Military
Woman detained in Syria believed to be former member of Irish Defence Forces (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Academics & Education
Education minister threatens to remove funding from Amsterdam Islamic high school, accused of terror links
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has threatened to withdraw state funding from an Amsterdam Islamic secondary school accused of having terrorist links, if it refuses to let inspections take place. The Dutch security service AIVD has warned Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema […]
Legal
Swedish court convicts man for plotting to carry out bombing
(Reuters) A Swedish court convicted a man on Friday of plotting to carry out a bombing in Sweden in the name of Islamic State, sentencing him to seven years in prison followed by expulsion from the country. Evidence showed David Idrisson, a […]
Clerics & Preachers
Finding a place in women’s mosques
(NY Times) These are heady times for Kahina Bahloul, organizer of a women’s mosque in France, a country that is home to the largest Muslim population in Europe. Practical considerations dominate the spiritual — a search for an affordable location, a flurry […]
Academics & Education
Oxford University suspends jihad-supporting student, 21, for trying to recruit for an extreme Islamist group (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Islamic school in Amsterdam in contact with terrorist group: counterterrorism coordinator
(NL Times) Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus of Justice and Security, intelligence service AIVD and National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security NCTV have major concerns about Islamic school Cornelius Haga Lyceum in Amsterdam. In a letter to parliament and Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema, they […]
Children & Teens
Mother jailed for 11 years in first British FGM conviction (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Zurich: Muslim father fined after kids fail to attend Christmas concert rehearsal
(Local) A Zurich appeals court has upheld a fine for a Muslim man who chose not to send his three sons to a rehearsal for a Christmas concert. In its ruling, the court stated that the children’s obligatory attendance at the rehearsal […]
Government & Politics
A Muslim as German chancellor? CDU leader slammed for saying ‘why not’ The party of Chancellor Angela Merkel has been roiled by a debate about whether a Muslim could lead the CDU and one day become chancellor. One lawmaker couldn't believe anyone would even suggest such a thing.
(Deutsche Welle) The parliamentary group leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has sparked a divisive debate after he said a Muslim could be a future CDU leader and chancellor of Germany. Asked by media outlet Idea if a Muslim could lead […]
Legal
German prosecutors charge couple in ricin plot
(AP) Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a 30-year-old Tunisian and his 43-year-old German wife with preparing a severe act of violence over a plot to use the toxin ricin to carry out a biological attack in Germany. Sief Allah H. and Yasmin […]
Law Enforcement
Number of people in jail for terrorism offences falls for first time since 2013 (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Tommy Robinson to face fresh contempt of court proceedings (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Frenchman convicted of Belgium Jewish museum murders
(AFP) A jury found Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche guilty Thursday of the “terrorist murders” of four people at Brussels’ Jewish museum, in the first case of a Syria jihad veteran to stage an attack in Europe. Nemmouche, 33, now faces a life sentence […]
News: Europe
Finnish woman wants to return from IS stronghold: international media International news media reported encountering a woman who claimed to be Finnish and living in an Islamic State-controlled area
(Yle) A journalist writing on Twitter on Wednesday said that he had encountered a Finnish woman living in an area in Syria controlled by the extremist organisation Islamic State. Kurdish affairs analyst and journalist Mutlu Civiroglu tweeted that the woman came to […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Tories are prejudiced against Islam, says council candidate (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
Terrorists set for release across EU without proper monitoring EU still tinkering with deradicalisation policy as convicted extremists are set to walk free
(National-UAE) European countries will release 1,500 convicted terrorists over the next 12 months, posing a major security challenge for authorities grappling with the fallout from wars in Syria and Iraq, a London counter-terrorist conference heard on Wednesday. The wave of releases coincides […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Tory councillors in East Staffordshire quit over Islamophobia row
(BBC) Two Tory councillors have quit after being accused of sharing Islamophobic posts on social media. Len Milner and Chris Smith, who sit on East Staffordshire council, “liked” a cartoon posted on Facebook depicting a mock beheading of Labour’s Sadiq Khan. Mr […]
Legal
Isis follower jailed for terror plot to drive van into London shoppers (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Austria to withdraw consular protection for IS fighters: newspaper
(Reuters) Austria is to withdraw consular protection for citizens who have fought for the Islamic State militant group, Die Presse daily reported on Wednesday, rejecting a call from the United States for allies to take back captured fighters and put them on […]
Demonstrations
French prison guards protest lack of resources to contain radicalised inmates
(Radio France) French prison guards blocked the entrances of at least 18 prisons on Wednesday in a show of solidarity for two colleagues who were stabbed by an inmate at a high-security facility at Conde-sur-Sarthre in Normandy. But the movement is larger, […]
Children & Teens
Sajid Javid can deport mother of FGM risk girl, judge decides
(BBC) The home secretary cannot be barred from deporting a failed asylum seeker whose daughter would be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) if taken abroad, a senior judge decided. The High Court heard the woman, who has links to Bahrain […]
Interfaith
Suspect in Belgium Jewish museum attack claims innocence
(AP) A suspected jihadi insisted Tuesday that he’s innocent of terrorism charges over the 2014 killing of four people at Belgium’s Jewish museum, as the jury in his trial prepared to consider its verdict. Weeks after telling the Brussels criminal court that […]
Academics & Education
Ilford headteacher banned from management roles after letting terrorist ‘radicalise’ school children (LINK ONLY)
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History
Teaching the Holocaust to ‘new Swedes’
(AFP) They grew up in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia and can place Israel on a map, but many young refugees in Sweden have never heard of the Holocaust. Their first contact with Jewish history in Europe is often in the classroom and […]
News: Europe
French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain killed in Syria: wife
(AFP) Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. Clain’s wife Dorothee Maquere said he was killed in mortar shelling after being wounded […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Tories suspend 14 members over alleged Islamophobia (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Russian Islamist charged with bomb plot in Germany
(AFP) German prosecutors have formally charged a Russian Islamist and acquaintance of Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri with plotting an explosives attack, prosecutors said Tuesday. The suspect, identified as Magomed-Ali C., 31, had planned an attack with Tunisian Amri, who went […]
Law Enforcement
‘Radicalised’ inmate detained after slashing guards in French prison
(AFP) A “radicalised” inmate at a prison in northwest France, who seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack on Tuesday, was shot and injured in a police raid that also left his visiting partner fatally wounded, sources told AFP. Prisoner Michael […]
Government & Politics
EU executive hits back at Hungary’s Orban ahead of elections
(Reuters) The European Union executive accused Hungary’s nationalist government on Monday of distorting the truth about immigration into the bloc, marking a further deterioration in their troubled relationship ahead of European Parliament elections in May. The EU has long been critical of […]
News: Europe
Spain helping US identify European jihadists in Syria Interior Ministry is receiving information from officers working on Operation Gallant Phoenix that could serve as evidence against returning fighters
(El País) Spanish agents in Syria are cooperating with Operation Gallant Phoenix, a U.S.-led effort to identify fighters from Western nations who have joined Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in the region, counter-terrorism sources told El País. The Spanish Interior […]
Citizenship
Germany to strip ‘Islamic State’ fighters’ citizenship — report Germany's Interior Ministry and Justice Ministry have reportedly agreed on a proposal to expatriate IS fighters. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had tried to link the legislation with broader citizenship reform.
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s governing coalition has agreed to strip fighters of the “Islamic State” (IS) militant group of their citizenship, according to German outlets Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR. The new law would apply only to jihadis who are of age, have a second […]
Children & Teens
Jihadi Yago Riedijk ‘will not be allowed to live with his family in Netherlands’
(Dutch News) The Dutch government will not help IS fighter Yago Riedijk return to the country and his British wife and child should not be allowed to join him, ministers and MPs said at the weekend. Riedijk, 26, told the BBC and […]
Clerics & Preachers
Germany moves to introduce language requisite for foreign clerics
(Daily Sabah) The German government wants to make German language skills a requirement for foreign clerics seeking to enter the country, an Interior Ministry spokesman told dpa on Sunday. Clerics looking after the large number of Muslim migrants who have entered Germany […]
Children & Teens
Shamima Begum: ‘We should live in Holland,’ says IS husband
(BBC) The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015 aged 15, has said he wants her to return to the Netherlands with him. Yago Riedijk and Ms Begum married days after she arrived inside […]
Immigration
English Channel migrant smugglers jailed by French court
(AFP) A French court on Friday jailed two Iraqis and one Iranian man for organising illegal migrant boat journeys across the English Channel. The 32-year-old Iraqi, considered the group leader, received an 18-month sentence from the court in Boulogne, on the northern […]
Health & Medicine
Isis jihadi ‘returned to Sweden to treat war wounds’
(Local) An Isis jihadi fighter returned to his home in Sweden to have wounds to his shoulder treated for free at a state-run hospital, before returning to the front line in Syria, Sweden’s Expressen newspaper has reported. Khaled Shahadeh, 28, returned to […]
Academics & Education
Furious Muslim parents withdraw 600 kids from Parkfield School over ‘LGBT’ row (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
French prosecutors want Le Pen tried over tweet
(AFP) Prosecutors have called for French far-right leader Marine Le Pen to be tried for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group, judicial sources said Friday. This could hike further pressure on Le Pen, 50, who already faces legal […]
Government & Politics
German interior minister defends deportation of Berlin terrorist associate A friend of the Berlin Christmas market attacker is at the center of a probe into security shortcomings and a botched investigation. Bilel Ben Ammar was quickly deported following the 2016 truck attack.
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s interior minister on Thursday defended the hasty deportation of an Islamic extremist who had dinner with Anis Amri the night before he killed 12 people in a 2016 truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market. Bilel Ben Ammar, a […]
Government & Politics
Court finds human rights violation under UK counter-terrorism legislation ECHR recognizes that UK counter-terrorism laws have subsequently been amended.
(Politico) A European court has ruled that U.K. border officials violated Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights — which guarantees citizens the right to respect for private and family life — when they stopped a French national at a British […]
Children & Teens
Family devastated by Belgian ruling not to bring back Islamic State children
(Reuters) A Belgian court’s decision to overturn a ruling forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria has left their family devastated. The grandmother of the six children, aged from 11 […]
Government & Politics
Sweden moves to tighten anti-terror laws: five key things to know
(Local) The Swedish government wants to tighten the laws applying to people who take part in or assist terrorist organizations. Here are five things to know about the law proposal and what it means. What is the proposed new law? The government […]
Citizenship
Nijmegen jihadist stripped of Dutch nationality
(NL Times) State Secretary Mark Harbers of Justice and Security stripped 37-year-old Outhmane B. of his Dutch nationality. B. traveled to Syria with his family in 2014 and followed jihadist training courses there. He was put on the national terrorism list in […]
Christians
Man threatened Muslim woman because she was dressed in western clothing (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
European court rules in favor of child migrant, fines France
(AP) The European Court of Human Rights ordered France to pay 15,000 euros ($17,000) to an Afghan migrant for failing to protect him when, as a 12-year-old, he lived alone in a makeshift migrant camp in Calais. Thursday’s decision is limited to […]
Interfaith
Defence sums up in Brussels Jewish museum terror trial
(AFP) Lawyers for a Frenchman accused of murdering four people in a terrorist attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels insisted Thursday their client was not the killer, as his trial nears its end. Defence lawyers said Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, was not […]
Academics & Education
Hundreds of Muslim parents to take kids out of school in protest against ‘gay lessons’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Belgium wins appeal against repatriation of Islamic State families
(Reuters) Belgium has won an appeal against a judge’s order forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria, a court said on Wednesday. A judge ruled last year that the country […]
Law Enforcement
Groningen man, 48, arrested on terrorism charges in Dutch village
(Dutch News) A 48-year-old man from Groningen has been arrested on charges of preparing to carry out a terrorist attack, the public prosecution department said on Wednesday. The man, a dual Dutch and Algerian national, was arrested 10 days ago at a […]
Children & Teens
Shooting range criticised for Shamima Begum target
(BBC) A shooting range in Merseyside has been criticised for using images of IS bride Shamima Begum as a target. Labour MP Angela Eagle said she was “disapproving” of the use of living people’s faces by Ultimate Airsoft Range in Wallasey. Ms […]