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Social Media Algorithms Promote Far Right & Islamist Groups in the UK
April 14, 2017 By Faith Matters

Social Media Algorithms Promote Far Right & Islamist Groups in the UK

The Times has just completed a detailed investigation into the way that advertising and pay per view clicks fund extremist and other content on the Internet and in the last few days they have also highlighted how child pornography and other activity, including the promotion of extremist material, has taken place inadvertently through the algorithm systems […]

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Germany supports group behind Turkish coup attempt – Erdogan spokesman
March 19, 2017 By Faith Matters

Germany supports group behind Turkish coup attempt – Erdogan spokesman

Turkey on Sunday accused Germany of supporting the network of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric it blames for last year’s attempted coup, comments likely to aggravate a diplomatic feud between the two countries. Germany and Turkey have been locked in a deepening row after Berlin banned some Turkish ministers from speaking to rallies of expatriate Turks […]

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Casey Report Findings Will Take a Wide Look At Integration Issues
October 27, 2016 By Faith Matters

Casey Report Findings Will Take a Wide Look At Integration Issues

The Louise Casey review of the state of integration within communities in the United Kingdom may well be launched soon and in the coming months. The Government’s Integration Czar, she has taken a measured, yet honest view based on hard evidence of what is impacting on communities in the United Kingdom. Some of the focus […]

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Islamist group bombs Somali restaurant, at least three dead
October 1, 2016 By Faith Matters

Islamist group bombs Somali restaurant, at least three dead

Somali Islamist group al Shabaab bombed a restaurant frequented by members of the security forces in Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least three people, officials and the group said. Police said a suicide car bomb rammed the Blue Sky restaurant in the capital, which is located near a detention centre, known as Jilaow, where militants […]

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Islamist rebel gets 9 years imprisonment for Timbuktu destruction
September 28, 2016 By Faith Matters

Islamist rebel gets 9 years imprisonment for Timbuktu destruction

War crimes judges on Tuesday sentenced a former Islamist rebel who admitted wrecking holy shrines during Mali’s 2012 conflict to nine years in prison, in the first such case to focus on destruction of cultural heritage. Human rights groups and international legal experts hope Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi’s case in the International Criminal Court may serve […]

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Sister of French militants put under formal investigation
September 24, 2016 By Faith Matters

Sister of French militants put under formal investigation

The sister of French Islamist militants Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain was put under formal investigation for criminal association in relation to a terrorist undertaking and remanded in custody on Saturday, a judicial source said. Anne-Diana Clain, born in 1975, was arrested Tuesday night at Roissy international airport near Paris along with her partner, who had […]

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Police hold two after car with gas cylinders found in Paris
September 7, 2016 By Faith Matters

Police hold two after car with gas cylinders found in Paris

A car, whose owner is on an intelligence services watchlist of people suspected of religious radicalisation, was discovered near Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Saturday night with seven gas cylinders inside, police and judicial officials said on Wednesday. The car owner was taken into custody but later released, one judicial official said. A couple, aged […]

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Bangladesh hangs Islamist party figure for 1971 war crimes
September 3, 2016 By Faith Matters

Bangladesh hangs Islamist party figure for 1971 war crimes

Bangladesh has hanged a top Islamist party figure for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, the law minister said on Saturday. Mir Quasem Ali, 63, a key financier of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed at Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of the capital, for murder, confinement, torture and incitement to […]

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Australia unveils “how-to” guide to fight militant propaganda
August 29, 2016 By Faith Matters

Australia unveils “how-to” guide to fight militant propaganda

Australia on Tuesday released what the government says is the world’s first ever how-to-guide for combating radical Islamist propaganda in Southeast Asia, which it hopes will help disrupt local recruitment efforts by groups such as Islamic State. Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown Islamist radicals since 2014 […]

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Relative of Charlie Hebdo attacker investigated for Islamist ties
August 27, 2016 By Faith Matters

Relative of Charlie Hebdo attacker investigated for Islamist ties

A relative of one of the militants who attacked French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015 has been put under formal investigation for Islamist ties and remanded in custody, a judicial source said on Saturday. The source said Mourad Hamyd was suspected of trying to travel to Syria to join Islamic State. […]

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