(BBC) A man who was fined for burning a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London was using his “human right to free speech,” an appeal hearing has been told. Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted abusive comments about Islam as […]
(Sky News) An Islamic State supporter was said to have “hero-worshipped” the mastermind of the 2015 Paris attacks, a court has heard. Walid Saadaoui, 38, of Abram, Greater Manchester, is accused along with Amar Hussein, 52, of preparing a terrorist attack by […]
(BBC) A man accused of planning a terror attack “regularly expressed a wish to kill Jews,” a jury has been told. Jordan Richardson, 21, of Oliver Close, Howden, East Yorkshire, has been charged with engaging in conduct in preparation of an act […]
(Sky News) A trial accusing two men of planning “untold harm” and “mass fatalities” with an attack on members of the Jewish community in Manchester has been interrupted by an outburst from one of the defendants. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, […]
(European Conservative) An employee of Austria’s Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN) has been suspended after being exposed as a suspected spy for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood — an organization which is considered anti-constitutional in Austria. The man — temporarily assigned […]
(Radio France) A French woman accused of holding a Yazidi teenager in slavery in Syria in 2015 will stand trial in Paris on charges of genocide. Sonia Mejri, 36, will be the first French citizen ever tried for genocide and the first […]
(Sky News) An asylum seeker who posted a video about Nigel Farage said that “he’s going to shoot me,” the Reform UK leader has said in court. Fayaz Khan, 26, is charged with making a threat to kill the Reform UK leader […]
(Reuters) A Swedish appeals court on Monday partially acquitted a far-right activist convicted in [2024] of hate crimes against Muslims over statements he made whilst burning the Koran, and suspended his four-month prison sentence. The Skane and Blekinge appeal court acquitted Rasmus […]
(AFP) A Spanish court on Monday opened a terrorism trial against a Moroccan man suspected of killing a church official in machete attacks on two churches in 2023 that horrified the country. Prosecutors are seeking 50 years in jail for Yassine Kanjaa, […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss Office of the Attorney General has opened the first criminal proceedings in connection with the law banning Hamas and related organisations, which came into force in May. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) wrote in […]
(DPA) German conservative lawmaker Alexander Throm raised the question whether dual citizens convicted of terrorist acts on German soil should face easier revocation of their citizenship, following the arrest of three suspected Hamas operatives. Currently, German law allows citizenship to be stripped […]
(BBC) A man who “married” a 15-year-old girl in an Islamic wedding ceremony is among eight men to have been found guilty of sexual offences against her. The victim was groomed and sexually abused by men from the age of 13 and […]
(AFP) An Austrian court on Wednesday convicted a woman who was repatriated from a Syrian detention camp for having been part of the Islamic State group, handing her a two-year suspended jail sentence. Since IS was ousted from its self-declared “caliphate” in […]
(European Conservative) A priest in Spain is on trial in Málaga, facing up to three years behind bars for alleged hate speech after publishing an article critical of Islam. Fr. Custodio Ballester, known for his pro-life stance and doctrinal conservatism, is accused […]
(LBC) Kneecap rapper Liam Og O hAnnaidh has had his terror charge dismissed on a technicality after blundering CPS officials failed to ask the attorney general for approval. Mr O hAnnaidh, 27, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was accused […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena bomb-maker Hashem Abedi used five makeshift knives to conduct a terrorist attack on prison officers while shouting “Allahu akbar,” prosecutors have alleged. Abedi, 28, is serving life in prison for helping his suicide bomber brother murder 22 people […]
(AFP) A French court on Friday handed jail sentences of up to 13 years to three women for joining the Islamic State group in Syria, including the niece of notorious jihadist propagandist brothers. Jennyfer Clain, 34, whose uncles Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain […]
(BBC) Three people have appeared in court charged with supporting and financing Hamas. Bisharet Ali, 61, from Kettering, Northamptonshire, and Mohmed Patel, 50, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, have been accused of inviting support for the proscribed terrorist organisation between 5 October 2023 […]
(European Conservative) The life sentence for the deadly knife attack on police officer Rouven Laur in Mannheim is now legally binding. No appeals were filed within the one-week deadline, meaning Judge Herbert Anderer’s sentence is final. Sulaiman Ataee was sentenced to life […]
(AFP) Adrien Guihal, who claimed the 2016 Nice attack for the Islamic State group, will be tried in Iraq alongside 46 other French nationals recently transferred from Syria, a source close to the investigation told AFP. “Adrien Guihal, known as Abu Osama […]
(Daily Caller) The Department of War will ask President Donald Trump for final approval to execute the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, a DOW official told the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively. The execution, if approved by Trump, would be the first […]
(WCNC) A Muslim woman has reached a settlement with Mecklenburg County over a lawsuit alleging jail officials violated her religious rights by forcing her to remove her hijab for a booking photograph. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced the resolution of […]
(BBC) A Muslim man who attacked someone burning a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been spared jail. Moussa Kadri, 59, saw Hamit Coskun setting alight the text and shouted: “I’m going to kill you” before slashing at him with […]
(NL Times) Palestinian journalist and activist Mustafa Ayyash, arrested Friday at Schiphol Airport at the request of Austrian authorities, will remain in pretrial detention for at least 20 more days, RTL reports. He appeared Monday before the examining magistrate at the Amsterdam […]
(AP) A New York man accused of plotting an attack on behalf of the Islamic State group in 2019 was sentenced to nine years in prison by a federal judge Tuesday. Awais Chudhary, 25, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan and […]
(Yabiladi) The former mayor of Saint-Paul (Réunion), Alain Bénard, was handed a three-month suspended prison sentence on Friday for “public incitement to discrimination based on origin, ethnicity, nationality, race, or religion.” He was also ordered to pay one symbolic euro in damages […]
(Press Release) A 35-year-old man has been jailed for breaching conditions of his release from prison after serving a sentence for terrorism offences. Ismael Watson was arrested in London in September 2024 after failing to comply with his notification requirements which were […]
(Daily Wire) Florida Congressman Randy Fine and Texas Rep. Keith Self on Friday introduced legislation that would ensure that Sharia law cannot be implemented anywhere in the United States. The “No Shari’a Act” would prohibit the application of Sharia “where such application […]
(ITV) Six people from London have denied being part of a banned Kurdish separatist group over a period of 23 years. Turkan Ozcan, 60; Macahit Sayak, 28; Berfin Kurban, 31; Ali Boyraz, 63; Ercan Akbal, 56; and Agit Karatas, 23, appeared at […]
(LBC) An Egyptian asylum seeker who was jailed for raping a woman in London’s Hyde Park is a convicted Islamic terrorist, it has emerged. Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, 42, was found guilty in his absence of being part of a bomb-making cell in […]
(Breitbart) The Labour Party government has argued that allowing Sharia courts to operate in the United Kingdom is a fundamental “British value” and has refused to distance itself from a broad-stroke definition of so-called Islamophobia, which critics say would brand discussions around […]
(BBC) Manchester Arena bombmaker Hashem Abedi has refused to leave his cell to appear in court accused of attempting to murder three prison officers in an alleged terrorist attack. Abedi, 28, is serving a life sentence for helping his suicide bomber brother […]
(AP) Forty-seven French citizens who had been held in detention in northeast Syria on suspicion of being members of the Islamic State group have been handed over to Iraq for prosecution, Iraqi security officials said. Three Iraqi security officials who spoke on […]
(Fox) A federal immigration judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil deported to either Algeria or Syria after ruling he hid information on his U.S. green card application. Judge Jamee Comans issued the Sept. 12 decision in Louisiana and said that Khalil did not […]
(JNS) An Amsterdam court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian to six months in prison for public violence and attempted aggravated assault during the November 2024 pogrom against Israelis in the Dutch capital. The man, identified only as Mahmoud A. by local media […]
(CBC) The Liberal government is introducing new legislation on Friday to make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols like swastikas, CBC News has learned. A source with knowledge of the […]
(Jerusalem Post) The criminal trial of three French Muslim teenagers who planned an attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgium began on Tuesday, according to French media. Details of the intended attack included blowing up a truck with TATP explosives at the […]
(BBC) An asylum seeker who raped a woman in Hyde Park has been jailed for eight and a half years. Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, a married father of one, approached her in the central London park as she was walking home alone from […]
(AFP) An Afghan man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for a jihadist stabbing spree in Germany last year that killed a police officer and left five people wounded. The 26-year-old, only partially named as Sulaiman A. and found to […]
(National-UAE) A 34-year-old French woman who travelled with relatives to Syria to join her husband, an ISIS fighter, has expressed regret about joining the extremist group and said she takes responsibility for her actions. Jennyfer Clain was speaking in Paris at the […]
(Radio France) Three French women — members of the Clain family who converted to fundamentalist Islam and travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State armed group — go on trial Monday in Paris on charges of terrorist criminal association. […]
(CTV) Photos of a Muslim woman in which she is not wearing a hijab are not intimate images, a B.C. tribunal has ruled. The Civil Resolution Tribunal published its decision on the case Friday, dismissing a claim for damages under B.C.’s Intimate […]
(AFP) A teenager suspected of stabbing a teacher at a college in western Germany attacked another man on the same day and acted out of an “Islamist jihadist ideology,” prosecutors said Friday. The 17-year-old Kosovar suspect, identified by prosecutors as Erjon S., […]
(Canadian Press) The case against a 17-year-old Montreal boy who allegedly intended to carry out an attack on behalf of the Islamic State has been postponed once again. Defence Lawyer Tiago Murias asked for another month to prepare his client’s defence, pushing […]
(ITV) A cleric has appeared in court accused of illegally allowing two children to marry. Ashraf Osmani, 52, of Abington Avenue, Northampton, spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth when he appeared at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. […]
(AFP) A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing three people and wounding eight in an Islamist-motivated stabbing spree at a summer festival in Germany last year. Issa Al Hasan, 27, was a member of the Islamic State […]
(AP) A Detroit-area city that banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles did not violate the Constitution, a judge said. U.S. District Judge David Lawson dismissed a lawsuit against Hamtramck, two years after the city council voted to allow only five flags, […]
(Free Beacon) Northwestern University describes journalism professor Ibrahim Abusharif as a “former book publisher” who “has been involved in projects to translate — from Arabic into English — the Quran.” It does not give examples of those projects, perhaps because they include […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels Court of Appeal has confirmed that Nizar Trabelsi must be released from detention, following an earlier ruling by the Brussels council chamber. Trabelsi, a former professional footballer from Tunisia, was arrested in Belgium in September 2001, shortly after […]
(Algemeiner) The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) — a Belgium-based advocacy organization — is hunting IDF soldiers and government officials all over the world, attempting to manipulate the international legal system to arrest and prosecute Israelis for alleged crimes. Today, the HRF is […]
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