Radical Islam
5/4/2012 | Radical Islam
Osama bin Laden Al-Qaida memo to Bin Laden warns of 'cunning methods' of US news networks
The Guardian
Osama bin Laden pondered the merits of US television news channels as he considered how to extract the best propaganda benefit from the tenth anniversary of 9/11 last year, and concluded that CBS was "close to being unbiased". But an American-born media adviser for al-Qaeda warned Bin Laden to beware of the broadcasters' "cunning methods" as he described Fox News as a channel in the "abyss" that should "die in anger", CNN as too close to the US government and MSNBC as questionable after it fired one of its most prominent presenters, Keith Olbermann.
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5/3/2012 | Israel, Radical Islam
Methodists reject anti-Israel move
OneNewsNow
As expected, the United Methodist Church has rejected a resolution calling for the divestment of three companies doing business with Israel.
Despite a high-profile lobbying campaign by pro-divestment activists, delegates to the governing body of the 12-million-member United Methodist Church voted Wednesday 685-246 to reject the resolution that would have instructed the denomination's General Board of Pension and Health Benefits to sell investments in Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard, and Motorola (see earlier story). Proponents of the resolution had argued the three firms profit from Israel's military presence in the West Bank.
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4/19/2012 | Israel, Radical Islam
Frontrunner in Egypt’s Presidential Race Is an Anti-Israel Holdover From Mubarak Regime
CNS News
The disqualification of three leading contenders in Egypt’s presidential campaign has left the race with a new frontrunner – a Mubarak regime holdover whose political career was characterized by hostility towards Israel.
Egypt’s electoral commission on Tuesday confirmed its earlier decision to rule out 10 candidates, including Salafist cleric Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat Al-Shater, and former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman.
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4/17/2012 | Israel, Radical Islam
Israel Tells Pro-Palestinian Activists to ‘Solve the Real Problems of the Region,’ Then Kicks Them Out
CNS News
Left-wing activists who flew into Tel Aviv as part of a pro-Palestinian publicity stunt at the weekend were met with a letter from the Israeli government suggesting they devote their energies instead to humanitarian crises in Syria or Iran – and then wishing them a “nice flight.”
Several dozen activists were barred from entering the country and were being deported. Some minor scuffles took place at Ben Gurion Airport, with arriving activists waving “Welcome to Palestine” signs. A handful of pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators were also seen, including one holding a sign advising the visitors to “Go to Syria.”
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4/16/2012 | Radical Islam
Caton: Tampa 'at risk' of Islamic takeover
OneNewsNow
The head of a Florida-based pro-family organization is deeply concerned that the "Islamization" of Tampa is not far behind that of Dearborn, Michigan.
The Florida Family Association (FFA) has been instrumental in warning parents that a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had been invited several times to Steinbrenner High School in Tampa to indoctrinate children with Islamic propaganda, including sharia law. But The Tampa Tribune has criticized the family group for doing so and supported CAIR, whose Florida office is located in Tampa.
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4/5/2012 | Radical Islam
Egypt: Brotherhood presidency candidate says Shariah 'final goal'
YNET News
Khairat el-Shater meets with Salafi clerics, stresses he would form group of religious scholars to 'help parliament' enforce Islamic law. Omar Suleiman gives up presidential bid
The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egypt's presidency is lobbying hard for support of ultraconservative Muslim clerics, promising them a say over legislation in the future to ensure it is in line with Islamic law, as he tries to rally the divided Islamist vote behind him.
Khairat el-Shater met for four hours Tuesday night with a panel of Salafi scholars and clerics, called the Jurisprudence Commission for Rights and Reform, trying to win their support.
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4/5/2012 | Israel, Radical Islam
Rocket Fired from Egypt Hits Israeli Resort City
Associated Press
A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai desert hit a southern Israeli resort city early Thursday, police said, raising new concerns about militant activity in the mountainous peninsula. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Sinai was becoming a "terror zone."
No injuries were reported in the overnight strike against Eilat, a normally tranquil Red Sea vacation spot. Eilat is set to welcome thousands of visitors this weekend for the Passover holiday.
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4/4/2012 | Israel, Radical Islam, UN
Int’l Criminal Court Decision on ‘Palestine’ Is a Victory for Israel and a Defeat for Amnesty International
CNS News
A decision by the International Criminal Court rebuffing the Palestinian Authority’s attempt to have Israel put on trial for war crimes is a setback not only for the P.A. but also for a so-called “lawfare” campaign waged by some non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
One of those NGOs, Amnesty International, called Tuesday’s decision by the ICC prosecutor’s office “dangerous” and charged that it opened the tribunal to charges of political bias.
Organizations that supported Israel’s position, on the other hand, argued that it was the P.A. that had sought to politicize the court in The Hague by seeking its decision on jurisdiction in the first place.
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4/2/2012 | Radical Islam
Palestinian Protest Turns Violent
Washington Free Beacon
Pro-Palestinian activists involved in the Global March on Jerusalem (GMJ) criticized Israel on Twitter Friday after violent protests along Israel’s borders forced the deployment of tear gas and resulted in injuries—but downplayed the fact that rocks and firebombs had been thrown by protesters to instigate the clashes.
Pictures and videos from the protest—which aims to “end the Apartheid, ethnic cleansing and Judaisation policies affecting the people, land and sanctity of Jerusalem”—reveal that self-described “peaceful” protestors have been throwing firebombs and rocks at Israeli border police.
Twitter user Captain Barak Raz, who identifies himself as a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Force’s division in the West Bank, posted a video of protesters throwing a firebomb at Israeli security forces.
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3/27/2012 | Radical Islam
U.S. plays down Islamist role in drafting Egypt charter
The Washington Times
The State Department downplayed concerns Monday that Islamists are dominating the drafting of Egypt’s new constitution, despite criticism and outrage voiced by secular and Christian politicians in Cairo.
“We’re not going to prejudge, obviously, the work of this panel,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, referring the 100-person body elected over the weekend by a post-revolution parliament to write the constitution.
Two liberal Egyptian politicians quit the panel Monday, citing concerns that it is being dominated by Islamists and lacks sufficient representation for women and Christians.
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3/22/2012 | Radical Islam
Despite Earlier Pledge, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Now Mulls Run for President
Associated Press
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group, said Wednesday it is considering running its own candidate in upcoming presidential elections, dropping its previous decision to avoid direct participation in the race.
The group appears to be playing one of its last cards in a power struggle against the ruling military council, after it failed to force the military to replace its Cabinet with a new one appointed by the Islamist-dominated parliament.
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3/15/2012 | Radical Islam
Karzai: Women’s Rights ‘Within the Framework’ of Islam
CNS News
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said women’s rights in Afghanistan are ensured “within the framework” of Islam, and that the rights of women protected by Islam are “obvious.” However, the U.S. State Department report on Afghanistan confirms that many women there are not accorded equal protection under the law, particularly in cases of rape because of the way Sharia law is sometimes applied.
In a Mar. 10 speech in Kabul, in honor of International Women’s Day, Karzai said that he had spoken with the chairman of the Nationwide Council of Religious Scholars, from whom he confirmed that “Afghan women have access to all the freedoms and rights given to them by the constitution and society of Afghanistan, which are the basic rights within the framework of the principles of our sacred religion and they are welcome to get education, work, [take part in] elections, trade and in all sectors of life.”
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3/9/2012 | Radical Islam, UN
US Votes in Favor of Watered-Down Measure; Syria Retains Seat on U.N. Human Rights Panel
CNS News
UNESCO’s executive board Thursday passed by a 35-8 vote a resolution that condemned Syria but sidestepped the issue of its membership of its human rights panel. The U.S. ambassador voted in favor of the watered-down measure while saying the U.S. was “profoundly disappointed that this resolution does not call for the outright removal of Syria” from the committee.
“It is deeply disappointing that the Obama administration supports the toothless Syria resolution that the board adopted, instead of standing firm and demanding Syria’s expulsion,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said in response. “It is even worse that the administration continues to push to gut U.S. law and resume U.S. funding to UNESCO, despite UNESCO’s reckless, anti-peace, anti-Israel decision to admit a non-existent state of ‘Palestine.’”)
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3/8/2012 | Radical Islam
Boko Haram's 'war' on Nigerian Christians
OneNewsNow
nternational Christian Concern says a Muslim terrorist group's plot to "end the Christian presence" in northern Nigeria is the first time the group has launched an all-out war against believers.
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for attacks in northern Nigeria that have targeted Christians, churches, and moderate Muslims who do not agree with the murderous tactics. The Egypt-based news website Bikya Masr recently spoke by phone to a Boko Haram spokesman, who said his group is preparing to launch a "war" against Christians in a campaign that will involve numerous coordinated attacks on schools, police stations, banks, government buildings, and churches.
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3/5/2012 | Radical Islam
States must choose -- sharia or Constitution?
OneNewsNow
A pro-national defense activist says the recent decision by Pennsylvania judge Mark Martin to throw out an assault charge against a Muslim man based on sharia law is the perfect illustration of why states must enact statutes banning foreign law from American jurisprudence.
Martin recently dismissed charges brought against an Islamic man who attacked an atheist who was marching in a Halloween parade dressed like Mohammed. Martin has been accused of basing his decision on Islamic sharia law rather than on the U.S. Constitution.
Brigitte Gabriel, founder and president of ACT for America and author of They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, says the Pennsylvania case is hardly an isolated incident.
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2/29/2012 | Radical Islam, Religious Persecution
No protection for Nigerian Christians
OneNewsNow
Christians in northern Nigeria are reeling from the latest attack on a local church, and they aren't hopeful the government can successfully intervene.
Two women and a child were reportedly killed and dozens of others were injured in the blast during last Sunday's worship service at a church in Jos. A bomb-laden car drove past security and into the church compound.
International Christian Concern's (ICC) Jonathan Racho tells OneNewsNow the violent Islamic group Boko Haram, whose name loosely translates as "Western education forbidden," claims responsibility for the attack.
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2/28/2012 | Law, Radical Islam
Judge: Insulting Islam grounds for beating
OneNewsNow
A legal expert, a former Navy chaplain, and a pro-family leader agree that a Pennsylvania judge should be removed from the bench for throwing out an assault case lodged against a Muslim who attacked an atheist dressed as a zombie Muhammad at a Halloween parade last year.
Judge Mark Martin is an Iraq war veteran and a convert to Islam, according to George Washington University law professor Jonathon Turley. The incident, recorded on video, occurred on October 11, 2011 at the Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Halloween parade. Ernie Perce, an atheist, was attacked by Talaag Elbayomy, a Muslim, because of the former's costume.
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2/28/2012 | Israel, Radical Islam
U.N. Chief Sends Greetings, and an Envoy, to Israel-Bashing Conference in Qatar
CNS News
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent his Mideast envoy to deliver a message on his behalf to a conference in Qatar this week whose aims include “pointing out the weaknesses of the Jew’s historical arguments backing their claims” to Jerusalem.
Co-hosted by the Qatar government and the Arab League, the two-day “International Conference for the Defense of Jerusalem” brought together politicians from across the Arab and Muslim world, representatives of pro-Palestinian organizations, clerics and academics.
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2/24/2012 | Radical Islam
Taliban to Afghans: Kill foreigners over Quran burnings
MSNBC
The Taliban urged Afghans Thursday to target foreign military bases and kill Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of the Quran at NATO's main base in the country as a third day of violent protests began.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered across the country, some chanting "Death to America!", Reuters witnesses and officials said. In eastern Kabul, hundreds of youths threw rocks at police, who fired shots into the air to try disperse the crowds.
"Our brave people must target the military bases of invader forces, their military convoys and their invader bases," read an emailed Taliban statement released by the insurgency's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. "They have to kill them (Westerners), beat them and capture them to give them a lesson to never dare desecrate the holy Quran again."
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2/20/2012 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
The two sides of the Palestinian persona
OneNewsNow
A group that monitors the Palestinian media is warning about messages that are intentionally conflicting -- one in English and one in Arabic.
A pro-Israel advocacy group hosted its annual event during the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville, Tennessee, this weekend. One of the keynote speakers told a packed room that Americans are being deceived by Palestinians concerning their perceived desire for peace.
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