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Houston imam caught on video issuing Sharia-law ultimatums to businesses Masjid At-Tawhid mosque leader gives store owners 30-day ultimatum to stop selling Islam-prohibited alcohol, pork, and lottery tickets or face consequences

September 8, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Jewish Onliner) Amy Mek, founder and editor-in-chief of the RAIR Foundation, broke a story on Sunday exposing what she characterizes as “Sharia patrol” activities emerging in Houston, Texas. The investigation centers on Masjid At-Tawhid, a mosque located in Houston’s Fifth Ward, and […]

Locals say German city is ‘unrecognisable’ amid migration, drug crisis Hagen, in western Germany’s Ruhr region, sees growing migrant communities and open drug use driving residents out of the city center

September 8, 2025 Rebeka Kis

(European Conservative) The German city of Hagen, known as the “gateway to the Sauerland,” is seeing rapid change as migration and rising drug use reshape its center, NIUS reported on Monday. According to the outlet, a growing Muslim presence is influencing shops, […]

Hezbollah, other terror groups actively fundraising in Canada: government report Lebanese terror group Hezbollah is active in Canadian drug, stolen car trade, says new Department of Finance report

September 4, 2025 Bryan Passifiume

(Toronto Sun) Canada’s “open and accessible” financial sector is vulnerable to terror groups looking to finance their overseas operations, a new government report details. The report, entitled 2025 Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks in Canada, was quietly released by […]

Iraqi man accused of pushing 16-year-old girl in front of train in Germany Investigators found clear DNA traces on the teenager’s right shoulder that can be linked to the illegal immigrant.

August 30, 2025 TEC News

(European Conservative) On August 11th, a young girl lost her life after falling onto the tracks and being hit by a train in Friedland, Lower Saxony. The police were called to the station shortly before the girl’s death because of a man […]

Convicted terror recruiter back in German Islamist scene Sven Lau, a convert once jailed for sending fighters and equipment to Syria, is again under surveillance after resurfacing among extremists.

August 19, 2025 Rebeka Kis

(European Conservative) German authorities have again classified an Islamist preacher as a security threat, years after he was jailed for supporting terrorism and later claimed to have reformed. Sven Lau, 44, was once one of the most visible figures of Germany’s radical […]

Conservatives call for inquiry into ‘appalling’ government spending on Canadian ISIS women

August 15, 2025 Stewart Bell

(Global News) The Conservatives are calling for an inquiry into the government’s “appalling” expenditures on Canadian ISIS women returning home from Syria. A letter signed by Tory MPs on Friday asked the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security to convene […]

Wine, candy and room service: How Ottawa spent $170,000 on Canadian ISIS women

August 14, 2025 Stewart Bell

(Global News) Federal officials spent at least $170,000 bringing Canadian ISIS women home from Syria, according to internal government documents that show expenses for ice cream, candy and wine. The money was for costs incurred when eight women who had traveled to […]

How Hamtramck, a small town within Detroit, became America’s first Muslim-majority city In a short span of time, immigrants flooded this blue-collar town. And things would never be the same.

May 27, 2025 John Carlisle

(Detroit Free Press) In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, the man reached up and pulled away a scarlet cloth, revealing unto the people a sign. It was a cold day, late in winter. Maybe a hundred people […]

Freed Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi accused of telling gun shop owner that he used to ‘kill Jews’ in Palestine: court docs

May 1, 2025 Emily Crane

(NY Post) Freed Palestinian Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi was once accused of telling a Vermont gun store owner that he used to “kill Jews while he was in Palestine” with modified automatic firearms that he built himself, court documents allege. The allegations […]

US sanctions Sweden-based Kurdish gang leader over Iran-linked attacks

March 12, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Rudaw) The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Rawa Majid, the Kurdish leader of Foxtrot Network, a transnational criminal organization based in Sweden, over his reported involvement in arms and drugs trafficking and cooperation with Iran in “attacks on Israeli and […]

Man killed by French police outside Paris after ‘threatening’ officers: source

November 17, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A drunk man on Sunday was killed by French police outside Paris after threatening officers and shouting “Allahu akbar,” an Arabic expression often shouted by Islamist attackers, police sources told AFP. According to preliminary information, the man brandished a dummy gun, […]

Six Syrians detained in Cyprus for alleged terror financing

November 8, 2024 Iole Damaskinos

(Cyprus Mail) Six Syrians suspected of financing terrorism have allegedly orchestrated the transfer of hundreds of thousands of euros, it emerged on Friday. Investigation into the matter by the republic’s authorities is ongoing, following the release and re-detention of a number of […]

Arrest of Al Nusra treasurer in Cyprus uncovers drug trafficking network

October 27, 2024 Fanis Makrides

(Philenews) Cypriot authorities are grappling with a complex and potentially far-reaching investigation tied to the Middle East and terrorism, which has come to light this month. This inquiry, spearheaded by the republic’s intelligence service and the Police Counter-Terrorism Office, is now under […]

Man who sparked fears of terror attack sentenced

October 11, 2024 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A mentally unwell man sparked fears of an imminent terrorist attack in a city centre, a court has heard. Armed police swooped on Sunderland city centre last October after Mahmoud Mabad, 38, shouted he was a terrorist and began filming people […]

Eight people ‘arrested for funding terrorist organisation’

October 10, 2024 Tom Cleaver

(Cyprus Mail) Eight people in the Paphos and Limassol districts were arrested on suspicion of having funded an unnamed terrorist organisation, police spokesman Christos Andreou confirmed on Thursday. Later, a court ordered the suspects remanded in police custody for six days for […]

Oktoberfest tightens security after a deadly knife attack in western Germany

September 19, 2024 Stefanie Dazio and Pietro De Cristofaro

(AP) Security has tightened at Oktoberfest after a deadly knife attack last month in western Germany, and officials are warning revelers to expect longer lines to enter as metal detectors are deployed for the first time in the Bavarian beer festival’s 189-year […]

Starmer says he understands anger after Golders Green knifeman avoided prison sentence Labour leader tells Jewish News: 'If you carry a knife you have to carry the consequences'

June 25, 2024 Lee Harpin

(Jewish News) Keir Starmer has told Jewish News he understands the anger within the community after a man who terrorised staff at a Golders Green kosher supermarket whilst brandishing a large knife escaped a prison sentence. Speaking at an emotional meeting with […]

Golders Green kosher supermarket knife attacker avoids prison Gabriel Abdullah, 34, was handed a suspended sentence and ordered to undertake alcohol treatment by a judge after waving a knife and threatening to attack staff at Golders Green kosher store

June 12, 2024 Lee Harpin

(Jewish News) A man who brandished a knife outside [a] kosher supermarket in Golders Green and shouted antisemitic abuse at staff in a terrifying incident that shocked the community has avoided a jail term, reports claim. Gabriel Abdullah, 34, was arrested on […]

Foxtrot and Rumba: Who are the violent Swedish gangs doing Iran’s bidding? Rival groups are led by Rawa Majid, known as the Kurdish Fox, and his former associate Ismail Abdo

May 31, 2024 Tariq Tahir and Tim Stickings

(National-UAE) Two notorious Swedish criminal gangs have been named as the groups recruited by Iran to carry out attacks on Israeli [targets] and Iranian dissidents. Foxtrot is led by Rawa Majid, known as the Kurdish Fox, while his former criminal associate, Ismail […]

France sees increased violence during Islamic Ramadan celebration Media and establishment politicians wilfully deny religious motives of perpetrators

April 11, 2024 Hélène de Lauzun

(European Conservative) The last few weeks of Ramadan and the feast of Eid-el-Fitr have been accompanied in France by an upsurge in violence and intimidation. Its targets are people accused by members of the Muslim community of not respecting the principles of […]

Paris Olympics: 13 rejected for torch relay for drugs, Islamism

January 22, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French security forces have rejected 13 people who were selected to take part in the torch relay for the Paris Olympics, including some who had committed drugs offences as well as a suspected Islamist, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. […]

Lombard man pleads guilty to trafficking fentanyl and providing support to ISIS Jason Brown, 41, has been in custody since his 2019 arrest. He was accused of shipping fentanyl from California to the suburbs and sending money to the Islamic State of Iraq.

December 6, 2023 Cindy Hernandez

(Chicago Sun-Times) A suburban man pleaded guilty Wednesday to trafficking drugs and attempting to provide materials to the Islamic State of Iraq in 2019. Jason Brown, 41, was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS, one count […]

Two people attacked by machete-wielding man in Barcelona yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’

October 17, 2023 Aaron Hindhaugh

(Euro Weekly) Two people were attacked by a mentally ill man who chased them with a machete on Sunday evening. Catalonian police managed to apprehend and arrest a Moroccan national who chased people through the streets while wielding a machete, but that […]

Exorcism doctor Hossam Metwally must pay £50k to patient he secretly filmed

October 6, 2023 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A former doctor jailed for poisoning his partner in a series of exorcism ceremonies must pay damages of £51,000 to a patient he secretly filmed. Hossam Metwally, 61, was convicted in 2021 of endangering Kelly Wilson’s life, leaving her close to […]

Ramadan: Tunisian man stabbed after being spotted by Muslims drinking beer in Italy

March 28, 2023 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) A Tunisian man in the Italian city of Milan was stabbed over the weekend after being attacked by three other North Africans who noticed he was drinking a beer during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Tunisian, who was drinking […]

Child asylum-seekers missing in UK trafficked and coerced into Manchester’s gangs: the Observer

February 19, 2023 Unlisted Author

(Arab News) Currently, 200 children who arrived in Britain as asylum-seekers are missing from hotels run by the Home Office. Some of the refugees abducted from outside hotels on the south coast have been trafficked and coerced into organized crime groups 260 […]

Tunisian arrested after attacking and injuring two French police

January 14, 2023 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) A 21-year-old Tunisian suspected of drug dealing was arrested this week in the city of Toulon after attacking French police officers, injuring two. The incident took place at a known drug dealing area in Toulon last Saturday during the evening after […]

Manchester Arena attack: Friends of bomber jailed for drug enterprise

January 4, 2023 Daniel De Simone

(BBC) A drugs conspiracy involving friends of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber was “comfortably” worth £6m, a court has heard. Five men have been sentenced to between six and 12 years at Manchester Crown Court following a spin-off inquiry from the Manchester […]

Austria: 3 men convicted in rape, death of 13-year-old girl

December 2, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) An Austrian court has convicted three Afghan men for the rape and death of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found dumped next to a tree in Vienna last year in a case that shocked the Alpine nation. The Austria Press […]

Man made Islamic State grenade threat on 999 call

October 3, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A man who phoned 999 and made a grenade threat while citing the Islamic State group has received a community order. Amarik Gangar, 29, of Whitehall Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, made a number of calls to emergency services on the morning of […]

Molotov cocktail-tossing lawyer who torched NYPD van blames booze and ‘trauma’ ahead of sentencing

October 1, 2022 Matthew Sedacca and Dean Balsamini

(NY Post) A lawyer who torched an NYPD patrol car during the George Floyd riots is begging for a reduced sentence — whining that she was drunk and dealing with “unprocessed trauma” at the time, according to court documents. Urooj Rahman, 33, […]

Outrage: No murder charge for migrants accused of overdosing, raping child

July 27, 2022 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) Three Afghan migrants accused of drugging and raping 13-year-old Austrian girl Leonie and leaving her to die by a tree are not set to face murder charges in an Austrian court. The three Afghan migrants have been charged with rape resulting […]

Alameddine associates watched Islamic State videos, police allege

May 25, 2022 Jenny Noyes

(Sydney Morning Herald) Members of the Alameddine crime network downloaded and watched Islamic State videos, according to police information tendered to court which also claim members involved in the group’s “dial-a-dealer” operation were part of a sub-gang calling themselves “Ready 4 War.” […]

Man sentenced to prison for selling meth while on supervised release after terrorism conviction

March 28, 2022 Gregory Yee

(LA Times) An Orange County man was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Monday for selling methamphetamine to an undercover FBI employee while he was on supervised release following a 2009 terrorism conviction. Ahmed Binyamin Alasiri, 45, of Garden […]

Kalashnikovs or cannabis? What was Paris terror suspect trying to buy in Rotterdam?

March 11, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) On Thursday, the accused Ali El Haddad Asufi was questioned by the special criminal court about his possible involvement in helping the November 2015 Paris killers to obtain the Kalashnikov machine guns used in the attacks. Asufi admits that he […]

FBI: Texas synagogue hostage-taker sought ‘machine gun’

February 16, 2022 Jake Bleiberg

(AP) The man who took hostages at a Texas synagogue sought to buy drugs and a “machine gun” before the standoff last month that ended with the hostages escaping and the gunman’s death, an FBI agent said in court Wednesday. The testimony […]

Sarah Halimi’s killer is let out on day release — and could soon be freed (LINK ONLY)

January 27, 2022 EoI News

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French parliamentary report on the Sarah Halimi murder case reopens the wound it sought to heal

January 21, 2022 Cnaan Liphshiz

(JTA) A new parliamentary report on the 2017 killing of a Jewish woman by a Muslim attacker was meant to restore French Jews’ faith in their country’s police and justice systems. Instead, the report released last week has added fuel to the […]

Manchester Arena attack: Man arrested over bombing wanted in drugs probe

January 14, 2022 Daniel De Simone

(BBC) A man arrested during the Manchester Arena bombing investigation is on the run in Libya and wanted by police for his role in a drugs conspiracy. Zuhir Nassrat, 23, was linked to two of the three chemicals used by the Abedi […]

Hossam Metwally: How doctor’s ‘bizarre’ exorcism trial unfolded

September 20, 2021 Pritti Mistry

(BBC) Hossam Metwally has been sentenced for poisoning his partner during a series of exorcism ceremonies which left her on the brink of death. The doctor’s trial, which could not be reported until its conclusion, over his “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic […]

Hossam Metwally: Doctor jailed for bogus exorcism rituals

September 20, 2021 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A doctor who poisoned his partner in a series of bogus exorcism ceremonies has been jailed for 14 and a half years. Hossam Metwally, 61, brought Kelly Wilson to the brink of death by injecting her with drugs during the sessions […]

Doctor Hossam Metwally poisoned partner in ‘exorcism ritual’

August 6, 2021 Unlisted Author

(BBC) An anaesthetist who poisoned his partner in a series of botched exorcism ceremonies is facing jail. Hossam Metwally, 61, performed a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqya ritual on Kelly Wilson at the couple’s home in Grimsby. Sheffield Crown Court heard […]

Teen allegedly raped and murdered by migrants had 11 ecstasy pills in her system

July 9, 2021 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) Austrian 13-year-old Leonie, who was found dead last week, is said to have been given at least 11 ecstasy tablets before she was allegedly raped and murdered by several Afghan migrants. A full autopsy of the teen is expected in the […]

Euro 2020 officials agree not to place Heineken in front of Muslim players after Paul Pogba snub (LINK ONLY)

June 24, 2021 EoI News

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Thousands protest in France over no trial for Jewish woman’s killer

April 25, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Thousands of protesters gathered in several French cities and Israel on Sunday to denounce a court’s refusal of a trial for a man who killed a 65-year-old Jewish woman, after experts determined he acted in a “delirious fit” due to heavy […]

Israel blasts French ruling keeping Sarah Halimi’s killer from trial Calling the murder ‘despicable,’ Foreign Ministry says court judgment fails to convey attitude of zero tolerance toward anti-Semitism

April 21, 2021 Lazar Berman

(Times of Israel) Israel blasted on Tuesday the ruling by France’s highest court that the murderer of Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. “Sarah Halimi was murdered for clearly anti-Semitic motivations, for the sole […]