December 12, 2024 – Eye on Islamism

Germany turned blind eye against PFLP website run on German servers, report reveals The German company that provides [servers] to the PFLP admitted to BR24 that it had done so, and that it had taken appropriate action.

December 12, 2024 Josh Aronson

(Jerusalem Post) The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was operating its website with the help of German and Canadian servers until mid-October 2024, German public broadcaster BR24 revealed following an investigation. An IT expert confirmed the findings. According to […]

Austria unsure when deportations to Syria might start

December 12, 2024 Francois Murphy and John O'Donnell

(Reuters) Austria’s potential forced deportation of Syrian refugees back to their changed homeland can only occur when it is safe, Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg told Reuters, adding that it was impossible to predict timings. Schallenberg was clarifying his government’s position after conservative […]

EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back

December 12, 2024 Lorne Cook

(AP) Some European Union countries on Thursday doubled down on their decision to rapidly halt asylum procedures for Syrian migrants in Europe, but said that it was too early to consider sending any of the hundreds of thousands of people who have […]

Man who shared terrorist videos online jailed

December 12, 2024 Ewan Gawne

(BBC) A man with extremist views who shared videos online to encourage other people to plan and carry out terror attacks has been jailed. Devices owned by Mohammed Jaza Hamasaleh were found by counter-terror police in a raid on his home in […]

White House releases national strategy to combat Islamophobia

December 12, 2024 Will Weissert

(AP) The White House on Thursday announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia, detailing more than 100 steps federal officials are taking to curb hate, violence, bias and discrimination against Muslims and Arab Americans. The proposal follows a […]

Europe’s Syrians shaken by debate over repatriation to their war-ravaged homeland For many Syrian refugees in Europe, joy at the fall of Assad has been tempered by immediate calls for them to go home.

December 12, 2024 Nette Nöstlinger

(Politico) When Osama Sabsabi learned that opposition forces had captured the city of Homs, where he grew up, he did something that would have been unthinkable just days earlier: He booked a ticket home. “We, the Syrian people, are experiencing an indescribable […]

New Yorker turned ISIS recruiter — nicknamed ‘Umm Nuteella’ — faces 70 years in prison after judge tosses ‘shockingly low’ sentence

December 12, 2024 Kyle Schnitzer

(NY Post) A New Yorker turned ISIS recruiter nicknamed “Umm Nuteella” faces up to 70 years in prison after an appeals court tossed her initial “shockingly low” 48-month sentence for boosting the terror organization. Sinmyah Ceasar, 29, allegedly continued to chat with […]

Ten Belgian citizens belong to Islamist group in control of Syria

December 12, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Brussels Times) There are around ten Belgian citizens in the Islamist group that ousted Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria last week, according to Belgium’s interim Foreign Minister Bernard Quintin (MR). In a shock chain of events, the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir […]

Sergeant cleared of misconduct at Hindu procession

December 12, 2024 Jeremy Ball

(BBC) A Leicester police officer who sparked international headlines over religious tensions has been cleared of misconduct by an independent investigation. Thousands of people signed a petition calling for Sgt Adam Ahmed to be suspended after he stopped a Hindu procession and […]

Suspect who declared ‘Jew hunt’ in Amsterdam riots could face 8 months in prison

December 12, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded eight months in prison against a suspect who allegedly spoke about a “Jew hunt” while attacking Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Amsterdam following a match against Ajax on November 7. Another suspect who shared […]

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