Pamir Hakimzadah was charged with terrorism in April 2017 following what the RCMP called an “extensive” national security investigation. He pleaded guilty in February 2019. The 30-year-old, who allegedly told a witness that “all non-Muslims should be KILLED” must now serve three years on probation, during which time he must participate in de-radicalization. Read more
An Islamic Mosque, funded and owned by a hardline, “fundamentalist” Saudi Arabian cleric, opened in the Nice just two weeks before the Southern French city was struck by a deadly terror attack. Read more
Three suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up in the main international airport in Istanbul on Tuesday, killing at least 36 and wounding at least 147. Read more
Imam Abdullah Hakim Quick was at a banquet, surrounded by mayors, police chiefs and dignitaries, celebrating 26 years of the Canadian Council of Imams when he learned Islamic State was calling for his murder. Read more
The nonprofit Investigative Project on Terrorism found that an average of nearly 30,000 people per year have been killed by terrorists since 2010, when terrorism’s death toll was 3,284. Read more
“Whenever a force is recruiting children to conduct its operations, you can expect that force to move to the extremes of mass atrocities,” Dallaire stated. Read more
“We are faced by a more dangerous threat from so-called Islamic State,” Europol chief Rob Wainwright told the BBC, The Washington Post reports. “It threatens not just France and Belgium but a number of European countries at the same time.” Read more
“What is happening in Iraq and Syria is a deliberate, systematic targeting of religious and ethnic minorities. Today, the House unanimously voted to call ISIS’s atrocities what they are: a genocide. Read more
Manuel Valls said he wanted to be honest with the public and tell them to expect more attacks like the ones carried out by the terror group, also known as Daesh, in France in 2015. Read more
“ISIL would like us to see them as a credible threat to our way of life… we know Canada is stronger, much stronger than the threat posed by a murderous gang of thugs…”
Europe’s top police agency issued a stark warning Monday: Islamic State extremists will keep attempting lethal attacks on soft targets in Europe as the militant group increasingly goes global. Read more
They threaten more attacks in Europe, and the footage closes with one of the militants holding a severed head and footage of Cameron giving a speech — with a text in English warning that whoever stands with the unbelievers “will be a target for our swords.” Read more