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Microblogging site Twitter has blocked dozens of tweets and accounts in Pakistan after officials asked for access to “blasphemous” and “unethical” content to be stopped. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) submitted at least five requests from May 5 to 14

On the Wednesday edition of his podcast, Adam Carolla, author of the new book “President Me: The America That’s In My Head,” pointed out that he agreed with HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher, who in an episode of his

It is a cliche to publicly remember “where you were when” some major event took place, but I hope you’ll indulge me, because “where I was when” Drummer Lee Rigby was getting murdered on a London street could not have

The Director of Jihad Watch told Breitbart News Sunday that, although Islamic terror is increasing, the Obama administration has “systematically removed any mention of Islam and jihad from counterterror training manuals for the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and

Qasim Rashid begins his attack on our American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) ads against Islamic anti-Semitism by stating: “New bus ads in DC say the Qu’ran [sic] promotes Jew-hatred. It’s a meritless, dangerous accusation.” He even claims that “Islamophobes are

Sudan is making an example of Meriam Yahya Ibrahim. Now it is up to the United States government and concerned citizens to make their response to Sudan’s treatment of Ibrahim an example – an example of effective, aggressive advocacy. The

In September, the Obama Administration and many Republicans were pushing for the U.S. to intervene in Syria. I said no. We did not have an articulable national security interest in that country, and it was also unclear if we had

Britain summoned the Sudanese charge d’affaires on Monday to protest against sentencing a pregnant woman to death for converting to Christianity. A Sudanese court this month handed down the sentence to 27-year-old Mariam Yahya Ibrahim for converting to Christianity. The

“America is at war; and has been since at least September 11, 2001, but no one is really sure who with,” Robert Spencer writes in his recently released Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth about the War We’re In. Thankfully, Spencer’s

I was surprised but pleased when people began calling to tell me that, in her much discussed Vanity Fair piece, Monica Lewinsky referred to one of my books, which was first published in 2002. Lewinsky writes that the “culture of humiliation”

It seems like a while ago that Tony Blair gave his most recent Middle East speech, where he warned about the rise of radical Islam. In fact it has only been 24 days.  And in that 24 days, at the

Daniel Wani, the husband of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, tells CNN that praying “is all I can do” while he awaits the execution of his wife. Ibrahim, who is currently imprisoned with the couple’s 20-month-old son, was sentenced to hanging

On Thursday’s “On the Record with Greta van Susteren,” former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton criticized the Sudanese for sentencing a pregnant woman to death for refusing to recant her Christian faith. “This is barbaric,” Bolton said.

On Thursday, May 15, Sudanese Christian Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, was sentenced to death by hanging for the crime of apostasy. Ibrahim, a physician who graduated from the University of Khartoum Medical School, refused to renounce her Christian faith. The

Rejecting appeals for clemency by Western human rights activists, a judge in Sudan sentenced a 27-year old pregnant Christian mother to death “for apostasy.” The woman, Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, brought her punishment of death upon herself, said Judge Abbas

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual guide to the Muslim Brotherhood, has notoriously made anti-American and anti-Semitic statements during his sermons and speeches. Earlier this week, his official Arabic website published notes from a speech Qaradawi gave at a conference in Doha entitled “Jerusalem

British police are planning a crackdown to stop Islamists intimidating Muslims into not voting in next week’s European and local elections. The Times reports that the independent Electoral Commission has identified 16 areas as “hotspots” for electoral fraud or voter

The Center for Naval Analyses has released a report warning that climate change is a threat that, “much like terrorism or cyber-attacks,” is not limited by political boundaries and requires similar attention. The study also attributes major political events to

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Muslim world split by Boko Haram abductions Russia bans U.S. from International Space Station Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi resigns in disgust Muslim world split by Boko Haram abductions It’s a common Western complaint of

For the past couple of weeks, the brutal abduction of some 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, in northern Nigeria, has sparked outrage against their abductors, Boko Haram. Some journalists have even been prompted to take such phrases as “Islamic

Government censorship is not helping to combat Islamist extremism, according to a new report. The counter-extremist Quilliam Foundation instead calls on legislators to create a new “social media outlet” that debunks extremist propaganda and clarifies government policies. The report says

On the very day that the devout Muslim group Boko Haram released a video of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, clad in burkas and being forced to recite the Qur’an, author Dean Obeidallah declared in the Daily Beast that “The Nigerian terrorist

Boko Haram was created soon after the 9/11 attacks in 2002. One would think that twelve years would be enough time to come to understand a terrorist organization of the magnitude of Boko Haram; apparently not for the left-wing media

AFP: Boko Haram released a new video on Monday claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls, alleging the teenagers had converted to Islam and would not be released until all militant prisoners were freed. Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

The entire world is focused on the captured Nigerian girls, many scenarios have been envisioned–and yet there is at least one issue no one has raised: That it is entirely possible that these poor girls have also been genitally mutilated.

A Muslim covert who was jailed for trying to impose sharia law on Britain’s streets claims to have converted numerous prisoners to a radical form of Islam during his time behind bars, according to the Times. Speaking to tonight’s BBC Panorama

During Hillary Clinton’s tenure, the State Department failed to designate Boko Haram a terrorist organization, in spite of the fact that Boko Haram had become second only to the Taliban as the deadliest terrorist organization. Clinton will rightly have to

On his Friday broadcast of his primetime Fox News Channel show, Sean Hannity host debate between blogger and American Freedom Defense Initiative president Pamela Geller and liberal talk show host Richard Fowler. That debate pertained to radical Islam including the

On his Friday broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Bill Maher insisted the original White House talking point, which was the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was inspired by an anti-Islamic YouTube video, is still

On his Friday program, left-leaning “Real Time” host and outspoken critic of religion Bill Maher reacted to the actions Boko Haram and the kidnapping Nigeria schoolgirls and how those actions were motivated by Islam. Maher cited several examples of double

California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, who is running for governor, recently pointed out that his rival Neel Kashkari “supported the United States submitting to the Islamic, Shariah banking code in 2008 when he ran TARP.”  The charge was true, but

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram, (whose name either means “Western education is forbidden” or “a colonialist fraud being perpetrated against us”), captured three hundred Christian and Muslim Nigerian schoolgirls to become their sex and domestic slaves. The Muslim fundamentalists