(Breitbart) A protest called for in central Berlin on Tuesday night featuring the paraglider symbol of the October 7th terrorist attacks was banned by German police with just hours to go before it was due to begin. A major police presence, with […]
(DPA) German conservative lawmaker Alexander Throm raised the question whether dual citizens convicted of terrorist acts on German soil should face easier revocation of their citizenship, following the arrest of three suspected Hamas operatives. Currently, German law allows citizenship to be stripped […]
(Deutsche Welle) Prosecutors in Berlin said they have arrested three suspected Hamas operatives. The suspects were preparing attacks on Israeli and Jewish institutions in Germany, authorities said. Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by Germany, the EU, the US and several governments. The three […]
(Reuters) German police arrested on Tuesday a Syrian man suspected of committing crimes against humanity, including killing and torturing, as a militia leader in 2011 in Aleppo, prosecutors said. The Syrian national, identified only as Anwar S. in line with German privacy […]
(European Conservative) A new agreement granting Muslims in Schleswig-Holstein two additional public holidays has triggered sharp criticism from opposition parties, who warn that the move risks privileging one faith community and sidelining broader concerns over integration. Last week, the state government signed […]
(European Conservative) Muslims in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein are set to receive two additional public holidays, while preparations are also underway for Islamic studies to be introduced as a regular subject in schools. These measures are part of an agreement between […]
(European Conservative) The life sentence for the deadly knife attack on police officer Rouven Laur in Mannheim is now legally binding. No appeals were filed within the one-week deadline, meaning Judge Herbert Anderer’s sentence is final. Sulaiman Ataee was sentenced to life […]
(Catholic Herald) One of the Church’s leading conservative cardinals has claimed that politicians in European countries like Germany “live in fear” of Muslims, as he issued a stark warning about the future of Christianity on the continent. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former […]
(Deutsche Welle) Despite strongly worded criticism from numerous aid organizations, the German government has now confirmed a report in the mass-circulation newspaper Bild that envoys of Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt are holding talks in Afghanistan with the ruling Islamist Taliban about deportations […]
(AFP) An Afghan man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for a jihadist stabbing spree in Germany last year that killed a police officer and left five people wounded. The 26-year-old, only partially named as Sulaiman A. and found to […]
(European Conservative) Pro-Palestinian activists preparing for what they describe as the “largest demonstration in Germany” on September 27th in Düsseldorf are promoting travel to the event in gender-segregated buses from Berlin. Several prominent Instagram accounts, including “Freedomaktivist” and “Palestinelobby,” each with tens […]
(AFP) A teenager suspected of stabbing a teacher at a college in western Germany attacked another man on the same day and acted out of an “Islamist jihadist ideology,” prosecutors said Friday. The 17-year-old Kosovar suspect, identified by prosecutors as Erjon S., […]
(Algemeiner) Amid a rising wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes, the German government is pressing the country’s main mosque association over its close ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging it to publicly distance itself from his antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. According […]
(AFP) A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing three people and wounding eight in an Islamist-motivated stabbing spree at a summer festival in Germany last year. Issa Al Hasan, 27, was a member of the Islamic State […]
(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 […]
(European Conservative) Since the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the climate for Jews in Germany has changed dramatically. Many report that they no longer feel safe, neither on the streets nor in educational institutions. Jewish families in Germany […]
(European Conservative) The German city of Hagen, known as the “gateway to the Sauerland,” is seeing rapid change as migration and rising drug use reshape its center, NIUS reported on Monday. According to the outlet, a growing Muslim presence is influencing shops, […]
(European Conservative) On August 11th, a young girl lost her life after falling onto the tracks and being hit by a train in Friedland, Lower Saxony. The police were called to the station shortly before the girl’s death because of a man […]
(AFP) Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin’s Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade. Many came […]
(AP) A second suspect was arrested Friday over a knife attack last weekend on a tram in the German city of Dresden in which an American man was wounded, authorities said. The suspect, a 20-year-old Syrian, turned himself in to police hours […]
(European Conservative) Germany’s welfare statistics have reignited the debate over migration and integration after new figures revealed that “Mohammed” and its many spelling variants have become the most common first name among recipients of Bürgergeld, the country’s basic income support. The revelation […]
(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 […]
(Deutsche Welle) Dresden police and prosecutors said on Tuesday that they had arrested a 21-year-old Syrian in connection with a knife attack on a late-night tram in the city over the weekend. He was detained in the early hours of Tuesday, police […]
(AFP) German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged an Afghan man over a Munich car-ramming attack that killed a two-year-old girl and her mother and wounded dozens more. The man, identified only as Farhad N., was charged with two counts of murder, […]
(European Conservative) One of Germany’s largest online retailers has begun selling hijabs for young girls, sparking criticism amid warnings of Islamist pressure on minors. Otto-Versand promotes the veils as accessories that “offer comfort and allow your daughter to move freely.” Security experts […]
(Reuters) Germany is set to lift its months-long ban on the entry of vulnerable Afghan nationals it had pledged to admit, a foreign ministry official said on Tuesday, after mounting legal pressure at home and a deportation push by Pakistan. Around 2,000 […]
(AFP) A Berlin court on Tuesday convicted a Syrian teenager of contributing to an Islamic State-inspired plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. Three dates in the US pop megastar’s record-breaking “Eras” tour were cancelled last summer after authorities warned […]
(NY Post) An American has been stabbed after confronting a Syrian national in Germany after allegedly stepping in to help two female passengers being harassed on a tram, according to reports. The young man was attacked at around 12:25 a.m. on Sunday […]
(European Conservative) A pro-Palestinian demonstration near the German Chancellery on Monday night ended with 188 arrests after protesters chanted slogans glorifying Hamas leaders and rejecting the existence of Israel. According to Berlin police, around 150 demonstrators marched from a protest camp on […]
(AP) German prosecutors announced terrorism charges Wednesday against a man who they say may have planned to attack the Israeli Embassy in Berlin and intended to join the Islamic State group in Pakistan. The suspect, a Russian national identified only as Akhmad […]
(European Conservative) German authorities have again classified an Islamist preacher as a security threat, years after he was jailed for supporting terrorism and later claimed to have reformed. Sven Lau, 44, was once one of the most visible figures of Germany’s radical […]
(AP) The suspect in a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has been charged with murder, attempted murder and bodily harm, prosecutors said Tuesday, claiming he was trying to kill as many people as possible. […]
(European Conservative) A 40-year-old Tunisian man with a Swedish residence permit was shot and injured by police in the German city of Wuppertal on Wednesday afternoon after a knife attack on a passerby. The incident began around 3:30 p.m. when the man […]
(AFP) Five people have been arrested in Germany, the Netherlands and Bosnia in a coordinated operation against a gang accused of smuggling Syrian migrants into Europe, German authorities said on Thursday. The suspects are Syrian nationals aged between 26 and 37, police […]
(European Conservative) Parents in Berlin stuck for ideas about how to entertain their children this Saturday might consider attending the so-called Solidarity Neighborhood Event — so long as they don’t mind their craft and dance classes being accompanied by antisemitic rants. The […]
(European Conservative) Germany is grappling with a surge in violent crime, particularly group rapes — and it’s not the Germans getting more prone to commit crimes. The rising share of foreign suspects — up from 34% in 2010 to 51% in 2024 […]
(New Arab) The name of the late Hamas political leader Yahya Sinwar has sparked controversy in Germany after it appeared on a welcome board for newborns at Leipzig University Hospital. The hospital displays a board each day listing the names of babies […]
(Breitbart) Multicultural neighbourhoods in Berlin are now home to Islamic imams giving marriage counselling to underage girls following a mass influx of Palestinians and other hardline Muslim migrants, an integration officer has claimed. Güner Balci, a Turkish-born integration officer for the Berlin borough […]
(AP) The United States and many of its NATO allies are accusing Iran of a growing number of threats throughout Europe and North America and demanding that it end its attempts to harm dissidents and others. “We are united in our opposition […]
(Deutsche Welle) A 50-year-old Saudi Arabian man who rammed a rented SUV into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg last December triggered shock among survivors by writing personal letters to at least five of them asking forgiveness. The attack in the state of […]
(Deutsche Welle) Nobody ever used to ask Hassan which sect he belonged to. The 32-year-old Syrian has been in Germany since 2015, having fled after taking part in his country’s civil war on the side of anti-government forces. But now they do. […]
(European Conservative) The recent call by the German Association for Education and Training (VBE) to establish comprehensive Islamic religious education in schools across the country has reignited the debate on institutionalised Islamisation in Europe. Gerhard Brand, the VBE’s federal president, urged political […]
(AP) Germany’s top prosecutor has filed charges against a Syrian man in connection with a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial in February that seriously wounded a Spanish tourist. The suspect sought to use the alleged crime to join the militant Islamic […]
(European Conservative) After a daycare center in Lower Saxony recently raised the hackles of parents by only serving sausages from halal-slaughtered animals, now a school in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhein-Westphalia, is also bowing to the demands of the Muslim population when it comes […]
(Euronews) Since demonstrations in Berlin and Düsseldorf turned violent when supporters of Syria’s new government clashed with pro-Kurdish demonstrators, discussions surrounding radical Islamism in Germany have been on the rise. At the protests last weekend, people celebrated the wave of attacks on […]
(European Conservative) In front of Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall), the seat of the city’s mayor, nearly 400 men — many of them reportedly Syrian refugees — publicly celebrated the recent massacres committed against the Druze community in Syria. Eyewitnesses report […]
(Deutsche Welle) “We have succeeded in organizing another deportation flight with convicted criminals to Afghanistan,” German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in a press release on July 18, following the departure of a plane from Leipzig to Kabul with 81 Afghan men with […]
(Deutsche Welle) Shafiq* is a Palestinian man who ended up in limbo after he managed to get out of Gaza and make his way via Egypt and Turkey to Germany, where he applied for asylum. The right to asylum is enshrined in […]
(Euronews) German authorities filed criminal charges against dozens of participants following weekend protests in Berlin and Düsseldorf, where demonstrators celebrated violence against Syria’s Druze minority and clashed with Kurdish counter-protesters. Hundreds gathered Saturday outside Berlin’s city hall, waving Syrian flags and chanting […]
(Remix News) Despite claims of the alleged grave threat of “right-wing extremism” presented by the media and the political left in Germany, the data tells another story. In the first half of 2025, a staggering 99 percent of new proceedings initiated by […]
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