(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday reintroduced legislation seeking to repeal an 18th-century law that was used as justification for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and, more recently, for the Trump administration’s ban on travelers from Muslim-majority […]
(AP) Officials in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, faced complications Friday in reuniting worried Moroccan parents with hundreds of children and teenagers swept up in a diplomatic standoff between Madrid and Rabat over migration and the disputed territory of Western […]
(Washington Post) Facebook has refused to remove a widely viewed attack ad that links Rep. Ilhan Omar to Hamas, even after her aides told the tech giant the message is inaccurate, hateful and threatened to subject her to death threats. The controversy […]
(Free Beacon) Crooked Media, the content mill founded by former Obama administration officials, tweeted and then deleted a message urging its supporters to send money to an anti-Semitic charity that has been tied to terrorism. The company in a Tuesday tweet asked […]
(AP) Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat. Overwhelmed soldiers […]
(AP) President Joe Biden, under political pressure, agreed to admit four times as many refugees this budget year as his predecessor did, but resettlement agencies concede the number actually allowed into the U.S. will be closer to the record-low cap of 15,000 […]
(Politico) The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Saturday said it will boycott the traditional White House Eid celebration in protest at the Biden administration’s actions amid escalating violence between Israeli and Palestinian forces. President Joe Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
(Fox) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is fundraising off of backlash she’s received for her latest anti-Israel comments as violence between Israel and Hamas heats up. Omar’s campaign launched a fundraiser on Facebook Wednesday after criticism from Republican politicians such as Sen. Ted […]
(Middle East Eye) A coalition of Muslim organisations in the US is calling on the administration of President Joe Biden to create an envoy that would monitor and combat Islamophobia, which the groups say plays an interconnected threat to Muslims around the […]
(AFP) The United States will join an international bid to stamp out violent extremism online, the White House said Friday, some two years after the Trump administration declined to do so. Biden administration spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington “will join the Christchurch […]
(MPR) A New Brighton, Minn., man who admitted being part of the far-right Boogaloo Bois militia group on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a federal terrorism charge. Michael Robert Solomon, 31, got on the FBI’s radar last year, when he was seen carrying […]
(Hill) The White House on Monday lifted the refugee cap to 62,500, ending a dizzying policy reversal by sticking with President Biden’s original plan to dramatically increase from Trump-era levels the number of refugees who can be admitted into the U.S. “Today, […]
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During his April 28 speech to Congress, President Biden asserted that white supremacism is currently the most lethal terrorist threat to the country, implicitly downplaying the threat posed by Islamist terror. The Biden administration has yet to clarify its attitude toward Islamism, […]
(AP) An email brought Faeza Satouf’s world to a standstill. The 25-year-old Syrian refugee had fled the civil war with her family in an all-too-familiar journey across the sea to Europe, where they finally arrived in Denmark and were granted asylum in […]
(AP) A judge sentenced a Bangladeshi immigrant to life in prison Thursday, saying he plotted to carry out a “barbaric and heinous” plot to kill as many people as he could with a suicide bombing attack in New York City’s subway beneath […]
(AP) Prosecutors are urging a judge to approve a request to extradite a Phoenix driving school owner to Iraq on allegations that he participated in the killings of two police officers nearly 15 years ago in the Iraqi city of Fallujah as […]
(Hill) The House passed legislation on Wednesday that would limit executive authority to issue future travel bans like the one imposed by former President Trump against several Muslim-majority countries. Lawmakers passed the bill along party lines, 218-208, with only one Republican joining […]
(Hill) The White House Friday reversed course on refugee admissions, after an earlier announcement maintaining a controversial Trump-era refugee cap was met with disdain by Democrats and immigration activists. Following a day of blowback from Democrats, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki […]
(Hill) President Biden on Friday signed an order speeding refugee admissions but maintaining fiscal 2021 admissions at 15,000, a cap set by the Trump administration and a number far below the 62,500 figure proposed to Congress earlier this year. The order would […]
(Hill) A group of House Democrats, led by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), wrote to President Biden on Friday calling for him to formally raise the refugee cap to 62,500 after he has delayed the increase for weeks. “Having fought for four years […]
(Hill) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday nudged President Biden to increase the number of refugees being accepted into the country, saying the United States has a moral responsibility to welcome those foreigners facing harm at home. “We have a moral responsibility […]
(Hill) Family members of victims and those injured in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are calling on Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to release publicly an FBI report detailing what role Saudi Arabia played in supporting the attacks. In a […]
(Hill) Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would bar the White House from blocking immigrants from entering the U.S. based on their religion. The bill is a direct response to former President Trump’s so-called Muslim ban, an executive order signed during his […]
(Hill) President Biden and first lady Jill Biden marked the start of Ramadan on Monday, sending their “warmest greetings and best wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world.” “As many of our fellow Americans begin fasting tomorrow, […]
(Oklahoman) A former state legislator with a history of making controversial remarks about Muslims is running for chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party. Former Rep. John Bennett, of Sallisaw, made a name for himself in the Oklahoma Legislature by frequently targeting followers of […]
(CBC) An Egyptian human rights activist is fighting to stay in Vancouver, saying the political affiliations that forced him to seek asylum in Canada are now being used to justify his deportation. In 2011, Abdelrahman Elmady joined other Egyptians in an uprising against the […]
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(AP) A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives, saying CEO Mark Zuckerberg made “false and deceptive” statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and other material that violates its rules. The lawsuit, filed […]
(Bloomberg) An attorney alleges the Tennessee Supreme Court’s board of professional responsibility unlawfully fired him for posting tweets that an opposing party said displayed anti-Muslim bias, arguing his social media posts were constitutionally protected political speech similar to that of former president […]
(Reuters) U.S. border agents in recent months arrested two Yemeni men on a terror watchlist in separate incidents as they crossed the border with Mexico illegally, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Monday. The men, arrested in January and March near […]
(AL.com) The 29-year-old sister of a Hoover woman who left her family to join ISIS in 2014 was arrested Wednesday in New Jersey as she and her husband prepared to board a cargo ship to go and fight for the terrorist group, […]
(AP) A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should spend the rest of his life behind bars for a “premeditated and vicious” terror attack committed on behalf of Islamic […]
(AP) A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a challenge to the constitutionality of the government’s terrorist watchlist, ruling that the government deserves wide latitude in establishing programs designed to protect national security. A group of two dozen Muslim plaintiffs sued in […]
(AP) A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should face no more than the 35-year mandatory prison sentence for his crime because his attack was an aberration from an […]
(AP) The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting President Joe Biden with an early test of his opposition to capital punishment. The justices agreed to hear an appeal filed by […]
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(VOA) U.S. homeland security officials are pushing back against claims that known and suspected terrorists are trying to sneak into the country from Mexico, calling such incidents “very uncommon.” Republican lawmakers have been sounding alarms about what they say is a growing […]
(Axios) The Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed to Congress today that four people arrested at the southern border since Oct. 1 match names on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database, a congressional aide briefed on the correspondence told Axios. Why it matters: […]
(Politico) If Dutch politicians and voters thought that Geert Wilders had faded into near-obscurity since the last election, they were dead wrong. For 15 years, the far-right firebrand was everywhere, spreading his anti-Islam, anti-immigration, anti-EU message and doing increasingly well at the […]
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(AP) The government of ethnically split Cyprus came under fire on Tuesday over a decision to lay razor wire along a section of a U.N.-controlled buffer zone. It says the move is needed to stem migrant inflows from the island’s breakaway north, […]
(AFP) Dutch anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders has said he has no regrets and is ready to “step up” his campaigning against immigration, despite the coronavirus set to dominate next week’s general election. Once dubbed the “Dutch Trump” for his bleached-blonde hair and […]
(Reuters) Most U.S. visa applicants who were denied because of former President Donald Trump’s travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and African countries can seek new decisions or submit new applications, the State Department said on Monday. President Joe Biden overturned Trump’s […]
(Algemeiner) The head of an influential Turkish Muslim association in Germany resigned from his position on Thursday after his antisemitic social media postings were exposed by a left-wing group, vowing at the same time to clear his name. Mustafa Keskin — the […]
(CNS) Two leading American Muslim organizations on Thursday slammed Secretary of State Antony Blinken for voicing opposition to the International Criminal Court decision to open an investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories. American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and the Council […]
(Orlando Sentinel) An Orange County deputy sheriff was suspended for almost a month after he posted an anti-Muslim rant on Facebook, in one of several posts that prompted a Muslim civil rights group to ask the Sheriff’s Office to investigate. Master Deputy […]
(Washington Post) Families of three slain U.S. service members and 13 others wounded in a mass shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 alleged Monday that the government of Saudi Arabia facilitated the attack, which U.S. authorities concluded was an act […]
(Religion News) The storming of the U.S. Capitol brought renewed attention to the threat of far-right and white supremacist groups in the nation, prompting the Biden administration to consider applying counterterrorism-focused programs that have for years targeted Muslim communities. Many in the […]
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