In Portgual, Sheikh David Munir declarations against Paris Terror

“We are shocked because we did not expect it to happen and these people (we do not know who they are, but if they are Muslims it worries us even more) are tarnishing the image of Islam,” said Sheikh David Munir. The Imam of the Lisbon Mosque criticized these “barbaric acts of cruelty”, which are…

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Jihadist fighter arrested at Lisbon’s aiport

July 6, 2014 A man suspected of links to the movement of European jihadists and who has been trained in Syria, was detained at Lisbon airport on Thursday and is in police custody. The man is suspected of involvement in the international jihadist movement and is, according to those papers, in the list of targets…

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Portugal in the sight of Spanish jihadists

June 08, 2014 Spain’s greatest experts on Jihadism, are unanimous: the Portuguese authorities have reasons for concern. “Portugal must be very alert to the movements of jihadists in the territory and for the radicalization within and outside its frontiers” warns Fernando Reinares, principal investigator of the International Terrorism Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid. The same…

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Badajoz: Ramadan against the thermometer

11 July 2013 At the mosque of Gurugu street the Ramadan prayers finish at the first hour of dawn. “Here we make a sacrifice because the next day we still need to get up to go to work, but we adapt, “summarizes Adel Najjar, the Imam of Badajoz. To try to reconcile the Ramadan schedules,…

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The Ministers of Internal Affairs of Spain, Morocco, France and Portugal sign the “Rabat Declaration”

25 January 2013 The Ministers of Internal Affairs of Morocco, France, Spain and Portugal signed in Rabat the ‘Rabat Declaration’ in which they materialize a closer police cooperation among the four countries. The statement was expressed in four main areas: management of migration flows, counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism (with special attention to the Sahel region and its…

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