“Islamophobia”

Federal prosecutors say they believe he “committed the crime out of excessive religious motivation.

A man has gone on trial in Germany charged with driving his car into a crowd of people in the city of Munich last year, killing two people.

The 25-year-old man, named only as Farhad N, in line with German privacy laws, is an Afghan national.

Prosecutors say that on the morning of 13 February 2025, he deliberately drove his BMW Mini into a trade union demonstration in the centre of Munich. About 1,400 people were taking part in the street rally.

AS TCW reported on Monday, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is discouraging its young people from applying to British universities – not because it fears the students will be targets of ‘Islamophobia’ but because of the risk that they will be radicalised into Islamist extremists. Like other moderate Arab nations, they regard British universities as ‘Hezbollah training camps with matriculation fees’.

KFC, the fast-food chain, has reignited religious tensions in France with an announcement that two dozen of its restaurants will serve only halal meat.

In a country where divisions over the place and role of Islam run deep, the move by the US chain has been denounced by the right and defended by the left.

A member of an Afghan trafficking gang that smuggled young boys into the UK on small boats before raping and blackmailing them with the footage has been kicked out of the country.

Zeeshan Banghis – also known as Bangash – and Saifur Rahman Ahmedzai were arrested by National Crime Agency extradition officers in December 2024 after a Belgian judge jailed them in their absence.

Banghis, 21, was sentenced to three years in jail in November 2024 and will now be extradited to Belgium to serve his sentence following a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.