In March, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warned that “the spread of Islamist ideology, in some cases led by individuals and organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood” poses a threat as it seeks to establish “an Islamist caliphate which governs based on Sharia.” Gabbard went on to say that “there are increasing examples of this in various European countries.”
A Montrealer with past links to al-Qaida who was arrested last year pleaded guilty on Friday to making terrorist threats, including a claim made at a homeless shelter that he wanted to build bombs to “kill a million people.”
An Austrian court has sentenced a 24-year-old Syrian Kurd refugee to life in prison for a knife attack that killed a teenage boy and injured five other people in southern Austria. The court found him guilty of murder, five counts of attempted murder, and terrorist offences following the incident in Villach on February 15th, 2025.
Two Minnesota fraudsters allegedly swindled more than $21 million in funding earmarked for autism services through two bogus companies and then spent it lavishly on overseas property, officials said.
Shamso Ahmed Hassan, 55, and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf, 25, whose mugshots were released on Wednesday, made off like bandits by submitting millions of dollars in fake claims to Minnesota’s Early Intensive Development and Behavioral Intervention Program [EIDBI] between May 2020 and December 2024, authorities said.
Man arrested after three injured in stabbing at Swiss train station
Checks all the boxes.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/hMl1wh7YKq
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) May 28, 2026
BREAKING:
The terrorist who stabbed 3 people today near a train station in Winterthur, Switzerland turns out to be the 31-year-old Turkish man Nesip Dedeler.
He has had Swiss citizenship since 2009 and has been under police surveillance since 2015 for supporting ISIS.
May 25th… pic.twitter.com/SHYIPuFAbX
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 28, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
On May 18 in Toronto, at a Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) convention, a youth session titled “Visionaries of the Ummah: Youth Activism Lab” encouraged high school and university students to consider how they could help revive the ummah — the global community of Muslims united by faith beyond borders. During the session, Canadian-Egyptian activist Khaled Al-Qazzaz praised the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and at least one person publicly, likely more, shared their desire that the community they work toward be “Jew free.”
A woman with links to the Islamic State group who returned to Australia from Syria last year has been charged with being a member of a terrorist organisation and entering a declared conflict zone, police have said.
The 34-year-old arrived in Australia in September along with another woman, police said, and was to appear in a Melbourne court on Thursday.
The announcement comes after two groups of women and children arrived in Australia this month after spending years in the al-Roj camp in north-east Syria where families of IS fighters have been held since 2019.
STIRLING, Scotland (LifeSiteNews) — A video clip has gone viral showing a young boy refusing to bow to Allah during a Beaver Scouts trip to a Stirling, Scotland, mosque as the rest of his troop and adult troop leader followed instructions and fell to their knees.
Reform UK councillors in Birmingham have called for council meetings to be conducted only in English after an Islamic prayer was read aloud in Arabic during a mayoral ceremony in the city.
Newly-appointed Lord Mayor Zaker Choudhry invited imam Muhammad Abdali to recite a verse from the Koran in Arabic as he was sworn in. The verse was later repeated in English.
Several people have been stabbed by a man wielding a knife at a Swiss train station.
Police cordoned off the area of the attack at the Winterthur station, 12 miles outside of Zurich.
At least four people were stabbed by the man wielding a knife who witnesses said was shouting Allahu Akbar, according to local reports.
In March, Australia’s ruling Labor regime censured Senator Pauline Hanson for opposing bringing ISIS members to Australia. According to the senate censure resolution, Hanson’s “inflammatory and divisive comments seeking to vilify Muslim Australians, which do not reflect the opinions of the Australian Senate or the Australian people” who are supposed to love ISIS.
The arrest of a 22-year-old man in Italy suggests Europe’s terror threat extends well beyond that posed by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Police in Reggio Emilia and Bologna on Monday arrested an Italian man of Moroccan origins, who judicial sources told reporters is accused of recruiting for the purpose of terrorism, including international terrorism.
Investigators discovered that the man had alleged motives to attack people with a knife. He had been in contact with a man believed to be a supporter of the ISIS Islamic terror group, who had offered training and funding.
HUGO Micheron is a French political scientist: a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Institute for Transregional Studies, whose work focuses on the evolution of jihadism in Europe. In particular, he has examined how jihad took root and flourished in specific locations in Europe, where it was propagated by veterans of the Soviet-Afghan war and refugees from training camps for the Afghan resistance in Peshawar after these were shut down by the Pakistan government in 1992. Wherever these activists settled in Europe, hotbeds of extremist preaching sprang up, imparting their zeal to new generations reared in exile. These breeding grounds of jihad cross-fertilised, forming networks across north-western Europe while maintaining contact with the Middle East.
The deadly shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD), a.k.a. Masjid Abu Bakr, has once again placed the mosque in the national spotlight. Authorities say the attack, which left three people dead, is being investigated as a ‘hate crime.’ The incident unsettled the San Diego community and prompted widespread condemnation from public officials and religious leaders alike.
But while the recent violence has generated sympathy and headlines, ICSD has long carried a controversial history that stretches back decades – including connections to 9/11 hijackers, terrorist financiers, and radical figures tied to some of the deadliest acts of terrorism ever committed on American soil.
Baroness Casey of Blackstock has said she feels personally responsible for failing grooming-gang victims.
The crossbench peer, who first investigated allegations of child sexual abuse in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, a decade ago, said she had grown increasingly frustrated at the pace of change.
Speaking at the Hay Festival on Sunday, she said: “When last year, grooming gangs hit national headlines again… I was very disappointed.
