Extremism

Calls to UK counter-terrorism hotline have doubled since Hamas attack on Israel
November 8, 2023 By Faith Matters

Calls to UK counter-terrorism hotline have doubled since Hamas attack on Israel

Reports to a UK police counter-terrorism hotline have more than doubled since the Hamas attack on Israel. Police said that between October 7 and 25 the anti-terror hotline received around 1,350 reports, more than twice the number of contacts compared to the same period last year. The number of reports with information useful to investigators […]

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Sunak announces £3m extra to protect British Jewish community after Hamas attack
October 12, 2023 By Faith Matters

Sunak announces £3m extra to protect British Jewish community after Hamas attack

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced £3 million in extra funding to protect schools, synagogues and other Jewish community buildings in the UK in response to Hamas’ attacks in Israel. The money will be given to the Community Security Trust (CST) after the group, which acts on the behalf of British Jews on matters of […]

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Minister wishes no revenge after bombers killed his mother and 19 relatives
September 21, 2023 By Faith Matters

Minister wishes no revenge after bombers killed his mother and 19 relatives

A minister whose mother and 19 other family members were murdered by terrorists a decade ago has told of how he was able to resist revenge. Rev Aftab Gohar says he found peace through Jesus Christ after a double suicide bomber attack at All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan on September 22 2013. There were […]

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AfD politician resigns from local council after daubing Nazi symbols
August 31, 2023 By Faith Matters

AfD politician resigns from local council after daubing Nazi symbols

A local councillor from the south-western German city of Baden-Baden has resigned from the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) after being accused of daubing Nazi swastikas on cars with Ukrainian licence plates. The public prosecutor’s office in Baden-Baden had announced at the beginning of the week – without giving a name – that a […]

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University PhD student made drone to help Islamic State terror group, court told
August 23, 2023 By Faith Matters

University PhD student made drone to help Islamic State terror group, court told

A University of Birmingham PhD student plotted to supply Islamic State terrorists with a drone capable of delivering a bomb or chemical weapon, a terror trial jury has heard. Prosecutors allege Mohamad Al-Bared was designing and building the unmanned aerial device, found in a bedroom at his home, when he was arrested in January this […]

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Ex-Defence Forces soldier in bid to have Islamic State terror charges dropped
January 11, 2022 By Faith Matters

Ex-Defence Forces soldier in bid to have Islamic State terror charges dropped

A former member of the Defence Forces is seeking to have charges of being a member of so-called Islamic State (IS) and financing terrorism dropped at the Special Criminal Court. Lawyers for Louth woman Lisa Smith, 39, have made an application for the case against her to be dismissed. It is expected that they will […]

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The Base and Hezbollah to be designated as terror organisations in Australia
November 28, 2021 By Faith Matters

The Base and Hezbollah to be designated as terror organisations in Australia

Australia intends to add far-right extremist group The Base and the entirety of the Lebanese group Hezbollah to its list of outlawed terrorist organisations. Hezbollah’s External Security Organisation has been listed since 2003, but including all Hezbollah entities as terrorist organisations would make being a member of, or supporting, those entities a criminal offense. “The […]

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Warrant issued for elder brother of Manchester Arena bomber to attend inquiry
November 28, 2021 By Faith Matters

Warrant issued for elder brother of Manchester Arena bomber to attend inquiry

The elder brother of Salman Abedi will be arrested and brought to the Manchester Arena Inquiry to give evidence if he comes back to the UK, a judge has ruled. Ismail Abedi, 28, had been ordered to attend the public inquiry into the May 2017 terror attack but boarded a flight to Istanbul from Manchester […]

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Christian convert receives death threat following Liverpool bombing
November 22, 2021 By Faith Matters

Christian convert receives death threat following Liverpool bombing

A Christian convert at a church connected with the Liverpool bomber has received a death threat in the wake of the Remembrance Sunday terror attack. Iraq-born Emad Al Swealmeen, the 32-year-old bomber, converted to Christianity in 2015 and in 2017 lived with Christian volunteers Malcolm and Elizabeth Hitchcott, who attended St Philemon’s Church in Toxteth. […]

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Ball bearings in Liverpool bomb could have caused significant death, police say
November 19, 2021 By Faith Matters

Ball bearings in Liverpool bomb could have caused significant death, police say

The bomb used in the Liverpool Remembrance Sunday attack was a homemade explosive with ball bearings attached to it and could have caused “significant injury or death”, police have said. Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died when the taxi he was a passenger in exploded outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital just before 11am on Sunday. In […]

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