10 December was the last day of one of Europe’s biggest and most ambitious terrorism trials ever, taking place in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The prosecution wants radical Muslim organization Sharia4Belgium declared […]
Islamism
“We are like the canary in the mine”
“Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem. It is a societal problem. It is a sign of societal disease”, says Maurice Sosnowski, a spokesman for the Belgian Jewish community. Øyvind Strømmen July 2014: Two […]
The Toulouse and Montauban Attacks
Between 11 and 19 March 2012, the 23-year-old French-Algerian petty criminal Mohammed Merah committed three gun attacks in the French cities of Montauban and Toulouse. Øyvind Strømmen The first two attacks targeted French […]
The Shots in Brussels
Yemeni fury over US raid
Luke Somers and Pierre Korkie were held hostage by the Al-Awlaki tribe in Yemen. “Poor operational planning of the US rescue raid caused the death of the hostages,” a high-ranking security official in […]