Citizenship
Muslim leader criticises Varadkar’s comments on Irish ‘Isis terrorist’ (LINK ONLY)
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Mosques
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 […]
History
Golders Green mosque cancels Muslim Shoah heroes exhibit No reasons given for cancellation as Jewish interfaith activist insists the community will still work on building local relations
(Jewish News) A planned exhibition celebrating Muslim Albanians who helped, protected and rescued their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust has been scrapped. No reason has been given for the cancellation, but Rabbi Natan Levy, head of operations at Faith Forums for London, […]
Clerics & Preachers
CAIR hypocrite participates at event moderated by anti-gay imam Islamist Wilfredo Ruiz and his fake persona of ‘civil rights’ and diversity activist.
(FrontPage) CAIR-Florida communications director Wilfredo Ruiz likes to call his organization a “civil rights group” and uses social media to denounce those who spread bigotry, yet Ruiz himself associates with individuals and groups who spread the same kind of hate. This past […]
Government & Politics
Germany to curb mosque funding from Gulf states The German government has started to request that those countries register any funding they may provide to mosques in Germany, a report says. The move aims to discourage radicalization in German mosques.
(Deutsche Welle) The German Foreign Ministry wants Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and other Gulf states to register any donations or state subsidies intended for mosques in Germany. According to daily Süddeutsche Zeitung and German broadcasters WDR and NDR, the government has involved […]
History
Golders Green mosque to host exhibit on Muslim heroes of Shoah Display on Albanian saviours comes as centre continues to reach out to neighbours in most Jewish area of London
(Jewish News) Golders Green Mosque is to host a unique one-day Yad Vashem exhibition at the beginning of the new year, highlighting the Muslim Albanians who helped, protected and rescued their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. The exhibition, to be held under […]
Clerics & Preachers
South Florida alleged ISIS bomb-making instructor previously arrested for strangling wife Did Romaisa Waseem know about her husband Tayyab Ismail’s terrorist dealings?
(FrontPage) Tayyab Ismail’s family-life appears to be over, or at least it is going to take a very big hiatus. On Friday, December 14th, Ismail was arrested on terrorism-related charges. Federal authorities claim that he repeatedly posted bomb-making instructions on forums frequented […]
Government & Politics
Germany mulls introducing ‘mosque tax’ for Muslims The idea, similar to Germany's church tax, would aim to make mosques independent of foreign donors. Germany's government and progressive Muslim leaders have supported the idea.
(Deutsche Welle) Lawmakers from Germany’s grand coalition government said on Wednesday that they were considering introducing a “mosque tax” for German Muslims, similar to the church taxes that German Christians pay. Thorsten Frei, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), […]
Children & Teens
A religious leader being sued for ‘grooming’ a follower is now under fire for polygamy BuzzFeed News has confirmed that the cleric was ousted from a second mosque for alleged bad behavior — but his current employer is sticking by him.
(BuzzFeed) A Muslim cleric who was ousted from at least two mosques amid claims of sexual misconduct with young women he’d mentored now works at a Texas mosque that’s standing by him despite a former employer’s warning and a civil lawsuit. The […]
Government & Politics
Nation of Islam defends federal funding for prison lectures as a ‘blessing’ to prisoners
(Washington Examiner) The Nation of Islam defiantly defended its government-funded work teaching religion to federal prisoners on Thursday, calling the program “a great benefit and blessing to the American Penal System.” A black nationalist group led by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of […]
Government & Politics
Nation of Islam receiving federal cash to teach prisoners
(Washington Examiner) The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. A black nationalist […]
Clerics & Preachers
German police raid Berlin mosque over suspected ‘terror financing’ Authorities raided several buildings in the German capital as part of a larger terrorism probe. One imam is suspected of sending money to an Islamist fighter in Syria in order to carry out 'terrorist criminal acts.'
(Deutsche Welle) Police raided a mosque and several other buildings in Berlin on Tuesday morning in an operation into suspected terrorism financing, prosecutors said. State criminal police, intelligence officers as well as special police forces took part in the raids, which included […]
Mosques
Controversial Muslim charity sets up branch in Ireland (LINK ONLY)
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Mosques
Muslim board will remain all male after failed election bid
(Houston Chronicle) Sarah Alikhan lost her bid Sunday to become the first woman ever elected to the shura, or governing board, of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, one of the largest Muslim organizations in the U.S. Incumbent Faizan Atiq will retain […]
Mosques
‘America has changed Islam’: A woman runs for the board of Houston’s largest Muslim organization
(Houston Chronicle) In a front room of the Masjid at Taqwa, a Sugar Land mosque, Sarah Alikhan watched M.J. Khan film a Facebook video endorsing her. Khan, 68, isn’t super-fluent with Facebook, but as a former member of Houston City Council and […]
Children & Teens
Scouts can save children from extremism and gangs, says Bear Grylls (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Imam who married a 14-year-old girl to a 34-year-old man at a Melbourne mosque loses final appeal against his conviction (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Annual report of state security warns of growth of extremist home-schooling
(Brussels Times) The Belgian intelligence services have warned of a growing trend for Muslim parents to take their children out of [the] schools system, for home-schooling which exposes the children to extremist Salafist propaganda. The state security was announcing its latest annual […]
Clerics & Preachers
Condemnation of hate-preaching Winterthur imam upheld
(Swiss Info) Zurich cantonal court has upheld the conviction handed down one year ago to a Muslim preacher who worked at a Winterthur mosque, accused of spreading hate and inciting violence. The Ethiopian faces a suspended sentence and deportation. The Zurich court […]
Academics & Education
‘There is no Sharia law on German soil’: CDU candidate Merz
(Local) The candidate for the CDU presidency, Friedrich Merz, expects an unconditional commitment to the German legal system from the approximately 4.5 million Muslims in Germany, he said at a regional conference in Düsseldorf on Wednesday evening. The former head of the […]
Crime
Muslims give crowdfunded $238K to Jewish Pittsburgh as conspiracy theories swirl
(Forward) The Muslim crowd funding campaign to support victims of last month’s synagogue massacre has distributed its final grant of money to Pittsburgh, its organizer told the Forward. All in all, $238,634 was raised in a little more than a week, much […]
Clerics & Preachers
Palestinian cause should be ‘marketed’ as ‘humanitarian’ issue to non-Muslims, NJ imam says
(Algemeiner) The Palestinian cause is an Islamic struggle that should be “marketed” as a humanitarian concern to non-Muslims, a prominent imam told a recent “Workshop for Palestine” held at the Islamic Center of Union County, NJ. “Although our cause is Islamic, when we market and present […]
Crime
Online postings creating controversy about donations to Tree of Life Synagogue
(KDKA) The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh transferred the remaining $85,000 worth of donations Wednesday afternoon to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh to support the victims’ families, survivors and first responders of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Squirrel Hill. A […]
Clerics & Preachers
How Seehofer is pushing to ‘replace foreign influence’ at Islam Conference
(Local) On Wednesday and Thursday, the controversial Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CDU) is for the first time hosting the Islam Conference in Berlin, with integration as a top theme. Shortly after becoming interior minister in March, Horst Seehofer announced that Islam “doesn’t […]
Academics & Education
German Islam Conference reconvenes search for German Islam Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is convening the latest iteration of the German Islam Conference. The 2018 DIK will focus on integration, Islam and German law. Many new faces in attendance will make for lively debates.
(Deutsche Welle) This year’s German Islam Conference (DIK) will be held on Wednesday and Thursday in Berlin. It has been over a year and a half since the last DIK. For this latest iteration, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, of Bavaria’s Christian […]
Cemeteries & Funerals
Muslims have raised lots of money for Jews recently. Here’s where it’s going
(Forward) CelebrateMercy is a small Muslim not-for-profit with only three full-time staffers, but in the past year and a half, it has created crowdfunding campaigns that have raised $400,000 for Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and a Holocaust memorial. The campaigns started in February […]
Books
Meghan cookbook mosque linked to 19 terror suspects including ‘Jihadi John’ in group’s investigation (LINK ONLY)
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Halal
London group with alleged ties to Hamas cooks chicken soup with local Jews
(JTA) Dozens of British Jews cooked chicken soup for homeless people with volunteers from a Muslim group that is banned in Israel over alleged ties to Hamas. At least 1,000 bowls of the dish, which used a traditional Jewish recipe and halal […]
Crime
Canada: Muslim groups call for national day of action against hate Making 29 January a National Day of Action against Hate and Intolerance would honour victims of deadly Quebec mosque attack, groups say
(Middle East Eye) More than 100 community groups across Canada have called on Justin Trudeau’s government to designate January 29 a National Day of Action against Hate and Intolerance, in memory of the victims of a deadly attack on a Canadian mosque […]
Clerics & Preachers
Undercover journalist finds one in ten German mosques preach radicalism
(Breitbart) German author and undercover journalist Shams Ul-Haq claims to have visited hundreds of mosques across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and says that one in ten mosques there preaches radical Islamic ideas. Mr Ul-Haq, who is originally from Pakistan, said that the […]
Clerics & Preachers
Pushing the Iranian regime message in America
(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 […]
Demonstrations
Germany examines the place of its Muslims The place of Islam and its representation has become a central issue in recent years in an increasingly multicultural German society
(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 […]
Crime
Notorious Aarhus mosque helps police apprehend erratic armed man In a day full of incident for the police, a station in north Jutland was closed to allow explosives experts to search it, and there was another shooting in Nordvest
(Copenhagen Post) Grimhøj Mosque, a place of worship for Muslims in Aarhus that had hitherto a strained relationship with the authorities, yesterday alerted the police to a man who left its premises armed with a knife. In an ensuing confrontation in the […]
Clerics & Preachers
Islamic centre connected to terror plots plans expansion
(Age) An Islamic centre in Melbourne’s north that has been linked to the Bourke Street attacker and Christmas Day terror plot is seeking council approval to accommodate up to 500 people at once as its community grows. The Hume Islamic Youth Centre […]
Government & Politics
Divide between government and Islamic leaders deepens over Bourke Street attacker
(Age) One of Victoria’s largest Islamic youth centres has rejected suggestions it is linked to terrorism after it was revealed the Bourke Street attacker was a regular visitor. Hume Islamic Youth Centre spokesman Mustafa Abu Yusuf told the Age the centre’s open-door […]
Clerics & Preachers
Ecquevilly: The ‘quiet Salafist’ town resisting French integration While there are signs of hope in this commune west of Paris, a radical preacher’s influence lingers
(National-UAE) Barely 30 kilometres from the renowned Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, France’s perpetual search for harmonious relations with its post-colonial Muslim population has its own reflection in the troubled recent history of one small town. On first encounter, […]
Crime
Germany: Jewish leader slams attacks against mosques Josef Schuster warns of rise in xenophobic violence targeting religious minorities in Germany
(Anadolu) A prominent German Jewish leader on Friday expressed alarm over growing intolerance and violence against religious minorities, immigrants and asylum seekers in the country. “It’s a scandal that more and more mosques are vandalized by hate slogans or attacked on a […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim group sues Troy over mosque denial
(Detroit News) The city of Troy discriminated against a Muslim community group by rejecting plans to build an Islamic center, according to a federal court lawsuit filed Thursday. The nonprofit Adam Community Center sued the city council, planning commission and members of […]
Academics & Education
Allow kids to refuse religious ceremonies on school trips: Dutch MPs
(NL Times) The Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, adopted a motion that will allow kids in public schools to refuse participating in religious acts during a school trip to a religious institution like a church, mosque or synagogue. Parents can […]
Clerics & Preachers
Labour invites notorious Islamic extremist to speak at anti-racism meeting (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Mosques encourage vote as part of last pitch to midterm voters
(VOA) Mosques in the Midwest U.S. state of Minnesota are urging worshipers and people of color to vote in Tuesday’s midterm election. In the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis, Sheikh Abdirahman Sharif, the imam of Dar Al-Hijra Islamic center, focused his Friday sermon […]
Government & Politics
Mosques want populist politician Wilders banned from Twitter
(NL Times) The Turkish-Islamic Cultural Federation TICF, a foundation that speaks for 144 Turkish mosques in the Netherlands, demands that Twitter block the account of PVV leader Geert Wilders. According to the TICF, many of Wilders’ statements are contrary to Twitter’s terms […]
Crime
‘We share that pain’: Muslims form rings of peace at GTA synagogues in wake of U.S. shooting Jewish groups in GTA held similar events following deadly 2017 attack on Quebec City mosque
(CBC) In the wake of a deadly attack on a U.S. synagogue, people of faith from across the Greater Toronto Area gathered at Jewish places of worship on Saturday in an act of defiant solidarity. More than 200 attendees from various religious […]
Clerics & Preachers
Florida imam: Palestine must be liberated, even at cost of millions of martyrs Hasan Sabri says ‘Palestine in its entirety is Islamic land, and there is no difference between what was occupied in 1948 and 1967’
(Times of Israel) During a recent sermon at the Islamic Center of South Florida, an imam called for the “liberation” of Palestine, even at the cost of tens of millions of Muslim lives. “If a land is occupied or plundered, it should […]
Government & Politics
Swedish municipality refuses conservative request to ban public Muslim call to prayer
(Breitbart) The municipality of Karlskrona has rejected calls from the populist Sweden Democrats and the conservative Christian Democrats to ban the public call to prayer at a local mosque. The municipality rejected the proposal to ban the public call to prayer saying that neither […]
Crime
In Pittsburgh, Muslims are eager to join Jews in fight against immigrant hate
(Religion News) At the end of Jummah prayers at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh on Friday (Nov. 2), its leaders made an unusual request: go attend Friday night services at a synagogue near you. The request came an hour before the funeral […]
Children & Teens
Fiery sermon alleging child misconduct cover-up ignites outrage among Irving Muslims
(Dallas Morning News) The Islamic Center of Irving is facing backlash from the North Texas Muslim community after allegations surfaced about a man behaving inappropriately with children at the mosque. The center issued a statement Sunday, saying it had filed a police report […]