British men planning to marry Indonesian women will have to pay a £38,000 "security guarantee" in a new law tabled by the country's conservative religious affairs ministry. By Barney Henderson

Israeli defense officials now say dozens of passengers who were aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, the scene of a bloody showdown with Israeli commandos Monday, are suspected of having

Jonathan Schanzer has an excellent summary of the terror financing aspects of the (now defunct) convoy to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. I post it in its

Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated an article from Elsevier about a scandal last week in Turkey, in which a Turkish minister accused Barry Madlener of the PVV of being a racist:

The Dutch Amin Abou Rashed (43), who was arrested by Israeli commandos on the 'freedom flotilla' by the coast of Gaza, is a top official in the Hamas terror organization, according to intelligence

In a speech in Cairo about a year ago, President Obama sought a "new beginning" for the United States and the world's Muslims. In pursuit of this initiative, Obama gave his first interview as

If Israeli soldiers had boarded the Mavi Marmara armed with assault rifles instead of paintball guns, would the Turkish Islamists on board have been just as eager to attack them? The odds are against

Will the media report accurately and fairly as anti-Israel activists violently resist an IDF naval boarding with tragic results? In the early hours of Monday 31 May, Israeli naval commandos

AL-QAEDA’S third-in-command has been killed by a drone strike in Pakistan’s lawless border region, according to a statement by the organisation posted on Islamist websites. The death of Mustafa

Turkey’s Chief Rabbi publicly condemned Israel’s action vis-à-vis the Gaza-bound flotilla – proof, some say, that Turkish Jews feel at risk. Turkey’s Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Haleva publicly

THE Lancashire Council of Mosques has condemned an attack on peace activists who were delivering supplies to the Gaza Strip. Bosses at the organisation, which has organised many convoys of aid to

Canadian government for a "global center to promote diversity." None of the Opposition parties bothered to ask why the Canadian government gave this tidy sum to one of the richest men on the planet.

MUMBAI: Has Talibanism breached the solid wall which guarded Indian Islam for centuries? If the diktat issued by a Sharia panchayat comprising a dozen or so clerics in the Muslim-majority town of

Most Austrians like the term "safety" while the word "Islam" creates positive feelings with just three per cent, a new poll on word association has revealed. Linz-based researchers IMAS said today

International Christian Concern (ICC) has been informed that a group of Muslims attacked the home of an Egyptian Coptic family over a minor unresolved dispute. On May 29, Nabil Shawky and another