(AFP) French prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old school teacher on suspicion he translated religious chants into French for the Islamic State (IS) group, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office said this week. The man was indicted on February 16 over alleged “terrorist criminal […]
(AP) New York City has marked the anniversary of the 1993 bombing at the old World Trade Center that blew open a massive crater underneath one of the 110-story twin towers, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others years before […]
(AP) A court in Cyprus on Saturday ordered two men to remain in police custody for six days on suspicion of people smuggling. The men were identified as the drivers of two boats that brought 146 Syrian refugees and one Lebanese migrant […]
(Exberliner) Berlin’s SPD parliamentary leader Raed Saleh is advocating for laws against Islamophobia to be entered into the state constitution, according to a report by Tagesspiegel. Saleh emphasises that this would be in addition to constitutional clauses which advocate against antisemitism. The topic […]
(AFP) A Tunisian imam expelled from France for alleged hate speech said on Friday he would take legal action in a bid to overturn the decision. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, from the town of Bagnols-sur-Ceze in the south of France, denounced his removal as […]
(ITV) Former Conservative deputy chair Lee Anderson has been criticised for claiming Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, is controlled by “Islamists.” Speaking on GB News, Mr Anderson said Mr Khan had “given our capital city away to his mates.” […]
(Sky News) Shamima Begum has lost an appeal against the removal of her British citizenship. The east London schoolgirl, now 24, travelled to Syria in 2015 at the age of 15, before her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after […]
(ITV) The families of three men killed in a terror attack in Reading’s Forbury Gardens have spoken of their shock and disappointment following the conclusion of the inquest into their deaths. James Furlong, Dr David Wails and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett were stabbed to […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss government has proposed a five-year ban for the Islamist Palestinian organisation Hamas and affiliated groups after terrorist attacks on Israel. The government submitted a draft bill to this effect for consultation on Wednesday. The Federal Council hopes that […]
(Jewish News) A minister has suggested a judge accused of giving “lenient sentences” for terrorism offences should be investigated for appearing to support a pro-Palestine social media post. The Home Office’s Chris Philp told MPs he would expect the Judicial Conduct Investigations […]
(ITV) Two men from South Wales have been charged in connection with a suspected people smuggling operation through Europe. Dilshad Shamo, 41, from Castell Morgraig, and Ali Khdir, 42, from Pontygwindy Road, Caerphilly, have been charged with assisting unlawful immigration. They appeared […]
(Brussels Times) In the investigation into the terrorist attack in which two Swedish nationals were killed in Brussels in October 2023, the Italian anti-terrorist police carried out searches targeting 18 people on Tuesday. The operation concerned “18 people of North African origin” […]
(Radio France) France’s interior minister has asked for a Tunisian imam to be stripped of his French residence permit, after authorities were alerted to his anti-French preaching. Interior Minister Gerald [Darmanin] said that Mahjoub Mahjoubi, an imam in Bagnols-sur-Céze, near Avignon, in […]
(Dutch News) The national ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen says he is concerned at the way people are being officially registered as having “extremist views” or “terrorist sympathies” even though this can have major consequences for the way they live their lives. People are often […]
(Jerusalem Post) An imam at the Belgian parliament last week began reciting a verse from the Quran that explicitly calls on Muslims to kill and take Jews captive. The Quran excerpt is verse 33:26 from the Al-Ahzab surah (chapter). It translates to: […]
(AP) A naturalized U.S. citizen who rapped about flying to “shoot New York up” after training with ISIS in his native Somalia has been charged with supporting a terrorist organization, federal prosecutors said Friday. Harafa Hussein Abdi, 41, of Minneapolis was arrested […]
(BBC) A man accused of the murder of a 70-year-old man and the attempted murder of another in suspected terror-related attacks will go on trial in April. Ahmed Alid, 45, is accused of murdering Terrence Carney in Hartlepool town centre on October […]
(BBC) The charity watchdog has been urged to reveal its action plan for a mosque criticised in the Manchester Arena bomb inquiry. Richard Scorer, a solicitor acting for some of the victims’ families, has called for transparency. In response the Charity Commission […]
(AFP) Sweden’s foreign minister said Thursday he had confronted his Iranian counterpart after reports Tehran’s intelligence service sent an undercover couple to murder Jews in the country. Last week, Swedish Radio (SR) reported that a couple, Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, had […]
(Iran International) The office of Pierre Poilievre, Canadian lawmaker and the leader of the opposition Conservative Party, has told Iran International that he has provided no recommendation letter in support of granting [a] visa to the son of Iran’s parliament speaker. Earlier […]
(Iran International) Australia says it will not tolerate Iran’s attempts to suppress dissent abroad amid threats by regime officials to Australian citizens. In a statement communicated to Iran International, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs emphasized that “Australia does not tolerate, under […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders says he wanted to stand up for the freedom of all Dutch people, including those with a Muslim background. He thinks it is “fine” that they visit mosques and read the Koran and calls that “a […]
(ITV) An 18-year-old has been charged as part of an ongoing terrorism investigation. Muhammad Zakir Arif from Bury, Greater Manchester, was charged with multiple offences following an operation by Counter-Terrorism Policing North West. On Wednesday, 14 February, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court has handed seven-and-a-half-year prison terms to two prisoners jailed for terror offences for writing to other inmates encouraging them to stick to jihadist ideology, court documents showed Tuesday. In a ruling dated February 12, the Audiencia Nacional […]
(Sky News) Three people accused of displaying images of paragliders at a pro-Palestinian march have escaped jail after being found guilty of showing support for a terrorist group. Heba Alhayek, 29, and Pauline Ankunda, 26, and Noimutu Olayinka Taiwo, 27, were handed […]
(JNS) The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has again taken to task an Islamic preacher in Florida who recently advocated numerous antisemitic conspiracy theories during a religious service. Imam Fadi Kablawi gave a Friday sermon on Jan. 26 at Masjid As-Sunna[h] […]
(Belga) A 31-year-old Belgian man listed in an international terrorist database was denied entry to the Philippines at Manila airport, according to a statement released on Monday by the Philippine Bureau of Immigration. The man was turned away on 7 February after […]
(BBC) Three people at a pro-Palestine march in central London displayed images of paragliders, “celebrating” the Hamas tactic, a court has been told. Heba Alhayek, 29, and Pauline Ankunda, 26, attached images to their backs, prosecutors allege, just seven days after Hamas […]
(Dutch News) A cyber attack on vital infrastructure, such as the provision of energy or banking services, is top of the list of fears among the Dutch, according to the latest edition of the Clingendael Institute’s foreign affairs barometer. The research, carried […]
(Swiss Info) The man who took over a dozen hostages on a Swiss regional train on Thursday, before being shot dead by police, has been formally identified. But various questions about the event remain open. As initially reported, the man was an […]
(Times of Israel) The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is recruiting British Muslims on pilgrimages to Iran and Iraq to spy on Jews and Jewish targets in the United Kingdom, according to a Friday report citing Israeli and UK officials. According to the […]
(Toronto Sun) All charges against one of the men arrested following a high-profile incident during a demonstration in the Toronto Eaton Centre have been dropped. Toronto Police responded on Dec. 17 at about 4:55 p.m. to the area of Yonge and Shuter […]
(Swiss Info) Swiss police said a 32-year-old Iranian asylum seeker armed with an axe and a knife held 15 hostages on a train between Baulmes and Yverdon-les-Bains in western Switzerland for almost four hours, until police stormed the train and killed the […]
(CBC) The Social Justice Centre (SJC) at the University of British Columbia is suing a prominent Jewish organization and one former contractor for defamation after pro-Hamas stickers bearing the SJC’s logo were placed on campus in November. The stickers said “I [heart] […]
(AFP) Meta on Thursday said it had removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for violating its content policy. “We have removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy,” a Meta spokesperson […]
(Dutch News) A member of the anti-terrorism taskforce NCTV suspected of divulging classified information to Morocco for years had some 928 documents in his possession, including 345 documents from secret service AIVD and 65 from military intelligence service MIVD, the public prosecution […]
(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life in jail over the 2015 Paris jihadist attacks, was removed from his Belgian prison cell on Wednesday and transferred back to France. Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the Islamic State group cell that […]
(CBC) A former campus imam alleges he was dismissed by the University of Toronto Scarborough after a social media post he says was falsely attributed to him, which he maintains the school failed to properly investigate. Omar Patel says the university formally cut ties with […]
(NL Times) The 56-year-old Rotterdammer Nazih R., who is a suspect in a Danish and German terror investigation, is denying the accusation he is a member of Hamas. His lawyer said this on Tuesday during a hearing at the International Legal Assistance […]
(BBC) A formal consultation has been launched into proposals for new legislation to ensure stronger protection against terrorism in public places. Known as Martyn’s Law, it is named after Martyn Hett, one of 22 people killed in the 2017 Manchester attack. The […]
(AP) More than 1,000 migrants from sub-Saharan countries arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands in 18 boats over the past three days, Spain’s marine rescue service said Monday. A body was found in one of the boats. The archipelago off northwest Africa has […]
(Canadian Press) Representatives from more than a dozen British Columbia mosques and Islamic associations have sent a letter to Premier David Eby calling for the minister of post-secondary education to be removed from her role. They also say no NDP MLA or […]
(ITV) An inquest into the deaths of three men stabbed to death in Reading has heard authorities were repeatedly warned about the terrorist’s mental health. Giving evidence today, the CEO of Reading Refugee Support Group said he wrote to health and probation officials […]
(Turkish Minute) Two executives from a Turkish-Islamist political association in Germany that is in the process of establishing a party named Demokratische Allianz für Vielfalt und Aufbruch (Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening, or DAVA) have denied claims that the new party […]
(BBC) A man and his daughter who were seriously injured in the Manchester Arena bombing are suing a conspiracy theorist who claims the attack was faked, the High Court has been told. Martin and Eve Hibbert are pursuing Richard Hall for harassment, […]
(AFP) A Syrian charged with committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in his home country between 2011 and 2016 has been detained in Belgium pending a court hearing next week, judicial officials said Monday. The defendant, a man identified as Hossin […]
(JNS) “This province has no place for bigotry and racism. We stand with the Muslim community throughout Canada on this sorrowful day of remembrance.” So wrote David Eby, premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia and leader of the British Columbia […]
(AFP) A Norwegian court has jailed for 19 months a woman who chased and then rammed a vehicle carrying an anti-Islam extremist who had just burned a Koran. The woman was found guilty of an attempt to inflict serious bodily harm, according […]
(AFP) Swedish prosecutors on Thursday said they had asked a Stockholm court to remand in custody a 51-year-old woman suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Yazidis in Syria. The woman, who has been active in the Islamic State […]
(NL Times) Arnhem Mayor Ahmed Marcouch plans to firmly press national politicians for a national ban on Quran burnings. He thinks such a burning is “a poisonous act that leads to others being provoked,” he said on Wednesday during a City Council […]
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