The Council on American Islamic Relations condemned GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposal to stop Muslims from entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
In the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, there has been increased pressure on social media companies to take down Islamist material to interfere with their recruiting efforts, but the companies are also worried about allegations of censorship.
Florida Sheriff Wayne Ivey is urging county residents with a concealed permit to carry guns with them and be mentally prepared to use those guns to defend themselves from terrorists.
Sen. Rand Paul’s amendment would have designated 33 countries as “high risk” and placed moratoriums on refugee resettlement and visa issuance to nationals from those countries until the Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Director of National Intelligence certify and new processes to identify security risks.
ISIS can export jihadis to the United States–such as Tashfeen Malik, who killed 14 in San Bernardino–by going online and arranging 90-day fiancé visas for as little as $375.
The BBC has come under fire from Members of Parliament for refusing to describe Islamic State fighters as terrorists, instead encouraging its news reporters to use the less judgmental term ‘militants’. MPs from both the Labour and Conservative parties have
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said the San Bernardino shooting on Wednesday, in which 14 people were killed was “clearly radical Islamic terrorism.”
The Ku Klux Klan has entered the fray of groups rallying at the Islamic Center in Irving, Texas. A white supremacist group, the Texas Rebel Knights, planned a rally at the mosque for December 12. A counter-rally to the KKK rally has been planned by religious groups, now 400 strong, reported WFAA8 in Dallas.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio or “America’s Toughest Sheriff” as he has been called, kicked off his volunteer posse holiday watch at an Arizona mall on Monday. He also said “terrorists with evil intent should be worried about armed citizens who will be ready to defend themselves and others.”
Texas officials are doubling-down on their opposition to Syrian refugees settling in the state. Help them and we may sue you and may terminate your funding from the state, state officials warn.
On the second day of his historic trip to Africa, Pope Francis denounced the recruitment of young people for violence and terrorism by radical Islamists.
A high school in one of the largest school districts in the nation, Houston ISD, says that an Islamic State recruiting homework assignment “teaches critical and analytical thinking skills using current events.” The assignment was given to ninth graders one school day after the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Richard Dawkins posted a Tweet on Tuesday that compared “Clock Boy,” Ahmed Mohamed to the Islamic State child soldier who beheaded a man and it was captured on video. After being attacked on Twitter, he is backing down from his original statement and saying he was only making the comparison of them being young boys.
Democrat senators today sided with President Barack Obama in the growing conflict between the president and other federal and state officials on how to deal with Syrian refugees in the aftermath of ISIS’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) says he will accept Syrian refugees because Americans have “an obligation” to do so.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are slamming the Obama administration for failing to provide detailed immigration histories for 72 terrorists identified last year.
The Britain-based Premier League is revamping its security measures as a result of the attacks at the Stade de France that was part of a series of attacks that killed over 100 in Paris.
There have been several high-profile accusations that material leaked by Edward Snowden helped ISIS terrorists conceal their operations from Western intelligence agencies, including planning and execution of the horrific terrorist attack in Paris on Friday.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers played the position of ambassador of peace on Sunday, slamming a fan who used the moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Paris terrorist attacks to yell, “Muslims suck!”
The Eagles of Death Metal, the California rock group that was performing in Paris at the Bataclan music hall on Friday when Islamic terrorists entered and slaughtered 89 people, will return to the United States and truncate their European tour, according to Agence France-Presse.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that, before talks on a cease-fire in Syria can move forward, Western powers must agree to identify the “terrorist” groups within the Syrian opposition.
Iran is already spending the enormous cash windfall Barack Obama is giving them on a heavy investment in terrorism, according to a report in the Times of Israel.
Not long before President Obama declared that at least 10,000 more Syrian refugees would be flown into the United States for resettlement, his director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, warned about the dangers of ISIS operatives infiltrating Western countries through the flood of migrants.
Gun manufacturer Spike’s Tactical has introduced a new AR-15 with a Bible verse etched upon it in order to prevent Muslim terrorists from handling or using the weapon.
Gov. Bobby Jindal blasted Hillary Clinton’s comparison of Republican opponents of funding Planned Parenthood to “terrorists” Friday by urging her to “look in the mirror” at the fact that her foundation has raised money from countries that terrorize women.
The hunt for the Bangkok bombers continues, with the authorities focusing on a male suspect caught on surveillance video dropping a backpack under a bench near the Erewan shrine and departing the area about fifteen minutes before the blast that killed 20 people and wounded over 120 others.
A Mississippi couple arrested over the weekend for allegedly attempting to fly to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror network has been denied bail, authorities reported on Tuesday.
The conflict between Turkey and the Kurdish PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, continues to intensify, with reports of three more Turkish soldiers killed by mine and missile attacks from PKK militants.The U.S. State Department has called on both sides to resume peace talks.
The Chinese government is claiming that at least 13 of 109 Uyghur Chinese nationals repatriated from Thailand last week were “on the way to jihad,” attempting to reach Syria and Iraq and fight with the Islamic State.
Evil is on the march across the globe today, as a string of potentially ISIS-related atrocities is joined by a brutal attack on an African Union military base in Somalia by al-Shabaab, which has traditionally been an al-Qaeda affiliate, but has been courted by the Islamic State.
“No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved one,” Obama said. “The last thing we should ever do is to add to the family’s pain with threats like that.” During conversations with families of the hostages, Obama said, they expressed frustration with the government bureaucracy to bring their loved ones home.
The Somali Islamist terror gang known as al-Shabaab—traditionally allied with al-Qaeda but said to be considering overtures from ISIS—has been very active lately.
“In one test,” ABC News reports, “an undercover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm at a magnetometer, but TSA screeners failed to detect a fake explosive device that was taped to his back during a follow-on pat down.”
“A 22-year-old Arab citizen of Israel and resident of Umm al-Fahm, located in the ‘triangle’ region of northern Israel which is home to over 300,000 Arab citizens, was indicted on Thursday for supporting the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization,” reports Israel National News. “The indictment was submitted against Jamal Suleiman Abu Ra’ad, who was found thanks to an unusual investigative method – looking at his Facebook page.”
(AP) Officials say that at least 18 leftist rebels have been killed in a raid in western Colombia.
JERUSALEM, Israel — Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, told a legal conference that the Western media have encouraged terrorists to use human shields in war by focusing attention on civilian casualties in such a way that Western military forces were effectively deterred from responding to terrorist attacks. He suggested that legal doctrines might need to be adjusted in order to remove the operational advantage human shields provide terrorists.
It looks as if a jihad bombing attack has been thwarted in Germany, where CNN reports the authorities arrested a “radicalized” couple who were evidently planning to set off home-made explosives at a bicycle race near Frankfurt.
MCALLEN, Texas — U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agents received weapons from Colombian paramilitary terrorist groups for personal use and engaged in wild sex parties as if they were teens on Spring Break, yet rather than face stiff punishment, they either got
Terrorists reportedly bombed a government school for girls in one of Pakistan’s restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan border.
Thursday at the White House daily press briefing, when press secretary Josh Earnest stood behind yesterday’s refusal to call the Taliban terrorists, saying instead the Taliban “engages in tactics akin to terrorism,” CBS News’ White House correspondent Bill Plante and
