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A woman and her companion were attacked in the Berlin district of Neukölln on Saturday night, allegedly for anti-Semitic reasons. The 24-year-old and the 27-year-old had been talking in Hebrew in a McDonald’s on Hermannplatz (photo), Berlin police said. Two men at the neighbouring table, who are said to have spoken Arabic, made derogatory remarks about them and when the two Israelis asked the two men not to insult them, the situation escalated. One of the aggressive neighbours at the table is said to have poured an alcoholic drink in their direction. He then took a chair and hit the...

A 20-year-old Pakistani migrant has been charged with raping an 8-year-old boy in a field near a migrant reception centre on the Greek island of Kos. The Pakistani migrant is expected to stand trial in January for the sex attack, which took place on the 19th of July last year. The man is accused of driving the child to a field near a migrant reception centre and threatening to kill him while overpowering the boy and then sexually abusing him, newspaper Proto Thema reports. Another rape case involving a Pakistani migrant on Kos is scheduled to start in January as...

Seven priests of Vaucluse received suspicious letters, written by hand and bearing the mention "Allah Akbar". These are not direct death threats, but in the context of a terrorist threat, "this matter is taken very seriously", indicates a source in the gendarmerie. A preliminary investigation was opened after seven priests of Vaucluse received suspicious letters by name, bearing the mention "Allah Akbar", we learned on Wednesday December 9 from the gendarmerie, which evokes a case "taken very seriously ". "Handwritten letters were mailed to seven black African priests with their names and the address of the rectory where they live....

The migrant arrived in Italy in 2016 but was initially denied asylum by the Bologna Territorial Commission in September of 2018. He then appealed the decision to the Bologna court, which granted him a residency permit on humanitarian grounds late last month. According to a report from newspaper Il Giornale, the migrant admitted to setting a large part of his village on fire. He told judges that he had worked in the fields of his village after two years at an Islamic school, and one day he set dry grass on fire which spread to nearby houses due to heavy...

MERCED, Calif. - A troubled California university freshman who burst into a classroom in 2015, stabbing four people before police shot him dead, planned to praise Allah while slitting the throats of classmates and use a gun taken from an ambushed officer to kill more, according to records released by the FBI. Authorities determined that Faisal Mohammad, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of California, Merced had no connections to organized hate or terror groups and no past behavior to suggest violence. Still, records released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Daily Beast publication include a chilling, handwritten...

LE PECQ, France - Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam’s prophet, the government reported as the prime minister warned Saturday that Islamic extremists are recruiting in France with “ignorance and hate.” The children and their parents were detained and questioned for several hours Thursday by police in the Alpine town of Albertville, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Camille Chaize said. On Monday, when French schools held a nationwide minute of silence to honor the slain teacher, Samuel Paty, the children...

“President Macron faces a tough dilemma: stand firm and implement the measures he outlined with respect to radical Islamism in France, or reassess that policy," - int'l affairs expert. France has raised its security alert to the highest level following the horrific attack on October 29 in which a 21-year-old Tunisian shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice before he was shot and arrested by police. The attack came 13 days after Samuel Paty, a middle-school teacher in a Paris suburb, Conflas-Sainte-Honorine, was beheaded by an 18-year-old Muslim who was apparently...

Nikolaos Kakavelakis, the priest that was shot twice in Lyon and is fighting for his life in hospital, had been attacked by men of North African origin a few days ago. This shocking revelation was made to Euronews by Christos Koutsiouris, a board member of the Greek community of Lyon and for a number of years a chanter in the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, where Kakavelakis is a priest.“I do not know who committed this crime. What I do know is that last Sunday Father Nikolaos told me that he was jogging on the banks of the Rhône...

Former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly warned Sunday Americans should brace for more ISIS-inspired bloodbaths like last week’s Halloween truck attack in lower Manhattan. “This is the reality we are going to have to live with,” Kelly told John Catsimatidis in an interview on the “Cats Roundtable” radio show on 970 AM. “The terrorist attack on Halloween was terrible, but it is the type of thing that is so easy to do by these Islamic radicals that unfortunately we are going to see more of it.” Kelly decried the internet accessibility of materials that could inspire these sorts of attacks.

THE Grand Mufti of Australia has just proved that Pauline Hanson is right to feel threatened by Islam in this country. Ibrahim Abu Mohammad has written an astonishing letter warning that to criticise even a gay-hating imam is to risk inciting terrorist attacks against us. His inflammatory letter perfectly demonstrates why Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was a fool to hold an Iftar dinner for the Mufti and other troubling Muslim leaders during the election campaign. And Turnbull’s dinner — shown on all TV news bulletins — may explain why Hanson’s vote on Saturday was so high, helping her to win...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington. The video, which appeared on a site used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with news footage of the aftermath of Friday's Paris shootings in which at least 129 people were killed. The message to countries involved in what it called the "crusader campaign" was delivered by a man dressed in fatigues and a turban, and identified in subtitles as Al Ghareeb the Algerian....