Once Islam led the world in intellectual and cultural activity, as well as economic and military power. Then it closed its doors. In an extraordinary speech (translated on Raymond Ibrahim’s blog and virtually unnoticed by the world media) delivered on New Year’s Day by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the religious imams of
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday reiterated once again that he will veto proposed bipartisan legislation to impose new sanctions on Iran so long as diplomatic negotiations over a nuclear deal remain underway. "I will veto a bill that comes to my desk," Obama said in response to a question from ABC News at
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is not letting up with his verbal attacks against Israel. A day after he said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had committed crimes against humanity comparable to those behind the Paris attacks, Davutgolu on Friday accused his Israeli counterpart of terrorism and further said that Israeli "provocations" such as
It was a year of tragedy and disaster for the Jews of Europe, but also a year in which some of the seeds of the Jewish state were planted. The year 1915 was a difficult time for the world and for the Jewish people which was caught in the middle of the storm. As
Sweden's foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, said on Friday that Israel had overreacted to her country’s recognition of “Palestine”, and that it had irritated close allies with its reaction. "It is unacceptable how they have been talking about us and everybody else," Margot Wallstrom said in an interview with the daily Dagens Nyheter and quoted
Syrian protesters in a rebel-held area of Aleppo on Thursday burned a poster expressing support for satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, accusing it of stoking Muslim anger, AFP reports. Dozens of people marched in the battered district of Salaheddin, in the southwest of Syria's second city, against Charlie Hebdo's new cartoon, which depicts the
The brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization that has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria continues to impose Islamic Sharia law sprinkled with generous helping of executions - one of its favorite methods, crucifixion, was put on display this week in rare form. In the last two days, ISIS terrorists crucified 15 Syrian
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization, threatened to attack Israel on Thursday, citing the pretext of reported Israeli airstrikes on missiles in Syria headed for Hezbollah. Nasrallah, who spoke in an television interview with Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen to be broadcast Thursday night, said his Iran-proxy Shi'ite terrorist group is well armed and
Has anyone at all woken up? Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Arab leader who giggled his way through the solemn anti-terror rally in Paris, is ready to try the UN again. He wants recognition of “Palestine” as an independent state (which it never was). Should he get the required votes this time around
British politicians on Thursday criticized publisher Oxford University Press over its advice to omit pigs and sausages from books for children sold abroad, in a politically correct attempt not to "offend" the Muslim or Jewish communities. The existence of the recommendations was revealed during a debate on BBC Radio 4 on freedom of expression
