The Spanish authorities have revoked the refugee status of a Pakistani citizen who recorded a defamatory video about Mohammed, for “jeopardizing the security of the Spanish state, EFE was informed by sources in the Ministry of Interior.

The decision, was taken because the Pakistani citizen Imran Firasat, based in Spain, is considered “a threat to national security”.

The author of the controversial video, who can present appeals against this decision, will have to abandon Spain, where he has been residing legally since [...]

A gang of Iranians allegedly robbed dozens of foreign tourists and workers by posing as policemen outside Spain’s biggest airport.

Seven people posing as police officers in Spain have been arrested for allegedly robbing dozens of foreign tourists after flashing phony badges and ripping off unsuspecting drivers outside of Spain’s largest airport.

The seven arrested, dubbed the ‘Alivare King Europe mafia,’ are accused of creating fake road-blocks to stop foreign registered vehicles outside Madrid’s Barajas airport.

They also targeted vulnerable looking tourists outside [...]

Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of Mohammad on its cover, soon after violent protests rocked the Muslim world over a U.S. film and French caricatures deemed insulting to Islam.

El Jueves’ latest edition, which hit Spanish newsstands yesterday, shows several Muslims in a police line-up under the title “But…does anyone know what Mohammad looks like?”

Any depiction of the prophet is considered blasphemous by Muslims but the issue has also caused a debate in the West about [...]

?Authorities in Spain released a video Saturday that they claim shows suspected al-Qaida members training for a bombing raid using a model plane, the latest development in a case that has led to three arrests.

Spanish officials allege the suspects were planning a terrorist attack in Spain or elsewhere in Europe, but say investigators managed to intercept them before they could carry out their plot.

The undated video clip – grainy and of low quality – shows a colorful model propeller plane [...]

As every morning, the 27 years old man was peacefully walking his dogs in Font Breda Square, in the San Lorenzo neighborhood. As on other occasions, he was being accompanied by his 50 year old mother.

The night before, his cousin had been walking her pet in the same square, when a group of Muslim women reproached her for walking near them with an “impure animal”. They began to quarrel and the Muslim women attacked her, after which she had to [...]

Two Islamists have been arrested in Spain on charges of torturing and murdering two fellow Muslims for “abandoning radical Islam.”

The arrests came just days after Spanish newspapers reported that jihadists in Spain are travelling to Syria to help overthrow the government there.

Spanish authorities say the incidents — on top of many others in recent months — point to the accelerating spread in the country of radical Salafi Islam, which Spain’s National Intelligence Center, the CNI, in a leaked secret report [...]

Bullfighting is now illegal in the Spanish province of Catalonia. Some arenas have been converted into business spaces.

But Muslims want to turn the most famous arena, the Coliseum, into a giant mosque.

In fact, some cities in Spain now look more like the Middle East. Muslims, who once ruled most of nation, are returning in large numbers.

In the city of Salt, parents have come to pick up their children from school. Muslims already make up 40 percent of city residents and [...]

Spanish authorities are investigating the recent deaths by poisoning of more than a dozen dogs in Lérida, a city in the northeastern region of Catalonia that has become ground zero in an intensifying debate over the role of Islam in Spain.

All of the dogs were poisoned in September (local media reports here, here, here, here and here) in Lérida’s working class neighbourhoods of Cappont and La Bordeta, districts that are heavily populated by Muslim immigrants and where many dogs have [...]

An Al-Qaeda suspect plotted to poison tourists’ water supplies to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, a Spanish judge said Saturday as he remanded the man in custody.

Abdellatif Aoulad Chiba, a 36-year-old Moroccan, had gone so far as to obtain manuals on poisons, toxins and explosives on jihadist websites, the judge said.

Police swooped soon after the suspect appeared to be saying farewell to his wife.

Chiba’s online comments on jihadist websites “expressed a clear desire to carry out an attack [...]