Category: Islam

Dozens of prominent French Muslims and Prime Minister Manuel Valls have called for a national drive to promote mainstream Islam and combat the radicalisation of young Muslims. (BBC)- They issued separate appeals in the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper, as France remains in shock from the murder of a priest by Islamist extremists last week. […]

The Taliban set off a huge truck bomb at a compound housing ­foreign workers in Kabul yesterday, a week after its extremist rival Islamic State killed 80 in the ­Afghan capital. (Australian)-The truck exploded at about 1.30am (6am AEST) at Northgate, a large international guesthouse close to a military base next to Kabul’s international airport. […]

European governments are losing track of significant numbers of children who have entered the continent without their parents as refugees from war-torn areas in the Middle East and beyond. (FOX)- In Belgium, authorities can’t account for 156 migrant children who entered the country unaccompanied since January 2015, and the number is growing. This year, 90 unaccompanied […]

An asylum seeker on Sunday stabbed a 65-year-old Belgian priest before fleeing, and the assailant is still on the run, authorities said. (FOX)- The priest, identified as Father Jos Vanderlee, sustained wounds to his hands and required surgery. His injuries were not life threatening, according to Le Soir, a French language Belgian newspaper. Prosecutors said […]

Muslims have refused to bury one of the terrorists who murdered a French Catholic priest this week as he celebrated Mass. (FOX)- Community leaders in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy said they did not want to “taint” Islam by having any association with Adel Kermiche, the 19-year-old jihadist who killed Father Jacques Hamel in his hometown in northern […]

The ISIS terrorist who slit a priest’s throat and used a nun as a human shield during an attack in France on Tuesday bragged about his intended assault to an audience of up to 200 people on an encrypted communications app nearly a week before the spree. (FOX)- The audio files recorded by Adel Kermiche […]

Police in Bangladesh killed nine militants on Tuesday who were believed to have been plotting an attack similar to the one on a cafe on July 1 that killed 22 people, the national police chief said. (Reuters)- Police said the militants, holed up in a building in Kalyanpur on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka, […]

A Missouri-based Islamic charity that was shut down after being identified by the federal government as a global terrorist organization admitted in federal court Wednesday that it illegally funneled $1.4 million to Iraq in violation of U.S. sanctions. (FOX)- A representative of the Islamic American Relief Agency pleaded guilty in Jefferson City, Missouri, to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The agency, once based in […]

An incident at a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in England during which two men tried to grab a serviceman is being treated as an attempted abduction. (Newsweek)- Police said a serviceman in his late 20s was jogging when he was approached by two men of “Middle Eastern origin” near the married quarters at RAF […]

A French government committee has heard testimony, suppressed by the French government at the time and not published online until this week, that the killers in the Bataclan tortured their victims on the second floor of the club. (FOX)- The chief police witness in Parliament said that an investigating officer, tears streaming down his face, rushed […]