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No mention of radical Islam was made by any senators during Monday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing — uniquely held at the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, NY — days before the 18th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) recently met with members of the terrorist-sympathizing, anti-Israel group Palestine Youth Movement, according to a picture on social media featuring the lawmaker with supporters of the organization.

An alleged sniper for the Islamic State (ISIS) has been indicted in federal court, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday, years after he was able to obtain American citizenship by arriving in the United States on the “Diversity Visa Lottery.”

The amount of terror operatives at the disposal of Islamic State in Iraq has fallen to such a level that cows are being rigged with remote-controlled bombs and herded into built-up areas before they are exploded.

An Afghan man accused of stabbing two American tourists in Holland says he went there to “protect the Prophet Mohammed,” according to reports. 

A Pakistani-born teenager was arrested Thursday in Queens, New York, for allegedly planning to carry out a knife and bomb attack for ISIS, reports said. 

A prominent member of Venezuela’s socialist regime distanced boss Nicolás Maduro from the Colombian terrorist organization FARC’s return to violence on Thursday, insisting Maduro has “nothing to do” with the group.

FARC terrorist and Colombian Senator “Jesús Santrich,” missing for over a month after being charged with large-scale cocaine trafficking, reemerged in a video Thursday morning announcing the Marxist group would return to violence despite the 2016 peace deal that put him in Congress.

TEL AVIV — The head of the terror organization Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said in an internal meeting Tuesday that he was not in a hurry to retaliate for recent Israeli strikes against his group, the Lebanese Al-Akhbar daily reported.

TEL AVIV – New Zealand is the latest country to suspend funding to the United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees after a leaked internal report alleged corruption, sexual misconduct, antisemitism, and mismanagement at the agency’s highest levels. 

The Islamic State terror group might have taken a beating in Iraq and Syria but it remains a global threat with up to $300 million in its coffers, U.N. counterterrorism officials warned Tuesday. Europe has been targeted for specific threats given the large numbers of former fighters looking to join refugees who continue to flood across the E.U.’s open, porous borders.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) told an outdoor gathering at the College of Charleston on Monday evening that white supremacy was “manifest in every part of American life.”

Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, U.S. officials have confirmed, an attack that would mark a significant escalation in Israel’s years-long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment across the region.

TEL AVIV – Two Arab-Israelis have been arrested and charged with terrorist training and conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the Islamic State terror group, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said on Wednesday.

Turkey’s foreign ministry said that a convoy destined for a military observation post in Idlib, Syria was attacked in an air raid earlier today.

An Austrian intelligence report states that radical Islamic terror is still the number one security issue in the country with foreign fighters a chief concern.

BERLIN (AP) – German federal prosecutors say they’ve charged three Iraqi refugees with planning an Islamic extremist bombing.

TEL AVIV – A former Miss Iraq who was forced to flee her native country after posting a selfie of herself and Miss Israel has lambasted Rep. Ilhan Omar for trying to push Sharia law on the U.S. and says that the congresswoman does not represent her as a Muslim.

MOSCOW (AP) — Police in Norway’s capital say the shooting at a mosque that wounded one person is being investigated as an attempted terrorist attack and that the alleged perpetrator is also a murder suspect in a separate case.

Two Somali nationals granted refugee status in the United States are accused of attempting to join the Islamic State (ISIS) and sought to obtain American citizenship.

Some 34 per cent of Europeans said immigration was one of their top concerns in 2019, putting the issue comfortably ahead of the competition for another year. 

Former vice president Joe Biden will accuse President Donald Trump of inspiring mass shootings, during remarks Biden is scheduled to deliver in Iowa on Wednesday afternoon.

MSNBC used a chyron on Tuesday evening that read “TRUMP-INSPIRED TERRORISM,” in quotation marks, during The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) argued that all forms of violent political extremism should be treated as terrorism, the age to purchase a gun should be raised to 21, and there should be universal

Pete Buttigieg, 2020 White House hopeful and South Bend, Indiana, mayor reacted to the deadly shooting at an El Paso, Texas Walmart, claiming the United States is “under attack” from “homegrown, white nationalist terrorism.”

Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) falsely claimed during CNN’s 2020 Democrat presidential primary debate that President Trump has sought to “ban all Muslims” from the United States. 

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), in 2015, called for the deportation of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“White Nationalist violence has killed more people on American soil than any other source of terrorism,” he told voters.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed a crowd of some 30,000 Pakistani-Americans in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, promising that under his administration a “new Pakistan” is “being created in front of your eyes.”

Armed militant “bandits” riding motorcycles stormed three villages in northwestern Nigeria last week, killing at least 37 and leaving many more wounded.

A man charged with joining the Islamic State (ISIS) as a sniper and firearms instructor originally came to the United States through the “Diversity Visa Lottery,” a program responsible for bringing more than half a million randomly chosen foreign nationals to the country in a single decade.

TEL AVIV – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that a delegation of senior officials from the terror group had arrived in Tehran for an unspecified purpose that would lead to “important results.”

Three Islamic terrorists who beheaded two female backpackers in the Atlas mountains in Morocco have been sentenced to death by firing squad.

On July 9, an Israeli court ruled that the Palestinian Authority was responsible for several attacks by Palestinian terrorist organizations against Israel — a landmark decision that could, and should, have international implications.

Stockholm terror attacker Rakhmat Akilov has complained about his treatment in prison, claiming the food is substandard and that he feels lonely.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – An Iraqi-born Muslim cleric has been ordered held in custody for four weeks after he was sentenced to 12 years in prison in Italy for terror offences.