France’s interior minister has ordered the closure of four mosques that allegedly espoused a ‘radical ideology,’ the latest such shutdowns among dozens since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks nearly a year ago. A state of emergency in France allows for the closing of places of worship where the preaching risks provoking hate, violence or acts …
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German police detained a man linked to the anti-Islamic, xenophobic group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamification of the West (PEGIDA) on suspicion of involvement in an attack targeting a Turkish mosque and an event venue in Germany’s Dresden in September. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Nino K. by German media outlets, was detained on Thursday, …
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A New York teenager who went missing after she said she was harassed on a train last week has been found. Yasmin Seweid, 18, was found in the early hours of Saturday morning, officials from the Nassau County Police Department’s Missing Persons Squad said. The teen was seen being taken from her Long Island home …
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Germany’s highest court has ruled that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against an 11-year-old pupil who had argued that even wearing a burkini, or full-body swimsuit, breached Islamic dress codes. The constitutional court in Karlsruhe on Wednesday rejected an appeal by the girl’s parents that she should …
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The nation’s first elected Somali-American lawmaker says she was harassed and called “ISIS” by a taxicab driver in Washington, D.C. Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar detailed the incident on her Facebook page on Wednesday. She said the cab driver called her Daesh, lobbed sexist taunts and threatened to remove her hijab during a brief ride on …
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A Muslim police officer here and her 16-year-old son were the targets of a hate attack during the weekend, police sources in the media said Sunday. Officer Aml Elsokary, a native of the city, dropped off her son in Brooklyn while off duty. After parking her car, she found the boy being pushed around by …
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A fire broke out at a planned mosque building in the city of Culemborg in central Netherlands on Wednesday. The Dutch police and Muslim community believe that the fire was deliberately started by an arsonist, media sources said. The fire reportedly started at the pool and spread to the whole building, leading to substantial damages. …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a burqa ban wherever possible on Monday at her conservative Christian Democrats’ (CDU) party conference. “The full veil must be banned wherever that is legally possible,” she told the about 1,000 delegates attending the two-day conference. Merkel also signalled plans for the CDU to toughen its stance on refugees …
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The German police on Thursday raided a mosque in Berlin in search of Anis Amri, who is suspected of killing 12 people on Monday when he drove his truck into a crowded Christmas market in the city. Entire sections of Berlin have been closed down due to the police activity there. Local media reports that …
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Canadian Muslim organizations are calling on the federal government to take concrete steps in countering Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination. “As community representatives, we are deeply concerned about the impact of hate crimes and hate incidents on the broader well-being of our communities, and especially on our children,” said the …
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