(AP) A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Canadian man to 26 years in U.S. prison for supporting a group of jihadists who committed a 2009 suicide attack that killed five American soldiers in Iraq. The sentence came over the objections of […]
(CBC) Quebec’s new law on religious symbols has been on the books for less than 24 hours, but already opposition is being mounted on several fronts, both in the courts and on the streets. The law was rammed through the legislature late Sunday […]
(MPR) A Minnesota woman who said she was forced to remove her hijab in jail will be able to move forward with a lawsuit in federal court. Aida Al-Kadi, who is Muslim, alleges that in 2013, she was forced to remove the […]
(CBC) Quebec’s opposition is warning last-minute changes to the Coalition Avenir Québec’s religious symbols law open the door to the establishment of “secularism police.” In the final hours before Bill 21 was passed late Sunday, the CAQ introduced several amendments, including provisions to ensure the […]
(IPT) Most religious groups exist to provide fellowship for their members and help them with spiritual needs. The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) stands apart, both for its close ties to South Asian Islamist radicals, and for its overt and repeatedly […]
(CBC) Quebec’s majority government has pushed through a controversial piece of legislation that will bar public-school teachers, government lawyers, judges and police officers from wearing religious symbols while at work. The bill, introduced by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, passed after a marathon weekend of deliberations […]
(Bergen Record) A Paterson police recruit called a “leader among peers” at the Bergen County Police Academy was named the recipient of the graduating class’ Role Model Award. Officer Serein Tamimi, who broke a historic barrier as the first Palestinian-American woman and […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.) on Saturday gave Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) some pushback after she suggested some critics were “weaponizing” anti-Semitism to silence her. Both female Democrats appeared on CNN’s Van Jones Show together, where they had a dialogue […]
(CBC) After a 19-hour marathon session, members of Quebec’s National Assembly have passed legislation that would allow the government to cancel roughly 16,000 immigration applications, some from people who have waited in limbo for years as their files languished in the old […]
(CBC) Opposition parties are accusing Quebec’s Legault government of trying to run the National Assembly like a business, as they attempt to extend the debate of its two flagship Bills 9 and 21. Members of the National Assembly are sitting this weekend […]
(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn man will spend 20 years in prison for supporting ISIS and discussing plans to use a garbage truck to crush people in Times Square. Mohamed Rafik Naji, 40, flew to Yemen in March 2015 in hope of […]
(IPT) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been unusually silent about the attempt to deport Hamas-linked activist Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents placed Ashqar, 60, on an airplane to Israel last week, but he was able to return to […]
(CBC) Quebec Premier François Legault says there’s a risk of upsetting “social cohesion” in the province if the debate over religious symbols is allowed to linger any longer. Legault will invoke closure to pass his government’s controversial secularism and immigration bills, putting an end […]
(Dayton Daily News) The man convicted in the first terrorism-related trial in the Southern District of Ohio was sentenced to 15 years in prison, a judge ruled Thursday. Laith W. Alebbini, 28, was found guilty last year by U.S. District Court Judge […]
(CBC) A controversial statement by Conservative MP Michael Cooper before the Commons justice committee — in which he named the New Zealand mosque shooter and recited passages from his manifesto — will be officially struck from the record. After a testy exchange, […]
(CBC) The Coalition Avenir Québec government will invoke closure this weekend to force passage of two controversial pieces of legislation — one that reforms the province’s immigration system and another that bars civil servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols. The centre-right party […]
(Global News) A Toronto-area organization that was suspended by charities regulators and fined $550,000 over concerns it may have funded armed militants in Pakistan has been awarded a federal summer jobs grant. Although the Islamic Society of North America-Canada is serving a […]
(MPR) Depositions, correspondence and other records generated in a state board’s investigation into irregularities in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s campaign spending provide extra details about how questions over the Democratic lawmaker’s tax filings were first raised and handled. Last week, the Campaign Finance […]
(Toronto Sun) Last week’s Ontario Superior Court judgment exonerating two men for a dozen criminal charges related to the marketing of Islamic mortgages based on Shariah law went unreported in all Canadian newspapers and network TV other than the online pages of […]
(Detroit News) The government is refusing to reveal why federal agents surveilled a Dearborn man after obtaining a secret order used to investigate foreign spies and thwart terror attacks. Federal court records obtained by the Detroit News chronicle a rare public fight […]
(Fox) A clip unveiled by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) this week shows Michigan-based Shiite Imam Bassem al-Sheraa “educating” students on the role of “wife-beating.” According to the video, the imam tells the class at the Az-Zahraa Islamic Center in […]
(FrontPage) On March 4th, South Florida Muslim leader and board member of Crime Stoppers and Citizens’ Crime Watch, Sofian Zakkout, posed the following query on Twitter: “Please can someone tell how many Holocaust survivors!” The exact intent of Zakkout in asking this […]
(CBC) The Quebec government is offering a first concession to critics of its proposed law restricting religious symbols worn by some civil servants. Tuesday afternoon, Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette tabled the amendment which would define what a religious symbol is. The amendment seeks to define a religious symbol […]
(Daily Caller) Sixteen Republican congresspeople plan to send a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Tuesday encouraging the platform to ban all content promoting terror specific to Hamas, the Daily Caller has learned. The signatories on the letter include Rep. Lee Zeldin […]
(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib has continued attending events and posing in pictures with one of her campaign fundraisers who repeatedly shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Maher Abdel-qader, a Palestinian-American businessman, was a key fundraiser for Tlaib in 2018 and organized […]
(Toronto Sun) Two Muslim men — an activist turned Shariah mortgage seller and an Islamic cleric who sold his Islamic seal of approval on such mortgages — were acquitted on Friday of a dozen criminal charges by an Ontario Superior Court judge […]
(Star Tribune) U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is back in the news again, and not in a good way. The former state representative who won a seat in Congress last fall continues to be dogged by past missteps, this time eight violations of […]
(CBC) Several dozen people stood in the pouring rain outside Quebec’s National Assembly on Tuesday to tell the Coalition Avenir Québec that they will continue to fight against the party’s proposed ban on religious symbols in the civil service, even if Bill 21 is passed at […]
(PennLive) The U.S. Army War College has postponed the appearance of an author widely regarded as being Islamophobic. The decision comes in the wake of strong opposition from the Muslim community to the previously scheduled appearance of author Raymond Ibrahim. The Army […]
(MPR) Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s campaign says her tax filings are “fully compliant” with law, after questions were raised about an alleged joint tax filing with her husband while they weren’t legally married. That detail emerged last week in an investigation […]
(IPT) Being a “white nationalist” doesn’t mean having European ancestry in Linda Sarsour’s world. Her group, MPower Change, joined the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Philadelphia chapter in charging that Raymond Ibrahim, an American Copt of Egyptian ancestry, whose people have been […]
(Charleston Post and Courier) A South Carolina man will serve the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for attempting to join the Islamic State terror group, a federal judge in Charleston ruled Monday. Prior to the sentence being issued, Zakaryia Abdel […]
(Politico) John Walker Lindh walked out of prison last month and returned to American life, having served 17 years for providing support to the Taliban. But another American who pleaded guilty in a high-profile terrorism case after the Sept. 11 attacks is […]
(CBC) More than four years after a Quebec court judge refused to hear the case of a woman because she was wearing a hijab, the Conseil de la magistrature finally held a disciplinary hearing into the judge’s conduct. In February 2015, Judge […]
(CBC) Two men who provided Shariah-compliant mortgages to Muslim homeowners in the GTA were acquitted of a dozen criminal charges in Ontario Superior Court Friday after a trial that began back in October 2018. Omar Kalair and Yusuf Panchbhaya were on trial […]
(AP) A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group and Osama bin Laden, and feared being known as the “Looney […]
(Chicago Tribune) Over objections by the Chicago Tribune, a federal judge on Thursday ordered her courtroom cleared of spectators and the media for the testimony of an undercover operative in the trial of two north suburban men accused of lending material support […]
(MPR) U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar violated state rules when she used thousands of dollars of campaign funds to pay for personal out-of-state travel and help on her tax returns, according to a ruling from the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board […]
(Toronto Sun) We tend to place individuals and ideologies in neat, homogeneous compartments, when shades of grey better convey the reality. This seems to have happened in the controversy surrounding the tiff between Faisal Khan Suri, president of the Alberta Muslim Public […]
(Forward) Rep. Ilhan Omar plans to join the new Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations, a spokesman confirmed to the Forward on Thursday. Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, had already praised the creation […]
(Task & Purpose) The Philadelphia chapter of a leading Muslim civil rights group is urging the U.S. Army War College to reconsider an upcoming lecture by an Islamic history scholar over his “simplistic, inaccurate and often prejudicial view of the long history […]
(Bridgewater Courier News) A library event featuring the children’s book “P is for Palestine” and its author that was postponed last month has been rescheduled. A Highland Park Library Board of Trustees meeting scheduled for Wednesday to hear objections to the book […]
(VOA) Once al-Qaida’s chief American propagandist, Jesse Morton is now propagandizing for peace. In 2009, Morton, then part of a group of Muslim extremists in New York, helped launch Jihad Recollections, the first in a line of online glossy magazines that captured […]
(Global News) The RCMP is looking into whether war crimes laws can be used to prosecute Canadians detained in Syria over their alleged involvement in the so-called Islamic State, Global News has learned. National security investigators are exploring not only whether terrorism […]
(AP) Kurdish authorities in northern Syria have transferred eight U.S. women and children who were captured with the Islamic State group back to America, Kurdish officials said Wednesday. Abdulkarim Omar, a senior official in the Kurdish self-rule administration, said the group includes […]
(IPT) American Muslim leaders with documented ties to the Muslim Brotherhood congratulated Fairfax County, Va., at-large school board candidate Abrar Omeish on winning the endorsement of the county’s Democratic Party, posts on her father Esam Omeish’s Facebook page show. She serves as […]
(JNS) A number of Massachusetts Jewish and pro-Israel groups are condemning several Democratic state lawmakers for participating in an Eid al-Fitr event at the Massachusetts State House being co-hosted by the Massachusetts branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has […]
(Israel Hayom) In a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a strong rebuke of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), saying the two were “the antithesis to the strong support for Israel” on Capitol […]
(CNS) Three U.S. lawmakers on Monday announced the establishment of a bipartisan Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus, and immediately drew a backlash from Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour. The Women’s March co-leader took issue with the fact that one of the three is Rep. Lee […]
(CBC) The House of Commons justice committee in Ottawa has voted to strike controversial remarks from Conservative MP Michael Cooper from the record. Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault put forward the motion on Tuesday morning, calling Cooper’s comments “discriminatory, hurtful and disrespectful.” Over […]
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