The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, “All except the Prophet Muhammad.” The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three
US president asks Marines to shield him and Turkey's Erdogan from rain, inadvertently breaches Marine Corp Manual. When United States President Barack Obama asked two Marines to shield him and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the rain he was also inadvertently issuing an illegal order. Apparently Marines are prohibited from holding umbrellas
One person died and dozens were wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians late Friday night outside a Coptic church in Egypt's city of Alexandria, state newspaper Al Ahram reported. A quarrel between two young men, one Christian and one Muslim, morphed into a family feud that sparked clashes in a western district of Alexandria.
They are in Syria, Iraq, Pakistan etc. What will be their next step? Up to 100 Dutch Muslims are currently fighting in Syria. The Netherlands is the biggest supplier of European jihadist fighters, and most of them are members of pro al Qaeda Al Nusra movement which wants to create an Islamic state in Syria.
At least 10 people were killed on Friday in an explosion after alleged smugglers set a fuel depot on fire in response to a police crackdown, a local official said. The suspects set ablaze an illegal fuel depot located in the basement of a three-story building in a small village near Turkey's border with
Hundreds of people marched on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday calling for Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi to resign and demanding early elections, AFP correspondents and local media reported. The demonstration was called by a number of opposition groups, including the Al-Dustur party of former U.N. atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei and the April
Terrorists who were arrested in Egypt over the weekend were planning to attack the U.S. and French embassies in Cairo, Egyptian officials said Wednesday. The three are members of a terror organization, but Egyptian officials stopped short of admitting that the terrorists belonged to Al Qaeda. The U.S. embassy in Cairo warned American citizens
Numerous units from the rebel Syrian army have been trying since the morning hours Thursday to smash the 52nd Armored Brigade of the Syria army, Arab news sources reported. The 52nd Armored Brigade is the main fighting force in the Dera'a area in southern Syria. Some reports say that the rebels have achieved
Arab terrorists fired a Kassam rocket from Gaza Wednesday, marking Nakba Day – the day of the establishment of the state of Israel despite Arab efforts to annihilate it, just three years after the Auschwitz death factory closed its gates. A Color Red siren sounded in the Eshkol region Wednesday afternoon, immediately after the
A terrorist can sport an NBA Jersey and Nike Sneakers – but they won't make him a professional basketball player. Similarly, a terrorist can get in a car marked “TV” and print a press card – and that doesn’t make him a journalist. The Newseum Journalists Memorial this week is honoring the 84 journalists
