
A London resident has been convicted of planning a Lee Rigby style attack before Remembrance Sunday last year. He had listened to a “truly chilling” Islamic State fatwa calling on Muslims to kill western police officers, the court heard. Nadir Syed, 22,
by Liam Deacon15 Dec 2015, 1:10 AM PST0

One of two Muslim converts jailed for killing British soldier Lee Rigby in broad daylight on a London street in 2013 is seeking compensation after losing two front teeth in a struggle with prison guards, the government confirmed Thursday. The
by AFP10 Dec 2015, 3:56 AM PST0

The latest Islamic State video, released today, depicts the beheading of a man alleged to be a Russian spy, knife-murdered by a jihadi speaking Russian.
by John Hayward2 Dec 2015, 11:12 AM PST0

Richard Dawkins posted a Tweet on Tuesday that compared “Clock Boy,” Ahmed Mohamed to the Islamic State child soldier who beheaded a man and it was captured on video. After being attacked on Twitter, he is backing down from his original statement and saying he was only making the comparison of them being young boys.
by Lana Shadwick24 Nov 2015, 1:31 PM PST0

Protesters in Afghanistan stormed the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday, carrying the coffins of seven civilians from the Hazara Shiite minority, recently beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorists.
by Edwin Mora11 Nov 2015, 9:12 PM PST0

Iran has lodged a protest with Saudi Arabia over the execution of three Iranian citizens accused of smuggling hashish, warning that the Saudis’ appetite for executions is a source of continuing tension between the two countries.
by John Hayward9 Nov 2015, 5:51 PM PST0

A man has been found guilty of threatening to behead a UKIP candidate in the lead up to May’s general election. Aftab Ahmed, 45, decided to call the Ukip candidate for Newcastle East after receiving a UKIP leaflet through his
by Liam Deacon3 Nov 2015, 9:57 AM PST0

The Islamic State released video of their beheading of four captured Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers at the site of the October 22 raid by American and Kurdish forces.
by John Hayward30 Oct 2015, 7:36 PM PST0

Alton Nolen, a.k.a. Jah’KeemYisreal, who has been charged with the gruesome attack and beheading of a co-worker at the Vaughan Food company in Oklahoma, will have to face trial.
by Lana Shadwick30 Oct 2015, 9:19 AM PST0

As the FBI libels me as someone who inspires violence, I am getting death threats every day.
by Pamela Geller19 Aug 2015, 4:51 PM PST0

Among the evidence that the attack was linked to ISIS is some Twitter chatter to that effect from ISIS supporters. From all accounts, the flags waved by the terrorist and left near the severed head sound like the ISIS banner.
by John Hayward26 Jun 2015, 4:56 AM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) publicly beheaded three of its own members in Syria by sword, a monitor group reported.
by Edwin Mora22 Jun 2015, 9:39 AM PST0

An elderly, blind man’s decapitated body was found just after noon on Thursday in his Inglewood, California home, a woman identifying herself as his cousin said.
by Michelle Moons19 Jun 2015, 3:35 PM PST0

Although early statements from the FBI and local authorities on Tuesday afternoon indicated Rahim was not considered an imminent threat to public safety, that opinion appears to have been revised overnight. “The FBI knew Usaama Rahim was armed and potentially dangerous and moved on him Tuesday morning when it appeared the threat he posed to uniformed officers in the Boston area had somehow increased,” sources told ABC News.
by John Hayward3 Jun 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

Eye for an eye, reap what you sow, what goes around comes around: choose your favorite aphorism for the wheel of karma turning, as the Christian Post relays a report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights about a Syrian Christian fighter beheading an ISIS militant. The veracity of this report has been challenged by the Catholic bishop of Aleppo.
by John Hayward1 Jun 2015, 1:36 PM PST0

“President Obama met today with the family of Steven Sotloff — one of the American journalists brutally beheaded by ISIS last year,” ABC News reported Thursday. “The White House announced that Obama met with Art and Shirley Sotloff during his trip to Miami. The Sotloffs live in Florida, so the White House says it was ‘an appropriate occasion for the president to visit with them.'”
by John Hayward29 May 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

On Monday, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Civil Service listed on its website eight new job openings for the position of executioner. The job responsibilities will likely include beheadings and amputations–two of the most prominent punishments for violations, including drug smuggling, arms dealing, murder, and rape.
by Adelle Nazarian19 May 2015, 5:34 AM PST0

Game of Thrones character Jon Snow’s newfound leadership role was tested on Sunday night’s episode. A barbaric act was committed at the hands of the character, and now the actor behind the role is explaining why he found it difficult to film the latest of one of the show’s many violent scenes.
by Kipp Jones27 Apr 2015, 2:55 PM PST0

Twelve years on, former Iraqi prisoner-of-war Jessica Lynch is working as an inspirational speaker and an actress in Christian-themed films, including a new release called “One Church.” She was interviewed on WABC Radio’s The Rita Cosby Show over the weekend, where she expressed concerns about terrorism, the rise of ISIS in Iraq, and the persecution of Christians.
by John Hayward20 Apr 2015, 4:22 PM PST0

HOUSTON, Texas – Two El Salvadorian men who are members of the hyper-violent MS-13 gang pleaded guilty in federal court to the near beheading murder of a 16-year-old Houston teen. The murder occurred in the woods of the Sam Houston National Forrest in Walker County near Huntsville, Texas. Because the crime occurred in a national park, the murder became a federal crime.
by Bob Price19 Apr 2015, 12:47 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) released pictures of jihadists beheading a man they allege had been practicing “witchcraft” in Tikrit.
by Mary Chastain9 Apr 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

Christians in the Egyptian village of Al Our are looking to build a new church in honor of the Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya, a mass-murder outrage captured in a viral video circulated by the Islamic State. 13 of the 21 Christians slaughtered in the video hailed from Al Our; they had gone to Libya in search of employment. A church in their hometown would seem like a fine way to remember them.
by John Hayward1 Apr 2015, 2:39 PM PST0

Sometimes you run into a story so full of heartless evil that it’s a struggle to capture the darkness in a headline. Sometimes you read a story that just gets worse with every passing word. The murder of Shirley Souza in Brazil is such a story.
by John Hayward31 Mar 2015, 7:41 PM PST0

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph this week, actor Sean Penn explained that he watches beheading videos made by the Islamic terrorist group ISIS in order to see and understand “real violence.”
by Daniel Nussbaum25 Mar 2015, 11:39 AM PST0

A new ISIS propaganda video shows three Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, evidently captured in the Nineveh province of Iraq, beheaded with knives before a large crowd of onlookers, some of them small children.
by John Hayward22 Mar 2015, 6:44 PM PST0