(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s largest mosque, which has been embroiled in various controversies, is to come under Swiss management. “It is time to hand over the mosque in Geneva to a Swiss executive board, which is representative, with an elected president board: a […]
(Breitbart) According to French political scientist Jérôme Fourquet, the number of newborn males with Arabic or Muslim first names has increased from just one per cent in 1960, to 19 per cent today. Fourquet noted that the decline in the French birthrate — […]
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(AFP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Europe it could face new threats from terrorist organisations if Libya’s UN-recognised government in Tripoli were to fall. In the article, published on the Politico news website on the eve of a Libya […]
(Local) Sweden’s prime minister has called for a serious reduction in the number of asylum seekers coming to Sweden, in a swing to the right on asylum that is already endangering his coalition deal with the pro-immigration Green Party. In an interview […]
(Middle East Eye) The British government is facing fresh calls to abolish its Prevent strategy amid uncertainty over the future of its own suspended review of the contentious counter-terrorism programme. More than 100 academics, activists and public figures opposed to the strategy […]
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(Local) A senior politician for Norway’s far-right Progress Party has called for a total moratorium on new refugees in Oslo, as her party mulls what price it will demand for staying part of Norway’s coalition government. Tone Ims Larssen told [the] Norwegian […]
(Local) The government is to work for tough new laws on citizens convicted of foreign militant activity, but is likely to be challenged by parties to its left. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, along with Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup and Minister for […]
(Local) The government is to announce new policies clamping down on individuals who have connections to foreign militant groups. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, along with Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup and Minister for Immigration and Integration Mattias Tesfaye, will on Thursday present […]
(Jerusalem Post) Ali Ertan Toprak, the chairman of the Kurdish community in Germany, on Tuesday lodged a formal criminal complaint against the Iranian regime-controlled Islamic Center of Hamburg, the owner of the Imam Ali Mosque, for its support of terrorism. According to […]
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(National-UAE) The UK government has shut down a scandal-hit British Islamic school where the head was identified as a “potential risk to pupils” after more than a decade of management failures and concerns over radicalisation. The closure came in a year when […]
(Bloomberg) Norway’s government risks splitting after a coalition partner threatened to pull its support over the repatriation of a woman who joined Islamic State in Syria. The anti-immigration Progress Party threatened to abandon the Conservative-led administration in the next few weeks if […]
(AFP) Norway said Tuesday it was repatriating from Syria a woman linked to the Islamic State group and her two children, one of them reportedly seriously ill, citing humanitarian reasons. Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide, confirming the operation to bring them home, […]
(ITV) The government will “urgently investigate” the possibility of repatriating four British children from a Syrian refugee camp — as long as their mother agrees that she cannot return with them. The proposal, made to a London woman who joined so-called Islamic […]
(Deutsche Welle) Police carried out raids at properties across four German states on Tuesday morning, targeting suspected Islamists who were believed to be “planning a serious violent act endangering the state.” Prosecutors in Berlin said the suspects were of “Chechen origin from […]
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(Brussels Times) Two prison guards have been found guilty of mistreating an infamous jihadist preacher accused of “perverting” a generation following his conviction for running a large radicalisation network in Brussels. The two guards were accused of violently handling Khalid Zerkani, throwing […]
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(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Monday sentenced a 31-year-old Syrian man to life in prison for double homicide and accessory to 17 counts of murder committed during his time as an Islamist militant. The former Nusra Front jihadi was found guilty […]
(JTA) A French judge convicted a Muslim man of a hate crime for assaulting a Jewish optician while shouting about Allah. On Oct. 4, Sliman Ouaki assaulted the owner of the Optical Center shop in Toulon near Marseille while shouting “Allah hu […]
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(National-UAE) A Danish man who is serving eight years in a Spanish jail for joining ISIS in Syria has claimed he was actually working for Denmark’s intelligence services. Ahmed Samsam, 30, travelled to Syria “several” times under the direction of Denmark’s Police […]
(BBC) Concert venues and sports stadiums could soon get airport-style checks after the government backed “Martyn’s Law” security measures. It follows a campaign by the mother of Manchester Arena bomb victim Martyn Hett, who died in the 2017 attack. Security Minister Brandon […]
(Copenhagen Post) Just over a week following his death in a US drone strike in Iraq, the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is to be commemorated at City Hall Square today at 18:00. According to a Facebook page, a small group of people […]
(Copenhagen Post) The Danish jihadist Mohammad El-Ali has been arrested in Turkey near the Syrian border. El-Ali’s lawyer Mette Grith Stage confirmed his arrest, stating that he wanted to come back to Denmark and stand trial. The Lebanese-born Dane claims he lost […]
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(Breitbart) Hugo Micheron, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), has claimed that the rise in jihadist activity in France and Belgium is directly linked to “neglected” enclaves and prisons in the two countries. Micheron interviewed 80 jihadists […]
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(Brussels Times) Accused terrorist Salah Abdeslam held wide-ranging and open conversations with his fellow prisoners while he was detained in Bruges prison following his arrest in Brussels in March 2016, according to secret recordings made by Belgian state security. A document containing […]
(BBC) An inmate suspected of attacking a prison officer is understood to be in jail for “preparing an act of terrorism.” Brusthom Ziamani was found guilty in 2015 of planning to behead a soldier. A union says the officer, who was seriously […]
(Deutsche Welle) The German government announced on Friday negotiations with Ankara to create a framework for Turkish schools to be opened in Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt, sparking debate over the schools’ role in increasing Turkish President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan’s political influence abroad. […]
(BBC) An attack on prison staff by two inmates with bladed weapons is being treated as a terror attack, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed. Four officers and a nurse were injured at HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire, on Thursday. One attacker is […]
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(BBC) An inmate suspected of attacking an officer at a maximum security prison was jailed for planning to behead a soldier, the BBC has learned. He is understood to be Brusthom Ziamani, 24, who was found guilty of preparing an act of […]
(JTA) Protestors at a rally in the Netherlands against the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani waved posters blaming Jews, a local watchdog group told police. At the demonstration Tuesday in front of the American embassy in Wassenaar, two women were photographed […]
(Brussels Times) The Belgian government will not appeal a ruling to repatriate ten children of Belgian jihadist fighters from Syria, departing from previous statements that it would likely appeal the order. Defence Minister Philippe Goffin said in parliament that the government would […]
(BBC) Clubs and venues in Manchester will be asked to adopt new anti-terror measures following a campaign by the mother of arena bomb victim Martyn Hett. The 29-year-old was one of 22 people killed in the suicide bombing in 2017. His mother […]
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(Prague Morning) Former Prague imam Samer Shehadeh admitted on Tuesday that he had helped his brother and sister-in-law travel to Syria to join a terrorist organization, Jabhat Fatah as-Sham (Conquest of Syria). Along with his brother Omar and his sister-in-law Fátima Hudková, […]
(Brussels Times) A relative of a Belgian jihadist said to be the “executioner of Raqqa” has been charged with financing terrorism after prosecutors found he had transferred funds suspected of ending up in the hands of one of the suspects of the […]
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(Local) Last year, 111,094 people applied for asylum in Germany — a drop of 14.3 percent compared to the previous year. Government figures show 8,534 fewer applications for asylum were submitted in 2019 than in the previous year when 129,628 claims were […]
(Reuters) Staff at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Tuesday stood in silence outside their former offices where, five years ago, Islamist gunmen began a three-day rampage in which they killed 17 people. The magazine, which had angered Muslims by publishing cartoons […]
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(AFP) German police on Monday said they had found no indication yet that a knife-wielding Turkish man shot dead after trying to attack officers had a terrorist motive, adding that he had psychological problems. The 37-year-old struck a parked patrol car with […]
(Radio France) On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the trial of 24 suspected jihadists linked to the massacre that killed 12 people at the satirical weekly has opened in Paris. Only five of the suspects are […]
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