(Swiss Info) Authorities in cantons Vaud and Neuchâtel have arrested four individuals suspected of carrying out various support activities for a terrorist group. Four Syrian nationals were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of supporting the Al-Nusra Front terrorism group. Two of the […]
(Middle East Eye) The largest body of lawyers in the United States has passed a resolution condemning Islamophobia and calling on Congress and the United Nations to implement similar resolutions combating anti-Muslim sentiment. The American Bar Association (ABA)’s House of Delegates passed […]
(AFP) Denmark will extend the tighter border controls introduced following protests involving Koran burnings in recent months in the country and in neighbouring Sweden, the justice ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said in a statement that police “found it necessary to maintain […]
(Anadolu) Some 175,000 migrants applied for asylum in Germany between January and July this year, the government said in a new report Tuesday. The number of asylum applications increased by almost 78% compared with the same period last year, according to the […]
(AFP) Poland’s government on Monday accused Belarus and Russia of orchestrating another migration influx into the European Union via the Polish border in order to destabilise the region. “We’re talking about an operation organised by the Russian and Belarusian secret services that […]
(CNE) Muslim women are not allowed to cover their faces while driving. That is the ruling of the Administrative Court Neustadt an der Weinstraße. The judges considered the case of a Muslim woman who had filed a complaint against the authority that […]
(Iran International) An Iranian-born artist shredded a copy of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, outside the Iranian embassy in the Danish capital Copenhagen on Saturday. Firoozeh Bazrafkan, who has staged similar symbolic performances several times in the past, said the deliberate shredding […]
(Yle) The Finnish Foreign Ministry says it has no plans to try to repatriate the remaining Finnish children from the al-Hol refugee camp in northern Syria. A senior ministry official told Yle on Saturday that the primary reason is that the children’s […]
(Jerusalem Post) Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) leadership preached an ultimate war on the Jewish people in live-streamed talks arranged by the Islamic Students Association of Britain, according to a Jewish Chronicle report on Thursday. Some of the speakers who addressed the Muslim […]
(BBC) A teenager has been charged with seven terrorism offences. Amir El-Harith,18, from Smethwick, West Midlands, was arrested on Wednesday and charged the next day. Among the accusations are sharing terrorist publications, encouraging terrorism, and having information likely to be useful for […]
(AP) Greece’s government met on Friday to try to improve coordination on migration as a group of 102 migrants crossed by land from Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean country saw a spike in arrivals by sea. The ministers for merchant […]
(AP) The trial of radical British preacher Anjem Choudary on a charge of leading a terrorist organization will start in May of next year, a judge said Friday. Choudary, 56, is also charged with two other counts under the Terrorism Act: membership […]
(AP) An alleged former member of a Syrian pro-government militia has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of crimes against humanity related to the abuse and torture of civilians in the early years of his country’s civil war, prosecutors said Thursday. The […]
(ITV) A teenager found with “viable bomb-making instructions” has been jailed for nearly four years. Mohammed Afzal, 18, posted extremist material that was deemed to “encourage terrorism,” Liverpool Crown Court heard. He also collected terrorist information, including directions on how to make […]
(Dutch News) An unknown number of Dutch nationals may have ended up on a US list of terrorism suspects even though they are not under suspicion of extremism in the Netherlands, according to research by investigative website Follow the Money. The problem […]
(AP) Greek authorities rescued 40 migrants from a sinking dinghy in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday and charged two of them with causing a shipwreck and endangering lives for allegedly scuttling the flimsy vessel as a coast guard boat approached. A coast […]
(KUNA) The European Union Tuesday said it is in contact with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and is ready to collaborate with the Jeddah-based 57-member Islamic body on the issue of the repeated desecration of the Quran in Europe. “We have […]
(AFP) Sweden’s government said Tuesday it intended to “intensify” border controls due to a worsened security situation in the wake of several protests involving desecrations of the Koran. Tensions have flared between Sweden and Muslim countries following several protests involving public desecrations […]
(Euronews) Two men set fire to a copy of the Quran on Monday in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, in a rally similar to previous events that provoked a diplomatic crisis between Sweden and the Muslim world. Smiling wryly, Salwan […]
(Local) The Iraqi activist Salwan Najem has applied for a permit to hold a Quran-burning protest outside Sweden’s parliament on Monday. Najem, a 48-year-old man, accompanied the activist Salwan Momika during the Quran-burning protests Momika carried out outside a Stockholm mosque and […]
(BBC) A woman has pleaded guilty to disseminating terrorist materials relating to conflict with the United States and the 9/11 attacks. Roma Iqbal, 23, admitted distributing two publications on 10 December 2021. Prosecutors accepted her plea of not guilty to providing terrorist […]
(AP) Sweden’s prime minister said Thursday that police have received several permit applications for the burning of religious texts in the country next week, and that he fears this may escalate tensions further with the Muslim world. In his first public comments […]
(BBC) A draft law drawn up after campaigning by the mother of a Manchester Arena bombing victim would be ineffective, a report has said. Known as Martyn’s Law, the legislation would mean UK venues and local authorities must draw up preventative plans […]
(AFP) Sweden’s government on Thursday ordered 15 government agencies to strengthen the country’s ability to prevent terrorism, in response to a worsened security situation following protests involving desecration of the Koran. Tensions have flared between Sweden and several Middle Eastern nations after […]
(Arab News) A British-Egyptian man accused of fighting for Daesh has been found dead in prison. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, was on trial in Madrid charged with numerous terrorist offenses and online fraud in order to raise money for the group. He […]
(Local) Sweden’s opposition has called for the chair of the parliament’s foreign policy committee to resign after he called the Prophet Mohammed a “warlord, mass-murderer, slave trader and bandit” in a tweet. Richard Jomshof, whose strong views on Islam made him a […]
(ITV) The jury in the trial of a man charged with manslaughter after four people died whilst attempting to cross the English Channel in a small migrant boat has been discharged. Ibrahima Bah, of no fixed address, was charged with four counts […]
(AP) Sweden’s security situation has deteriorated after recent Quran burnings in the country and protests in the Muslim world, both of which have negatively impacted the Nordic nation’s image, its domestic security service said Wednesday. The Swedish Security Service said the burning […]
(Local) Sweden’s Social Democrat opposition has demanded the government call an emergency parliamentary meeting over the ongoing Quran-burning protests. “We are calling for the foreign policy committee to be called to an extra meeting as soon as possible as a result of […]
(CBC) The Windsor Islamic Association (WIA) says it’s had a “constructive meeting” with the local public school board after the majority of students at a local school — some connected to a mosque — were absent the day the Pride flag was […]
(Local) Police in Sweden have received yet another application to hold a Quran-burning protest, with the event this time to be held outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm. The request has come from a 31-year-old man, who intends to set fire [to] […]
(AP) Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday called for new, more equal relationships between Europe and migrants’ countries of origin and transit as she convened a summit of some 20 nations, EU officials and international organizations aimed at stanching flows of illegal […]
(Arab News) The UK’s domestic intelligence agency thwarted a plot by an Islamist extremist to attack a music festival attended by about 90,000 people every year, Mail Online reported. In 2022, a tipoff led [MI5] officers to arrest a 15-year-old boy suspected […]
(Dutch News) An MP for the Dutch free-market liberal party VVD has said that the time is right to potentially link up with Geert Wilders’s far-right PVV in a new cabinet. Ruben Brekelmans said in an interview with EW magazine that the party still […]
(AP) Croatian police have detained nine people suspected of smuggling migrants into the European Union country from neighboring Serbia, a police statement said on Friday. The suspects joined forces with unidentified persons in Serbia to organize illegal entry over the Danube River […]
(AFP) In less than a month, Sweden-based Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika has twice stoked international outrage by desecrating the Koran at Stockholm protests. Despite his previous low profile, his past has been far from a quiet affair. In late June, the 37-year-old […]
(Arab News) The UK lacks the resources to monitor 120 convicted terrorists and people deemed “terrorist risk offenders” due to be released across the year to March 2024, according to a report issued by the country’s inspectorates of prisons, the police and […]
(Local) A man stomped on a copy of the Quran but did not actually set fire to it at a protest in Stockholm, despite having pledged to do so. Here’s what happened — and what could happen next. Salwan Momika, the man […]
(Yle) A total of 26 Muslim groups and organisations in Finland have issued a joint statement condemning a blog comment written in 2019 by the country’s finance minister, Riikka Purra (Finns). Purra’s comment, in Finnish but translated here in English, stated: “There […]
(Radio France) The public prosecutor in Nice has asked judges to reassess the investigation into the truck-ramming attack that killed 86 people during national holiday celebrations in the southern French city on 14 July, 2016. He pointed to “negligence” in the security […]
(AFP) Swedish police said Wednesday they had granted a permit for a protest outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, with media reporting the organisers planned to burn the Muslim holy book. The protest, scheduled for Thursday, comes just weeks after a man […]
(AP) A German woman convicted on charges that she and her husband allowed the death by thirst of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq expressed […]
(Canadian Press) British police have arrested a Canadian man on suspicion of being a member of a terrorism group. The Metropolitan Police in London, England, say counterterrorism detectives arrested a 28-year-old Canadian national at Heathrow Airport shortly after noon. They say the […]
(JNS) Eleven years after the terrorist attack on a busload of Israeli vacationers in Burgas, Bulgaria, the two main suspects remain on Interpol’s most wanted list. Five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver were killed and 35 others were wounded in the […]
(ITV) A homegrown terrorist considered launching a mass gun attack on the late queen’s funeral after converting to Islam in prison, a court has heard. Edward Little, 22, rejected the plan as “too late” and instead decided to target a Christian preacher […]
(Garowe Online) Kenya is set to deport a convicted terrorist to Britain, Daily Mail reports, with preliminary investigations showing that the accused is closely connected to the famous “White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite, who is linked to several attacks. Jermaine Grant, 40, faces […]
(Yle) A group of Islamic communities and organisations in Finland have issued a joint statement calling on the government to take concrete steps towards achieving “zero tolerance” on racism. “We call on the Finnish government and especially Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Frankfurt court on Monday handed a German woman a two-year suspended prison sentence due to her past involvement with the so-called “Islamic State” (IS). “She promoted the organization from within,” the presiding judge said of the 33-year-old woman from the [central […]
(Times of Israel) A Muslim activist who had received permission to burn a Torah and a Bible outside the Israeli embassy in Sweden on Saturday said he was backing off from the move, adding that he only wanted to draw attention to […]
(AFP) Swedish police on Friday said they had granted a permit for a protest which would include burning holy texts outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, sparking condemnation from Israel and Jewish organisations. The controversial protest, scheduled for Saturday, comes weeks after […]
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