(AP) Germany’s top prosecutor has filed charges against a Syrian man in connection with a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial in February that seriously wounded a Spanish tourist. The suspect sought to use the alleged crime to join the militant Islamic […]
(Canadian Jewish News) A man who was convicted for making comments threatening the Jewish people and synagogues of Toronto was sentenced to 60 days of house arrest followed by the maximum three years of probation, along with a 10-year ban on weapons, […]
(LBC) A job advert for a role in a sharia court posted on a government website has caused major controversy, with critics saying it promotes a separate Islamic legal system in the UK. Outraged politicians have called on the Department for Work […]
(BBC) A man has appeared in court over a disturbance on an Easyjet flight from Luton to Glasgow Airport on Sunday. Abhay Nayak, 41, was arrested and charged after the flight landed at about 08:20 on Sunday morning. Mr Nayak, of Luton, […]
(GB News) John Steele, who has spent a quarter-century sharing his Christian faith without incident, told GB News he felt “flabbergasted” and “frightened” after he was detained by police for questioning Islamic teachings during a public conversation in Rotherham. “I feel silenced,” […]
(GB News) A Christian street preacher arrested in Rotherham town centre after asking a Muslim about the Quran’s teaching on domestic violence has said he has been vindicated after charges against him were dropped. Former miner John Steele, 60, was arrested and […]
(AP) An Austrian court on Friday convicted an acquaintance of the main suspect in last year’s foiled plan to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna on terrorism charges unrelated to the plot and sentenced him to two years in prison. The state […]
(AP) Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. are no longer protected from deportation after a federal appeals court refused to postpone the Trump administration’s decision to end their legal status. A three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in […]
(Remix News) Despite claims of the alleged grave threat of “right-wing extremism” presented by the media and the political left in Germany, the data tells another story. In the first half of 2025, a staggering 99 percent of new proceedings initiated by […]
(Global News) A Montreal woman was handed a one-day sentence on Monday after admitting she traveled to Syria in 2014 to join the Islamic State. Oumaima Chouay is the first of several Canadian women who were captured in Syria during the war […]
(NL Times) A 31-year-old man from Tajikistan was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Monday for recruiting members for Islamic State (IS) across multiple countries, including the Netherlands, to allegedly prepare attacks. The Rotterdam court said the man […]
(Anadolu) A French court on Friday suspended a municipal order banning burkini coverall swimsuits on public beaches in a town near Cannes, ruling that the decree violated fundamental freedoms, according to local media. The ruling by the administrative court in Nice followed […]
(LBC) A man has been found guilty of travelling to Syria to fight with a terrorist group linked to al Qaida for jihad. Isa Giga, 32, resigned from his job as a technical support consultant … at a technology firm and bought […]
(BBC) A teenage Islamic extremist has pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist gun attack. Muhammad Billal, 18, was arrested on 11 February and charged with two counts of preparation of terrorist acts, relating to an alleged gun attack plan and travelling to […]
(Jewish News) The barrister representing Mohammed Hijab described his client as “provocative, a bit of a smart-alec, a bit too cocky” but insisted that lawyers for the Spectator and its associate editor Douglas Murray had failed to substantiate serious claims against him. […]
(Middle East Eye) A Tunisian organisation has filed a legal complaint against French-Tunisian imam Hassen Chalghoumi and called for him to be stripped of his Tunisian citizenship following his recent visit to Israel in the midst of its onslaught on Gaza. Chalghoumi, the […]
(KERA) The Texas Funeral Service Commission says the East Plano Islamic Center may continue performing burial rites Wednesday after the governor accused the mosque of unlawfully serving as a funeral home. The follow-up to the commission’s March cease-and-desist letter was sent by […]
(Arab News) The Marseilles administrative court has reversed a burkini ban on a French Riviera beach after police threatened fines against a teenager and her family for wearing the Muslim swimsuit, the Times reported on Thursday. The seaside town of Carry-le-Rouet had […]
(European Conservative) A 15-year-old boy accused of planning a terrorist attack on Vienna’s Westbahnhof station is due to appear before the Vienna Regional Court on Monday under tight security. The teenager, described as a suspected supporter of the Islamic State (IS), has […]
(AFP) A French appeals court Thursday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats. Abdallah, 74, is one of the longest-serving prisoners in France, where most convicts on […]
(Sky News) A man has been jailed after posting threats on TikTok that sparked an international alert that ISIS was planning attacks on football stadiums hosting Champions League games. The Spanish interior ministry announced an “extraordinary” security response for the match featuring […]
(BBC) Thousands of Afghans have moved to the UK under a secret scheme which was set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data, it can be revealed. In February 2022, the personal details of nearly 19,000 people who had applied […]
(Jewish News) Social media personality Mohammed Hijab appeared in the witness box at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday in a libel case he has brought against the Spectator magazine and its associate editor, Douglas Murray. Hijab, who has 1.28 million […]
(AP) A judge ruled Tuesday that Colorado prosecutors can move ahead with their case against a man accused of killing one person and injuring a dozen more in a firebomb attack on demonstrators showing support for Israeli hostages in Gaza. A police […]
(AP) An appeals court late Monday stepped in to keep in place protections for nearly 12,000 Afghans that have allowed them to work in the U.S. and be protected from deportation after they were set to expire as part of the Trump […]
(DPA) Nearly a year after three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna were cancelled for fear of a terrorist attack, the trial of a suspected Islamic State supporter began in Berlin on Monday. The now 15-year-old is alleged to have helped with preparations […]
(Canadian Press) A man with ties to al-Qaida who allegedly threatened to bomb public transit will likely plead guilty, his lawyer said Monday at the Montreal courthouse. Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, appeared in court by video conference from Montreal’s Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre, […]
(European Conservative) Austrian prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against Maria G., an Austrian national who left the country as a teenager to join ISIS in Syria. The Salzburg Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Monday that she has been charged with crimes committed […]
(RTL) At the State Court on Monday morning, the judges handed down a life sentence to Steve Duarte, Portuguese national and former Luxembourg resident, in absentia. Prosecutors had requested the maximum punishment, and the court agreed. Duarte, who lived in Luxembourg until 2014, […]
(Breitbart) All Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip will be eligible for the first time to apply for asylum in France, a court ruled on Friday. Deciding on a case brought by a Palestinian mother seeking asylum in the wake of the […]
(Courthouse News) A D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday that the United States can back out of a plea deal with the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and his two co-defendants, setting back the already long-running case and opening the door for […]
(Brussels Times) Individuals convicted of serious offences such as organised crime, homicide, or sexual offences may soon face the loss of Belgian nationality, following an agreement by the Council of Ministers announced by Justice Minister Annelies Verlinden on Friday. This revocation will […]
(Newsday) An East Setauket woman has reached a settlement with Suffolk County after officers ordered her to remove her hijab while in police custody in a lawsuit that led to a change in police policy. The settlement, filed on Friday in federal […]
(Politico) A top State Department official vigorously defended the Trump administration’s drive to cancel the visas of pro-Palestinian academics, arguing that the effort does not abridge free speech and targets students who are supporting terrorism or promoting antisemitism. John Armstrong, State’s top […]
(AP) A Muslim inmate who won a U.S. Supreme Court case upholding his right to grow a beard for religious reasons said in a lawsuit that Arkansas officials transferred him to a federal prison in West Virginia in retaliation for several other […]
(KPNX) A newly released, nearly 300-page report from the Arizona State University Police Department sheds light on law enforcement actions during the April 2024 pro-Palestinian demonstration that led to the arrest of 69 individuals and sparked outrage after officers forcibly removed hijabs […]
(Daily Caller) A super PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor accepted $1,000 from a Muslim cleric linked to the architects of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist plots. Imam Siraj Wahhaj donated to the super […]
(Courthouse News) After 104 days in federal immigration custody, a stint that forced him to miss the birth of his first child, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is seeking $20 million from the Trump administration for his “politically motivated arrest,” according to his […]
(Luxembourg Times) Three Islamist terrorists from Luxembourg who left the country to go and fight for the Islamic State group have been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in the capital on Thursday. However, it remains highly unlikely that […]
(Times of Malta) A man who married a 15-year-old girl in Syria and conceived their first child in Malta a year later has been found guilty of participating in sexual activities with a minor. He was spared jail but handed a three-year […]
(Reuters) Spain’s High Court charged eight individuals on Wednesday with the attempted assassination of former right-wing politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras over his ties to an Iranian opposition group and support for dissident groups. Vidal-Quadras, 80, a founder of Spain’s far-right Vox party, was […]
(Reuters) French prosecutors said on Wednesday they were seeking the trial of six people by a special terrorism court over an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris 43 years ago in which six people were killed and at least 20 others […]
(Politico) As the Trump administration identified pro-Palestinian academics to target for deportation, it relied heavily on an anonymously-run pro-Israel website that has been criticized for doxxing, according to newly unsealed court documents and testimony at an ongoing trial. To support President Donald […]
(Detroit News) A Detroit man on Tuesday admitted concealing cryptocurrency donations he planned to make to the Islamic State and faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Jibreel Pratt, 26, pleaded guilty to two counts of concealing material support to a […]
(Knoxville News Sentinel) More than a year after the Knox County Sheriff’s Office published online a booking photo of a Muslim woman without her hijab, the agency deleted the mug shot from its internal database under pressure from a pending lawsuit. Layla […]
(Reuters) A German court ruled on Tuesday that the government is obliged to issue visas to Afghan nationals and their family members who were accepted into a humanitarian admissions programme that the new centre-right coalition intends to shut down. A foreign ministry […]
(Politico) A trial on a First Amendment lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s drive to deport pro-Palestinian academics quickly confronted a thorny legal issue Monday: whether foreigners in the U.S. enjoy the same free speech rights as American citizens. The administration’s stance on […]
(CTV) A crown prosecutor is now treating a man’s alleged threat of a mass killing in Montreal in May as a terrorist act and wants to secure a life sentence for the accused. Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 51, was arrested by the RCMP […]
(NL Times) Dutch prosecutors have demanded an eight-year prison sentence for a 31-year-old man from Tajikistan accused of recruiting Dutch citizens and others in multiple countries to join Islamic State groups. The man, identified as Abdusamad A., is alleged by the Public […]
(AP) Swiss federal prosecutors on Monday announced an indictment of a Kosovar and a Swiss-Macedonian dual national on terrorism-related charges and spreading the ideology of the banned extremist group Islamic State. The 36-year-old Kosovar and the 33-year-old dual national, who were not […]
Thank you for reading Eye on Islamism.