(BBC) A teenager gained a place at an Islamic Sunday school in order to teach her “extremist” beliefs to young children, a court has heard. Dzhamilya Timaeva, 19, from Windsor, saw it as a “duty” of her Islamic faith to “wage war […]
(Yle) The Helsinki Administrative Court has rejected appeals related to a fine imposed last year on a mosque operating in a Helsinki apartment building. The owner of the property, the Ormuspuisto housing company, and the Pohjoismaiden Säätiö (“Nordic Foundation”), which operates on […]
(CBC) In the last few weeks, an elementary school in Montreal’s west-central Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood has been mired in controversy. This past weekend, 11 teachers were suspended for allegedly creating a toxic environment for students and staff that goes back to 2016. On […]
(Montreal Gazette) With the Legault government saying the evidence shows Quebec’s secularism law was being flouted, 11 teachers at Montreal’s Bedford elementary school have had their teaching licences suspended by the Education Ministry pending the conclusions of an investigation. And the government […]
(Montreal Gazette) Urging politicians to not shy away from the debate because it involves religion, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon called Monday for stricter secularism rules in the wake of the Bedford school controversy. St-Pierre Plamondon said what happened in the […]
(Montreal Gazette) Parents at a Montreal primary school where 11 teachers were suspended over the weekend expressed shock and confusion during after-school pickup on Monday, with several questioning if the situation had been blown out of proportion. The suspensions, announced on Saturday, […]
(Brussels Times) Five imams have seen their work permits being withdrawn after it was uncovered that the Turkish government was funding them. They risk being evicted if they are not employed by the end of this year. The Flemish region’s Employment Minister […]
(Canadian Press) Eleven teachers at a Montreal elementary school have been suspended after a government investigation found they fostered a “toxic” climate of fear and intimidation. In a move it described as unprecedented, the Centre de services scolaires de Montréal said its […]
(Canadian Press) The Quebec government has appointed monitors to address a “toxic” climate of fear and intimidation at a French-language Montreal primary school, where some teachers allegedly subjected students to violence and claimed autism didn’t exist. Two monitors started working on Tuesday […]
(NY Post) Iranian operatives in the US fund and fuel hate on campus and spread propaganda across the country — and even get face time with friendly American elected officials, according to an alarming new report on extremism by George Washington University […]
(ANSA) An imam of a Bologna mosque was expelled from Italy after voicing support for Hamas on Tuesday. Pakistani Zulfiqar Khan, imam of the mosque on via Jacopo di Paolo in Bologna, was taken to the police station to be expelled. Interior […]
(DPA) Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) has banned an Islamic association outside of Berlin, saying it is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the terrorist organization Hamas and promotes anti-Semitism. Stübgen, in a statement released on Thursday, also said the Islamic […]
(Daily Wire) The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who publicly praised Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, outlined a plan to help elect 40-50 members to Congress in a sermon last month, MEMRI reported. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad […]
(Iran International) An alleged representative of Iran’s supreme leader in Germany has been deported, the local interior ministry said, as part of a crackdown on institutions linked to the Islamic Republic. Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, head of the Islamic Center of Hamburg, was […]
(DPA) Five weeks after the ban on the Hamburg Islamic Centre (IZH), which was classified as extremist, its former head must now leave Germany. The Hamburg Interior Authority issued a deportation order to 57-year-old Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh this week, a spokeswoman in […]
(Reuters) Swedish prosecutors said on Wednesday they would put two men on trial for setting fire to the Koran in a series of incidents last year that prompted outrage in the Muslim world and raised fears of attacks by jihadists. The two […]
(NY Post) A Brooklyn Muslim cleric who once partnered with New York Mayor Eric Adams on a campaign to end hate is now spreading it by calling for the annihilation of Israel, the Post has learned. Meanwhile, one of his counterparts at […]
(BBC) A British man who had been investigated by MI5 threatened to shoot worshippers at a US synagogue as he demanded the release of a Pakistani scientist jailed in the country, an inquest has heard. Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was […]
(GB News) An imam from an extremist-led London mosque has blamed “Zionists” for the violent immigration riots that shook the UK. Ashraf Dabous, of the Lewisham Islamic Centre, said that rioters were being “manipulated and misguided” so that supporters of the state […]
(Westchester Journal News) The Islamic Center of Rockland is denouncing a recent sermon given by a guest imam that was inflammatory and violent in nature, and riddled with antisemitism. In a video of a sermon given Aug. 9 and shared to the […]
(CNN) A group representing Indian American Muslims has withdrawn its float from New York City’s annual India Day Parade on Sunday following controversy over the inclusion of a float they say shows anti-Muslim bias. Imtiaz Siamwalla, the president of Indian Muslims of […]
(BBC) A man who claimed he was trying to protect a mosque from being attacked by “racists” has been jailed. Prosecutors said about 60 Asian men clashed with about 30 white men in Darlington on the night of 5 August, with police […]
(NY Times) A float slated to appear in New York City’s India Day Parade this weekend is causing an uproar, with community groups calling it a symbol of anti-Muslim hate, parade organizers defending its inclusion and elected officials scrambling to respond. The […]
(Washington Examiner) Former President Donald Trump took aim at Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) on Thursday over the governor’s ties to a Muslim cleric who promoted a pro-Hitler movie. “He’s praised a Hitler-supporting radical Muslim [imam] named Asad Zaman, […]
(BBC) A man who threw a punch while trying to protect a mosque during disorder in Middlesbrough has been jailed along with others involved in the violence. More than 1,000 people were estimated to have taken to the town’s streets on 4 […]
(Washington Examiner) As he campaigned to be Minnesota’s next governor, Tim Walz called a Muslim cleric who promoted a pro-Adolf Hitler film a “master teacher” who offered Walz lessons over the time they “spent together,” according to footage at a 2018 event […]
(Israel Hayom) A bombshell report by a leading German newspaper has exposed alarming connections between a prominent Islamic leader in Germany and the inner circle of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The revelations, based on an extensive police investigation, detail how the […]
(Washington Examiner) Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, […]
(National-UAE) Two Muslim men have become the first rival protesters to be jailed for attacking far-right activists during the UK riots. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer warned on Friday that authorities must “stay on high alert” for more far-right riots over the […]
(DPA) German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that security authorities in the country are on high alert due to the tense situation in the Middle East. “We are monitoring very closely how possible further escalations will affect the security situation in Germany,” […]
(Jewish News) A fake video has been circulated of the chief rabbi calling for mosques to be shut. In an unprecedented statement on Twitter/X, Ephraim Mirvis condemned the one-minute compilation, believed to have been created by Russian “bots.” Mirvis said: “This pernicious […]
(Iran International) The German government deported the Iran-linked imam of the Islamic Center in Berlin, Nasir Niknejad, in late June, according to information obtained by Iran International’s correspondent in Berlin. According to these reports, Niknejad and his wife were detained at Berlin […]
(DPA) The trial of seven suspected members of the Islamic State terrorist group started in Germany on Tuesday. German prosecutors accuse the men, who are between the ages of 21 and 47, of establishing a terror cell in the country. “They were […]
(Iran International) Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani warned Germany on Saturday that its closure of Tehran-linked Islamic centers will have consequences. On Wednesday, Germany’s Interior Ministry announced the ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH) and its subsidiary organizations, citing […]
(Free Beacon) Vice President Kamala Harris said the public should no longer use the terms “radical Islamic terrorism” and “illegal alien” during a speech she gave at a Los Angeles mosque in July 2016. “We must have the courage to object when […]
(Detroit News) Detroit-area Arab and Muslim community leaders condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his Wednesday address to Congress, while some said it’s too early to declare support for Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential front-runner. Arab and Muslim […]
(DPA) German authorities on Wednesday banned the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH), an organization that domestic intelligence considers to be controlled by Iran. To enforce the ban, which was published in the Federal Gazette and also affects five affiliated organizations, officers searched the […]
(Detroit Free Press) A woman from Oregon who burned a Quran outside a Dearborn mosque says she plans to return to the city by the end of the summer to again burn the holy book for Muslims. Sorbeah Almosa lit on fire […]
(Deutsche Welle) The Islam practiced in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Sandzak region in southwestern Serbia is considered open-minded and tolerant. For centuries, Sunni Muslims have lived their own form of a European Islam here alongside Christians and Jews. Since the 1990s, however, this […]
(ITV) The results of a survey into UK mosques [have] found worshippers want more inclusive spaces for women and children. Although many mosques already have separate spaces for their female worshippers, the Open My Mosque report found there are a significant number […]
(Sahan Journal) The Lino Lakes City Council voted Monday evening to halt development of a Muslim-focused community that has drawn resistance from several residents, and allegations from supporters that Islamophobia is delaying progress. The council voted 4-1 to enforce a moratorium after […]
(LBC) A Jewish Conservative candidate for the general election has been abused on a visit to a mosque in Lancashire. Rabbi Arnold Saunders, the Tory candidate for Bury South, was called a “snake” during a confrontation at the Bilal mosque in Prestwich, […]
(VOA) Iran’s plan to run absentee voter ballot stations in more than 30 U.S. cities for the first round of its presidential election had mixed results, a VOA investigation has found. Information obtained and reviewed by VOA indicates that absentee voting events […]
(Iran International) A helicopter crash on May 19 claimed the lives of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s eighth president, and his foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, leading to a series of consequential events. Memorial services organized by the Iranian government globally in their honor faced […]
(Free Beacon) Democrats’ top Senate appropriator is seeking millions of dollars in taxpayer funds for an Islamic organization in Washington state that has preached anti-Semitism, cheered Hamas’s “victory” over Israel, and hosted Palestinian activists who urge resistance against Israel “by any means […]
(Breitbart) A liberal, women-led Berlin mosque known as a haven for gay Muslims was a target for an Islamic State terror cell in Germany, prosecutors say as the group goes to court. A group of seven immigrants arrested in 2023 across Germany […]
(ANSA) The ruling rightwing League party has tabled an amendment to the government’s security decree calling for Islamic rites inside cultural centres to be celebrated in Italian. According to the League, this would help prevent religious propaganda and radicalisation and therefore possible […]
(Fox) A Michigan Islamic center held a memorial Thursday for Iranian leaders, including one known as “the Butcher of Tehran,” who were killed in a helicopter crash last weekend, a move that came amid other tributes that sparked anger given Iran’s ties […]
(Free Beacon) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), known for its ties to the terrorist group Hamas, is teaching mosques and Islamic groups how to rake in taxpayer funds through a grant program aimed at protecting houses of worship against terrorist attacks. […]
(Free Beacon) An imam linked to prominent Michigan Democrats like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Rep. Rashida Tlaib said in a sermon this month that pro-Israel members of Congress were “stooges” of the Jewish state who should be charged with “treason.” On May […]
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