Law Enforcement – Page 25 – Eye on Islamism

French police reject Muslim man’s application because of prayer mark on forehead Karim’s boyhood dream of serving in the French police force has been shattered because of his visible devotion to his faith.

September 21, 2023 Safaa Kasraoui

(Morocco World News) The Paris police prefecture rejected a Muslim’s man application to join the police academy because of a prayer mark on his forehead, French news outlet MediaPart reported last week. Karim, the 24-year-old Muslim man whose application was rejected, spoke […]

‘No option left’: Muslim mayor banned from White House party sues over terrorism watchlist

September 18, 2023 Hannan Adely

(Bergen Record) A New Jersey mayor who was abruptly disinvited from a White House Eid celebration in May was not on the federal terrorism watchlist at the time when the U.S. Secret Service denied his security clearance, his attorneys said in a […]

Muslim New Jersey mayor denied entry to White House plans lawsuit against ‘watchlist’ Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah has said he believes his name is allegedly on a federal terrorist watchlist.

September 15, 2023 Daniel Han

(Politico) A Muslim Democratic mayor from New Jersey plans to sue the Biden administration seeking to end a federal terrorism watchlist which he has previously said unfairly targets Muslims — including himself this spring at the White House. More details of the […]

Infamous ‘baby terrorist’ Alo-Bridget Namoa charged over bulletproof vest Alo-Bridget Namoa, who called herself the 'baby terrorist,' has now been charged with firearms offences by police.

September 14, 2023 Josh Hanrahan

(Daily Telegraph) A convicted terror plotter has been charged with gun offences by police as part of their investigations into Sydney’s ongoing gang war. Alo-Bridget Namoa, who called herself the “baby terrorist,” spent three years in prison for plotting a terror attack […]

Number of people on terrorist watchlist stopped at southern U.S. border has risen So far in fiscal year 2023, 160 migrants whose identities match those on the list have been stopped trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, compared to 100 in 2022.

September 14, 2023 Julia Ainsley

(NBC) This year U.S. border agents have encountered a “growing number of individuals” on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist trying to enter the country via the southern border, according to the Homeland Threat Assessment released Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security. As […]

U.S. probing prosecutions of migrants from Muslim-majority countries exposed by Times investigation

September 13, 2023 Hamed Aleaziz

(LA Times) The Department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation into the federal government’s use of a little-known law to disproportionately prosecute and imprison migrants from Muslim-majority countries. A Times investigation published late last month revealed the disproportionate nature of the […]

Police round up migrants in Serbia and report finding weapons in raid of a border area with Hungary

September 12, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Police in Serbia said they rounded up hundreds of migrants and found automatic weapons during a raid Tuesday along the border with Hungary, the location of frequently reported clashes between groups of smugglers exploiting the hardship of people trying to reach […]

Daniel Khalife: Escaped terror suspect arrested in north-west London

September 9, 2023 Alex Kleiderman

(BBC) Terror suspect Daniel Khalife has been arrested in north-west London after a four-day search, police have said. Scotland Yard said the 21-year-old ex-soldier was detained at 10:41 BST after being pulled from a bicycle on a canal towpath in the Northolt […]

Moroccan jihadist arrested in Pamplona with hundreds of explosives and terrorist manuals

September 8, 2023 Chris King

(Euro Weekly) A 19-year-old Moroccan man has been arrested by National Police officers in the city of Pamplona, accused of his alleged participation in terrorist collaboration crimes. The suspected jihadist, who allegedly aligned himself with the postulates of Daesh, was detained during […]

Father held in France for making death threats over abaya ban

September 8, 2023 Céline Castella

(AFP) French police said they were holding a man on Friday for threatening a school principal who turned away his daughter for wearing a traditional Muslim abaya robe. President Emmanuel Macron’s government announced last month it was banning the abaya — a […]

Daniel Greenfield of Caringbah faces sentencing after terrorism charges A man who plotted a terrorist attack against police after collecting info on how to make a bomb from an al-Qaeda magazine now has ‘no gripe with Australia,’ a court has heard.

September 7, 2023 Joanne Vella

(Daily Telegraph) A father charged with plotting a terrorist attack against police has renounced his “reckless” and “crazy” actions after he was busted with pro-Islamic State material on how to make a bomb so police stations could be targeted, a court has […]

House Republicans probe Mayorkas, Wray on ISIS-tied individual that smuggled migrants across border

September 7, 2023 Jennie Taer

(Daily Caller) Top Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday demanding information regarding an ISIS-tied smuggler that crossed the southern border. The members […]

Germany arrests 2 Syrians, one of them accused of war crimes related to a deadly attack in 2013

September 7, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Two Syrian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of membership in extremist groups, and one of them is suspected of involvement in a 2013 attack in eastern Syria in which more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians were killed, […]

Austrian security officials say they’ve broken up a terror cell suspected of links to Islamic State

September 5, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Austrian security officials said Tuesday they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman. One suspect was detained. The investigations and interrogations carried out so far show […]

Clashes erupt in Sweden’s third largest city after another Quran burning and at least 3 are detained

September 4, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Clashes erupted in an immigrant neighborhood in Sweden’s third largest city after an anti-Muslim protester set fire to a copy of the Quran, police said Monday. Police in Malmo said they were pelted with rocks and dozens of cars were set […]

Swedish police arrest two as riot breaks out at Koran burning protest

September 3, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Swedish police on Sunday arrested two people and detained around 10 people after a violent riot broke out at a protest involving a burning of the Koran, police said. The protest was organised by Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, whose protests — […]

Cyprus police arrest 13 after anti-immigrant marchers set fire to trash bins and damage storefronts

September 2, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Cyprus police arrested 13 people after a mob smashed storefronts and set numerous trash bins on fire during an anti-immigration march in the coastal resort city of Limassol, authorities said Saturday. Police said five people reported that they had been assaulted […]

Pakistani man, on trial in Italy for murder of daughter who refused marriage, is being extradited

August 31, 2023 Frances D'Emilio

(AP) Italian police on Thursday took into custody in Pakistan a Pakistani man who is on trial in Italy for the murder of his daughter after she refused family demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. The court case, in Reggio […]

Cyprus police arrest 21 people after protesters tried to attack Syrian migrants

August 29, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Police in Cyprus say they have arrested 21 people and used tear gas and a water cannon after a group of Greek Cypriots wearing hoods and brandishing bats tried to attack protesting Syrians in a small village that has been a […]

Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico, raising alarm bells across government

August 29, 2023 Katie Bo Lillis, Evan Perez, Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand

(CNN) The FBI is investigating more than a dozen Uzbek nationals allowed into the US after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year, a scramble set off when US intelligence officials found that the migrants traveled with […]

Police block Pakistani man from preventing Quran burning in Stockholm 'Swedish politicians need to stop acts of Quran burning,' says Malik Shahza

August 28, 2023 Atila Altuntas

(Anadolu) Deeply moved by the Quran burning in Sweden, Pakistani national Malik Shahza has called for an end to such recurrent acts of desecration of Islam’s holy book in the European country recently. Shahza, a cardiac patient who has undergone bypass surgery, […]

Austrian police find 53 people apparently headed for Germany in a small truck

August 27, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Authorities on Sunday found 53 people apparently headed for Germany crammed into a small truck that was stopped in the Austrian city of Linz. Four men were in the cabin of the vehicle when it was stopped on Sunday morning, one […]

Norwegian police investigate murder claims made against Iraqi paramilitary member Investigation triggered by complaint from Paris-based NGO over a widely shared video showing an Iraqi man boasting about killing Syrian babies

August 24, 2023 Sunniva Rose and Robert Tollast

(National-UAE) Norwegian police on Thursday said that they had opened an investigation into statements made by an Iraqi resident in a widely circulated series of videos, in which he claims to have committed several murders while he was a member of a […]

Cyprus dismantles human smuggling ring bringing Syrian migrants from Syria, Lebanon and Turkey

August 23, 2023 Menelaos Hadjicostis

(AP) Cyprus said Wednesday it dismantled a criminal human smuggling ring responsible for bringing boatloads of Syrian migrants from Syria, Lebanon and Turkey. The eastern Mediterranean island nation has seen almost daily migrant boat arrivals in recent days. Cypriot police said three […]

Denmark eases border checks linked to Quran burnings Intelligence assessment says security threat no longer justifies extra controls

August 23, 2023 Tim Stickings

(National-UAE) Denmark on Wednesday lifted emergency border checks introduced after public desecrations of the Quran drew protests in Muslim countries and threats from militant groups. Authorities said the security threat had eased, and the “intensified efforts” at Denmark’s land border with Germany […]

A woman interrupts a Quran-burning protest in Sweden by spraying activist with a fire extinguisher

August 18, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Swedish police detained a woman Friday who sprayed an anti-Islam activist with a fire extinguisher as he staged a Quran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm. Video of the scene showed the woman rushing up to Salwan Momika and spraying […]

Sweden launches inquiry into stopping Quran burnings on security grounds

August 18, 2023 Unlisted Author

(Local) Sweden’s government on Friday launched an inquiry into changing the Public Order Act to make it possible to stop protests, such as Quran burnings, if they represent a security threat. The inquiry comes after Sweden’s appeals court ruled in June that […]

Experts split on mental health of Oslo Pride shooter

August 17, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Psychiatric experts in Norway are at odds over the mental health, and associated legal responsibility, of a shooter who killed two people on the sidelines of Oslo’s 2022 Pride festival, police said Thursday. On the night of June 25, 2022, a […]

Lexington jail changes religious clothing policy after woman was forced to remove her hijab

August 16, 2023 Beth Musgrave

(Lexington Herald Leader) The Fayette County Detention Center is changing its rules regarding religious clothing after a complaint from a Muslim woman who was told to remove her hijab while being processed at the jail. The new policy will allow people to […]

Philly criminal lawyer reveals teen terror suspect is his son 'I didn’t see it coming at all. At all,' the lawyer, whose 17-year-old son was arrested in an FBI raid on charges of plotting a national terrorist attack, told the Daily Beast.

August 15, 2023 Noor Ibrahim

(Daily Beast) A prominent Philadelphia criminal defense attorney has confirmed that the terror suspect arrested by the FBI in an armed raid on his suburban home [Friday] is his 17-year-old son. Qawi Abdul-Rahman, 50, told the Daily Beast that he was “shocked […]

AFP officers attend Sydney Airport as emergency incident unfolds Cops have stormed a Malaysia Airlines flight to arrest an 'unruly' passenger whose behaviour forced the plane to return to Sydney.

August 14, 2023 Aisling Brennan

(NCA NewsWire) A man who forced a Malaysia Airlines plane to make a dramatic turn back to Sydney International Airport after he became unruly and made references to Islam has been arrested. The MH122 Airbus-a330 flight to Kuala Lumpur was diverted back […]

‘A slave of Allah’: Man filmed confronting flight attendants as AFP responds to ‘emergency incident’ Disturbing video of a man confronting plane passengers has emerged, as the AFP conducts an investigation at Sydney International Airport.

August 14, 2023 Aisling Brennan

(NCA NewsWire) Disturbing footage of a man confronting plane passengers has emerged on board a flight that was forced to turn back, as the AFP conducts an emergency investigation at Sydney International Airport. The man, who was wearing a backpack on his […]

Teen terror suspect lived in home of Philly lawyer who just ran for judge 'You wanna find out what I'm really about?' attorney Qawi Abdul-Rahman said when we asked him about the arrest. 'Text or call me one more time, and you'll find out what I'm really about.'

August 14, 2023 Victor Fiorillo

(Philadelphia Magazine) On Monday, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and the FBI announced that police arrested a 17-year-old from West Philadelphia on Friday, charging him with crimes stemming from a terrorism investigation. I had been aware of the arrest since right after […]

Philadelphia teen charged with planning national terrorist attack Unnamed suspect in touch with group affiliated with al Qaeda, FBI says

August 14, 2023 Chris Eberhart

(Fox) Heavily armed law enforcement officers swarmed the Philadelphia home of a teenager who was plotting to launch a national terrorist attack, authorities said. The suspect, an unnamed 17-year-old, was in contact with a global terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda and […]

Muslim imam in Seattle sues over mysterious FBI watchlist

August 13, 2023 Nina Shapiro

(Seattle Times) Seattle Muslim leader Farid Sulayman said it was the usual drill for him last month when he flew to California to chaperone a youth basketball tournament. Checking in online proved impossible. At the ticket counter, he got a boarding pass […]

Four arrested in Switzerland on suspicion of supporting terrorism

August 10, 2023 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) Authorities in cantons Vaud and Neuchâtel have arrested four individuals suspected of carrying out various support activities for a terrorist group. Four Syrian nationals were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of supporting the Al-Nusra Front terrorism group. Two of the […]

Denmark extends border controls after Koran burnings

August 9, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Denmark will extend the tighter border controls introduced following protests involving Koran burnings in recent months in the country and in neighbouring Sweden, the justice ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said in a statement that police “found it necessary to maintain […]

A judge called an FBI operative a ‘villain.’ Ruling comes too late for 2 convicted in terror sting

August 8, 2023 Michael Hill

(AP) In a scathing ruling last month, a judge said the FBI had used a ”villain” of an informant to manipulate a group of Muslim men into going along with a fictitious plot to destroy military planes and synagogues in New York […]

Teen accused of hate crime in fatally stabbing black dancer claimed to be Muslim during attack, though family says he’s Christian

August 7, 2023 Rebecca White and Rocco Parascandola

(NY Daily News) The teen accused of fatally stabbing a gay black man during a standoff at a Brooklyn gas station claimed to be Muslim, though his family says he’s Christian. A conflicting portrait of Dmitriy Popov emerged Monday as the 17-year-old, […]

Bosnia arrest[s] man suspected of Islamic State attack plan — prosecutors

August 7, 2023 Daria Sito-Sucic

(Reuters) A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Bosnia on suspicion of having links with Islamic State militants and of planning to attack Muslims from other traditions and one of their mosques, prosecutors said on Monday. The man from the central town […]

Channel migrant numbers top 15,000 as government cracks down on social media adverts

August 6, 2023 Bob Dale

(BBC) The number of people crossing the English Channel in small boats has passed 15,000 for the year so far. The figure was reached as the government announced a partnership with social media companies aimed at stopping smuggling gangs advertising. The voluntary […]

Muslim teen charged in gay man’s fatal stabbing at Brooklyn gas station: ‘Clearly a hate crime’

August 5, 2023 Valentina Jaramillo and Tina Moore

(NY Post) The 17-year-old who fatally stabbed dancer O’Shae Sibley at a Mobil station in Coney Island was slapped with murder and murder as a hate crime charges over “anti-gay” and “anti-black” statements, officials announced at a press conference Saturday. With a group of Muslim […]

Denmark tightens border control after Koran burnings

August 4, 2023 Johannes Birkebaek

(Reuters) Denmark is tightening border controls to boost domestic security and prevent unwanted individuals from entering the country after recent Koran burnings, the government said, following a similar decision by Sweden this week. Authorities fear revenge attacks after anti-Islam activists in Denmark […]

Smethwick teenager charged with terrorism offences

August 4, 2023 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A teenager has been charged with seven terrorism offences. Amir El-Harith,18, from Smethwick, West Midlands, was arrested on Wednesday and charged the next day. Among the accusations are sharing terrorist publications, encouraging terrorism, and having information likely to be useful for […]

Brooklyn teen in custody for fatally stabbing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley in suspected hate crime: NYPD

August 4, 2023 Rocco Parascandola

(NY Daily News) A teen wanted for fatally stabbing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley at a Brooklyn gas station was busted Friday, police said. The 17-year-old suspect was expected to be charged as a juvenile with murder as a hate crime. His name […]

Greek authorities meet on migration as arrivals by land and sea are increasing

August 4, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Greece’s government met on Friday to try to improve coordination on migration as a group of 102 migrants crossed by land from Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean country saw a spike in arrivals by sea. The ministers for merchant […]

Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputy accused of removing hijab from Muslim woman in custody

August 3, 2023 Robert Handa

(KNTV) Religious freedom or officer safety? That’s the question at the heart of a dispute between the Bay Area’s Muslim community and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. The issue at hand began when a deputy forcibly removed a religious headwear, a […]

Terror chief warns radicalised teenagers a ‘new and emerging’ threat An increasing number of youngsters are sharing extremist content online

August 3, 2023 Holly Bishop

(GB News) More and more youngsters are being radicalised online, with the head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing warning that their extremism is turning into “real threats of violence on our streets.” Radicalised teenagers have increased five-fold in the past four years, […]

Alleged ex-member of Syrian militia arrested in Germany, accused of crimes against humanity

August 3, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) An alleged former member of a Syrian pro-government militia has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of crimes against humanity related to the abuse and torture of civilians in the early years of his country’s civil war, prosecutors said Thursday. The […]

Dutch share terror suspect list with US, including the innocent

August 3, 2023 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) An unknown number of Dutch nationals may have ended up on a US list of terrorism suspects even though they are not under suspicion of extremism in the Netherlands, according to research by investigative website Follow the Money. The problem […]