Children & Teens
UK will not put officials at risk to rescue Isis Britons, says minister (LINK ONLY)
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Terrorism
Academics & Education
Crown appeals privileges for Toronto military centre stabber
(Canadian Press) Prosecutors say a man found not criminally responsible in a knife attack at a Toronto military recruitment centre should not be allowed to take college classes on his own. The crown is appealing a decision by the Ontario Review Board, which […]
Academics & Education
DfE bans ISIS supporter Mizanur Rahman from running schools
(Schools Week) A man jailed for his support for terrorist group Islamic State has been banned from being involved in running schools. Mohammed Mizanur Rahman is now barred from holding management positions in private schools and being a state school governor under […]
Health & Medicine
Woman sentenced to seven years in prison for Canadian Tire terror attack in Toronto
(Toronto Star) A woman who attacked Canadian Tire employees with a knife and a golf club while declaring support for terror group Daesh is sentenced to seven years in prison, a judge ruled Thursday. In a short and unusual jury trial, Rehab […]
Citizenship
European Court of Human Rights upholds Danish deportation of former citizen who incited terror
(Local) In a unanimous decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected an appeal by Moroccan Said Mansour against being deported from Denmark for terror-related convictions. Mansour, who is known in Danish media as the “Bookseller from Brønshøj” in reference […]
Children & Teens
Shamima Begum: Bring me home, says Bethnal Green girl who left to join Isis (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Money in politics? Ilhan Omar will fly to LA for fundraiser with … terror-tied CAIR
(Conservative Review) Newly elected Rep. Ilhan Omar will jet off to Los Angeles next month to keynote a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a terror-tied organization that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist financing case in […]
Legal
Saeed Noori, Flinders Street killer driver, ‘did it in the name of Allah’ The man who deliberately drove his mum’s car into pedestrians at Melbourne’s busy Flinders Street intersection told his victims why he did it today.
(AAP) An Islamic State sympathiser who mowed down pedestrians in Melbourne’s Flinders Street, killing an elderly grandfather, said he “did it in the name of Allah,” a court has been told. Saeed Noori drove his mother’s SUV into 16 pedestrians outside Flinders […]
Arts & Entertainment
Catherine Deneuve’s new film explores Islamist radicalisation
(Reuters) Tolerance and non-judgemental understanding may be the best way to try to save radicalized young Europeans who want to go and join militant Islamists in Middle Eastern conflicts, veteran French actress Catherine Deneuve said on Tuesday. “Farewell to the Night,” which […]
News: North America
Canadian jihadist says IS foreign fighters ‘hung out to dry’
(AFP) A Canadian jihadist detained in Syria told AFP he has been “hung out to dry” by the Islamic State group like other foreign fighters and appealed to his government for help. Mohammad Ali, 28, was captured by the US-backed Syrian Democratic […]
Children & Teens
Fleeing IS holdout, French women say foreigners still inside
(AFP) Two French women who fled the Islamic State group’s last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists. The Muslim converts said they paid smugglers to take them out of the […]
News: Europe
Wary hope for French families awaiting returns from Syria
(AFP) After years of waiting for his son to come home from Syria, Jacques Le Brun is cautiously hoping that day may be nearing — along with the chance to meet three grandchildren who have never seen France. “He’ll certainly go to prison, […]
Law Enforcement
Arlington teenager was online recruiter for Pakistani terrorist group, feds say
(Dallas Morning News) An Arlington man faces federal charges after authorities say he groomed a would-be recruit for a terror group and arranged to get him to Pakistan. Michael Kyle Sewell, 18, was charged Friday in Fort Worth with conspiring to provide material support […]
Law Enforcement
Man busted at JFK Airport for trying to join terror group: feds
(NY Post) A Manhattan man was arrested at JFK Airport for trying to leave the country to join a Pakistani terror organization, officials said Friday. Jesus Wilfredo Encarnacion, 29, allegedly told an unnamed co-conspirator in November that he wanted to hook up […]
Islamic Law
‘I got cheated. All of us got cheated’: Captured German Isis member says he regrets joining terror group (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Swiss attorney general appeals Islamic Council acquittals
(Swiss Info) The office of the attorney general of Switzerland has filed an appeal against the acquittal of two leaders of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS) who had been accused of terrorist propaganda. A third defendant has appealed against his […]
Government & Politics
Carson named chairman of House counterterrorism panel
(AP) Democratic U.S. Rep. Andre Carson of Indianapolis has been named the chairman of the subcommittee on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and counterproliferation on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The subcommittee oversees the intelligence community’s ability to provide timely information on terrorists, […]
Children & Teens
Canadian women fleeing ISIS territory surrender to U.S.-backed forces in Syria
(Global News) Two Canadian women have surrendered to U.S.-backed forces after fleeing the last patch of ISIS territory in Syria, amid debate over how Ottawa should deal with such detainees. “I believe in Sharia wherever Sharia is,” a 28-year-old from Toronto, who […]
Interfaith
Alleged Brussels museum killer was ‘sadistic’ Syria jailer
(AFP) Two French journalists on Thursday told a terrorism trial in Brussels that they had “no doubt” the accused Jewish museum killer is the man who imprisoned and tortured them in Syria. The former hostages came to Brussels to testify against Mehdi […]
Government & Politics
Canada may not have to repatriate ISIS fighters from Syria: experts
(Global News) The U.S. may have its reasons for urging Canada to repatriate ISIS fighters from the Middle East, but experts say Ottawa is under no clear legal obligation to bring foreign fighters back. On Monday, the U.S. State Department issued a […]
News: Europe
US-backed Syria force says captures foreign jihadists ‘daily’
(AFP) US-backed forces in Syria said Wednesday they were detaining foreign Islamic State group fighters on a “daily basis,” days after confirming the capture of German jihadist Martin Lemke. AFP reported Lemke’s capture last week after speaking to two of his wives […]
Immigration
IPSO rules against Daily Mail over multiple inaccuracies in report claiming 300,000 illegal migrants lived in one French suburb (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
ISIS smuggler: Sleeper cells and ‘undead’ suicide bombers have infiltrated Europe Jailed jihadis are being released, others are returning to Europe to face prison time, and still others have never been known to police and wait to be mobilized.
(Daily Beast) Europe is bracing for a new wave of jihadist attacks by terrorists affiliated with the so-called Islamic State, what “you might call ISIS 2.0,” as Interpol chief Jürgen Stock recently told reporters. Some previously imprisoned jihadists are being released from […]
Children & Teens
Roughly 40 Norwegian children born in ISIS territory, say police Norway’s police fear foreign fighters could plot attacks from abroad
(National-UAE) Around 40 Norwegian children were born or taken to live inside ISIS’ so-called “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq, security services said. Roughly 30 Norwegian men and women remain in Syria, another 30 have died and 40 have escaped according to officials. […]
Legal
Man who tried to create ISIS-inspired terror cell in U.S. gets 15 years in prison, half of what feds sought
(Cleveland.com) A man who tried to create a terrorist cell to carry out attacks in the U.S. in the name of the Islamic State was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison, half the amount sought by federal prosecutors. Erick Jamal […]
Children & Teens
French rethink on repatriating jihadists stirs political storm
(AFP) France has raised the prospect of repatriating around 50 jihadists detained in Syria, creating a domestic political storm that highlights the difficulties posed by bringing extremists home. Successive French governments had insisted citizens who left to live or fight under the […]
Interfaith
Witness points to Nemmouche as Jewish museum gunman
(AFP) A young Frenchwoman on Monday pointed to Mehdi Nemmouche as the gunman at the Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24, 2014, the first witness at his trial to do so. Nemmouche, a 33-year-old Frenchman, faces life in prison if convicted […]
Children & Teens
Dutch are ‘looking into’ bringing IS children back to the Netherlands
(Dutch News) The Netherlands is “looking into” the option of trying to move Dutch women and children living in refugee camps in Syria to safe areas where they can return to the Netherlands, justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus has told broadcaster NOS. “What […]
Government & Politics
Ilhan Omar once blamed ‘our involvement in other people’s affairs’ after al-Shabab attack on Kenyan mall
(Fox) Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar once described acts of terrorism as a reaction to “our involvement in other people’s affairs,” in the wake of the brutal al-Shabab attack on a Kenyan shopping mall in 2013. Omar made the comments during an […]
Clerics & Preachers
Former London imam Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal ‘drew hundreds of recruits to terror’ (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Three men charged with supplying gun to Strasbourg market attacker
(AFP) Three men were Friday charged with supplying the weapon used by the gunman in the Christmas market attack in the French city of Strasbourg and placed in pre-trial detention, a judicial source said. The three suspects, from the same family and […]
Children & Teens
After joining IS aged 15, German woman asks to go home
(AFP) Four years after leaving Germany to live under the Islamic State group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the jihadists’ last bastion in eastern Syria and says it’s time to go home. “I was a little bit naive,” she says in English, wearing […]
Legal
Toronto man pleads guilty to trying to join ISIS
(Global News) A Toronto man admitted Friday he traveled to Turkey in 2014 to join the so-called Islamic State. At a court appearance in Toronto, Pamir Hakimzadah pleaded guilty to leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group. “The […]
News: Europe
Forces detain German jihadist in Syria: wives
(AFP) US-backed Kurdish-led forces have detained German jihadist Martin Lemke after he fled the last pocket held by the Islamic State group in Syria, two of his wives said Thursday. His third wife, a German national who gave her name as Leonora, […]
Citizenship
Americans who thwarted train attack become French citizens
(AFP) Three Americans hailed as heroes for thwarting a jihadist attack on a train between Amsterdam and Paris were officially welcomed as French citizens on Thursday in a ceremony in the US state of California. Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, […]
Interfaith
Jewish museum attack families tell court of grief
(AFP) The Israelis orphaned by the murderous gun attack on Belgium’s Jewish Museum testified on Thursday in the trial of the accused attacker. The defendant, Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, appeared in the dock to insist that he was not behind the four […]
Interfaith
Belgian museum attack suspect denounces intimidation
(AFP) The French alleged jihadist accused of carrying out a gun massacre in Belgium’s Jewish Museum denounced any attempt to intimidate trial lawyers and jurors Thursday. Appearing in the dock in Brussels main criminal court, 33-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche again denied shooting dead […]
Government & Politics
Minority groups to benefit from better protection
(Swiss Info) The government has presented plans to spend up to CHF500,000 ($503,000) annually to protect minority groups in Switzerland against militant extremism and terrorist attacks. The proposal foresees financial contributions for additional building measures, including walls, security gates and video and […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
These 9 things are ‘officially Islamophobic’ after UK councils adopt new definition (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Israeli orphans to face accused Jewish museum killer
(AFP) Two young Israeli women will Thursday face for the first time the alleged killer of their parents when they attend his trial for the Jewish museum attack in Brussels. The daughters of murdered Israeli couple Miriam and Emmanuel Riva will be […]
Interfaith
Belgian prosecutors probe theft at attack lawyer’s office
(AP) Belgian prosecutors said Wednesday that they are investigating an apparent attempt to intimidate a lawyer in the trial of a suspect in the 2014 shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum. The Brussels prosecutor’s office said that a baseball bat and […]
Immigration
3 Iraqi refugees arrested in Germany over attack plot
(AP) German authorities arrested three Iraqi refugees on Wednesday on allegations they were planning an Islamic extremist bombing attack, and searched properties in three states in connection with their investigation. Federal prosecutors said Shahin F. and Hersh F., both 23, and Rauf […]
Internet
Al-Qaeda’s little sister Aidah Shukrijumah mourns brother Adnan’s death, while exhibiting his extremist DNA.
(FrontPage) Four years ago this past December, Saudi-born al-Qaeda senior member Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah (Shukri Jumah) lost his life during a Pakistani Special Forces pre-dawn raid in South Waziristan. Last month, Adnan’s sister Aidah took to Facebook to mourn the anniversary of […]
Children & Teens
Bangladeshi student’s lone wolf terror attack in Melbourne left daughter with flashbacks, victim says
(ABC-Australia) Roger Singaravelu was enjoying an afternoon nap with his five-year-old daughter when he became the victim of a terrorist attack in his suburban Melbourne home. “I don’t believe I will ever recover,” Mr Singaravelu told the Victorian Supreme Court in his […]
Children & Teens
French jihadists in Syria may be allowed home, Paris says
(AFP) France on Tuesday opened the door to repatriating more than a hundred jihadists being held in Syria, in a marked change in stance brought about by the planned withdrawal of US troops from the country. Paris is worried that French prisoners […]
Immigration
Afghans paid to return home from Europe have second thoughts Austria gave him $3,100 and a one-way ticket to Kabul. But nearly three years in Europe had changed him.
(NBC) A wave of anxiety washed over Mohammad Farooq Niazi as the plane touched down in his homeland. “I missed my country,” he said, recalling his mindset on the day he returned to Afghanistan after almost three years of trying to build […]
Children & Teens
Kingston youth facing terror charges held until at least next week
(Canadian Press) A youth facing terrorism charges in Kingston, Ont., will be back in court next week, after his lawyer has had more time to study his case. The RCMP charged the youth last week, saying he tried to persuade someone to […]
Children & Teens
Enhanced refugee screening won’t thwart homegrown terrorism in Canada: expert
(Global News) Beefed-up borders and stricter refugee screening won’t do much to reduce the threat of Islamist terrorism in Canada, which is largely homegrown, according to one of Canada’s top experts on terrorism and national security. Stephanie Carvin, assistant professor of international […]
Clothing
Jewish museum trial: Nemmouche betrayed by his Calvin Klein shoes
(Brussels Times) At the start of the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche, the man accused of carrying out an armed attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels in May 2014 in which four people died, the defence laid out its main five-point defence […]
Children & Teens
What we know and don’t know about the alleged Kingston terrorist plot 1 Ontario youth charged with a terrorism-related offence
(CBC) The city of Kingston, Ont., is still reeling after a young person was charged with terrorism-related offences following thousands of hours of investigation by multiple police agencies and raids on two homes. Here is what we know (and much of what […]