Academics & Education
Preston UKIP in dispute with UCLan over student’s halal meat comments (LINK ONLY)
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Speech & Censorship
Academics & Education
4th Circuit upholds public school’s world religion curriculum
(Courthouse News) A Fourth Circuit panel sided Monday with a Maryland school district after a Christian student and her family opposed a lesson plan that taught about the Islamic faith. Caleigh Wood was an 8th grade student in Charles County Public School […]
Books
‘I don’t want to hide,’ says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa
(AFP) After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant. “I don’t want to live hidden away,” he told AFP during a visit to Paris. The novelist’s life changed forever on […]
Books
Rushdie: from fatwa fugitive to free speech hero
(AFP) On February 14, 1989, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for British writer Salman Rushdie to be killed for writing “The Satanic Verses,” which the cleric said insulted Islam. In a fatwa, or religious decree, Khomeini urged “Muslims of the […]
Academics & Education
CAIR-CA calls on UC chancellors to retract opposition to BDS
(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 […]
Clothing
Head of Alberta newcomer agency under fire for social media post on face veils 'Full face covering in public is a notch too far,' Frank Bauer wrote on Facebook in 2017
(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) […]
Apostasy
Minnesota is still prosecuting ex-Muslim Christian pastor for sharing his testimony in a mall
(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 […]
Demonstrations
Hallandale reprimands commissioner for anti-Muslim comments
(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 […]
Demonstrations
Women’s March releases agenda that blasts pro-Israel legislation Progressive group calls anti-Boycott, Divestment Sanctions bills threat to free speech
(Washington Times) The Women’s March kicked off Saturday in Washington, D.C., shortly after leaders released a sweeping policy document that includes opposition to legislation targeting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The 71-page Women’s Agenda took a stand against anti-BDS bills, […]
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 […]
Government & Politics
Fmr. justice min. can be called to testify in Wilders hate speech trial
(NL Times) The appeal in the hate speech case against PVV leader Geert Wilders will continue. The court in The Hague saw no reason to declare the public prosecutor inadmissible, as Wilders had requested. The court will, however, allow the defense to call former […]
Law Enforcement
Man fined 210 Swiss francs for saying ‘Allahu akbar’
(Local) Police in the Swiss city of Schaffhausen have defended their decision to fine a man who used the words “Allahu akbar” in public. The incident in May 2018, which saw the man fined 150 Swiss francs (€132) plus 60 francs in […]
Arts & Entertainment
Punching down at dead cartoonists The response to the attack on Charlie Hebdo was a pivotal moment that foreshadowed the political crisis in Western societies
(Tablet) Yesterday marked the four-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, in which the staff of a satirical French comics publication, along with several bystanders, were murdered by jihadist terrorists inside their Paris offices. The killers were the brothers Saïd and Chérif […]
Interfaith
Report: Facebook and Twitter consult with terror-tied CAIR over who gets banned from platforms
(Conservative Review) The Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is best known as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history, appears to have access to high-ranking Facebook and Twitter executives and has communicated with these individuals […]
Arts & Entertainment
Charlie Hebdo keeps the lights on
(Radio France) This is the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attack against the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Twelve people died at the hands of two radical Islamic attackers, who also killed Ahmed Merabet, a police officer who was on […]
Arts & Entertainment
Paris honors attack victims at Charlie Hebdo, kosher market
(AP) Cartoonists, religious leaders and top French officials are paying respects to 17 people killed by Islamic extremists targeting satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. The attacks that started exactly four years ago Monday were the first of several to […]
News: Europe
Charlie Hebdo journalist: ‘Islam must submit to criticism’
(Breitbart) Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui has received rape and death threats for saying “Islam must submit to criticism.” The journalist, who has lived under police protection since a number of her colleagues at the satirical magazine were murdered by [a] radical […]
Clothing
Boris Johnson cleared of wrongdoing in burka row as QCs uphold right to free speech (LINK ONLY)
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Apostasy
Germany’s atheist refugees: When not believing is life-threatening They do not believe in God and want a life free from religious restrictions: They are atheist asylum-seekers. Not only are they threatened and sometimes killed in their homeland — even in Germany they face danger.
(Deutsche Welle) Mahmudul Haque Munshi’s name was on a hit list in Bangladesh. After five of his friends and associates were murdered, the authorities warned the blogger: “There’s nothing more we can do for you.” Munshi had to leave the country in […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Search for xenophobic Leeds train passenger who shouted about ‘dislike of Muslims’ The incident happened on a train between York and Leeds
(Leeds Live) A man who ranted about his dislike of Muslim people is being hunted by police after upsetting passengers on a Leeds train. The man, described as bald and wearing a bomber jacket, offended fellow passengers as he began spewing his […]
Books
SPD begins 3rd bid to expel anti-Islam author Thilo Sarrazin Anti-Islam author Thilo Sarrazin again faces possible explusion from the Social Democrats. The center-left party has sought to ban the economist since his first of two critical bestsellers on Islam in Germany.
(Deutsche Welle) He’s a longstanding Social Democrat and former board member of Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, but nowadays Thilo Sarrazin is better known as Germany’s bestselling author of a pair of books fiercely criticizing Muslim migration into Germany. The first, “Germany […]
Children & Teens
Sydney teenager jailed for at least 12 years for terror plot
(Sydney Morning Herald) The boy arrested in a Bankstown backstreet with hunting knives and a desire to kill had once been “your average Muslim 16-year-old boy,” according to the teenager’s father. “He slit his eyebrows thinking it was ‘cool’; he wore ordinary […]
Government & Politics
Iran postponed asylum negotiations over Mohammad cartoon on minister’s iPad Inger Støjberg’s decision to post photo on social media last year had diplomatic consequences
(Copenhagen Post) According to the Immigration Ministry, a Danish agreement with Iran regarding the return of rejected asylum-seekers stalled after its minister, Inger Støjberg, posted a photo on social media last year. The photo in question showed that Støjberg had a photo […]
News: Europe
Irish lecturer stabbed to death in Paris had ‘insulted the Prophet Mohammed,’ says his Pakistani killer (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Man who threatened Geert Wilders in kebab shop video ‘was not alone’
(Dutch News) The Pakistan national arrested at The Hague’s main railway station in August after placing a video on Facebook in which he appears to say he is planning to attack Geert Wilders did not travel within the Netherlands alone. The public […]
Government & Politics
Denmark’s immigration minister to skip international meeting on UN’s migration pact
(Local) Minister for Immigration and Integration Inger Støjberg will not be in attendance on Denmark’s behalf when the country becomes a signatory to the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration at meetings in Morocco on December 10th and 11th. […]
Legal
When terrorists learned ‘lawfare’ works: The Holy Land Foundation trial’s 10-year anniversary
(PJ Media) In November, a writer for the American Thinker called to ask for my recollections about covering the trials and tribulations of what is often described as the largest terrorist fundraising operation in U.S. history. It hadn’t occurred to me, but […]
Academics & Education
Government’s counterterrorism is limiting texts and topics students can access, experts say (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Wilders’ ‘fewer Moroccans’ trial restarts, focus on former minister
(Dutch News) Appeal court judges will today begin three days of procedural hearings in the Geert Wilders “fewer Moroccans” case, as the PVV leader re-starts an appeal against his earlier conviction. The original appeal began in May but Wilders’ legal team successfully […]
Christians
Revealed: Theresa May ‘blocked asylum application from Pakistani Christian’ locked up for blasphemy despite UK playing host to hijackers, extremists and rapists (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Twitter bans far-right activist Laura Loomer
(Daily Beast) Twitter kicked Laura Loomer off its platform permanently Wednesday, making her the latest conservative media figure to be banned from the site. “This is not going to be the end of Laura Loomer,” the far-right activist told the Daily Beast. […]
Legal
The EU’s dangerous new confidence game
(Gatestone) At the start of this decade, a minor story occurred that set the scene for the years that have followed. In 2010, a Saudi lawyer named Faisal Yamani wrote to the Danish newspapers that had published cartoons of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed. […]
Government & Politics
Linda Sarsour says Ilhan Omar backlash shows ‘allegiance to Israel’
(Forward) Palestinian-American civil rights activist Linda Sarsour claimed in a Facebook post Thursday that the controversy surrounding Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar’s announcement that she supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is coming from “folks who masquerade as progressives but always choose their […]
Christians
Western nations should embrace Pakistani Christian refugees
(Toronto Sun) Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy against Islam by a group of Muslim women, was acquitted by the Supreme court of Pakistan a couple of weeks ago. However, she is still hiding in an undisclosed place and […]
Christians
Asia Bibi: British imams join calls for UK to give asylum
(BBC) Three British imams have joined calls for the UK to offer asylum to Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman recently acquitted of blasphemy. It comes after former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, and other politicians, urged the government to help her. Ms […]
Government & Politics
‘Indications’ that fmr justice min. influenced Wilders’ hate speech case, lawyer says
(NL Times) There are “indications” that former Minister Ivo Opstelten of Justice and Security urged the Public Prosecution Service in 2014 to prosecute PVV leader Geert Wilders for hate speech over statements he made about Moroccans, Wilders’ lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops said. He […]
Government & Politics
Tommy Robinson not granted US visa in time for Washington visit (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Swedish official faces probe for Islamophobic remark Vice mayor of southern town linked Islamic call to prayer to terrorist suicide bombings
(Anadolu) Prosecutors are investigating a top city official in southern Sweden over Islamophobic remarks. Christopher Larsson, vice mayor of the southern coastal city of Karlskrona, is accused of committing a hate crime in a social media posting last year. On Facebook, arguing […]
Demonstrations
London rally for Jews killed in Arab countries disrupted by men shouting in Arabic about killing Jews
(JTA) A vigil held by pro-Israel activists in London for Jews murdered in Arab countries was dispersed after men shouted in Arabic about killing Jews. The event by the Israel Advocacy Movement was held Wednesday on Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, which […]
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 […]
Internet
Make social media firms remove terror attack images, says police chief (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
The ECHR’s ruling on defaming Mohammed is bad news for Muslims
(Spectator) In a monumental irony, the ECHR’s agreement with an Austrian court that offensive comments about the Prophet Mohammed were “beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate” has handed a big victory to both Islamists and Islamophobes — while infantilising believing […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Councillor in racism row welcomed back into national Conservative party (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Charlie Hebdo protection cop suspended over radicalisation suspicions
(Radio France) A police officer charged with protecting the editor of France’s controversial Charlie Hebdo paper has been suspended because of suspicions he might have been attracted to radical Islamism, according to press reports. The officer, who has not been named in […]
Children & Teens
European human rights court backs Sharia blasphemy law
(Gatestone) The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that criticism of Mohammed, the founder of Islam, constitutes incitement to hatred and therefore is not protected free speech. With its unprecedented decision, the Strasbourg-based court — which has jurisdiction over 47 […]
Children & Teens
Europe’s blasphemy problem Freedom of speech is the latest casualty of Europe's encounter with Islam.
(Weekly Standard) An international human rights panel agreed with an Austrian court’s decision Thursday to fine a right-wing speaker for suggesting that the Muslim prophet Muhammad was a pedophile. This was, they said, a violation of the country’s statute that criminalizes “disparaging […]
Children & Teens
Defaming Prophet Muhammed not free expression: ECHR Such defamation could stir up prejudice and risk religious peace, says European Court of Human Rights
(Anadolu) Defaming the Prophet Muhammed “goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate” and “could stir up prejudice and put at risk religious peace” and thus exceeds the permissible limits of freedom of expression, ruled the European Court of Human Rights […]
Government & Politics
Counter-terror bill is a threat to press freedom, say campaigners (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Tommy Robinson: Judge refers contempt case to attorney general (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
UK: Anjem Choudary released from prison
(Gatestone) The Islamist firebrand preacher Anjem Choudary, described as Britain’s “most dangerous extremist,” has been released from prison after serving only half of the five-and-a-half-year sentence he received in 2016 for pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. Prison authorities could not prevent […]