Legal
Reading terror attacker loses bid to appeal whole-life prison sentence (LINK ONLY)
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Muhammad and Allah
Academics & Education
France honours ‘hero’ teacher killed for Mohammed cartoon
(AFP) A year after the brutal murder of a French teacher, beheaded for showing his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, schools are struggling with how to teach core French values without inflaming tensions with young Muslims. Samuel Paty, who was 47, […]
News: North America
I worked inside Al Qaeda as a jihadi recruiter — we lured runaways like Shamima Begum and paved the way for ISIS (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Paris attacks victims deliver emotional messages to terrorist Abdeslam
(Radio France) Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist groups that murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015, has frequently interrupted proceedings at the trial where, along with 19 co-accused, he faces charges of conspiracy, perpetration or complicity in terrorism. […]
Health & Medicine
Reading terror attacker attempts to appeal whole-life prison sentence (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Threatened Swedish artist reportedly dead in road accident
(AP) The Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body brought death threats, died from a traffic accident Sunday, Swedish news media reported. The accident reportedly involved a […]
Government & Politics
Eindhoven terror suspects discussed AK-47 attack, beheading Geert Wilders: report
(NL Times) Conversations intercepted by domestic intelligence service AIVD led to the arrests of nine men in Eindhoven on allegations that they planned to carry out a terrorist attack. The men, all Dutch citizens, discussed the possibility of targeting Prime Minister Mark […]
Clerics & Preachers
France moves against ‘radical’ Muslim groups, centres: minister
(AFP) France is moving to shut six mosques and break up several associations suspected of producing radical Islamic propaganda, Interior Minister [Gerald] Darmanin said on Tuesday. A third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical” and flagged by the […]
Legal
Scars from 2015 Paris stadium bombing still pain victims
(AP) It is almost the forgotten attack of Nov. 13, 2015: France’s national stadium was the sole site outside Paris to come under assault that night from Islamic State extremists. The three suicide bombers who struck killed one man out of the […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Hossam Metwally: How doctor’s ‘bizarre’ exorcism trial unfolded
(BBC) Hossam Metwally has been sentenced for poisoning his partner during a series of exorcism ceremonies which left her on the brink of death. The doctor’s trial, which could not be reported until its conclusion, over his “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic […]
Legal
Man renounces IS saying he was brainwashed
(AAP) A Sydney Islamic State member whose online martyrdom posts included Canberra’s Parliament House flying a black flag says he was naive and brainwashed. “I have completely renounced my membership of IS and any other terrorist organisation,” Youssef Uweinat told the NSW […]
Legal
Car salesman jailed over plan to travel to Kashmir to fight
(Age) Khaled Temssah listed his attributes like he was making a pitch in his daytime job of selling cars. He knew martial arts, could use a rifle and had been hunting many times, spoke Arabic and was blessed with a “good tongue” […]
Clerics & Preachers
French court acquits imam of incitement for sermon that cited hadith urging Muslim violence against Jews
(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 […]
Crime
The Hague council member on trial for anti-Semitic tweets
(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 […]
Legal
Montgomery County couple sentenced to prison for supporting their relatives’ efforts to join ISIS Shahidul Gaffar and Nabila Khan, of Collegeville, sent $5,600 to relatives in Bangladesh to fund their travel to Syria. But the couple maintained Thursday they did it out of love for family not ISIS.
(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, […]
Immigration
New Zealand feared an extremist but found no way to stop him
(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 […]
News: North America
Fort Hood shooter congratulates Taliban from death row Hasan: 'I pray to Allah that He helps you implement Shariah Law fully, correctly, and fairly.'
(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 […]
Legal
Chief suspect defiant on first day of landmark 2015 Paris attacks trial
(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.” […]
Legal
France’s biggest trial to open over November 2015 attacks
(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 […]
Legal
British Isis member who used Bitcoin to free jihadis from Syrian prisons jailed for 12 years (LINK ONLY)
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Halal
Colorado judge reopens lawsuit of Muslim inmate alleging First Amendment violations
(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. […]
Interfaith
Mosque boss quizzed over ‘civilised Taliban’ post shared ‘Nazi Israel’ clips (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Anjem Choudary urges Taliban to be more hard line (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic Law
Don’t call it shari’a, CAIR official says of the Taliban’s ideology
(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 […]
Law Enforcement
Officer overcome with emotion as he describes Streatham terrorist confrontation (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s office claims pro-Israel lobby is putting her ‘life at risk’
(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 […]
Arts & Entertainment
Sheffield Link FM radio station faces sanction over ‘jihadi’ chant
(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 […]
Children & Teens
Free speech vs Islamophobia: A teenager fuels debate in France Mila’s anti-Islam rant on Instagram drew thousands of hate messages and resulted in a landmark cyberbullying case.
(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 […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Doctor Hossam Metwally poisoned partner in ‘exorcism ritual’
(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 […]
Legal
No bail for Qld man accused of jihad call
(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 […]
News: Europe
Streatham attacker associated with terrorists including Manchester Arena bomber’s brother in prison (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Islamist hate preacher Anjem Choudary is kicked off Instagram days after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
CUNY professor claims Muslims will ‘erase this filth called Israel’ in anti-Semitic sermon The city university system has been dogged with allegations of anti-Semitism
(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 […]
Christians
Woman in Charlie Hebdo T-shirt who was stabbed at Speakers’ Corner is revealed as Christian preacher, 39 (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Church and state collide in public school cafeterias
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 […]
Christians
Speakers’ Corner: Counter-terrorism police probe knife attack
(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 […]
Christians
Charlie Hebdo T-shirt-wearing woman is stabbed at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Mosque imam sacked in France for reciting verses deemed ‘contrary to values of Republic’ Human rights advocate criticizes French interior minister for targeting imams, for asking governor to dismiss imam
(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 […]
Government & Politics
France’s lower house approves anti-separatism bill to battle Islamist extremism
(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 […]
Clerics & Preachers
Entrenched antisemitism among imams serving US Muslim communities needs to be challenged, scholar tells major conference
(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 […]
Health & Medicine
Suspect in German knife attack sent to psychiatric hospital
(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 […]
Clerics & Preachers
Terror preacher Anjem Choudary calls for release of terrorist hours after his ban on public speaking ends (LINK ONLY)
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News Media
Danish Mohammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard dies aged 86
(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 […]
Government & Politics
French government sets up laicité office to better protect secularism
(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 […]
Crime
‘Allahu Akbar’ knifeman subdued by French police stun gun
(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 […]
Academics & Education
GoFundMe for Batley teacher ‘in hiding’ after Prophet Muhammad row raises almost £50,000 (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Eleven convicted for harassing French teenager Mila over anti-Islam videos
(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 […]
Government & Politics
British lawmaker takes up issue of Prophet Muhammad’s sanctity in Parliament In debate on law to protect statues, Naz Shah calls for same level of sensitivity to be extended to revered Muslim prophet
(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, […]
Health & Medicine
German probe weighs possible extremist motive in stabbing
(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. […]
Legal
Convicted terrorist admits stabbing inmate, being Islamic State member
(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 […]