News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
The Muslim community in eastern French town of Dijon were targeted by an Islamophobic attack when six pigs heads were thrown at the gates of a mosque under construction. Six halves of pigs heads were discovered on the gates of the mosque building in Genlis, a small town near Dijon, France on Friday morning. “Cold cuts”
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
The British government’s new Extremism Analysis Unit [EAU] has been ordered by the Prime Minister to investigate the extent of foreign money used to fund extremist groups in the UK. The call for the inquiry came from the Liberal Democrat party after the House of Commons voted in favor of extending airstrikes in Syria. “We
The Dutch Public Prosecutor announced that two men from the Dutch city of Arnhem presumably traveling to the battle zones of Syria of Iraq were captured in Turkey. The pair had gone missing for an extended period of time. They belong to a group that is being surveilled on account of their supposed radicalization. Nothing
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