The shooting at the gurdwara (temple) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin on 5 August 2012, brought to the fore how vulnerable Sikhs were as a minority in America. Because they do not actively proselytise little is known about them by millions of their fellow Americans. From What’s So Great About America (Penguin Books, 2002), conservative commentator […]
Europe will “pay the price” if it arms Syrian rebels, President Bashar al-Assad warned on Monday. “If the Europeans deliver weapons (to rebels), Europe’s backyard will become a terrorists’ place and Europe will pay the price for it,” Assad was quoted as having said in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, excerpts […]
The Pakistan Taliban’s second-in-command was killed in a drone strike Wednesday in the country’s tribal region, a local tribal official and an intelligence official told CNN. Wali-Ur Rehman Mehsud is second in command to Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the terrorist organization. While the Pakistan Taliban’s spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the report to […]
On 13 May 2013 Nawaz Sharif claimed electoral victory for his Pakistan Muslim League. Described by Sky News as a centre-right part based upon free market economics this obscures the stark reality. Sharif is a steel magnate who is no doubt is likely to pursue privatisation and deregulation to revive growth of a stagnant economy. […]
While the Pakistani Taliban has denied involvement in Monday’s Boston marathon bombing, it has openly applauded the heinous attack, which killed three and injured over a hundred more. “Wherever we find Americans we will kill them, but we don’t have any connection with the Boston explosions,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said, according to […]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai sharply criticized the United States in an exclusive interview with NBC News on Thursday, blaming American and NATO forces for some of the growing insecurity in his country. “Part of the insecurity is coming to us from the structures that NATO and America created in Afghanistan,” Karzai said during a one-on-one […]
By JOANNA PARASZCZUK | 11/13/2012 02:34 Jihadist leader with Taliban links says “idolatrous” statues must be destroyed; connected with destruction of Afghan Buddha statues. Egyptian security authorities are taking seriously threats by a radical Salafist jihadist leader to demolish the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza, the Egyptian press reported on Monday. Murgan Salem […]
Taliban terrorist insurgents told newly re-elected President Barack Obama on Wednesday to admit that the United States has lost the war in Afghanistan and to act accordingly by pulling its troops out of the country immediately. “Obama must by now know that they have lost the war in Afghanistan,” said spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a […]
CBS News and “60 Minutes” reporter Lara Logan has lambasted the Obama administration for pushing what she called the “major lie” that the Taliban has been weakened in Afghanistan by the U.S. military. According to a Fox News report, Logan spoke last week to a crowd of about 1,100 at last the Better Government Association […]
You are likely familiar with CBS correspondent, Lara Logan, the wartime journalist who endured a horrific ordeal in Egypt last summer when she was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob of angry Egyptian men during their Arab Spring “celebrations.” Now, Logan has a message for the public: “they” (the Taliban and other Islamic operatives) […]
