I don’t much feel like re-posting the Muhammad cartoons for which Charlie Hebdo became famous. It’s not a matter of fear, or political correctness. A decade ago, I was living in the heart of the Muslim community in Cape Town, writing articles against fundamentalism and in defense of the U.S. and Israel even while I enjoyed breaking Ramadan fasts with friends and neighbors. I did so at some considerable risk to my personal safety. I was lucky to meet religious Muslims who wanted nothing to do with violence–and it is precisely because of those relationships that I choose not to offend, even while standing with Charlie Hebdo.
by Joel B. Pollak8 Jan 2015, 8:19 AM PST0
The manhunt continues into Thursday for the two jihadist gunmen suspected of slaughtering twelve individuals at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. French officials have attempted to zero-in on their location exact location throughout the day.
by Jordan Schachtel8 Jan 2015, 8:16 AM PST0
(Reuters) – Anti-immigrant groups in Germany seized on Wednesday’s deadly attack in Paris, with leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and PEGIDA saying it showed the threat of Islamist violence.
by Breitbart News8 Jan 2015, 6:50 AM PST0
Outspoken liberal comedian Bill Maher took to social media on Wednesday, illustrating his longstanding belief that Islam is not a religion of peace, following the brutal terrorist attacks by radical Muslims at the offices of the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo magazine. In his
by Adelle Nazarian8 Jan 2015, 12:19 AM PST0
Fundamentalist Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary—who created a Twitter firestorm by responding to the massacre of staffers at Charlie Hebdo magazine with a rebuke of free speech—expands those comments in an op-ed carried by USA Today.
by Breitbart News7 Jan 2015, 9:32 PM PST0
Dhimmi literally means “protected person,” and the term was originally applied to non-Muslims who capitulated willingly to Islamic expansionism between 638 and 1683, and who lived in Muslim countries as craven second-class citizens. A bit like the French in World War
by Milo Yiannopoulos7 Jan 2015, 5:37 PM PST0
An op-ed by the editors of Bloomberg equates “anti-immigration nativists” with the Islamic terrorists who slaughtered the staff of Charlie Hebdo Magazine Wednesday. In its rush to attack anti-immigration activists, the piece says immigration had nothing to do with 9/11, calling the terror attack’s perpetrators “outsiders who entered the country as visitors.”
by Breitbart News7 Jan 2015, 3:26 PM PST0
On Monday, The New York Times Editorial Board seemingly demonstrated how furious it was with the Egyptian government’s stance on gay rights. Egypt had just acquitted twenty-six allegedly homosexual men on “debauchery” charges, and the Editorial Board worries they are now “likely to suffer a lifetime of public scorn.”
by Jordan Schachtel7 Jan 2015, 2:29 PM PST0
Two gunmen slaughtered twelve people in broad daylight at the headquarters of Charlie Hedbo, a satirical newspaper in Paris. The gunmen targeted the cartoonists over the publication of cartoon images of the Prophet Mohammed. Instead of submitting to terrorists, Parisians marched into the streets Wednesday night to show solidarity and support for the publication.
by Mary Chastain7 Jan 2015, 1:06 PM PST0
Wednesday’s attack on the Paris offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed, caused “abhorrence” in the Vatican, according to sources at the Holy See press office.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.7 Jan 2015, 12:11 PM PST0
In light of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary used it to blast free speech. He did not condemn the attacks, but suggested more laws to ban images of Mohammed.
by Mary Chastain7 Jan 2015, 12:03 PM PST0
A video recently surfaced that allegedly shows a branch of the Syrian army forming a platoon of suicide bombers. The video, uncovered and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on December 30, has not been independently verified outside of MEMRI experts.
by Mary Chastain7 Jan 2015, 11:52 AM PST0
On Wednesday, the official Twitter page of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ikhwanweb, condemned the jihadi attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris, to disappointment of its followers.
by Jordan Schachtel7 Jan 2015, 11:16 AM PST0
(THE UNITED WEST) In this episode for “The United West,” Tom Trento show what news agencies were avoiding in blurring the actual moment of execution by the Muslim shooters is shown. According to Trento, it is necessary for the world to see
by Breitbart TV7 Jan 2015, 10:42 AM PST0
On Wednesday, Islamic terrorists murdered 12 people at the leftist French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, including the editor-in-chief and three cartoonists. The motivation was clear: the terrorists shouted “Allahu Akhbar!” during the attack and screamed “We have avenged the prophet!” as they left the scene.
by Ben Shapiro7 Jan 2015, 10:30 AM PST0
Charlie Hebdo editor, Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier, refused to bow to the demands of Western heads-of-state, many of whom urged the journalist to stop publishing pictures of Prophet Muhammad on his newspaper’s pages. He also remained defiant after al-Qaeda reportedly placed his name on an “enemies of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad” hit list.
by Jordan Schachtel7 Jan 2015, 10:14 AM PST0
Radical Islamists and supporters of jihad on social media used Twitter to celebrate the three gunmen who killed twelve people and wounded nearly a dozen others at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. The attack, a retaliation against the magazine for publishing satirical images of the Prophet Muhammad, received support and justification. All of these accounts talk about jihad and the Islamic State regularly, interrupting their ISIS updates to praise the attack.
by Mary Chastain7 Jan 2015, 8:37 AM PST0
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is reporting that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has shut down more schools in Syria, leaving over 670,000 children without access to education.
by Mary Chastain7 Jan 2015, 8:11 AM PST0
In a significant gesture, the Turkish government has authorized the construction of a Syriac Christian church in Istanbul, the first to be built since the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923. The decision came during a meeting on Friday
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.7 Jan 2015, 7:34 AM PST0
This video is apparent footage of the armed gunmen that have killed at 12 people at the headquarters of a satirical French magazine in Paris, which includes the gunshots and shouts of “Allah Akbar.” Description of video according to a translation from Live
by Breitbart TV7 Jan 2015, 6:02 AM PST0
A French author who penned a dystopian novel about a Muslim candidate winning the 2022 French Presidential Elections has been forced to defend his work on the same day Islamist extremist gunmen targeted magazine Charlie Hebdo. Michel Houellebecq’s work entitled
by A.B. Sanderson7 Jan 2015, 6:01 AM PST0
On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) downplayed any ties of gunmen that killed 12 at the offices of a French satirical magazines in Paris have to the religion of Islam. According to Dean, we should stop attributing
by Jeff Poor7 Jan 2015, 5:51 AM PST0
A record high of 18,000 people came out on Monday to join the anti-Islamification supporters of the group Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA). Also on Monday, several cities held counter-protests to demonstrate against PEGIDA.
by Jordan Schachtel6 Jan 2015, 6:32 PM PST0
Years of lax immigration laws throughout all of Europe, set against the backdrop of an influx in migrants from Islamic countries, has led to one in eight Germans admitting that they would join an anti-Muslim march if growing protests lend themselves to the rise of such a situation.
by Adelle Nazarian6 Jan 2015, 1:22 PM PST0
Islam forbids drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes, but rumors have spread for months indicating that members of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist groups engage in drug use. Those rumors were at least in part confirmed by a discovery this week when VICE journalist Joakim Medin identified cocaine in the house of dead Islamic State leader Emir Abu Zahra just south of Kobane, Syria.
by Mary Chastain6 Jan 2015, 12:58 PM PST0
