Tag: Islam

An old video making the rounds again on social media shows Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah talking openly about his desire “to establish an Islamic state under the rule of Islam.” The video dates to 1988, which is before Nasrallah became

LONDON, May 27 (UPI) — Graffiti, in red paint, on two of London’s most celebrated war memorials was discovered Monday, police said. The word “Islam” was believed to have painted on the RAF Bomber Command War Memorial, dedicated in 2012,

The former Soviet prisoner Natan Sharansky, among other communist dissidents, has often spoken about the moral clarity that President Ronald Reagan’s much-maligned phrase, “evil empire,” brought to the Cold War. Ridiculed by the liberal elite as primitive moralizing, Reagan’s concept

(AP) Rockets in Lebanon capital signal Syrian spilloverBy KARIN LAUBAssociated PressBEIRUT Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut on Sunday, tearing through an apartment and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese group’s leader pledged to lift President

Two U.K. politicians have called out the BBC for interviewing an Islamic cleric who refuses to condemn Wednesday’s grisly terror attack where two men beheaded a British soldier. The Guardian is reporting that Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi and shadow defense secretary

British Prime Minister David Cameron has reportedly decided on a new task force to stamp out Islamic extremism across the country. According to the UK Daily Mail: The Prime Minister wants to stop extremist clerics using schools, colleges, prisons and

As news broke that a French soldier had been attacked by a “bearded man [of] North African origin…wearing a light colored hijab,” the tensions between the French government and those who claim Islamist affiliation above all else were brought to

(AP) – Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation. Metropolitan Police investigating

(AP) – A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links with the bloody killing of a British

In his “drone speech” Thursday, President Barack Obama referred to the oft-cited argument that the U.S. should close the Guantánamo Bay terror detention facility (GTMO) because it stirs anti-American opinion: “GTMO has become a symbol around the world for an

According to the British newspaper The Independent, Cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed believes the attempt to behead a British soldier in London can be justified “under certain interpretations of Islam.” Bakri Mohammed, who was banned from Britain for “extremist activities,” is

Police made two further arrests and raided houses across London following the brutal murder of a serving soldier who survived a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Prime Minister David Cameron appealed for calm after 25-year-old Lee Rigby was butchered outside

According to USA Today, the two suspects photographed and videotaped butchering a British solder were “part of an early security services investigation” into their possible ties to terror. The BBC named one of the suspects as 28-year-old Muslim convert Michael

One suspect in the barbaric beheading of an off-duty British soldier has now been identified as Michael Abedolajo. Abedolajo, a Muslim from a Christian family, has also been linked with hate preacher Anjem Choudary. Both killers are of Nigerian background,

A British soldier is dead, and two suspected terrorists were shot in a shocking daylight attack outside London Wednesday. Some accounts say the soldier was shot, while other witnesses described the attack as a “beheading,” the London Telegraph reports. ITV News obtained video of a

At least four people have been killed in clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a security source told AFP, as fighting raged into a fourth day on Wednesday. The source also reported that 35 people were wounded in

(AP) – Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women’s freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The failure highlights

The Obama administration’s policy banning references to “Islamic extremism” and “jihad” in discussions about terrorism drew criticism during last Thursday’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Boston Marathon bombings. The bombings “should again teach us that the enemy we face is

(AP) Bangladesh to end search for collapse victimsBy FARID HOSSAINAssociated PressDHAKA, BangladeshBangladesh’s military is ending its search for bodies in the wreckage of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed last month because no more are expected to be found,

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pope Francis canonizes 800 Otranto ‘martyrs’ of Ottoman army Taiwan sends warships into South China Sea near Philippines Suicide rates increasing substantially among Boomers Millions of Chinese internet users vow not to commit suicide

(AP) Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saintsBy FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressVATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led