Islamic News
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San Francisco -
Social media giants Twitter and Facebook took unprecedented steps last week to stop some users from celebrating carnage from the suspected terror attack in Nice, France.
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Fort Pierce -
Even if nothing more than misery and alarm comes from last week's mass shooting in a Florida nightclub, at least U.S. law enforcement will have to stop taking bows over keeping the country safe from terrorism.
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Vienna -
Three of four Americans freed by Iran in a prisoner exchange arrived Sunday in Switzerland, a senior U.S. diplomat has announced.
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By AFP
Tunis -
The Tunisian parliament adopted a new anti-terror law aimed at beefing up powers to confront a jihadist threat following deadly attacks but which has been slammed by rights groups as draconian.
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By AFP
Kabul -
The Islamic State group is recruiting fighters in Afghanistan, the commander of foreign forces in country has said, but they are not yet operational.
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London -
Twitter promised Thursday to remove photos and videos of the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley by Islamic militants, the popular messaging website said Thursday.
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Aspen -
Israel might face an even greater threat from the Gaza Strip if the ruling Hamas terrorist group was destroyed, a top U.S. intelligence official said Saturday.
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Hebron -
Israel has asked the Palestinian Authority to help locate three teenagers believed abducted near a Jewish settlement near Hebron.
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Tikrit -
Anti-government militants seized most of the northern city of Tikrit, birthplace of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, on Wednesday, one day after taking over Mosul, Iraq's second largest city.
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Abuja -
Militants kidnapped eight girls Tuesday from a village in northeastern Nigeria, less than a month after the mass abduction of more than 200 girls from school in a crime that has shocked Africa's most-prosperous nation.
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Walthamstow -
The patriotic protest group, Britain First, increases the pressure on anti-British Muslim extremists as it conducts door-to-door search for Anjem Choudary.
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Provocative French cartoonist Charlie Hebdo has published a new anti-Muslim comic strip titled "La Vie de Mahomet" (The Life of Mohammad).” It is likely that demonstrations against this anti-Islamic cartoon will occur in the Mideast soon.
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Barcelona -
The satirical Spanish magazine, El Jueves, has published a magazine cover, showing a line up of men in Islamic outfits as a parody of recent controversial cartoons. The text of the cover reads, "But how do they know which one is Muhammad?"
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The First Amendment, an instrument of truth and justice. Or has The First Amendment become an instrument for lies and propaganda?
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Kingston -
In response to the high profile case of the Afghan man who is on trial for the murder of his three teenage daughters and first wife, Canadian Imams are due to condemn honor killings in Fridays sermons.
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The growing influence of Islamic teaching in U.S. public schools is causing concern in several different states such as Massachusetts and Virginia.
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There are some in Britain, the US and elsewhere who are intent on portraying the West and Islam as a clash of civilisations or as democracy versus the forces of darkness, but is this really the case?
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Gay campaigners are up in arms over a London mosque’s decision to host what they call homophobic speakers at a conference to be held there tomorrow.
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A report of an exposé by a BBC local news programme together with some background information into the illegal sale of Zam Zam Water in London.
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A former guitarist who converted to Islam is now one of those preaching against most forms of music, including music which is played on a guitar.
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Rape, if committed within a marriage, should not be considered a crime, according to a Muslim cleric in the United Kingdom.
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On Thursday a Tennessee man was sent to jail for burning down an Islamic mosque. This comes on the heels of increased hate activities against all kinds of groups.
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How to integrate the new immigrants into Dutch society? Why it is so hard and how come some people on both sides become radical? Since September 11, 2001 the magic Dutch integration experiment has sparked some changes.
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Dubai has received a $10 billion bailout from Abu Dhabi, its neighbor and fellow state within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to assist it with debts that include a $4.1 billion Islamic bond maturing on Monday.
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In the wake of the ballot vote preventing the building of any more minarets for mosques, the Swiss have been branded as intolerant by many Islamic groups and countries. Yet many Muslim nations not only ban churches, but Christianity. Where is the outrage?
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If such a thing could be called a Gay Genocide, then that is exactly what is happening today in Islamist Iran. It has been the policy of the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979. In 2005, President Ahmadinejad jacked this barbaric policy way up.
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As you may know, I have been quite loud and harsh over our government and media's disappearing act on Roxana Saberi. Yet nothing I ever say could damn them more than their low Google hits and bare Internet search results. Somebody has to cover this story.
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A Gestapo-like Police State. Horrific abuses of women. A sick and inhuman Holocaust against Iranian Gays. Threats of nuclear Armageddon. The Iranian people and the world have been catching thirty straight years of Hell from these Nazi punks. Time to go.
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Where is Roxana Saberi? Should we impeach Obama and Clinton and replace them with SpongeBob? Get a guy with some real backbone on this? And 83 new hits on Google for Roxana Saberi in the past 24 hours? Where is our useless press? She's rotting in Tehran!
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Standing on the verge of yet another Double-Digit Punking by Iran. Roxana Saberi has been held captive for nine days since Secretary Clinton's demand, 44 overall. But I won't blame the Iranians from now on. I'll blame our own jelly-spined US Government.
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Masked Sunni Muslim gunmen take position with their weapons during a patrol in the city of Falluja, 70 km (44 miles) west of Baghdad, February 8, 2014. © Reuters
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AFTERMATH: Flowers and other tributes line the sidewalk Thursday outside the Lindt cafe at Martin Place in downtown Sydney, where two hostages and their alleged kidnapper died in a rescue attempt. Sardaka/Wikimedia Commons
Iraqi security forces take part during clashes with al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the city of Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad, February 6, 2014 © Reuters
Supporters of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa Islamic organization hold placards and party flags as they shout slogans during a protest against U.S. drone attacks. The banner in Urdu reads, "Barbaric drone attacks on innocent tribal people is blatant state terrorism by America" With permission by Reuters / Fayaz Aziz
Supporters of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa Islamic organization hold placards and party flags as they shout slogans during a protest against U.S. drone attacks. The banner in Urdu reads, "Barbaric drone attacks on innocent tribal people is blatant state terrorism by America" With permission by Reuters / Fayaz Aziz
MILITANCY: Map of Nigeria with shaded areas showing activity by Islamic militant Boko Haram organization. Nerika/Wikimedia Commons
RUINS: A tourist experiences in the ancient Roman amphitheater in Palmyra, Syria, in 2010. Bernard Gagnon/Wikimedia Commons
Extent of Islamic beliefs (shades of green) from North Africa into the Pacific -- a 'ring of fire.' Wikipedia
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