A Washington federal judge awarded $813 million to victims of the 1983 terrorist bombing at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, the latest in a string of large money judgments awarded against Iran for its role in the attack.
As U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth noted in his opinion (PDF below) opinion on July 3, the D.C. federal court has issued more than $8.8 billion in judgments against Iran to date for its role in the bombing. “Iran is [...]
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A U.S. lawmaker – who prides himself on being only the second Muslim elected to Congress – has declared that America “needs Muslims” and U.S. public schools should be modeled after Islamic madrassas, “where the foundation is the Quran.”
In a dramatic video dated May 26, U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., addressed an Islamic Circle of North America convention, saying the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was hard on Muslims and that Americans should look to Muslim schools for [...]
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Despite having the last sex guide banned by the Malaysia government, the “Obedient Wives Club” has launched a new guide detailing how to “please your husband.”
Titled “The Holy Spirit and Holy Islamic Sex Booklet” the aim for the OWC is promote wives’ indulging in better sex in order to keep their husbands from “straying” in their marriage.
The previous booklet launched by the women’s group, “Holy Islamic Sex” was banned by the government.
The Obedient Wives Club advocate subservience to their husbands [...]
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Arsenal Football Club banned a Muslim preacher from a conference held at the Emirates Stadium last weekend, after complaints from season ticket holders.
Fans of the club contacted officials expressing concerns about preacher Abdur Raheem Green, due to attend Human Relief Foundation’s “The Illustrious Goldmine” conference.
Videos of the preacher had been posted on the Harry’s Place blog, including an interview posted this year, where he claims Muslims who meet a Jew or a Christian walking down the street, should “push them [...]
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Six bodies were reported missing from a graveyard on Thursday in Baba Mulakhay Shah area in Bhowana.
Three of these were bodies of newborns, Bhowana police said.
Bhowana police said they were informed about the missing bodies by family of one of the deceased, whose body had gone missing.
On arriving at the scene, the police were told that five of the bodies had been buried at the graveyard in the last three days. They said Muhammad Jamil, a relative of one of [...]
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Europe’s tallest skyscraper the Shard will be inaugurated in London with a spectacular laser show Thursday, as critics debate whether it is an architectural triumph or a blot on the skyline.
The dramatic glass and steel structure, which stands 310 meters (1,017 feet) tall, will be launched by Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, whose country has funded it, and Queen Elizabeth II’s son Prince Andrew at 1400 GMT.
When night falls, a laser show will be projected from the building, [...]
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Libya’s top politicians have hatched a deal that would see the Muslim Brotherhood lead the government after the country’s first free elections in almost five decades takes place on Sunday.
While the elections for a 200-member National Congress is unlikely to grant a majority to any one faction, the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies are confident they can join their counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt at the helm of leadership.
Negotiations between the Muslim Brotherhood and a secular-based political movement led [...]
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An Egyptian Islamist politician will face trial on public indecency charges after being caught in a compromising sexual act with a young woman in a parked car, the state news agency said on Thursday.
Ali Wanees is a member of the now dissolved parliament for the Salafi al-Nour party, which advocates a strict interpretation of Islam and prohibits sex outside marriage.
He was briefly detained in June after being found in the car with a university student on a deserted road in [...]
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An Israeli counter-terrorism expert on Thursday discarded recent rumors that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died poisoned and claimed that traces of Polonium 210 found on the rais’ personal belonging were planted long after Arafat’s death.
In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Dr. Eli Karmon of the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center’s Institute for Counter- Terrorism, said that recent claims that Arafat was poisoned with highly radioactive Polonium are not based on facts.
According to a recent report on the Qatari based news [...]
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In the wake of a recent plane hijacking attempt, the Party chief of the Xinjiang Ugyhur Autonomous Region urged soldiers to keep vigilant against hostile forces while overseeing a counter-terrorism drill ahead of the third anniversary of the July 5 riot.
Zhang Chunxian, secretary of the Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party of China, asked the soldiers Wednesday to strike the separatists, extremists, and terrorists with “iron fists.”
“We should leave the terrorists no place to hide,” said Zhang.
During the drill, [...]
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Bowing to pressure from a Muslim advocacy group, the Navy removed images from targets at a commando training range showing a Muslim woman aiming a handgun–but the service is mum on why the images were used.
The Navy last week took down the image at a new SEAL training facility at Joint Base Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va.–and another with a Koran verse printed in Arabic–under pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad calls the [...]
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A woman suffered burn injuries to her eyes and face in an acid attack in Ichhra on Thursday.
The police have established in preliminary investigations that two men and a woman broke into the house in Ichhra and attacked Zahida Begum and Shamim Bibi, said Qayyum Ahmed, naib moharrar at Ichhra police station.
He said that the police had received an application for the registration of an FIR and were awaiting the medico-legal report on the injuries suffered by Shamim Bibi, who [...]
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High-profile Muslim convert Richard Dart has been named as one of the six people arrested in a counter-terrorism operation across east and west London, according to Sky News.
This white British 29-year-old from Weymouth, Dorset, converted to Islam in 2009, said sources. He is believed to be a follower of Anjem Choudary of Islam4UK, who urges Britain to adopt public stonings, amputations for criminals and wants to see the flag of Islam over Downing Street.
Dart, of Bow, east London, was renamed [...]
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The Coptic Orthodox Church threatened to withdraw its Constituent Assembly representatives Wednesday over concerns the new constitution will not represent minorities.
Church leaders discussed the potential withdrawal Wednesday in an all-day meeting, according to Bishop Benjamin of Monufiya. At the heart of the discussion was ongoing debate within the assembly over whether Article 2 of the 1971 Constitution should be changed.
Some conservative Islamists have advocated that language stipulating “the principles of Sharia,” as the primary source of legislation be changed to [...]
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A ban on the use of the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, for Muslim women footballers was lifted by the sport’s rulemakers on Thursday.
The garment had previously been banned due to safety concerns and because it was not recognised in the laws of the game.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB) unanimously overturned the ban and agreed to re-write the laws after studying reports from FIFA’s medical officer.
“Safety and medical issues have been removed for the use of the headscarf and it [...]
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A couple went on multiple trips to Jewish-populated areas to scout potential targets for a bomb, a Court heard.
But hairdresser Shasta Khan, 38, accused of a string of terror offences, has denied any wrongdoing and blamed her Bradford husband Sajid, 33, She said searches on the internet for terror-related explosives, chemicals and extremist propaganda were the work of Sajid, who has already admitted terror offences.
Khan, on trial at Manchester Crown Court, denies any involvement in her husband’s terror activities.
It is [...]
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The secretive Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice refuses to explain why prosecutors suspiciously dropped terrorism charges against a member of a Middle Eastern family indicted in south Florida last year for allegedly providing material support to the Pakistani Taliban, according to a Washington, D.C., watchdog group’s report this week.
Six people had been charged with sending tens of thousands of dollars to the terrorist organization, which is associated with radical Islamic groups, such as al-Qaeda and the Haqqani network, [...]
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