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UK, Jewish groups demand YouTube remove sermons inciting anti-Semitism

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YouTube is being urged to remove from its platform anti-Semitic hate sermons in the language Urdu, including those posted by clerics idolized by the gunman who took hostages at a Texas synagogue on Jan....
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2001. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Two decades on, the West’s cultural fault line exposed by 9/11 remains

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Few of us, if any, will ever forget those terrible images of the 9/11 attacks on America. Twenty years on, it’s painfully clear that many Westerners still don’t grasp the full nature and scope...
A member of the Taliban's religious police beats an Afghan woman in Kabul on Aug. 26, 2001. The footage, filmed by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, can be seen at: pz.rawa.org/rawasongs/movie/beating.mpg. Credit: Wikipedia.

Watchdog: Western Islamists express pride, joy as Taliban takes over Afghanistan

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Despite most Americans being shocked at the events unfolding in Afghanistan over the past few days, a number of Western Islamists have via social media welcomed the return of the fundamentalist Taliban forces, according...
French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting at the G20 summit on July 8, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons via Russian Federation.

French lawmakers pass bill to combat Islamist extremism, separatism

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France’s National Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday trumpeted by President Emmanuel Macron as a means to address the problem of Islamist extremism and separatism. “It’s an extremely strong secular offensive,” French Interior Minister Gerald...
Palestinian supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir, or the Islamic Liberation Party, chant slogans and wave black and white flags reading "There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophet" during a rally in Ramallah on July 7, 2012. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90.

This group wants a caliphate, and sees even Hamas as a ‘nationalist’ target

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The 15,000 Muslims who crowded into the courtyards of the Temple Mount mosques on Oct. 30 became another news story about COVID-19. But the real story was much bigger: the enormous anti-France protest near the al-Aqsa...
The scene of the Jan. 7, 2015 Islamist terror attack on the offices of the “Charlie Hebdo” satirical newspaper in Paris. Credit: Thierry Caro via Wikimedia Commons.

Paris teacher beheaded after showing class Muhammad cartoon

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A history teacher in a Paris suburb was beheaded on Oct. 16 after he showed his class cartoon pictures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The victim, identified as Samuel Paty, 47, taught at a middle...
Egyptian military counter-terrorism unit 777. Credit: Wikipedia.

Report: Egyptian Army kills 77 radical Islamic militants in Sinai operations

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The Egyptian Army announced that its forces have killed 77 radical Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula since July 22. The military said that the operations it has been conducting in the Sinai for the...
The Grand Mosque of Copenhagen in Copenhagen is one of the largest mosques in Denmark. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Denmark confronts Islamism and integration

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Imam Mundhir Abdallah is a good example of the dilemmas that have confronted politicians in Denmark in their response to Islamist extremism among the country’s 300,000 Muslims, the large majority of whom are first- or...
An orthodox Jewish man seen in the Jewish quarters of le Marais, Paris, France. August 13, 2017. Photo by Serge Attal/FLASH90

Menaced by extremists and migrants, European Jews increasingly feel abandoned by governments

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If Sacha Ghozlan had any doubts about whether there would be more anti-Semitic attacks in France following the March murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, he quickly got an answer. Ghozlam, the president of the...