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Berlin passes first-ever state plan to combat anti-Semitism The German capital has put together a comprehensive approach to fight anti-Semitic hatred. So why is this initiative happening at a local and not a federal level? The reasons, DW found out, are complex.

March 13, 2019 Jefferson Chase

(Deutsche Welle) There have been many reports about anti-Semitism in Berlin over the past year or so, ranging from the story of a Jewish youth bullied out of his high school to accounts of an Israeli symbol being burned at a Palestinian […]

Norwegian rapper who cursed Jews during performance not charged with hate speech

March 12, 2019 Cnaan Liphshiz

(JTA) A Norwegian rapper who cursed Jews while performing at an event in Oslo promoting multiculturalism will not be charged with hate speech because his words may have been criticism of Israel, prosecutors said. Kaveh Kholardi said “f***ing Jews” on stage at […]

Stand-off over Amsterdam Islamic school continues, Muslim groups get involved

March 12, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) Islamic organisations in the Netherlands have called on the board of Amsterdam’s only Islamic high school to resign following claims by the security service that members of the board had links to terrorist organisations. Six organisations, including the Islamic school […]

Iraqi admits killing 14-year-old German girl but denies rape

March 12, 2019 Annalena Doerner and Frank Zeller

(AFP) An Iraqi man confessed in a German court Tuesday to the murder of a teenage girl, but denied raping her in a case that inflamed anti-immigrant tensions last year. “My vision went black and then it happened,” Ali Bashar, 22, testified […]

No more foreign money for mosques in Denmark The government wants to cut the funding from abroad that goes to Muslim bodies in Denmark

March 11, 2019 Stephen Gadd

(Copenhagen Post) A new law proposal from the government and Dansk Folkeparti would make it illegal for foreign governments and authorities to give money to religious bodies in Denmark. The law would come into play if it is decided that the purpose […]

Brussels Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison

March 11, 2019 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The French jihadist who shot dead four people in a terrorist attack at a Jewish museum was on Tuesday sentenced to life in prison by a Brussels court, after prosecutors branded him a “coward” and a “psychopath.” Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted […]

Irish woman suspected of Isis link may face serious charges if she returns to state (LINK ONLY)

March 11, 2019 EoI News

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Switzerland wants to strip ISIS fighter of passport

March 11, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Local) The Swiss justice minister on Monday confirmed that the country was looking at revoking the passport of a Swiss citizen who fought for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). Speaking in the lower house of the Swiss parliament, Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter […]

Government unlikely to be able to strip citizenship from alleged ‘Isis bride’ (LINK ONLY)

March 11, 2019 EoI News

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Man with knives held near rally of Dutch far-right leader Wilders

March 11, 2019 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Dutch police arrested a man carrying two knives and an axe close to an election rally by anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders, the politician and officials said Monday. The suspect was detained as the far-right leader handed out leaflets in Heerlen, in […]

Brussels Jewish museum killer facing jail says ‘life goes on’

March 11, 2019 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A French jihadist found guilty of shooting dead four people in a terrorist attack at Brussels’ Jewish museum joked Monday “life goes on” as prosecutors demanded he be jailed for life. A jury last week convicted Mehdi Nemmouche of “terrorist murder” […]

Two Belgian women, renouncing Islamic State, fear kids will never go home

March 10, 2019 Ellen Francis

(Reuters) Two Belgian women who joined Islamic State in Syria said on Sunday they were losing hope they will ever go home after a Belgian court overturned a ruling to repatriate them with their six children. Tatiana Wielandt and Bouchra Abouallal, each […]

Shamima Begum: ‘Not safe’ to rescue IS bride’s baby, says Hunt

March 10, 2019 Unlisted Author

(BBC) It was too dangerous to send British officials to rescue Shamima Begum’s baby son in Syria, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. The child died in a refugee camp after his mother, who joined IS in 2015, was stripped of UK […]

Woman detained in Syria confirmed as former Defence Forces member from Dundalk (LINK ONLY)

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Poppy plotter terrorist who threatened to behead prison guards wins human rights appeal over being held in solitary (LINK ONLY)

March 9, 2019 EoI News

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Isis brides with five sons lose UK citizenship (LINK ONLY)

March 9, 2019 EoI News

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Islamic State fighter wants to return to Italy, warns of ‘sleeper cells’

March 9, 2019 Ellen Francis

(Reuters) An Islamic State fighter detained in Syria urged Italy on Saturday to let him come home to start a new life, saying he had abandoned the self-styled jihadist “caliphate” after growing disillusioned with its rulers. Mounsef al-Mkhayar, a 22-year-old of Moroccan […]

Call for Sajid Javid to review FGM risk girl case

March 9, 2019 Unlisted Author

(BBC) The lawyer for a failed asylum seeker fighting to protect her daughter from female genital mutilation (FGM) says the Home Office should review the case. Last week the High Court ruled a judge could not prevent Home Secretary Sajid Javid from […]

Switzerland refuses to repatriate its jihadists

March 8, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) The Swiss government has rejected calls to actively repatriate Islamic militants with Swiss nationality from Syria or Iraq. Swiss citizens will not be prevented from returning to the country, according to a government statement published on Friday, but authorities want […]

Haider Ahmed guilty of hunting knife suicide terror plot

March 8, 2019 Daniel De Simone

(BBC) A teenage supporter of Islamic State (IS) has been convicted of planning a terror attack with a hunting knife. Haider Ahmed, 19, from Redhill in Surrey, told contacts he wanted to conduct a suicide mission. But Kingston Crown Court heard Ahmed’s […]

Parkfield School: Police examine protest footage for crimes being committed (LINK ONLY)

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Woman detained in Syria believed to be former member of Irish Defence Forces (LINK ONLY)

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Education minister threatens to remove funding from Amsterdam Islamic high school, accused of terror links

March 8, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

Swedish court convicts man for plotting to carry out bombing

March 8, 2019 Anna Ringstrom and Helena Soderpalm

(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 […]

Finding a place in women’s mosques

March 8, 2019 Doreen Carvajal

(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 […]

Oxford University suspends jihad-supporting student, 21, for trying to recruit for an extreme Islamist group (LINK ONLY)

March 8, 2019 EoI News

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Islamic school in Amsterdam in contact with terrorist group: counterterrorism coordinator

March 8, 2019 Janene Pieters

(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 […]

Mother jailed for 11 years in first British FGM conviction (LINK ONLY)

March 8, 2019 EoI News

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Zurich: Muslim father fined after kids fail to attend Christmas concert rehearsal

March 7, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

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.

March 7, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

German prosecutors charge couple in ricin plot

March 7, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

Number of people in jail for terrorism offences falls for first time since 2013 (LINK ONLY)

March 7, 2019 EoI News

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Tommy Robinson to face fresh contempt of court proceedings (LINK ONLY)

March 7, 2019 EoI News

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Frenchman convicted of Belgium Jewish museum murders

March 7, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere

(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 […]

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

March 6, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

Tories are prejudiced against Islam, says council candidate (LINK ONLY)

March 6, 2019 EoI News

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Terrorists set for release across EU without proper monitoring EU still tinkering with deradicalisation policy as convicted extremists are set to walk free

March 6, 2019 Paul Peachey

(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 […]

Tory councillors in East Staffordshire quit over Islamophobia row

March 6, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

Isis follower jailed for terror plot to drive van into London shoppers (LINK ONLY)

March 6, 2019 EoI News

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Austria to withdraw consular protection for IS fighters: newspaper

March 6, 2019 Tassilo Hummel and Madeline Chambers

(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 […]

French prison guards protest lack of resources to contain radicalised inmates

March 6, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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, […]

Sajid Javid can deport mother of FGM risk girl, judge decides

March 5, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

Suspect in Belgium Jewish museum attack claims innocence

March 5, 2019 Lorne Cook

(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 […]

Ilford headteacher banned from management roles after letting terrorist ‘radicalise’ school children (LINK ONLY)

March 5, 2019 EoI News

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Teaching the Holocaust to ‘new Swedes’

March 5, 2019 Camille Bas-Wohlert and Gaël Branchereau

(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 […]

French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain killed in Syria: wife

March 5, 2019 Rouba El-Husseini and Colin Bertier

(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 […]

Tories suspend 14 members over alleged Islamophobia (LINK ONLY)

March 5, 2019 EoI News

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Russian Islamist charged with bomb plot in Germany

March 5, 2019 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

‘Radicalised’ inmate detained after slashing guards in French prison

March 5, 2019 Chloé Coupeau

(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 […]

EU executive hits back at Hungary’s Orban ahead of elections

March 4, 2019 Gabriela Baczynska

(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 […]