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Police in Britain have finally gotten around to investigating a number of Islamist death threats made against a boy linked to a damaged Quran.

Four pupils have been suspended from a high school in the UK after a Quran they purchased was said to have sustained a small tear.

Yasin Kanjaa, a radical Muslim accused of murdering one and injuring several others after attacks in two churches in Spain, has claimed he sees “devils” as authorities look into the state of his mental health.

Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, censored an art exhibit featuring the work of an Iranian-American woman with a content warning and curtains after Muslim students complained. The college described its censorship by saying it “prepared the gallery to prevent unintentional or non-consensual viewing of certain works and added a content warning.”

Police in the Swedish city of Stockholm have imposed an indefinite ban on granting permission for protests involving the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an, supposedly due to concerns over threats to Swedish security.

A group of hackers linked to Sudan took credit for denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the websites of Swedish rail companies in revenge for burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

A mob estimated to have attracted over 800 people stormed a police station in Punjab, Pakistan, this weekend, breached the building through a hole in the roof, and extracted a man arrested for allegedly committing blasphemy, beating him to death in public.

The Finnish president said in an interview published Saturday that he trusts that Finland and Sweden will be admitted into NATO by July, and hinted that he wants the United States to put pressure on Turkey to approve their membership bids.

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt has criticised Swedish police in Stockholm for allowing Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan to carry out the burning of the Qur’an. Bildt, who served as Swedish Prime Minister from 1991 to 1994 and later

Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since a radical Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by a decades-old Iranian fatwa left him near death.

Populist Reconquest MEP Nicolas Bay has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity after allegations of “hate speech” over criticism of a mosque development in northern France.

Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson slammed a Muslim-led disinformation campaign that has claimed Swedish social services are kidnapping children from Muslim parents.

Norwegian authorities cancelled a Qur’an burning protest that was set to take place on Friday after Turkish officials summoned the Norwegian ambassador in Ankara.

The government of Milan has announced it will be clearing an area long squatted by illegal African migrants – in order to transform the site into a new mosque and Islamic centre.

Reports circulating this week that Visit Saudi, the official tourism board of Saudi Arabia, would sponsor the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup prompted an eruption of outrage in the soccer world and a loud protest on Wednesday by host nations Australia and New Zealand that they were not involved in the approval process.

Imams who granted temporary marriages to Muslims hiring prostitutes have been sacked from their roles after being exposed. 

The Russian government’s embassy in Denmark has condemned protests in the Scandinavian country that saw the Qur’an burned, declaring the “mockery” of Islam should not be covered by the freedom of expression.

Prime Minister Trudeau has appointed a former member of an Antifa-aligned anti-hate group to a government position to fight Islamophobia. 

A Sweden Democrats MP commented on the burning of a copy of the Qur’an, stating the reaction from the Islamic world has been unreasonable. 

An art instructor is suing Hamline University for not renewing her contract after she showed a medieval depiction of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in class. Incredibly, the university’s response to student complaints was that “respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.”

Several churchmen were stabbed in attacks, allegedly by a Moroccan, in two churches in Spain leaving one dead and others seriously injured.

Sweden closed its embassy in Turkey after protests spread across Muslim countries in the wake of a Qur’an burning in Stockholm last weekend.

Pope Francis offered condolences and prayers Tuesday to the victims and families of a lethal bombing by the Islamic State on a Christian church in eastern Congo that took the lives of at least 14 people and injured more than 60.

More than 1,000 supporters of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) have sent letters to Hamline University protesting the school’s decision to fire an art professor who showed an image of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in class.

Parents in Toronto expressed shock after receiving an email from an elementary school principal that contained the flag of the Islamic State terrorist group.

A group of Turkish background people in the French department of Essonne are accused of beheading animals in a home to ward off “demons” on Christmas Day, with one man arrested.

In what is being touted as a historic case, a Swedish court has convicted a female Islamic State member for human trafficking and facilitating the rape of children in Iraq and Syria.

A delegation of dozens of alleged Islamic “scholars” representing 14 Muslim countries as part of the World Muslim Communities Council arrived in occupied East Turkistan on Sunday, and remain there at press time, for a Chinese regime-organized tour to endorse the Communist Party’s genocide of Muslims there.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Islam’s annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia will return to pre-pandemic levels this year after restrictions saw the annual religious commemoration curtailed over concerns about the coronavirus, authorities say.

BERLIN (AP) – German investigators on Monday searched two garages used by an Iranian man arrested on suspicion that he could be planning an attack with deadly chemicals.

An Islamic hate preacher reportedly called for Muslims to target British troops in response to the claimed war kill count of Prince Harry.

BERLIN (AP) – A 32-year-old Iranian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack with deadly chemicals, officials said Sunday.

The website for French magazine Charlie Hebdo was reportedly hacked in the wake of publishing cartoons mocking the Islamist regime in Iran.

A man who was praised for cleaning after last year’s Easter Qur’an riots by Swedish media has been arrested after being accused of rioting. 

Pope Benedict XVI, laid to rest at the Vatican on Thursday, stirred controversy early in his pontificate by quoting a Byzantine emperor critical of Islam.

Pope Benedict XVI warned in a 2006 book that “Western self-hatred” had become “pathological”, and that the decline of marriage, the family, and depopulation could be the death knell for European identity.