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Lawsuit: California high school students given Qurans, encouraged to wear hijabs during class trip to mosque

New York Post · August 15, 2026

Parents of a group of Bay Area high school kids are outraged after they say female students were encouraged to wear hijabs during a class trip to a mosque. The group, Community Members for Religious Neutrality in Public Schools, says students in the school’s Social Justice Pathway program took a trip to the mosque last fall and were handed Qurans while female students were encouraged to wear hijabs, the Islamic face covering viewed by some as oppressive to women. The lawsuit also alleges photos of the students were taken and posted online without parental consent ...

American-made "spoils of war" in Afghanistan

Daily Mail UK · August 15, 2026

After twenty years of war, the vast Western coalition assembled to fight them fled ignominiously, leaving behind billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure and military hardware.

Taliban Boasts It Operates 40 Embassies and Consulates Five Years After Takeover

Breitbart · August 14, 2026

Taliban "foreign minister" Amir Khan Muttaqi boasted in an interview with the BBC this week that the terrorist organization, which will mark five years since seizing power in Afghanistan on Saturday, has expanded its diplomatic outreach to include over 40 embassies and consulates around the world.

Gipson defends and explains legalities of proposed Sharia law ban as pushback grows

wlbt.com · August 14, 2026

CSPII Commentary: Andrew Gipson, Mississippi’s Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate pleges to ban Sharia law from taking root in the state. He views it as a seditious, competing legal system incompatible with the U.S. and Mississippi Constitutions and American freedoms pointing to its impacts in Europe and places like Dearborn, Michigan.

Protest against Japan's Fujisawa Mosque deepens - Organiser

Organizer.Org · August 14, 2026

CSPII Commentary: Residents in Fujisawa, Japan, are protesting the city’s first mosque, with thousands opposing it over sermon noise and alleged environmental concerns. The dispute has grown into a wider local backlash against the mosque and related Islamic practices such as burials.

The Muslim Brotherhood at a school near you - Washington Examiner

washingtonexaminer.com · August 13, 2026

CSPII Commentary: The Muslim Brotherhood at a school near you: the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of infiltrating democratic institutions by using civil-rights language and minority protections—is occurring in U.S. public schools.