Somali Islamist group al Shabaab bombed a restaurant frequented by members of the security forces in Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least three people, officials [...]
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Politicians across Europe are calling for a ban on the Islamic veil but Bosnian Muslim Indira Sinanovic is defying the trend as well as widespread [...]
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Bulgaria’s parliament on Friday banned the wearing of face veils in public in a move which supporters said would boost security in the wake of [...]
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The following leaflet was circulated in Altrincham, Greater Manchester. Headlined with ‘Do we really want this’, it plays up a proposed Muslim community centre, suggesting a ‘massive’ development being built on ‘precious green belt’ land. Yet, the objections raised may well be legitimate concerns, however, one statement in the leaflet raises eyebrows and should make
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Read MoreThe following leaflet was circulated in Altrincham, Greater Manchester. Headlined with ‘Do we really want this’, it plays up a proposed Muslim community centre, suggesting a ‘massive’ development being built on ‘precious green belt’ land. Yet, the objections raised may well be legitimate concerns, however, one statement in the leaflet raises eyebrows and should make
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Read MoreWar crimes judges on Tuesday sentenced a former Islamist rebel who admitted wrecking holy shrines during Mali’s 2012 conflict to nine years in prison, in [...]
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Leicestershire Police have expressed their ‘disappointment’ at ‘inaccurate’ press coverage of their uniform policy. On September 22, the Sun’s bombastic headline read ‘More burkas on the beat’ in response to claims that Leicestershire Police may allow Muslim officers to wear the burqa. The Sun’s article incorrectly stated that the force “would have to consider”any such
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The purported leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video posted on social media on Sunday in which he [...]
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Few would have known Nahed Hatter who had written on Islamist violence and narratives for decades. A writer who had left Jordan for the Lebanon [...]
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The sister of French Islamist militants Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain was put under formal investigation for criminal association in relation to a terrorist undertaking and [...]
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