A Western Sydney council has rejected an application to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from a mosque over concerns it would create too much noise in the neighbourhood.
Canterbury-Bankstown Council rejected the proposal, which sought permission for the call to prayer to be broadcast at Australia’s largest mosque.
Lakemba Mosque in NSW had requested permission for the broadcast to take place once a week on Fridays for 15 minutes using four loudspeakers.
More guts than Canada.
An academic project hosted by Cambridge University promotes an “Islamic curriculum” which tells 12-year-olds that Hamas is an “excuse that Israel uses to justify its attacks on the Gaza Strip,” calls the civilian hostages taken by the terror group on October 7 “prisoners of war” and publishes in pupils’ course material a map of the region from which Israel has been erased.
The project also publishes a guide aimed at parents and children, written after the attacks, which asks: “What is the reward of a shaheed [a martyr]? How does this make you feel when you think of all the children of Gaza who are now shuhada [martyrs]?” and states, quoting the Quran: “Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead – in fact, they are alive but you do not perceive it.”
From 2015 to 2017, the socialist Muslim Senate candidate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, was executive director and health officer of the Detroit Health Department. In that capacity, he was in charge of Detroit’s Animal Control operation at a time when that department was engaged in some highly questionable activities. El-Sayed has boasted about how he “rebuilt the animal control system,” but he actually seems to have left a wide swath of destruction in his wake. And this is not just a story about the ethical treatment of animals.
A Canadian man with alleged ties to terrorist organizations has been barred from entering Panama and returned to Canada.
According to Panama’s National Migration Service, the detection occurred during verification procedures.
For many years, it has been tantamount to racism to draw any connection between foreign nationals and criminal offending in the UK. But case after case shows that there is a connection, and that it is becoming stronger. This is particularly true when it comes to male immigrants from Afghanistan committing sexual offences.
“Wherever you came from, you came to America. And you came for one reason—for one reason only—to establish Allah’s deen,” Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a former vice president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), had told Muslims, “democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam.”
“Muslims in America are the most strategic Muslims on Earth,” the top Islamic figure, who has posed with numerous politicians, including Zohran Mamdani, said.
The bomb scare at Halifax’s U.S. consulate that shut down much of the city’s downtown last week had its echoes in Clayton Park, the suburb established in the 1960s that in recent years has been a magnet for the port city’s burgeoning population of immigrants.
As downtown was swarmed by police, including bomb experts who found potentially explosive items in a car outside the consulate, the investigation took Halifax police to the quiet cul-de-sac home of the man charged in the episode.
Very authoritarian and unBritish https://t.co/MIIbS3jLAo
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) August 16, 2026
A group of Bay Area parents and students are suing their local school district over a 2025 field trip where children were allegedly encouraged to wear Muslim religious attire like hijabs while visiting a mosque.
The federal suit filed last week by ten Palo Alto High School students names the Palo Alto Unified School District and Principal Brent Kline as defendants.
It alleges that photographs of the students were also posted online, without the parents’ permission.
Imagine the scene: a Mass celebrated in an ancient church in Normandy, three parishioners, two nuns and an elderly priest. Six people in all. And two terrorists armed with knives who interrupt the rite and slit the priest’s throat on the altar.
It was nothing new.
1996: seven French monks massacred in Algeria.
2006: an Orthodox priest beheaded in Iraq.
But on 26 July 2016 this horrible ritual was consummated in the heart of European Christendom.
While Israel is locked in a visible, kinetic battle with Hamas, an equally insidious struggle is unfolding in the corridors of Western power.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological architect of Hamas, is executing a “quiet march through the institutions” of Europe, aimed at hollowing out the foundations of democracy from within – an invisible strategy that seeks to transform Western civilization without firing a single shot.
After World War II, many of Europe’s “elites,” notably in Germany and Austria, were in grave need of denazification. We have now arrived at a time when European leaders and “elites” are, once again, in desperate need of deradicalization — from being “pro-Hamas.”
Sometimes the sentiment is presented as “pro-Palestine,” but it really has nothing to do with Palestinians and everything to do with hating Jews. If these protestors were actually pro-Palestinian, they would be demanding freedom of speech, equal justice under the law, better educational opportunities and better governance, where Palestinian leaders were less corrupt and did not shoot at their own people to prevent them from taking aid, or plant weapons depots among them to increase their own citizens’ casualty rates.
Three Afghan men are currently on trial in Germany for allegedly gang raping a 17-year-old girl while she was unconscious.
One of the men, 25-year-old Kambiz H., fled following the alleged crime and was arrested in London.
Kambiz, alongside Quais W., 20, and Burhanulla N., 19, are accused of having approached the victim at 4am on September 21, 2024, at the Leopoldstraße bus stop in Dortmund’s northern district.
Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed and his biggest ally, streamer Hasan Piker, have a few things in common. Animal abuse may be one of them.
Two men have been charged with attempted murder after Sara Sharif’s killer father ‘had his throat slit with a tuna can lid’ at HMP Belmarsh.
Steven Sansom, 47, and Adam Watson, 39, are accused of trying to kill Urfan Sharif at the high-security prison in south-east London on New Year’s Day last year.
Sharif was ambushed in his cell by two inmates armed with the jagged lid of a tuna tin.
Better luck next time.
