Paris tourism hit by militant attacks, strikes and floods
Source: BBC Attacks by Islamist militants as well as strikes and floods have led to a big fall in tourism in Paris. There were a million fewer visitors between January […]
Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria air strike ‘kills commanders’
Source: BBC Nigeria’s army says it has killed several commanders of the Islamist group Boko Haram in an air strike and seriously wounded its disputed leader. An army spokesman told […]
Turkey vows to cleanse Islamic State from border after wedding attack
Source: Reuters By Orhan Coskun and Daren Butler | ANKARA/ISTANBUL Turkey vowed on Monday to “completely cleanse” Islamic State militants from its border region after a suicide bomber suspected of links to the group killed 54 people, including 22 children, at a Kurdish wedding. Saturday’s attack in the southeastern city […]
Merkel: ‘Terror did not come to us through refugees’
Source: The Local Chancellor Angela Merkel emphasized on Wednesday that the “phenomenon of terror” was not started in Germany by refugees. Police arrest ‘Islamist’ terror suspect near Polish border (17 […]
Anjem Choudary convicted of supporting Islamic State
Source: The Guardian By Jamie Grierson and Vikram Dodd Notorious hate preacher faces up to 10 years in prison after swearing allegiance to Isis, it can now be revealed Anjem […]
This is Why Vladimir Putin is Accusing Ukraine of Terrorism
Source: Time By Simon Shuster It would have been a suicide mission, and a rather pointless one. But that is roughly the picture that Russian President Vladimir Putin painted on Wednesday […]
Suicide bomber kills at least 70 at Pakistan hospital
Source: Reuters A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than a hundred on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association calls for an Islamic state of mind to address ‘crisis of leadership and spirituality’ in the Muslim world
Human rights activist calls for Islamic state of mind to counter ‘ugliness that knows no border’ Source: swlondoner.co.uk Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association spokesman calls for an Islamic state of mind, not territory, to address ‘crisis of leadership and spirituality’ in the Muslim world. Farooq Aftad, a lawyer and human rights activist from south […]
Pope Francis says it is ‘not right’ to identify Islam with violence
Source: The Guardian Pope Francis has said it was wrong to identify Islam with violence and that social injustice and idolatry of money were among the prime causes of terrorism. […]
Government should regulate mosques and do checks, says Imam Ibrahim Noonan
Source.Irish Examiner Imam Ibrahim Noonan said there are some Imams here who are “telling young men to fight the West ideologically” and that these young people are further radicalised online. Imam Noonan told the Irish Examiner that he has met, and debated with, some young Muslim men born or brought up […]
French Church Attacker Used Fake Identities to Evade Police, Authorities Say
Source: Time (PARIS) — France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says one of the men who attacked a Normandy church evaded police twice using relatives’ ID cards in attempts to reach Syria. Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that 19-year-old Adel Kermiche was wearing an electronic surveillance bracelet when he and another attacker […]
France church attack: Priest killed by two ‘IS soldiers’
Source: BBC An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The […]
Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’
Source: BBC The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. Written […]
Munich gunman inspired by rightwing Breivik
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious; killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source. The Local Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on […]
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Logic Does Not Explain Nice Attack—Or Jihad
Source: Time BY Bernard-Henri Lévy Lévy is a French author and philosopher Terrorist or psychopath? As if we had to choose one or the other. As if all terrorists were not (and have not always been) psychopaths. As if the Nazi henchmen of the 1920s and ‘30s, the Hitlerian paramilitary squads […]
UK: Glasgow’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community calls all to “stand united against extremism & all forms of terrorism”
Source: bbc.com Glasgow’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community is asking faith and non-faith groups to unite in condemning the “barbaric” attack in Nice in which 84 people died. It is inviting all groups to “stand united against extremism and all forms of terrorism” by attending a dinner marking the end of Ramadan. A […]
Why France Has Become the Number One Target for Terror
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Istanbul When a truck driver plowed into the throngs of revelers out on the street for Bastille Day in the coastal town of Nice on Thursday night, killing at least 84 people and injuring dozens more, it was the latest in a series of devastating attacks […]
French Politicians Say Nice Attack Might Have Been Avoided
Source: Time By Dan Stewart Nice was the third major attack in France in 18 months Senior politicians in France have begun questioning the country’s anti terror strategy, hours after a man driving a truck killed 84 people in France’s third major terrorist attack in 18 months. Alain Juppé, a […]
As many as 84 dead as truck hits crowd in Nice, France
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred, killing one is like triggering a genocide. ( Al Quran 5:32/33) Many dead as lorry hits crowd in Nice Source: BBC A […]
Our response to terror must be reconciliation
Source: RNS By Mohammed Dajani Daoudi (RNS) A vortex of hatred is sweeping across the globe, from a nightclub in Orlando to an airport in Istanbul to a restaurant in […]