About 3,500 Pakistani Shiites protested in southwestern Pakistan for a second day on Saturday, blocking a main road with dozens of coffins of relatives killed in explosions to demand better security from the government. Police in the city of Quetta had earlier said that the protest had ended, but a prominent Shiite leader Ibrahim
It's no secret that Iran has been supplying Hamas with weapons and rockets to use against Israel, but a special report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center concluded just how deep the terror link between Iran and Hamas runs, and showed how Operation Pillar of Defense marked a major turning point in the relationship
A radical Salafist preacher who is a proponent of anti-vice police recently shocked Egyptians when he appeared on primetime television to urge women to wear headscarves to avoid being raped. The preacher's comments have since been refuted by the country's head Islamic legal official, who regarded them as "idiotic." "I was once asked: If
More than 100 people including rebels and government soldiers were killed in Mali during French air strikes and fighting over the strategic town of Konna, Malian military sources and witnesses said on Saturday. An army officer at the headquarters of Mali’s former military junta in Bamako told Reuters “over 100” rebels had been killed,
An Egyptian court has ordered that a program hosted by a fiery preacher be suspended for libeling and defaming a well-known actress. The court on Saturday decided to suspend the program "In The Scale" for 30 days. A widely circulated video clip shows its host, Abdullah Badr, accusing well-known actress Elham Chahine of
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ordered security forces to immediately evacuate the Arabs who have gathered in the area between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem, known as E1. To this end, the State said it would, on Saturday evening, request that the High Court of Justice rescind the injunction that it had issued, which is
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), identified by the U.S. government as an entity of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, has launched an advertising campaign to change how the term “jihad” is viewed by the public, promoting a definition that is so broad it becomes meaningless. Said another way, in the words of one television
Egypt’s newly elected Salafi Nour Party chairman said that an electoral alliance between his party and the Muslim Brotherhood’s ruling Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is not possible during the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections, a local newspaper reported. Chairman Younes Makhyoun said that the Nour party and the FJP are in disagreement and that
Tunisia’s Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi on Friday warned from turning the Tunisian revolution into “chaos” at a time where recent events in the country had been associated with violence. Speaking three days before Tunisia marks its uprising’s second anniversary since the overthrow of ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Ghannouchi told hundreds of the
Mazen Alotaibi is a Sergeant in the Saudi Royal Air Force and the Royal part is literal. The Saudi air force tends to be the home of the well connected. Mazen is likely a member of the prominent Otaibi tribe. And like a lot of Saudis, a trip to America meant a chance to get
