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Egypt’s Salafi party says no alliance with Brotherhood next elections

By | 2013-01-12T11:44:18-04:00 January 12th, 2013|News|

Egypt’s newly elected Salafi Nour Party chairman said that an electoral alliance between his party and the Muslim Brotherhood’s ruling Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is not possible during the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections, a local newspaper reported.    Chairman Younes Makhyoun said that the Nour party and the FJP are in disagreement and that

Tunisia’s Ennahda chief warns revolution turning into ‘chaos’

By | 2013-01-12T11:21:27-04:00 January 12th, 2013|News|

Tunisia’s Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi on Friday warned from turning the Tunisian revolution into “chaos” at a time where recent events in the country had been associated with violence.    Speaking three days before Tunisia marks its uprising’s second anniversary since the overthrow of ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Ghannouchi told hundreds of the

String of bombings kill 101, injure 200 in Pakistan

By | 2013-01-11T22:49:31-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

At least 101 people were killed in bombings in two cities in Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, with most casualties caused by sectarian attacks in the city of Quetta.   Two coordinated explosions killed at least 69 people and injured more than 100 in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on Thursday evening, said Deputy

Islamic group practicing Jihad on San Francisco buses

By | 2013-01-11T21:45:35-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

CAIR is attempting to reclaim the meaning of the controversial term in its My Jihad campaign that uses billboards on city buses to redefine what it perceives as American misconceptions of an Islamic practice.   “A common misconception of the word ‘jihad’ is that it means armed struggle or holy war,” CAIR Bay Area Chapter

Largest Anti-Muslim Ad Campaign Hits NY Subway System

By | 2013-01-11T21:17:07-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

The group behind last year’s controversial anti-Jihadist advertisements that appeared throughout the New York subway system is planning what is expected to be its largest campaign to date.   The American Freedom Defense Initiative purchased space next to 228 clocks in 39 New York subway stations for ads with an image of the burning World

New Egypt central bank chief says not worried about currency

By | 2013-01-11T19:57:43-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

Egypt’s newly named central bank chief sought to reassure investors on Thursday there was no need to be worried about the situation on the Egyptian currency market, saying the bank had “all the tools” to intervene if it saw speculation.   Hisham Ramez will be taking the reins in the midst of Egypt’s most acute

Abbas Allows Armed Terrorists in Public

By | 2013-01-11T10:45:04-04:00 January 11th, 2013|News|

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has allowed armed terrorists to publicly march and fire into the air within the areas he controls in Judea and Samaria.   Kol Yisrael radio reported Thursday that about 20 members of Abbas's Fatah movement marched in the Balata area of Shechem on Thursday afternoon, firing into the air. A

Abbas and Mashaal to Meet Morsi in Egypt

By | 2013-01-09T12:19:23-04:00 January 9th, 2013|News|

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal in Cairo on Wednesday, Morsi's office said.   Abbas and Mashaal will first "meet Egypt's intelligence chief before holding a three-way meeting with President Morsi," presidential spokesman Yasser Ali told AFP.   Azzam al-Ahmad, who is in charge