The Left that arrests pastors who define traditional marriage turns the other way when Muslim women are hidden behind veils or killed.
Iranian dissidents accuse the German giant Bosch of manufacturing and selling Iran the cameras used by the ayatollahs to find Iranian women on the streets who do not wear the veil so they can punish them. Can that be the same Bosch that organizes the pro-LGBT “Pride like a Bosch” on the streets of Europe?
The West has become a cartoon of its own self.
A former Pakistan international cricketer has been given a 12-year prison sentence in the Netherlands for threatening far-right MP Geert Wilders.
The case was based on a video posted online in 2018, in which Khalid Latif offered 21,000 euros (£18,000) to anyone who would kill the politician.
That was after Mr Wilders made comments about the Prophet Muhammad that were offensive to Muslims.
It is considered unlikely that Latif will serve any of his sentence.
He currently lives in Pakistan, which has no extradition treaty with the Netherlands.
Al-Qaida-linked militants have killed at least 64 people in twin attacks on an army base and a crowded passenger boat on the Niger River in northern Mali.
Extremists from the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) appear to have targeted the Timbuktu boat on the river and an army position at Bamba, in the northern Gao region, with “a provisional toll of 49 civilians and 15 soldiers killed”, according to a government statement.
Earlier, the Malian army said on social media that the boat was attacked by “armed terrorist groups”.
A number of relatives of the father of Sara Sharif have been detained for questioning by police in Pakistan.
Sara’s father, Urfan Sharif, 41, and his partner Beinash Batool, 29, fled the UK after the 10-year-old was found dead at their home in Woking on 10 August.
Post-mortem tests found Sara sustained “multiple and extensive injuries”.
A police spokesman in Jhelum said 10 close relatives had been taken into custody.
Why should a teenage girl not be able to express her religious beliefs and at the same time pursue an education at school?
It is a tough question, but one to which the French believe they have an answer.
Which is, broadly, because there is such a thing as a French nation, and the teenager is part of it. Nothing defines France, and separates it from its neighbours, quite so clearly as the issue of la laïcité, or secularism.
A former soldier who absconded from a prison kitchen by strapping himself to the underside of a delivery van has been recaptured.
Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was arrested in Chiswick, west London, on Saturday, having gone missing in his cook’s uniform from HMP Wandsworth in London on Wednesday morning.
The Metropolitan police said they had arrested him just before 11am on Saturday.
The only religion whose clerics have set out rules governing sex with animals.
Apparently unable to find someone of his own species for a late evening date, a migrant in Germany entered a stable in the town of Birkenmoor at night and raped a pony. A surveillance camera caught the whole episode, though the malefactor has not yet been caught.
There’s fevered speculation about inside jobs or state actors involved in the HMP Wandsworth prison break by terror suspect Daniel Khalife. But as police close in on Richmond park, whether he’s found cowering in a ditch or at a press conference in Tehran, this dramatic escape reveals just how close we are to a full blown crisis across our prison system.
Wandsworth has been failing in plain sight in front of helpless officials at the Ministry of Justice for years. Repeated inspections have revealed squalor, overcrowding and chronic staff retention problems with young, inexperienced officers out of their depth. Writing about another filthy jail recently, Chief Inspector Charlie Taylor, rapidly running out of superlatives for crisis, correctly said that dirty and uncared for jails were a proxy for far more serious problems. At Wandsworth, summed up by recent prison leaver Chris Atkins as ‘chaos run by schoolchildren’, all the ingredients for this week’s catastrophe were there already, without the James Bond flourishes.
A man whose daughter was sent home twice allegedly threatened to kill the headteacher for imposing an abaya dress ban at a French school.
The father of the high school student is suspected of making the death threats over the phone.
According to C News, the daughter attends Ambroise-Brugière High School in Clermont-Ferrand, which has nearly 1,300 students.
France’s top administrative court has upheld a government ban on girls in state schools wearing abayas, rejecting complaints that it was discriminatory and could incite hatred.
The government announced just before schools reopened this week that the abaya, a long, flowing dress worn by some Muslim women, would no longer be allowed because it violated the French principle of secularism, or laïcité.
An association representing Muslims – Action for the Rights of Muslims (ADM) – had filed an urgent motion with the state council, France’s highest court for complaints against state authorities. They called for an injunction against the ban, saying it was discriminatory and could incite hatred against Muslims, as well as racial profiling.
The footage is mundane and revelatory all at once.
The hallway, filmed from an unmoving closed-circuit camera, appears unremarkable. It’s the point in time, and the people in the former children’s hospital, that make the hours and hours of video from this and other cameras on site extraordinary.
ISIS fighters roamed the hallways of this building complex in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which they had claimed as a headquarters. They moved blindfolded prisoners. They struck them with sticks. They walked past a man being tortured – straining to stand, arms tied aloft behind his back.
A manhunt has been launched for a soldier suspected of terror offences who escaped from prison on Wednesday morning.
Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was awaiting trial after being accused of leaving fake bombs at a military base.
He escaped from HMP Wandsworth, London, and is thought to still be in the city.
Civil servants have been forced to freeze funding worth more than £2 million to a Birmingham mosque described as “infamous” due to a history of alleged extremism.
The £2.2 million grant from the Department of Culture’s Youth Investment Fund was set to go towards a youth facility at the Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre. This was withheld after a video of a preacher discussing the stoning of women went viral on social media.
Do they never learn?
Dozens of girls who turned up for school in France on Monday wearing abayas in defiance of a ban on the Muslim garment were sent home when they refused to remove them, a government minister told French broadcaster BFM on Tuesday.
The abaya, an over-garment covering the body from shoulders to feet that some Muslim women wear, was banned in schools by the French government last month.
The government says the abaya constitutes a display of religious affiliation, banned at schools under a 2004 law.
Denmark’s government has announced a bill seeking to ban the public burning of the Quran. Expected to pass by the end of this year, the law prescribe a two-year jail-term, and a fine, for the
“inappropriate handling of objects with essential religious significance for a religious community.”
The move comes amidst rising terror threat levels after a string of Quran-burning incidents in Denmark and Sweden, with the latter, too, under pressure to take action.
