(AFP) Geneva residents on Sunday voted for a controversial new “secularism law,” which will among other things ban elected officials and public employees from wearing visible religious symbols. More than 55 percent of voters in the Swiss canton backed the law, final […]
(AFP) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban launched his European elections campaign Sunday calling for voters to defend “Christian” nations against immigration, which he said led to the “virus of terrorism.” He also announced a seven-point package of tax breaks and subsidies to […]
(Swiss Info) The office of the attorney general of Switzerland has filed an appeal against the acquittal of two leaders of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS) who had been accused of terrorist propaganda. A third defendant has appealed against his […]
(AP) Democratic U.S. Rep. Andre Carson of Indianapolis has been named the chairman of the subcommittee on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and counterproliferation on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The subcommittee oversees the intelligence community’s ability to provide timely information on terrorists, […]
(AFP) US-backed forces in Syria said Wednesday they were detaining foreign Islamic State group fighters on a “daily basis,” days after confirming the capture of German jihadist Martin Lemke. AFP reported Lemke’s capture last week after speaking to two of his wives […]
(National-UAE) Around 40 Norwegian children were born or taken to live inside ISIS’ so-called “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq, security services said. Roughly 30 Norwegian men and women remain in Syria, another 30 have died and 40 have escaped according to officials. […]
(AFP) Outwardly, Komotini looks like other Greek cities, but there is a major difference: it has nine mosques whereas there are none in Athens. The northeastern city has existed from the second century and was captured by Ottoman-era Turkey in the 14th. […]
(Times of Israel) One of American Jewry’s most senior leaders lashed out at US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Monday, accusing the young lawmaker of making anti-Semitic remarks. “I am very disturbed. I do believe Tlaib has made anti-Semitic comments,” Malcolm Hoenlein, the […]
(CBC) A Gatineau city councillor is apologizing for remarks she made last week about Islamophobia in Quebec, but maintains she’s been unfairly judged. In a French-language newspaper interview last week, Coun. Nathalie Lemieux said she didn’t believe Islamophobia exists in the province, and […]
(AFP) A young Frenchwoman on Monday pointed to Mehdi Nemmouche as the gunman at the Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24, 2014, the first witness at his trial to do so. Nemmouche, a 33-year-old Frenchman, faces life in prison if convicted […]
(Dutch News) The Netherlands is “looking into” the option of trying to move Dutch women and children living in refugee camps in Syria to safe areas where they can return to the Netherlands, justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus has told broadcaster NOS. “What […]
(Local) The Swedish student who livestreamed her onboard protest against the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker will go on trial on Monday. Elin Ersson will appear at Gothenburg District Court, charged with violating Sweden’s Aviation Act. Ersson protested in July last […]
(AFP) Three men were Friday charged with supplying the weapon used by the gunman in the Christmas market attack in the French city of Strasbourg and placed in pre-trial detention, a judicial source said. The three suspects, from the same family and […]
(CBC) The mayor of Gatineau, Que., wants one of his councillors out of her post as deputy mayor after she said Islamophobia doesn’t exist and said Muslim immigrants have failed to integrate into society. In the newspaper Le Droit, Gatineau Coun. Nathalie […]
(AFP) US-backed Kurdish-led forces have detained German jihadist Martin Lemke after he fled the last pocket held by the Islamic State group in Syria, two of his wives said Thursday. His third wife, a German national who gave her name as Leonora, […]
(CBC) Premier François Legault says there’s no need for a day devoted to action against Islamophobia — because Islamophobia isn’t a problem in the province. Legault made the comments two days after the second anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack, when the deputy premier, Geneviève Guilbault, said the […]
(AFP) Three Americans hailed as heroes for thwarting a jihadist attack on a train between Amsterdam and Paris were officially welcomed as French citizens on Thursday in a ceremony in the US state of California. Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, […]
(AFP) The French alleged jihadist accused of carrying out a gun massacre in Belgium’s Jewish Museum denounced any attempt to intimidate trial lawyers and jurors Thursday. Appearing in the dock in Brussels main criminal court, 33-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche again denied shooting dead […]
(Swiss Info) The government has presented plans to spend up to CHF500,000 ($503,000) annually to protect minority groups in Switzerland against militant extremism and terrorist attacks. The proposal foresees financial contributions for additional building measures, including walls, security gates and video and […]
(AFP) Two young Israeli women will Thursday face for the first time the alleged killer of their parents when they attend his trial for the Jewish museum attack in Brussels. The daughters of murdered Israeli couple Miriam and Emmanuel Riva will be […]
(AP) Belgian prosecutors said Wednesday that they are investigating an apparent attempt to intimidate a lawyer in the trial of a suspect in the 2014 shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum. The Brussels prosecutor’s office said that a baseball bat and […]
(AP) Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is planning to visit a Boston mosque. Organizers say the visit Friday to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center — the largest mosque in New England — is the first by a sitting Republican Massachusetts governor. […]
(AFP) German aid group Sea Watch said Tuesday it has filed a case at the European Human Rights Court against Italy for refusing to allow its ship carrying 47 rescued migrants to dock. The German NGO’s spokesman Ruben Neugebauer said the group […]
(AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on every single citizen to help fight anti-Semitism ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Merkel said Saturday in her weekly podcast: “Today we are seeing a very different kind of anti-Semitism: there’s the hatred of […]
(AFP) A painting in homage to terror victims by famous street artist Banksy has been stolen from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where 90 people were killed in 2015 in a jihadist attack. The white stencilled oeuvre showing a sad-faced girl […]
(AFP) The Belgian authorities have arrested two men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack and charged them with terrorism offences, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The main suspect was arrested in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek while his alleged accomplice was arrested near […]
(BBC) The UK has begun returning migrants, who cross the Channel in small boats, to France in a bid to deter others from doing the same, the Home Office said. On Thursday, a small number of failed asylum seekers, who landed on […]
(AFP) Denmark has seized just over 25,000 euros from migrants arriving in the country in the three years since passing a controversial law allowing for the confiscation of valuables, police said Thursday. Since the law was passed on January 26, 2015, officials […]
(Scottish Legal News) The Parliamentary Assembly of the 47-nation Council of Europe has expressed concern about the “judicial” activities of “Sharia councils” in the UK and has recommended that barriers to Muslim women’s access to justice be removed. A resolution adopted last […]
(AFP) German prosecutors Wednesday announced child rape and murder charges against a rejected Iraqi asylum-seeker in a case that fuelled a heated debate about immigrant crime. The accused in the “Susanna case,” 21-year-old Ali Bashar, had fled Germany after the crime for […]
(AP) Police in Sicily have arrested a 32-year-old Italian convert to Islam on terrorism charges for allegedly inciting contacts to participate in a holy war. The news agency ANSA reported Wednesday that the suspect, identified as Giuseppe D’Ignoti, converted in 2011 while […]
(AFP) A German appeals court Wednesday lengthened the jail term for a Syrian refugee found guilty of war crimes and taking part in the kidnapping of a Canadian UN peacekeeper. The defendant, named only as Suliman al-S., 28, was sentenced to four […]
(Local) A 31-year-old Syrian man with a Swedish address is currently on trial on terror charges at Copenhagen City Court. Two kitchen knives, fireworks, batteries and 17,460 matches were among the equipment the man, who lives in Malmö, planned to use to […]
(AP) Prosecutors say they’ve pressed charges against a 29-year-old Syrian man who allegedly was a member of a foreign terror group and violated the war weapons control law. The man, whose name was not given, allegedly joined the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham insurgent […]
(AFP) Judges investigating the Jewish museum attack in Brussels rejected on Tuesday defence claims that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency may have played a role. Lawyers defending Mehdi Nemmouche deny charges that he shot dead four people at the museum in May 2014, […]
(AFP) Victims of the Jewish museum attack in Brussels were shot with “surgical” precision, first responders said Monday at the trial of French national Mehdi Nemmouche. Nemmouche, 33, the alleged jihadist gunman, faces life in prison if convicted of the charges of […]
(AP) Police in Bulgaria says they have busted a suspected terrorism financing ring and detained 43 people in raids across the country. Deputy Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev told reporters on Friday that one of the suspects was a Syrian citizen permanently residing […]
(AFP) French anti-terror judges have recommended that 14 people be tried in connection with the January 2015 jihadist attacks in and around Paris, a judicial source told AFP Friday. The attacks against the Paris offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, a […]
(AFP) The mother of a victim of Belgium’s Jewish museum attack faced her son’s alleged killer for the first time on Friday, as the terror trial turned harrowing when the court was shown footage of the anti-Semitic murders. The accused gunman, Mehdi […]
(BBC) Potential victims in areas where forced marriage is prevalent are unaware it is a crime, a charity has said. While legislation has seen a rise in people reporting concerns, campaigners said there was a “worrying split” with some victims and families […]
(AFP) A man on trial as the alleged accomplice to the Jewish museum murders in Brussels denied any role in the 2014 shootings and said he was not a jihadist. Prosecutors told the court that Nacer Bendrer had been flagged years before […]
(AFP) Spanish police staged a counter-terrorism operation in Barcelona and a nearby city on Tuesday against a cell suspected of plotting an attack, a police spokesman said. Fourteen people had been arrested in Barcelona and Igualada, 60 kilometres (40 miles) west of […]
(LBC) Boris Johnson admits he would repeat heavily criticised descriptions of women wearing burkas as “letterboxes” or “bank robbers.” The former foreign secretary [said] that he did not believe he brought about an anti-Muslim rhetoric by comparing women who wear burkas to […]
(Deutsche Welle) The Egyptian government announced on Monday that it had deported another man back to Germany, the second suspect deported from Cairo after being detained for terrorist sympathies. Isa El Sabbagh, 18, was allegedly found with several maps of Egypt’s North […]
(BBC) A former postman has admitted to spreading terrorist information, on the first day of his trial. Sajid Idris, 36, was sentenced to 21 months, suspended for two years, at Kingston Crown Court. In July 2017, Idris, 36, from the Grangetown area […]
(Daily Sabah) The Arabic and Islamic courses planned to be taught in a school in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region were suspended after receiving reaction from anti-immigrant and central-right parties, local media outlets reported Saturday. Emilia-Romagna Regional Assembly member of the ruling anti-immigration […]
(Yabiladi) A Moroccan man who lives in Huelva (southern Spain) was sentenced to two years in prison, reports El Espanol on Saturday. The 33-year-old man was charged [with] “inciting terrorism and planning a terrorist attack,” the same source says. The detainee went […]
(AFP) A Frenchman on trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels left his fingerprints and DNA on the weapons used in the terror attack, prosecutors said Friday. Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, listened to the case unfolding against him […]
(Deutsche Welle) A 23-year-old German-Egyptian citizen detained by Egyptian authorities at Cairo airport on December 27 has arrived back home in the central German city of Göttingen. Germany’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the man’s return on Friday. Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said that […]
(Local) Police in the Swiss city of Schaffhausen have defended their decision to fine a man who used the words “Allahu akbar” in public. The incident in May 2018, which saw the man fined 150 Swiss francs (€132) plus 60 francs in […]
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