Government & Politics – Page 19

Islamist extremism ‘the foremost threat we face,’ security minister tells MPs Dan Jarvis was outlining the findings of a Prevent learning review which looked at the late MP Sir David Amess’s killer Ali Harbi Ali

February 12, 2025 Lee Harpin

(Jewish News) Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has suggested the anti-terror Prevent programme has been underestimating the threat posed by Islamist extremism. Dan Jarvis told the Commons that Islamist referrals into [the] Prevent programme increased by 17 per cent last year. But […]

Killer of MP Sir David Amess was ‘exited’ from Prevent ‘too quickly,’ review finds Ali Harbi Ali stabbed the veteran Tory MP to death five years after he was released from the Prevent programme following one meeting at a McDonald's to deal with his interpretation of what is forbidden under Islamic law.

February 12, 2025 Alix Culbertson

(Sky News) The man who killed Conservative MP Sir David Amess was released from the Prevent anti-terror programme “too quickly,” a review has found. Sir David was stabbed to death by Islamic State (ISIS) supporter Ali Harbi Ali during a constituency surgery […]

Hamas-linked lobbying network expands political influence in Europe, new report shows

February 11, 2025 Ailin Vilches Arguello

(Algemeiner) A Turkey-based lobbying network with ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is working to recruit European politicians to support anti-Israel policies, according to a new investigative report. NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institute that tracks anti-Israel bias among nongovernmental organizations, […]

Trump pledged to deport pro-Hamas student visa holders. Who are they?

February 11, 2025 Alana Goodman

(Free Beacon) Foreign students and professors have played a leading role in fomenting pro-terror and anti-Semitic demonstrations on U.S. college campuses. Now, many of them could face federal investigation or deportation following an executive order from President Donald Trump that calls on […]

Incoming Austrian government to crack down on those ‘unwilling to integrate’ As coalition talks continue, the fight against political Islam is the one area where the two parties are close to consensus.

February 11, 2025 Zoltán Kottász

(European Conservative) Negotiations between the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the centre-right People’s Party (ÖVP) to form the next Austrian government have still not come to a conclusion, following a month of talks. The one issue both parties have come to an […]

Female genital mutilation a reality in Europe Female genital mutilation is a reality in Europe, with over 600,000 girls and women having been subjected to it.

February 11, 2025 Amandine Hess

(Euronews) Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a reality in Europe: 600,000 girls and women, mainly from Africa and Asia, have been … subjected to it. Worldwide, the figure is at 230 million. FGM refers to the partial or total removal of the […]

USAID reportedly bankrolled al Qaeda terrorist’s college tuition, unearthed records show Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike during the Obama administration

February 10, 2025 Emma Colton

(Fox) The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly provided “full funding” for al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend college in Colorado, unearthed documents apparently show. Al-Awlaki was an American-born jihadist who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in […]

Dutch MP Wilders threatens new election over asylum row

February 10, 2025 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders threatened on Monday to force early elections if a landmark immigration bill did not pass quickly despite the country’s top advisory body calling for an overhaul. For months the shaky coalition governing the Netherlands has been […]

‘Hell is other people’: Shamima Begum’s tent filled with messages of despair written in English She has been held in the US-backed Syrian Democratic Force[s] Roj detention camp in northeastern Syria for the past five years

February 10, 2025 Holly Bishop

(GB News) Shamima Begum, the Isis bride held in a Syrian detention camp, resides in a tent covered with expletives and messages about “hell.” Begum, a 25-year-old woman originally from London, had her citizenship revoked after she joined the terror group in […]

Pakistani paedophile avoids deportation because it would ‘harm his children’ His wife’s claim that she felt partially responsible for his behavior as the two could not have sex whilst she was in hospital for treatment for Covid was also taken into consideration

February 10, 2025 Holly Bishop

(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 […]

Former JNF UK [trustee’s] Charity Commission disqualification order quashed Tribunal overturns two-and-half-year ban on Gary Mond, citing 'right to freedom of expression'

February 10, 2025 Lee Harpin

(Jewish News) A Charity Commission disqualification order against National Jewish Assembly chair Gary Mond has been quashed after a tribunal ruled in favour of his right to free speech. Mond was disqualified from acting as a charity trustee or senior manager for […]

Turkish minister accuses Greece of shutting down Muslim minority schools in Thrace

February 10, 2025 Manolis Kostidis

(Kathimerini) Turkish Minister of Education Yusuf Tekin accused Greece of shutting down schools belonging to the Muslim minority in Thrace during a speech on Sunday. Tekin claimed that the number of Muslim minority schools in the region has been reduced to just […]

Inside Trump’s Iran fear

February 9, 2025 Alex Isenstadt

(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 […]

Dutch government looks to revive imam training to reduce foreign dependence

February 9, 2025 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The Dutch government will make another attempt to establish an accredited imam training program in the Netherlands, State Secretary Jurgen Nobel (Participation and Integration) announced in a letter to the Tweede Kamer. He called it “undesirable” that Dutch Muslims still […]

Denmark grants ‘historic’ low asylum requests in 2024

February 9, 2025 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Denmark’s strict immigration policies resulted in the granting of just 860 asylum requests last year, the lowest number with the exception of 2020, when Covid-19 lockdowns halted new arrivals. Denmark’s immigration approach has been influenced by the far-right parties for over […]

Arab, Muslim Americans blast Trump’s ‘grotesque’ Gaza proposal

February 7, 2025 Jared Gans

(Hill) Arab American and Muslim leaders are blasting President Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza, warning that it’s antithetical to their beliefs and amounts to ethnic cleansing. The backlash comes after Trump made significant inroads among these groups’ voters in the November […]

Copenhagen orders extradition of Swedish teen suspected of attacking Israeli embassies The teen is also suspected of murdering a man in Hallstahammar

February 7, 2025 Danielle Greyman-Kennard

(Jerusalem Post) A Copenhagen City Court ruled that a 17-year-old suspect, believed to have attacked Israeli embassies in both Denmark and Sweden, should be extradited, according to a Wednesday statement by Senior Prosecutor Cecilia Holmbom. The teenager, a Swedish citizen, is suspected […]

Sept. 11 plea deal includes lifetime gag order on C.I.A. torture secrets The clause is included in a disputed plea agreement between a Pentagon official and the man accused of planning the attacks that killed 3,000 people.

February 7, 2025 Carol Rosenberg

(NY Times) Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the prisoner at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who is accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, has agreed to never disclose secret aspects of his torture by the C.I.A. if he is allowed to […]

Belgium saw fewer terrorism threats in 2024

February 7, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Belga) Belgium’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) received fewer reports of threats that could be linked to terrorism or extremism last year. The government body announced this in a press release on Friday. CUTA counted 287 threat reports last year, 13 […]

Hizb ut Tahrir Canada moves caliphate conference online after backlash Advertisements and registration links were removed from the Hizb ut Tahrir Canada website and social media, but new ones have since been published.

February 6, 2025 Michael Starr

(Jerusalem Post) A radical Islamic group’s Canadian conference for the establishment of a caliphate across much of Europe, Africa and the Middle East will be held online Sunday, after restrictions and pressure from local politicians led to the physical event’s cancellation. Hizb […]

Imported Muslim extremism is threatening Greece 'Using the cover of the Syrian war to illegally enter the country' has also turned some of Athens’s neighborhoods into 'no-go zones for women once the sun sets.'

February 6, 2025 Uzay Bulut

(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 […]

Michigan’s Arab American community offers muted response to Trump’s Gaza takeover plan

February 5, 2025 Joey Cappelletti and Mike Householder

(AP) Residents of the largest Arab American community in the U.S. had plenty to say during the 2024 presidential campaign about the roiling politics in the Middle East. But after President Donald Trump’s stunning announcement on Tuesday that he wanted to remove […]

Pro-Trump Arab American group changing name after Gaza remarks

February 5, 2025 Filip Timotija

(Hill) A pro-President Trump Arab American organization, which performed voter outreach on his behalf to the Arab American communities during his 2024 White House run, has changed its name after the commander in chief’s remarks about taking over Gaza. The group’s name […]

Government pays migrants €1000-€1500 to leave Cyprus, ministers say

February 5, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Philenews) Cyprus has achieved the European Union’s highest return-to-arrival ratio at 179% whilst recording a 69% drop in asylum applications between 2022 and 2024, government officials announced on Wednesday. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and Deputy Minister for Migration Nicholas A. Ioannides presented […]

Over 1,300 Syrians want to leave Cyprus, migration minister says

February 5, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Philenews) More than 1,300 Syrian nationals in Cyprus have requested voluntary repatriation following the fall of the Assad regime, officials announced today. Deputy Minister for Migration Nicholas A. Ioannides reported that 1,367 Syrians expressed interest in returning to Syria between December 9, […]

Amid heated migration debate, Germany sees 34% drop in asylum requests in 2024

February 4, 2025 Andrey Sychev

(Reuters) Asylum applications in Germany fell by 34% last year, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, in news welcomed by the outgoing Social Democrat interior minister amid heated debates over migration ahead of a national election set for Feb. 23. Public angst […]

Trump admin investigates alleged ‘Jew hatred,’ ‘support for terrorist organizations’ at 9 universities

February 4, 2025 Hudson Crozier

(Daily Caller) Three civil rights offices in the Trump administration are investigating college campuses across the U.S. over their handling of anti-Israel protests and alleged antisemitism. The Department of Justice (DOJ) first announced the effort Monday as part of a new “Task […]

Global Imams Council calls for Islamic extremist group behind ‘Caliphate Conference’ to be labelled terrorist entity

February 4, 2025 Clayton DeMaine

(True North) An international organization of Islamic imams is calling for Hizb ut-Tahrir, the organizers of a “Khilafah Conference” calling for the overthrow of all non-Muslim governments and the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate, to be listed as a terrorist entity […]

Almere violated Muslims’ fundamental rights by secretly infiltrating mosques: ombudsman

February 4, 2025 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The municipality of Almere violated Muslims’ fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of religion with its secret infiltration of mosques a few years ago, the ombudsman of the Amsterdam metropolitan region said in a report published on Tuesday. The ombudsman […]

‘Shoot Jews or hand them over to Hamas!’: Antisemitic demonstration, police inaction in Berlin spark outrage

February 4, 2025 Ailin Vilches Arguello

(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, […]

Muslim council urges UK government to adopt Islamophobia definition Government plans to establish a council to advise on drawing up an official definition for anti-Muslim discrimination

February 4, 2025 Imran Mulla

(Middle East Eye) The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has urged the UK government to adopt the contentious definition of Islamophobia proposed in 2018 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Muslims in comments made to Middle East Eye. Earlier, it emerged that […]

Angela Rayner to create Islamophobia council as major free speech row looms — ‘Trojan horse for a blasphemy law!’ 'Time and again this Labour government displays an Orwellian disregard for freedom of speech,' Robert Jenrick has warned

February 4, 2025 James Saunders

(GB News) Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to create a “council on Islamophobia” to draw up an official definition of the term. The 16-member council is said to provide advice to ministers on tackling Islamophobia, [and] ex-Tory Attorney General Dominic […]

Trump Department of Justice launches Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism 'The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending anti-Semitism in our schools,' task force head Leo Terrell says

February 3, 2025 Jessica Costescu and Jessica Schwalb

(Free Beacon) The Trump administration is forming a multi-agency task force “to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,” the Department of Justice announced Monday. The task force stems from an executive order President Donald Trump signed last week […]

France: Muslim private schools under threat of closure After French authorities ended the last association contract with a Muslim school, the community and its leaders denounce Islamophobic and discriminatory measures

February 3, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Middle East Eye) More than 600 primary and secondary students at the Al Kindi private Muslim school group, located in the suburbs of Lyon, in central-eastern France, risk not returning to their school at the start of the next academic year. On […]

Swedish government says Stockholm mosque used by Iran for spying

February 3, 2025 Johan Ahlander and Elwely Elwelly

(Reuters) Sweden’s government on Monday accused a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Stockholm of being a platform for Iranian spying against Sweden and the Iranian diaspora. Sweden’s Minister for Social Affairs said on X that the Swedish Security Service assessed that the Imam […]

Trump appointee: Palestinians are ‘fundamentally evil’ and not worthy of ‘any mercy’ Martin Oliner, a Trump-appointed member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, said the people of Gaza 'must pay a price for their actions'

February 2, 2025 Lubna Masarwa

(Middle East Eye) A Trump-appointed board member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council launched a vitriolic attack on Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, saying they are “fundamentally evil” and not worthy of “any mercy.” In an editorial in the Jerusalem Post […]

German opposition’s migration bill narrowly defeated amid controversy over far-right support

January 31, 2025 Geir Moulson

(AP) The German parliament narrowly rejected on Friday an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that risked becoming the first draft legislation to pass thanks to a far-right party. It became a focus of a controversy about the attitude toward […]

Immigration: German voters want to accept fewer refugees A majority of Germans believe the country should accept fewer refugees, according to the latest Deutschlandtrend poll. However, most are in favor of EU-wide solutions and are against their country 'going it alone.'

January 31, 2025 Sabine Kinkartz

(Deutsche Welle) The date January 29, 2025, will be remembered for a long time in Germany. It was the day the conservative group comprising the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union, the largest opposition force in the Bundestag, put forward a […]

Italian court blocks asylum-seekers expulsions in challenge to Meloni’s migrant deal with Albania

January 31, 2025 Giada Zampano

(AP) An Italian appeals court on Friday refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum seekers detained in Albania under a controversial migration deal to move the proceedings beyond the European Union’s borders. The migrants, whose asylum requests have already been […]

New citizens, new vote: Syrian-Germans hope to keep far right out

January 30, 2025 Unlisted Author

(DPA) Maryam has a clear idea of which party she does not want to see leading Germany for the next four years. Voting for the far-right and anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) on February 23 “is out of the question for me,” […]

Merkel slams successor over far-right support on immigration bill

January 30, 2025 Jastinder Khera and Frank Zeller

(AFP) Germany’s ex-chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in Thursday on a controversy flaring ahead of February elections, slamming her party successor for relying on far-right support on the flashpoint issue of immigration. Conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz sparked outrage Wednesday when he pushed […]

Muslim advocacy org that pressured schools to cancel speakers says Trump threatens ‘free speech’

January 30, 2025 Hudson Crozier

(Daily Caller) A Muslim advocacy group that pressures universities to disinvite speakers it deems offensive is now claiming that President Donald Trump threatens “free speech” for anti-Israel protesters. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) spoke out Wednesday against Trump’s executive order that […]

German plans to reject asylum seekers at border pass with help of AfD

January 29, 2025 Unlisted Author

(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, […]

British child died in Syria detention camp despite UK evacuation offer Dozens of British nationals suspected of joining ISIS remain in detention in Syria but new leaders in Damascus could change this

January 29, 2025 Lemma Shehadi

(National-UAE) The child of a British woman from north London held in an ISIS detention camp in Syria died amid a stand-off over the family’s return to the UK. The woman, who is said by her MP to be in declining health, […]

Trump signs order to combat antisemitism on campuses, vows action against ‘Hamas sympathizers’

January 29, 2025 Lexi Lonas Cochran

(Hill) President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday seeking to fight antisemitism on college campuses and vowing action against “Hamas sympathizers” among student populations. Antisemitism has spiked on campuses after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and pro-Palestinian protests roiled campuses […]

SoCal Muslim community on guard amid Trump administration’s immigration policy changes

January 28, 2025 Jessica De Nova

(KABC) The Muslim community is closely monitoring changes in immigration policy underway by the Trump administration. Amr Shabaik, the legal director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations with the Greater LA office (CAIR-LA), said among those on their radar so far was […]

No plans to expand definition of extremism — minister

January 28, 2025 Henry Zeffman, Tom Symonds and Helen Catt

(BBC) There are no plans to expand the definition of extremism, Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has said, following reports it could be broadened to cover potentially violent environmentalists and misogynists. He said Islamist extremism followed by far-right extremism were the biggest […]

Minister spoken to over attending Muslim Council event

January 28, 2025 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A minister has been spoken to for attending a Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) event, despite a government ban on engagement with the group. Labour’s leadership “reminded” Sir Stephen Timms of his “duty to uphold collective responsibility” after he attended an […]

French PM sparks outrage with immigration ‘flooding’ remark

January 28, 2025 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Prime Minister Francois Bayrou felt compelled on Tuesday to defend remarks about immigrants “flooding” France after drawing sharp rebukes, including from his allies, but winning applause from the anti-immigration right. The leftist opposition accused Bayrou of spreading far-right ideas and centrist […]

Couple defend first-cousin marriages amid ban call

January 27, 2025 Amy Cole and Emb Hashmi

(BBC) Family life is busy for Israr Hussain and his wife, Tasleem Akhtar, who have four daughters between the ages of five and 15. They chose to have their wedding back home in Pakistan in 2007 and live in Birmingham. The 47-year-olds […]