradicalize would-be terrorists, […]
(NY Times) As New Yorkers mourned the victims of a mass shooting last week in a Midtown Manhattan office building, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, inserted himself into the discourse. His comments concerned a photo taken on Thursday of Gov. Kathy […]
(Breitbart) Multicultural neighbourhoods in Berlin are now home to Islamic imams giving marriage counselling to underage girls following a mass influx of Palestinians and other hardline Muslim migrants, an integration officer has claimed. Güner Balci, a Turkish-born integration officer for the Berlin borough […]
(Alpha News) A Somali immigrant living in the United States has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old girl in Minneapolis last year. After the conviction, an Islamic center in St. Paul wrote a “community support letter” for the […]
(European Conservative) On the night of June 2nd, Lionel M., aged 27, stole a Quran and burned it in front of the Errahma mosque in Villeurbanne, in the suburbs of Lyon. He has now been sentenced to twelve months in prison and […]
(BBC) A mosque has been given an official warning by the charity regulator over what it called “involvement in inflammatory and divisive communications.” The Charity Commission for England and Wales criticised the Central Oxford Mosque Society for “failing to prevent their platforms […]
(NL Times) The municipality of Veenendaal acted unlawfully in an investigation into the Taubah foundation and mosque, the court ruled. Veenendaal commissioned the company NTA to investigate the organization and its community without Taubah’s knowledge, thereby violating privacy rights. Several municipalities had […]
(JNS) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent more than $25 million to extremist groups with ties to Islamist terror groups between 2013 and 2023, according to a new report from the Middle East Forum. Gregg Roman, executive director of the think […]
(European Conservative) More than half a year has passed since Denmark began offering €27,000 for every Syrian refugee who voluntarily chooses to return to their home country after it was deemed “safe” with the fall of the Assad regime. However, the scheme […]
(KERA) The Texas Funeral Service Commission says the East Plano Islamic Center may continue performing burial rites Wednesday after the governor accused the mosque of unlawfully serving as a funeral home. The follow-up to the commission’s March cease-and-desist letter was sent by […]
(E-Notícies) Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested an imam from the Marca de l’Ham neighborhood in Figueres (Alt Empordà). This imam is accused of abuse and mistreatment of minors and also of delivering radical speeches. The imam, about 40 years old, arrived in Spain […]
(Brussels Times) Opposition party Vlaams Belang has criticised Interior Minister Hilde Crevits’s decision to recognise 17 additional mosques. Although party leader Chris Janssens commends the minister for not recognising any mosques from Diyanet or Milli Görüş, he believes that giving a positive […]
(Brussels Times) Flemish Minister of the Interior Hilde Crevits (CD&V) has not approved any recognition requests from Diyanet mosques, a decision welcomed by Flemish MP Nadia Sminate (N-VA), who advocates for a comprehensive review of already recognised mosques. Minister Crevits reviewed 58 […]
(Jewish News) A mosque in north-west London hosted a vigil for a British citizen named in a Hezbollah funeral poster as a fallen fighter, Jewish News can reveal. Details of the November 2024 event at the Imam Hussain Mosque in Brondesbury were […]
(BBC) Trustees of a mosque in south Wales have been given a formal warning by the Charity Commission after sharing a video in the wake of the October 7 terrorist attacks showing a “positive image” of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist group in […]
(Daily Caller) A super PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor accepted $1,000 from a Muslim cleric linked to the architects of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist plots. Imam Siraj Wahhaj donated to the super […]
(E-Notícies) Another imam has been expelled for making radical proclamations, bringing the total number of expelled Islamist religious leaders in Catalonia this year to three. In this case, it was a Moroccan man residing in Olot, who was subject to a deportation […]
(NY Post) Socialist New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani visited a controversial Brooklyn mosque to pray while on the campaign trail — just months after the imam had called for the destruction of Israel. Mamdani posted a picture of himself speaking […]
(Middle East Eye) A Dutch imam has been suspended from his mosque after meeting Israeli President Isaac Herzog as part of a delegation of Muslim figures from Europe visiting Israel. Youssef Msibih, an imam at Bilal Mosque in the northern Dutch city […]
(Iran International) A parliamentary report in the UK is set to warn that Iran remains one of the gravest state-based threats to British security, according to the Telegraph, while a separate investigation in Italy has uncovered a vast influence network supporting the […]
(NY Post) Socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani appears to defend al Qaeda fiend Anwar al-Awlaki — and blame America for turning the prostitution-loving cleric into a terrorist — in newly surfaced tweets. Al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, […]
(BBC) A charity has been formally warned and one of its trustees disqualified after an “inflammatory” sermon in the days after the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel. Language in the Nottingham Islam Information Point sermon, on 13 October 2023, included “the […]
(Jerusalem Post) “There is persuasive evidence of a connection between extremism in the Muslim world and antisemitism,” found a Monday report by the UK-based Counter Extremism Group. The central argument of the nearly 100-page report is that it is futile to rationalize […]
(Houston Chronicle) It was the day of the funeral. Yasmin Al-Zibdeh was home with her two sisters and mom, waiting for a phone call from their dad to tell them to come down to the mosque. She thought members of the Islamic Society […]
(KERA) The U.S. Department of Justice has ended its civil rights investigation into EPIC City, a proposed Muslim housing development in North Texas accused of “religious discrimination.” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon wrote in a letter earlier this month to Community […]
(Yabiladi) The fifth edition of the Territorial Conference on Islam in France was held on Monday, June 23, 2025, at the Côte-d’Or prefecture, bringing together representatives of the Muslim faith, elected officials, academics, community organizations, and state services. The meeting, chaired by […]
(Daily Caller) Dr. Yasir Qadhi, a radical imam, told his fellow Muslims to side with Iran over the U.S. and Israel during a lengthy sermon on Saturday at the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. Qadhi accused Israel of being a […]
(BBC) An imam at a mosque in Bradford has been jailed for 13 years for raping a teenage boy. Mohammed Khan, 57, used his position at Suffa Tul Islam Mosque, then on Sunbridge Road, to groom and assault the boy on five […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Islamic Republic of Iran has developed a network of centers across the UK that actively promote Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps propaganda, host Iranian officials and IRGC commanders for lectures on fundamentalist ideology, and attempt to influence the British populace […]
(NY Post) A convicted Al-Qaeda sympathizer who conspired to kill Americans in shopping malls and traveled to the Mideast to train with the terror group was teaching kids at a Muslim community center on Staten Island. Tarek Mehanna — who prosecutors say […]
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