(Brussels Times) Despite mounting criticism, Islamic non-profit organisation Al-Furqan will be allowed to continue renting a swimming pool in Lommel, Flanders, for an Islamic swim event. Women are not allowed to attend, according to Belgian newspaper Het Belang van Limburg. As the […]
(National-UAE) The UK Foreign Office has pledged to investigate claims that family members of Iran’s leaders are applying for British passports to seek refuge in London, as protests continue in their country. Iranians have taken to the streets to protest against the […]
(Anadolu) Although the subject gets little media coverage, the problem of food in French school cafeterias is a headache for many parents of Muslim students. Citing their version of secularism, some mayors have decided not to offer alternative menus in school cafeterias. […]
(Breitbart) A Swedish court has found an Afghan migrant guilty of raping a woman and pushing her down a mine shaft, sentencing the 41-year-old to “life” for rape and attempted murder. Afghan migrant Taher Amini was sentenced to “life” — actually likely to […]
(Arab News) A French government minister has pledged to confront an increase in clothing associated with Muslim cultures in French schools, which, he says, is counter to French values of secularism. Pap Ndiaye, the minister of education, described the phenomenon as a […]
(Newshub) A Kiwi Iranian activist says the deadly fight for freedom in Iran hasn’t received the Western attention it deserves — believing the fear of being Islamophobic is silencing Western feminists. Iranians across the world are calling for world leaders, including New […]
(Courthouse News) Bans on head coverings are allowed in European Union workplaces as long as they apply to all employees, the bloc’s top court ruled Thursday. The European Court of Justice sided with Belgian housing organization SCRL, which refused to move forward […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss government wants fines of up to CHF1,000 ($1,000) for people who break a ban on face coverings in public places. This is part of a bill sent to parliament on Wednesday to implement the so-called “burqa ban” proposed […]
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(CBC) Red tape covered their mouths. Their hands were bound behind their backs. They were on their knees. That was the silent statement protesters wanted to make as they gathered in front of Montreal’s McGill University Thursday afternoon to demonstrate against online […]
(Arab News) The head of a British charity with links to Iran has slammed women resisting the regime’s rule as “soldiers of Satan,” condemning women who remove their hijabs as spreading “poison.” Seyed Moosavi, the director of the Islamic Centre of England, […]
(CTV) McGill University says it is investigating one of its instructors who allegedly called for the death of people participating in anti-government protests in the streets of Iran in recent weeks. Members inside and outside the McGill community are accusing the staff […]
(NL Times) Proper care for women who have undergone female genital mutilation is the most effective way to ensure they do not have their daughters circumcised, experts say. However, Dutch insurance does not always reimburse operations to reverse the circumcision and medical […]
(Yle) The Kanta-Häme District Court has cleared a total of seven defendants — comprising police officers and security guards — of all charges in relation to an incident in which female asylum seekers claimed they were forced to remove their head coverings. […]
(European Conservative) With the start of the new school year, Islamist threats are once again hovering over French schools, according to two successive memos issued by the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalisation and Territorial Intelligence, one dated August […]
(CityNews) Next month’s provincial election will have tremendous implications for Quebec’s Muslim community, according to the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). The NCCM released its Quebec election policy guide this week, ahead of the Oct. 3 vote. The guide lays out […]
(BBC) An imam who raped a schoolgirl in a mosque has been unconditionally discharged. Khandaker Rahman, 67, from Cwmdu, Swansea, was found to have committed the crimes by a jury at Swansea Crown Court in June, after a trial of facts, as […]
(Fox) The New York Times published a report over the weekend claiming that the outrage over the controversial ties of the Women’s March organizers, which eventually dismantled the movement, was fabricated by Russian internet trolls who were deployed by the Kremlin in […]
(NL Times) Three years after the introduction of the ban on face-covering clothing — commonly referred to as the burka ban — the Amsterdam city council is calling on parliament to scrap the ban as soon as possible. Mayor Femke Halsema promised […]
(BBC) A National Crime Agency (NCA) officer who made offensive remarks about Muslims was unfairly sacked, an employment tribunal has found. Abbey Brooke made the comments at a training session led by Abrar Javid, a Muslim community leader in Rotherham. The tribunal […]
(Yle) Seven police and security guards of the Häme Police Department are facing charges for forcing female asylum seekers to remove their head coverings for registration photos. The indictment in the trial, which opened in the Kanta-Häme District Court on Wednesday, concerns […]
(Algemeiner) A Moroccan imam was on the run from the French authorities on Wednesday after being subjected to a court order expelling him from the country for antisemitic and misogynist incitement. A decision on Tuesday of the Council of State, the highest […]
(Local) Two members of the Danish government’s so-called “Commission for the Forgotten Women’s Struggle” have reversed course on the group’s recent recommendation to ban the hijab in primary schools. The commission last week recommended a ban on young girls wearing the hijab […]
(Local) A commission appointed by the Danish government has recommended a ban on young girls wearing the hijab or Muslim head scarf at schools. The commission argues that wearing the hijab marks our Danish Muslim girls as being different from other Danish […]
(ANSA) Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter on Tuesday removed a video of a Guinean asylum seeker raping a Ukrainian woman in Piacenza Monday, which had been controversially re-posted by conservative leader Giorgia Meloni in a post vowing to boost law and order in […]
(AP) The far-right candidate who aspires to be Italy’s first female leader came under fire Monday from opponents for posting a pixelized video that purports to show a woman being raped by an asylum-seeker. Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of […]
(CTV) A Winnipeg family is looking to raise awareness about burkinis after an incident at a Manitoba water park. Halima Jelloul, her husband and two daughters were excited to take a trip to Lilac Resort on Friday. Minutes after arriving, they were […]
(Global News) A cartoon published in Wednesday’s edition of l’Acadie Nouvelle, an independent French-language newspaper in New Brunswick, is causing a social media outcry. Marcel Boudreau’s cartoon depicts a caveman dragging a woman juxtaposed with the image of a man wearing a […]
(Breitbart) A 34-year-old Afghan migrant accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls at an Italian beach has been released by a judge just a day after his arrest. The Afghan admitted to touching one of the girls while swimming but was able […]
(Canadian Press) Religious minorities in Quebec are feeling less safe, less accepted and less hopeful since the province passed its secularism law three years ago, a new survey suggests. The results published Wednesday by Léger and the Association for Canadian Studies reveal […]
(NL Times) Three years after the Netherlands implemented its “burqa ban,” the police have not issued a single fine for violating it, RTL Nieuws reports based on figures from the National Police. But women who wear burqas or niqabs have experienced significantly […]
(Reuters) A United Nations committee ruled that France discriminated against a Muslim woman who was prevented from attending vocational training in a public school while wearing her Islamic head scarf, according to a U.N. document. In 2010, Naima Mezhoud, now aged 45, […]
(CBC) A Winnipeg city council candidate says he takes full responsibility for posting misogynist, homophobic and antisemitic content to social media a decade ago and wants voters to know he has changed. Omar Kinnarath, a community organizer vying to unseat incumbent councillor […]
(Breitbart) Three Afghan migrants accused of drugging and raping 13-year-old Austrian girl Leonie and leaving her to die by a tree are not set to face murder charges in an Austrian court. The three Afghan migrants have been charged with rape resulting […]
(New Arab) The US state of Maryland has passed a law that will protect the rights of hijab-wearing female athletes and others with faith-related head coverings to play sports, without concerns of exclusion. The bill, called the Inclusive Attire Act, which took […]
(Brussels Times) More than 35,000 women and girls living in Belgium are estimated to be circumcised or at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM), which is a human rights violation, a recent study has found. At least 200 million girls and women in […]
(Middle East Eye) Fatima* remembers every painstaking detail as if it were yesterday. Her parents had gone out for dinner and she stayed at home with her uncle. She was wearing purple pyjamas under her abaya. Her T-shirt had a small hole […]
(Global News) There will be one less teacher wearing a religious symbol in Montreal schools next year. Haniyfa Scott, who wears a hijab, is retiring after her more than 40-year career. “I don’t think it’s really hit me yet,” said Scott. The […]
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(AFP) France’s top administrative court on Tuesday blocked a bid to allow the “burkini” at municipal pools in the city of Grenoble, upholding a government challenge against a move that revived France’s intense debate on Islam. The all-in-one swimsuit, used by some […]
(Breitbart) Prosecutors in Belgium are seeking ten years in prison for a Syrian migrant who is believed to have sexually abused his eight-year-old step-daughter and left her pregnant as a result of the abuse. The 27-year-old is said to have raped the […]
(Breitbart) At least 144 violations of France’s secularism law were reported in the second quarter of this year in French schools regarding the Islamic veil and other traditional Islamic clothing, a trend that is increasing. France’s Central Territorial Intelligence Service (SCRT), a police […]
(Breitbart) A Belgian court has confirmed the conviction for sexism handed down against Belgian Islamist Redouane Ahrouch over a television appearance in April of 2018. The Court of Cassation, the supreme court of the Belgian justice system, has confirmed the conviction against Mr Ahrouch, […]
(BBC) The city of Grenoble has gone to France’s highest administrative court to challenge a ban imposed on a new city rule allowing full-body “burkini” swimsuits in public pools. Grenoble’s decision to authorise all swimwear, including burkinis, sparked a legal battle with […]
(CTV) This week marks the third anniversary of Quebec’s controversial Bill 21 — which bans some public workers from wearing religious symbols — passing into law. On Saturday, dozens gathered outside the metro station in Montreal’s Park Extension to denounce the bill. […]
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(London Free Press) We exist. Western University and London’s Muslim community must support that simple statement in more than words to start the healing after a social media post celebrating diversity was removed, says a gay Western student raised a Muslim. “The […]
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(NL Times) A mosque in The Hague is willing to arrange short-term marriages between women who need money and men who will pay them for sex, a Swedish research program discovered. Such transactions are known as “pleasure marriages” and are considered to […]
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