Books
Julie Burchill book contract terminated by Hachette after Islamophobia accusation (LINK ONLY)
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Muhammad and Allah
Government & Politics
Tlaib: ‘I hope you realize just the opportunity here that Allah has given us to show the power of Muslims in Georgia’
(CNS) Muslim leaders, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), expressed the hope and expectation on Sunday that Muslim voters would be a deciding factor in the pivotal Senate runoff election in the state of Georgia early next month. The […]
Academics & Education
France: Five Chechens arrested in connection with schoolteacher beheading
(Breitbart) French investigators have taken five Chechen-background men into custody as the five are believed to have been in contact with teacher Samuel Paty’s killer Abdoullakh Anzorov. The five males, aged 18 to 21, come from the Seine-Maritime and Haute-Loire departments and all […]
Legal
Trial over deadly Paris jihadist attacks to begin late 2021
(AFP) The trial of 20 people charged over the November 13, 2015, jihadist attacks in Paris that were France’s deadliest peacetime atrocity will get underway in late 2021, sources close to the case and prosecutors said on Friday. The night of carnage […]
Government & Politics
French government unveils new law tackling Islamist extremism
(France 24) French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday secured his cabinet’s blessing for a draft law targeting “radical Islamism” following a spate of terror attacks, a move some critics fear will stigmatise the French Muslim community, Europe’s largest. The text was originally […]
News: Europe
Manchester Arena inquiry: Bomber brother’s confession ‘propaganda’
(BBC) A confession by the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber amounts to “pro-Islamic State propaganda,” a public inquiry has heard. Hashem Abedi admitted his role during a prison interview in October. He also gave a written statement, which the senior investigating […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
New French law may increase discrimination France's government is presenting a draft law to combat 'radical Islamism.' Critics say the measures are inefficient and will further stigmatize Muslims.
(Deutsche Welle) Irfan Thakar and Omar Ahamad feel misunderstood as Muslims in France. They are members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Saint-Prix, a northern suburb of Paris. As the imam, the 30-year-old Thakar regularly leads the prayer at the Moubarak mosque, […]
Government & Politics
US envoy ‘concerned’ about religious freedom in France
(AFP) The US envoy on international religious freedom on Tuesday voiced concern about France, warning against “heavy-handed” measures as President Emmanuel Macron targets radical Islam. “I am concerned, obviously, for what’s happening in France,” Ambassador Sam Brownback told reporters when asked about […]
Legal
Charlie Hebdo attack: France seeks long jail terms in Paris trial
(BBC) France’s anti-terror prosecutors have called for defendants on trial for a series of militant Islamist attacks in Paris to be given long jail terms. The January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine, a policewoman and a Jewish supermarket left 17 people […]
Law Enforcement
Florida man seeks plea deal after being charged with backing terror group ISIS
(Miami Herald) A Cuban-born man accused of supporting a foreign terrorist group by distributing propaganda videos on social media is being held in a Miami federal lockup, according to court records. Jonathan Guerra Blanco, 23, who lives near Fort Myers, was denied […]
Christians
Tunisian charged over fatal French church stabbings
(AFP) The chief suspect in the fatal stabbings of three people in a church in the French city of Nice was charged on Monday with their murder, anti-terrorism prosecutors said. Brahim Aouissaoui, a 21-year-old Tunisian national, was shot and seriously injured by […]
Academics & Education
France: Nearly 400 incidents praising terror reported in schools last month
(Breitbart) Nearly 400 incidents relating to the praising of terrorism or provocations relating to terrorism have been reported in schools across France from November 4th to the 30th. The French Ministry of National Education reported 393 such incidents, stating that most were […]
Clerics & Preachers
Renowned imam calls on Muslims to engage with France Prominent Islamic scholar [Mohammed] Abu Zaid has urged Muslims in France to cooperate with the government. But he told DW that the authorities should also foster dialogue with the Muslim community.
(Deutsche Welle) France’s latest steps in combating Islamist extremism at home have been closely monitored in Arab countries. The brutal killing of French teacher Samuel Paty, who had shown his pupils cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in class, prompted French President Emmanuel […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
HRW condemns France for shutting down anti-bias group ‘Whatever its intention, this measure risks further stigmatizing Muslims in France,’ says Human Rights Watch researcher
(Anadolu) Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Friday a decision by France to shut down a leading anti-discrimination group. The US-based rights advocacy NGO said the move threatens basic human rights and liberties including freedom of expression, association, religion and the principle of […]
Academics & Education
Samuel Paty: French security services failed to act over incendiary social media campaign (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Islamist extremists plotting Christmas terror campaign in UK and Europe, warns former MI6 spy (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
France targets mosques in crackdown on radical Islam
(AFP) French authorities will inspect dozens of mosques and prayer halls suspected of radical teachings starting Thursday as part of a crackdown on Islamist extremists following a spate of attacks, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. Darmanin told RTL radio that if any […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
French government shuts down anti-racist group Collective Against Islamophobia in France forced to close as government seeks continued crackdown on Muslim groups
(Anadolu) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Wednesday announced the dissolution of anti-racist group Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF). “In accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic, the CCIF was dissolved in the Council of Ministers. For several […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
‘Insulting beliefs far from freedom’: Turkish president Ideological fanaticism has gained more ground, Turkish president tells annual convention of Muslim American Society
(Anadolu) Decrying rising Islamophobia in Western countries, the Turkish president said Saturday that insulting people’s beliefs has nothing to do with freedom. “You have been closely following the meanness in France towards the Prophet [Muhammad] under the label of ‘freedom of thought’,” […]
News: Europe
Exposed: The shadowy Islamic State cell looking to free Western jihadi brides (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Nice youth gets jail term for threats that teacher will ‘die like Samuel Paty’
(Radio France) A 19-year-old man from the south-eastern French city of Nice has been sentenced to 18 months’ prison for threatening a teacher that he will “die like Samuel Paty,” who was beheaded in October north-east of Paris, the Nice prosecutor’s office […]
Academics & Education
Four more students charged in France over teacher’s beheading
(AFP) Four teenage students have been charged in France over the killing of Samuel Paty, including three for allegedly pointing out the teacher to his murderer, a judical source said Thursday. Three other pupils were charged with complicity earlier this month over […]
Clerics & Preachers
Canadian imam calls Jews ‘brothers of monkeys and pigs’ B’nai Brith Canada asks police to investigate imam with a history of anti-Semitic and radical Islamic incitement.
(World Israel News) B’nai Brith Canada contacted police to investigate an Islamic religious leader in British Columbia for his latest incitement against Jews, the organization said [in] a statement Tuesday. Local imam Younus Kathrada in the provincial capital of Victoria posted a […]
Government & Politics
French mosque linked to teacher’s beheading ordered to remain closed
(Radio France) France’s top administrative court has confirmed the six-month closure of the Grand Mosque of Pantin after it published a video denouncing history teacher Samuel Paty for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which [led] to his decapitation in a street […]
Halal
Judge: Kosher meals don’t infringe on Muslim inmate’s rights
(Indiana Lawyer) A Muslim inmate in the Indiana Department of Correction is not entitled to a halal diet, a federal judge has ruled, finding that the inmate failed to prove that eating a kosher diet instead would violate his Islamic beliefs. Judge […]
News: North America
Parole Board raises concerns about Toronto terrorism convict ahead of his prison release
(Global News) The first person to be convicted of trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist group remains “too high a risk” a month before his scheduled release from prison, according to the Parole Board of Canada. In a decision released […]
Children & Teens
It’s ‘sweet relief’ to be home, says US boy forced to threaten Trump in IS video
(BBC) An American boy who was made to threaten President Donald Trump in an Islamic State group video says it was “sweet relief” to return to the US. Matthew, taken to Syria by his mother and stepfather, was 10 when he was […]
Academics & Education
Paris suburbs teacher: Third of pupils think criticising Islam ‘not normal,’ question value of free expression
(Breitbart) In the aftermath of the Islamist murder of Samuel Paty, a teacher in the Paris no-go suburbs has claimed up to one-third of her pupils openly question freedom of expression and say it is “not normal” to criticise Islam. The teacher […]
Clerics & Preachers
‘The French government has no right’: CAIR slams Macron’s ‘ultimatum’ to Muslims Muslim-American civil rights group labels French president's order to establish 'National Council of Imams' under government parameters 'hypocritical and dangerous'
(Middle East Eye) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned French President Emmanuel Macron’s “attempt to dictate the principles of the Islamic faith” to French Muslim leaders, and his demand they “falsely state that Islam is an ‘apolitical religion.’” Macron on Wednesday […]
Academics & Education
France’s Macron asks Muslim leaders to back ‘republican values’ charter
(BBC) French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to agree a “charter of republican values” as part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam. On Wednesday he gave the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) 15 days to work with […]
Legal
At Thalys attack trial, passengers recount stopping gunman with bare hands
(Reuters) Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a high-speed train in France in 2015. The testimony was given in the […]
Academics & Education
French children could get ID numbers to keep them from ‘the clutches of Islamists’ (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Macron criticizes media over coverage of Islamic extremism
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has called the New York Times media correspondent to criticize English-language coverage of France’s stance on Islamic extremism after recent attacks, arguing it amounts to “legitimizing” violence. “When France was attacked five years ago, every nation in […]
Government & Politics
French migration policy ‘anything but lax,’ says interior minister ‘No president has done as much as Emmanuel Macron’ when it comes to being tough on asylum and migration, says Gérald Darmanin.
(Politico) The French government’s migration policy is “anything but lax,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that “no president has done as much as Emmanuel Macron” when it comes to being tough on asylum and migration. Speaking to Le Parisien, Darmanin said […]
Law Enforcement
Woman who planned on joining terrorists in Syria arrested in Spain She preached the most violent forms of terrorist ideology, showing her support for the recent beheading of a French teacher who showed cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
(Olive Press) A young woman who was planning to join jihadist terrorists in Syria has been arrested in Spain. Police say the woman — born and raised in Europe — had been rapidly radicalised and now wanted to join the so-called Islamic […]
Government & Politics
Attacks spur EU to tighten borders, boost policy agency
(AP) European Union interior ministers pledged Friday to beef up border security, boost the powers of the bloc’s police agency and crack down on hate speech and online propaganda in response to a wave of extremist attacks, most recently in Austria and […]
Christians
Attacker in Nice had picture of teacher’s killer: prosecutors
(AFP) The Tunisian migrant who killed three people at a French church last month had a picture on his phone of the man who beheaded a teacher two weeks earlier, anti-terror prosecutors said Friday. In addition to the photograph of 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov […]
News: Europe
Five years after Paris attacks, France still scarred and back on alert
(Reuters) Five years after Islamist killers struck in postwar France’s deadliest attack, its prime minister on Friday paid tribute to the victims, with the country again on high alert following a new wave of ideologically driven violence. The Nov. 13, 2015, rampage […]
Demonstrations
Molenbeek forbids arrival of Danish ‘Koran burning’ politician
(Brussels Times) The Brussels municipality of Molenbeek forbids the arrival of the Danish anti-Islam politician Rasmus Paludan, who had announced he would come to the commune for a Koran-burning protest. In August, a public burning of the Koran in an immigration neighbourhood […]
Children & Teens
Sydney man jailed after buying knives for ‘imminent’ terrorist attack
(Sydney Morning Herald) A young man who bought knives from a western Sydney gun shop in preparation for an imminent terrorist attack has been jailed for at least 12 years after a judge described him as a committed terrorist. The man continually […]
Health & Medicine
Reading park attack: Khairi Saadallah pleads guilty to three murders (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Macron stirs controversy with defence of French secularism
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron has stirred controversy even beyond the Muslim world with a staunch defence of the French model for secularism and integration of minorities in the wake of a string of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals. The approach of Macron […]
Academics & Education
Germany’s imams seen as key in combating radicalization Imam training is in the spotlight of this year's German Islam Conference. In light of recent terror attacks, Germany's interior minister said a new training program for German-speaking imams was 'money well-spent.'
(Deutsche Welle) The latest spate of terror attacks in France and Austria will not hamper the cooperation between the government and Germany’s Muslim community, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Tuesday. “We won’t let terrorism and extremism derail us,” Seehofer said at […]
Clerics & Preachers
French moderate imam requests extra police protection amid death threats over support for Macron (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
French minister seeks to ease tensions over cartoons in Cairo visit
(AFP) French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was in Egypt Sunday where he sought to ease tensions with the Arab world, after the furore surrounding the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Le Drian met with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Foreign […]
Academics & Education
Two more teens arrested in case of teacher threatened over Islamic terror cartoon
(NL Times) Police in Rotterdam arrested two more suspects on Saturday as part of the investigation into threats made against a schoolteacher at the Emmauscollege. The apprehended suspects include an 18-year-old man from The Hague and a 17-year-old boy from Amsterdam. They were suspected […]
Academics & Education
French police quiz child apologists of teacher’s beheading
(AP) Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam’s prophet, the government reported as the prime minister warned Saturday that Islamic extremists […]
Christians
French PM says ‘radical Islamism’ the ‘enemy’ after Nice attack
(AFP) French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Saturday lamented the killings of three people killed by a knife attacker in Mediterranean city Nice and named “radical Islamism” as an “enemy” for the country. “We know the enemy, it has not only been […]
Academics & Education
Three teens charged in French teacher’s beheading
(AFP) Three teenagers were indicted Friday in the murder of French history teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded last month after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed to his students during a free speech lesson, a judicial source told AFP. Two 18-year-old men and […]
Academics & Education
Dutch PM Rutte condemns threats to teacher over cartoon
(AP) Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Friday that threats that forced a teacher in the port city of Rotterdam to go [into] hiding after some students objected to a political cartoon displayed in his classroom must not be tolerated. Rutte spoke […]