(Local) A Swedish municipality has voted to deny social welfare to citizens who travelled to Syria to fight for the Isis terror group — even though none of its residents appear ever to have done so. The leader of the Social Democrats […]
(Dutch News) The NRC on Friday published more details about the security service report on Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school, which has led to officials calling on the board to resign. The paper say[s] it has seen AIVD documents which claim controversial […]
(IPT) It might seem natural for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles chapter to invite U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar to speak at Saturday evening’s fundraising dinner. CAIR is predominantly a conservative Sunni-run political organization, and Omar, D-Minn., is one of […]
(AFP) The driver of a school bus who torched the vehicle to protest Mediterranean migrant deaths claimed on Friday he acted after hearing the voices of drowned children urging him on, media reports said. Insisting again that he did not want to […]
(Reuters) Hungarian authorities detained a Syrian man on Friday accused of taking part in beheadings in Syria as a member of Islamic State, Budapest prosecutors and the European judicial co-operation agency Eurojust said. The 27-year-old man, identified by Hungarian authorities as F. […]
(Reuters) Ten men were detained in raids around Frankfurt on Friday on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack using a vehicle and guns with the goal of killing as many people as possible, prosecutors said. Several of the suspects, aged 20 to […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) has been holding a series of secret fundraisers with groups that have been tied to the support of terrorism, appearances that have been closed to the press and hidden from public view. The […]
(JTA) Austria’s Muslim residents are more than twice as likely as non-Muslims to endorse anti-Semitic statements, according to a survey commissioned by the Austrian government. Asked whether they agree with a statement blaming anti-Semitic persecution of Jews on their own behavior, 19 percent […]
(AFP) A Turkish-born suspect has confessed to terrorist charges over a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht which killed three people, prosecutors said Friday. Thousands of Dutch mourners including Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte took to Utrecht’s streets […]
(AFP) A Moroccan accomplice of the suspected mastermind of the deadly 2015 terror attacks in Paris was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Friday by a Polish court for belonging to the Islamic State group. Mourad T. pleaded not guilty […]
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