As of today, more than one-third of all Swedish residents have some kind of foreign background, and their share continues to grow, owing to continued immigration and demographic trends that include differences in fertility rates. If the current level of immigration persists, Swedes will become a minority in their own country within 45 years, according to a Finnish researcher, Kyösti Tarvainen, associate... 

A bomb went off outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar during Sunday service. Police believe it was a suicide attack. The moment of the blast was caught on a CCTV camera. A video from the scene shows debris scattered near the gate at the building’s side entrance. Indonesian media quoted the South Sulawesi Regional Police spokesperson, Kombes E. Zulfan, who described the explosion... 

In October 2020 a French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty, 47, was beheaded after he showed students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on free speech. Muslims consider it “haram” or forbidden to draw a picture of the Prophet, let alone a cartoon. Dozens of Muslim protesters are protesting for the second day outside a school in the north of England where a teacher has... 

A leader of the Muslim organization Hizb ut-Tahrir in Rinkeby was captured by a hidden camera as he discussed how Europe could be taken over by Islam in the future. SVT reports on how Hizb ut-Tahrir has become more active in recruiting new members in the Järva area. An SVT reporter attended a teaching camera at teaching meetings at the home of one of the leaders and captured the reasoning presented... 

At least eight people have been injured in what Swedish police are treating as a possible terrorist attack. Officers shot and wounded the suspected attacker, who police describe as a man in his 20s. Police were called to central Vetlanda after receiving reports just before 3pm local time that several people had been attacked with a knife. Officers later confirmed eight people had been injured to varying... 

Police in Switzerland have arrested a 19-year-old Afghan migrant suspected in a vicious acid attack upon a young woman in Neuchâtel, according to reports. The 24-year-old victim, a beauty contest model, was walking through the parking garage of her apartment building before 8 a.m. on Thursday when a hooded suspect armed with caustic chemicals ambushed her, authorities said in a statement. A neighbor... 

BBC World News has been banned from the Chinese airwaves, Beijing’s state-controlled TV network announced. The tit-for-tat move comes after the UK media regulator, Ofcom, revoked the broadcast license of the Chinese CGTN network. China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced the ban on Thursday, stating that the BBC’s reports “violated the requirements that news should... 

Two Afghan women judges have been assassinated in the country’s capital in an attack that has been blamed on the Taliban. Gunmen shot dead the two unnamed judges, who worked for the Supreme Court, on Sunday in Kabul, where a new trend of targeted killings of high-profile figures have sown fear in the restive city. Afghanistan’s Supreme Court was a target in February 2017 when a suicide... 

Three Middle Eastern men have been convicted by a Swedish court for beating a man unconscious after he attempted to protect his girlfriend and her friend from their sexual harassment, according to local media. The attack took place outside an arena in Helsingborg on August of 2019 as the victim, a prominent 26-year-old soccer player, was leaving the premises with a friend and their girlfriends. The... 

Black Lives Matter and Muslim organizations led a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota against the police shooting of a suspected gun felon who shot first. The protesters hoisted a Somali flag over a building at one point. Hundreds of protesters marched in the city on Sunday, in a demonstration organized by ‘Black Lives Matter’ activists and Muslim organizations. They were protesting over the killing... 

A “gruesome” massacre against farmers in northeastern Nigeria killed “tens of people”, the United Nations said late on Sunday, amending an earlier statement putting the death toll at 110. The killings took place in the early afternoon of Saturday in the village of Koshobe and other rural communities in the Jere local government area near Maiduguri, the capital of the conflict-hit Borno state. “Armed... 

A drone strike killed one of the commanders of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Muslim Shahdan, in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province bordering Syria, Al Arabiya reported on Monday, citing Iraqi sources. According to the TV channel, Shahda’s car was targeted on Sunday evening after it passed Al Qa’im checkpoint. Three people who accompanied the IRGC commander also died in the drone... 

Following the recent string of Islamic terror attacks and beheadings in France this fall, as a show of force, dozens of Muslim men rolled out their prayer mats outside outside the French embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. RAIR Foundation The demonstration, a declaration of supremacy and dominance of sharia over European and secular law, was organized by a controversial Imam and his mosque. The protesting... 

A Syrian man, who claimed to be a doctor and performed circumcisions on nine boys using a soldering gun has been given a suspended sentence, community service and a $10,000 fine. A resident of the city of Gavle, he is said to be in his 30s, he was charged with assault, causing bodily harm and violating Sweden’s law on circumcision, local media reported. The court was told that some of the victims... 

An Afghan refugee turned-famous Swedish expert on education and integration, Hamid Zafar, had his perfect public image ruined after a local newspaper discovered hateful comments he posted online under a pseudonym. Zafar arrived in Sweden as a refugee child and rose to prominence as a symbol of successful integration. Brought up in what is being described as a “socially vulnerable” district of...