(Arab News) UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is ready to withdraw his country from the European Convention on Human Rights as he finalizes plans for the UK’s strictest immigration legislation yet, the Times reported on Sunday. Official estimates warned that 65,000 illegal […]
(Anadolu) The British government is aiming to stop “deportation appeals” for those who reach the UK via crossing the Channel in small boats, according to the Times newspaper. In a report on Friday, the British daily said the UK Home Office is […]
(Arab News) Muslim groups in the UK linked to the promotion of extremism are set to face funding cuts and greater monitoring under plans presented by UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, the Times newspaper has reported. The plans to overhaul Britain’s anti-extremism […]
(AFP) Danish lawmakers decided Friday to investigate the case of a man who says he spied for Denmark in Syria, but wound up jailed by Spain over alleged IS group ties. Ahmed Samsam, 34, a Danish national, claims he was working for […]
(Euractiv) Radical right French MEP Nicolas Bay saw his parliamentary immunity waived in a plenary vote at the European Parliament on Thursday, following accusations by French courts of hate speech. Bay, formerly a National Rally (Rassemblement National) MEP, joined journalist-turned-pundit Eric Zemmour’s […]
(AFP) US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center, said that the hackers, who […]
(ITV) A student nurse accused of plotting a terrorist attack at an RAF base after he was allegedly found with a pressure cooker bomb outside a hospital in Leeds is to face a trial in the autumn. Mohammad Farooq, 27, was allegedly […]
(AP) The Swedish government again sought Friday to discredit claims that Swedish social service agencies kidnap Muslim children, saying Sweden was again seeing a “systematized” and “extensive” disinformation campaign. “This campaign has now gained momentum again,” said Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. “This […]
(AFP) Sweden’s government on Thursday proposed new legislation to ban activities linked to extremist groups, in a move to toughen anti-terror laws, a key demand from Turkey to approve Stockholm’s NATO bid. The proposed legislation widens the scope of activities that can […]
(BBC) Four men have been given long jail sentences for being accomplices to murder in a deadly terror attack by a lone jihadist gunman in the heart of Austria’s capital in November 2020. Kujtim Fejzulai went on the rampage in Vienna’s busy […]
(National-UAE) A planned demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in Oslo has been banned amid fears it would become a Quran-burning protest, Norwegian police have said. Turkey summoned Norway’s ambassador on Thursday over the planned protest that was expected to take place on […]
(BBC) A failed asylum seeker who killed his 87-year-old “surrogate grandmother” has been detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon, 34, stabbed Brenda Blainey in her North Yorkshire home in “circumstances of appalling brutality” on 5 January 2022. He had been […]
(Breitbart) Imams who granted temporary marriages to Muslims hiring prostitutes have been sacked from their roles after Swedish media exposed their activities last year. The imams, who are members of the Shia Islamic community, were found to have been paid to grant […]
(AP) The Czech Republic’s government will end checks on the country’s border with Slovakia that were renewed last year amid a new increase in migration, officials said Wednesday. The measure has been in place since Sept. 29 at 27 border crossings between […]
(Jewish News) The Islamic movement buying Wembley United Synagogue has “apologised profusely” after its fundraising flyers sought help to purchase “a place of worship of non-believers.” Dawat-e-Islami, a global Sunni Muslim group founded in Pakistan, caused a wave of upset across social […]
(AP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed Wednesday that Turkey won’t allow Sweden to join the NATO military alliance as long as the Scandinavian country permits protests desecrating Islam’s holy book to take place. Turkey, which had already been holding off approving […]
(Deutsche Welle) Two weeks ago, a knife attack shook Germany when a man traveling on a regional train headed for Hamburg randomly stabbed passengers, killing two of them. The alleged perpetrator, 33-year-old Ibrahim A.*, was known to the police, as he had multiple prior convictions […]
(Deutsche Welle) Across the European Union, the headscarves worn by some Muslim women have been hotly contested for years. Some nations claim hijab bans would tackle religious oppression and terrorism, while others argue bans would discriminate against women’s rights and hamper integration. Some EU countries have already imposed […]
(Yle) Some protesters planned to burn a Koran at an anti-Nato demonstration held in Helsink[i] last week, but then reconsidered after learning it would be against the law, according to city police. The Helsinki Police Department’s chief inspector, Heikki Porola, told Yle […]
(AP) Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Tuesday denounced activists who burned the Quran and hanged an effigy of Turkey’s president in Stockholm as “useful idiots” for foreign powers who want to inflict harm on the Scandinavian country as it seeks to […]
(ANSA) Italian police on Tuesday arrested three Tunisian nationals resident in Italy for favouring clandestine immigration in a case linked to Anis Amri, a Tunisian domestic terrorist who drove a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin in December 2016, killing 12 […]
(AFP) The Moroccan suspect held in connection with a machete attack on two Spanish churches, killing a verger and badly injuring a priest, will undergo psychiatric testing, a court said Tuesday. The case is being handled by the Audiencia Nacional, Spain’s top […]
(Yle) Police in Finland would not allow a public burning of the Koran, as has occurred recently in Sweden and Denmark, according to the National Police Board. Finnish law stipulates that violating religious peace is a punishable offence, the police board said […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that it was able to cancel a planned demonstration in Sweden in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, which was supposed to include the burning of a Torah scroll. Yet in a conversation […]
(AFP) A Spanish court ordered Monday a Moroccan man accused of storming two churches with a machete to be remanded in custody without bail on murder and terrorism charges. Yassine Kanjaa, 25, is accused of killing a verger and seriously injuring a […]
(Anadolu) Türkiye on Sunday reaffirmed its support for the legitimate struggle of the Turkish minority of the Western Thrace region in Greece. Marking the Jan. 29 National Day of Resistance and Social Solidarity of Western Thrace, the Foreign Ministry said the people […]
(BBC) A serving soldier in the British Army accused of committing a bomb hoax at an RAF base and another terror offence has appeared in court. Daniel Abed Khalife, of Beaconside, Stafford, was charged on Friday, and has been remanded in custody. […]
(Reuters) Turkey warned its citizens on Saturday against “possible Islamophobic, xenophobic and racist attacks” in the United States and Europe after its Western allies cautioned their citizens in Turkey about possible terror attacks. In two separate travel advisories, the Turkish foreign ministry […]
(NL Times) A self-proclaimed Salafist police force is causing fear among Dutch Muslims and starting to divide Dutch mosques. That’s because the instigators warn that they will pillory fellow Muslims as infidels who they believe are guilty of “wrong” behavior or “wrong” […]
(BBC) A serving member of the British Army has been charged with a terror offence, the Metropolitan Police has said. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was charged over two incidents including attempting to “elicit information of a kind likely to be useful to […]
(AFP) Turkey summoned Denmark’s ambassador on Friday to condemn Copenhagen for allowing a far-right extremist to burn Korans over Ankara’s refusal to let Sweden and Finland join NATO. Anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish dual national, first burnt a copy of the […]
(Euro Weekly) As reported by Spain’s Ministry of the Interior today, Friday, January 27, a jihadist arrested in the city of Girona last Wednesday, [January] 25, intended to carry out a massive machine-gunning of tourists in the Benidorm beaches. Fath Allah Benhachem […]
(BBC) A student nurse accused of taking a homemade bomb to the Leeds hospital he worked at has appeared in court. Mohammad Farooq was said to have the device outside the maternity ward of St James’s Hospital on 20 January. Mr Farooq, […]
(AP) A counterterrorism intelligence unit on Friday questioned a suspect accused of killing a Catholic church officer with a machete and wounding four more people, including a priest, in the southern city of Algeciras, Spain’s national police agency said. The Spanish National […]
(AP) Spanish police on Thursday raided the home of a young Moroccan man held over the machete attacks at two Catholic churches the previous night that left a church officer dead and a priest injured in the southern city of Algeciras. A […]
(Sky News) A man has been charged under the Terrorism Act following an incident at a hospital’s maternity wing in Leeds. Mohammad Farooq, 27, of Roundhay, Leeds, was charged with engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism and with explosives […]
(AFP) The deadly church attack in Algeciras has rekindled Spanish concerns about the jihadist threat, which experts say is still present although the country has been relatively spared from attacks in recent years. On Wednesday evening, a machete-wielding attacker entered two churches […]
(AFP) German prosecutors said Thursday there was no indication of a terrorist motive in a knife attack on a train that killed two teenagers and wounded several other passengers. A 33-year-old suspect named only as Ibrahim A., a stateless man of Palestinian […]
(Deutsche Welle) A man with a knife killed two people and wounded seven more on a regional train running from Kiel to Hamburg on Wednesday. A suspect was arrested at a small train station in the town of Brokstedt soon after the […]
(AP) A machete-wielding man killed a sexton and injured a priest at two Catholic churches in the city of Algeciras on Wednesday before being arrested, Spain’s interior ministry said. Authorities are investigating the attacks as a possible act of terrorism. The suspect […]
(BBC) A man jailed for encouraging terrorism in a speech in a mosque has had his sentence cut by a year. Abubaker Deghayes, from Saltdean, East Sussex, was convicted at the Old Bailey in April 2022, and sentenced to four years with […]
(Politico) The European Commission on Tuesday presented its new plan to step up the return of migrants to countries outside of the European Union, as the 27 member states brace for a fight over this politically explosive topic at a series of […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels Court of Assizes, which is currently presiding over the trial of suspects involved in the Brussels terror attacks at the Maelbeek metro station and Zaventem Airport, listened to the testimony of an expert who was able to trace […]
(NL Times) Turkey has summoned the Dutch ambassador over a recent protest with the Koran in The Hague. Edwin Wagensveld of the anti-Islam group Pegida tore up a Koran in front of the temporary Tweede Kamer building on Sunday. “We condemn and […]
(AFP) France has repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in a prison camp for suspected jihadists in Syria, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, in the third major return of French citizens from the country. Rights groups have been pressing for years […]
(Kathimerini) One of the 38 refugees stranded on an islet along the Greek-Turkish border last summer has come forward to claim that the alleged death of a 5-year-old Syrian girl on the islet was meticulously stage-managed. The man, a Syrian national, has […]
(AP) Turkey’s president cast serious doubt on NATO’s expansion Monday after warning Sweden not to expect support for its bid for membership into the military alliance following weekend protests in Stockholm by an anti-Islam activist and pro-Kurdish groups. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
(Anadolu) A far-right Dutch politician, and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, on Sunday tore out pages from a Quran in The Hague, the administrative capital of the Netherlands. On Twitter, Edwin Wagensveld shared a video of his provocative act which took […]
(Local) Last year saw just a single police charge for violation of a 2018 law banning face-covering garments, commonly known as the “burqa ban.” Data drawn by the National Police (Rigspolitiet) from local police departments shows only one charge was issued throughout […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss Centre for Islam and Society at the University of Fribourg completed its first further education course for imams in autumn. Hansjörg Schmid, director of the centre, takes stock of the experience. The 12-month course attracted a great deal […]
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