Thousands of Islamists rallied in the Egyptian capital on Friday in support of calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The demonstration took place outside a Cairo mosque where Saudi
Influential Sunni clerics from several Arab states including Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on Thursday for a holy war against the “sectarian” regime in Syria. Lebanon’s Iran-backed Shiite movement has been fighting alongside the forces of President Bashar Al-Assad, a
Under Tunisia’s “moderate” Islamist government, you can attack and vandalize the American embassy and still walk free. But if a woman bares her breasts in a form of protest, a four-month prison sentence is considered too lax. A Tunisian judge sentenced
Dennis Prager chose Andrew Roberts to teach the latest Prager University course, in part, for the British historian’s moral clarity. “Some people and regimes and ideologies have inflicted unspeakable suffering on people and he knows that,” Prager says of the
News organizations often use the Associated Press style book as an un-official “bible” for punctuation, terms and grammar standards for their newspaper and internet content. In the wake of the NSA snooping story broken by The Guardian, the AP needed
While superficially similar, the protests in Istanbul’s Taksim Square are quite different from those in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which brought down Hosni Mubarak’s regime in 2011. In Turkey, the Islamist party is already in power; in Cairo it had been
I am listening to Geert Wilders, the controversial Dutch politician, deliver the keynote address to a conference of the American Freedom Alliance in Los Angeles. The conference’s theme is “Europe’s Last Stand?: Debt, Demography and the Abandonment of National Sovereignty.”
A suicide car bomb targeting a Baghdad police station killed six people on Sunday, the latest in a string of bombings and attacks that have revived fears of all-out sectarian war in Iraq. The blast, which struck during morning rush
Yesterday America learned that the U.S. government is gathering information on our phone calls and can follow our every keystroke. We are reassured that the information is to stop terrorists. And yet the government fails to stop terrorists when it
Saudi Arabia on Thursday urged Lebanon’s people to act “wisely” and end their fighting in the city of Tripoli, wracked by a wave of bloody violence linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria. Riyadh was following “with deep concern the
Cleric Anjem Choudary claims accused Woolwich attacker Michael Adebolajo was “a very nice man” and the vicitm–British soldier Lee Rigby–will “burn in hellfire.” The New York Daily News reports Choudary said Rigby will face hellfire not because he was part of the
The Telegraph is reporting that Woolrich murder suspect Michael Abedolajo walked into court on June 3 with a smile, kissed the Koran at one point, and “appeared to blow a kiss to a relative in the public gallery.” They also
(AP) Fort Hood victims upset; suspect can question themBy ANGELA K. BROWNAssociated PressFORT HOOD, TexasRetired Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford says he will never forget locking eyes with the gunman who entered a Fort Hood building Nov. 5, 2009, and then
In the Mail on Sunday, former British PM Tony Blair responded to the Woolwich attack on Drummer Lee Rigby by writing: “There is a problem within Islam…and we have to put it on the table and be honest about it.” As
In response to US Attorney Bill Killian: Posting Something Mean About Muslims on Social Media Might Be a Criminal Action Under Federal Civil Rights Laws: I wrote about this at great length this morning, because this story is one of
(AP) Family: Michigan woman, 33, killed in Syria fightFLINT, Mich.The family of a 33-year-old Michigan woman says the FBI confirmed Thursday that she was killed in fighting in Syria. She was identified as Nicole Lynn Mansfield of Flint. Her cousin,
The latest edition of the New York Review of Books includes a 4,076-word piece sympathetic to the Boston jihadists who built bombs designed to rip through flesh and bone. In “The Bombers’ World,” Christian Caryl sets out to normalize the
The ethnic riots in Sweden last week lasted for days. I say again: ethnic riots in Sweden. The very otherworldliness of that turn of phrase is what caught the world’s attention. As Megan McCardle, writing for the Daily Beast in
Post “Arab Spring” Egypt continues exposing its true nature, including now legal persecution of Christians. Earlier this month, according to Fox News, Dimyana Abdel-Nour, a “pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions
On May 27, British veterans discovered the RAF Bomber Command war memorial in London’s Green Park was graffitied with the word ‘Islam.’ The letters were writ large, in red, and were also discovered on the “Animals In War memorial half
In the wake of the monstrous beheading of a young British man in broad daylight by Muslims who cited the Qur’an to explain and justify their ritual slaughter has come the predictable reaction – blame anything except Islam’s violent teachings
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/28: Chicago Anarchist Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Hack, Pakistani court orders blasphemy block on social media, man sentenced for internet extortion scheme against University of Pittsburgh, US weapons
A high school online class in Florida has not only compared Christianity and Islam as fundamentalist groups, but apparently claims that terrorists act the way they do because of low self-esteem. The Florida Virtual Online Class (FLVS) in World History
Speaking in Africa on May 25, Secretary of State John Kerry “urged Nigeria…to uphold human rights as it steps up its fight against [the] radical [Islamist]” group Boko Haram. But considering the atrocities allegedly committed by Boko Haram, might not
Nutty British star Russell Brand took to the pages of The Sun today to pretend that there is no relationship between radical Islam and the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby by Islamists in Woolwich. Brand tweeted within hours of
