(AFP) A young man who “liked” a gruesome Twitter picture showing French teacher Samuel Paty after he was murdered has been charged with glorifying terrorism, French authorities said Sunday. Paty was attacked and killed on the street for showing his students cartoons […]
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(AFP) Five family members of a Bosnian teenager who forcibly shaved her head over her relationship with a Christian Serb man have been expelled from France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Saturday. Sources close to Darmanin told AFP those expelled were the […]
(Daily Caller) Multiple Muslim groups rebuked Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an amicus curiae brief supporting Jewish parents suing Cuomo over restrictions targeting religious schools in Orthodox Jewish communities. The Muslim Public Affairs Council, Religious Freedom Institute’s Islam and Religious […]
(AFP) France said on Friday it would crack down on social media posts that put people in danger by divulging their personal details, a week after the murder of a teacher targeted in an online campaign over Prophet Mohammed cartoons. Samuel Paty […]
(Radio France) France’s Muslim community is “horrified … profoundly shocked” by the killing of Samuel Paty, according to Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith. He said the teacher’s brutal murder was an insult to the memory of […]
(Copenhagen Post) Last week, the French teacher Samuel Paty was murdered because he showed his class images from the Mohammed cartoons originally published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. Now, a survey has revealed that only about 50 percent of teachers in […]
(Reuters) Some teachers in France say they censor themselves to avoid confrontation with pupils and parents over religion and free speech, a problem brutally exposed when a teacher was beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in class. History teacher Samuel […]
(WIBW) Students at Junction City High School are getting some outside help to change a policy that may discriminate. The Kansas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it welcomed the statement by the Junction City School District to investigate an […]
(AFP) The investigation into the murder of a French teacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class turned to Syria on Thursday, where the killer had a jihadist contact, a source close to the case said. Seven people have been […]
(WIBW) Students staged a peaceful demonstration at Junction City High School in regards to alleged comments of an administrator. Junction City High School said it is currently investigating an incident that encouraged some students to conduct a peaceful demonstration at the school […]
(JTA) French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia praised his government’s crackdown on radical Islamists, writing in an op-ed that it makes clear that “things are changing — belatedly, but all the same.” Korsia’s op-ed Wednesday in Le Figaro followed news that the French […]
(France 24) The 18-year-old Chechen who beheaded a French teacher for showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics class paid students in front of the school to identify him, anti-terrorism public prosecutor Jean-François Ricard told reporters at a news conference […]
(AFP) Two teenagers accused of pointing out French teacher Samuel Paty to his killer who beheaded him were on Wednesday charged with complicity in terrorist murder, prosecutors said, as the nation paid homage to the slain educator. “We will not give up […]
(Anadolu) French lawmaker Adrien Quatennens has warned against a climate of generalized suspicion toward the country’s Muslims after the murder of teacher Samuel Paty by an extremist last Friday in the suburbs of Paris. Quatennens, an LFI Party member of the parliament […]
(AFP) French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The mosque […]
(Reuters) The Chechen teenager who beheaded a French teacher for showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in class had contacted a school parent who prosecutors said used social media to whip up a hateful campaign against the victim, a police source said. […]
(AFP) French police have conducted a series of raids targeting Islamist networks, three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin vowed there would be “not a […]
(Radio France) Following the killing of school teacher Samuel Paty for showing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, French Prime Minister Jean Castex stated: “I am Charlie, more than ever.” “I tell you again: I am more Charlie than ever,” Castex told Le Journal […]
(Reuters) A French imam said on Monday that the history teacher beheaded for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class was a martyr for freedom of speech, and he called on mosques in France to pray for the teacher on Friday. […]
(Radio France) The possible involvement of radical Islamist movements, particularly those active on social networks, in the beheading of a history professor in the Paris region on Friday by an 18-year-old Chechen Russian, is causing concern to the intelligence services and the […]
(AFP) Tens of thousands of people rallied in Paris and cities across France on Sunday in solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Demonstrators on the Place de la Republique held aloft posters declaring: “No to […]
(JTA) French Jewish groups have called on their supporters to join a rally Sunday in memory of the schoolteacher murdered Friday after facing criticism for showing caricatures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad to his students. The rally in memory of Samuel Paty, […]
(Reuters) France is preparing to expel 231 foreigners on a government watch list for suspected extremist religious beliefs, a police union source said on Sunday, two days after a Russian-born Islamist beheaded a teacher. France’s interior ministry, responsible for expelling foreigners, was […]
(AP) A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on social media minutes after the attack, officials said Saturday. […]
(Reuters) Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded outside his school in a Paris suburb, was described by his pupils and their parents as caring and professional. But he was killed after becoming the target of an angry campaign on social media. Paty, 47, […]
(Reuters) The teenager who beheaded a teacher outside the school in a Paris suburb where he taught had approached pupils in the street and asked them to point out his victim, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Saturday. Police shot dead the […]
(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb Friday, urging the nation to stand united against extremism. The teacher had discussed caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with his […]
(AFP) A French teacher who had recently shown students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was beheaded outside his school on Friday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack.” The assailant, whose identity has not been established, was shot by […]
(News1) The Syria fighter Noura Firoud (24) from Vilvoorde returned to Belgium on Thursday with her three children. This is reported by the public prosecutor of Halle-Vilvoorde, which will take care of the three minor children. Noura Firoud was seventeen years old […]
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(Radio France) French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has promised to back teachers, pupils and parents who expose breaches of the country’s law on secularism in schools, as he reported figures on infringements in the past year. Blanquer made his promise on Tuesday […]
(National-UAE) Swedish female ISIS recruits could now be tried in Syria for terrorism offences after Kurdish authorities told Sweden’s Foreign Ministry that they wish to prosecute ISIS members in prison camps locally. Sweden has been calling on the European Union to introduce […]
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(Copenhagen Post) Today, the government outlined plans to crack down hard on imams who propagate Sharia law divorce documents. Now, in a stunning turn of events, Iran’s ambassador to Denmark, Afsaneh Nadipour, has been summoned to the Danish Foreign Ministry to explain […]
(Copenhagen Post) Late last month, an imam in Odense hit the front pages after being reported to the police for producing a Sharia law divorce contract dictating that a woman would lose her parental rights if she didn’t fulfill a list of […]
(National-UAE) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has recruited a barred teacher who showed support for the Charlie Hebdo massacre to work in his new school. Mr Ramadan is launching a centre in France to teach ethics and feminism this month, despite being suspended […]
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(Global News) Canadian officials removed an orphaned girl from an ISIS detention camp in northeastern Syria over the weekend, the government confirmed on Monday. The girl, known as Amira, is the first Canadian to be repatriated from Syrian camps for ISIS detainees. […]
(National-UAE) Anti-radicalisation programmes are risking turning young Muslims towards extremism if they wrongly assume they are lacking role models, a report has warned. In a review of mentoring programmes aimed at preventing youngsters from a path of radicalisation, experts have warned some […]
(JTA) A Jewish journalist in France said all underage immigrants should be deported because they’re “thieves, killers and rapists.” Prosecutors initiated a criminal investigation for alleged incitement to racist hatred against Eric Zemmour, a columnist and writer with ties to French far-right […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a plan Friday to defend France’s secular values against radical Islam, announcing stricter oversight of schooling and better control over foreign funding of mosques. Describing Islam as a religion “in crisis” worldwide, Macron insisted that “no concessions” […]
(NCA NewsWire) An Afghan man who groomed a 14-year-old girl for sexual activity explained that, in his culture, an age gap was “the norm” and there was no minimum age for sexual activity. Mustafa Naseri, 21, thought he was speaking with a […]
(Breitbart) Children as young as twelve years old attacked a butcher in the French city of Lyon, allegedly over the shop selling pork products. The attacks took place on September 19th at the butcher shop located in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon […]
(NCA NewsWire) A teen terrorist who plotted to execute a bloody attack in western Sydney has been dragged headfirst into court after barricading himself in his prison cell with a mattress, telling a judge he refused to take part in his “false […]
(Deutsche Welle) The first group of refugees from the razed Moria camp arrived in Germany from Greece on Wednesday. A group of 139 people — unaccompanied children, children suffering from serious health problems and their immediate families — arrived in Hannover, in […]
(AP) Italian carabinieri arrested a female foreign fighter on Tuesday after returning her and her four young children to Italy from a displaced person’s camp in Kurdish-controlled territory. The woman, Alice Brignoli, traveled in 2015 with her Moroccan-born husband, Mohamed Koraichi, and […]
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(Copenhagen Post) Remarry? Lose your kids. Move further than 130km? Lose your kids. These are just some of the requirements and limitations in place if a woman decides she wishes to get a divorce through the well-known imam Abu Bashar. The document, […]
(Breitbart) The majority of baby names given in the suburbs of Paris have Islamic connections, according to figures released by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). The Paris [suburb] of Seine-Saint-Denis is known for having a high proportion of […]
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