Ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis have banned women from going to university. The strict Satmar sect issued the decree warning that university education for women is “dangerous”. Written in Yiddish, the decree warns: “It has lately become the new trend that girls and married women are pursuing degrees in special education. Some attend classes and others online. …
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Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka in an interview published in the newspaper Právo said: “We do not have a strong Muslim community and, frankly speaking, we do not want it to appear.” The results of the integration of refugees from Muslim countries in the Christian society of European countries seem to be very controversial, according …
On Monday evening, Four Corners, one of Australia’s peak investigative journalism programs, broadcast shocking footage of young detainees at the Don Dale detention centre in the Northern Territory being mistreated by staff. In one image, a young man, Dylan Voller, is strapped to a chair by his wrists and neck, and covered with a “spit …
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Austria’s far-right Freedom Party candidate for president has called for an investigation on Turkish residents who took to the streets of the capital Vienna in the wake of the July 15 failed coup attempt in Turkey. In an interview with the daily Österreich, Norbert Hofer called Aug. 14 for an investigation into Turkish residents who …
A Hungarian member of the European Parliament has been criticised for suggesting pigs’ heads could be put on border fences to deter refugees. Gyorgy Schopflin, a member of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, made the remark after images emerged of vegetables carved into heads and placed along the country’s southern frontier. “Human images are haram… Pig’s …
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An anti-immigration movement’s members staged a fake ISIS attack in the middle of Prague over the weekend. A reckless stunt from an Islamophobic group turned to horror as a ‘fake ISIS militant invasion’ left “several tourists” injured. Panic erupted in the middle of the European capital as the group entered the city’s centre equipped with …
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Officials from the European Parliament will on Tuesday pay their first visit to Turkey since the foiled coup attempt of July 15. No representatives from the European Parliament have visited Turkey until today. Turkey is still a candidate country for European Union and its parliamentery building and Presidential complex in Ankara were bombed by coup …
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Racial inequality is getting worse in the United Kingdom, with young black people and ethnic minorities suffering “institutional racism” and “unfairness” in the fields of education, employment and the criminal justice system, a human rights watchdog has said. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in its latest report on Thursday that race was …
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The incoming head of France’s government body on Islam is facing a mounting backlash for suggesting Muslims should be “discreet”. Jean-Pierre Chevènement, 77, has been charged with heading the Foundation for French Islam by President Francois Hollande – despite not being a Muslim himself. “The advice I give in these difficult times – like the …
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz from the centrist Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) proposed obligatory, low paid community jobs for migrants as part of a new integration law, The Local reported yesterday. According to the proposal, migrants have to work between 15 and 30 hours a week and they can only get 1 euro an hour. …
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