(Religion News) Ahead of a congressional hearing this week on the Trump administration’s travel ban, more than a dozen leading technology companies, including Twitter and Airbnb, have thrown their support behind a congressional bill to end the controversial measure. “As a platform […]
(Reuters) Greek police have arrested a 65-year-old Lebanese man suspected of involvement in the 1985 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) plane in which a U.S. navy diver was killed. A Greek police official said on Saturday the suspect had disembarked […]
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(AP) A former American Airlines mechanic who prosecutors say may have some links to terrorists pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he sabotaged an aircraft with 150 people aboard. The plea came at a hearing in Miami federal court for Abdul-Majeed […]
(SF Chronicle) The Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations alleges Air Canada employees discriminated against a 12-year-old national squash player by forcing her to remove her hijab in the middle of a bustling tunnel at San Francisco International Airport […]
(AAP) Two Sydney brothers have now been found guilty of plotting to blow up an Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder and to carry out a lethal poisonous gas attack. The siblings plotted with their older brother, Tarek […]
(Dallas Morning News) Two Dallas-area Muslim men say their American Airlines flight was canceled because the crew “didn’t feel comfortable” after they waved to one another boarding a flight from Birmingham, Ala., to DFW International Airport. When they got off, they said […]
(BBC) Interpol says it has detected more than a dozen suspected “foreign terrorist fighters” crossing the Mediterranean Sea during a six-week operation. The international police organisation carried out more than 1.2 million searches at ports in six countries between 24 July and […]
(Reuters) Lebanon’s military court has acquitted one of four brothers accused of planning to blow up a flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi nearly two years ago, his lawyer said on Thursday. State news agency NNA said the Lebanese-Australian man, Amer Khayat, […]
(AP) A mechanic accused of sabotaging an American Airlines jetliner had expressed a desire for Allah to hurt non-Muslims, stored violent Islamic State videos on his cellphone and has a brother in Iraq possibly involved with the extremist group, according to new […]
(Dutch News) A train departure was delayed for 20 minutes in Rotterdam station on Monday after a woman wearing a niqab reportedly refused to show her face to ticket inspectors so they could check she was using the right public transport smart […]
(Bergen Record) Muslim Americans say they’ve been singled out, detained and interrogated at airports — and elected officials are no exception. Mohamed Khairullah, the longtime mayor of Prospect Park, said he was held for three hours at JFK International Airport last month, […]
(Michigan Radio) A federal judge ruled last week that the government’s terror watch list violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it. The list contains more than one million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists.” Nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. […]
(Brussels Times) The system of Passenger Name Record (PNR) in operation in Belgium since January 2018 has managed to track down 94 suspected terrorists and suspects involved in a variety of crimes, according to the government’s crisis centre. Under the PNR system, […]
(AP) An American Airlines mechanic charged with sabotaging a plane because he was upset over stalled labor contract negotiations was fired from another airline several years ago and briefly had his mechanic’s license suspended, according to court documents. Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani […]
(Jerusalem Post) US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has expressed her appreciation after a US federal judge ruled that an FBI terror watchlist was unconstitutional. “I have heard of horrifying stories of Muslim Americans who were placed on the so-called ‘watch list,’ with no […]
(CNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has hailed as a “complete victory” a federal judge’s ruling that the U.S. government’s watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of Americans named on it. Judge Anthony Trenga of the Eastern […]
(AP) The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga grants summary judgment to […]
(CBC) A number of Canadian Muslims have been turned away at the Canada-U.S. border in recent weeks, immigration lawyers say. Those denied entry include a prominent Guyana-born Toronto imam who serves as a chaplain with the Peel Regional Police and an Iraqi Turkmen […]
(Canadian Press) Two men found guilty of terrorism charges in connection with a plot to derail a passenger train between Canada and the U.S. were granted a new trial Tuesday after Ontario’s highest court found the jury that convicted them was improperly […]
(Local) In a surprise move, the Swiss government on Wednesday outlined draft measures that include a travel ban for people permitted to stay in Switzerland on a temporary basis after having their bid for asylum rejected. Under the draft law, the around […]
(NL Times) Angela Kempeners, a 36-year-old Limburg woman who was removed from an Arriva bus in Stein on Monday because she was wearing a niqab, is shaken by the event, but will continue to take the bus to work. “I felt just […]
(NL Times) A niqab-wearing woman was forced to leave a public bus operated by Arriva in Stein, Limburg, on Monday. The bus driver in question called the police when the woman refused to leave the bus, the public transit firm confirmed to […]
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(Breitbart) Blind people with guide dogs are being refused service by Muslim cab drivers in Innsbruck, Austria, because they regard the animals as “ritually unclean.” Some 80 per cent of cab drivers in the Tyrolean capital now have a migration background, the Tiroler […]
(NL Times) A man was arrested in Den Haag Centraal on Friday for wearing a balaclava in the station. But the arrest was unjustified, the police in The Hague said on Twitter on Monday. The arrested man was a demonstrator. He was […]
(Politico) Donald Trump’s travel ban triggered a nationwide backlash on the left — but in the eyes of many Muslims, you wouldn’t know it listening to the Democratic presidential hopefuls. Now, Muslim operatives and activists are expressing alarm that their community has […]
(VOA) Dutch rights activists and Muslim groups fear nativist vigilantes will try to enforce a controversial headwear ban that took effect last week. Dutch police, transport companies and municipal authorities have expressed a reluctance to enforce the ban on face-covering clothing. The […]
(Breitbart) A Muslim bus driver in Stockholm refused to let a woman board his bus as he and another two others began praying in the vehicle. The incident took place on Friday evening with the woman later saying that she thought no […]
(Narcity) Canada’s primary airline is facing allegations of racial prejudice following a questionable security incident. Air Canada is being questioned by the family of a 12-year-old girl after staff allegedly pulled the girl aside and forced her to remove her hijab at […]
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(Dutch News) A ban on wearing face-covering garments such as a burqa or niqab in government buildings, schools and on public transport comes into effect in the Netherlands on Thursday. The ban has been 13 years in the making and dates back […]
(Hill) President Trump in an early morning tweet on Tuesday shared a Fox News report about two Somali refugees who were arrested while allegedly trying to board a flight to join ISIS, saying “Get smart people!” Trump tweeted that the refugees were […]
(AP) Two Somalia refugees living in Arizona were charged with providing support to a terror group after federal agents say they were planning to travel from Tucson to Egypt to join the Islamic State. A criminal charge unsealed Monday alleged 21-year-old Ahmed […]
(NY Post) A Bronx man tried to run off and join the Taliban in Afghanistan so he could kill US soldiers there — but was captured in a Big Apple airport moments before boarding a plane, federal law enforcement officials announced. The […]
(Dutch News) Dutch public transport companies have instructed staff to ignore a new policy that refuses entry to Muslim women who wear the face-covering burka, the AD reports. The new legislation, which will come into effect on August 1, will not be […]
(BBC) A travel ban preventing a two-year-old thought to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been relaxed. The High Court previously ruled the girl must stay in the UK until she turned 16. After an appeal, the same court […]
(AP) A group of American citizens and legal residents trying to bring their Iranian spouses and other family to join them in the United States has filed a federal lawsuit saying they are being unfairly blocked by the Trump administration’s travel ban. […]
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(National Post) A federal labour board has upheld the 2015 firing of a Canada Revenue Agency employee who worked next to the Calgary airport and wrote frequent Twitter and Facebook posts that “appeared to glorify the Boston Marathon terror bombing, celebrate the […]
(National-UAE) While much has been made of the apparent security threat emanating from beyond America’s southern border by the White House and elsewhere, recent events show that it may actually be Canada that presents a greater terror concern to US soil. During […]
(ITV) Specialist police are at Heathrow Airport all week as part of a national crackdown raising awareness against forced marriages, female genital mutilation and modern slavery. Last year, the Home Office supported victims in 1,764 suspected cases of forced marriage, 574 of […]
(AP) Democratic Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has submitted legislation that would force President Donald Trump’s administration to disclose details about how it shares the FBI’s watchlist of more than 1 million known or suspected terrorists with foreign countries. The legislation from Omar […]
(Middle East Eye) A prominent Canadian Muslim advocacy group has declined an invitation to attend an upcoming US government conference on religious freedom because of President Donald Trump’s travel ban of several Muslim-majority countries. The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) on […]
(Hill) A federal judge in Michigan on Wednesday denied a government request to dismiss a revised lawsuit against President Trump’s travel ban. U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts determined that the case the plaintiffs — four American Muslims and five organizations representing them — are […]
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(BBC) A 10-year-old girl from Bristol was stopped from flying to Djibouti from London because of fears she was at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM). The girl was detained by police at an airport on Thursday and is now the subject […]
(NL Times) Gokmen T. again confessed to being responsible for a mass shooting on a tram in Utrecht and killing four people during the first pro-forma hearing in the case against him on Monday. He also denounced the Dutch legal system. “I […]
(CNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and ten other House Democrats have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, requesting information about how information from the FBI-administered terrorist watchlist is shared with foreign governments — including governments with poor human rights records. In […]
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