A Turkish couple is fighting the placement of their three children in Dutch lesbian foster family, saying that they do not want the children to “learn homosexuality” because it does not fit with their Islamic notions of sexuality. The children were taken out of custody after suspicion of child abuse. Their mother allegedly let a…
A mosque teacher who subjected two young girls to an ordeal of sex abuse at Koran lessons in Edinburgh has been jailed for seven years. Mahmood Qadri, 60, began preying on the children during the 1990s while helping the pupils learn the book of Islam. A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh was told…
A man has been convicted of racially abusing a Muslim pharmacist who refused to sell him the morning after pill on “ethical” grounds. Chris Mellett, 29, and Kaye Walsh, 36, had gone to Sainburys pharmacy in Ashton late on a Sunday afternoon to buy the pill after their usual form of contraception failed on Friday…
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations said that representatives of other religious ought to participate in organizing people’s guards in Russia. “I don’t see any obstacles to making people’s guards inter-religious, at least, where followers of other religions will be ready to participate in them. It…
A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain. Secret coded messages are…
