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Paris Olympics faces twin terror threats of ISIS and teenage extremists Games will feature vast security operation to keep 15 million visitors safe as radicalisation spreads, not least though short viral videos

July 18, 2024 Tariq Tahir

(National-UAE) Paris is facing the threat of terrorist attacks during the Olympics from a branch of ISIS resurgent in Afghanistan as well as teenagers radicalised on social media, experts have told the National. A major security operation is under way in France […]

Four times more migrant children arrive in Greece in 2024: charity

July 17, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) More than 6,400 migrant children have entered Greece so far this year, more than four times the figure over the same period last year, the charity Save the Children said Wednesday. One in four came without a family member, a figure […]

Spain denies citizenship to Moroccan over ‘Islamist proselytizing’

July 17, 2024 Latifa Babas

(Yabiladi) Spanish courts have denied citizenship to a Moroccan national, upholding a 2022 decision by the Interior Ministry. A Spanish police investigation accused the Moroccan of “Islamist proselytizing” among unaccompanied minors in a reception center, according to El Confidencial Digital. The accused […]

Police suspect woman repatriated from al-Hol of trafficking own children Investigators believe the mother took several of her children to the war-torn region in 2014, but only two have since returned from the al-Hol refugee camp via a repatriation programme.

July 11, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Yle) Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) suspects a Finnish woman of aggravated human trafficking of her own children after she brought them to the ISIS “caliphate” in the region of Syria and northern Iraq in 2014. Detective Inspector Jan Aarnisalo, who […]

Teenager who called Jews on a train ‘baby killers’ found guilty of racial harassment Ilham Ahmed fined for abusing passengers who were returning from a march against antisemitism on a Thameslink train

July 7, 2024 Michelle Rosenberg

(Jewish News) An 18-year-old has been found guilty of racially harassing Jewish train passengers on their way home from a march against antisemitism in central London last November. As reported by Jewish News, Ilham Ahmed, from Hendon, was filmed on a Thameslink […]

Woman jailed for taking girl for FGM loses appeal

July 4, 2024 Jess Warren

(BBC) A woman jailed after handing over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) during a trip to Kenya has lost a Court of Appeal bid to reduce her sentence. Amina Noor, from Harrow, north-west London, was jailed for seven […]

France: Decision to close Islamic school in Nice overturned

July 3, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Middle East Monitor) The Administrative Court in Nice yesterday overturned an order to close the Avicenne Middle School in the French city. “Errors in the institution’s books do not justify taking such a final action,” said the court. “Avicenne School emerged stronger […]

German court sentences teen over Christmas terror plot A German court has handed a four-year custodial sentence to a defendant for planning a terror attack on a Christmas market.

June 28, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Deutsche Welle) A regional court in the western German city of Cologne on Friday sentenced a 15-year-old to four years in youth custody for planning an attack on a Christmas market in the nearby city of Leverkusen. The court found that the […]

Queensland teen who was found with terror attack instructions and videos of beheadings released after eight months in custody

June 26, 2024 Talissa Siganto

(ABC-Australia) A south-east Queensland teenager who made a “pledge of allegiance” to Islamic State and had instructions on “how to conduct lone-wolf-style attacks” will be released from juvenile detention. The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be identified, was sentenced in Brisbane for one […]

Parents of 12-year-old victim of antisemitic gang rape: Attack was ‘mimicry’ of Hamas atrocities

June 25, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Times of Israel) The parents of the 12-year-old Jewish girl who was gang-raped in a Paris suburb earlier this month tell French newspaper Le Parisien that the attack, which has sent shockwaves through France’s Jewish community, was a “mimicry” of the atrocities […]

‘Swear on Allah’: French antisemitic rape victim told to convert to Islam — report 'Before letting her leave, they made her swear on Allah not to say anything,' her mother said.

June 25, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) The 12-year-old girl who was gang-raped in an antisemitic incident in France was asked to convert to Islam by her attackers, her parents told the French media outlet Le Parisien. “Before letting her leave, they made her swear on Allah […]

New Jersey school district apologizes for offending Muslim group with question about ISIS terror group in quiz 'The question was offensive and contrary to our values of respect, inclusivity, and cultural sensitivity'

June 21, 2024 Gabriel Hays

(Fox) A New Jersey school district apologized for offending a Muslim activist group this week after a middle school teacher featured a class quiz question naming the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, as a terror group. The Wayne Township […]

As France reels from alleged rape of a Jewish girl, antisemitism comes to fore in election campaign

June 20, 2024 Oleg Cetinic and Elise Morton

(AP) The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suspected antisemitic attack has sent shockwaves throughout France and thrust concerns about antisemitism to the forefront of campaigning for the country’s legislative elections. The anti-immigration National Rally party, which has tried […]

2 French boys are accused of raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl in an act of antisemitism

June 19, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AP) Two adolescent boys in a Paris suburb have been given preliminary charges of raping a 12-year-old girl and religion-motivated violence, French authorities said Wednesday. A Jewish leader said the girl is Jewish. The attack elicited widespread shock and concern, notably after […]

France’s Muslim voters fear far-right election win

June 19, 2024 Claire Gallen

(AFP) Muslim voters are increasingly worried about the prospect of a far-right victory less than two weeks before France’s snap parliamentary elections, fearing the possible restrictions that could follow. For Sarah, there’s a “real risk” of seeing the National Rally (RN) win […]

Federal Court rejects legal effort to force reparation of women and children in Syrian detention camps The Federal Court has again rejected an effort to force the federal government to bring home Aussie women and children in Syrian refugee camps.

June 18, 2024 Liam Beatty

(NCA NewsWire) The Federal Court has upheld a previous judgment rejecting legal arguments that would bring Australian ISIS brides and their children home from a refugee camp in Syria. On Tuesday morning, Justice Christopher Horan announced the court would dismiss an appeal […]

Teenager accused of Wakeley church attack on bishop charged with additional offences

June 14, 2024 Jamie McKinnell

(ABC-Australia) Authorities are analysing nearly 60,000 photos and videos on the phone of a teenager charged with a terror offence over the alleged stabbing of a bishop at a south-west Sydney church, a court has heard. The 16-year-old boy was charged after […]

Macron says France needs new debate on secularism

June 12, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday France needed a new debate on secularism rules that ban religious symbols from classrooms and some sports, as he sought to rally support before snap elections. “There is this feeling that secularism is not always well […]

Judge grants bail to alleged teen terrorist, branding case ‘thin’ in bruising ruling for AFP

June 5, 2024 Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop

(ABC-Australia) A Supreme Court judge has granted bail to a Sydney teenager accused of terrorism and branded the case against him as “thin,” in a bruising ruling for the Australian Federal Police. The 15-year-old was among six boys arrested in sweeping police […]

Teen arrested at Gatwick by counter-terror police

June 4, 2024 Emily Coady-Stemp

(BBC) A teenager has been arrested at Gatwick Airport on suspicion of a terrorism offence. Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command stopped the 17-year-old under the Terrorism Act 2000 on Sunday as he returned to the UK. Police examined his […]

Muslim schools caught up in France’s fight against Islamism

June 3, 2024 Juliette Jabkhiro

(Reuters) Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France’s largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from their middle-class suburban Parisian home. The move meant financial sacrifices. Denguir, 41, now […]

Authorities detain minor on charges of promoting Islamist propaganda

May 29, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Budapest Times) Hungarian authorities have taken into custody a minor on charges of posting online propaganda content promoting the Islamic State terrorist organisation, the central investigation office of the prosecution said on Wednesday. The prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation based on […]

Fears for London girls if Gambia’s FGM ban ends

May 26, 2024 Harry Low and Helen Drew

(BBC) There are fears that children in London could be taken to The Gambia to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) if it becomes the first country in the world to overturn a ban on the practice. A midwife specialising in FGM told […]

Syrian Kurdish authorities hand over a British woman and 3 children linked to IS to a UK delegation

May 24, 2024 Hogir Al Abdo

(AP) A British woman and three children linked to the militant Islamic State group in Syria were handed over to a U.K. delegation that visited the region this week, Syrian Kurdish-led authorities said Friday. The handover, which took place on Wednesday, is […]

Row after two Muslim students exempted from studying Dante Parties slam 'crazy' move, 'insult to our culture'

May 24, 2024 Unlisted Author

(ANSA) A middle school teacher in the northern city of Treviso has exempted two Muslim students from studying Dante on the grounds that it is a religious work that clashes with their Islamic faith, local dailies reported Friday, sparking a major row […]

ASIO boss calls to scrap powers to forcibly question 14-year-old terror suspects The head of ASIO wants a contentious power changed, saying the terrorism threat posed by minors in Australia had changed.

May 23, 2024 Eleanor Campbell

(NCA NewsWire) Australia’s domestic spy agency wants to give up its right to request warrants to question children as young as 14 after it reported only a handful of minors had been charged with terror offences since 9/11. ASIO told a parliamentary […]

France is proud of its secularism. But struggles grow in this approach to faith, school, integration

May 23, 2024 Giovanna Dell'Orto

(AP) Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French athletes at the upcoming Paris Olympics, France’s unique approach to “laïcité” — loosely translated as “secularism” — has been increasingly stirring controversy from schools to sports fields across the […]

Sydney baker Oven Bakery by Fu Fu cake photo of Hamas terrorist criticised by Jewish groups While most four-year-old boys have birthday cakes with Batman or Real Madrid, one Sydney boy was given cupcakes with a Hamas terrorist photo.

May 22, 2024 Clarissa Bye

(Daily Telegraph) A Sydney bakery has posted images of a custom-made cake depicting an infamous Hamas terrorist and a four-year-old boy in a similar outfit, sparking outrage. The bakery, Oven Bakery by Fu Fu, posted images of the child and the cakes, […]

Grooming gang ringleader jailed for 12 more years

May 20, 2024 Trystan Jones

(BBC) The ringleader of a grooming gang in Telford has been sentenced to another 12 years in jail after admitting further charges. Mubarek Ali was jailed 12 years ago for his part in a paedophile ring uncovered in the town as part […]

A fourteen-year-old girl originally from Montenegro was arrested for planning a terrorist attack in Austria Evidence was also found of activity on chat forums where the girl was sending photos of weapons she owns to 'like-minded people.' The plan was for her attack to be directed against 'infidels'

May 18, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Vijesti) A 14-year-old citizen of Montenegro planned a terrorist attack on Jakominiplatz in the Austrian city of Graz, writes the Kleine Zeitung. After searching her house, the police found a knife and an ax and Islamic State propaganda material. The 14-year-old pleaded […]

‘Proportionate restriction’: ECHR upholds ban on Islamic veil in secondary education

May 16, 2024 Lauren Walker

(Brussels Times) The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that it upholds the ban on hijabs in Flemish Community secondary schools. It rejected the applicants’ complaint that the ban is incompatible with freedom of religion. The case was brought by […]

Israeli-Canadian teen says she was attacked at New Brunswick school for being Jewish The assault allegedly occurred during school hours at Leo Hayes High School in Fredericton at a parking lot off campus

May 15, 2024 Unlisted Author

(National Post) A 14-year-old Israeli-Canadian girl attending a high school in New Brunswick has told Canadian Jewish News that she was assaulted last month by another student for being Jewish. Shaked Tsurkan said she was attacked by an older female schoolmate at […]

Mother facing jail for failing to tell police about son’s involvement in plot to bomb London Nabeela Anjum failed to tell police about what she knew of her son Sameer Anjum's cooperation with another terrorist.

May 14, 2024 Duncan Gardham

(Sky News) A mother is facing jail after she failed to inform police that her teenage son knew about a terrorist plot to bomb central London. Nabeela Anjum, 48, a biomedical scientist at St James’s Hospital in Leeds, tried to persuade her […]

Hindu Council calls for removal of prayer rooms from public schools There are calls to remove prayer rooms from public schools in Western Australia amid fears they could promote 'radical' views.

May 10, 2024 Lily McCaffrey

(NCA NewsWire) The Hindu Council of Australia wants prayer rooms removed from public schools due to fears they could be used to promote “radical ideologies.” A 16-year-old boy was shot dead by police last Saturday night after he stabbed a man in […]

More than half the Canadians once detained in Syrian camps for suspected ISIS family members have returned home

May 10, 2024 Judy Trinh

(CTV) A total of 29 Canadians have been freed from detention camps in northeast Syria and brought back to Canada since human rights advocates began lobbying for their release years ago. In an email, Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, who represented children who […]

Read the letter a concerned parent sent about radicalised schoolboy before attack

May 9, 2024 Heather McNeill

(WA Today) A concerned parent at the Perth school attended by a teenager shot dead by police on Saturday contacted authorities in the weeks before the attack over fears students were being radicalised. In a letter dated April 3, the Rossmoyne Senior […]

WA education minister distances Rossmoyne parents’ letter from radicalised teen’s attack

May 7, 2024 Holly Thompson

(WA Today) West Australian Education Minister Tony Buti has addressed the police shooting death of a 16-year-old student from a prestigious public school in Perth’s south for the first time, distancing the teen’s stabbing attack from a letter penned by parents at […]

Mohammed most popular baby boy’s name in Berlin and Hamburg

May 7, 2024 Oliver JJ Lane

(Breitbart) Sophie and Noah were the most popular baby names in Germany last year, but in several regions including the national capital strong local variations exist, including the primacy of Mohammed for boys. Germany’s state-funded language institute has revealed its baby name […]

Canada repatriates 6 children of woman deemed security risk from ISIS camp

May 7, 2024 Nathaniel Dove

(Global News) The children of a Canadian woman deemed a national security risk have been freed from a detention camp in Syria for captured ISIS members and are now in Canada. “They’re back,” family lawyer Lawrence Greenspon told Global News. “Not only […]

After years in a Syrian ISIS camp, a 10-person American family is back in the U.S.

May 7, 2024 Sacha Pfeiffer

(NPR) A family of 10 American citizens who were held for years in a Syrian refugee camp and detention center for relatives of Islamic State militants are now back in the United States, the result of complex negotiations that also returned two […]

Two Dutch women suspected of terrorism, and their children, arrive from Syria

May 7, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) Two women suspected of terrorism have been transported to the Netherlands with their two children, caretaker Ministers Dilan Yeşilgöz (Justice and Security) and Hanke Bruins Slot (Foreign Affairs) told the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch Parliament. The […]

US repatriates 11 US citizens from northeast Syria

May 7, 2024 Jennifer Hansler

(CNN) The United States has repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, as well as the sibling of one of those minors, from northeast Syria in what Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the “largest single repatriation” of Americans from that region. […]

Final text of slain ‘radicalised’ Perth schoolboy revealed

May 6, 2024 Heather McNeill and Michael Genovese

(WA Today) The final text messages from a radicalised Perth teenager shot dead by police on Saturday night give rare insight into the mind of a boy who had descended into extremism. The 16-year-old Rossmoyne Senior High School student was killed in […]

Muslim group issues UK Labour Party leader with demands over Gaza

May 6, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Arab News) Pro-Palestinian activists have presented a list of 18 demands to the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party and said they will not vote for the party at the next general election if he does not fulfill them. The Muslim Vote, […]

‘Radicalised teen’ shot dead by police in Willetton after stabbing

May 5, 2024 Heather McNeill, Hamish Hastie and Rebecca Peppiatt

(WA Today) A “radicalised” teenage boy was shot dead by police following an “extremely confronting” incident in Perth’s southern suburbs on Saturday night. WA Premier Roger Cook said a 16-year-old boy was shot by a police officer after rushing him with a […]

Sydney teen wanted ‘something catastrophic’ for Jews and Assyrians, court told

May 2, 2024 Sarah McPhee

(Sydney Morning Herald) A 15-year-old Sydney boy accused of plotting a terror attack has been refused bail for allegedly making explicit threats of wanting “to do something catastrophic” to Jewish or Assyrian people. Police allege the teenager is an associate of the […]

Two teens accused of planning terror attack released from custody

May 2, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) Authorities in canton Schaffhausen have released two teenagers who were arrested over Easter in connection to planned bomb attacks in Switzerland. The 15-year-old Swiss and 16-year-old Italian were sent to a closed institution where they will be assessed. The two […]

Sydney teen terror accused wanted to attack ‘a bunch of Jews,’ court told

May 1, 2024 Sarah McPhee

(Sydney Morning Herald) A 15-year-old boy who described the alleged Wakeley terrorist as his “mate” sent messages in the days after the church stabbing about wanting “to do something so bad,” including attacking “a bunch of Jews,” a court has heard. The […]

‘We’re gonna kill’: Teens allegedly discussed bombs, guns in group chats

April 30, 2024 Clare Sibthorpe

(Sydney Morning Herald) A group of teenagers discussed carrying out a terrorism attack and a desire to kill before they were arrested in anti-terrorism raids last Wednesday, a court has heard. The conversations took place in group chats after the alleged stabbing […]

Teens plotted to buy guns and attack Jewish people after Sydney bishop was stabbed, police allege

April 29, 2024 Rod McGuirk

(AP) Four teenagers plotted to buy guns and attack Jewish people days after a bishop was stabbed in a Sydney church, according to police documents cited in news reports on Monday. Five teens, aged 14 to 17, were charged in a Sydney […]