(Politico) Austrian authorities have shut down a mosque and an Islamic association frequented by the man who killed four people in a terror attack in Vienna earlier this week. Integration Minister Susanne Raab and Interior Minister Karl Nehammer announced the closure of […]
(NL Times) The police arrested an 18-year-old woman from Rotterdam on Friday morning in the investigation into threats made against a local teacher over a cartoon he had in his classroom. The young woman is suspected of incitement, the police said. “The […]
(Reuters) Europe must rethink its open-border Schengen area, including a more robust protection of the zone’s external frontiers, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria. The tighter controls were needed to curb clandestine […]
(AP) Greece’s coast guard towed a boat carrying 65 asylum-seekers to a port on the country’s western coast after it was found to be in distress in the Ionian Sea, authorities said Thursday. The Migration and Asylum Ministry said that 35 of […]
(Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free expression in a call with the president of France on Thursday, his office says. The conversation with France’s Emmanuel Macron came one week after three people were killed in a deadly knife assault in […]
(BBC) Six people are wanted for questioning by detectives investigating the Manchester Arena bombing, a legal document has revealed. The parents of the brothers responsible for the atrocity are both suspects, as are two associates. One of the associates, who was arrested […]
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(Oregonian) A federal indictment unsealed Thursday accuses an Oregon man of advocating violent jihad in an online Arabic newspaper in support of the terrorist organization ISIS. Hawazen Sameer Mothafar, 31, of Troutdale was arrested Thursday morning, federal authorities said. Mothafar pleaded not […]
(Brussels Times) Belgian police arrested two minors, who were suspected of planning a terrorist attack against the police, in the area of Eupen in the Liège province last weekend. Searches took place in Eupen and La Calamine, both in the Liège province, […]
(AP) A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State […]
(Religion News) Mauree Turner, a 27-year-old member of Oklahoma City’s Muslim community, became Muslim after learning about the faith from her father, who converted while incarcerated. Black and nonbinary, Turner is also a community organizer who’s long been involved in criminal justice […]
(NL Times) A teacher from the Emmauscollege in Rotterdam went into hiding because he was threatened over a cartoon that hung in his classroom, according to newspaper NRC. The cartoon was drawn by cartoonist Joep Bertram about the attack on satire magazine […]
(AFP) Eight of those detained following Monday night’s terrorist attack in Vienna had previous convictions, including for terror offences, the Austrian interior minister said Thursday, as the investigation extended to Switzerland and a second, unnamed country. In the wake of the attack […]
(AP) Greek police said Thursday they have arrested a 27-year-old man on an international arrest warrant issued by Tajikistan on suspicion of him being a member of the Islamic State group. Police said the man was arrested on Wednesday in the southern […]
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(Arab News) More than one million American Muslims participated in the 2020 US election, with nearly 70 percent voting for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, an exit poll has showed. The poll by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said US Muslim […]
(Swiss Info) Two men being held in connection with a recent terror attack in Vienna were already under criminal investigation in Switzerland, it has emerged. The duo, aged 18 and 24, were arrested in the Swiss city of Winterthur on Tuesday — […]
(AFP) Shalom Berntholz never closes his kosher restaurant in central Vienna, but as a new coronavirus-induced lockdown approached, he decided to shut early. That saved his life. A gunman who supported the Islamic State (IS) group kicked off his shooting rampage on […]
(Deutsche Welle) At least one of the assailants in the Vienna attack was known to police. The 20-year-old, shot dead on Monday evening, had made several attempts to leave the country and join the so-called Islamic State (IS). It would appear, however, that […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels-West police zone stopped a protest against a so-called “witch” in the municipality of Molenbeek, after a group of people came together to denounce his use of black magic. Approximately 30 people gathered in front of the practice of […]
(BBC) Risk assessments carried out by the Manchester Arena operators were “flawed” and “pretty much box ticking,” an inquiry has heard. Miriam Stone, SMG’s head of events, told the inquiry into the attack there was no specific assessment done for the Ariana […]
(BBC) A bid to increase the prison sentence of the Manchester Arena bomber’s brother has been rejected. Hashem Abedi, 23, was jailed in August for his part in the 2017 terror attack which killed 22 people. An application to further extend his […]
(AFP) Austria acknowledged Wednesday there had been security failings leading up to the deadly gun rampage in Vienna by a convicted Islamic State sympathiser. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said intelligence services had received a warning from neighbouring Slovakia that the assailant had […]
(Hill) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) was projected to win reelection in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District early Wednesday morning. The Associated Press called the race for the Michigan lawmaker at 4:12 a.m. EST with over 66 percent of precincts reporting. One of the […]
(BBC) Two men have been jailed for smuggling themselves and 23 other people across the Channel on two small boats. Iraqi national Assad Abdul Latif Sayed Abdulghany, 30, and Iranian national Ali Azarkish, 23, were both sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment on […]
(NL Times) The police arrested a man in August on suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist attack in the Netherlands, NU.nl reported based on charges filed by the Public Prosecution Service (OM). One of [the] suspect’s potential targets was Pride Amsterdam, […]
(NZ Herald) The leader of a Christchurch mosque where 42 Muslims were shot dead last year has denounced the recent attacks in France and called on French president Emmanuel Macron to take a lesson from New Zealand’s response to extremist violence. Two […]
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(Swiss Info) The Zurich cantonal police have arrested two men over suspected ties to the deadly attacks in Vienna that took place on Monday evening. The arrests came after both federal and cantonal authorities announced they were investigating possible Swiss ties to […]
(CBC) Plaintiffs challenging Quebec’s ban on religious symbols sought to dismantle, on Tuesday, one of the main arguments made by supporters of the law — that the hijab is a symbol of female oppression and undermines gender equality. The Laicity Act, which was passed […]
(CBC) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed Tuesday to clarify comments he made last week about the limits of free speech after a teacher in France was beheaded by a terrorist for showing cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a class […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) is project[ed] to win reelection to her House seat in Minnesota, brushing aside a challenge from a Republican tech entrepreneur in securing a second term on Capitol Hill. A member of “the Squad,” four progressive women of […]
(JTA) Following a suspected terrorist attack that left four dead in Vienna by a shooter who reportedly shouted “Allah,” European rabbis made an unusual appeal for more “control and transparency” over what goes on at mosques across the continent. “It is important […]
(AFP) Austrian investigators were on Tuesday piecing together the Monday evening rampage through central Vienna by a lone gunman and later claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, as Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called for a European response to “political Islam.” Four people […]
(BBC) The operators of Manchester Arena where 22 were killed in a terror attack have denied accusations of “penny pinching” and putting people’s lives at risk. And on the night SMG put the arena’s terrorism risk level at low despite the national […]
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(AFP) The gunman responsible for an attack in Vienna which left four people dead on Monday night was a convicted supporter of the Islamic State (IS) group who the government says “fooled” official de-radicalisation efforts. The 20-year-old, named as Kujtim Fejzulai, was […]
(BBC) A Libyan man arrested after the Manchester Arena terror attack is suing MailOnline‘s publisher for £230,000 for publishing his details. Alaedeen Sicri, 26, was arrested in West Sussex and released without charge over the May 2017 bombing of an Ariana Grande […]
(WIBW) Junction City High School’s principal is suspended following an incident involving a student with a hijab. USD 475′s Board of Education met in executive session during their meeting Monday night. They remained behind closed doors for more than a half hour. […]
(Reuters) Gunmen attacked six locations in central Vienna on Monday starting outside the main synagogue, killing two people and injuring at least 14 in what Austria called a “repulsive terror attack” while hunting one or more assailants on the loose. Witnesses described […]
(CBC) A test of the constitutionality of Quebec’s secularism law began Monday amid tearful testimony from Muslim and Sikh teachers who said the law derailed their careers and made them targets of bigotry. The law, which was passed last year despite protests from civil […]
(Copenhagen Post) Nye Borgerlige has been delayed in its efforts to publish Charlie Hebdo’s Mohammed cartoons in Danish newspapers. The ad campaign was intended as a show of support after the murder of Samuel Paty, who showed his classroom a depiction of […]
(BBC) Salman Abedi “blended in too well” to be picked up by security on the night he detonated a suicide bomb at the Manchester Arena, an inquiry has heard. James Allen, arena manager for SMG, said he was not aware that teenagers […]
(AFP) France on Monday honoured the teacher beheaded near his school by a suspected Islamist radical as millions of students returned to class after a spate of attacks that have put the country on edge. Schoolchildren across France observed a minute of […]
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(AFP) French Catholics on Sunday celebrated the All Saints religious festival under heavy security, as police made two new arrests over an attack on a church in the southern city of Nice blamed on an Islamist knifeman. Three people were killed in […]
(CBC) Around 9:30 on Monday morning, on the 17th floor of a drab, black and grey building in Montreal, some of the most basic principles of Canadian democracy will go on trial. That’s when lawyers from several civil society groups will begin […]
(Brussels Times) Military patrols will be maintained on the streets of the country’s cities until 2 December at the earliest, the government has decided. In May this year, the caretaker administration of Sophie Wilmès took the decision to bring an end to […]
(AP) The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts of extremist violence, including two beheadings. President Emmanuel Macron has […]
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