April 21, 2023 – Eye on Islamism

Muslim students lead protest for adequate prayer space at New York’s Baruch College Thursday's protest, coming on the final day of Ramadan, was one of the larger weekly protests students have organized over the past two months.

April 21, 2023 Heerea Kaur Rikhraj

(Religion News) Loud chants carried through the main plaza at Baruch College in the early afternoon on Thursday (April 20) as a group of around 40 students protested near the Office of Student Life. The students, a majority of them Muslim, were […]

Swedish far-right risks government collapse over EU migration pact

April 21, 2023 Charles Szumski

(Euractiv) The far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) leader in the Swedish Parliament declared that the party could withdraw its support for the ruling centre-right coalition, which would risk a political crisis when the country is heading the Council of the European Union. Mattias […]

Northern Va. man pleads guilty to 2009 terrorism charge U.S. prosecutors are seeking no prison time for Ahmed Minni, who was imprisoned nearly 13 years in Pakistan.

April 21, 2023 Salvador Rizzo

(Washington Post) A Virginia man who left the United States more than 14 years ago to fight alongside extremist groups in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Friday to a terrorism charge in federal court in Alexandria, but U.S. prosecutors are not seeking prison time […]

Paris court gives Canada-based professor life for 1980 synagogue bomb

April 21, 2023 Anne-Sophie Lasserre

(AFP) A Paris court on Friday sentenced a Lebanese-Canadian sociology professor to life in prison in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in the French capital that left four people dead. The court followed the prosecutors’ request for the maximum […]

Birmingham arrests as fireworks thrown at police after Ramadan market crackdown

April 21, 2023 Andy Giddings

(BBC) Three people have been arrested in Birmingham after fireworks and eggs were thrown at police patrolling a street following a crackdown on illegal market stalls during Ramadan. West Midlands Police said officers were targeted on Wednesday night on Coventry Road, in […]

French court jails four for plotting Champs Elysees attack

April 21, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A French court has sentenced four men between five and 15 years in jail for plotting an attack on Paris’s emblematic Champs Elysees avenue. A fifth walked free as he had already served his term in pre-trial custody. The five defendants […]

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