U.S. sends nine Yemeni prisoners to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo

The Pentagon has sent nine Yemeni men to Saudi Arabia from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, including an inmate who had been on a long-term hunger strike, U.S. officials said on Saturday, the latest step in President Barack Obama’s final push to close the facility. The group was the largest shipped out of the […]

Pope returns with 12 refugees after visit to Greek island

Pope Francis took three families of Syrian refugees back to Rome on Saturday after visiting the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis at a camp in Greece where migrants wept at his feet, kissed his hand and begged for help. At a sprawling fenced complex on the Aegean island of Lesbos, adults and children broke down […]

Video of Chibok girls puts pressure on Nigeria’s Buhari

A video showing 15 of the 219 schoolgirls held by the jihadist group Boko Haram has added pressure on the Nigerian government to secure their release, after activists accused authorities of mishandling the case in the two years since their mass kidnap. Weeping parents identified the girls captured by Boko Haram fighters, who want to […]

How Trevor Phillips misrepresented ICM’s poll on British Muslims

After much fanfare, What British Muslims Really Think, aired on Channel 4 last night, hosted by Trevor Phillips. It promised “an extensive and rigorous survey to get a better understanding of British Muslims’ attitudes to living in Britain and British institutions”; but did it deliver on its promise? One major problem was the arguments put

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Far-right Austrian leader visits Israel’s Holocaust memorial

The leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Tuesday, laying a wreath under the engraved names of towns in Austria from where Jews were expelled by the Nazis. He said anti-Semitism had no place in his party and urged a common front against Islamists. Strache’s […]

German spy chief says Islamic State wants to attack but no specific plot known

Islamic State wants to carry out attacks in Germany and the security situation is “very serious”, the head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) told a Sunday newspaper, adding that he knew of no concrete plot to strike. The militant group released a video on Tuesday suggesting it may carry out further attacks in […]

Three years after Boston bombing, film shows distress of attacker’s friends

A new short produced by high school classmates of one of the Boston Marathon bombers, depicts their lives following the attack. For days after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Americans were glued to the news, eager to know who had planted the homemade devices that ripped through the crowd at the finish line, killing three […]

Dutch far-right leader tells court – ‘I want fewer Moroccans’

Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician leading calls for an EU ban on Muslim immigration, defied prosecutors in his discrimination trial on Friday by repeating in court that he wants “fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands. Wilders is accused of inciting hatred and discrimination against the Moroccan minority, in a trial that coincides with heated debate in

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Pope calls for compassionate Church open to ‘imperfect’ Catholics

Pope Francis on Friday called for a Church that was less strict and more compassionate towards “imperfect” Catholics, such as those who divorced and remarried, saying “no one can be condemned forever”. Francis said gays should be respected but firmly re-stated the Church’s position that there are “absolutely no grounds” to equate gay unions to […]

US Muslim Women Strike Back Against Hate Crimes

With women now thought to be the targets in 80 percent of anti-Muslim hate crimes reported in the U.S., one group is helping Muslim-American women in hijab protect themselves against their attackers, with their bare hands. Mana Rabiee reports. At five-foot two, Rana Abdelhamid looks diminutive — but the Egyptian-American native of Queens, New York

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