Health & Medicine
Alexandr Bekmirzaev: ‘A victim of true Islamic brainwashing’ (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
News: Europe
Islamist activists promote divide between Muslim and non-Muslim, says Tony Blair Organisations often held overlapping views with extremists according to report
(National-UAE) A number of UK Islamic activist groups proliferate views that align with proscribed extremist groups, a report by the think tank of former prime minister Tony Blair said. It was found that many worldviews held by these organisations, such as the […]
Children & Teens
Police called in after scout group run from mosque is linked to Islamic extremist and Holocaust denier (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Jewish museum attack victim’s mother tells Belgian court of horror
(AFP) The mother of a victim of Belgium’s Jewish museum attack faced her son’s alleged killer for the first time on Friday, as the terror trial turned harrowing when the court was shown footage of the anti-Semitic murders. The accused gunman, Mehdi […]
Government & Politics
Canada to ‘monitor’ case of captured Canadian ISIS fighter, Goodale says
(Global News) Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Friday that Canada will “monitor” the case of an ISIS fighter caught in Syria last weekend amid speculation he may be a Canadian who narrated execution videos. Asked what the government was doing about […]
Legal
Jihadi defence lawyer arrested for financing terrorism
(Breitbart) A French lawyer, well-known for taking on cases in which he defended radical jihadists, has been arrested by French security services after being accused of helping to finance terrorist activity. Paris lawyer Bruno Vinay was arrested on Tuesday by members of the Directorate-General of Internal Security […]
Health & Medicine
Daesh-supporter Rehab Dughmosh convicted of terror charges over Scarborough Canadian Tire attack
(Toronto Star) A jury has found Rehab Dughmosh guilty on four terrorism-related charges, concluding a brief and bizarre trial in which she refused to participate except to admit she tried to join Daesh in Syria and later used a golf club and […]
Law Enforcement
Man shot by deputy in Fountain Hills accused of terrorism on behalf of ISIS
(Arizona Republic) An 18-year-old man shot by a Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy in Fountain Hills earlier this month now is being charged as a terrorist who was acting on behalf of ISIS, according to a complaint filed by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. The […]
News: North America
Captured Canadian could be long-sought narrator of ISIS propaganda
(Global News) For more than four years, authorities have been trying to identify an ISIS member with a distinctly Canadian accent who was narrating the terrorist group’s English-language propaganda. He voiced videos showing mass executions and may have participated in them. His […]
Law Enforcement
Georgia man plotted attack on White House, authorities say
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a metro Atlanta man they said was plotting to attack the White House but instead got entangled with the FBI. Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cumming, was taken into custody in Gwinnett County while allegedly […]
Health & Medicine
In highly unusual trial, Rehab Dughmosh admits to attacking Scarborough Canadian Tire ‘for ISIS’ — but refuses to enter plea
(Toronto Star) A year after her plan to leave her husband and two children to join a terrorist group in Syria was thwarted, Rehab Dughmosh entered a Scarborough Canadian Tire in 2017 and shouted “This is for ISIS” as she attacked employees […]
News: North America
Canadian caught in Syria was commander of ISIS unit, according to U.S.-backed forces
(Global News) The latest Canadian captured in Syria was the commander of more than a dozen fighters who clashed with U.S.-backed forces in the last remaining ISIS enclave, according to a local official. The former Toronto resident, Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed, was armed […]
Interfaith
Frenchman denies Jewish museum murders
(AFP) The Frenchman on trial accused of murdering four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium denied Tuesday he was the gunman and alleged the court had robbed him of defence witnesses. Asked by the judge whether he accepted the evidence linking […]
News: North America
American ISIS member Warren Clark says he wanted to see ‘what the group was about’ 'I’m from the United States, from Texas. They like to execute people, too. So I really don’t see any difference,' he said in an exclusive interview.
(NBC) A Texan who says he offered to work as an English teacher for the Islamic State and was captured earlier this month in Syria by U.S.-backed forces said he witnessed executions and crucifixions during the more than three years he spent […]
Law Enforcement
Spanish police raid Barcelona cell suspected of plotting attack
(AFP) Spanish police staged a counter-terrorism operation in Barcelona and a nearby city on Tuesday against a cell suspected of plotting an attack, a police spokesman said. Fourteen people had been arrested in Barcelona and Igualada, 60 kilometres (40 miles) west of […]
News: North America
Alleged Canadian ISIS member captured in Syria, according to Kurdish forces
(Global News) Another alleged Canadian ISIS member has been captured in northern Syria, according to local Kurdish forces, who posted a video of the man. In the 40-second video clip, the man identified himself as Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed and said he was […]
News: Europe
Second German deported from Egypt over suspected ‘IS’ links Isa El Sabbagh has arrived in Frankfurt after disappearing in Egypt in December. Egyptian authorities held him for weeks without telling his family.
(Deutsche Welle) The Egyptian government announced on Monday that it had deported another man back to Germany, the second suspect deported from Cairo after being detained for terrorist sympathies. Isa El Sabbagh, 18, was allegedly found with several maps of Egypt’s North […]
History
Lessons we seem unwilling to learn
(Gatestone) An enormous amount about the hopes and expectations of a society can be learned from the news that people want to report and the stories its readers apparently want to hear. An equally large amount — perhaps even more — can […]
Law Enforcement
From Ireland to Isis: The life of Alexandr Ruzmatovich Bekmirzaev (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
One German arrested in Egypt deported, another remains in custody Twenty-three-year-old Mahmoud Abdel Aziz has returned to Germany after weeks in Egyptian custody. Eighteen-year-old Isa El Sabbagh remains in detention.
(Deutsche Welle) A 23-year-old German-Egyptian citizen detained by Egyptian authorities at Cairo airport on December 27 has arrived back home in the central German city of Göttingen. Germany’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the man’s return on Friday. Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said that […]
Children & Teens
Captured teen IS fighter not US citizen
(VOA) A man and a teenager captured in separate incidents this past week by Kurdish forces in Syria and identified as U.S. citizens fighting for the Islamic State (IS) terror group are likely not Americans. A U.S. official, speaking to VOA on […]
Interfaith
Jewish museum terror attack trial opens in Brussels
(AFP) A Frenchman accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels went on trial on Thursday, allegedly the first Syria jihad veteran to stage a terror attack in Europe. Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, who was in court, faces a […]
Christians
Education needed to tackle Islamic extremism in Ireland — academics
(Irish Catholic) Catholic methods of examining scripture could help tackle radicalisation in Islam, a leading Jesuit academic has said, after it was revealed an Irish citizen was captured having left Ireland to fight for the so-called Islamic State. Originally from Belarus, Alexandr […]
Children & Teens
Syrian Kurds say American teen among 8 captured foreign ISIS fighters
(Stars and Stripes) U.S.-backed forces in Syria said they have captured eight foreign Islamic State fighters in the town of Hajin, including one American teen, days after announcing they had detained five others. The Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, said Wednesday […]
Interfaith
On supermarket siege anniversary, French Jews resolutely insist they are not afraid (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
New suspect charged in Belgium over Paris 2015 terror attacks
(AFP) Belgian authorities have arrested another suspect in connection with the Paris terror attacks of November 2015, charging him with participating in the activities of a terrorist group, prosecutors said Wednesday. The suspect is believed to have been involved in the supply […]
Immigration
Italy breaks up smuggling ring run by Islamic State sympathizer
(Reuters) Italian police seized eight men on Wednesday behind a speedboat smuggling ring that ran people, including possible jihadists, to Sicily from Tunisia, investigators said. Operations were headed by a Tunisian man who used his Facebook account to spread Islamic State (IS) […]
Citizenship
Islamic State suspect captured in Syria was radicalised in Ireland (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Punching down at dead cartoonists The response to the attack on Charlie Hebdo was a pivotal moment that foreshadowed the political crisis in Western societies
(Tablet) Yesterday marked the four-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, in which the staff of a satirical French comics publication, along with several bystanders, were murdered by jihadist terrorists inside their Paris offices. The killers were the brothers Saïd and Chérif […]
Interfaith
Report: Facebook and Twitter consult with terror-tied CAIR over who gets banned from platforms
(Conservative Review) The Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is best known as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history, appears to have access to high-ranking Facebook and Twitter executives and has communicated with these individuals […]
Citizenship
Muslim leader criticises Varadkar’s comments on Irish ‘Isis terrorist’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
German authorities worry about MB influence
(IPT) German officials reportedly see the Muslim Brotherhood as an increasingly subversive force in their society. Attacks by ISIS, combined with Muslim migration to Germany, have fueled social tension. The reach of the Islamic Community of Germany (ICG), which the German domestic […]
Legal
Six go on trial in Sweden terrorism case
(AFP) Six Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals living in Sweden went on trial in Stockholm on Monday accused of financing terrorism, three of them also charged with planning a terror attack. “If the terrorist crime had been carried out, it could have seriously […]
Interfaith
French jihadist in court over deadly Brussels Jewish museum attack
(AFP) A French jihadist appeared in court on Monday as a jury was chosen for his trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014. Mehdi Nemmouche, the first jihadist to return from Syria’s battlefields to allegedly […]
Government & Politics
Changes to terrorism laws on the table after failure to impose supervision order
(Sydney Morning Herald) The attorney-general’s office is contemplating tougher terror laws, after the state failed in a last-ditched bid to slap an extended supervision order on a convicted terrorism “activity offender” who had an “obsession” with the Islamic State. Mohamed Naaman, 43, has […]
Arts & Entertainment
Paris honors attack victims at Charlie Hebdo, kosher market
(AP) Cartoonists, religious leaders and top French officials are paying respects to 17 people killed by Islamic extremists targeting satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. The attacks that started exactly four years ago Monday were the first of several to […]
Marriage
35% of women arrested for terrorism in Spain are Moroccans Terrorism and extremism are imposing threat in all countries across the world.
(Morocco World News) Two Spanish criminologists conducted a study on women involved in terror-related crimes in Spain. The study, quoted by Ceutaldia, indicates that nearly 34.8 percent of women radicalized by terror organizations in Spain are Moroccans. The study showed that the […]
Citizenship
Irish ‘Isis terrorist’ captured in Syria was on Garda watchlist (LINK ONLY)
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Military
Kurdish forces: Two American ISIS fighters captured
(Stars and Stripes) Kurdish-led forces battling Islamic State militants in Syria say they captured five foreign fighters, including an American who once sought to become an English teacher in the jihadi group’s Iraqi capital. The American, a Texan named Warren Christopher Clark, […]
Interfaith
Radicalised in jail, teen thug becomes hardened jihadist
(AFP) Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in […]
Health & Medicine
Most ISIS recruits in the U.S. aren’t immigrants. They’re actually native-born Americans, new study suggests
(Deseret News) A new study from the Rand Corporation suggests that focusing on immigrants as a source of potential “jihadist terrorism” in the United States could miss the majority of potential terrorists. That’s because, according to the study, the more prominent threat […]
News: Europe
Germany: 2nd European Muslims meeting in Cologne ends Final declaration stresses terror groups posing threat to Islamic concepts and humanitarian values
(Anadolu) Terrorist groups such as FETO, Daesh, PKK, Boko Haram and al-Shabaab pose a global threat to Muslims worldwide, the final declaration of the European Muslims meeting said on Friday. The 2nd meeting of European Muslims in the German city of Cologne […]
News: Europe
‘Maybe we need more God in prisons’ to curb radicalization, says one former extremist
(PRI) When Chérif Chekatt opened fire last month in the French city of Strasbourg at one of the most famous Christmas markets in Europe, five people were killed and about a dozen were injured. The 29-year-old Strasbourg native with Moroccan roots was […]
Deradicalization
Oxford Street terror attack plotter ‘resisted’ de-radicalisation
(BBC) A man who planned to drive a van into 100 people in London was working with a government de-radicalisation programme at the time, a court has heard. Islamic State (IS) supporter Lewis Ludlow pleaded guilty last August to planning the Oxford […]
Government & Politics
The terrorist next door: States consider sex-offender-style registries for released terror inmates
(Fox) Dozens of inmates convicted of terrorism-related crimes will be released from prison over the next five years, and lawmakers in several states think local law enforcement have the right to know if they’re moving into their neighborhood. That’s why officials are pushing […]
Children & Teens
Belgium to appeal against order to repatriate Islamic State families
(Reuters) Belgium will appeal against a judge’s order forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria, the migration minister said on Sunday. A judge said on Wednesday that Belgium had to […]
Citizenship
Islamic State fighter Neil Prakash’s citizenship revoked Neil Prakash, the Melbourne man who became a recruiter for Islamic State, has been stripped of his Australian citizenship.
(AAP) Neil Prakash, the Melbourne man who became a recruiter for the Islamic State militant group, has been stripped of his Australian citizenship. The 27-year-old was told of the Australian government’s decision on December 21, becoming the 12th dual national to have […]
Books
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary’s acolytes hide behind 150 fronts (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Three Central Asians charged in Sweden with plotting terrorist crime
(Reuters) Three Central Asian men have been charged in Sweden with plotting to commit a terrorist crime as well as — along with three others — financing the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said on Thursday. “Three (of the suspects) acquired and […]
Clerics & Preachers
South Florida alleged ISIS bomb-making instructor previously arrested for strangling wife Did Romaisa Waseem know about her husband Tayyab Ismail’s terrorist dealings?
(FrontPage) Tayyab Ismail’s family-life appears to be over, or at least it is going to take a very big hiatus. On Friday, December 14th, Ismail was arrested on terrorism-related charges. Federal authorities claim that he repeatedly posted bomb-making instructions on forums frequented […]