(AFP) Police on the Greek island of Lesbos have arrested five migrants suspected of setting a fire that destroyed Europe’s largest camp of Moria last week, the minister responsible for policing said Tuesday. “Five young foreign nationals have been arrested, and a […]
(AFP) Greece on Monday accused migrants of deliberately burning their overcrowded camp last week on Lesbos island, where hundreds reluctantly moved to a new temporary site with “no showers or mattresses.” Families, children, young men and pregnant women have been left wandering […]
(JTA) In two separate court cases in France, a Muslim man and a white supremacist were given prison sentences in connection with anti-Semitic behavior. The Muslim, a 21-year-old identified only as Mohammed, received one year in prison for participating in an armed […]
(Syracuse.com) A Syracuse man with Iraqi citizenship is facing at least five years in prison for allegedly lying to immigration officials about his association with an Iran-backed militia as part of his application for a green card here, according to the United […]
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(Dallas Morning News) Alia Salem remembers how horrific the killings were, and the photos and videos on the TV news of the two Lewisville girls who died. She also remembers how Muslims in North Texas worked to fight rumors and Islamophobic stereotypes, […]
(Middle East Eye) US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has released a comprehensive platform outlining his plans for the Arab-American community, emphasising commitment to civil rights and prosperity at home as well as a more balanced foreign policy in the Middle East. […]
(Morocco World News) Tariq Ramadan on Tuesday announced his latest project — the creation of CHIFA, a research and training center for students around the world. Topics of study will include religion, spirituality, humanism, psychology, ecology, and teaching. CHIFA will also offer […]
(Dallas Morning News) Three years ago, authorities nearly captured Yaser Abdel Said — who spent more than a decade evading law enforcement on suspicion of killing his two teenage daughters in Irving — when a maintenance worker spotted him in a North […]
(Dallas Morning News) Yaser Abdel Said, a 63-year-old man who is suspected of killing his two teenage daughters in Irving more than a decade ago, has been captured, authorities announced Wednesday. Said had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list […]
(Reuters) Austria has arrested a 31-year-old Syrian refugee suspected of carrying out attacks last week on a Jewish community leader and a synagogue in Austria’s second city Graz, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Monday. The leader of Graz’s Jewish community association, […]
(Reuters) Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and other senior government politicians said they were shocked over an attack on a Jewish community leader in the southern city of Graz on Saturday, and ordered tighter security at Jewish institutions around Austria. An unknown assailant […]
(AFP) The parents, uncle and aunt of a teenager of Bosnian Muslim origin will face trial in France on charges of violence against a minor for shaving her head over her relationship with a Christian Serbian boy, prosecutors said Friday. The girl […]
(BBC) A Sudanese man has been jailed for smuggling himself and nine other migrants into the UK in a dinghy. Altaib Mobarak, 43, steered the boat across the English Channel on 7 July. He was given a two-year sentence at Canterbury Crown […]
(Breitbart) Vandals targetted a synagogue in Graz, Austria, spray-painting pro-Palestinian slogans on it and another Jewish community building. According to Jewish locals, the attack took place at both the synagogue and the Jewish community hall, with the phrases “our language and our […]
(AFP) France’s interior minister on Sunday vowed that no community would be allowed to take the law into its own hands after police thwarted a bid by Chechens to violently avenge an alleged assault on a member of their community. Three men […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon repeatedly killed bills to outlaw female genital mutilation during her tenure as the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. Gideon leveraged her leadership position in the Democrat-controlled legislature to kill two separate bills that […]
(News.com.au) Hackers are hijacking people’s social media accounts, using them to post terrorist propaganda and stopping the account owners from getting them back in a new tactic affecting ordinary Australians and prominent public figures. One lawyer says Facebook is not doing enough […]
(Swiss Info) A trial is underway at the Federal Criminal Court of two Islamists suspected of membership in a criminal organisation and recruiting followers to travel to conflict regions in Syria. One of the defendants is accused of fighting for a militant […]
(Religion News) When Mariya Taher moved to Massachusetts five years ago, she was shocked to find out the state had no legislation in place against female genital mutilation and cutting. Taher launched a petition, which earned more than 400,000 signatures, urging the […]
(Reuters) The armed man who seized six hostages in a French bank on Thursday spoke to negotiators of hardships facing Palestinians and called himself a mujahid but made no reference to Islamist groups, a police source involved in the operation said. The […]
(Reuters) A gunman who took six people hostage in a bank in northern France on Thursday surrendered to elite police after a six-hour operation to free his captives. The hostage-taker, a 34-year-old with a history of mental illness, emerged slowly from the […]
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(Local) A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to life in jail over the brutal murder of his 17-year-old girlfriend, who sparked a huge search when she went missing in western Sweden last year. Tishko Ahmed denied the charges throughout the trial, but […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German regional court on Thursday handed jail sentences of up to five and a half years to members of a group of men accused of jointly raping an 18-year-old woman in the southern city of Freiburg in October 2018. […]
(AP) Greek police have arrested six people who were trafficking migrants from Greece to Italy using sailboats and were searching for five more suspects, police said Saturday. One suspect was arrested Friday offshore from the island of Corfu, the Greek island closest […]
(MassLive) A bill the Massachusetts House passed on Thursday would establish criminal and civil penalties for the practice of female genital mutilation. The bill (H 4606) would set a penalty of up to five years in state prison, or a fine of […]
(i24) Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan was summoned for questioning by a Geneva prosecutor after a new accusation of sexual assault surfaced from a complaint filed in 2018. The new complaint accuses the professor of Islamic studies of “rape” and “sexual coercion” and […]
(ANSA) A man who hijacked and later torched a school bus with 50 children, two teachers and a janitor aboard near Milan in March 2019 on Wednesday got 24 years in jail for attempted murder. Ousseynou Sy, 47, was found guilty and […]
(AFP) French judges on Monday ordered two men to stand trial for the brutal 2018 killing of an elderly Jewish woman that prompted an outcry over a rise in anti-Semitic acts. Mireille Knoll, 85 and suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was stabbed in […]
Almost two years after his column sparked a firestorm, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still being accused of bigotry for having opined that face-veiled Muslim women bear a resemblance to letter boxes and bank robbers. While the former comparison may be […]
(Malta Today) “Help me, please help me,” were the first words a 15-year-old girl told the police when they stormed her house to arrest her father, who was charged earlier today with Malta’s first “honour crime.” The man, from Syria, was remanded […]
(BBC) A man has been arrested after a small boat carrying migrants was intercepted in the Channel. The Home Office said a Border Force cutter intercepted a vessel carrying 10 men who said they were Somali, Sudanese and Yemeni on Tuesday. A […]
(Breitbart) An Afghan migrant has died after being stabbed in a brawl in central Stockholm. Another two Afghans were knifed as well. The first stabbing took place at the Kungsträdgården park in the centre of the city on Wednesday night. Two more Afghans […]
(AFP) Italian police said Wednesday they had seized a 14-tonne haul of amphetamines allegedly made by the Islamic State group in Syria, calling it the biggest seizure of such drugs in the world. The drug, in the form of around 84 million […]
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(BBC) Four men have been arrested during a people smuggling investigation after five migrants were found on board a fishing boat in France. The five, thought to be Albanian, were found on the boat as it was about to leave Cherbourg on […]
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(Reuters) A Danish court on Friday sentenced a Norwegian citizen to seven years in jail after convicting him of spying for an Iranian intelligence service and complicity in a suspected plot to kill an Iranian Arab opposition figure in Denmark. Mohammad Davoudzadeh […]
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(Lexington Herald Leader) A former Lexington imam was sentenced Monday to two years in prison in connection with a kidnapping plot. Mahmoud Shaker Shalash pleaded guilty in January to federal charges of conspiring to kidnap someone and two counts of money laundering, […]
(AFP) A Syrian doctor living in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of crimes against humanity in his country of origin, prosecutors said Monday in the latest German move against suspected war crimes in Syria. The suspect, identified as Alaa M., is […]
(Reuters) An Iranian dissident was seriously injured in a knife attack in the northern Dutch city of Leeuwarden, a local newspaper reported on Saturday, citing the victim’s family. The man, who was named by the Leeuwarden Courant newspaper as Sadegh Zarza, fled […]
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(NBC) A Muslim woman arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest in Miami was forced to remove her hijab for a booking photo, which a Muslim civil rights advocate called a “severe violation of religious freedoms.” It also prompted supporters to start […]
(AFP) Three teenagers have been charged in France after a high-school girl received death threats for an expletive-laden social media rant against Islam, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The case of 16-year-old Mila — who called Islam “a shitty religion” on an Instagram […]
(AFP) The French government on Tuesday vowed to bring an end to violence in the usually placid eastern city of Dijon after it was hit by a fourth night of unrest linked to score-settling by members of the Chechen community. According to […]
(IPT) The New York media is titillated, mystified and horrified all at the same time. Why did two seemingly promising young lawyers allegedly carry out a Molotov cocktail attack on [a] New York Police Department police car? How is it possible that […]
(AFP) Inside Greece’s largest asylum-seeker camp on the island of Lesbos, the coronavirus is an oft-heard threat that has kept migrant facilities around the country under lockdown since March. But knife crime is the real killer. Whereas COVID-19 has yet to surface […]
(AFP) Italian police said Wednesday they had retrieved a work by famed street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the November 2015 Paris terror attacks stolen from the Bataclan concert hall. The work was an image of a girl in mourning painted […]
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