A teen gunman who shot and killed a NSW Police Service employee in western Sydney on Friday acted after he heard a lecture by the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, a local news network has reported. However, the group has downplayed the claim as “speculation”. Seven News said Farhad
The judge noted that the most important evidence was obtained by the FBI. An undercover FBI agent produced 25 hours of secretly-recorded conversations between him and the two would-be Jihadists. The agent posed as a wealthy Islamist Saudi Arabian interested in funding terrorism in Canada and the US. Jaser and Esseghaier also considered using a sniper rifle to murder “wealthy and prominent Jews” in Toronto.
Count Sarah Palin among the sane who clearly doesn’t think a clock or school supplies should look like an explosive device. “Yep, believing that’s a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history,” Palin wrote. “Right. That’s a clock, and I’m the Queen of England.”
Small but growing numbers of American, British, Canadian, and Australian veterans are volunteering to assist in the battle against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) in Iraq and Syria. Motivated to help Christian and other minority groups defend against the spread of Islamist terrorism in the region, they have traveled to Iraq and Syria to take the fight to ISIS. On the front lines, they assist beleaguered people with training, guidance, and combat.
Days after the attempted massacre on a French train was foiled by passengers, President Francois Hollande has warned France should prepare for further terror attacks. Speaking to diplomats at the Élysée Palace in Paris yesterday Hollande said: “We are always exposed and Friday’s aggression on the
With the culturally traditional Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur on the horizon, the State of Israel has published a travel advisory warning of threats against Jewish sites in western and northern Europe. European Jewish Press reports the Counter-Terrorism Bureau (CTB)
The gunman who opened fire on a packed train in France has denied that his motives were terrorism, saying suggestions that they were “almost made him laugh”. He claims to have found the weapons used in the attack in a
Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case.
An American soldier who was part of a group who took down a terrorist attempting to shoot up an intercity train in France has spoken of his experience to British television. In an interview with Sky News, National Guardsman Alek
A gunman who was overpowered by passengers during a shooting incident on a train had been under French police surveillance after foreign security services identified him as dangerous, a source with knowledge of the case and local media said. The
Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has a history of courting Muslim voters through flirtations with Islamic fundamentalism. This has included addressing a mosque with ties to Hamas and defending the niqab.
New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Thomas Mulcair accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of using Muslims as a “scapegoat” in a speech he gave at the Saudi-funded ISNA mosque in Mississauga.
The Globe and Mail’s William A. MacDonald implores Canadians not to express “Islamophobia” in response to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) or “homegrown extremists,” stating: “We cannot let 0.003 percent of the Muslim world speak for the other 99.997 percent.”
Lord of the Rings actor John Rhys-Davies decried Islamic terrorism and political correctness in an interview with podcast king Adam Carolla Monday night.
Nader Saadeh, a former resident of Rutherford, New Jersey, has been charged following an FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) investigation into a group of individuals living in New York and New Jersey allegedly conspiring to assist ISIS.
Veteran hard-left Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn lost his temper on television last night after being questioned on his links with terror groups Hezbollah and Hamas, attempting to shout down his interviewer in the process. The questions were asked by Channel 4 newsman Krishnan
Ten years ago today, 52 British civilians were murdered in the first ever suicide bombings to occur in Western Europe and the biggest bomb attack seen in London since the Second World War. In all another 700 were injured in the
The British government’s tolerance of Islamist hate preachers exporting violence from London in the 1990s may have come back to haunt it. Court papers reveal the gunman who murdered 36 tourists – mostly Britons – on a Tunisian beach has been
The Israeli Counter-Terrorism Bureau (CTB), a wing of the Prime Minister’s National Security Council, was advising Israelis not to travel to Tunisia for months ahead of last week’s beach massacre. Questions are now being asked why the British Foreign Office did not issue
Less than one year after launching several successful campaigns in the United States, including their notable #CEPDigitalDisruption via Twitter, the Counter Extremism Project officially launched its European counterpart on Monday (CEP Europe) in Brussels.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron believes that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with religion. We know that because he’s always banging on about it. Perhaps he should talk to his counterpart in Tunisia. The first thing Habib Essid did
Friends and neighbours of the gunman who killed 38 tourists on a Tunisian beach in cold blood on Friday have described him as “good, good, good!” and speculated that he was driven to murder by poverty. 15 of the victims are
A Pakistani man accused of organising a bomb attack on a Peshawar market that killed 134 people including women and children has been arrested in Rome. He is thought to have been part of a group planning a similar attack
A Labour Member of Parliament has said that British Muslims shouldn’t have to apologise for the young people from their communities who go off to join ISIS. Bolton MP Yasmin Querishi drew a comparison with the Charleston shooting last week, saying that,
Terrorist recruiters for Islamic State (IS) have been caught posing as social workers in Australia and using their cover to attempt to convert at-risk youths to the radical Islamist cause. According to former employee Sarkis Achmar, the men would pose
