From our friends at Xinhua: The Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement vowed on Saturday to continue rocket attacks against Israel following reports that residents were leaving the southern Israeli town of Sderot. Islamic Jihad spokesman Daoud Shehab told reporters in Gaza quoting the Israeli daily of Maariv that some 54 families were leaving the Israeli […]

From UPI: The U.S. Justice Department is investigating alleged funding of terrorism by wealthy Saudis through the Arab Bank, the Los Angeles Times reports. Israelis and U.S. citizens injured in suicide bombings have also filed lawsuits against the bank in New York. They claim the bank was involved in compensating the families of “martyrs” or […]

From Christian News Wire: Former Sultan Ali El-Shariff comments on Islam and Sudan: “Today Islam is responsible for almost all of the human sufferings from war, persecution, and poverty, particularly in the country of Sudan. “Since the 1983 start of the civil war in the southern Sudan more than 4 million people have been displaced, […]

From the International Herald Tribune: PATTANI, Thailand: Some are already calling it war, a brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as many as 2,000 lives in three years, with almost daily bombings, drive-by shootings, arson and beheadings. It is a conflict the government admits it is losing. A harsh crackdown and […]

From AP: A civil rights group asked a judge Friday to find it unconstitutional for the federal government to exclude a prominent Muslim scholar or anyone else from the United States on the grounds that they may have endorsed or espoused terrorism. Another blow for civil liberties in America: “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of […]

From Reuters: AMSTERDAM: The leader of a Dutch anti-immigration party will call for a vote of no-confidence in two Muslim government ministers next week, citing their dual nationality as the issue, a newspaper reported today. Geert Wilders said in an interview with the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad the appointment of Moroccan-born Ahmed Aboutaleb and Turkish-born […]

By Nadi Abou El-Magd for AP: ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — An Egyptian blogger was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and Egypt’s president, sending a chill through fellow Internet writers who fear a government crackdown. Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, an […]

We may be witnessing something of a public conversion. Last week, I posted an article on JW from Townhall.com by Frank Pastore entitled “Islam Is Not the Enemy!” in which he criticizes those who see Islam and the West as incompatible. I thought it a good example of conventional misunderstanding. I see that it attracted […]

By Julie A. Varughese in the Norwich Bulletin: NORWICH — Sami Ahmed, who left Pakistan for the United States in 1983, began a Friday night Muslim prayer meeting at his house in Greeneville five years ago. At the time, three or four people attended the meetings. Now, between 30 and 40 Muslims meet weekly at […]