Crime

Convicting man over Koran burning would reintroduce blasphemy law, court told Hamit Coskun, 50, set fire to a copy of the holy book while shouting abusive slogans outside the Turkish consulate in London, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

(Sky News) Convicting a man for burning the Koran would be “tantamount to reintroducing a blasphemy law,” his defence team has told a court. Hamit Coskun appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday after he allegedly shouted abusive slogans about Islam while […]

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Cops arrest Toronto man after online threats posted against Jews Basel al-Sukhon, 26, is accused of writing Zionists belong in 'unmarked graves,' and last week's murder of two Israeli embassy staffers 'ain't f—king enough'

(Toronto Sun) A Toronto man faces charges after allegedly calling for violence against Toronto’s Jewish community, according to police. The Toronto Police hate crimes unit arrested Basel al-Sukhon, charging him with uttering threats and indecent communications in connection with a number of […]

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Jewish groups call on crown to take action against terror leader Samidoun leader Charlotte Kates used the D.C. murders of two Israeli embassy workers as a call for action against supporters of Israel

(Toronto Sun) Canadian Jewish groups are calling on the B.C. Prosecution Service to follow through with charges against a Canadian terrorist group leader, particularly after recent social media posts glorifying the gunman who killed two Israeli embassy workers. Charlotte Kates, a leader […]

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Jewish protester in London charged over placard that may offend ‘pro-Hezbollah’ activists The Crown Prosecution Service later dropped the charges, although the man's home was extensively searched and he was questioned by police.

(Jerusalem Post) A Jewish protester was arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police for a placard he held mocking the eliminated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Telegraph revealed on Friday. The anonymous man was detained and charged last September for the cartoon, which featured […]

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Migrant jailed after helping smuggle more than 3,000 others into Europe Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid, who had worked as a fisherman in the Mediterranean, started helping boats make the perilous journey from Libya to Italy just three weeks after he arrived in the UK.

(Sky News) An illegal immigrant who was involved in smuggling more than 3,000 others into Europe has been sentenced to 25 years in jail. Egyptian national Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid, who arrived in the UK in a small boat in October 2022, […]

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Britain to tackle growing Iran danger with new laws on state threats Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announces new legislation to outlaw groups such as IRGC, saying Tehran regime poses 'unacceptable threat' following arrests

(National-UAE) Britain will introduce new laws to allow the security services to proscribe state-based groups such as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the home secretary has said. Following the arrests of eight Iranians allegedly involved in a plot to attack the […]

Academics & Education

France calls for greater checks on EU funding to fight antisemitism, Islamism Brussels needs to act in the face of 'an alarming increase of hate speech and hate crime,' Paris proposes.

(Politico) France is pushing for more scrutiny on how EU grants are allocated in an attempt to fight antisemitism, hate speech and the funding of entities “obviously hostile to our common values.” France’s Europe Minister Benjamin Haddad also said he would ask […]

Academics & Education

Turkish Cypriots resist creeping Islamification How a decision by the authorities in the breakaway north to allow headscarves in schools mobilized mass protests against Ankara’s enforcement methods

(Kathimerini) And suddenly, the occupied territories filled with demonstrators. Turkish Cypriots took to the streets — and stayed there. For two months now, an unprecedented wave of protests has been ongoing against the Islamification of their society and in favor of preserving […]

Children & Teens

Islamist youths storm church, threaten priest in Avignon There is a growing wave of anti-Christian violence across France, ignored by mainstream media and government officials.

(European Conservative) A Catholic priest in southern France was surrounded, insulted, and threatened by a mob of young men shouting “Allahu Akbar” after evening Mass on Saturday, in what he has condemned as a brazen act of anti-Christian intimidation. The attack took […]

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Germany turns first asylum seekers away at border — report In the two days since the new German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz tightened border controls, 19 people who had applied for asylum have reportedly been turned away.

(Deutsche Welle) Germany has begun rejecting asylum seekers at its borders with other European countries, the first such action since the new government tightened immigration, a German newspaper reported Sunday. On Thursday and Friday, out of 365 undocumented entries at all borders, 286 migrants and […]

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Charges against Koran-burning protester rewritten after prosecutors accused of bringing in ‘backdoor blasphemy law’ Hamit Coskun is no longer accused of harassing the 'religious institution of Islam' in a major U-turn by the Crown Prosecution Service

(GB News) Prosecutors have removed references to “the institution of Islam” from charges against a man who burned a Koran in central London. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has amended a charge against Hamit Coskun, 50, who set fire to a copy […]

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Denmark: Trial for Quran burning kicks off in Bornholm In December 2023, Denmark introduced a law banning 'improper treatment' of religious texts. Two people are now to face trial on the Danish island of Bornholm.

(Deutsche Welle) This Friday, many eyes will be on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, for a historic trial: Two men are accused of “improper treatment of a religious scripture.” They are accused of having burned a copy of the […]

Children & Teens

Sweden wants to ban virginity tests

(AFP) The Swedish government wants to criminalise virginity tests to strengthen the protection of young girls and women at risk of so-called honour crimes, sources told AFP on Wednesday. Socialstyrelsen, the administration in charge of social services, said ministers were looking at […]

Children & Teens

Conservatives call for Labour’s Lucy Powell to resign over grooming gang remarks The leader of the House of Commons later said she was 'sorry' if she was 'unclear' in her response to the topic being raised during a debate.

(Sky News) The Conservatives are calling for Lucy Powell to resign after the Labour MP’s exchange with a commentator about grooming gangs. The comment was made by Ms Powell, the leader of the House of Commons, after Conservative political commentator Tim Montgomerie […]

Academics & Education

Harvard Law Review gives $65,000 fellowship to anti-Israel student charged with assault Ibrahim Bharmal will work at Council on American-Islamic Relations, write article

(Editors) Harvard Law Review, which the federal secretary of education announced this week is the subject of a discrimination investigation, is awarding a $65,000 fellowship to the student who faced misdemeanor criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student during an anti-Israel campus protest. […]

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Leftist ‘Islamophobia’ obsession surges in France after mosque murder The left vigorously seized on the murder to denounce a climate of ‘Islamophobia,’ despite the accused’s lawyer saying there was no racial motive behind the slaying.

(European Conservative) After a man was murdered on Friday, April 25th, in a mosque in the south of France, the French left wants to use the case to denounce a climate that has become “dangerous” for Muslims in France, but the minister […]

Academics & Education

Harvard students ordered to enter pretrial diversion program over assault of Israeli classmate Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey-Tamaklo were filmed accosting a Jewish classmate

(Free Beacon) The two Harvard University students who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest will take an in-person anger management class and perform 80 hours of community service as part of a pretrial diversion program, […]

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Canada election: Muslim voters demand ‘real commitments’ on Islamophobia Canadian Muslims want concrete action to combat Islamophobia and hate crimes, as well as a ‘principled stance’ on Israel’s war on Gaza, says Reem Sheet of the National Council of Canadian Muslims

(Anadolu) As the country’s federal election enters its final stretch, Muslim Canadians are making it clear that they want the next government to do more than merely acknowledge Islamophobia, calling for decisive action to combat it. The grim statistics underscore the dangers […]

Children & Teens

Pro-Gaza MP brands grooming gangs outrage ‘false right-wing narrative’ in ‘malicious’ tirade — as Labour MP watches on Ayoub Khan MP also appeared to criticise GB News for 'causing division'

(GB News) A pro-Gaza independent MP has branded outrage over Britain’s grooming gangs a “false right-wing narrative” at a meeting of British Pakistani politicians and community figures. Ayoub Khan, part of Jeremy Corbyn’s “Independent Alliance,” had told attendees at the Mirpur Airport […]

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Palestinian sentenced to jail in Germany after assaulting Munich massacre victim’s relative Mustafa A., a Palestinian student in Berlin, convicted of punching and kicking Lahav Shapira — the grandson of one of the 1972 Munich Olympics terror attack victims

(Ynet) A German court on Thursday sentenced a Palestinian student, identified as Mustafa A., to three years in prison for the antisemitic assault of Lahav Shapira, the grandson of Amitzur Shapira — one of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists […]

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Former FAA contractor pleads guilty to spying for Iran, sharing private info on US airports, energy industry Abouzar Rahmati pleaded guilty to conspiring to act and acting as an agent of the Iranian government in the US without prior notification to the attorney general

(Fox) A naturalized U.S. citizen living in Great Falls, Virginia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to working with Iranian government and intelligence officials on their behalf in the U.S. as a contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) between 2017 and 2024. The […]