CAIRO — Women must be allowed to hold up "half the sky" for poverty to be challenged, wrote Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn in their powerful 2009 book of the same name. But when many women

There has been yet another attack against Nigerian Christian: this time in Kano state, north of Jos where January and March violence took place. Two churches and a pastor's home were

This week sees the launch of a hilarious new campaign called "Inspired by Muhammad” (as we are now all expected to spell Mohammed). It claims to want to "improve the public understanding of Islam and

Erdogan's bellicose support for the flotilla has sacrificed Israeli relations in the service of retrograde east-facing aspirations.Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called the Israeli

Prisoners are converting to Islam to win benefits and gain the protection of powerful Muslim gangs inside jails, the Chief Inspector of Prisons has warned. Up to a third of Muslim prisoners

Standard Chartered Bank, one of the United Kingdom’s largest and oldest financial institutions is set to enter the Saudi market to promote Shariah-Compliant Finance. If any non-Muslim Standard

Dutch centre-right leader Mark Rutte hit the campaign trail Tuesday pressing his case for radically reduced public spending on the eve of an election expected to make him the premier from his party

The NEFA Foundation has released two new documents relating to the Turkish Muslim charitable group Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), sponsor of the Gaza freedom flotilla.

Can Islamic jihad be resisted simply on the basis of Western secular values? Some readers of my posts on the role of Christianity in resisting Islam have objected that bringing Christianity into the

How biased is the liberal media? No more or less biased than Barack Obama. Both have made it a matter of policy not to mention "Islam” in connection with "terrorism,” and to look resolutely the other

London – Over a thousand demonstrators marched to the Egyptian embassy in London following Israel’s latest crime of killing humanitarian aid workers who tried to break the siege of

They were two men who seemed fundamentally different: one so stridently anti-American that school officials alerted federal authorities about him in 2006, while the other was shy and a late convert

Turkey has reported imposed an indefinate ban on Google and Google services, according to a new report published by IB Times. The information comes directly from the Turkish Telecommunications

The Chief Inspector of prisons warned that the blanket treatment done by the staff of the rapidly growing population of Muslim prisoners in England and Wales, as potential or actual extremists is