Police have nabbed the 19-year-old suspected Boston Marathon bomber, after a day-long manhunt that completely shut down the city of Boston and several suburbs and left one police officer dead. Some Bostonians flooded into the streets cheered the news, celebrating an end to five days of fear since the bombs wounded more than 175 people
Americans are resilient. Israelis have shown, unfortunately, that they are as well. But that is not a carte blanche for Obama to go on with business as usual. It came as no surprise that President Obama, upon being notified of the attack, chose not to use the word terror or terrorism in describing what
A leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday linked the Boston bombings to an anti-Islam conspiracy. In a post on his personal Facebook page Muslim Brotherhood Vice President Essam el-Erian suggested the attack was part of a global plot to discredit Islam, citing violence in Mali, Syria, Somalia and other Muslim nations, The Hill
A radical Egyptian Salafi cleric said that the terror attack in Boston this week was meant to send a message to the West, that terrorists are alive and well. The cleric, Sheik Murgan Salem, also warned that similar attacks were expected in France. Salem made the comments during an interview on Tahrir TV on
The Anne Frank Museum is now a place rampant with anti-Semitism. Anne Frank has been sanitized and is now a human being, a girl, and only incidentally, a Jew. Holocaust against Jews? Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank “would have been a Belieber,” according to a message the teenage pop star wrote in the guestbook
At least 30 Egyptians were wounded on Friday in clashes between liberal opposition activists and thousands of Islamists rallying outside the Supreme Court in central Cairo demanding “the cleansing of the judiciary,” Al Arabiya TV reported. Opposition activists fear the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to purge many judges so Islamists can install new ones more
Jordan’s Islamist opposition on Friday denounced the presence of US troops in the kingdom due to deteriorating security in neighboring Syria, urging a rethink of the deployment. “The government must review its decision to authorize the deployment of foreign troops on Jordanian soil,” the Islamic Action Front, political arm of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood,
The suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are ethnic Chechen brothers who spent much of their lives away from the breakaway Russian republic and showed few outward signs of radicalism in the United States. Much is still unknown about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, named by a national security official as suspects in the twin
Christian influence is rapidly disappearing from the Middle East. Because of ethnic and religious persecution, many Middle Eastern Christians are leaving their homelands and becoming refugees, while those who remain suffer increasing harassment and violence. At the beginning of the twentieth century, about 20 percent of the Middle Eastern population was Christian. Today, the percentage
Israeli officials on Thursday announced that they had nabbed a gang of Arab terrorists who were planning a terror attack against Israelis or tourists who visited the Temple Mount. An indictment was handed down Thursday against five suspects, residents of an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, on charges of terrorism and conspiracy to murder and kidnap
