(Global News) The family of a Canadian orphan living at a camp for ISIS detainees in Syria filed legal action against the federal government on Tuesday, alleging Ottawa is violating her rights by not bringing her home. The case was filed in […]
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(Jerusalem Post) German federal police caught a suspected spy for Iran’s terrorist Quds Force in the state of Hesse, according to a review of the new Federal Intelligence Service report released by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s interior minister on Friday. “In February 2019, […]
(BBC) A group of Manchester Arena terror attack survivors will appeal against a ruling to not give them legal counsel at a public inquiry into the bombing. In April, chairman Sir John Saunders denied the group “core participant” status at the hearing, […]
(AP) Residents of a southern Italian town on Monday kept up their protest against more than a dozen rescued migrants with the coronavirus being isolated in a local apartment building. A day after blocking a nearby state road, dozens of Amantea residents […]
(BBC) Facebook accounts linked to the Islamic State group (ISIS) are still finding ways to evade detection on the social media platform, a new report claims. One network’s tactics included mixing its material with content from real news outlets, such as recorded […]
(AFP) French judges on Monday ordered two men to stand trial for the brutal 2018 killing of an elderly Jewish woman that prompted an outcry over a rise in anti-Semitic acts. Mireille Knoll, 85 and suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was stabbed in […]
(BBC) A record number of migrants crossed the Channel on the day the home secretary announced a “new operation[al] approach” to dealing with small boat crossings. The Home Office said 180 migrants made the crossing to the UK on Sunday in 15 […]
(BBC) An engineer has denied using WhatsApp to send videos glorifying terror groups. Aftab Khan, 52, is charged with five counts of disseminating terrorism material and possessing material likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing acts of terrorism. Mr […]
(AFP) Two Syrians have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of helping to carry out an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, prosecutors said Monday. Named only as Khedr A.K. and Sami A.S., the men are accused of having […]
(Breitbart) A report compiled by members of the French Senate has detailed the spread of political Islam across France and listed 44 proposals to combat radical Islamist ideology. The report, which was written by the Commission of Inquiry on Islamist Radicalisation and […]
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(BBC) A man who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria has died while being held in prison in the country, the BBC has been told. One source said that Ishak Mostefaoui, previously from east London, was killed while […]
(AFP) More than 500 migrants have arrived on Lampedusa over the past two days, the UN’s migration agency said Friday, as people take advantage of calm seas to attempt the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe. Since the start of summer, the island […]
(Jewish Journal) Anti-Defamation League (ADL) New York / New Jersey issued a joint statement with the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey (JFNNJ) on July 10 condemning the head of New Jersey’s Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for accusing Israel of “choking” […]
(ANSA) A Bolzano appeals court on Friday upheld all the convictions in a trial into a jihadi cell in Italy featuring an Islamist leader recently extradited to Italy from Norway, Mullah Krekar. The man’s 12-year prison term was upheld. Krekar was found […]
(Algemeiner) While widely panned by mainstream commenters, US Jewish journalist Peter Beinart’s New York Times op-ed earlier this week in which he called for a one-state solution to the Middle East conflict did earn the praise of some on the far-left — […]
(BBC) Four people are being questioned following a series of terror arrests on Thursday as part of an investigation into a suspected plot in the UK. Armed police raided a house in Ilfracombe Gardens, Romford, and a flat in Frank Slater House, […]
Almost two years after his column sparked a firestorm, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still being accused of bigotry for having opined that face-veiled Muslim women bear a resemblance to letter boxes and bank robbers. While the former comparison may be […]
(JTA) Two U.S. senators want to know if kosher and halal food is being included in the Department of Agriculture’s efforts to help alleviate food insecurity during the coronavirus crisis. The senators, Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who represent large […]
(BBC) Manchester Arena bombing survivors have lost their bid to be represented at a public inquiry into the 2017 bombing. In April, chairman Sir John Saunders denied survivors of the blast “core participant” status in the hearing. The group took legal action […]
(Malta Today) “Help me, please help me,” were the first words a 15-year-old girl told the police when they stormed her house to arrest her father, who was charged earlier today with Malta’s first “honour crime.” The man, from Syria, was remanded […]
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(AFP) A French jihadist given a 30-year jail term last week for crimes committed in Syria will be retried after prosecutors appealed Thursday seeking life imprisonment. On Friday, a court jailed Tyler Vilus, 30, for crimes committed between 2013 and 2015 when […]
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(Free Beacon) The Al Jazeera news network is running afoul of U.S. laws mandating it disclose its ties to the Qatari royal family, which has for years used the network to further Doha’s political interests in America, according to a new report […]
(Wired) On August 10, 2019, a woman on Facebook posted a status warning her contacts not to accept friend requests from her sister Charlotte, whose account had been hacked. She shared a screenshot of the account: an image of a blonde-haired boy […]
(Dutch News) Court hearings have ended in the appeal against politician Geert Wilders’ criminal sentence for inciting racial discrimination. In 2016, the PVV leader was found guilty of insulting a group of people and inciting discrimination, after leading calls for “fewer, fewer, […]
(Toronto Sun) On Saturday, July 4, Mississauga’s Celebration Square witnessed a protest by Palestinian Canadians against the planned annexation of the West Bank into Israel proper. The organizer of this event wrote: “As Canadians, we need to condemn this illegal annexation and […]
(Courthouse News) Religious groups argued their case against a Belgian law banning ritual animal slaughter before the European Union’s highest court on Wednesday, while Belgium denied the law infringes on religious freedom. The law, which requires that animals be stunned before being […]
(National-UAE) Italian police have arrested a 38-year-old man who was spreading ISIS propaganda online and allegedly inciting people to carry out violent attacks. Nicola Ferrara is originally from Bari in Puglia but now lives in Milan where he was detained. He is […]
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(BBC) A man has been arrested after a small boat carrying migrants was intercepted in the Channel. The Home Office said a Border Force cutter intercepted a vessel carrying 10 men who said they were Somali, Sudanese and Yemeni on Tuesday. A […]
(Radio NZ) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it’s not her place to decide if Sir John Key should apologise over false claims brides were leaving New Zealand for ISIS in 2015. The Islamic Women’s Council says the later-disproven comment to the Parliamentary […]
(Jewish News) Senior Jewish and Muslim leaders this week issued a joint plea ahead of a European Court of Justice hearing into the legality of a Belgian ban on religious slaughter. Standing together on the issue were Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president […]
(JTA) An Islamic civil liberties and advocacy organization will represent a man who has been denied kosher food in a Michigan jail. The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said in a statement issued Monday that it would […]
(Times of Malta) Migrants who have spent the past three days aboard a ship built to house animals were brought to Malta late on Tuesday night. Sources said that the roughly 50 people aboard the MV Talia were transferred to an Armed […]
(AFP) It is “shameful” that the European Union has still not found a solution for the care of asylum seekers five years after the migration crisis, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, whose country holds the EU presidency, said Tuesday. Seehofer was speaking […]
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(Portsmouth News) A Conservative councillor suspended after being linked to a Twitter account spewing Islamophobic bile has hit out at Boris Johnson[‘s] jibe against women wearing a burka. Denmead ward member Judith Clementson has repeatedly refused to “confirm or deny” she is […]
(Reuters) Greece moved 25 unaccompanied minors from overcrowded migrant camps to Portugal on Tuesday as part of a relocation programme to EU countries. The boys, all aged between 15 and 17, had lived in refugee camps on outlying Greek islands. They have […]
(AFP) The number of foreign medical graduates from Muslim-majority countries coming to the United States to become doctors has declined by 15 percent under the Trump administration, exacerbating shortages in America’s physician workforce, a study said Monday. International medical graduates represent about […]
(Global News) A former member of a terrorist group that plotted truck bombings in Toronto to protest Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan is appealing a government decision to place him on the no-fly list. Saad Gaya was part of the Toronto 18 […]
(BBC) Online clothing shop Shein has apologised for selling Muslim prayer mats on its site. The mats sold were labelled as “frilled Greek carpets” and had pictures of the Kabaa on them. The Kabaa is a building in the centre of Mecca, […]
(Pioneer Press) While ordering a drink Wednesday in St. Paul, a 19-year-old Muslim woman gave the barista her name — Aishah — and repeated it for clarity. The Minneapolis woman was shocked when she saw what the barista then wrote on her […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss justice authorities have filed an indictment against two suspects for terror offences. The charges include travelling to a Middle East conflict zone controlled by the Islamic State organisation, which is banned in Switzerland. The two suspects, a Swiss […]
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