Government & Politics
Britons going to terror hotspots face 10 years in jail under new laws (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
News: Europe
Crime
Pro-migrant Italian mayor charged with setting up fake marriages
(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 […]
Internet
French survivor group condemns memes using picture of accessory to terrorists Video of Jawad Bendaoud went viral as users attached 'amusing' captions
(National-UAE) A survivors’ group for victims of the 2015 Paris attacks has condemned the use of a video of Jawad Bendaoud, the jailed accessory to the terrorists responsible, for memes. Life for Paris said the memes, in which Twitter users post a […]
Government & Politics
Official German report acknowledges Islamist antisemitism in the country
(Algemeiner) In a major break with the past, the German agency for domestic security — Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz — has published a 40-page report whose title translates as “Antisemitism in Islamism.” The report defines Islamism as a form of political extremism among […]
Academics & Education
Cardiff University sex education talk cancelled after concerns
(BBC) An event involving a psychologist who has claimed sex and relationship education could cause children “harm” has been cancelled by a university. Dr Kate Godfrey-Faussett is being investigated by the British Psychological Society after saying the lessons were part of an […]
Crime
Frenchman jailed for pretending to be 2015 attack victim
(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 […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Government sacks Roger Scruton after remarks about Soros and Islamophobia (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Law Enforcement
Police raids across Germany target alleged Hamas-linked charities German police have raided charities alleged to provide support to the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip. The enclave on the east Mediterranean Sea suffers from one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
(Deutsche Welle) Police carried out raids across Germany on Wednesday targeting charities suspected of providing “financial and propaganda” support to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the interior ministry said. Around 90 properties in ten states were searched, with the focus of the raids targeting […]
Children & Teens
German IS woman accused of letting Yazidi ‘slave’ girl die of thirst
(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 […]
Children & Teens
Denmark threatens woman critical of Islam with removal of foster child
(Breitbart) A Danish supervising authority has threatened Danish-Iranian blogger and author Jaleh Tavakoli with the removal of her foster child after she shared an online video of a murder by Islamic State terrorists in Morocco. The Social Supervisory Authority informed Ms. Tavakoli […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Anti-Muslim Tory members on Facebook are telling one another to stop Sajid Javid from becoming prime minister BuzzFeed News has presented Conservative HQ with a list of another 20 people who claim to be Tory members and have made Islamophobic comments.
(BuzzFeed) Conservative party members are posting anti-Muslim comments on Facebook urging one another to prevent Sajid Javid from becoming prime minister, in the latest escalation of the Tory Islamophobia crisis. On Monday, BuzzFeed News presented Conservative HQ with a list of another […]
Legal
Dutch sentence two for ammo in foiled French attack plot
(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 […]
Children & Teens
Parents start legal battle to bring Syrian fighters home
(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, […]
Islamic Law
Isis bride Lisa Smith says she went to Syria to fulfill her dream of living under Sharia law (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Children & Teens
Isis bride Lisa Smith claims her husband was a jihadist whose Northern Irish first wife was jailed (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Children & Teens
Isis bride Lisa Smith pleads for return to Ireland with daughter after being tracked to refugee camp in Syria (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
Dutch ask US for clarity on visas for lawyers working on terror cases
(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 […]
Children & Teens
France says won’t take back Syria jihadist fighters and their families
(AFP) France has ruled out the repatriation of French jihadists and their families detained in Syria after the fall of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate,” Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Friday. France and other European nations have been wrestling with how to […]
Children & Teens
Germany brings home ‘Islamic State’ children from Iraq Germany has started repatriating the children of jailed 'Islamic State' fighters from conflict zones [in] the Middle East. European countries are grappling with how to handle returning foreign fighters and their families.
(Deutsche Welle) The German Foreign Ministry said Friday it had brought several children of convicted “Islamic State” (IS) militants back to Germany from Iraq. The returns were carried out with the consent of the parents, a ministry source said, adding that the number of […]
Books
Leaked docs show Qatari charity funds MB, Tariq Ramadan in Europe
(IPT) Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, received €35,000 — roughly $39,290 — per month from the Qatar Foundation as a “consultant,” documents obtained by French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot show, the Swiss newspaper Tribune de Genve […]
Children & Teens
ISIS husband of Shamima Begum says he wants to return to the Netherlands with her so they can live a ‘normal life’ and ‘regrets’ going to Syria (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Deradicalization
Extremists living in UK under secretive counter-terror programme (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Academics & Education
Germany to push for imams to be trained locally, not abroad In an effort to curb foreign influence and foster integration, the German government is pressing for imams to be educated locally, in Germany. Are German Muslim communities willing to back the idea? DW investigates.
(Deutsche Welle) Forty-three-year-old imam Murat Gül is president of the Islamic Federation of Berlin and teaches Islam at the local Rosa Parks primary school. “Ever since I was a young boy, I had a love for the Koran,” said Gül, who was […]
Books
Qatar ‘spent huge sums on Muslim Brotherhood groups in Europe’ Scale of payments from Doha to Tariq Ramadan also revealed in documents published in new book
(National-UAE) Details of the lavish payments made by Qatar to Muslim Brotherhood organisations in Europe, including furnishing funds the academic Tariq Ramadan has used for legal fees to fight rape allegations, have emerged in a new book. Qatar Papers — How the […]
Arts & Entertainment
Copenhagen attack film features ‘Game of Thrones’ star
(AFP) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who stars in the hit TV series “Game of Thrones,” has another leading role in a film about the 2015 terror attacks in Copenhagen, its distributor said Friday. The actor — who plays Jaime Lannister in the global phenomenon […]
News: Europe
Two years after Stockholm attack, victim’s family asks why there is no memorial
(Local) Two years after their daughter Maïlys died in the April 2017 terror attack on Drottninggatan, Stockholm’s main shopping street, the Dereymaeker family continue to grieve. “We wake up in the morning thinking of our daughter and when we got to bed, […]
Legal
Lawyers drop terrorism case after US visa concerns
(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 […]
Government & Politics
Italy’s Salvini vows to turn away German migrant rescue ship
(AFP) Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday that he had told Germany to deal with a ship run by a German charity carrying dozens of migrants picked up in the Mediterranean, while denouncing the work of NGOs in the region. “The […]
Crime
German [court]: Syrian guilty of war crimes over torture videos
(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 […]
Clothing
Headscarves and turbans to be allowed as part of Garda uniform (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Citizenship
Germany approves stripping dual national terrorist fighters of citizenship Germany's cabinet has approved a change to the law allowing dual nationals to lose their citizenship if they fight for a foreign terrorist militia. The new law will not be applied retroactively.
(Deutsche Welle) Germans with dual nationality who join foreign terrorist militias will lose their citizenship in the future, the cabinet decided on Wednesday. “Someone who goes abroad and actually participates in combat operations for a terrorist militia shows that they have turned […]
Legal
Dutch lawyer ‘refused US visa’ because of terrorism defence work
(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 […]
Interfaith
Uber bars driver after he cancels passengers’ journey saying ‘I don’t take Jews’ (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Burkini
Muslim fashion for women exhibition stirs controversy in Germany First shown in San Francisco, an exhibition taking a look at Islamic fashion has provoked strong reactions ahead of its opening in Frankfurt. 'Contemporary Muslim Fashions' confronts stereotypes on both Islam and style.
(Deutsche Welle) Muslim head coverings have always been a controversial topic, as they embody so many issues, whether women’s rights worldwide or Western prejudice and discrimination against Muslims. Now that the first exhibition dedicated to fashion consciousness of women in Islam is […]
Academics & Education
‘Heir of Mohamed Merah’: French cops arrest terror suspect inspired by Islamist behind Jewish school massacre in Toulouse
(Algemeiner) French media outlets revealed on Wednesday that a man who described himself as the “heir of Mohamed Merah” — the Islamist terrorist who murdered three young children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse in March 2012 — was arrested […]
Law Enforcement
2 suspects in German train attack case extradited to Austria
(AP) Czech police say they have extradited to Austria two suspects who allegedly formed a terror cell with a man detained by Austrian authorities over unsuccessful attacks on trains in Germany. They said Wednesday that the two Iraqi citizens, a 30-year-old man […]
Clothing
Phone company Telia threatened in Norway after empowerment advert
(Reuters) Norwegian police are investigating a threat made against telecoms company Telia after a commercial that used themes of sexual equality and empowerment caused an online backlash. The threat was made in writing, according to the police who gave no further details […]
Internet
YouTube is placing sweeping new restrictions on Tommy Robinson’s channel — but it’s not banning him The video platform is removing the far-right activist’s videos from search results and stopping his livestreaming.
(BuzzFeed) YouTube has placed sweeping new restrictions on far-right activist Tommy Robinson’s channel, removing his videos from search results and prohibiting him from livestreaming to the platform, BuzzFeed News can reveal. The clampdown follows demands from senior MPs from both Britain’s main […]
Academics & Education
Radical preachers have increasing influence in Dutch education, intelligence service warns
(NL Times) Dutch intelligence service AIVD warns of radical influences in education in its annual report for 2018. According to the service, “radical Islamic boosters” play an increasingly emphatic role in the education offer[ed] for young Muslims in the Netherlands. In the […]
Government & Politics
With election looming, is Denmark’s opposition irreversibly split over immigration?
(Local) With Danes set to vote in general elections no later than June 17th, opposition parties that normally form an allied bloc in parliament could be irreconcilably split over immigration. On Monday, Morten Østergaard, the leader of the Social Liberal (Radikale Venstre) […]
Clerics & Preachers
MOT: Oulu imam’s son-in-law and business partner died in Isis ranks An Yle investigative report has found alleged links between a Finnish Islamic leader and an Isis combatant.
(Yle) A man who left Finland to join the terrorist group Isis was the son-in-law and business partner of the imam of the Oulu-based Islamic Society of Northern Finland, Yle’s investigative journalism programme MOT reported on Monday. As part of a programme […]
Children & Teens
Shamima Begum: I was brainwashed. I knew nothing (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Academics & Education
Dutch ban on face coverings delayed to start of August
(Dutch News) The ban on facial coverings in public spaces has been delayed by a month and will now take effect on August 1, home affairs minister Kajsa Ollongren has said. The so-called “burka ban” will apply in schools, universities, government buildings […]
Academics & Education
At least seven from my university joined IS, says captured fighter
(BBC) An Islamic State fighter held in Syria has told the BBC he was one of at least seven students and ex-students from University of Westminster to join IS. Zakariyya Elogbani abandoned a degree in business management which he was taking at […]
Legal
Duo Safwaan Mansur and Hanzalah Patel guilty of trying to flee to Syria to join Daesh (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Children & Teens
‘My sons left home to become terrorists and I don’t know if they’re alive or dead’ (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
News: Europe
Baby-faced Coventry jihadist killed by Isis as western spy (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Internet
‘Hungry Hamza’ once fought for the Islamic State. Now he’s a prisoner and asking about Western fast food
(Washington Post) Five years ago, Hamza Parvez was a pudgy Islamic State recruit from West London known for his unusual social media posts about kittens, KFC and what passed for fast food in the so-called caliphate. But as the Islamic State’s territory […]
Government & Politics
Stockholm takes new approach to returned Isis fighters
(Local) Stockholm is initiating a new collaboration with police and prosecutors to deal with people who have returned to the Swedish capital after joining the terrorist group Isis. Stockholm Mayor Anna König Jerlmyr told Sveriges Radio that the city has thus far […]
Law Enforcement
Germany releases 11 detained after weapons suspicions prove unfounded
(Reuters) Eleven men who were detained overnight on suspicion of planning major attacks with stockpiled weapons were released on Saturday after no evidence of a cache of weapons or explosives was found, a prosecution spokesman said. The men, aged between 22 and […]