(AP) A Lebanese national charged with conspiring to export drone parts and technology from the U.S. to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws. Issam Hamade pleaded guilty Monday in federal […]
(AFP) Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on Greece to reverse its “draconian policy” towards over 450 migrants detained on a navy ship docked in Mytilene port in Lesbos. The men, women and children were among those picked up by the […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany is prepared to take in “an appropriate share” of the neediest refugee children housed in overcrowded Greek migrant camps, German officials said on Monday. The country is set [to] take children in as part of “a coalition of the willing” […]
(BBC) The DNA of a man accused of plotting the Manchester Arena attack was found on items in a car used for storage ahead of the blast, a court heard. Three drums, used to store packs of nails, were found in the […]
(Deutsche Welle) Up to 5,000 people gathered in Hamburg on Saturday in protest of the German government’s handling of the fresh migrant crisis unfolding at the Turkish-Greek border. The rally took place in response to the rush by thousands of … migrants […]
(AFP) Brief clashes broke out at Turkey’s border with Greece on Friday, where thousands of refugees have been encouraged by Ankara to leave for the European Union. Greek police fired tear gas at migrants trying to break through the fence, who responded […]
(BBC) A failed asylum-seeker’s daughter is at “high risk” of female genital mutilation (FGM) if she and her mother are deported, a senior judge has ruled. The High Court heard the woman, who has links to Bahrain and Sudan, has been refused […]
(Deutsche Welle) A court in the western city of Düsseldorf … was scheduled Friday to hear a set of charges filed by federal prosecutors against a 32-year-old mother, accused of joining the Islamic State (“IS”) terrorist group. The woman, originally from Oberhausen […]
(BBC) Hashem Abedi’s fingerprints were on packs of nails in a car allegedly used to store a bomb-making kit linked to the Manchester blast, a court has heard. The 22-year-old is accused of helping his brother Salman plan the Arena attack in […]
(BBC) Two inmates accused of donning fake suicide vests and attacking a prison officer have appeared in court. HMP Whitemoor prisoners Brusthom Ziamani, 24, and Baz Macaulay Hockton, 26, are accused of attempted murder and assault. An officer at the high-security jail […]
(Algemeiner) An Arabic-language Canadian newspaper published an article by a Hamas official that glorified terrorists and accused Israel of stealing the organs of Palestinian prisoners, prompting a police complaint. According to B’nai Brith Canada, on Feb. 28 the paper al-Meshwar, whose publisher […]
(BBC) The fingerprints of Hashem Abedi were discovered on a tin can that has been linked to the Manchester Arena bomb, a court has heard. The discovery was made after police found various crushed-up metal tins in the garden of the Abedi […]
(AFP) Greece sent a navy ship to the island of Lesbos Wednesday to house hundreds of migrants who landed on the island in recent days, part of the ongoing surge from Turkey, officials said. A Greek defence ministry source said the migrants […]
(AP) The mother of a terrorist who killed 14 people in a 2015 attack on a Christmas party in California has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence by shredding a map her son may have used to plan the massacre, prosecutors […]
(BBC) The principles behind the anti-extremism scheme Prevent may not be as controversial among British Muslims as thought, a survey suggests. Criminal justice think tank Crest Advisory says its research shows the “narrative” the scheme is a “toxic brand” is “fundamentally flawed.” […]
(Dutch News) The man accused of carrying out a terrorist attack on a commuter tram in Utrecht was removed from the courtroom on the first day of his trial for spitting at a defence lawyer. Gökmen Tanis refused to answer questions and […]
(Michigan Radio) As the Democratic presidential contest intensifies and Super Tuesday looms, campaigns are seeking the support of particular communities or demographics. In Michigan, and the nation as a whole, many Arab Americans are aligning themselves with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. “I’ve […]
(AFP) Police fired tear gas at protesting [migrants] on Monday on Lesbos, a Greek island on the frontline of the migrant crisis, an AFP photographer said. Sordid conditions in the camp of Moria, one of the most overpopulated in Europe, triggered the […]
(Dutch News) The man who shot dead four passengers on a tram in Utrecht a year ago is going on trial this week accused of carrying out a terrorist attack. Gökmen Tanis, 38, faces four charges of murder or manslaughter of a […]
(AFP) A group of local people on the Greek island of Lesbos on Sunday stopped around 50 migrants, including children, from landing their boat after several hours at sea, AFP photographers witnessed. Shouting “Go back to Turkey,” furious locals at the port […]
(WMAR) A University of Maryland student was arrested and charged after a hate bias incident occurred. On December 12, 2019, around 11:30 a.m., UMPD was notified of a hate bias incident that occurred on December 10, 2019, around 8:18 p.m. A female […]
(Deutsche Welle) Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced on Saturday the creation of an “independent expert group on Islamophobia” (Muslimfeindlichkeit), saying it would emulate current ministerial panels on anti-Semitism and antiziganism, meaning hostility toward Jewish and Roma communities respectively. His call follows a charge […]
(BBC) An internet video showing how to make a homemade bomb with the same explosives used in the Manchester Arena bombing has been shown to a jury. The 13-minute film shows a man wearing a balaclava with a gun holster on his […]
(JNS) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is scheduled to address the annual gala on Saturday as the guest of honor for the Missouri chapter of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Tlaib was the keynote speaker at AMP’s annual national conference in November 2019, […]
(AP) A Czech court on Friday convicted a former Prague Muslim leader of being part of a terror group and financing terrorism, sentencing him to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors said imam Samer Shehadeh helped his brother Omar and later his brother’s […]
(BBC) Boris Johnson’s controversial comments on Muslim women were “really ill judged,” says a former Tory minister. The PM came under fire in 2018 after he wrote an article comparing women in burkas to letterboxes and bank robbers. Caroline Nokes — who […]
(BBC) A mock-up of the suicide bomb used by Salman Abedi in the Manchester Arena attack has been shown to jurors. Abedi used a detonator which was inserted into a paint tin containing the highly-explosive homemade substance TATP, the court heard. Hashem […]
(Deutsche Welle) A headscarf ban for lawyers and trainees in German courtrooms is not unconstitutional, ruled the country’s top court on Thursday. A German-Moroccan law student had hoped to prove that the law in Hesse, which forbids headscarves during training in the courtroom, was […]
(BBC) A Plaid Cymru activist who was suspended over anti-Semitism claims has been reinstated as a party member. In November Sahar Al-Faifi said she regretted the social media messages, which were deleted five years ago. In a statement she said a Plaid […]
(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered a small, little-known organization run by a rapper dissolved for alleged hate speech and defending terrorism. A statement from the Interior Ministry said the association called “Killuminateam — soldiers on the path of Allah” […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena bomber left a note to his landlord apologising for “any mess” he made, a court has heard. Jurors were shown a scribbled apology written by Salman Abedi before he carried out the fatal blast, killing 22 people and […]
(BBC) Footage of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi seconds before he blew himself up has been shown to jurors. The CCTV pictures showed him standing amid crowds of men, women and children 19 seconds before the fatal blast on 22 May 2017. […]
(AFP) A French court on Tuesday handed a 12-year jail term to a computer technician who travelled to Syria to wage jihad and trained under the suspected ringleader of the 2015 Paris attacks. Reda Hame, 34, who was convicted of participating in […]
(CBC) A Vancouver high school teacher has been disciplined for writing “intemperate and insulting comments” about religion on a Facebook post advertising open houses at B.C. mosques. John William Yetman has agreed to a formal reprimand after acknowledging he committed professional misconduct […]
(CBC) A man who was arrested in connection with the death of a 64-year-old woman in Toronto on Friday is now facing a terrorism-related charge. Police said Tuesday that Saad Akhtar, 30, of Toronto had his charges updated to first-degree murder including terrorist activity. […]
(BBC) Emergency legislation to block the automatic release of people convicted of terror offences is set to become law after being approved by the Lords. The Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill — which was passed by MPs earlier this month […]
(BBC) Footage of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi watching music fans arrive for a Take That gig days before his attack has been shown to a jury. Abedi can be seen looking at box office queues, just yards from the spot where, […]
(BBC) Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has been criticised for saying Muslim men should be profiled at airports. The chief executive told the Times that “males of a Muslim persuasion” who are single and travelling alone pose the largest terror threat to airlines. […]
(Swiss Info) The United States offered several times to repatriate three Swiss jihadists detained in Syria, an offer that Switzerland refused, the Le Temps newspaper has said. The original proposal dated back to 2018, Le Temps said on Thursday. The Swiss Federal Department […]
(Deutsche Welle) German prosecutors said on Friday they had indicted an Iraqi man for allegedly leaving a Yazidi girl to die of thirst. He and his wife kept the 5-year-old as a slave in Iraq and his spouse, a German convert to Islam, is already […]
(Radio France) The trial has opened before a special criminal court of Reda Hame, the French jihadist known to have associated in Syria with one of the masterminds of the Bataclan killings. Thirty-four-year-old Hame is accused of “taking part in a criminal […]
(AFP) Far-right lawmakers took aim at French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday after a woman wearing a full-face veil approached him ahead of a speech announcing new measures to fight Islamic “separatism” in the country. Such veils, known as niqabs, have become […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena bomber encouraged a teenager to study chemistry to learn how to build a bomb, a court has heard. Hashem Abedi is on trial accused of helping his brother Salman plot the attack that killed 22 people in 2017. […]
(Dutch News) Dutch doctors have pledged to stop carrying out operations to “restore” women’s hymens, as one of a package of measures to tackle what ministers call “damaging practices” affecting mainly women and girls. There were 120 hymen repair operations at Dutch […]
(Toronto Sun) The deputy minister of industry in an internal email described use of a taxpayer-funded research project to publish a 2019 Muslim voting guide as “weird,” in documents obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter. The guide criticized opposition MPs for activities that “foment […]
(Kathimerini) Athens on Tuesday rebuffed comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who referred to the Muslim minority in Western Thrace as a “Turkish minority.” “In Greece, which is the historical cradle of democracy but also a modern European democratic state, there […]
(Local) French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a long-awaited speech on Tuesday afternoon to reveal the government’s new strategy to fight Islamist extremism. “We need to accept that there is what I would call a separatism in our Republic today,” the president said […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena bomber’s brother insulted a man for calling police after the siblings crashed their car, a court has heard. Hashem Abedi, 22, allegedly verbally abused Eddie Cooper following the collision on 23 March 2017, two months before Salman Abedi […]
(BBC) Two web managers who ran a website glorifying Islamist terror groups and encouraging attacks have been jailed. [Mohammed] Abdur Kamali and Mohammed Abdul Ahad promoted “toxic ideologies” including speeches by hate preacher Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal. Their website also featured material from […]
(AFP) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been charged with raping two women besides two others he was already facing accusations over, his lawyer told AFP Thursday. The 57-year-old Ramadan, a Swiss national, was already charged in France with raping a disabled woman […]
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