An Ipsos Mori survey on Muslims in Britain reveals that a number of the British general public’s understandings regarding Muslims, including the number of Muslims in the country and the compatibility of Islam and British life, are misconceptions.
Recent research from Tilburg University stresses the importance of the common background between Moroccan jihadists in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. On Facebook they sympathize with each other, says researcher Claudia Lemos de Carvalho. She speaks of an “e-jihad ‘. There are bands of Moroccan networks with IS. “North Africa, especially Morocco networks have members…
The events of the 13th Friday confirm once again the terrorist links between networks in France and Belgium, which in turn stand in connection with Dutch networks. These are links that take place via social media important radical ideological exchanges and where actually offline contacts, ‘on the ground’ occur because of the geographical proximity.
A 22-year-old woman was arrested at Madrid’s Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport on Monday night, on suspicion that she was planning to fly to Turkey to join the militant group Islamic State (ISIS), Interior Ministry sources have told EL PAÍS. The woman is originally from a village in Huelva, in southern Spain, and had converted to Islam…
A man armed with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle, a handgun and a knife opened fire on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday before being overpowered by two passengers, both US soldiers. One of the soldiers, and another passenger, were both injured before the assailant was arrested. The attacker is believed to be…
