A Muslim postman who fell asleep at the wheel and killed a father-of-eight while fasting for Ramadan has been been told he will not be going to jail for his offence. Sajid Hussain, 36, claimed he ‘dozed off’ before his Volkswagen Polo
The Jerusalem Post reports: Attempts to shut down Hamas from operating its main television propaganda outlet in France appear to have failed – at least for now. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his gratitude on Saturday to French President Francois Hollande
Migrants who were part of a gang that tore apart asylum accommodation and savagely attacked police officers in a riot last year are now in court, charged with aggravated breach of the peace. Violence broke out in the migrant receiving centre in
Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee, if tonight’s debate mattered at all.
“Maybe Donald Trump will do a great job, but you know, he scares me a little bit when he says all Muslims hate America,” said former Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, during an interview with Breitbart News Daily on Thursday morning.
The Vatican has released global statistics this week showing that the number of Catholics has grown faster in the last decade than the general population, though more slowly than Islam.
Egypt’s parliament has drafted legislation to ban women from wearing the niqab in public places.
A report indicates there is evidence that members of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have forced children to play soccer with decapitated heads as a way to desensitize them to violence.
JERUSALEM – The U.S. and Israel disseminate sex, pornography, and drugs in the Arab world in order to destroy Islamic values, a professor of Quranic studies said on official Palestinian TV. In a show broadcast on Thursday, Imad Hamato, who teaches at the University of Palestine in Gaza, said that the U.S.’s plan to impose American values on the Arab world began with former President George W. Bush. Hamato claimed that Bush said, “We will enter Iraq and bring in pornography and we will teach them the American civilization and culture.”
The Times of Israel reports: A bill that would bar mosques from broadcasting the call to prayer on loudspeaker systems was withdrawn by its sponsor. Knesset member Moti Yogev of the Jewish Home party withdrew the bill on Sunday before
JAFFA, Israel – Ahead of Tuesday’s International Women’s Day, Arab social media has been abuzz with discussions about the troublesome phenomenon of “aness” (spinsters) – single women older than 35, and in some countries 30. The stigmatized phenomenon is seen as a
A consultant has been suspended after revealing how he asked a Muslim surgeon to remove her headscarf in the operating theatre. Dr Vladislav Rogozov said in a blog that he confronted the woman before surgery, telling her it was against
Police in Pakistan rescued a nine-year-old girl from an arranged marriage to a 14-year-old boy in her village in Punjab province. They arrested four village elders responsible for the wedding.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (pictured) vehemently attacked Arab regimes for their decision to label Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, claiming that “the Lebanese resistance is the only one that regains Arab dignity and fights for the
The Times of Israel reports: A suicide truck bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State group killed 47 people at a crowded checkpoint south of Baghdad Sunday, the deadliest such attack in Iraq this year. The massive blast completely destroyed
JAFFA, Israel – The former Grand Mufti of Egypt has said that a woman can divorce her husband if he makes noises while eating. This is the latest in a series of outlandish remarks that have subjected the man who until recently was the
JAFFA, Israel – A female Egyptian lawmaker is supporting a bill that would ban women from wearing a face-covering veil, a custom increasingly common in hardline Islamist circles. Dr. Amneh Nusseir, a philosophy and religious studies professor at Cairo’s Al Azhar University, welcomed
Zaman newspaper, Turkey’s largest-circulated media outlet that was seized by the government, reopened Saturday under heavy police guard and with the editor-in-chief removed from his post. Staff posted photos on social media of armed forces inside the building and also guarding the barricaded perimeter after police raided the offices. The daily’s editor, Abdulhamit Bilici, left the building to the applause of staff.
A bill that would bar mosques from broadcasting the call to prayer on loudspeaker systems is set to come before Israel’s Knesset. The Ministerial Committee on Legislation will vote on the bill Sunday, Reuters reported.
ABC News reports on advances by the Syrian rebels: A Free Syrian Army faction seized control of the Syrian side of a major Syria-Iraq border crossing from the Islamic State group Friday night, as IS fighters engaged government forces in
The Jerusalem Post reports: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has suggesting building a large new city in northern Syria as a housing solution for the millions of refugees that have been displaced by the Syrian war, AFP has reported. In a
Ynetnews reports: Turkish authorities seized control of the country’s largest newspaper on Friday in a widening crackdown against supporters of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, an influential foe of President Racep Tayyip Erdogan. Police fired tear gas and water cannons
Hezbollah believes it can bring any future war into Israeli territory, according to a report published Thursday in Foreign Affairs that cites “sources close to the party.”
A British National Health Service (NHS) hospital trust has developed official hijabs which they call “multi-faith dignity gowns” to protect the “modesty” of patients, after local Muslims apparently complained about standard hospital gowns. The hijabs, which can also function as niqab due
A website belonging to Indian Railways was hacked on Tuesday, replacing the page of a personnel director with a message purportedly from Maulana Aasim Umar, al-Qaeda’s top operative in south Asia.
TEL AVIV – James Stavridis, who led the 2011 intervention in Libya as NATO’s 16th Supreme Allied Commander, used unusual terminology to express his hope that the United Arab Emirates would step up its involvement in the Libya war. In an email
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hezbollah supporters launched a social media campaign against a Shi’ite news site opposing the terror organization, describing it as an “Israeli agent,” Lebanese media reported. On Wednesday, the editors of the Shi’ite site Janubia announced that “the
A man known in Turkey as the “Rockin’ Imam” has been denied permission to give a concert in Portugal by Turkey’s religious enforcement authority, the Diyanet. Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer says his concert would have been “an important publicity opportunity” for Islam in the West.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Jordan’s security services said on Wednesday they had thwarted a plot by Islamic State militants to blow up civilian and military targets, in one of the US ally’s largest sweeps in years against hardline sleeper cells.
For the first time, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has allowed women to participate in combat roles in Libya. The London Times reports that the government there has arrested seven women while attacks killed three last week in Sabratha, located 50 miles from Tripoli.
Anonymous Nigerian soldiers have told media outlets that a group of Boko Haram terrorists and their hostages, number 76 people, have surrendered to the military in northeast Borno state. The terrorists surfaced from the forests in which they were hiding “begging for food,” one witness stated, having chosen surrender over starvation.
German doctor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, treating Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS), tells the Agence France-Presse he has treated an 8-year-old girl who set herself on fire to stop jihadists from raping her.
After a recent spate of killings of members of religious minorities by Islamic extremists, the supreme court of Bangladesh has begun hearing arguments challenging Islam’s privileged status as official state religion, a measure applauded by religious liberty activists and minority
Pakistani security forces have been placed on high alert for the funeral of the convicted assassin of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, Mumtaz Qadri, who was hanged yesterday in Rawalpindi. Millions of Islamic extremists have reportedly already assembled for the
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad assigned Nada al-Qahtani, a female jihadi, to lead a battalion in Hasakah, located in northeast Syria.
Radical Islamic group Boko Haram has forced Catholics, Anglicans, and Pentecostals to unite and fight against the violence.
An Egyptian court has sentenced three teenage Coptic Christians to five years in jail for insulting Islam in a video posted online last year.
The Moroccan government has broken up an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) cell that planned to carry out attacks across the country.
A new wave of Christians have been driven from their homes in northern Mali by an upsurge in anti-Christian persecution from Islamic jihadists in the beleaguered West African nation.
The Wall Street Journal reports: KHIRBA AL-BAQAR, Syria—In a farmhouse surrounded by wheat fields some 45 miles north of Raqqa, a frustrated rebel commander bides his time, his battle plans on hold as apartial cease-fire in Syria’s five-year war officially
