Of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the Netherlands before the war, more than 100,000 were deported and murdered. About 30,000 Jews live here now, out of a total population of nearly 17 million.
Top Taliban leader Mullah Omar confirmed that the Taliban and US were headed towards peace talks aimed at ending a decade of war.
Non-Muslims are welcome to live in Pakistan provided they recognize that Pakistan is a Muslim country. Non-Muslim minorities are like guests, while the Muslims are hosts. It is not appropriate for a guest to misbehave in his host's house. Rather a guest must respect his host and the rules of his home.
A Saudi-born man with Jordanian and Australian passports was sentenced to 30 months in prison for helping Hamas terrorists.
The biggest attack on Thursday was by a police checkpoint west of Nassiriya in the south, where a suicide bomber targeting Shiite pilgrims killed at least 38 people and wounded 70, Qusay al-Abadi, head of Nassiriya provincial council said.
Sudan has seen some small protests in Khartoum and the underdeveloped east that have become more frequent as inflation has risen, hitting 18.1 percent in December.
“the president of the republic is responsible for protecting the people, and the question is not simply one of whether he ordered the killing of protesters, but to know why he did not intervene to stop the violence.”
Britain is warning Iran it may resort to military action if Tehran attempts to close the Strait of Hormuz to Western oil shipping.
Muslim villagers in Taoshan, a community in the Ningxia region, clashed with authorities who destroyed a refurbished mosque scheduled to reopen on New Year's Day.
Israel and the United States face a common global enemy – Islamist jihadism – which both the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas embody. “Democracy,” in the eyes of both organizations, is only a tactical means to securing power, which is to be exercised in the service of sharia law, jihad and Islamic supremacy.
