(AP) An 18-year-old Islamic State follower who was shot earlier this year after throwing rocks at and wielding a knife toward a police officer in metro Phoenix is asking a judge to reduce his $500,000 bond or release him from jail with […]
(NL Times) Prosecutors in the Netherlands called on judges in an Amsterdam courtroom to convict Jawed S. in the stabbings of two American tourists at Amsterdam Central Station. The prosecution service argued that the act was a premeditated attempt to murder, with […]
(NL Times) Jawed S., the 20-year-old Afghan man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam Central Station last year, came to the Netherlands to “kill unfair and cruel people,” he said during the first day of his trial at the high-security court […]
(NL Times) The trial against Jawed S., the man suspected of stabbing two American tourists at Amsterdam Central Station on August 31st last year, starts in the high-security court in Amsterdam on Monday. The two victims will be present at the trial. […]
(AP) At least 155 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa successfully entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after climbing over fences or walking across a border post separating the territory from Morocco, authorities said Friday. Seven of the migrants clung to the top of […]
(CBC) A number of Canadian Muslims have been turned away at the Canada-U.S. border in recent weeks, immigration lawyers say. Those denied entry include a prominent Guyana-born Toronto imam who serves as a chaplain with the Peel Regional Police and an Iraqi Turkmen […]
(NY Daily News) FBI agents busted a 19-year-old ISIS wannabe on charges he planned a terrorist knife attack in Queens, law enforcement sources told the Daily News. Awais Chudhary of East Elmhurst boasted in an online chat room that he wanted to […]
(Yabiladi) Police in Spain arrested, Thursday, a 25-year-old man for his alleged links with ISIS. According to Spanish news agency Europa Press, the arrestee, who was wanted by an arrest warrant issued by Germany, is accused of “falsifying documents” and “tax fraud.” […]
(Jerusalem Post) German Green Party politician Volker Beck filed a formal police complaint, seeking to remove the jihadist terror organization Hamas from the micro-blogging site Twitter. “The accounts of the Hamas must disappear from Twitter! Twitter supports a terrorist organization by providing […]
(Chicago Sun-Times) Federal charges have been filed against a woman in two bank robberies in north suburban Skokie and West Rogers Park earlier this month. Willie M. Thomas robbed both Aug. 15, stealing more than $8,000 in total, according to a criminal […]
(CBC) A Muslim civil liberties group is calling on Quebec City police to take hate crimes more seriously, after the police force blamed “human error” for a large discrepancy between their own records and those provided by Statistics Canada. “All Canadians deserve to feel […]
(NL Times) Angela Kempeners, a 36-year-old Limburg woman who was removed from an Arriva bus in Stein on Monday because she was wearing a niqab, is shaken by the event, but will continue to take the bus to work. “I felt just […]
(NL Times) A niqab-wearing woman was forced to leave a public bus operated by Arriva in Stein, Limburg, on Monday. The bus driver in question called the police when the woman refused to leave the bus, the public transit firm confirmed to […]
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(Local) A Kazakh citizen is being questioned on suspicion of taking part in a terror conspiracy, after he was arrested in a northern Swedish city over what first appeared to be a traffic offence. The man, who denies the allegations, was remanded […]
(AFP) Mexico said Friday it arrested a US citizen suspected of backing jihadist groups who was being housed at a migrant detention center and deported him to the United States. The Mexican prosecutor general’s office said the man was the target of […]
(News.com.au) The knifeman behind yesterday’s stabbing rampage had a USB full of terror propaganda, but he wasn’t a terrorist, experts say. Mert Ney, 20, ran through the streets of the Sydney CBD yesterday afternoon wearing a balaclava and brandishing a knife after […]
(PolitiFact) A recent Facebook post adds criminal and daughter of a terrorist to the list of baseless accusations that have been made about U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. The photo, published Aug. 1 by a conservative Facebook page called Tactical Hospitality, makes […]
(Breitbart) A pair of Tunisian migrants are under investigation by Italian authorities for animal cruelty after allegedly slaughtering sheep in a parking lot. The pair slaughtered two sheep in the village of Bentivoglio in Bologna as part of the annual Islamic festival […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Brave bystanders have been hailed as heroes of the “highest order” for ending “terrifying carnage” in the Sydney CBD on Tuesday, which left one woman dead, a second injured and parts of the city in lockdown. Mert Ney, 21, […]
(NL Times) A man was arrested in Den Haag Centraal on Friday for wearing a balaclava in the station. But the arrest was unjustified, the police in The Hague said on Twitter on Monday. The arrested man was a demonstrator. He was […]
(Brussels Times) Brussels police confiscated nine sheep meant to be sacrificed without stunning on unauthorised slaughter floors set up in Brussels for the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice, celebrated at the weekend. Initial inspections carried out on Friday saw police seize two sheep […]
(VOA) Dutch rights activists and Muslim groups fear nativist vigilantes will try to enforce a controversial headwear ban that took effect last week. Dutch police, transport companies and municipal authorities have expressed a reluctance to enforce the ban on face-covering clothing. The […]
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(CBC) When Ramz Aziz received a nervous phone call from his mother-in-law two years ago, it wasn’t to check in on his new baby. Instead, two men were at her door, looking for him. The pair identified themselves as public safety officers, and […]
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(Hartford Courant) The Bloomfield butcher shop employee who slit the throat of an escaped young cow in a Home Depot parking lot has been arrested on animal cruelty charges. Badr Musaed, 39, of Windsor, turned himself in to Bloomfield police Thursday. He […]
(AAP) A radicalised NSW prisoner will spend decades in jail for carving an Islamic State slogan on a cellmate’s forehead after abandoning a plan to shoot police in a terrorist attack. Bourhan Hraichie is possibly more radicalised than when he committed the […]
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(Dutch News) A ban on wearing face-covering garments such as a burqa or niqab in government buildings, schools and on public transport comes into effect in the Netherlands on Thursday. The ban has been 13 years in the making and dates back […]
(AP) A prosecutor violated the constitutional rights of the 1960s black militant formerly known as H. Rap Brown during his trial for the killing of a sheriff’s deputy, but it’s unlikely that substantially affected the verdict, a federal appeals court found. The […]
(WOSU) Columbus Police Interim Chief Tom Quinlan says he is considering changing a department policy that forbids officers from wearing headscarves. Quinlan says officers cannot currently wear headscarves because of safety concerns. “Some of our concerns are, again, wearing gas masks, wearing […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Radical Muslim preacher Mohammed Junaid Thorne has been arrested for large-scale drug trafficking, after police allegedly seized drugs, firearms and cash in raids across south-west Sydney. The 30-year-old was one of three people arrested by the NSW Terrorism Squad, […]
(AP) A Florida man accused of trying to slash a Walmart employee with scissors now faces federal charges after allegedly threatening President Donald Trump while he was being arrested. Federal court records show Mohammed Omar Haji Mohammed, 36, is charged with making […]
(AP) Police in Thessaloniki have arrested 61 migrants for illegal residence in the country, in a crackdown following a string of violent incidents near the northern Greek city’s main railway station. Officers were patrolling the area and carrying out identity checks Tuesday […]
(NL Times) The police want to offer an alternative for burka or niqab wearers who want to come to a police station to make a report after the ban on face-covering clothing takes effect on August 1st. A police directive states that […]
(Insider Louisville) A Muslim woman arrested during an immigration protest last summer has sued Louisville Metro Corrections and the city, asserting that the forced removal of her hijab for her published mug shot violated her constitutional rights, as well as state and […]
(AFP) Germany on Monday extradited to Belgium a Bosnian man wanted in connection with the 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris, prosecutors said. The unnamed 39-year-old suspected of having procured weapons for the attackers “was extradited this morning,” Naumburg prosecution service spokesman Klaus […]
(AP) Two Somalia refugees living in Arizona were charged with providing support to a terror group after federal agents say they were planning to travel from Tucson to Egypt to join the Islamic State. A criminal charge unsealed Monday alleged 21-year-old Ahmed […]
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(BBC) The identity of a teenager who plotted to behead police officers at an Anzac Day parade in Australia will remain a secret for the rest of his life. The boy, from Blackburn, Lancashire, sent encrypted messages instructing an Australian jihadist to […]
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(NY Post) A Bronx man tried to run off and join the Taliban in Afghanistan so he could kill US soldiers there — but was captured in a Big Apple airport moments before boarding a plane, federal law enforcement officials announced. The […]
(Dutch News) Dutch public transport companies have instructed staff to ignore a new policy that refuses entry to Muslim women who wear the face-covering burka, the AD reports. The new legislation, which will come into effect on August 1, will not be […]
(FrontPage) Sofian Zakkout, the president of the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), likes to tout his membership on the boards of directors of two prominent anti-crime groups. However, his activities concerning support for terrorists, the belittling of Jews, and most […]
(IPT) He’s a public figure who repeatedly preaches about the evil done by Jews. They’re accursed, he said last month, justifying the claim with scripture. They incurred God’s justifiable wrath, he said in 2012, also citing scripture. And today, he argues that […]
(Xinhua) Spanish police on Tuesday arrested four suspected jihadists in two separate operations in the north of Spain. Spanish authorities confirm the detention of three 27-year-old Moroccans by the National Police force in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque region, while […]
(Deutsche Welle) Plans to no longer serve children pork or gelatin-containing products like gummy bears at two daycare centers in the eastern German city of Leipzig prompted a wave of criticism online and made headlines across the country on Tuesday. The mass-circulation […]
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