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"Financial Times: "Qatar spent billions of dollars in the past two years to fund the Syrian opposition

The British newspaper Financial Times published an investigation on Friday entitled "Qatar spent billions of dollars in the past two years to fund the Syrian

 

Christian student killed by firing of Muslims in native village of Shahbaz Bhatti

A Christian village named Khushpur in sub-district Samundari of Faisalabad district came under attack of Muslims on May 19, 2013, killing one Christian student of 10th Grade

 

Why Islam Leads to Violence

FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 16 May 2013
By Jack Kerwick

    As Robert Spencer, Pamela Gellar, and others have shown, as far as Islam is concerned, neither this infamous attack nor others before and since are anomalous. Rather, from its origins in the seventh century to the present, from Muhammad to bin Laden, Islam has been animated by a violent impulse

Authors defending this thesis invariably allude to the military conquests of the Prophet, the particularly harsh punitive measures by which Islamic societies deal with transgressors of Islamic law, and any number of passages from the Koran calling for the death of unbelievers. And to be sure, all of this supports their case.

 

Islamist Turkish government prepared alcohol ban everywhere in Turkey with new laws

The Turkish AKP government has prepared a draft law that would ban advertising alcoholic drinks in what officials say is an effort to protect children but could further divide

 

Turkey hit by Terrorism: Erdogan and Davutoglu only Interested in Anti Syria Rhetoric

Global Security News 16 May 2013
By Helmet Joachim Schmidt and Lee Jay Walker

Vast numbers of terrorist attacks have devastated many parts of Syria because of the collective policies of America, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

 

DC Judge Awards Hizballah Victims $8.4 Billion

The IPT Blog 16 May 2013

A District of Columbia federal judge levied $8.4 billion in damages on the Iranian government Thursday, in a case brought by victims of Hizballah's Beirut attacks on the U.S.

 

Attorney: Ruling by Michigan judge lets Muslims silence Christians with violence

Examiner.com 16 May 2013

On Tuesday, federal judge Patrick J. Duggan dismissed a civil rights lawsuit brought by Christian evangelists who were violently assaulted by a hostile Muslim mob while

 

'Jihadist Who Planned to Kill Non-Muslims' Arrested in NC

Newsmax.com 16 May 2013

A North Carolina man who the FBI says spoke of killing U.S. Army soldiers as part of a personal jihad has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm. Erwin Antonio Rios,

 

Tatarstan's Supreme Court Disbands Muslim Group

The Supreme Court of Russia's republic of Tatarstan has ordered that the Al-Ikhlas Muslim religious group be disbanded for what it called "extremist activities." About 50

 

U.S.: "Certificate of Need” for Muslim-friendly surgery centre rejected

sheikyermami 16 May 2013

Nothing to worry about, what are you afraid of , Islamophobes? Surgeons would not stop in mid-surgery when a time of prayer came.

 

Nigerian troops mount offensive against Islamist militants

Irish Times 16 May 2013

Nigeria launched a military campaign yesterday to flush Islamist militants out of their bases in remote border areas, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of

 

Islam and its Pipeline

Right Side News 15 May 2013
By Eliana Benador

Daniel Pipes once again delivered yesterday one of his masterful articles in his laudable search for a solution in the conflict initiated by Muslims and their belief,

 

France’s most wanted jihadist flies home

FRANCE 24 15 May 2013

France’s most high-profile home-grown jihadist was flown into Paris on Tuesday following his capture by French forces in Mali two weeks ago. Brittany-born Gilles Le Guen was

 

The "Essentialism” Devil and Daniel Pipes

AndrewBostom.org 15 May 2013
By Andrew Bostom

Daniel Pipes’ 5/13/13 essay in The Washington Times derides "those who focus on Islam itself as the problem”—identifying Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, and Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders by name

Most of his essay re-affirms (but never establishes by dint of hard doctrinal and historical facts) the same glib, tired arguments Pipes has discussed before: Islam’s prophet Muhammad

 

UC Berkeley "Islamophobia" prof Hatem Bazian equates Boston jihad bombings with "Islamophobia"

jihadwatch 15 May 2013

The aptly-named professor Hatem Bazian some years ago called for an "intifada" in the U.S. Here, he completely ignores the fact that the Tsarnaev brothers were Muslims acting,

 

Saudis overtaking Qatar in sponsoring Syrian rebels

The National 15 May 2013
By Hassan Hassan

Last week, a 12-member delegation from the Syrian opposition visited Saudi Arabia, for an unprecedented two-day official meeting. Saudi authorities had consistently declined

 

Saluting Pamela Geller: a Champion of Liberty

americanthinker. 15 May 2013
By Amil Imani

Tragically, during these times of great peril, truth is sacrificed by the politically correct, the myopic self-serving in the liberally dominated media, and the ruling class

Against this backdrop, a women of great courage and integrity labors tirelessly in speaking the truth and in the defense of liberty Pamela Geller's work in objectively

 

How Syria Killed the "Arab Spring”

FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 15 May 2013
By Daniel Greenfield

The best evidence of the unlamented death of the Arab Spring (2010-2013) was the nervous response in Washington D.C. to the Syrian crossing of the Red Line. The Red Line had

 

Al-Qaradawi and the New Religious Conflict With Israel

Gatestone 15 May 2013
By Khaled Abu Toameh

Had the Muslim Brotherhood's al-Qaradawi visited the Gaza Strip to urge the Palestinians to recognize Israel's right to exist, he would have been received with shoes and rotten eggs

As US Secretary of State John Kerry pursues efforts to resume peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the world's leading Islamic scholar of the Muslim

 

Muslim Brotherhood: Convention to Protect Women is Anti-Islamic

clarionproject.org 15 May 2013
By Ryan Mauro

The Muslim Brotherhood’s official website in Arabic has published an article highlighting the comments of a senior Egyptian Islamist scholar criticizing the United Nations