Clerics & Preachers
Family had reported London Bridge attacker to police, inquest hears (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
Legal
Iraq condemns two more French IS members to death
(AFP) A Baghdad court sentenced two more Frenchmen to death Tuesday for joining the Islamic State jihadist group, raising the number of French IS members on death row in Iraq to six. Brahim Nejara and Karam El Harchaoui, both in their 30s, […]
Law Enforcement
French police arrest four over Lyon package bomb blast
(AFP) French police arrested four people Monday over a package bomb explosion in the heart of the southeastern city of Lyon last week which injured 13 people, authorities said. A police raid was under way in a building in the Oullins suburb […]
Legal
Iraq condemns fourth French IS member to death
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Monday condemned a fourth French citizen to death for joining the Islamic State group, a day after handing capital punishments to three other Frenchmen. Mustapha Merzoughi, 37, was sentenced to death by hanging, according to an AFP […]
Legal
Swedish woman sentenced to 15 years in Iraqi prison for Isis connection
(Local) A Swedish woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Iraqi court on Sunday for her involvement with the terror group Isis. The woman has been imprisoned in Iraq since autumn when she was convicted of entering the country […]
Legal
Three French IS members sentenced to death in Iraq: judiciary
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced three French citizens to death after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group, a court official said. Captured in Syria by a US-backed force fighting the jihadists, they are the first French […]
Clerics & Preachers
Notorious jihadist group banned after it was linked to 7/7 bombings which killed 52 people ‘is active once again and grooming new terrorists online’ (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Father of Isis suspect said in email he blamed himself (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
Can John Walker Lindh be deradicalized?
(VOA) John Walker Lindh, the former jihadi dubbed the “American Taliban,” was released from prison Thursday after completing 17 years of a 20-year sentence for supporting the Afghan insurgent group. The first American detainee in the U.S. war on terror, Lindh, now […]
Crime
Isis suspect told parents he wanted to behead schoolfriend, court hears (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Swedish terror expert: Do not allow ISIS women to return to Sweden
(Breitbart) Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp has recommended that the Swedish government should not allow female Islamic State members to return, citing a lack of laws to prosecute them. While he criticised the deficiency in the Swedish legal system, Ranstorp praised neighbouring Norway, […]
Government & Politics
American who joined the Taliban is released from prison
(AP) John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, released under tight restrictions that reflected government fears he […]
Crime
Isis suspect Jack Letts’ parents ignored warnings, court told (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Swiss propose house arrest, including for teenagers, to curb extremism
(Reuters) The Swiss government on Wednesday proposed new laws aimed at preventing extremist violence and forcing people including children deemed a threat to be registered with authorities, with house arrest a last resort in some cases. The measures, due now to be […]
News: North America
In letter, ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh said ISIS ‘doing a spectacular job’ Lindh is set to be released from prison Thursday amid concerns among U.S. authorities that he remains a potentially violent Islamic extremist.
(NBC) John Walker Lindh, the American captured fighting with the Afghan Taliban two months after the 9/11 attacks, is set to be released from prison Thursday amid concerns among U.S. authorities that he remains a potentially violent Islamic extremist, current and former […]
Government & Politics
West hit by 112 terrorist attacks in 15 years: Dutch intelligence service
(NL Times) A total of 112 terrorist attacks were committed in Western countries over the past 15 years. Three-quarters of these happened in the last five years, a strong increase related to the rise of terrorist organization Islamic State since 2014, according […]
Government & Politics
The naked hypocrisy of CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush
(IPT) Oh boy, was Hussam Ayloush ever mad! Asked to condemn Hamas in 2013, Ayloush called the question “unacceptable” and lashed out at the questioner, saying it was “very shameful” and “proves that you have nothing but bigotry in you.” Ayloush, who […]
Government & Politics
British citizens who help Isil could face life in prison under updated treason laws, Sajid Javid suggests (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Denmark: Syrian man gets jail for terror planning
(AP) A Syrian asylum seeker in Sweden received Monday a 12-year prison sentence for planning to explode one or more bombs in the Danish capital of Copenhagen and stabbing random people with kitchen knives. The Copenhagen City Court said Moyed Al Zoebi, […]
Health & Medicine
‘Cherry picked and out of context’ — Deception dominates ICNA co-sponsored ‘Inventing Terrorists’ report
(IPT) As IPT Senior Fellow Patrick Dunleavy noted Friday, the Islamic Circle of North America has helped update a report on terrorist prosecutions in the United States which claims more than 9 in 10 cases involving Muslim suspects are bogus. “Many convicted […]
Interfaith
Is a CAIR staffer legitimizing modern blood libels? The organization was officially designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates in 2014.
(Jerusalem Post) A Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) organizer, Zohra Lasania, the program director of CAIR-Pittsburgh, reportedly gave legitimacy to a Zionists-ISIS conspiracy, according to the Middle East Forum, a conservative think-tank. Lasania reportedly posted on Facebook an article first published by […]
Books
Former far-right politician who converted to Islam says EU must be realistic about immigration Joram van Klaveren worries that the ideas he contributed to may become policies after the next EU elections
(National-UAE) With Europeans approaching the next parliamentary vote split down the middle on the benefits of immigration, few can claim to have the perspective possessed by Joram van Klaveren. As a spokesman for right-wing Geert Wilders’s anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV) a […]
Clerics & Preachers
One of U.K.’s most prolific extremist cells is regrouping
(NY Times) Even as fellow European countries worry about hardened Islamic State fighters returning from Syria and Iraq, Britain has another problem: the re-emergence of a homegrown militant cell, Al Muhajiroun, one of Europe’s most prolific extremist networks, which was implicated in […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim Reform Movement founder opposes Omar, CAIR and Islamism abroad
(Christian Post) I interviewed Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser in January 2017, July 2017, and September 2018 on a range of topics including Islamism and what he believes is its antidote, the Muslim Reform Movement. This is a follow-up interview. Jasser is president […]
Clerics & Preachers
ICNA solicits donations for prison program
(IPT) The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) recently sent out an urgent request to its followers seeking donations to assist Muslim prison inmates. Some of the donations will help “facilitate Islamic education” in the U.S. prison system. Americans are generous in […]
Interfaith
Belgium museum killer in France over 2013 Syria kidnappings
(AFP) Belgian authorities have transferred Mehdi Nemmouche, the French jihadist who killed four people at a Jewish museum in 2014, to Paris for questioning over his suspected role in the kidnapping of four journalists in Syria in 2013, a legal source said […]
Academics & Education
Prominent Muslim head of free school seized by security police
(Local) The chief executive of a largely Muslim free school in Gothenburg has been placed in custody by the Swedish Migration Agency on the orders of the country’s Säpo security police. It follows the arrests of other imams in recent months. He […]
Immigration
Germany: Trial of Berlin bomb plotter begins Magomed-Ali C. was arrested in August 2018 on suspicion of planning a bomb attack at a Berlin shopping center. He allegedly had close ties to the man who killed 11 people at a Christmas market in the capital in 2016.
(Deutsche Welle) The trial of a 31-year-old Islamist from Russia who allegedly planned a bomb attack in Berlin began on Thursday. Federal prosecutors accuse Magomed-Ali C. of planning the attack, most likely on a shopping center in the north of the capital, […]
Children & Teens
Children of dead Gothenburg-born Isis member back home in Sweden
(Local) The seven young children of dead Isis fighter Michael Skråmo are being cared for by social services in Sweden, after being flown to Gothenburg from Iraq. The children, aged between one and eight, were left orphaned after their father was killed in […]
Crime
Omar Ashfaq jailed for leaving ‘violent footage’ in shoes at mosques
(BBC) A man who left USB sticks containing terrorist propaganda inside shoes at six mosques in England has been jailed. Omar Ashfaq, 24, of St Thomas Road, in Derby, left 17 of the sticks in footwear while Muslim worshipers were praying between […]
Crime
Derby man spread terrorist documents at mosques
(BBC) A man has pleaded guilty to spreading terrorist documents around six mosques. Omar Ashfaq, from Derby, was charged with eights counts of dissemination of a terrorist publication between 31 May and 8 June last year. The 24-year-old pleaded guilty on the […]
Clerics & Preachers
Sri Lanka suicide bomber was ‘radicalised by hate preacher Anjem Choudary in UK’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
German intelligence agency warns of ‘Islamic State’ attacks From a military point of view, the 'Islamic State' has been defeated in the Middle East. However, the group remains a dangerous terrorist organization in the West, warns Germany's domestic intelligence agency.
(Deutsche Welle) It was the first time Thomas Haldenwang, president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, had hosted his agency’s traditional symposium. The event on Monday in Berlin was entitled “Mobilization Capability in Political Extremism” — […]
Academics & Education
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary prowls streets unsupervised in UK terror hotbed despite bail conditions (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Anjem Choudary disciple who radicalised teenager to carry out Lee Rigby-style attack out of prison and living mile from his mentor (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Isil extremists using Instagram to promote jihad and incite support for terror attacks on the West (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images
(AP) The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad. Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts: plaques of anti-Semitic verses, talk of retribution and a photo of two men carrying more jihadi […]
Children & Teens
Children of Gothenburg-born Isis fighter set to return to Sweden
(Local) The seven young children of dead Isis fighter Michael Skråmo have been taken from a Syrian refugee camp to Swedish authorities in Iraq, from where they will be brought home to Sweden. The children, aged between one and eight, were left […]
News: Europe
Danish VAT food fraud funded Spanish jihadi cell, says report
(AFP) A Spanish jihadist cell funded itself through tax fraud on chicken, cheese and chocolate sold in Denmark, according to an investigation published today led by non-profit European newsroom Correctiv. The cell had raised at least €8 million (RM37.1 million) through the […]
Crime
Muslim anti-Semitism increases the threat facing Europe’s Jews
(IPT) In Amsterdam, where a Syrian refugee twice last year shattered the windows of a kosher restaurant, men leaving synagogue remind each other to remove their yarmulkes before going out into the street. It is too dangerous to be seen wearing one. […]
Children & Teens
Police arrest teenager in Strasbourg over foiled terror plot
(Radio France) French police have arrested a 16-year-old teenager in the eastern city of Strasbourg as part of an investigation into a suspected plot to attack security forces and possibly the presidential Elysee Palace, according to judicial sources. The teenager is the […]
Children & Teens
France challenged over refusal to allow jihadist’s children home
(AFP) The grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother at a camp in Kurdish-held Syria filed a lawsuit at Europe’s top rights court Monday over France’s refusal to allow them home, lawyers said. It was the latest challenge to […]
Clerics & Preachers
Terror fears as hate preacher Anjem Choudary returns to the street (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Muslim advisers hit by anti‑Semitism row (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Secret government report warns over 48 British Islamic schools are teaching intolerance and misogyny to future imams (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
‘Tinnie terror’ leader eyes 2021 release
(AAP) The Melbourne ringleader of a terror plot who encouraged others to join him sailing from Queensland to help overthrow the Philippines government has been jailed for up to seven years. Islamic State sympathiser Robert “Musa” Cerantonio shared his “putrid views” with […]
Internet
Richardson man convicted of using social media app to recruit for ISIS and lying about it Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim used a chat room on Zello to recruit ISIS fighters to kill nonbelievers wherever they lived, prosecutors said.
(Dallas Morning News) Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim led a double life. The 42-year-old Richardson man lived quietly and ran an Oak Cliff convenience store, seemingly blending into ordinary American existence. At the same time, he raged obsessively against “infidels” and other enemies […]
Clothing
NSW Police ordered to apologise for vilifying Arabs in terror exercise
(Sydney Morning Herald) The NSW Police Force has been ordered to publish an apology and implement racial vilification training for senior officers after a tribunal found a police training exercise in October 2017 racially vilified Palestinians and Arabs and portrayed them as […]
Health & Medicine
Sydney man guilty of terror stabbing
(AAP) A Sydney pharmacy student who repeatedly stabbed a passer-by with a machete, shouting “I will kill you, you will die,” has been found guilty of carrying out a terrorist act. “He got me probably three or four times and I didn’t […]
Children & Teens
More Dutch women and children in Syrian camps as fighting continues
(Dutch News) There are now 55 Dutch adults, of whom three-quarters are women, living in Syrian Kurdish camps or in detention, together with 85 children, the Dutch security service AIVD said on Thursday. Many of the children were born in the region, […]