A terrorist from Gaza was arrested in early December in connection to shooting attacks and other terrorist activity targeting Israelis, the Shin Bet revealed Thursday. The terrorist was identified as 32-year-old Mohammed Abu-Amshah, a resident of Beit Hanoun and a member of the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade. He is accused of several terror-related offenses, including […]
Iraq’s rising violence and concerns of an all-out sectarian war appears set to flare up even further, as Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki recently ordered Muslim prayers to be directed to the Shi’ite holy city Karbala, instead of Mecca. Karabala is where Imam Al-Hussein, a Shi’ite “martyr” who refused to surrender the Islamic Caliphate to Sunni […]
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has condemned yesterday’s attempted terrorist attack in Bat Yam. One person was lightly wounded in an explosion aboard a number 240 bus heading from the central city of Bnei Brak to Bat Yam on Sunday afternoon. Police later confirmed the bombing was an attempted terrorist attack, and that only the […]
When it comes to understanding the true nature of Islam, just like the true nature of communism decades earlier, there are basically two groups of people out there: those who know what a genuine menace and threat it is, and those who are utterly clueless, and think we can somehow just accommodate and appease our […]
Residents of Juba arrive at the U.N. compound, where they sought shelter. (Photo: TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom) South Sudan is dangerously close to becoming embroiled in a civil war. Rival factions within the national army clashed in the capital, resulting in an attempted coup at the beginning of the week. Two Indian U.N. peacekeepers have been […]
by Daniel Pipes December 19, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner In April 2013, I published an article with the slightly inaccurate title, “Support Assad.” Better would have been “Support Whichever Side Is Losing in the Syrian Civil War.” Back then, it seemed that the regime of Bashar al-Assad was doomed; but already […]
“Blowing oneself up for the sake of Allah is acceptable,” according to a radical Muslim cleric who recently spoke to a Lebanese television network. The comments by Syrian-born Islamist cleric Omar Bakri were made in an interview which aired on the Lebanese Al-Jadid/New TV on November 26. They were translated by the Middle East Media […]
In his new book, Private Anti-Piracy Navies, award-winning author John-Clark Levin explains how private security companies are combating and preventing piracy and maritime terrorism by protecting merchant ships with armed escort vessels. In 2008, Somalia saw a steep increase in piracy when merchant ships were hijacked and prisoners taken ransom along the coast of Somalia […]
The horrific day and the reality of Islam in the United States, what would have Obama done in response? Blamed a youtube video, perhaps nothing like in the Benghazi attacks. Would it have it even been blamed on Islamic terrorism, or been considered workplace violence? What should we expect in the future considering a certain […]
After visiting British branches of Middle Eastern churches, Britain’s Prince Charles reached the conclusion that “Christians in parts of the Middle East are being deliberately targeted by Islamist militants in a campaign of persecution.” The Prince of Wales visited the Egyptian Coptic Church in Stevenage, north of London, and the Syriac Orthodox cathedral in west London. […]
