Two Americans held in Iran for more than two years have been convicted as spies and sentenced to eight years’ jail, Iranian TV reported Saturday, a verdict that will further strain already very poor relations with Washington.
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were arrested on July 31, 2009 near Iran’s border with Iraq, along with a third American, Sarah Shourd, who was freed on $500,000 bail in September 2010 and returned home.
The trio, in their late 20s and early 30s, say [...]
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The state Health Department said 40 per cent of foods in Ramadan bazaars are contaminated with bacteria that cause food poisoning.
Deputy director Dr Wan Mansor Hamzah said it had found e.coli, coliform, staphylococcus and bacillus in kuih and other food samples taken from bazaars when it began monitoring them at the start of Ramadan.
He said the contamination had reached a level that could trigger food poisoning.
“The contamination is a sign of food handlers’ poor personal hygiene,” he said yesterday It [...]
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A crowd of more than 100 peaceful protestors gathered outside the courthouse last night with signs saying “We love Muslims” and “All religions believe in justice,” among many others, showing their opposition to the Tennessee Freedom Coalition’s showing of what they call a highly controversial film about the Islamic religion.
“A Warning to America,” by Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who has spoken out against Islam, was shown in the county commission chambers last night. DVDs of the film were also [...]
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Somehow, 20 or 30 years ago, we managed to get by without lots of laws telling us not to say anything that might upset someone.
Somehow, we managed to act more or less decently without them.
I don’t remember race riots, for instance, or migrants so upset by the unbridled rudeness of the unleashed masses that they wrote in tears to their relatives warning them never to come to this vicious place.
But one of two things has since changed. Either we’ve turned [...]
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America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024.
The agreement would allow not only military trainers to stay to build up the Afghan army and police, but also American special forces soldiers and air power to remain.
The prospect of such a deal has already been met with anger among Afghanistan’s neighbors including, publicly, Iran and, privately, Pakistan.
It also risks being rejected by [...]
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A teenage waiter knifed two British women to death in Turkey after one refused to let him marry her 15-year-old daughter.
The obsessed 17-year-old lured the women to a secluded wood where he cut their throats. The girl, Shannon Graham, had been dating Recep Cetin for two years. He was said to be ‘totally infatuated’ and ‘very possessive’.
Last week her mother Marion, 53, had a blazing row with Cetin, who uses the name Alex.
After he kicked Shannon during an altercation, Miss [...]
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Forced to work as a “slave maid” for wealthy families in Lebanon for 15 years, Abeline Baholiarisoa – a 59-year-old woman from Madagascar – finally achieved her freedom in March.
Madagascar’s government chartered a plane to evacuate her and 85 other women.
The youngest of her four children, whom she left behind when he was six years old, played a key role in her evacuation, tracking her down via a welfare agency that rescues “slave maids”, she says.
Ms Baholiarisoa says she was [...]
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A Boonton, New Jersey, man’s plot to have his wife shot to death included having himself shot as well in an attempt to conceal his involvement, New Jersey prosecutors said Friday.
Kashif Parvaiz was wounded four times, and his wife, Nazish Noorani, was fatally shot about 11 p.m. Tuesday as the couple pushed a stroller carrying their 3-year-old son, Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi said at a news conference.
Parvaiz and Antoinette Stephen of Boston, both 26, have been arrested, charged [...]
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Religious leaders hope to better welcome international students and keep youngsters occupied by building a major extension to their mosque.
They are seeking planning consent for work to be carried out at the Central Mosque in Middlesbrough.
Plans would see facilities expand considerably at the Southfield Road mosque – which opened in 1998 and is one of five in the town.
The proposed five-storey building, designed by Don McCabe of BIM Architectural Services in Saltburn, would feature a dome on the roof and [...]
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American presidents have traditionally been the governors and the senators of key states. The rise of sizable politically active Muslim populations in those states positions Islamic groups to exert a strong and disproportionate influence on national politics. A governor or senator who seeks out Muslim support to get elected at a state level will form alliances that he will carry forward with him into the White House.
Basic diversity and multiculturalism means that state officials in key states are forming ties [...]
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An Alkhobar woman studying in the United States is taking credit for destroying 23 Danish websites that denigrated the Prophet Muhammad, Al-Madinah newspaper reported on Thursday.
Nouf Rashid told the Arabic newspaper she was hacking into Danish websites having references to cartoons of the Prophet along with other sites that had questionable content in her view.
She said she had also destroyed a number of pornographic sites and hacked into the computer systems of young men who had tried to blackmail girls [...]
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The Truth on the Encroachment of Global Islamism
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