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Public executions are a part of Islam, a leader of the Afghanistan terrorist organization vowed Saturday, days after four men were killed by gunfire as cheering crowds watched on.

French police have made several arrests since a man went on a stabbing rampage, killing one and wounding several others in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist act”, anti-terror prosecutors told AFP Sunday.

Indian social media seethed with outrage on Monday after photos of slain Hamas terrorist leaders were displayed during a cultural festival in the Palakkad district of Kerala.

A gay imam who led LGBTQ-friendly services and performed same-sex marriages has been gunned down in what local Muslim leaders are calling a homophobic hate crime in Gqeberha, formerly known as Port Elizabeth.

A man was arrested in Manchester, England, on Saturday after appearing to burn a copy of the Qur’an in the city centre.

NEW YORK (AP) — Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”

Oscar-nominated “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofia Gascón has come under fire after old tweets have resurfaced showing Gascón making derogatory comments about Muslims, George Floyd, the COVID-19 vaccine, and Oscars diversity.

The jihadi insurgents who overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in December are using Islamic sharia law to train new police recruits – a troubling development for minorities who doubt the new regime’s promises to protect religious freedom.

President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and their spouses attended Tuesday’s National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral.

An FBI official told reporters on Sunday that the bureau will investigate New Orleans terrorism suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s past visits to Egypt and Canada in 2023 for clues to his radicalization and possible contacts with the Islamic State.

The head of a prominent Islamic organization in India propagated a fatwa, or religious edict, this weekend prohibiting Muslims from celebrating the new year.

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes.

Mohamed Salah, one of England’s most popular soccer stars, has been taking heat from some fans on social media.

American-born Florida Imam Abu Usama At-Thahabi said that Christianity today is “paganism” and Christians are “pagans” and “not believers.”

A group of Druze Arab villages in southwestern Syria have asked to be part of Israel rather than rebel-held Syria, according to reports and to videos circulating on social media.

Muhammad was the top name choice for baby boys in England and Wales in 2023 with more than 4,600 children registered with the name.

Left-wing lawmaker Tahir Ali called for ban on “desecrations” of texts and prophets, eliciting a positive response from Keir Starmer.

Western civilization and American culture are “backwards,” Christianity is a “dying” religion, and Christians are “jealous” foes of Islam, according to a popular Islamist influencer who was seen lecturing Muslim teens in Dearborn, Michigan, on their duty to “civilize” the morally corrupt West.

Far-left Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of personally attacking him because of his “ethnicity” and Muslim faith, in comments likely to reignite the Labour politician’s long-running and very public antipathy towards the U.S. president-elect.

The popular web video series Subway Takes decided not to publish an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris after she insulted the Muslim host by making jokes about bacon, insisting that “bacon is a spice.”

The man who allegedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” and shot a Jewish man in Chicago on October 27 is an illegal migrant let loose inside the U.S. thanks to President Joe Biden’s catch-and-release program at the southern border, according to Fox News.

An Islamic leader from Dearborn, Michigan, said Monday that former President Donald Trump aligns closer with the Bible, Torah, and Quran than Vice President Kamala Harris does.

Mosques in Britain received a record level of taxpayer money for security, even prior to the anti-mass migration protests and riots over the summer.

The Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) will not be issuing an endorsement for president this election cycle — the first time in 20 years it has not backed the Democrat candidate.

Muslim Americans are assured an open door “side by side” role in any Harris administration should Democrats win the 2024 election, Gov. Tim Walz (D), Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, pledged Thursday night.

The left hates Israel because it asserts its borders, not dissolve them, as European nations have strove to do. But sometimes war is inevitable, because war can be just.

The ruling council of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist organization announced on Sunday that Hashem Safieddine, cousin of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, has been chosen to replace him as secretary-general.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent over half of his very lengthy address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday criticizing Israel for its war against the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. Erdogan accused the Israelis of genocide, compared them to Nazi Germany, and demanded the U.N. authorize “coercive measures against Israel” to halt the war in Gaza.

Police in Malaysia raided twenty Islamic charity homes on Wednesday, making 171 arrests and rescuing 402 children from alleged neglect, molestation, and sexual abuse.

German police investigating alleged Islamist, said to be plotting to kill soldiers with a machete while they were off-base buying lunch. 

Security forces carried out raids against 72 alleged Islamic extremists this week ahead of the 23th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

A Swiss appeals court on Tuesday found Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan guilty of rape and sexual coercion in a Geneva hotel 15 years ago, overturning last year’s lower court acquittal.

The Taliban is repressing women and young girls in Afghanistan with unparalleled restrictions and will jeopardize the country’s future, a shocked U.N. rights chief warned Monday.

Specialist police have taken over the investigation after a migrant knifeman shouting “Allahu Akbar” raided a police station.

Afghanistan-heritage man arrested after car driven at speed onto sidewalk, suspect allegedly telling police he had acted “on Allah’s orders”. 

Today is a historic day. This case is for the defence of every citizen of the free West, and more countries should follow with legal action.