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Paris Olympics: 16-year-old arrested after he said he wanted to ‘die a martyr’ at Games France previously raised its security alert to its highest level ahead of hosting this summer's Olympic Games amid concerns the event could be overshadowed by security incidents.

April 24, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Sky News) A 16-year-old boy has been arrested by anti-terrorism police in France after he allegedly said on social media he wanted to “die a martyr” at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. A spokesperson said on Wednesday the boy was […]

Teenagers who vandalised war memorial sentenced

April 23, 2024 Ewan Gawne

(BBC) Three teenagers who spray-painted a war memorial with “Free Palestine” graffiti have been sentenced. Adeem Ahmed and Amaan Tariq, both 18, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were handed community orders for vandalising Rochdale Cenotaph. They targeted […]

Feds don’t ‘care if they die,’ says lawyer helping Canadian children held in Syria Canadian children languish in Syrian camp: lawyer

April 22, 2024 Jim Bronskill

(Canadian Press) Five Canadian children are languishing in a squalid detention camp in northeastern Syria after Ottawa denied their mothers permission to come to Canada, says a lawyer fighting in court on behalf of the families. The development is the latest setback […]

Germany: Nearly half of young Muslims want Islamic theocracy, third ‘understand’ violent retribution for insulting Mohammed

April 22, 2024 Kurt Zindulka

(Breitbart) A study on juvenile delinquency in the German province of Lower Saxony found that radical ideology is widely prevalent among the Muslim youth population, with nearly half favouring an Islamic caliphate over democracy. A “dark field study” conducted by the Criminological Research […]

Teenage boy who allegedly stabbed bishop in Sydney’s south-west charged with committing a terrorist act

April 18, 2024 Jesse Hyland

(ABC-Australia) A teenage boy has been charged with a terrorism offence by police after he allegedly stabbed a bishop in Sydney’s south-west on Monday night. The 16-year-old allegedly stabbed Sydney bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a live-streamed service at Christ the Good […]

UK’s terror watchdog hits out at WhatsApp over lowering of age limit as he says more kids are being radicalised online

April 18, 2024 Fraser Knight

(LBC) Access to social media has led to more children being radicalised, the UK’s terror watchdog has told LBC, as he hit out at the lowering of WhatsApp’s age limit. Jonathan Hall KC said the move to allow 13-year-olds access to the […]

Father of boy accused of stabbing 2 Sydney clerics saw no signs of extremism, Muslim leader says

April 17, 2024 Mark Baker and Rod McGuirk

(AP) The father of a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics in Australia saw no signs of his son’s extremism, a Muslim community leader said on Wednesday as police began arresting suspected rioters who besieged a Sydney church demanding revenge. The […]

Michaela School: Muslim student loses prayer ban challenge

April 16, 2024 Branwen Jeffreys and Jess Warren

(BBC) A Muslim student at a London school has lost a High Court challenge against its ban on prayer rituals. Michaela School in Wembley was taken to court by the girl over the policy, which she argued was discriminatory. The non-faith state […]

Church stabbing declared a terror incident as weapons history of teenage attacker revealed

April 16, 2024 Sally Rawsthorne, Patrick Begley and Matthew Knott

(Sydney Morning Herald) A 16-year-old boy who was previously suspended from school for carrying a knife and last year faced a weapons charge is at the centre of a counter-terrorism investigation after a frenzied knife attack on a bishop at the pulpit […]

Isle of Wight Festival terror plot: Teen jailed for seven years

April 15, 2024 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A 16-year-old boy has been jailed for seven years for plotting a terror attack after researching the Isle of Wight Festival as a potential target. The teenager from Cowes on the Isle of Wight, who cannot be named for legal reasons, […]

Stabbing attack at Sydney church as police counter angry crowds

April 15, 2024 Sally Rawsthorne, Perry Duffin, Matthew Knott and Clare Sibthorpe

(Sydney Morning Herald) A teenager has been arrested after a church leader and several worshippers were stabbed during a service in Sydney’s west on Monday night, triggering a near-riot that required hundreds of police to bring under control. Graphic footage captured on […]

Three teens suspected of backing Islamic State arrested in Switzerland

April 13, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) Three teenagers from the northern Swiss cantons of Schaffhausen and Thurgau have been arrested for allegedly planning explosives attacks in the country. They are also suspected of supporting the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation. The detainees are a 15-year-old Swiss […]

Forced marriage comic made to ‘get students talking’

April 12, 2024 Asha Patel and Shannon Samecki

(BBC) A comic book about forced marriages has been created for pupils as young as 13 to help prevent them from happening. The “I Choose” comic, based on research by the University of Nottingham, shares stories of real experiences. Prof Dr Helen […]

Adelaide girl, 14, charged with possessing explosive instructions and extremist material Terrorism charges have been laid against a 14-year-old girl, who kept her face hidden behind a black cloth as she faced court on Friday.

April 12, 2024 Duncan Evans

(NCA NewsWire) A young girl facing a sweep of serious terror charges has fronted court for her first public hearing, hiding behind [a] long black cloth as she entered and left the court. South Australian terror cops swooped in on the Adelaide […]

Teacher at Veenendaal Islamic center preaching hatred toward non-Muslims: report

April 12, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) Islam teacher Musa Ibn Yusuf of the Islamic center Ar-Rahmah in [Veenendaal] is urging Dutch Muslims to hate people of other faiths. “There is no solidarity with Christians,” he said in a podcast on YouTube, De Telegraaf reports. “Solidarity is […]

[Four] teens arrested in Germany for allegedly plotting terror attack

April 12, 2024 Unlisted Author

(DPA) German authorities have arrested four teenagers on suspicion of plotting a deadly Islamist terrorist attack in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, prosecutors said on Friday. The state’s Central Office for the Prosecution of Terrorism sought an arrest warrant for […]

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 […]

Montreal school board to ask Supreme Court to hear appeal of Quebec secularism law

April 10, 2024 Joe Lofaro

(CTV) The debate over the constitutionality of Quebec’s secularism law is poised to go to the Supreme Court of Canada. On Wednesday evening, the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) voted in favour of asking Canada’s top court to rule on Bill 21 […]

Amsterdam hospital appointed as expertise center to help women after genital mutilation

April 10, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The Ministry of Public Health appointed Amsterdam UMC to be the expertise center on helping women after female genital mutilation. Women who have been circumcised can have all kinds of psychological, physical, and sexual complaints. The Amsterdam hospital will study […]

2 alleged Iraqi militants arrested in Germany, accused of keeping Yazidi girls as slaves

April 10, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AP) Two Iraqis accused of being members of the Islamic State group and keeping two young Yazidi girls as slaves as well as sexually and physically abusing them have been arrested in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday. The man and the woman, identified […]

Six children of Canadian mother to be repatriated from Syrian detention camp Six children to be repatriated from Syrian camp

April 9, 2024 Anja Karadeglija

(Canadian Press) Six children, but not their Canadian mother, will be repatriated to Canada from a detention camp in Syria. Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, who represents the mother, says Global Affairs Canada is planning the return of the children, who are between the […]

‘Honour-based’ crimes soar by more than 60 per cent over two years in England

April 9, 2024 Kurt Zindulka

(Breitbart) The number of so-called “honour-based” crimes, associated with some Islamic cultures, has risen by over 60 per cent in England over the past two years, according to an analysis of police data. A report from the left-wing Guardian newspaper, based on […]

Grooming gang paedophile admits new charges

April 5, 2024 Tim Page

(BBC) A man jailed 12 years ago for a string of child sex offences in Telford has admitted further charges. Mubarek Ali, 40, whose address was given as HMP Hewell, pleaded guilty at Shrewsbury Crown Court to rape, trafficking and other offences […]

Syrian migrant stabs 4-year-old girl in German supermarket The Syrian knifeman was apprehended by a bystander and restrained while the police were called

April 4, 2024 Thomas Brooke

(Remix News) A Syrian migrant has been arrested in Germany for a knife attack on a 4-year-old girl in a supermarket on Wednesday afternoon. The attack occurred shortly before 3 p.m. at the Norma store on Zeppelinstrasse in the southern city of […]

French teen girl badly hurt after beating outside school

April 4, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The French government on Thursday launched an investigation after a 14-year-old girl was temporarily left comatose after being beaten outside her school by three other teenagers in the south of France. The three alleged attackers, including a girl who was at […]

Teacher banned for calling Westernised girls lunatics

April 2, 2024 Andrew Dawkins

(BBC) A teacher who claimed Westernised girls were “lunatics” has been banned from teaching indefinitely. Aqib Khan, 30, who taught at Harborne Academy in Birmingham, also used words to the effect of “[having] a baby over 30 was worse than a cousin […]

Daughter of attacked rabbi no longer feels safe in the Netherlands

April 2, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) An attack on Rabbi Aryeh Leib [Heintz] in the Overvecht shopping center in Utrecht last week has left his daughter, Devora, shaken. “It made me very stressed, and I couldn’t sleep,” the 17-year-old girl told the Telegraaf. “We are no […]

Public Prosecution Service pushing for departure of Islamic school foundation board

March 30, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has [called] for the suspension and firing of the board at Islamic school foundation Stichting Islamitische School Amsterdam. The prosecutors have sent an application to the court in Amsterdam. The foundation has three Islamic schools […]

Paris officials rally in support of school headmaster in hijab row

March 29, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French lawmakers and officials joined dozens of people who gathered in Paris on Friday in a show of support for a school principal who resigned after receiving death threats in a hijab row. This week the headmaster at the Maurice-Ravel senior […]

France rolls out ‘mobile security force’ for troubled schools

March 29, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) French Education Minister Nicole Belloubet on Friday announced the creation of a national “mobile force” to be deployed to schools facing security issues. The move comes amid a spate of death threats directed at teaching staff. “This school force will […]

22 people detained in Ghent after further unrest between Turkish and Kurdish groups

March 28, 2024 Sally Tipper

(VRT) In Ghent, 22 people were detained on Wednesday night after a Kurdish business in the city was vandalised. Half of those held are minors and police found a number of weapons. The incident follows clashes in recent days between people from […]

‘We won’t forget’: How Muslims view Pierre Poilievre’s stance on Israel-Hamas war How Muslims view Poilievre's position on Gaza war

March 28, 2024 Stephanie Taylor

(Canadian Press) While a spokesman for [a] regional Muslim advocacy group warns Pierre Poilievre’s stand on the Israel-Hamas war could complicate his party’s relationship with Muslim Canadians, another advocate accuses the Liberals of only responding to their concerns for the purpose of […]

France’s PM stands with teachers after school chief quits in hijab row

March 27, 2024 Sophie Laubie

(AFP) Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Wednesday defended French secularism following the resignation of a Paris school principal who received death threats after asking a student to remove her Muslim veil on the premises. Attal, a former education minister, said the state […]

Ezedi: Church limited Clapham attacker’s attendance after sex assault

March 26, 2024 Claire Ellison and Judith Burns

(BBC) A church which supported the asylum claim of the Clapham alkali attacker limited his rights to attend services after a sexual assault conviction, newly released documents reveal. Abdul Shokoor Ezedi’s body was found in the river Thames in February, ending a […]

Terrorist-backer, radical preacher Abu Ousayd a Saturday school principal

March 26, 2024 Alexi Demetriadi

(Australian) A radical, terrorism-backing Sydney cleric who described Jewish people as “descendants of pigs and monkeys” and urged people to “spit on Israel” so that “Jews would drown” is a Saturday school principal teaching sharia to children as young as five. The […]

Batley Grammar School protest report ‘deeply disturbing’ — MP

March 26, 2024 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A report criticising the handling of protests at a school “makes for deeply disturbing reading,” an MP has said. A religious studies teacher at Batley Grammar School was forced into hiding in 2021 after showing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad […]

Government adviser criticises Batley Grammar School over Prophet Mohammed cartoon protest

March 25, 2024 Unlisted Author

(ITV) A teacher who was forced into hiding after he showed a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson was “let down” by his school, council and police, a government adviser has said. The religious studies teacher received death threats and […]

Anti-Semitism: Zurich attacker radicalised in Tunisia and online

March 25, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) The 15-year-old who attacked an orthodox Jewish man in Zurich on March 2 became radicalised in Tunisia and on internet forums, Zurich’s security director said on Monday. Investigations are still progressing in earnest, Mario Fehr said at the presentation of […]

French PM vows to ‘hunt down’ senders of school attack threats

March 21, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Thursday pledged to “hunt down” the people responsible for sending threats to at least 30 schools in the Paris region this week. The schools received threatening messages accompanied by “shocking” footage of beheadings, according to France’s […]

Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of private school that wouldn’t let Muslim students pray Calgary's Webber Academy launched appeal after it was fined $26,000 in 2015

March 21, 2024 Meghan Grant

(CBC) The country’s top court has declined to hear the appeal of a private Calgary school that was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students who were denied prayer space on campus. The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling Thursday ends a […]

Frankfurt teachers impose Ramadan rules on 5th graders Students were forbidden from drinking water in class because three of the 27 children were fasting.

March 20, 2024 Robert Semonsen

(European Conservative) In the name of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion, some public school teachers in the Frankfurt metropolitan area in Germany are unilaterally imposing Islam — arguably the world’s most intolerant religion — on their pre-teen students. For the Islamic holy month […]

65% of young Muslims ‘have better attitude towards Jews’ after Holocaust education Researchers at University of Kent spoke to 3,000 school pupils before they started the programme, after completing it, and again a year later.

March 20, 2024 Michelle Rosenberg

(Jewish News) More than 65 percent of young Muslims feel more positively about Jewish people after taking part in Anne Frank Trust programmes, according to new research. The “Educating Against Prejudice” report by social psychologists at the University of Kent presents data […]

German woman loses appeal of 14-year sentence for letting enslaved Yazidi girl die in Iraq

March 20, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AP) A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband enslaved when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of […]

Fasting at school? More Muslim students in the US are getting support during Ramadan

March 16, 2024 Corey Williams, Giovanna Dell'Orto, Mariam Fam and Darren Sands

(AP) While Muslim students remain a rarity in many U.S. school districts, they are a major presence in some communities, prompting public schools to be more attentive to their needs during the holy month of Ramadan when dawn-to-sundown fasting is a duty […]

Swiss police arrests three minors with alleged links to jihadist extremism

March 16, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) Three minors with suspected links to jihadist extremism have been arrested in French-speaking Switzerland, according to a Saturday report by Swiss public broadcaster RTS. They are suspected of being active on a social network carrying jihadist content. Two were arrested […]

Terrorism peace bond hearing set for Calgary teen in TikTok video case Peace bond hearing set for teen in terrorism case

March 15, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Canadian Press) A Calgary teenager arrested over alleged terrorism-related posts on TikTok and other social media sites is to face a two-day peace bond hearing in late October. The 16-year-old was the fourth Calgarian — and third teen — to be arrested […]

Record number of children arrested in UK over ‘terrorist-related activities’ Overall, 219 people were detained in 2023, up a third on previous year and highest figure since 2019

March 15, 2024 Gillian Duncan

(National-UAE) More than 40 children were arrested in connection with alleged terrorism offences in the UK last year — the highest number since records began, official figures show. The Home Office said police made 219 arrests for terrorism-related activities in the 12 […]

The metamorphosis of jihadism in Spain The current Islamist threat includes more women, more minors and variations in the sociological profile of terrorists compared to 2004

March 12, 2024 Óscar López-Fonseca

(El País) Spain has changed in the last two decades. So has the jihadist threat. Ever since 10 backpack bombs exploded on four Madrid commuter trains on March 11, 2004, killing 192 people and wounding nearly 2,000, security forces have carried out […]

‘Best weapon’ against terrorism is education, says French PM

March 11, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) Prime Minister Gabriel Attal paid tribute to victims of terrorism at a ceremony in the northern French town of Arras this Monday, where a teacher, Dominique Bernard, was killed five months ago by a former pupil with a record of […]

Senate report sounds the alarm (again) on radical Islam in French schools Teachers report living with students threatening to 'faire une Paty' — in reference to the beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty — on a daily basis.

March 8, 2024 Hélène de Lauzun

(European Conservative) The French Senate just made public the findings of a parliamentary inquiry launched in the wake of the murder of Professor Samuel Paty by an Islamist terrorist. The findings on the state of French schools are alarming and show that […]