Monthly Archives: July 2009

Egyptian officials say 25 militants suspected of having al-Qaeda links have been arrested for plotting attacks on ships in the Suez Canal.

A top aide to President Barack Obama provided a keynote address at last weekend's 46th Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) national convention, a gathering that attracted thousands of people and also featured anti-Semitic, homophobic rhetoric and defense of the terrorist group Hezbollah.

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Hindu activists assaulted staff of the Good Shepherd School in Andhra Pradesh, India, on May 29th.

Somali Islamist Group Gives Government Five Days to Surrender

An attempt by Hamas police to detain a young woman walking with a man along the Gaza beach has raised alarms that the Islamic militant group is seeking to match its political control of the coastal territory with a strict enforcement of Islamic law.

The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it will grant asylum to 1,350 Arabs in Iraq who claim to have the right to live in Israel based on ancestry.

Female students at the Har Hatzofim (Mount Scopus) campus of Hebrew University have complained of repeated sexual harassment by Arabs from nearby Isawiya.

Arabs destroyed a Jewish home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem last week after forcing a Jewish contractor to leave.

An Egyptian security official said on Saturday that the country had expelled about 20 French Muslims over the last month who were believed to be connected with an attack on Cairo's Kah al-Khalili bazaar in February.

Islamist militants have been blamed for a bomb blast in the Philippines today which killed at least five people and wounded dozens more.