(Reuters) – A California man behind an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests in the Muslim world was due in court in Los Angeles on Wednesday for a hearing on whether he violated his probation on a bank fraud conviction
By BRADLEY KLAPPER and LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation
(AP) France boosts security at synagoguesBy ANGELA CHARLTONAssociated PressPARISFrance is boosting security at Jewish religious sites after blank bullets were fired on a synagogue west of Paris, and amid renewed concerns about anti-Semitism around the country. French President Francois Hollande
A string of rebel strongholds, including in Daraa and Homs provinces and the commercial capital Aleppo, were rocked by shelling and clashes from dawn on Monday that left at least 23 people dead, a watchdog said. Twenty of the deaths
Here’s the Obama campaign’s latest personal e-mail — from Magic Johnson. In basketball, getting ready for the big game takes years of hard work on the court and in the weight room. Well, we know all the years of hard
French President Francois Hollande vowed tough anti-terror laws and tightened security as police Sunday pressed on with sweeping raids that saw one man killed and 11 arrested over an attack on a Jewish store. He said Saturday’s raids, in which
(AP) Egypt’s hardline Islamist party unravelsBy MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROInternal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypt’s ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any compromise in their stark,
Three weeks after a deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi little is known about how and why the assault happened or who was behind it, amid mounting concern over possible security lapses. Four Americans died in the hours-long
As Pakistan’s mullahs railed against a US-made anti-Islam film, Naveed Haider’s print works went into overdrive, running off hundreds of US flags for angry protesters to burn at demonstrations. Weeks of protests in Pakistan over the crudely made “Innocence of
Bangladesh sent in troops to guard Buddhist neighbourhoods Monday after Muslim mobs carried out fresh attacks on temples and homes over a Facebook photo deemed offensive to Islam, police said. At least five temples were attacked in different neighbourhoods of
(AP) Iran restores access to GmailTEHRAN, IranIranian authorities have restored access to Gmail a week after blocking Google’s popular email service. The Islamic Republic blocked Gmail last week in response to video clips posted on YouTube of an anti-Islam film
Thousands of rioters torched Buddhist temples and homes in southeastern Bangladesh Sunday in a rare attack against the community over a photo posted on Facebook deemed offensive to Islam. Officials said the mob comprising some 25,000 people set fire to
After Libyan President Mohamed Magarief told NBC News that the anti-American violence in the Middle East was not a “spontaneous” reaction to an anti-Muhammed film, NBC maintained that the video did spark the attacks, contradicting its own scoop. Here
Pakistani lawyers grapple with police while Filipino Muslims urge ban on online access as protests against an anti-Islam film made in the US continue.
We know that the mainstream media is in the tank for President Obama. It took them two full weeks to turn their attention to the inconsistencies in the Obama administration’s Libya cover story. So it’s no surprise to find that
Sept. 27 – Thai Muslims target the Bangkok U.S. embassy and YouTube’s owner Google in their attempts to have clips from an anti-Muslim film removed online. Travis Brecher reports. Hundreds of Thai Muslims gather in front of the United States
People died, Obama lied. That’s the best summary of what has happened since Sept. 11, when terrorists (yes, terrorists) attacked the U.S. consulate in Libya, killing four Americans and the U.S. Ambassador, while terrorist sympathizers swarmed the U.S. embassy in
(AP) Egypt tourism takes a hit from prophet protestsBy CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAAssociated PressCAIROOne of the world’s largest cruise ships, its foreign passengers primed for onshore spending, was supposed to dock in Egypt this month. The port call, however, was scrapped because
It remains unclear whether President Barack Obama’s lies about attacks on U.S. embassies will cost him re-election. One thing is certain, however: whatever ambitions Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once held to run for president in 2016 have been damaged
By BRADLEY BROOKS and JULIANA BARBASSAAssociated PressRIO DE JANEIROThe arrest of a top Google executive is reviving a debate about Brazilian laws that hold services such as YouTube responsible for the videos posted on them, making the country a hotbed
Seemingly disparate calls for enforcement mechanisms to encourage “religious tolerance” throughout the world are slowing but surely coalescing around the pursuit of laws banning criticism of Islam or Mohammed. We’ve seen this approach to speech in Islamist countries, where criticism
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com At U.N., Israel’s Netanyahu says that Israel will live forever Palestinian president Abbas launches blistering attack on Israel Iran’s Ahmadinejad awaits the arrival of the Mahdi More on the Sunni versus Shia television debate
UPDATE — From Deadline Hollywood: U.S. District Court Judge Suzanne Segal hasruled that the anti-Islam Innocence Of Muslims film producer known as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula will be held in the Metropolitan Detention Center after his arrest earlier today on probation violations. He will remain
REUTERS: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt defends his company’s decision to keep an anti-Islam film on its YouTube website despite violent protests all over the Muslim world. Schmidt said in his defense that, “We ultimately believe that the best answer
This afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the podium at the General Assembly of the United Nations – and once again, he gave an impassioned speech outlining the history and values of the Jewish State, and explaining in
