Crime
Isis suspect told parents he wanted to behead schoolfriend, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Terrorism
Children & Teens
Swedish court rejects appeal for father of Stockholm terror victim
(Local) The Supreme Court, Sweden’s highest court of law, will not grant a second appeal by the father of an 11-year-old girl killed in the 2017 Stockholm terror attack. The decision comes more than two years after Rakhmat Akilov, an Uzbek national, […]
Children & Teens
Swedish terror expert: Do not allow ISIS women to return to Sweden
(Breitbart) Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp has recommended that the Swedish government should not allow female Islamic State members to return, citing a lack of laws to prosecute them. While he criticised the deficiency in the Swedish legal system, Ranstorp praised neighbouring Norway, […]
Government & Politics
American who joined the Taliban is released from prison
(AP) John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, released under tight restrictions that reflected government fears he […]
Crime
Isis suspect Jack Letts’ parents ignored warnings, court told (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Army veteran indicted in California bomb plot against rally
(AP) A U.S. grand jury on Wednesday indicted an Army veteran in a plot to plant a bomb at a rally by white supremacists in California. The indictment charged 26-year-old Mark Domingo with providing material support to terrorists and attempted use of […]
Children & Teens
Swiss propose house arrest, including for teenagers, to curb extremism
(Reuters) The Swiss government on Wednesday proposed new laws aimed at preventing extremist violence and forcing people including children deemed a threat to be registered with authorities, with house arrest a last resort in some cases. The measures, due now to be […]
News: North America
In letter, ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh said ISIS ‘doing a spectacular job’ Lindh is set to be released from prison Thursday amid concerns among U.S. authorities that he remains a potentially violent Islamic extremist.
(NBC) John Walker Lindh, the American captured fighting with the Afghan Taliban two months after the 9/11 attacks, is set to be released from prison Thursday amid concerns among U.S. authorities that he remains a potentially violent Islamic extremist, current and former […]
Internet
‘I want to bomb Trump Tower.’ Feds charge N.J. man with supporting terror group
(NJ.com) Federal authorities arrested a New Jersey man on Wednesday, claiming he sought to join a terror group after being radicalized online and posted an Instagram poll asking his followers if he should “bomb Trump Tower.” Jonathan Xie, 20, faces charges of […]
Government & Politics
West hit by 112 terrorist attacks in 15 years: Dutch intelligence service
(NL Times) A total of 112 terrorist attacks were committed in Western countries over the past 15 years. Three-quarters of these happened in the last five years, a strong increase related to the rise of terrorist organization Islamic State since 2014, according […]
Law Enforcement
Dutch arrest suspected Jabhat al-Nusra battalion commander
(Dutch News) A suspected commander of a terrorist Jabhat al-Nusra battalion has been arrested in the Netherlands, police said on Tuesday afternoon. The man, who is 47 and has Syrian nationality, was arrested in the small town of Kapelle in Zeeland on […]
Government & Politics
Virginia lawmaker connected to anti-Semitic groups Tied to Hamas propaganda and fundraising group the Islamic Association for Palestine
(Free Beacon) A member of the Virginia legislature and former volunteer for Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) is connected to multiple anti-Semitic organizations and is the son of a Hamas fundraiser. Del. Ibraheem Samirah (D.) — who received sympathetic national coverage this […]
Government & Politics
Shelby seeks answers on ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh’s early release
(AL.com) So-called “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh is scheduled to be released Thursday — years earlier than his 20-year prison sentence for aiding the extremist Muslim group — and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., wants answers. Alabama’s senior senator sent a letter Monday […]
Government & Politics
The naked hypocrisy of CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush
(IPT) Oh boy, was Hussam Ayloush ever mad! Asked to condemn Hamas in 2013, Ayloush called the question “unacceptable” and lashed out at the questioner, saying it was “very shameful” and “proves that you have nothing but bigotry in you.” Ayloush, who […]
Children & Teens
Talks under way to bring women and children back from Syria to face trial
(Dutch News) Talks have begun between the Netherlands and Iraq to repatriate 10 women and their children being held in Kurdish refugee camps after they went to join the civil war in Syria. The Dutch government is trying to organise safe passage […]
Government & Politics
British citizens who help Isil could face life in prison under updated treason laws, Sajid Javid suggests (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Denmark: Syrian man gets jail for terror planning
(AP) A Syrian asylum seeker in Sweden received Monday a 12-year prison sentence for planning to explode one or more bombs in the Danish capital of Copenhagen and stabbing random people with kitchen knives. The Copenhagen City Court said Moyed Al Zoebi, […]
Health & Medicine
‘Cherry picked and out of context’ — Deception dominates ICNA co-sponsored ‘Inventing Terrorists’ report
(IPT) As IPT Senior Fellow Patrick Dunleavy noted Friday, the Islamic Circle of North America has helped update a report on terrorist prosecutions in the United States which claims more than 9 in 10 cases involving Muslim suspects are bogus. “Many convicted […]
Interfaith
Is a CAIR staffer legitimizing modern blood libels? The organization was officially designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates in 2014.
(Jerusalem Post) A Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) organizer, Zohra Lasania, the program director of CAIR-Pittsburgh, reportedly gave legitimacy to a Zionists-ISIS conspiracy, according to the Middle East Forum, a conservative think-tank. Lasania reportedly posted on Facebook an article first published by […]
Clerics & Preachers
One of U.K.’s most prolific extremist cells is regrouping
(NY Times) Even as fellow European countries worry about hardened Islamic State fighters returning from Syria and Iraq, Britain has another problem: the re-emergence of a homegrown militant cell, Al Muhajiroun, one of Europe’s most prolific extremist networks, which was implicated in […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim Reform Movement founder opposes Omar, CAIR and Islamism abroad
(Christian Post) I interviewed Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser in January 2017, July 2017, and September 2018 on a range of topics including Islamism and what he believes is its antidote, the Muslim Reform Movement. This is a follow-up interview. Jasser is president […]
News: North America
John Walker Lindh, ‘American Taliban,’ to be released from prison next week
(SF Chronicle) John Walker Lindh, the Marin County man convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will be freed from a federal prison Thursday. Federal Bureau of Prison records show Lindh, dubbed the “American Taliban,” will […]
Clerics & Preachers
ICNA solicits donations for prison program
(IPT) The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) recently sent out an urgent request to its followers seeking donations to assist Muslim prison inmates. Some of the donations will help “facilitate Islamic education” in the U.S. prison system. Americans are generous in […]
Government & Politics
Sarasota 9/11 connection remains cloaked in government secrecy, breeding suspicion of Saudi role in terror attacks
(Sun Sentinel) The facts and the treatment of former Sarasota, Fla., residents Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji are extreme but not unique. Saudi Arabian born, raised in the fringes of palace aristocracy, Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his family had lived for over a decade […]
Interfaith
Belgium museum killer in France over 2013 Syria kidnappings
(AFP) Belgian authorities have transferred Mehdi Nemmouche, the French jihadist who killed four people at a Jewish museum in 2014, to Paris for questioning over his suspected role in the kidnapping of four journalists in Syria in 2013, a legal source said […]
Law Enforcement
Former Uggs salesman found guilty of being Hezbollah ‘sleeper’ agent
(NY Post) A former Uggs salesman with a rocky marriage has been found guilty of working as a “sleeper” agent for an arm of Hezbollah while living in the Bronx — helping the terror group prepare for attacks on New York City. […]
Immigration
Germany: Trial of Berlin bomb plotter begins Magomed-Ali C. was arrested in August 2018 on suspicion of planning a bomb attack at a Berlin shopping center. He allegedly had close ties to the man who killed 11 people at a Christmas market in the capital in 2016.
(Deutsche Welle) The trial of a 31-year-old Islamist from Russia who allegedly planned a bomb attack in Berlin began on Thursday. Federal prosecutors accuse Magomed-Ali C. of planning the attack, most likely on a shopping center in the north of the capital, […]
Children & Teens
Children of dead Gothenburg-born Isis member back home in Sweden
(Local) The seven young children of dead Isis fighter Michael Skråmo are being cared for by social services in Sweden, after being flown to Gothenburg from Iraq. The children, aged between one and eight, were left orphaned after their father was killed in […]
Crime
Prison officer assault over halal meal earns terror plotter a longer sentence
(AAP) A Queensland man jailed for plotting a terror attack has had his prison term extended over the assault of a prison officer in a disturbance sparked by a halal meal. Agim Kruezi, 26, didn’t commit the assault. But he pleaded guilty […]
Clerics & Preachers
Salafist preacher Sven Lau to be released from German jail German Islamist Sven Lau will leave prison early after serving two-thirds of his sentence for supporting a terrorist organization. Lau had recruited fighters for the Jamwa militia in Syria.
(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Thursday ordered the early release from jail of one of Germany’s most renowned Salafists. Sven Lau had been serving a sentence of 5 1/2 years for aiding terrorism. Lau was convicted in July 2017 of supporting Jamwa, an Islamist […]
Government & Politics
White House won’t sign global call to curb terrorist content online
(Politico) The White House on Wednesday said it will not join an international call for Facebook, Twitter, Google and other tech companies to curb terrorist and extremist content online in the wake of the deadly New Zealand mosque shootings, videos of which […]
Children & Teens
North Philadelphia mosque explains how children wound up reciting violent poem in video
(Philadelphia Inquirer) The children who recited a violent poem in Arabic and performed choreography to a song referencing the “blood of martyrs” last month at a North Philadelphia mosque did not understand the words’ meaning, and the volunteer aide who made those […]
Government & Politics
Macron, Ardern host Paris summit against online extremism
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand’s premier Jacinda Ardern will Wednesday host other world leaders and leading tech chiefs to launch an ambitious new initiative aimed at curbing extremism online. The initiative, known as the “Christchurch call,” was pushed by […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Government rejects Islamophobia definition ahead of debate
(BBC) The government has rejected a definition of Islamophobia created by a cross-party group of MPs. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims wanted to define it to tackle what it called a “social evil.” But a government spokesman said the wording […]
Crime
Omar Ashfaq jailed for leaving ‘violent footage’ in shoes at mosques
(BBC) A man who left USB sticks containing terrorist propaganda inside shoes at six mosques in England has been jailed. Omar Ashfaq, 24, of St Thomas Road, in Derby, left 17 of the sticks in footwear while Muslim worshipers were praying between […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Police chiefs in row over definition of Islamophobia (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
The Florida Democratic Party’s own Muslim anti-Semite Rasha Mubarak believes Israel has no right to defend herself.
(FrontPage) Anti-Semitism is quickly on the rise within the Democratic Party, and the poster children for it are two high-profile freshmen US representatives, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Florida, too, has its own Democrat Islamist anti-Semite, anti-Israel activist […]
Crime
Derby man spread terrorist documents at mosques
(BBC) A man has pleaded guilty to spreading terrorist documents around six mosques. Omar Ashfaq, from Derby, was charged with eights counts of dissemination of a terrorist publication between 31 May and 8 June last year. The 24-year-old pleaded guilty on the […]
Clerics & Preachers
Sri Lanka suicide bomber was ‘radicalised by hate preacher Anjem Choudary in UK’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
German intelligence agency warns of ‘Islamic State’ attacks From a military point of view, the 'Islamic State' has been defeated in the Middle East. However, the group remains a dangerous terrorist organization in the West, warns Germany's domestic intelligence agency.
(Deutsche Welle) It was the first time Thomas Haldenwang, president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, had hosted his agency’s traditional symposium. The event on Monday in Berlin was entitled “Mobilization Capability in Political Extremism” — […]
Government & Politics
New Zealand PM targets online hate after mosque attacks
(AFP) New Zealand’s leader Jacinda Ardern will join other world leaders in launching a “Christchurch call” to curb online extremism at an international meeting in Paris on Wednesday, following the worst mass killing in her country’s recent history. Participants will be asked […]
Government & Politics
Tories accuse Liberals of politicizing terror report as Goodale defends move
(Canadian Press) The federal Tories are accusing the Trudeau government of playing politics by stripping specific references to specific religious groups from its annual report on terrorism. Conservative public-safety critic Pierre Paul-Hus suggested to the House of Commons national-security committee Monday that the Liberals bowed […]
Academics & Education
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary prowls streets unsupervised in UK terror hotbed despite bail conditions (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Anjem Choudary disciple who radicalised teenager to carry out Lee Rigby-style attack out of prison and living mile from his mentor (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Isil extremists using Instagram to promote jihad and incite support for terror attacks on the West (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Academics call for repatriation of Belgian children in Syria
(Brussels Times) Over 300 Belgian academics from universities across the country have signed an open letter calling for the repatriation of Belgian children in Syria, prompted by the death in April of a one-year-old Belgian in the war-torn country. “This baby is […]
Children & Teens
FBI uncovers homegrown terror training camp in Alabama
(WBMA) At first glance, it looks like an abandoned dump. But this plot of land in Macon County, Alabama, is described in an FBI search warrant as a “makeshift military-style obstacle course” belonging to a small group of terrorists led by Siraj […]
Internet
Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images
(AP) The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad. Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts: plaques of anti-Semitic verses, talk of retribution and a photo of two men carrying more jihadi […]
Internet
Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts for terrorism content in second half 2018
(Reuters) Twitter is making headway in tackling online terrorism content on its platform as it suspended over 166,000 accounts in the second half of last year, about a fifth less than in the previous period, the social media company said on Thursday. […]
Legal
Arlington 18-year-old pleads guilty to recruiting for terrorist group
(Dallas Morning News) An Arlington 18-year-old pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal terrorism charge after he was accused of grooming a would-be recruit to join a terrorist group and arranging to get him to Pakistan. Michael Kyle Sewell was arrested in February and pleaded guilty Wednesday […]