UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Friday in New York that the terror attacks in Paris, in which radical Muslims targeted a Jewish supermarket and a newspaper that had mocked Muhammad, were “criminality” that had nothing to do with religion.
The manhunt for the Charlie Hebdo killers led to a day of chaos in Paris, as the perpetrators – Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his brother Said Kouachi, 34 – went to ground in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, not far from Charles de Gaulle airport. At the same time, the man who murdered an unarmed French policewoman yesterday, now believed to be a member of the same terrorist cell as the Kouachi brothers, has taken hostages of his own, and reportedly offered to trade them for the brothers’ freedom – an offer the French authorities are unlikely to accept.
French authorities classified the death of police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 25, a terrorist attack. The shooting is France’s second terrorist attack within a span of 24 hours. Two gunmen slaughtered twelve people at Charlie Hebdo headquarters on Wednesday as they screamed, “Allahu Akbar!” Even though both are considered terrorist attacks, authorities did not initially link the attacks, though reports are now surfacing that the three suspects may be related.
We have all heard the dramatic tale of how terrorists come from poor, oppressed families and are virtually forced into terrorism to escape discrimination and poverty. Young, desperate and idealistic, they turn to terror as their only way out of the hellhole into which society has buried them.
By deflecting attention from the cartoons, Klein is actually trying to protect Western ideas about the state, the individual, and freedom. Yet he cannot bring himself to identify the threat to those ideas, because doing so would mean admitting that the multicultural project, to which the left is politically wedded, has failed.
A man believed to have been the suspect in yesterday’s shooting of unarmed policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe yesterday has taken women and children hostage at a kosher grocery store in the eastern Parisian district of Porte de Vincennes.
One of two French police officers who were killed during the brutal attack on Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was also a Muslim. Ahmed Merabet, 42, begged for his life to be spared before mercilessly being slain by two of three radical Islamists who would carry out his untimely demise as well as murder 11 other unarmed civilians.
Our response should be hope: hope that ridicule and not retaliation is our response. Because in the bleak twilight of French grief, when it seems that nothing could ever make good on the loss and violation that these animals have unleashed in one of the world’s great capital cities, what ought to ring out loud and true are not the echoes of gunfire—but guffaws at the proposition that subhumans with submachine guns will undo the achievements of our civilisation.
OK, let’s get ready to rumble and stop all the polite bullsh*t. We all know that this is happening. We all know that the Jews, Christians, and the West are under attack by two forces – radical Islam and the American left.
Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) issued a statement in response to Wednesday’s deadly terrorist attack at the offices of the the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 lives were brutally taken. Rep. Royce expressed how the “disturbing” incident was a direct attack on free speech, which he described as a main “pillar of the civilized world.”
An op-ed by the editors of Bloomberg equates “anti-immigration nativists” with the Islamic terrorists who slaughtered the staff of Charlie Hebdo Magazine Wednesday. In its rush to attack anti-immigration activists, the piece says immigration had nothing to do with 9/11, calling the terror attack’s perpetrators “outsiders who entered the country as visitors.”
Wednesday’s attack on the Paris offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed, caused “abhorrence” in the Vatican, according to sources at the Holy See press office.
On Wednesday, Islamic terrorists murdered 12 people at the leftist French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, including the editor-in-chief and three cartoonists. The motivation was clear: the terrorists shouted “Allahu Akhbar!” during the attack and screamed “We have avenged the prophet!” as they left the scene.
Charlie Hebdo editor, Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier, refused to bow to the demands of Western heads-of-state, many of whom urged the journalist to stop publishing pictures of Prophet Muhammad on his newspaper’s pages. He also remained defiant after al-Qaeda reportedly placed his name on an “enemies of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad” hit list.
UPDATE: A staffer from the Financial Times responds. The piece has been updated: @NolteNC It wasn’t an editorial. It was a signed opinion piece by Tony Barber. This is the FT editorial http://t.co/ZElxYYNhjR — John Gapper (@johngapper) January 7, 2015
Two Islamist newspapers in Turkey have caused a firestorm on social media after their headlines seemed to justify the massacre committed by Islamic fundamentalists in Paris.
Chinese state newspaper Xinhua has published an extensive article announcing the “People’s War” on terrorism, vowing “to introduce a counter-terrorism law at national level” and crush terrorists “like rats” for acts such as the Xinjiang railway attack last year.
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, who married Hollywood superstar George Clooney in September, claimed Egypt threatened her with arrest due to a report she released that was critical of the country’s judicial system. Such claims had previously led to the arrest and conviction of three al-Jazeera journalists. However, Egypt wants proof from Clooney the government issued the warning.
Islamist terror group Boko Haram now controls about twenty percent of Nigeria, The New York Times reported this week. The land grab amounts to over 70,000 square miles of territory, which is between about two and six times the square miles of land reportedly held by the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
Three months after the Communist mayor of a Paris suburb, Valenton, named a street, Barghouti Alley, after a convicted Palestinian terrorist, another municipality of a second Paris suburb has honored the same man.
Among the trends of 2014 – “Gone, Girl,” Lena Dunham, and $55,000 potato salad – was another the list-makers seem to have missed: it was also a very good year for Islamic jihad. And while this was true on the battlefields of Syria and the cities and villages of Pakistan, it was true, too, in more subtle ways throughout the West – and especially in Europe. It was, for instance, the year of Mehdi Nemmouche’s slaughter of four Jews at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
The latest edition of Al-Qaeda’s glossy recruiting magazine Inspire, released on Christmas eve has made a renewed call on the faithful to strike out against the West in lone-wolf attacks, taking on airlines and prominent public figures with home-made bombs.
A teenager who missed out on a space at university because he missed the deadline for sending in applications forms is the latest PR story by Islamic State fighters. IS say that a white British teenager joined the militant terror
Friday at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, HI, President Barack Obama told U.S. troops that Afghanistan will no longer be a source of terrorist attacks. “We’ve been in continuous war now for over 13 years,” Obama said. “Next
Egyptian authorities have raised their terror alert status to the highest level and are reportedly prepared for potential attacks on Christmas and New Year’s Eve from radial Islamic groups in the nation’s places of worship.
More than 1,000 soldiers have been deployed on the streets of France for Christmas after a spate of suspected festive-season terrorist attacks across the nation have left many French citizens critical of the government’s denialism, and fearful of increasing violence.
If you ever wondered how much Hamas loved Israelis, then you have to watch this little “kid-friendly” and informative video of Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Brigades’s Nickelodeon-style TV show. The trend continued earlier this month when the station invited a young boy
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French authorities have ruled out terrorism as a motive for the van attack, despite reports the driver shouted “Allahu akbar” as he piloted the white Fiat van into crowds of people doing last minute Christmas shopping. Hours later police arrested
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