Scores killed in suicide blast aimed at Christians in Lahore children's park
Pakistani Taliban faction Jamaat ul-Ahrar says Christians were target of bomb killing 69 and injuring 280 in park thronged with families
A woman carries a child injured in the explosion to hospital. The majority of those killed and injured were women and children. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty
At least 69 people have been killed and more than 280 injured, most of them women and children, in an apparent suicide bombing directed at local Christians at a park in Lahore.
The explosion took place in the parking area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, a few metres away from children’s swings. Deeba Shahnaz, a spokesman for the Lahore rescue administration, gave a figure of 300 injured.
Islamic State files leak: The 'good British Christian' who turned to jihad
The full story of Fasil Towalde's short life can be told for the first time after his Isil recruitment forms and those of thousands of other fighters were leaked
A British jihadist killed while fighting for Isil in Syria was a "good Christian boy" who fell in with a gang and turned to radical Islam inside a UK prison, his mother has said.
UK MEGAMOSQUE BACKS PERSECUTIONOF CHRISTIANS IN PAKISTAN
When Muslim leaders in the UK make it clear that they want to see the persecution of Christians in Pakistan, what do they intend for the Christians and other non-Muslims in the UK? It's a very good question that we all ought to think about.
Asia Bibi is a defenseless Pakistani Christian woman who was maliciously accused of “blasphemy” by her Muslim neighbors. They did this to settle a score after she committed the other “crime,” as a non-Muslim, of drinking water from the same cup as them. Asia was sentenced by Pakistan’s courts to death by hanging in 2010. She languishes in jail awaiting execution until this day. So far, so obscene.
A man who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at a train station says it was a misunderstanding due to ‘cultural differences’, a court has heard.
Somalian-born Ali Abdullahi, 34, committed two sex attacks against two females and approached a third woman while catching the train from Torquay to Bristol in December 2013.
A teen who tried to join the Islamic State and was convicted for supporting terrorism worked as a helper in an Islamic kindergarten.
An 18 year old Chechen born girl living in Austria was sentenced to a total of six months in prison out of a potential three year sentence for supporting a terrorist organization. The girl intended to marry an Islamic State fighter and move to Syria to be with him accordingto Kronen Zeitung.
Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts
Islamic studies teacher accused of helping two Muslims join the Islamic State
The British authorities from David Cameron on down should ponder the implications of the fact that an Islamic studies teacher may have helped two Muslims join the Islamic State — you know, that thing that they all insist has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam.
“Islamic studies teacher accused of helping two extremists flee to Syria ‘is a prankster who once locked friend in McDonald’s toilet,'” by Winnie Agbonlahor, Mailonline, February 15, 2016:
An Islamic studies teacher accused of helping two extremists flee to Syria is a prankster who once locked a friend in a McDonald’s toilet, a court heard.
Trio face jail for helping teen jihadi join ria fighters
Three young men are facing jail for helping a teenage jihadi follow in his big brother's footsteps and join fighters in Syria.
Three young men were found guilty at the Old Bailey
Kristen Brekke, Adeel Ulhaq and Forhad Rahman were found guilty at the Old Bailey of playing their part in the plan to get Aseel Muthana to the war-torn country.
Muthana was just 17 when he left home in Cardiff on February 21 2014 to join the ranks of Islamic State (IS) and has not returned.
A U.S. judge sentenced 26-year-old Madhi Hashi — a one time Somali migrant to the United Kingdom — to nine years on Friday for joining Islamic terrorist organization al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Between December 2009 and August 2012 Hashi was a member of al-Shabaab, supporting the group’s “violent extremist agenda” according to the United States Attorney’s Office.
Australian teenager wanted to fill kangaroo with explosives in Anzac Day terror plot
Sevdet Besim, 19, discussed plans online with British teenager, saying he would "love to take out some cops. I was gonna meet with them then take some heads"
Sevdet BesimPhoto: 9 News
By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney
An Australian terror suspect and a British teenager allegedly planned to pack a kangaroo with explosives, paint it with a symbol of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) and set it loose on police.
Immigrants with many wives stand to make substantial financial gains under looming changes to Britain’s welfare system.
Polygamous marriages, which form a common thread in Islam, are recognised in Britain but only if they take place in countries where they are legal. Now a House of Commons library paper, published earlier this month, has highlighted a loophole that will allow additional wives coming to the UK to claim a full single person’s allowance while the husband and his first wife still receive their respective benefits.
A German swimming bath has banned migrants from entering the premises after a group of men went on an obscene rampage, laughing in the faces of pool staff when challenged about their grotesque behaviour.
More Muslim women should “learn English " in the hope that they will turn into more powerful moderating forces, David Cameron will say on Monday.
The Prime Minister is expected to call on more Muslim mothers to learn this country's language to enable them to play a bigger role in society and help to prevent their sons from turning to extremism.
Swiss Muslim-convert mother is stopped at Turkish border trying to take her four-year-old boy to Syria to join ISIS after she was brainwashed by jihadists online
Franziska Mirella, 29, accused of trying to take her son to join ISIS in Syria
She was stopped with four-year-old Adam on the Turkish border
Mirella's Egyptian husband raised the alarm after growing concerned
Husband has been given custody of their son and is now back in Egypt
By TOM WYKE FOR MAILONLINE
A Swiss Muslim-convert has been arrested at the Turkish border on suspicion of intending to take her four-year-old son to Syria after being radicalised online by ISIS.
Franziska Mirella, 29, has been sent back to Switzerland where she could face trial for supporting a banned terror organisation.
Her Egyptian husband, Mahmoud, has been awarded custody of their four-year-old son Adam.
New Jihadi John suspect 'skipped bail over terror offences' and declared Isil support on the BBC
32-year-old former bouncy castle salesman from east London able to travel to Syria with his wife and four children under the noses of the security services, despite being on bail for alleged terrorism offences
By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent
The key suspect in the hunt for the new ‘Jihadi John’ was able to travel to Syria with his wife and four children under the noses of the security services, despite being on bail for alleged terrorism offences, it has emerged.
The family of British Muslim convert, Siddhartha Dhar, last night admitted that the killer seen shooting a prisoner in the head in the latest Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) video, could be the 32-year-old former bouncy castle salesman from east London.
Siddhartha Dhar's family have identified him as the Isil killer
Both his mother and sister said they had watched the video, released by Isil on Sunday, and noticed similarities between the voice of the masked Jihadi and Dhar.
Dhar, who is also known as Abu Rumasayah, was arrested in September 2014 alongside the preacher Anjem Choudary on suspicion of belonging to the banned group Al-Muhajiroun.
Cologne Police Chief Condemns Sex Assaults on New Year's Eve
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAN. 4, 2016, 1:34 P.M. E.S.T.
BERLIN — German police has described a series of sexual assaults against women in Cologne on New Year's Eve as "a completely new dimension of crime."
Officers received numerous complaints from women who said they had been assaulted around Cologne's main train station next to the western German city's famous cathedral on the night from Thursday to Friday.
Since a Twitter user compared Saudi Arabia’s decision to execute a poet to Isis' punishments people have been likening the Arab country to the extremist regime
Alexandra Sims
A Twitter storm sparked by a user comparing Saudi Arabia’s decision to execute a poet to punishments carried out by Isis, has led the Kingdom to threaten to sue anyone who describes it as “Isis-like”.
France: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” tries to run down soldiers guarding mosque
JANUARY 1, 2016
This was initially reported, predictably enough, as an attack on the mosque itself, as if some greasy Islamophobe had been behind the wheel. The reality is less surprising but more inconvenient for mainstream media mythmaking.
“Valencia: a North African shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ rushes 4 military personnel outside the mosque, according to witnesses (update),” translation of “Valence : un nord-africain fonce sur 4 militaires devant la mosquée en criant « Allah Akbar » selon des témoins (Màj),”Fdesouche, January 1, 2016 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
One man of North African origin, aged about thirty years, was driving. He twice rushed his car at the soldiers, and according to several witnesses, was shouting “Allah akbar.”