(Anadolu) The Copenhagen City Court on Friday convicted far-right Islamophobe politician Rasmus Paludan after finding him guilty of racism based on a statement he made during a demonstration in 2019, the official Danish broadcaster reported. According to DR TV, Paludan was seen […]
(Deutsche Welle) A trial opens in Jena in the eastern German state of Thuringia on Friday against two men with Afghan citizenship accused of plotting a terrorist attack near the Swedish parliament in Stockholm. What are the pair accused of? One of the […]
(European Conservative) The notorious Swedish-Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, who last week was sentenced to four months in prison for two cases of “incitement against ethnic groups,” told the media he intends to appeal — and the prosecutor in the case hasn’t ruled […]
(AP) A Swedish court sentenced on Tuesday a far-right politician to four months in jail for two counts of “incitement against an ethnic group” after making hateful comments at political rallies two years ago. The Danish-Swedish 42-year-old man, who was not named […]
(Breitbart) An Islamic leader from Dearborn, Michigan, said Monday that former President Donald Trump aligns closer with the Bible, Torah, and Quran than Vice President Kamala Harris does. Imam Husham Al-Husainy of Karbalaa Islamic Center in Dearborn shared his perspective during a […]
(Arab News) Rasmus Paludan, a far-right Danish-Swedish politician known for burning copies of the Qur’an, went on trial in Sweden on Monday facing charges of incitement against an ethnic group. Paludan, leader of the Danish Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, is the […]
(BBC) A mentally unwell man sparked fears of an imminent terrorist attack in a city centre, a court has heard. Armed police swooped on Sunderland city centre last October after Mahmoud Mabad, 38, shouted he was a terrorist and began filming people […]
(AP) Swedish authorities accused Iran on Tuesday of being responsible for thousands of text messages sent to people in Sweden calling for revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023. Iran denied the accusation. According to officials in Stockholm, the […]
(NL Times) A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, is against Arnhem mayor Ahmed Marcouch’s call for a national ban on Quran desecration. According to the parliamentarians, an attempted Quran burning by anti-Islam movement Pegida did […]
(Reuters) Swedish prosecutors said on Wednesday they would put two men on trial for setting fire to the Koran in a series of incidents last year that prompted outrage in the Muslim world and raised fears of attacks by jihadists. The two […]
(AP) Two men accused of planning an attack in Sweden for an affiliate of the Islamic State group in response to the burning of copies of the Quran have been charged in Germany, where they were arrested earlier this year, prosecutors said […]
(Politico) A 42-year-old man has been charged with incitement against an ethnic group and insult on Wednesday, Swedish prosecutors said in a statement. While the Swedish Prosecution Authority did not name the suspect, Swedish media, including Dagens Nyheter, Sveriges Radio, and Aftonbladet, […]
(NL Times) The court of appeals in The Hague has sentenced Pegida frontman Edwin Wagensveld to a conditionally suspended community service of 40 hours for group insult. The frontman for the radical far-right group had compared Muslims to Nazis. He was not […]
(Detroit Free Press) A woman from Oregon who burned a Quran outside a Dearborn mosque says she plans to return to the city by the end of the summer to again burn the holy book for Muslims. Sorbeah Almosa lit on fire […]
(Dutch News) The threat of a terrorist attack in the Netherlands has increased slightly over the past few months but remains at level 4, or substantial, the government’s counter-terrorism agency NCTV said on Tuesday. Level four means there is a realistic likelihood […]
(European Conservative) The new Swedish Folklistan (the People’s List) party, launched last month by MEP Sara Skyttedal, formerly of the Christian Democrats, has learned the hard way that when you open your doors to anyone, anyone can enter. Folklistan, created explicitly for […]
(Brussels Times) The leader of the Dutch branch of anti-Muslim organisation Pegida, Edwin Wagensveld, burnt a Koran in the city of Arnhem (in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border) on Saturday afternoon. An earlier attempt by Wagensveld in […]
(Türkiye Newspaper) A woman named Jade Sandberg burned the Holy Quran with a cross in her hand accompanied by police protection in Stockholm — the capital of Sweden. This is not the first instance when the Quran is targeted in an act […]
(Dutch News) At least 10 planned terrorist attacks in Europe were discovered and halted by western security services in 2023, the Dutch security service AIVD said on Tuesday. People were arrested in the Netherlands in four of the foiled attacks, which ranged from concrete preparations to […]
(AP) Security will be tight during next month’s Eurovision Song Contest in the southern Sweden city of Malmo, police said Wednesday, citing demonstrations that could lead to [unrest] and a heightened threat of terrorism in the Scandinavian country. “The security is going […]
(Anadolu) Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian known for publicly burning copies of the Holy Quran, is back in Sweden after rejection of his asylum request in Norway and spending two weeks in prison. The Swedish Migration Agency had revoked Momika’s residency permit, […]
(Anadolu) Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian known for publicly burning copies of Islam’s holy book [the] Quran in Sweden, has been arrested in Norway, with authorities saying his presence poses a threat to the Nordic country, local media reported on Thursday. In […]
(NL Times) The judge ruling on the preliminary injunction adjusted the area ban that Arnhem Mayor Ahmed Marcouch imposed on Pegida leader Edwin Wagensveld. The ban is now valid until April 10. The original area ban would have prevented Wagensveld from stepping […]
(AP) An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden told a newspaper on Wednesday that he would seek asylum in neighboring Norway in the wake of a deportation order by authorities in Stockholm. Salwan Momika, 37, has staged several […]
(NL Times) Arnhem Mayor Ahmed Marcouch is calling on national lawmakers to ban the public desecration of religious and philosophical symbols and books, saying the restriction on free expression is necessary to preserve the democratic rule of law in the Netherlands. The […]
(NL Times) A 38-year-old woman was arrested in Arnhem on Saturday because she announced that she wanted to tear up a Quran. The woman from Vorden in Gelderland was released after a short time. However, she was banned from the building, as […]
(Reuters) The threat of terrorism in Denmark and against its interests abroad has risen because of Israel’s war against Hamas militants in Gaza and a series of Koran burnings in Denmark last year, the Danish security and intelligence service PET said on […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday said two suspected supporters of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) jihadist militia had been arrested in the central German state of Thuringia. Prosecutors allege that the two Afghan nationals had hatched a plot to carry out an attack […]
(AP) Sweden’s Security Service said Thursday it had arrested four people on suspicion of preparing “terrorist offenses” with links to Islamic extremism and organized crime. The service did not say where or when the alleged attacks were to have taken place, but […]
(Jerusalem Post) Salwan Momika, a refugee from Iraq who has been publicly critical of Islam, filmed himself on Sunday burning pages of the Quran and shared the footage on his X account. “During every demonstration I hold, I light my cigarette with […]
(Jerusalem Post) Radical Islam is running rampant in Belgium as the European country takes a pro-Hamas and anti-Israel stance, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli told the Jerusalem Post on Saturday night in response to an imam reciting a Quranic verse about warfare […]
(Jerusalem Post) An imam at the Belgian parliament last week began reciting a verse from the Quran that explicitly calls on Muslims to kill and take Jews captive. The Quran excerpt is verse 33:26 from the Al-Ahzab surah (chapter). It translates to: […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders says he wanted to stand up for the freedom of all Dutch people, including those with a Muslim background. He thinks it is “fine” that they visit mosques and read the Koran and calls that “a […]
(Anadolu) The Swedish Migration Court has confirmed that an Iraqi man who staged a series of public Quran burnings last year will be deported, local media reported Wednesday. Immigration authorities refused to extend Salwan Momika’s residence permit last October, but the order […]
(AFP) A Norwegian court has jailed for 19 months a woman who chased and then rammed a vehicle carrying an anti-Islam extremist who had just burned a Koran. The woman was found guilty of an attempt to inflict serious bodily harm, according […]
(NL Times) Arnhem Mayor Ahmed Marcouch plans to firmly press national politicians for a national ban on Quran burnings. He thinks such a burning is “a poisonous act that leads to others being provoked,” he said on Wednesday during a City Council […]
(NL Times) Edwin Wagensveld, the head of the Dutch branch of anti-Islam organization Pegida, was injured during a demonstration in Arnhem where he wanted to burn a copy of the Quran. Despite the intervention of the riot police, counter-demonstrators managed to attack […]
(AP) Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders made a key concession to potential coalition partners on Monday, announcing that he’s withdrawing legislation that he proposed in 2018 that calls for a ban on mosques and the Quran. The move came a day […]
(European Conservative) The decision taken by the left-liberal majority in the Danish parliament, the Folketing, late last week to ban public Quran burning has garnered sharp criticism from both domestic politicians and political leaders in neighboring Scandinavian countries, with many arguing the […]
(AP) A new law was passed in Denmark’s parliament on Thursday that makes it illegal to desecrate any holy text in the country, after a recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists sparked angry demonstrations […]
(Local) Russian intelligence last year suggested staging Quran burnings, as well as mounting protests and spraying graffiti insulting Turkey’s president, as a way of delaying Turkey’s ratification [of] Sweden’s Nato bid, a Finnish documentary has claimed. The documentary cites the Dossier Center, […]
(Yle) Russia made plans to disrupt Finland and Sweden’s accession to joining Nato, according to a secret intelligence report obtained by an Yle MOT investigation. The report found that a Russian intelligence service planned to organise disruption campaigns disguised as demonstrations before […]
(AFP) Denmark will deploy army units to protect Jewish and Israeli sites in Copenhagen in response to an increase in anti-Semitism amid the war between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza, government officials said Sunday. “The conflict in the Middle East has […]
(NL Times) Many PVV voters don’t support the far-right party’s more radical views — “pushing back Islam” and the Netherlands leaving the European Union. They expect their party will have to water down its standpoints in order to govern, and most are […]
(AFP) Denmark’s parliament on Tuesday will debate a bill to ban Koran burnings, after a string of desecrations of Islam’s holy book sparked anger in Muslim countries. Nearly 1,000 protesters attempted to march to the Danish embassy in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone […]
(Brussels Times) The head of the Dutch anti-Muslim organization Pegida, Edwin Wagensveld, tore up a second copy of the Holy Koran on Thursday afternoon in court at the opening of his trial in The Hague. He then left the courtroom. Wagensveld is […]
(AFP) Denmark’s government on Friday presented a modified version of its bill to ban Koran burnings, following criticism that its first draft limited freedom of expression and would be difficult to enforce. The Scandinavian nation announced plans for a ban after a […]
(AP) Sweden reportedly withdrew the residence permit of an Iraqi man who staged a series of public desecrations of the Quran this year but put his deportation on hold, saying his life would be in danger if he were returned to Iraq. […]
(Politico) Outside Sweden’s national sports arena, two framed football shirts sit beneath a flag at half-mast, a memorial to the two fans killed by a terrorist in Brussels on Monday night, and a reminder to passers-by to be vigilant for follow-up attacks. […]
(AP) The killing of two Swedish citizens in an attack ahead of a soccer match in Brussels has shocked the Scandinavian country, although the government has been warning for months that Swedes were at greater risk since a recent string of public […]
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