Children & Teens
YouTube channel urges UK girls to become jihadi brides (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
News: Europe
Gothenburg-born Islamic State fighter killed in Syria: mother
(Local) The Norwegian-Swedish Islamic State solider Michael Skråmo has been killed in Syria, his mother has told Sweden’s state broadcaster SVT Skråmo, a Norwegian citizen born and brought up in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, was one of the most prolific propagandists […]
Children & Teens
Five children of French jihadists return home from Syria
(AFP) The French government said Friday it had repatriated five orphaned children of French jihadists from camps in northeast Syria, where a five-year offensive against the Islamic State (IS) group is drawing to a bloody close. The children, aged five or under, […]
Law Enforcement
Dutch arrest two in 2015 Paris attacks weapons link
(AFP) Dutch police have arrested two men in Amsterdam with suspected links to weapons used in deadly attacks in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people, prosecutors said Friday. “Police arrested two men on Tuesday in Amsterdam in an investigation into the […]
Children & Teens
Sweden Democrats call on government to strip Isis fighters of citizenship
(Local) As Sweden continues to debate the fate of the roughly 150 citizens who have returned home after joining the terror group Isis, the government is under fire from critics who say it is not doing enough to address the problem. When […]
News: Europe
Report: A growing number of terrorists in Spain are Moroccan-born Moroccan-born individuals make up nearly half of the terrorists Spain detained over the last seven years.
(Morocco World News) March 11 marked the anniversary of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, also known as 11-M, which Moroccan national Youssef Belhadj masterminded. The attacks killed 193, injured 2,000, and shocked the world. Fifteen years later, terrorism in Spain has evolved […]
Halal
Windsor-area Mediterranean restaurant slammed on social media for serving halal meat The owner posted the negative reviews on his Facebook page
(CBC) A Tecumseh restaurant is under fire on social media — but not for the quality of the food or customer service. Instead, the negative reviews are because only halal meat is offered. Tabouli by Eddy’s has been open for just a few […]
Academics & Education
Stand-off over Amsterdam Islamic school continues, Muslim groups get involved
(Dutch News) Islamic organisations in the Netherlands have called on the board of Amsterdam’s only Islamic high school to resign following claims by the security service that members of the board had links to terrorist organisations. Six organisations, including the Islamic school […]
Interfaith
Brussels Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison
(AFP) The French jihadist who shot dead four people in a terrorist attack at a Jewish museum was on Tuesday sentenced to life in prison by a Brussels court, after prosecutors branded him a “coward” and a “psychopath.” Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted […]
Government & Politics
Irish woman suspected of Isis link may face serious charges if she returns to state (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Switzerland wants to strip ISIS fighter of passport
(Local) The Swiss justice minister on Monday confirmed that the country was looking at revoking the passport of a Swiss citizen who fought for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). Speaking in the lower house of the Swiss parliament, Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter […]
Citizenship
Government unlikely to be able to strip citizenship from alleged ‘Isis bride’ (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Brussels Jewish museum killer facing jail says ‘life goes on’
(AFP) A French jihadist found guilty of shooting dead four people in a terrorist attack at Brussels’ Jewish museum joked Monday “life goes on” as prosecutors demanded he be jailed for life. A jury last week convicted Mehdi Nemmouche of “terrorist murder” […]
Children & Teens
Two Belgian women, renouncing Islamic State, fear kids will never go home
(Reuters) Two Belgian women who joined Islamic State in Syria said on Sunday they were losing hope they will ever go home after a Belgian court overturned a ruling to repatriate them with their six children. Tatiana Wielandt and Bouchra Abouallal, each […]
Children & Teens
Shamima Begum: ‘Not safe’ to rescue IS bride’s baby, says Hunt
(BBC) It was too dangerous to send British officials to rescue Shamima Begum’s baby son in Syria, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. The child died in a refugee camp after his mother, who joined IS in 2015, was stripped of UK […]
Military
Woman detained in Syria confirmed as former Defence Forces member from Dundalk (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Isis brides with five sons lose UK citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Islamic State fighter wants to return to Italy, warns of ‘sleeper cells’
(Reuters) An Islamic State fighter detained in Syria urged Italy on Saturday to let him come home to start a new life, saying he had abandoned the self-styled jihadist “caliphate” after growing disillusioned with its rulers. Mounsef al-Mkhayar, a 22-year-old of Moroccan […]
Government & Politics
Switzerland refuses to repatriate its jihadists
(Swiss Info) The Swiss government has rejected calls to actively repatriate Islamic militants with Swiss nationality from Syria or Iraq. Swiss citizens will not be prevented from returning to the country, according to a government statement published on Friday, but authorities want […]
Legal
Haider Ahmed guilty of hunting knife suicide terror plot
(BBC) A teenage supporter of Islamic State (IS) has been convicted of planning a terror attack with a hunting knife. Haider Ahmed, 19, from Redhill in Surrey, told contacts he wanted to conduct a suicide mission. But Kingston Crown Court heard Ahmed’s […]
Military
Woman detained in Syria believed to be former member of Irish Defence Forces (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Education minister threatens to remove funding from Amsterdam Islamic high school, accused of terror links
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has threatened to withdraw state funding from an Amsterdam Islamic secondary school accused of having terrorist links, if it refuses to let inspections take place. The Dutch security service AIVD has warned Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema […]
Legal
Swedish court convicts man for plotting to carry out bombing
(Reuters) A Swedish court convicted a man on Friday of plotting to carry out a bombing in Sweden in the name of Islamic State, sentencing him to seven years in prison followed by expulsion from the country. Evidence showed David Idrisson, a […]
Academics & Education
Islamic school in Amsterdam in contact with terrorist group: counterterrorism coordinator
(NL Times) Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus of Justice and Security, intelligence service AIVD and National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security NCTV have major concerns about Islamic school Cornelius Haga Lyceum in Amsterdam. In a letter to parliament and Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema, they […]
Christians
Laurie Cardoza-Moore claims Ilhan Omar may have ties to Muslim Brotherhood 'Omar may be in violation of a federal statute for fundraising for two Muslim Brotherhood charities that seek to destroy America,' she claimed.
(Jerusalem Post) Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), called on the US Justice Department “to launch a full and thorough investigation” into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) “possible connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.” Cardoza-Moore, an Evangelical leader who hosts […]
Legal
German prosecutors charge couple in ricin plot
(AP) Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a 30-year-old Tunisian and his 43-year-old German wife with preparing a severe act of violence over a plot to use the toxin ricin to carry out a biological attack in Germany. Sief Allah H. and Yasmin […]
Interfaith
Frenchman convicted of Belgium Jewish museum murders
(AFP) A jury found Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche guilty Thursday of the “terrorist murders” of four people at Brussels’ Jewish museum, in the first case of a Syria jihad veteran to stage an attack in Europe. Nemmouche, 33, now faces a life sentence […]
News: Europe
Finnish woman wants to return from IS stronghold: international media International news media reported encountering a woman who claimed to be Finnish and living in an Islamic State-controlled area
(Yle) A journalist writing on Twitter on Wednesday said that he had encountered a Finnish woman living in an area in Syria controlled by the extremist organisation Islamic State. Kurdish affairs analyst and journalist Mutlu Civiroglu tweeted that the woman came to […]
Deradicalization
Terrorists set for release across EU without proper monitoring EU still tinkering with deradicalisation policy as convicted extremists are set to walk free
(National-UAE) European countries will release 1,500 convicted terrorists over the next 12 months, posing a major security challenge for authorities grappling with the fallout from wars in Syria and Iraq, a London counter-terrorist conference heard on Wednesday. The wave of releases coincides […]
Legal
Isis follower jailed for terror plot to drive van into London shoppers (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Austria to withdraw consular protection for IS fighters: newspaper
(Reuters) Austria is to withdraw consular protection for citizens who have fought for the Islamic State militant group, Die Presse daily reported on Wednesday, rejecting a call from the United States for allies to take back captured fighters and put them on […]
Interfaith
Suspect in Belgium Jewish museum attack claims innocence
(AP) A suspected jihadi insisted Tuesday that he’s innocent of terrorism charges over the 2014 killing of four people at Belgium’s Jewish museum, as the jury in his trial prepared to consider its verdict. Weeks after telling the Brussels criminal court that […]
News: Europe
French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain killed in Syria: wife
(AFP) Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. Clain’s wife Dorothee Maquere said he was killed in mortar shelling after being wounded […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Tories suspend 14 members over alleged Islamophobia (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Russian Islamist charged with bomb plot in Germany
(AFP) German prosecutors have formally charged a Russian Islamist and acquaintance of Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri with plotting an explosives attack, prosecutors said Tuesday. The suspect, identified as Magomed-Ali C., 31, had planned an attack with Tunisian Amri, who went […]
Law Enforcement
‘Radicalised’ inmate detained after slashing guards in French prison
(AFP) A “radicalised” inmate at a prison in northwest France, who seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack on Tuesday, was shot and injured in a police raid that also left his visiting partner fatally wounded, sources told AFP. Prisoner Michael […]
Citizenship
Woman who joined Islamic State starts fight to return to US
(AP) An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State lost a first round on Monday in a legal fight to return to the U.S. with her toddler son, even as a judge seemed to support at least one argument made by her […]
News: Europe
Spain helping US identify European jihadists in Syria Interior Ministry is receiving information from officers working on Operation Gallant Phoenix that could serve as evidence against returning fighters
(El País) Spanish agents in Syria are cooperating with Operation Gallant Phoenix, a U.S.-led effort to identify fighters from Western nations who have joined Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in the region, counter-terrorism sources told El País. The Spanish Interior […]
Citizenship
Germany to strip ‘Islamic State’ fighters’ citizenship — report Germany's Interior Ministry and Justice Ministry have reportedly agreed on a proposal to expatriate IS fighters. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had tried to link the legislation with broader citizenship reform.
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s governing coalition has agreed to strip fighters of the “Islamic State” (IS) militant group of their citizenship, according to German outlets Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR. The new law would apply only to jihadis who are of age, have a second […]
Children & Teens
Jihadi Yago Riedijk ‘will not be allowed to live with his family in Netherlands’
(Dutch News) The Dutch government will not help IS fighter Yago Riedijk return to the country and his British wife and child should not be allowed to join him, ministers and MPs said at the weekend. Riedijk, 26, told the BBC and […]
News: Australasia
New Zealand jihadist Mark Taylor captured in Syria and jailed in Kurdish prison
(ABC-Australia) A New Zealander serving with the Islamic State group has been captured in northern Syria and is being held in a Kurdish prison. Nicknamed the Kiwi Jihadi, Mark Taylor told the ABC he fled the Islamic State group in December and […]
Citizenship
Dossier details hate-filled social media messages from jihadi bride seeking return to U.S.
(Washington Times) A research group that monitors jihadi social media has assembled a detailed dossier on Hoda Muthana, the former Alabama resident who embraced mass killings as a three-time Islamic State bride in Syria but now wants to return to America. The […]
Children & Teens
Shamima Begum: ‘We should live in Holland,’ says IS husband
(BBC) The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015 aged 15, has said he wants her to return to the Netherlands with him. Yago Riedijk and Ms Begum married days after she arrived inside […]
Legal
Point Pleasant man sentenced for plotting bomb attack in New York
(Asbury Park Press) A Point Pleasant man was sentenced Friday to 16 years in federal prison for plotting to use a pressure cooker to commit terrorism in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State group. Gregory Lepsky, 22, had pleaded […]
News: North America
Canadians among hundreds of ISIS brides who want to return home
(CTV) It took time and patience to negotiate access to the al-Hawl refugee camp in eastern Syria. A few cups of tea, a group photo with a Kurdish intelligence officer, and after a couple days, permission was granted. Al-Hawl is a vast […]
Government & Politics
French prosecutors want Le Pen tried over tweet
(AFP) Prosecutors have called for French far-right leader Marine Le Pen to be tried for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group, judicial sources said Friday. This could hike further pressure on Le Pen, 50, who already faces legal […]
Children & Teens
Family devastated by Belgian ruling not to bring back Islamic State children
(Reuters) A Belgian court’s decision to overturn a ruling forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria has left their family devastated. The grandmother of the six children, aged from 11 […]
Government & Politics
Sweden moves to tighten anti-terror laws: five key things to know
(Local) The Swedish government wants to tighten the laws applying to people who take part in or assist terrorist organizations. Here are five things to know about the law proposal and what it means. What is the proposed new law? The government […]
Deradicalization
Toronto man sentenced to 4 years for trying to get into Syria to join ISIL
(Canadian Press) A Toronto man who tried to join Islamic State militants in Syria was sentenced to just over four years in prison on Thursday after a judge found he had taken responsibility for his actions and abandoned his radical views. Pamir […]
Interfaith
Defence sums up in Brussels Jewish museum terror trial
(AFP) Lawyers for a Frenchman accused of murdering four people in a terrorist attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels insisted Thursday their client was not the killer, as his trial nears its end. Defence lawyers said Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, was not […]