(AP) A Yemeni national living in Arkansas was charged with providing support to a terrorist organization, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. Bilal al-Rayanni was charged Thursday with supporting al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula between October and December of 2014 while […]
(Xinhua) Around one hundred people protested in The Hague on Friday against the so-called “burqa ban,” which came into effect in the Netherlands on Aug. 1. Around 30 women wore a niqab and carried plates with texts like “I am getting robbed […]
This article has been retracted by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which posted the following note to readers: On Aug. 9, 2019, the Investigative Project on Terrorism published a story, “NY Imam Active in Interfaith Work Disseminates Extremist Propaganda on the Side” […]
(Euronews) A woman who spent nine months in Syria with her three young children in 2017 has been given an eight-year jail term. Rajae Moujahid, a 37-year-old Italian-Moroccan citizen, was tried at a Paris tribunal for “criminal conspiracy for terrorist purposes” and […]
(AP) Federal prosecutors have arrested a German woman on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and for allegedly joining the Islamic State group in Syria. Prosecutors said Wednesday that Sibel H., whose last name wasn’t given in line with privacy laws, […]
(France 24) A young woman has been found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on French soil in 2016. Her accomplice, another young woman, has been found guilty of planning to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. The Paris […]
(AP) The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern Tuesday that a new Italian law authorizing massive fines against the owners of private rescue ships could endanger the lives of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. A so-called “security decree” drafted by […]
(Arab News) It may seem strange that a prominent Sunni Salafi jihadist and preacher of hate has lived unmolested in the West since the 1980s. Yet Dr. Tariq Abdelhaleem probably sees nothing odd at all about promoting Islamic radicalism while enjoying the […]
(Dutch News) The Pakistan national arrested at The Hague’s main railway station in August last year after placing a video on Facebook threatening to attack Geert Wilders appeared in court for a procedural hearing on Monday. The 28-year-old faces charges of making […]
(BBC) Non-Muslim girls in Lincolnshire are being asked to wear a hijab for a day to raise awareness of discrimination. Ghada Mohamed said she came up with the idea in response to a number of incidents where girls wearing hijabs were subjected […]
(AFP) The incoming head of the European Commission called Friday for a “new pact” on migration during a trip to Italy, which insists Europe must take a fairer share of asylum seekers. “I want to propose a new pact for migration and […]
(AP) A court in Germany has convicted a German-Algerian man of supporting the Islamic State group by helping members communicate on social media and sentenced him to four years in prison. The Stuttgart state court said the 34-year-old, whose name it didn’t […]
(Deutsche Welle) As the neighboring Netherlands begins policing the wearing of burqas, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) are calling for a burqa ban of Germany’s own. Julia Klöckner, who leads the provincial Rhineland-Palatinate branch of the party and is the No. 2 […]
(Local) A controversial ban on wearing face-masking garments in public, widely referred to as the “burqa ban,” came into effect in Denmark on August 1st last year. Since then, 23 people have been fined under the law, according to National Police figures […]
(AFP) French investigators have discovered weapons and a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State group after charging three men with planning a terror attack, sources close to the inquiry said Thursday. The men had not yet decided on a specific target, […]
(AFP) The United States called on European nations on Thursday to repatriate and put on trial their citizens who went to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria. The appeal, which has been made previously and fallen on deaf ears, came […]
(Dutch News) A ban on wearing face-covering garments such as a burqa or niqab in government buildings, schools and on public transport comes into effect in the Netherlands on Thursday. The ban has been 13 years in the making and dates back […]
(Times of Israel) An Israeli NGO has filed a petition to have US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar barred from entering the country when she arrives for an upcoming tour because she supports boycotts of Israel. Shurat HaDin told the Times of Israel it […]
(AFP) Italy allowed 116 rescued migrants to disembark from a coastguard ship Wednesday with Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s backing after five EU countries and the Church agreed to share responsibility for looking after them. The far-right minister used Facebook to announce his […]
(Dutch News) The ban on wearing face-covering garments such as a burqa or niqab in government buildings and on public transport will be evaluated after three years, rather than the customary five, broadcaster NOS said on Wednesday. The ban, 13 years in […]
(AP) Police in Thessaloniki have arrested 61 migrants for illegal residence in the country, in a crackdown following a string of violent incidents near the northern Greek city’s main railway station. Officers were patrolling the area and carrying out identity checks Tuesday […]
(AFP) Germany on Monday extradited to Belgium a Bosnian man wanted in connection with the 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris, prosecutors said. The unnamed 39-year-old suspected of having procured weapons for the attackers “was extradited this morning,” Naumburg prosecution service spokesman Klaus […]
(BBC) The identity of a teenager who plotted to behead police officers at an Anzac Day parade in Australia will remain a secret for the rest of his life. The boy, from Blackburn, Lancashire, sent encrypted messages instructing an Australian jihadist to […]
(AFP) Far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday ordered 135 migrants and refugees rescued in the Mediterranean to remain aboard an Italian coastguard vessel until other European countries agree to take them in. Salvini, also deputy prime minister, has been trying to […]
(Times of Israel) An official in the French town of [Montpellier] celebrated his birthday with a cake decorated with a swastika, which he described as “a gift from my SS friend.” Djamel Boumaaz posted an image of the cake on his Facebook […]
(Brussels Times) The new Flemish Minister President Liesbeth Homans from N-VA has initiated procedures against the Al Ihsaan mosque in Leuven. The mosque received substantial criticism back in 2017 following the imam’s preaching, justifying physical violence against women, and had to close […]
(Dutch News) Dutch public transport companies have instructed staff to ignore a new policy that refuses entry to Muslim women who wear the face-covering burka, the AD reports. The new legislation, which will come into effect on August 1, will not be […]
(KSTP) Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has become a lightning rod for controversy in her less than two years representing Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Now, she’s beginning to attract challengers for the 2020 election. “I think there are a lot of disaffected moderate Democrats […]
(BBC) A travel ban preventing a two-year-old thought to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been relaxed. The High Court previously ruled the girl must stay in the UK until she turned 16. After an appeal, the same court […]
(Radio NZ) Muslim leaders have urged Auckland Council to clarify its swimwear policy for public pools, after a woman was told she could not wear the clothing she had on. The Muslim Association and Islamic Women’s Council sent the request after a […]
(BBC) A would-be terrorist who tried to make a bomb to be used in a driverless car attack has been jailed for 15 years. Farhad Salah, 24, planned the attack to spare his own life while harming “others he considered to be […]
(Xinhua) Spanish police on Tuesday arrested four suspected jihadists in two separate operations in the north of Spain. Spanish authorities confirm the detention of three 27-year-old Moroccans by the National Police force in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque region, while […]
(CBC) Two civil rights groups are seeking an appeal after a Quebec Superior Court justice refused their emergency request to temporarily freeze parts of the province’s new religious symbols law. The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) and the Canadian Civil Liberties […]
(AP) A Minnesota state legislator and a conservative group announced Tuesday that they are seeking ethics investigations into U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar for a range of alleged offenses. Steve Drazkowski, a Republican, and Judicial Watch both say Omar may have committed immigration […]
(Deutsche Welle) Plans to no longer serve children pork or gelatin-containing products like gummy bears at two daycare centers in the eastern German city of Leipzig prompted a wave of criticism online and made headlines across the country on Tuesday. The mass-circulation […]
(Swiss Info) The Geneva native turned Islamic State fighter was captured by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the eastern Syrian town of Al-Baghuz. Several Swiss newspapers on Sunday reported that the 24-year-old Daniel D. was seized last month. The Swiss […]
(Middle East Eye) Hate crimes against Muslims in Canada were down 50 percent in 2018 compared to the year before, a new report by Statistics Canada has said. But a national advocacy group has warned about an uptick in hate incidents targeting religious institutions. […]
(CBC) The Canadian wing of an international Jewish organization wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to send government lawyers to join the legal fight against Quebec’s secularism law. B’nai Brith Canada published an open letter Thursday after a Quebec Superior Court justice denied […]
(Swiss Info) Judges at the Swiss Federal Court have thrown out an appeal by an imam convicted of inciting hate and violence, who worked at a Winterthur mosque. The man was convicted by a Zurich district court in 2017 and given a suspended […]
(AP) A U.S. citizen from Kazakhstan facing terrorism charges after he became a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State group once boasted that he supports “the worst terrorist organization in the world,” authorities said as they announced his arrest Friday. […]
(ITV) Specialist police are at Heathrow Airport all week as part of a national crackdown raising awareness against forced marriages, female genital mutilation and modern slavery. Last year, the Home Office supported victims in 1,764 suspected cases of forced marriage, 574 of […]
(Dutch News) The so-called burka ban comes into effect in the Netherlands on August 1, with a €150 fine for people caught wearing face-covering headgear in schools, on public transport, in hospitals and public buildings. The ban requires public officials and public […]
(Deutsche Welle) Police in Germany’s western state of North Rhine-Westphalia carried out raids against suspected Islamist extremists on Thursday. Officers were searching for “concrete indications” of a planned attack, authorities said. Sniffer dogs were present as the police searched for explosives, but […]
(AFP) Norway on Wednesday provisionally jailed controversial Iraqi Kurdish fundamentalist preacher Mullah Krekar, following a conviction in Italy for “terrorist conspiracy,” his lawyer told AFP. Norwegian intelligence (PST) had arrested Krekar, 63, on Monday in Oslo under an international search warrant as […]
(AP) Democratic Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has submitted legislation that would force President Donald Trump’s administration to disclose details about how it shares the FBI’s watchlist of more than 1 million known or suspected terrorists with foreign countries. The legislation from Omar […]
(AFP) Norway has arrested controversial Iraqi Kurdish fundamentalist preacher Mullah Krekar after he was convicted in Italy of “terrorist” conspiracy, the PST intelligence service said Tuesday. A refugee in Norway since 1991, 63-year-old Krekar — whose real name is Najumuddin Ahmad Faraj […]
(BBC) A migrant has been rescued as he tried to swim across the English Channel to the UK with flippers and a float. The man — who was suffering from mild hypothermia — was picked up by the French authorities at 07:30 […]
(JNS) An imam of an organization affiliated with an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case is scheduled to be part of a panel on Wednesday at the U.S. State Department’s second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in Washington, […]
(Canadian Press) Ontario’s top court has upheld a decision allowing a man found not criminally responsible in a knife attack at a Toronto military recruitment centre to eventually take college classes on his own. The appeal court says the Ontario Review Board […]
(Middle East Eye) A prominent Canadian Muslim advocacy group has declined an invitation to attend an upcoming US government conference on religious freedom because of President Donald Trump’s travel ban of several Muslim-majority countries. The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) on […]
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