FBI arrests South Florida student accused of planning 2 terrorist attacks against college deans
MIAMI (WSVN) – Federal investigators have arrested a South Florida college student who, they said, threatened to use weapons of mass destruction against the deans of the Miami-Dade and Broward colleges that he was suspended from or expelled. Salman Rashid appeared in federal court and was denied bond on Monday after the FBI arrested him. […]
New Zealander Philip Arps faces 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to sharing Christchurch mosque shooting video online
Arps pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing the mosque video and will continue to remain in prison till he is sentenced on June 14. Philip Arps, a businessman from Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday pleaded guilty to sharing a live stream video which was recorded by the white supremacist gunman who opened fire inside […]
British man admits planning terrorist attack on mosque, prosecutors accept plea of lesser charge
A U.K. man admitted to planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in southern London, but prosecutors accepted his plea to the lesser charge of possession of an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or property, the BBC reported. The 41-year-old man identified as Steven Bishop admitted that he bought fireworks and learned how […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Real Founders of Fake News? American Islamophobes
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases entered the language. For the last decade they have been spreading provable […]
Top Paris Attacks Suspect on Trial for First Time, in Brussels
After nearly two years in solitary confinement at a maximum security jail, the top surviving suspect of the deadliest terror attack in recent French history goes on trial Monday in Brussels. The four-day trial of 28-year-old Salah Abdeslam will not deal directly with the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 people around Paris, but rather […]
What Will ‘Actually Solve’ Terrorism Problem?
National Counterrorism Center NCTC This is the second of James Kitfield’s in-depth analysis of the continuing challenges posed by America’s so-called “forever wars” in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the height of its powers several years ago, ISIS was attracting an estimated one thousand new foreign fighters each month. While U.S. officials always believed that the […]
Experts Say Extremism Can Be Fought by Involving Civil Societies
Fighting terrorism starts with building relationships between communities and security forces, according to Miles Taylor, Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The key to preventing terror attacks is to detect threats early, and the key to that “Is in our community,” Taylor said. And, that includes establishing a continuous connection with […]