(Anadolu) A special commission in the French National Assembly approved the “charter of republican values” which was announced earlier by the nation’s president as the fight against Islamist separatism. The bill was introduced Oct. 2 by Emmanuel Macron to fight so-called “Islamist […]
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(Arizona Republic) The Council [on] American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed an appeal Friday in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a decision dismissing a case against the Maricopa Community College District and one of its professors for teaching material that […]
(NY Times) As the results of the American presidential election rolled in on Nov. 4, a young Sudanese couple sat up through the night in their small town south of Khartoum, eyes glued to the television as state tallies were declared, watching […]
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(JTA) Amid protest by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide. In a statement published Thursday […]
(Courthouse News) Italy is illegally sending asylum seekers who cross its borders back into the Balkans, where they are routinely beaten and mistreated by police, according to an Italian judge. In a ruling this week, Judge Silvia Albano with the Court of […]
(Local) Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says her ambition is for Denmark not to offer asylum to any refugees at all. The PM said that she wanted to reduce asylum applications in Denmark to zero during comments in parliament. “That’s what our target […]
(BBC) A man accused of having explosives, detonators and documents referring to jihad and combat has appeared before Westminster magistrates. Asad Bhatti, charged with terrorism offences, did not enter a plea. The 47-year-old from Redhill, Surrey, was arrested after police raided a […]
(AFP) A clear majority of Swiss voters favour introducing a nationwide prohibition against wearing face-covering garments in public spaces, known as a “burqa ban,” a poll showed Friday. According to the Tamedia poll of 15,000 eligible voters, a full 63 percent of […]
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(FrontPage) For a while, Hassan Shibly was arguably the most prominent representative of CAIR. His work in such things as attempting to regain the American citizenship of ISIS bride Hoda Muthana and trying to convince the courts that the federal “terrorism watch […]
(iNFOnews.ca) An alleged ISIS supporter who moved to Enderby in the summer of 2019 after having been acquitted of several terrorism-related charges has moved to a different B.C. community, iNFOnews.ca has learned. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada confirmed Othman Ayed […]
(Third Sector) The Charity Commission has declared itself satisfied with the response of Islamic Relief Worldwide to antisemitic comments made by former senior leaders. It comes as the charity said it had requested a meeting with President Biden’s new administration after the outgoing Trump […]
(BBC) A man from Surrey has been charged with terrorism offences, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) said. Asad Bhatti, 47, of Holland Close, Redhill, has been charged with two counts of possessing an article for the purpose of terrorism. He has […]
(BBC) The attorney general’s bid to increase the minimum sentence of a Newcastle man who incited a German terror cell to commit mass murder has failed. Lawyers for Suella Braverman argued that Fatah Abdullah’s nine-year minimum term was too lenient. They also […]
(AFP) The head of France’s main Muslim organisation on Thursday slammed a “unilateral” move by three Islamic groups not to sign up to an anti-extremism charter championed by President Emmanuel Macron. Macron wants French Muslim groups to sign up to the charter […]
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(BBC) An Islamic extremist has admitted sharing “terrorist tutorials” and having a stash of bomb and poison-making instructions. Souhaib Embarek, 34, was arrested after firearms officers forced entry into his Bristol home on 9 December 2019. He denied two charges of disseminating […]
(AFP) Three Muslim groups refused on Wednesday to back an anti-extremism charter pushed by French officials following a spate of jihadist-inspired attacks, dealing a blow to a flagship initiative of President Emmanuel Macron’s government. The charter rejects “instrumentalising” Islam for political ends […]
(Fox) Former Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf argued on Wednesday that President Biden’s intention to revoke Donald Trump’s travel bans for majority-Muslim countries is “going to make the American people less safe.” Speaking on “America Reports” shortly after Biden took the oath of office […]
(Anadolu) An ongoing debate on the controversial draft of a “separatism” bill has sparked criticism, [and] resulted in a diversion, dividing the house on the question of [the] veil, whether to include amendments to ban veiled students at the university and accompanying […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist organiser and friend of the Manchester Arena bomber has been returned to prison weeks after being released on licence, the BBC has learned. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after being found guilty of helping people travel […]
(Hill) President-elect Joe Biden plans to reverse a number of immigration actions taken by the Trump administration on his first day in office, including immediately pausing construction of the border wall and putting a stop to the so-called Muslim travel ban. After […]
(Reuters) A 24-year-old Italian suspected of fighting in the Middle East since 2014 with al Qaeda-affiliated groups was arrested in Turkey and jailed in Italy, police said on Wednesday. The unnamed man, who had lived with his wife and their four children […]
(BBC) Fears of an “active shooter” were raised by the ambulance service in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bomb, the inquiry in the attack has heard. The inquiry was told a call from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) to fire control […]
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(Anadolu) A French city’s mayor has lashed out against the government’s “Islamist separatism” campaign after a mosque in his jurisdiction was accused and shut down to combat radicalism. Patrick Floquet, the mayor of the Montmagny town in northern France, “denounced the incompetence […]
(JTA) The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a Muslim author who has called Gaza a “ghetto” and is accused of making anti-Semitic statements about Dutch Jews. The National 4 and 5 May Committee made the announcement […]
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(NL Times) On the day of a terrorist attack on a tram in Utrecht, seven bank employees looked up the details of the suspected terrorist in the bank systems, thereby violating the bankers’ oath. The Banks Disciplinary Commission on Tuesday decided not […]
(Dallas Morning News) An Irving man pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping his fugitive father elude capture for more than a dozen years in the alleged murders of his two teenage daughters, federal authorities said. Islam Yaser-Abdel Said, 32, entered a guilty plea […]
(Reuters) Dozens of migrants stormed into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla early on Tuesday, scaling the high, razor-wired fence that separates it from Morocco, local authorities said. The migrants, all from sub-Saharan Africa and nine of whom sustained injuries that required […]
(AP) The European Union’s top migration official on Tuesday criticized Bosnian authorities for failing to properly care for hundreds of migrants living in sub-zero temperatures on its territory, warning the Balkans country of its obligations if it hopes to join the EU. […]
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities launched coordinated raids nationwide targeting a human trafficking ring early on Tuesday, arresting suspects in Berlin, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, federal police said in a statement. Around 400 officers mobilized in total. The raids stem from […]
(Reuters) The Swiss government recommended on Tuesday that voters reject a proposal in a planned March 7 referendum to ban full facial coverings such as burqas and niqabs worn by some Muslim women, saying the move would hurt tourism. Under Switzerland’s system […]
(AP) A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York City’s 9/11 Memorial and other landmarks and attack U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said. Cole James […]
(Algemeiner) US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called Israel a “racist state” in an interview Tuesday with the left-wing news program Democracy Now!, and falsely claimed that it was denying coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians. “I think it’s really important to understand Israel is […]
(AFP) Syrian mother Dahouk Idriss says she can’t wait for US President-elect Joe Biden to be inaugurated Wednesday, so she can finally visit her son for the first time in four years. Biden has pledged that, on his first day in office, […]
(Kathimerini) Turkey condemned on Monday the comments made by Greece’s top cleric about Islam, describing them as “presumptuous” and noting that they undermine efforts to restart the exploratory bilateral talks on maritime sovereignty which are scheduled to start later in January. “We […]
(AP) The far-right Alternative for Germany says it accepts that people can be German citizens “regardless of their ethno-cultural background,” an about-face for a party whose leading figures have in the past questioned whether immigrants from outside Europe can be integrated. A […]
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(Free Beacon) The State Department has cut ties with Islamic Relief Worldwide, an international charity that the United States accuses of spreading anti-Semitism. The public accusations represent a wholesale shift in how the United States approaches a global charity that was, until […]
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(AP) Two Syrians have been charged in Germany for alleged links to a terrorist organization on suspicion they were involved in the killing of an army officer in their homeland in 2012, prosecutors said Monday. Khedr A.K. was charged with membership in […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron praised French Muslim leaders on Monday after they agreed on a “charter of principles” aimed at combatting sectarianism and radicalised teachings blamed for a surge in jihadist attacks in France in recent years. The charter offers “a clarification […]
(Morocco World News) French authorities have shut down 9 mosques since the month of December. “Among the 18 places of worship that were particularly monitored at my request, 9 were closed down,” the French minister of interior [Gerald] Darmanin tweeted on January […]
(AFP) France’s Muslim federations agreed Sunday on a “charter of principles” requested by President Emmanuel Macron in his bid to eradicate sectarianism and extremism. Macron urged the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) to devise the charter in November, after the […]
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