(VOA) For more than 30 years, Senzel Schaefer has called the Democratic Party her political home, consistently voting for the party’s candidates in every primary, midterm and presidential election. Come Election Day, she’ll break ranks. For Muslim American voters like Schaefer, ending […]
(NY Post) An upstate imam urged student activists to “take out” an outspoken, pro-Israel Columbia University professor who’s returning to the embattled Ivy this fall after a year of antisemitic hate. Vassar-educated, Utica-based imam Tom Facchine made the plea about business school […]
(AFP) A steep rise in the number of arrivals of migrants in Spain’s Canary Islands from Africa has fuelled a fierce debate in the country over how to tackle illegal immigration. The issue was thrust into the spotlight during a three-day visit […]
(National-UAE) An art dealer and diamond smuggler accused of being a Hezbollah financier has been banned from travelling to the UK. Nazem Ahmad, 60, is sanctioned by Britain and the US, and he has been banned along with Mustafa Ayash. Mr Ayash […]
(Reuters) Germany said it resumed flying convicted criminals of Afghan nationality to their home country on Friday, days before German regional elections in which migration is a campaign issue. Berlin stopped returning people to Afghanistan because of human rights concerns after the […]
(Breitbart) Dividends have begun to pay off for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s migration strategy as figures have shown a near-two-thirds reduction of illegal arrivals over last year. Statistics released this week by the Italian Interior Ministry showed that 41,530 illegal immigrants landed […]
(KLAS) A teenager accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack was found with bomb-making guides and was previously suspended for threatening a school shooting, according to documents and photos the 8 News Now Investigators obtained. Joshua Robles was 16 when Las Vegas […]
(Free Beacon) Kamala Harris’s newly appointed head of Arab-American outreach once accused Zionists of “controlling” American politics, echoing an anti-Semitic trope that suggests Jews nefariously manipulate global affairs. “The Zionists have a strong voice in American politics,” Brenda Abdelall, an Egyptian-American lawyer […]
(AP) An Afghan refugee who was convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community has reached a plea agreement that could resolve criminal charges stemming from the other two killings. Muhammad Syed’s […]
(Middle East Eye) A new poll conducted this week shows that the majority of Muslim voters in the United States are evenly split on who they plan to vote for as president in the upcoming November election, with roughly 60 percent planning […]
(DPA) Five weeks after the ban on the Hamburg Islamic Centre (IZH), which was classified as extremist, its former head must now leave Germany. The Hamburg Interior Authority issued a deportation order to 57-year-old Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh this week, a spokeswoman in […]
(BBC) A man has appeared in a Belfast court accused of gathering information for planned acts of terrorism. Habib Shamel, 27, originally from Afghanistan, also allegedly had files stored on a USB stick which could have been used in any suspected plots. […]
(Global News) A Toronto terror suspect at the centre of a controversy over Canada’s security screening system arrived in the country three years after he allegedly appeared in a 2015 ISIS video, according to details released on Wednesday. A chronology tabled at […]
(Reuters) Kamala Harris’ campaign for U.S. president has hired an Egyptian American lawyer and former Department of Homeland Security official to help lead outreach to Arab American voters who hold sway in some states that could help decide the Nov. 5 election, […]
(Fox) The deputy director of the CIA confirmed that the intended terrorist plot at Taylor Swift’s shows in Vienna earlier this month intended on killing “a huge number” of people — including Americans. David S. Cohen revealed at the Intelligence and National […]
(DPA) German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said she wants to work more closely with France in the fight against Islamist terrorism after a deadly knife attack by a Syrian refugee with suspected ties to the Islamic State group in the city of […]
(AP) A 33-year-old man was handed preliminary terrorism charges over an arson attack on a French synagogue last weekend that he said was aimed at defending Palestinians and changing Israeli policy, prosecutors said Wednesday. The attack revived concerns about antisemitism in France, […]
(Reuters) Swedish prosecutors said on Wednesday they would put two men on trial for setting fire to the Koran in a series of incidents last year that prompted outrage in the Muslim world and raised fears of attacks by jihadists. The two […]
(NL Times) The coalition parties want the government to investigate whether parts of Syria can be declared safe so that Syrian asylum seekers can be sent back. PVV leader Geert Wilders wants a debate on the topic next month and he is […]
(AP) Smugglers ferrying migrants from Turkey to Greece’s eastern islands have in two cases adopted the new and dangerous tactic of knocking some passengers off their speedboats into the sea to avoid capture by pursuing coast guards, Greek authorities say. All eight […]
(Deutsche Welle) The so-called “Islamic State” (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for the knife attack in Solingen. According to Amaq, the mouthpiece of IS, the attack was carried out in “revenge for Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere” and targeted a “group […]
(KLAS) Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill intervened in the possible release of a teenager suspected of plotting a terror attack following a judge’s ruling, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned. Joshua Robles was 16 when Las Vegas Metro police arrested him […]
(Hill) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) slammed the Democratic National Convention for not featuring a Palestinian American speaker, stating it is “hard not to feel invisible.” “It’s hard not to feel invisible as a Palestinian American. Our trauma and pain feel unseen and […]
(NY Post) A Brooklyn Muslim cleric who once partnered with New York Mayor Eric Adams on a campaign to end hate is now spreading it by calling for the annihilation of Israel, the Post has learned. Meanwhile, one of his counterparts at […]
(DPA) Calls for the German government to tighten rules for asylum seekers from Syria and Afghanistan mounted on Monday, three days after the deadly knife attack in the western city of Solingen. Resuming deportations to the two countries has been a hot-button […]
(AP) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers Monday as he visited the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people. Scholz, […]
(Politico) A knife attack allegedly perpetrated by a Syrian asylum seeker that authorities are investigating as a possible act of terrorism has renewed a heated debate over migration in Germany ahead of three state elections in which the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for […]
(AFP) Vivienne Vetter is furious at what she says is an unchecked flood of refugees into her German city of Solingen, blaming it for a deadly knife rampage by a Syrian man. But Turkish man and Solingen local Kadir Ayten is more […]
(AP) Thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youth who tried to swim their way around controls, Spanish authorities said Monday. Videos broadcast on […]
(Dutch News) Syria is safe enough to stop allowing refugees from there into the Netherlands and to send some back, Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV, said on social media. As a start, the Netherlands should close its borders to all […]
(NL Times) Testimony from an expert in the Arabic language and culture indicated that the manner in which almost a hundred graves were vandalized at [a] Utrecht cemetery in May fits in with the “jihadist ideology.” Prosecutors presented more information about their […]
(AFP) In key US swing state Michigan, Democratic voters of Arab and Middle Eastern heritage say Kamala Harris is going to have to win them back, after they were alienated by President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. The […]
(NL Times) The deadly attack in the German city of Solingen, which was claimed by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), “unfortunately also fits into the current threat picture in the Netherlands,” Minister David van Weel (Justice and Security) wrote on X. […]
(AP) A Syrian man on Sunday was ordered held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organization in connection with the Solingen knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary. A […]
(Deutsche Welle) German prosecutors on Sunday released the name of the 26-year-old Syrian man suspected of a multiple stabbing attack in the western city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight others. Issa Al H., who was identified without his family name due […]
(Politico) A brutal knife attack in the German city of Solingen has reignited a debate about public security a week ahead of important state elections in eastern Germany, with the far right hammering the government coalition and other parties over alleged shortcomings. […]
(Reuters) French police have arrested a man suspected of trying to set a synagogue ablaze in the southern French city of la Grande-Motte on Saturday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. About 200 police officers had been hunting for the suspect, Prime Minister […]
(Radio France) French authorities have stepped up security at Jewish institutions and opened a terror investigation after a blazing car exploded outside a synagogue on Saturday in the southern town of La Grande-Motte, injuring a police officer. Local media said two cars, […]
(Reuters) The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people on Friday. The militant group said in a statement on its Telegram account that the attack was carried […]
(BBC) A British man who had been investigated by MI5 threatened to shoot worshippers at a US synagogue as he demanded the release of a Pakistani scientist jailed in the country, an inquest has heard. Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was […]
(Toronto Sun) Imagine a controversial Christian preacher from the U.S. who tells his followers that Muslims are our enemy being allowed to tour this country. Would the Trudeau government allow such a preacher to conduct a lecture tour if he taught that […]
(AP) The crew of a Greek coast guard vessel opened fire on a speedboat smuggling migrants — including several children — from neighboring Turkey killing one passenger, Greek authorities said Friday. A coast guard statement said shots were fired, first into the […]
(National-UAE) When a phone rings at a former screw factory in Vienna’s old Jewish quarter, it could be a confused teenager, a hapless teacher — or a chance to stop a terrorist. Austria’s extremism hotline fields hundreds of calls a year from […]
(Deutsche Welle) Three people were killed and five seriously injured in a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen on Friday. Police said they had launched a “major operation to find the suspect, who escaped in the turmoil and panic that initially […]
(Reuters) Spanish authorities fear that as many as 150,000 more migrants from Africa may be set to make the perilous crossing this year to the Canary Islands, already grappling with over 20,000 illegal arrivals so far, the regional leader said on Friday. […]
(Swiss Info) Terrorists are becoming younger. This trend can also be seen in Switzerland, says expert Peter Neumann. He describes a new type of self-radicalised young attacker, which he calls TikTok terrorists. For a book that will be published in September, the […]
(Hill) Amid reports that the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will refuse demands to feature a Palestinian American speaker at the Chicago convention, Muslim Women for Harris announced that they “cannot in good conscience continue” the organization. “We cannot in good conscience, continue […]
(Hill) A growing number of elected Democrats and activists are calling on the Harris campaign and the Democratic National Committee to allow a Palestinian to speak on the final night of the DNC. “We cannot ignore the Chicagoland Palestinian community as one […]
(AP) Hungary’s anti-immigration government is prepared to provide free one-way tickets to Brussels for migrants and asylum seekers attempting to enter the European Union, a minister said Thursday in response to hefty fines recently imposed on the country over its restrictive asylum […]
(CBC) A resident of the Greater Toronto Area is facing charges for allegedly participating in the activities of a listed terrorist group, the RCMP says. In a news release issued Thursday, police said that following a “lengthy national security investigation,” a person has been charged with: […]
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