A 21 year-old woman who works at the YMCA in Montreal has been permitted to wear a “burquini” as a lifeguard at a local sports complex. The young woman had filed a complaint with the Human Rights Board when the centre refused to allow her to wear a hijab when working at the pool. Previously…
Khaled Kashkush is not the first Hizbullah spy to be recruited and trained in Germany. In 1997 the Lebanese Shi’ite movement recruited Stefan Smyrek, a German who converted to Islam, to carry out a suicide attack in Tel Aviv or Haifa. Smyrek, whose father was a British soldier stationed in Germany, was arrested at Ben-Gurion…
A judge in Rotterdam ruled that the city’s education councilor, Leonard Geluk, had no right in advising parents to remove their children from the Ibn Ghaldoun Islamic school. Geluk has been ordered to write a letter to all parents correcting his advice. However, the education councilor may continue to state that the quality of education…
Members of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in the east-end of Toronto have pledged $50,000 CAD in bail money for Abdullah Khadr, who has been in custody for 2 _ years. Mr. Khadr, 27, is wanted in the United States for allegedly buying weapons in Pakistan for al-Qaeda and plotting to kill Americans in Afghanistan. The…
According to a new poll carried out by TNS NIPO with 1,100 Dutch adults, Dutch people are less negative about the presence of Muslims. At the same time, however, fewer and fewer Dutch people believe that the integration of Muslims into Dutch society will ultimately be successful. In this most current NIPO survey, only one…
