October 17, 2023 – Eye on Islamism

Rashida Tlaib’s top campaign fundraiser accuses Israel of wanting to ethnically ‘cleanse’ Palestinians Rasha Mubarak, a Palestinian-American Muslim activist, also serves as treasurer of Tlaib's leadership PAC

October 17, 2023 Joe Schoffstall

(Fox) A progressive consultant who acts as the top fundraiser for Rep. Rashida Tlaib has consistently projected anti-Israel viewpoints on social media platforms and recently said she believes they intend to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, Fox News Digital has found. The Michigan Democrat’s committee has […]

Markham Public Library removed Islamic history displays but returned them after review: CEO Catherine Biss apologized for 'hurt' and 'confusion' caused by situation

October 17, 2023 Muriel Draaisma

(CBC) Markham Public Library removed Islamic Heritage Month displays from its branches after it received complaints from the community amid the Israel-Hamas war, but put the displays back the same day following a management review, its CEO says. At a news conference on Tuesday, Catherine […]

Father and other family members are convicted in New Mexico kidnapping and terrorism case

October 17, 2023 Susan Montoya Bryan

(AP) Jurors on Tuesday convicted a father of terrorism charges in a case that stemmed from the search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from Georgia and was found dead hundreds of miles away at a squalid compound in northern New […]

Mainz suspend El Ghazi for ‘unacceptable’ Israel-Gaza post

October 17, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) German football club Mainz on Tuesday said they had suspended player Anwar El Ghazi after the winger made an “unacceptable” comment on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza on social media. “El Ghazi took a position on the ongoing conflict in the […]

Spy chief says MI5 ‘absolutely alert’ to risk of UK terror attack amid Israel-Hamas war Ken McCallum also tells Sky News there is a 'sharpened concern' about multiple threats, from far-right antisemitism, Islamophobia, Islamist extremism, and rising state-level aggression — predominantly from China, Russia and Iran.

October 17, 2023 Mark Stone

(Sky News) The director general of MI5 has told Sky News his intelligence officers are “focused with particular intensity” on a growing risk of attacks within the UK following events in the Middle East. In a rare interview, Ken McCallum said: “Sadly, […]

Ex-wife of ISIS fighter convicted in death of James Foley and other hostages says she was ‘oblivious’ Dure Ahmed appeared in Brampton, Ont., court Monday on terrorism peace bond

October 17, 2023 Poonam Taneja and Jewan Abdi

(CBC) A Canadian woman whose marriage to a notorious ISIS fighter is being made public for the first time says she was “oblivious to what was going on” when she lived with him in Syria. In an interview with CBC and U.K. public […]

Former Brooklyn resident sentenced to life in prison for aiding Islamic State group as sniper

October 17, 2023 Jake Offenhartz

(AP) A former New York stock broker who fled his job and family to fight alongside Islamic State militants in Syria, then maintained his allegiance to the extremist group throughout his trial, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday. Ruslan Maratovich […]

French school killer claimed attack for Islamic State group: prosecutor

October 17, 2023 Tom Barfield and Murielle Kasprzak

(AFP) The man who killed a schoolteacher in northern France last week was charged with terror offences on Tuesday, a prosecutor said, after revealing that he had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group in an audio recording before his attack. […]

Two people attacked by machete-wielding man in Barcelona yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’

October 17, 2023 Aaron Hindhaugh

(Euro Weekly) Two people were attacked by a mentally ill man who chased them with a machete on Sunday evening. Catalonian police managed to apprehend and arrest a Moroccan national who chased people through the streets while wielding a machete, but that […]

Macron says ‘Islamist terrorism’ rising in Europe, all states at risk

October 17, 2023 Florian Goga, Fatos Bytyci, Hedy Beloucif and Marine Strauss

(Reuters) Europe is seeing a rise of “Islamist terrorism” and all states are threatened, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during a visit to Albania, after Islamist killings of a teacher in France and two Swedish football fans in Belgium. Macron […]

How Quran burnings in Sweden have increased threats from Islamic militants

October 17, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) The killing of two Swedish citizens in an attack ahead of a soccer match in Brussels has shocked the Scandinavian country, although the government has been warning for months that Swedes were at greater risk since a recent string of public […]

Belgian police kill Tunisian man suspected of shooting 3 Swedish soccer fans, killing 2 of them

October 17, 2023 Sylvain Plazy, Raf Casert and Lorne Cook

(AP) Authorities in the Belgian capital shot and killed a Tunisian national on Tuesday hours after they say he gunned down three Swedish soccer fans, killing two of them, and posted a video online in which he claimed credit for the attack […]

Convicted jihadist worked for Dutch refugee council for a year

October 17, 2023 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) A woman convicted for belonging to the terrorist organization Islamic State worked for the Dutch refugee council Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland for a year. The 39-year-old woman volunteered as a legal assistant at the organization and had access to refugees’ personal files, […]

Italy arrests two alleged Islamic State members in counter-terrorism swoop

October 17, 2023 Federico Maccioni

(Reuters) Italy on Tuesday arrested an Egyptian and an Italian citizen of Egyptian origin on suspicion of terrorism offences and being members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group, the Milan prosecutors’ office said. Prosecutors said the two were arrested in the […]

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