On Wednesday, the Telegraph‘s Allison Pearson–bravely, given the current climate–suggested that we should revisit the debate about banning the burka. “One day, the burkas, like a flock of crows, will come home to roost. Ban it. Now,” she concludes. So
I’ve always had Muslim housekeepers. They’re clean and they don’t steal things. But do I worry about coming home one day to discover bomb-making equipment alongside the prayer mat and Koran that are now permanent fixtures in my living room?
A British-born jihadi who claims to be fighting in Syria has branded his former country “pure evil” and said he will only return to the UK when the “black flag of Islam” is hanging outside Buckingham Palace. According to the
Nine Syrian rebel and jihadist groups fighting against President Bashar al-Assad have issued a collective statement against the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), with some leaders affiliated with al-Qaeda calling the declaration of an Islamic Caliphate
A chemical engineer in northern Nigeria, recently released from a mental hospital to which he was interned after declaring himself an atheist, warns that serious death threats have come his way, making it impossible to live a normal life. Mubarak
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Jerusalem violence triggered by ‘price tag’ killing of Palestinian teen China bans Ramadan fasting for Uighurs in Xinjiang province Muslim players at World Cup Football (Soccer) face Ramadan problems Airport security to increase as
Yale University’s Yale Global Online has published a piece by Ooi Kee Beng, deputy director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, asserting that “Islam has no centralized controls; any power-hungry despot can use religion as an excuse.” But it’s
Europe has finally come to its senses and taken a stand in favor of the Western Enlightenment enterprise. On July 1, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the 2010 French burqa ban, a religion-neutral piece of legislation
As well-publicised bouts of Islamist violence plague the Middle East, concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. Lebanese, Tunisians, Egyptians, Jordanians and Turks are all more
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), sent a message to his fellow Sunni supporters to commemorate the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. Baghdadi wrote: Soon, by Allah’s permission, a day will come when
The shocking murder of the three missing Israeli teens is a crime of unparalleled cruelty. In that they were killed for no other reason than being Jewish, it has holocaust dimensions to it. This was not about war, not about
July 1 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Schneerson was a uniquely charismatic and visionary leader, who pushed back against the postwar trends of secularism and disenchantment and presented religious Judaism
It’s that time of the year again – where Prime Minister David Cameron and his Deputy Nick Clegg try to appeal to Muslim voters by awkwardly wishing them “Ramadan Mubarak”. Don’t believe me? Watch the cringeworthy videos below, and listen
27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim, who became internationally known after the government of Sudan sentenced her to death for refusing to convert to Islam, is now safe at the United States embassy in that nation after being re-arrested while trying to leave
The Al Manar mosque in Cardiff which has been tied to the radicalisation of a two ISIS jihadists from Britain is reported to have delivered ‘extremist’ lectures to school kids during lunchtime lectures. Writing in the Telegraph today, Andrew Gilligan
Morocco is promoting its moderate version of Islam as a counterweight to the widening jihadist threat in the Sahara, training hundreds of imams from affected countries, but analysts question its motives. The initiative is well-timed. Islamist violence is plaguing Libya
Nigerian pop star Adokiye Kyrian has offered the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram her virginity in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 girls abducted by the group from the town of Chibok this year. The singer has been
The New York Times recently ran a piece on female genital mutilation (FGM) here in the United States. A common practice in many areas of the world, FGM is the partial or total removal of clitoris or labia, commonly with a
An Egyptian man was convicted and sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison along with a fine of $840 dollars for violating Egypt’s blasphemy laws, which make illegal any criticism of the Islamic religion. The International Christian Concern (ICC) reported
I didn’t have much to say about the reports that Christian woman Meriam Ibrahim, the wife of U.S. citizen Daniel Wani and mother of his imprisoned American toddler and infant children, had been released, because I didn’t believe it. I
Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman whom an Appeal Court freed yesterday, has just been re-arrested at the airport trying to leave Khartoum. She is now in more danger than ever before. Here’s why. A man, Al-Samani
(AFP) — A Sudanese Christian woman was arrested Tuesday at Khartoum airport a day after a court annulled her death sentence for apostasy and released her from prison, a source familiar with the incident said.The status of their two young
This article first appeared at the Gatestone Institute website Anti-radical Muslims must break their silence to oppose the revived for building a Tablighi Jamaat [TJ] mega-mosque in the West Ham neighbourhood of London. Mobilisation against the mega-mosque should include Muslims
Last fall, a top Obama Homeland Security adviser generated controversy when he wrote that the U.S. Constitution was “Islamically compliant.” Mohamed Elibiary returned to the topic in a Saturday morning Twitter post: “… I said America was an Islamic country
An Iraqi immigrant was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for the murder of his wife in San Diego Superior Court on Monday. The murder was originally touted as a hate crime by Kassim Alhimidi, 50, but prosecutors
