(Local) Two years after their daughter Maïlys died in the April 2017 terror attack on Drottninggatan, Stockholm’s main shopping street, the Dereymaeker family continue to grieve. “We wake up in the morning thinking of our daughter and when we got to bed, […]
(Dutch News) Two lawyers have pulled out of one [of] the Netherlands’ biggest terrorism cases because they are worried their involvement will have an impact on travelling to the US, RTL Nieuws said on Thursday. “I do not want to be limited […]
(NZ Herald) A plan to have a Muslim cleric say a prayer at an Anzac Day service has been cancelled after the local RSA received a number of “frightening threats.” The Returned and Services Association (RSA) branch at Titahi Bay near Wellington […]
(AFP) Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday that he had told Germany to deal with a ship run by a German charity carrying dozens of migrants picked up in the Mediterranean, while denouncing the work of NGOs in the region. “The […]
(AP) A court in Germany has found a 29-year-old Syrian man guilty of war crimes for torturing members of pro-government forces in Syria. German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the Stuttgart regional court sentenced Mohamad K. to four years and six […]
(Dutch News) Dutch lawyer Serge Weening has been banned from entering the US, possibly because he has defended several terrorism suspects, law journal Advocatenblad said this week. Weening is one of the lawyers involved in the defence of an alleged terrorist cell […]
(AP) Czech police say they have extradited to Austria two suspects who allegedly formed a terror cell with a man detained by Austrian authorities over unsuccessful attacks on trains in Germany. They said Wednesday that the two Iraqi citizens, a 30-year-old man […]
(IPT) Last month, an entourage featuring anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour and Council on American-Relations (CAIR) executive director Nihad Awad protected U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., from an outspoken critic. Sarsour has espoused anti-Semitic smears worse than U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a […]
(AFP) UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday against growing hatred of Muslims, less than a month after a deadly attack on mosques in New Zealand killed at least 50 people. His remarks came during a speech at Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim […]
(Yle) A man who left Finland to join the terrorist group Isis was the son-in-law and business partner of the imam of the Oulu-based Islamic Society of Northern Finland, Yle’s investigative journalism programme MOT reported on Monday. As part of a programme […]
(Dutch News) The ban on facial coverings in public spaces has been delayed by a month and will now take effect on August 1, home affairs minister Kajsa Ollongren has said. The so-called “burka ban” will apply in schools, universities, government buildings […]
(Arutz Sheva) The Coalition for Jewish Values, representing over 1000 traditional rabbis in matters of public policy, is demanding a public apology from activist Linda Sarsour for “peddling in anti-Semitic falsehoods” in order to attack an observant Jewish New York City councilman, […]
(Local) Stockholm is initiating a new collaboration with police and prosecutors to deal with people who have returned to the Swedish capital after joining the terrorist group Isis. Stockholm Mayor Anna König Jerlmyr told Sveriges Radio that the city has thus far […]
(Times of Israel) A New Jersey imam has accused the chief rabbi of the Israeli army of condoning the rape of Palestinian women. In a February sermon at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, NJ, Baker Assaf said Muslims should […]
(Local) A student activist who grounded a flight to delay the deportation of a rejected Afghan asylum seeker will face a retrial. The Court of Appeal for Western Sweden has overturned the judgement in activist Elin Ersson’s case, due to comments one […]
(AFP) A French man who rented his flat to the ringleader of the 2015 Paris attacks during a massive police manhunt was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for “hiding terrorists.” Jawad Bendaoud was convicted on appeal of hiding Islamic State […]
(AFP) A Czech court said Friday an Iraqi man and woman faced extradition to Austria in connection with two 2018 attacks on trains in Germany. The two were arrested at Prague airport Wednesday on a warrant issued by Austria, following Monday’s arrest […]
(Canadian Press) A youth is facing new charges in connection with a terrorism investigation in Kingston, Ont. The charges were read in provincial court Friday as the youth appeared at a bail hearing. The suspect, who cannot be identified under provisions of […]
(Local) The government and Danish People’s Party (DF) have agreed new rules that will enable authorities to withdraw passports from individuals found to have fought for militant groups abroad. The new rules will provide for an administrative process that will enable passports […]
(AFP) The death toll from an alleged terror attack on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht rose to four on Thursday after an injured man died in hospital, prosecutors said. Prosecutors have already said that a Turkish-born man previously identified […]
(AFP) Austria has arrested an Iraqi suspected of committing “terrorist attacks” by sabotaging railway lines in Germany last year, prosecutors said Wednesday. The 42-year-old man is suspected of having strung a steel rope across the tracks between the southern German cities of […]
(Local) Denmark has convicted 13 people for travelling to Syria to take part in armed conflict. Nine have been sentenced to deportation from the country, according to Minister of Justice Søren Pape Poulsen. Poulsen confirmed information at a parliamentary hearing about Danish […]
(IPT) She certainly looked like Linda Sarsour, the flame-throwing Islamist political activist. And the speaker had Sarsour’s voice. But the woman who spoke Monday night at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts seemed entirely unfamiliar with Sarsour’s own views. […]
(CBC) Quebec public schools teachers and school principals will be prohibited from wearing religious symbols such as the hijab or kippa, under a bill likely to be tabled later this week in the provincial legislature. The long-awaited legislation from the Coaltion Avenir […]
(AFP) The head of Prague’s Muslim community who urged Czech Muslims to acquire arms after the Christchurch attack has been sacked, the Czech Muslim Communities Centre said Monday. “Our meeting on March 24 … decided unequivocally to cancel Mr Leonid Kushnarenko’s membership […]
(LA Daily News) Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a fundraising event in Woodland Hills Saturday, where Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke at the Council [on] American-Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles’ fourth annual Valley Banquet. The freshman Democrat, one of the first […]
(Dutch News) The NRC on Friday published more details about the security service report on Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school, which has led to officials calling on the board to resign. The paper say[s] it has seen AIVD documents which claim controversial […]
(IPT) It might seem natural for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles chapter to invite U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar to speak at Saturday evening’s fundraising dinner. CAIR is predominantly a conservative Sunni-run political organization, and Omar, D-Minn., is one of […]
(AFP) A Turkish-born suspect has confessed to terrorist charges over a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht which killed three people, prosecutors said Friday. Thousands of Dutch mourners including Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte took to Utrecht’s streets […]
(AFP) A Moroccan accomplice of the suspected mastermind of the deadly 2015 terror attacks in Paris was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Friday by a Polish court for belonging to the Islamic State group. Mourad T. pleaded not guilty […]
(AP) Austria’s Constitutional Court has thrown out a complaint by two Turkish imams expelled under a 2015 law that prevents religious communities from getting funding from foreign nations. The court said Thursday the so-called “Islam Law” didn’t constitute a disproportionate restriction of […]
(CBC) An ex-Muslim who is now an atheist and secular activist says Mount Royal University is overreacting by canceling his talk that was planned on campus for Thursday. Armin Navabi, who lives in British Columbia, was being brought in by the Atheist Society of Calgary to share […]
(National-UAE) The presence of Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan at a conference on sexual violence in the suburbs of Paris provoked a backlash of indignation among organisers and attendees. Mr Ramadan, who is facing charges for the rape of two women, was spotted […]
(Local) Plans from the Swedish government to make it illegal to be part of a terrorist organization have hit an obstacle, with the country’s legislative council saying the proposal goes against the Swedish constitution. The proposed law could be incompatible with the […]
(AFP) Dutch prosecutors are to charge the suspect in a gun attack in a packed Utrecht tram with “terrorist” killings, saying he will appear for the first time before a judge on Friday. “The 37-year-old suspect will appear before a judge on […]
(Swiss Info) A Swiss parliamentary decision seeking automatic deportation of convicted terrorists even if their lives are at risk has met widespread criticism. The human rights organisation Amnesty International described Tuesday’s decision to ignore international safeguards and practices as unacceptable. “It will […]
(ANSA) A 47-year-old bus driver was held by Carabinieri police on Wednesday after allegedly hijacking a bus with schoolchildren aboard and subsequently setting it on fire after tying their hands with plastic clips in an apparent attempt to kill them, sources said. […]
(AP) The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization says it has accepted an invitation from West Virginia lawmakers to visit the state Capitol in the wake of an Islamophobic display outside the House of Delegates chamber. The Council on American-Islamic Relations made […]
(BBC) Somali families feel “stigmatised” by female genital mutilation (FGM) safeguarding practices, a university report has found. Those who took part in the Bristol study cited “intrusive and traumatic” questioning around FGM by school staff, social workers, health practitioners and police. Community […]
(Deutsche Welle) The Bavarian constitutional court on Monday rejected an appeal by an Islamic religious community to overturn a ban on judges and prosecutors wearing headscarves, saying that justice officials in particular were obliged to be neutral in questions of religion and ideology. The […]
(Local) The Norwegian-Swedish Islamic State solider Michael Skråmo has been killed in Syria, his mother has told Sweden’s state broadcaster SVT Skråmo, a Norwegian citizen born and brought up in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, was one of the most prolific propagandists […]
(Local) A Sweden Democrat politician from Kramfors, on Sweden’s northern Baltic coast, is facing possible expulsion after proposing that his municipality build a mosque to draw more immigrants to the city. Mark Collins, 63, who represents the normally anti-immigration party on Kramfors […]
(Kathimerini) Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has criticized Greece of failing to uphold the rights of its Muslim minority in Western Thrace and of forbidding its members to call themselves “Turks.” He was speaking after the 54th meeting of the European Union-Turkey […]
(AFP) The French government said Friday it had repatriated five orphaned children of French jihadists from camps in northeast Syria, where a five-year offensive against the Islamic State (IS) group is drawing to a bloody close. The children, aged five or under, […]
(AFP) Dutch police have arrested two men in Amsterdam with suspected links to weapons used in deadly attacks in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people, prosecutors said Friday. “Police arrested two men on Tuesday in Amsterdam in an investigation into the […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss government has presented its plans for a legal amendment to prevent a nationwide ban on face-covering headgear, proposed by a rightwing people’s initiative. Under the proposal, a person must show his or her face for identity checks by […]
(Local) A Swedish activist who grounded a flight to save a rejected Afghan asylum seeker from being deported has appealed her fine, arguing that one of the lay judges should have been recused. Gothenburg District Court last month fined Elin Ersson 3,000 […]
(Dutch News) A meeting for parents of pupils at the Islamic high school Cornelius Haga Lyceum in Amsterdam, which is at the centre of alleged links to terrorism, was cancelled on Tuesday evening after too many people turned up. The city had […]
(Local) In an early test for Geneva’s controversial new secularism law, a Muslim councillor on Tuesday chose to sit in the public gallery during a recent council meeting rather than obey the new legislation by removing her headscarf so that she could […]
(Local) As Sweden continues to debate the fate of the roughly 150 citizens who have returned home after joining the terror group Isis, the government is under fire from critics who say it is not doing enough to address the problem. When […]
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