PEGIDA, the acronym for the German civil society group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, has found fertile ground for growth across Europe, from Norway to Bulgaria. The movement appears to be eyeing its chapter in Spain as the most likely to grow into the tens of thousands in membership as it did in Germany, however, where Germans are expected to join the nation’s inaugural PEGIDA march.
Authorities in the Philippines engaged in an extensive effort to clear Manila’s streets of homeless children, a Daily Mail report uncovered, to shield Pope Francis from witnessing the crushing poverty the capital’s homeless face. Children were rounded up and caged in jail cells, made to eat scraps of food on the floor, and beaten by older inmates.
A man claiming to be the leader of Nigerian jihadist terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has appeared in a new video this week praising the organizers of the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, condemning the Western nation’s “religion of democracy” and proclaiming that his terrorist group is “very happy” with the attack.
An estimated 1,500 Muslims Filipinos organized a protest on Monday against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after the jihadist massacre that killed 12 at the magazine’s office, including most of their senior staff.
The government of Tanzania has outlawed witch doctors in response to the increasingly widespread practice of hunting albino individuals to use their body parts in magic spells. Witch doctors have convinced clients that the body parts of an albino can bring good luck and attract money, which has led to the killing of at least 70 albino individuals and the disfigurement of countless others.
The French government has arrested at least 54 individuals in the past week for what it is defining as “hate speech” and “defending terrorism,” including a well-known comic with an extensive record of anti-Semitic remarks.
Police raided the offices of Cumhuriyet, a Turkish daily newspaper, on January 14 in an attempt to prevent the newspaper from publishing a special Turkish edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, intended as an attack on the government’s increasingly Islamist rule over the NATO country.
Renald Luzier, also known as “Luz,” is the French cartoonist for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo who escaped dying at the hands of jihadists terrorists by oversleeping the day his magazine’s headquarters office was attacked. As one of the few surviving members of the magazine’s senior leadership, he is responsible for the first Charlie Hebdo cover since the slaughter and explained in a press conference why Muhammad needed to appear on the magazine again.
Spectators at Melbourne’s Darts Invitational Challenge, an international darts competition, initiated a riot that suspended the tournament for several hours, throwing chairs and jumping on tables until they broke. Regional government officials have called the incident “very ugly,” as the venue’s security officers were unable to stop the violence without police assistance.
The Chinese regional government of Xinjiang, the nation’s westernmost province, has approved a ban on burqas in its capital, Urumqi. The capital is the nation’s most Muslim-populated city; the law would prevent women from wearing the garment in public.
The German anti-Islamist group PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) organized the largest rally in its history Monday, with official crowd size estimates at about 25,000. As the movement grows in Germany, fueled by anger at radical Islam for the deaths of 12 during last week’s massacre at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, other countries are beginning to establish their own PEGIDA branches.
Earlier today, the attorney representing French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo announced that, “obviously,” Muhammad would be depicted as a cartoon on the cover of the magazine this week. In the first issue since radical Islamists killed 12 in retaliation for previous Muhammad illustrations, Muhammad appears on the cover holding a sign that reads, “I am Charlie.”
Concern among Germans regarding the destructive potential of Islam within a free society has been growing in the past several years; even before last weeks gruesome attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a plurality of Germans believed that Islam was “threatening” or “very threatening” to German society, according to one poll.
The pro-Islamic State “Cyber Caliphate” jihadist hacker group took control of the United States’ Central Command Twitter account sometime after noon Eastern Time today, replacing the photos on the page with pro-jihadist artwork and posting the personal information of U.S. Army soldiers.
The Venezuelan government has begun to target individuals who take photos of empty supermarket shelves or long lines of citizens waiting for their weekly rations of food, according to a number of Venezuelans on social media, who state they have been harassed by the national police force.
Amedy Coulibaly, the man who, along with wife Hayat Boumediene, attacked a kosher market in Paris on Friday and killed four, once met French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and requested autographs for his sisters.
Cuban dissidents and Cuban-American media are reporting that Havana is plagued with the most serious rumors in months that former dictator Fidel Castro has died, after the one-year anniversary of Castro’s last public appearance transpired without fanfare on Thursday.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has issued a statement, via their official radio outlet, praising brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi for the gruesome attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. ISIS calls the pair “heroes” for killing twelve people, including two police officers, as revenge against the magazine for mocking Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
A hacking collective that goes by the name “Cyber Caliphate” and claims to be affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS) terrorist group has hacked two news organizations in the United States–one in Maryland and one in Albuquerque–and threatens many more similar breaches of privacy in coming months.
Corinne Rey, a Charlie Hebdo cartoonist know as “Coco” who was the first to encounter the terrorists that massacred twelve at the satirical magazine’s headquarters, told French media that the men identified themselves as Al Qaeda and threatened the life of her daughter in order to get through.
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has become internationally synonymous with free speech after yesterday’s brutal massacre at their headquarters, perpetrated by radical Islamists seeking revenge for their mockery of Muhammad. The magazine regularly mocks Muhammad, Jesus Christ, both specific Popes and the papacy in general, and other religious figures, which appears to have led to some misconception that religious satire is their only trade.
Breitbart National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who is also the Major General Horner Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University, appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday to discuss the potential reactions by the French government to yesterday’s brutal jihadist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and how a history of negotiating with terrorists might make preventing future attacks of this nature difficult.
Two major public health groups in Venezuela are warning that President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government is ignoring a surge in cases of the crippling chikungunya virus that could lead to a “humanitarian crisis” in the increasingly impoverished OPEC nation.
In a series of photos released this week depicting their victims tied up and displayed in a row before being killed, Islamic State terrorists can be seen torturing and killing men described as Iraqi police. The police had allegedly infiltrated the
The government of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas began the year with a resounding loss at the United Nations, failing to win a bid for the organization to recognize Palestine as a state. The move failed largely due to one member of the Security Council, Nigeria, abstaining from the vote. That vote, previously a near-guarantee in Palestine’s favor, has turned, and some suggest Boko Haram’s radical Islamist terror in Nigeria’s northeast could have contributed to the pivot.
