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Lauren Irwin and The Hill 45 mins ago (The Hill) — Eight people in the U.S. with suspected ties to the Islamic State have been detained, according to reports. The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles and the individuals entered the country through the southern border, anonymous sources told The Associated Press. They had been vetted by law enforcement upon their entry, sources said, and there was no indication of their ties to the Islamic State at the time. Their connection to the Islamic State group is not immediately clear but the individuals were being tracked…
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THE city council is working with local Muslim charities, Leicester Community Assist (LCA) and Eid Prayer and Festival (EPF) to put on this year’s Eid-al-Adha Prayer & Festival event, which will take place on Victoria Park for the 10th year running. The event started on the park in 2014, when it was attended by around 2,500 people. This year more than 30,000 people are expected to take part. Leicester City Council’s festival team has for many years supported two Eid festivals on the park: Eid-ul-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan, and Eid-ul-Adha, marking the pilgrimage season, which follows around two…
A distinguished University of Wisconsin Oshkosh professor of teaching and learning has added to his recent Board of Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award, with another honor. Donald Hones The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of UWO Prof. Donald Hones for a 3-month English language specialist project focusing on public policy in Yemen. Hones is part of a select group. His project is one of approximately 240 that the English Language Specialist Program supports each year. The project runs from Dec. 1 through Feb. 28 and beginning in January, Hones will provide three hours of virtual workshops to participants in…
Qatar Insurance Group has celebrated the graduation of the ninth cohort of the national programme, ‘Kawader Malia’, which it has sponsored for three years as part of its corporate social responsibility and commitment to developing the human capital in Qatar.This year, 75 students graduated from the programme, bringing the total number of alumni to 324 since its launch in 2013. The event was attended by several dignitaries and senior executives from the banking and financial sector, as well as representatives from Qatar Finance and Business Academy, the organiser of the programme in collaboration with Qatar Central Bank (QCB) and other…
Eight individuals from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States, including Pennsylvania, in recent days. WASHINGTON — Eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States in recent days, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles and the individuals, who entered the U.S. through the southern border, are being held on immigration violations, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation by name and spoke…
Eight people with suspected ties to the Islamic State have been arrested in the United States.The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, and the individuals entered the country through the southern border, anonymous sources told The Associated Press.Their connections to the Islamic State group were not immediately clear, but the individuals were being tracked by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was working with the task force and made the arrests and is working to remove the individuals from the country.The individuals were from Tajikistan and passed through the U.S. government’s…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A Kentucky man has been convicted in federal court of leaving the U.S. to train and fight with the Islamic State group in Syria a decade ago. Kentucky man convicted of training with Islamic State group in Syria {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} A jury in Bowling Green convicted Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 34, of multiple counts of supporting and receiving military-type training from the Islamic State group, which the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The jury returned the verdict on Tuesday, according to a media release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Now…
Lauren Irwin and The Hill 12 mins ago (The Hill) — Eight people in the U.S. with suspected ties to the Islamic State have been detained, according to reports. The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles and the individuals entered the country through the southern border, anonymous sources told The Associated Press. They had been vetted by law enforcement upon their entry, sources said, and there was no indication of their ties to the Islamic State at the time. Their connection to the Islamic State group is not immediately clear but the individuals were being tracked…
By ERIC TUCKER and REBECCA SANTANA – Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States in recent days, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles and the individuals, who entered the U.S. through the southern border, are being held on immigration violations, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation by name and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.The nature of their suspected connections to the…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to three alleged members of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), noting they had conspired to transform India into an Islamic country by 2047.A division bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Shyam Chandak rejected the bail pleas of the trio — Razi Ahmed Khan, Unais Umar Khaiyyam Patel and Kayyum Abdul Shaikh — and observed there was prima facie evidence against them.They are accused of being members of the Popular Front of India (PFI), banned by the Centre in 2022, and indulging in conspiracy acts against the Government…
Lauren Irwin and The Hill 35 mins ago (The Hill) — Eight people in the U.S. with suspected ties to the Islamic State have been detained, according to reports. The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles and the individuals entered the country through the southern border, anonymous sources told The Associated Press. They had been vetted by law enforcement upon their entry, sources said, and there was no indication of their ties to the Islamic State at the time. Their connection to the Islamic State group is not immediately clear but the individuals were being tracked…
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(The Hill) — Eight people in the U.S. with suspected ties to the Islamic State have been detained, according to reports. The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles and the individuals entered the country through the southern border, anonymous sources told The Associated Press. They had been vetted by law enforcement upon their entry, sources said, and there was no indication of their ties to the Islamic State at the time. Their connection to the Islamic State group is not immediately clear but the individuals were being tracked by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).…
Image caption, Keith Mason played for Huddersfield, Castleford, St Helens and Wakefield before he retired in 2013Article informationAuthor, Julia BrysonRole, BBC News11 June 2024A former rugby league player who was standing as a parliamentary candidate in West Yorkshire has been sacked by his party over “anti-Islamic” tweets. Keith Mason was due to represent The Workers Party of Britain, led by George Galloway, in Wakefield and Rothwell on 4 July in the general election. Mr Galloway confirmed he had sacked the former prop for the messages, with Mr Mason issuing an apology. “I absolutely 100% respect all my Muslim brothers and…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams condemned the flying of flags of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) at a left-wing pro-Hamas rally in the city this week but declined to take any specific action.“In this country, we must always protect the right to free speech, but I have a moral obligation to speak out when the messages that some New Yorkers are sharing go beyond the pale,” Adams said in a video posted to X. “Yesterday, outside an exhibit and lower Manhattan commemorating those massacred at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, protesters waved Hezbollah [and] Hamas flags.”“At other…
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Wednesday, June 12, 2024Screenshot of a video released by the Islamic State West Africa Province showing the killings of five kidnapped Nigerian Christians. | Intersociety Islamic State West Africa Province, an extremist faction, has executed three Christian men in Nigeria’s Borno State, according to images that have surfaced on social media shared by the terror group through its propaganda outlet.The images, shared by the Islamic State group or ISIS, from which ISWAP splintered, through its propaganda outlet Amaq News Agency, depicted the victims kneeling with their arms tied behind their backs in front of…
Violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, according to a new UN report.The annual report on Children in Armed Conflict, obtained on Tuesday by The Associated Press, reported “a shocking 21% increase in grave violations” against children under the age of 18 in an array of conflicts, from Israel and the Palestinian territories to Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine, also citing Congo, Burkina Faso, Somalia and Syria.For the first time, the UN report put Israeli forces on its blacklist of countries that violate children’s…
Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) announced on Tuesday evening that they had delivered a response to the Israeli proposal to a hostage deal during a meeting with the Prime Minister of Qatar, KAN reported on Tuesday.Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri, who is based outside Gaza, said it accepted the ceasefire resolution and was ready to negotiate over the specifics.The terror organizations expressed “readiness to positively” reach a deal to end the war in Gaza in a joint statement on Tuesday. They added that they submitted their response to the proposed Gaza ceasefire deal to Qatari and…
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The groups’ joint statement emphasized a cessation of Israeli aggression and a focus on Palestinian interests in Gaza. “A joint delegation from Hamas and Islamic Jihad delivered the response of the resistance factions this evening to the Qatari brothers during a meeting with the Qatari Prime Minister, and the response was also sent to the Egyptian brothers,” read the Tuesday statement. Sources close to the Palestinian factions revealed proposed amendments to the ceasefire offer, advocating for a definitive timeline towards a lasting ceasefire and demanding the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip. Highlighting their priorities, the…
Islamic Relief’s Senior Policy Advisor for Poverty Reduction, Jamie Williams, has penned his latest blog from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. Islamic Relief has been leading the charge to ensure that help reaches the victims of loss and damage due to extreme weather events caused by climate change. We all understand that this involves funding to rebuild and recover devastated economies. For instance, after the massive floods in Pakistan in 2022, we estimated the damage at a minimum of $30 billion (£23 billion) in infrastructure and economic losses. This disaster affected 33 million people, submerged a…
The University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore has dismissed Hafiz Muhammad Shehbaz from his role as chairman of the Islamic Studies department. This decision was made in response to serious allegations of hate speech against minorities and the leaking of a PhD examination paper. The UET syndicate, led by Vice-Chancellor Dr Nasir Hayat, made the call during a recent meeting. The allegations were raised by Dr Tanveer Qasim, a fellow department member, who accused Shehbaz of making inflammatory remarks and leaking the exam paper. Upon reviewing the evidence, including a video of the hate speech, the syndicate concluded that…
PATTANI: Islamic leaders in Southern Thailand have urged the delegation of Ambassadors from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries to Southern Thailand, specifically Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat, to establish a peace policy for Islamic nations to resolve conflicts in other Muslim-majority countries. The President of the Islamic Council of Pattani province, Abdul Rahman Mat Mincik, stated that the peace policy should include a resolution and a pathway to achieving peace. “For example, the conflict involving the Islamic separatists in Southern Thailand has never been fully resolved and occurs seasonally. “We hope that the OIC’s visit to Southern Thailand will…
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Wednesday, June 12, 2024Unsplash/Nico SmitRICHMOND, Va. – A Muslim Somalian refugee who later became a Christian missionary has stressed the need for churches to do more to evangelize the United States’ growing Islamic population.Osman Jama of the group Mission to North America’s Refugee and Immigrant Ministry, was one of two speakers at a seminar held Tuesday afternoon at the Presbyterian Church in America’s 51st General Assembly.Titled “From Islam to Christian Ministries: Journeys of Two PCA Men,” the seminar featured Jama talking about his Islamic upbringing and how he came to Christ in 2007 while…