(CBC) The country’s top court has declined to hear the appeal of a private Calgary school that was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students who were denied prayer space on campus. The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling Thursday ends a […]
(European Conservative) In the name of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion, some public school teachers in the Frankfurt metropolitan area in Germany are unilaterally imposing Islam — arguably the world’s most intolerant religion — on their pre-teen students. For the Islamic holy month […]
(Jewish News) More than 65 percent of young Muslims feel more positively about Jewish people after taking part in Anne Frank Trust programmes, according to new research. The “Educating Against Prejudice” report by social psychologists at the University of Kent presents data […]
(AP) A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband enslaved when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of […]
(AP) While Muslim students remain a rarity in many U.S. school districts, they are a major presence in some communities, prompting public schools to be more attentive to their needs during the holy month of Ramadan when dawn-to-sundown fasting is a duty […]
(Swiss Info) Three minors with suspected links to jihadist extremism have been arrested in French-speaking Switzerland, according to a Saturday report by Swiss public broadcaster RTS. They are suspected of being active on a social network carrying jihadist content. Two were arrested […]
(Canadian Press) A Calgary teenager arrested over alleged terrorism-related posts on TikTok and other social media sites is to face a two-day peace bond hearing in late October. The 16-year-old was the fourth Calgarian — and third teen — to be arrested […]
(National-UAE) More than 40 children were arrested in connection with alleged terrorism offences in the UK last year — the highest number since records began, official figures show. The Home Office said police made 219 arrests for terrorism-related activities in the 12 […]
(El País) Spain has changed in the last two decades. So has the jihadist threat. Ever since 10 backpack bombs exploded on four Madrid commuter trains on March 11, 2004, killing 192 people and wounding nearly 2,000, security forces have carried out […]
(Radio France) Prime Minister Gabriel Attal paid tribute to victims of terrorism at a ceremony in the northern French town of Arras this Monday, where a teacher, Dominique Bernard, was killed five months ago by a former pupil with a record of […]
(European Conservative) The French Senate just made public the findings of a parliamentary inquiry launched in the wake of the murder of Professor Samuel Paty by an Islamist terrorist. The findings on the state of French schools are alarming and show that […]
(CBC) A report examining the risk posed by a Calgary man who claimed to be a member of ISIS and appeared to be planning to kill gay people in the city was described by a judge as “troubling.” Zakarya Hussein, 20, pleaded […]
(AP) A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced four family members to life in prison for convictions stemming from a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that began in 2017 with the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia and was later […]
(Swiss Info) The stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man comes amid growing concerns about anti-Semitism in Switzerland. Some politicians now want a harsh response. Here’s what’s known about the case so far. The attacker: a teenager in a “global war” Last Saturday […]
(AFP) Police in France have detained three teenagers who were allegedly in contact with four people arrested in Belgium over the weekend on suspicions they were planning a jihadist attack, a source close to the case said Tuesday. The three minors, aged […]
(National-UAE) For almost two decades, British politician Michael Gove has made it his mission to push for more stringent measures to tackle extremism in the UK. Now, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned just days ago that the country was being torn […]
(AP) Missouri Girl Scout leaders threatened legal action against a troop that made bracelets to raise funds for starving children in Gaza, provoking outrage and ridicule from the girls’ supporters and advocates for people trapped in the Palestinian territory by the latest […]
(ANSA) A 10-year-old second-generation North African-Italian girl was sent home from school in the northern city of Pordenone Friday after turning up in a niqab, the Islamic garment that covers everything but female eyes, local media reported Monday. The girl returned the […]
(Belga) The four people detained in an anti-terrorist operation in Belgium on Sunday were planning to attack the Botanique concert hall in Brussels, the federal prosecutor’s office said on Monday. Three underage suspects and one adult were detained on Sunday during an […]
(AP) Swiss police say the 15-year-old suspect in the stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich over the weekend had appeared in a video expressing solidarity with the banned Islamic State group, and called himself a “soldier” in its self-described caliphate. […]
(Reuters) Police have stepped up security measures at Jewish sites in Zurich following a serious knife attack on an orthodox Jewish man in the Swiss city overnight, local police said on Sunday. Police said they had taken action after a 15-year-old Swiss […]
(AFP) Belgian police on Sunday arrested four youths over messages they exchanged allegedly plotting a jihadist attack deemed “imminent enough to intervene,” a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office told AFP. The four — three minors in their “late teens” and an […]
(CBC) The Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld the province’s controversial secularism law in a ruling on challenges to the law’s constitutionality released Thursday afternoon. The heavily anticipated judgment is 290 pages long and quashes a previous exception, made by Superior Court […]
(AFP) French prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old school teacher on suspicion he translated religious chants into French for the Islamic State (IS) group, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office said this week. The man was indicted on February 16 over alleged “terrorist criminal […]
(Morocco World News) Only months after enacting a ban on abaya in public schools, the French education ministry is now targeting private Muslim schools, citing “concerns over opaque funding.” The French minister of national education, Nicole Belloubet, has announced plans to shut […]
(JNS) On March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah, a French-Algerian supporter of al-Qaeda, carried out a shooting attack on the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, killing a teacher, Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his two sons, Gabriel, 3, and Aryeh, 6, and an 8-year-old girl, Myriam […]
(BBC) A woman has been jailed for taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM). Amina Noor, 40, from Harrow, north-east London, travelled to Kenya in 2006 where she took the child to a private house for the […]
(Global News) The RCMP announced Friday they are laying two additional charges against a young person the force arrested in late December on terror-related charges for allegedly plotting an attack on the Jewish community. They have also charged a second young person […]
(Press Release) A 17-year-old is due to appear in court charged with terrorism offences as part of a Met investigation into the sharing of extremist material online. The boy from north London, who cannot be named because of his age, was charged […]
(ABC-Australia) Greens senator David Shoebridge has labelled comments by the Australian Federal Police as “chilling” and “extraordinary” after it defended its handling of terror charges against an autistic teenager. The 13-year-old boy had become fixated with the Islamic State terror group ISIS […]
(Sky News) A radical Islamic preacher has started a firebrand speaking tour of Australia by calling on Muslim doctors to “take advantage” of their “kaffir” patients, lashing the government for legislating matters that are “only the right of Allah to legislate” and […]
(BBC) A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of 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, was planning […]
(Breitbart) Seven teenage migrants from Egypt have been arrested after a 13-year-old girl was gang raped in front of her boyfriend this week in Catania, an ancient port city on the island of Sicily. According to information released by local police, a […]
(ITV) The government has come under pressure to explain how a refugee suspected of launching a chemical substance attack on a mother and her children was granted asylum after being convicted of a sex offence. Police are hunting Abdul Ezedi, 35, after […]
(Press Release) Two Islamist extremists have been jailed for terrorist offences. Al-Arfat Hassan, 21, from Enfield, was sentenced to a seven-year extended sentence with at least five years in prison for possessing chemicals for a terrorist purpose. A youth, 17, was sentenced […]
(Breitbart) Three years after sparking Muslim protests after showing his class a caricature of Mohammed at the Batley Grammar School, a religious studies teacher is still in hiding with his family for fear of violent reprisals from the Islamic community in Britain. […]
(National-UAE) An Austrian school textbook that described Hamas as a “resistance movement” has been rewritten under official orders. The geography book for secondary school pupils is being modified in light of the war in Gaza triggered by Hamas’s October 7 attack on […]
(NY Post) Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) is blasting a New Jersey school district for partnering up with the local branch of a controversial American-Islamic advocacy organization CAIR — calling the move “outrageous and unacceptable.” Teaneck Public Schools Superintendent Andre Spencer, who endorsed […]
(AFP) Swedish prosecutors on Thursday said they had asked a Stockholm court to remand in custody a 51-year-old woman suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Yazidis in Syria. The woman, who has been active in the Islamic State […]
(Reuters) Spain’s high court on Tuesday ordered that a 17-year-old student suspected of having links to the militant Islamic State group and of planning to attack his high school be held on remand at a youth detention centre for at least six […]
(CBC) A major challenge of Canada’s ban on adoptions from several Muslim countries is set to play out in the Federal Court — a move some legal observers say wouldn’t be necessary if the government wasn’t upholding what they call a “discriminatory” policy. The case, which could […]
(Jewish News) Three schools have postponed educational programmes combating antisemitism and prejudice with the Anne Frank Trust UK owing to “local community tensions” since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The organisation, founded in 1991, empowers nine- to 15-year-olds to challenge all […]
(Center Square) An organization tied to the terrorist group Hamas works with Chicago Public Schools to combat alleged Islamophobia. The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) offers a program called “The Chicago Public Schools Project.” According to CAIR Chicago’s […]
(BBC) A primary school has warned parents it may have to close its doors because of a worsening row over a pupil wearing a Palestine flag patch to school. Barclay Primary School, in Leyton, east London, said it may have to revert […]
(Sky News) A 15-year-old schoolboy who converted to Islam was arrested with a kitchen knife in his rucksack as he prepared for an “imminent” attack on one of his teachers who made a joke about pork, a court has heard. The schoolboy, […]
(BBC) Reversing a school’s “emergency” decision to ban prayer rituals would again expose it to “an unacceptable risk of threats,” the High Court was told. Michaela School in Brent, north London, was challenged over a policy allegedly amounting to a “prayer ban.” […]
(Sky News) A school decided to introduce a “prayer ban” for pupils against a “backdrop of events including violence, intimidation and appalling racial harassment” of teachers, its founder has said. Michaela Community School in Brent, north London, which was previously dubbed Britain’s […]
(Asbury Park Press) Schools Superintendent J. Scott Cascone apologized to staff and the community after what he described as “biased and antisemitic” material was distributed to teachers as a resource for Muslim Heritage Month. In a staff email on Jan. 4, links […]
(BBC) A school led by former government social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh is being challenged in the High Court over a policy allegedly amounting to a “prayer ban.” Michaela School in Brent, north London, introduced a policy in March 2023 “banning prayer […]
(Sky News) A 15-year-old schoolboy, who converted to Islam, planned to attack the Isle of Wight music festival using a vehicle and knife, a court has heard. The youth, who cannot be named, was arrested on the day of his alleged planned […]
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