From the UK TimesOnline,”Man burns wife to death after family row over prostitute” WHEN Zarina Bibi lost her battle for life in a Rawalpindi hospital on Wednesday night she became just another statistic in Pakistan’s appalling record of violent crime against women. And behind that statistic lay yet another horror story. Before she died from […]

From Fox News, “Car Bomb at Iraqi Market Kills 24” BAGHDAD, Iraq “” At least 24 people died and 40 were injured after a car bomb detonated outside a busy market just south of Baghdad on Friday. The explosion ripped through crowds in the town of Suwayra. This area 25 miles south of the capital […]

From Fox News, “Blast Rocks Lebanon; One Dead” BEIRUT, Lebanon “” The interior minister said Saturday that Lebanese demanding national unity in recent weeks will not be cowed by the overnight bombing that ravaged a shopping area in a Christian city north of Beirut, killing a Sri Lankan woman and wounding two dozen. President Emile […]

Paul Sperry, whose book Infiltration should be required reading for all Americans, writes in Frontpage: Law enforcement has a term for the period after a crisis when things revert to norm — condition white. Well, the American people are just about there, three-and-a-half years after the 9/11 attacks. But as the media obsess over Michael […]

From AP, “Slaying of Afghan Women Concerns U.N.” KABUL, Afghanistan “” The United Nations sounded an alarm for women’s rights in Afghanistan on Thursday after three young Afghan women were found raped, hanged and dumped on a roadside with a warning not to work for foreign relief organizations. Women’s groups rallied in the capital to […]

From IrelandOnline, “Hamas heads for important local election wins” The militant Hamas group won municipal elections in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya and appeared headed for victory in two key Gaza Strip towns, poll results showed today, giving the Islamists new momentum ahead of parliamentary elections this summer. Hamas and the ruling Fatah movement, […]

Our Iraq report from AFP: BAGHDAD – Insurgents killed 26 people in a string of attacks across Iraq, capping a bloody week that has left some 250 dead since the country’s new leaders unveiled the first democratically-elected government in half a century… This time, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting post […]

More on how democratic openness is unleashing the forces of Islamism in the Muslim world. From AP, “Banned Islamic Group Protests in Egypt” CAIRO, Egypt May 4, 2005 “” Thousands of supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamic group, protested across the country Wednesday in an escalation of the opposition campaign demanding political […]

The intrepid fjordman asks, “Is Swedish Democracy Collapsing?” A top Muslim scholar said the Muslim minority in Sweden would abide by Swedish law in confronting a Christian preacher who insulted Prophet Muhammad, urging his fellow Swedish Muslims not to take the law into their own hands or commit any violent acts to avenge the remarks […]

There’s an interesting nugget in a Washington Times article interviewing Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray who provides the following information. “Terrorists will fail, official says,” : …Criminal Division prosecutors and investigators, working with state and local authorities, have disrupted more than 150 terrorist cells and threats from Portland, Ore., to Lackawanna, N.Y., incapacitating more […]