(NL Times) The risk of a terrorist attack in the Netherlands remains “substantial,” the fourth most severe threat level out of five, according to the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV). There is a “realistic” possibility of an attack, particularly because […]
(CBC) After the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government tabled its secularism bill, Premier François Legault recorded a video address that intended to reassure people who felt the proposed legislation was going too far. “I feel like saying ‘finally,’” the premier said in […]
(AFP) French prosecutors on Monday sought jail terms of between one and 16 years for eight people on trial over the 2020 beheading of a school teacher by an Islamist radical that shocked France. The harshest sentence was reserved for a defendant […]
(Courthouse News) A Dutch court has sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for crimes against humanity for keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave in Syria, in the first case against the minority group in the Netherlands. Hasna Aarab was […]
(Brussels Times) The province of Flemish Brabant has been accused of discrimination for banning full-body swimsuits at the Halve Maan provincial domain in Diest, according to a ruling by the Flemish Human Rights Institute on Monday. In July 2023, a community centre […]
(DPA) German police arrested three men on suspicion of plotting an Islamist attack, authorities announced on Tuesday. The men procured an assault rifle and ammunition, among other preparations, according to the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation. Two of the suspects are […]
(Breitbart) The Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that led the recent overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria has been tied to the terrorist beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty. Potentially undermining claims from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Mohammed al-Joulani that his organisation has […]
(CBC) Quebec Premier François Legault said Friday afternoon that he wants to ban praying in public and that he was considering using the notwithstanding clause to do so. The premier was giving an overview of the past year in Quebec City before […]
(AFP) Muhammad was the most popular name for baby boys in England and Wales last year, topping the annual rankings for the first time, the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Thursday. The name, which has been in the top 10 […]
(Canadian Press) Security agencies from Canada and other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance are calling for a “whole-of-society response” to deal with the radicalization of young people lured into violent extremism. A new report from the alliance, which also includes […]
(Morocco World News) Al Kindi, the only Muslim private high school in France, is facing the threat of contract termination by the Rhone prefecture. The threat could potentially end the school’s official association with the state. According to the website Lyon Capitale, […]
(Times of Malta) The email bomb threat made on Monday to many schools in Malta was “nonsense, absurd and mysterious,” the imam of the Muslim community in Malta said on Tuesday. The threat that a bomb had been hidden in a school […]
(Times of Malta) Bomb threats emailed to schools across the country were likely sent from a foreign IP address en masse to email addresses gleaned from government websites, sources close to the police say. Schools across the country were struck by bomb […]
(AFP) Swedish prosecutors said Monday they had charged three people with alleged ties to the Islamic State (IS) of plotting terrorist acts, including against Jewish interests, and seeking minors to carry them out. The trio, as well as a fourth suspect, were […]
(CBC) A 16-year-old boy accused alongside another teen of plotting to attack Jewish people in Ottawa last fall — possibly by detonating an explosive device at a pro-Israel rally on Parliament Hill — has been denied bail. The decision came this week […]
(European Conservative) An invitation by a mosque in Germany for girls as young as thirteen to take part in a “preparatory marriage course” has sparked a huge backlash, with centre-right and right-wing parties demanding an explanation. The invitation was sent out by […]
(AP) A youth suspected of planning to build pipe bombs to carry out an Islamic extremist attack has been arrested in western Germany, authorities said Thursday. The suspect, whose name and exact age weren’t released, was arrested on Tuesday evening, prosecutors in […]
(Yle) The Finnish Parliament has voted in favour of a government proposal to draft a specific law banning the practice and preparation of female genital mutilation (FGM). FGM refers to the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for […]
(AFP) A teenager whose lies about her teacher are accused of contributing to the educator’s murder by an Islamist radical apologised to his family in a French court on Tuesday. Eight people have been on trial since early November, charged with contributing […]
(Global News) On June 15, 2023, police searched a Calgary home and found an ISIS flag, three knives, bomb-making instructions and ideological tracts on killing gay men. “I’m a member of ISIS,” the owner of the materials, Zakarya Rida Hussein, had written […]
(CBC) An investigation into a potential case of religious indoctrination at a school in Montreal’s Saint-Léonard borough has found that the allegations were groundless. Alphonse-Pesant elementary school is part of the Pointe-de-l’Île school service centre (CSSPI), which covers eastern Montreal. The CSSPI […]
(Montreal Gazette) Following up on complaints sparked by allegations of incidents at the Bedford elementary school, Quebec’s Education Ministry is sending inspectors into 17 schools to verify them for possible violations of laicity rules. The schools to be inspected are in the […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government is committed to fighting anti-Semitic violence with far-reaching measures, Prime Minister Dick Schoof said in a parliamentary debate on violence in Amsterdam last week. The prime minister mainly promised to investigate various measures put forward by parliamentarians, […]
(BBC) The former headteacher of a French school has revealed the shocking sequence of events that led to the beheading of Samuel Paty by a Chechen refugee. Audrey F told the court in Paris how she had tried to stop a row […]
(National Post) Ottawa’s public school board has launched an investigation into a school’s Remembrance Day ceremony that featured a Palestinian protest song about peace in Gaza as the musical accompaniment at school assemblies. The Arabic-language song was played three times at the […]
(BBC) A teenager gained a place at an Islamic Sunday school in order to teach her “extremist” beliefs to young children, a court has heard. Dzhamilya Timaeva, 19, from Windsor, saw it as a “duty” of her Islamic faith to “wage war […]
(Ynet) Against the background of the attack on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam after the game against Ajax on Thursday, pro-Palestinian Hamas supporters shared videos of an attack on an Ultra-Orthodox boy from two weeks ago. The video was shared on […]
(Global News) Two Ottawa teens allegedly plotted to bomb a pro-Israel rally on Parliament Hill before they were arrested by the RCMP, according to documents obtained by Global News. The boys, both minors, were arrested in December and February over what police […]
(DPA) A 17-year-old German detained in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein is suspected of plotting an attack motivated by extremist Islamist beliefs, prosecutors confirmed on Tuesday. Prosecutors in the northern city of Flensburg said the teenager had been detained at home in […]
(Jerusalem Post) Antwerp police arrested five people as part of proactive operations against a suspected “Jew hunt” following calls to action on social media, according to De Morgen. A police spokesperson told De Morgen that five people had been put under administrative […]
(National Post) An Ottawa school played an Arabic-language Palestinian protest song associated with fighting in Gaza as the soundtrack to its Remembrance Day presentation, causing outrage and distress for some students and parents. The song was the sole musical accompaniment to a […]
(National-UAE) Relatives of a French history teacher beheaded four years ago by a teenager were surprised by a confession of guilt in court from an associate of the killer. A sister welcomed how one of the defendants, a former friend of the […]
(AP) Two Swedish teenagers who were arrested in connection with last month’s predawn explosions near the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen faced preliminary charges of terror on Thursday, Danish media reported. The charges come before formal charges and allow authorities to detain suspects […]
(Free Beacon) Voters in Dearborn, Mich., a Muslim-American stronghold outside Detroit, have elected a former Bernie Sanders surrogate who defends the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah to serve on the city’s school board. Amer Zahr, a Dearborn-based activist, has urged Muslims to […]
(JNS) Three Swedes suspected of having planted an explosive device earlier this year at the offices of Elbit Systems Sweden, the Gothenburg-based subsidiary of Israel’s largest defense contractor, likely acted on behalf of “someone else,” prosecutors told reporters on Wednesday. “Nothing indicates […]
(AP) The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet to his middle school students for a lesson […]
(BBC) A former doctor has admitted causing “painful cruelty to children” by running a mobile circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, was a practising doctor at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust when he started visiting homes to carry out […]
(Olympian) A father has been accused of assaulting and attempting to kidnap his daughter at Timberline High School in Lacey on Oct. 18. The incident occurred in the afternoon at a bus stop near the school and in the presence of many […]
(NL Times) More and more children do not have to go to school because of their [parents’] beliefs. They have been granted an exemption from compulsory education, and the court in Amsterdam is concerned about this. The judges say that it is […]
(AFP) Denmark said Friday it had repatriated a mother and her eight-year-old son, the child of a dead Islamic State jihadist, from a Syrian detention camp. They arrived in Denmark on Thursday following an agreement with local Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria, […]
(CBC) A Canadian mother of six who was deemed a security risk and refused permission to come home by the federal government has died suddenly in Turkey, her lawyer says. Lawrence Greenspon said he’s been told his client was found dead in a cell in a Turkish immigration centre sometime […]
(Assahifa) The Spanish police, based on Moroccan intelligence, arrested two individuals in the city of Melilla on Tuesday, suspected of belonging to the terrorist organization “ISIS,” through the recruitment and training of jihadists to carry out attacks. According to Spanish media reports, […]
(Montreal Gazette) The Quebec government has opened an investigation into another incident of religion reappearing in a public elementary school, with Education Minister Bernard Drainville saying Quebec will not turn a blind eye to the fresh allegations. One day after suspending the […]
(CBC) High school students at one of the four Montreal schools under investigation by Quebec’s Education Ministry for alleged toxic behaviour among staff say their teacher referenced wanting to hit them last week. The students’ account is one of the few specific incidents […]
(CBC) In the last few weeks, an elementary school in Montreal’s west-central Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood has been mired in controversy. This past weekend, 11 teachers were suspended for allegedly creating a toxic environment for students and staff that goes back to 2016. On […]
(Montreal Gazette) Saying she fears for her safety and that of her family, St-Laurent MNA Marwah Rizqy has asked for police protection. Rizqy was repeatedly insulted after denouncing the situation at Bedford elementary school that came to light in a recent investigation […]
(Montreal Gazette) With the Legault government saying the evidence shows Quebec’s secularism law was being flouted, 11 teachers at Montreal’s Bedford elementary school have had their teaching licences suspended by the Education Ministry pending the conclusions of an investigation. And the government […]
(Montreal Gazette) Urging politicians to not shy away from the debate because it involves religion, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon called Monday for stricter secularism rules in the wake of the Bedford school controversy. St-Pierre Plamondon said what happened in the […]
(Montreal Gazette) Parents at a Montreal primary school where 11 teachers were suspended over the weekend expressed shock and confusion during after-school pickup on Monday, with several questioning if the situation had been blown out of proportion. The suspensions, announced on Saturday, […]
(Canadian Press) Eleven teachers at a Montreal elementary school have been suspended after a government investigation found they fostered a “toxic” climate of fear and intimidation. In a move it described as unprecedented, the Centre de services scolaires de Montréal said its […]
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