(PJ Media) A debate has long circled around the proposition that American prison systems at state and federal levels need counter-radicalization programs. The hypothesis claims that circle-talking and counseling will preempt the manipulation of predisposed inmates by predatory visiting prison imams, or […]
(Globe and Mail) The Liberal government took steps to bar Omar Khadr from attending a celebration near Parliament Hill in late June where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the keynote speaker, even though Mr. Khadr was not on the guest list for […]
(HuffPost) “If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it,” reads a sign welcoming visitors to the Birmingham neighbourhood of Sparkbrook. It’s a quote from the legendary boxer [Muhammad] Ali, whose legacy has a […]
(Canadian Jewish News) The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) says it is “disgusted” and “alarmed” that a Toronto-based Arabic-language newspaper glorified Palestinian mothers who “sacrifice” their sons as suicide bombers and terrorists. CIJA said the Aug. 3 issue of Meshwar […]
(National-UAE) Most comedians have to put up with a fair degree of heckling in their careers, but British comedian Eshaan Akbar has received violent threats for his new stand-up routine at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In Prophet Like It’s Hot, the 34-year-old […]
(Gatestone) A court in Germany has ruled that the recent deportation to Tunisia of a failed asylum seeker — an Islamist suspected of being a bodyguard for the former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden — was unlawful and that, at taxpayer expense, […]
(AP) German prosecutors said Saturday they are taking seriously a Yazidi refugee’s claim that she ran into her former Islamic State captor twice in Germany, but say they need more information to identify him. The case of 19-year-old Ashwaq Haji Hami made […]
(BBC) A mosque where the Manchester Arena bomber worshipped denies encouraging people to “fight in any military struggle” following a BBC report. A sermon by Imam Mustafa Graf at Didsbury Mosque in 2016 called for the support of fighters in Syria, according […]
(Deutsche Welle) A 19-year-old Yazidi woman has fled Germany with her family after encountering the “Islamic State” (IS) fighter who had enslaved her in Mosul on the streets of Schwäbisch Gmünd, a town in Baden-Württemberg. Ashwaq Haji Hamid arrived in the southwestern state with her […]
(BBC) A sermon at the mosque where the Manchester bomber worshipped called for the support of armed jihadist fighters, according to two Muslim scholars. An imam at Didsbury Mosque in December 2016 was recorded praying for “victory” for “our brothers and sisters […]
(Free Beacon) Ilhan Omar, the former Minnesota legislator who won the Democratic primary for a House seat on Tuesday, once voted against a state bill to stop insurance payments to those convicted of terror acts, adding more fuel to accusations the candidate […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Australia’s political leaders have united to heap condemnation on a “dangerous” speech by Senator Fraser Anning that a shocked Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warned was “only helping the terrorists.” The call by Senator Anning, from Katter’s Australian Party, for […]
(National Review) In an awful story out of New Mexico last week, five adults were arrested on charges of abusing children, conduct that allegedly resulted in the death of one child. Apparently, the defendants are fundamentalist Muslims who were running the squalid […]
(IPT) For many years now, the New York Times has sanitized radical Islamic groups, militant Islamic leaders and even Islamic terrorist attacks. The paper has [done] this by deliberately omitting critical details that would discredit Islamist groups. For example, the Times routinely […]
(Gatestone) On July 22, two youngsters — 18-year-old Reese Fallon and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis — were killed, and another 13 people, ranging in age from 17 to 59, were wounded in a brutal shooting attack at a number of restaurants on Danforth […]
(Newsweek) Once a clear frontrunner, a recent accusation of domestic abuse has threatened to knock congressman Keith Ellison’s bid to become attorney general of Minnesota off track. The deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, who has been accused of verbally and […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Queensland senator Fraser Anning has praised the White Australia Policy and called for a plebiscite as “the final solution to the immigration problem” in the most inflammatory maiden speech to an Australian Parliament since One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s […]
(FrontPage) It turns out the man arrested for running a Muslim terrorist training compound in rural New Mexico is the son of an influential Democrat-connected jihadist imam who was close to the Blind Sheikh who orchestrated the bombing of the World Trade […]
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(Breitbart) Democrat Rashida Tlaib, winner of her party’s primary in Michigan’s 13th congressional district, celebrated her win last week with a series of anti-Israel tweets. Tlaib, who is Palestinian-American, will become the country’s first female Muslim member of Congress next year. She […]
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(Gatestone) As major Swedish cities such as Malmö have become known as places where Jews are threatened, anti-Semitism in Sweden has attracted international attention. Does Sweden, however, really deserve this bad reputation or is there some misunderstanding? In December 2017, when US […]
(Global News) The federal government has stripped one of Ottawa’s largest mosques of its charity status over “activities that promote hate and intolerance,” Global News has learned. The Canada Revenue Agency took action against the Ottawa Islamic Centre and Assalam Mosque following […]
(Worcester Telegram) A Democratic primary challenger to U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, in the 1st Congressional District has landed endorsements from progressive groups despite her connection to a Muslim cleric who called the Supreme Court ruling upholding same-sex marriage the “darkest day […]
(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn imam once linked to the 1993 World Trade Center blast steered police to a terrorist training center for kids run by his son in New Mexico. Imam [Siraj] Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator of terrorist bomber Sheik Omar […]
(Bergen Record) A Syria native from Bergen County and a Middlesex County man are among 20 Americans who filed a lawsuit this week alleging their rights were violated by the federal government’s secret surveillance of travelers. The lawsuit challenges the federal terrorist watch list system […]
(Breitbart) Left-wing Islamic activist Linda Sarsour reportedly has ties to the father of the man arrested for allegedly training children to carry out school shootings on a New Mexico compound. Police arrested Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, last week for allegedly holding a series […]
(NY Post) A controversial Brooklyn imam confirmed Thursday that the decomposing body of a young boy found in a squalid New Mexico compound is his grandson — but denied his mosque had anything to do with the death, or an alleged “conspiracy […]
(Daily Caller) Media outlets are leaving out a key detail about the New Mexico compound leaders who were reportedly training young children to commit school shootings. Eleven children were recently rescued from the “filthy” compound, which police say appears to be run […]
(AP) German authorities say they have arrested a German man who is accused of spying on a mosque for Jordan. Federal prosecutors said the 33-year-old, identified only as Alexander B. because of German privacy rules, was arrested Tuesday. They didn’t specify where. […]
(AP) A Muslim civil rights organization said Tuesday it plans to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal government’s terror watch list system, including a newly disclosed program in which air marshals have secretly monitored air passengers with no known […]
(NY Post) The five people arrested for child abuse in New Mexico after they were found living with 11 children in “Third World” conditions are related to a controversial Muslim faith leader in Brooklyn who has been linked to the 1993 World […]
(Deutsche Welle) Children from Islamist households in Germany represent a “not insignificant potential threat,” the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence service, Hans-Georg Maassen said Monday. In a new report cited by the Funke media […]
(Algemeiner) The 13th Congressional District in Michigan is one of the state’s poorest and neediest. Still reeling from the departure of longtime US Representative John Conyers, 89 — the “dean” of the House of Representatives and the longest-serving African-American member of Congress […]
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(Gatestone) It is more than a year since the UK suffered three Islamist terrorist attacks in quick succession. It is also more than a year since the prime minister, Theresa May, stood on the steps of Downing Street and announced that “enough […]
(IPT) As the United States and its coalition partners continue to squeeze ISIS out of its remaining territory in Iraq and Syria, more and more foreign fighters are returning to their home countries. This migration from the battlefield to the hometown is […]
(Dutch News) A mosque in Amsterdam has been giving shelter to fundamentalist Muslims who went on to join Islamic State, the Telegraaf reported on Friday. The paper bases its claim on a photograph which it says shows four “heavyweights from extremist circles” […]
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(IPT) When Linda Sarsour speaks, a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official apparently likes what he hears. Gamal Heshmat shared an anti-Israel video by Sarsour on his Facebook page last Friday. In it, Sarsour glosses over Hamas’ role coordinating the “Great March of […]
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(IPT) If you ask the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its media allies, terrorists ensnared by FBI sting operation[s] are victims of entrapment; they’re mentally ill; or both. Media coverage, such as a recent Cleveland Plain Dealer article about a sting […]
(Gatestone) The number of Salafists in Germany has doubled over the last five years and now exceeds 10,000 for the first time, according to Germany’s BfV domestic intelligence agency. BfV estimates that Germany is home to more than 25,000 Islamists, nearly 2,000 […]
(National-UAE) Twenty-four hours after Khuram Butt led his last Quranic class for the young children of an English Islamic school in June 2017, he strapped on a fake suicide vest, pumped himself up with steroids and committed a terrorist atrocity. The dedicated […]
(National-UAE) An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-linked cleric is to head one of Germany’s largest Islamic centers, after being controversially awarded a visa this month. Ayatollah Mohammad Hadi Mofateh was awarded a three-month visa by German authorities earlier this month, and will […]
(Bloomberg) Google, Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. have taken significant steps to expunge Islamic State propaganda and other terrorist content from their platforms. But taking no chances, the European Union is set to propose a tough new law anyway — threatening internet […]
(FrontPage) We can all relax now: the Associated Press reported Tuesday that “authorities say no link to terrorism in Toronto rampage that left 2 dead, 13 injured.” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale declared: “At this stage, based on the state of the […]
(Breitbart) The number of known radical Islamic Salafists has exceeded the 10,000 mark, according to a new report by the German domestic intelligence agency. The report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which was released this week, […]
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(IPT) Two of the American Muslim community’s most notable anti-Semites recently teamed up for an online fundraiser benefiting the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) San Francisco chapter and a group called MPower Change. Despite claiming to be advocates for the Palestinian cause, […]
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