The governments of Germany, Britain, and the Netherlands have pledged to increase cooperation on countering Islamic extremism. The agreement was made at the opening of a joint symposium aimed to find unified approaches to the problems posed by Islamist extremism in Europe. “It’s clear that we share a common threat that demands a united response,…
According to a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post daily newspaper, the Canadian government has been using “counter-radicalization techniques” to steer Canadian Muslims from “extremism.” The measures described in the report range from meeting with community and religious leaders and urging them to tackle radicalization to the more controversial tactic of intervention by…
Ottawa citizen Monia Mazigh has published a book about her struggle to free her husband Maher Arar from a security prison in Syria in 2002. Arar disappeared while on a return flight to Canada in September 2002, was detained by U.S. authorities while in transit in New York and then falsely accused on being an…
Canadian Mounties and young Torontonian Muslims played a soccer match in the BMO Field, home of Toronto’s FC soccer club. The score: a 4-4 tie. Following the match, the soccer adversaries sat down for a question-and-answer session. Full-text article continues here. (Some news sites may require registration)
After police and security forces arrested several men and seized bomb-making material in Jan. 19 raids on a mosque and four other homes, Spain’s attorney general said they had stopped an imminent attack. Spanish authorities, however, quickly backed off that, acknowledging that the amount of explosives seized was very small. What is clear, however, is…
