Stockholm Bomber’s Mosque Website Carries Links to Extremist Preacher

19 December 2010 The website of the British mosque where the Stockholm bomber worshipped carries links to comments used to justify suicide attacks, and material expounding antisemitism and homophobia. Preachers at the Luton Islamic Centre told last week how they had tackled Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm…

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Baroness Warsi told by David Cameron not to appear at Islamic conference

23 October 2010 The Conservative party chair, Baroness Warsi, has been banned by David Cameron from attending a major Islamic conference today, igniting a bitter internal row over how the government tackles Islamist extremism. Warsi, Britains first female Muslim cabinet minister, was told by the prime minister to cancel her appearance at the Global Peace…

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France Signals Heightened Terrorist Alert

News Agencies – September 20, 2010 France is on heightened alert for possible terrorist attacks after receiving a tip-off that a female suicide bomber was planning to attack the transport system, a police source said this week. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said France was facing a real terrorism threat as it faces a backlash from…

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France Signals Heightened Terrorist Alert

News Agencies – September 20, 2010 France is on heightened alert for possible terrorist attacks after receiving a tip-off that a female suicide bomber was planning to attack the transport system, a police source said this week. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said France was facing a real terrorism threat as it faces a backlash from…

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Mixed reactions to suicide bomber parody in the UK

Four Lions, the film that mimics a group of suicide bombers in the UK, has evoked mixed reactions just after its release. Many are enthusiastic and the London Evening Standard calls fear the greatest enemy of innovation, but this film manages to overcome fear in an innovative way by making fundamentalists appear ridiculous. Others, however,…

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