(Arab News) MPs in the UK have proposed making it a criminal offense to possess images of Muslim women not wearing hijabs without their consent. The suggestion was made in a report by the House of Commons’ women and equalities committee, which […]
(BBC) The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign in Iraq to try to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Similar campaigns were launched in Albania and Vietnam by the previous Conservative government in 2023 and 2024. On […]
(BBC) The government has appointed former Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve to lead a review into creating a new definition of Islamophobia. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner launched a new working group tasked with understanding and defining hate crime targeted against Muslims. […]
(BBC) With police revealing human remains have been found in the search for missing Rania Alayed, a 12-year quest for the truth appears to be finally drawing to a close. The 25-year-old went missing in June 2013 and her husband was jailed […]
(BBC) Police searching for the body of Rania Alayed, who was murdered by her abusive husband 12 years ago, have found human remains. Ahmed Al-Khatib is serving a life sentence for killing the mother-of-three in a planned “honour killing” in Salford, but […]
(Toronto Sun) Canada could experience a lone-wolf terror attack soon, intelligence authorities have advised the federal government — and antisemitism is overwhelmingly the motivating factor. “Amid (rising) antisemitic hate, an undetected lone actor could commit an act of serious violence in Canada […]
(Toronto Sun) Answers are being sought by a Canadian senator over the activities of the B.C.-based leader of a Canadian terror organization. In a letter sent Tuesday to Public Safety Minister David McGuinty, Senator Leo Housakos expressed concern over a recent trip […]
(Free Beacon) Northwestern University’s mandatory anti-discrimination training relies on unverified data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that inflate Islamophobic attacks, giving the false impression that those attacks vastly outpace anti-Semitic hate crimes. The training also questions anti-Zionism’s ties to Jew-hatred […]
(NL Times) [A] court has sentenced four men to 25 years in prison for the murder of Roshin, a 28-year-old Apeldoorn woman. The court found that the men — two brothers and two cousins of the victim — conspired to kill her […]
(NL Times) Three “extremist speakers” who were to be guests at an event in Utrecht this weekend will not be granted entry into the country. The minister of justice and security, David van Weel, and minister of asylum and migration, Marjolein Faber, […]
(BBC) A man who was jailed for conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) in a “landmark case” has had his sentence increased. Emad Kaky, 48, was jailed for four and a half years in October, after he arranged for a young […]
(AP) Authorities in Greece said Tuesday they detained 107 migrants in two separate operations near the island of Crete, as an official attributed an increase in people trying to cross the eastern Mediterranean to conflicts in the Middle East. A cargo ship […]
(Anadolu) The French government on Tuesday officially recognized the role of an imam as a profession, adding it to the list of occupations by the French Employment Agency. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau made the announcement during the closing session of the second […]
(Western Standard) Sweden has a problem with so-called honour killings against women and girls. The Swedish Police Authority has tracked honour-related crimes since 2019, reporting around 4,500 suspected cases by November 2021. Recent unverified reports on social media highlight the severity of […]
(JNS) A judge in The Hague last week dismissed the legal defense of an asylum seeker from Gaza who had claimed that his destruction of a wreath for Holocaust survivors last year was not motivated by antisemitism. The defendant, Muayad A., and […]
(LBC) Two people have been charged after a video emerged of a man burning a Koran and another man attacking him outside the Turkish consulate in London. Social media footage showed a man being kicked on the ground by his knife-wielding attacker. […]
(DPA) The German government does not have imminent plans for deportation flights to Afghanistan for Afghan immigrants who have committed crimes in Germany, according to a top spokesman in Berlin on Friday. Germany has struggled to deport people to Afghanistan since the […]
(European Conservative) Patryk Jaki MEP (Law and Justice; PiS) is beginning his “special trial” in Poland, after “liking” a Twitter post back in 2018 that showcased real security footage of migrant criminals. Polish prosecutors requested a three-year prison sentence for this “hate […]
(Daily Caller) Anti-Israel professors praised Palestinian terrorists as “resistance” fighters and downplayed the rape of Jewish women at a University of California, Berkeley, panel on Tuesday. UC Berkeley’s Department of Gender and Women’s Studies hosted the speakers who defended terrorists during a […]
(GB News) A Pakistani pedophile has managed to avoid deportation despite preying on “barely pubescent girls” as it would “harm his children,” a court has heard. The man, who has been granted anonymity for his own protection, was caught in August 2022 […]
(Axios) Iran’s threat to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life. Why […]
(NY Post) The “hateful bigot” who was caught on camera accosting a Jewish man and going on an antisemitic rant inside of a Midtown office building has been hit with a hate crime, police said. Noora Shalash, of Lexington, Kentucky, has been […]
(Algemeiner) A former senior employee of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was caught on camera launching a profane and antisemitic tirade at Jewish men in New York City in a viral video posted to social media on Thursday. Noora Shalash, who […]
(NY Post) A female “hateful bigot” was caught on shocking video Thursday hissing to a Jewish man in a Midtown office building, “I want ISIS to kill all of you!” The wigged-out woman unleashed her antisemitic tirade in the lobby of 950 […]
(European Conservative) The image of Athens as one of Europe’s safest capitals is threatened by a wave of lawlessness, misogyny, and extremism imported by recent immigrants, many of them from Muslim-majority countries, primarily from Pakistan. Local analysts say that the increased number […]
(GB News) Police have been accused of “enforcing Sharia law on the streets of Britain” after naming a man who burnt a Koran in Manchester on Saturday. A 47-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of a “racially aggravated public order offence” over […]
(AP) A 29-year-old man pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday for firing a shotgun outside an upstate New York synagogue during the early months of the Israel-Hamas war. Mufid Fawaz Alkhader was arrested in December 2023 after firing two shots in the […]
(Algemeiner) Participants in an anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstration in Germany this past weekend called for Jews to be executed or handed over to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, sparking outrage among German leaders. Under the slogan “Hands off the West Bank,” protesters, […]
(ITV) A man has admitted to setting fire to the Islamic holy book, the Koran, which was live-streamed on social media. Martin Frost, 47, was filmed holding a flag of Israel before tearing out pages of the text and setting fire to […]
(AFP) A Stockholm court on Monday convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred during four Koran burnings in 2023 that sparked outrage in Muslim countries, a verdict that reignited debate about the limits of freedom of expression. The verdict came just days […]
(GB News) A man has been arrested after appearing to burn a Koran in central Manchester this afternoon. The man, 47, was arrested on suspicion of a “racially aggravated public order offence” following an incident near the city’s Glade of Light Memorial, […]
(European Conservative) The shooting this week of 38-year-old Iraqi Christian refugee Salwan Momika might be linked to a foreign power, Stockholm officials have claimed. Muslim demonstrations erupted across Europe and beyond in recent years as a result of the anti-Islam campaigner’s burning […]
(AP) Swedish prosecutors said Friday they have ordered the release of five men who were arrested after the fatal shooting of an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings. Salwan Momika staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in […]
(AFP) Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy with his Koran burnings. In June 2023, the 38-year-old with a chequered past sparked outrage when he stomped on the Islamic holy book and wrapped it […]
(AFP) An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, investigators said Thursday, with Sweden’s prime minister suggesting a “foreign power” might have been involved. Prosecutor Rasmus Oman confirmed to […]
(DPA) Plans to reject more asylum seekers at Germany’s borders tabled by the opposition conservatives passed in parliament on Wednesday with the help of votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The proposals by opposition Christian Democrat (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, […]
(BBC) When Zara Mohammed became the first female leader of one of the largest representative bodies for British Muslims in 2021, she already had a lot on her plate: rising Islamophobia, the Covid-19 pandemic, and a government refusing to engage with the […]
(Politico) Ultranationalist social media influencers from Algeria are spreading hate across France — the country that used to rule it. The trend has triggered a wave of nervousness in government in Paris, with several high-profile arrests over the past few weeks. A […]
(Sky News) Kemi Badenoch has defended blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis. Speaking to Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, she insisted she would not be “shy” when talking about the scandal, which saw a […]
(BBC) The families of three men murdered by a man after multiple failures by state agencies fear lessons have not been learned after the killings in Southport and are demanding more government action. James Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were attacked […]
(Reuters) Germany is planning to fly a group of convicted criminals of Afghan nationality to their home country for the second time since the Taliban took power, newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday. The newspaper quoted the interior ministry as saying it […]
(AFP) Denmark charged two people on Friday under its law banning desecration of the Koran, a first for legislation adopted after a series of holy book burnings that sparked outrage among Muslims, authorities said. The pair, whose identities were not disclosed, are […]
(BBC) An inmate has been convicted of carrying out a string of attacks with homemade plastic weapons on prison officers. Aklakar Rahman, 38, repeatedly attacked staff at HMS Swaleside in Kent and high-security Belmarsh jail, south London, in September and October 2022, […]
(AFP) French authorities Wednesday arrested another Algerian social media influencer as tensions soar between Paris and its North African former colony, the interior minister announced, in a statement that earned him a rare rebuke from Paris prosecutors. Rafik M. had “called on […]
(Politico) Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a fresh warning about the dangers of online radicalization, as he pointed out that the teenager who carried out July’s deadly Southport attack, Axel Rudakubana, watched violent online content before killing three young girls in a […]
(Kathimerini) A human smuggler threw a minor into the sea near Farmakonisi in the southeastern Aegean early Friday while attempting to evade Hellenic Coast Guard authorities. The child was rescued by a fellow migrant who jumped into the water, assisted by coast […]
(BBC) An inmate has admitted a string of prison attacks with homemade weapons, but continued to deny attempting to murder five prison officers. Aklakar Rahman, 38, had repeatedly attacked staff at HMP Swaleside in Kent and high-security south London Belmarsh jail in […]
(Morocco World News) France announced on Thursday the arrest of a new Algerian influencer, identified as Mahdi B. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced that police arrested the influencer on Tuesday for a video in which he allegedly showed intent to carry out […]
(NL Times) An underage refugee can lose his asylum permit more quickly after a conviction for a serious offense against public order, such as public violence or membership in a terrorist organization. Minister Marjolein Faber of Asylum and Migration wants to complete […]
(BBC) Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans for a nationwide review of grooming gang evidence and five government-backed local inquiries. She stopped short of launching a statutory national inquiry, as called for by the Conservatives and some Labour MPs, but this […]
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