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by Abigail R. Esman • October 16, 2017 •
Special to IPT News  
For
months now, Western counterterrorism experts have sounded the alarm: as
ISIS loses ground, foreign fighters from America and Europe may try
returning home. When they do, the experts cautioned, they will carry the
terror threat with them, ready and willing to strike.
Law enforcement needs to be prepared.
by John Rossomando • October 11, 2017 •
IPT News
Philadelphia's
public school system allowed the Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR) to conduct sensitivity training for its teachers last year, CAIR
press releases and
school district documents obtained by the Investigative
Project on Terrorism show.
by Abigail R. Esman • October 10, 2017 •
Special to IPT News
With
the number of jihadist terrorists in Europe rising, and a concurrent increase in the number of
women involved in Islamist terrorism and recruiting, Austria's centrist
government passed a bill in May to prohibit all face coverings in the
public sphere.
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October 19, 2017 • The Weekly Standard
CIA
director Mike Pompeo described the connection between Iran and al-Qaeda as
an "open secret" Thursday, a relationship that he and others
criticized the Obama White House for downplaying.
October 19, 2017 • Agence France-Presse
A
top aide to U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that an emerging
Palestinian unity government must recognise Israel and disarm Hamas,
Washington's first
detailed response to a landmark reconciliation deal
signed last week.
October 19, 2017 • The Washington Free
Beacon
The
United Nations has formally endorsed and approved scores of anti-Israel and
anti-Semitic hate groups that promote terrorism against Jews from within
the halls of Turtle Bay and elsewhere, according to a new report that
exposes how these organizations have been granted privileged status by the
U.N., potentially in violation of the
international body's own bylaws.
October 19, 2017 • The Jerusalem Post
Arab
and Muslim delegates verbally harassed Israeli representatives and made
noise to drown out their speeches, without intervention from the
Inter-Parliamentary Union's president.
October 19, 2017 • Dailymail.com
Hate
preacher Anjem Choudary has been denied permission to appeal against his
conviction for being a recruiting for ISIS. The 50-year-old cleric and his
disciple
Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, 34, were each jailed for
five-and-a-half years after signing an oath of allegiance
to the terror group.
October 19, 2017 • Chicago Sun-Times
A
judge sentenced [Abdella Tounisi] Thursday to the maximum penalty he faced
— 15 years in prison. But before he learned his fate, Tounisi turned to a
federal prosecutor and said, "thank you."
October 18, 2017 • abcnews.go.com
A man who authorities say fell under the
influence of the Islamic State group was convicted Wednesday of plotting to
behead a conservative American blogger for organizing a Prophet Muhammad
cartoon contest.
October 18, 2017 • Toronto Sun
Calling
it a North American first, the Quebec government passed legislation
Wednesday forbidding anyone from receiving or giving a public service with
their face covered — and even while riding the bus... .The Quebec national
assembly has passed a controversial religious neutrality bill that obliges
citizens to uncover their faces while giving and receiving state services.
October 18, 2017 • Reuters
Saudi
Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, is to monitor interpretations of the
Prophet Mohammad's teachings to prevent them being used to justify violence
or terrorism, the Culture and Information Ministry has said.
October 18, 2017 • The Algemeiner
A
delegation of Israeli Arabs who are fighting the delegitimization of the
Jewish state on college campuses remain committed to sharing their message
in the United States, despite facing threats back home and unexpected
obstacles from allies abroad.
October 17, 2017 • USA Today
The
families of dozens of U.S. troops killed or injured during the war in Iraq
filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against several U.S. and European
pharmaceutical and medical supply companies, alleging that the corporations
knowingly financed the anti-American militia Mahdi Army
through bribes and kickbacks to officials at a government
ministry controlled by the group.
October 17, 2017 • Ahram Online
The
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb slammed on Tuesday what he
described as calls for allowing homosexuality as a human right, Al-Ahram
Arabic news website reported.
October 16, 2017 • New York Daily News
Terror
bomber Ahmad Rahimi was found guilty on Monday of detonating a
shrapnel-packed explosive device that injured 30 people on a terrifying
night in Chelsea. The Manhattan Federal Court jury deliberated for three
and a half hours before returning its verdict against the New Jersey man
radicalized during a 2014 visit to his native Afghanistan.
October 16, 2017 • Ottawa Citizen
As
he approaches the beginning of his fourth year in a maximum-security Paris
prison, former Ottawa professor Hassan Diab remains in legal limbo more
than two months after a judge closed his investigation into the case.
October 16, 2017 • The Algemeiner
European
countries are not exactly known for their love of Israel. Yet recent
actions taken by the governments of Norway and Belgium suggest that, in at
least one important
respect, those two nations have gone much further than the
U.S. in confronting the problem of Palestinian incitement
against Israel.
October 14, 2017 • The Hill
President
Trump has not yet pulled America out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. But he
just took a vital step toward doing so, in a landmark speech on Friday that
in plain language dismantled the dangerous fictions on which the deal was
built.
October 14, 2017 • The Daily Telegraph
Iran
was responsible for a cyberattack on Parliament that hit dozens of MPs,
including Theresa May, Whitehall sources have told The Daily Telegraph. The
unprecedented "brute force" cyber attack in June lasted more than
12 hours and compromised around 90 email accounts.
October 13, 2017 • The Daily Telegraph
A
self-styled "Soldier of Allah" who threatened to blow up a
hospital escaped terror charges because of his Facebook settings. Leroy
McCarthy, 22, a Muslim convert, described murdered soldier Lee Rigby as a
"white coward who invades countries and rapes people" and said he
planned to leave the UK to "join my people's cause".
October 10, 2017 • The Hill
The
head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week admitted an
inconvenient truth. The U.N. watchdog, said Yukiya Amano, has proven unable
to verify Iran's compliance with Section T of the 2015 nuclear deal, which
prohibits activities that could contribute to the
development of a nuclear explosive device.
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