Two friends convicted of preparing for terrorist acts in support of the so-called Islamic State after trying to reach Syria have been jailed. Safwaan Mansur, from Birmingham, and Hanzalah Patel, from Leicester, travelled to Turkey in 2016 and 2017 after checking out an area near the Syrian border on TripAdvisor, a two-week trial was told. […]
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In 2016, intelligence services estimated that there were just over 23,000 right-wing extremists in Germany. A myriad of groups networking covertly, utilizing social media to extreme effect, was sowing major social discord. Germany has in modern times been regarded by the rest as immune to the reach of the far-right, partly out of collective shame […]
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A Cardiff man has gone on trial accused of sharing a terrorist song entitled Virgins Of Paradise. Zakaria Afey, 20, from St Mellons, allegedly disseminated the nasheed poem on January 12 2017. He is also accused of having the terrorist manual How To Survive In The West on May 15 2017. Opening his trial, prosecutor […]
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The girlfriend of the first victim of the London Bridge attack has told his inquest she had a “premonition” they would be caught by terrorists. Christine Delcros was walking on the bridge with father-of-two Xavier Thomas when they were mowed down by terrorists in a hired van on the evening of June 3 2017. Ms […]
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We are proud to launch the following report, which highlights the trajectory of the Democratic Football Lads alliance, offshoot groups and the ongoing engagement with anti-Muslim and radical far right movements in the United Kingdom. The report has been authored for Faith Matters by two leading lights in this area of work, Dr Matthew Feldman […]
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Pope Francis starts a trip on Sunday to Bulgaria and North Macedonia where he will have to tread carefully because of sensitive relations with the dominant Eastern Orthodox Church in the two Balkan countries where Catholics are a tiny minority. Bulgaria, a country of 7.1 million people, is home to just 58,000 Catholics, while North […]
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A woman has died and three other people are in hospital after a shooting at a synagogue outside San Diego, California. County sheriff William Gore said a white man opened fire on worshippers at Chabad of Poway with an AR-type assault weapon. San Diego Police chief David Nisleit said the 19-year-old suspect called police to […]
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The Duke of Cambridge delivered an emotional speech during a visit to the Masjid Al Noor in Christchurch, where 42 people were killed last month in one of two attacks on mosques in the city. Here is the text of William’s speech, after he greeted the guests in Maori and Arabic: Good morning. Today we […]
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A Somali man has been jailed for having a stash of Islamic State propaganda. Abdirahman Mohamed, of Shadwell Drive in Northolt, west London, had been found guilty after an Old Bailey trial of eight charges of possessing a document or record for terrorist purposes and cleared of one count of disseminating a terrorist publication. Police […]
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A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months, and where the tide turned against the militants four years ago. The converts say the experience of war and the onslaught of a group claiming to fight for Islam pushed them towards their […]
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