(Euronews) The resignation of a government representative in Belgium has sparked fresh political debate about Islamic headscarves. [Ihsane] Haouach, a Belgian-Moroccan woman, stepped down on Friday from her role as a government commissioner at the Institute for the Equality of Women and […]
(Euronews) Britain’s government has condemned comments made by Viktor Orban about Muslims and migrants on the eve of a bilateral meeting between the Hungarian leader and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In a statement, No. 10 Downing Street said that Orban’s 2018 […]
(Euronews) Kahina Bahloul says she didn’t just wake up one day and decide to become an imam but rather that “it’s been a long journey.” Indeed, the law graduate used to work as an insurance broker. Born in France to a Muslim-Algerian […]
(Euronews) French authorities rescued 159 migrants as they attempted to cross the English Channel and make it to the UK. Among the migrants saved were 10 children and a pregnant woman. Several suffered from hypothermia. The French Maritime Prefecture said they were […]
(Euronews) Twitter briefly suspended on Sunday the Twitter account of Mila, a French teenager who has faced online harassment and death threats since she posted a viral video criticising Islam last year. The social network initially claimed Mila had violated its harassment […]
(Euronews) More than five years after the 2015 Paris attacks, the Belgian justice system has finally begun its examination of the people accused of aiding and abetting the terrorists. Tuesday’s hearing, which took place at the Brussels Council Chamber, was held in […]
(Euronews) Brussels has unveiled a new package of measures aimed at tackling the threat of terrorism in Europe, including plans to give a stronger role to Europol. A spate of recent terrorism attacks prompted the European Commission (EC) to publish the measures […]
(Euronews) A woman who spent nine months in Syria with her three young children in 2017 has been given an eight-year jail term. Rajae Moujahid, a 37-year-old Italian-Moroccan citizen, was tried at a Paris tribunal for “criminal conspiracy for terrorist purposes” and […]
(Euronews) The co-founder of Belgium’s Islam Party has been given a suspended six-month jail term for gender discrimination. Redouane Ahrouch appeared on Belgian television channel RTL-TVI for a political debate but allegedly refused to make eye contact with journalist Emmanuelle Praet. Ahrouch […]
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