School children in New York are likely to get two extra days off to mark the biggest annual Muslim holidays, if the city's next mayor gets his way, AFP reports. New York schools currently have mandatory holidays for the Christian festivals Easter and Christmas, and the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Passover.
Hamas is apparently trying to reach out to children, by airing a cartoon promoting its “military wing”, the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades. The cartoon aired on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV on October 11 and was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades is responsible for some of the
Unknown assailants gunned down Libya’s military police chief, Colonel Ahmed Mustapha al-Barghathi, Friday in the restive eastern city of Benghazi, security services said. Gunmen shot Barghathi outside his home, Colonel Abdullah al-Zaidi, spokesman for the security services, told Agence France-Presse. Zaidi said Barghathi died of head and chest wounds at the Mediterranean
Rabin's yahrzeit is the time for the truth about the vision of this pragmatic leader, rather than the leftist assertion that, had he lived, he would have continued the Oslo process and split Jerusalem. Look at his face as he shakes hands with Arafat. Today, 18 years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and
Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive cars, but that certainly hasn’t stopped one Saudi woman from driving and even posting an online video documenting it. The video, posted in Arabic to the internet on October 7, was translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). “I'm driving
Syrian rebels have killed a top intelligence officer in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Syrian state media said on Thursday, according to AFP. "Major General Jamaa Jamaa was martyred while carrying out his national duties to defend Syria and its people and pursuing terrorists in Deir Ezzor," state television said in a breaking
An Islamist terror group has held a march in Gaza and uploaded a propaganda video that documents the parade and includes interviews with commanders. The group is the Tawheed regiment, which is part of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. The main message in the commanders' statements is their commitment to
Hael Abd-el Hafiz Daud, the Jordanian Minister for Sacred Properties and Islamic Holy Sites, warned this week of unspecified diplomatic consequences to the fact that the “Israeli occupation” allows “settlers” to enter the area of the Al Aqsa Mosque and hold up the Israeli flag. This happened, he accused, with the protection of Israeli
Four men have been arrested in London in a counter-terrorism operation, the Metropolitan Police have said, according to the BBC. Scotland Yard said they were held under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Armed officers were involved in the arrests, which took place
The money was not used to better the lives of Palestinian Authority Arabs, of that one can be sure When I was a kid, there was a fun saying when you took a cookie before you were allowed to. We would all declaim in turn: "who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Not
