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Documentary filmmaker Amar Wala tackles the subject of Canadian anti-terrorism and hope to shed light on the treatment of Muslims held by the federal government on suspicion of terrorist links with his film Secret Trial 5. The project started as a final assignment for Wala to finish film school at York University over five years ago. A professor had suggested …

Masked gunmen in Saudi Arabia killed five Shi’ite worshippers during a major religious commemoration, Saudi police said on Tuesday, in an unparalleled attack highlighting sectarian tension in the largely Sunni kingdom. According to the police, six people were detained in Eastern Province of the shooting, which happened late on Monday night as Shi’ites were preparing for their Ashura, one of …

A social experiment in which a Canadian actor posed as an Islamophobe ended with the actor getting punched, suggesting the generally tolerant environment in Canada despite isolated racist abuse after the recent terror attack in Ottawa. Director Omar Al-Bach conducted the social experiment in Hamilton, the home town of Corporal Nathan Cirillo, the victim of the Ottawa attack. Two actors …

Winnipeg’s Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA) on Monday issued a new handbook to help prevent Canadian Muslim youth from being influenced by extremist groups and become foreign fighters in the Middle East. The book was unveiled by the ISSA in conjunction with several Muslim organizations and with input from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). According to ISSA President Shahina …

Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, the ringleader of an organization accused with plotting attacks in Canada, pleaded guilty to possession of explosives with intent to cause harm as a part of a terror conspiracy, and received a 24-year prison sentence from a court in Ottawa. He pled guilty in court on Wednesday under a deal his lawyers made with the Crown. He …

The UN’s new Syria envoy on Thursday said that the world needs to confront “terrorist groups” in Syria and in other parts of the world, but that Syria also needs a political solution. “The terrorist groups need to be confronted and that’s clear. But there is no contradiction… in fighting terrorism both with security measures… but also with (an) accelerated …

The Philippines is going to deport a Muslim Canadian national this week, after he was reportedly “inciting and recruiting locals to conduct terrorist activities”, a top official from the immigration bureau said on Wednesday. The Southeast Asian nation has been checking up on intelligence reports that around 100 Muslims in the Muslim-dominated south had left the nation in response to …

Arab League nations on Sunday agreed to take the “necessary measures” to confront militants from the Islamic State, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said after they meet in Cairo. “The Arab foreign ministers have agreed to take the necessary measures to confront terrorist groups including (the Islamic State)”, Arabi said at a press conference, without explicitly supporting calls from the …

On Monday, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously agreed to quickly dispatch an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate atrocities committed by extremist group Islamic State (IS), as Baghdad warned that the country was “facing a terrorist monster”. The 47-member UN human rights wing of the UN accepted a resolution urging an investigation presented by Iraq and supported by over …

Arab Bank, one of the most prestigious banking giants in the world, is currently on trial for allegedly supporting terrorism. The Arab Bank had been charged last week with “aiding terror” by transferring funds to families of Palestinians killed while conducting anti-Israeli attacks during 2005’s Second Intifada. The bank, established in 1930 byAbdel Hamid Shoman, a Palestinian who had worked …