(Algemeiner) A French court has acquitted an imam in the city of Toulouse of incitement to racial hatred for a sermon he gave in 2017 that quoted a hadith — a saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammed — predicting the mass killing […]
(NL Times) Faction leader of the Party of Unity in The Hague, Arnoud van Doorn, will appear in court on Tuesday, due to anti-Semitic tweets the council member posted a few years ago. The lawyer of the 55-year-old, Anis Boumanjal, said he […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A husband and wife from Montgomery County each were ordered Thursday to spend more than a year in federal prison for sending money overseas to help two relatives travel to Syria and join ISIS. Shahidul Gaffar, 40, and Nabila Khan, […]
(AP) Immigration officers feared him. So, too, did prosecutors, prison officials and police. They thought he could launch a terror attack at any moment. Even the prime minister wanted him deported. Yet, in the end, nobody in New Zealand was able to […]
(Fox) Nidal Hasan, the radical Islamic terrorist who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, wrote a letter from death row, congratulating the Taliban as the terrorist group took control of Afghanistan. In the letter — which Hasan’s attorney, retired Army […]
(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, the 31-year-old French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of the group that carried out the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris, told a courtroom on Wednesday that he was a “soldier of the Islamic State group.” […]
(AFP) The biggest trial in France’s modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Paris that saw 130 people slaughtered at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. The suicide bombing and gun assault by three teams of […]
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(Colorado Politics) A federal judge has reversed her prior decision to dismiss a Muslim inmate’s lawsuit, reopening the case amid new information about the inmate’s lack of access to food that complies with his religious beliefs. In September of last year, U.S. […]
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(CNS) The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan has thrust the issue of “shari’a” back into the public discourse, and a senior official in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Tuesday the concept was being misunderstood and incorrectly portrayed. When the fundamentalist militia […]
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(CNS) In a tweet posted today, Jeremy Slevin, the senior communications director for House Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), said the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is putting Omar’s “life at risk” by posting advertisements that allegedly “smear and vilify” her. “The […]
(BBC) A community radio station faces sanctions after broadcasting an Islamic chant said to contain “jihadi lyrics” and “promoting terrorism.” Sheffield-based Link FM was found to have committed two serious breaches of Ofcom’s broadcasting code by playing the “nasheed” chant twice in […]
(Al-Jazeera) It all started with an Instagram broadcast on January 18 last year. Mila, then 16, with a head of newly dyed purple hair, went on a rant against Islam, addressing some of her 10,000 followers who tuned in. “The Quran is […]
(BBC) An anaesthetist who poisoned his partner in a series of botched exorcism ceremonies is facing jail. Hossam Metwally, 61, performed a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqya ritual on Kelly Wilson at the couple’s home in Grimsby. Sheffield Crown Court heard […]
(AAP) A Brisbane father of three who allegedly called for a Muslim jihad in Syria to “cleanse the lands of tyrants and their collaborators” will remain behind bars. Omar Saghir, 39, has been charged with the preparation of foreign incursions as part […]
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(Free Beacon) An imam who serves as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) said in a sermon that Muslims will “erase this filth called Israel” after accusing Jews of creating a “colonial” settlement. Mohammad Abbasi, who teaches […]
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Halal school lunches have been in the news lately. Last spring, school districts in Buffalo, New York, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, announced they would begin pilot programs to serve halal lunches at some of their schools. New York City announced it […]
(BBC) An attack on a woman who was slashed with a knife at Speakers’ Corner in London is being investigated by counter-terror police, the Met said. The 39-year-old needed hospital treatment after she was attacked in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon. The […]
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(Anadolu) The imam of a mosque in France’s Loire region was dismissed at the behest of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, on the grounds that the verse and hadith the former recited in the Eid al-Adha prayer sermon were deemed “contrary to the […]
(France 24) The French National Assembly on Friday approved a controversial “anti-separatism” bill despite strong criticisms from parliamentarians from the left and the right. The government argued the legislation was needed to bolster France’s secular system, but critics say it breaches religious […]
(Algemeiner) “I was wrong,” said Mohammed Al-Azdee, with disarming candor. An associate professor of communication theory at Bridgeport University in Connecticut, the Iraqi-born Al-Azdee was speaking to the Algemeiner in detail about his latest research project: examining the content of khutbahs, the […]
(AP) The suspect in a fatal knife attack in the German city of Wuerzburg last month has been sent to a psychiatric hospital after experts determined that it may not be possible to hold him criminally responsible for his actions, investigators said […]
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(AFP) Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, famed for drawing a caricature [of] the Prophet Mohammed which sparked outrage around the Muslim world, has died at the age [of] 86, his family told Danish media on Sunday. Westergaard passed away in his sleep after […]
(Radio France) The French government has created an office of laicité in an effort to better control how state secularism — one of the fundamental values of the French Republic — is taught and transmitted. The Interministerial Committee replaces the Observatoire de […]
(Breitbart) Police used an electric stun gun on a man who brandished a knife and yelled “Allahu Akbar” in the middle of the street. At around 1 am on Monday in the commune of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany, a 24-year-old man armed with a […]
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(Radio France) A court in Paris on Wednesday convicted 11 people for harassing a teenager online over her anti-Islam videos. The girl, known as Mila, was forced to change schools and accept 24-hour police protection following threats to her life in more than […]
(Anadolu) A British MP has defended the honor of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in an impassioned speech in Parliament, highlighting the emotional stress and harm caused to Muslims across the world by the offensive cartoons and caricatures repeatedly published in Europe. Naz Shah, […]
(AP) German investigators said Tuesday that an Islamic extremist motivation for last week’s fatal knife attack in Wuerzburg appears likely, but they haven’t so far found any propaganda or other extremist material. They also plan more checks on the suspect’s mental health. […]
(Age) A convicted terrorist serving 42 years in prison for an attack on her Melbourne homestay host is facing more time behind bars after pleading guilty to stabbing a fellow inmate while in custody and being a member of Islamic State. Bangladeshi […]
(Age) Every time terrorism survivor Rod Patterson closes his eyes, the memory of the 2018 Bourke Street attack is still vivid. Mr Patterson was stabbed to the head as he ran to help someone he thought was the victim of a car […]
(Detroit News) A convicted Islamic State soldier is expected to make federal court history Monday by testifying against a Dearborn man captured on a Syrian battlefield three years ago. Prosecutors on Monday plan to call Minnesota resident Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, 24, as a cooperating […]
(Deutsche Welle) Bavarian State Premier Markus Söder attended a memorial service on Sunday for the victims of the knife attack in the city of Würzburg, around 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) east of Frankfurt. “We cannot answer such a hateful deed with hate and revenge,” […]
(AFP) Investigators were racing Saturday to pinpoint the motive of a man who went on a knife rampage in the German city of Wuerzburg, killing three people and leaving five seriously injured. The suspect, a 24-year-old Somali who arrived in Wuerzburg in […]
(AFP) A Somali man killed three people and left five others seriously injured in an “incredibly brutal” knife rampage in the southern German city of Wuerzburg. The 24-year-old suspect staged the attack in the city centre at around 5 pm (1500 GMT), […]
(Breitbart) French police in the city of Nîmes have arrested a 33-year-old woman on suspicion of being in direct contact with Islamist teen Chechen refugee Abdoullakh Anzorov just days before he beheaded teacher Samuel Paty. Police arrested the woman on Tuesday morning, and […]
(AP) A former Chicago businessman will remain in the United States as a federal judge in Los Angeles weighs whether he will be extradited to India for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack that killed more than 160 people. […]
(Age) A Melbourne nurse who provided medical support to militants in Syria is eligible to apply for parole after almost six years in a Victorian prison, despite doubts over whether he has modified his ideological views. In 2014 Adam Brookman abandoned his […]
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(AP) A landmark cyberbullying trial in Paris, involving thousands of threats against a teenager who savaged Islam in online posts, is blazing a trail in efforts to punish and prevent online abuse. It has also raised uncomfortable questions about freedom of expression, […]
(AFP) The trial of an Egyptian who attacked soldiers at the Louvre museum with machetes, shouting “Allah u Akbar” (God is greatest), opened Monday with a description of his “atypical” and enigmatic profile. Abdalla El Hamahmi, aged 33, is charged with “attempted […]
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