(BBC) Victims of grooming gangs have been ignored because of political correctness, Rishi Sunak said as he set out plans for a police taskforce. Specialist officers supported by the National Crime Agency will be sent to help forces with their investigations, the […]
(AFP) The trial of a 69-year-old Lebanese-Canadian charged over a fatal 1980 bomb attack outside a Paris synagogue opened on Monday after more than four decades of legal wrangling. Canada-based Hassan Diab, who denies any involvement in the attack which killed four […]
(BBC) Manchester Arena bomb survivors have filed landmark legal action against a conspiracy theorist who claims the attack was faked. Martin and Eve Hibbert, who were left with severe disabilities after the 2017 blast, are suing Richard D Hall for defamation and […]
(AFP) The trial of three French men and two foreigners opened in Paris on Monday for allegedly planning a jihadist attack near France’s presidential palace, the Elysee. The five, two of whom were minors at the time of the suspected plot, are […]
(AFP) Greece on Friday remanded into custody two Pakistani suspects accused of plotting an anti-Semitic attack after they testified before a magistrate, their lawyer said. The two men, aged 29 and 27, admitted exchanging messages concerning a possible attack on a Jewish […]
(Kathimerini) Two suspects of Pakistani origin are set to appear before an investigating magistrate on Friday on charges of planning an attack on a Jewish center in the busy downtown area of Psyri. The suspects allegedly received orders from a fellow Pakistani […]
(AP) Greece’s prime minister promised Friday to extend an existing wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkey as he campaigned for the country’s general election. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who called the May 21 election earlier this week, presided […]
(Anadolu) Türkiye on Friday strongly condemned the recurrence of a “vile attack” on the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and a Turkish flag in Denmark. “We condemn in the strongest terms that the hate crime committed in Denmark on 24 March against […]
(BBC) MI5’s failure to prevent the Manchester Arena attack centred on a mistake so serious that it could be seen as negligent, the BBC has been told. The security agency apologised in March for not preventing the suicide bombing by Salman Abedi, […]
(AFP) France’s football federation has told referees they must not pause matches to allow Muslim players to break their fast during Ramadan, media reports said Friday. Unlike England’s Premier League which allows it, the practice does not comply with the French Football […]
(BBC) A suspect accused of setting two men on fire outside mosques in Birmingham and Ealing, London, has appeared in court. Mohammed Abbkr, of Gillott Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, is alleged to have sprayed a substance on to the two Muslim victims in […]
(Brussels Times) Individuals arrested earlier this week as part of a terror investigation reportedly were planning on assassinating the Mayor of Antwerp Bart De Wever and police officers. Eight people were arrested on Monday night in Brussels, Antwerp and Eupen as part of an […]
(Kathimerini) Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday a fence being constructed at Greece’s northeastern border region of Evros will be completed “with or without European money.” “Tomorrow I will be in Evros and I will have the opportunity to sign the […]
(Kathimerini) One of the two Pakistani nationals arrested for planning to bomb a Jewish restaurant in central Athens, which doubled as a cultural and religious center, has already admitted his part in the plan, Kathimerini understands. The two will face an examining […]
(Arab News) Britain should do more to monitor Islamic groups and schools, crack down on forced marriages and help people to leave oppressive religious groups, a government consultation is reported to recommend. The report, to be released within weeks, is set to […]
(AFP) Greece is questioning eight additional suspects from Pakistan over an alleged plot to carry out anti-Semitic attacks in Athens, a police source said Thursday. “The investigation to determine if additional persons are involved is ongoing,” the police source told AFP. The […]
(Local) Only one of the three parties in Denmark’s coalition government has stated it wants to repatriate women with national connections to Denmark from Kurdish-run prison camps in Syria. The Moderate party, one of the junior parties in the coalition, wants Danish […]
(AFP) Iran’s embassy in Greece on Wednesday denied any connection to an alleged plot for anti-Semitic attacks in Athens using Pakistanis of Iranian origin. “The embassy of the Republic of Iran strongly denies the rumours spread by Zionist sources and their baseless […]
(AP) Greek authorities said police were continuing searches in Athens and other parts of the country Wednesday following the arrest of two suspects accused of planning an attack at [a] Jewish center in a busy downtown area of the Greek capital. The […]
(AFP) Seven people were imprisoned in Belgium Wednesday in two investigations into “possible terrorist attacks,” the federal prosecutor’s office said. The seven, five Belgians as well as a Turk and a Bulgarian, were charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist […]
(AP) Authorities in Portugal said Wednesday that the fatal stabbings of two women at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon was not being treated as a potential act of terrorism. Investigators have found no indication the man detained in the knife attack […]
(AP) A Swedish court on Wednesday found a 35-year-old woman guilty of war crimes for posting photos of herself with severed heads that were on display in a Syrian city in 2014. Fatosh Ibrahim, who pleaded not guilty, was sentenced to three […]
(Anadolu) The German state of Berlin will allow Muslim teachers to wear headscarves, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Headscarves and wearing of religious symbols by teachers will be allowed in general and can only be restricted in individual cases if it poses a […]
(National-UAE) UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch and Minister for Investment Lord Dominic Johnson have announced the launch of a working group on Islamic finance at the Great British Iftar at Lancaster House in London. The working group […]
(AFP) Belgium on Tuesday launched an investigation into how a Syrian man arrested last week on suspicion of carrying out war crimes for the Islamic State group was granted refugee status. The 38-year-old, who left Syria in 2015, was detained over the […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian man in the Italian city of Milan was stabbed over the weekend after being attacked by three other North Africans who noticed he was drinking a beer during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Tunisian, who was drinking […]
(Kathimerini) Authorities in the Evia town of Halkida are investigating the attempted gang rape of an 11-year-old resident of a migrant and refugee camp in Ritsona, northeast of the capital. According to state broadcaster ERT, the young Somali refugee told investigators that […]
(AP) A man wielding a large knife killed two Portuguese women and wounded several other people at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon on Tuesday, authorities said. Police said they were investigating the stabbings as a possible terror act. Portuguese authorities described […]
(AFP) Police have detained eight people during investigations into an alleged jihadist plot to commit “terrorist attacks” in Belgium, authorities said Tuesday. Raids were conducted late Monday on homes in the capital Brussels, the port city of Antwerp and the border town […]
(AP) Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Tuesday said his country’s intelligence agency Mossad helped Greece prevent a terrorist attack planned against at least one Jewish site in Athens. Greek authorities said earlier that two men described as being of Pakistani origin, […]
(AFP) Norway said Tuesday it was repatriating from Syria two sisters who went there as teenagers as well as their three children, citing abysmal conditions in the refugee camp where they were housed. “The living conditions in the camps are extremely bad […]
(National-UAE) Leaving British ISIS suspects in refugee camps and stripping them of their citizenship rather than taking them back to the UK for trial could create a “breeding ground of terrorists tomorrow,” Conservative former chancellor Lord Norman Lamont has warned. Lord Lamont […]
(BBC) A man who posted an image of a terrorism victim’s severed head on Twitter, urging others to decapitate those who insult Islam, has been found guilty of encouraging terrorist acts. Ajmal Shahpal also praised the killer of French school teacher Samuel […]
(AP) Scotland’s governing party elected Humza Yousaf as its new leader on Monday, making him the first person of color and the first Muslim to lead the country of 5.5 million people. Yousaf narrowly defeated rival Kate Forbes after a bruising five-week […]
(Brussels Times) In the trial of the March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels, Monday (tomorrow) will mark the opening of the final week of victim testimonies before the Brussels Court of Assizes. Monday will start with the testimony of two sisters of […]
(Anadolu) Türkiye on Saturday strongly condemned a “vile attack” on the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and a Turkish flag in Denmark. Denouncing the late Friday incident as a “hate crime,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said: “Giving permission to this heinous act, […]
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(Anadolu) [The] secretary of the Islamic Commission of Spain said that the Muslim population living in Spain has increased 10 times in the last 30 years, exceeding 2.5 million. Mohamed Ajana told Anadolu that according to official records, 2.5 million, and according […]
(Brussels Times) The Director General of Belgium’s Federal Judicial Police Eric Snoeck stated on Friday that the terrorist threat posed to Belgium “has not disappeared completely,” seven years after the terror attacks that rocked the capital in 2016. Speaking on [a ] […]
(Reuters) Europe risks seeing a huge wave of migrants arriving on its shores from North Africa if financial stability in Tunisia is not safeguarded, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday. Tunisia has been gripped by political upheavals since July 2021, […]
(BBC) A suspect has appeared in court charged with two counts of attempted murder after attacks on men set alight outside mosques in Birmingham and London. Mohammed Abbkr, 28, from Edgbaston in Birmingham, is alleged to have sprayed a substance on to […]
(Local) The Danish supreme court, Højesteret, has overruled a 2020 decision to revoke the citizenship of a Danish-Iranian woman who travelled to Syria in support of the Islamic State (Isis) terror group. The Ministry for Immigration and Integration failed to take into […]
(Brussels Times) An event inviting Muslims of the LGBTQIA+ community in Antwerp to celebrate an iftar, a meal eaten after sunset during Ramadan, in a safe space on 31 March has been cancelled for security reasons. “Queer Iftar” was a joint initiative set up […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum’s best friend, who she says inspired her to join IS, has been tracked down by the BBC having escaped from a detention camp in Syria. Sharmeena Begum, no relation, dismissed her former friend, who wants to return to the […]
(AP) German authorities have arrested a Syrian man accused of belonging to a unit of the Islamic State group in his homeland that kidnapped and killed opponents, prosecutors said Wednesday. The man, identified only as Asmael K. in line with German privacy […]
(Brussels Times) The victims of the terror attacks that rocked Belgium on this day seven years ago are being remembered with moments of reflection on Wednesday, including at the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels and at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, where the […]
(ITV) Part of London’s West End was decked out for the first time tonight with lights to celebrate the start of Ramadan. The illuminating idea is run by the non-profit organisation Ramadan Lights UK who previously took the lights to Henlys Corner […]
(NL Times) Two people will face a criminal court hearing on accusations that they tried to get others to commit acts of violence against a secondary school teacher for his use of a cartoon in support of the controversial French satire magazine, […]
(France 24) The timing couldn’t have been worse. Turkey had already threatened to derail Sweden’s NATO aspirations when a far-right extremist set fire to a Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. On Friday, Ankara issued its verdict on Sweden and Finland’s […]
(IranWire) The UK government vowed to tackle the Islamic Republic of Iran’s “vile” activities in the country after a media investigation exposed hate speech among speakers at a British charity run by a representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Analysis of the […]
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