An effort to clean up the Iraqi Syrian border region. From AP via Fox News: BAGHDAD, Iraq “” The U.S. military launched a major combat operation Friday, sending 1,000 Marines and Iraqi soldiers to hunt for insurgents and foreign fighters in a volatile western province straddling Syria. Operation Spear started in the pre-dawn hours in […]
Hitchens: Mind over Mullahs
Christopher Hitchens has an interesting piece in this month’s Vanity Fair also carried in Front Page: Driving down through the desert, from Tehran to the holy city of Qom, I am following the path of so many who have made the pilgrimage before me. They either were seeking an audience with, or a glimpse of, […]
Calif. Terror Suspects Indicted
California, Pennsylvania and Arkansas in the news this morning. Lodi case update from AP via Fox News: SACRAMENTO, Calif. “” A father and son were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges they lied to authorities investigating links to Pakistani terrorist training camps connected to Al Qaeda. Hamid Hayat, 22, was accused of […]
U.S. closes its Nigerian embassy on security threat
From Reuters: LAGOS – The United States closed its Nigerian embassy in Abuja and consulate in Lagos on Friday due to a “security incident” which is being investigated by Nigerian police, an embassy spokesman said. A diplomatic source said intelligence indicated that foreign militants posed a specific threat to the U.S. presence in Nigeria, the […]
Bangladesh: Government Fails to Act Against Religious Violence
From Reuters, “Bangladesh: Government Fails to Act Against Religious Violence Attacks on Minority Ahmadis Continue Amidst Censorship and Pogroms” with thanks to Skeet Street. The Ahmadis are a sect of Muslims who are considered to be apostates by Sunnis. (KN)–an umbrella group of Sunni Muslim extremists–against the Ahmadiyya community. The KN and other extremist groups […]
Bono shocked by Muslim women’s reaction to breastfeeding
From Breaking News with thanks to Two Stellas. U2 frontman Bono was horrified during a visit to Ethiopia, when he saw local women pelting a breast-feeding aid worker with stones. The American woman was oblivious of the offence she was causing, and had to escape the angry onslaught from female Muslims who had no qualms […]
Saudi Arabia Exempt From Nuke Inspections
From AP, with thanks to Big Sleep. VIENNA, Austria – Board members of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency approved a deal Thursday that exempts Saudi Arabia from nuclear inspections, despite serious misgivings about the arrangement in an era of heightened proliferation fears. Although the Saudis resisted Western pressure to compromise and allow some form of […]
Muslim Schools: A View From The Inside
Yahiya Emerick writes an interesting article in IslamAmerica concerning the attitudes and beliefs of average American Muslims about raising their children in America and the attitudes of the children themselves. Thanks to Designut. “Most parents send their kids here for reasons other than Islam,” lamented the principal of a large Muslim school. “A lot of […]
Iranian voters waver in poor Tehran suburb
We may have a bit of a race in Iran’s election. The latest from World News Online: TEHRAN: Mariam is undecided who she will choose in Iran’s presidential race but the 27-year-old from the Iranian capital’s poor southern suburbs is sure of one thing: she will not vote for former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. “The […]
Verdonk orders three imams to leave
A very interesting development coming from Holland. Rita Verdonk is cracking down. From the Dutch Expatica, with thanks to Dutch Cares. AMSTERDAM “” Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk has ordered three imams accused of being a threat to public order and national security to get out of the Netherlands. The trio have been accused […]