Six Minnesotans Held in Plot to Join ISIS

On Monday, federal officials, announcing their biggest Islamic State recruitment case to date, said there was, in fact, no recruiting mastermind. Instead, for the six men arrested, there was just the camaraderie of sharing an illicit ideology, plus advice and inspiration by phone and Internet from one of their friends, a young Minneapolis man who…

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Teenager accused of grooming vulnerable man in Lee Rigby-style plot

A teenage would-be terrorist “ruthlessly exploited” an impressionable young man in a plot to carry out a Lee Rigby copycat killing, a court has heard. Kazi Islam, 18, is accused of grooming 19-year-old Harry Thomas with a combination of “flattery and threats” to buy the ingredients for a pipe bomb and to attack one or…

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#Nietmijnislam faces difficulties finding place for meeting

After the Charlie Hebdo attacks an online initiative called #nietmijnislam (#notmyislam) arose spontaneously. The group distances itself from extremist Islam and favours dialogue, but found it really difficult to find a place for their first gathering in real life. Acccording to one of the initiators Mostafa Hilali one of mentioned reasons for a organization in…

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Hackers black out French TV5, hijack websites to back Islamic State

The hackers briefly cut transmission of 11 channels belonging to TV5 Monde and took over its websites and social media accounts. The message on the TV5 Monde website read in part “I am IS” with a banner by a group that called itself Cybercaliphate. The Islamic extremist group has claimed complex hackings before but the…

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Imams try to ‘reclaim the internet’ with Haqiqah magazine

Haqiqah – “the truth” or “the reality” – is a new online magazine launched with the aim of “reclaiming the internet” from extremists. It has been created by British Muslim scholars who say they want to do more to educate young people about the reality of extremist movements. They say it is a direct response to…

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