(AFP) A teenager whose lies about her teacher are accused of contributing to the educator’s murder by an Islamist radical apologised to his family in a French court on Tuesday. Eight people have been on trial since early November, charged with contributing […]
(BBC) The former headteacher of a French school has revealed the shocking sequence of events that led to the beheading of Samuel Paty by a Chechen refugee. Audrey F told the court in Paris how she had tried to stop a row […]
(National-UAE) Relatives of a French history teacher beheaded four years ago by a teenager were surprised by a confession of guilt in court from an associate of the killer. A sister welcomed how one of the defendants, a former friend of the […]
(AP) The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet to his middle school students for a lesson […]
(Euronews) In the years following the tragic killings of French teachers Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, there has been a sharp increase in the number of educators requesting protection from the state. According to recent data from the French Ministry of Education, […]
(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) 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 […]
(NY Times) The Muslim cleric preparing to lead what, if everything goes as planned, will become the world’s smallest state, has laid-back plans for the tiny new country. His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania’s capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave […]
(European Conservative) Sweden Democrat MP Richard Jomshof is stepping down from his chairmanship in the parliamentary justice committee after being notified that he is “reasonably suspected” of “incitement against an ethnic group.” Jomshof’s alleged crime? Retweeting two cartoons, created by an Indian […]
(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 […]
(Christian Science Monitor) It was a Friday afternoon in October 2020, and Coralie, a junior high school French teacher at Collège du Bois d’Aulne, had just gone for a walk in the nearby woods with her dog to clear her mind before […]
(Politico) It seemed like a good idea at the time. French President Emmanuel Macron promised the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics on the banks of the River Seine in July would be a “moment of beauty, art, celebration of sports […]
(ITV) A teacher who was forced into hiding after he showed a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson was “let down” by his school, council and police, a government adviser has said. The religious studies teacher received death threats and […]
(AFP) Bidding closes Friday in the online auction of the original edition of a Danish cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed that provoked violent riots in Muslim countries. Published together with 11 other drawings in September 2005 by the conservative Danish daily Jyllands-Posten […]
(Breitbart) Three years after sparking Muslim protests after showing his class a caricature of Mohammed at the Batley Grammar School, a religious studies teacher is still in hiding with his family for fear of violent reprisals from the Islamic community in Britain. […]
(Anadolu) Penalizing the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for defamation is a “historical decision,” a Muslim association said. The controversial magazine was fined on Dec. 22 for defaming the Muslim school “Valeurs et Reussite” in France’s southeastern town of Valence. The school […]
(AFP) The Paris region has stripped a French journalist and anti-Islamism activist of an award after she shared a controversial post comparing Israel’s bombardment of Gaza to the Holocaust. Zineb El Rhazoui was in 2019 awarded the Simone Veil prize, named after […]
(AFP) Teachers at a school outside Paris refused to work on Monday as the establishment grappled with a crisis sparked by the showing in class of a painting by a Renaissance master containing several nude women. Education Minister Gabriel Attal visited the […]
(AP) A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist, an attack that shocked the country and shone a light on the real-world dangers of online hate speech. […]
(Radio France) The weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is being sued by a Muslim school in southern France after an article linked it to the Muslim Brotherhood. The magazine’s lawyers invoked “its editorial line,” and denied libel. Published in July 2022, the […]
(Deutsche Welle) The killing of French history teacher Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020, left the country in deep shock. And yet, some feel the first court case on the alleged role of six minors in the attack is failing to bring about […]
(Radio France) As six teenagers go on trial for allegedly helping to incite the murder of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded near Paris three years ago, 13 of his colleagues are watching the case from the courtroom. They told RFI […]
(AP) Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class, a killing that led authorities to reaffirm France’s cherished rights of expression […]
(AFP) Six teenagers go on trial in Paris on Monday for their role in the 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France. The 47-year-old history and geography teacher was stabbed and then […]
(GB News) Teachers across the UK are self-censoring their lessons over fears of offending Muslim pupils, according to a recent poll. A survey of over 1,000 teachers conducted for the Policy Exchange think tank found that 16 per cent of them have […]
(AFP) The mother of a man who killed a school teacher in northern France last month said she blamed his father for her son’s Islamist radicalisation. Mohammed Moguchkov, 20, stabbed his former teacher Dominique Bernard to death in the town of Arras […]
(European Conservative) Police in the French city of Nantes have arrested a man in relation to the Brussels terrorist attack earlier this week which saw two Swedes shot and killed by Tunisian illegal immigrant and radical Islamist Abdesalem Lassoued, who was shot […]
(CBC) An Ontario father is questioning the legitimacy of a school board’s anti-Islamophobia strategy months after his son was singled out by a teacher during a lesson that featured racist cartoons. During the January class, the high school teacher in Peel Region, which includes […]
(BBC) A drill rapper planned a terrorist attack after watching a video from the Islamic State (IS) group showing the killing of prisoners, a court heard. Al-Arfat Hassan used his music to “glorify” IS killings and gained an online following under the […]
(UnHerd) Like a still from a cheap horror flick, Michael Adebolajo stands with a meat cleaver and a large knife clasped in one hand. His free hand, saturated in blood, is raised towards the camera. Together with his accomplice and fellow convert […]
(NY Times) Salman Rushdie walked onstage at PEN America’s annual gala on Thursday night, his first public appearance since he was stabbed and gravely wounded in an attack last August at a literary event in Western New York. His appearance at the […]
(AFP) A total of 14 people are set to face trial in France over the beheading of a teacher by an Islamist extremist in 2020, a crime that shocked the country, legal documents obtained by AFP showed on Tuesday. The most serious […]
(Jewish News) A local election candidate at the centre of an antisemitism scandal has been voted in as a Conservative councillor on the Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. Shakeel Hussain triumphed in Thursday’s vote in the Ropner ward, despite newspaper reports about the emergence of Facebook […]
(Daily Wire) Yale University hosted a virulently anti-Semitic and anti-white speaker on the second night of Passover, when Jews were celebrating the second Seder and thus couldn’t appear to protest. Houria Bouteldja, who has reportedly insisted that Jews “cultivated Nazism” and thus […]
(Sky News) A former grammar school pupil has pleaded guilty to travelling to Syria to join Islamic State, despite previously claiming he had spent his time there playing computer games. Shabazz Suleman had just completed his AS-levels at a grammar school in […]
(Radio France) French prosecutors have called for the trial of 14 people over the beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist in 2020. Two adults face the charge of complicity in a terrorist murder. Six other adults and six minors […]
(BBC) A man who posted an image of a terrorism victim’s severed head on Twitter, urging others to decapitate those who insult Islam, has been found guilty of encouraging terrorist acts. Ajmal Shahpal also praised the killer of French school teacher Samuel […]
(NL Times) Two people will face a criminal court hearing on accusations that they tried to get others to commit acts of violence against a secondary school teacher for his use of a cartoon in support of the controversial French satire magazine, […]
(RTÉ) The former member of the Defence Forces Lisa Smith has lost her appeal against the severity of her sentence for membership of the Islamic State terrorist organisation, ISIS. The 41-year-old mother of one was jailed for 15 months at the Special […]
(BBC) A man posted an image of a terrorism victim’s severed head on Twitter while encouraging others to decapitate anyone who insulted Islam, a trial has heard. Ajmal Shahpal is alleged to have praised the killer of a French teacher for being […]
(BBC) A university professor falsely accused of Islamophobia said the experience had been “terrifying.” A student society complained about Professor Steven Greer when he worked at the University of Bristol. In October 2021 the university said its investigation into a module taught […]
(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 […]
(AFP) French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran’s religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite protests from Iran and its allies. “The mullahs aren’t happy. The caricatures of their supreme […]
(AFP) French politicians paid tribute Saturday to Charlie Hebdo staff and other victims of the January 2015 Islamist attacks, days after the satirical weekly’s latest edition sparked outrage in Iran. French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted the names of all 17 victims of […]
(AFP) French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is making headlines again by stirring outrage in Iran, demonstrating that it has lost none of its appetite for provocation or its ability to stir up diplomatic problems abroad. The irreverent and militantly atheist publication operates […]
(AFP) Iran warned France on Wednesday of consequences after satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons depicting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Tehran deemed to be insulting. The weekly had published dozens of cartoons ridiculing the highest religious and political figure in […]
(Inside Higher Ed) This fall, an instructor at Hamline University, in Minnesota, was teaching global art history. For one class, the instructor (who has not been named) was discussing Islamic art and included for a brief period (under 10 minutes) a screen […]
(AFP) Two men who received the longest prison terms for allegedly aiding in the 2016 terror attack in the French resort city of Nice have appealed their conviction, prosecutors told AFP on Monday. Their appeal came weeks after French judges ordered prison […]
(AFP) A Moroccan man sentenced to life in prison for an attempted terror attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 that was foiled by passengers had his appeal rejected Thursday by a French court. Their heroics were later immortalised in the Clint […]
(Herald Sun) A Muslim student has been left with “painful psychological and mental trauma” after an offensive cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad was shown in a year 11 media class. A teacher at Mount Ridley College in Craigieburn played an “explicit and […]
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