April 12, 2019 – Eye on Islamism

Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams to join Bundeswehr chaplains German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen wants the Bundeswehr's military chaplaincy to include rabbis and imams. She would like to have it done by the end of 2019. But there are still several potential issues.

April 12, 2019 Christoph Strack

(Deutsche Welle) Since he became the first rabbi to complete an internship with the German military chaplaincy in 2004, Konstantin Pal has fought to make the Bundeswehr more open to different religions. Back then he accompanied a Catholic priest who was assigned to […]

Member of Springfield mosque threatened to ‘kill everyone there,’ police say

April 12, 2019 Harrison Keegan

(Springfield News-Leader) Police say a member of a mosque in Springfield threatened to kill everyone at the building because they were protecting his abused partner. Richard McLendon, 39, was charged Wednesday with communicating a terrorist threat. He is being held in the […]

Sweden will repatriate children of Isis fighters ‘if possible’: foreign minister

April 12, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Local) Sweden’s foreign minister has said the country is working to facilitate the return to Sweden of children of Swedish nationals who travelled overseas to join the Isis terror group. “The government is now working intensively so that children with a connection […]

France jails ‘jihadist’ woman accused over foiled terror attack

April 12, 2019 Unlisted Author

(AFP) One of three women allegedly involved in a foiled plot in 2016 to blow up a car packed with gas canisters near the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris was on Friday sentenced to eight years in prison by a French court […]

2020 Dems defend Rep. Omar from Trump amid controversy over 9/11 remarks

April 12, 2019 Matthew Choi

(Politico) Several Democratic 2020 hopefuls have come out in defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) after conservative media and President Donald Trump attacked her for comments they portrayed as minimizing the September 11 attacks. During an event held by the Council on […]

Britons going to terror hotspots face 10 years in jail under new laws (LINK ONLY)

April 12, 2019 EoI News

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Trump tweets edited video slamming Omar over 9/11 comments

April 12, 2019 Tal Axelrod

(Hill) President Trump tweeted an edited video of recent comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) about the 9/11 attacks that provoked an avalanche of conservative criticism. The video shows Omar speaking to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in March interspersed with […]

Feds abandon female genital mutilation appeal

April 12, 2019 Robert Snell

(Detroit News) Federal prosecutors will not appeal a judge’s order dismissing female genital mutilation charges in the first criminal case of its kind nationwide, concluding the law is weak and needs to be rewritten. The decision delivers a setback to international human-rights […]

Ingraham Angle explodes over Ilhan Omar and 9/11: ‘Excuse me, do I not exist? Do I not exist right here?’

April 12, 2019 Caleb Howe

(Mediaite) Conversations both online and on-air continue to be contentious on the topic of Rep. Ilhan Omar this week. After several prior controversies, one of which resulted in a watered-down House resolution following anti-Semitic comments from the congresswoman, the latest flare-up is […]

Ilhan Omar, in bizarre clip, jokes about people saying ‘Al Qaeda’ in menacing tone

April 12, 2019 Lukas Mikelionis

(Fox) Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a newly resurfaced clip of an old interview, joked about people saying “Al Qaeda” and “Hezbollah” in a severe tone — while noting nobody says words like “America” that way. “When I was in college, […]

AOC, Tlaib met with AMP members during Palestine Advocacy Day

April 12, 2019 John Rossomando

(IPT) Members of the rabidly anti-Israel group American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) met this week with U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., during the group’s annual Palestine Advocacy Day. Ocasio-Cortez posed for a photo with AMP supporters outside her […]

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