France: Teacher attacked for calling al-Qaeda terrorists The student is of North African origin. ( NL )  A 15-year-old French schoolboy sprayed a teacher with teargas after she described al-Qaeda as a “terrorist group”, she told reporters on Tuesday as prosecutors began their investigation. “I had just explained that the attacks on September 11, 2001 were carried out by the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, as is written in the text book,” said the history teacher, speaking on condition of anonymity

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Russia: Kremlin supports plan to form higher coordinating Muslim council The Kremlin’s chief domestic policy advisor Alexey Grishin has put his support behind plans to set up a higher Muslim coordinating council in Russia. “This form will help deal with the Muslim community’s most important problems on the basis of consensus, make joint statements and pass mufti’s fatwas (edicts), and organize effective ties with the government,” Grishin told the 4th congress of Tatarstan Muslims in Kazan on Saturday

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Russia: Muslims set up Supreme Coordinating Council Representatives of three centralized Islamic organizations of Russia agreed to establish the Supreme Coordinating Council of Russian Muslims. Representatives of the Central Muslim Board of Russia, the Council of Muftis of Russia and Coordinating Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus at the session of joint working group in Moscow chaired by Petersburg Mufti Jafar Ponchayev unanimously supported CMBR head Talgat Tajuddin as he proposed setting up the Supreme Coordination Council of Russian Muslims without forming a legal entity, an Interfax-Religion correspondent reports. “Recognizing absolute necessity to unite Muslim Ummah (community – IF), the working group considers inacceptable and impossible to set up a one religious Muslim organization at the present moment,” the working group said in its statement conveyed to journalists

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Leeds: Social housing org builds community links through sports West North West Homes Leeds (WNWHL) has launched a community cohesion project to build links with the Asian community in the Armley area of Leeds.

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Milan: Riots ensue after Egyptian stabbed to death According to Corriere Della Sera (IT), Hamed Mamoud El Fayed Adou (19) was stabbed to death by South Americans while he was with two others on a bus.

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Antwerp: 56% of children of immigrant origin About half the children up to age 9 in the city of Antwerp are of immigrant origin, according to new data from the municipality (municipal research department). The research department used a method in which the ethnic background of Antwerp residents of immigrant origin who were born in Belgian and have Belgian citizenship was also taken into account

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Russia: Police kill ‘the Sword of Islam’ A militant shot dead by police in the south Russian republic of Dagestan was one of the co-founders of al-Qaeda in the North Caucasus, a security service spokesman said on Wednesday.

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Germany: Three arrested in nation-wide raids for terrorist recruitment German police have arrested three people they suspect recruited Islamists to fight abroad in a nationwide swoop in which documents and computer hardware were also seized. Some 300 police participated in raids of 43 premises in the German states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, prosecutors in the southern city of Stuttgart said. They believe the suspects, aged 24 to 59, ran recruitment networks that sent over 100 Islamists to fight on foreign battlefields.

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Manchester: Film shows children taught to be Jihadis Interestingly enough, the incitement to 'kill the Jews' did not make it into the BBC article. —————– Counter-terrorism police say their discovery of a film of children being encouraged to hold guns is evidence of attempts to radicalise youngsters

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France: 57% of Muslims regularly buy halal The idea that supply drives demand may sound counter-intuitive, but as far as religious matters go, that is certainly true for the Jewish community.

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