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Mother threatened to ‘marry off’ teenage daughter, says judge (LINK ONLY)
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Hate preacher Anjem Choudary prowls streets unsupervised in UK terror hotbed despite bail conditions (LINK ONLY)
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Academics call for repatriation of Belgian children in Syria
(Brussels Times) Over 300 Belgian academics from universities across the country have signed an open letter calling for the repatriation of Belgian children in Syria, prompted by the death in April of a one-year-old Belgian in the war-torn country. “This baby is […]
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FBI uncovers homegrown terror training camp in Alabama
(WBMA) At first glance, it looks like an abandoned dump. But this plot of land in Macon County, Alabama, is described in an FBI search warrant as a “makeshift military-style obstacle course” belonging to a small group of terrorists led by Siraj […]
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Children of Gothenburg-born Isis fighter set to return to Sweden
(Local) The seven young children of dead Isis fighter Michael Skråmo have been taken from a Syrian refugee camp to Swedish authorities in Iraq, from where they will be brought home to Sweden. The children, aged between one and eight, were left […]
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MAS lied about school in jihad video being a ‘separate entity’
(IPT) The Muslim American Society (MAS) Philadelphia chapter had a clear message after a shocking video showed up on its Facebook page last month showing school children lip-syncing to a pro-jihad song that called for beheading and torturing Israelis. We have nothing […]
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In darkness, Hungary deports Afghan family of 6 to Serbia
(AP) Hungary deported a family of six Afghan asylum-seekers to Serbia on Tuesday, making them cross through a gate in the border fence in the dark, with no one waiting for them on the Serbian side. The nighttime deportation was considered very […]
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At Quebec secularism bill hearings, government challenged to say why trampling religious rights is necessary Quebec's Legislature opens 2 weeks of hearings into controversial bill
(CBC) After spending all day hearing from defenders of his secularism bill, Quebec Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette was confronted Tuesday evening with a challenge from a wispy-haired, 87-year-old philosopher. “We are still waiting for an explanation about why this is necessary,” Charles Taylor told Jolin-Barrette at legislative hearing […]
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Police arrest teenager in Strasbourg over foiled terror plot
(Radio France) French police have arrested a 16-year-old teenager in the eastern city of Strasbourg as part of an investigation into a suspected plot to attack security forces and possibly the presidential Elysee Palace, according to judicial sources. The teenager is the […]
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France challenged over refusal to allow jihadist’s children home
(AFP) The grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother at a camp in Kurdish-held Syria filed a lawsuit at Europe’s top rights court Monday over France’s refusal to allow them home, lawyers said. It was the latest challenge to […]
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Schools under fire for encouraging teachers to give students Ramadan greeting 'By blessing Muslim students in Arabic, teachers unmistakably endorse religion...'
(Washington Times) A religious liberty advocacy group warned a Seattle-area school district Monday that it faces a lawsuit unless it revokes a letter sent to schools urging them to offer children an Arabic greeting for Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that has […]
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Philadelphia commission probing ‘disturbing’ video
(AP) A Philadelphia city commission said Monday it’s investigating an event last month at which Muslim children were captured on video speaking in Arabic about beheadings and the liberation of Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations launched […]
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Muslim American Society’s history belies its concern over kids’ jihad video
(IPT) The Muslim American Society (MAS) claims it is disturbed by a video, exposed last week by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, showing school children lip-syncing a pro-jihad song calling for Israel’s elimination and the torture of its people. The videos showed […]
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LGBT protester banned from Anderton Park School demos after council legal threat (LINK ONLY)
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Birmingham lawyer Nazir Afzal vows to mediate for free as LGBT lessons row intensifies (LINK ONLY)
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Secret government report warns over 48 British Islamic schools are teaching intolerance and misogyny to future imams (LINK ONLY)
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Muslim American Society investigating ‘oversight’ following controversial video at Philly Islamic center
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A national Muslim group says it will conduct an investigation into an event at a Philadelphia Islamic center last month during which a group of youngsters sang songs it said were not “properly vetted,” calling that “an unintended mistake and […]
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Shocking video of children in Philadelphia Muslim Society: ‘We will chop off their heads’ for Allah
(Fox) Disturbing footage of Muslim kids saying they would sacrifice themselves and kill for the “army of Allah” surfaced from an Islamic center in Philadelphia. The Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center in Philadelphia posted the video to its Facebook page celebrating […]
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More Dutch women and children in Syrian camps as fighting continues
(Dutch News) There are now 55 Dutch adults, of whom three-quarters are women, living in Syrian Kurdish camps or in detention, together with 85 children, the Dutch security service AIVD said on Thursday. Many of the children were born in the region, […]
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Congress fights to save historic female genital mutilation case
(Detroit Free Press) In a move that could revive Detroit’s historic female genital mutilation prosecution, Congress has intervened in the case, saying the Department of Justice gave up too easily on the law that makes the cutting practice illegal. Months after a federal […]
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From Philasteen to Philadelphia: Muslim youth indoctrination on full display in America
(IPT) Young Muslim boys, dressed in traditional Palestinian garb, passionately lip-sync: The blood of the martyrs is calling us. Paradise, men desire it. Revolutionaries, Revolutionaries … Sword and Text, oh free men. During the song, several children hold up a copy of […]
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IS fighters’ parents stage German protest
(AFP) German parents and relatives of Islamic State militants demonstrated Monday outside the foreign ministry, urging Berlin to repatriate wives and children of fighters held in Syria. Some brought posters saying “Children are not responsible,” while others held up banners reading “Innocent […]
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France detains four over ‘extremely violent’ attack plot
(AFP) Three adults and a teenager have been arrested over a planned attack on the security forces in the coming days, prosecutors said Monday, which a minister described as “extremely violent.” All four were arrested on Friday as part of an investigation […]
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Quebec’s largest school board condemns religious symbols ban CSDM hopes government will be open to compromise during consultations, which start next week
(CBC) Quebec’s largest school board has come out against the province’s plan to ban teachers from wearing religious symbols in the classroom, saying it runs contrary to the school board’s mission and would be difficult to enforce. The Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) outlined […]
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German woman, parents-in-law indicted for aiding IS
(AP) German prosecutors say they’ve indicted a 21-year-old woman on suspicion of membership in the Islamic State group and of keeping three Yazidis as slaves in Syria. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that the German-Algerian woman, identified as Sarah O. for privacy reasons, […]
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French court denies appeal for IS followers to return home
(AFP) A supreme legal tribunal in France on Tuesday rejected appeals by families for their relatives who had gone to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) radical militant group to return home. The Council of State, which acts as legal adviser […]
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Trinity lecturer wins unfair dismissal case over female circumcision comments (LINK ONLY)
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Youth accused in Kingston, Ont., terrorism case rearrested on new charges
(Canadian Press) An eastern Ontario teen already facing five charges related to an alleged terrorism plot has been rearrested after breaching his bail conditions, police and lawyers said Tuesday. Like many of the previous proceedings concerning the boy from Kingston, Ont., the details […]
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Gothenburg Isis fighter’s seven orphaned children one step closer to returning home
(Local) The seven children of dead Isis fighter Michael Skråmo have been given the green light to be taken from a Syrian refugee camp to Sweden’s consulate in Iraq, reports TV4. Kurdish authorities in Iraq announced on Friday that the children of […]
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French court jails brother of jihadist killer for 30 years
(AFP) A Paris appeal court on Thursday handed a 30-year jail term to Abdelkader Merah, brother of a French jihadist who shot dead seven people, finding him guilty of being an accomplice in the 2012 murders. The verdict was received in silence […]
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Detroit school board votes to close schools for Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr
(Chalkbeat) For the first time in its history, the Detroit school district will recognize a Muslim holiday. The school board Tuesday adopted the calendar for the 2019-20 school year that includes the observance of Eid al-Fitr on May 25, 2020, which would […]
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ISIS children could pose security threat if returned to Australia without proper support, psychiatrist says
(ABC-Australia) Australia is not ready for the children of Islamic State terrorists to return, after the caliphate’s fall in Syria, according to a leading developmental psychiatrist. Approximately 70 children or young people of Australian IS fighters are stranded in refugee camps, according […]
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Shamima Begum: IS bride set to be granted legal aid
(BBC) Shamima Begum — who joined the Islamic State group aged 15 — is set to be granted legal aid to fight the decision to revoke her UK citizenship. The 19-year-old, who left east London in 2015, was stripped of her citizenship […]
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IS can still launch attacks in Germany: intelligence chief The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned against underestimating the threat posed by 'Islamic State' despite the militant group's apparent defeat in Syria and northern Iraq.
(Deutsche Welle) In an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Thomas Haldenwang, the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency — warned against an increasing threat posed by the return of “Islamic […]
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‘What have I done wrong?’: Students falsely reported over terrorism
(Age) A week before Year 12 exams, Abshir heard an unexpected knock on his front door. The Canberra student’s family say he was confronted by two Australian Federal Police officers who were responding to a tip-off from his teacher. The teacher was […]
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Shamima Begum was cruel enforcer in Isil’s morality police, say Syrian witnesses (LINK ONLY)
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Sweden will repatriate children of Isis fighters ‘if possible’: foreign minister
(Local) Sweden’s foreign minister has said the country is working to facilitate the return to Sweden of children of Swedish nationals who travelled overseas to join the Isis terror group. “The government is now working intensively so that children with a connection […]
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Feds abandon female genital mutilation appeal
(Detroit News) Federal prosecutors will not appeal a judge’s order dismissing female genital mutilation charges in the first criminal case of its kind nationwide, concluding the law is weak and needs to be rewritten. The decision delivers a setback to international human-rights […]
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Suspect in west Phoenix shooting said ‘God told him to shoot his wife’
(KSAZ) Phoenix police say a man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, his two young daughters and a man who the suspect thought was romantically involved with his wife. According to police, the man, identified Friday afternoon as 30-year-old […]
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Cardiff University sex education talk cancelled after concerns
(BBC) An event involving a psychologist who has claimed sex and relationship education could cause children “harm” has been cancelled by a university. Dr Kate Godfrey-Faussett is being investigated by the British Psychological Society after saying the lessons were part of an […]
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CAIR planning huge push in SoCal The subversive jihadist group goes on offense on the Left Coast.
(FrontPage) The terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations announced plans to “mobilize the Muslim community” in 80 mosques in Southern California in order to push its Islamist, anti-American agenda. CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in 2007 in an alleged criminal conspiracy to […]
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German IS woman accused of letting Yazidi ‘slave’ girl die of thirst
(AFP) A German woman who joined the Islamic State jihadist group went on trial Tuesday accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun. The case against Jennifer Wenisch, 27, is believed to […]
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Denmark threatens woman critical of Islam with removal of foster child
(Breitbart) A Danish supervising authority has threatened Danish-Iranian blogger and author Jaleh Tavakoli with the removal of her foster child after she shared an online video of a murder by Islamic State terrorists in Morocco. The Social Supervisory Authority informed Ms. Tavakoli […]
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Teen ‘lone wolf’ gets 20 years in prison for terrorism plot to shoot up Frisco mall
(Dallas Morning News) A former Plano high school student was sentenced Monday to 20 years in state prison after pleading guilty to an ISIS-inspired plot to commit mass murder at a Collin County mall. Matin Azizi-Yarand, 18, discussed his plans with an undercover […]
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Parents start legal battle to bring Syrian fighters home
(Dutch News) The parents of Dutch citizens who left to fight in the war in Syria have launched a foundation to try to force the government to help them return to the Netherlands. Around 20 parents have joined non-profit foundation De Achterblijvers, […]
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Isis bride Lisa Smith claims her husband was a jihadist whose Northern Irish first wife was jailed (LINK ONLY)
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Isis bride Lisa Smith pleads for return to Ireland with daughter after being tracked to refugee camp in Syria (LINK ONLY)
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France says won’t take back Syria jihadist fighters and their families
(AFP) France has ruled out the repatriation of French jihadists and their families detained in Syria after the fall of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate,” Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Friday. France and other European nations have been wrestling with how to […]
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Germany brings home ‘Islamic State’ children from Iraq Germany has started repatriating the children of jailed 'Islamic State' fighters from conflict zones [in] the Middle East. European countries are grappling with how to handle returning foreign fighters and their families.
(Deutsche Welle) The German Foreign Ministry said Friday it had brought several children of convicted “Islamic State” (IS) militants back to Germany from Iraq. The returns were carried out with the consent of the parents, a ministry source said, adding that the number of […]
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ISIS husband of Shamima Begum says he wants to return to the Netherlands with her so they can live a ‘normal life’ and ‘regrets’ going to Syria (LINK ONLY)
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