15 February 2020

Judges reject bid to make Islamic marriages legally binding

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A bid to make religious marriages legally binding in the UK has been rejected by judges, dashing the hopes of campaigners who say women are ...
14 February 2020

Appeal Court rules Islamic marriages invalid in UK

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A court has reversed a judgment from two years ago which found that a couple who had an Islamic wedding ceremony could legally divorce. The ...

Islamic faith marriages not valid in English law, appeal court rules

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Islamic faith marriages are not valid under English law, the court of appeal has ruled, in a blow to thousands of Muslim women who have no r...
13 February 2020

'Toxic' Islamist terror website editors jailed

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Two web managers who ran a website glorifying Islamist terror groups and encouraging attacks have been jailed. Muhammad Abdur Kamali and Moh...

'Million woman' march hits streets of Iraq demanding end to violence

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Thousands of women assembled on streets across Iraq on Thursday for large-scale marches against the staggering levels of violence waged agai...

Hundreds of Iraqi women defy cleric to protest authorities

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Hundreds of Iraqi women of all ages flooded central Baghdad Thursday alongside male anti-government protesters, defying an order by powerful...

MP Khalid Mahmood calls for tougher controls on Muslim schools and security checks on imams

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The number of extremists known to the security forces is only "the tip of the iceberg", Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood has warned. H...

Afghan sports coach says she will flee after dog shot dead

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Sahba Barakzai, her family and seven-month-old husky Aseman, tried to get out into the mountains near their home in western Afghanistan ever...
12 February 2020

Court in Pakistan Validates Forced Conversion, Marriage of Christian Girl to Muslim

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A high court ruling in Pakistan validating the marriage and forced conversion to Islam of a 14-year-old Christian girl has heightened fears ...

Landmark Islamic funeral held for sex worker in Bangladesh

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Activists in Bangladesh have welcomed the first ever Islamic funeral for a sex worker, breaking a long-standing taboo in the Muslim majority...

Blasphemy 'is no crime', says Macron amid French girl's anti-Islam row

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Emmanuel Macron has waded into a row over a schoolgirl whose attack on Islam has divided France, insisting that blasphemy is “no crime”. The...
11 February 2020

Honour Crime: Swedish Muslim Migrant Sentenced for Beating Daughter with Kebab Spit

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A Swedish court has sentenced an Iraqi asylum seeker to eight years in prison for honour crimes after he beat his daughter with a kebab spit...

Controversial Muslim school at centre of probe is shut down - by order of Government

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The Department for Education has removed the controversial Birmingham Muslim School from its register of independent schools, triggering its...
10 February 2020

Mila: Teen who criticised Islam on Instagram moves school

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A French teenager who criticised Islam on Instagram has moved to a new school after receiving death threats. Education minister Gabriel Atta...
09 February 2020

France Quietly Reintroducing the Crime of Blasphemy

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Today, in France, using freedom of expression to criticize Islam is clearly an extremely dangerous act, even if you, like Mila, are a child....

Preacher who inspired Streatham terror attack peddling jihad from behind bars

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Hundreds of sermons preached by the Islamist cleric who inspired the men who carried out the terrorist attacks in Streatham and on London Br...

Tory inquiry imam in free-speech row

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A leading imam appointed by Theresa May to conduct a government inquiry into Islamophobia faced calls to stand down last night after he was ...

Iran chess champion ponders next move after slip of the hijab

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When she was nine years old, Shohreh Bayat’s father took out a chess set and taught her how to play. He picked it because it was one of the ...
06 February 2020

Orbán: Not a single Muslim immigrant in Hungary, declares liberalism over

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, during a panel discussion at the National Conservatism conference in Rome on Tuesday, declared libera...
05 February 2020

Can Muslim Terrorists be Deradicalized? - Part I

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"What we found [in prisons] was so shockingly bad that I had to agree to the language in the original report being toned down. With hin...

Streatham terror attacker devoted to ‘sheikh’ who inspired London Bridge killer

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The jihadist who stabbed two shoppers had boasted of trying to join Islamic State and was devoted to a notorious preacher who inspired anoth...

Muslim girls school kicks out Ofsted inspectors for wearing shoes in prayer room

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A Birmingham school which charges pupils £4,000 a year in tuition has accused Ofsted of 'serious failings' after being rated as ...
04 February 2020

Britain is losing the fight against extremism

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.... Last November Usman Khan, an Islamist released from prison 11 months earlier, murdered two people at a conference that he was attending...

French teenager who received death threats for saying Islam was a 's**t' religion says she 'does not regret' her online rant and defends her 'right to blaspheme'

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The French teenager who received death threats after footage of her saying that Islam was a 's**t' religion went viral online has co...
03 February 2020

Would most Iranians vote no to an Islamic republic?

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The shooting of a passenger airplane in Iran on January 8th and the initial denial of firing rockets, shattered the Iranian regime’s credibi...