Monthly Archives: October 2009

Muslims students stoned Coptic Christian churches and homes in a southern Egyptian village on Saturday after four Muslims suspected of killing a Copt were kept in custody, police said.

A Muslim student says she is "emotionally traumatised" after her local college prevented her from enrolling because she wore a veil.

Media reports on the Boston terror arrest have named three individuals as conspirators in the plot Ahmad Abousamra" to machine gun people in shopping malls and kill American officials.Two, Daniel Maldonado and Tareq Mehanna, are in custody. The third, however, Ahmad Abousamra, escaped to Syria after being questioned by the FBI in 2006.

Two Christians in Gojra, Pakistan who allegedly fired warning shots as an Islamist mob approached that burned seven Christians to death on Aug. 1 told Compass they were tortured after police arrested them.

The Taliban called on Saturday for a boycott of the upcoming run-off in Afghanistan's presidential election and threatened violence against anyone who participates.

Iran declined on Friday to endorse proposals by the U.N. nuclear watchdog to help reduce Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium.

The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world. New multi-million-dollar fund is for Muslim nations

The latest United Nations report by Rapporteur Martin Scheinin expresses concern that the war on terrorism harms women. Scheinin, whose position involves investigating counterterror efforts around the world, advises that nations fighting terrorism “abandon the use of a 'war paradigm'... because of the adverse impacts it has on gender equality.”

Somalia's hardline Shabaab insurgents said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from those countries that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu.

Pakistan Christian Congress PCC extended invitation to leaders and organizations which are struggling to repeal blasphemy law in Pakistan to participate in All Christian Parties Conference on October 25, 2009, at Rawalpindi Press Club.