(AFP) In Albania’s capital, Baba Mondi envisions a Vatican-like state for his Bektashi faith on a tiny scrap of land that would serve as a model for love and tolerance. Last year, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced plans to establish a […]
(NL Times) The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) is aware of a report from Germany that terrorists may be targeting Festival de Liebe at Ahoy in Rotterdam on March 7 and 8. The Rotterdam authorities are also looking into it. […]
(Politico) French Prime Minister François Bayrou will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday to draw up a response to a deadly weekend knife attack in the Alsatian city of Mulhouse. The alleged perpetrator of the incident is a 37-year-old Algerian citizen, a French […]
(DPA) Four suspected members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas went on trial in Berlin on Tuesday, accused of having maintained secret weapons depots for the radical Islamist organization in several European countries. “For the first time in Germany, people are facing […]
(AP) The Italian government told judges at the European Union’s highest court on Tuesday that its transfers of migrants to asylum processing centers in Albania comply with EU and human rights laws. The European Court of Justice has fast-tracked a pair of […]
(NL Times) Students across the Netherlands are reporting bans on prayer during school hours, with some even facing punishments for attempting to pray at school. Over 180 secondary schools have been named by students who say they are not allowed to pray […]
(DPA) Islamists have used social networks to call for attacks, including during the Cologne carnival, Martin Lotz, head of the Cologne police’s carnival operations, told dpa. He said that these kinds of statement[s] also aimed at unsettling the population and that the […]
(Olive Press) A Moroccan hairdresser based in the Barcelona area has been deported from Spain for indoctrinating and recruiting fighters for the Islamic State terror group at his salon. The jihadist lived in Mataro and was expelled by the National Court and […]
(AFP) A French court on Monday found an Algerian online influencer guilty of inciting terrorism on TikTok, sentencing him to 18 months in jail. The 25-year-old man, identified by officials as Youcef A. and known on social media as Zazou Youssef, had […]
(JNS) Thousands of Dutch Islamists gathered in the central city of Utrecht in the Netherlands over the weekend to hear speeches by three extremist imams The Hague had unsuccessfully sought to ban. During the two-day “Ramadan Expo” at the Jaarbeurs Exposition Center, […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Algerian Islamist terrorist who murdered one and wounded several more people in Mulhouse, France, on Saturday had been arrested and convicted for promoting terrorism in the wake of the October 7 massacre, according to French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. […]
(AP) Four people were in custody Sunday after a deadly stabbing in eastern France that authorities linked to Islamic extremism, according to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office. A Portuguese man was killed in the Saturday attack in the city of Mulhouse, near […]
(DPA) The suspect in Friday’s attack at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin was motivated by anti-Semitism, German prosecutors said on Saturday, as Interior Minister Nancy Faeser called for him to be deported to Syria from prison. “According to what we know so […]
(AFP) A man who went on a stabbing rampage in France, killing one and wounding several others in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist act,” was on a terrorism watchlist and subject to deportation orders, according to authorities. The knife-wielding […]
(NL Times) The court in The Hague has scrapped the Dutch government’s decision to deny entry to the Netherlands to three Islamic preachers invited to speak at the Ramadan Expo in Utrecht this week. According to the court, the government did not […]
(AFP) The daughter of [a] murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013. In a Paris court on […]
(DPA) German authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of having planned a politically motivated attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin, security sources told dpa on Friday. Security authorities assume an Islamist motive, according to information obtained by dpa. Police arrested […]
(AFP) German police said Friday they had arrested a male suspect over a stabbing that badly wounded a 30-year-old Spanish man at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial near the US embassy. The unidentified attacker used a “stabbing weapon” in the assault around 6:00 pm […]
(Brussels Times) The Walloon government plans to “eventually” ban the home slaughter of pigs, goats and sheep, as it already does for cattle and horses. The aim of the measure is to enforce better compliance with food safety and animal welfare legislation, […]
(European Conservative) Austria is facing “high-risk threats” of Islamist terrorism, according to the head of the Central European country’s domestic intelligence agency, who spoke after yet another terrorist attack, this time targeting a railway station, was thwarted. Austrian authorities announced on Wednesday, […]
(AFP) A French court on Thursday postponed a much-awaited decision on freeing pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed 40 years ago for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats. The Paris appeals court, which had been scheduled to deliver its verdict […]
(NL Times) [A] court has sentenced four men to 25 years in prison for the murder of Roshin, a 28-year-old Apeldoorn woman. The court found that the men — two brothers and two cousins of the victim — conspired to kill her […]
(Dutch News) Police in Rotterdam have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of posting jihadist propaganda on social media. The man was arrested at his home where police found images of him wearing a balaclava and carrying a machete. These were confiscated […]
(ANSA) The right-wing League party has proposed banning the burqa in Venice, local dailies reported Thursday. The motion filed by council whip Alex Bazzaro envisages a DASPO city ban for those wearing the Islamic veil in public. “We ask the mayor,” Bazzaro […]
(NL Times) Three “extremist speakers” who were to be guests at an event in Utrecht this weekend will not be granted entry into the country. The minister of justice and security, David van Weel, and minister of asylum and migration, Marjolein Faber, […]
(AFP) France’s right-dominated Senate has backed a bill to ban religious symbols including the Muslim headscarf in all sport competitions, professional and amateur, sparking accusations of discrimination from the left and rights advocates. The bill still needs a majority of votes from […]
(Reuters) Austria arrested a 14-year-old on February 10 on suspicion of planning a militant attack on a Vienna train station, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, calling the suspect an Islamic State supporter who became radicalised online. The announcement follows a knife […]
(Jerusalem Post) Hamas officials starring in online sessions, summer camps for youth promoting radicalizing ideologies, and protests calling to “defeat the European Union” — all of these are led on European soil by Masar Badil, an emerging organization with ties to officials […]
(National-UAE) The West’s response to the war in Gaza has caused a degree of anger that will inevitably lead to a rise in radicalisation among young Muslims, the UK’s leading counter-extremism expert has warned. Dame Sara Khan told the National she had […]
(BBC) A man who was jailed for conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) in a “landmark case” has had his sentence increased. Emad Kaky, 48, was jailed for four and a half years in October, after he arranged for a young […]
(AP) Amnesty International is urging French lawmakers to reject a bill this week that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions. The bill is backed by right-wing senators and will be debated from Tuesday in the upper house of the French parliament. […]
(AP) Authorities in Greece said Tuesday they detained 107 migrants in two separate operations near the island of Crete, as an official attributed an increase in people trying to cross the eastern Mediterranean to conflicts in the Middle East. A cargo ship […]
(Anadolu) The French government on Tuesday officially recognized the role of an imam as a profession, adding it to the list of occupations by the French Employment Agency. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau made the announcement during the closing session of the second […]
(Western Standard) Sweden has a problem with so-called honour killings against women and girls. The Swedish Police Authority has tracked honour-related crimes since 2019, reporting around 4,500 suspected cases by November 2021. Recent unverified reports on social media highlight the severity of […]
(JNS) A judge in The Hague last week dismissed the legal defense of an asylum seeker from Gaza who had claimed that his destruction of a wreath for Holocaust survivors last year was not motivated by antisemitism. The defendant, Muayad A., and […]
(AFP) Five men went on trial in France on Monday charged with holding four French journalists hostage for the Islamic State jihadist group in war-torn Syria more than a decade ago. IS emerged in 2013 in the chaos that followed the outbreak […]
(Reuters) A Swedish court on Monday found four men guilty of belonging to Islamic State, carrying out activities such as recruitment and weapons training for the organisation, and sentenced them to between three and six-and-[a]-half years in prison. The Nacka District Court […]
(Reuters) The 23-year-old Syrian refugee believed to have killed a teenager and injured five other people in a weekend stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach became radicalised quickly by using TikTok, officials said on Monday. The suspect, identified as Ahmad […]
(DPA) Opposing protests took place in the southern German city of Munich on Sunday following a deadly car-ramming attack that killed two people and rekindled a debate on deportations just days before a nationwide election. On Thursday, a 24-year-old Afghan national drove […]
(DPA) Bavarian Premier Markus Söder has called for immediate negotiations with the Taliban on deportation flights to Afghanistan following a deadly attack by an Afghan national in the southern German state’s capital, Munich. “A flight is needed every week,” Söder told the […]
(ITV) More than 25,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel since Keir Starmer became prime minister, according to provisional Home Office data. A total of 25,135 migrants have crossed the Channel since July 5, 2024, including 240 people who made the journey […]
(Jerusalem Post) Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli (Likud) explained his “no” vote on the ongoing hostage deal at the start of the 50th annual Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Sunday. In a one-on-one conversation with the […]
(NL Times) Rabobank used potentially discriminatory criteria to identify possible terrorist financing in customer transactions, according to an internal document from 2017 obtained by Argos. The document outlined transactions flagged for further scrutiny, including the purchase of visas for Turkey, Islamic clothing, […]
(AP) Austrian authorities said Sunday the stabbing of six people that left a 14-year-old boy dead was carried out by a man with possible connections to the Islamic State group who appeared to have acted alone. The suspect, a 23-year-old Syrian, was […]
(LBC) Two people have been charged after a video emerged of a man burning a Koran and another man attacking him outside the Turkish consulate in London. Social media footage showed a man being kicked on the ground by his knife-wielding attacker. […]
(GB News) West Midlands Police has reissued a mugshot of a convicted Islamic State terrorist after she complained about not wearing a niqab in the original photograph. Farishta Jami, 36, was found guilty of terrorism offences on Thursday for planning to fly […]
(Deutsche Welle) A 37-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter have died two days after they were injured in a car ramming in the southern German city of Munich, officials said on Saturday. Authorities earlier said that at least 39 people were injured in the Thursday attack, in which […]
(AFP) A Syrian asylum seeker was arrested after a teenager was stabbed to death and five other people were wounded in southern Austria Saturday, police said, sending shock waves through the Alpine nation. The attack comes just two days after a suspected […]
(BBC) Lord Walney has called for more action to protect the public from “the menace of extreme protestors,” after his role as the government’s independent adviser on political violence was scrapped. Under the previous Conservative government, the crossbench peer recommended extra powers […]
(European Conservative) One of the high dignitaries of the Islamic State, a French national, has been held prisoner by the Kurds in northern Syria since 2018. Believing his life to be in danger, he has asked to be repatriated to France, which […]
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