(Sydney Morning Herald) Scott Morrison has led a swift and strong repudiation of Queensland Senator Fraser Anning, who linked Muslim immigration to the terror attack carried out at two mosques in New Zealand by suspected far-right extremists. The prime minister tweeted late […]
(Age) When students at Thomas Mitchell Primary School sit their NAPLAN tests, many won’t have eaten or touched a drop of water since before dawn. About one-third of students at the Endeavour Hills state school are Muslims who observe Ramadan, a month-long fast […]
(Jerusalem Post) A Muslim activist in Australia named Sam Ekermawi who has filed numerous racial vilification and discrimination complaints against prominent Australians was found guilty on Friday of assaulting pro-Israel activist Avi Yemini during a scuffle outside a courthouse in Sydney in […]
(ABC-Australia) A Melbourne man who was part of a group planning to sail to the southern Philippines to work with Muslim militants to overthrow the government has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison. Shayden Thorne is one of […]
(AAP) A Queensland woman has been found guilty of arranging her two daughters to have their genitals mutilated in Somalia. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied she had taken the girls, then aged 12 and nine, to her […]
(AAP) An Islamic State sympathiser who mowed down pedestrians in Melbourne’s Flinders Street, killing an elderly grandfather, said he “did it in the name of Allah,” a court has been told. Saeed Noori drove his mother’s SUV into 16 pedestrians outside Flinders […]
(AAP) A Queensland woman accused of arranging for her two daughters to undergo female genital mutilation claimed what happened to them was “from God,” a court has heard. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was interviewed by police soon […]
(AAP) A Queensland girl was playing outside her grandmother’s house in Somalia when she was called inside, unaware she was about to have her genitals painfully mutilated, a court has heard. The Australian-born girl and her sister had only been in Somalia […]
(Anadolu) A Muslim-Turkish association in Melbourne opened an institute for Islamic studies. The Islamic Community National View (IGMG) opened the institute which will be part of the Ilim College based in Melbourne. A total of 10 students — six female and four […]
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(ABC-Australia) Roger Singaravelu was enjoying an afternoon nap with his five-year-old daughter when he became the victim of a terrorist attack in his suburban Melbourne home. “I don’t believe I will ever recover,” Mr Singaravelu told the Victorian Supreme Court in his […]
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(ABC-Australia) A lack of female-only, closed door public showers at a popular Sunshine Coast beach has prompted a Muslim organisation to call for councils to consider religious beliefs when designing infrastructure after a family used the amenities at a members-only surf club […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) The attorney-general’s office is contemplating tougher terror laws, after the state failed in a last-ditched bid to slap an extended supervision order on a convicted terrorism “activity offender” who had an “obsession” with the Islamic State. Mohamed Naaman, 43, has […]
(AAP) Neil Prakash, the Melbourne man who became a recruiter for the Islamic State militant group, has been stripped of his Australian citizenship. The 27-year-old was told of the Australian government’s decision on December 21, becoming the 12th dual national to have […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) The boy arrested in a Bankstown backstreet with hunting knives and a desire to kill had once been “your average Muslim 16-year-old boy,” according to the teenager’s father. “He slit his eyebrows thinking it was ‘cool’; he wore ordinary […]
(Reuters) U.N. members on Monday adopted a deal aimed at improving the way [the] world copes with rising migration, but almost 30 countries stayed away from the ceremony in Morocco. The pact, meant to foster cooperation on migration, was agreed in July […]
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(Reuters) More than 150 countries will join a United Nations conference to adopt a global pact to better handle migrant flows, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday, less than the number that initially worked on the plan. In July, all 193 […]
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(ABC-Australia) The prime minister has accused some of Australia’s most senior Muslim leaders of boycotting a meeting with him following his response to the deadly Melbourne terror attack. He was due to meet with Muslim leaders this week for a round-table discussion […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Australian voters are split on whether to cut the number of migrants coming from Muslim countries, as the Morrison government considers an overhaul of immigration and population rules within weeks. A special Fairfax-Ipsos survey finds only 14 per cent […]
(West Australian) After terrorist attacks in Australia in the name of Islam, Muslim leaders around the country condemn violent extremism and its perversion of their religion. Some of them do not think they should have to assume responsibility for denouncing such abhorrent […]
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(Age) An Islamic centre in Melbourne’s north that has been linked to the Bourke Street attacker and Christmas Day terror plot is seeking council approval to accommodate up to 500 people at once as its community grows. The Hume Islamic Youth Centre […]
(Age) One of Victoria’s largest Islamic youth centres has rejected suggestions it is linked to terrorism after it was revealed the Bourke Street attacker was a regular visitor. Hume Islamic Youth Centre spokesman Mustafa Abu Yusuf told the Age the centre’s open-door […]
(Age) Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attacked the “lame excuse” of blaming mental health problems for Friday’s horrific attack in Melbourne by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, after the killer’s family said he was “crying for help” and should not be the subject […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called on Muslim leaders to take “special responsibility” for stamping out radicalism in their communities, saying they must be proactive and “call this out for what it is.” Speaking on Saturday in the wake […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A Supreme Court judge has challenged an “assumption” that Islamic radicalism equates to extremist violence in freeing from anti-terrorism supervision orders a Muslim “bigot,” who hates Australia. Justice Des Fagan further urged authorities to assist violent career criminal Mohamed […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Federal MP Bob Katter has kicked Fraser Anning out of his party following weeks of tension over a speech the controversial senator made linking immigration to Nazi Germany’s “final solution.” Mr Katter said Senator Anning had been booted because […]
(ABC-Australia) Australian security officials are concerned over the release from jail of one of Britain’s most notorious hate preachers. The ABC has been told Australian authorities will closely monitor the release and conditions placed on Anjem Choudary, who is due to be […]
(ABC-Australia) NSW Labor MLC Shaoquett Moselmane says his decision to link Twitter followers to a story on the website of a former Ku Klux Klan leader was “a bad mistake.” The tweet, which he posted about 10:00pm last night and subsequently deleted, […]
(Australian) Australia’s grand mufti has signalled open hostility to gay teachers in Islamic schools in defiance of Bill Shorten’s proposed changes to discrimination laws, saying they engage in “abnormal practices that contradict nature” and suffer from “mental illness.” The intervention from Sheik […]
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(ABC-Australia) An Adelaide man who posted videos on Facebook encouraging the killing of Jewish people has been found not guilty because he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time. The 52-year-old man from Flinders Park in Adelaide’s west, whose name was […]
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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 […]
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(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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(ABC-Australia) Australia’s largest Islamic school has had its funding permanently restored by new federal education minister Dan Tehan, after several years of court battles. The Malek Fahd Islamic School’s future hung in the balance after a full bench of the Federal Court […]
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(ABC-Australia) Two men who claimed their Islamic-influenced group was not subject to Australian law because it was a “basic religious charity” have been found to have illegally cleared a rural property north-west of Sydney by the NSW Land and Environment Court. The […]
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