Vincent Simon recalls feeling shocked when he flipped on the Masjid Al Sahaabah mosque’s voicemail to hear a death threat from a man promising to behead Muslim worshippers. Simon, a US military veteran who converted to Islam some five years ago, said that the small mosque and its attendees are threatened regularly, receiving three or …
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Pictures of sinister scarecrows reportedly planted to keep refugees away from the Hungarian border have appeared on social media. The photos were released on Facebook by a group that pledges support to Hungary’s police and troops, including those patrolling the border. According to the group, the figures were carved from sugar beets. And the scarecrows …
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has said Egypt’s military was “restoring democracy” when they deposed the country’s first freely elected president. In an television interview in Pakistan, Mr Kerry said: “The military was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people, all of whom were afraid of a descendance into chaos, into violence. …
On 25 July 2016, a British Muslim woman was detained at a UK airport and questioned under terror laws after a cabin crew member spotted her reading a Syrian culture book on board her honeymoon flight. National Health Service (NHS) worker Faizah Shaheen, who helps prevent teenage mental health patients from becoming radicalized, was returning …
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Three British Muslim siblings interrogated on London airport runway after fellow passengers claimed seeing Arabic text on phone. Sakina Dharas, 24, her sister Maryam, 19, and their brother Ali, 21, were on board EasyJet flight EZY3249 from London’s Stansted Airport to the Italian city of Naples on August 17. Sakina told that as the plane …
A social media user, Marion Dekker, writes a tweet asking the Red Cross if they could guarantee that her blood will not be donated to a Muslim. A Belgian woman’s islamophobic tweet, in which she said that she wants to donate blood but doesn’t it to be donated to a Muslim, has provoked widespread anger …
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In the last year, 10400 child abuse cases were reported in Sweden. The rate of child abuse is reported to increase 9% in 2015 compared to 2014. Sweden also has the second highest rate in the world. These rates require that Sweden takes special precautions regarding child abuse.
United States and European Countries had not condemned until it was obvious that coup was failing. During the coup attempt, US Secretary of State John Kerry hoped for “stability, peace, continuity”, not for democracy. Amid the coup attempt, US Embassy in Turkey referred the coup as “uprising”. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon also said that …
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Nicolas Sarkozy has announced he will seek his party’s nomination to stand in next year’s French presidential election. He declares that he wants to ban the Muslim headscarf from universities and public companies, limit the French nationality rights of children born to foreign parents, and ban pork-free options in school canteens, meaning Muslim and Jewish …
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Wednesday defended a leaked government report alleging Turkey was a hub for Islamist groups, a charge that has further strained tensions with Ankara, a key partner in efforts to stem mass migration. De Maiziere told German regional broadcaster rbb: “There’s nothing to regret,” when asked if he regretted …
