There’s an age-old joke in the Arab world which overtly suggests that Sudan is the slowest country in the region to catch on to hot trends. While such anecdotes may make good joke material, the idea could now be haunting Sudan’s leaders as they face up to a wave of mass protests against
Sudanese police fired tear gas Monday into a university campus where female students were protesting, the university head said on the eighth day of demonstrations sparked by rising fuel prices. Between 150 and 200 Ahfad University for Women students were demonstrating “against the government and things like that,” university president Gasim Badri told AFP.
At least 42 people have been killed and scores wounded in a series of car bomb blasts in Baghdad, as the country faces one of its bloodiest years since 2003. In a familiar pattern, neighborhoods with a Shia Muslim majority were targeted by more than a dozen car bombs. The attacks took place during
Two days after the release of a CAIR report claiming to expose the network financing “Islamophobia”, Charles C. Johnson ran his own report documenting CAIR’s convoluted financing schemes. While the CAIR report attempted to stigmatize terrorism research by reporting on the straightforward funding of organizations and individuals such as Robert Spencer; the Johnson report
Iran's Revolutionary Guard has unveiled a new advanced reconnaissance drone and said another attack drone unveiled last year has now become fully operational. AFP quoted local reports saying the highly mobile propellant-powered reconnaissance drone, unveiled this weekend, and named "Yasseer," can fly for eight hours with a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles) and
The Global Church ignores the threats to itself from the very Palestinian Arabs it supports, for the sake of Israel-bashing. The World Council of Churches, an ecumenical body which claims to represent 590 million Christians worldwide and based in Switzerland, will sponsor an event supporting the partition and Islamization of Jerusalem. The ”World Week
Nearly 200 Muslim prisoners are suing the British government, claiming their human rights were violated after test results confirmed that halal food being served to them contained pork meat, reported The Telegraph on Monday. Islamic teachings strongly forbid any Muslim from eating pork. Test results proved that halal sausage rolls, shepherd’s pies, steak and
Nazi scientists helped Arab countries produce chemical weapons, according to a prominent Egyptian journalist. The journalist, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, made the comments in an interview which aired on September 19, 2013. The comments were translated and posted to the internet by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). “In the 1950s and 1960s,
Iran's Foreign Minister accused Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of peddling lies Sunday over Tehran's nuclear activities, and defended his country's "non-negotiable" right to enrich uranium. Mohammad Jawad Zarif told ABC's George Stephanopolous that Netanyahu was wrong to allege that Iran's recent moves to cooperate with the West amount to little more than an
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has rejected calls by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for a so-called “third intifada” in Judea and Samaria, saying it would “not allow the West Bank to become an arena for chaos to serve a private agenda.” Asharq al-Awsat, an Arabic international newspaper headquartered in London, reports that the calls
