Sky News in Australia is reporting that two suspects have been arrested in Tanzania in last week’s acid attack on two British teenagers on the island of Zanzibar. Police questioned five men on Friday and many believed two were the perpetrators.
Five men were questioned early Friday morning in the acid attack of British teenagers Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee. Two men are believed to the be the attackers and could be associated with the group Uamsho, which desires Zanzibar independence
A fiery debate has ensued from Fox News Host Mike Huckabee’s recent remarks vis-à-vis Islam. Huckabee, responding on his radio program to the recent terror threat from al Qaeda that catalyzed the closing of U.S. embassies around the world, said
(AFP) – Pakistani businessman Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi has been kidnapped, threatened with death, forcibly displaced and lives apart from his family: all because of his enormous moustache. Impeccably trimmed to 30 inches (76 centimetres), Afridi spends 30 minutes
The tension between France’s historic emphasis on secularism and its growing Muslim population is slowly heating to a boil. Secularists want to ban niqabs (facial veils) in the workplace, and Muslims are resistant. Eight percent of French citizens are Muslims.
For two days, they burned cars. They shouted about racism and attacked police, hurling stones and shattering windows of the local police department. In Trappes, France, the riots that broke out last month over laws against wearing a niqab (or veil) in
In a piece written for The Daily Mail, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of Oxford’s Muslim Educational Centre, blasts the Muslim community of Great Britain for fostering a misogynistic attitude among its young men that leads to the kind of pedophilia
On Friday, FoxNews.com reported that Muslim scholar Reza Aslan, author of the controversial book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, has a history of contentious fights on Twitter. In 2012, he ripped into Robert Spencer, director of
(AP) Fort Hood shooting suspect renounces citizenshipFORT HOOD, TexasDays before he’s set to go on trial, the Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage released more of his writings about America and Islam. Foxnews.com on Thursday posted documents
(AP) Threat closes US embassies in Muslim world for dayBy BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe United States is shuttering its embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world on Sunday after receiving an unspecified threat, officials said. State Department officials said Thursday that
In recent weeks, the international outcry that followed the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi serves to confirm how fundamental the lie that Morsi was democratically elected has become in our perception of the Egyptian government. This oft-repeated inaccuracy is
I’m sitting on the plane to Israel with Dr. Mehmet Oz, his wife Lisa, his kids, my wife Debbie, and three of our nine children. It’s Mehmet’s first ever visit to the Jewish State and we’ve been talking for almost
In this week’s installment of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam YouTube video series, “The Time and What Must Be Done,” the controversial minister uses the shooting of Trayvon Martin to argue that America was “not made” for minorities, imploring his
(AP) Ousted Egypt president detained over Hamas contactBy HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROAn investigating judge has ordered the detention of Egypt’s ousted president over alleged contacts with Hamas to help in his escape from prison in 2011, the official state news agency
UPDATE: 7:55 PM EST: The march ended without any major acts of violence. There were tussles, but the Houston Police Department did a great job keeping things from escalating. At one point there was a disagreement between the New Black Panther
A 27-year-old Islamic woman named Mais Ali-Selah will graduate at the top of her medical school class at the Technion in Israel. She was raised in a small village outside of Nazareth, in Israel’s Galilee. Diana Bletter at the Huffington
An atheist activist organization wants a proposed Ohio statehouse Holocaust memorial to remove the Star of David symbol, which, the group claims, is an “exclusionary” religious symbol. According to The Columbus Dispatch, the non-profit Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), known for its
Students threatening teachers. Teachers threatening students. Corruption in the classrooms, the hallways, and, eventually, becoming a national scandal – all part of daily life at an Islamic high school in Rotterdam. There, according to a recent article in Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, non-Muslim
The Pakistani Taliban sent a letter to 16-year old Malala Yousafzai explaining why they are right and she is wrong in the aftermath of their failed assassination of the outspoken young woman. According to The Telegraph, the letter to Yousafzai
A 19-year-old Jacksonville, Fla. man trained for violent jihad and traveled to the Middle East in hopes of joining a notorious al-Qaida branch. Shelton Thomas Bell was charged Thursday with two counts of conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to the
Several Islamic groups on Friday demanded the recall of the Vatican’s first envoy to Malaysia, describing him as an “enemy of the state” after he supported the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims. Dozens of protesters gathered outside the
A group of pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters gathered outside Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and chanted their anger and opposition to the U.S., vowing to take over the world. While gathered a Palestinian cleric lead them in chants like, “Allah Akbar, May
As Al Jazeera America prepares for its national debut, employees of Al Jazeera’s parent network are resigning in anger over the network’s “unprofessional” bias in favor of Egyptian President Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood. MEMRI.org, a website dedicated to translating
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has uncovered evidence that radical Muslim cleric Sheik Abdullah Bin Bayyah, who met with top White House officials last month, personally urged Muslim nations to aid the Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza militarily. “Muslim rulers are required
A rally outside the White House Friday offered a clear example of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Grand Deception” in action in America. To a casual observer, it appeared that a few dozen people came out to support ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Protesters
