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• Counter terrorism threatened by mistreatment of Muslims, says report

  7 April 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  In a 23-page report published last week, a UN rapporteur has warned that measures to combat terrorism in Britain could be undermined because of discrimination against Muslims. But the report warns that Muslims in particular face screening, searches, interrogation and arrest. Citing research that showed that 80 per cent of Muslims in Britain feel they have been discriminated against, the report singles out the Terrorism Act 200 for particular criticism.

• Spain court convicts 20 radicals of terrorism charges

  4 April 2008, by News Agencies
  A judge in Madrid’s National Court acquitted 20 Islamic terror suspects of the most serious charges in an alleged plot, but convicted them of lesser offences. The court found 18 of 20 suspects guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization, and convicted two others of collaborating in the alleged plot to blow up a court, revealed in late 2004.

• Judge says Al Qaeda suspects unfit for trial

  4 April 2008, by News Agencies
  Spain has dropped the extradition of two British residents formerly held as terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay. High Court judge Baltasar Garzon shelved the case of two inmates in after medical reports from British authorities declared them to be unfit to stand trial after suffering years of abuse and torture, according to their lawyers.

• Dutch raise terror threat alert over anti-Islam film

  3 April 2008, by News Agencies
  On Thursday, the Netherlands raised its national risk level of a terrorist attack to «substantial,» ahead of the launch of a film by right-wing politician Geert Wilders. In a report to the Dutch parliament, he Dutch counter-terrorism agency said that the assessment was also influenced by increased arrests and threats of individuals and groups suspected of associating with, planning, or carrying out terrorist attacks in Europe.

• Berlin Exhibition Closes after Muslim Threats

  3 April 2008, by Spiegel Online
  A Berlin gallery has closed an exhibition of satirical art by the controversial Danish group Surrend after receiving threats from a group of Muslims. The men were objecting to a picture of the Kaaba at Mecca under the title «Dumb Stone.» Eighteen months ago, the severed head of Muhammad was enough to get an opera temporarily cancelled in Berlin. This time around, it’s an irreverent image of the Kaaba in Mecca that has caused an exhibition in the German capital to shut its doors.

• Belliraj suspected of more terror attacks

  3 April 2008, by De Morgen
  A delegation of American CIA and FBI agents were in Morocco to examine the terrorist network of Belgian-Moroccan terrorist and informant Abdelkader Belliraj. US interest in Belliraj is based on a connection between him and al-Qaeda and Hezbollah. Meanwhile, the Belgian police delegation has returned from Morocco and convinced of Belliraj’s significance in the network, and may be responsible for more incidents of terrorism than initially presumed.

• Defendants deny all charges in Austrian Islamist terror case

  2 April 2008, by Earth Times
  Cultures clashed at Vienna’s provincial court on Monday, as judges heard Austria’s first-ever case of alleged Islamist terrorism and banned one defendant for refusing to remove her burka. Two defendants, Mohamed M. and Mona S., aged 22 and 21, face charges of membership in a terrorist organization, having allegedly planned bomb attacks in Austria during the upcoming European football tournament, on European politicians and producing an Islamist threat video distributed on the internet. Prosecutors accused Mohamed M. of membership of «al-Qaeda, or respectively other internationally active Islamist terrorist networks», spreading their terrorist ideology and goals in the German-speaking world.

• Austrian court adjourns Islamist threat video trial till March 12

  2 April 2008, by Earth Times
  Court proceedings in the trial against the alleged producers of an al-Qaeda-promoting threat video, billed Austria’s first case of Islamist terrorism, were adjourned on Thursday until March 12. Two defendants, Mohamed M. and his wife Mona S., aged 22 and 21, face charges of membership in a terrorist organization, having allegedly planned bomb attacks in Austria during the upcoming European football tournament and against European politicians, and producing an Islamist threat video distributed on the internet.

• Europe alert to triple terror threat


  1 April 2008, by Asia Times
  Last November, Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union’s anti-terror chief, said that al-Qaeda was the biggest threat to Europe. To confirm this, Western intelligence services have recently established operational links between al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and al-Qaeda in The Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) whose goals include striking at the heart of Europe. Al-Qaeda has not made any secret of its eagerness to target Europe.

• Politics in the age of terror

  9 mars 2008, par Government and Opposition
  Le monde a connu entre 1989 et 2001 une période où personne n’osait défier les vainqueurs de la guerre froide. Cette parenthèse pacifique est achevée et nous sommes désormais entrés dans ce que certains auteurs ont appelé l’ »âge de la terreur ». Quels sont les effets de cette nouvelle grande peur sur les Etats, essentiellement européens, surtout après que le terrorisme ait touché Londres et Madrid et plus seulement des terres lointaines ?

• Constructing enemies : « islamic terrorism » in political and academic discourse

  7 mars 2008, par Jackson Richard
  Comment le discours sur le « terrorisme islamique » a été progressivement construit dans les pays européens et aux Etats-Unis. Analyse de l’arrière-fond idéologique qui sous-tend cette notion : stéréotypes sur l’Orient et sa prétendue coupure radicale d’avec l’Occident, sur la religion musulmane, idée de la guerre entre les civilisations, assimilation d’Al Qaida et du fascisme (la lutte contre Ben Laden est comparable à celle des Alliés contre Hitler). Les élites occidentales utilisent ce discours pour maintenir leur domination sur le monde.

• Minorities and the media

  19 février 2008, par Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs
  Dossier sur la représentation des musulmans et de l’islam véhiculée par les médias en Grande-Bretagne, en France et en Australie.

• Les mutations de l’islamisme en France : : portrait de l’UOIF, porte-parole de l’« islamisme de minorité »

  12 février 2008, par Amghar Samir
  Peu ou mal connue, l’Union des organisations islamiques de France est pourtant un des acteurs clés du paysage musulman français. Depuis sa fondation il y a plus de vingt ans, elle a substitué le militantisme associatif aux objectifs explicitement politiques, mais aussi bien la conception orthodoxe de la foi que les liens avec l’islam mondial restent au coeur de sa stratégie. L’OUIF veut ré-islamiser les musulmans français tout en adaptant la pratique religieuse au contexte diasporique.

• Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge in Europe

  5 February 2008, by Coolsaet Rik
  In early 2003 Egmont-Royal Institute for International Relations organised a major international conference in Brussels on international terrorism, under the heading ‘Root Causes of International Terrorism’. At that moment the very notion that there existed underlying forces that shaped the context and causes that led to 9/11 looked self-evident to academics, but was still very much a taboo concept in policy circles.

• Condemned imam in Milan

  24 December 2007, by Petti Gabriella
  Abu IMAD was found guilty for delinquency association aggravated by conspiracy for terrorism. Other 10 defendants recognized responsible for the same offence. Milan, the imam of Jenner avenue sentenced to 3 years and 8 months

• Muslim radicalism ‘on the rise’ survey finds

  13 November 2007, by Adnkronos
  A new poll shows that half of Italians believe that Islamic extremism is growing in their country and over 50% believe it to be an increasing worldwide threat. Most Italians believe that immigrants do not want to integrate, while less than one third blame the lack of Italian integrative infrastructure.

• East London Muslims Caged Guantanamo-Style

  13 November 2007, by The Muslim Weekly
  Two British Muslims are being locked-up in a cage, chained and hooded for 6 days and nights without basic amenities and comfort in a busy traffic junction corner on the Whitechapel Road (East London). Hidden Detainees, the organisers behind the event, hope to recreate the barbaric conditions of the Guantanamo Bay (Camp X-Ray) camp in Cuba, where over 775 suspects from around the world were illegally held as part of America’s ‘War on Terror’.

• Terror suspect ‘taunted police’

  13 November 2007, by The Telegraph
  Mohammed Hamid, 50, was allegedly overheard by an undercover police officer as they drove past Paddington Green high security police station.

• Man admits encouraging terror attacks

  12 November 2007, by The Guardian
  A man today admitted soliciting murder in connection with an alleged plot to organise terrorist training camps across the UK.

• Austrian Extreme-Right Starts a New Debate on «Creeping Islamization»

  12 November 2007, by Die Presse
  The Austrian extreme-Right Freedom Party (FPÖ) tried to initiate the threat of a «creeping Islamization» into a Parliament debate. In June, the Freedom Party, joined by the second extreme-Right Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) had already initiated a parliamentary debate about the threat mosques and minarets posed to the «ambience» of Austrian towns which needed to be protected against «the danger of creeping Islamisation».

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