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Britain is bracing for a potential surge of Islamist terrorism as a swath of convicted terrorists are set to be released from prison.

A radical Islamist cleric who called for the beheading of non-Muslims was hosted by a Labour Party councillor in Northampton.

Yasin Kanjaa, a radical Muslim accused of murdering one and injuring several others after attacks in two churches in Spain, has claimed he sees “devils” as authorities look into the state of his mental health.

Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since a radical Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by a decades-old Iranian fatwa left him near death.

Parents in Toronto expressed shock after receiving an email from an elementary school principal that contained the flag of the Islamic State terrorist group.

BERLIN (AP) – German investigators on Monday searched two garages used by an Iranian man arrested on suspicion that he could be planning an attack with deadly chemicals.

A rapist barber has once again been jailed in Britain after he was found guilty of sending COVID pandemic payments to ISIS.

BERLIN (AP) – A 32-year-old Iranian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack with deadly chemicals, officials said Sunday.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Even by the standards of Turkey’s and Greece’s frequently strained relations, it was a remarkable escalation. Speaking to youths in a Black Sea town, Turkey’s president directly threatened his country’s western neighbour: Unless the Greeks “stay calm,” he said, Turkey’s new ballistic missiles would hit their capital city.

The British taxpayer has allegedly been handed out to radical Islamist organisations that have “promoted extremist narratives”.

A Swedish Administrative Court has closed two independent Muslim schools in Stockholm and Uppsala after security police warned of the spreading of Islamist ideology and possible radicalisation.

One in ten Somalis in Germany have been suspected of a crime, statistically, meaning that they are on average around five times more likely than the native population to be involved in criminality.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Jaana Mettala was six months pregnant and on her way to work when the bomb exploded in the heart of Brussels’ European Union quarter. She suffered severe burns, but Mettala and her baby survived – 32 other people did not.

A teacher has been referred to the police for referring to the fact that the September 11th terrorists were Muslims.

A suspected terrorist has stabbed one policeman to death and shot another in the chest with the slain officer’s service weapon, in Brussels, the national capital of Belgium and the principal capital of the European Union. 

Danish prosecutors have charged three women, all in their thirties, for promoting terrorism after travelling to Syria where they joined the Islamic State and married members of the jihadist terror organisation.

Salah Abdeslam the only surviving member of the terrorist cell that carried out the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris and has been sentenced to life in prison was married this week by telephone.

The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that the force’s “significant failings” are partly to blame for the deaths that occurred following a radical Islamic terror bombing at Manchester Arena in 2017.

Local government officials in England will censor the name and ethnicity of the London Bridge terrorist in an official report, to avoid “demonising” Muslims.

A Christian preacher has been awarded £10,000 in damages by London’s Metropolitan Police for two wrongful arrests after she had complained to officers that she was facing threats and harassment by Islamists.

A Flemish woman who was present at the Brussels National Airport in 2016 during a radical Islamic terror attack has been euthanised at the age of 23 due to psychological trauma and suffering.

Burkina Faso President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba resigned on Sunday, wiping out the government of the West African nation in the second coup of the year and bringing it closer to Russia’s dangerous orbit.

Members of the South Asian community in the multicultural city of Leicester are “living in fear” as violent clashes between Muslims and Hindus continue, according to a local official.

A man charged with 14 terrorism offences by London police has been named as Ismail Kissa. 

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday it summoned Britain’s ambassador to protest what it described as a hostile atmosphere created by London-based Farsi language media outlet

A 30-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was shot dead in the city of Ansbach, Germany on Thursday after stabbing random people at a railway station, reportedly while yelling “Allahu Akbar!”

During the planned three and a half months of court proceedings in Paris, survivors and those mourning loved ones will recount the horrors inflicted along the beachfront of Nice on the night of July 14, 2016.

Bastille Day, 2016. Shortly after the end of a fireworks display, a 19-tonne (21 U.S.-ton) truck careered through the crowds for 2 kilometres (1¼ miles) like a snow plough, hitting person after person. The final death toll was 86, including 15 children and adolescents, while 450 others were injured…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s leader said Friday that it’s upsetting Indonesia has further reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali terror attack that killed 202 people – which could free him within days if he’s granted parole.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) – Mali’s foreign minister is accusing France of having colluded with the same Islamic extremists that it spent nearly a decade fighting until its troops departed earlier this week, an allegation sharply denied by the French government.

(AFP) – Scottish police said on Sunday they were investigating an apparent “online threat” made to Harry Potter author JK Rowling in response to her tweet supporting Salman Rushdie following his stabbing.

Salman Rushdie’s agent has said “the news is not good” in an update on his condition after being stabbed on stage in New York.

The Administrative Court of Paris halted the deportation of Imam Hassan Iquioussen on Friday after he had been set to leave the country for hate preaching on the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin slammed members of the far-left party France Insoumise, who he accused of defending a radical Islamist imam set for deportation from France.

The Greek government has called on Germany to halt the sale of attack submarines to Turkey, arguing that the sale could upset the naval balance of power in the region as tensions with the Islamist-led country remain high.

Three men in the Swedish city of Linköping have been sentenced to prison over their involvement in riots triggered by anti-Islam activists burning the Qur’an. More burnings are now planned.