ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — A New Jersey school board member resigned Friday after backlash over posts she made on Facebook disparaging Muslims. Gladys Gryskiewicz resigned from the Elmwood Park school board, citing concerns about the safety of her family, The Record reported . Gryskiewicz posted on Facebook earlier this year that Muslims should stay “in…
Mohammad Al-Falahi had just gotten home from work and was about to take a shower when two detectives showed up at his door. At least one of them was on the Southern Nevada Joint Terrorism Task Force with the FBI in Las Vegas. Al-Falahi claimed one of the detectives wanted him to inform on another…
Rahimah Rahim, a nurse, had tears in her eyes as she clasped the hand of her eldest son, Ibrahim, formerly a local imam. Behind them stood Usaamah Rahim’s wife, her face shrouded in a black veil. It was the family’s first public appearance since Mr. Rahim, 26, was killed Tuesday by an F.B.I. agent and…
The police hunt for three British ‘jihadi brides’ who ran away from home to join Islamic State fighters has intensified in a bid to stop them crossing the Turkish border into Syria. The three students from Bethnal Green Academy in east London, were at the centre of an increasingly desperate international hunt to find them…
The Dutch newspaper Het Parool has stated that among Dutch Jihad participants just a small percentage are Dutch citizens with a Turkish cultural background. But it also suggested that “all the ingredients for radicalization among the Turkish-Dutch community are present.” Terrorism expert Edwin Bakker estimates that approximately 15 to 20 have a Turkish-Dutch cultural background…
