Around 30 prisoners managed to escape an Afghan prison after Taliban gunmen attacked the jail, sparking clashes that left three inmates dead and 28 wounded, officials said Friday. A large explosion blew a hole in the wall of the prison in Sari Pul, capital of the northern province of the same name, shortly after
Protect freedom of speech, expression and religion in Italy, Europe and the Arab-Islamic world, provide legal and (wheever possible) financial support to anyone suffering from ''legal jihad'' (i.e. censorship in the name of Islam by religious extremists) are some of the ambitious aims of the association Vincere La Paura (''Overcoming Fear''). The association will be
An Egyptian province cut off for years from the tourist trade by an Islamist insurgency is looking to a new president and the lure of an ancient heretical Pharaoh for a better future. Egyptians vote on June 16 and 17 in the concluding stage of an election to replace Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s leader for
The spokesman for the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Ilias Ksidiaris, is wanted for arrest following a brawl on live television Thursday, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported. Ilias Ksidiaris threw a glass of water at female MP Rena Douru from the left-wing Syriza party before striking Liana Kanelli, an MP from the communist KKE
Belgian prosecutors on Thursday charged a high-profile Islamist radical with stoking hatred and violence during racial disturbances in Brussels last week. According to AFP Fouad Belkacem, a 30-year-old Belgian man of Moroccan origin, was picked up at at his family home in the northern city of Antwerp early Thursday morning, and was placed in
The prominent human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program, along with Former Muslims United (FMU) will be hosting the first-ever "Summer Night for Human Rights" Town Hall dedicated to defending the freedom of conscience. Dedicated to Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who has been sentenced to death in
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that Al-Qaeda is still a serious and imminent threat, and is spreading geographically. "The core of Al-Qaeda that carried out the 9/11 attacks may be on the path to defeat, but the threat has spread, becoming more geographically diverse," Clinton said ahead of a counter terrorism
An Algerian man has died after setting himself ablaze in protest when a policeman took away his driver’s license in the Mascara region, the El Watan Week-end newspaper reported Friday. The 36-year-old victim, named only by his initials A.A., had third-degree burns when he was admitted Wednesday to hospital in the city of Oran,
The head of Egypt’s state council for women has accused resurgent Islamists of seeking to roll back female rights on such issues as divorce and custody and undermine the council as a discredited remnant of the Hosni Mubarak era. “They are trying to take away rights that women attained in compliance with Islamic Sharia,”
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's condition has deteriorated so much that doctors at the Cairo prison where he is serving a life sentence had to constantly administer oxygen to him overnight, security officials said Thursday. The officials at Cairo's Tora prison told The Associated Press that the 84-year-old Mubarak is suffering breathing problems, high
