(AFP) A second Swiss canton will vote Sunday on whether to introduce a regional “burqa ban,” a controversial law that would prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces. The ballot in northeastern St. Gallen is to be held as voters across the […]
(Handelsblatt) German security services were recently in touch with one of Berlin’s best-known Muslim clerics. He should take their warnings seriously, they again told Abdul Adhim Kamouss. Death threats were being made against him by members of the Islamic State extremist group […]
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(Age) A young woman who stabbed a Melbourne man in the name of the Islamic State has lifted her niqab veil in court to plead guilty to intentionally engaging in a terrorist act. Momena Shoma, 25, refused to stand in the dock […]
(Swiss Info) Marriages involving minors must be annulled, according to Swiss law. However, exceptions are permitted if it seems to be in the child’s best interests. This provision must be done away with to combat forced marriages more effectively, says lawyer Anu […]
(Daily Caller) The ex-girlfriend accusing Democratic Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic abuse told her doctor in 2017 about alleged “emotional and physical abuse” from Ellison, according to a document the woman published Wednesday. Karen Monahan’s account in the doctor’s report is […]
(MPR) Dogged by a recent allegation of domestic abuse, Democrat Keith Ellison has a narrow, five-point lead over Republican candidate Doug Wardlow in the race to be Minnesota’s next attorney general, according to an MPR News/Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. Of 800 likely […]
(Anadolu) The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday convicted Belgian authorities for violating the EU Convention on Human Rights by excluding a Muslim woman from a courtroom for refusing to remove her headscarf. In 2007, the applicant, referred to by the […]
(AFP) Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan faced one of his rape accusers for more than eight hours in a French court Tuesday as he seeks bail after seven months in custody on charges he furiously denies. Ramadan, a frequent TV commentator, was […]
(Pew) A Danish law that took effect in August makes it illegal for Muslim women to wear face-covering veils — such as burqas or niqabs — in public. Austria, Belgium and France, as well as parts of Italy and Spain, have enacted […]
(Dutch News) Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema has told local broadcaster AT5 that she will close down mosques if imams are spreading messages of hate but “only as a last resort.” Halsema, who outlined her strategy to deal with radicalisation in a briefing […]
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(AFP) Prosecutors in Geneva have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has been detained in France since February on separate rape charges, Swiss media reported Sunday. The Tribune de Geneve newspaper quoted Geneva’s prosecutor’s office […]
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(BuzzFeed) Twitter has come under fire for allowing a tweet that activists have said is pro–female genital mutilation to be promoted on its site, meaning that it showed up on the timelines of users who didn’t follow the poster’s account. The tweet, […]
(Breitbart) Four political parties are pushing forward laws that could prohibit the pro-sharia Partij Islam ahead of Belgium’s upcoming municipal elections. The Independent Federal Democrat Party (DEFI), the right-wing Reform Movement (MR), the Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH), and the Socialist Party (PS) […]
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(Reuters) Tugay Sarac was just 15 when he first talked about traveling from Germany to Syria to fight for Islamic State. But unlike his friends at the time, Sarac had turned to radical Islam as a way of avoiding coming to terms […]
(Anadolu) Austrians have reacted to a plan by the education minister to expand the headscarf ban for students and teachers to secondary schools. Education Minister Heinz Fassmann said on Monday that the issue should be discussed throughout the country, especially in the […]
(Detroit News) Federal prosecutors filed new charges in the nation’s first case involving female genital mutilation, accusing one doctor of mutilating three more prepubescent girls and alleging one girl was drugged. The new charges bring to a total of nine girls from three states […]
(Kansas City Star) A civil rights group said Wednesday that a Muslim woman is facing religious discrimination at a privately run prison in Leavenworth. The prisoner, Valeriece Ealom, has complained that staff at the Leavenworth Detention Center have repeatedly disparaged her wearing […]
(AAP) Burqas could be banned at major airports and citizenship ceremonies under legislation introduced to parliament by right-wing senator Cory Bernardi. The Australian Conservatives’ leader on Tuesday introduced a bill banning facial coverings at commonwealth sites, including all public places in the […]
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(Anadolu) Expanding the range of headscarf bans for students and teachers in secondary school should be discussed throughout the country, especially in parliament, Austria’s education minister said on Monday. Speaking at Austrian state television ORF on a draft law to ban Muslim […]
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(Breitbart) The Swedish Social Democrats have had to remove a parliamentary candidate from their national election list only days before the vote after they claimed Islamic law was more important than Swedish law. The candidate, who was running in the municipality of Karlshamn in the […]
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(Swiss Info) The Federal Court says that an initiative by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party to ban head coverings in schools in the southern canton of Valais is invalid. It confirms the decision taken by the Valais parliament. The People’s Party […]
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(Al-Arabiya) A court in Geneva hearing the Tariq Ramadan case has explained that the “threshold necessary to justify opening a criminal investigation is present and this has been the case since the beginning of the procedure,” a report in the Le Point […]
(FrontPage) Sweden has one of Europe’s highest rates of sexual assaults. At 120.79 violent sexual assaults per 100,000 people, and 56 rapes per 100,000, the otherwise bleak socialist country ranks as having the second highest rate of sexual violence in Europe. What […]
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(Reuters) Relegated to the basement, silenced by the imam and barred from the front door, some Muslim women have had enough of male domination at the mosque and are setting up their own. From Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a handful of female […]
(Detroit News) As many as six members of a Muslim sect from India were questioned by a federal grand jury Wednesday as prosecutors pursue more criminal charges involving new girls in the nation’s first female genital mutilation case. The grand jury appearances by members […]
(Daily Wire) Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be in danger of losing some of her support among liberals with her decision to increasingly align herself with anti-liberal activist Linda Sarsour. The Democratic candidate’s rift with her liberal supporters really showed itself […]
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(IPT) In a year in which Muslim political candidates are breaking new ground or falling just short, it’s not surprising to see politics dominate the country’s largest annual gathering of Muslim Americans. But the political sessions at the annual Islamic Society of […]
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(Sky News) A man and a woman have pleaded not guilty to the female genital mutilation (FGM) of a three-year-old girl. The man, a 43-year-old from Ghana, and the woman, a 36-year-old from Uganda — who cannot be named for legal reasons […]
(Dutch News) Some of the most vulnerable refugees living in camps in Turkey have been rejected by the Netherlands because they have extremist sympathies or are too conservative, the Volkskrant reported on Wednesday. The Netherlands has agreed to take its “fair share” […]
(BBC) Sara Alfageeh, from Boston, USA, has always loved comics. As a child, she used to “run home from the library with stacks of them.” But the recent depiction of one character annoyed her so much she chose to take matters into […]
(Breitbart) Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński has waded into the European burqa debate, saying it should be banned partly for security reasons, and partly to make it clear to Islamic radicals that they cannot demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi […]
(Deutsche Welle) “I was about 11 or 12 years old. Several people held me down. Then they cut me. They laid me on the table. I can still see the image. I had such horrific pain. Then they sewed me together. They […]
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(Brussels Times) The hijab — the headscarf worn by Muslim women as the minimum form of coverage — should be the subject of a ban in schools under the next legislature, according to federal secretary of state Zuhal Demir. “The headscarf has […]
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(NY Post) A Muslim cop who has been held up as a model example of NYPD diversity was arrested for allegedly forcibly touching two people — including the wife of a police sergeant — during one of the department’s “smoker” boxing events, […]
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