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Fast Forward Muslim Teen Arrested for Emailing Death Threats to French Jewish Leaders
French police have arrested a Muslim teen for emailing death threats to two Jewish leaders in France. The teen, 19, identified only as Amin, according to reports, e-mailed videos of the decapitation of Islamic State hostages to Israel’s consul-general in Marseille Barnea Hasid, and Meir Habib, a Jewish member of France’s parliament. In the e-mail,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority Wants Role in Probe of Killings of 3 Muslims in North Carolina
The Palestinian government on Saturday condemned as “terrorism” the killings of three young Palestinian-Americans in North Carolina and called on U.S. authorities to include its investigators in the probe. Police have charged a neighbor with Tuesday’s shooting in the town of Chapel Hill of Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister…
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Fast Forward Was Slaying of Muslims by Neighbor a Hate Crime?
A neighbor was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of three Muslims near the University of North Carolina. The victims in the Tuesday night shooting included a newlywed couple — UNC dental student Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21. Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, a 19-year-old undergraduate at North Carolina…
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Fast Forward French Teacher Quits Muslim School Over ‘Charlie Had It Coming’ Hate
A teacher who taught at a French private high school for Muslims resigned because of rampant anti-Semitism and radicalism among his pupils. Soufiane Zitouni, a former teacher of philosophy at the Averroes high school in the city of Lille in northern France, revealed his reasons for quitting five months after beginning to teach there in…
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Fast Forward French Terrorists Planned To Attack Anti-Semitism Event
Jihadists arrested last year in Lyon were planning to carry out a terrorist attack at a Jewish group’s conference about anti-Semitism, a French newspaper reported. The five suspects who were arrested in a series of sweeps by French police between Sept. 16 and Sept. 18 were planning to strike on Sept. 18 at an event…
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Fast Forward Muslim Prisoner Wins Right to Wear Beard in Case With Orthodox Support
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a Muslim prisoner in Arkansas on his beard length in a case that drew Orthodox Jewish support. In the ruling Tuesday in favor of inmate Gregory Holt, written by Justice Samuel Alito, the court said Arkansas failed to show why it was unable to allow the half-inch…
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Fast Forward Duke Scraps Muslim Call to Prayer From Chapel Belltower
Duke University announced and then quickly reversed a decision this week to allow Muslim students to use the chapel belltower to broadcast a weekly call to prayer. The reversal came Thursday, just two days after the North Carolina university first announced would allow the call to prayer, called the adhan, from its iconic belltower. The…
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Fast Forward Muslim Hero of Kosher Grocery Siege Gets French Citizenship
The Muslim hero who hid shoppers from an Islamist gunman during an attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris will be given French citizenship, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. After the gunman had already killed people during a hostage taking in the store on Friday, 24-year old shop attendant Lassana Bathily hid several people…
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