(Swiss Info) The United States offered several times to repatriate three Swiss jihadists detained in Syria, an offer that Switzerland refused, the Le Temps newspaper has said. The original proposal dated back to 2018, Le Temps said on Thursday. The Swiss Federal Department […]
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(Breitbart) An imam in Gothenburg’s largest mosque has been criticised after comparing female genital mutilation (FGM) practices to those who undergo gender reassignment surgeries. The imam’s comments were set out as part of an email that was framed about being against FGM […]
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(Deutsche Welle) German prosecutors said on Friday they had indicted an Iraqi man for allegedly leaving a Yazidi girl to die of thirst. He and his wife kept the 5-year-old as a slave in Iraq and his spouse, a German convert to Islam, is already […]
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(Radio France) The trial has opened before a special criminal court of Reda Hame, the French jihadist known to have associated in Syria with one of the masterminds of the Bataclan killings. Thirty-four-year-old Hame is accused of “taking part in a criminal […]
(Breitbart) French law enforcement officials and intelligence agencies have expressed concern over the expected release of at least 148 radical Islamic extremists by the end of 2022. The jihadists were described as “very dangerous individuals” by National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor (PNAT) Jean-François Ricard during […]
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(AFP) Far-right lawmakers took aim at French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday after a woman wearing a full-face veil approached him ahead of a speech announcing new measures to fight Islamic “separatism” in the country. Such veils, known as niqabs, have become […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena bomber encouraged a teenager to study chemistry to learn how to build a bomb, a court has heard. Hashem Abedi is on trial accused of helping his brother Salman plot the attack that killed 22 people in 2017. […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s parliament speaker on Wednesday slammed French President Emmanuel Macron’s Islamophobic remarks. “Macron’s remarks on struggling with Islamic separatism are [an] example of crude Islamophobia,” Mustafa Sentop said in a tweet. “France should first confront its racist and massacrist history,” he […]
(Dutch News) Dutch doctors have pledged to stop carrying out operations to “restore” women’s hymens, as one of a package of measures to tackle what ministers call “damaging practices” affecting mainly women and girls. There were 120 hymen repair operations at Dutch […]
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(Anadolu) Turkey’s parliament speaker on Tuesday slammed Greece’s president for calling the Turkish Muslim minority in the country … a “Greek Muslim minority.” “I strongly condemn the racist remarks of Greek President [Prokopios] Pavlopoulos that ignore the Western Thrace’s Turks,” Mustafa Sentop […]
(Kathimerini) Athens on Tuesday rebuffed comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who referred to the Muslim minority in Western Thrace as a “Turkish minority.” “In Greece, which is the historical cradle of democracy but also a modern European democratic state, there […]
(Anadolu) Turkey has deported 229 foreign terrorists, 75 of whom are EU citizens, since its anti-terror operation in Syria, an official from the country’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. Abdullah Ayaz, head of Turkey’s migration department, told Anadolu Agency that the struggle […]
(Reuters) French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of “separatism.” Macron has so far stayed away from issues related […]
(Anadolu) Top Turkish officials on Tuesday slammed Greece’s president for mislabeling the Muslim Turkish minority in a region of Greece bordering Turkey as a “Greek Muslim minority.” “The president of a country said to be the cradle of democracy again called the […]
(Local) French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a long-awaited speech on Tuesday afternoon to reveal the government’s new strategy to fight Islamist extremism. “We need to accept that there is what I would call a separatism in our Republic today,” the president said […]
(NL Times) A small group of younger, orthodox Muslims are causing problems in mosques by pressuring other believers to follow a … “strict” course, Said Bouharrou, vice-president of the Council of Moroccan Mosques in the Netherlands, said to the parliamentary committee investigating […]
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(BBC) Emergency laws ending the early release of people convicted of terror offences should have applied in NI, Stormont’s justice minister has said. Last week MPs passed the Terrorist Offenders Bill. It means terror offenders in England, Scotland and Wales will only […]
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(Breitbart) French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner has announced that in 2019 the French government closed down two radical mosques and placed another 63 under surveillance. The two radical mosques closed last year were done so under the powers granted to the Interior […]
(Dhaka Tribune) Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has reiterated that Shamima Begum, who got her British citizenship revoked, will not be allowed to enter Bangladesh. Shamima Begum, a British woman of Bangladeshi decent who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join […]
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(Breitbart) According to a new investigation by Swiss media, a cell of jihadists based in Geneva plotted to bomb cisterns full of oil near the city’s airport in a major terror attack. The plot, which was set to take place last year […]
(NL Times) Hajer Harzi, a board member of the Al Houda mosque in Geleen, received serious threats after she spoke to a parliamentary committee investigating the possible influence of extremist ideology from abroad on Dutch mosques. “You wouldn’t wish that on anyone,” […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena bomber’s brother insulted a man for calling police after the siblings crashed their car, a court has heard. Hashem Abedi, 22, allegedly verbally abused Eddie Cooper following the collision on 23 March 2017, two months before Salman Abedi […]
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(BBC) Two web managers who ran a website glorifying Islamist terror groups and encouraging attacks have been jailed. [Mohammed] Abdur Kamali and Mohammed Abdul Ahad promoted “toxic ideologies” including speeches by hate preacher Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal. Their website also featured material from […]
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(AFP) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been charged with raping two women besides two others he was already facing accusations over, his lawyer told AFP Thursday. The 57-year-old Ramadan, a Swiss national, was already charged in France with raping a disabled woman […]
(BBC) There have been calls for new legislation ending the early release of people convicted of terror offences to be extended to Northern Ireland. MPs are debating the Terrorist Offenders Bill at Westminster. It means terror offenders will only be considered for […]
(AFP) After rising to and falling from government with his “Italians first” rallying cry and anti-migrant diatribes, far-right leader Matteo Salvini remains hugely popular and has set his sights on a return to power despite an impending trial. The 46-year-old from Milan, […]
(AFP) Norway’s government on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to extradite a fundamentalist Islamic preacher to Italy, where he has been sentenced to prison for leading a jihadist network. The 63-year-old Iraqi Kurdish man — known as Mullah Krekar, but named Najumuddin Faraj […]
(Anadolu) Turkey on Wednesday deported a terrorist to their home country of Germany, the Interior Ministry said. It did not specify which terror group the fighter belonged to, but in recent months Daesh/ISIS terrorists are being returned to their home countries. The […]
(BBC) Emergency legislation designed to end the release of people convicted of terrorism offences halfway through their sentence has been approved by MPs. The measures — which would apply to England, Scotland and Wales — were drawn up after the attack in […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has defended a French teenager who received death threats after an expletive-laden Instagram rant against Islam, saying the right to blaspheme was enshrined in the constitution and she needs to be protected, in comments published Wednesday. The […]
(Pink News) LGBT+ Muslim group Imaan has set the date for the UK’s first-ever Muslim Pride festival. The event will take place in London on Saturday, April 11, the group announced on social media. Imaan announced: “It’s happening! We’ve set the date […]
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(Breitbart) A Swedish court has sentenced an Iraqi asylum seeker to eight years in prison for honour crimes after he beat his daughter with a kebab spit, locked up his wife, and forced his daughters to wear Islamic veils. The father, who […]
(Dutch News) A parliamentary commission set up to investigate the foreign funding of mosques and Islamic schools in the Netherlands will begin hearings on Monday. “MPs have been debating about the issues for years but much remains unclear,” CDA parliamentarian and commission […]
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