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(KNBC) The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Saturday demanded that a gun store in Santa Ana cease selling what the organization considers Islamophobic window decals and bumper stickers. The organization claims Ammo Bros sells stickers that […]
(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 […]
(AL.com) The volunteer Muslim chaplain for a death row inmate set for execution next week said that there are prayers required of a Muslim before he dies, and that the inmate needs his assistance to die honoring his faith. “I know the […]
(AL.com) A federal judge ruled today against an Alabama death row inmate who sought a stay of execution to litigate his claim that prison officials are violating his religious rights because they won’t allow his Muslim spiritual adviser to be with him […]
(Global News) A Toronto man admitted Friday he traveled to Turkey in 2014 to join the so-called Islamic State. At a court appearance in Toronto, Pamir Hakimzadah pleaded guilty to leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group. “The […]
(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 […]
(CBC) The mayor of Gatineau, Que., wants one of his councillors out of her post as deputy mayor after she said Islamophobia doesn’t exist and said Muslim immigrants have failed to integrate into society. In the newspaper Le Droit, Gatineau Coun. Nathalie […]
(Jewish Journal) The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) California chapter called on the University of California chancellors to retract their stated opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In December, the ten UC chancellors issued a statement calling BDS “a […]
(Hill) Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) on Friday accepted Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) invitation to discuss religious discrimination over Somali tea after the two lawmakers traded barbs over social media this week. Zeldin, who is Jewish, on Twitter this week shared a vulgar anti-Semitic […]
(AL.com) A federal judge in Montgomery said he will issue a written order Friday in a case involving Alabama death row inmate Domineque Ray, who has sought to stop his execution because his Muslim spiritual adviser is not being allowed to join […]
(Toronto Sun) It is time again for us to politely ignore World Hijab Day. This day allotted to the hijab — a regressive, patriarchal and cumbersome garment — has been observed every February 1 since 2013. The farce has spread to many […]
(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 […]
(CBC) The head of an Alberta organization for refugees is under fire after publicly suggesting 15 months ago that Muslim women should not fully cover their faces in public. Frank Bauer, executive director of the Red Deer-based Central Alberta Refugee Effort (CARE) […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) traded barbs over Twitter on Wednesday after Zeldin called Omar’s appointment to the House Foreign Affairs Committee “crazy.” “Just learned Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar was also put on this committee [with] oversight of […]
(Hill) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has invited House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) to join her on a planned congressional delegation to the West Bank after he criticized the trip in an interview. “Yo [Engel] how are we ever going to obtain peace?” […]
(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib has declined to address the fact that one of her top campaign allies repeatedly promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. A key fundraiser for Tlaib, Maher Abdel-qader, repeatedly promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, an investigation by the Daily Caller […]
(Winston-Salem Journal) N.C. Sen. Joyce Krawiec introduced a bill on Wednesday that would ban female genital mutilation in the state. Krawiec, R-Forsyth, said she filed Senate Bill 9 “because we must protect our girls from this abuse of being mutilated … and […]
(Daily Wire) Anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) suggested in an interview this week that Israel should not be allowed to exist as a Jewish state, Israel is not a democracy, and compared Israel to Iran — which is the world’s leading state […]
(NY1) Debbie Almontaser stopped by Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene as she promoted her first book “Leading While Muslim.” She says the backlash she received as the founding principal of the country’s first Arabic-language public school inspired her to write it. “I […]
(AL.com) An Alabama death row inmate set to die by lethal injection next week claims his execution should be stayed because the prison won’t let him have a Muslim spiritual adviser present in the execution chamber. Domineque Ray, 42, is set to […]
(FrontPage) Four years ago this past December, Saudi-born al-Qaeda senior member Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah (Shukri Jumah) lost his life during a Pakistani Special Forces pre-dawn raid in South Waziristan. Last month, Adnan’s sister Aidah took to Facebook to mourn the anniversary of […]
(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. […]
(Al-Monitor) Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress. She’s also one of Congress’ first two female Muslim lawmakers. As such, Tlaib wants to take the fight to the pro-Israel lobby by organizing a congressional delegation […]
(Today) Is this logo offensive? Nike has come under fire for the design of its Air Max shoe, with some calling it insulting to the Islamic faith. According to a recent petition launched on Change.org, the Air Max logo on the bottom […]
(Hill) House Democratic leaders on Tuesday defended progressive freshman Reps. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) against GOP accusations of anti-Semitism for their views toward Israel. The two freshmen have drawn ire from Republicans for their support of the boycott, divestment […]
(Roll Call) Democrats in the House and Senate have again introduced legislation seeking to block funding for President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel from certain countries, which has been widely criticized as a “Muslim ban.” “The Muslim Ban — now in […]
(CBC) Quebec’s Education Ministry is trying to find out how many people its plan to ban teachers from wearing religious symbols will affect. The ministry has asked school boards whether they have a record of how many staff wear a religious symbol […]
(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s ties to anti-Semitism run deeper than previously known, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Tlaib, part of a heralded freshman class of House Democrats, has already come under scrutiny over her positions on Israel […]
(Brooklyn Eagle) “We want to be provocative — but in the best possible way,” said Brooklyn Historical Society President Deborah Schwartz as she introduced the latest entry in the organization’s winter events: a roundtable discussion featuring Dr. Debbie Almontaser, founding principal of […]
(Canadian Press) A youth facing terrorism charges in Kingston, Ont., will be back in court next week, after his lawyer has had more time to study his case. The RCMP charged the youth last week, saying he tried to persuade someone to […]
(Free Beacon) Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour penned a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that omitted any mention of the Jewish people, two years after she attacked President Donald Trump for the same thing. In January 2017, the White House was criticized after […]
(Global News) Beefed-up borders and stricter refugee screening won’t do much to reduce the threat of Islamist terrorism in Canada, which is largely homegrown, according to one of Canada’s top experts on terrorism and national security. Stephanie Carvin, assistant professor of international […]
(CBC) The city of Kingston, Ont., is still reeling after a young person was charged with terrorism-related offences following thousands of hours of investigation by multiple police agencies and raids on two homes. Here is what we know (and much of what […]
(NBC) Warren Christopher Clark, a Texas man recently captured with ISIS fighters in Syria, has been brought back to the U.S. by law enforcement and faces charges of aiding ISIS. Clark was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a largely Kurdish militia, […]
(Toronto Star) A woman convicted of using a golf club and knife to attack Canadian Tire employees in support of terror group Daesh has declared she wants to “withdraw” her agreement with the facts presented to the jury in a recent and […]
(NY Times) A youth was charged on Friday with “facilitating a terrorist activity” in eastern Ontario and trying to persuade a friend, who is a Syrian refugee, to plant a bomb in a public place. The refugee was released from custody although […]
(CBC) Community leaders are working to calm fears and find ways to prevent an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant backlash in the wake of two arrests related to an alleged terrorist plot in Kingston, Ont. — yet the probe already has touched off a political […]
(CBC) The RCMP’s national security team has arrested and charged an Ontario youth with a terrorism-related offence, the police force said Friday following an investigation in Kingston, Ont. Police have laid two charges against the young person, who is accused of knowingly facilitating a […]
(Hill) Freshman Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, are drawing fire from Republicans in their first weeks since taking office. House GOP leaders condemned the appointment of Omar, a Minnesota progressive, […]
(Fox) Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib said publicly in 2012 that her sister was on the “no-fly list,” lamenting at the time that as a state representative in Michigan, she couldn’t get her off it. Now that she’s a member of Congress — […]
(PJ Media) Ramin Parsa, an ex-Muslim Christian pastor who was stabbed in Iran, imprisoned in Turkey, and then arrested in the Mall of America for sharing his testimony with interested Muslim women, faces a settlement conference in March and likely a trial […]
(CBC) The RCMP have arrested two people following raids on two homes in Kingston, Ont., in what officials are calling a national security investigation involving multiple police forces. CBC News has learned the arrests included a minor and involved both Kingston police and […]
(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 […]
(Jewish Journal) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called for a more lenient sentence for nine Somalian men in Minnesota who were convicted of attempting to join ISIS in November 2016. Omar, then a Minnesota assemblymember-elect, wrote in a letter to the judge presiding […]
(Global News) A video released Wednesday by the ISIS affiliate in Somalia showed a man it said was a doctor from Canada urging supporters to “get on the path of jihad.” The 15-minute propaganda video introduced him as Dr. Youssef Al Majeerteyn […]
(JTA) The top two Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee revile BDS, the boycott Israel movement. Its newest member, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has embraced the movement. It’s not a big deal, the Jewish Democrats say. Reps. […]
(Sun Sentinel) A Hallandale Beach commissioner accused of engaging in an anti-Muslim rant that sparked a global media storm says she never attacked Muslims — just a U.S. congresswoman who happens to be Muslim. Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub, who is Jewish, kicked a […]
(JNS) It didn’t take long for Jewish and Israel-related groups to react to the appointment of anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Along with several other new members of Congress, Omar has gained considerable attention as part of […]
(Tulsa World) A judge has dismissed a Muslim woman’s civil rights lawsuit after finding that her complaint failed to meet the legal burden to show that Tulsa County sheriff’s deputies violated her constitutional rights when they refused to let her enter the […]
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