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Saudi Journalist Calls Hizballah a "Tool of the Mullahs"
The IPT Blog 30 April 2013
Hizballah has always proclaimed to be the vanguard of the "resistance" against Israel, while claiming to advance Lebanese national interests as its priority. But the ongoing 
Christians Have 'Most to Lose' in Syrian Strife
AINA (press release) 30 April 2013
The strife caused by the civil war in Syria is affecting all people there, but an analyst for International Christian Concern fears that Christians have the most to lose. In 
Death to Churches Under Islam: A Study of the Coptic Church, Part II
Right Side News 30 April 2013
By Raymond Ibrahim

- Jesus painting splattered with the blood of Christian worshipers killed during the 2011 bombing of the Church of Two Saints
The Modern Era
After some 14 centuries of persecution and church attacks,Egypt’s Copts ushered in the 2011 new year by having one of their largest Jesus painting splattered with the blood of Christian worshipers killed during the 2011 bombing of the Church of Two SaintsJesus painting splattered with the blood of Christian worshipers killed during the 2011 bombing of the Church of Two Saintschurches attacked: 
Qatar returns statues to Greece amid nudity dispute
The Guardian 29 April 2013
By Helena Smith
It was a spat that nobody wanted – neither the Greeks, the Qataris nor, say officials, the two nude statues that sparked the furore. But in a classic clash of cultures, 
Nude Greek Statues Spark Decency Debate In Qatar
International Business Times 29 April 2013
By Mark Johanson
A museum exhibition in Doha that was supposed to open a "bridge of friendship” between Greece and Qatar ended in embarrassment for both after a Greek cultural minister 
Call It What It Is: Islamic Terrorism
Gatestone Institute 29 April 2013
By Christine Williams
Despite these recent attacks on innocent civilians, excuses were made that blamed the victims and exonerated the perpetrators
A growing problem, the radicalization of Muslim youth, all too often gets brushed off as a Western problem: specifically, being racist toward Muslims, and making them feel alienated and angry . 
Hamas Pushing Erdogan to Reignite Strife with Israel over Gaza ...
The Jewish Press 29 April 2013
By Yori Yanover
According to the Al Qassam website, Hamas MP Jamal Al-Khudari has said that the visit to Gaza by Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be an opportunity to discuss with 
Palestinian Journalists Declare War On Israeli Colleagues
Gatestone Institute 29 April 2013
By Khaled Abu Toameh
How can anyone talk about resuming the peace process when Palestinians are being told by their leaders, on a daily basis, how bad and evil Israel is?
If Israel is so bad and evil, then how can any leader go to his people and say he is negotiating with them? Palestinian journalists have declared an intifada against their Israeli colleagues. 
Death to Churches Under Islam: A Study of the Coptic Church, Part I
Right Side News 29 April 2013
By Raymond Ibrahim
Christians throughout the Islamic world are under attack. Unlike Muslim attacks on Christians, which are regularly confused with a myriad of social factors, the ongoing 
Air Force Recruits Chaplains From MB Front Group
clarionproject.org 29 April 2013
By Ryan Mauro
The U.S. Air Force has confirmed to The Clarion Project that it paid nearly $5,000 for advertisements in the magazine of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an 
Hezbollah 'has sleeper cells here'
The Australian 29 April 2013
By JOHN LYONS
HEZBOLLAH is operating three different sleeper cells in Australia, a leading religious leader in Lebanon has warned. Sheik Bilal Radwan, an influential Sunni cleric in 
Toxic Syria
Canada Free Press 29 April 2013
By Alan Caruba
A protocol to the Geneva Convention outlaws the use of gas in warfare. This did not stop Iraq’s Saddam Hussein from using it during his eight-year war with Iran
In one infamous incident Saddam ordered the use of poison gas against Kurdish guerrillas and civilians in the border town of Halabja, killing 5,000 people at the height of the Iran-Iraq war. His cousin earned the nickname "Chemical Ali” and was later hanged after Saddam was overthrown. 
Syria is Fighting Islamic Jihadists: Chechen Islamists, NATO Turkey and Gulf Money
Global Security News 29 April 2013
By Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker
The Syrian government is fighting international Islamic jihadists which are funded by feudal Gulf monarchs and whereby NATO Turkey is a friendly participant in the destabilization of Syria
Indeed, it is amazing that America, France and the United Kingdom are playing the "international jihadist card” against Syria after the deplorable reality of what happened in Afghanistan. This applies to America, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and other nations, openly funding terrorists throughout the 1980s and 1990s in Afghanistan and clearly this reality existed long after the demise of the Soviet Union. 
"Summer marriages" (Islamic prostitution) booming in Egypt under MB rule
the elder of ziyon - 29 April 2013
From Now Lebanon: Rich Gulf nationals go to Hawamidiyya, especially during the summer, to contract marriages for a definite period of time in return for a meager amount 
'Tourism marriage' under the Muslim Brotherhood
now. 29 April 2013
By Salama Abdellatif
CAIRO – The stench of dire poverty rises above the Hawamidiyya villages along the Nile, some 30 kilometers south of Cairo. It is not strange to see fancy cars, most of which 
Did Tamerlan Tsarnaev Murder Jews on 10th Anniversary of 9/11?
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 29 April 2013
By Kyle Shideler
Did Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev murder Jews on the 10th anniversary of 9/11? That’s the question police are now asking, as they continue to dig into the past of 
Father of Boston Marathon suspect cancels US travel plans
Irish Times 29 April 2013
The father of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has abandoned plans to travel to the United States to bury one son and help in the defence of the other, he said today in an 
Morocco's Islamist prime minister warns criticism of Prophet Muhammad 'not acceptable'
The Daily Star 29 April 2013
RABAT, Morocco — Morocco's Islamist prime minister says it's unacceptable to criticize the Prophet Muhammad, entering a war of words between a secular activist and hardline 
The controversial Qatar-Brotherhood alliance
The Daily Star 29 April 2013
By Andrew Hammond
Of all Qatar’s policy innovations since a coup brought the emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, to power in 1995, its overt alliance with Islamist movements linked to 
Hamas teaching Palestinian schoolboys how to plant IEDs, fire Kalashnikov assault rifles
National Post 29 April 2013
By Phoebe Greenwood
Palestinian schoolboys are learning how to fire Kalashnikovs, throw grenades and plant improvised explosive devices as part of a program run by Hamas’s education 



