Academics & Education
Sheffield lecturer boasts of partying with ‘beautiful’ terrorist (LINK ONLY)
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Month: February 2022
Government & Politics
Biden weighs temporary protected status for Afghans
(Hill) The Biden administration is considering offering temporary protected status (TPS) to Afghans already in the United States, three sources familiar with the matter told the Hill, as the clock winds down on how to find a way for thousands to legally […]
Government & Politics
Military planning 10-ship taskforce to intercept illegal migrants in Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Whole of Hamas listed as a terrorist organisation
(Sydney Morning Herald) The entirety of Palestinian group Hamas has been listed as a terrorist organisation by the federal government as Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says the Coalition has no higher priority than national security. Reaction to the decision has been […]
Alcohol & Drugs
FBI: Texas synagogue hostage-taker sought ‘machine gun’
(AP) The man who took hostages at a Texas synagogue sought to buy drugs and a “machine gun” before the standoff last month that ended with the hostages escaping and the gunman’s death, an FBI agent said in court Wednesday. The testimony […]
Clothing
French bill banning hijabs in sports events moves to National Assembly
(Reuters) A draft bill that would ban the wearing of the hijab in sporting competitions will pass on to France’s National Assembly after the Senate on Wednesday declined to vote on the legislation. The broader bill is devoted to “democratising sport,” including […]
News: North America
Canada’s first convicted terrorist deemed too dangerous for parole
(Global News) The first Canadian convicted under anti-terrorism laws enacted after the 9/11 attacks has lost his bid for release after the Parole Board ruled he wasn’t ready to leave prison. The decision followed a hearing at which Mohammad Momin Khawaja struggled […]
Government & Politics
EU border agency to help Cyprus with migrant repatriations
(AP) The chief of the European Union’s Frontex border agency said Wednesday that the repatriation of migrants is Cyprus’ “most urgent need” and that his organization is ready to facilitate flights to return home people who had asylum claims rejected in Cyprus. […]
Government & Politics
Germany to mark victims of terrorism annually on March 11
(AP) The German government said Wednesday that the country will formally commemorate the victims of terrorism every March 11, starting next month. The date marks the anniversary of 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid and is already commemorated each year by the European […]
Government & Politics
Swiss authorities lose trace of two jihadists in Syria
(Swiss Info) The Swiss foreign ministry says it has “no definite information” on the whereabouts of two terror suspects who had been detained in northern Syria. The two jihadists — originally from Geneva and Lausanne — have been missing since a rescue […]
Government & Politics
Canada’s secretive policy on ISIS detainees closes door to repatriation
(Global News) The federal government has quietly adopted a policy that all but closes the door to repatriating Canadians from detention facilities in Syria for captured ISIS members and their families. The secretive policy document on the detainees obtained by Global News […]
Legal
Garda says there was concern for Lisa Smith’s safety after return home (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
State senator who once denigrated Islam as a ‘cult of hate’ seeks recognition for Muslim holidays Practicing Muslims make up about 3 percent of New Jersey’s population, according to the Pew Research Center — the highest percentage of any state.
(Politico) Selaedin Maksut didn’t expect anything specific to come out of his meeting late last year with then-state Sen.-elect Ed Durr after an anti-Muslim tweet of Durr’s surfaced. But what was initially planned as a meeting to explain Islam to Durr — […]
Government & Politics
Biden’s stalled Small Business nominee gets a spot at State
(Hill) President Biden’s choice to serve as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) has been given a position at the State Department after his nomination was blocked for months by Senate Republicans. The State Department announced on Tuesday that Dilawar […]
Government & Politics
MI5 knew Manchester Arena bomber supported Isis before attack, documents reveal (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Bad things were happening but ‘it wasn’t my problem,’ Lisa Smith tells court (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Priti Patel’s ‘unworkable’ asylum reforms will cost taxpayer £2.7bn a year, report finds (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Police had intel on Manchester Arena bomber years before attack, inquiry told (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
The forgotten story of Shamima Begum’s ‘fierce and powerful’ fellow ISIS bride Amira Abase (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Three prisoners launched ‘animalistic’ attack on officer in high-security wing of HMP Belmarsh, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Five ISIS arrests in Spain on grooming and funding charges Two were detained on recruiting allegations and three on funding
(National-UAE) Five people have been arrested in Spain on charges of grooming potential ISIS recruits and funding the organisation in Libya. In two separate anti-terrorist operations, Spanish national police swept on suspects in Barcelona, Girona, Valencia and Melilla, one of two Spanish […]
Christians
Trial opens over jihadist murder of French priest
(AFP) The alleged accomplices in the 2016 murder of an 85-year-old French priest appeared in the dock in Paris on Monday after years of investigation into an attack that shocked a country already reeling from a spate of jihadist assaults. Father Jacques […]
Government & Politics
Cyprus minister pins blame for migration ’emergency’ on Turkey
(AFP) The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU member state located closest to the Middle East. “For us, this is a state of emergency,” Nicos Nouris told AFP, adding […]
Demonstrations
Afghans protest US move to unfreeze $3.5B for 9/11 victims
(AP) Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital on Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans. Protesters who gathered outside Kabul’s grand […]
Government & Politics
More than 500,000 Afghan migrants are heading for Europe and the Channel coast (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Confusion and contradictions as Ali El Haddad Asufi takes the stand
(Radio France) Four weeks of testimony from and about the Paris attacks accused ended on Friday with evidence concerning Ali El Haddad Asufi, suspected of having provided weapons for the terrorists who killed 130 people in Paris on the night of 13 […]
Law Enforcement
FBI believes it is ‘beyond suspicion’ that Lisa Smith joined Isis, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Afghan refugees in UAE protest for third day, call for U.S. resettlement
(Reuters) Afghan refugees held in the United Arab Emirates for months since fleeing Afghanistan last year protested for a third day on Friday, calling for resettlement in the United States. The demonstrations by hundreds of Afghans began on Wednesday at the centre […]
Government & Politics
Biden frees frozen Afghan billions for relief, 9/11 victims
(AP) President Joe Biden signed an order Friday to free $7 billion in Afghan assets now frozen in the U.S., splitting the money between humanitarian aid for poverty-stricken Afghanistan and a fund for Sept. 11 victims still seeking relief for the terror […]
Clothing
French lawyer attacks EU over poster featuring Muslim woman Social media outburst puts France’s treatment of its minority Muslim population — the largest in Europe — back in the spotlight.
(Al-Jazeera) A French lawyer has criticised the European Union over an advertisement for its Conference on the Future of Europe event featuring a hijab-wearing Muslim woman. Thibault de Montbrial, an adviser to France’s centre-right presidential hopeful Valerie Pecresse, said the use of […]
Government & Politics
EU seeks to deploy border agency to Senegal
(AFP) European Commissioner Ylva Johansson on Friday offered to deploy the EU’s border agency to Senegal to help combat migrant smuggling, following a surge in perilous crossings to Spain’s Canary Islands. At a news conference in the Senegalese capital Dakar, Johansson said […]
Crime
Woman who called Grenfell fire ‘Jewish sacrifice’ jailed for 11 months (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Sweden debunks ‘disinformation’ on Muslim child kidnappings
(AP) The government of Sweden sought Friday to discredit claims that Swedish social service agencies kidnap Muslim children, saying the allegations “are wrong” and are “seriously misleading and aim to create tensions and spread mistrust.” In a Twitter thread devoted to what […]
Government & Politics
How Marie Newman’s ethics scandal put her in bed with a terrorist sympathizer As a college professor, Illinois Dem's foreign policy adviser praised convicted Palestinian terrorist
(Free Beacon) Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman’s (Ill.) decision to bribe a local Palestinian activist out of her 2020 primary race hasn’t just led to ethics issues — it also put a terrorist sympathizer in charge of her campaign’s foreign policy. Last June, […]
Government & Politics
UN experts urge Canada to repatriate seriously ill national from Syria
(Xinhua) A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Canada to urgently repatriate from Syria a woman who has life-threatening illnesses. The woman, named Kimberly Polman and a Canadian national, has been detained at various camps since March 2019 […]
Crime
Man charged with criminal damage after Manchester Arena memorial vandalised (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Afghan refugees in UAE protest months-long wait for resettlement
(Reuters) Hundreds of Afghans have launched a rare protest at a United Arab Emirates facility where they have been housed since fleeing their homeland last year, holding banners pleading for freedom and demanding to be sent to the United States to be […]
Interfaith
Zahra Billoo removed as keynote speaker at San Mateo women’s conference
(Jewish News of Northern California) Zahra Billoo, a Muslim civil rights attorney and activist in the Bay Area who came under fire recently for controversial remarks attacking mainstream Jewish organizations, has been removed as a keynote speaker from San Mateo County’s RISE […]
Legal
Birmingham woman who shared extremist material jailed
(BBC) A woman convicted of terrorism offences after sharing extreme videos has been jailed for five-and-a-half years. Aaminah Amatullah, 39, sent images of dead bodies, including children, to an online contact, who was in fact an undercover police officer. Sentencing at Birmingham […]
Citizenship
UK handing ‘propaganda gift to Isis’ by refusing to repatriate detainees from Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Clothing
French minister condemns headscarf ban for Muslim footballers
(AFP) France’s gender equality minister threw her support on Thursday behind Muslim women footballers who are seeking to overturn a ban on players wearing headscarves on the pitch. Rules set by the French Football Federation currently prevent players taking part in competitive […]
Legal
Meaningless media frenzy greets Abdeslam who takes the stand to say nothing new
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the Palais de Justice in central Paris was invaded by hordes of journalists anxious to report on the testimony of Salah Abdeslam, brother of one of the suicide bombers, and the sole survivor of the attack teams who […]
Demonstrations
‘Stop Islamisation’ slogan is not racist, court finds
(Brussels Times) On Wednesday, the Antwerp Court of Appeal ruled that a banner reading “Stop Islamisation” is not racist, as the court could not establish that it was motivated by “racism and xenophobia.” The judgement was in line with a decision of […]
News Media
Saudi Arabia backed anti-Iran TV channel in Netherlands tied to terror convictions: report
(NL Times) Research by radio program Argos, the Danish public broadcaster DR and the Norwegian NRK has revealed that the anti-Iranian satellite channel Ahwazna TV in Rijswijk has been receiving money from the Saudi Arabian intelligence service. The Danish-led wing of the […]
Legal
10th Circuit reinstates group prayer lawsuit of 1993 WTC bomber
(Colorado Politics) The federal appeals court based in Denver has reinstated a Muslim inmate’s religious liberty lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, finding a lower court misunderstood the level of access prison officials were providing to group prayer. A three-judge panel […]
Legal
Germany: Suspected ‘IS’ wife charged with war crimes The German national is believed to have married several members of the 'Islamic State' terrorist organization. One of her alleged husbands had kept a Yazidi woman as a slave.
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities have pressed war crimes charges against a suspected member of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS), the federal prosecutor general in Karlsruhe announced Wednesday. What do we know so far? The German national, Jalda A., is believed to have married several members of […]
Children & Teens
Cyprus: Migrant repatriations are key to easing overcrowding
(AP) The repatriations of migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected is essential to easing overcrowding and reducing violence at a migrant reception camp, Cyprus’ interior minister said Wednesday. Minister Nicos Nouris told state broadcaster CyBC that 35 migrants suffered minor […]
Interfaith
‘Lady Al Qaeda’ social media campaign surged before Texas synagogue attack: report A social media campaign to free Aafia Siddiqui spiked before Malik Akram attacked the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas
(Fox) Researchers say they’ve uncovered a coordinated spike in Twitter activity sympathetic to the convicted terrorist “Lady Al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui leading up to the hostage crisis at Texas’ Congregation Beth Israel, where an Islamic extremist demanded her release from a U.S. […]
Legal
Paris attacks suspect claims backed out of suicide bomb plan
(AFP) The only suspected assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 claimed Wednesday he went back on a plan to blow himself up, as he took the stand for the first time in the trial over […]
Legal
‘I can’t give her back her daughter. But I owe that woman an answer to her questions’
(Radio France) Tuesday’s main witness at the Paris terror trial was the 28-year-old Tunisian, Sofien Ayari. He was arrested in Brussels at the same time as Salah Abdeslam, engaging in a gun battle with police officers. On the basis of DNA evidence, […]