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Egypt’s Top Clerics Reject Government-Issued Moderate Islamic Sermons

Earlier this month, the Egyptian government began drafting mandatory anti-extremist sermons for Muslim clerics, complete with time limits to ensure speedy delivery with minimal ad-libbing. The program has not gone over well, with Egypt’s top scholars rejecting the sermons as too superficial and restrictive.

Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa speaks during a conference held by the Awqaf (Religio

Missing Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner, Al-Qaeda Fan Found in Venezuela

Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was released to Uruguay as part of a deal between the White House and the socialist government of former President José Mujica, has surfaced in Venezuela after his disappearance a month ago. He is demanding to be flown to Turkey to reunite with his Syrian family.

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World Youth Day: Teach Children About Martyrs

Quite probably, the Islamic State-inspired assassins who cut the throat of Father Jacques Hamel in St. Étienne-du-Rouvray, France, on Tuesday did not know that one effect of their act would be to cast a pall over World Youth Day, but that’s nevertheless exactly what’s happened.

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Texas Muhammad Art Attack Conspirator: My Due Process Rights Were Violated

The only known living terrorist connected to the May 3, 2015, attack at the Muhammad Art contest in Texas, says he is entitled to a new trial because his due process rights have been violated. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, a convert to Islam, claims prosecutors withheld evidence that would have created reasonable doubt or absolved him.

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Honor Killing: Gang Dismembers Pakistani Man for Alleged Affair

Allah Ditta, 24, was stabbed repeatedly before five men cut off his arms, lips, and nose, leaving him to bleed to death in Dera Ghazi Khan district, Pakistan. Ditta had allegedly had “an affair” with a woman who wished to elope with him but was forced by family to remain with her husband.

PAKISTANI HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HOLD PLACARDS DURING A PROTEST IN ISLAMABAD ON MAY 29, 20

7 Facts About the Baton Rouge Cop Killer Gavin Long

An ex-marine turned militant radical, identified by investigators as Gavin Eugene Long, murdered three Baton Rogue, Louisiana, police officers Sunday, leaving three more in critical condition in the latest ambush assault on law enforcement officers in recent weeks.

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Exclusive — Pamela Geller: Hospital Refuses to Release Medical Records of Five-Year-Old Idaho Victim Raped By Muslim Migrants

A five-year-old girl was raped and urinated upon by three Muslim migrant boys in Twin Falls, Idaho; one of them, a 14-year-old, videotaped the attack. After the attack, instead of getting justice, the victim’s family has been abused and targeted by law enforcement and medical authorities as if they were the criminals. The mother cannot get copies of the medical records of her own child, or transcripts of 9-1-1 calls made on the day of the attack.

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FBI Unsure if Orlando Terrorist Omar Mateen Was Fueled By Steroids

Following the Obama administration’s attempt to remove from a 9-1-1 call transcript Orlando terrorist shooter Omar Mateen’s pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State, U.S. law enforcement officials are now investigating the role that Mateen’s reported use of steroids may have played in the massacre.

The Orlando gunman was identified as Omar Mateen