Children & Teens
Forced marriage: Officer asked if Iraqi man could date a 12-year-old (LINK ONLY)
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Women
Children & Teens
Tommy Robinson and Britain’s ongoing descent into madness Future ages will see the UK’s persecution of foes of jihad terror as its darkest hour.
(FrontPage) Britain’s darkest hour has followed its finest hour by 78 years. Tommy Robinson has been freed from a stint in prison that he never should have been serving in the first place. The New York Times reported: “On Wednesday, the Court […]
Children & Teens
Home secretary vows to take action over forced marriages (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
US immigration agency takes on female genital cutting
(VOA) On a few days over the last year, federal agents approached travelers at several U.S. airports — flights bound for or connecting to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Frankfurt, Germany, and Dakar, Senegal. The officials — part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
Clothing
First woman fined in Denmark for wearing full-face veil
(AFP) A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new controversial law banning full-face Islamic veils in public places, media reported. Police were called to a shopping centre in Horsholm, […]
Clothing
Photo of Danish policewoman and Muslim hugging at demonstration goes viral
(Local) A photo of a police officer hugging an emotional niqab-wearing woman at a demonstration in Denmark on Wednesday has become one of the country’s most widely-shared images this week. The demonstration in Copenhagen’s Nørrebro neighbourhood on Wednesday took place as a […]
Children & Teens
Visas for men who forced girls into marriage (LINK ONLY)
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‘From one day to another, we’re criminals’ Muslim women speak against Denmark’s burqa ban
(Local) Women who wear the niqab in Denmark said on Wednesday that the ban against the Islamic veil was oppressive and would restrict their freedom, as they took part in demonstrations against the new law. Hundreds of protesters, wearing various kinds of […]
Academics & Education
Lawyer Asama Javed is ‘fixer for forced marriage’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Tommy Robinson bailed after Court of Appeal win
(BBC) Former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson has been released on bail after winning an appeal against a contempt of court finding. The 35-year-old admitted the charge and was jailed in May for filming outside Leeds Crown Court during a […]
Academics & Education
Poll: Majority of Austrians against Muslim women wearing headscarves
(Breitbart) A poll in Austria shows that less than half of Austrians are willing to tolerate a cityscape dominated by women wearing headscarves while a vast majority also condemn migrants who refuse to integrate. The new poll shows that only 42 percent […]
Children & Teens
Girls married off, raped and abandoned to lives of misery (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
English law applies to Islamic marriage, judge rules in divorce case (LINK ONLY)
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Clothing
Danes march in Copenhagen to protest ban on wearing face veils in public
(Reuters) Around 1,300 Danes marched through Copenhagen on Wednesday in protest at a new ban on the wearing of face veils in public, accusing the government of infringing on women’s right to dress as they choose. Denmark’s parliament enacted the ban in […]
Clothing
Danish ban on Islamic full-face veil takes effect
(AFP) Denmark’s ban on the Islamic full-face veil in public spaces came into force on Wednesday, with anyone wearing a garment that hides the face in public risking a fine. Human rights campaigners have slammed the ban as a violation of women’s […]
Citizenship
Federal government stalls on release of new Canadian citizenship guide
(Canadian Press) It’s been more than two years since work began on revising the controversial study guide for Canada’s citizenship test, but the federal government says it needs more time to work on the publication and has no set timeline for release. […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Man’s sentence reduced after judge is accused of anti-Islamic bias
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) An Iranian-American’s five-month jail sentence was reduced after he filed an appeal accusing a Sandy Springs judge who sentenced him of harboring anti-Islamic bias. Municipal Court Judge Sharon Dickson recently came under fire for remarks she made during Fazial Azizan’s […]
Children & Teens
Defense attacks female genital mutilation charges
(Detroit News) Three doctors accused of cutting the genitalia of prepubescent girls want key charges dismissed, arguing that a law banning female genital mutilation is unconstitutional. The request, filed Friday in federal court, is the first legal challenge to a 22-year-old law that […]
Academics & Education
Girl in Sweden threatened with rape because she was not ‘Muslim enough’
(Breitbart) A young girl who had her trousers pulled down and threatened with rape at a school in the heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö has received a £1,700 settlement from the city over their handling of the case. The incident, which occurred in […]
Children & Teens
Top nurse slams lack of guidelines in cases of genital mutilation in Northern Ireland (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Terror police boost security for MP Sarah Champion over criticism of Asian sex gangs (LINK ONLY)
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FGM
Seventeen women with FGM attended Belfast hospitals
(BBC) Northern Ireland’s biggest health trust has seen 17 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in just over nine months. Belfast Health and Social Care Trust confirmed via Freedom of Information that the cases were identified between April 2017 to 15 January […]
Children & Teens
Grooming: Sajid Javid orders officials to build profile of sex gangs (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Sweden struggles over child marriage Critics say government is treading too softly to avoid accusations of cultural insensitivity.
(Politico) A row over how to deal with child marriage among immigrants has inflamed political debate ahead of a general election in Sweden, where migration continues to divide public opinion and the far right is riding high in the polls. A tug-of-war between […]
Children & Teens
Counter-protest planned against Gays Against Sharia UK and Standing For Britain joint rally in Stockton Gays Against Sharia UK are planning a joint rally with Standing For Britain and will be marching through the town centre this Saturday
(Teesside Gazette) Anti-fascists are gearing up to counter-protest against a march in Stockton. The counter-protest comes after campaigners, Gays Against Sharia UK, announced they are holding a joint rally with Standing For Britain and will be marching through the town centre this […]
Clothing
Husband and wife explore how gender affects their experience as Muslims Being Muslim: The Gendered Experience is a discussion presented by Vancouver Biennale
(CBC) A husband-and-wife team are hosting a discussion Saturday aimed at exploring how gender shapes their experience as Muslims. The discussion, titled Being Muslim: The Gendered Experience, is part of the Vancouver Biennale — a bi-annual city-wide public art exhibition. The discussion will be a safe space for interested people to share […]
Crime
French court denies request by Tariq Ramadan to drop rape charges
(AFP) French judges have rejected a request by lawyers for Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan to drop charges of raping two women, a source close to the inquiry told AFP on Friday. Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and Oxford University professor whose grandfather founded […]
Children & Teens
Lawmakers split on referendum to ban female genital mutilation in Maine
(WGME) A new effort to ban female genital mutilation on the state level has taken shape in Maine. A political action committee has filed paperwork to begin the process of getting the question on the November ballot. While FGM is illegal federally, […]
Children & Teens
There is no honour in ‘honour killings,’ only male shame (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Tariq Ramadan: Alleged rape victim’s story contradicted by wedding pictures
(Morocco World News) Henda Ayari’s version of events has been questioned after new evidence has emerged in Tariq Ramadan’s rape case. In October, Ayari, an author and former Salafi, had accused the prominent public intellectual of raping her. After Ayari’s accusation, four […]
Children & Teens
Maine group wants referendum to outlaw female genital mutilation on 2019 ballot
(WGME) A group in Maine is trying to get a referendum on next year’s ballot to outlaw female genital mutilation in Maine. Thursday, the Prevent FGM in Maine Political Action Committee filed a request to collect signatures with the secretary of state’s […]
Children & Teens
Muslim group decries Arizona congressman over UK activist
(AP) The Arizona chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group on Wednesday condemned a congressman for appearing at a London rally in support of a jailed far-right British activist. Rep. Paul Gosar recently spoke at a rally supporting the jailed […]
Children & Teens
Home Office had information on Rotherham grooming gangs in 2002 but failed to act, review finds (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Arrests and prosecutions alone will not end the problem of FGM
(Charity Today) Arrests and prosecutions alone will not end the problem of FGM, said a police inspector speaking at the National FGM Centre’s annual conference, this week. More preventative work with affected communities is needed in order to end the harmful practice, […]
Government & Politics
Counter-extremism czar Sara Khan: ‘There’s no such thing as the “Muslim community”’ (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Hidden Harm: Police bust the myths around honour-based abuse (LINK ONLY)
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Burkini
Secretary of State Demir wants possibility of banning burkinis from swimming pools studied
(Brussels Times) The secretary of state for equal opportunities, Zuhal Demir, said on Wednesday that she wanted the possibility of banning burkinis from swimming pools to be studied. Demir said she saw the wearing of the garment in swimming pools as a […]
Academics & Education
The relentless radicalization of Sweden
(Gatestone) A new study of Salafism in Sweden, conducted by the Swedish Defence University, paints a bleak picture of the ongoing radicalization of Muslims in Sweden. The Salaf are the “pious ancestors” during the first three generations of the followers of Mohammed; […]
Children & Teens
Britain holds memorial day for ‘honor killing’ victims
(Reuters) Britain will hold a memorial day on Saturday to remember the victims of so-called honor killings. Honour-based violence is done to punish those — usually girls and women — deemed to have brought shame on their family or community by not […]
Children & Teens
First sentence under new law over genital mutilation
(Swiss Info) A Somali woman from canton Neuchâtel has been sentenced to eight months’ prison over the genital mutilation of her two daughters, in the first Swiss case of its kind after a law change. The girls were six and a half […]
Clothing
Ventura County denies pulling off woman’s head-covering in response to civil rights suit
(Ventura County Star) In a response filed Wednesday to a federal lawsuit, the County of Ventura said a local Muslim woman’s head-covering was “gently and respectfully” removed for security reasons while she was in jail custody and denied her allegations it was stripped from her. Attorneys for the county […]
Burkini
Burkini woman ejected from pool 'Unacceptable' says leftwing councillor
(ANSA) A burkini-clad woman was asked to leave a municipal swimming baths in Florence on Saturday, sources said Monday night. Leftwing Power to the People councillor Miriam Amato called on sports pointman Andrea Vanucci to send a circular to all municipal baths […]
Academics & Education
Ofsted chief accuses minority groups of ‘entitlement’ in hijab row (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
UK Parliament: Little interest in grooming gangs
(Gatestone) In response to Britain’s ongoing sexual grooming scandal, a group of 20 MPs signed an open letter to recently appointed [the] home secretary, Sajid Javid, urging coordinated action. As the UK Parliament has 650 MPs, the 20 signatories constitute a mere […]
Clothing
Australian MPs fight to criminalise the burqa after Denmark becomes the latest nation to ban the Islamic garb (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Thousands of FGM cases recorded in Britain
(Reuters) Thousands of cases of female genital mutilation have been identified over the past year in Britain, according to data published on Thursday that experts said showed the need for stronger action to tackle the illegal practice. More than 6,000 women and […]
Academics & Education
Catholic board changes no ‘head scarves’ wording in dress code The wording was only brought to the board's attention Thursday after someone noticed it
(CBC) Hamilton’s Catholic school board is changing the wording of its summer school dress code after years of saying no “head scarves” on its printed form. Duraid Al-Jailawi says his wife noticed the wording Wednesday when the form was handed to her […]
Children & Teens
Controlling father enslaved his teenage daughter and hit her with a vacuum cleaner (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
English-language school boards prepare to use Quebec’s new guidelines on religious accommodation New provincial criteria to grant religious accommodation requests goes into effect July 1
(CBC) The Quebec government’s new guidelines to help public bodies decide whether to grant religious accommodation requests are coming into effect today. However, the union representing 8,000 teachers at English-language school boards across the province says it needs more information about what […]
Clothing
Wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi calls for burqa ban in Ontario
(Global News) The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has called on Ontario Premier Doug Ford to ban the use of Islamic face coverings in public places. Ensaf Haidar, who along with her three children became a Canadian citizen on Canada […]