(Radio NZ) The Security Intelligence Service was calling the LynnMall knife attacker a terrorist for years, at the same time as courts were hearing he was a high, medium or even low-risk threat. Ahamed Aathill Samsudeen stabbed shoppers in an Auckland supermarket […]
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(WBAL) The Transportation Security Administration has confirmed for the first time that the controversial screening of some rail passengers’ past travel records against a terrorist watchlist “has already occurred,” amid calls from Congress for greater oversight and demands from civil liberties advocates […]
(WBAL) The Council on American-Islamic Relations vowed on Thursday to sue America’s largest passenger rail network if Amtrak begins screening its travelers against the government’s terrorist watchlist — a program first revealed by the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit’s reporting. “If Amtrak […]
(AP) One of two men accused of impersonating federal agents and giving actual Secret Service agents gifts and free apartments in Washington has claimed to have ties to Pakistani intelligence and had visas showing travel to Pakistan and Iran, federal prosecutors said […]
(CNN) The FBI arrested two men in Washington, DC, Wednesday for allegedly impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years, giving expensive gifts to federal agents in DC, providing them apartments and offering to purchase a weapon for a […]
(AP) Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused authorities in Greece of allegedly using migrants to help carry out summary, illegal deportations of asylum seekers at the country’s border before they are able to register their claims. The New York-based rights group based […]
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(BBC) A terror suspect accused of murdering Sir David Amess told jurors he decided to kill him over his vote for airstrikes on Syria. The Southend West MP was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October […]
(Radio NZ) Government agencies which battled to detain and deport the LynnMall attacker Ahamed Samsudeen are remaining silent on why they did not agree to his request to lose New Zealand residence. Officials were moving to cancel Samsudeen’s refugee status and detain […]
(WBAL) Khalid Turaani knows what it’s like to be on a secret government watchlist. He learned about his status on it, not from an official letter or communication, but when TSA officers stopped him from flying one day in 2017. “They told […]
(Connexion) The family of Samuel Paty, the French school teacher murdered by a jihadist in October 2020, is suing the ministries of education and interior for “non-assistance of a person in danger” and “non-prevention of a crime.” They accuse the intelligence services […]
(Reuters) A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said federal agencies properly withheld documents related to how they vet applicants for immigration benefits with the aim of uncovering possible terrorist ties, reversing a judge who ordered their disclosure. A 2nd U.S. Circuit Court […]
(Dutch News) Right-wing populist party Leefbaar Rotterdam is in talks to lead a four-way coalition in the port city with the support of Denk, whose support is concentrated in the city’s Turkish minority. The unorthodox partnership would also include the two liberal […]
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(Anadolu) Right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen has pledged to impose a total ban on the wearing of the Muslim headscarf in public places if elected France’s next president. The leader of the National Rally party, who is currently leading second in polls […]
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(CNS) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) put out a statement on Friday welcoming the start of the month of Ramadan and paying tribute to America’s Muslim community. “For generations, America’s large and diverse Muslim communities have been essential to our nation’s success: […]
(Anadolu) France’s interior minister denounced racist comments Saturday and defended his greetings to French Muslims commemorating the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. Gerald Darmanin took to social media to post a message condemning “ordinary racism” for his tweet April 1 […]
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(Free Beacon) The Biden administration’s new nuclear accord with Iran is likely to include a loophole that will “allow Iranian nationals linked to terrorism to enter and stay in the United States,” according to a new Republican-authored policy analysis circulating on Capitol […]
(AFP) Poland has welcomed two million refugees from war-torn Ukraine at lightning speed and with open arms. Yet just north of that border, the EU member continues to push back those crossing from Belarus. Since last summer, thousands of migrants and refugees […]
(Detroit Free Press) The clerks of Dearborn and Wayne County are raising concerns about Arabic-language ballots in Dearborn, saying that implementing them in time for the August primary may not be possible. The Dearborn City Council voted unanimously March 22 on a resolution that […]
(AP) Germany says it has brought home 10 women and 27 children from a camp in northeastern Syria where suspected members of the Islamic State group have been held. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the group was repatriated from the Roj camp […]
(Radio NZ) Security services briefings show the LynnMall attacker was highly likely to carry out a terrorist attack in New Zealand only if he was prevented from leaving the country. They show Ahamed Samsudeen believed he had been set up and that […]
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(Kathimerini) Greece told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday that there is no provision in the Treaty of Lausanne, a 1923 peace accord which, among other things, forged modern Greece and Turkey’s borders, stating that the muftis of the Muslim minority […]
(Free Beacon) A new piece of House legislation would mandate that social media platforms remove terrorist organizations and their supporters or face a $50,000 fine for every infraction. The No Publicity for Terrorists Act, spearheaded by Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R., N.C.), is […]
(AP) Greece’s independent authority for transparency said Tuesday that after an in-depth investigation it has found no basis for reports that Greek authorities have illegally turned back asylum-seekers entering the country from Turkey. The National Transparency Authority said in a statement that […]
(NY1) New York officials are being urged by the Met Council on Jewish Poverty this week to allocate at least 20% of the food in a program meant to support food pantries in the state as kosher and halal food. The state […]
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(Age) A Victorian Supreme Court judge has labelled the conduct of Australia’s national security agency a “disgrace” for missing deadlines and disregarding court orders over the ongoing detention of terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth chided lawyers […]
(Brussels Times) The Comité R responsible to monitor Belgium’s various police, security and intelligence agencies published its report earlier in the week outlining a series of recommendations to improve the surveillance of the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Belgium. The main […]
(Star Tribune) The Muslim call to prayer will soon be heard regularly in parts of Minneapolis. Minneapolis mosques can now publicly broadcast the adhan, or call to prayer, over loudspeakers without acquiring a permit and so long as they abide by the […]
(Anadolu) A French court on Wednesday annulled the government’s decision to close a mosque near the city of Bordeaux. Sefen Guez Guez, the lawyer of the association of the Al Farouk Mosque, said that the Bordeaux Administrative Court annulled the Gironde governorate’s […]
(Canadian Press) Ontario’s New Democrats say they removed a longtime legislator from caucus because he was found to be a member of an Islamophobic Facebook group. The party’s provincial director issued a statement on Wednesday giving more details about Paul Miller’s ouster, […]
(Detroit Free Press) Dearborn City Council approved a resolution Tuesday night requiring that ballots and other election materials be translated into Arabic. The council voted 7-0 in favor of a resolution introduced by Councilman Mustapha Hammoud that will mandate translation into the […]
(Politico) Muslim community leaders told Mayor Eric Adams during a closed-door meeting Tuesday that a high-ranking member of the NYPD should face consequences for claiming the department never surveilled Muslims in the wake of 9/11 — with one attendee calling for the […]
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(Brussels Times) Belgium paid tribute on Tuesday to victims of terrorist attacks, including those lost during the attacks that rocked the country six years ago in Brussels and Zaventem. On 22 March 2016, a double attack took place in Belgium, first at […]
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(BBC) A murder trial jury has been played the desperate call for help made by a constituent after Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed. Sir David, MP for Southend West, died during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October. Ali […]
(AP) Four men once held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center — men Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson never met — were central to some of the questions she fielded Tuesday during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Jackson was asked repeatedly about the […]
(NY Daily News) Mayor Adams joined a growing chorus of local lawmakers and advocates Monday in condemning a top NYPD official’s defense of the department’s surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Speaking at an unrelated press […]
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(Radio France) Ten years after France was rocked by a series of Islamist shootings targeting Jewish children and French soldiers, President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday joined two of his predecessors — Nicolas Sarkozy and François Holland[e] — along with Israeli President Isaac […]
(Algemeiner) French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse on Friday visited the Jewish school in [the] southern city of Toulouse that 10 years ago was [the] site of a deadly Islamist terror attack that took the lives of a teacher and three small children. […]
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