(NL Times) Junaid I. was sentenced to 10 years in prison for threatening an attack on PVV leader Geert Wilders by the court in The Hague on Monday. The court convicted the 27-year-old Pakistani man of preparing for a murder with a […]
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(Global News) A month before a Canadian convicted of trying to join ISIS was released from an Ontario prison in June, he was denied parole on the grounds he posed too great a risk, newly released records show. On May 24, the […]
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(BBC) Plaid Cymru has suspended a party member included in its party election broadcast over allegations of anti-Semitism. The party said it will conduct an investigation into historical social media comments made by Sahar Al-Faifi. Ms Al-Faifi appeared in Plaid Cymru’s party […]
(Yle) Finland will pause asylum seeker repatriations to Iraq following criticism by the European Court of Human Rights. Police tweeted the news on Saturday, saying that the suspension does not cover convicted criminals. Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo immediately took to Twitter, saying […]
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(Reuters) A federal judge on Saturday ordered that a German citizen arrested on her return to the country on suspicion of being a member of Islamic State should remain in custody, prosecutors said. Authorities said the suspect, identified only as Nasim A., […]
(Jewish Exponent) The Philadelphia Jewish community was roiled in May when a video surfaced of children at a local mosque and community center singing an anti-Semitic song in Arabic at an Umma Day celebration. Now, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations has […]
(Anadolu) The Muslim call for prayer was recited Friday on loudspeakers for the first time in Amsterdam, according to a mosque official. The Blue Mosque had originally planned the Adhaan last Friday, but the cable of the audio system was cut by […]
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(Deutsche Welle) The father of a family of seven, expelled by Turkey on Thursday, was taken into custody on arrival in Germany, said Martin Pallgen, a spokesman for the Berlin state Interior Ministry. A warrant for his arrest is understood not to be […]
(Local) 71 Syrians have been paid since May 1st this year by the Danish state to leave the country and return home, figures from the Danish Refugee Council show. The figures were reported by newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad on Friday. Each left the country with […]
(ANSAmed) French Secretary of State to the Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said Friday that France has closed various businesses, schools, places of worship and associations in about 15 neighbourhoods in the country “hit by political Islamism and communitarianism.” “We are fighting against […]
(Anadolu) A Daesh/ISIS terrorist who was stranded at the Turkey-Greece border has been extradited to the U.S., the Turkish interior minister said Friday. “Today an American who was stuck between our country and Greece was extradited to the U.S. from Istanbul a […]
(Deutsche Welle) The government has long struggled with foreign involvement when it comes to the education of imams who lead Muslim communities across Germany. Now, a new educational association, with start-up funding from Germany’s interior ministry, is set to launch on November 21. Even though some […]
(AP) A purported street-gang leader from suburban Chicago who became radicalized in prison faces federal charges accusing him of seeking to provide money to Islamic State militants in Syria, according to a complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Jason […]
(KSTP) Hilal Ibrahim started volunteering at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park when she was 14 years old. “When I volunteered, a lot of women would wear white hospital blankets on their heads because there just wasn’t anything else available,” Ibrahim recalled. […]
(Brussels Times) Vlaams Belang on Thursday launched a campaign in Antwerp and on Facebook against the return of terrorist fighters to Belgium. The aim of the campaign is to put pressure on the government and press for measures such as striking former […]
(Yle) Finland has been found guilty of violating Articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case of Ali, an Iraqi man who was denied asylum in 2017, deported to Iraq and killed a few weeks later. […]
(AFP) The United States and its European allies clashed Thursday over what to do with thousands of jihadists jailed in Syria, with Washington calling a French proposal to try fighters in Iraq “irresponsible.” Senior officials from more than 30 countries pledged greater […]
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Edward Ahmed Mitchell, executive director of CAIR-Ga. since 2016, has been named national deputy director of the organization in Washington, D.C. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is one of the nation’s leading Muslim civil rights and advocacy organizations. Under his […]
(Religion News) A new report by an advocacy group accuses a Phoenix imam of sexual battery, child abuse, misappropriation of charitable funds and falsely presenting himself as a single man to pursue relationships with female congregants while having two concurrent concealed marriages. […]
(NZ Herald) Women MPs of colour and across four political parties are banding together to ensure female genital mutilation is illegal in New Zealand. A bill to clarify the legal definition of female genital mutilation has been introduced to Parliament and is […]
(Anadolu) The U.S. citizen terrorist will be repatriated to his home country after [being] in legal and literal limbo along the Turkey-Greece border, the Turkish Interior Ministry said on Thursday. “The necessary legal procedures to send the foreign national terrorist to the […]
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(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) A former St. Louis man who supplied equipment to a St. Louis County man who fought and died for the Islamic State in Syria was sentenced Thursday to eight years in federal prison. Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 45, recruited a […]
(Deutsche Welle) A family of seven German Islamists arrived in Berlin on Thursday after the Turkish Interior Ministry announced earlier this week that it would start deportations of captured “Islamic State” supporters. There are no German arrest warrants for the family of German-Iraqi Kanan B., meaning […]
(BuzzFeed) A federal judge ruled Thursday that Hoda Muthana, a US-born woman who left the country to join ISIS, is not an American citizen, and therefore the government has no obligation to facilitate her return or that of her 2-year-old son. Judge […]
(Washington Post) Responding to concerns about a possible conflict between Advanced Placement exams and a major Muslim holiday next school year, the College Board will expand testing options for the holy day of Eid al-Fitr in 2021. College Board officials said Wednesday […]
(Anadolu) Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to take Daesh/ISIS terrorists back into their home countries, Turkey’s interior minister said on Wednesday. “I would like to thank two countries, Germany and the Netherlands,” said Suleyman Soylu during a village guard training meeting […]
(Reuters) A Hungarian court on Wednesday began the trial of a Syrian man accused of terrorism and crimes against humanity as a military leader of Islamic State near the city of Homs in 2015, saying he participated in the murders of dozens […]
(AP) France commemorated the fourth anniversary of the Islamic State attacks that struck the heart of Paris with a solemn reading Wednesday of the names of 131 dead, and the growing certainty that the group’s recruits will return home in increasing numbers. […]
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(Radio France) Several hundred people gathered in Paris on Wednesday to pay tribute to the 130 people killed in terror attacks on 13 November 2015. For those affected by the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall, the anniversary stirs a mix of […]
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(Radio France) Four years after 130 people were murdered in coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, a fund to help survivors is still receiving new cases — underlining how long it can take for victims to come to terms with their trauma. Those […]
(CBC) Quebec’s largest women’s organization said it was the target of hateful comments on social media after announcing support for the hashtag MonVoileMonChoix, or My Hijab, My Choice. The Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ) said it was inundated with hateful, Islamophobic messages. Some […]
(AP) Greek officials Tuesday scrapped plans to criminalize blasphemy as a law-and-order debate intensified between the country’s new conservative government and the left-wing opposition. Justice Minister Costas Tsiaras said the proposal has been removed from draft legislation that’s being debated in Parliament. […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) Federal terrorism investigators have charged a former Drexel University student with hiding his ties to the anti-American insurgency group that has embroiled Yemen in a protracted and devastating civil war. Prosecutors said Gaafar Mohammed Ebrahim al-Wazer — a 24-year-old Yemeni […]
(AP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday issued a veiled threat suggesting Turkey could release the Islamic State group prisoners it holds and send them to Europe, angered at a EU decision to impose sanctions on his country over its drilling […]
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(AP) A foreign fighter from Denmark has been jailed in pre-trial custody for 27 days, a day after the man was deported from Turkey, which has begun to send home people who fought for the Islamic State group. Prosecutor Sidsel Klixbull told […]
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(AP) Authorities in Germany detained three alleged supporters of the Islamic State group Tuesday on suspicion of preparing a deadly attack against non-Muslims. Frankfurt prosecutors said some 170 police officers searched three apartments in the nearby city of Offenbach and detained the […]
(IPT) Nihad Awad has a vision for America’s future. Awad, a co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), calls it “the formula.” “A strong CAIR equals a strong community,” he said Saturday during CAIR’s national fundraising banquet. “A […]
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(Copenhagen Post) The Danish-Palestinian jihadist Ahmad Salem el-Haj was arrested in Copenhagen Airport yesterday afternoon after being sent back by Turkey, where he had been serving a four-year sentence for joining the ranks of Islamic State (IS). El-Haj, 28, will be questioned […]
(NL Times) A group of six people was being held in connection with raising at least 200 thousand euros in donations, much of which was allegedly distributed to help finance terrorism. Four men were arrested in the Netherlands, and two were taken […]
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