Militants bombed adjacent houses belonging to two Shiite Muslim brothers south of Baghdad early on Wednesday morning, killing 18 members of their families, security and medical officials said. The bombs targeted the houses in the town of Latifiyah, just south of Baghdad, shortly after midnight, an army officer and a doctor at a
Islamists are known for their ultra-conservative views on alcohol, women and other aspects of western culture they routinely lambast as corrupt and haram (forbidden). But it appears that such Islamic puritanism only goes so far - and where there's money to be made, even the most radical Islamists are ready to 'cut corners.'
Indonesia’s religious affairs minister has called for the Miss World beauty pageant to be cancelled, as opposition in the Muslim-majority country mounts the week before the contest opens in Bali. Suryadharma Ali said that the organizers should follow the advice of the nation’s top Islamic clerical body, which last week called for
A rift has developed among various terrorist groups, who until recently had overlooked religious differences to cooperate in fighting Israel and other western interests, as they find themselves fighting on different sides of the Shi'ite/Sunni fault line which increasingly characterizes fight for or against the rule of Bashar Al-Assad. The Popular Front for the
A UK judge told a Muslim woman in court on Friday who refused to reveal her face that she must remove her burkha before submitting a plea. The judge told the court that the principle of open justice outweighed the women’s religious beliefs, stating that there was a danger that a different person
The following list of 58 looted and burned buildings (including convents and schools) has been verified by representatives of the Christian Churches. At least 58 Christian churches, schools, institutions, homes and shops have been attacked, looted and torched over the last three days by the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the
If you're planning on taking up a hobby as an internet troll, Saudi Arabia is probably somewhere to avoid. A 30 year-old Saudi national was apparently sentenced to 50 lashes for insulting members of his own tribe on the Twitter microblogging site. According to the Riyadh Bureau website a group of tribesmen from
The word “Allah” is reserved only for followers of Islam and non-Muslims must stop challenging this “absolute” right, Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said on Sunday, reported The Malay Mail Online. Malaysia has been witness to a long-term dispute concerning the right to use “Allah” in Christianity, the minister’s fresh remarks
Radical Islamic organization Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda's branch in Somalia, is producing a series of documentary videos about jihadist warriors who came from the U.S. to fight against “infidel forces.” One of the videos brings the story of two young Americans who came from Minnesota, joined jihadists in Somalia and were killed in the
A distraught Polish-born woman donned a burka to travel to Egypt and retrieve her three-year-old daughter who had been snatched by her Egyptian father, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported on Monday. Alex Abou-El-Ella from Berkshire in England, risked her safety to rescue her young daughter, Mona, two years after the girl was kidnapped
