German Court Lifts City’s Ban on Burkini Swimsuits
A German court has lifted a city’s ban on the burkini, an all-encompassing swimsuit used by some Muslim women.
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N Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Killing 3 Muslim Students
The North Carolina man charged with killing three much-admired Muslim university students pleaded guilty Wednesday, four years after the slayings.
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A California middle schooler claims in court that his social studies teacher at Mesa Union School District refused to call him by his Arabic name and disseminated false information to the class, such as Islam permits Muslims to rape with the blessing of Allah.
Read moreRamadan Over, World’s Muslims Celebrate Eid al-Fitr
Muslims across the world Tuesday began marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, one of the most celebrated holidays for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims and traditionally a time for family and festivities.
Read moreCommission Condemns Memphis Judge’s Racist Posts
A county commission in Tennessee Monday unanimously resolved to support calls to censure a Memphis judge whose public Facebook posts disparaged immigrants, Muslims and linked to at least one article denying the Holocaust.
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A federal judge refused to dismiss claims by the International Refugee Assistance Project and others over President Donald Trump’s two executive orders and proclamation that largely banned “nationals of multiple predominantly Muslim nations” from entering the United States.
Read moreMyanmar Frees Reuters Reporters Jailed for Secrecy Act Crime
Two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for breaking Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act over reporting on security forces’ abuses of Rohingya Muslims were pardoned and released Tuesday.
Read moreLandlord Who Refused to Rent to Muslims Must Pay $675,000
A Denver landlord who was recorded telling her tenant to find an “American person … good like you and me” to sublease her property instead of a Muslim father and son seeking to open their second restaurant must pay the men $675,000 under a settlement.
Read moreUS Museum Condemns Use of Its Art by German Far-Right Party
An American art museum is demanding that a German far-right party stop using one of its paintings, portraying a 19th-century slave auction, in a campaign poster for the European elections.
Read moreArmy Veteran Busted in Domestic Terror Plot
A former U.S. Army infantryman wanted to set off a pressure cooker bomb with shrapnel at a political rally in Southern California over the weekend, but he turned to the wrong person for help: an undercover source working for the FBI, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Read moreNew Zealander Pleads Guilty to Sharing Mosque Shooting Video
A Christchurch businessman has pleaded guilty to sharing a livestream video that was recorded by a gunman last month as he began killing 50 people at two New Zealand mosques.
Read moreSri Lanka Says Terror Mastermind Died in Hotel Bombing
The suspected leader of the militant group Sri Lankan authorities blamed for a series of Easter Sunday bombings died in the blast at the Shangri-La hotel, one of six hotels and churches targeted in the attacks that killed at least 250 people, officials said Friday.
Read moreOklahoma Gun Range Removes ‘Muslim Free’ Sign in ACLU Case
An Army reservist represented by the American Civil Liberties Union dropped his federal lawsuit Tuesday against an Oklahoma gun range after it agreed to remove a “Muslim free establishment” sign and begin serving Muslim customers again.
Read moreMyanmar Court Rejects Appeal of Jailed Reuters Reporters
Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison sentences for their reporting on the military’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
Read moreJudge Considers Whether Terror Watchlist Is Unconstitutional
A federal judge says he will rule in the near future on the constitutionality of a government watchlist that includes more than 1 million people the FBI considers to be “known or suspected terrorists.”
Read moreAfter Mosque Attacks, New Zealand Bans ‘Military-Style’ Guns
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced a ban of “military-style” semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines like those used in the shootings at Christchurch mosques last week.
Read moreTurkey’s Erdogan Enrages New Zealand After Massacre
Ignoring widespread criticism, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday again showed excerpts of a video taken by the attacker who killed 50 people in mosques in New Zealand, to denounce what he called rising hatred and prejudice against Islam.
Read moreMass Shootings at New Zealand Mosques Kill 49
Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people on what the prime minister called “one of New Zealand’s darkest days,” and authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack.
Read moreUS Envoy Wants Probe of ‘Horrific’ Muslim Camps in China
Describing China’s internment of an estimated 1 million Muslims as a “horrific situation,” a U.S. envoy on religion called Tuesday for an independent investigation into the detentions and for the release of those being held.
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