(Toronto Sun) Two GTA men face hate crime charges after allegedly waving flags belonging to a terror group at last week’s Toronto anti-Israel protest. According to Toronto Police, two men were spotted waving flags belonging to Hezbollah, a Lebanese terror organization currently […]
(Global News) An extremist attack targeting Canada’s Jewish community is a “realistic possibility,” according to intelligence documents obtained by Global News that warn of “escalating antisemitic activity.” Released almost a year after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that triggered an Israeli military […]
(BBC) Sweden’s security service Sapo has said that Iran may have been involved in the explosions and gunfire that took place near the Israeli embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen earlier this week. Fredrik Hallstrom of Sapo said that choice of targets and […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office arrested a 15-year-old Turkish-German teenager for allegedly planning Islamist-style attacks against European Jewry, Spiegel reported on Thursday. The police reportedly classified the teenager as a “threat.” The teenager had been in contact with Islamist terrorists […]
(AFP) A French jihadist close to the brothers behind the 2015 massacre at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment. Peter Cherif, 42, had been on trial in Paris since mid-September for “belonging to a criminal terrorist association” […]
(AFP) Police in Denmark and Sweden said on Wednesday they were probing explosions and gunfire around Israeli embassies in their capitals which took place amid spiralling Middle East tensions. In Denmark, police said three Swedish nationals had been arrested after two blasts, […]
(DPA) German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser expressed her dismay on Wednesday over reports that some people in Germany had celebrated Iran’s missile attack on Israel. Faeser said the scenes made her sad and angry. Cheers had reportedly broken out at a pro-Palestinian […]
(Yabiladi) The Spanish Interior Ministry confirmed the expulsion of Moroccan Said Ben Iazza, one of the three jihadists convicted in the August 17, 2017, Barcelona and Cambrils attacks, according to Spanish media. The expulsion took place in April. Initially, Ben Iazza was […]
(Free Beacon) A Michigan activist courted by Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign to shore up support from Muslim voters in the battleground state hailed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a “hero” at a rally last week, days before the terrorist was assassinated […]
(DPA) German investigators again searched the refugee accommodation on Tuesday where the knife-wielding attacker suspected of killing three people at a festival in Solingen had lived. Authorities were also seeking to interview people who may have known the suspect, a 26-year-old Syrian […]
(Breitbart) A memorial service for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Michigan featured praise for prominent terror figures as well as denunciations of the United States’ “terrorism.” On Saturday, a memorial service for slain Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah took place at the Hadi […]
(Global News) A new kind of violence known as “salad bar extremism” has come to Canada, warns an internal government report obtained by Global News. The term refers to attacks fuelled by a mix of views rather than a coherent ideology, said […]
(European Conservative) A 41-year-old Syrian man set fire to two buildings, rammed his vehicle into a grocery store, and threatened passers-by with a machete in the western German city of Essen. While authorities and mainstream politicians are treating the case as an […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist and childhood friend of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has lost his bid to be released from prison. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 31, faced a parole review after being recalled to prison for breaching licence conditions in 2021. Abdallah, from […]
(Free Beacon) A group of Republican attorneys general has filed an amicus brief backing a lawsuit against American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine, the anti-Israel groups accused of providing material support to Hamas. The coalition of 22 […]
(AP) U.K. transport officials and police said Thursday they are investigating a “cyber-security incident” after users of public Wi-Fi networks at the country’s biggest railway stations reported being shown anti-Muslim messages. Passengers trying to log onto the Wi-Fi at 19 stations, including […]
(Jerusalem Post) “As a German, I wanted to learn how Auschwitz could have happened. This brought me to researching the topic of antisemitism about 30 years ago,” Dr. Matthias Küntzel told the Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview. Küntzel is a German […]
(NL Times) It is not yet clear whether the fatal stabbing at the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam last week was an act of terrorism, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said during his last city council meeting as mayor. Many questions still need to be […]
(Fox) An anti-Israel protester in New York City was seen holding a sign supporting the Hezbollah terror group during a rally as world leaders convened at the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan. In footage captured by FNTV, a masked and hooded […]
(Press Release) A man who shared extreme violent videos supporting Islamic State has been jailed six years and nine months at Kingston Crown Court. Ayoub Nacir, 21, shared documents and videos online that encouraged people to take up arms and commit acts […]
(NY Post) A powerful House panel asked the IRS Tuesday to revoke the tax-exempt status of nine nonprofits that sowed “chaos and discord” during anti-Israel protests on college campuses, according to letters exclusively obtained by the Post. House Ways and Means Committee […]
(BBC) A former counter-terrorism detective agreed an investigation was prematurely closed into a man later convicted of helping an alleged extremist flee the UK after murdering an imam. Former detective inspector Frank Morris, who retired from Greater Manchester Police in 2021, told […]
(Ynet) We Will Dance Again, a documentary film featuring a minute-by-minute retelling of the October 7 Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival which is set to air on the BBC, will not describe Hamas as a terrorist organization, Israeli director Yariv […]
(Radio France) The school where history and geography professor Samuel Paty worked when he was killed by a young radicalised Islamist in October 2020 has voted to rename their establishment after him. The decision comes less than a month before the fourth […]
(AFP) A French jihadist linked to the perpetrators of the 2015 massacre at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo made a surprise admission Tuesday that he was involved in the 2011 kidnapping of three French aid workers in Yemen. Peter Cherif, 42, also known […]
(NL Times) The Inspectorate of Justice and Security (JenV) is going to investigate the actions of the judicial organizations regarding the man who is suspected of a fatal stabbing incident at the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. The investigation revolves around “how judicial […]
(AFP) A woman linked to the Islamic State group will be tried in France on “genocide” charges over allegedly enslaving a Yazidi teenager in Syria, a source close to the case said Tuesday. Sonia Mejri, a 35-year-old born in southern France, stands […]
(JNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which blamed the Jewish state for being attacked on Oct. 7 and which the White House removed from its national strategy on Jew-hatred, called on Sunday for the Biden administration to fire Deborah Lipstadt as U.S. […]
(BBC) Two Islamic State extremists who planned the murder of an imam referred to him as “Voldemort” who was engaging in “black magic,” a public inquiry has heard. The inquiry aims to establish whether intelligence failures contributed to the death of Jalal […]
(NL Times) A magistrate overseeing the investigation into a possible terrorist attack at the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam last week ordered the only suspect in the case to remain in detention for at least another two weeks while the investigation into the […]
(Dutch News) The man accused of stabbing a man to death on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam seriously wounded his mother in a knife attack two years ago, Dutch media report. Ayoub M., 22, is due to appear in court for a […]
(LBC) Terror suspects “waltz in on small boats,” Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick has claimed. Dozens of terror suspects have crossed the Channel in small boats, according to the former immigration minister Robert Jenrick. The Tory leadership candidate said individuals associated with […]
(Washington Examiner) President Joe Biden’s White House National Security Council recently hosted the leader of a group with a track record of collaborating in Gaza with Hamas officials, the Washington Examiner confirmed. The NSC held a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sept. […]
(BBC) A man has been jailed for sharing “horrific” beheading videos glorifying the Islamic State (IS) group. Faseh Sajid was 18 when he began posting videos featuring armed IS fighters and mass execution in an encrypted group chat. The material was found […]
(NL Times) The 22-year-old man alleged to have carried out a knife attack at the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam is suspected of wanting to perpetrate a terrorist attack, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said on Friday. One victim was killed in the […]
(NL Times) A man attacked two people with knives at the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam on Thursday evening, killing one and leaving the other seriously injured. The police have arrested the man. Several witnesses reported that he shouted “Allahu akbar,” a phrase […]
(AP) Security has tightened at Oktoberfest after a deadly knife attack last month in western Germany, and officials are warning revelers to expect longer lines to enter as metal detectors are deployed for the first time in the Bavarian beer festival’s 189-year […]
(NY Post) The group of Tajik migrants with suspected ties to ISIS had been planning an attack on an LGBTQ establishment in Philadelphia and looked to target “infidels” before they were pinched in June, the Post has learned. The eight terror suspects […]
(AP) Swedish authorities on Thursday charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria — the first such case on trial in the Scandinavian country. […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A Philadelphia man who was charged as a teenager last year with supporting foreign terrorist organizations had conducted more than a dozen tests on homemade bombs near his family’s house in the city’s Wynnefield section, and had begun planning to […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded prison sentences against a man and two women on Tuesday for participating in the terrorist organization ISIS, preparing terrorist crimes, and taking their minor children into a war zone. The OM demanded seven years […]
(Free Beacon) An Arab-American activist invited by Senate Democrats to testify at an anti-Semitism hearing on Tuesday defended calls for “intifada” and praise for Hamas “martyrs” on college campuses, telling lawmakers these chants are “not hate speech.” Maya Berry, the executive director […]
(Maryland Matters) University of Maryland student activists on Tuesday made good on their threat to sue the university after administrators blocked demonstrations on campus planned for the Oct. 7 anniversary of the bloody Hamas attack on Israel, which has led to a […]
(NBC) Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., repeatedly suggested a leading Arab American activist is a Hamas supporter when she testified Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes, and he told her she should hide her “head in a bag.” The […]
(Fox) A Pakistani national with alleged close ties to Iran pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges accusing him of plotting to have U.S. politicians assassinated on U.S. soil. Asif Merchant, also known as “Asif Raza Merchant,” pleaded not guilty at his […]
(JNS) On Sept. 11 — the 23rd anniversary of terror attacks — the U.S. House of Representatives received bipartisan approval for the markup of H.R. 9495, a bill that would terminate the tax-exempt status of terror-supporting organizations. The bill specifies how the […]
(CBC) The RCMP feared they didn’t have enough evidence to keep an alleged ISIS supporter in custody after his dramatic arrest in a small Quebec town near the U.S. border earlier this month, according to newly obtained court records. And if he […]
(Views and News from Norway) The Norwegian defense attorney for Mullah Krekar, a former refugee who later faced multiple charges tied to terrorism, has launched a new effort to bring Krekar “home” from a jail in Italy. Norwegian officials are not willing […]
(AFP) A French jihadist, who was close to the brothers behind the 2015 massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, went on trial in Paris on Monday. Peter Cherif, also known as Abou Hamza, was arrested in Djibouti in 2018 after years […]
(Yle) Helsinki District Court has remanded into custody three men suspected of involvement in the activities of a terrorist group. The three defendants — all believed to be aged in their 30s — were detained by police last Tuesday and remanded on […]
Thank you for reading Eye on Islamism.