(CNS) Following a botched attempt to deport a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated imam under a new “anti-separatist” law designed to counter radical Islamism, the French interior ministry is reportedly taking steps to expel others. Mediapart, an independent investigative online newspaper, reported that Interior Minister […]
(BBC) A man sentenced for carrying a knife at a protest in Leicester at the weekend said he was influenced by social media. Adam Yusuf, 21, received a suspended jail sentence after admitting possessing a knife at a march on Sunday. The […]
(NCA NewsWire) The jury has been discharged in the trial of a Sydney man accused of playing a role in the terrorist plot which resulted in the shooting of police employee Curtis Cheng. Mustafa Dirani was set to stand trial in the […]
(BBC) An imam who raped a schoolgirl in a mosque has been unconditionally discharged. Khandaker Rahman, 67, from Cwmdu, Swansea, was found to have committed the crimes by a jury at Swansea Crown Court in June, after a trial of facts, as […]
(Fox) Border Patrol stopped a dozen individuals whose names are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) in August, bringing the total for the fiscal year to a number that is triple the previous five fiscal years combined — as agents deal […]
(NY Post) A Brooklyn councilwoman is taking the city’s public college system to task for assigning a former employee of an anti-Israel BDS group to investigate a high-profile incident of antisemitism flagged by a Jewish college professor. “@CUNY assigning a former @CAIRNational […]
(CoinDesk) French authorities finalized prison sentences for two men who were arrested on charges of funding terrorism in Syria via cryptocurrencies, multiple local media outlets reported Friday. The two men, Franco-Algerian Sami Allem and Franco-Moroccan Abderrahman Cheikh, were sentenced in a Paris […]
(JNS) U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) stated in an interview with the Al Jazeera network on Sept. 16 that she does not see how a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can work. She further claimed that Israel has an “apartheid system” […]
(BBC) Fifteen people have been arrested in an operation to “deter further disorder” in Leicester. There was large-scale unrest on Saturday amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Police said it had been sparked by […]
(Egypt Today) The Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) stripped on Sunday renowned global Muslim Brotherhood figure Ibrahim El-Zayat, brother-in-law of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Turkey, of his posts in the center, according to media reports. This […]
(AFP) A Swiss woman was given a nine-year jail term on Monday for slashing two people in the name of the Islamic State group but her sentence was suspended so she can undergo psychiatric treatment. The criminal court judges found the woman, […]
(Reuters) The U.S. government said it plans to seek the death penalty for the man charged with using a truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path on Halloween in 2017. In a letter filed late Friday in Manhattan federal […]
(AP) Six men with alleged links to a sympathizer of the Islamic State group who carried out a deadly shooting in Vienna in 2020 will go on trial next month, a court in the Austrian capital said Monday. Four people were killed […]
(Fox) The New York Times published a report over the weekend claiming that the outrage over the controversial ties of the Women’s March organizers, which eventually dismantled the movement, was fabricated by Russian internet trolls who were deployed by the Kremlin in […]
(BBC) Large-scale disorder broke out in Leicester on Saturday, with police and community leaders calling for calm. Officers tried to hold back crowds amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Police said two arrests had […]
(Breitbart) German anti-terror police in northern Hesse have carried out a series of arrests against a gang accused of smuggling Syrians and also helping radical Islamic State terrorists enter Europe. The elite anti-terrorist unit GSG 9 executed six arrest warrants on Tuesday, […]
(Detroit Free Press) Told by a judge that the city’s zoning code violated federal law by keeping a mosque from opening, Troy agreed to let Muslims occupy the building that they bought nearly five years ago. But Troy officials have steadfastly refused […]
(Reuters) Nine men accused of participating in the 2016 Brussels bombings that killed 32 people cannot be put on trial in glass boxes their lawyers have likened to animal cages, a judge ruled on Friday. The special court for one of Belgium’s […]
(NL Times) Three years after the introduction of the ban on face-covering clothing — commonly referred to as the burka ban — the Amsterdam city council is calling on parliament to scrap the ban as soon as possible. Mayor Femke Halsema promised […]
(Kathimerini) Athens accused Ankara of trying to intervene in its domestic affairs after Turkey’s Foreign Ministry called on Greece to investigate threats received by a Muslim member of Greek Parliament and expressing support for the country’s “Turkish minority.” Huseyin Zeybek, a lawmaker […]
(Anadolu) Türkiye on Friday called on authorities in Greece to investigate a death threat against a Greek lawmaker who is also a member of the country’s Muslim Turkish minority. “We expect the Greek authorities to investigate this serious incident and punish the […]
(Globe and Mail) An operative for Canada’s spy agency who once trafficked three British teens to Islamic State militants has been released from a Turkish prison, and the federal government will not say if he has been relocated to Canada. A source […]
(Brussels Times) Brussels’ Chamber of Indictment has requested the release of Smaïl and Ibrahim Farisi, who were both arrested in the run-up to the Brussels 2016 terror attacks trial. On Wednesday, Smaïl Farisi was arrested along with his brother Ibrahim after being […]
(AP) A group of 142 migrants was detained near North Macedonia’s southern border with Greece early Thursday, authorities said. A police statement said the detainees were mostly from Syria and Pakistan, and had entered from Greece. They were taken to a shelter […]
(BBC) A Tory councillor who retweeted claims that mosques had “secret arsenals” and immigration was “cultural suicide” has been expelled from the party. Alanna Vine, who represents Bramhall North on Stockport Council, was suspended as part of an investigation into her Twitter […]
(Canadian Press) The Alberta government has rescinded the appointment of the head of its Human Rights Commission in a dispute stemming from a passage in a book review that has been criticized as Islamophobic. Justice Minister Tyler Shandro’s department did not formally […]
(AFP) A video showing how an Islamist extremist ploughed his truck into a crowd in Nice killing 86 people while France was celebrating its national day sparked anguish and horror at the attack trial on Thursday. Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, was killed […]
(NCA NewsWire) A Sydney man has been convicted of leading a terrorist group that planned to attack the city’s navy base, a courthouse, the Mardi Gras parade and Israeli embassy. Hamdi Alqudsi, 48, faced the NSW Supreme Court for a trial after […]
(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court has ruled that an Iraqi convicted only of association with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State groups will not be imprisoned. The decision came in response to an appeal by the attorney general. In July 2021, the […]
(National Post) Shareef Abdelhaleem, one of the Toronto 18 terror plotters who tried to detonate large bombs in 2006, has been denied full parole despite his gregarious chat with parole board officials. His day parole, living in a halfway house in Montreal, […]
(Daily Caller) The City University of New York (CUNY) is assigning a former leader of the Hamas-linked Council [on] American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to investigate an antisemitism and anti-Zionism complaint made internally by a Jewish professor. CUNY assigned its chief diversity officer, Saly […]
(Breitbart) With a number of Jewish holidays set to take place over the coming weeks, officials in multicultural France are now warning of a “very high” terror threat level in the country. With Rosh Hashanah fast approaching, law enforcement agencies in France […]
(Free Beacon) Congress is moving to prevent Iran’s president from entering the United States to attend U.N. proceedings but is facing resistance from the Biden administration, which says it is “obligated” to allow the hardline president into the country. Sen. Ted Cruz […]
(Radio NZ) Ahamed Samsudeen’s friends called him the “lone wolf” attacker and knew he was under heavy surveillance, an Auckland bar owner claims. Eight people were injured at Countdown in LynnMall last September before Ahamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police who […]
(Canadian Press) The federal government has told United Nations officials that international human rights law does not obligate Canada to actively facilitate the return of its citizens detained in northern Syria. Ottawa says that instead, the duty of respecting international conventions largely […]
(Anadolu) In Malmo, one of the most diverse cities in Sweden, there was a long line of people waiting to vote at the polling station in Rosengard district. The Social Democrats have mostly ruled the city since 1919, and according to this […]
(Courthouse News) The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday found France was in the wrong for refusing to repatriate two French women who joined the Islamic State terrorist group, ruling the process is too arbitrary. Paris violated a clause in the […]
(Radio France) The wife of a terrorist who helped to murder dozens of people at Paris’s Bataclan concert hall in 2015 has been repatriated from Syria to France along with her three children. Kahina El H, who was married to suicide bomber […]
(National Post) Shareef Abdelhaleem, an architect of the Toronto 18 terror plot to blow up Canadian infrastructure, can be hard to stop once he starts talking. He’s brash, sometimes angry. His voice is loud. He can look intimidating. That doesn’t mean he […]
(Canadian Press) A day after Justice Minister Tyler Shandro publicly directed the head of Alberta’s human rights commission to quit, the commissioner’s office lobbed the issue back at him, saying it’s Shandro who does the hiring and firing. “The commission does not […]
(Anadolu) The newly elected Muslim cleric (mufti) of the Turkish minority in the Xanthi region of Western Thrace in Greece said Monday that discriminatory practices are being carried out against the Turkish minority in the region. Mustafa Trampa, who was elected as […]
(Middle East Eye) In 1996, the grand mufti of Cyprus, shockingly, accused Charles III — the new British king — of secretly being a Muslim. “Did you know that Prince Charles has converted to Islam. Yes, yes. He is a Muslim. I […]
(BBC) The number of people who have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year has now exceeded the total for the whole of 2021. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said 601 migrants made the crossing on Monday in […]
(CBC) Justice Minister Tyler Shandro has asked Alberta Human Rights Commission chief Collin May to resign, responding to concerns raised by more than two dozen Muslim organizations. In July, May came under fire following the resurfacing of a 2009 book review he wrote that critics say highlighted […]
(Hill) When President Biden was elected in 2020, Muslim Americans hoped to see a change in representation in government. At the time, hate crimes against Muslims were on the rise, and anti-Islamic rhetoric was surging, which critics attribute, in part, to former President […]
(AL.com) An Alabama woman and her husband have pleaded guilty to attempting to aid the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS”), the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. James Bradley, a.k.a. Abdullah, pled guilty on Sept. 9 and Arwa Muthana pled […]
(AFP) The appeal trial opened in Paris on Monday for two men suspected of helping the gunmen who stormed the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, the first of a wave of Islamist terror attacks that have […]
(Brussels Times) Following the preliminary hearing of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks trial in Brussels, the counsel for one of the accused, Smaïl Farisi, noted that a request for release from his client would need to be examined soon. The Brussels […]
(AFP) French jihadist Salah Abdeslam, already jailed for his role in the 2015 Paris attacks, refused to take the stand Monday on the first day of the trial for the 2016 suicide bombings in Brussels. He was one of the nine alleged […]
(CBS) On the 21st anniversary of 9/11, CBS News has confirmed that military prosecutors and attorneys for five defendants charged for their roles in the attacks are negotiating potential plea deals that could take the death penalty off the table and keep […]
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