Transcripts detail plot to bomb Somali refugees in Kansas
Prosecutors: Men accused of conspiring to bomb a mosque, apartment complex housing Somali refugees in Kansas also discussed killing the white landlord WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Three men accused of conspiring to bomb a Kansas mosque and an apartment complex housing Somali refugees also allegedly discussed killing the refugees’ white landlord because he rented […]
Tech firms could face fines in crackdown on online ‘extremism’
The UK and France, working hand in hand against terrorism, are launching a joint campaign to fight online radicalisation. British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron want to get tech giants such as Facebook and Google to do more to remove extremist material from the internet. “Our discussions today have focused on […]
Kean U. history scholar: The terrorism we don’t want to talk about | Opinion
By Brian Regal On a commuter train in Portland, Ore., a person began yelling racial and religious epithets at a couple of women he thought were Muslims. When other commuters tried to get him to stop he stabbed three of them — two of them died. The accused attacker, who was captured, was seen giving […]
Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Anti-Islam Content on Social Media
An anti-terrorism court in central Pakistan on Saturday sentenced a man, aged 30, to death for posting blasphemous content on social media. The judge conducted the judicial proceedings in the high-security prison in the city of Bahawalpur, prosecutor Mohammad Shafiq Qureshi told VOA. The prosecutor explained that the court found Taimoor Raza guilty of using […]
Most of Britain’s Islamist Terrorists Came From Highly Segregated Muslim Districts
British Islamist terrorists are getting younger and an increasing number had no prior convictions or previous criminal records before carrying out an act of terrorism or being arrested in the later stages of planning attacks, according to a major report to be published this week in London. The rising proportion of militants who are so-called […]
American IS Sympathizer Draws Prison Term for Plotting Attack on Cartoonists
An Islamic State sympathizer was sentenced Wednesday in a Phoenix courtroom to 30 years in prison for terror-related crimes, including an attack on a cartoon contest in Texas satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. U.S.-born Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem was convicted last year on charges that included planning to provide material support to Islamic State, transporting guns […]
Report: Islamist Terrorism Is Long-term Threat at Home, Abroad
Islamist terrorism will never be fully eradicated, and the threat to the U.S. homeland is real: These are among the sobering conclusions of a new U.S. Institute of Peace study that traces the origins and evolution of Salafist jihadism, a phenomenon it says blindsided the U.S. in September 2001. “The Jihad Threat: ISIS, Al Qaida […]
Muslims Not The Major Source Of Terrorism
Days before the first anniversary of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, an attack at Ohio State University this week once again led to Muslims being cast into an uncomfortable spotlight. Yet, while terrorist attacks carried out by Muslim extremists are on the rise in the Western world, statistics continue to show that assaults […]
Man charged with threatening mother of his child with sledgehammer, box cutters
Jersey City man is accused of threatening the mother of his child twice in seven days — first with a sledge hammer and then with a pair of box cutters. The Garfield Avenue resident, whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of the victim is charged with aggravated assault, robbery, making terroristic threats, criminal […]