Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended President Obama and White House officials for refusing to describe the terrorist attacks in Paris as a consequence of radical Islamic terrorism. Earnest explained to White House reporters during the press briefing that this is a question of “accuracy.”
An Imam in Peshawar, Pakistan hosted a parade on Tuesday to honor the two Al Qaeda-linked brothers who were responsible for carrying out the jihadi retribution killings of twelve at the offices of Charlie Hebdo.
The Chinese regional government of Xinjiang, the nation’s westernmost province, has approved a ban on burqas in its capital, Urumqi. The capital is the nation’s most Muslim-populated city; the law would prevent women from wearing the garment in public.
A self-proclaimed atheist student in Egypt has been sentenced to serving three years in prison after a court found him guilty of insulting Islam, in addition to receiving testimony from his own father against him charging that he “was embracing extremist ideas against Islam.”
The anti-radical Islam group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) stages a protest every Monday in its native Dresden, Germany. On January 12, however, the group convened its largest rally yet, with 25,000 participants–significantly more due to last week’s terrorist attack in Paris, France. Attendees at the rally posted pictures and videos on social media.
The Islamists hacked her to death in broad daylight in Bangladesh and held the horrified onlookers at bay with firearms.
Lee Keath describes those who question the link between Islam and jihadist violence as “increasingly brazen.”
“There’s a lot of anti-Muslim fervor in parts of Europe and we have to make sure that doesn’t get grouped into this horrible act of violence,” he said, according to Variety.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Survivors of an assault by Islamic militants that killed hundreds of civilians in Nigeria have described days of relentless violence in which, one witness said, some people were slaughtered “like insects.”
Concern among Germans regarding the destructive potential of Islam within a free society has been growing in the past several years; even before last weeks gruesome attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a plurality of Germans believed that Islam was “threatening” or “very threatening” to German society, according to one poll.
The world’s reaction to the shootings of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris – and the world’s lack of reaction to the shooting of four people at a kosher supermarket the next day – have filled the news for days. Some of those reactions have been inspirational; others have demonstrated the self-destruct tendency at the heart of the Western post-modern mindset; and some are just plain tone deaf. Here are the best and worst reactions to the Paris terror attacks:
German officials asked the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) organization to cancel a rally scheduled on Monday due to the terrorism attacks in Paris, France.
French President Francois Hollande told his counterpart, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not to attend the Paris rally in the wake of the jihadist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish market last week, for fear that the Israeli PM’s presence might upset those troubled with his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
On Saturday, assorted jihadist Twitter and YouTube accounts released a video with Pakistani Taliban members pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS). To prove their loyalty, the men beheaded a man they claim was a Pakistani soldier.
A Saudi religious authority, Mohamed Saleh Al Minjed, issued a fatwa (religious edict) that making snowmen or snow animals is not compliant with the teachings of Islam. Supporters of the fatwa said that even if the snow creations are created out of good fun, they must be rejected, because it is what people in corrupted Western cultures do. Al Minjed said only figures without a “soul,” such as structures, food, or vehicles, can be recreated with snow.
On Monday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends,” Nigel Farage, member of the European Parliament and Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), echoed a claim he had made in recent days regarding so-called multiculturalism in the wake of last week’s
Sean Hannity had radical UK Imam Anjem Choudary on his show to discuss the Imam’s recent and controversial tweets regarding the Islamic terrorist attack in Paris.
“Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion,” French president Francois Hollande declared on Friday, referring to the massacre of a dozen people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine followed by an intense manhunt that ended with two simultaneous hostage crises during which four more were killed.
ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed al Adnani told those loyal to the Islamic State to “rise up and kill intelligence officers, police officers, soldiers, and civilians” in the U.S.
A man identifying himself as Abubakar Shekau, the man believed to lead the jihadist terror group Boko Haram, appears in a new video threatening to expand the group’s terrorist activities deeper into Cameroon, Nigeria’s neighbor. The video is filmed from afar at different angles, which does not allow experts to accurately identify the man.
A deceased Al-Qaeda terrorist leader who once studied at San Diego State University, and was considered a “moderate Muslim” before leaving the U.S. for Yemen, has been linked to two terrorists who killed 12 in last week’s Charlie Hebdo attack
Hayat Boumediene, the wife of the ISIS-inspired jihadist who killed four hostages at a Paris kosher supermarket, may have made her way into Syria to join fellow Islamic extremists, according to reports. Information has surfaced that she was not in
A London-based cleric and preacher has told his followers “Britain is the enemy of Islam”, and defended the murders at the Charlie Hebdo offices just hours after the horror unfolded. Cleric Mizanur Rahman, of Palmers Green, north London gave a
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has said that it is “lazy and wrong” to suggest that the Paris attacks have nothing to do with Islam. Javid, who is himself of Muslim heritage, also said that the Muslim community has a “special
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd noted French Prime Minister François Hollande had declared France is at war with radical Islam and asked Attorney General Eric Holder, “Would you say the United States is at war with radical Islam?”
