(Kathimerini) Athens police have announced a ban on public gatherings in the city center on Thursday, marking one year since the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. The decision was made on grounds of public safety, as planned demonstrations were deemed to […]
(National-UAE) A proposal to introduce new laws to protect Muslims from hate in the UK has resulted in a behind-the-scenes move to quash an official definition of Islamophobia being adopted, the National can reveal. Speaking to people inside the room during high-level […]
(NL Times) BBB leader Caroline van der Plas has explicitly warned farmers not to vote for the PVV. Geert Wilders’ far-right party seems to have farmers’ best interest at heart, but often votes with the animal party PvdD, she said in Nieuwsuur. […]
(BBC) A man accused of planning a gun attack on a mass gathering of Jews described the killing of 130 people and wounding of hundreds more in Paris in 2015 as a “great event,” a jury has heard. Walid Saadaoui, 38, is […]
(Yabiladi) Far-right MEP Marion Maréchal is scheduled to appear before the Valence criminal court on Thursday, October 16, to face defamation charges stemming from comments she made on CNews regarding a Muslim school. In an October 2023 broadcast, she accused the private […]
(AFP) An Afghan man deemed psychologically ill faced a German court on Thursday over a deadly knife attack on a group of toddlers that his defence lawyer labelled the “deed of a madman.” The stabbings nine months ago in a park in […]
(Radio France) Five years after the death of French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded by a Chechen Islamist, “the shock is still raw,” according to Paty’s sister. The sentiments of pain and fear are shared by many teachers across France, […]
(AFP) Swedish prosecutors on Thursday sought the arrest [of] a young Syrian man for killing Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Koran in 2023 and sparked outrage in the Muslim world. Momika, an Iraqi Christian, was shot on January 29 […]
Thank you for reading Eye on Islamism.