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Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, provided an update to a case involving a teen boy who, officials claim, communicated with a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda and allegedly purchased materials online in an effort to obtain weapons of mass destruction. During an event on Wednesday morning, First Assistant District Attorney Robert Listenbee said Muhyyee-ud-din Abdul-Rahman, 18, of West Philadelphia, not only had bomb-making materials, that were found in the trash at his home, he had tested bombs in the woods behind his home and had likely considered an attack on Philly's LGBTQ community. ---SNIP--- In an interview with law...

The Muslim American Public Affairs Council, an organization which advocates for the American Muslim community at all levels of government, officially endorsed Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein this week. In a video released on Thursday, Dr. Khodr Zaarour, the chair of MAPAC, praised Stein for her support of Palestinian rights and her campaign’s nationally-focused advocacy. “Her genuine care for our community was evident when she spent hours with us, listening, engaging, and offering solutions grounded in justice and humanity,” Zaarour stated. He also commended Stein for selecting Dr. Butch Ware as her vice presidential running mate. Zaarour expressed...

Axe-wielding Algerian was recently arrested and the entrance of a synagogue was set ablaze, adding to tension in the countrySuppressed identity politics has burst into the open in France, a country that hosts Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim population, as attacks against French Jews increase in number and violence. “Words like Jewish, Zionism and anti-Semitism are being used by different people with different intentions,” said Jewish human rights lawyer Arie Alimi. “There isn't enough education about what those words mean.” France's social model, in which citizens are expected to be moulded by Republican values and keep religious beliefs private, is...

Belgium has been rocked by yet another horrifying crime, directly tied to the consequences of open borders and unchecked Islamic migration. In the heart of Liège, two Islamic Moroccan nationals, Mohammed and Jalal, brutally raped a young man, filming the entire assault and forcing him to shout “Long live Morocco” at gunpoint. This vile attack took place in the toilets of a café in Carré, while the victim was out celebrating with friends.The two Muslim migrants, already benefiting from Europe’s lax immigration policies, lured the young man into the café’s toilets by grabbing him by the hood and silencing him...

President Vladimir Putin has two young sons with former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, both of which have been living in secret since their births, according to a report by a Russian investigative group started by a former billionaire Putin foe, though Putin and Kabaeva have denied romantic ties for more than a decade. Putin and Kabaeva share two sons, Ivan Putin and Vladimir Putin Jr., who were born in 2015 and 2019, respectively, according to the Dossier Center, a Russian investigative news organization that cited unnamed sources who claimed to regularly see the children. Putin, 71, has publicly acknowledged having...

Vladimir Putin's lover snapped with impatience at a weeping young gymnastics star in the same week she was revealed to have two young sons with the Kremlin dictator. -snip- But extraordinary footage from this week shows Kabaeva - an Olympic gold-medal winning rhythmic gymnast - berating talented Karolina Tarasova during a training session in Sochi, reducing the teenager to tears. The girl, from Putin-occupied Donetsk in Ukraine, is a student at Kabaeva's elite gymnastics Sky Grace Academy in Sochi, which released the videos of the grumpy secret Kremlin first lady, who appears to be wearing a wedding ring, possibly suggesting...

<p>A Jewish barber was stabbed with his own scissors after a customer raged over the Gaza war – allegedly shouting “I want to kill you, you f–king Jew,” the victim said.</p><p>Allegedly boozed-up Ahmed al Jabali, 34, was getting his long beard cut by Yonkers barber Slava Shushakova on Aug. 29 when he lashed out against Israel and the trim descended into bloody violence, according to the victim and city officials.</p>

The Council on American-Islamic Relations released the results of a survey on Friday showing that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Green Party nominee Dr. Jill Stein are virtually tied as the top presidential choice among Muslim voters. CAIR, a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., published the results last week in collaboration with Molitical Consulting LLC. According to the report’s methodology, the survey targeted a stratified random sample of 40,000 registered Muslim voters via text from August 25 to August 27, with 1,478 responses received, of which 1,076 were matched to a national voter file. The...

Five people have been injured, three of them critically, in a stabbing on a bus in the western German city of Siegen, police say. A 32-year-old female suspect has been arrested, police said. Another person suffered serious injuries, it said. At least 40 people were on the bus travelling to a city festival in Siegen, located 75km east of Cologne, when the attack occurred at about 7.40pm on Friday (local time), according to the statement.

A mother who attended Notting Hill Carnival on Sunday with her child narrowly avoided being killed after she was stabbed, the Metropolitan Police has said. The 32-year-old remains in a critical condition in hospital. Issuing an update on Monday morning, the Met said two men had also been stabbed at the west London street festival on Sunday. A 29-year-old has non life-threatening injuries, while a 24-year-old discharged himself after receiving hospital treatment. No arrests have been made in relation to the three stabbings. About 100 arrests have been made for a range of offences including violence with injury, sexual offences...

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A 15-year-old was arrested Saturday in connection with a knife attack at a festival in Germany that left three people dead and several others hurt, authorities said. The suspect had been on the run for hours following Friday’s bloodshed in Solingen. Authorities could not rule out a “terrorist” motive, noting multiple knives were found, Police Chief Markus Röhrl said. The attacker specifically targeted victims’ throats and necks, Röhrl added.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a multiple stabbing incident in Manchester left a woman dead and two others seriously injured late Sunday evening. A 43-year-old woman died, and a 17-year-old girl and a 64-year-old man have been hospitalised with “life-threatening injuries” after they suffered “serious stab wounds” during an incident at a property in the Gorton area of Manchester, England. A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after the stabbings, which occurred around 11:20 pm on Sunday, Greater Manchester Police said. No further information about the suspect has been made public at the time of...

A Jordanian man living in Florida has been arrested for causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to a solar energy facility and damaging multiple businesses over their perceived support for Israel, the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Middle District of Florida announced on Thursday. Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 43, is accused of breaking the front doors of multiple businesses in a rampage in June. He wore a mask while committing the vandalism and left behind warning letters stating his intention to “destroy or explode everything here in whole America. Especially the companies and factories that support the racist...

For days, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has been dogged by criticism — including from the Republican Jewish Coalition — about his ties to a Minnesota imam who praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and once shared a link to a pro-Hitler documentary. Now, the Harris-Walz campaign has responded, saying that Walz has no “personal relationship” with Imam Asad Zaman, the executive director of the Muslim American Society Minnesota, a network of seven mosques, despite appearing together in public events on several occasions. And the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is calling on political leaders in Minnesota to avoid appearing with Zaman...

The Failure of Interreligious Dialogue with IslamLast week, on the morning of August 7th, Pope Francis, just before his regular Wednesday general audience, received a group of representatives from the Afghan Muslim community in Italy. He touched upon the “complicated and dramatic history [in Afghanistan], marked by a succession of wars and blood-stained conflicts, which have made it very difficult for people to lead peaceful, free and secure lives.” The pontiff went on to tell the Afghan males—there were, surprisingly, no women at the encounter—“to continue in [their] noble endeavour to promote religious harmony and to strive to overcome misunderstandings...

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister has been ousted from power, and the parliament has been dissolved. What ripple effects will this have?

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer's resort to harsh measures to suppress public unrest over the murders of young girls at a Taylor Swift dance party spurred accusations that laws are not being enforced equally. Starmer called these charges "baseless. We are long past the delusion that justice can be attained by treating everyone the same. Different situations need to be treated differently." "Saddened as we are by the murders of those young girls we must understand the context in which they occurred," the Prime Minister insisted. "The 17-year-old assailant comes from a culture where female promiscuity is rigorously condemned and...

The ISIS teen who plotted a terror attack on a Taylor Swift concert has been pictured for the first time as neighbours say he completely changed his look recently. The 19-year-old ISIS fanatic has been identified as Beran A., who lived in a newly-built end-terraced house in Ternitz, nearly 50 miles south of Vienna, where he spent his childhood. A few years ago, Beran A.'s parents - who immigrated to Austria from North Macedonia - moved into a new-built house in the Neunkirchen district of Ternitz with him and his younger sister. Beran A. and his accomplice had planned to...

Both suspects in a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows in Vienna appeared to be inspired by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida, Austrian authorities said Thursday, and investigators found bomb-making materials at one of their homes. Officials said one of the two confessed to planning to “kill as many people as possible outside the concert venue.” Three sold-out concerts were canceled a day earlier because of the plot, devastating Swifties from across the globe. Many of them had dropped thousands of euros (dollars) on travel and lodging in Austria’s expensive capital city to attend the Eras Tour shows...