NEW DELHI - The Maldives' best-known blogger, who nearly died in an attack outside his home last month, has blamed resurgent Islamists for the assault and fled the country.
Ismail Rasheed, known locally as the blogger "Hilath," was on his way home from prayers on the evening of June 4 when three men grabbed him from behind and one of them stabbed him in the throat.
Muslim Brotherhood 'Democracy': Slapping, Stabbing, and Slaying for Sharia
by Raymond Ibrahim
Prior to the presidential elections, it was revealed how Egypt's Islamists viewed democratic elections as an obligatory form of "holy war." Then, any number of Islamic clerics, including influential ones, declared that it was mandatory for Muslims tocheat during elections—if so doing would help Islamist candidates win; that the elections were a form of jihad, and those who die are "martyrs" who will attain the highest levels of paradise. Top Islamic institutions and influential clerics, such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi, issued fatwas decreeing that all Muslims were "obligated" to go and vote for those candidates most likely to implement Sharia law, with threats of hellfire for those failing to do so.
According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi‘i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Morsi, to “destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not.”
A suspected terrorist who MI5 believe is a would-be suicide bomber was found
repeatedly near the Olympic Games venue.
The alleged al-Qaeda militant was caught crossing through the Olympic Park
five times, breaking a ban imposed by the Home Secretary, The Sunday
Telegraph has learned.
The 24 year-old has previously tried to get to Afghanistan, allegedly for
terrorist training, and is suspected of fighting for the Somali Islamist
group al
Shabaab, which has been responsible
for thousands of deaths, including those of Western aid workers. He is
accused of trying to recruit other Britons to its cause.
Taliban publicly execute woman near Kabul: officials
(Reuters) - A man
Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman
accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by
Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even
near the Afghan capital.
"In the three-minute video, a
turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her
five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of
jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan
province."
White Muslim one of six arrested over ‘terror plot'
White Muslim convert Richard Dart and a former police community support officer were among six people arrested for allegedly plotting a terror attack in Britain.
Richard Dart, 29, is a white Muslim convert who featured in a BBC documentary last year filmed by his own brother about his conversion.
Richard Dart, who was radicalised by the cleric Anjem Choudary, was held following police raids in east and west London.
A former PCSO and two of his brothers, who were living just over a mile from the Olympic site in Stratford, were also among those detained during the police and MI5 operation to prevent a suspected terror assault.
RELIGIOUS leaders have expressed strong concerns over possible restoration of Nato supplies within next few days and said such an act would never be in the interests of Islam and Pakistan as it would be assisting enemies in killing Afghan Muslim brothers.
Thousands in Pakistan beat a man to death, burn corpse over Qur’an desecration
SLAMABAD—Thousands
of people dragged a Pakistani man accused of desecrating Islam's holy
book from a police station in central Pakistan, beat him to death and
then set his body on fire, a police official said Wednesday.
The incident highlighted the highly
charged nature of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, under which anyone found
guilty of insulting Islam's Prophet or the Qur’an can be sentenced to
death.
Taliban using kids as suicide bombers in Afghanista
The arrest of two children and a teenager with bombs and
remote-controlled devices in Afganistan's former Taliban stronghold of
Kandahar has sparked fears that the militant outfit could be training
more children as suicide bombers.
Egypt: “Unknown Assailants” Attack and Plunder Christian Youth
Yesterday, Tuesday July 3nd, three “unknown assailants”
in al-Minya, Egypt, attacked two Coptic Christian youths with knives
and robbed them of 1,300 pounds, before fleeing the scene. While this
incident may be dismissed as a mere crime inspired by plunder,
Egypt: Islamic supremacists stab man to death for walking with woman
Ah, the glories of the new, democratic "Arab Spring" Egypt! "Suez knifing stirs fears of 'moral' policing in Egypt," from Ahram Online, July 3 (thanks to David):
Twenty-year-old engineering student Ahmed Said was stabbed
to death on Sunday in the Egyptian canal city of Suez – allegedly by
bearded men – while walking with his fiancée.
Washington, D.C. (July1, 2012) –International Christian Concern (ICC)
has learned that that suspected members of the Islamic radical group,
Al-Shabaab, attacked two churches and killed 17 Christians in Garissa,
Kenya today. The attacks took place during the Sunday morning worship
services of the churches.
Founder of radical Muslim site sentenced to 11 1/2 years for threats to ‘South Park’ creators
By Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Muslim convert from Brooklyn was sentenced Friday to nearly 12 years in prison for posting online threats against the creators of the “South Park” television show and others he deemed enemies of Islam.
The sentence — largely in line with the term sought by prosecutors — came after Jesse Curtis Morton, 33, offered an apology for his conduct, saying he “contributed to a clash of civilizations” by espousing a violent ideology.
“I justified atrocities by Muslims simply because they were carried out by the weak against the powerful,” Morton said.
Following a joint operation in 2010 by Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry and the State Agency for National Security, 13 alleged members of radical Islamist organised Al Waqf al Islam have been charged with preaching Salafism and the imposition of Sharia law, it emerged on June 18 2012.
The District Prosecutor’s Office in Pazardzhik said that charges had been laid in connection with leadership and membership of an illegal organisation.
The organisation reportedly had operated in Bulgaria’s towns of Smolyan, Blagoevgrad and Pazardzhik, as well as villages elsewhere in the Rhodope region.
One of those arrested was an imam, a Muslim spiritual leader.
Congressional Leaders Call for Investigations of Muslim Brotherhood
Penetration of the Obama Administration
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Washington, DC,: Five influential Members of Congress called yesterday for the inspectors general (IGs) of government departments with national security responsibilities to investigate whether their agencies are being subjected to influence operations mounted as part of what the Muslim Brotherhood calls its “civilization jihad.” This initiative holds out hope that a grave, and largely unremarked, threat may thus be recognized and thwarted in time.
ICC, Ethiopian Community To Hold Demonstration Demanding Saudis Release Ethiopian Christian Prisoners
Washington, D.C. International Christian Concern (ICC) and the Ethiopian community in Washington DC will be holding a public protest demanding Saudi Arabia release 35 Ethiopian Christians arrested for praying at a private home on December 15. The protest will be held on February 21, at 10 am in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy located at 601 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037.
Saudi Arabian government officials have severely mistreated the prisoners because of their Christian faith. The Saudi Arabian officials assaulted the men and strip searched the female prisoners when they were imprisoned. In early February, the Saudis also began pressuring the Christians to convert to Islam.
A Tunisian firefighter tries to extinguish a burning tyre on top of a truck after it was set on fire by radical Islamists protesters during overnight riots in Sijoumi near Tunis, Tuesday, May 12, 2012. Tunisian police fired warning shots to disperse radical Islamist protesters after they set a security post ablaze and ransacked an art exhibit they called offensive to Islam. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi)
(AP) Tunisia's president on Wednesday condemned extremists after days of riots by radical Islamists left one man dead, 62 security forces injured and led to over 160 arrests.
Suicide Bombing Hits Another Church in Jos, Nigeria
Boko Haram Islamic extremist finds weak link in military security chain.
By Abdias Pasoville
JOS, Nigeria, June 10 (Compass Direct News) – An Islamic extremist ran a car full of explosives at a Pentecostal church in this Plateau state city this morning, killing at least two Christians and injuring more than 40 others, military and police officials said.
In Borno state also today, gunmen reportedly killed at least two Christians during church worship. The Boko Haram Islamic sect reportedly took responsibility for both assaults.
Panetta: U.S. running out of patience with Pakistan on militant havens
By the CNN Wire Staff
"Anybody who attacks U.S. soldiers is our enemy," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday in Kabul.
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Thursday that the United States was "reaching the limits of our patience" with Pakistan over militants that attack U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan from havens within its borders.
"It's extremely important that Pakistan take action to prevent this kind of safe haven," he said during an unannounced visit to Kabul, and that militants cannot use the country as a "safety net" from which to attack U.S. soldiers.
"We have made that very, very clear time and time again, and we will continue to do that," he said.
