Academics & Education

American Muslims for Palestine ordered to turn over potentially damaging donor documents in Virginia terror financing probe Leading anti-Israel group must open its books amid probe from Republican AG Jason Miyares, judge says

(Free Beacon) A Virginia judge on Tuesday ordered American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a prominent anti-Israel advocacy group, to disclose its funding channels as part of an investigation by Republican attorney general Jason Miyares into allegations of terrorism financing. AMP, a nonprofit […]

Clothing

German lay judge challenges a headscarf ban in court A German Muslim woman has been barred from working as a lay judge because she wears a headscarf which was alleged to be in violation of the requirement of neutrality. The matter is now before the constitutional court.

(Deutsche Welle) In 2015, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled against a general headscarf ban for teachers, saying that such a ban was incompatible with the freedom of religion guaranteed in the German Constitution. Nine years later, the same court is again addressing […]

Interfaith

Mainz wrong to sack El Ghazi over Gaza comments, court rules Bundesliga club Mainz sacked Anwar El Ghazi after the player issued a pair of social media posts on the war in Gaza. A German labor court has sided with the player, ordering the club to reimburse his lost income.

(Deutsche Welle) Football club Mainz 05 did not have good reason to sack Dutch footballer Anwar El Ghazi for his comments about the war in Gaza, Mainz’s labor court ruled on Friday. The court found that El Ghazi’s comments on social media […]

Legal

Aran Sherani: ISIS hopeful in prison ‘isolation’ over radicalisation fears, court told A convicted terrorist who once planned to join Islamic State has been removed from the general prison population because of concerns he was radicalising others, a court has been told.

(NCA NewsWire) A man who made videos lighting fires and pledging himself to Islamic State has been placed in isolation in prison after authorities alleged he was radicalising other inmates. Aran Sherani, 22, was found guilty of doing acts in preparation for […]

Interfaith

Rescued Israeli hostage suing US nonprofit linked to Hamas operative who held him Almog Meir Jan was held in the home of Abdallah Aljamal, contributor for the Palestine Chronicle, which is run by the tax-exempted group People Media Project

(Fox) A rescued Israeli hostage is filing a lawsuit Tuesday against a U.S. nonprofit with financial ties to the Hamas operative who reportedly kept him prisoner. Almog Meir Jan, 22, was held captive by Hamas for nearly 250 days after the Oct. […]

Clerics & Preachers

Preacher Anjem Choudary says he performed marriage for Woolwich killer Choudary is accused of directing a banned terrorist group after his release from jail for encouraging support for ISIS.

(Sky News) Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has told a court he performed a marriage ceremony for one of the Woolwich killers. Choudary is accused of directing a banned terrorist group called al Muhajiroun after his release from jail for encouraging support for […]

Children & Teens

Teenager who called Jews on a train ‘baby killers’ found guilty of racial harassment Ilham Ahmed fined for abusing passengers who were returning from a march against antisemitism on a Thameslink train

(Jewish News) An 18-year-old has been found guilty of racially harassing Jewish train passengers on their way home from a march against antisemitism in central London last November. As reported by Jewish News, Ilham Ahmed, from Hendon, was filmed on a Thameslink […]

Health & Medicine

Trainee nurse guilty of plot to launch suicide bomb attack on hospital The attack was prevented by a hospital patient who spotted the 28-year-old and persuaded him to abandon the plan, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

(Sky News) A trainee nurse has been found guilty of attempting to launch an ISIS-inspired suicide attack using a homemade bomb on the hospital where he worked. Mohammad Sohail Farooq, 28, was arrested outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds with a viable […]

Crime

Man claimed Isis membership

(Otago Daily Times) A man claiming to be an Isis member threatened government employees because he wanted to be deported, a court has heard. Mohammed Omar Mohammed Al-Attas, 33, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday after he admitted two charges of […]

Children & Teens

Federal Court rejects legal effort to force reparation of women and children in Syrian detention camps The Federal Court has again rejected an effort to force the federal government to bring home Aussie women and children in Syrian refugee camps.

(NCA NewsWire) The Federal Court has upheld a previous judgment rejecting legal arguments that would bring Australian ISIS brides and their children home from a refugee camp in Syria. On Tuesday morning, Justice Christopher Horan announced the court would dismiss an appeal […]

Legal

France charged jihadist with genocide crimes against Yezidis This investigation aimed to address suspicions of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed in Iraq and Syria since 2012 against ethnic and religious minorities.

(Kurdistan 24) The French anti-terrorism prosecution announced on Friday that a French jihadist who returned to her country in August 2021 from Syria is being tried on terrorist charges, including crimes of genocide against the Yezidi minority. Following an interrogation session on […]

Legal

St. Louis Park man sentenced to 10 years for joining, fighting for ISIS overseas Abdelhamid Al-Madioum has since said he 'joined a death cult' and has helped the FBI investigate terror cases around the country.

(Star Tribune) One sleeve of Abdelhamid Al-Madioum’s orange sweatshirt dangled where his right arm once was as he walked into a Minneapolis federal courtroom Thursday a decade older than he was when he began devouring the terror propaganda that led him to […]