(BBC) An 18-year-old man has been charged with preparing terrorist acts as part of an ongoing investigation by counter-terrorism police. Muhammad Billal was arrested in Nelson, Lancashire, on Tuesday, Greater Manchester Police said. He was charged with two counts of preparation to […]
(DPA) A German court on Tuesday handed prison terms to three defendants charged with supporting Islamic State, finding them guilty of collecting donations for the terrorist group between 2020 and 2021. A 26-year-old woman holding German and Moroccan citizenship was given three […]
(WRAL) A Durham man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to aiding and attempting to join the terrorist group ISIS months earlier. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Alexander Justin White pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide and attempting material support to ISIS. White, […]
(AFP) A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country’s first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority. Accused of keeping Yazidi women and children […]
(DPA) The first trial resulting from investigations into alleged Islamist plans for an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year reached its verdict on Monday. A 19-year-old Iraqi man associated with the main suspect was convicted by the Vienna […]
(AFP) Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders threatened on Monday to force early elections if a landmark immigration bill did not pass quickly despite the country’s top advisory body calling for an overhaul. For months the shaky coalition governing the Netherlands has been […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government will make another attempt to establish an accredited imam training program in the Netherlands, State Secretary Jurgen Nobel (Participation and Integration) announced in a letter to the Tweede Kamer. He called it “undesirable” that Dutch Muslims still […]
(AFP) Denmark’s strict immigration policies resulted in the granting of just 860 asylum requests last year, the lowest number with the exception of 2020, when Covid-19 lockdowns halted new arrivals. Denmark’s immigration approach has been influenced by the far-right parties for over […]
(Belga) Belgium’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) received fewer reports of threats that could be linked to terrorism or extremism last year. The government body announced this in a press release on Friday. CUTA counted 287 threat reports last year, 13 […]
(Jerusalem Post) New information reveals even deeper connections between Hezbollah and the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a new Belgium-based NGO with a declared mission to prosecute former Israeli soldiers abroad. “Over 1,000 cases have been filed against Israeli soldiers across the globe,” […]
(Philenews) Cyprus has achieved the European Union’s highest return-to-arrival ratio at 179% whilst recording a 69% drop in asylum applications between 2022 and 2024, government officials announced on Wednesday. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and Deputy Minister for Migration Nicholas A. Ioannides presented […]
(Philenews) More than 1,300 Syrian nationals in Cyprus have requested voluntary repatriation following the fall of the Assad regime, officials announced today. Deputy Minister for Migration Nicholas A. Ioannides reported that 1,367 Syrians expressed interest in returning to Syria between December 9, […]
(ANSA) Teachers at a high school in the northeastern town of Monfalcone near Trieste privately lift the niqab of five female students to ID them, local daily Il Piccolo reported on Tuesday, saying the case has sparked a protest of the local […]
(ANSA) There are approximately 200 million in the world and 80 thousand in Italy, including 7 thousand minors, women who have undergone genital mutilation, the Higher Health Institute (ISS) said in a report Tuesday. The majority of Italian health workers, 60%, however, […]
(NL Times) The municipality of Almere violated Muslims’ fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of religion with its secret infiltration of mosques a few years ago, the ombudsman of the Amsterdam metropolitan region said in a report published on Tuesday. The ombudsman […]
(Middle East Eye) More than 600 primary and secondary students at the Al Kindi private Muslim school group, located in the suburbs of Lyon, in central-eastern France, risk not returning to their school at the start of the next academic year. On […]
(ITV) A man has admitted to setting fire to the Islamic holy book, the Koran, which was live-streamed on social media. Martin Frost, 47, was filmed holding a flag of Israel before tearing out pages of the text and setting fire to […]
(Atalayar) The Spanish Civil Guard, together with the Moroccan Directorate General for Territorial Surveillance (DGST), has dismantled a jihadist cell responsible for indoctrination via the internet, according to Rue20. In total, seven people have been arrested in three simultaneous operations in Toledo, […]
(Jewish News) A 29-year-old man has admitted a series of antisemitic posts and supporting Hamas on social media. Zakir Hussain had denied wrongdoing but changed his plea and admitted 11 charges against him on the first day of his Old Bailey trial […]
(Iran International) An Iranian cleric, an imam at an Islamic center in suburban Stockholm, has been arrested for nearly two weeks and faces deportation from Sweden, Expressen reported Friday. Almost two weeks ago, individuals in civilian clothing went to the home of […]
(AP) Swedish prosecutors said Friday they have ordered the release of five men who were arrested after the fatal shooting of an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings. Salwan Momika staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in […]
(DPA) Maryam has a clear idea of which party she does not want to see leading Germany for the next four years. Voting for the far-right and anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) on February 23 “is out of the question for me,” […]
(AFP) Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy with his Koran burnings. In June 2023, the 38-year-old with a chequered past sparked outrage when he stomped on the Islamic holy book and wrapped it […]
(BBC) A Muslim convert who threatened to “flatten” a mosque and plotted to attack an Islamic cleric who was an outspoken critic of terrorism has been found guilty of preparing a terrorist act. Jason Savage, 35, was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court […]
(Swiss Info) The parents of a young jihadist who left for Syria to join the Islamic State have been given suspended sentences by the Federal Criminal Court. They were found guilty of violating the law banning the Al Qaeda and Islamic State […]
(DPA) Plans to reject more asylum seekers at Germany’s borders tabled by the opposition conservatives passed in parliament on Wednesday with the help of votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The proposals by opposition Christian Democrat (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, […]
(Swiss Info) The Vaudois Union of Muslim Associations (UVAM) is continuing with its defamation complaint against Saïda Keller-Messahli, president of the Forum for Progressive Islam, claiming she made defamatory remarks in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Le Matin Dimanche, and is […]
(Brussels Times) A man suspected of helping to deliver the weapon used in the Brussels terror attack in October 2023 was arrested last week in the Netherlands. The attack claimed the lives of two Swedish football supporters. A person was arrested in […]
(BBC) A minister has been spoken to for attending a Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) event, despite a government ban on engagement with the group. Labour’s leadership “reminded” Sir Stephen Timms of his “duty to uphold collective responsibility” after he attended an […]
(AFP) Prime Minister Francois Bayrou felt compelled on Tuesday to defend remarks about immigrants “flooding” France after drawing sharp rebukes, including from his allies, but winning applause from the anti-immigration right. The leftist opposition accused Bayrou of spreading far-right ideas and centrist […]
(DPA) Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance is to put forward two motions in the nation’s parliament this week to stiffen migration policy amid an increasingly febrile debate following a recent double murder and ahead of elections next month. “Current asylum and immigration policy […]
(Sky News) Kemi Badenoch has defended blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis. Speaking to Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, she insisted she would not be “shy” when talking about the scandal, which saw a […]
(JNS) Ali Abunimah, co-founder and executive director of the anti-Israel Electronic Intifada website, was arrested by Swiss police ahead of a speaking engagement in Zurich on Saturday, the organization said. The Palestinian-American activist “is currently being detained and has had access to […]
(Jewish News) The yellow and green flag of Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah was openly waved on the streets of Dublin on Saturday. Crowds took to the streets days after a new government coalition administration was made official. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign […]
(NL Times) Mayor Marja van Bijsterveldt is under fire for commissioning a covert investigation into the Islamic community of Delft in 2017, a move she admitted on a secretly recorded tape was made without specific cause. The recording, obtained by the Algemeen […]
(Belga) A suspect involved in the terrorist attack in Brussels on 16 October 2023, in which two Swedish football fans were killed, has been arrested at Malaga airport. The man is believed to have supplied the weapon used by the attacker. On […]
(Koha Ditore) Four people suspected of links to the terrorist organization ISIS were arrested in North Macedonia on Friday. Police have conducted searches at five locations in Skopje and Gostivar and suspicions are that the terrorist cell was ideologically linked to ISIS. […]
(Arab News) A new national body, the British Muslim Network, launches next month with the aim of providing a mainstream voice for Britain’s Muslim communities and engaging directly with the government, the Times newspaper reported on Friday. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first […]
(BBC) The families of three men murdered by a man after multiple failures by state agencies fear lessons have not been learned after the killings in Southport and are demanding more government action. James Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were attacked […]
(DPA) The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) held an event on Friday evening in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg, where a fatal knife attack has inflamed tensions over migration policy just weeks ahead of national elections. Among the participants was the […]
(AFP) Denmark charged two people on Friday under its law banning desecration of the Koran, a first for legislation adopted after a series of holy book burnings that sparked outrage among Muslims, authorities said. The pair, whose identities were not disclosed, are […]
(AFP) A court in Norway on Friday jailed two sisters for being members of the Islamic State (IS) group, after they secretly travelled to Syria as teens in 2013. Now aged 27 and 31, the pair were convicted of being members of […]
(AFP) A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a Pakistani man to 30 years in jail for attempting to murder two people outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo in 2020 with a meat cleaver. When he carried out the attack, 29-year-old Zaheer […]
(DPA) The southern German city of Aschaffenburg on Thursday mourned the victims of a deadly knife attack on a group of children, as investigators searched for a motive and lawmakers questioned why the Afghan suspect was not deported earlier. Mayor Jürgen Herzing […]
(AP) More than 550 migrants have arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands in boats over the past two days, Spain’s maritime rescue service said Thursday. At least one body was found in one of the boats. The Spanish archipelago off northwest Africa is […]
(Brussels Times) Flemish Education Minister Zuhal Demir has launched a survey aimed at mapping out the issue of radicalisation in schools. The survey is linked to an action plan against violent radicalisation currently being prepared by the Flemish government, Demir said on […]
(Afghanistan International) Jean-Louis Denis, a Belgian Islamist preacher, who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 for recruiting young people for jihad, has traveled to Afghanistan. His visit to Afghanistan has raised concerns about his possible links to jihadist groups […]
(JNS) A 30-year-old Moroccan man was arrested in Naples for terrorism charges, including affiliation with ISIS (Islamic State) and plans to target the Jewish community in the southern Italian city, the Polizia di Stato said on Wednesday. In addition to the arrest […]
(ANSA) It is common sense to ban the Islamic veil in public spaces in Italy, League leader Matteo Salvini said after the right-wing party filed a bill banning the veil and setting jail terms of up to two years for husbands who […]
(NL Times) The K9, a coalition of regional mosque umbrella organizations in the Netherlands, is considering taking legal action against De Telegraaf, citing the newspaper’s alleged ongoing negative coverage of Muslims. The K9 claims the newspaper’s articles contribute to incitement and the […]
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