Children & Teens
Slough Borough Council pledges support to the #EndFGM campaign (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Interfaith
Israeli orphans to face accused Jewish museum killer
(AFP) Two young Israeli women will Thursday face for the first time the alleged killer of their parents when they attend his trial for the Jewish museum attack in Brussels. The daughters of murdered Israeli couple Miriam and Emmanuel Riva will be […]
Interfaith
Belgian prosecutors probe theft at attack lawyer’s office
(AP) Belgian prosecutors said Wednesday that they are investigating an apparent attempt to intimidate a lawyer in the trial of a suspect in the 2014 shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum. The Brussels prosecutor’s office said that a baseball bat and […]
Immigration
3 Iraqi refugees arrested in Germany over attack plot
(AP) German authorities arrested three Iraqi refugees on Wednesday on allegations they were planning an Islamic extremist bombing attack, and searched properties in three states in connection with their investigation. Federal prosecutors said Shahin F. and Hersh F., both 23, and Rauf […]
Christians
Pope Francis praises Sweden’s moratorium on immigration
(Breitbart) Countries that are unable to assimilate migrants should stop accepting more until they are able to integrate them, Pope Francis told reporters on the papal plane Monday. The pope put forward Sweden as an example of a country that had accepted […]
Academics & Education
Muslim councillor in probe after endorsing ‘homophobic views’ in Birmingham (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
German NGO sues Italy at EU rights court over stranded migrants
(AFP) German aid group Sea Watch said Tuesday it has filed a case at the European Human Rights Court against Italy for refusing to allow its ship carrying 47 rescued migrants to dock. The German NGO’s spokesman Ruben Neugebauer said the group […]
Children & Teens
French jihadists in Syria may be allowed home, Paris says
(AFP) France on Tuesday opened the door to repatriating more than a hundred jihadists being held in Syria, in a marked change in stance brought about by the planned withdrawal of US troops from the country. Paris is worried that French prisoners […]
Immigration
Afghans paid to return home from Europe have second thoughts Austria gave him $3,100 and a one-way ticket to Kabul. But nearly three years in Europe had changed him.
(NBC) A wave of anxiety washed over Mohammad Farooq Niazi as the plane touched down in his homeland. “I missed my country,” he said, recalling his mindset on the day he returned to Afghanistan after almost three years of trying to build […]
Children & Teens
Germany’s thousands of ‘missing’ refugee minors Authorities lose track of thousands of unaccompanied child refugees each year. Often they are safe, but experts say alarmingly little is known about their situations, and the government must do more to protect them.
(Deutsche Welle) The increased influx of refugees to Europe in recent years has also brought tens of thousands of refugee minors to Germany, as well as other countries. Many of them vanished from the authorities’ radar after arrival, either immediately or at […]
Academics & Education
Muslim councillor ‘overstepped the mark’ in public apology to school ‘promoting homosexuality’ (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Muslim pupils at Trojan Horse schools meet Holocaust survivors (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Italy’s Salvini considers legal case against migrant rescue ship
(AFP) Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday he was considering legal action against the crew of a Dutch-flagged rescue ship as calls grew for 47 migrants to be allowed to land. “We have concrete elements to declare that the captain and […]
Children & Teens
Scotland looks to introduce FGM protection orders (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Merkel calls on each citizen to fight anti-Semitism
(AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on every single citizen to help fight anti-Semitism ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Merkel said Saturday in her weekly podcast: “Today we are seeing a very different kind of anti-Semitism: there’s the hatred of […]
Clothing
Jewish museum trial: Nemmouche betrayed by his Calvin Klein shoes
(Brussels Times) At the start of the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche, the man accused of carrying out an armed attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels in May 2014 in which four people died, the defence laid out its main five-point defence […]
Academics & Education
Councillor backs Muslim mums who accused school of ‘promoting homosexuality’ (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Banksy work stolen from Paris terror attack venue
(AFP) A painting in homage to terror victims by famous street artist Banksy has been stolen from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where 90 people were killed in 2015 in a jihadist attack. The white stencilled oeuvre showing a sad-faced girl […]
Clerics & Preachers
182 radicalized terrorists and prisoners have been released
(Brussels Times) Some 182 terrorists, terrorist accomplices, hate preachers and radicalized individuals that have been sentenced since the rise of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and the beginning of the war in Syria, have been released. These figures have been requested […]
Academics & Education
Muslim mums protest outside school for ‘promoting homosexuality’ to their kids (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Trio of family members jailed for having terrorist propaganda (LINK ONLY)
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History
Daughter of survivors rejects Holocaust museum’s plan to mark modern-day refugees
(JTA) A daughter of survivors said she would stop giving talks at a Dutch Holocaust museum because it planned to host an event in support of modern-day refugees. Lea van Coeverden is critical of the Camp Westerbork memorial museum’s plan to host […]
Law Enforcement
Two men suspected of plotting attack arrested in Belgium
(AFP) The Belgian authorities have arrested two men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack and charged them with terrorism offences, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The main suspect was arrested in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek while his alleged accomplice was arrested near […]
Immigration
UK starts returning cross-Channel migrants to France
(BBC) The UK has begun returning migrants, who cross the Channel in small boats, to France in a bid to deter others from doing the same, the Home Office said. On Thursday, a small number of failed asylum seekers, who landed on […]
Government & Politics
Hardline Italian minister faces trial over blocked migrants
(Reuters) A special tribunal has recommended that Interior Minister Matteo Salvini face trial for refusing to let 150 migrants disembark last year from a rescue ship docked in Sicily, the far-right leader said on Thursday. The court, which reviews investigations involving government […]
Government & Politics
Over 3 years, Denmark seizes 25,000 euros from migrants
(AFP) Denmark has seized just over 25,000 euros from migrants arriving in the country in the three years since passing a controversial law allowing for the confiscation of valuables, police said Thursday. Since the law was passed on January 26, 2015, officials […]
Interfaith
Nemmouche says he will speak at the end of his trial
(Brussels Times) Questioned about the fact that he had told the investigating judge that he would speak in the Assise Court, terror suspect Mehdi Nemmouche said on Wednesday that he would do so at the end of his trial. “I shall express […]
Academics & Education
Muslim girls should not be forced to wear a hijab at school simply because of pressures at home, head of Ofsted says (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic Law
Council of Europe: ‘Judicial’ activities of Sharia councils in UK a cause for concern
(Scottish Legal News) The Parliamentary Assembly of the 47-nation Council of Europe has expressed concern about the “judicial” activities of “Sharia councils” in the UK and has recommended that barriers to Muslim women’s access to justice be removed. A resolution adopted last […]
Children & Teens
Iraqi charged with rape, murder in Germany’s ‘Susanna case’
(AFP) German prosecutors Wednesday announced child rape and murder charges against a rejected Iraqi asylum-seeker in a case that fuelled a heated debate about immigrant crime. The accused in the “Susanna case,” 21-year-old Ali Bashar, had fled Germany after the crime for […]
Law Enforcement
Italian convert to Islam held on inciting terror charge
(AP) Police in Sicily have arrested a 32-year-old Italian convert to Islam on terrorism charges for allegedly inciting contacts to participate in a holy war. The news agency ANSA reported Wednesday that the suspect, identified as Giuseppe D’Ignoti, converted in 2011 while […]
Immigration
German court lengthens Syrian kidnapper’s jail term
(AFP) A German appeals court Wednesday lengthened the jail term for a Syrian refugee found guilty of war crimes and taking part in the kidnapping of a Canadian UN peacekeeper. The defendant, named only as Suliman al-S., 28, was sentenced to four […]
Interfaith
Europe’s Jews have a bleak future, community leaders say
(JTA) Jews have a bleak present — and future — in Europe because of anti-Semitism. That was the unusually pessimistic view outlined by the continent’s Jewish community leaders at the European Parliament’s annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day event. European Jewish Congress President […]
Legal
‘Random people’ were target of Copenhagen terror plot: prosecution
(Local) A 31-year-old Syrian man with a Swedish address is currently on trial on terror charges at Copenhagen City Court. Two kitchen knives, fireworks, batteries and 17,460 matches were among the equipment the man, who lives in Malmö, planned to use to […]
Government & Politics
Prevent strategy on radicalisation faces independent review (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Spain: Catalonia’s continuing jihad problem
(Gatestone) Police in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia arrested 18 members of a jihadi cell plotting an attack in Barcelona — and then released all but three. The arrests have drawn renewed attention to the continuing problem of radical Islam in […]
Crime
Danes downplay seriousness of physical assaults on Jews
(JTA) Four years after a jihadist killed a Jewish guard outside a Danish synagogue, only 42 percent of Danes said that physical attacks on Jews were “a problem.” Respondents in Hungary, which has not had a fatal attack on a Jew for […]
Immigration
German prosecutors press terror charges against Syrian man
(AP) Prosecutors say they’ve pressed charges against a 29-year-old Syrian man who allegedly was a member of a foreign terror group and violated the war weapons control law. The man, whose name was not given, allegedly joined the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham insurgent […]
Interfaith
No Mossad link to Brussels Jewish museum attack: investigators
(AFP) Judges investigating the Jewish museum attack in Brussels rejected on Tuesday defence claims that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency may have played a role. Lawyers defending Mehdi Nemmouche deny charges that he shot dead four people at the museum in May 2014, […]
Citizenship
Jihadist stripped of Dutch nationality
(NL Times) Convicted jihadist Marouane B. from Arnhem is no longer a Dutch national. State Secretary Mark Harbers of Justice and Security stripped his Dutch nationality, a spokesperson for the ministry confirmed to NU.nl after reports in the Telegraaf. B., who traveled to […]
Children & Teens
Second scout volunteer suspended and more groups referred to police amid extremism concerns (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Jewish museum attack victims shot with ‘surgical’ precision
(AFP) Victims of the Jewish museum attack in Brussels were shot with “surgical” precision, first responders said Monday at the trial of French national Mehdi Nemmouche. Nemmouche, 33, the alleged jihadist gunman, faces life in prison if convicted of the charges of […]
History
Former Nazi camp in Holland to host event for refugees
(JTA) A Dutch museum commemorating a Nazi concentration camp defended its plan to host there an event about the plight of modern-day refugees. The plan by Memorial Center Camp Westerbork, which was announced last week, prompted an outcry by local Jews, who […]
Academics & Education
Universities double invitations to extremists (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Islamic radicals met on camping trips to Wicklow mountains (LINK ONLY)
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Mosques
Isis ‘mentor’ attended Dublin mosque, claims former sympathiser (LINK ONLY)
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Health & Medicine
Alexandr Bekmirzaev: ‘A victim of true Islamic brainwashing’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Oslo stabbing investigated as terrorist attack: police
(Reuters) A knife attack in a supermarket in Oslo is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism, the head of the Norwegian police’s security service (PST) said on Friday. A woman was knifed on Thursday as she was paying at the […]
Government & Politics
Greece announces a new date for Athens mosque Inauguration of long-awaited Athens mosque due in March, says Greek officials
(Anadolu) Greece just gave a new date for the inauguration of the mosque in Athens. Kostas Gavroglu, Greek minister of education, research and religious affairs, told that the inauguration of the mosque, for which five different dates were previously given with no […]
News: Europe
Islamist activists promote divide between Muslim and non-Muslim, says Tony Blair Organisations often held overlapping views with extremists according to report
(National-UAE) A number of UK Islamic activist groups proliferate views that align with proscribed extremist groups, a report by the think tank of former prime minister Tony Blair said. It was found that many worldviews held by these organisations, such as the […]