Israel is concerned by a U.S. Senate report regarding fake parts used on USAF aircraft, and is checking whether some of the parts found their way to systems on IAF aircraft as well, writes IsraelDefense. The Senate report, as cited by CNN, says a million counterfeit parts have been discovered in systems used on
Thousands of devout Muslims prayed outside Turkey’s historic Hagia Sophia museum on Saturday to protest a 1934 law that bars religious services at the former church and mosque. Worshippers shouted, “Break the chains, let Hagia Sophia Mosque open,” and “God is great” before kneeling in prayer as tourists looked on. Turkey’s secular laws
The Obama administration reportedly leaked classified information to filmmakers on the raid by U.S. Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden. According to documents released by the Judicial Watch media watchdog, the White House released the sensitive information for a film which was first scheduled to be released October 12, just in time to
One thing is certain: next June 16th and 17th Egypt will go back to polls to elect its first president of the post-revolution era. The candidates who will be on the ballot are the Islamist Mohammed Morsi, official candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the secular Ahmed Shafiq who was the real surprise election, former
Residents of Jewish communities in the eastern part of the Gush Etzion Regional Council blocked one of the intersections in the area on Wednesday evening, in protest of the ongoing rock attacks by Palestinian Authority Arabs. The residents said that the rock throwing attacks by PA Arabs at Israeli vehicles in the area have
Dear Friends of Voice of the Copts Voice of the Copts stands behind native Egyptian Christian Copts committed to living in the land of their ancestry where their history traces back to the ancient Pharaohs. Under grave conditions of discrimination, harassment, threats, and sometimes torture and imprisonment, today’s Egyptian Copts have it more difficult
While the entire world watches and awaits the outcome of Egypt’s presidential election -- the first one of the new “democratic era” of Egypt -- Islamic law or Sharia plays a leading role in the post-Mubarak period. The Sharia, formerly guaranteed by the 2nd amendment of the Mubarak constitution and the cause of non-Muslim oppression,
Mao’s Cultural Revolution was one of the darkest chapters of the 20th Century: communist zealots, known as “the Red Guards,” attached revolutionary messages to Buddhist statues; seventeen professors from the Shanghai Music Conservatory committed suicide; intellectuals were harassed in public trials during which they had to confess their “sins,” kneeling on makeshift rostrums; thousands of
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday was conferred honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations from the Quaid-e-Azam University. Acting President Nayyer Hussain Bokhari conferred the honorary PhD degree upon the Turkish Prime Minister during a special convocation held at Aiwan-e-Sadr. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, members of the Federal
An IDF force arrested two young Arab men from the village of Madama near Yitzhar Thursday, after they set fire to brush north of the Jewish community in Samaria (Shomron). Earlier in the day, large forces of police and firefighters arrived at the Yitzhar after receiving a report that a fire had broken out
