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Published time: 22 Nov, 2017 18:44 The West is exporting the worst elements to Islamic countries in an attempt to ensure its own future, the Turkish president has said. Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims that islamophobia, neo-Nazism and racism are replacing values such as democracy and human rights in the West. “Unresponsiveness to the violence that […]
Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images President Donald Trump tweeted about a rise in crime in the UK on Friday and made a shaky connection to “radical Islamic terror.” Trump tweeted that “United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror,” adding that “we must keep America safe.” The UK’s Office for National Statistics published on Thursday a […]
REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi The Islamic State has been losing ground in Syria for more than a year. United States-backed Syrian rebel forces have laid siege to the militant group’s de facto capital of Raqqa and now control most of the city; it’s expected to fall within days or weeks. But the fight to liberate Syria from […]
Las Vegas investigators do not believe there was another shooter in the Mandalay Bay room where Stephen Paddock opened fire on thousands of concertgoers. Police also said the suspect had no known ties to Islamic terrorism. At a Friday press conference, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters that investigators are “very […]
The Barbary corsairs didn’t have to work very hard to capture their prey. Most ship crews were so afraid of the vicious pirates that they threw down their weapons rather than fight. Aligned with the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, the privateers targeted primarily Christian vessels, plundering them mercilessly, and robbing and enslaving those […]
Iraq is preparing to deport more than 500 wives of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) jihadists along with over 800 children, according to local officials cited by AFP. The group were reportedly moved Sunday from a camp south of Mosul, run by international aid agencies, to a detention centre in Tal Kayf. Read more A […]
An annual beer festival has been canceled by the authorities in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur for “sensitivity” reasons. The move also followed objections by an Islamic party which claimed that it could lead to a spike in crime, rape and illicit sex. Kuala Lumpur City Hall released a short statement Monday, saying that […]
The leader of a local Sunni Muslim organization in Norway has refused to shake hands with the country’s female minister of migration at the start of their TV debate. Fahad Qureshi, founder and leader of a controversial Islam Net organization, was already in the studio of the VGTV channel, when Norway’s Minister of Migration and […]
Cash is still king IN MOTIJHEEL, the main business district in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, an iron fence and terrible traffic divide two branches of the country’s oldest private bank—a “conventional” one and an Islamic one. Abdus Sattar, manager of the Islamic one, says that when he joined AB Bank, in 2005, his was “a loser […]
Published time: 11 Aug, 2017 14:15 Edited time: 11 Aug, 2017 14:18 A senior member of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) used PayPal and fake eBay transactions to send money to an alleged operative of the terrorist group in the US, according to an affidavit disclosed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, WSJ reports. The […]
