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During a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts on Tuesday, author and former Customs and Border Protection officer Philip Haney testified about multiple purges of law enforcement records of information that had to

Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Obama administration is scrubbing certain portions of Orlando terrorist shooter Omar Mateen’s 911 call during his attack on a gay nightclub in order to ensure the contents of the phone call are not used for terrorist propaganda purposes.

According to a Gallup poll taken the week after the atrocity in Orlando, only 29 percent of Democrats thought this was an Islamic terror attack. Fully 60 percent of all Democrats attributed the attack to “domestic gun violence.” Moreover, 42 percent of independents felt the same way. Only 44 percent attributed it to the Islamic holy war that has been declared on America and the West.

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher wondered, “Where are the liberals” to stand up for those in the Muslim world who, because of Islamic extremism can’t come out of the closet, leave the faith, or draw a cartoon, and why people on the left “are not to be heard” on the gender apartheid in the Muslim world on Friday.

A new poll makes clear: Donald Trump can win this election if he keeps hammering on the anvil. That is, hammering with the same hammer, on the same anvil, for the next five months. The anvil, of course, is the basic issue of homeland security, and the hammer is the action needed to keep the country safe.

The residual disdain the LGBT community holds for the religious right prevents it from seeing the pure hatred it faces from radical Islam.

Obama is angry. Not at the terrorists, mind you, but at Donald Trump and those who criticize him for calling our enemies “extremists” (like the Sandy Hook and Aurora shooters) instead of “radical Islamic terrorists,” which is what they are.

Former FBI Counterterrorism Center instructor Kim Jenson told Breitbart News Sunday that the proper context for understanding the heinous atrocity in Orlando is that “the War on Terrorism is not against Islam,” but rather against “a very specific ideology within the community of Islam.”

A manual used in English and Welsh prisons to teach inmates about Islam should be withdrawn as it encourages them to take part in violent jihad, a cleric has advised. Since 2011 the prisons service has been using a Tarbiyah

Acclaimed director-producer Steven Spielberg delivered a jocular commencement speech to Harvard University’s Class of 2016 Thursday and lobbed a thinly veiled attack at presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.

The Islamic State has executed 25 purported “Iraqi spies” by lowering them into a vat of nitric acid, where they remained until their organs dissolved.

During a recent New Jersey campaign stop to support his wife’s presidential bid, former U.S. President Bill Clinton suggested the people of Poland had decided democracy is too much trouble and that Poles want a Putin-type authoritarian leadership.

The Pakistani government’s Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC), a regulatory body governing the film industry, has recently banned at least two documentaries on Islamic extremism.

Brazilians are using Twitter to comment on the threat they face at the hands of the Islamic State as their country prepares to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Game.

Former PM John Howard says Australia needs to undertake a “sensible strengthening” of the gun ban imposed by his government in 1996.

Police Scotland are investigating a series of credible death threats made against a human rights lawyer, after he denounced the sectarian murder of a Muslim shopkeeper by an Islamist and called for unity against terrorism. Aamer Anwar, who lives in

President Barack Obama’s domestic anti-jihad plan has been blocked by “moderate” Muslims’ refusal to admit the all-too-obvious tie between Islam and Islamic jihad.

Islamic extremists carried out nearly every suicide terror attack in the world during the year 2015, and the number of women and young girls among them grew exponentially, according to a report from the Institute for National Security Studies.

From the Washington Post: LIEGE, Belgium — Stephane Medot knows a thing or two about Belgian prisons. He spent 10 years in them. Arrested for carrying out more than a dozen armed bank robberies, the stocky, bald-headed Medot moved from

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joined Muslim Public Affairs Council president Salam Al-Marayti at a panel held by the University of Southern California on Thursday to discuss counterterrorism efforts and outreach to the Muslim community

HBO host Bill Maher argued that “it’s not one small slice” of Muslims who hold extremist beliefs, and President Obama’s claims to the contrary are pulled “right out of his a**” on Friday’s “Real Time.” Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm

Maajid Nawaz, who was a member of the radical Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir stated that the “Islamist ideology” needs to be named and challenged, and “currently, with the president’s policy, that’s simply just not happening” on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends” on

Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions is warning that radical Islam is a threat that “cannot be ignored,” following the shocking Islamic attacks that killed dozens of people in Brussels, Belgium. Jeff Sessions, who chairs the Senate’s subcommittee on strategic forces and the

Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz explained his statement that “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized” by pointing to a previous program in New York City and arguing “It is

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), who served as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama, and has advised Republican presidential candidates Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump stated that “we’re losing” the fight against terrorism and the

BOCA RATON, Florida — Billionaire Donald Trump, the 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner, hammered the core issues of immigration, trade, and national security in a speech before 8,000 on Sunday night, two days before Florida voters head to the polls.

Raheel Raza, the President of the Council of Muslims Facing Tomorrow said that as a reform-minded Muslim she needs more defense against people in her own religion who want her dead than she needs celebrities defending her, and “[W]e have

A radical Islamic television channel run by an anti-Semetic Salfist hate preacher has been partially funded by tax breaks from the UK Treasury. Regulators have slammed the channel for broadcasting virulently anti-Semitic material, blaming the Jews for the holocaust, and

Secretary of State John Kerry said this week he is seeking more evidence against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to label their crimes genocide.

The International Business Times reports: As the plane touched down in Israel from Paris in the summer of 2014 packed with dozens of French Jews full of hope for their new lives in Israel, a devastating conflict in the Gaza Strip raged. Israeli

The government of Nigeria may have declared the war won against Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram, but new evidence has surfaced that they not only remain active, but have deep ties within the Nigerian military. Officials arrested two soldiers this week for having provided government-issued weapons to the jihadist terror group.

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher wondered why the way women are treated in the Muslim world isn’t more of a cause for feminists during an interview with author and activist Gloria Steinem on Friday. Maher asked, “Why aren’t the

During a February 2 visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore, President Obama excused the Muslim majority for the sins of a few, but he refuses to extend that same courtesy to law-abiding gun owners throughout our land.

HBO host Bill Maher argued that it isn’t true that people wouldn’t be as afraid of Islam if they knew more about it, “Actually, it’s the reverse” and that he wished liberals would “have the same enthusiasm for intolerance elsewhere in the world as they do for Christians here at home, who really aren’t a problem, because they don’t get really get their way” on Friday’s “Real Time.”

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stated that he “can’t see” that banning Muslims from entering the US “makes sense” on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead.” Rumsfeld said, “[T]he problem is going to be dealt with, certainly by people who

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended Muslims around the world from Donald Trump’s supposed “Islamophobia.”