Demonstrations
Jolene Bunting’s appeal against suspension is rejected (LINK ONLY)
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Mosques
Interfaith
New Zealand Muslim leader dismisses colleague’s claims that Mossad ordered mosque killings
(JTA) A Muslim community leader in New Zealand dismissed claims by the head of the country’s biggest mosque that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was behind the killing of 50 Muslims at two Christchurch mosques. Mustafa Farouk, president of the Federation of Islamic […]
Interfaith
AJC launches ‘listening tour’ to strengthen Muslim-Jewish relations
(Jewish Journal) The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is working to deepen engagement with American Muslim communities, institutions and leaders by creating a listening tour. The AJC opened a dialogue in Washington, D.C., this week with leadership from Masjid Muhammad, the Nation’s Mosque, […]
Demonstrations
Jews outraged after mosque leader blames Mossad for Christchurch attack
(Newshub) New Zealand’s Jewish community is outraged and revolted after a prominent mosque leader blamed Mossad for being behind the Christchurch terror attack. On Saturday, a group called Love Aotearoa Hate Racism organised a rally for the victims in Auckland’s Aotea Square. […]
Demonstrations
Rep. Ilhan Omar tells California audience that Trump’s anti-Islam remarks inspire attacks like New Zealand shooting
(LA Times) Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, accused President Trump on Saturday of inciting hatred of Islam and inspiring attacks like the killing of 50 people this month in mass shootings at mosques in […]
Clerics & Preachers
Wiesenthal Center asks Rep. Omar to condemn imam in her district who spoke on ‘Zio agenda’
(Jewish Journal) Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper called on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to condemn an imam in her district who preached against a “Zio-Crusader agenda” in a recent sermon. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported that […]
Government & Politics
Sweden Democrat proposes building mosque to attract immigrants up north
(Local) A Sweden Democrat politician from Kramfors, on Sweden’s northern Baltic coast, is facing possible expulsion after proposing that his municipality build a mosque to draw more immigrants to the city. Mark Collins, 63, who represents the normally anti-immigration party on Kramfors […]
Mosques
‘Don’t abandon your mosques,’ CAIR tells Muslims in US Call comes after terrorist attacks on two New Zealand mosques
(Anadolu) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) urged Muslims Friday to come together in unity and solidarity after 49 worshippers were gunned down at two mosques in New Zealand during Friday prayer services. “Do not be afraid and do not abandon your […]
Government & Politics
‘Disgusting’: Morrison slams senator’s comments on Christchurch massacre
(Sydney Morning Herald) Scott Morrison has led a swift and strong repudiation of Queensland Senator Fraser Anning, who linked Muslim immigration to the terror attack carried out at two mosques in New Zealand by suspected far-right extremists. The prime minister tweeted late […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
US Muslim advocacy group to Trump: ‘We hold you responsible’ for increase in Islamophobia 'We also do not excuse those terrorist attackers against minorities,' they said.
(ABC) A top Muslim organization is blasting President Donald Trump after a mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand left 49 people dead and dozens more injured. “During your presidency and during your election campaign, Islamophobia took a sharp rise and […]
Clerics & Preachers
Terror-connected lawyer running for city commission in Florida A dire warning to all potential voters.
(FrontPage) When visiting Khurrum Wahid’s Facebook page, you see photos of what appears to be a clean-cut politician attending different events, posing with important politicos, standing with young people, and smiling broadly for the camera. Wahid is running for the position of […]
Government & Politics
No more foreign money for mosques in Denmark The government wants to cut the funding from abroad that goes to Muslim bodies in Denmark
(Copenhagen Post) A new law proposal from the government and Dansk Folkeparti would make it illegal for foreign governments and authorities to give money to religious bodies in Denmark. The law would come into play if it is decided that the purpose […]
Clerics & Preachers
Imam denies that statements made at North Philly mosque were anti-Semitic
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A visiting imam accused of making anti-Semitic statements at a North Philadelphia mosque has said the slurs attributed to him are “completely false,” prompting the Anti-Defamation League on Monday to label him “shamefully unrepentant” and his denial “brazen.” Imam Abdelmohsen […]
Clerics & Preachers
North Philadelphia mosque officials apologize for anti-Semitic statements delivered in sermons by guest imam
(Philadelphia Inquirer) Officials at a North Philadelphia mosque known for its commitment to interreligious dialogue have apologized for anti-Semitic statements made by a guest imam during several sermons delivered there over the last few months. The comments in Arabic by Imam Abdelmohsen […]
Clerics & Preachers
Deputy Sheriff Nezar Hamze leaves CAIR to head terror umbrella group And he still gets to keep the badge and gun!
(FrontPage) CAIR-Florida has taken down from its website Nezar Hamze’s photo and bio, as he has left the Hamas-linked group and gone elsewhere. His new position, however, poses no less of a threat. Hamze, who is also a deputy at the Broward […]
Clerics & Preachers
Finding a place in women’s mosques
(NY Times) These are heady times for Kahina Bahloul, organizer of a women’s mosque in France, a country that is home to the largest Muslim population in Europe. Practical considerations dominate the spiritual — a search for an affordable location, a flurry […]
Law Enforcement
Ninth Circuit orders new look at mosque surveillance case
(Courthouse News) A Ninth Circuit panel resurrected a class action Thursday challenging the use of an FBI informant to infiltrate several Los Angeles and Orange County mosques and secretly collect information on Muslims for more than a year. In its long-awaited ruling, […]
Beards
Council was right to ban beard and cut claimant’s benefits, court says
(Dutch News) Amersfoort city council was within its rights to reduce the welfare benefits of a man who refused to shave his beard while following training to work with asbestos, administrative appeal court judges said on Tuesday. The man needed to shave […]
Citizenship
‘I won’t talk about Hoda’: Alabama responds to Muthana’s plea to return (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
No new mosques in Flanders for five years, says Homans
(Brussels Times) The Flemish government will not accredit any new mosques in the region for the next five years, according to home affairs minister Liesbeth Homans. Homans (photo) had commissioned a study from the university of Leuven, which she now says justifies […]
Clerics & Preachers
Woman imam who braved death threats calls for ban on foreign funding of Europe’s mosques (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Third of Britons believe Islam threatens British way of life, says report (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Austrian court axes decision to shut down mosques Far-right government last year decided to shut 7 mosques and expel imams
(Anadolu) A court in Austria annulled a government plan to shut down six mosques belonging to the Arab community, a Muslim body said late on Thursday. In a statement, Umit Vural, head of the Islamic Religious Community of Austria (IGGO), said that […]
Employment
Islamic Relief USA awards grant to F.C. mosque
(Falls Church News-Press) Islamic Relief USA, a nonprofit humanitarian and advocacy organization, recently awarded a $15,000 grant to Dar-al-Hijrah mosque (3159 Row St., Falls Church) to help provide food to families who weren’t receiving compensation due to the partial shutdown of the […]
Government & Politics
Banning foreign funding for mosques ‘problematic,’ minister says
(Dutch News) More research is need[ed] to establish if and how the government can stop money from what it calls restrictive countries reaching Dutch religious institutions, social affairs minister Wouter Koolmees has told MPs in a briefing. The government included a commitment […]
Academics & Education
Arkansas high school’s project uses art to gain Islamic insight
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) A high school art project helped students gain a new perspective by connecting them with people of the Islamic faith. Fayetteville High School students in Ashley Grisso’s advanced placement world history classes worked in groups of two or three. They […]
Clerics & Preachers
The rise of the female imam in France?
(France 24) Kahina Bahloul has set her sights on becoming France’s first female imam, as she moves forward with plans to construct an “inclusive” mosque in Paris. Bahloul submitted a proposal in November 2018 to construct a house of worship known as […]
Government & Politics
Greece’s Muslim minority complain of ‘marginalisation’ in Komotini
(AFP) Outwardly, Komotini looks like other Greek cities, but there is a major difference: it has nine mosques whereas there are none in Athens. The northeastern city has existed from the second century and was captured by Ottoman-era Turkey in the 14th. […]
Law Enforcement
Muslims form community patrol. Some neighbors say no, thanks The self-funded group sees itself as a neighborhood watch. But there was alarm after its cars were spotted in Brooklyn without warning, or explanation.
(NY Times) Maeen Ali remembers the worry he felt when he first spotted the “Punish a Muslim Day” screed online. The letter, mailed last spring throughout England, encouraged violence that ranged from pulling off a woman’s head scarf to bombing mosques. Each […]
Clerics & Preachers
Charlie Baker, in first visit to a mosque as governor, offers message of inclusion
(Boston Globe) Stepping before the congregation, Governor Charlie Baker took the microphone at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and softly offered “Salam,” a greeting of peace. “How’d I do?” he then asked, as light laughter rippled through the crowd. Weeks […]
Crime
As controversy swirls, François Legault concedes Islamophobia exists in Quebec 'Everything must be done to denounce and combat hatred and intolerance,' Quebec premier says
(CBC) Quebec Premier François Legault has clarified his controversial comments about Islamophobia, now saying such discrimination exists but that it is not widespread. In a statement Friday, the premier’s office said Legault meant to say that there isn’t an “undercurrent” of Islamophobia in Quebec. “Quebecers are open […]
Crime
Quebec doesn’t have a problem with Islamophobia, Premier Legault says 'It's voluntary blindness': Muslim leaders disagree with the premier's assertion
(CBC) Premier François Legault says there’s no need for a day devoted to action against Islamophobia — because Islamophobia isn’t a problem in the province. Legault made the comments two days after the second anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack, when the deputy premier, Geneviève Guilbault, said the […]
Government & Politics
Massachusetts Gov. Baker planning to visit Boston mosque
(AP) Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is planning to visit a Boston mosque. Organizers say the visit Friday to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center — the largest mosque in New England — is the first by a sitting Republican Massachusetts governor. […]
Internet
Google caught hosting Hezbollah’s violent Android games
(Forbes) Holy Defence looks like your typical shoot ’em up. The Android game sees the protagonist running around a carbon copy of the Sayyeda Zeinab mosque in Damascus, defending it from invaders with automatic weapons. More than 10,000 people have downloaded the […]
Children & Teens
Second scout volunteer suspended and more groups referred to police amid extremism concerns (LINK ONLY)
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Mosques
Isis ‘mentor’ attended Dublin mosque, claims former sympathiser (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Greece announces a new date for Athens mosque Inauguration of long-awaited Athens mosque due in March, says Greek officials
(Anadolu) Greece just gave a new date for the inauguration of the mosque in Athens. Kostas Gavroglu, Greek minister of education, research and religious affairs, told that the inauguration of the mosque, for which five different dates were previously given with no […]
Children & Teens
Police called in after scout group run from mosque is linked to Islamic extremist and Holocaust denier (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Strasbourg: Capital of the EU and ‘the future of Europe’
(Gatestone) “New York, Geneva and Strasbourg are the only cities in the world which are home to international institutions without being national capitals,” an official page of the French city proudly proclaims. “The choice of Strasbourg as the European capital following the […]
Demonstrations
Arrests made after Pegida protest in Utrecht
(NL Times) Three persons were arrested after a demonstration by anti-Islam movement Pegida in the Utrecht district of Zuilen on Wednesday evening. Towards the end of the demonstration, the situation became unsettled and there were various vandalism incidents. The detainees were counter-protesters, […]
History
Lessons we seem unwilling to learn
(Gatestone) An enormous amount about the hopes and expectations of a society can be learned from the news that people want to report and the stories its readers apparently want to hear. An equally large amount — perhaps even more — can […]
History
London mosque to host Shoah exhibition after Golders Green cancellation Yad Vashem-supported 'Love Your Neighbour' event on Muslim heroes of the Holocaust will now take place in Redbridge
(Jewish News) A London mosque is to host the Yad Vashem-supported exhibition on Muslim heroes of the Holocaust after its cancellation by the Centre for Islamic Understanding in Golders Green. The Love Your Neighbour exhibit will take place in Redbridge on 20 […]
Children & Teens
These two women want to bring accountability to local mosques Abuse in the Muslim community is rarely discussed. But Alia Salem and Huma Yasin want to change that — starting with resources for victims.
(D Magazine) In August of 2017, Alia Salem and Huma Yasin decided to launch something for Muslim parishioners to go for help. They’d seen enough. An imam in Irving had been accused of “sexually grooming” an 18-year-old congregant, beginning when she was […]
Clerics & Preachers
French Muslim women push for ‘inclusive’ mosque in Paris
(Radio France) Two Muslim organisations in France have launched projects to create “inclusive” mosques: spaces where women and men can pray together, and where female imams would be able to lead Friday prayers. Kahina Bahloul conducts her prayers at home, in her […]
Mosques
Radical Islamists attended Turkey-linked DITIB event in Germany
(Ahval) Radical Islamists participated in a conference organised by the Turkish government in the central mosque of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), German newspaper Kölner-Stadt Anzeiger reported on Jan. 6. “The Turkish-Islamic Union, DITIB, apparently maintains close contacts with alleged […]
Citizenship
Muslim leader criticises Varadkar’s comments on Irish ‘Isis terrorist’ (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
France debates where to teach Arabic: Public school or local mosque?
(NY Times) Early on Sunday mornings, Habiba Hatem, 9, prepares her own breakfast, grabs her flashy pink school bag and jumps into her father’s car — bound for Arabic lessons at her local mosque in a suburb north of Paris. Colorful sketches […]
Academics & Education
Parents are withdrawing children from religion lessons over objections to the teaching of Islam (LINK ONLY)
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History
Mosque scrapped Shoah exhibit over ‘security threat and Yad Vashem link’ Leading Muslim warns moderates are ‘held to ransom’ by extremists after Golders Green mosque abandons Holocaust event
(Jewish News) A leading Muslim activist has warned “forward-thinking” members of his community are being “held to ransom” by extremists, after Golders Green mosque abandoned an exhibition about Muslims who helped Jews during the Holocaust over security threats and the event’s links […]
Crime
Power struggle at Norwalk mosque
(Norwalk Hour) A power struggle at the city’s only mosque has led to the attempted ousting of its president, a complaint of a death threat and a lawsuit in state Superior Court. Al Madany Islamic Center’s board of directors is embroiled in […]