Looking slightly restless, a small group of young women stood in the shade of a white-stone Bay Ridge mosque with large arched windows. They were fidgeting with their pens or flipping through the forms in their clipboards as they waited for the end of the Friday noon prayer, a weekly occasion that brings together a
A group of Muslim terror suspects has been branded the “most dangerous” terror threat France has faced since 1996. French prosecutor Francois Molins said he would file charges of attempted murder and terrorism against seven of the 12 suspects arrested last weekend in a nationwide sting operation. Five of the suspects were released without
The 100 member assembly tasked with composing Egypt’s new constitution released an unfinished draft to the public Wednesday and has asked Egyptians to begin debating its content. The document, however, according to analysts and Democrats, overlooked myriad crux concerns that symbolize the ongoing disputes that have stagnated the process of writing a new post-Hosni Mubarak
A U.S. lawmaker called Wednesday for a boycott of public transit systems in Washington and other cities running a pro-Israel advertisement that denounces "the savage" in Muslim countries, AFP reported. The advertisements, which have also run on trains in New York and buses in San Francisco, went up this week at four stations in
The head of the Hizbullah terror group, Hassan Nasrallah boasted on Thursday that his group sent a sophisticated unmanned drone over Israel last week, saying the device was built by Iran, AFP reported. The Israeli Air Force shot down the drone on Saturday morning after it entered the country's airspace from the Mediterranean Sea.
The supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement which Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi belongs to, called on Thursday for a jihad (holy war) to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli rule. "Jerusalem is Islamic ... and nobody is entitled to make concessions" on the Holy City, said Sheikh Mohammed Badie in his weekly message to
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the drone aircraft which flew some 35 miles (55 km) last weekend into Israeli territory before being shot down by the IDF was sent by the Lebanese militia Hizbullah, an Iranian proxy force. Hizbullah boss Hassan Nasrallah was quoted a short time later as saying that
Turkey seized "objectionable cargo" aboard the Syrian passenger plane which it intercepted en route from Moscow to Damascus on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, according to an AFP report. "There is illegal cargo on the plane that should have been reported" in line with civil aviation regulations, Davutoglu was quoted as saying
The United Arab Emirates could join a project to build Turkey’s second nuclear power plant if South Korea is involved, Turkish energy minister said on Thursday. “Officials from the United Arab Emirates said they could be a partner in the project if South Korea undertakes the building of the nuclear power plant,” in northern
According to a news story on the respected Worldnet News Daily (WND) web site – with an accompanying array of photos as evidence – U.S. President Barack H. Obama has been wearing, since his days in college, a ring on which is inscribed the Shahada, the main Muslim prayer. The report quoted Egyptian-born Islamic scholar
