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Police find ‘no evidence’ of anti-Muslim slur during Oxford Street hate incident (LINK ONLY)
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Channel crossings: Smugglers are using ‘death trap’ boats, agency says
(BBC) Dangerous and unseaworthy boats are being used to smuggle people across the Channel to the UK from France, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned. The NCA said there had been a trend towards large inflatables of up to 10m (32ft) […]
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Arrested migrant trafficker on list of terror suspects
(Kathimerini) A 39-year-old Iraqi who was arrested in central Athens on Tuesday on migrant trafficking charges is on a list of Islamic terrorism suspects, state officials have confirmed to Kathimerini. Mohammed T. was arrested with an Egyptian, nicknamed “Abu George,” in an […]
Crime
Victorian woman pleads not guilty to forcing daughter to marry the man who would kill her
(WA Today) A Victorian woman accused of forcefully marrying off her daughter to a stranger in Western Australia who later murdered the young bride has pleaded not guilty to coercing her daughter into the marriage. Sakina Muhammad Jan, 45, will appear at […]
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‘We will only take back your dead body’: Forced marriage accused told daughter to stay with husband
(WA Today) A Victorian woman who allegedly forcibly married off her daughter to a stranger in WA told her to stay with her husband, saying “we will only take back your dead body.” Maryiam Khan, a high school friend of slain student […]
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Shepparton woman faces court over alleged forced marriage of slain daughter
(WA Today) A Victorian woman has appeared in court accused of forcefully marrying off her daughter to the West Australian stranger who later murdered the young bride. If the matter is sent to trial and the woman is convicted, she would become […]
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Smugglers who made a hefty profit from transporting migrants jailed
(Radio France) Three people smugglers were handed between one- and four-year jail terms by a court in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the north of France on Monday. According to the France [Bleu] Nord news site, the three smugglers were handed jail terms for their […]
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Police release new images of anti-Semitic attack on Oxford Street (LINK ONLY)
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Barber told woman he wanted to make her a ‘perfect Muslim wife’ and then treated her like a dog (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Germany: ‘Allahu Akbar’ migrant knifeman threatened to slaughter children
(Breitbart) An Eritrean migrant has been convicted of attacking two men with a knife while also threatening to kill children in the car park of a local shopping centre in the German city of Dresden. Eritrean migrant Ismail M. approached a number […]
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Colorado supermarket shooting suspect incompetent for trial
(AP) A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at the state mental hospital to see if he can […]
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Deaths in English Channel linked to money laundering in UK, MP says (LINK ONLY)
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Sefton Plaza shopping centre stabbing victim attacked by own family because of boyfriend’s faith, court told
(ABC-Australia) Police have told a court a 21-year-old Adelaide woman was ambushed and stabbed by members of her own family because she was dating someone outside her faith. Five people — three men and two women — have now been charged with […]
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Chanukah bus tour attacked by yobs shouting anti-Israel slogans (LINK ONLY)
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Burka-wearing raiders jailed for armed robbery at Dundee jewellers
(BBC) Three members of a gang who wore burkas as disguises during an armed robbery at a Dundee jeweller’s shop have been jailed. Dean King, Anthony Wheeldon and Connor Willis were among the gang who targeted Walker the Jeweller in 2019. A […]
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France urges Britain to do more on Channel migrant trafficking
(AFP) France on Sunday urged Britain to help more with cracking down on people-smuggling gangs following a row between the two countries last week over an unprecedented boat accident in the Channel that cost 27 lives. “We have to work with our […]
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Channel migrant deaths: Smugglers net millions per kilometer
(AP) The price to cross the English Channel varies according to the network of smugglers, between 3,000 and 7,000 euros ($3,380 and $8,000) though there are rumors of discounts. Often, the fee also includes a very short-term tent rental in the windy […]
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Austria arrests 15 people suspected of smuggling migrants
(AP) Austrian authorities said Saturday they have arrested 15 people suspected of smuggling Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants into the country, and seized 14 vehicles that were used to transport them. Police in Lower Austria province said they opened an investigation last […]
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France holds 15 after breaking Channel people-smuggling network: police
(AFP) French police have detained 15 suspected members of an international migrant smuggling syndicate that helped people illegally cross the Channel to Britain. The announcement comes as tensions grow between London and Paris over the record numbers of migrants crossing the Channel, […]
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Sailboats packed with migrants seek Italy in latest tactic
(AP) When the Taliban took Kabul in August, Zakia was six months pregnant and in her first year of university while her husband, Hamid, was working as an auditor. They decided to flee, and along with five relatives, began a two-month odyssey […]
Children & Teens
North Macedonia: 4 charged for torturing fellow migrants
(AP) Two Pakistanis and two Afghan minors have been arrested and charged for detaining fellow migrants in a makeshift camp at North Macedonia’s border with Serbia and torturing them, authorities said Sunday. North Macedonia’s public prosecutor’s office said the suspects had set […]
Children & Teens
Retrial for two convicted of female genital mutilation after convictions quashed on appeal (LINK ONLY)
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French police evacuate migrants from makeshift camp
(AP) French police on Tuesday have evacuated migrants from a makeshift camp near Dunkirk, in northern France, where at least 1,500 people gathered in hopes of making it across the English Channel to Britain. The prefecture of the region said more than […]
Crime
Murderer of elderly French Jewish woman gets life sentence
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced the killer of an elderly Jewish woman to life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, over the 2018 murder which caused an outcry over anti-Semitism in France. Yacine Mihoub was convicted of […]
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Muslim leaders urge Ontario to adopt Our London Family Act to immediately combat Islamophobia Act includes 6 proposals to counter racism in wake of June attack on Afzaal family
(CBC) Leaders of Canada’s Muslim community are urging the Ontario government to take immediate action against Islamophobia and adopt measures they’re proposing to get to the root of “systemic discrimination.” Nadia Hasan, chief operating officer of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, on Monday discussed the […]
Academics & Education
Sweden: Muslim school head allegedly scammed millions and sent it to Somalia
(Breitbart) The former head of a Muslim school in Sweden is accused of scamming millions of Swedish kronor from taxpayers and funnelling the cash to Somalia where it funded an Islamist group. Abdirizak Waberi, a former MP for the centre-right Moderates and […]
Academics & Education
New center to help prevent hate and bullying opens in Anaheim
(OC Register) A new center focused on preventing hate and bullying opened its doors Wednesday, Nov. 3, in Anaheim, the first of its kind for the Council [on] American-Islamic Relations. The Center for the Prevention of Hate and Bullying will be based […]
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‘Honour-based’ offences soared by 81% in last five years (LINK ONLY)
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France: Police and firefighters attacked at school named after teacher murdered by jihadist
(Breitbart) A mob attacked police and firefighters lured to a school in Béziers, France, named after murdered teacher Samuel Paty. The incident took place on the evening of October 26th after police and firefighters were lured to the area to respond to […]
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‘Allahu Akbar’-yelling man arrested after strangling woman on French street
(Breitbart) Police arrested a 31-year-old man in Nice, southern France, on Friday after witnesses saw him strangling a woman in the street. The attack allegedly happened in downtown Nice along the Rue Trachel at around 3am on Friday, with witnesses claiming that a […]
Children & Teens
Parents convicted of cruelty to child (9) left with catastrophic brain damage (LINK ONLY)
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Trial opens over murder of elderly Jewish French woman
(AFP) Two men went on trial on Tuesday over the 2018 murder of an elderly Jewish woman that provoked protests and alarm in France about anti-Semitic crime. The partly burned body of Mireille Knoll, 85, was found in her apartment in central […]
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Refusing Prevent deradicalistion course should be an offence, says terror expert (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Pupil yells ‘Allahu Akbar’ during tribute to French teacher killed by jihadist
(Breitbart) An 11-year-old pupil yelled “Allahu Akbar” during a school tribute to murdered teacher Samuel Paty, while the child’s father was later arrested for threatening to burn the school down. The initial incident took place on Friday at the Jean-Zay middle school in […]
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UK Muslim groups brace for rise in hate crime after killing of David Amess (LINK ONLY)
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Edmonton mayoral hopefuls outline plans to tackle anti-Muslim racism Several hate-motivated attacks on black and racialized Muslim women have happened this year
(CBC) Strengthening street harassment bylaws, improving responses to hate-motivated attacks and calling out racist rhetoric are among the strategies some Edmonton mayoral candidates say they would use to tackle anti-Muslim hate. Five of the candidates vying for the mayoral seat took part […]
Clerics & Preachers
Greek court postpones trial of Turkish minority’s elected mufti Jurists worried case against Ibrahim Serif intends to suppress Muslim Turkish minority in Greece
(Anadolu) A court in northern Greece has postponed the trial of a religious leader of the country’s Muslim Turkish minority elected in defiance of Greek authorities who have sought to appoint the holder of [the] post. Ibrahim Serif, the elected mufti of […]
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Migrant-smuggler jailed for 10 years for plot to carry people on dinghy in English Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Medical experts clash in FGM court appeal over cause of infant girl’s injuries (LINK ONLY)
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Appeal court convicts six worshippers of attack in mosque
(Swiss Info) Six people have had their convictions upheld for detaining and attacking two other worshippers at a controversial mosque, which has since been shut down. The attack took place in the An’Nur mosque in the northeastern Swiss city of Winterthur in […]
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German police raid ring suspected of laundering $162 million
(AP) Police carried out large-scale raids in 25 German cities Wednesday, after a chance discovery last year put investigators on the trail of a money-laundering network alleged to have funneled millions in ill-gotten gains abroad. Officials said the raids, which began in […]
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Burnley man who claimed spirits murdered victims jailed
(BBC) A man who murdered a doctor and her daughter in “a brutal, shocking attack” has [been] jailed for life. Shahbaz Khan drugged Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi, 49, and Vian Mangrio, 14, before killing them and setting fire to their house in […]
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No retrial for Burnley killer who blamed spirits for murders and pleas
(BBC) A last-ditch attempt to seek a retrial by a man who murdered a doctor and her 14-year-old daughter has been rejected. Shahbaz Khan had pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi, 49, and Vian Mangrio, 14, in Burnley […]
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Patel: There is no reason for asylum seekers to travel from France to the UK (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Germany investigates man on suspicion of spying for Turkey Police have arrested a Turkish man in Düsseldorf possessing weapons and a list of supporters of the Gulen movement, which the Turkish government has labeled 'terrorists.'
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s federal prosecutor general announced Friday that the investigation resulting from a raid on a Düsseldorf hotel that saw the arrest of a Turkish man identified as Ali D. was being treated as a case of suspected espionage on behalf of the […]
Children & Teens
Female genital mutilation case tossed following yearslong fight
(Detroit News) A judge Tuesday dismissed what remained of a landmark criminal case that started with allegations members of a Muslim sect abused young girls, saying prosecutors vindictively pursued new charges after a federal female genital mutilation law was declared unconstitutional. In a […]
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The Hague councillor spends night in cell for ‘planning to kill Mark Rutte’
(Dutch News) The Hague city councillor Arnoud van Doorn was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of planning to kill prime minister Mark Rutte, the AD reported on Tuesday afternoon. Van Doorn, a former councillor for the far-right PVV who went on to […]
Academics & Education
Former head of Swedish Muslim school investigated for alleged fraud Principal Abdirizak Waberi also ran group linked to Muslim Brotherhood
(National-UAE) The former head teacher of a Muslim independent school in Sweden is being investigated in connection with an alleged $515,000 fraud. Abdirizak Waberi was principal of the Romosseskolan school in Gothenburg. It is alleged he ran an association that supplied educational […]
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Fort Bliss woman soldier assaulted at Afghan refugee camp
(KVIA) The FBI is investigating the assault of a female Fort Bliss soldier by several male Afghan refugees at the Army’s Doña Ana Complex camp where thousands are currently being housed, officials told ABC-7 on Friday. “We can confirm a female service […]
Children & Teens
Afghan evacuees facing sex act with a child, assault charges in Wisconsin
(WTVO) Two Afghan evacuees have been charged with crimes while at Fort McCoy. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and […]