(Reuters) A Swedish appeals court on Monday partially acquitted a far-right activist convicted in [2024] of hate crimes against Muslims over statements he made whilst burning the Koran, and suspended his four-month prison sentence. The Skane and Blekinge appeal court acquitted Rasmus […]
(European Conservative) A priest in Spain is on trial in Málaga, facing up to three years behind bars for alleged hate speech after publishing an article critical of Islam. Fr. Custodio Ballester, known for his pro-life stance and doctrinal conservatism, is accused […]
(Jerusalem Post) A blogger from northern England was arrested on Thursday night over a post he made on X condemning the Hamas terrorist organization and Islam, according to British media reports. Pete North, 47, was arrested over the meme on suspicion of […]
(NL Times) The police arrested seven people during demonstrations around an asylum shelter in Hoofddorp on Wednesday evening. Earlier in the evening, Pegida leader Edwin Wagensveld burned a Koran at the center. Counter-demonstrators responded, throwing fireworks, stones, and traffic signs at the […]
(GB News) Grooming gangs will be given “impunity” to carry out their crimes if a new definition of Islamophobia is passed, the Tories have warned. Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho warned that the definition risks enhancing the “culture of censorship” by giving […]
(BBC) A Muslim man who attacked someone burning a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been spared jail. Moussa Kadri, 59, saw Hamit Coskun setting alight the text and shouted: “I’m going to kill you” before slashing at him with […]
(Yabiladi) The former mayor of Saint-Paul (Réunion), Alain Bénard, was handed a three-month suspended prison sentence on Friday for “public incitement to discrimination based on origin, ethnicity, nationality, race, or religion.” He was also ordered to pay one symbolic euro in damages […]
(CBC) Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled new legislation Friday introducing four Criminal Code offences, including one that would make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols. If passed, the Combatting Hate Act would target symbols used during the Holocaust, […]
(Breitbart) The Labour Party government has argued that allowing Sharia courts to operate in the United Kingdom is a fundamental “British value” and has refused to distance itself from a broad-stroke definition of so-called Islamophobia, which critics say would brand discussions around […]
(Fox) Christian minister Edward “Ted” Barham says he will not respond with hate after Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud told him he was “not welcome” during a heated city council exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming that went viral. In a […]
(CBC) The Liberal government is introducing new legislation on Friday to make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols like swastikas, CBC News has learned. A source with knowledge of the […]
(GB News) Labour’s plans for an official definition of Islamophobia will be used to object to police investigating Muslims for criminal offences, a lawyer claimed. Prior to her resignation earlier this month, former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner set up a group […]
(European Conservative) A book that has not yet gone on sale is already causing tremors in French politics. It is Les Complices du mal by Franco-Syrian journalist Omar Youssef Souleimane, and will be published in early October. The volume, the result of […]
(AP) A Detroit-area city that banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles did not violate the Constitution, a judge said. U.S. District Judge David Lawson dismissed a lawsuit against Hamtramck, two years after the city council voted to allow only five flags, […]
(GB News) Britain should ban the burka in public because it poses a “huge impediment to assimilation,” Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf has claimed. Zia Yusuf was quizzed on his position at a fringe meeting at the NEC just four […]
(National-UAE) An official definition of Islamophobia would present a risk to free speech, and plans to introduce one should be ditched, the UK government’s adviser on terror laws has said. Jonathan Hall, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said a definition would […]
(Free Beacon) Harvard University, where 33 student groups signed a statement blaming Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, now says that calling someone a “terrorist sympathizer” can violate the school’s anti-discrimination policies, according to a mandatory training for all Harvard students obtained […]
(European Conservative) Charges against Niyak Ghorbani, a dissident Iranian journalist living in the UK, were abandoned after video footage comprehensively undermined the prosecution’s case. Ghorbani is recognisable from his attendance at London “pro-Palestinian” marches with a “Hamas Is Terrorist” sign. Last September, […]
(GB News) Britain may face social upheaval and deepening perceptions of a “two-tier society” if Labour persists with plans to create a formal definition of Islamophobia, the head of an advocacy group has warned. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has formed a […]
(NL Times) Fourteen Islamic organizations in the Netherlands have filed a criminal complaint against far-right politician Geert Wilders, accusing him of inciting hatred, discrimination or violence, and of group insult and sedition over a social media post comparing images of women labeled […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders has sparked more than 2,500 discrimination complaints in just days over a controversial social media post, AD reports. The post, shared earlier this week, shows a split image: on the left, a blonde woman labeled “PVV,” […]
(Olive Press) Spain’s government has increased monitoring to track “hate speech” on social media after a Murcia region council banned Islamic festivals from using municipal property and land. The Partido Popular-led authority in Jumilla voted in the controversial measure which was initially […]
(Daily Wire) The University of Maryland has agreed to pay Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) $100,000 after the university first defended, but then briefly tried to reschedule, a rally on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks […]
(GB News) A Christian preacher has said he has experienced “two-tier policing and censorship” after being threatened with arrest while addressing the public. Pastor Dia Moodley is considering taking legal action against Avon and Somerset Police after he claims he was assaulted […]
(European Conservative) On the night of June 2nd, Lionel M., aged 27, stole a Quran and burned it in front of the Errahma mosque in Villeurbanne, in the suburbs of Lyon. He has now been sentenced to twelve months in prison and […]
(GB News) John Steele, who has spent a quarter-century sharing his Christian faith without incident, told GB News he felt “flabbergasted” and “frightened” after he was detained by police for questioning Islamic teachings during a public conversation in Rotherham. “I feel silenced,” […]
(GB News) A Christian street preacher arrested in Rotherham town centre after asking a Muslim about the Quran’s teaching on domestic violence has said he has been vindicated after charges against him were dropped. Former miner John Steele, 60, was arrested and […]
(GB News) Supporters of a highly-controversial plan to set “appropriate limits to free speech” about Muslims have been given up to £2.6million by the government to police and monitor “Islamophobia.” The British Muslim Trust has been awarded a £1million-a-year contract by ministers […]
(Politico) A top State Department official vigorously defended the Trump administration’s drive to cancel the visas of pro-Palestinian academics, arguing that the effort does not abridge free speech and targets students who are supporting terrorism or promoting antisemitism. John Armstrong, State’s top […]
(Politico) As the Trump administration identified pro-Palestinian academics to target for deportation, it relied heavily on an anonymously-run pro-Israel website that has been criticized for doxxing, according to newly unsealed court documents and testimony at an ongoing trial. To support President Donald […]
(GB News) The Muslim Council of Britain’s media monitoring unit “acted in bad faith” by trying to suppress accurate reporting about terrorism and risks curtailing press freedom, a bombshell report has claimed. Policy Exchange tonight released its 94-page report, titled “Bad Faith […]
(Politico) A trial on a First Amendment lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s drive to deport pro-Palestinian academics quickly confronted a thorny legal issue Monday: whether foreigners in the U.S. enjoy the same free speech rights as American citizens. The administration’s stance on […]
(Politico) At least five times in recent weeks, federal judges have forcefully rejected President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport pro-Palestinian student activists, issuing one stinging ruling after another to declare the efforts unconstitutional — with one judge comparing the deportation drive to […]
(Free Beacon) The three men charged in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump and an Iranian dissident on U.S. soil now have a trial date: March 9, 2026, federal judge Lewis J. Liman ruled from his courtroom in New York City on Tuesday. The […]
(European Conservative) Less than a fortnight after Emmanuel Macron downplayed the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood and suggested an official report on Islamist infiltration could result in “conspiracy theories or paranoia,” a major report has shone a light on the “professional denigration” […]
(GB News) An asylum seeker who burnt the Koran has claimed he has been forced into hiding after police warned him of a terror plot to murder him. Hamit Coskun was woken at 2am on Saturday by officers acting on behalf of […]
(GB News) Government documents have classified concern about mass migration as a “terrorist ideology” requiring intervention through the anti-radicalisation Prevent programme. An online training course on the government’s website identifies “cultural nationalism” as a belief that could trigger referral to the deradicalisation […]
(Fox) The Trump administration has taken a more aggressive approach than its predecessor toward addressing the nationwide surge in antisemitic incidents, launching investigations, punishing elite universities, and intensifying its immigration enforcement practices. President Donald Trump, through the Department of Justice (DOJ) and […]
(JNS) A major pro-Israel conference slated to begin in four days in the Dallas area that had 1,000 committed attendees postponed the event “indefinitely,” citing “escalating terror threats.” The decision came after organizers had already changed venues for the Israel Summit, which […]
(CBC) A Muslim community leader in Winnipeg says she was shocked and disappointed to see a controversial magazine cover with a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad included as part of a case study in a provincial Manitoba Grade 12 exam last week. The province’s […]
(Sky News) A man has been found guilty of an offence after burning a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London, in a case that sparked debate over the freedom of expression. Hamit Coskun was accused of shouting “f*** Islam” and “Islam […]
(Sky News) Convicting a man for burning the Koran would be “tantamount to reintroducing a blasphemy law,” his defence team has told a court. Hamit Coskun appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday after he allegedly shouted abusive slogans about Islam while […]
(Toronto Sun) For years radicals have been trying to insert themselves into our education system. These are the people who teach that 2+2 = racist. That’s not a joke; it’s something that happened. Now, our education system and the organizations that support […]
(BBC) Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is “pleased” the man who tried to kill him in a knife attack in 2022 has received the maximum possible prison sentence. Hadi Matar, 27, was jailed for 25 years earlier this month for […]
(Jerusalem Post) A Jewish protester was arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police for a placard he held mocking the eliminated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Telegraph revealed on Friday. The anonymous man was detained and charged last September for the cartoon, which featured […]
(Reuters) Sweden’s SAPO security service lowered its national terrorist threat warning on Friday back to the “elevated” level assessed before 2023, when it was raised in the wake of a spate of Koran burnings. SAPO had raised the threat level to “high,” […]
(Politico) A bombshell report from the French authorities alleges that organizations with links to the Muslim Brotherhood have been attempting to influence European Union institutions through “significant lobbying activities.” A version of the document seen by POLITICO before its official publication says […]
(AP) A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison. Hadi Matar, 27, stood quietly as the judge […]
(European Conservative) A Danish court on Friday for the first time meted out a verdict in the first criminal case using the country’s new law prohibiting “improper treatment of a religious text.” The court sentenced Islamism critic Rasmus Paludan and one of […]
(Daily Bulletin) Novelist Salman Rushdie has decided not to deliver the graduation speech for Claremont McKenna College, pulling out days before the Saturday, May 17, commencement. The decision follows criticism from Muslim advocacy groups and students. Rushdie, an Indian-born British and American […]
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