Officials: Paris Attacker Met With Al Qaeda Chief Awlaki In Yemen
One of the two French jihadist brothers responsible for the Charlie Hebdo killings had in the past personally met with deceased chief Al Qaeda recruiter Anwar al Awlaki, according to a senior member of Yemens intelligence services who told Reuters on.
78 killed, over 100 injured in Peshawar church attack ��� The.
Pakistans Ulema Council, an association of leading Muslim scholars, strongly condemned the church attack and said killing innocent people violates the tenets of Islam. ���It is an extremely shameful attack which has shamed��.
56 dead in bomb blast at Shiite mosque in Pakistan | Follow.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/30/bomb-blast-at-shiite-mosque-in-southern-pakistan-kills-6-during-midday-prayers/ A bomb blast ripped through a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan as worshippers gathered for Friday prayers, killing at least. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the violence and called it a suicide bombing, but Zardari and other officials said they were still investigating the cause... thenonconformer on Ukraine crisis: Leaders in new���
Dhimmitude: 12 signs youre part of the problem
Muslims have thrown up a couple of nice mosques, but compared to the cultural riches of the west, Islams reputation for art and culture is questionable at best ��� and hysterically over-rated by western liberals. Ill take Wagner, Bernini, Shakespeare.
IS Target Iraqs Libraries in War on Culture, Learning In Mosul
Pakistan. Blast in Pakistan: Anger, Mourning After Shiite Mosque Bombing. Zarb-e-Azb Holistically Dealing with Militancy: Pak President. Muslim Rulers Respect Lies In Showing Love for Prophet, Not West: Jamaat-e-Islami. Nation Resolved... The UN mission to Libya said participants at this weeks talks in Geneva had ���expressed concern about the prevailing security conditions in different areas, condemning in particular the recent attack in Tripoli.��� The negotiations��.
UN chief condemns Shia mosque attack in Pakistan
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday condemned the terrorist attack on a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, which killed at least 20 people and injured more than 50 others. Ban said in a statement released through his spokesperson that.
A tragic backdrop to the Peshawar massacre is that education is revered by.
Its no surprise that the most famous Pakistani right now is a 17-year-old student and victim of a Taliban attack, Malala Yousafzai. Her bloodied uniform hangs in a glass display case in Norway, a symbol of modern Pakistan that, today, is even more.
Shia Massacres Undermine State and Destabilize Pakistan
Pakistani government leaders, major political parties and the military are busy playing blame game while the Taliban militants and their sectarian allies such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are engaged in continuing mass casualty attacks in various... If Huma Yusuf could show that the US/CIA was responsible for earthquakes and floods in Pakistan, or that Israel/Mossad was responsible for suicide bombings of mosques in Pakistan, then that could be used as justification for the��.
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The Washington Posts Pamela Constable on an attack in Kabul: ���A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a European Union convoy on a busy boulevard in central Kabul on Monday, leaving one Afghan bystander dead and at least five wounded, police officials.
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Pakistan Shia mosque blast in Shikarpur kills dozens. At least 57 people were killed and 60 others injured in an explosion inside a central imambargah (mosque affiliated with Shia Muslims) in Sindh provinces Shikarpur district on Friday. http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Chinese-government-attacks-textbooks-that-promote-Western-values-33337.html. http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/pm-obama-announce-nuke-breakthrough-115012600043_1.html
Death toll in Pakistani mosque blast hits 61 - The Punch
Raja Umar Khitab, chief of Crime Investigation Department (CID), said Fridays explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber who blew himself up inside a mosque of Shiite Muslims in Lakhi Dar area of Shikarpur, a district in the southern Sindh province.. Business and schools remained closed in Karachi and Shikarpur.. Fridays attack took place at a time when Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was chairing a meeting on the law and order situation in Karachi.
Countries of Particular Concern: Pakistan - Refworld
The forces that threaten Pakistani and U.S. security interests largely are motivated by a violent extremist ideology that rejects international human rights standards, including freedom of religion or belief. To make religious freedom.. Barelvi leaders publicly have condemned the Pakistani Taliban and supported the governments military campaign against anti-government elements, but some leaders also publicly support the murderer of Salman Taseer. On April 3, two��.
Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists.
For the unscrupulous among Bolsheviks���who would later be Stalinists��� the fact that most students and workers dont want to overthrow the business class is inconvenient, and so it seemed desirable to some of them to ���sharpen the.. there are gradations of everything ���������an attack on a school full of kids would be condemned worldwide?���.maybe so���.but the terrorists who attacked the school in pakistan felt justified because they saw it as legitimate target��.
Yemens former president holds down his fort
The opening in 2013 of a museum in al-Saleh mosque in Sanaa themed around his rule might seem irrelevant, but it is hard to imagine former presidents Hosni Mubarak of Egypt or Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia managing to do the same a little more.
Haqs Musings: Malala Moment: Profiles in Courage.Not!
The Taliban have a long track record in both Afghanistan and Pakistan of attacking anyone, regardless of age and gender, who disagrees with their goals or tactics.. plan and carry out attacks on US and Nato forces, Washington would reserve the right to respond ��� not at lieutenants, but at their leaders, wherever they may be ��� a difficult standard for Washington and Islamabad to swallow.. Faraz: I went to Shia mosque yesterday to attend Muharram programs.
UN chief Ban asks Pak to step up efforts to combat terror
Condemning the deadly bombing of a Shia mosque in Pakistan, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the country to step up efforts to protect religious minorities and combat terrorism. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Ban said he is .
Can Peshawar rage finally rouse Pakistan to act against the Taliban?
One of the targets is Maulana Abdul Aziz, the cleric at the Red Mosque who helped lead the 2007 insurgency. The protests against the mosque, while small, are a powerful symbol that some Pakistanis are tired of tolerating those who refuse to condemn .
Haqs Musings: Jihadis Growing in Tenth Year of Afghan War
What began as a US-Saudi-Pakistani sponsored anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and led to the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001, is now threatening to engulf Africa, Central Asia, Middle East and South Asia in its growing flames... of Pakistan is being envisaged, through its consulates in Afghanistan that fund the militant groups (the Baloch groups, the Pakistani Taliban, etc) which are bombing Pakistani cities, Shia/Sunni mosques, Sufi shrines etc.
Saudi cleric says snowmen are anti-Islamic
A picture showing two snowmen with local Saudi garbs over a pickup truck. (Photo courtesy of Twitter). Text size A A A. Sami Aboudi, DUBAI, Reuters Monday, 12 January 2015. A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up controversy by issuing a .
���Uncontrollable��� Muslim Violence: The Latest Excuse.
. to the UN journalists. In Ambassador Haroons own country, Pakistan, two Christians had been killed, and dozens of Bibles were burned, when an Islamist mob attacked a church in Hyderbad, Pakistan.. When asked by a UN correspondent about the uptick in Sunni-Shiite violence, Ambassador Haroon said simply that ���this is a very important point that should be raised and discussed.���... It was added to and subtracted from by the 1st-4th century Religious leaders.
I saw horror, says witness inside Charlie Hebdo office as police hunt suspects
US president Obama has signed a book of condolence at the French embassy in Washington, DC. The head of MI5, Andrew Parker, warned an attack on the UK was ���highly likely��� and called for increased powers to identify and monitor suspects in the wake of .
Taliban Group Threatens To Attack India Following Wagah.
Palestine to demand UN resolution to end Israel occupation. US Midterm Elections��� How Muslims Vote? ------------. Pakistan. Five killed as security forces target militant hideouts in Khyber. Government official shot dead in Multan. Scouts to. Further unnerving India, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, said to be close to TTP-JA, has announced the creation of a South Asia wing of al-Qaida, threatening to stage attacks on countries across the subcontinent. The new��.
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As Joe Biden reminds me, that titles already taken in our business... And already, their message of hate is being debunked in media markets, public meeting places, mosques ��� in the region and across the globe ��� in an organized effort by the.
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Sami Osmakac, a mentally ill individual who had been banned from two mosques in Florida for his extremist views, was arrested in January on charges that he was planning an attack using guns and bombs on multiple locations. As in numerous. MPAC Condemned Violence Against Shia in Pakistan **. ��� Muslim, Arab. 24 Christian, Jewish and Muslim prominent faith leaders from the United States and Indonesia undertook a peace mission to the Middle East.
EU mission condemns Pakistans return to hangings
The European Union mission in Islamabad on Wednesday condemned Pakistans decision to restart executions in the wake of the countrys bloodiest-ever terror attack. Pakistan has hanged six prisoners since announcing last week that a six-year moratorium .
World leaders attend Paris mass rally
Dozens of world leaders including Muslim and Jewish statesmen linked arms leading hundreds of thousands of French citizens in an unprecedented march under high security to pay tribute to victims of Islamist militant attacks. President Francois Hollande .
Paris attack: ISIS and al-Qaeda are not contained
The attack was about Charlie Hebdo, whose provocative cartoons didnt spare anyone from Kim Jung Un to the Pope to Prophet Muhammad, as much as about these elements striking in the heart of Europe in the most rattling fashion since the London .
When will ISIS win? When we think like them
Few Saudi scholars have individually and publicly condemned the crime because the magazine insulted the prophet Mohamed. Had a Saudi magazine done so, sharia law would have been applied. ISIS is using the incident to infiltrate the minds of youths.
Saudi winter in the Middle East and Hamas militants attack.
On Ashura, Egyptian police forced hundreds of Shias to abandon a ceremony at the Mosque of Hussein in Cairo, where the Shia martyrs severed head is said to be buried... But some of the men filed complaints to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, which both sharply condemned Hamas over the attack. Mezan said in a. In the meanwhile, blind, Iranian-influenced mullahs of Pakistan keep praising Hamas:��.
Jibran Nasir: The quiet lawyer and activist who is taking on Pakistans Taliban
���If you dont take your actions back, and if you dont stop harassing the imam of the Red Mosque, then you are putting yourself, your family and your people at risk,��� said the spokesman for the Pakistani Talibans Jamiat Ahrar faction. ���And dont think.
China Matters: Maulana Abdul Aziz on the Defensive.For.
In that attack, Pakistan Taliban or TTP militants penetrated a military-run school and massacred 132, mostly young students who were the children of military officers. The Pakistan army is. With every appearance of insincerity, Maulana Aziz condemned the massacre on December 21, five days after the event, and, I would think, expects with some justification that hell be able to ride out the transitory storm of outrage and return to business as usual. ISLAMABAD:��.
Rawalpindi tragedy mars otherwise peaceful Ashura ��� The.
Pakistani rescuers and security personnel gather in front of a burning market after sectarian clashes near a mosque during the Shia procession in Rawalpindi on November 15, 2013. PHOTO: AFP. The incident and subsequent clashes resulted in the deaths of at least eight people and injured over 80 people. A large number. 10:45pm. Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the Rawalpindi riots and expressed sorrow at the eight deaths. ���