Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev sent text messages to his mother as early as 2011 suggesting he was willing to die for Islam, the FBI told lawmakers this week, according to Fox News. Tsarnaev, who was killed days after the April 15 bombing in a shootout with police, is said to have embraced radical
Roughly 100 professors and lecturers at Columbia University in New York are demanding that their pension funds not be invested with companies that also do business with the IDF or with civilian security providers in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) or eastern Jerusalem. Professor Katherine Franke of Columbia’s Center for Gender and
"He may be mentally ill but he is, first and foremost, an anti-Semite who attacked a Jew," a French Jewish leader said of the assailant who stabbed a rabbi and his son in Paris. Meir Haviv, Deputy Chairman of Jewish umbrella group CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France) told Arutz Sheva that
Shots were fired near the French embassy in Yemen on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, after a car bomb attack on France's embassy in Libya wounded two French guards and caused extensive damage. France is watching the situation in the capital Sanaa "carefully", a ministry spokesman told the AFP news agency. Paris stepped
An anti-terror court has sentenced three Saudis to six years in prison each for plotting to kill American nationals at the height of a campaign of Al-Qaeda attacks in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006, a witness said, according to AFP. The court in Riyadh issued its ruling late on Sunday, said a witness
The bustling streets of the Nile Delta city of al-Sharqiya should be a stronghold for Muslim Brotherhood-backed Egyptian President, Mohamed Mursi. But as the country’s economic stagnation and political deadlock deepen two years after the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, nostalgia for the former president is on the rise. The imprisoned former president’s
The mosque attended by the two suspects in the Boston marathon bombings “has a curriculum that radicalizes people,” according to the interfaith group Americans for Peace and Tolerance. The mosque has reportedly been associated with other suspected terrorists and is affiliated with the controversial Muslim American Society, APT says. Among the former attendees
On April 14, 2013,Pamela Geller’s Right-to-Free Speech was alive and well at Chabad House and led by Rabbi Yoseph Geisinsky in Great Neck, Long Island. This was one day before the SAVAGE, murderous attack by two Jihadis against American citizens. An attack that was meant to maim and to kill PEOPLE, not soldiers,
For years Jews have been allowed to visit the Temple Mount, the holiest place on earth according to the Jewish religion, but have not been allowed to pray there. In late 2012 police issued draconian instructions under which Jewish visitors could be arrested for merely appearing to pray. All that may change with MK
The EU should use its soft power to remind the Egyptian government of its obligations and that it seeks to maintain good relations, but only if it has a responsible partner The EU’s High Representative, Catherine Ashton, was visiting Cairo when, during the funeral service for four Egyptian Christians who were recently killed, violence
