(AP) The far-right candidate who aspires to be Italy’s first female leader came under fire Monday from opponents for posting a pixelized video that purports to show a woman being raped by an asylum-seeker. Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of […]
(AP) A Massachusetts charter school where an eighth grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.” A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter […]
(National-UAE) The head of a pro-Iranian non-profit group based in Britain voiced support for the fatwa calling for the death of Sir Salman Rushdie, it has been claimed. Massoud Shadjareh, founder and chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), allegedly backed […]
(Breitbart) A man wielding a shotgun in the centre of the French city of Saint-Quentin was shot and injured this week after firing toward police while yelling “Allahu akbar!” Investigators have not ruled out a possible terror motive. The armed man, said […]
(NL Times) As-Siddieq, the largest Islamic educational institution in Amsterdam, may face sanctions for misuse of government funds and general mismanagement. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dennis Wiersma will decide on possible consequences for As-Siddieq, in consultation with the Education Inspectorate, according […]
(BBC) A Conservative councillor has been suspended from the group after sharing alleged Islamophobic posts on Twitter. Steve Flood, who represents the Sprites ward on Ipswich Borough Council, allegedly shared tweets that criticised Islam on his account. Ipswich Conservative Association suspended him […]
(CTV) A Winnipeg family is looking to raise awareness about burkinis after an incident at a Manitoba water park. Halima Jelloul, her husband and two daughters were excited to take a trip to Lilac Resort on Friday. Minutes after arriving, they were […]
(Global News) A cartoon published in Wednesday’s edition of l’Acadie Nouvelle, an independent French-language newspaper in New Brunswick, is causing a social media outcry. Marcel Boudreau’s cartoon depicts a caveman dragging a woman juxtaposed with the image of a man wearing a […]
(Breitbart) The European Commission has come under criticism over its decision to promote an Islamic youth organisation with alleged ties to the radical Muslim Brotherhood organisation. French broadcaster CNews revealed on Thursday that, earlier this month, an Instagram post celebrating International Youth […]
(Washington Times) A professor who was sued — and won — over his teaching about Islamic terrorism says he’ll continue to teach the lesson and won’t back down to cancel culture. A Muslim student along with the Council on American-Islamic Relations of […]
(Kathimerini) Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos on Friday dismissed recent statements by a Turkish minister that Greece is a “training center for terrorists” as provocative and outright lies. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Greece was training members of the Kurdistan Workers’ […]
(AP) Greek authorities on Friday raised to 71 the number of migrants aboard a sailboat that reached the southern island of Kythera a day earlier, the third crammed vessel to do so in two days. The boat, a sailing catamaran, was located […]
(CNN) El Shafee Elsheikh, a British ISIS fighter and member of the execution cell dubbed “the ISIS Beatles” because of their British accents, was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the hostage-taking and deaths of four Americans and […]
(AFP) Police and migrants faced off Thursday as Greek authorities started evacuating one of the last refugee camps in Athens, officials said, with videos showing authorities using tear gas and a flash grenade. The attempted eviction of the Eleonas camp, which hosts […]
(BBC) The Ministry of Defence said 606 people crossed the English Channel in 12 small boats on Wednesday. It means 21,164 people have made the crossing so far this year, compared to 28,461 in the whole of 2021. The French authorities said […]
(NY Post) The New Jersey man who allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie at a literary event in western New York has been indicted by a grand jury — and he was denied bail on Thursday in part because of his jailhouse interview with […]
(AP) Greek authorities say another sailboat carrying dozens of migrants arrived Thursday at Kythera, the third in just under two days to make it to the southern island that isn’t on the usual route for asylum-seekers trying to reach the European Union. […]
(BBC) A Metropolitan Police firearms officer is facing a dangerous driving charge over a crash involving parked vehicles that happened as he responded to the Streatham terrorist attack in 2020. PC Paul Fisher’s unmarked police car is said to have hit three […]
(ITV) A 15-year-old boy is to go on trial in the spring accused of plotting a terror attack after allegedly researching the Isle of Wight Festival as a potential target. The teenager, from Cowes, is charged with preparation of terrorist acts under […]
(AP) An Afghan refugee charged in the shooting deaths of two Muslim men and suspected in the killing of two others was ordered held without bond pending trial as prosecutors argued Wednesday that he was a danger to his own family and […]
(Sky News) Freed hostages were able to give British police key information identifying an IS kidnap gang nicknamed “The Beatles” which had held and tortured them, Scotland Yard has revealed. Officers have disclosed key breakthroughs that allowed them to identify the jihadis […]
(Reuters) National Muslim groups have linked the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico over the past year to sectarianism, but Muslims who knew the victims and suspected gunman point to revenge and personal feuds as possible motives. Police last week […]
(AP) Two sailboats carrying dozens of migrants arrived on a southern Greek island early Wednesday, with the first one running aground on rocks. Nobody was reported injured or missing. The coast guard said the first sailboat, which ran aground on the southern […]
(NY Post) The New Jersey man who allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie in western New York last week praised Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in an exclusive jailhouse interview with the Post on Wednesday — and admitted he didn’t think the author would survive the […]
(AFP) A ceremony was held in Barcelona on Wednesday in memory of 16 people killed in jihadist attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort exactly five years ago. Dozens of people observed a minute’s silence on the tree-lined Las Ramblas […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium hasn’t seen any major terrorist attacks since 2016 and Belgium’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) rates the actual terror threat as two out of four — far lower than previously. Yet this is not to say that the […]
(Kathimerini) A day after police said they found 38 migrants who had been reported stranded on an islet in the Evros River on the Greek-Turkish border, Greece on Tuesday accused Turkey of pushing the migrants into Greek territory. During a visit to […]
(BBC) The Royal Navy’s role in dealing with migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats is to be reviewed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The MoD said it would continue to support the Home Office until January 2023, when “the […]
(AP) A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator pleaded guilty Tuesday to a terrorism charge, more than two years after he was arrested for telling paid FBI informants that he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and that […]
(IPT) The news was so disturbing it could not go without a comment from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Auburn University’s men’s basketball team was about to embark on a 10-day trip to Israel. They’d play some games and hold clinics […]
(Daily Beast) A man has been arrested in France after being found with his father’s decapitated head in one hand and the knife that was presumably used to remove it in the other, police near the Lyon suburb of Saint-Priest say. The […]
(AP) Greek police say they have found 38 migrants who had been reported stranded on an islet in the Evros River on the border between Greece and Turkey. Police announced they found 22 men, 9 women and 7 children Monday at a […]
(Breitbart) A 34-year-old Afghan migrant accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls at an Italian beach has been released by a judge just a day after his arrest. The Afghan admitted to touching one of the girls while swimming but was able […]
(Vice) The 24-year-old man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie had been in direct contact with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on social media, European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials told VICE World News. Hadi Matar has been charged with […]
(BBC) More than 20,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. On Saturday 607 made the crossing in 14 boats — the third time the total has exceeded 600 in 2022. There […]
(Breitbart) Swedish academics have denounced a proposal by a government minister to limit the number of non-Scandinavian residents in neighbourhoods as “state racism.” Ten academics largely comprised of professors from various Swedish universities slammed the proposal made by Minister for Integration Anders […]
(Albuquerque Journal) Federal authorities believe a son of the man accused in the high-profile shootings of Muslim men around Albuquerque may have played a role in at least one of the killings alongside his father. Shaheen Syed, 21, who used to go […]
(NY Post) The suspect in the upstate stabbing of Salman Rushdie pleaded not guilty during an arraignment Saturday afternoon, during which the prosecutor detailed an extensive list of the famed writer’s injuries. Hadi Matar, 24, was charged with attempted murder and assault and entered […]
(AP) In the six years since he resettled in the United States from Afghanistan, the primary suspect in the slayings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque has been arrested several times for domestic violence and captured on camera slashing the tires of […]
(Politico) President Joe Biden on Saturday condemned the frenzied attack on Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage that has left the author on a ventilator. “Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman […]
(AFP) Iran’s rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed, activists and opponents charged Saturday. While the fatwa […]
(Local) Swedish police said there have been no disturbances associated with the Koran burning by Danish far-right extremist Rasmus Paludan and his party Stram Kurs (“Hard Line”) this week around Stockholm, unlike the riots seen over Easter. Paludan and his party have […]
(AFP) French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, targeted in a devastating 2015 attack over cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed considered blasphemous by many Muslims, has denounced the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. “Nothing justifies a fatwa, a death sentence,” wrote the magazine’s managing editor […]
(BBC) The Ministry of Defence said 261 people managed to cross the English Channel in seven small boats on Thursday. It means 18,998 people have made the crossing so far this year, compared to 28,396 in the whole of 2021. So far […]
(NY Post) The man arrested in Friday’s stabbing of famed novelist Salman Rushdie was identified by police as a New Jersey man, who law enforcement sources tell the Post … had sympathies toward the Iranian government that has called for Rushdie’s death. […]
(AP) Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in […]
(IPT) A Scottsdale Community College professor did not violate his Muslim student’s rights when he taught about religious justification in Islamic terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge’s 2020 ruling dismissing […]
(Religion News) Imam Mohamed Magid, the executive religious director of a Northern Virginia mosque and a leader in interfaith relations, has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Magid said he received word from the White House that his […]
(ITV) A terrorist who plotted mass murder will remain behind bars after being denied parole. Rochdale-born Rangzieb Ahmed was the first person to be convicted in the UK of directing terrorism. The 47-year-old was jailed for life with a minimum of 10 […]
(Al-Arabiya) Since the fall of Kabul over one year ago to the Taliban, Britain’s Afghan refugees are still struggling to form new lives. Most have still not settled into permanent homes and have been repeatedly moved from hotel to hotel by the […]
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