Crime
‘Honour-based’ offences soared by 81% in last five years (LINK ONLY)
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Women
Clothing
Woman sues Ferndale, claims cops forced her to remove hijab for booking photo
(Detroit News) A Muslim woman who claims Ferndale police forced her to remove her Islamic headscarf for a booking photo in June has filed a federal lawsuit against the city. Helana Bowe filed the suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the […]
Academics & Education
English Montreal School Board asks court to speed up exemption from religious symbols law EMSB argues waiting for appeal process to play out is causing irreparable harm
(CBC) The English Montreal School Board was before the Quebec Court of Appeal Monday, asking for an acceleration of its exemption to Bill 21, the controversial law that prevents some civil servants in positions of authority — including teachers — from wearing religious […]
Academics & Education
‘Headscarf forbidden’: Discrimination still happens in Brussels institutions, says MP
(Brussels Times) Despite discrimination in Brussels institutions being illegal, a recent incident in which job applicants were prohibited from wearing a headscarf shows that it does still happen, says Brussels MP Fouad Ahidar. At the end of September, the Sainte-Geneviève Catholic elementary […]
Children & Teens
Medical experts clash in FGM court appeal over cause of infant girl’s injuries (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Female genital mutilation case tossed following yearslong fight
(Detroit News) A judge Tuesday dismissed what remained of a landmark criminal case that started with allegations members of a Muslim sect abused young girls, saying prosecutors vindictively pursued new charges after a federal female genital mutilation law was declared unconstitutional. In a […]
Academics & Education
Job offer banning the wearing of headscarves suspended in Brussels
(Brussels Times) On Monday, the Actiris unemployment office suspended a job offer from an elementary school in the Brussels municipality of Etterbeek that stated that “wearing a headscarf is forbidden.” The Sainte-Geneviève Catholic elementary school posted a job offer, looking for someone […]
Children & Teens
Afghan evacuees facing sex act with a child, assault charges in Wisconsin
(WTVO) Two Afghan evacuees have been charged with crimes while at Fort McCoy. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and […]
Crime
Italy: Uncle of teen who refused arranged marriage detained
(AP) The uncle of an 18-year-old woman who disappeared months ago in Italy after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan was detained Wednesday on the outskirts of Paris, according to Italian authorities who fear the teenager may be dead. Saman Abbas was […]
Children & Teens
Northern Virginia imam charged with indecent liberties
(AP) The imam at a northern Virginia mosque has been charged with sexually assaulting a girl who had sought his help. Fairfax County police said Tuesday that the 36-year-old imam, a Maryland resident, served as imam for the last nine years at […]
Children & Teens
Feds: Doctor in female genital mutilation case part of secret network who cut girls
(Detroit Free Press) Northville Dr. Jumana Nagarwala may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn’t the only doctor who was cutting children, federal prosecutors disclosed Thursday. Rather, they said, […]
Children & Teens
Detroit’s historic female genital cutting case is in limbo
(Detroit Free Press) Nearly five years after it emerged, the nation’s first female genital mutilation case has taken yet another turn in a heated feud between a government that says children were unlawfully cut and a doctor who says she only “scraped” young […]
Clothing
CAIR alleges Ferndale police forced Muslim woman to remove hijab for booking photo
(Detroit News) A Muslim woman and an advocacy group Wednesday called on the city of Ferndale to address allegations that police removed the woman’s Islamic headscarf to take a booking photo. Amy Doukoure, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan chapter, which is representing […]
Crime
Republican lawmaker presses DHS on Afghan refugees flagged for terror ties Rep. Mark Green also requests info on reports of 'sexual assault, theft, and violence in evacuee processing facilities'
(Free Beacon) A Republican lawmaker is demanding the Department of Homeland Security address reports that some Afghan asylum seekers are on terror watchlists and have been accused of sexual assault, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “According to […]
Clothing
Feds haven’t ‘ruled out’ intervening against Quebec’s secularism bill, Trudeau says
(Global News) Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he hasn’t “ruled out” federal intervention to challenge Bill 21 in court. The contentious bill, also known as Quebec’s “secularism bill,” is legislation across the province that prohibits public service workers, including teachers, lawyers and […]
Crime
Man in Berlin attacks woman allegedly because she worked
(AP) A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday. The attack […]
Clothing
N.S. Conservative candidate apologizes for sharing racist Facebook posts
(CTV) A Conservative candidate in Nova Scotia has apologized for sharing social media posts about Muslims and immigrants but will continue to run for the party in a riding once held by former prime minister Brian Mulroney. “In the past I have […]
Clothing
Rep. Ilhan Omar: ‘People need to stop using Muslim women as tropes in their social commentary’
(CNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) on Thursday tweeted out — and criticized — a cartoon that had been done on Wednesday by Mike Luckovich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The cartoon showed two Muslim women in burkas. One was […]
Forced & Underage Marriage
Afghan women report forced marriages to flee country amid Taliban takeover, sources say
(CNN) US officials processing Afghan refugees abroad recently alerted the State Department to instances in which women and girls were forced into marriage or arrived with male partners posing as their husbands to be eligible for evacuation and escape the Taliban, according […]
Employment
CAIR lawsuit offers revelations into organization’s inner workings
(Axios) A legal battle between one of the nation’s most prominent Muslim advocacy groups and one of its former senior officials threatens to escalate allegations of sexual misconduct and reveal details of the organization’s internal workings. Why it matters: The Council on […]
Clerics & Preachers
Faith healer killed Berlin woman in salt water exorcism (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Convicted rapist reached the U.S. on Afghan evacuation flight
(Washington Times) A man who had been convicted of rape and deported from the U.S. was allowed to board an Afghan evacuation flight and reach America, law enforcement sources say. When American citizens were having trouble catching flights out of Kabul, Ghader […]
Children & Teens
Young girls still being flown out of Sweden for forced marriages and FGM
(Breitbart) According to an activist group that deals with honour violence and oppression, young girls continue to be flown out of Sweden for forced marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM) despite bans. Sabina Landstedt, a member of the activist group Never Forget […]
Crime
PD: Arizona family members conduct ‘honor violence’ on pregnant woman
(KPHO) Members of an Arizona family are facing felony charges over the honor violence they did on a woman and her family because of their disapproval of her romantic relationship, police said. Peoria police said the six suspects targeted a now-pregnant relative, […]
Arts & Entertainment
From Gilead to Afghanistan: The real Handmaid’s Tale
Reactionaries have seized power. Overnight, women accustomed to equal rights are suddenly informed they may no longer work outside the home. They must be supported by men, and their former property must be owned by male guardians. Most of them, at least, […]
Islamic Law
UK Sharia Council scholar says the Taliban have ‘grown up’ and ‘every Muslim I know’ is celebrating their return (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic Law
Don’t call it shari’a, CAIR official says of the Taliban’s ideology
(CNS) The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan has thrust the issue of “shari’a” back into the public discourse, and a senior official in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Tuesday the concept was being misunderstood and incorrectly portrayed. When the fundamentalist militia […]
Islamic Law
Landmark UK court ruling due in ‘bride price’ dispute (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Leftist politician denies Afghan woman allegedly murdered by brothers was honour crime
(Breitbart) Berlin Senator Elke Breitenbach has denied a possible honour motive in the case of an Afghan woman who was allegedly murdered by her brothers who disapproved of her Western way of life. Breitenbach, a member of the Left Party, claimed the alleged […]
Mosques
Study finds the American mosque increasingly a melting pot of Islamic traditions The report, conducted every 10 years, found American Sunni mosques are blending various schools of Islamic jurisprudence or madhabs.
(Religion News) The American mosque is becoming more American. At least according to Ihsan Bagby, who has authored a report for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding based on a … new survey of American mosques. The report, conducted every 10 […]
Crime
Perth man who paid $15,000 to marry his wife sentenced to life in jail for her murder
(WA Today) A Perth Uber driver who slit his wife’s throat and left her bleeding on the floor just two months into their forced marriage will spend at least 19 years behind bars. Mohammad Ali Halimi, 25, was sentenced in WA’s Supreme […]
Children & Teens
Afghan wanted in connection with 13-year-old Austrian girl’s gang rape and murder is arrested in London (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
‘Come get your sister’s dead body’: Perth man slit wife’s throat just months after forced marriage
(WA Today) A young Perth Uber driver who slit his wife’s throat two months into their forced marriage told the woman’s brother to “come get your sister’s dead body” as she lay bleeding on the kitchen floor. The reality of forced marriages […]
Crime
Afghans arrested for stabbing man defending woman from sex assault
(Breitbart) Two Afghan migrants were arrested in Rennes, France, after allegedly stabbing a man near a metro station and sexually assaulting the victim’s ex-girlfriend. The attack took place on the night of Friday the 10th to Saturday the 11th of July. Two […]
Clothing
As Muslim Advocates founder resigns, former staffers allege hostile workplace A group of former Muslim Advocates workers has come forward with allegations of workplace harassment and abuse by the civil rights organization's former management.
(Religion News) On the day in June when Muslim Advocates announced it had been selected for a high-profile donation from MacKenzie Scott, the philanthropist and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the nonprofit touted “the tremendous work and accomplishments of our […]
Burkini
Women in France fined for wearing ‘burkini’ swimsuits at pool
(Euronews) Several female activists have been fined in France for wearing “burkinis” in a Grenoble swimming pool. Five women entered the city pool to bathe on Wednesday, causing the pool to be evacuated at the request of officials, French police said. Grenoble […]
Clothing
Quebec Muslims hoping to see plan for concrete actions, movement on Bill 21 at summit on Islamophobia National group issues 61 policy recommendations ahead of national summit
(CBC) The head of a group representing Muslim people in Quebec says many members are hopeful there will be a plan for concrete actions coming out of Thursday’s national summit on Islamophobia — and that several specific issues relating to the province will […]
Clothing
Turkey condemns EU court ruling on headscarf ban at workplace Decision violates freedom of religion, says Foreign Ministry
(Anadolu) Turkey on Sunday condemned a top EU court ruling allowing companies in member states to ban employees from wearing headscarves. The Foreign Ministry said in a written statement that the decision by the European Court of Justice is an “open violation […]
Clothing
Employers can ban Muslim veils at work, top EU court rules Right-wing politicians across the European Union are cheering the Thursday morning decision against religious insignia.
(Courthouse News) The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that companies can ban their employees from wearing headscarves and other religious symbols while on the clock. “An internal rule of an undertaking, prohibiting workers from wearing any visible sign of political, philosophical […]
Crime
Migrant in court claims he did not know sex with his daughter was illegal
(Breitbart) A migrant accused of raping his eldest daughter has told a court that he was unaware that sexual relations with family members were illegal in France. The daughter, now 24, initially told the police that her father had been physically abusive […]
Clothing
Headscarf debate sparked in Belgium after civil servant’s resignation
(Euronews) The resignation of a government representative in Belgium has sparked fresh political debate about Islamic headscarves. [Ihsane] Haouach, a Belgian-Moroccan woman, stepped down on Friday from her role as a government commissioner at the Institute for the Equality of Women and […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Teen allegedly raped and murdered by migrants had 11 ecstasy pills in her system
(Breitbart) Austrian 13-year-old Leonie, who was found dead last week, is said to have been given at least 11 ecstasy tablets before she was allegedly raped and murdered by several Afghan migrants. A full autopsy of the teen is expected in the […]
Government & Politics
Former Blackburn councillor claims Labour did not act on bullying
(BBC) A former councillor has accused the Labour Party of failing to act over her claims of bullying and intimidation. Saima Afzal was elected as one of the first Muslim female councillors on Blackburn with Darwen Council in 2018 but she was […]
Children & Teens
Afghans accused of murdering teen had years-old deportation orders
(Breitbart) Three of the four Afghan migrants suspected of raping and murdering a 13-year-old Austrian girl had their asylum claims declined. But due to appeal proceedings, they were not deported. Four Afghan asylum seekers are suspected of drugging, raping, and murdering 13-year-old […]
Burkini
Women-only hours in Brussels public open-air pool cause online controversy
(Brussels Times) The decision to implement women-only hours and allow the wearing of a burkini in Brussels’ recently opened public open-air swimming pool is at the base of a political debate in Belgium. The FLOW swimming pool opened its doors in the […]
Burkini
‘Madness’: Liberals oppose burkinis in Brussels public open-air swimming pool
(Brussels Times) On Friday, the leader of the Francophone liberal MR party, Georges-Louis Bouchez, protested against the fact that Brussels’ first public open-air swimming pool allows women to wear a burkini. The FLOW pool, which opened at the Pierre Marchant bridge in […]
Children & Teens
Rape, killing of 13-year-old shocks Austria, 3 Afghans held
(AP) Austrian authorities have arrested three Afghans as suspects in the rape and killing of a 13-year-old girl, a crime that has prompted strong condemnation and tough talk from the country’s leader on crimes committed by migrants. The girl’s body was found […]
Christians
Sued by CAIR, ex-employee releases evidence of discrimination and hush money payouts
(IPT) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) rescinded a 2018 job offer to run its Dallas-Fort Worth chapter at least in part because the candidate was a Christian. A year earlier, the staff at CAIR’s New York chapter was so concerned about […]
Clothing
Polling official in French regional elections demoted for wearing headscarf Rachida Kabbouri was demoted to polling station assessor due to her headscarf allegedly violating 'neutrality'
(Anadolu) A top polling official during France’s regional elections last Sunday was demoted from her post for wearing a headscarf, according to official statements and French local media. Rachida Kabbouri, a Muslim municipal councilor of the European Ecology — The Greens (EELV) […]
Children & Teens
Two women in Perth plead guilty to planning genital mutilation of newborn baby
(7 News) Two women have pleaded guilty to planning genital mutilation surgery on a baby girl in Perth. The girl’s mother Sarah Lightbody, 23, and her co-accused, Noridah Binte Mohd, 50, appeared in Armadale Magistrates Court on Tuesday. The pair admitted asking […]