Children & Teens
Birmingham uncle jailed for trying to force niece into Pakistan marriage (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
United Kingdom
Children & Teens
Historic victims of female genital mutilation offered help through Sheffield support services (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Children & Teens
Uncle used niece as a slave at his Birmingham home and tried to force her to marry in Pakistan (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
News: Europe
Muslim Association of Britain elects first female president who vows to ‘bridge gender disparity’ (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Academics & Education
School branded ‘inadequate’ over Islamic leaflet launches legal challenge
(Schools Week) An Islamic girls’ school has launched a legal challenge after being rated “inadequate” because inspectors discovered an “inflammatory leaflet” advertising a conference in 1994 on a bookshelf in the library. Birchfield Independent Girls’ School, in Birmingham, insisted they had no […]
Government & Politics
Terror alarm as UK drags Scotland out of EU security databases (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
UK: Prevent review ‘will go ahead’ following concerns by rights groups Conservative party pledges to review counter-terrorism strategy facing renewed criticism from Muslim community
(Middle East Eye) The British government said it will continue its review of the controversial Prevent strategy amid concerns by rights groups that the Conservative Party was planning to scrap its report into the counter-terrorism scheme. Prevent is a strand of the […]
Government & Politics
Government terror adviser warns ‘no magic test’ to stop reoffending (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland: ‘I won’t apologise for trying to stop new terror attack’ (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Deradicalization
Terrorism laws to get tougher within weeks, government vows
(BBC) Terror offenders will face more time in jail and be monitored more closely as part of new laws being introduced within weeks, the government has said. Automatic early release from prison will be scrapped for terror offenders while a minimum jail […]
News: Europe
Almost 500 terrorists freed from prison in the past decade — with many living back where they were radicalised (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
‘End Prevent’: UK government faces new calls to drop counter-terrorism strategy Academics and activists call for 'alternative approach' as government's own promised review of contentious programme remains stalled
(Middle East Eye) The British government is facing fresh calls to abolish its Prevent strategy amid uncertainty over the future of its own suspended review of the contentious counter-terrorism programme. More than 100 academics, activists and public figures opposed to the strategy […]
News: Europe
Terrorist prisoners free to network and radicalise inmates in British jails (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Legal
Bradford man jailed for possessing terrorist publications (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Academics & Education
UK shuts down Islamic school after extremism fears Inspection reports detail litany of failures at school run by controversial charity
(National-UAE) The UK government has shut down a scandal-hit British Islamic school where the head was identified as a “potential risk to pupils” after more than a decade of management failures and concerns over radicalisation. The closure came in a year when […]
Children & Teens
Government takes first steps towards repatriating children of ‘ISIS recruits’
(ITV) The government will “urgently investigate” the possibility of repatriating four British children from a Syrian refugee camp — as long as their mother agrees that she cannot return with them. The proposal, made to a London woman who joined so-called Islamic […]
Government & Politics
Home Office proposes offence of possessing terrorist propaganda (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Legal
Man facing terror charges described New Zealand mosque shootings as ‘win-win,’ court told (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
MI5 to hire behavioural scientists as it seeks new ways to combat terrorists (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
Government backs Martyn’s Law airport security for venues
(BBC) Concert venues and sports stadiums could soon get airport-style checks after the government backed “Martyn’s Law” security measures. It follows a campaign by the mother of Manchester Arena bomb victim Martyn Hett, who died in the 2017 attack. Security Minister Brandon […]
Islamic Law
Prison terror attack suspect, Brusthom Ziamani, held sharia courts inside HMP Whitemoor (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
How many people are in prison for terror offences?
(BBC) An inmate suspected of attacking a prison officer is understood to be in jail for “preparing an act of terrorism.” Brusthom Ziamani was found guilty in 2015 of planning to behead a soldier. A union says the officer, who was seriously […]
Law Enforcement
HMP Whitemoor prison stabbings classed as ‘terror attack’
(BBC) An attack on prison staff by two inmates with bladed weapons is being treated as a terror attack, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed. Four officers and a nurse were injured at HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire, on Thursday. One attacker is […]
Legal
Man accused of Pride attack plot ‘showed sister how to stab someone’ (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
News: Europe
HMP Whitemoor: Brusthom Ziamani named as attack suspect
(BBC) An inmate suspected of attacking an officer at a maximum security prison was jailed for planning to behead a soldier, the BBC has learned. He is understood to be Brusthom Ziamani, 24, who was found guilty of preparing an act of […]
Government & Politics
Manchester City Council set to adopt Martyn’s Law early
(BBC) Clubs and venues in Manchester will be asked to adopt new anti-terror measures following a campaign by the mother of arena bomb victim Martyn Hett. The 29-year-old was one of 22 people killed in the suicide bombing in 2017. His mother […]
Academics & Education
Education chiefs set to reject plan to open separate Islamic schools for boys and girls (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Law Enforcement
Uber driver cleared of a Buckingham Palace sword attack boasted that he had deceived jurors before plotting a string of terror attacks (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Cemeteries & Funerals
Inquiry into charity Islamic Centre of England that called Iran’s Soleimani a martyr (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Academics & Education
Boys and girls ‘unlawfully segregated’ at Islamic school — head says it’s what parents of faith want (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Children & Teens
Judge complains after being left to wait while Muslim defendant went to pray (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Cemeteries & Funerals
British imam says Muslims should ‘aspire to be like’ Qassem Soleimani in tribute to ‘martyred’ general at London Islamic Centre (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Legal
London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan given £350,000 in legal aid over gang plot to bomb Stock Exchange (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Immigration
Foreign terror suspect thought to have been planning an IS-style attack granted legal aid to fight extradition (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Deradicalization
Top psychologist: No certainty terror offenders can be ‘cured’
(BBC) The psychologist behind the UK’s main deradicalisation programme for terror offenders says it can never be certain that attackers have been “cured.” Christopher Dean told the BBC some terror offenders who take part in his Healthy Identity Intervention (HII) scheme appear […]
Academics & Education
Razwan Faraz: Teacher in Trojan horse scandal is back in classroom (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Immigration
Fourfold rise in migrants rescued in English Channel: authorities
(AFP) Over 2,300 migrants had to be rescued attempting to cross the English Channel in 2019, four times the number for 2018, local authorities in northern France said on Tuesday. In total 261 cases of crossings or attempted crossings were recorded by […]
News: Europe
‘Jihadi’ Jack Letts married into a ‘top ISIS family’ in Iraq while fighting for the depraved terror group (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Law Enforcement
Counter-terror police arrest five men at sites across England (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Deradicalization
Lee Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajo works as de-radicalisation mentor at jail London Bridge terrorist was freed from (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
Channel migrants: More than 60 people found on Boxing Day
(BBC) More than 60 migrants have been picked up while attempting to cross the Channel in small boats. Forty-nine people in four boats were met by Border Force and brought to England, while a further two boats were dealt with by French […]
Christians
Archbishop of Canterbury reflects on London Bridge terror attack in Christmas Day sermon (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
Islamist extremists hold Sharia trials and groom young Muslims in British prisons (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Islamic Law
Queen is enemy of Islam and must die, says jail ‘emir’ (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Deradicalization
I warned of risk from London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan — and was ignored (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Legal
Isis ‘recruiter’ is claiming UK benefits (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Children & Teens
Forced marriages and ‘honour crimes’ against women ‘spike during Christmas’ (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
Lord Carlile removed from Prevent review after legal challenge (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Legal
Former girlfriend of Liverpool FC player jailed for terror fundraising (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Government & Politics
Boris Johnson vows to lock up terrorists for at least 14 years (LINK ONLY)
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.