(National-UAE) A 34-year-old French woman who travelled with relatives to Syria to join her husband, an ISIS fighter, has expressed regret about joining the extremist group and said she takes responsibility for her actions. Jennyfer Clain was speaking in Paris at the […]
(Radio France) Three French women — members of the Clain family who converted to fundamentalist Islam and travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State armed group — go on trial Monday in Paris on charges of terrorist criminal association. […]
(Euronews) The World Health Organization and several international NGOs have raised the alarm on the need to evacuate sick and injured children from Gaza. But some governments refuse to welcome patients from the Strip out of fear of repercussions to their security […]
(GB News) The Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations (FEMYSO) has been accused of being a key player in the launch of Islamist organisation [the] Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in the UK. The French Ministry of Interior (FMI) previously raised concerns […]
(AFP) French authorities have detained a 17-year-old on suspicion of plotting attacks against embassies or official buildings, sources close to the investigation told AFP on Saturday. The teen was formally put under investigation and locked up on Friday, they said, confirming information […]
(LBC) LBC has seen the digital posters and videos being pumped out to people in a bid to stop them making the dangerous Channel crossing. They feature warnings both in English and French, saying they risk being sent back under the new […]
(Yabiladi) The European Institute of Human Sciences (IESH), which trains imams in France, has been dissolved by the Council of Ministers at the request of Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Retailleau hailed it as a step against “the […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian migrant was shot and killed by police in Marseille on Tuesday after allegedly stabbing multiple people while reciting verses from the Qur’an. The suspected knife attacker has been identified as 35-year-old Abdelkader D. from Tunisia. Le Figaro reports that […]
(Jerusalem Post) Law students of the class of 2025 at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) voted last week to name their class after controversial politician Rima Hassan, the rector of the university announced on Thursday. Hassan is a French-Palestinian politician with […]
(National-UAE) It has been 10 years since Sir John Jenkins’ landmark inquiry into the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK was wrapped up but he says the need to understand the movement’s role is now even more pressing. The former diplomat was commissioned […]
(AFP) French authorities have arrested twin brothers over the cutting down of an olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday. An olive tree, planted in 2011 in Halimi’s […]
(Jerusalem Post) Two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, of Muslim Arab origin, were arrested by French police late last month in Paris, on suspicion of planning an attack against synagogues and the Eiffel Tower in the French capital, French newspaper Le Figaro […]
(Israel Hayom) A new report published by B’nai B’rith International, the European Union of Jewish Students, and the German think tank Democ found that in nine of Europe’s key countries there is “a climate of fear and exclusion at European universities.” The […]
(Ynet) There is a dramatic rise in the name “Mohammed” and its variations across Europe, the Daily Mail said in a report, underscoring demographic changes linked to immigration. According to the report, over the past 25 years, the number of babies given […]
(European Conservative) The latest political scandal in France is just as absurd as it seems: residents of Muslim background had a free public screening of Barbie shut down for being offensive to their cultural sensibilities, and anyone who thinks this is problematic […]
(BBC) Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has said he was pelted with bottles and had a knife pulled on him while speaking to migrants in a camp in northern France. The Conservative MP posted a video on social media discussing the incident […]
(Yabiladi) Italian police arrested a 24-year-old Moroccan citizen at Malpensa Airport as he attempted to travel to Bahrain. The arrest was carried out by border police in coordination with the Varese Police Command, following confirmation that the individual was wanted by French […]
(AFP) France said Friday it would suspend a programme receiving Palestinians from conflict-torn Gaza until an investigation into how a student accused of sharing antisemitic posts was allowed into the country was concluded. The move comes after officials said the female student […]
(Deutsche Welle) Mohammed Iriqat has witnessed first-hand France’s shifting stance on the crisis in the Gaza Strip, from the taunts he once received for wearing a kaffiyeh, a scarf symbolizing Palestinian solidarity, to being part of widespread protests as the devastating war in the […]
(European Conservative) On the night of June 2nd, Lionel M., aged 27, stole a Quran and burned it in front of the Errahma mosque in Villeurbanne, in the suburbs of Lyon. He has now been sentenced to twelve months in prison and […]
(AP) A terrorism court in France has ordered six suspected Palestinian militants to go on trial for an attack 43 years ago at a Jewish restaurant and deli in Paris that killed six people, a lawyer said Thursday. Attackers threw grenades and […]
(Algemeiner) A Palestinian from Gaza studying at the prestigious Sciences Po Lille has been expelled after French authorities discovered hundreds of antisemitic social media posts, including praise for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and calls for the murder of Jews. The episode has […]
(AFP) One 14-year-old was allegedly planning to blow up an Israeli embassy, while a 16-year-old was convicted of having plotted to attack far-right bars incensed by “injustice.” French prosecutors are alarmed at an increasing number of young teenage boys seemingly plotting “terror” […]
(Breitbart) The overwhelming majority of Britons believe that the government should deploy the Royal Navy to stem the tide of the illegal boat migrant crisis in the English Channel, a poll has found. According to a survey from the More in Common […]
(Anadolu) A French court on Friday suspended a municipal order banning burkini coverall swimsuits on public beaches in a town near Cannes, ruling that the decree violated fundamental freedoms, according to local media. The ruling by the administrative court in Nice followed […]
(Middle East Eye) A Tunisian organisation has filed a legal complaint against French-Tunisian imam Hassen Chalghoumi and called for him to be stripped of his Tunisian citizenship following his recent visit to Israel in the midst of its onslaught on Gaza. Chalghoumi, the […]
(Arab News) The Marseilles administrative court has reversed a burkini ban on a French Riviera beach after police threatened fines against a teenager and her family for wearing the Muslim swimsuit, the Times reported on Thursday. The seaside town of Carry-le-Rouet had […]
(AFP) A French appeals court Thursday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats. Abdallah, 74, is one of the longest-serving prisoners in France, where most convicts on […]
(European Conservative) At a time when the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood is finally being recognised and taken seriously by the French authorities, the minister for higher education and the minister for national education are finding ways to argue about the […]
(Breitbart) All Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip will be eligible for the first time to apply for asylum in France, a court ruled on Friday. Deciding on a case brought by a Palestinian mother seeking asylum in the wake of the […]
(Reuters) French prosecutors said on Wednesday they were seeking the trial of six people by a special terrorism court over an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris 43 years ago in which six people were killed and at least 20 others […]
(JNS) A group of European imams and senior Muslim leaders visited Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance center on Tuesday, where they laid a wreath in honor of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. The delegation — visiting the Jewish state […]
(National-UAE) France’s European Institute of Social Sciences (IESH), historically linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, has voluntarily disbanded after government accusations of alleged terrorism links and illicit financing, an insider has told the National. The announcement comes as President Emmanuel Macron intensifies his […]
(Times of Israel) When Imam Youssef Masbeh introduced himself to President Isaac Herzog on Monday, he could not help but start singing a special chant in Arabic, offering a reinterpretation of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. Masbeh, who has served as a […]
(National-UAE) The French government on Monday said it would take new measures to tackle the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in France, including the disbanding of endowment funds and a new asset-freeze mechanism. An official 74-page report on the Muslim Brotherhood “required more ambitious […]
(AP) Across the English Channel, the U.K.’s white cliffs beckon. On fine days, men and women with children in their arms and determination in their eyes can see the shoreline of what they believe will be a promised land as they attempt […]
(AFP) Within hours of dawn breaking on a scorching day, five boats carrying dozens of migrants departed from the beaches of northern France bound for the English coast. Some 20 migrants set off from Equihen beach in the northern Pas-de-Calais region around […]
(Yabiladi) French far-right MEP Marion Maréchal is scheduled to stand trial on September 2, 2025, for defamation against the association Valeurs et Réussite, which runs an independent Muslim school in Valence. According to AFP, citing a source close to the case and […]
(AFP) A French court on Monday sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqi Kurds to seven to eight years in jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers from France to England in 2022. France and Britain have vowed […]
(Yabiladi) The fifth edition of the Territorial Conference on Islam in France was held on Monday, June 23, 2025, at the Côte-d’Or prefecture, bringing together representatives of the Muslim faith, elected officials, academics, community organizations, and state services. The meeting, chaired by […]
(European Conservative) Once again, Brussels has shown that it doesn’t know — or prefers not to know — where Europeans’ money is going. A recent report by the French Ministry of the Interior has raised serious concerns about organisations allegedly linked to […]
(Local) French prosecutors have charged and remanded in custody a 17-year-old Islamic State group sympathiser suspected of planning attacks on synagogues, sex shops and public gatherings, the national anti-terror office said on Sunday. “He was not yet at the stage of carrying […]
(Middle East Eye) A French imam has sparked outrage after dancing at an event organised in support of Israel and Israeli captives in Paris. On 22 June, during “We Will Dance Again,” an Israeli music festival, Hassen Chalghoumi was spotted on a […]
(France 24) A French court on Saturday upheld a life sentence for a man convicted for his part in the 2016 killing of a police couple at their home in front of their young child. In 2023, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, a Franco-Moroccan, […]
(Yabiladi) The French government has taken decisive action. In an order signed on June 16, the Ministries of the Interior and Economy froze the assets of the European Institute of Human Sciences (IESH), located in Saint-Léger-de-Fougeret in the Nièvre region. According to […]
(Jerusalem Post) The mayor of the Brussels municipality in which Samidoun’s reenactment of the October 7 massacre took place had been informed before the day of the event’s expected nature, despite claiming there was no indication that such scenes would occur. This […]
(AFP) A French court is set to deliver a long-awaited ruling in July on the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats. The Paris appeals court, […]
(Reuters) Faced with a growing number of Channel migrant crossings, France hopes to stop more small boats from reaching Britain by changing its rules of engagement to intercept vessels, France’s interior ministry has said. France and Britain hope to unveil the measures […]
(AFP) Nine men went on trial on Monday in France suspected of smuggling people on a small boat that capsized in the English Channel killing eight passengers in 2022. Four people died and four went missing after the boat capsized a few […]
(Jerusalem Post) Against the backdrop of the current war, multiple pro-Iranian regime rallies have taken place in major cities worldwide, with demonstrators expressing support for the Islamic Republic and condemnation of Israel. Pro-Palestine protesters rallied in London’s Parliament Square on Saturday shouting […]
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