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British authorities said RAF planes will soon begin dropping food rations to Iraqi refugees threatened by the Islamic State; they also indicated that the UK will support the US with surveillance and refueling in its planned airstrikes on the militants in Iraq. The Prime Minister’s office said the UK is not planning a military intervention […]

Following the sudden resignation yesterday of Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim woman to serve in the Cabinet, over the government’s Gaza policies, Baroness Anelay was named to replace her. The Old Bailey court heard that Afsor Ali, who is accused of possessing terrorist literature, appeared in Muslims Against Crusades videos promoting extremism, […]

Army head General Peter Wall said UK forces may have to return to Afghanistan “if the Taliban were to be resurgent and al Qaeda was again establishing sanctuaries.” There are now about 4,100 UK troops in Afghanistan. A former British judge warned that the social media boasts of British jihadist Reyaad Khan, who has claimed […]

Al Qaeda’s black flag was displayed by protesters who blocked an east London tunnel last week shouting “Free Palestine” and leaving motorists temporarily trapped. An organization that tracks attacks on the UK’s Jewish community noted that antisemitic incidents had risen 36% between January and June, to a total of 304, and that there have been […]

HSBC Bank notified the Finsbury Park Mosque, where convicted terrorist Abu Hamza held forth, and other Muslim organizations including the think tank Cordoba Trust and the Bolton-based charity Ummah Welfare Trust that it is closing their accounts as they are beyond the bank’s “risk appetite.” In 2012 the bank paid out nearly $2 billion in […]

A leaked draft government report on the “Trojan Horse” investigation of Birmingham schools found “coordinated, deliberate and sustained action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into some schools in the city.” It also found that “extremism went unchecked because the council ‘disastrously’ prioritised community cohesion over ‘doing what is right’.” Birmingham City Council […]

Prime Minister Cameron said new laws to help track Internet and telephone records will be implemented next week as part of emergency measures due to the “grave” terrorist threat to national security posed by extremists in Iraq and Syria. The new laws restore powers that were invalidated by a European Court of Justice ruling last […]

Authorities are trying to track down Zahra and Salma Halane, 16, twin girls from Manchester who are thought to have traveled to Syria; one of their older brothers is said to be in Syria fighting for the Islamic State. Some 500 UK Muslims are thought to have gone to Syria to fight. Regarding an alleged […]

Birmingham residents Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, both 22, who had fought in Syria for jihadist groups and were arrested on their return to the UK, pled guilty to terrorism charges. Although police believe the two fought for the Al Nusrah Front, they had initially said they were planning to join the Emigrant’s Army, and […]

About 100 British imams issued an appeal for UK Muslims to support those affected by the crisis in Syria and Iraq “from the UK in a safe and responsible way,” not by traveling to the region. A news report claimed that in 2012, the UK military was considering plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong […]

Amid reports that 500 Britons are now fighting abroad with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, Sir Peter Fahy, the police lead for the government’s anti-radicalization Prevent program, said parents, not police, are responsible for the actions of young Muslims who turn to extremism. The Home Office is planning to ban the Islamic […]

Home Secretary May said “many hundreds” of Britons have traveled to fight in the ranks of Syrian rebels and “some will represent a real danger to us.” Ensuring that security forces have stronger Internet surveillance powers is now “a question of life and death, a matter of national security,” she said. The father of Ali […]