A 26-year-old Pakistani girl, who was subjected to a brutal acid attack in the country in 2002, has started a new life in Houston.
Julie Aftab was just 16 years old when she was brutally attacked by two strangers who accused her of insulting Islam.
Aftab, who was born and raised in Pakistan, was just two weeks into a job she took to help support her family, when a man walked into the office where she was working and engaged her in [...]
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Retired Army Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin is warning that Islamic Shariah law already is in the United States, and is forming a cloud over the future of the nation.
Boykin, addressing a packed house at a synagogue today in Stoughton, Mass., said, “There is a threat to this country from Shariah and the Muslim Brotherhood,” noting the Muslim Brotherhood has had a presence in the U.S. since at least 1962.
“The new Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, said he joined the Muslim [...]
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The Washington Free Beacon reported this week on the continuing omission of Israel from a U.S.-sponsored organization called the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). At a recent forum meeting in Spain, Maria Otero, U.S. undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights, delivered a speech titled “Victims of Terrorism,” but, in her roll call of victims, she didn’t mention Israel. The conference at which she spoke was described as a “high-level conference on the victims of terrorism,” but Israel [...]
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The rise of Islamic fundamentalism within the United States is one of the country’s most pressing national security concerns.
That was the assessment of former Reagan-era foreign policy official Frank Gaffney at a meeting of the Portsmouth Rotary Club Thursday.
Gaffney, former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, was the featured speaker at Thursday’s meeting, where he delivered a speech titled, “”U.S. National Security 2012 … what’s at stake?””
Gaffney is also the founder and president of the Center for Security [...]
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The Mongolians failed to destroy it 700 years ago despite the massacre of 40 friars and 400 Christians. Yet the existence of the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world, the fifth century Mor Gabriel Monastery in the Tur Abdin plane (the mountain of God’s servants) near the Turkish-Syrian border, is at risk after a ruling by Turkey’s highest appeals court in Ankara.
Founded in 397 by the monks Samuel and Simon, Mor Gabriel in eastern Anatolia has been the heart [...]
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The Muslim who ate his wife’s lip after cutting it off with a scalpel will have his conviction appealed after prosecutors claimed the five-year prison sentence was insufficient.
Jakob Holmberg, a prosecutor in the case, claims the sentence itself is far too short considering the nature of the attack, and should be taken up in the court of appeals.
“I have made up my mind to appeal, with specific regard to the sentencing,” he told the TT news agency.
The 52-year-old professor was [...]
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In a horrifying act, three Egyptian unemployed men assaulted and raped a 15-year old girl at a cemetery, al Tahrir reported.
The police were informed by the hospital authorities that a teenage rape victim had been brought to the hospital.
Police rushed to the hospital where they interrogated the girl. She stated that after her parents’ divorce she was staying with her father and step mother.
She could not bear the beatings of the step mother and decided to flee from home. She [...]
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For Taj Mohammad and Faiza Jalbani, the decision to marry cost them their lives on Thursday as they were killed in a case of karo kari in district Shikarpur.
The couple was shot dead in the Nabi Shah Wagan police limits near Garhi Yasin on Thursday morning.
Around six months ago, Taj Mohammad alias Tajoo Jalbani and Faiza Jalbani, residents of the village Makan Jalbani, eloped and got married. Faiza’s father Zakir Hussain Jalbani and her relatives were against the relationship and [...]
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More than 200 Syrians, mostly civilians, were massacred in a village in the rebellious Hama region when it was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks and then stormed by militiamen, opposition activists said.
If confirmed, it would be the worst single incident of violence in 16 months of conflict in which rebels are fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad and diplomacy to halt the bloodshed has been stymied by jostling between world powers.
The Revolution Leadership Council of Hama told Reuters the [...]
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A woman was shot dead, on Thursday, by her ex-husband after her marriage was dissolved and she won custody of their children from a family court.
Muhammad Yousaf, 55, fired three shots at his ex-wife Imtiaz Bibi who died on the spot after the bullets hit her in the chest.
She had just won a case for dissolution of marriage from a family court under the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board as well as custody of their four children.
Police officials patrolling the area arrested [...]
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The IDF deployed an Iron Dome rocket-defense system near Eilat.
IDF officials said that this was part of an operational, systematic program and not a result of any particular information that they had received.
Three weeks ago two Grad-model Katyhusha rockets slammed into the southern Israel; one near Mitzpe Ramon and the other in the southern Arava near Uvda.
The rockets were both identified as 122 mm. Katyushas which have a range of 40 km.with a 30 kilogram explosive warhead. The IDF believed [...]
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A former general of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards has accused the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of having blood on his hands over the brutal crackdown on the opposition, and described government claims that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful as a “sheer lie”.
In a letter to prominent opposition activist Mohammad Nourizad , the former officer gives a rare glimpse of political dissent within the ranks of the elite force in charge of the nuclear program and Khamenei’s personal security.
Identified [...]
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There is new trouble for the RCMP over a manual that tries to wash out terms like “Islamist” and “jihad” from officers’ mouths when they talk about terrorism.
“Distorted and inflammatory linkages between Islam and terrorism can serve to convince Muslims — both in the West and in the larger Islamic world — that the West is, in fact, their enemy,” the manual says.
That doesn’t impress anti-terror expert David Harris, of Insignis Strategic Research.
“This is, if I may be blunt, an [...]
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Members of Gungahlin’s evangelical community are distributing extremist material from overseas in their campaign against the construction of a mosque on The Valley Avenue.
A senior pastor at a Gungahlin evangelical church contacted The Canberra Times and supplied a video of far-right agitator Paul Weston, the chairman of the British Freedom Party.
In the eight-minute video, Mr Weston says Islam was ”worse than Nazism” and claimed Islamic influence in Britain would lead to civil war.
The Gungahlin pastor declined to be interviewed yesterday, [...]
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The United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has decided to establish a chair at the Islamic University of Gaza (pictured).
The decision came as a shock to the State of Israel, which expressed “consternation” at the news.
“The Islamic University of Gaza is a known hothouse and breeding ground for Hamas terrorists,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry pointed out in a statement issued Thursday.
“Only last month, the University’s Dean of Koranic Studies only called for the Islamic conquest of the Vatican and [...]
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The United States has deployed a fleet of robot subs in the Gulf to prevent Iran from blocking the strategic Strait of Hormuz with mines in the event of a crisis, officials said Thursday.
A Navy official said that the “SeaFox” drone “has been deployed in the Fifth fleet AOR,” which includes the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
The undersea drone is about four feet long and equipped with a camera and sonar. It is guided by a cable from a [...]
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After days of heated deliberations in political and religious circles, the architects of Egypt’s next constitution reached an agreement on the phrasing of the document’s most contentious article — the one that defines the role of Islamic law in the political order.
The Constituent Assembly’s subsidiary committee, tasked with drafting the first chapter of the constitution, agreed unanimously to adopt the phrasing of the previous constitution, which states that “the principles of Islamic Sharia are the primary source of legislation.”
This resolution [...]
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Israeli fighter pilots attacked Hamas terrorists preparing to launch an anti-tank missile from Gaza on Thursday morning.
The air strike was carried out in a coordinated maneuver together with IDF artillery forces as a Hamas terrorist cell was preparing their attack, aimed at Israeli soldiers involved in routine activity near the Gaza security fence.
The terrorists, all of whom are members of the Palestinian Authority, were in position to launch an anti-tank missile the IDF soldiers at the time of the air [...]
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The moderate National Forces Alliance of wartime prime minister Mahmoud Jibril (pictured) scored a landslide victory over rival Islamist parties in Libya’s first free national election in a generation, partial tallies showed on Thursday.
Counts from across the North African country attested to a resounding defeat for the political wing of Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood, bucking a trend of success for Islamist groups in other Arab Spring countries such as Egypt and Tunisia.
Final official results are not due until next week. But [...]
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A 29-year-old Chicago man accused of plotting a suicide bombing overseas and claiming he was inspired by a radical Muslim cleric has agreed to change his plea to guilty, bringing to an end one of the last terrorism trials pending in the city’s federal court.
A lawyer for Shaker Masri – whose plea deal was announced Thursday at a status hearing – told reporters that the agreement hammered out with the U.S. Attorney’s Office was favorable to his client, though he [...]
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The Truth on the Encroachment of Global Islamism
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