(AP) Germany’s top prosecutor has filed charges against a Syrian man in connection with a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial in February that seriously wounded a Spanish tourist. The suspect sought to use the alleged crime to join the militant Islamic […]
(Rudaw) An American child who spent their entire life inside a displacement camp for individuals linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) in northeast Syria (Rojava) was brought home last week, the State Department announced Tuesday, urging other countries to follow suit for […]
(Iran International) A Belgian lawmaker of Iranian descent said the European country’s police warned her of an Iranian plot to abduct her via Turkey after she backed labeling the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group. “Today, the Belgian police and security services contacted […]
(BBC) A man has appeared in court over a disturbance on an Easyjet flight from Luton to Glasgow Airport on Sunday. Abhay Nayak, 41, was arrested and charged after the flight landed at about 08:20 on Sunday morning. Mr Nayak, of Luton, […]
(Belga) The federal government has approved a preliminary draft law that bans the activities of radical organisations in Belgium. The text introduces a mechanism that can ban certain organisations that pose a serious threat to national security and the democratic order. “The […]
(AP) An Austrian court on Friday convicted an acquaintance of the main suspect in last year’s foiled plan to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna on terrorism charges unrelated to the plot and sentenced him to two years in prison. The state […]
(Brussels Times) Flemish Interior Minister Hilde Crevits has overturned a decision by the East Flanders provincial council to ban religious symbols, including the Islamic headscarf, in all schools directly managed by the province. The decision, made on 30 April, was set to […]
(Remix News) Despite claims of the alleged grave threat of “right-wing extremism” presented by the media and the political left in Germany, the data tells another story. In the first half of 2025, a staggering 99 percent of new proceedings initiated by […]
(AFP) The German government said Monday that two new envoys had been sent by Afghanistan’s Taliban administration to help coordinate deportations, days after 81 convicted Afghans were sent back to their homeland. The flight on Friday was the second from Germany since […]
(NL Times) A 31-year-old man from Tajikistan was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Monday for recruiting members for Islamic State (IS) across multiple countries, including the Netherlands, to allegedly prepare attacks. The Rotterdam court said the man […]
(Catalan News) Ripoll, in northern Catalonia, has banned the use of the burkini in the town’s public swimming pool. The announcement was made on Monday by the mayor, Sílvia Orriols, leader of the far-right pro-independence party Aliança Catalana. In a post on […]
(BBC) A teenage Islamic extremist has pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist gun attack. Muhammad Billal, 18, was arrested on 11 February and charged with two counts of preparation of terrorist acts, relating to an alleged gun attack plan and travelling to […]
(Arab News) The Marseilles administrative court has reversed a burkini ban on a French Riviera beach after police threatened fines against a teenager and her family for wearing the Muslim swimsuit, the Times reported on Thursday. The seaside town of Carry-le-Rouet had […]
(Sky News) The Prevent scheme needs to “rapidly” adapt to the online world “where so much radicalisation takes place,” an independent review has found. The anti-extremism programme has been under increased scrutiny after two recent terror incidents involving Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana […]
(Western Standard) A new report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) warns that Canada faces an escalating national security threat from Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations that have embedded themselves across civil society, politics, academia, and finance. The […]
(Jewish News) The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has lifted the interim suspension of a doctor with a history of spreading conspiracy theories about Jews and talking about “Jewish extremism,” apparently accepting her claim during her hearing that she was speaking “about Israel […]
(E-Notícies) Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested an imam from the Marca de l’Ham neighborhood in Figueres (Alt Empordà). This imam is accused of abuse and mistreatment of minors and also of delivering radical speeches. The imam, about 40 years old, arrived in Spain […]
(Brussels Times) A subsidy granted for years to an organisation suspected of links to the Muslim Brotherhood is now under scrutiny in the FWB legislature, with Mouvement Réformateur (MR) parliamentarian Denis Ducarme calling for a commission of inquiry into the issue. According […]
(Brussels Times) Opposition party Vlaams Belang has criticised Interior Minister Hilde Crevits’s decision to recognise 17 additional mosques. Although party leader Chris Janssens commends the minister for not recognising any mosques from Diyanet or Milli Görüş, he believes that giving a positive […]
(Brussels Times) Flemish Minister of the Interior Hilde Crevits (CD&V) has not approved any recognition requests from Diyanet mosques, a decision welcomed by Flemish MP Nadia Sminate (N-VA), who advocates for a comprehensive review of already recognised mosques. Minister Crevits reviewed 58 […]
(DPA) Nearly a year after three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna were cancelled for fear of a terrorist attack, the trial of a suspected Islamic State supporter began in Berlin on Monday. The now 15-year-old is alleged to have helped with preparations […]
(Jewish News) Jewish communal organisations have called for urgent action from the General Medical Council regarding a doctor who still holds a medical licence despite increasingly antisemitic rants about “the Jews” — with the GMC understood to have dropped a case into […]
(RTL) At the State Court on Monday morning, the judges handed down a life sentence to Steve Duarte, Portuguese national and former Luxembourg resident, in absentia. Prosecutors had requested the maximum punishment, and the court agreed. Duarte, who lived in Luxembourg until 2014, […]
(Iran International) Legal experts and politicians have warned that a British summer camp run by the Ahlulbayt Islamic Mission (AIM) charity, which is accused of backing Iran, risks exposing children to extremist views, according to a report by the Telegraph. Legal lobby […]
(Brussels Times) Individuals convicted of serious offences such as organised crime, homicide, or sexual offences may soon face the loss of Belgian nationality, following an agreement by the Council of Ministers announced by Justice Minister Annelies Verlinden on Friday. This revocation will […]
(AP) Greece’s parliament approved a three-month suspension of asylum claims for migrants arriving from Libya on Friday, despite strong criticism from the United Nations refugee agency and Europe’s top human rights official. The measure suspends asylum application processing for those arriving by […]
(Sky News) The threat of physical attacks by Iran on people living in the UK has increased “significantly” since 2022, according to a new report by parliament’s intelligence watchdog. Iran poses a “wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable threat” to the UK, according to […]
(E-Notícies) Another imam has been expelled for making radical proclamations, bringing the total number of expelled Islamist religious leaders in Catalonia this year to three. In this case, it was a Moroccan man residing in Olot, who was subject to a deportation […]
(Sky News) A “serious blunder” by officials meant they failed to disrupt a murder plot against an imam by Islamic State (IS) extremists, an inquiry has found. Father-of-seven Jalal Uddin, 71, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in Rochdale in February […]
(DPA) German police have arrested a man and searched multiple properties across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in connection with a suspected Islamist terrorist plot, the Dusseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Essen police said on Wednesday. Raids were carried out simultaneously […]
(JNS) A group of European imams and senior Muslim leaders visited Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance center on Tuesday, where they laid a wreath in honor of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. The delegation — visiting the Jewish state […]
(Brussels Times) A Belgian intelligence report from late April describes the Collective for Inclusion and Against Islamophobia in Belgium (CIIB) as a “Muslim Brotherhood-leaning pressure group,” La Dernière Heure reported on Wednesday. The confidential document was written by the PFCECT, the integrated […]
(Iran International) A parliamentary report in the UK is set to warn that Iran remains one of the gravest state-based threats to British security, according to the Telegraph, while a separate investigation in Italy has uncovered a vast influence network supporting the […]
(NL Times) Dutch prosecutors have demanded an eight-year prison sentence for a 31-year-old man from Tajikistan accused of recruiting Dutch citizens and others in multiple countries to join Islamic State groups. The man, identified as Abdusamad A., is alleged by the Public […]
(AP) Swiss federal prosecutors on Monday announced an indictment of a Kosovar and a Swiss-Macedonian dual national on terrorism-related charges and spreading the ideology of the banned extremist group Islamic State. The 36-year-old Kosovar and the 33-year-old dual national, who were not […]
(JNS) A Jewish advocacy organization has strongly criticized New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani — a Democratic Socialist and current New York state assemblyman — after he shared a video the group says disrespects Chanukah and Jewish traditions. StopAntisemitism took to […]
(AFP) Germany is to start deporting Syrians with criminal records, the interior ministry said Saturday, days after Austria became the first EU country to do so in recent years. The ministry had instructed the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) to […]
(BBC) A charity has been formally warned and one of its trustees disqualified after an “inflammatory” sermon in the days after the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel. Language in the Nottingham Islam Information Point sermon, on 13 October 2023, included “the […]
(NL Times) A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, adopted two asylum laws around midnight. The laws, drafted by former PVV Minister Marjolein Faber, are intended to implement “the strictest asylum policy ever” in the Netherlands. […]
(NL Times) Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will be summoned before the Rotterdam District Court in the criminal trial of an intelligence worker suspected of leaking state secrets to Morocco, the court said on Friday. The case concerns 65-year-old [Abderrahim] el M., […]
(NL Times) The Netherlands is failing to prevent forced marriages, abandonment abroad, and female genital mutilation, putting hundreds to thousands — mostly girls and women — at serious risk each year. A new study by research agency Right to Rise, commissioned by […]
(DPA) A Syrian man has been detained after attacking people on a high-speed train in southern Germany with a total of five people hurt including three other Syrians, German police said late Thursday. The ICE express train, which was carrying 500 passengers, […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels Court of Appeal ordered the Belgian state to pay additional penalties for not doing enough to bring convicted Nizar Trabelsi back to Belgium. The former Tunisian footballer was sentenced in Belgium in 2004 to 10 years in prison […]
(AP) The European Union’s commissioner for migration says Europe will take a “firm” approach with authorities in Libya following a spike in illegal migration across the Mediterranean. Commissioner Magnus Brunner plans to travel to Libya next week with government representatives from Greece, […]
(ANSA) A group of four migrants from North Africa who were deported from Italy in July 2022 on terrorism charges that a Perugia court subsequently found to be unsubstantiated and shelved are suing the Italian state for two million euros in damages, […]
(TVP) A 17-year-old from the southeastern Podkarpackie province who promoted Islamic terror online has been charged with preparing a mass attack, say prosecutors. The youth is charged with preparing a mass attack against a group of people based on their religious or […]
(LBC) A former Labour home secretary has warned that Britain faces an “enormous and ongoing threat” from Islamic terrorism in a major new report. Lord Blunkett, home secretary from 2001-2004, made the comments in the foreword of the Counter Extremism Group’s latest […]
(NL Times) Terrorism in the Netherlands is primarily a “problem of homegrown origin,” according to a recent study examining the links between migration and terrorism. The report, shared Friday by Justice and Migration Minister David van Weel (VVD) with the Tweede Kamer, […]
(Brussels Times) A Syrian national, aged 28, was sentenced by the Liège Criminal Court on Friday to 40 months in prison and an €8,000 fine for participating in the activities of a terrorist group. The man’s activities, committed between September 2023 and […]
(AFP) German prosecutors said Friday they had filed charges against a Syrian youth and alleged Islamic State group supporter linked to a 2024 attack plot on a Vienna concert by US pop megastar Taylor Swift. The suspect, only partially named as Mohammad A., […]
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