Christians in Baghdad celebrated Christmas on Sunday in a heightened state of fear after deadly attacks on Christian-owned shops that sell alcohol. Two shops next [...]
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Read MoreJordanian security forces freed tourists trapped inside a medieval castle on Sunday after storming the building where armed men had taken shelter following a shoot-out [...]
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Read MoreA vigil takes place in Cairo to remember those who lost their lives in a bombing at the city’s largest Coptic cathedral last Sunday (December [...]
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The following pictures from Amjid Bashir (@amjidb) highlight graffiti that has been placed on Cumbernauld mosque in Glasgow. This is not the first time that the mosque has been targeted and in 2014 it had been targeted by an offshoot of Britain First extremists. The pictures show the words ‘Saracen Go Home‘ and with the
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The former leader of Britain First was jailed for breaching a court order banning him from entering mosques or Islamic Centres in England and Wales. Paul Golding, 34, was served with a court summons by Bedfordshire Police on 2 November after breaching a High Court injunction granted on August 11. He will serve half of his
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In May 2016, at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Plenary in Budapest, the following non-legally binding definition of anti-Semitism was accepted: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish
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Read MoreWe went to war in Iraq on a false premise, led by a man who had already hitched his mast to the warship of George [...]
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Read MoreA bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in [...]
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Read MoreThe U.S. military believes that some 50,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since the United States started battling the group more than two years [...]
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A Dutch court has convicted far-right populist Geert Wilders of insulting a group and inciting discrimination. The charges relate to comments made in March 2014 following the local electoral failure of his Freedom party (PVV) in the Hague. Wilders asked supporters and party activists if they would favour a country with more or fewer Moroccans.
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