Muslim convert

Police have confirmed that the man suspected of having killed five and injured two with a bow and arrow in Kongsberg, Norway, was a convert to Islam who had been flagged by authorities over radicalisation concerns before the attack.

Preacher Omar Mohamad was convicted of a hate crime after making homophobic remarks towards a white, gay convert to Islam at Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner in 2019.

A jailed far-right nail bomber who had said he wanted to start a “racial war” has allegedly converted to Islam in prison, reportedly asking to be called “Saddam” in admiration of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Two Islamic convert girls have been sentenced after being convicted of plotting to attack a police station in the city of Saint-Etienne. 

Arrested in 2017, Islamic radical convert Alain Feuillerat is set to be tried in a French court this week for preparing a terrorist attack on an airbase in Évreux.

Italian intelligence officials have claimed that kidnapped aid worker Silvia Romano is not only alive but was forced to convert to Islam and marry a Somalian man.

Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec is seeing a new trend of young non-Muslim people adopting Islamic customs and holidays.

A Muslim convert has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for plotting a van attack on crowds in London’s busy Oxford Street shopping district.

Chart-topping Irish musician Sinead O’Connor who scored a worldwide hit with her 1990 single “Nothing Compares 2 U” has undergone a public conversion from Catholicism to Islam, sharing her progress to the Twitter platform, reports The Irish Post.

A Muslim convert has pleaded guilty to plotting to massacre around 100 people in a terror attack outside the Disney Store in London’s most famous shopping district, Oxford Street.

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian prison inmate who killed four people while on furlough committed “terrorist murder” and likely intended to cause more harm, prosecutors said Wednesday as authorities searched for possible accomplices and the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bloodshed.

Khalid Masood came back from jail obsessed with Islam, neighbours have said, after serving two years for a brutal attack that he tried to blame on ‘racism’.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The trial of an Australian man charged with terrorism offenses in Bulgaria has been put on hold for three weeks after the court decided to hear testimony from additional witnesses.

A Muslim convert from Texas facing murder charges for killing a security guard in Colorado said he acted “solely for the pleasure of Allah,” but CBS4 in Denver told its viewers that the alleged killer’s motive “is still unclear.”

German protestant theologian said that ‘radical’ bible groups are a bigger threat to adolescents for radicalisation than Islamists, and downplayed the number of minors who have converted and left Germany to fight for Islamic State.

California Governor Jerry Brown will join county employees and invited guests in San Bernardino County on Monday for a private memorial service honoring the victims of the December 2 Islamic terror attacks.

Aspiring Islamic terrorist Enrique Marquez has been charged, as Americans receive more details of the San Bernardino terror attacker, Syed Rizwan Farook, who was Marquez’s friend. Since Farook was killed in a shootout following the December 2 attack, Marquez has been telling authorities of the terrorist group magazine Inspire and other materials the two studied and used to plan major explosive attacks in the United States.

A British Christian man has been attacked on the streets of Bradford, England, by men wielding a pickaxe handle – because he converted from Islam to Christianity over a decade ago. The attack is the latest incident in a long

Billal Kidd­ Mujahideen and his brother briefly became the most wanted men the UK last week, following a gruesome acid attack on a mother of six. More than a week after Billal’s religious affiliations were exposed, however, the BBC and most

Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claims that the two hostages who were killed in a U.S. drone strike in January, one American and one Italian, converted to Islam prior to their death, reports a jihadist activity monitor group.