(Reuters) Italian police seized eight men on Wednesday behind a speedboat smuggling ring that ran people, including possible jihadists, to Sicily from Tunisia, investigators said. Operations were headed by a Tunisian man who used his Facebook account to spread Islamic State (IS) […]
(Breitbart) A Greek Orthodox priest was beaten by a pair of Syrian asylum seekers in front of his own church. The priest observed the migrants parking their motorcycles in the courtyard of the sanctuary of St. Nicholas in Patisia, a neighbourhood in Athens, […]
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(Tablet) Yesterday marked the four-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, in which the staff of a satirical French comics publication, along with several bystanders, were murdered by jihadist terrorists inside their Paris offices. The killers were the brothers Saïd and Chérif […]
(Ahval) Radical Islamists participated in a conference organised by the Turkish government in the central mosque of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), German newspaper Kölner-Stadt Anzeiger reported on Jan. 6. “The Turkish-Islamic Union, DITIB, apparently maintains close contacts with alleged […]
(Brussels Times) Concerning the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche and Nacer Bendrer, Alexander Strens’s mother expects Nemmouche “to explain himself, and say what he did, who his accomplices are, and what his motives are,” his lawyer, Mr. Dalne, said on Monday upon arrival […]
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(IPT) German officials reportedly see the Muslim Brotherhood as an increasingly subversive force in their society. Attacks by ISIS, combined with Muslim migration to Germany, have fueled social tension. The reach of the Islamic Community of Germany (ICG), which the German domestic […]
(AFP) Six Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals living in Sweden went on trial in Stockholm on Monday accused of financing terrorism, three of them also charged with planning a terror attack. “If the terrorist crime had been carried out, it could have seriously […]
(AFP) A French jihadist appeared in court on Monday as a jury was chosen for his trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014. Mehdi Nemmouche, the first jihadist to return from Syria’s battlefields to allegedly […]
(Radio France) This is the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attack against the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Twelve people died at the hands of two radical Islamic attackers, who also killed Ahmed Merabet, a police officer who was on […]
(National-UAE) The home of one of the magistrates investigating rape charges against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was burgled last week, French media reported on Sunday. Quoting an unnamed police source, French news website Europe 1 said a laptop with sensitive information had […]
(AP) Cartoonists, religious leaders and top French officials are paying respects to 17 people killed by Islamic extremists targeting satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. The attacks that started exactly four years ago Monday were the first of several to […]
(Morocco World News) Two Spanish criminologists conducted a study on women involved in terror-related crimes in Spain. The study, quoted by Ceutaldia, indicates that nearly 34.8 percent of women radicalized by terror organizations in Spain are Moroccans. The study showed that the […]
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(AFP) Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in […]
(NBC) The vast majority of terror attacks in France were carried out by Islamic radicals who had been known to police or intelligence services, according to a new report by a global security think tank. Bratislava-based GLOBSEC examined 22 terror incidents in […]
(NY Times) A Belgian ban on the Muslim and Jewish ways of ritually slaughtering animals went into effect on New Year’s Day, part of a clash across Europe over the balance between animal welfare and religious freedom. With both animal rights advocates […]
(NY Times) Early on Sunday mornings, Habiba Hatem, 9, prepares her own breakfast, grabs her flashy pink school bag and jumps into her father’s car — bound for Arabic lessons at her local mosque in a suburb north of Paris. Colorful sketches […]
(Morocco World News) Denmark has deported Said Mansour, convicted of incitement to terrorism and formerly a dual Moroccan-Danish citizen, to Morocco. According to Danish media, Mansour arrived in Casablanca yesterday night, aboard Royal Air Maroc flight 222 from Copenhagen. Danish authorities handed […]
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(Anadolu) Terrorist groups such as FETO, Daesh, PKK, Boko Haram and al-Shabaab pose a global threat to Muslims worldwide, the final declaration of the European Muslims meeting said on Friday. The 2nd meeting of European Muslims in the German city of Cologne […]
(Dutch News) Books by radical Muslims, including by people banned from entering the UK for praising suicide bombings, are available in the library at the high-security prison in Vught, the Telegraaf said on Friday. MPs from the Christian Democratic party CDA and […]
(Brussels Times) At least 369 persons have been convicted of infractions of a terrorist nature in Belgium in the past four years, La Dernière Heure reported on Friday, quoting official data. The figures were provided by the federal Office of the Public […]
(Jewish News) A leading Muslim activist has warned “forward-thinking” members of his community are being “held to ransom” by extremists, after Golders Green mosque abandoned an exhibition about Muslims who helped Jews during the Holocaust over security threats and the event’s links […]
(PRI) When Chérif Chekatt opened fire last month in the French city of Strasbourg at one of the most famous Christmas markets in Europe, five people were killed and about a dozen were injured. The 29-year-old Strasbourg native with Moroccan roots was […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German far-right group claims to have carried out street patrols in the Bavarian town of Amberg where four asylum-seekers allegedly attacked a dozen passers-by over the weekend. The Nuremberg branch of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) posted pictures […]
(Local) Clashes over migration between Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and Italian mayors continue, with several city mayors now refusing to follow Salvini’s orders. Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo, has been joined by left-leaning mayors in Naples and Florence who say they will […]
(Jewish News) A planned exhibition celebrating Muslim Albanians who helped, protected and rescued their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust has been scrapped. No reason has been given for the cancellation, but Rabbi Natan Levy, head of operations at Faith Forums for London, […]
(BBC) A man who planned to drive a van into 100 people in London was working with a government de-radicalisation programme at the time, a court has heard. Islamic State (IS) supporter Lewis Ludlow pleaded guilty last August to planning the Oxford […]
(Anadolu) Islam is a religion of peace that defends universal values, Ali Erbas, the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, said on Wednesday. “Islam is a religion of peace that defends and tries to keep the same universal values alive all over […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said asylum-seekers who commit violent crimes must leave the country, after a group of apparently drunken teenagers attacked a dozen people in the Bavarian town of Amberg. “If existing laws are not sufficient, they must be changed,” Seehofer told […]
(Local) Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo, has ordered the local registry office to ignore a new clause in the so-called “decreto sicurezza” that would deny migrants the right to apply for full residency after two-year asylum stays. Left-wing mayor Orlando argued that […]
(BBC) A terror suspect arrested over a “frenzied” knife attack on three people in Manchester has been detained under mental health laws. The 25-year-old is being held on suspicion of attempted murder after the stabbings on New Year’s Eve at the city’s […]
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(BBC) The stabbing of three people — including a police officer — in Manchester is being treated as a terrorist investigation, police say. A man, aged 25, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the attack on New Year’s Eve at […]
(Jerusalem Post) A ban on kosher slaughter by the Flanders region of Belgium will go into effect January 1, after legislation prohibiting animal slaughter without pre-stunning was passed in the region’s parliament in July 2017. Slaughter according to Islamic law will also […]
(NL Times) Another Rotterdam man was arrested on suspicion of involvement in terrorist-related crimes, the public prosecutor’s office said on Monday. The arrest is not connected to the arrest of four men in Rotterdam over the weekend, suspected of plotting a terrorist […]
(Reuters) Belgium will 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, the migration minister said on Sunday. A judge said on Wednesday that Belgium had to […]
(BBC) The UK and France are to step up joint patrols and increase surveillance to tackle a rise in the number of migrants trying to reach Britain in small boats. Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who has cut short a family holiday, agreed […]
(AFP) Dutch security forces arrested four people in the port city of Rotterdam on Saturday on suspicion of preparing for a “terrorist crime,” police said, while a fifth suspect was detained in Germany. Elite counter-terrorism units and police arrested the men and […]
(Gatestone) The British government’s idea of who is — and who is not — a legitimate asylum seeker becomes stranger by the month. In November it was reported that the Pakistani Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, was unlikely to be offered […]
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(Deutsche Welle) The German Foreign Ministry wants Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and other Gulf states to register any donations or state subsidies intended for mosques in Germany. According to daily Süddeutsche Zeitung and German broadcasters WDR and NDR, the government has involved […]
(Reuters) Three Central Asian men have been charged in Sweden with plotting to commit a terrorist crime as well as — along with three others — financing the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said on Thursday. “Three (of the suspects) acquired and […]
(AFP) One of France’s most wanted jihadists, considered a potential source of valuable information by Western intelligence agencies, is set to return to prison Thursday following seven years on the run. Peter Cherif, 36, was close to the brothers who massacred staff […]
(Jewish News) Golders Green Mosque is to host a unique one-day Yad Vashem exhibition at the beginning of the new year, highlighting the Muslim Albanians who helped, protected and rescued their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. The exhibition, to be held under […]
(Reuters) A Belgian judge has ordered the government to repatriate six children of Islamic State (IS) militants and their mothers who have been detained in a camp in Kurdish-controlled Syria, the national news agency Belga said on Wednesday. Tatiana Wielandt, 26, and […]
(Deutsche Welle) Lawmakers from Germany’s grand coalition government said on Wednesday that they were considering introducing a “mosque tax” for German Muslims, similar to the church taxes that German Christians pay. Thorsten Frei, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), […]
(Reuters) German police said on Tuesday they had found a flag of the Islamic State (IS) militant group near the site of a suspected attack on a railway track in Berlin and that investigators were examining whether the perpetrators had any political […]
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