
An Assyrian hostage released by the Islamic State told the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) that the group has prohibited them from returning to their homes despite setting them “free.” The terrorist group kidnapped over 300 Assyrians in Syria the last week of February.
by Mary Chastain5 Mar 2015, 9:14 AM PST0

Women’s rights activist Sara Khan penned a letter to reach out to young Muslim girls who want to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). Women and men in the terrorist group reach out to young girls via social media with promises of a great life to serve Allah. Khan provides the girls with a huge dose of reality.
by Mary Chastain4 Mar 2015, 4:14 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) attempted to eliminate the Yazidi population in Syria and Iraq over the summer. After airstrikes pushed back the terrorist group, those who survived slowly began making their way home to identify loved ones in mass graves.
by Mary Chastain4 Mar 2015, 12:09 PM PST0

The father of Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, called his son a “dog, an animal and a terrorist.” Jihadi John beheaded numerous Western hostages of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). Jassem Emwazi, 51, called his colleague on Monday to explain why he missed work at a supermarket near the Kuwait-Iraq border.
by Mary Chastain4 Mar 2015, 10:10 AM PST0

The King of Jordan, like President Obama, believes Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) jihadists should not be called “Islamic extremists.”
by Edwin Mora3 Mar 2015, 8:55 PM PST0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress about the dangers Israel will face if Iran is allowed to build nuclear weapons this morning. The majority of tweets on social media were positive, but many took the opportunity to call Netanyahu a “terrorist” and condemn the existence of Israel.
by Mary Chastain3 Mar 2015, 9:29 AM PST0

People in the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) way in the Middle East are desperate to fight against the terrorist group as the jihadists expand their caliphate. Syria’s Assyrian Christian population has increasingly expressed frustration over the lack of international funding and arms for their militias, while ISIS continues to kill and abduct hundreds.
by Mary Chastain2 Mar 2015, 10:08 AM PST0

Kurdish authorities arrested six clerics in Erbil– an Iraqi city that has become a key safe haven for Christians and Yazidis fleeing the wrath of ISIS– on suspicion of loyalties to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain1 Mar 2015, 11:02 AM PST0

Boko Haram killed more than 100 people in northeast Nigeria along the Cameroon border after the Chadian government raided the radical Islamic group’s hideouts. The continuous attacks incited residents in Cameroon to protest against Boko Haram.
by Mary Chastain1 Mar 2015, 7:33 AM PST0

Having established themselves in Mosul, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has continued its efforts to destroy the history of the second-largest city in Iraq. The terrorist group published a video of militants destroying thousands years old artifacts with glee and smiles on their faces.
by Mary Chastain27 Feb 2015, 7:10 PM PST0

Citizens organized a march in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to protest the murder of American atheist blogger Avijit Roy. He was hacked to death with machetes after he received numerous threats from radical Islamists.
by Mary Chastain27 Feb 2015, 11:39 AM PST0

In light of escalating terrorist activity in its western Xinjiang region, the Chinese legislature is considering its first terror-specific criminal code—which, in its current form, would make any speech the government deems to “undermine public security” a criminal violation.
by Frances Martel26 Feb 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

A Muslim woman, who claims she was passed over for a job because she wore a head scarf, appears set to win her case of discrimination brought before the U.S. Supreme Court, reports say.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Feb 2015, 10:06 PM PST0

According to The Daily Mail, over eight British schoolgirls have traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) on the “jihadi bride trail.”
by Mary Chastain24 Feb 2015, 11:04 AM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) burned down the Mosul public library, which was home to over 8,000 rare books and manuscripts.
by Mary Chastain24 Feb 2015, 10:01 AM PST0

As Islam conquered what was formerly a Christian Middle East; what was formerly a Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Christian Central Asia (India, Persia, Afghanistan, parts of Russia); what was formerly a pagan, animist and Christian Africa; Islam also conquered what was formerly a Hindu and Buddhist Indonesia and Malaysia.
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler23 Feb 2015, 2:52 PM PST0

Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the national morality police, arrested a group of young men for dancing and playing loud music at a birthday party in Buraydah.
by Mary Chastain23 Feb 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

A Muslim political party will be contesting seats at next month’s regional elections in France, standing on a platform which includes promises to expand the halal industry and allow girls to wear the burqa. Critics have called the Democratic Union
by Donna Rachel Edmunds22 Feb 2015, 4:16 AM PST0

Myriam, a young Christian girl in Iraq, and her family fled their village near Mosul before the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reached them. Now they live in a refugee camp located in an unfinished mall with only the bare necessities. Despite the hardship, Myriam hopes God forgives the terrorist group.
by Mary Chastain21 Feb 2015, 12:53 PM PST0

On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks weighed in on the argument the Obama administration has repeatedly made on whether or not to address Islamic component of ISIS and instead calling it a perversion of
by Jeff Poor21 Feb 2015, 8:45 AM PST0

A possible American accent was detected in the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) video which showed the slaughter of 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt on a Libyan beach.
by Mary Chastain20 Feb 2015, 5:32 AM PST0

A horrific video of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) supporters brutally murdering three Syrian soldiers in Raqqa, Syria, after a bearded cleric reads out charges against the men has resurfaced thanks to The Daily Mail. However, as The Right Scoop points out, the video was uploaded in November 2014. Raqqa is the capital of Islamic State’s self-declared “caliphate.”
by Mary Chastain19 Feb 2015, 10:15 AM PST0

On November 21, 2007, then presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), appeared on New Hampshire Public Radio and said his being “intimately concerned” with Muslim countries’ futures, coupled with his deep “understand their point of view,” will “ultimately make us
by Pam Key19 Feb 2015, 9:59 AM PST0

The United States is not at war with Islam, President Obama insists yet again at the White House.
by Charlie Spiering19 Feb 2015, 8:20 AM PST0

On Tuesday news went national of a Muslim man who was arrested in Detroit for stabbing two non-Muslims at a bus stop after asking their religion. But the next day the Atlanta Journal-Constitution falsely claimed that the “attacker targeted Muslims” when in fact it was a Muslim who targeted two non-Muslims.
by Warner Todd Huston19 Feb 2015, 4:09 AM PST0