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The West Begins Fighting Back
Swiss voters' clear decision on Sunday to ban the construction of minarets has generated a wide range of emotions
Dutch call for anti-minaret referendum
Dutch MP Geert Wilders' Freedom Party has said it wants a referendum on the building of minarets similar to the one held in Switzerland on Sunday....
Say goodbye to Dubai
Israel was barely touched by the financial debacle in Dubai, where financial markets crashed 10 percent on Monday following reports of Dubai World’s debt crisis....
Al-Shabaab rebels seize town close to Kenyan border
Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents have captured a key town close to the border with Kenya. The al Qaeda linked rebels are said to have driven out combatants of Hizbu-IslSheikh Hassan Yakoub Ali,...
IRANIAN ATHEIST RISKS DEATH PENALTY IF REPATRIATED
Turkish authorities will be announcing their decision in the coming days over whether or not to repatriate an Iranian citizen who -...
Hamas Bans Women Dancers, Scooter Riders in Gaza
The Islamic Hamas movement banned girls last month from riding behind men on motor scooters and forbade women from dancing at the opening of a folk museum. Girls in some public schools must wear headscarves and cloaks....
Hamas approves law to execute drug dealers
The Islamist Hamas-run government ruling Gaza has approved a legal change that will allow for the execution of convicted drug dealers, its attorney general said on Monday. ...
Egypt mufti says Swiss minaret ban insults Muslims
Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa denounced a vote to ban new minarets in Switzerland on Sunday as an "insult" to Muslims across the world, while calling on Muslims not to be provoked by the move. ...
Honor killings' in USA raise concerns
Muslim immigrant men have been accused of six "honor killings" in the United States in the past two years, prompting concerns that the Muslim community and police need to do more to stop such crimes. ...
Iran expands naval clout in strategic Gulf
Iran has restructured its naval forces to give an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards full responsibility for operations in the strategic Gulf in the event of a conflict, according to a new U.S. intelligence study....
Fear and Loathing in PA over Temple Mount
An Arab university lecturer and writer is hiding underground out of fear for his life after shocking the Palestinian Authority with a book that links Jews with the Temple Mount....
Pak Sikh thrashed for not converting
AMRITSAR: A Sikh advocate in Pakistan was reportedly thrashed and threatened with dire consequences recently if he did not convert to Islam, forcing his family to run for safety to a gurdwara in Hassanabdal near Rawalpindi ...
Air strike kills 30 Taliban in Afghanistan
About 30 Taliban insurgents were killed in a NATO-led air strike in eastern Afghanistan after they attacked an Afghan police post, a police official and the alliance said on Sunday. ...
Russia train disaster was terrorist attack
A train disaster that killed more than 39 people and injured 100 was caused by a bomb, indicating it was a terrorist attack, the head of Russia's FSB domestic intelligence service said on Saturday. ...
Iran Plans to Build 10 New Uranium Plants
Iran and the United States traded diplomatic punches Sunday night, with the Islamic Republic announcing it will build 10 more uranium enrichment plants and the United States responding that it risks breaking international law....
Swiss Vote to Ban New Minarets
Switzerland’s political right on Sunday scored a surprising victory in a referendum on banning construction of minarets, denting the nation’s cherished image as a bastion of tolerance and threatening to set it at odds with international law and the Muslim world....
Iran grants $20m. to terrorist groups
Iran's parliament passed a law on Sunday earmarking $20 million to support terrorist groups opposing the West and investigate alleged US and British plots against the Islamic Republic. ...
Teheran threatens to cut ties with IAEA
Two days after the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution censuring Iran, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani issued a warning of his own that Teheran may cut cooperation with the UN nuclear agency watchdog...
Minarets, Yes or No?
Switzerland is holding a referendum Sunday on a proposal to legally ban the construction of minarets – the towers that are built atop Muslim mosques, from which the calls to prayer are sounded. ...
How Hamas is Islamicizing Gaza
A report by the Shin Bet (Shabak, Israel’s secret security force) describes how Hamas has instituted Islamic law and thought in all areas of Gaza life since its violent takeover of the area. ...
Iran takes Nobel peace prize winners medal
Iran summoned Norway's ambassador on Friday over accusations made by Oslo that Iranian authorities had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003. ...
Israel aims to wipe out Palestinians
In a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday night, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused Israel of aiming to "exterminate" the Palestinians. ...
Christian girl, 16, gets 50 lashes in Sudan
A 16-year-old Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her family said today. ...
Taliban trying to destroy Buddhist art from the Gandhara period
Archaeologists and experts sound the alarm. The ancient Indo-Hellenistic heritage of the country could go the way of the Bamiyan Buddhas, in neighbouring Afghanistan. Digging and research have stopped; tourists are nowhere to be seen because of attacks and violence....
CIA goes hiring in heart of Arab America
At Tuhama's Lebanese deli in Dearborn, and at bakeries and barbershops throughout town, it's no secret the CIA is looking for a few good spies. ...
Death toll from Saudi floods rises to 83
More bodies have been recovered in the western Saudi city of Jeddah, gateway for Muslim pilgrims headed to Mecca, pushing the death toll from Wednesday's flash flood to 83, reports said on Friday. ...
Majority of IAEA board votes to censure Iran's nuclear
The UN nuclear agency's board censured Iran on Friday, with 25 nations backing a resolution that demands Teheran immediately mothball its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed UN Security Council resolutions calling on it to stop uranium enrichment. ...
New Holocaust Museum Focuses on Jewish Youth Uprising
A new museum, named for the commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Mordechai Anilewicz, has been established to memorialize the youths who rebelled against the Nazis during the Holocaust....
Free Speech Silenced at Columbia and Princeton
Nonie Darwish, the executive director of Former Muslims United and author of Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law, was scheduled to speak at Columbia and Princeton Universities last week, but both events were canceled under pressure from Muslim groups on campus....
Denmark: Antisemitism widespread among Muslim immigrants
Distrust and prejudice against Jews in Denmark doesn't thrive only in extremist groups. Up to 75% of immigrants from five different countries and 20% of ethnic Danes have anti-Jewish attitudes....
Gaza Terrorists Fire Five Mortars, No One Hurt
Terrorists fired five mortar shells at Israel Thursday afternoon. They exploded in open, unpopulated areas within the jurisdiction of the Eshkol Regional Council. No one was hurt....
Responsible for Equality And Liberty, Love is more powerful
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) - Jeffrey Imm, 301-613-8789, usa@realcourage.org Human Rights Day News Conference...
Fighting Afghan Taliban with Islamic credit unions
After the Taliban made nine threatening phone calls and fired a Kalashnikov outside his house, Shah Mohammad Mir left his hometown for months before returning with a new car and a new telephone number....
Natural disaster kills 48 in Saudi, Hajj unfolds
Flooding killed at least 48 people in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after a heavy downpour, while 900 people were saved, official reports said on Thursday. ...
Lebanon gives Hezbollah right to attack Israel
Lebanon's new cabinet has agreed on a policy statement that acknowledges Hezbollah's right to use its weapons against Israel, despite disagreement by some members of the ruling majority. ...
Obama's grandfather's wife performs Hajj
Sarah Obama, the wife of the American President Barack Obama's grandfather, arrived in Saudi Arabia where she is set to perform the annual Muslim pilgrimage, or Hajj, press reports said Wednesday. ...
Sudan’s trouser journalist sneaks out with niqab
Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed Hussein said Tuesday she had donned a full Islamic veil to sneak out of Sudan and travel to France, two months after she was freed from jail for wearing trousers. ...
IAEA chief: Iran nuclear investigation is at 'a dead end'
The International Atomic Energy Agencys probe of allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms is at "a dead end" because Teheran is not cooperating, the UN watchdog's chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Thursday. ...
42% PCT OF WOMEN TARGETS OF VIOLENCE, SURVEY
ANKARA, NOVEMBER 24 - Forty-two percent of women in Turkey become targets of physical or sexual violence,...
Gaddafi offers to ref Algeria-Egypt soccer row
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has offered his services as referee in a bitter row between Algeria and Egypt over this month's World Cup qualifiers, official media said on Tuesday....
Hamas site encourages Europe attacks
The educational content of the Hamas children's Web site Al-Fateh (The Conqueror) is not a form of pedagogy, but an "indoctrination to suicide bombing," said David Oman, the director of communications for the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE) on Tuesday at a press conference at the Regent Hotel. ...
Rare Global Unity Against Iranian Nuclear Program
Russia and China, countries which have heretofore supported Iran's nuclear program, have joined up with the United States, Britain, France, and Germany in preparing a resolution critical of it. ...
Don’t Trust UN ‘Doll’ Soldiers to Protect Israel
Likud Knesset Member Ayoub Kara, a member of the Druze community, has vowed to “fight with my last drop of blood” against Israel’s abandoning the northern border village of Ghajar to United Nations and Hizbullah....
A Different Kind of Ice Cream truck
There use to be a mosque near my home, but the adherents have since move their digs to Crenshaw Boulevard. ...
Sudan says peacekeepers should leave Darfur
Khartoum's United Nations envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said early Tuesday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave....
Iran ready for uranium
Iran's Foreign Ministry said the country is ready to exchange its low-enriched uranium with a higher enriched one, but only on its own soil. ...
Goldstone Kept Anti-Apartheid Teen in Jail in 1986
Former South African Judge Richard Goldstone, who censured Israel for alleged war crimes while fighting Hamas terrorists, once kept a 13-year-old in jail for protesting against his country’s Apartheid policy, according to investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg....
Freedom for imprisoned Christian 'apostates'
After millions of prayers and numerous petitions from around the world, two Iranian women jailed for no other reason than being Christian were released from a Tehran prison today....
Pakistan kills 22 in Taliban northwest hideouts
Pakistani security forces backed by tanks and artillery attacked Taliban positions in the northwest of the country, killing 22 militants, a senior police official on Monday. ...
Mt. Of Olives Cemetery Desecrated
Chaim Miller, director of the Movement for the Citizens of Jerusalem, said Sunday that in recent weeks visitors to the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem have been shocked to find that dogs have been using broken monuments in the cemetery for shelter from the elements....
Political Correctness and Preaching Religion
A few days ago, during the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) meetings in Rome, Libyan president, Gaddafi shows us once again the Arab mentality and methods....
American faces jail for pulling woman's headscarf
An American woman has been charged with a hate crime after she verbally attacked and tugged at the hijab, or headscarf, of a Muslim woman following the Fort Hood murders, press reports said. ...
Exclusive Report on Yemenite Jewry
Stefan Kirschner, a resident of New Jersey, has just returned from a trip to Yemen where he met with the few Jews who still remain there. An interview with him upon his return appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Kirschner has written the following article, with accompanying photos, serving as a recorded view of a vanishing portion of Jewish history....
Israel Air Force Retaliates for Rocket Attack
The Israel Air Force carried out an air strike against terrorist operations in Gaza overnight in retaliation for a Kassam rocket fired at the western Negev on Saturday....
Attack on Copts in Upper Egypt
A phone call to Voice of the Copts from Cairo this evening indicates that unidentified numbers of barbaric Arabs are attacking Copts in various towns, among them the city of Kena in Upper Egypt. ...
I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.....
Egypt Muslims burn Christian shops: police
CAIRO — Hundreds of Muslim protesters on Saturday burnt Christian-owned shops in southern Egypt and attacked a police station where they believed a Christian accused of raping a Muslim girl was being held, a police official said. ...
Revolutionary Guards cleric threatens to target 'heart of TA'
Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said Saturday, reflecting the country's concern that Israel could make good on threats to strike militarily....
Turkey issues ultimatum over UAVs
In a sign of further tensions between Ankara and Jerusalem, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul issued an ultimatum on Saturday to Israeli industries to fulfill the long-delayed supply of 10 unmanned aerial vehicles to the Turkish military within the next 50 days. ...
Hamas: 'Israel Won't Go to War Again'
Israel will not go to war again, according to the Hamas terrorist organization, which claims the recent United Nations Goldstone Report has legally bound the IDF....
Muslim students want to use gym hall for prayer
The Muslim Student Society asked to use a gym hall at Oslo university (Blindern) for half an hour every Friday for prayer, but the university administration is skeptic. ...
Sears Tower bomb plot leader Narseal Batiste jailed
The leader of a group which plotted to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago has been sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison. ...
Italy arrests two Pakistanis over Mumbai attacks
Italian anti-terrorist police have arrested two Pakistanis suspected of helping to finance the Islamic militant group responsible for the attacks on Mumbai in November 2008 that killed 166 people....
Malta: Imam supports Sharia punishments
El Sadi says that such punishments are 'democratic' in countries where Muslims want them. Really? Is it also 'democratic' to demand that all Muslims be kicked out of Europe, should there be a majority who wishes it so? 'Rule of majority' or 'rule of the mob' usually does not equal 'democracy'....
Sixth area Somali man is indicted in probe
The suspect is linked to other young men recruited to train and fight in Somalia. ...
Senators say Fort Hood shooting was terrorism
Several lawmakers and terror experts at Senate hearings on the Fort Hood shooting Thursday called the incident a terrorist attack, and warned of the danger of homegrown jihad. ...
"2012" film against Islam: Indonesia clerics
Hollywood's latest doomsday offering "2012" has caused a storm in Indonesia, with conservative clerics condemning it Thursday as a "provocation against Islam". ...
Yemen foils plot to kill Jewish leader
Yemeni security forces have foiled a plot to assassinate the head of the local Jewish community, Yahiya Ben-Yousef, Kuwaiti Al-Siyasa newspaper said Friday. ...
A Quarter of PA Brides are Under the Age of 18
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported this week that 25.6 percent of females who became engaged in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria during 2008 were under the age of 18 years. ...
Israel Fears Israeli Arab Links with Iranian Terrorists
Fears that Arab Israelis are linking up with terrorist organizations are behind decisions to ban a former Arab mayor from visiting Mecca and to refuse freeing terrorists from eastern Jerusalem as part of a deal for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, according to a popular Hebrew University researcher. ...
Bin-Laden's son wants to work for the UN
The son of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Omar, has told a British magazine that he would like to promote peace and work for the United Nations. His comments were published on Thursday in New Statesman magazine....
Is It Permissible To Join A Kaafir Army?
In the years since 9/11, we have seen a serious re-defining and whitewashing of what our deen is and is not. Since the Ft Hood shootings, and even before that, we have seen many Muslim organizations refer to US troops which are occupying Muslim lands, as “our troops”. ...
Mumbai Doctor Smashed Idols and Became a Jew
In a powerful echo of the Biblical story of the patriarch Abraham, a Mumbai doctor smashed his father's idols and eventually decided to become a Jew in the Land of Israel....
Successor to Abbas 'Would Be Death to Peace Process'
PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas is serious about retiring from political life and wants senior Fatah official Muhammad (Abu Maher) Ghneim to replace him, ...
Terrorism to Eliminate Israel is a 'Principle'
In an interview published Thursday in the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, a Hamas spokesman said that the jihadist movement is loyal to "Palestinian principles" in its policy of terrorism against the Jews until Israel ceases to exist....
Bomb kills at least 16 at Pakistan court
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a court building in Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, officials said, in the latest of a series of attacks on the northwestern Pakistan city....
Officials worried group in Canada went to join Islamic
Counterterrorism officials are investigating a group of youths who allegedly left Canada for East Africa two weeks ago, amid concerns they may have gone to join the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. ...
Somali woman stoned for adultery
A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people. ...
Spy Agencies' Quest: What Makes A Terrorist?
Investigators are still trying to determine whether Maj. Nidal Hasan's alleged deadly rampage at Fort Hood was a calculated act of radical Islamist ideology or the deranged act of an alienated loner. ...
Switzerland will not hear sound of Muslim prayer
Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz on Tuesday told voters that the call of the muezzin, or Muslim imam who calls people to prayer, would not sound in Switzerland, as he campaigned against a referendum motion seeking to ban the building of minarets....
Iran rejects UN nuclear fuel proposal
Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday ruled out sending enriched uranium out of the country for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest UN plan aimed at preventing Teheran from building nuclear weapons. ...
Halal food going mainstream in Europe
The business of selling food that is halal, or acceptable to Muslims, is set to grow rapidly in Europe in coming years as more supermarket chains target the sector, a Nestle executive said on Tuesday. ...
Raids on suspected terrorist recruitment network
Counter-terrorism police have arrested five men, including a Muslim preacher, after raids on a network allegedly sending young men to receive terrorist training abroad. ...
Gaddafi spends two hours with 200 Italian ladies
Muammar Gaddafi disappointed some 200 Italian women after he invited them using an agency advertizing a "party" where the Libyan leader proceeded to lecture them on Islam, Italian media reported on Monday....
Amnesty says Egypt's poor still live in peril
Little has changed in Egypt to move the poor from unsafe places and prevent a repetition of a rockslide in a Cairo shantytown that killed more than 100 people last year, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday....
European Union rejects appeal to back Palestinian statehood
The European Union has rejected requests that it back a Palestinian plan for gaining recognition as an independent state at the UN Security Council without Israeli consent. ...
ElBaradei wanted to remove sanctions'
A secret deal being drafted by outgoing International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei would see Iran retain its nuclear program, as well as the removal of all sanctions placed on the Islamic republic, simply in exchange for its cooperation with UN inspectors, The Times of London reported Tuesday. ...
Promoting jihad in jail
Radical Muslims are spreading extremist propaganda and promoting jihad from inside UK jails, a report has claimed. ...
Yemen rebels use Katyusha in Saudi base attack
Saudi and Yemeni forces pounded Shiite rebel positions along the border between the two countries on Sunday as the rebels claimed they used Katyusha rockets in attacking a Saudi military base in the border Jizan region to avenge the deaths of civilians killed. ...
Greatest threat to US security is Qaeda
American President Barack Obama on Monday called al-Qaeda the greatest threat to United States security, as Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah warned that the Taliban would overrun Afghanistan if international troops were to pull out....
Pakistanis fighting in Yemen with Houthis
Yemen's Houthi rebels have Pakistani fighters in their ranks, press reports revealed Sunday, as Saudi Arabia arrested a sorcerer on its border with Yemen attempting to plant magic spells in the conflict zone in support of the rebel group. ...
Two Egyptian Copts get death over Muslim killing
An Egyptian court sentenced two Christian men to death on Sunday for killing the Muslim husband of a female relative who converted to Islam against the wishes of her family, court sources said. ...
Netanyahu Warns PA Not to Undertake Unilateral Moves
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday evening that the only way the Palestinian Authority would achieve anything was through negotiation – not unilateral action....
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
Complaint to Voice of the Copts Urgent Case About Zaky Samier Zaky's Case ( Egyptian Christian Coptic) CASE NUM 90 / 2009, in Abdeen Palace, The presidency of Republican-CAIRO-EGYPT. - The Egyptian Interior Ministry - Egyptian state security service Violation of the rights of the Coptic Christian minority in Egypt. .Racial persecution in the treatment to Coptic Christians in Egypt. By his uncle Father / Aghabeos Elmoharkee Priest monk St. MARY'S MONASTERY AL-MUHARRAQ ,EL-QUOSIA , ASSIUT, EGYPT. 15-NOV-2009 www.almuharraqmonastery.com CONTACT CALL: 002 0198933462 FAX: 00202-26907184 E-MAIL: fraghabeoselmoharkee@gmail.com...
Extremists aid West's plots against Islam
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has raised the alarm over Western efforts to project a wrong image of Islam as a religion supporting terrorism. ...
Obama says Iran running out of time
President Barack Obama said in Singapore Sunday that time is running out for Iran to sign on to a deal to ship its enriched uranium out of the country for further processing. ...
France asks Swiss for help with Qaeda plot
France has asked Switzerland for judicial assistance in an investigation into a nuclear physicist arrested in France over alleged links to al-Qaeda, the federal prosecutor's office said Saturday....
Groups protest UN debate on 'defamation' of religion
New York - More than 100 non-governmental organizations on Thursday protested attempts by some governments to push through a United Nations resolution to protect religion from defamation....
Spain's first Islamic party to run in 2011
Spain's first Islamic party is pareparing to run in 2001's local elections in a goal to achieve representation for Muslims in administrations of municipalities, the Spanish media said earlier this week. ...
Syrian carrying $880,000, Hezbollah ring, 9/11 videos, stopped
'I feel great. It’s an experience for life. It’s one of these things'...
Rochester man pleads not guilty after Thursday police chase
A Rochester man is in custody after a police chase down several Rochester streets....
Parents say son was tormented for eating salami sandwich
A SYDNEY couple has withdrawn their two children from a public primary school, claiming their 11-year-old son was bullied by Muslim students because he ate a salami sandwich during Ramadan. ...
Suicide bomber strikes Pakistan's northwest
A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-filled car Saturday at a police checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 10 people, officials said....
Al Qaeda in Its Own Words
Al Qaeda in Its Own Words provides the translated writings of four jihadis—Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, and Abu Musab Zarqawi. Edited by five people with Kepel, a French sociologist of Islam, as lead editor, it contains a wealth of data that, unfortunately, is presented in a rather confused manner. ...
Muslim Attack Worship Service in Uganda
About 40 Muslim with machetes and clubs tried to break into a Sunday worship service outside Uganda’s capital city of Kampala on Nov. 1, leaving a member of the congregation with several injuries and damaging the church building. ...
Iran's struggle with America should continue
Iran must continue its struggle against the United States, a hardline cleric said on Friday a day after Washington renewed long-standing U.S. financial sanctions against Iran. ...
Iraq's Kurdish forces arrest Qaeda suspect
The security services of Iraq's northern Kurdish area said Saturday they had arrested a key al-Qaeda figure allegedly behind a string of bomb attacks, in an operation backed by the U.S. military....
US to try five 9/11 plotters in New York
Five men accused of the Sept. 11 attacks will be tried in a New York civilian court, attorney general Eric Holder said Friday adding the U.S. would press for maximum sentences including the death penalty. ...
Italy won't help Iran launch satellite
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pledged to Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham H. Foxman that Italy will not cooperate with Iran to launch an Iranian data communications satellite, a statement issued by the ADL said Friday. ...
Netanyahu Denies Arab Media Report, Says No Golan Surrender
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office denied a report in the Arabic-language newspaper al-Arabiya that he will inform Syria, through French channels, that Israel would agree to surrender the strategic Golan Heights in return for a peace treaty. ...
It Isn't Political Correctness; It's Shariah
In surveying the cultural carnage in the wake of the worst terrorist attack on a military installation in U.S. history, it bears noting that there have been seismic shifts in America. When America was free of the shackles of Islam, say, fifty years ago, the current response to such an attack by an enemy faction would have been unthinkable. ...
US moves to seize NY skyscraper from Iran firms
U.S. prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit to seize control of a New York City skyscraper they say is owned by companies illegally funneling money to the Iranian government, according to Friday news reports. ...
Bombs kill 18 in Pakistan, Intel agency targeted
Suicide car bombs tore through security offices in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people and heavily damaging the Peshawar headquarters of the country's top intelligence agency. ...
Gaza Arabs Wary of Tunnels
Residents of Gaza have grown wary of building tunnels to Egypt following a series of accidents in which dozens have been killed, according to the Hebrew-language daily Maariv....
Feds Move To Seize 4 U.S. Mosques
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. ...
Politically correct is morally wrong!
Suppose Maj. Nidal Hassan had called a meeting of agents of the FBI and top officers of Fort Hood, and then said something like this: ...
Muslim lawyer ordered not to wear headscarf
Madrid - A Spanish female lawyer has filed a complaint against a judge who ordered her to leave the courtroom because she was wearing the Muslim headscarf, press reports said Wednesday. ...
Hezbollah warns new government to avoid arms issue
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said he would cooperate with Lebanon's new unity government but urged it to steer clear of the "big issues," in reference to his group's notorious weapons stockpile. ...
Taxi boss jailed for threats against daughter
The city’s taxi union boss was handed a year in jail Tuesday for what a judge deemed an “honour crime.” ...
Iran mission official shot dead in Pakistan
Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani spokesman for the Iranian consulate at point-blank range Thursday as he set off for work in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said....
Kiosk employee allegedly tore a crucifix from someone's neck
Police arrested 22-year-old Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 4, after he reportedly tore a crucifix from a person's neck and scared others at Stoneridge Shopping Center....
Yemen rejects Iranian "interference" in its affairs
Yemen hit out on Wednesday at what it called Iranian "interference" in its affairs after Tehran's foreign minister said his country could help Sanaa restore security as it attempts to crush the Shiite Houthi rebels....
Iran authorities hang young Kurdish activist
Iran hanged on Wednesday a Kurdish activist convicted of "armed action" against the Islamic republic, Fars news agency reported, quoting the justice chief in Kurdistan province....
Germany's "veil martyr" murderer gets life
A Russian-born German man was sentenced to life behind bars Wednesday for the brutal murder of a pregnant Egyptian woman, a racially motivated crime that sparked outrage in the Muslim world....
All of Israel is within our fire range
A senior Hizbullah official on Wednesday mocked IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, and said all of Israel was within his group's range of fire. ...
Teheran urges Russia to deliver S-300
Iran's defense minister on Wednesday urged Russia to ignore Israeli pressure against selling the S-300 missile defense system to the Islamic Republic. ...
Army Wasn't Told of Hasan's Emails
Pentagon Says It Only Learned of Shooting Suspect's Contacts With Cleric After the Fort Hood Killings...
Saudi female lawyers to practice in KSA
Saudi judiciary officials have announced that female lawyers would soon be allowed to represent their clients in the courtroom, reported the Saudi Arabic daily al-Madina. ...
Obama must chose between Israel and Iran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to choose between Israel and Iran on Tuesday night, according to Iranian state media. ...
Hizbullah Rockets Can Strike Jerusalem
Hizbullah's missiles now have the capacity to reach Israel’s central region, including Jerusalem, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.Gen Gabi Ashkenazi said Tuesday in a briefing with the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. ...
Man charged with statutory rape in ‘marriage’!
Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said....
Saudi to bomb rebels until they retreat
Saudi Arabia will continue its air strikes against Yemeni rebels until they move back from the two countries' frontier, Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan said on Tuesday. ...
Egypt's legendary pharaoh to get a facelift
Restoration work will begin on the tomb of Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamen, Egypt's antiquities department said on Tuesday. ...
Islamists Use Democracy to Promote Hatred
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told his hosts during an official visit to Denmark on Monday that Islamic fundamentalists in Europe are abusing European Union freedoms to promote Islamic supremacy and anti-Semitism. ...
Fight against Islamism starts by defending Israel's right
Magdi Cristiano Allam, a former Muslim and Egyptian-Italian politician and journalist, was interviewed by France Soir. I bring here the part of the interview. ...
Italy: Mohammed called a 'paedophile' in TV spat
Italian feminist and former far right-wing MP Daniela Santanche has sparked a controversy after calling the Prophet Mohammed a "a polygamist and paedophile" during a TV debate....
VIDEOS TAKEN ON CELL PHONES SPARK RELIGIOUS WAR
Even videos taken on cell phones have become a source of new tensions in the already difficult relationship between Christians and Muslims in traditionalist 'Upper Egypt',...
Famine, conflict risks confront South Sudan
South Sudan could face famine following low rainfall and a surge in tribal conflicts, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Sunday....
Islamic rebels behead Philippine teacher
The severed head of a school principal who was abducted by Islamic militants in the troubled southern Philippines was dumped in a petrol station on Monday, authorities said....
Arabic classes coming to three more Chicago schools
Mayor Daley announces grant, says he doesn't see Fort Hood shooting stoking anti-Muslim sentiment...
Music classes in Kuwait schools anger Islamists
MP threatens to grill PM over compulsory music classes ...
32 Arab Children Killed Working in Smuggling Tunnels
No fewer than 32 children have been killed over the past three years while working in Gaza arms smuggling tunnels, according to a new report released in the Palestinian Authority. ...
Muslims Don't Cause Genocide!
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Israel on Sunday as he came to the defense of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who faces worldwide condemnation for the genocide taking place in the Darfur region of his country. ...
Remains of Minoan Fresco Found at Tel Kabri
Remnants of a Minoan fresco – the first of its kind ever discovered by archaeologists in Israel – were found at the Tel Kabri excavations this past excavation season. Minoan frescoes, or wall paintings, are typified by a blue background. ...
World Media Ignores Weapons Shipment to Hizbullah
Though the Foreign Ministry invited ambassadors from around the world to see the tremendous cache of arms intercepted on their way to Hizbullah last week, the world media did not take interest....
Kristallnacht Demos Against Nazi War Criminal in NY
Monday, November 9, marks the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, which is widely considered the beginning of the Holocaust -- and high school in students in New York will mark the occasion by demanding the deportation of a Nazi war criminal. ...
Hezbollah rearming for imminent conflict with Israel
Militant group Hezbollah is rapidly rearming and reinforcing positions in southern Lebanon in preparation for a new conflict with Israel, British newspaper the Observer reported on Sunday. ...
Muslims at Fort Hood voice outrage
Members of Texas mosque say they hope good relations will prevail ...
US Senators Act to Force Recognition of Jerusalem as Capital
Seven United States senators have sponsored a bill that would abolish the “security” waiver that American Presidents have used to prevent implementing a 1995 law declaring that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel....
European Court and the Crucifixes
The international system is spinning to please part of the world. A great number of western people simply call it political correctness. Others, including myself, consider it attacking certain beliefs, or simply attacking Christianity....
Son of Iran’s Shah urges civil disobedience
Iran's former crown prince backed a campaign of "civil disobedience and non-violence" Saturday to oust the government in Tehran and urged Western support, but warned against any armed intervention....
Chinese PM reaches out to Muslims in Cairo
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticized for the treatment of its own Muslim minority....
Red Cross Involved in Attempted Arab Land-Grab
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), attempting to help Arabs in Samaria take over a plot of land bordering the Tapuach Junction checkpoint, says it will return tomorrow to complete the project. ...
Who Attacked the Mosque in Gaza City
Who attacked the mosque in Gaza City in which 21 people allegedly died during Israel's counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead last winter in Gaza? ...
Arabs Could Outnumber Jews in Jerusalem
The demographic balance in Israel's capital of Jerusalem is shifting and Arabs could outnumber Jews there in the not-distant future, according to a new study by Nadav Shragai for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). ...
Somali terrorists: Fire all women, don't promote democracy
Somali rebels' 11 commandments to aid groups ...
‘Devout Muslim’ Psychiatrist Massacred 13 US Soldiers
The man who pulled the trigger and massacred 13 U.S. army soldiers Thursday and wounded 30 others is the grandson of Arabs from Samaria, a devout Muslim psychiatrist and a U.S. army officer who screamed, “Allah Akbar” (Arabic for Allah is Great) before he fired. The attack ended after he was seriously wounded, and he is in intensive care at an army hospital. ...
Egypt Islamists appalled by Beyonce concert
Singer Beyonce, who put off a gig in Malaysia following Islamist outrage over her "gyrating moves" and "sexy outfits," was due to perform in Egypt on Friday under tight security, at the Red Sea resort of Port Ghalib. ...
Fort Hood suspect's religion was an issue, family says
The bumper sticker reading "Allah is Love" was torn off and the car was keyed....
Al-Qaeda allies 'may carry out attacks'
Italy was susceptible to terror attacks by allies of the Al-Qaeda network, the interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Friday. Maroni warned there were terror cells that identified with Al-Qaeda and they had "authorisation" to carry out attacks in Italy. ...
Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead
The U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic's scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition. ...
UN General Assembly Endorses Goldstone Report
The United Nations General Assembly formally voted to adopt the Goldstone Report on Thursday by a vote of 114-18, with 44 abstentions. ...
Netanyahu Challenges UN on Weapons Ship
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the terrorist weapon shipment captured in an IDF raid this week constituted a war crime, and criticized the United Nations for its failure to respond to the incident. He noted the timing of the weapons shipment, ...
Senior Muslim Cleric Convicted of Assault
Senior Israeli Muslim cleric Sheikh Raad Salah, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, was convicted Thursday of rioting and of assaulting a police officer. ...
Soldier Opens Fire at Ft. Hood; 12 Dead
31 Others Wounded; Suspect - an Army Psychiatrist Reportedly Upset about Upcoming Deployment to Iraq - Killed by Police...
National Police penetrated by Taliban at 'every level'
The Afghan National Police have been penetrated by the Taliban “at every level” with officers poorly trained, corrupt and some addicted to drugs, a former Army officer has ...
Iran wants to be seen as regional power
Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is only intended to generate electricity, is an attempt to force the world to acknowledge it as a regional power, U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei said late on Wednesday. ...
Egypt urges UN action if Israel rejects freeze
Egypt said on Thursday that if Israel continues to reject a freeze on Jewish settlement, then any new peace talks should be on the basis of a U.N. Security Council requiring it to leave the whole West Bank....
In Next War, All Israel Will Be One Front
In the next war, missiles will rain down on all of Israel, Major General (ret.) Uzi Dayan, the former Head of Central Command and head of the National Security Council, told Arutz Sheva Wednesday. ...
Official Deny Israel's History in Land of Israel
A Palestinian historian and a senior PLO official have denied that the Jewish nation has any historical connection to the Land of Israel, thus continuing the Palestinian Authority's ongoing historical revision....
Obama calls for new relationship with Iran
President Obama today called for a new relationship with Iran in a statement that marked the 30th anniversary of the takeover by Iranian militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran....
Sexy Costumes Spark Halloween Raids in Indonesia's Kalimantan
A Halloween party in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, on Saturday night got more spooks than it hoped for when public order officers arrived to break up the festivities apparently because some of the young women were wearing costumes deemed too revealing. ...
Somali rebels ban musical ringtones on phones
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Sacdiyo Sheeq used to love listening to Bollywood movie songs on her mobile telephone....
Following Sharia, NY taxi driver boots same-sex lovebirds
An overzealous cabby allegedly booted a gay couple when he spotted the duo sharing a warm embrace in the back of his cold car. ...
Muslim men complaint after being ‘treated like terrorists’
A PARTY of Muslim men who claim they were singled out and treated like terrorists by airport police vowed last night to push for an independent investigation....
State Dept's Religious Report Under Attack
Critical reactions to the U.S. State Department’s 2009 International Religious Freedoms Report’s section on Israel continue to be expressed. The official report, which accuses Israel of “governmental and legal discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism,” has itself been accused of being a “protracted denunciation against Israel’s Jewish character.” ...
Iran police clash with demonstrators in Tehran
Iranian police fired teargas and made several arrests during clashes with opposition supporters who staged demonstrations in central Tehran on Wednesday, witnesses said. ...
Saudi troops line Yemen border after attack
Eleven Saudi schools were evacuated and military troops have been massed on the border with Yemen after gunmen killed a Saudi officer and injured 11others in the border region of Jazan. ...
Israeli navy Intercepts Weapons-Smuggling Ship Off Coast
The Israeli Navy intercepted a ship Tuesday night carrying camouflaged weapons apparently sent by Iran for Hizbullah terrorists. A special forces unit met no resistance and arrested those on board, ...
Clinton Is a Liar
A top advisor to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, considered to be a “moderate” and a peace partner by the U.S. government, has charged that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a “liar” who is being bribed by “Zionists.” ...
Italy school crucifixes 'barred'
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. ...
Egyptian Political System and Copts
Egypt has a unique political system and language. The system is made to serve the regime’s purpose inside the country as well as its relationship with the international world. Egypt became a republic after the 1952 coup, as in any republic system the president has to be elected among others who are bidding to lead the country. Citizens vote for the candidate whose promises meet their needs....
Clinic Apologizes for Telling Muslim Doctor: No Headscarf
A suburban Dallas medical clinic has apologized to a Muslim doctor for telling her during a job interview that she would not be allowed to wear her headscarf while at work....
Clinton offers U.S. aid to help boost Muslim ties
The United States will deliver on President Barack Obama's promise of a "new start" with the world's Muslims, offering fresh programmes to promote entrepreneurship,...
Moslem Threats Against Jerusalem Councilor
Jerusalem city councilor Yael Antebi has been threatened, via the social network Facebook, after taking action to reduce the noise level of the call to prayer from mosques in Shuafat, Anata and Beit Hanina....
Afghan leader extends hand to Taliban "brothers"
Afghanistan's re-elected President Hamid Karzai handed an olive branch Tuesday to his Taliban "brothers" and urged them to come home as he vowed to form an inclusive government and wipe out corruption after stern warnings from Western supporters....
Israeli population centers, under threat attack from Gaza
Terror organizations in the Gaza Strip have significantly improved their ability to attack Israeli population centers, according to a Tuesday assessment by Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin. ...
N. Korea raises stakes in nuclear threat
North Korea said Tuesday that it has completed reprocessing thousands of spent nuclear fuel rods to extract plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile, raising the stakes in an apparent effort to get the US into direct negotiations. ...
'Rock of Ages' Discovered in Akko
A treasure trove of some 350 rare pieces of marble, hoarded beneath an ancient cellar floor, have been uncovered during an excavation conducted approximately 100 meters north of the Old City wall of the coastal city of Akko. ...
Hamas Boasts of 'Jihadist Coordination'
Hamas leaders recently testified to the Goldstone investigative committee on Operation Cast Lead that their organization was not behind terrorist rocket attacks on Israel, and does not support such attacks...
Another honor killing in the United States
On Monday, November 2, 2009, Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20 years old,...
UK woman jailed for hiding bomb files in burka
A Moroccan woman who hid a computer memory stick in her burka containing thousands of files on making explosives, was sentenced to two years in jail on Monday after pleading guilty to possessing material likely to be useful to terrorists....
Pakistan troops capture key Taliban town
Pakistan's military spokesman said Monday that troops had taken full control of Kanigurram, one of the biggest towns in South Waziristan and formerly a key Taliban operational center as 33 people were killed in a large blast in Rawalpindi....
TV series by Muammar Al Qaddafi to broadcast
In hopes of deflecting Western media attacks against the Arab and Muslim world, Libyan leader Muammar Al Qaddafi has written a screenplay for a new drama series scheduled to broadcast next Ramadan....
33 people killed in Pakistan's Rawalpindi blast
At least 33 people, including 6 soldiers, have been killed and more than 60 others wounded on Monday in a large blast in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, near the army headquarters, Al Arabiya reported. ...
Iran Guards warn opposition against new rallies
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards warned the moderate opposition on Monday not to stage any rallies on Nov. 4, when the Islamic Republic marks the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran....Author info
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