Interfaith
Did YouTube hate videos inspire Texas synagogue siege? (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
‘Modern slavery’ case could let jihadi bride Shamima Begum come back to Britain (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
OKC mayor candidate Carol Hefner addresses her criticism of Islam during debate
(Oklahoman) Oklahoma City mayoral candidate Carol Hefner, in Tuesday’s mayoral debate, made remarks about Islam that sparked an outcry from the local Muslim community. Hefner, 60, has a history of making racist and Islamophobic social media posts. Near the end of the debate […]
Interfaith
Council on American-Islamic Relations, Sunrise Movement included in Jewish group’s ‘Global Antisemitism’ list
(Algemeiner) The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the climate change group Sunrise Movement have been jointly ranked eighth on a “Global Anti-Semitism” top ten list to be issued Tuesday by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), the Algemeiner has learned. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, […]
Government & Politics
Cabinet Office anti-racism trainer wished death and mutilation on ‘Zionists’ (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Islamist who defended murderers of Jews to speak at Tree of Life anti-hate summit Bush, ADL, Biden cabinet member join with hater to fight hate.
(FrontPage) In October, former President George W. Bush, Biden’s DHS secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, ADL boss Jonathan Greenblatt, and other notables will descend on the massive Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh. The occasion isn’t a party convention, but the inaugural Eradicate Hate […]
News: Europe
New database launched to counter extremism
(BBC) A new global counter-extremism database has been launched in London. The EMAN Network, standing for Extremist Monitoring Analysis Network, aims to “combat hate speech and extremist ideologies by profiling radical individuals and organisations of all faiths.” Far-right extremists, anti-Semitic tweeters and […]
Crime
Muslim communities worry that Islamophobic violence is being forgotten during election campaign As party leaders roll out campaign promises, the problem of racist violence seems to be flying under the radar
(CBC) Three months after all major party leaders gave emotional speeches at a vigil in London, Ontario, for the four members of the [Afzaal] family who were killed in a drive-by attack, the threat of Islamophobic violence still hasn’t emerged as an […]
Interfaith
Chief executive of MEND wrote: ‘Israel’s generosity is like that of Hitler’ Exclusive: Azhar Qayum, head of Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), tells Jewish News his incendiary comment on Facebook from 2014 was 'not meant as an insult to any people.'
(Jewish News) The chief executive of Islamic advocacy group Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) wrote that “Israel’s generosity is like the ‘generosity’ of Hitler” in an incendiary social media post. Azhar Qayum made the claim during a heated online debate sparked by […]
Interfaith
ADL and PayPal: Defunding extremists or censoring opponents? (UPDATED)
Why have the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) urged PayPal to cancel its planned project with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to investigate and close accounts the ADL considers too extreme? At first blush, the PayPal project may sound […]
Clerics & Preachers
Entrenched antisemitism among imams serving US Muslim communities needs to be challenged, scholar tells major conference
(Algemeiner) “I was wrong,” said Mohammed Al-Azdee, with disarming candor. An associate professor of communication theory at Bridgeport University in Connecticut, the Iraqi-born Al-Azdee was speaking to the Algemeiner in detail about his latest research project: examining the content of khutbahs, the […]
Government & Politics
Swalwell had meetings with Qatari charity tied to terrorist groups Qatar Foundation spends hundreds of millions of dollars per year to influence U.S. colleges
(Free Beacon) Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee member who was targeted by a foreign spy during his early days in Congress, has met twice in the past nine months with a Hamas-linked charity that spends hundreds of millions […]
Children & Teens
Taught to use a gun aged 8: The chilling story of 13-year-old ‘caliphate cub’ locked up in prison for child ISIS fighters (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Secret tape from inside Palestine convoy revealed (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
‘Hitler was an angel’: YouTube hosts vile Jew hatred with millions of views (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Iranian-backed ‘Al Quds Day’ anti-Zionist hatefest canceled for second year running in Berlin
(Algemeiner) The annual “Al Quds Day” march and rally calling for the violent elimination of the state of Israel will not take place in Berlin next month for the second year running, police in the German capital confirmed on Thursday. Sponsored by […]
Interfaith
What’s behind the ‘blended extremism’ surfacing today?
(Hill) Extremists used to be classified easily into discrete categories, but that is getting harder to do. Increasingly, extremists’ motivations seem cobbled together from different, even contradictory hatreds — including adherents of both white supremacism and radical Islam. Why this is happening […]
Academics & Education
Student admits to lying over claims of Islamophobia against beheaded teacher
(Radio France) The student who accused history teacher Samuel Paty of Islamophobia, which began a hate campaign that [led] to his brutal public beheading in October, has admitted to making up her story. The 13-year-old did not attend class on the day […]
Academics & Education
Antisemitism report claims Arab students had ‘passion for Hitler’
(Breitbart) A report on antisemitism in schools in the Swedish multicultural city of Malmo has made the claim that much of the hatred toward Jewish students comes from students of Arab and Middle Eastern backgrounds. The February report, “Schoolyard racism, conspiracy theories […]
Academics & Education
France: No Samuel Paty school after backlash over name change A French town won't rename a school after Samuel Paty — who was slain by an Islamist extremist — following backlash from teachers and parents. The move marks a sign of deeper divisions in French society.
(Deutsche Welle) No one at the school “The Eucalypts” in the village of Ollioules, near the Mediterranean coast in southern France, wants to talk to the media anymore. Sandra Olivier, maths teacher and member of the teachers’ union SNES-FSU, turned down DW’s […]
Academics & Education
Beheading of teacher exposes secular divide in French classrooms
(Reuters) Some teachers in France say they censor themselves to avoid confrontation with pupils and parents over religion and free speech, a problem brutally exposed when a teacher was beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in class. History teacher Samuel […]
Government & Politics
‘Or gas them’: Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over migrant comment
(Reuters) Germany’s hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on Monday who had been caught on a hidden camera discussing gassing refugees. In footage, recorded secretly by ProSieben television in February, Christian Lueth, then a party spokesman, was filmed in […]
Demonstrations
German Jew sues Berlin to stop antisemitic Quds Day rally Iranian regime-sponsored rally attracts neo-Nazis, members of Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
(Jerusalem Post) After the city-state of Berlin declined to take action against an annual Iranian regime-sponsored protest calling for the destruction of Israel, German Jewish retiree Gilbert Kallenborn filed a lawsuit to stop the rally. The Berlin-based B.Z. paper reported on Monday […]
Government & Politics
Dutch-Muslim politician tweets Jewish yellow star to protest coronavirus surveillance plan
(JTA) On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Dutch-Muslim politician has tweeted a picture of a Jewish yellow star to protest plans to monitor coronavirus carriers. Arnoud van Doorn, a member of the City Council of The Hague, posted the picture […]
Interfaith
Dutch-Muslim community leader accused of writing that Hitler was Jewish in pro-Hamas email
(JTA) An email from 2014 bearing the signature of an influential leader of Dutch Muslims expressed support for Hamas and said that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. The email carrying the signature of Yahia Bouyafa, chairman of the Association of Moroccan Mosques in […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Tories must talk about anti-Muslim hate or risk boosting Islamists, says interfaith pioneer (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
French elite branded cowards for deserting girl who insulted Islam (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Usman Khan profile: Terrorist who wanted to bomb London Stock Exchange (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Italy to deport imam who beat children at religious school
(Breitbart) A 23-year-old Bangladeshi imam faces deportation from Italy after investigators confirmed he had physically assaulted young children at a religious school. The migrant, who lived in Italy on a work visa, is said to have created what investigators described as a […]
Government & Politics
North Dakota lawmaker in Facebook post calls U.S. Rep. Omar ‘a terrorist’
(Bismarck Tribune) A prominent North Dakota state senator drew a rebuke from U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and a Muslim civil rights group Monday for sharing a debunked photo on Facebook alleging Omar is a terrorist. Sen. Oley Larsen, R-Minot, who is the […]
Demonstrations
‘Powderkeg’ in Germany amid Turks-Kurds conflict
(AFP) Syrian Kurd Mohamed Zidik, 76, still buys his bread and baklavas from Turkish neighbours in Berlin, but he knows better than to expound on his views about Ankara’s offensive in his hometown. Since Turkish forces launched their assault on Kurds in […]
Academics & Education
Jewish boy who was forced to kiss the feet of his Muslim classmate has been told he will be ‘slaughtered’ as he is targeted by disgusting threats (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
People who confronted Celtics’ Enes Kanter outside Cambridge mosque did not commit a crime, police say
(Boston Globe) The people who allegedly hectored Celtics center Enes Kanter outside a mosque over his political opposition to Turkey’s president didn’t commit a crime, Cambridge police have determined. In a statement Tuesday, police announced their findings in their review of the […]
Government & Politics
Celtics’ Enes Kanter says he was harassed outside of Cambridge mosque
(Boston Globe) New Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter said he was harassed outside of a Cambridge mosque Friday afternoon because of his political opposition to Turkey’s president. Kanter, a 6-11 Turkish basketball player signed by Boston this summer, posted a video to […]
Crime
Toronto man accused of yelling anti-Semitic threats at Jewish event
(Canadian Press) A 74-year-old Toronto man faces charges after allegedly yelling “Heil Hitler” and accosting participants at a pro-Israel march. Police say Ali Amirsalam was arrested last week on charges of causing a disturbance and uttering death threats at the event in […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
New York GOP group faces backlash for inviting anti-Muslim speaker who said ‘Nazis were inspired by Islam’
(NY Daily News) A group of Big Apple Republicans are under fire for inviting a notorious Islamophobe to speak at one of their events this month. The New York Young Republican Club, which bills itself as the oldest GOP youth group in […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslims divided over Johnson’s controversial comments in the past Boris Johnson became prime minister saying he would unify the country but to some Muslims he has been a divisive figure.
(Sky News) Boris Johnson is morally unfit to be prime minister, according to a former chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. Mohammed Amin, who has been a member of the Tory party for 36 years, shocked many in June when he compared […]
Interfaith
Jew-hater Sofian Zakkout removed from board of anti-crime group When will Crime Stoppers follow suit and remove Zakkout as well?
(FrontPage) Sofian Zakkout, the president of the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), likes to tout his membership on the boards of directors of two prominent anti-crime groups. However, his activities concerning support for terrorists, the belittling of Jews, and most […]
Books
Boris Johnson claimed Islam put Muslim world ‘centuries behind’ (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Documentary details Muslim Brotherhood effort to dominate America
(IPT) A new short documentary by filmmaker Ami Horowitz gives an inside glimpse of what Muslim Brotherhood members really think. Horowitz traveled to Beirut, Istanbul, Cairo and California to speak with activists, as well as members on the streets in Egypt. Horowitz […]
Academics & Education
Imam and solicitor suspended from jobs after BBC Tory debate (LINK ONLY)
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Conservative Muslim chair to quit if Johnson wins leadership race
(BBC) The chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum has told the BBC he will resign his party membership if Boris Johnson wins the leadership race. Mohammed Amin said the MP was not “sufficiently moral” to be PM. He criticised Mr Johnson’s comments […]
History
Islamist ‘Crime Stopper’ Sofian Zakkout’s Holocaust assault His Facebook page says the Holocaust 'never happened.'
(FrontPage) On March 4th, South Florida Muslim leader and board member of Crime Stoppers and Citizens’ Crime Watch, Sofian Zakkout, posed the following query on Twitter: “Please can someone tell how many Holocaust survivors!” The exact intent of Zakkout in asking this […]
Government & Politics
Rashida Tlaib still posing for pictures with fundraiser who spread anti-Semitic conspiracies
(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib has continued attending events and posing in pictures with one of her campaign fundraisers who repeatedly shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Maher Abdel-qader, a Palestinian-American businessman, was a key fundraiser for Tlaib in 2018 and organized […]
Crime
Report: Jewish teens harassed Saturday early morning in Boro Park
(Boro Park 24) Two Hasidic thirteen-year-olds were harassed Shabbos early morning in Boro Park, near the post office (at 12 Avenue and 51 Street). The pair were walking home from the Skolener and Bobover Rebbes’ Tisch early Shabbos morning at 1:30 a.m. […]
Government & Politics
Republicans amp up attacks on Tlaib’s Holocaust comments
(Hill) The war of words over race and anti-Semitism is heating up on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers in both parties launched new salvos Tuesday in the escalating uproar over recent comments from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) invoking the Holocaust. House Republicans fired […]
Government & Politics
Ilhan Omar defends Rashida Tlaib, says criticism ‘designed’ to ‘silence’ Muslim voices
(Fox) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, defended her colleague, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, from criticism over controversial remarks about the Holocaust, insisting that the backlash is “designed” to “silence” Muslim voices. Appearing on MSNBC, Omar said that she and Tlaib, whom she referred […]
Government & Politics
Zeldin accepts Omar’s invitation to discuss religious discrimination over Somali tea
(Hill) Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) on Friday accepted Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) invitation to discuss religious discrimination over Somali tea after the two lawmakers traded barbs over social media this week. Zeldin, who is Jewish, on Twitter this week shared a vulgar anti-Semitic […]
Government & Politics
Keith Ellison again misleads on Louis Farrakhan ties
(Daily Caller) Democratic Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison misled the public during the Minnesota attorney general debate Sunday about his ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious racist and anti-Semite. Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), […]
Clerics & Preachers
Neal challenger shares conspiracy theories, says US should not have fought Hitler
(Worcester Telegram) A candidate challenging U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, in the Democratic primary shared on her Facebook page an essay that maintains 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were inside jobs and that America should not have fought Hitler in defense of the […]