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Texas Cop and Former Marine Under Fire for Calling ISIS ‘Rock Monkeys in the Middle East’

A Texas cop and Marine Corps veteran is under fire over saying that ISIS attacks on Americans should be met with “extreme violence” and stating “That is the only thing these rock monkeys in the Middle East understand.” The Ellis, Texas, constable says the term “rock monkeys” is one used in the military. He later posted that he was adding the words ISIS in parenthesis to make it more clear for any media or reporters “who want to make me a racist.”

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Australian PM Calls For Calm Ahead Of Anti-Islam March

SYDNEY, Australia – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called for calm on Friday as police prepared for clashes between protesters at a planned rally outside a Sydney mosque that was attended by a teenager who killed a police officer a week

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Huffington Post Cites Hamas Media in Anti-Israel Hit Piece

Amid widespread terrorism being carried out by Palestinian jihadists throughout the State of Israel and the West Bank, the Huffington Post carried an incredibly misleading title in a report on Palestinian rioting, headlined: “Undercover Gunmen Open Fire At Palestinian Stone-Throwers.”

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Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Accept UN Peace Deal

Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels, who threw the country into civil war this year after a coup attempt against exiled president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, have written a letter to the United Nations accepting a seven-point peace plan led by Oman.

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Hajj Disaster Death Toll Surges As Countries Announce More Casualties

The death toll from the tragedy that killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Hajj pilgrims last week outside of Mecca continues to rise this week, as official estimates from Islamic countries show that the real number of those who passed in the stampede is likely much larger than the 769 previously announced by Saudi Arabian authorities.

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Ben Carson: CAIR Broke the Law in Its Political Attacks

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says a nonprofit Islamic advocacy group broke the law by calling for him to drop out of the presidential race. “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a public press conference demanding that I withdraw from the presidential race,” Carson said in an email to supporters Saturday.

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