(AFP) France’s interior minister on Sunday said he opposed a proposal put before parliament to ban young girls wearing the Muslim headscarf, saying such a move risked being “stigmatising” for the minors. The issue of tightening legal limits on the wearing of […]
(Sky News) A man from Afghanistan has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting three women in Southampton, as well as entering the UK illegally. Sohail Amiri, 30, is accused of approaching a woman and trying to kiss her in Upper Shaftesbury […]
(BBC) Police have been given more time to question a 31-year-old man arrested in connection with the attack on a synagogue in Manchester earlier this year. He was arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism after arriving […]
(Deutsche Welle) In 2023, a 15- and a 17-year-old plotted to attack a Christmas market in Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia). In online chats, the two supporters of the “Islamic State” (IS), considered a terrorist organization by German domestic intelligence, plotted to kill as […]
(ITV) A woman in Jersey is facing terrorism charges, accused of using social media to invite support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Both groups are proscribed terrorist organisations, which means it is an offence to promote them. The case against Natalie Strecker, 50, […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court said Friday it had ordered psychiatric internment for a Moroccan man who murdered a church official in a 2023 machete attack that horrified the country. Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court dismissed terrorism charges for the attacks at two […]
(NL Times) Police arrested an individual on Thursday morning for allegedly making death threats against writer and columnist Lale Gül, according to Gül. The Central Netherlands Police have declined to comment on the matter. The 28-year-old Dutch-Turkish author gained recognition in 2021 […]
(NL Times) Authorities failed to fully monitor Ayoub M., the suspect in the fatal stabbing at Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge, in the months leading up to the attack, according to a joint report from the Dutch Inspectorate of Justice and Security and the […]
(AFP) Sweden’s migration minister said Thursday that the country would cooperate with Damascus to increase deportations of Syrians convicted of crimes in Sweden, saying it was a condition for some aid. “These are Syrian nationals who are in Sweden, who have committed […]
(BBC) A man has been arrested at Manchester Airport on suspicion of terror offences over the synagogue attack in the city earlier this year, police have said. Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz died at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on 2 October […]
(NL Times) Today, the trial starts against Mohamed (23) and Muhanad al N. (25), suspected of involvement in the honor killing of their 18-year-old sister, Ryan. Their father, Khaled al N., is the main suspect in his daughter’s brutal death, but is […]
(Middle East Eye) An MP has been reported to parliament’s standards commissioner for claiming that police banned Israeli fans from a football match due to Muslim influence, Middle East Eye has learnt. During a parliamentary session on Monday, the Democratic Unionist Party’s […]
(European Conservative) France’s domestic intelligence service has warned of a growing threat to Christian communities, according to a confidential report obtained by Le Figaro that links recent attacks in Europe to decades of jihadist propaganda. The warning comes in the wake of […]
(Jewish News) A British-Palestinian doctor who has become infamous for her rants about “Jewish supremacy” in the UK has had her licence to practice medicine suspended for 15 months while the General Medical Council (GMC) investigates her conduct. The decision, announced by […]
(BBC) A 71-year-old former Islamic teacher has been jailed for 12 years for sexual assaults against children. Hafez Ashraf Uddin, who worked in Ipswich, was found guilty of 13 counts of indecent assault, relating to six girls, aged between seven and 14, […]
(ANSA) Turin imam and Egyptian citizen Mohamed Shahin has been served an expulsion order from Italy to Egypt because he is an alleged anti-Semitic fundamentalist who has allegedly legitimised the extermination of the Israeli people, according to the decree issued by the […]
(Breitbart) A report from French senators has called for “comprehensive republican rearmament in the face of the Islamist offensive,” which seeks to infiltrate all levels of society by seeking to exploit the liberal tolerance of Western society. This week, a working group […]
(Brussels Times) A 27-year-old man from Menen, West Flanders, was sentenced again on Wednesday to 15 years in prison by the Ghent Court of Appeal for attempting a terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIL). Abubakar S., of Chechen origin, […]
(European Conservative) A French polling institute has filed a complaint against two members of parliament which accused it of creating a “fake” and “Islamophobic” survey about radicalization among Muslims. Ifop strongly rejected the accusations from the La France Insoumise (LFI) MPs and […]
(GB News) A Christian street preacher has been arrested after telling Muslim protesters “God bless you” at a pro-Palestine demonstration. Shaun O’Sullivan, 36, claims that police are trying to suppress his freedom of speech after being arrested 16 times. He is now […]
(Jewish News) Conservative MP Nick Timothy has questioned whether “Islamist agitators,” including groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, played a role in the controversial decision to bar Israeli-Jewish Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a Europa League match in Birmingham. Speaking in the […]
(Anadolu) Several Muslim religious councils in France have filed a legal complaint over an Ifop survey they say distorts the religious practices of French Muslims and fuels a climate of growing anti-Muslim hostility. The complaint targets a poll commissioned by the little-known […]
(Jerusalem Post) Over a billion Swedish kronor, or more than $100 million, in taxpayer-backed funds intended to support preschools and schools in Sweden have been siphoned off through an Islamist-affiliated network engaged in welfare fraud, an investigation by the Swedish newspaper Expressen […]
(Philenews) The Supreme Court of Cyprus has ruled as lawful the arrest of an Azeri national detained since June 2025 on suspicion of terrorism against the British bases at Akrotiri and espionage targeting the Andreas Papandreou Air Base in Paphos. The court […]
(Swiss Info) The Federal Criminal Court has sentenced two men from the Balkans, the so-called “Frères de Genève” [the Geneva Brothers], to 30 and 53 months in prison for their support of the Islamic State group. However, the court on Monday acquitted […]
(Jerusalem Post) British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was labeled an “infidel” by Gaza campaigners during the 2024 general elections, she told the Political Thinking podcast. She asserted that over her political career, she has “been branded many things, an infidel amongst them […]
(NL Times) Dutch writer and television commentator Lale Gül, 28, will soon lose her personal security protection, she told the ANP on Thursday. Gül said she was informed of the decision in a meeting with the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security […]
(Philenews) A high-profile case in Cyprus that was presented as a terrorism plot and drew the attention of then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has ended with a conspiracy-to-murder conviction. The Nicosia Criminal Court sentenced 42-year-old Orhan Asadov to six and a half […]
(BBC) An Afghan national has admitted raping a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton. Ahmad Mulakhil pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to one count of raping a child under the age of 13. He had previously denied the charge. Mulakhil, 23 and of […]
(Jewish News) The deputy leader of the Greens has stated that a councillor under Charity Commission investigation for sharing a Hamas press conference on social media has the “full backing” of the party. Cllr Abdul Malik has been suspended as chair of […]
(National-UAE) French police have launched an investigation into a town hall official in a Paris suburb accused of having links with the Muslim Brotherhood, months after the government announced new measures to fight the organisation. The official is described by French media […]
(Jewish News) A pro-Gaza councillor, recently praised by Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana, has been found to have breached Redbridge Council’s code of conduct after making false allegations against a Muslim Labour colleague — including claims about his alleged support for Israel […]
(Portugal News) The Constitutional Affairs Committee has deemed unconstitutional a proposal by the Chega party to amend the 2026 state budget, which aims to prohibit the allocation of public funds for the construction of mosques. The 1st Committee met this morning, before […]
(Reuters) Iranians living in Germany are facing increased harassment from Iranian security services, including threats and pressure to inform on other exiles, German authorities and an Iranian opposition group said. German intelligence services have regularly reported Iranian pressure and spying conducted against […]
(AFP) A 19-year-old Syrian went on trial in Berlin on Thursday over a knife attack on a Spanish tourist at the German capital’s Holocaust memorial days before February’s general election. The suspect, partially named as Wassim Al M., is accused of being […]
(Anadolu) Austria’s right-wing extremist Freedom Party (FPO), the largest faction in parliament, on Thursday called for a general ban on headscarves in all schools, saying the coalition government’s plan to restrict the ban to girls under 14 is insufficient. In a press […]
(DPA) Austria is set to ban girls under the age of 14 from wearing a headscarf in school next year, Integration Minister Claudia Plakolm said on Thursday. The draft law, which is set to be debated in parliament soon, is to apply […]
(BBC) A former restaurant owner accused of plotting a terror atrocity against Jews has denied he is a “shameless liar.” Walid Saadaoui, 38, is said to have wanted to cause “untold harm” and kill as many people as he could in a […]
(AFP) Sweden on Thursday charged a 23-year-old Swedish-Syrian man with several “terrorist crimes,” including attempts to travel to Somalia to join the Islamic State (IS) group, prosecutors said. He is also accused of both financing and attempting to finance IS through cryptocurrencies, […]
(Reuters) Germany’s interior minister on Wednesday backed Berlin’s decision to strip a man of his citizenship for supporting Hamas, saying naturalised citizens should forfeit their nationality when they are found not to uphold German values. The decision comes as Germany tightens immigration […]
(Times of Israel) Recently foiled Hamas terrorist plots in Europe were planned in Qatar and possibly Turkey, the Mossad intelligence agency said Wednesday, detailing results of a lengthy probe into the busted schemes. The spy agency said in a statement that it […]
(Brussels Signal) The Austrian government is trying — once again — to ban girls from wearing headscarves in schools. Late yesterday, the council of ministers, a co-ordination group for the coalition government, agreed on a draft law that aims to prevent predominantly […]
(Jerusalem Post) One of two French Muslim teenagers found guilty of raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl in 2024 has had his sentence commuted on account of the “need to prepare for future reintegration.” The original sentences were handed down on June 15, […]
(Sky News) Violent extremists are using AI to evade social media moderation, according to the leader of one of Europe’s leading violence prevention task forces. Speaking at TikTok’s Trust and Safety Forum in Dublin, Judy Korn, managing director of the Violence Prevention […]
(ITV) A man accused of hatching a terrorist attack to “kill as many Jewish people as possible” only pretended to go along with the plot so he could “sabotage it” and “take the evidence to the police,” a jury has heard. Walid […]
(GB News) A High Court judge has ruled the segregation of a convicted terrorist from other prisoners following an attack breached his human rights. Sahayb Abu received a life sentence for terrorism offences with a minimum term of 19 years in 2021 […]
(Jerusalem Post) An 18-year-old from south London appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week charged with intending to commit acts of terrorism after officers arrested him at Gatwick Airport as he tried to board a flight to Istanbul; prosecutors said he planned […]
(Sky News) Female genital mutilation (FGM) survivors in the UK have been told they have to wait for “more research into the effectiveness” of reconstruction surgery, forcing many to fund their own travel and treatment abroad. The World Health Organisation-approved FGM reconstruction […]
(BBC) A Lebanese man has gone on trial in Celle, northern Germany, accused of being a member of Hezbollah — a Shia Muslim group whose military wing is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the EU. The 35-year-old man, named only as […]
(AFP) An 18-year-old man on trial for plotting a terrorist attack admitted on Tuesday to planning a bombing at a large cultural festival in Stockholm, his lawyer said. The man, who holds dual Swedish and Syrian citizenship, had sworn loyalty to the […]
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