Monthly Archives: June 2014

Hamas Leader: Bless Whoever Kidnapped the Youths

By | 2014-06-27T02:54:37-04:00 June 27th, 2014|News|

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Monday denied that his group had any connection to the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers, but said he welcomed the abduction.   Speaking with the Al Jazeera network, Mashaal claimed that Hamas had no information regarding the three, but said that if it turns out they were indeed kidnapped, "then

Kerry Visits Egypt, Urges Sisi to Allow Political Reforms

By | 2014-06-27T02:25:53-04:00 June 27th, 2014|News|

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday visited Cairo, becoming the highest-ranking American official to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi since he came to power earlier this month.   According to AFP, Kerry pressed Egypt's leaders to allow greater political freedoms, as Washington unlocked some $572 million in military aid for Cairo and hurried

UN Chief ‘Concerned’ Over Israeli Arrests of Terrorists

By | 2014-06-27T02:07:38-04:00 June 27th, 2014|News|

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday expressed “solidarity” with the families of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, but also hit out at Israel for arresting Hamas terrorists as part of its operation to locate the three teens.   In a statement outlining Ban’s conversation with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the day before, the UN chief

PA Unity FM Accuses Israel of Fabricating the Abduction

By | 2014-06-26T18:44:09-04:00 June 26th, 2014|News|

Hamas-Fatah unity government Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki accused Israel on Friday of not only conducting an "exaggerated" and "political" search for three teens kidnapped by Hamas terrorists last Thursday, but also of fabricating the abduction itself.   Malki criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking to AFP at a conference at the French Senate in Paris.

ISIS Captures Saddam’s Chemical Weapons Complex

By | 2014-06-26T18:17:21-04:00 June 26th, 2014|News|

The radical Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) continues to ride high in Iraq, where it has captured large portions of the country in a blitz advance since toppling the second-largest city of Mosul last Monday.   After capturing Iraq's largest oil refinery, and becoming the "world's richest terrorist organization" by looting 500

Sudanese Cleric Calls for Attacks on American Targets

By | 2014-06-25T11:03:23-04:00 June 25th, 2014|Islam|

A Sudanese cleric called last week for attacks on American targets, should the United States launch an airstrike on jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant who have taken over several cities in Iraq.   In a Friday sermon, the cleric Muhammad Al-Jazouli said that all U.S. embassies and interests would become

How the Media Distorts Radical Islam’s Record

By | 2014-06-25T10:42:04-04:00 June 25th, 2014|Op-Eds|

We have all suffered the glaring omissions, false moral equivalencies, and unfair and unbalanced reporting in the formerly distinguished mainstream media venues.   This media has absolutely refused to write about Islamic Jihad-terrorism in a truthful way. The politically correct fearfulness that they will be condemned as unfashionable and Islamophobic--and perhaps sued and bombed by

Cairo blasts target court, metro stations

By | 2014-06-25T10:14:30-04:00 June 25th, 2014|News|

A series of improvised explosives have targeted several metro stations and a court in the Egyptian capital during morning rush hour on Wednesday, leaving at least four people wounded.   Four makeshift bombs exploded within minutes of each other at three Cairo metro stations, Egyptian police said.    One bomb went off at the station

Muslim Brotherhood Leader Given Another Death Sentence

By | 2014-06-24T21:49:55-04:00 June 24th, 2014|News|

An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie and 13 others to death over violence that killed 10 people in Cairo last summer, AFP reports.   Since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July of 2013, hundreds of his supporters and Badie himself have been sentenced to death in speedy

Canadian Jihadists Revealed Fighting For ISIS in Iraq

By | 2014-06-24T21:29:42-04:00 June 24th, 2014|News|

Yet another Canadian citizen has been observed fighting as a Jihadist in the Middle East. Farah Mohamed Shirdon, from Calgary, was seen in a video showing members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) preparing to go into battle in Iraq.   Shirdon, who is seen in the video released about two