Gen. John Campbell, the top commander of U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, said that a “younger piece” of the Taliban in Afghanistan may seek to join forces with the Islamic State despite the ideological differences between the two jihadist groups.
WASHINGTON — Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that she would assign Muslim Rep. André Carson (D-IN) to the prestigious House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The human rights advocacy group the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) announced on Tuesday that it will be holding a demonstration in defense of the freedom of speech on Saturday, January 17 in Garland, Texas, outside a conference on “Islamophobia” that seeks to stifle opposition to jihad terror and restrict the freedom of speech.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to accuse the French government of either allowing or deliberately engineering the Charlie Hebdo massacre as a means to discredit Islam in new remarks, in which he asserts that Muslims “have never taken part in terrorist massacres.”
The newest Charlie Hebdo magazine, which went on sale throughout France Wednesday, reportedly sold out almost immediately. The three million copy print run has now been boosted to five million, AFP reports.
Wednesday, the NBA’s record points scorer, former Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, said he was disappointed the Paris terror attack on the creators of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, who were massacred for printing mocking cartoons of Muhammad, is being
Throughout many schools in France, Muslim students refused to comply with a moment of silence to honor the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. While some spoke obnoxiously loudly during the 60 second period, others yelled “Allahu Akbar!” or “God is great.” In another incident, a group of young Muslims dishonored the moment of silence, telling their teacher, “You reap what you sow,” the Washington Post reports.
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.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the jihadist group’s affiliate in North Africa, has threatened France with more attacks.
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying it was ordered by the Islamist militant group’s leadership for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, according to a video posted on YouTube.
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has called the latest front cover of Charlie Hebdo an “act of war” against Muslims. The magazine features Mohammed crying and holding a “Je Suis Charlie” sign, with the headline roughly translating to “Everything is forgiven”.
Imam Malik Mujahid, producer of the “Stand with the Prophet” conference, which is designed to help “lead the effort against Islamophobia” defended inviting Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, and according
Fox News Strategic Analyst and Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters argued that President Obama “would have an easier time dealing with a war on terrorists if the terrorists were southern baptists or Israeli Jews”on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News
On Tuesday, The Huffington Post attempted to spin Islamic radicalism in Europe as a secondary threat to both Europeans and Jews. The primary threat? As their headline put it, “Far-Right Parties On The Rise Across Europe.”
For all of you defeatists around the world, who are afraid to stand up to the Islamic bully, take some notes from the staff at Charlie Hebdo about how to deal with radical Islam.
Rupert Murdoch is a media mogul, not a politician, but he owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, so he is plenty familiar with politics—and he is no stranger to battles with The New York Times. And yet unlike most politicians, Murdoch has always had a reputation for candor. And Twitter, of course, makes candor even easier; we are all just a tweet away from letting loose what we really think.
The Islamic State reportedly publicly executed five men in Mosul Monday because their wives were not wearing appropriate Islamic head covering, according to Arabic media sources.
Afghan officials have confirmed that the Islamic State is operating in Afghanistan less than a month after the U.S.-led coalition formally ended its combat mission there.
The Associated Press reports Cameroon’s government claims it killed 143 Boko Haram militants in a single five-hour firefight, when a Cameroonian military camp in Kolofata came under attack.
Democratic pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen slammed President Obama for failing to send any senior officials to the French unity march on Tuesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Schoen said “they [the Obama administration] didn’t even stand up for American values,
As Hollywood’s elite paraded down the red carpet, some donning pins in support of Charlie Hebdo at Sunday’s Golden Globe awards, street artists took to the affluent surrounding area to hang posters featuring an image of the satire magazine’s contentious cover, accompanied by the words, “Goodwill Hunting?”
President Jimmy Carter laid part of the blame of terrorist attacks such as the massacre at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo last week on the State of Israel. His comments follow a similar demand from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for Israeli
Tuesday at the Heritage Action for America’s second annual policy summit, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said President Barack Obama’s one-sided attempt to make a nuclear deal with Iran is “risking our national security to secure a presidential legacy.” Cotton said,
Caroline Fourest, a former writer for French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, declared American refusal to show the magazine’s cartoons “crazy” and “the saddest news I’ve heard in all of this” as MSNBC blurred one of Charlie Hebdo’s covers in an interview broadcast
Tonight, BBC Arabic will air a new documentary, Slaves of the Caliphate, which documents the horrendous plight of captured Yazidi girls and women. This film will be broadcast on BBC World on January 17, 2015.
