(CTV) Police forces are refusing to participate in public consultations on Bill 21, which aims to prohibit the wearing of religious symbols by many civil servants. On Monday, the secretary of the Committee on Institutions, Carolyne Paquette, confirmed that the Quebec Bar […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Monday opened a trial against a 20-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker for murdering an 85-year-old sleeping pensioner last year in the small town of Wittenburg. Details of the case: The asylum-seeker is accused of slitting the pensioner’s throat. […]
(Breitbart) A court has fined Austrian political scientist Michael Ley, an expert in Islamic antisemitism, for claiming a University of Salzburg professor was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mr Ley was handed down a fine of 2,400 euros after being found […]
(Chicago Sun-Times) Federal prosecutors view Adel Daoud as a once-aspiring terrorist who, when given the opportunity to act on his beliefs, tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar. Daoud’s defense attorney says the U.S. […]
(USA Today) The Trump administration on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the father of Hoda Muthana, the American-born woman who fled Alabama in 2014 to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria. Hoda’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana […]
(CNN) A one-time Islamic jihadist who spent years in an Israeli prison for attempting to bomb a bus was granted US citizenship and allowed to remain in the country for nearly a decade as federal authorities investigated his background, CNN has learned. […]
(AP) German prosecutors say they’ve indicted a 21-year-old woman on suspicion of membership in the Islamic State group and of keeping three Yazidis as slaves in Syria. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that the German-Algerian woman, identified as Sarah O. for privacy reasons, […]
(Canadian Press) Forcing a reporter to give information on a terror suspect to the RCMP would be unreasonable given that the wanted Canadian man is almost certainly dead, an Ontario justice heard on Tuesday. The argument from Vice Media played out in Superior Court […]
(AFP) A supreme legal tribunal in France on Tuesday rejected appeals by families for their relatives who had gone to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) radical militant group to return home. The Council of State, which acts as legal adviser […]
(Tulsa World) A lawsuit against a Muskogee County store and gun range has been dismissed after it removed an anti-Muslim sign. Raja’ee Fatihah, who works for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services and serves in the U.S. Army Reserves, brought the suit […]
(AP) A Wisconsin mother of seven pleaded guilty Monday to trying to plan terrorist attacks on behalf of the Islamic State group by distributing information online on how to make explosives and biological weapons. Waheba Issa Dais (dys) initially pleaded not guilty […]
(FrontPage) Khurrum Wahid is running for Coral Springs, Florida, city commission, in a special election that is to take place June 18th. Last month, this author wrote an article that was published in FrontPage Magazine, titled, “Terror-Connected Lawyer Running for City Commission […]
(Daily Sabah) The Versailles Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday against a company for firing an employee in 2008 for refusing to take her headscarf off, saying she was let go without a just cause. The court said Asma Bougnaoui had the […]
(Jerusalem Post) Laura Elizabeth Loomer, a Jewish far-right American activist, filed a lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation, CAIR Florida and Twitter for being banned from the social media platform and several other platforms. Loomer was banned from Twitter, PayPal, […]
(AP) A Canadian man convicted of terrorism for nearly killing a Michigan police officer while yelling “God is great” in Arabic was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, after boldly declaring that he only regretted not having a machine gun during […]
(AFP) A Paris appeal court on Thursday handed a 30-year jail term to Abdelkader Merah, brother of a French jihadist who shot dead seven people, finding him guilty of being an accomplice in the 2012 murders. The verdict was received in silence […]
(Breitbart) A Swedish imam based in Stockholm has claimed that returning Islamic State members need the “right” kind of Islam to help rehabilitate them back into society. Imam Kashif Virk has called for the Swedish government to include the “knowledge and experience of religious […]
(Dutch News) The Dutch government was wrong to strip Dutch nationality from two convicted jihadis because the law making it possible was only introduced in 2017, the Council of State said on Wednesday. The two men joined jihadi groups in Iraq and […]
(AP) A 19-year-old man has been jailed for 27 days on suspicion of placing a functioning hand grenade on a square [in] a neighborhood in Copenhagen with a large population of immigrants. The grenade didn’t explode. The man, who was not identified, […]
(AP) A judge has rejected a move by Spirit Boeing Employees Association seeking to dismiss the lawsuit filed by a Muslim aerospace engineer alleging discrimination stemming from a party at a Kansas lake. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson ruled Tuesday that there […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum — who joined the Islamic State group aged 15 — is set to be granted legal aid to fight the decision to revoke her UK citizenship. The 19-year-old, who left east London in 2015, was stripped of her citizenship […]
(AFP) One of three women allegedly involved in a foiled plot in 2016 to blow up a car packed with gas canisters near the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris was on Friday sentenced to eight years in prison by a French court […]
(Detroit News) Federal prosecutors will not appeal a judge’s order dismissing female genital mutilation charges in the first criminal case of its kind nationwide, concluding the law is weak and needs to be rewritten. The decision delivers a setback to international human-rights […]
(AFP) A high-profile pro-migrant mayor in populist-ruled Italy was ordered Thursday to face court over charges he set up fake marriages to help foreign women stay in the country after their asylum applications were rejected. Domenico Lucano, under house arrest after being […]
(AP) A Montreal man convicted of stabbing a police officer at a Flint, Michigan, airport was in debt and saw the attack as a way to become a martyr while benefiting his wife and children financially through a life insurance policy, his […]
(AFP) A Frenchman who received compensation over a 1995 terror attack in Paris has been sent to jail after pretending he was at the scene of the November 2015 assault on the city by Islamic State gunmen. Serge Dieujuste, 44, attempted to […]
(FrontPage) The terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations announced plans to “mobilize the Muslim community” in 80 mosques in Southern California in order to push its Islamist, anti-American agenda. CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in 2007 in an alleged criminal conspiracy to […]
(AP) A Maryland man accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., intended to kill as many “disbelievers” as possible, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday before a judge ordered the man detained without bond. […]
(AFP) A German woman who joined the Islamic State jihadist group went on trial Tuesday accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun. The case against Jennifer Wenisch, 27, is believed to […]
(AFP) Dutch judges on Monday sentenced two men to one year and nine months respectively over ammunition provided for use in a foiled 2016 terror attack in France. Five suspects were charged after Dutch police raided a home in the western port […]
(Dallas Morning News) A former Plano high school student was sentenced Monday to 20 years in state prison after pleading guilty to an ISIS-inspired plot to commit mass murder at a Collin County mall. Matin Azizi-Yarand, 18, discussed his plans with an undercover […]
(AP) A Maryland man inspired by the Islamic State group plotted to ram a stolen U-Haul truck into as many pedestrians as possible at a popular convention and tourist destination just outside the nation’s capital, federal prosecutors said Monday. The allegation was […]
(Dutch News) The parents of Dutch citizens who left to fight in the war in Syria have launched a foundation to try to force the government to help them return to the Netherlands. Around 20 parents have joined non-profit foundation De Achterblijvers, […]
(Dutch News) Foreign minister Stef Blok has asked the US to explain reports that several Dutch lawyers have been refused a visa for the US because of their work defending terrorism suspects, the Volkskrant said on Friday. “It is of great importance […]
(IPT) A Yahoo bulletin board created in late 2005 by activists associated with a former Hamas-support network laid the groundwork for creating a replacement virulently anti-Israel group, an amended complaint filed in Chicago federal court on March 29 alleges. The new complaint […]
(Dutch News) Two lawyers have pulled out of one [of] the Netherlands’ biggest terrorism cases because they are worried their involvement will have an impact on travelling to the US, RTL Nieuws said on Thursday. “I do not want to be limited […]
(AP) A court in Germany has found a 29-year-old Syrian man guilty of war crimes for torturing members of pro-government forces in Syria. German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the Stuttgart regional court sentenced Mohamad K. to four years and six […]
(AP) A federal judge says he will rule in the near future on the constitutionality of a government watchlist that includes more than 1 million people the FBI considers to be “known or suspected terrorists.” The Council on American-Islamic Relations sued in […]
(Dutch News) Dutch lawyer Serge Weening has been banned from entering the US, possibly because he has defended several terrorism suspects, law journal Advocatenblad said this week. Weening is one of the lawyers involved in the defence of an alleged terrorist cell […]
(Detroit News) A federal judge has denied Troy’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Muslim community group that claims the city was discriminatory when rejecting plans to build an Islamic center there last year. The order that U.S. District Court […]
(Army Times) Following a rejected equal opportunity complaint and a demotion in rank, a Muslim soldier who has accused her Fort Carson, Colorado, leadership of religious discrimination is contemplating a federal lawsuit, her attorney confirmed to Army Times on Wednesday. Spc. Cesilia […]
(Canadian Press) A youth charged with terrorism-related offences has been released under strict conditions following a bail hearing in Kingston, Ont. The youth, who cannot be identified under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, will be required to be in the […]
(NY Daily News) A Bronx nurse who planned to abandon his wife and young son to join ISIS in Syria was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison by a judge disturbed by his calculating, cold-blooded radicalization. Adam Raishani, 32, was arrested […]
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(CBC) The mayor of Montreal calls it “very concerning.” Religious groups say it’s discriminatory. And civil liberties groups have vowed to fight. But what legal options do these groups have in the face of the Coalition Avenir Québec government’s secularism bill, and what […]
(Mercury News) Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Department of Justice had failed to prove something it insisted for years was true: that a Fremont man tried to travel to Syria in 2015, to join a terrorist organization. U.S. District […]
(Local) A student activist who grounded a flight to delay the deportation of a rejected Afghan asylum seeker will face a retrial. The Court of Appeal for Western Sweden has overturned the judgement in activist Elin Ersson’s case, due to comments one […]
(AFP) A French man who rented his flat to the ringleader of the 2015 Paris attacks during a massive police manhunt was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for “hiding terrorists.” Jawad Bendaoud was convicted on appeal of hiding Islamic State […]
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(ABC-Australia) A Sydney man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after planning to behead up to seven random Australians a month. Omarjan Azari, 26, refused to stand as his sentence was delivered at the Supreme Court in Parramatta. Azari was […]
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