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The rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Britain is likely a result of Islamic extremism, according to a government minister.

The Austrian government will create a terrorist offenders register that will see those convicted of terror offences placed on the registry for life.

Spanish intelligence services are on the search for several known jihadists who crossed into the country after returning from Syria. 

A radicalised Syrian refugee who came to Germany during the height of the migrant crisis has been sentenced to life in prison for an attack on a gay couple that led to the death of a 55-year-old man.

Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio has come under criticism for not removing an interview with Islamist extremist Raad Al-Duhan after it was revealed the woman who conducted the interview was friends with him.

Germany has banned the Islamic NGO Ansaar International after it was accused of sending money to terrorist groups in Syria and Somalia.

Text messages obtained from the phone of Nice basilica terrorist Brahim Aouissaoui revealed the Tunisian illegal immigrant allegedly came to France specifically to commit an attack, and his original target was Paris.

A study conducted by the Swedish Institute for Future Studies has revealed that women are far more active in extremists groups than previously thought, with women making up one in seven extremists in the country

French security services arrested an 18-year-old woman, along with her mother and three sisters, on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack on a church.

The French government has rejected the use of the term “Islamophobia”, saying Islamists use it to silence criticism of radical Islam.

A Paris policewoman was accused of passing on personal information about other police officers to a man on the French S-file terror watchlist.

The Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is actively recruiting in the heavily migrant-populated no-go Stockholm suburbs of Rinkeby and Tensta.

The teenager whose accusations of Islamophobia led to Samuel Paty’s beheading last October had admitted she lied about being in his class when the teacher showed cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

The United Kingdom’s lax judicial system saw nearly half of all convicted terrorists receive less than four-year prison sentences last year.

Despite being in force since March 2020, no one has been charged under Sweden’s anti-terrorism law that enables the prosecution of members of terrorist groups.

A poll has revealed 69 per cent of French, nearly 7 in 10, say that there is a problem with an ideology of “Islamo-Leftism” in the country.

A German court has sentenced 37-year-old Abu Walaa to ten and a half years in prison for his role in trying to radicalise young people.

A group of ISIS-affiliated women have gone on a hunger strike in Syria after demanding the French government let them back into France.

A Paris court handed out jail terms of between 22 and 30 years to three jihadists after they were found guilty of plotting a terror attack in the French capital in December 2016.

The Dutch counter-terror office has expressed concern over alleged links between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and radical Islamists of Turkish descent.

French police have arrested five people aged 18 to 29 regarding death threats sent to a French teen who criticised Islam on social media last November.

French teacher Didier Lemaire was placed under police protection shortly after the murder of Samuel Paty after receiving threats when he wrote a letter defending the beheaded teacher.

One of the three radical Islamist extremists who plotted to blow up a residential building in Paris claimed that killing babies was justified, according to the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

Since 2014, the Belgian police have identified and closed 192 entities, including prayer rooms and organisations, linked to radical Islamic terrorism in Brussels as part of an anti-terror project.

Young French-speaking Muslims are three times as likely to be antisemitic, homophobic, and sexist compared to atheists, a study suggests.

Three radicalised Muslims face trial after being accused of plotting to commit a terror attack against Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protestors in Paris in 2018.

A radical mosque in the commune of Lunel near the city of Montpellier is the focus of an investigation by the French Interior Ministry after having already been placed under surveillance in December.

French police are investigating a far-left Antifa extremist after he praised the Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram.

Ten people will face trial in connection with the 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks including Osama Krayem, a former resident of the Swedish multicultural city of Malmö.

Police in the eastern Spanish city of Castellón de la Plana are investigating a possible radical Islamic motive behind a thwarted machete attack on Christmas day by a Moroccan national.

Despite the lockdowns in many countries due to the Wuhan virus pandemic, Europe saw at least seven terrorist attacks in 2020, with radical Islamic terror seeing a particular resurgence in France.

Muslim groups were given two weeks to sign on to a “Republican values charter” by French President Macron after a series of terror attacks.

A 20-year-old Muslim was subjected to an assault from an acquaintance and several others after he posted pictures of a Christmas dinner on social media and was called a “dirty son of a white man”.

At least 190 police officers were involved in an anti-terrorism raid targeting a 15-year-old Syrian migrant boy who had allegedly threatened to carry out a terror attack. The massive raid took place on Tuesday at 6 am in the Marzahn area

A French court has ruled on a case involving 14 accomplices of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror attackers, finding several of them guilty of terrorist offences, handing out sentences ranging from four years to life in prison.

French investigators have taken five Chechen-background youths into custody as the five are believed to have been in contact with teacher Samuel Paty’s killer Abdoullakh Anzorov.