Clerics & Preachers
‘Hate preacher’ speaks at Irish mosque (LINK ONLY)
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Charlie Hebdo
Legal
Paris attacks survivors talk of broken relationships and lives filled with fear in the aftermath
(Radio France) This week, the Paris attacks trial will hear the testimonies of 70 victims and their families. If the tragic facts remain the same, the individual experiences of the night of 13 November 2015, and of life since, are unique. One […]
Clerics & Preachers
London mosque hosts hate preacher who called 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo attacks ‘comedy’ MP demands to know how Egyptian-born Dr Omar Abdul Kafi, who has also given sermons about getting 'revenge' on Jews, was allowed into the UK to speak at Finsbury Park mosque in north London.
(Jewish News) An MP has demanded to know “how on earth” an Egyptian-born “hate preacher who has previously given sermons about killing Jews” was allowed to enter the UK. Dr Omar Abdul Kafi had last month given a lecture at the Finsbury […]
Clothing
Tensions over race, religion in France’s presidential race
(AP) From attacks on “wokeism” to crackdowns on mosques, France’s presidential campaign has been especially challenging for voters of immigrant heritage and religious minorities, as discourse painting them as “the other” has gained ground across a swath of French society. French voters […]
News: Europe
Why Belgium is still a terror risk
(Brussels Times) Six years ago, it felt like extremist terrorism would haunt us permanently. The March 2016 bombs in the Brussels metro and airport left 35 people dead. They came after the November 2015 attacks in Paris that killed 138. Jihadists claimed […]
Academics & Education
Pain endures for French Jews a decade after Toulouse shootings
(Radio France) Ten years after France was rocked by a series of Islamist shootings targeting Jewish children and French soldiers, President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday joined two of his predecessors — Nicolas Sarkozy and François Holland[e] — along with Israeli President Isaac […]
Christians
France jails three over links to 2016 jihadist killing of priest
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced to jail terms of up to 13 years three men charged with connections to the brutal 2016 jihadist killing of an 85-year-old priest that shocked the country. Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit at […]
Law Enforcement
Five followers of Pakistani terrorist group arrested in Andalucia and Catalonia
(Euro Weekly) National Police officers have arrested five Pakistani citizens in Barcelona, Girona, the Jaen municipality of Ubeda, and Granada. They were detained in an operation coordinated by the National High Court against followers of a Pakistani movement considered to be a […]
Christians
Trial opens over jihadist murder of French priest
(AFP) The alleged accomplices in the 2016 murder of an 85-year-old French priest appeared in the dock in Paris on Monday after years of investigation into an attack that shocked a country already reeling from a spate of jihadist assaults. Father Jacques […]
Law Enforcement
FBI believes it is ‘beyond suspicion’ that Lisa Smith joined Isis, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
French prosecutors probe death threats against TV reporter
(AFP) French prosecutors said Monday they have opened an investigation after death threats were issued against a journalist after she fronted a report over the rise of radical Islam in France. Ophelie Meunier has been under police protection since the M6 channel […]
Clerics & Preachers
French imam recounts death threats from Islamists for asking to respect Holocaust In emotional TV interview, Hassen Chalghoumi says his family has been assaulted, harassed for years over his interfaith work
(Times of Israel) A French imam known for his involvement in interfaith initiatives said he and his family have been living under threat from Islamists for years, emotionally recalling the toll the assaults and harassment have taken. In an interview with France […]
Academics & Education
Lawyers training school in Paris accused of Islamophobia Student lawyer claimed she was forced to remove her headscarf, threatened with expulsion from oath ceremony
(Anadolu) A young Muslim student accused France’s foremost legal institution of Islamophobia after being threatened with expulsion from an oath ceremony for wearing a headscarf. Graduating lawyer Sara, who only revealed her first name, told Revolution Permanente, a far-left digital news site, […]
News: Europe
Charlie Hebdo attack victims remembered seven years on
(Euronews) French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, and Ile-de-France Region President Valérie Pécresse attended a wreath-laying ceremony in Paris, to mark the anniversary of the terror attack against the offices of Charlie Hebdo. Seven years ago on Thursday, a […]
Christians
Canadian imam compares wishing Merry Christmas to congratulating murderers, pedophiles
(Breitbart) Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada in a recent sermon compared wishing people a Merry Christmas to congratulating murderers and pedophiles, as he called on Allah (God) to “humiliate the infidels” and “annihilate the heretics and atheists.” In a speech delivered at the […]
Academics & Education
Denmark pledges to protect teachers from threats against free speech
(Euronews) Denmark says it will take measures to protect teachers’ freedom of expression and prevent the risks of “self-censorship.” The Danish government has stated that teachers should be able to speak about certain subjects, including cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the Holocaust, […]
Converting to Islam
Dead, imprisoned, disgraced: A family destroyed by an ideology of hate
(Radio France) This has been the week of the Clain family at the Paris attacks trial. On Tuesday, a police witness described the careers of Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, directors of the IS propaganda effort, both presumed dead in Syria. On Wednesday, […]
Clerics & Preachers
France targets mosque for closure after ‘unacceptable’ preaching
(AFP) France’s interior minister said on Tuesday he had launched a procedure to close a mosque for up to six months because of the radical nature of its imam’s preaching. Gerald Darmanin told the Cnews TV channel he had “triggered” the process […]
Government & Politics
Former interior minister says he will be haunted by Paris attacks ‘until my last breath’
(Reuters) The minister in charge of France’s security at the time of the 2015 attacks in Paris in which Islamist gunmen killed 130 people told a court on Wednesday that he was haunted by the question of whether authorities could have done […]
Children & Teens
Hate speech trial for French far-right pundit Zemmour
(AFP) French far-right pundit Eric Zemmour, who is widely expected to run for the presidency next year, went on trial Wednesday charged with racist hate speech over a televised tirade against unaccompanied child migrants. He told the CNews channel in September last […]
Government & Politics
France’s far-right Zemmour under fire over Bataclan tirade
(AFP) French far-right presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour came under fire on Sunday for delivering a blistering attack on ex-president Francois Hollande’s migration policy during commemorations marking the November 2015 Paris attacks. Zemmour, an ultra-nationalist TV pundit who has made no secret of […]
Crime
Murderer of elderly French Jewish woman gets life sentence
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced the killer of an elderly Jewish woman to life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, over the 2018 murder which caused an outcry over anti-Semitism in France. Yacine Mihoub was convicted of […]
History
History lessons to help us understand the brutality of modern jihadism
(Radio France) There was yet another dramatic shift in the emotional temperature at the Paris attacks trial on Tuesday, as two anonymous and invisible police investigators gave lectures on the history of Islamic holy war and the Syrian context of the 2015 […]
Government & Politics
‘Democracy stronger than barbarism,’ Hollande tells attacks trial
(AFP) Former French president Francois Hollande on Wednesday told the trial held over the November 2015 Paris terror attacks he had no regrets about ordering airstrikes against the Islamic State group, which the assailants claimed as justification for the bloodshed. Hollande, who […]
Government & Politics
Ex-president Hollande to testify in Paris attacks trial
(AFP) Former French leader Francois Hollande will testify Wednesday in the trial over the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, facing questions over how a jihadist commando was able to evade detection while preparing the atrocities that would shake France to its core. […]
Legal
Bataclan families speak of the impossibility of forgetting, the difficulty of forgiving
(Radio France) Testimony from bereaved families continues before the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried on suspicion of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in the French capital. “The suffering is a relentless part […]
Legal
No sentence reduction for man convicted in 2015 Texas attack
(AP) A judge has refused to reduce the 30-year prison sentence for an Arizona man convicted of helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas, even though one of his convictions was dismissed after it […]
Academics & Education
France pays tribute to teacher beheaded over Mohammed cartoons
(AFP) France paid tribute to schoolteacher Samuel Paty on Saturday, one year after he was beheaded by an extremist after showing his class cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Paty, 47, was stabbed and then decapitated after leaving the middle school where he […]
Academics & Education
French schools hail teacher killed over Mohammed cartoon
(AFP) Pupils in schools across France on Friday paid tribute to Samuel Paty, a year after the teacher was beheaded by an extremist for showing his class cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Paty’s violent death sent shockwaves through France and beyond, […]
Academics & Education
France honours ‘hero’ teacher killed for Mohammed cartoon
(AFP) A year after the brutal murder of a French teacher, beheaded for showing his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, schools are struggling with how to teach core French values without inflaming tensions with young Muslims. Samuel Paty, who was 47, […]
Clerics & Preachers
France moves against ‘radical’ Muslim groups, centres: minister
(AFP) France is moving to shut six mosques and break up several associations suspected of producing radical Islamic propaganda, Interior Minister [Gerald] Darmanin said on Tuesday. A third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical” and flagged by the […]
Legal
Chief suspect defiant on first day of landmark 2015 Paris attacks trial
(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, the 31-year-old French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of the group that carried out the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris, told a courtroom on Wednesday that he was a “soldier of the Islamic State group.” […]
Legal
France’s biggest trial to open over November 2015 attacks
(AFP) The biggest trial in France’s modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Paris that saw 130 people slaughtered at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. The suicide bombing and gun assault by three teams of […]
Children & Teens
Free speech vs Islamophobia: A teenager fuels debate in France Mila’s anti-Islam rant on Instagram drew thousands of hate messages and resulted in a landmark cyberbullying case.
(Al-Jazeera) It all started with an Instagram broadcast on January 18 last year. Mila, then 16, with a head of newly dyed purple hair, went on a rant against Islam, addressing some of her 10,000 followers who tuned in. “The Quran is […]
Christians
Woman in Charlie Hebdo T-shirt who was stabbed at Speakers’ Corner is revealed as Christian preacher, 39 (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Church and state collide in public school cafeterias
Halal school lunches have been in the news lately. Last spring, school districts in Buffalo, New York, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, announced they would begin pilot programs to serve halal lunches at some of their schools. New York City announced it […]
Christians
Speakers’ Corner: Counter-terrorism police probe knife attack
(BBC) An attack on a woman who was slashed with a knife at Speakers’ Corner in London is being investigated by counter-terror police, the Met said. The 39-year-old needed hospital treatment after she was attacked in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon. The […]
Christians
Charlie Hebdo T-shirt-wearing woman is stabbed at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park (LINK ONLY)
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News Media
Danish Mohammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard dies aged 86
(AFP) Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, famed for drawing a caricature [of] the Prophet Mohammed which sparked outrage around the Muslim world, has died at the age [of] 86, his family told Danish media on Sunday. Westergaard passed away in his sleep after […]
Children & Teens
Eleven convicted for harassing French teenager Mila over anti-Islam videos
(Radio France) A court in Paris on Wednesday convicted 11 people for harassing a teenager online over her anti-Islam videos. The girl, known as Mila, was forced to change schools and accept 24-hour police protection following threats to her life in more than […]
Crime
France hopes deporting more alleged radicals will bring security France has repatriated more than half the people it defined as radical Islamists living in the country without a residence permit since 2018. Now it wants to extend the penalty and deport even more.
(Deutsche Welle) When French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin summoned the country’s regional prefects in June, his message was clear. The authorities in France’s regions had to take swift, decisive action against foreigners who committed crimes. Residence permits should be reviewed, and more offenders […]
Academics & Education
Teacher suspended after showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils during an RE lesson at West Yorkshire school refuses to return to work over fears for his life (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Canadian imam calls Muslim Jew-hatred ‘just, logical,’ prays for jihadi victory ‘everywhere’
(Breitbart) Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada justified hatred toward Jews in a shocking recent sermon that claimed their “injustice” toward others and rejection of Islam and its prophets, while warning a mosque is no place for those unable or unwilling to hate. In […]
Law Enforcement
‘Known radical’ killed in shootout after knife attack on French police
(AFP) A “known radical” suspected of carrying out a knife attack in France died from injuries sustained in a shootout with police Friday, hours [after] badly wounding a female officer in another act of violence against police. The man, who was on […]
Clerics & Preachers
Prison imam arrested on terror charges Moroccan called for destruction of Vatican, elimination of Jews
(ANSA) Italian police on Thursday arrested a prison imam at Alessandria for allegedly hailing jihad and calling for the destruction of the Vatican. The man, a Moroccan detainee, allegedly praised terrorist attacks like those on the offices of Paris satirical weekly Charlie […]
Crime
Police bust Naples fake migrant documents gang Afghans, Pakistanis and Italians 'made counterfeit stay permits'
(ANSA) Italian police on Wednesday busted an alleged gang made up of Afghans, Pakistanis and Italians that allegedly produced fake stay permits in Naples for migrants to remain legally in Italy and the Schengen border-free area. Police said they provided the counterfeit […]
Law Enforcement
Spain arrests 3 for urging extremist attacks against France
(AP) Three men whose social media posts allegedly encouraged extremist attacks against French targets are in custody in Spain after Spanish police and the European Union’s crime agency traced them to the southern city of Granada. The men threatened violent attacks against […]
Clerics & Preachers
French citizens, imams and police pay tribute to slain police worker
(Reuters) Hundreds of people including Muslim imams paid tribute on Monday to a female French police official stabbed to death last week by a French resident of Tunisian origin who shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest.” The police administrative worker, a […]
Law Enforcement
Knife attacker in France said to have watched jihadist videos
(AFP) A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee outside Paris watched jihadist propaganda videos just before the attack, France’s anti-terror prosecutor said Sunday, adding that a fifth person was detained for questioning. Based on an analysis of the killer’s […]
Law Enforcement
France reviews terror threat after suspected jihadist attack
(AFP) The French government held an emergency meeting Saturday after a Tunisian man stabbed a police employee to death near Paris in a suspected Islamist attack as investigators questioned three people linked to the assailant. The murder on Friday at a police […]