Radical Islam
2/1/2012 | Radical Islam
Political correctness missing in 'honor killing' case
OneNewsNow
A critic of Islam is pleased that the "horrors of honor killing" were not "whitewashed" in the case involving three Muslims in Canada who will spend at least 25 years in prison for first-degree murder.
As previously reported on OneNewsNow, a jury in Ontario has found an Afghan immigrant couple, Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Yahya, and their son, Hamad, guilty of first-degree murder in the June 2009 drowning of the couple's three teenage daughters and the man's first wife. Prosecutors convinced the jury that Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, were victims of an honor killing plot because the Islamic family disapproved of their conduct, particularly in the dating habits of the two oldest sisters. One of them dated a Christian.
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Rights Group Asks Nigeria to End Boko Haram Terror Campaign
Voice of America
Human Rights Watch called on the Nigerian government Tuesday to take further steps to end what it called the "campaign of terror" by the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram.
The U.S.-based human rights group said Boko Haram is responsible for the deaths of at least 935 people since the beginning of its violent campaign in 2009, including 250 people in the first weeks of 2012. It said the majority of the attacks have been carried out in the northeastern Borno state, where the group is headquartered.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com1/23/2012 | Radical Islam
Nothing ‘Anti-Muslim’ About Gingrich’s Comments on Shari’a, Says Anti-Islamist Muslim Activist
CNS News
Newt Gingrich’s stance on Islamic law (shari’a) is not “anti-Muslim” as charged by some Islamic critics, an American Muslim activist said Thursday.
Instead it is those critical of Gingrich – the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) – whose actions and motivations should be examined, in the view of M. Zuhdi Jasser, an observant, anti-Islamist American Muslim who is founder and president of the non-profit American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD).
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com1/4/2012 | Radical Islam
Terrorists Warn Christians to Leave Nigeria’s Muslim North
CNS News
As a three-day ultimatum by al-Qaeda-affiliated radicals for Nigerian southerners – mostly Christians – to leave the country’s predominantly Muslim north ran out Wednesday, police played down the threat while some politicians differed over how the government should respond.
Boko Haram, which last month carried out deadly attacks on Christians for the second consecutive Christmas, made the threat Sunday after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in parts of four northern states where the extremists have been most active.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com1/3/2012 | Radical Islam
Muslim Brotherhood vows not to recognize Israel
JPOST.COM STAFF AND REUTERS
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood will not recognize Israel “under any circumstance,” the party’s deputy leader Dr. Rashad Bayoumi told Arabic daily al-Hayat in an interview published on Sunday.
In recent Egyptian elections the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 36.3 percent of the list vote, while the ultra-conservative Salafi al-Nour Party took 28.8%.
When asked whether it is a requirement for the government in Egypt to recognize Israel, Bayoumi responded by saying: “This is not an option, whatever the circumstances, we do not recognize Israel at all. It’s an occupying criminal enemy.”
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com12/28/2011 | Radical Islam
Nigerians Fear More Attacks After Muslim Terrorists Kill 35 Catholics at Christmas Mass Nigerians fear more church attacks after 39 killed
Associated Press
Worshippers at the Nigerian Catholic church where a terror attack killed 35 people on Christmas Day say they fear Islamic militants will target more churches.
At least 52 others were wounded when the blast went off at St. Theresa Catholic Church near Nigeria's capital. On Monday, women tried to clean the church ahead of Mass, with one man weeping uncontrollably.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com12/6/2011 | Radical Islam
Egypt Islamists threaten demos if poll fraud foun
AFP
The Muslim Brotherhood, the biggest winner in the first round of Egypt's elections, has threatened to take to the streets if there is any attempt to manipulate results.
The group, a moderate Islamist movement banned for decades under the rule of deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak, gained 36.6 percent of votes cast on November 28-29 for parties in a new lower house of parliament.
"We will take to the streets if there is any cheating in the elections or manipulation of the constitution," its leader Mohammed Badei told Egyptian television in comments reported by the press on Tuesday.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com11/11/2011 | Radical Islam
Nigerian Christians 'deliberately targeted'
OneNewsNow
Despite previous reports, a human rights organization for religious freedom says a recent bloody attack in Nigeria was not directed at the government.
At least 150 lives were lost in the northern Nigeria attack, and Jonathan Racho of International Christian Concern (ICC) says Christians were the deliberate target.
"The press painted this as another attack targeting the police, whereas our investigation reveals that the majority of the victims are Christians who were deliberately targeted because of their faith," he reports.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com10/27/2011 | Iran, Radical Islam
Iran Hails Tunisian Election Result, Predicts Islamist Victories in Egypt, Libya
CNS News
Welcoming the apparent victory of an Islamist party in Tunisia, Iran’s leadership is predicting similar results when Egyptians and Libyans get to vote in their first elections after overthrowing dictators in what Tehran has branded the 2011 “Islamic awakening.”
As of Wednesday evening, the “moderate Islamist” Ennahda party had won 65 of the 159 seats announced in the 217-seat constituent assembly, which will be tasked with drafting a new constitution for Tunisia
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U.S. Funding on the Line As UNESCO Mulls Membership for ‘Palestine’
CNS News
The United Nations’ cultural agency has begun a high-level conference that will decide on an application for membership for “Palestine” – a move that could lead to a legally-mandated severing of U.S. funding.
Unless intensive lobbying results in the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) withdrawing its request, the application is expected to achieve the required two-thirds majority in a vote by the General Conference of the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USACliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc.Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com10/24/2011 | Radical Islam
Libya's liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law
The Telegraph
Libya's interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country.
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".
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Many freed Palestinian prisoners may be deported
Associated Press
A Hamas official said Thursday that close to 200 of the 450 Palestinians to be freed in the first phase of a swap for a captured Israeli soldier will not be allowed to return to their homes in the West Bank, Gaza or east Jerusalem, suggesting a substantial number may face deportation.
The official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to release the figures, told reporters that 272 of the 450 prisoners to be released in the initial stage of the swap for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit can go home. That means the remaining 178 are likely to be deported to third countries or — if they are from the West Bank or east Jerusalem — to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The Hamas official did not name any countries that might be a destination for those expelled.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com10/12/2011 | Radical Islam
State Dept Considering 5,662 'Diversity Visa' Applicants from Terror States
CNS News
As part of its 2012 Diversity Visa program, the U.S. State Department is considering 5,662 applicants from countries deemed ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’ – Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba.
In 2011, the State Department awarded 2,427 Diversity Visas to people from Iran, Syria and Sudan -- 1,842 for Iran; 553 for Sudan; and 32 for Syria.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com9/19/2011 | Israel, Radical Islam
French FM: Status quo between Israel and Palestinians risks 'explosion of violence'
Reuters
French FM said on Monday that the status quo between Israel and the Palestinian is neither acceptable nor tenable, and "posed a risk of an explosion of violence." Alain Juppe added he is scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later on Monday.
Juppe asked what would happen after the Palestinians go to to the Security Council. "If there is an American veto, nothing will happen on the ground except maybe the resumption of violence," he said. He mentioned the Quartet's frantic efforts to find a way out of the deadlock, saying that there are still "three, four days to negotiate in the Quartet and to find a solution, a balanced solution, acceptable both by Palestinians and Israelis, to resume negotiation."
Juppe added that "things are changing all around Israel. Egypt has changed. Syria is in the situation we said before. Turkey has not in very good relations with Israel today. There are tensions… when everything is changing around you, you can stay rigid and say wait and see. I think it's better to take in account the change and to try to move".
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Israel facing 'diplomatic tsunami' with Arab neighbors
McClatchy Newspapers
The attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo has brought into sharp relief Israel's increasing isolation in a still region grappling with the changes of the Arab Spring.
Israel was forced to evacuate its ambassador and most of its diplomatic staff from Cairo this weekend after hundreds of Egyptian protesters tore down a security wall protecting the Nile-side embassy, ransacked its files and burned an Israeli flag. It came less than a week after Turkey, Israel's other major ally in the Muslim world, announced it was expelling the Israeli ambassador and downgrading its relationship to the lowest possible level after a deadly skirmish involving a Turkish aid vessel that was attempting to deliver supplies in defiance of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
With another potential predicament brewing later this month when the Palestinians are expected to request membership and statehood at the United Nations, Israeli-Arab relations appear to be plunging to their lowest point in years.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com9/8/2011 | Israel, Radical Islam
Palestinians Officially Launch Statehood Campaign
Associated Press
The Palestinians on Thursday officially launched their campaign to join the United Nations as a full member state, saying they would stage a series of peaceful events in the run-up to the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly later this month.
Some 100 Palestinian officials and activists gathered at the U.N. offices in Ramallah for a short ceremony, where they announced their plans in a letter addressed to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The letter urges Ban to add his "moral voice in support of the Palestinian people."
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The Arab Democracy Deficit No One Is Talking About
CNS News
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to postpone local elections – for the fourth time – has drawn little international attention, and no criticism from the U.S., the European Union or the Mideast “Quartet.”
Abbas last Monday issued a decree postponing local elections in the West Bank, due on Oct. 22, “until appropriate circumstances allowing to hold it nationwide exist.” The elections had already been delayed three times – in Jan. 2010, Jul. 2010 and Jul. 2011.
The Palestinian High Court last December ruled that an earlier cancellation was illegal, but the P.A. ignored the ruling. Local councils’ mandates expired in Dec. 2009.
The latest in a series of P.A. election postponements comes against a backdrop of vocal Western support for the democratic aspirations across the Arab world – except when it comes to the Palestinian areas.
Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza have not had the opportunity to elect a leader since January 2005.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com8/29/2011 | Israel, Radical Islam
Palestinians Prepare Symbolic Chair in Advance of U.N. Bid Monday, Augu
Associated Press
The Palestinians are hoping to secure a seat at the United Nations next month. They already have the chair for it.
Palestinian activists said Monday they would take the chair on an international tour to dramatize the Palestinian Authority's quest for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state.
The wooden chair is covered with embroidered blue upholstery featuring a Palestinian flag and the word "Palestine."
It will be shown to diplomats in countries with influence at the U.N., including Britain, Russia and Lebanon, this month's rotating Security Council president.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com8/22/2011 | Israel, Radical Islam
Across the Political Spectrum, Egyptian Parties Want Israel Punished
CNS News
As Israel grapples with its most serious diplomatic rift with Egypt in years, one of the clearest signs of the fragility of the relationship at the heart of Israeli-Arab peace efforts is the wide range of Egyptian political parties and leaders demanding that their government take a harsh line against Israel.
Joining the call are radical Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood offshoots, secular centrists, and four presidential candidates, including two who are faring well in opinion polls – former Arab League head Amr Moussa and Ayman Nour, a liberal politician on whose behalf President Bush spoke out when President Hosni Mubarak’s regime imprisoned him as a dissident in 2007.
This cross-section of the Egyptian political spectrum is now calling for tough steps against Israel, after its forces inadvertently killed five Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai peninsula while pursuing terrorists responsible for deadly attacks against Israeli civilians.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationWilliam Sutter, Executive Director, The Friends of IsraelDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com8/18/2011 | Israel, Radical Islam
Palestinian Gunmen Cross Into Israel From Egypt, Kill 7 Israelis
Associated Press
Squads of gunmen armed with heavy weapons and explosives crossed into southern Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing seven Israelis in an audacious series of attacks, officials said. The violence stoked concerns about Palestinian militants exploiting instability in Egypt.
The attacks began around midday and lasted for about three hours. Israeli security forces tracked down some of the assailants and killed several in a gunbattle, military spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said. Defense officials said three bodies were booby-trapped and Israeli TV channels said seven attackers were killed. There was no immediate word on whether any were captured alive or exactly how many in all were involved.
Israel almost immediately said the attackers came from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and made their way through Sinai, which borders both Israel and Gaza. That raised the specter of an Israeli military reprisal against the Palestinian territory. Egypt and Hamas denied the allegations.
"The incident underscores the weak Egyptian hold on Sinai and the broadening of the activities of terrorists," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement. "The real source of the terror is in Gaza and we will act against them with full force and determination."
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