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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 […]

Parents of teenager who stabbed bishop at Sydney church speak publicly for the first time

April 29, 2024 Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop

(ABC-Australia) In the hours before a 16-year-old boy stabbed a bishop in an alleged terrorism attack at a Sydney church, his parents’ frantic calls to him went unanswered. Two days earlier, the boy was in tears over the sudden death of a […]

Isle of Wight Festival attack plot teen spared increased sentence

April 29, 2024 Charlotte Andrews

(BBC) A teenage Muslim convert who was detained for plotting an attack on the Isle of Wight Festival has been spared an increased sentence after assaulting detention staff. At the time, the 16-year-old, who cannot be named because of his age, had […]

Teen facing terror-related charges as part of Wakeley church stabbing investigation was already on conditional bail for gun possession charges

April 27, 2024 Tony Ibrahim

(ABC-Australia) A 14-year-old boy trying to secure bail over terrorism-related charges appeared before the same court a fortnight earlier on gun possession charges. He was the youngest of five juveniles taken into custody on Wednesday, as a joint counterterrorism team investigated what […]

France charges IS official’s ex-wife with crimes against humanity: report

April 27, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) France has charged the ex-wife of a top Islamic State official with crimes against humanity on suspicion of enslaving a teenage Yazidi girl in Syria, French media reported. A woman identified as Sonia M., the former wife of the jihadist group’s […]

Muslim groups claim double standards in police handling of two high-profile stabbings in Sydney

April 26, 2024 Keiran Smith

(AP) Muslim groups in Australia on Friday criticized the disparity in the police response to two stabbing attacks in Sydney this month, saying it had created a perception of a double standard and further alienated the country’s minority Muslim community. The Australian […]

Australian Islamic groups [call] for revision of national terrorism laws, as sixth teenager charged

April 26, 2024 Jessica Kidd

(ABC-Australia) An alliance of peak Islamic groups has called for Australia’s terrorism laws to be changed, to remove the concept of “religiously motivated terrorism” from the legislation. It comes as a sixth teenager, aged 15, was charged after counterterrorism raids were carried out […]

Samuel Paty was murdered, and teaching in France has never been the same

April 26, 2024 Colette Davidson

(Christian Science Monitor) It was a Friday afternoon in October 2020, and Coralie, a junior high school French teacher at Collège du Bois d’Aulne, had just gone for a walk in the nearby woods with her dog to clear her mind before […]

Influential former IS supporter Wassim Fayad drawn into probe of alleged Sydney teen terror network

April 25, 2024 Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop

(ABC-Australia) An influential former Islamic State supporter who was released from a supervision order last year was questioned in Wednesday’s police raids on an alleged terrorism network involving a group of Sydney boys. Excerpts from a police warrant seen by ABC Investigations […]

Teen terror suspects had Islamic State beheading and bomb-making videos, court told

April 25, 2024 Clare Sibthorpe and Jessica McSweeney

(Sydney Morning Herald) Two teenagers arrested in connection with the Wakeley church stabbing had graphic videos of Islamic State beheadings, with one also possessing bomb-making instructions, police allege. A 14-year-old, who stopped attending school in 2022, is among the five young people […]

California schools may be required to provide kosher and halal meals

April 25, 2024 Annika Bahnsen

(OC Register) California schools may soon need to provide halal and kosher meal options for students. Dubbed the Halal and Kosher School Meals Act, a proposed bill in the California Legislature would require schools to provide kosher or halal meals if more […]

‘Unacceptable risk to the people’: Teens arrested in counter-terror raids

April 24, 2024 Clare Sibthorpe, Christopher Harris, Jessica McSweeney, Paul Sakkal and Perry Duffin

(Sydney Morning Herald) Seven teenage boys allegedly belonging to a terror cell have been arrested in police raids across Sydney as part of a major counter-terrorism investigation launched after the stabbing of a Christian bishop last week. A further five people, including […]

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 […]