Man pleads guilty to London mosque bomb plot
A man has admitted to a terrorist plot to bomb a London mosque. Steven Bishop pleaded guilty just before his trial was due to begin at Kingston crown court. The 41-year-old admitted buying components, including fireworks and a firing device, to build an improvised incendiary device. He had also researched how to build a firebomb, […]
Alleged New Zealand mosque gunman linked to far-right group backed by Steve King
Austrian authorities announced Wednesday that they had discovered a financial link between the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter and a white nationalist group frequently championed by members of the U.S. far right, including Rep. Steve King (R-IA). Prosecutors in the south of the country said the Identitarian Movement, a white nationalist group that first originated […]
Austria Considers Dissolving Far-Right Group After It Received Donation From Suspected New Zealand Mosque Attacker
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS 12:14 PM EDT (VIENNA) — The Austrian government is considering dissolving a far-right group after it emerged that one of its leading members received a donation in the name of the suspected New Zealand mosque gunman, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday. Austrian police on Monday searched the home of the head of the Identitarian […]
Illinois ‘White Rabbits’ admit firebombing Islamic mosque
CHICAGO (WLS) — Two Illinois men who admitted their roles in a firebomb attack on an Islamic mosque in Minnesota, trying to firebomb a women’s health clinic in Champaign, and other violent acts during 2017 and 2018 associated with a homegrown terrorist group, face 35 years to life behind bars. Some members of the group recorded […]
Muslim groups denounce Quebec Premier Legault’s statements on Islamophobia
MONTREAL — Premier Francois Legault’s statement that Islamophobia does not exist in Quebec was denounced by Muslim groups as “offensive and inexcusable,” prompting Legault to clarify his statements on Friday. The National Council of Canadian Muslims called on Legault to retract the remarks made Thursday, two days after the second anniversary of a mosque shooting […]
After police foil terrorist attack on Islamberg, New York Muslims push for justice
(RNS) — News of arrests in an alleged terrorist plot to attack their small village has sent “shock waves” through Islamberg, a predominantly black Muslim community in upstate New York, residents say. Now, members of the beleaguered community say they want real action after learning that four young men had allegedly planned to attack their […]
A MAGA Gang Plots to Murder Muslims in Islamberg After Fox Fans Fear Flames
The alleged attack was the second one busted targeting Muslim families who left New York City to live quiet lives upstate. Remember the three Trump supporters who were convicted in 2018 of plotting a terrorist attack to kill Muslims in their home state of Kansas? You’re up on most of America if you do. Same for the […]
US militia members plead guilty to pipe bomb attack on mosque
In August 2017, the pair say, they threw a pipe bomb into the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Illinois. Hoping to scare Muslims into leaving the United States, members of an Illinoisan militia group rented a truck and drove more than 805km to bomb a Minnesota mosque, two men admitted on Thursday. Michael McWhorter and Joe Morris said that […]
Faith communities must take action against anti-Muslim hate
The graffiti that was spray-painted last week on the sidewalk in front of the home of a Muslim family in Homer Glen (“Man charged with spray-painting anti-Muslim graffiti in Homer Glen,”Sept. 20) was a cowardly act that should be condemned by all faith communities in the Chicago area. It’s noteworthy that the graffiti included crosses and a […]
The narrative that links “radicals” and Islam is familiar to us – the false dichotomy
the false dichotomy an american precedent for the radical outsider BY CAROLINE RIBET , ILLUSTRATED BY RÉMY POISSON n October 31, 2017, a person drove a pickup truck onto a bike path in downtown New York City, killing eight people and injuring 11. The driver had come from Uzbekistan in 2010 and was a legal permanent resident of […]