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Maryland CAIR chapter opposes IHRA definition of antisemitism Montgomery County is Maryland's most populous region, encompassing the heavily Jewish town of Silver Spring as well as several heavily populated places in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.

July 26, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) The Maryland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on members of the Montgomery County Council on Sunday to oppose the county’s resolution to formally adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Montgomery County is […]

N. Macedonia: Police find 86 migrants, arrest truck driver

July 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) Police in North Macedonia have found 86 migrants, including minors, crammed into a truck with an attached trailer in the southern part of the country and arrested the truck driver. The migrants from Pakistan, Syria and India were discovered late Saturday […]

Turkey’s Erdogan rails at Greece over Muslim minority rights

July 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday criticized Greece for allegedly violating a settlement that has governed relations between the rivals for nearly a century. In a statement released on the 99th anniversary of the Lausanne Treaty, Erdogan accused Athens of […]

Athens shoots down Turkish allegations over minority schools in Thrace

July 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Kathimerini) Greece’s Foreign Ministry has issued a terse response to allegations from Turkey regarding the closure of four minority primary schools in the northeastern province of Thrace, which Ankara claims constitutes a violation of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne provisions safeguarding the […]

Belgian court puts on hold any bid to release Iran diplomat

July 22, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Belgian judges granted a request Friday from opponents of the country’s new prisoner-swap deal with Tehran to block any attempt to send home an Iranian diplomat convicted on terror charges until the decision can be challenged in court. A lawyer acting […]

Terror threat cancels Iranian opposition’s summit in Albania

July 22, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) Iranian dissidents in Albania on Friday said they had canceled a summit following warnings from local authorities of a possible terrorist threat. Some 3,000 Iranian dissidents from the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, best known as MEK, live at Ashraf 3 camp in Manez, 30 […]

Facebook removes Afghan media pages controlled by Taliban

July 21, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Facebook has removed the accounts of at least two state-owned media outlets in Afghanistan, the company confirmed Thursday, saying it was complying with laws in the United States listing the Taliban as a “terrorist organisation.” The Taliban have made liberal use […]

Rights group slams Morocco, Spain over migrant deaths

July 20, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A rights group on Wednesday said Moroccan and Spanish authorities were responsible for a horrific border tragedy last month in which two dozen migrants died. It resulted in the highest migrant death toll in years of attempts to enter the Spanish […]

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July 19, 2022 Unlisted Author

Boy, 15, denies plotting Isle of Wight Festival attack

July 18, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A boy accused of plotting a so-called Islamic State-inspired terror attack, with the Isle of Wight Festival as a possible target, appeared in court. The 15-year-old, from the Isle of Wight, was arrested after the FBI said he was planning to […]

Tenth anniversary of terrorist attack on Israelis at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport

July 18, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Sofia Globe) A solemn commemoration was held at Bourgas Airport on July 18 to mark the 10th anniversary of a terrorist attack in which five Israelis and a Bulgarian died and close to 40 were seriously injured. In a statement ahead of […]

Isle of Wight boy, 15, accused of planning terrorist attacks

July 17, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A 15-year-old boy from the Isle of Wight has been charged with a terrorism offence. The teenager, from Cowes, was arrested by officers from Counter Terrorism Policing South East with help from Hampshire Constabulary last week. Following questioning, he was charged […]

Jordan Peterson slammed for suggesting Sunni, Shia Muslims should fix ‘sectarian divide’ by becoming pen pals Jordan Peterson has suggested sectarian differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims could be healed by becoming pen pals.

July 14, 2022 Unlisted Author

(New Arab) Dr. Jordan Peterson has been slammed for suggesting Sunni and Shia Muslims mend differences by becoming pen pals. In a video posted to his YouTube channel, the Canadian academic and self-help writer touched on Muslim issues, an area Peterson is not […]

Stockport councillor Alanna Vine suspended in racist retweet probe

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A councillor has been suspended for allegedly sharing tweets claiming mosques were hiding “secret arsenals” and immigration was “cultural suicide.” The Conservative Party is investigating Alanna Vine, councillor for Bramhall North, in Stockport. Ms Vine declined to comment on her suspension […]

Spain reduces sentences for two convicted over Catalonia attacks

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Spanish court Wednesday reduced by ten years the sentences of two out of three people convicted over 2017 attacks in Catalonia that killed 16 people, it said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal, a 25-year-old with Spanish nationality, was handed a reduced sentence […]

Attacks down, terrorism still a threat to EU: Europol

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Attacks are down but terrorism remains a threat to the European Union due to the war in Ukraine and a rise in propaganda during the pandemic, Europol said Wednesday. The total number of successful, thwarted and failed attacks was 15 in […]

Norway orders forced psychiatric probe of shooting suspect

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Norwegian court on Wednesday decided that a suspect behind a shooting in Oslo that left two dead and 21 wounded would be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. “The court believes that an investigation in an institution is necessary […]

Paris attacker transferred to Belgium to face new trial

July 13, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 was on Wednesday transferred from France to Belgium, where he will be tried later this year. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan […]

EU preparing for ‘huge challenge’ of migration waves sparked by food crisis

July 12, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Euronews) The food crisis and rising energy prices could lead to instability in some countries and prompt new waves of migration to the European Union, the Commission has warned. Ylva Johansson, EU commissioner for home affairs, told reporters following an informal meeting […]

North Macedonia: Police find 87 migrants, arrest two men

July 9, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 87 migrants crammed into a truck with a trailer in the southern part of the country and arrested two men for migrant smuggling. Police said the migrants, who included 45 Syrians, 39 Pakistanis, […]

Italy relocates migrants after Lampedusa center overwhelmed

July 9, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) The Italian navy on Saturday began relocating the first 600 migrants from the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after its refugee identification center became overwhelmed with new arrivals and photos circulated of filthy conditions. July has seen a sustained uptick in daily […]

Sheffield man guilty of posting terror video after hospital bombing

July 8, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A man has been convicted of disseminating Islamic State (IS) propaganda on social media after the bombing at a Liverpool hospital. Ahmiri Ahmedi Azizi, 24, from Sheffield, shared video footage the day after a device exploded in a taxi outside Liverpool […]

St. Augustine man sentenced to 20 years for attempting to provide material support to ISIS Romeo Xavier Langhorne admitted that he had 'probably at some point' pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to the DOJ.

July 7, 2022 Unlisted Author

(First Coast News) A St. Augustine man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Romeo Xavier Langhorne, 32, of St. Augustine, pleaded guilty in the […]

Germany plans new path to residency for migrants

July 6, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The German cabinet on Wednesday signed off plans to make it easier for migrants with “tolerated” status to stay in the country permanently and integrate into the job market. The proposals, outlined in a draft document seen by AFP, apply to […]

Turku terror attack perpetrator receives additional sentence for assaulting prison guards Abderrahman Bouanane is currently serving a life sentence for two counts of murder with terrorist intent and eight counts of attempted murder with terrorist intent.

July 6, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Yle) The District Court of Southwest Finland sentenced Abderrahman Bouanane, the perpetrator of the 2017 Turku terror attack who was previously given life imprisonment for his actions, to five months in prison for two counts of violently resisting an official in the […]

France repatriates 51 from Syria camps in policy change

July 5, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) France repatriated 35 children and 16 mothers from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists on Tuesday in the largest such operation by Paris after pressure from campaigners. The French government had long refused mass repatriations of […]

Police bust scheme to smuggle ‘thousands’ to UK in boats

July 5, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Police across several European countries on Tuesday launched a major coordinated crackdown on criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle people into the UK, British and German authorities said. Officers staged dawn raids in Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands […]

Norwegian anti-Islam extremist’s car rammed after Koran burned

July 2, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The leader of an extremist Norwegian anti-Islamic group was in a spectacular car chase and collision on Saturday, minutes after burning a Koran on the outskirts of Oslo. Norwegian police said they arrested two people, including the driver of a car […]

One killed, six injured in Serbia migrant shootout

July 2, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) One migrant was killed and at least six others, including a teenage girl, were injured Saturday in a shootout between migrant groups in Serbia near the Hungarian border, the state-run RTS television reported. The 16-year-old girl sustained life-threatening injuries in the […]

Gonzales man sentenced for providing support to ISIS and child pornography Jaylyn Christopher Molina sentenced to 18 years

July 1, 2022 Unlisted Author

(KSAT) A Gonzales County man was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support to the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria, also known as ISIS. Jaylyn Christopher Molina, also known as Abdur Rahim, […]

France charges nine suspects over Channel migrant disaster

July 1, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French prosecutors have charged nine men over their involvement in the November 2021 Channel drowning of migrants in which 27 people died, a judicial source said Friday. This takes the total number of people charged for their alleged role in the […]

Berlin mosque flies rainbow flag for pride month

July 1, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A mosque in Berlin on Friday became the first in Germany to fly a rainbow flag in support of the LGBT community, ahead of two major gay pride events in the city this month. The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque in the central […]

Belgian court gives suspended sentence to host of Paris attacker

June 30, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Belgian court imposed a three-year suspended sentence Thursday on Abid Aberkane, convicted of assisting the sole surviving jihadist behind the November 2015 Paris attacks by housing him in Brussels. The ruling came a day after a French court sentenced Aberkane’s […]

20 convicted in Paris terrorist attacks trial: Who they are

June 29, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A total of 20 men were convicted Wednesday over the 2015 Paris attacks by Islamic State extremists on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium. Most attention has focused on the lone surviving member of the attack team, Salah […]

Stripping ISIS supporter of Dutch citizenship contravened human rights: Council of State

June 29, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) A decision to revoke the Dutch citizenship of a woman who spent five years in an ISIS-controlled area of Syria has been overturned by the Council of State because it contravenes her right to family life. Fatima H was stripped […]

Norway: Pride attack suspect still won’t talk to police

June 29, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A man held over a suspected Islamist deadly weekend shooting ahead of an LGBTQ festival in Oslo is still refusing to talk to police, making it hard to establish whether he had any accomplices, Norwegian authorities said Wednesday. Zaniar Matapour, a […]

Police raid suspected Islamic extremists across Germany

June 28, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) German police conducted raids across the country Tuesday targeting individuals and premises believed to be linked to a banned Islamic extremist group. Authorities say the group’s goal is to establish an Islamic state in Germany that rejects democracy and uses religious […]

Knife attacker kills 1, wounds 5 at German asylum shelter

June 27, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A knife-wielding attacker stabbed several people in a shelter for asylum-seekers in southern Germany, killing one man and wounding at least five people, German news agency dpa reported Monday. The attacker, reportedly a resident of the shelter, is said to have […]

Greece says stops over 1,000 migrants from Turkey

June 27, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Athens on Monday accused smugglers from Turkey of trying to send more than a thousand migrants to Greek islands, before the boats were detected in the Aegean and turned back. Greek Merchant Navy Minister Yannis Plakiotakis said Turkish smugglers had “tried […]

North Macedonia: Police find 24 migrants, arrest 2 locals

June 26, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they discovered 24 migrants hiding in a van on a major highway in the country’s south Sunday and arrested two men as suspected people smugglers. The two Macedonian nationals, 50 and 47 years old, were identified […]

Quebec’s premier rejects multiculturalism as province celebrates Fête nationale Quebec separatists have long slammed Canada's multiculturalism policy, expert says

June 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(CBC) Maram Makhlouf, a Grade 6 student, moved to Quebec from Germany about three years ago and on Thursday she was in a Montreal park with her family celebrating the province’s national holiday, or Fête nationale. She said the day is “really important to […]

Two budding Islamist terrorists ‘planned attack in Italy’ Pair allegedly wanted to stage bombing in name of IS

June 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(ANSA) A young man and a young woman are under investigation for allegedly planning a terrorist attack involving explosives in Italy in the name of the Islamic State (IS), Carabinieri police said on Friday. The pair allegedly planned to flee to Africa […]

Norwegian man convicted of killing 5 in bow-and-arrow attack

June 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A man was found guilty Friday of murder and attempted murder for fatally stabbing five people and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives. The Buskerud District Court sentenced Espen Andersen […]

Opposition MPs urge federal government to bring home Canadians detained in Syria

June 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Canadian Press) The NDP’s foreign affairs critic acknowledges the challenges related to Canadians being held in northern Syria, but says the federal government must step in to bring its citizens home. New Democrat MP Heather McPherson says the arbitrarily detained Canadians, including […]

Terrorist jail powers called into question

June 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AAP) The Law Council of Australia has argued that it is a slippery slope to detain people because they may commit a future offence under current terrorism laws. Council president Tass Liveris told an inquiry into the laws that it was impossible […]

Watchdog examines terrorist jail powers

June 22, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AAP) Concerns have been raised over laws that allow for convicted terrorists to be detained after they have served their sentence if they are deemed to be at risk of reoffending. Since 2016, the Commonwealth Criminal Code has had a scheme for […]

Muslim preacher to be deported for fraud and racial hatred

June 21, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) A court in the Swiss town of Biel/Bienne on Tuesday convicted Muslim preacher Abu Ramadan of welfare fraud and inciting racial hatred. Ramadan, a Libyan national, was given a 14-month suspended jail sentence and is to be expelled from Switzerland […]

3 Houston-area men federally charged with providing material to ISIS

June 20, 2022 Unlisted Author

(KTRK) Three Houston-area men have been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, records show. Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi, 24, and his cousin Mohammed (aka Moe) Amer Faisal Al Qaysi, 26, another former Iraqi refugee, and […]

Denmark charges three for planning terror plot

June 20, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Danish prosecutors on Monday charged two men and one woman for acquiring guns and chemicals for explosives believed to be intended for a “terror attack.” The three suspects, two men aged 34 and 36 and a woman aged 31, hailed from […]

Reading stabbings: Ceremony held on second anniversary of park attacks

June 20, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A minute’s silence and a flower-laying ceremony has been held in the park where three friends were stabbed during a terror attack. James Furlong, 36, Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, were killed in June 2020 in Reading’s Forbury Gardens. […]