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Far-right activist and Lehava member Or Liebler. (Screenshot/Twitter via Channel 13)
February 21, 2022, 8:43 pm
Far-right Jewish extremist discovers her biological parents are Muslim
Or Leibler, a member of a Jewish supremacist group who describes herself as a ‘proud Jew,’ forced to reevaluate beliefs after making unexpected discovery
By Tobias Siegal
An arrow left in a wall after an attack in Kongsberg, Norway, October 13, 2021. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
October 14, 2021, 12:40 pm
Norway says bow-and-arrow attack that killed 5 was act of terrorism
Danish national suspected of assault in small town is a Muslim convert flagged as radical who had raised concerns in the past, say police
By Agencies
Dutch MP Joram van Klaveren, February 24, 2017. The former far-right politician fought against Islam in the Netherlands before revealing he converted to the religion in February 2019. (BAS CZERWINSKI / ANP / AFP)
February 6, 2019, 10:12 am
Dutch former anti-Islam MP says he’s become a Muslim
Joram van Klaveren, ex-ally of far-right politician Geert Wilders, once fought to ban burqas and minarets in the Netherlands
By Jan Hennop
Outspoken Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada. (Twitter)
October 26, 2018, 6:32 pm
Irish singer Sinead O’Connor converts to Islam
Changing her name to Shuhada, outspoken performing artist says she is ‘proud’ to have become Muslim after ‘reaching the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey’
By AFP
Still from a video posted by Amsterdam’s Blue Mosque showing what it says is the conversion to Islam of 87-year-old Sal van Coeverden on May 4, 2019 (Facebook)
May 11, 2018, 6:26 pm
Dutch mosque claims to convert Holocaust survivor to Islam; Jews are skeptical
A Facebook video appears to show conversion of 87-year-old ‘Jewish aristocrat’ Sal van Coeverden on May 4. Strangely, journalists have been unable to locate the man
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this Wednesday, March 9, 2016 photo a man walks past a campaign poster of right-populist AfD party reading 'It's enough - Saxony-Anhalt elects AfD' in Magdeburg, Germany (AP Photo/Geir Moulson)
January 24, 2018, 6:54 pm
Leading member of Germany’s far-right AfD converts to Islam, resigns
Arthur Wagner leaves party for ‘personal reasons,’ says no one pressured him to quit
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Valentin Vladmir Mazlevski, a Belarusian-Israeli man charged with attempting to join Islamic State in Syria and Sinai, in a Nazareth District Court, on March 1, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 10)
December 27, 2017, 3:20 pm
Former IDF soldier convicted of trying to join Islamic State
Father of 5, an immigrant from Belarus, claimed he just wanted to live within the Caliphate, court documents say
By Dov Lieber
Illustrative: Tunisian women celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 14, 2016. (AP/Riadh Dridi)
September 16, 2017, 7:43 am
Tunisia scraps ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims
Human rights groups had campaigned to abolish the 1973 law, saying it undermined the fundamental human right to choose a spouse
By AFP
Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center. (Screen capture: Google Street View)
May 24, 2017, 6:54 pm
Florida man negotiating plea deal over synagogue bomb plot
Convert to Islam James Medina hoped assault on Jewish house of prayer would inspire other Muslims to carry out attacks
By JTA
This photo made available May 20, 2017, by the Tampa Police Department, Florida, shows Devon Arthurs, 18. (Tampa Police Department via AP)
May 23, 2017, 1:39 pm
Muslim convert accused of killing neo-Nazi roommates in Florida
Police find Nazi items, explosives during murder probe; suspect says white supremacists disrespected his new faith
By JASON DEAREN and Michael Kunzelman
A man holds a Union flag a during a vigil in Trafalgar Square in central London on March 23, 2017 in solidarity with the victims of the March 22 terror attack at the British parliament and on Westminster Bridge. ( AFP PHOTO / Joel Ford)
March 24, 2017, 12:54 pm
British police reveal more details of Parliament terrorist
Khalid Masood, who killed 4 in London on Wednesday, was born Adrian Russell Ajao, converted to Islam; 2 more ‘significant’ arrests made
By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless
A woman holds up a sign at a vigil for the victims of Wednesday's attack, at Trafalgar Square in London, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
March 24, 2017, 7:42 am
London terrorist Khalid Masood said to be convert to Islam
The 52-year old had been convicted for a string of offenses but none of them terror-related
By Alice TIDEY
Valentin Vladmir Mazlevski, a Belarusian-Israeli man charged with attempting to join Islamic State in Syria and Sinai, in a Nazareth District Court, on March 1, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 10)
March 1, 2017, 12:17 pm
Belarusian-Israeli nabbed trying to join Islamic State in Syria
Father of 5, who converted to Islam while in the IDF, stopped at airport en route to Turkey with $1,000
By Judah Ari Gross
Fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria, January 14, 2014. (Militant photo via AP, File)
August 15, 2016, 9:27 am
For IS recruits, Islamic knowledge is a disadvantage
Terrorist organization preys on those with minimal connection to Islam, because the more they know the less likely they are to endorse its methods
By Aya Batrawy, Paisley Dodds and Lori Hinnant
Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in Miami (screen capture: Twitter)
May 3, 2016, 3:15 am
Would-be Miami synagogue bomber is convert to Islam
James Medina arrested for attempting to blow up Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, told FBI informant it was a ‘call of duty’
By JTA
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