A 42-year-old Iranian-Norwegian man has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and terrorist acts following a shooting in Oslo which resulted in two deaths and 21 injuries.
Oukabir is also now appealing his sentence based on the ‘Atristain Doctrine.’ As in the cases of the ETA members, information key to his conviction was obtained from him while ‘incommunicado.’
In the wake of attempted sabotage against the railroad network, the Belarusian Parliament has voted to make “attempted acts of terrorism” punishable by death. Critics consider this a further crackdown on Belarusian opposition.
Watching convicted terrorists receive political favours simply to keep the current government in power is a knife in the heart of ETA victims and their families.
After an MP had just been murdered in cold blood, and without evidence that social media played any role in causing the heinous act, the spectacle of MPs wasting parliamentary time with irrelevant distractions was a shameful scandal. For how much longer will the political class flee from reality rather than face unpleasant facts?
The cardinal’s appeal comes after the country’s Parliament Select Committee released a report that suggested high-level government officials had allowed the country’s Christian minority community to be targeted in a string of terrorist bombings on Easter Sunday in 2019.
There were numerous attacks against Christians in the past week in Nigeria. Violent persecution of Christians has been escalating in that country since at least the turn of the century.
The trial has begun of four individuals believed to have been involved in the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old Catholic priest whose throat was slit by two Islamic terrorists while celebrating Mass at a church in northwest France in 2016.
Using findings of forensic psychiatrist Randi Rosenqvist as basis for its decision, the district court fears that Breivik will not give up the ideology which led to the terrorist attacks.
The news comes only a few weeks after Belgium had stripped the residency permit of the highly popular Muslim cleric Mohamed Toujgani. Toujgani was chief imam of the Al Khalil Grand Mosque in Molenbeek, the Brussels district known as a breeding ground—and place of refuge—for Islamist radicals.
German security officials issued a statement that a planned Islamist attack had been foiled over the summer. A man who had been trying to buy weapons and make explosives had been arrested in the northern city of Hamburg.
One of the West’s problems is that at the end of the Cold War, it has been uncertain of its purpose—which has engendered a moral and political crisis, especially in the face of the threat of Islamic terrorism.
After years of chasing Islamic extremists, however, Western governments and their intelligence services, as well as the mainstream media, today seem to have broadened the scope of what they mean by “extremism” to encompass all ideologies, philosophies, and political movements that are somehow deemed “too dangerous” to exist. And these, according to them, are increasingly found on the Right.
