Qaeda in Iraq names new ‘war minister’
A new "war minister" has been named for the al-Qaeda front organization in Iraq following the deaths last month of two top leaders, an Internet monitoring group reported on Friday.
New York Bomb Scare Called Off
New York City police have called off a bomb scare in New York after cordoning off Union Square following the discovery two gas canisters in a suspicious vehicle parked in Union Square in downtown Manhattan
JFK Airport Security Fiasco: Guns, Swords in Baggage
Egyptian authorities were amazed Wednesday to have found handguns, swords and daggers in one U.S. passenger's luggage. The traveler was detained in Cairo upon his arrival from New York's JFK International Airport after his baggage was found to contain weapons and ammunition.
Replace Israel with Islamic Caliphate
Israel should be integrated into an Islamic Caliphate, and Hamas and Hizbullah should be respected as legitimate political movements,
The Next Lebanon War
A report by TIME Magazine this week warns that "the next Lebanon War" is on the horizon, but contends that although the Hizbullah terrorist organization and Israel are both fully prepared for war, neither side is looking forward to the eventuality.
US Muslim Envoy: Representing Who?
Controversial U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference Rashad Hussein is back in the spotlight over an interview published Monday in the English-language edition of the Arabic international daily Asharq Al-Awsat.
If Jews Don’t Enroll, Arabs Will Take Over
Haifa University has decided, under pressure, to prevent Sheikh Kamel Hatib of the Islamic Movement in Israel from speaking – but students say it might be too little, too late.
Stop Muslim Temple Mount Denial, 'Barbaric' Digs
Dr. Gabi Barkai, senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University and recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Archaeology, says Israelis must demand that Israeli antiquities law be enforced at Israel's most important archaeological site– the Temple Mount.
No Zionist Enemy Products
It's not only the Palestinian Authority, and it's not only against the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Jordan, too, has quasi-officially announced a boycott on all Israeli-made products.
It's illegal for women to work
Darul Uloom Deoband, the self-appointed guardian for Indian Muslims, in a Talibanesque fatwa that reeked of tribal patriarchy, has decreed that it is "haram" and illegal according to the Sharia for a family to accept a woman's earnings. Clerics at the largest Sunni Muslim seminary after Cairo's Al-Azhar said the decree flowed from the fact that the Sharia prohibited proximity of men and women in the workplace.