France: Europe’s Terror Hub
Wednesday’s attack...
Toulouse
Some Possibilities For Who Might Be Responsible For The Paris Attack
... "A few data points suggest Al Qaeda. A few data points suggest ISIS. And we just don't have enough information to really know right now," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fello...
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Jihad At The Jewish Museum
For three years, Western governments have viewed Syria mostly as a problem from hell. They lamented Syria's descent into the abyss of civil war and mass atrocities. They expressed hope for a...
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The ‘Devil’ We Know
Anti-Semitism has transformed itself over the past two decades into a global scourge, as a resurgent movement of lethal Jew-hatred has led to murders in Europe and elsewhere. According to Daniel...
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Belgian School’s Demise Symbol of a Euro Disease
The likely closure, in coming months, of the Maimonides Jewish school in Brussels — as reported earlier this week in the Times of Israel — comes as no surprise to those familiar with...
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“Send Lone Wolves to Strike Inside of France”
In an article I wrote yesterday for the Globe & Mail, I noted...
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The War’s in Mali, But the Danger is International
Since France began aerial bombardment of Islamist rebels in Mali last week, the larger worry has shifted from within the beleaguered country’s borders to the wider world. There are concerns...
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France Slated to Open First Gay Mosque
Muhammad Ludovic Lütfi Zahed, a gay French-Algerian man, is slated to open the first gay mosque at the end of November. The Turkish daily newspaper...
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Jund al Khilafah Emir Killed in ‘Treacherous Raid’
Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist A Swiss jihadist who is known to have recruited and trained al Qaeda fighters and has been linked to top al Qaeda leaders has been killed in a "tre...
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A Bad Joke: The Sad Reality of Jews in Europe
On Sunday, 27 countries across Europe will celebrate the annual European Day of Jewish Culture 2012. What begun in 1996, near Strasbourg, France, as a local effort to open abandoned and...
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The Messages of Toulouse
Lone-wolf terrorists are a growing threat. Moderate Muslims are among those in the crosshairs.
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Nothing Alienates Canadians Like the Veneration of ‘Human Bombs’
Are we witnessing a turning point in the Muslim world’s attitude toward terrorism? Self-described “martyrs” who kill in the name of Islam have long been revered figures among Is...
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Are Jews Safe in Europe?
French authorities brought a recent dramatic standoff with a crazed gunman to an abrupt end when they shot him dead in a house in the southwestern town of Toulouse. Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old...
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Don’t Stay the Course
He couldn’t name a single one. In this tense campaign season, al-Qaeda is very much in the front of the Obama administration’s mind. In fact, admini...
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Sweden’s Israeli Flag Burning and its Flirt with the Iran-Syria Complex
The burning of an Israeli flag in the heart of Stockholm’s bustling downtown shopping district this week coincided neatly with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt’s efforts to placa...
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Terror in Toulouse
French officials have identified the gunman responsible for the deaths of seven people, including three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, as a French-Algerian named Mohammad Me...
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Jund al Khilafah Claims French Shooting
Jund al Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, an al Qaeda and Haqqani Network-linked terror group that is based along the Afghan-Pakistani border, claimed credit for one of the shootings attrib...