Employment
Migrants could be electronically tagged to deter people from crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Month: December 2021
Immigration
Another 160 people intercepted while trying to cross the Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Channel migrant crossings to UK more than triple in 2021
(AFP) Arash took his first steps on English soil on a cloudy, drizzly day in May, after attempting a perilous crossing of the Channel from northern France. UK border police intercepted the inflatable dinghy on which he and others spent five hours […]
Demographics
Hungary’s PM denounced in Bosnia for anti-Muslim rhetoric
(AP) Bosnian officials and religious leaders on Wednesday denounced suggestions voiced by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his spokesman that the integration of Bosnia into the European Union will be challenging because of its large Muslim population. Orban’s spokesman Zoltan Kovacs […]
Immigration
Saudi Arabia denies ‘potential terrorist’ arrested by US authorities is Saudi national
(Arab News) The Saudi Arabian embassy in the United States has denied in a post on Twitter that a “potential terrorist” recently arrested by US authorities is a Saudi citizen. This comes after American authorities falsely claimed that a suspect arrested in […]
Children & Teens
Danish ex-minister ousted from parliament after impeachment
(Reuters) Former immigration minister Inger Stojberg, a main architect behind some of Denmark’s tough immigration policies, was voted out of parliament on Tuesday by her fellow lawmakers following her conviction in a rare impeachment case earlier this month. Stojberg was handed a […]
Government & Politics
Orban: Hungary will defy EU court ruling on asylum policy
(AP) Hungary will not change its immigration policies despite a recent ruling from the European Union’s top court that found them in contradiction with the bloc’s laws, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Tuesday. Orban’s announcement came as Hungary’s anti-immigration government is locked […]
Legal
Lisa Smith trial to go ahead in the new year (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
‘Hounded’ university lecturer Klaus Kinzler provides totem for France’s right (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Channel migrants: Court of Appeal overturns asylum seeker convictions
(BBC) Four Iranian men who crossed the English Channel in small boats have had their convictions for immigration offences quashed. The Court of Appeal said it had not been proven they intended to enter the UK illegally. The men were intercepted by […]
Employment
CAIR says second ‘spy’ for anti-Muslim group has come forward, was paid thousands
(Columbus Dispatch) One week after the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Ohio chapter in Hilliard was fired for spying on the organization for an anti-Muslim group, the national office of CAIR announced Tuesday via its Twitter account that a second “spy” […]
Government & Politics
Appeals court revives Muslim family’s case over airport searches Calling it 'heartless,' a three-judge panel blasted the government’s suggestion that the Jibril family book another flight and face additional invasive searches to find out if they are on the terror watch list.
(Courthouse News) The D.C. Circuit gave a Muslim family a second chance Tuesday in their lawsuit claiming they were wrongly placed on the federal terrorist watch list and subjected to unconstitutional searches on a religious trip. Mohammed Jibril, a U.S. citizen of […]
Legal
Moroccan acquitted on terror charge wins Polish court battle
(AFP) Poland’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan man who had been acquitted of being an accomplice of the suspected mastermind of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris. Prosecutors had appealed against the acquittal and had requested a six-and-a-half-year […]
Internet
Cryptocurrency: Cardiff terrorist Khuram Iqbal jailed over trading
(BBC) A convicted terrorist has been jailed for 16 months over his cryptocurrency trading on the dark web. Khuram Iqbal, 29, from Cardiff, was originally jailed in 2014 for three years and three months for disseminating terrorist publications and possessing terrorist information. […]
Government & Politics
Sir David Amess: Ali Harbi Ali pleads not guilty to murdering MP
(BBC) A man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of MP Sir David Amess in an alleged terror attack. Ali Harbi Ali, 25, from Kentish Town, north London, appeared at the Old Bailey to deny murdering the Conservative politician on 15 […]
Interfaith
Muslim civil rights group leader continues attacks on ‘Zionists’ as she goes on sabbatical
(JTA) A Muslim civil rights leader who stirred outrage when she said “polite Zionists” like Jewish federations “are not your friends” continued her critique of “Zionists” as she announced that she is going on a sabbatical. “I am still in the middle […]
Health & Medicine
Nurse jailed after siding with Islamists back in court over TikTok use
(Age) A Melbourne nurse, who was sent to prison after he helped Syrian rebels, faces a string of new federal charges, including allegations he accessed social media sites TikTok and Facebook and viewed images of guns and extreme sexual violence in breach […]
Law Enforcement
New police chief in Dearborn to be first Muslim to lead department
(Detroit Free Press) A veteran of the Dearborn Police Department will be the city’s next police chief, Mayor-elect Abdullah Hammoud announced Monday. Starting Jan. 1, Cmdr. Issa Shahin, who has served with Dearborn Police since 1998, will be the first Muslim to lead the […]
Government & Politics
Lithuania says migrant numbers from Belarus could soon increase
(Reuters) [The] Lithuanian Interior Ministry said Belarus authorities have ordered migrants to be cleared from a warehouse near the Polish border and from Minsk, which could lead to renewed attempts to push the migrants in large numbers into the European Union. At […]
Legal
Kentucky man charged with supporting terrorist organization
(Lexington Herald Leader) A man who came to Kentucky as a refugee has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organization. Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 31, has dual U.S. and Bosnian citizenship and lived in Bowling Green, according to a news […]
Halal
Federal judge allows Muslim inmate’s claims to proceed based on denial of religious diet
(Colorado Politics) A Muslim inmate has plausibly alleged that the Colorado Department of Corrections and two food services workers violated his rights by canceling his religious diet, a federal judge decided in allowing the claims of Ray Anthony Smith to proceed. Smith […]
Legal
Dane charged with defending terror attacks in France
(AFP) A Dane with dual nationality was on Monday charged with threatening to carry out attacks, inciting acts of terror and defending deadly attacks in France last year, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old man’s posts on Twitter included a defence of two attacks […]
Immigration
Saudi Arabian ‘potential terrorist’ nabbed at US-Mexico border; ties to Yemeni subjects of interest, feds say Saudi man, 21, was photographed wearing 'Central Oneida County Volunteer' jacket
(Fox) A “potential terrorist” with links to a number of “Yemeni subjects of interest” was captured in Arizona late last week after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol officials announced Monday. The 21-year-old man was apprehended Thursday night entering the […]
Government & Politics
Fears over ISIS prisoners due for release in Germany Intelligence chief says extremists may have been radicalised further in jail
(National-UAE) Jailed ISIS fighters in Europe may have been radicalised further in prison by the time they are released, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service has said. Thomas Haldenwang sounded the alarm over extremists due to be released in 2022 after […]
Immigration
Migrant crossings: More than 270 people cross the Channel on Sunday
(BBC) More than 270 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Sunday, the Home Office confirmed. It comes after more than 900 people crossed on Thursday and Friday. Border Force officials brought 274 people in 11 boats into the Port […]
Internet
Islamic extremists sidestep Facebook’s content police Despite the company’s claims to clamp down on violent hate speech, POLITICO discovered scores of groups supportive of either Islamic State or the Taliban.
(Politico) Photos of beheadings, extremist propaganda and violent hate speech related to Islamic State and the Taliban were shared for months within Facebook groups over the past year despite the social networking giant’s claims it had increased efforts to remove such content. […]
News: Europe
5 years later, Germany remembers victims of Berlin Christmas market terror attack On December 19, 2016, Islamist attacker Anis Amri drove a stolen truck through a crowd in central Berlin, killing and injuring dozens. Five years later, the background to the attack remains unclear.
(Deutsche Welle) The bells of Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Breitscheidplatz will ring 13 times this Sunday at exactly 8:02 p.m., once for each of the victims of the 2016 terror attack at a nearby Christmas market. The time marks the […]
Legal
A grim warning, as Paris court hears testimony on the making of a terrorist
(Radio France) In the final week of hearings before the winter break, the special criminal court in Paris heard from the relatives of some of the dead terrorists involved in the November 2015 attacks. A senior police investigator, meanwhile, warned that similar […]
Internet
Prisoner serving life term who stabbed guard in terrorist attack ran Facebook account from jail (LINK ONLY)
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Demographics
Michigan city gets ready to inaugurate all-Muslim government
(CNN) For decades, Hamtramck was known as Michigan’s “Little Warsaw,” a city of just two square miles of tightly packed houses and factories, spitting distance from downtown Detroit. The Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla visited once, back in 1969, before he became pope. […]
Law Enforcement
Paris attacks ‘could happen again tomorrow,’ warns veteran anti-terror cop
(Radio France) Patrick Calvar spent 25 years of his policing career fighting terrorism. He was head of the French Interior Security Division between 2012 and 2017. On Friday, he told the special criminal court trying those suspected of complicity in the November […]
Immigration
Migrant crossings: More than 900 cross Channel in two days
(BBC) More than 900 people have crossed the Channel in small boats over two days, the Home Office has confirmed. On Thursday 559 people were picked up off the Kent coast after making the crossing in 19 boats, and on Friday 358 […]
Government & Politics
Gov’t to expand border fence with Turkey by 26km, minister says
(Kathimerini) The government will expand the border fence with Turkey in the country’s northeast by 26km, Civil Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos told MPs on Friday. Addressing the Parliamentary Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affair[s], he said in addition to repairing the […]
Crime
BBC ‘broke law’ in reporting on Oxford Street bus antisemitism, claim victims’ lawyers (LINK ONLY)
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Animals
Belgium’s Muslim community challenges halal slaughter ban at Strasbourg Court Belgium’s ban on ritual animal cutting curbs religious freedom, support[s] populist attacks against minorities, organizations argue
(Anadolu) The Muslim community in Belgium will appeal at the European Court of Human Rights against the ban on ritual halal animal slaughtering. “The Belgian Muslim Executive and the Coordination Council of Islamic Institutions of Belgium will challenge at the European Court […]
Immigration
Afghans push through snowy Alps toward new lives in Europe
(AP) When suicide attackers and gunmen massacred crowds flocking to Kabul’s airport, they also severed the escape route that Ali Rezaie hoped would take him to a new life abroad, far from the Taliban and their suspicions of well-educated, middle-class people who […]
Legal
Former San Diego resident pleads guilty to terrorism charges
(Times of San Diego) A former San Diego resident pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges for providing money and other resources to support terrorist activities in Syria. Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi admitted in San Diego federal court to wiring funds to people for […]
Government & Politics
Rashad Hussain confirmed as first Muslim US religious freedom ambassador ‘Ambassador Hussain is well placed to advance the US government’s promotion of international religious freedom,’ said the chair of a religious freedom watchdog.
(Religion News) Rashad Hussain has been confirmed as the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, making him the first Muslim American in the role. Hussain was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday (Dec. 16) by an overwhelming vote of 85 to […]
Academics & Education
Denmark pledges to protect teachers from threats against free speech
(Euronews) Denmark says it will take measures to protect teachers’ freedom of expression and prevent the risks of “self-censorship.” The Danish government has stated that teachers should be able to speak about certain subjects, including cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the Holocaust, […]
Clothing
Man spared jail after wearing T-shirts promoting banned Palestinian groups (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Dope, drinks and dangerous propaganda: A glimpse inside the Abdeslam brothers’ café
(Radio France) Only two of the three witnesses called on Thursday actually gave evidence. Both were associates of the Abdeslam brothers at their café in Brussels. Both spoke by videolink from the federal police building in the Belgian capital. Neither had much […]
Government & Politics
Four months after withdrawal, Biden admin doesn’t know identities of Afghan refugees resettled in US GOP lawmakers want full accounting of failed vetting efforts
(Free Beacon) More than four months after the Biden administration airlifted nearly 75,000 Afghans out of the war-torn country, it still does not know the identity or backgrounds of many who have since been resettled in the United States, according to three […]
Government & Politics
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s staffer retweets Hamas Democrat operative Rasha Mubarak, once again, stands with and promotes terrorists.
(FrontPage) Orlando, Florida-based Democrat operative and Rashida [Tlaib staffer] Rasha Mubarak has a soft spot for bloodthirsty terrorists. She uses her claim of “Palestinian heritage” to make common cause and to glorify them, justifying suicide bombings and aiming rockets at Jewish civilian […]
Employment
Hilliard police not pursuing criminal investigation into CAIR-Ohio’s director
(Columbus Dispatch) The Hilliard Division of Police announced Thursday afternoon that it is not pursuing a criminal investigation against Romin Iqbal, former executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ohio chapter (CAIR-Ohio). Iqbal, 45, was fired on Tuesday from his role […]
Employment
CAIR: Spying on Columbus Muslim advocacy group dates at least to 2008
(Columbus Dispatch) Romin Iqbal, a former leader of a Columbus Muslim advocacy group, had been sending confidential information to an anti-Muslim group since at least 2008, national Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials said Thursday morning. During a media call, the national […]
Academics & Education
Bill 21 and the politicization of the hijab
(Toronto Sun) Last week, a Quebec school teacher was removed from her classroom for wearing the hijab. Quebec’s controversial secularist law, Bill 21, prohibits religious symbols in public places. The law has many human rights activists and federal parliamentarians on edge. MPs […]
Children & Teens
New York imam busted in civilian child sex abuse sting
(NY Post) A New York imam was charged with attempted child sex abuse raps after he was busted in a civilian sting operation that exposes pedophiles on YouTube, the Post has learned. Ahmet Yuceturk, who was previously the imam at JFK Airport’s […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Is Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic, ‘affiliated with’ terror groups? GOP lawmaker’s words ruled out of order
(CNS) During Tuesday night’s sometimes combative House debate over a bill to create a special envoy on “Islamophobia,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) was called out after accusing the bill’s author of being anti-Semitic and of being “affiliated with” terrorist groups. Perry did […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Critics slam ‘anti-Islamophobia’ bill
(Daily Caller) The anti-Islamophobia bill passed in the House Tuesday was introduced by a representative with a history of anti-Semitic comments and has the potential to chill free speech, critics told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This legislation is a nightmare for […]
News: Europe
Tareena Shakil: IS mother ‘regrets everything’ about Syria journey
(BBC) A woman convicted of travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group says she “regrets everything” about it. Tareena Shakil, from Birmingham, was jailed in 2016 when she returned to the UK after three months with IS. The 32-year-old said […]