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Further arrests after barracks fire while residents face ‘freezing’ conditions (LINK ONLY)
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Napier Barracks: Five arrests over asylum centre fire
(BBC) Five men have been arrested after a fire at a former barracks where asylum seekers are being held. Kent Police said one man was held on suspicion of assaulting a security guard and four in connection with the fire at Napier […]
Crime
Napier Barracks: Fire at Covid-hit asylum-seeker site was ‘arson’
(BBC) A fire at a former army barracks housing hundreds of asylum seekers was started deliberately, police have said. Emergency services were sent to Napier Barracks in Folkestone at 14:00 GMT after “reports of a disturbance.” The Home Office said people had […]
Crime
Priti Patel suggests fire at Kent asylum seeker site started deliberately (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Guadalupe County man pleads guilty to providing material support to ISIS Jaylyn Christopher Molina faces up to 40 years in federal prison
(KSAT) A 22-year-old Guadalupe County man pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, Jaylyn Christopher Molina (aka Abdur Rahim) admitted in federal court in San Antonio […]
Christians
Molotov cocktails thrown at church in Swedish no-go zone
(Breitbart) An attacker threw three Molotov cocktails at a church in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Spånga-Tensta. The arson attack took place on Wednesday at around 4 a.m., with the suspect throwing one of the bottle bombs at the church’s door and the […]
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France’s ‘teenage Rushdie’ earns 50,000 death threats with one jibe at Islam (LINK ONLY)
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Migrant jailed after being spotted steering two dinghies across Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
30 hate messages a minute to girl who insulted Islam (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Irving man admits to harboring fugitive father accused of murdering teenage daughters The FBI said Yaser Said narrowly escaped capture in 2017 after a maintenance worker reported seeing him at a Bedford apartment where he is suspected of staying with his son, Islam Said, documents show.
(Dallas Morning News) An Irving man pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping his fugitive father elude capture for more than a dozen years in the alleged murders of his two teenage daughters, federal authorities said. Islam Yaser-Abdel Said, 32, entered a guilty plea […]
Crime
German police busts suspected refugee smuggling ring Over a dozen suspects were linked to an operation to smuggle Syrians through the so-called Balkan route since 2019. Coordinated raids early on Tuesday involved hundreds of officers across several cities and states.
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities launched coordinated raids nationwide targeting a human trafficking ring early on Tuesday, arresting suspects in Berlin, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, federal police said in a statement. Around 400 officers mobilized in total. The raids stem from […]
Children & Teens
Houston woman hit with rare federal indictment alleging she transported girl for genital mutilation
(Houston Chronicle) A Houston woman faces a rare federal charge after she was accused of transporting a girl outside of the United States for genital mutilation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced Wednesday. Zahra Badri, 39, was […]
Crime
Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack
(BBC) The Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned. Hashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last […]
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Vienna govt to hold security meeting after ‘Allahu akbar’ rioters torched Christmas tree
(Breitbart) The Vienna government will be holding a security meeting next week following a riot in a migrant-populated district on New Year’s Eve that saw a Christmas tree set on fire by Muslims. The rioting took place at Reumannplatz in the heavily […]
Crime
Fears honour-based abuse could go undetected due to ‘short-sighted’ government plans to scrap term (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Trump signs anti-female genital mutilation law that increases punishment of perpetrators The new law says female genital mutilation is 'a form of child abuse, gender discrimination and violence'
(Fox) A new law that its backers called a pivotal step in protecting vulnerable young women and girls across the United States from the “barbaric and medically unnecessary procedure” of female genital mutilation was signed into law by President Trump on [Tuesday]. […]
Clerics & Preachers
French imam will be prosecuted for antisemitic sermon at mosque in Toulouse
(Algemeiner) A French imam is to be prosecuted for racial hatred over a sermon he delivered in 2017 calling for Muslims to “fight the Jews.” Algerian-born Mohamed Tatai was indicted at the end of 2018 for “public verbal provocation to hatred or […]
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French Muslim attacked by gang ‘for eating Christmas lunch’ (LINK ONLY)
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Staten Island fugitive arraigned, held without bail in Staten Island slay of Muslim activist daughter
(NY Daily News) A former Olympic boxer charged with the strangulation of his daughter — an activist for the rights of Muslim women — was arraigned on murder charges Tuesday and ordered held without bail, the Staten Island district attorney said. Kabary […]
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French believe 100 syndicates run migrant routes across Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Muslims who rioted after Qur’an burning get soft sentences
(Breitbart) A 31-year-old man and six teens were given light sentences for participating in a riot in the multicultural Swedish city of Malmö earlier this year after anti-Islam activists burned a copy of the Qur’an. The 31-year-old was merely sentenced to probation […]
Crime
NYPD tracks former boxer to Middle East after he allegedly murdered his daughter on SI
(NY Post) The father of a woman whose body was found in a Staten Island park last year has been extradited from the Middle East and charged with her murder. Suspect Kabary Salem had been indicted in the murder of his daughter, […]
Crime
Paris-area Jewish family assaulted after playing Hebrew-language songs in their car
(JTA) French police have arrested two adults and two minors suspected of an anti-Semitic hate crime in which they allegedly verbally assaulted a Jewish family near Paris in their car. The incident happened Thursday in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers, French […]
Children & Teens
Senate sends bill restoring female genital mutilation law to Trump’s desk
(Detroit News) The U.S. Senate this week approved bipartisan legislation to amend the federal law prohibiting female genital cutting. The bill, which passed the House this fall, now heads to the president’s desk for his signature. The measure is in response to a 2018 […]
Children & Teens
Grooming gangs come from ‘diverse backgrounds,’ says Home Office as review finally published (LINK ONLY)
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Denmark to classify immigrants from Muslim countries separately in crime statistics
(Local) Denmark’s government is to separately classify people from or with heritage in primarily Muslim countries and regions in official statistics related to topics such as crime and employment. Immigration and integration minister Mattias Tesfaye has signalled his support for the statistical […]
Crime
Amirah Droudis: Lindt cafe terrorist Man Monis’s girlfriend has murder sentence slashed The girlfriend of the Lindt cafe terrorist has had nine years slashed from her sentence for murdering the gunman’s wife.
(NCA NewsWire) Man Monis’s lover has had her jail sentence for murdering the Lindt cafe siege gunman’s former wife slashed by nearly 10 years after the Court of Appeal found his thrall over her was broken by his death. Amirah Droudis, 41, […]
Crime
Vienna terror attack memorial trashed by ‘Turkish woman’
(Breitbart) A memorial to last month’s radical Islamic terrorist attack in the Austrian capital of Vienna was vandalised by a 56-year-old Turkish woman over the weekend. The memorial, which is located in the first district of Vienna where the terror attack took […]
Clerics & Preachers
Surrey imam who misrepresented himself to immigration officials jailed for sexual assault The victim wants Abdur Rehman Khan deported after he serves his three-year prison sentence
(CBC) The emotional wounds from a sexual assault at the hands of a Lower Mainland imam four years ago continue to affect the daily life of his victim, who says if immigration officials and the B.C. Muslim Association had intervened sooner, the attack […]
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Patel warned over legality of ‘morally repugnant’ prosecutions of asylum seekers crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Channel crossings: Suspected people-smuggling gang arrested in raids
(BBC) A suspected people-smuggling gang accused of bringing hundreds of people to the UK in small boats has been broken up, the Home Office says. A 36-year-old British Syrian man was detained at his flat in north-west London on Thursday morning, bringing […]
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Channel crossings: Home Office ‘twisted judge’s remarks’ to defend branding migrants as ‘people smugglers’ (LINK ONLY)
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German minister wants ‘criminals’ expelled to Syria, despite asylum safeguards Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wants Germany's general ban on deportations to war-torn Syria weakened to return persons deemed criminal or dangerous. Rights groups accuse him of pandering to the far right.
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s current general deportation stop to Syria should not be extended, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Friday, urging that individual case-by-case decisions be made “at least for criminals and those considered a threat.” In 2012, Germany passed a ban on […]
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Migrants: Arrests over small boat supply to people smugglers
(BBC) A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration by supplying small boats to people smugglers. It follows an arrest in October as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into a criminal network. Officers […]
Children & Teens
Islamic preacher Khandaker Rahman on trial for mosque rape
(BBC) An Islamic preacher accused of raping a young girl was arrested 15 years later after she identified him on YouTube, a court heard. The woman only knew her alleged attacker as “The Imam” before going on the internet to find Khandaker […]
Crime
Minister ‘relieved’ on arrest of sender of hate mail
(Brussels Times) Flemish minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA) has said she is “relieved” at the arrest of a young man accused of sending her hate mail. The man, aged 24 and living in Demir’s home town of Genk in Limburg province, has admitted […]
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Suspected illegal immigrants arrested on boat off East Anglia coast
(BBC) Sixty-nine suspected illegal immigrants and three crew members have been arrested after a fishing boat was intercepted off the coast of East Anglia, says the National Crime Agency. It has launched a people smuggling investigation after Border Force officials intercepted the […]
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Investigation into email threat against Flemish minister
(Brussels Times) The Limburg prosecutor’s office has begun an investigation into an alleged email threat made against Flemish mobility minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA). The threat came in an email addressed to Demir following recent comments she made in relation to mosques connected […]
Books
France fines Islamic scholar for revealing rape accuser’s name
(AFP) A Paris court on Friday fined Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan for disclosing the name of one of several women who have accused him of rape, violating a French law that protects alleged victims from “retaliation and harassment.” Ramadan, who denies the […]
Crime
Eight detained after Vienna attack had previous convictions
(AFP) Eight of those detained following Monday night’s terrorist attack in Vienna had previous convictions, including for terror offences, the Austrian interior minister said Thursday, as the investigation extended to Switzerland and a second, unnamed country. In the wake of the attack […]
Crime
People smugglers who steered two boats of migrants jailed
(BBC) Two men have been jailed for smuggling themselves and 23 other people across the Channel on two small boats. Iraqi national Assad Abdul Latif Sayed Abdulghany, 30, and Iranian national Ali Azarkish, 23, were both sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment on […]
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Migrants are being smuggled across the Channel for as little as £400-a-head (LINK ONLY)
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Youths kick furniture at Austrian church, no one hurt
(AP) A group of 30 to 50 youths gathered in a Vienna church earlier this week, kicking furniture but then dispersing after police were called, authorities said Saturday. The incident drew condemnation from leading politicians at a time when nearby France has […]
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Man arrested over deaths of Iranian Kurd family in Channel sinking (LINK ONLY)
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People smugglers who steered two boats of migrants jailed
(BBC) Two Iranian men have been jailed for smuggling themselves and 29 people across the Channel on two overcrowded rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIB). Ghodratallah Donyamali Zadeh, 26, and Ahmed Nayat Quadir, 20, were both sentenced to 24 months imprisonment on Thursday. They […]
Crime
Dutch HR firm says Palestinian man who vandalized kosher eatery had terrorist motives
(JTA) A Dutch human resources firm has determined that a Palestinian man who twice vandalized a kosher restaurant and tried to set it ablaze had terrorist motives. The NTA firm on Wednesday determined that Saleh Ali, an asylum seeker from Syria, indeed […]
Academics & Education
Man charged for ‘liking’ photo of murdered French teacher
(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 […]
Children & Teens
Child abuse inquiry ‘scared of racist tag’ (LINK ONLY)
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France expels Bosnians who shaved daughter’s head over relationship
(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 […]
Crime
New rape charge against Islamic scholar Ramadan
(AFP) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been hit by another charge of raping a woman, his lawyers in France said Thursday, after four other similar accusations. The 58-year-old Ramadan, a Swiss national, has already been charged in France with raping four other […]