A French national known as an Islamic State recruiter and executioner, believed by some to be the real ringleader of the Paris terror attacks, will go on trial in Paris this week although he is thought to be in Syria. Salim Benghalem,
Climate change activists at the United Nations COP21 environmental summit have been condemned for wrecking the public memorial to the Paris attacks victims. Over 300 climate change activists, left-wing extremists and fellow travelers were arrested yesterday as violence broke out in the Place de
On November 28 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump told supporters in Sarasota, Florida, that he is “Second Amendment 100%.”
Hostility between the hacker collective Anonymous and the Islamic State escalated into a ‘cyberwar’ after the Paris terror attack, with Anonymous hackers claiming to have taken out hundreds of ISIS websites and thousands of their social media accounts. However, the
Congressional candidate Paul Babeu declared Secretary of State John Kerry disqualified to hold any office, including secretary of state, after Kerry implied that he understood the rationale behind the terrorist attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left a dozen people dead.
On November 13 terrorists who were able to acquire firearms and other weaponry despite France’s strict gun controls shot and killed approximately 130 law-abiding citizens who could not arm themselves for self-defence due to the same laws the terrorists ignored.
State Department Spokesperson Adm. John Kirby said that Secretary of State John Kerry’s statement that there was a “rationale” for the Charlie Hebdo attacks was referring to the rationale used by the terrorists, and “There’s no rationale, there’s no justification
If the horrendous November 13 attacks in Paris provide any lessons for policy makers in the United States, those lessons revolve around the dangers of open borders and the laws which make it difficult – if not impossible – for
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Contents: France launches ‘massive attack’ on ISIS – 20 bombs; Beirut wonders why their terror bombing is less important than Paris’s
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for what it described as “The Blessed Onslaught In Paris Against the Crusader Nation Of France.”
During the November 15 airing of Meet the Press, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump commented on the Paris terror attacks by saying things would have ended very differently if the French people had guns and were allowed to carry.
Does the West yet have the resolve to deal with the Islamist threat? Douglas Murray thinks not. As he argues here and here it will take more than the deaths of a mere 128 people in Paris – and the wounding of
During CNN’s November 13 coverage–just hours after the heinous terror attacks on Paris had taken place–CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes said European countries have long pretended that gun control can keep them safe, but it cannot.
People around the world sent thoughts and prayers to Paris after three groups carried out a massive terrorist attack. However, Charlie Hebdo artist Joann Sfar drew a cartoon asking people not to pray for France.
France’s strict gun controls–including all-out gun bans on certain categories of firearms–proved impotent on November 13 as terrorists opened fire, killing more than 150 people and injuring 200 more.
Police in France have banned ‘dangerous’ Halloween costumes featuring fake guns and knives. The development comes after a teenage boy dressed as the fictional character Mr T caused a major terror scare. At a time when France is still
Luxury hotels in Paris have taken a beating this year, with the Charlie Hebdo attacks scaring off visitors and websites like Airbnb stealing away clients, but analysts say the lure of the “palaces” has not yet faded. “The shock of
New evidence uncovered by French authorities investigating the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January has shown communication between killer Amedy Coulibaly and a possible handler in the Islamic State. Coulibaly received an email communication on 8 January. It arrived just hours after he shot and
The world’s biggest book fair opens Wednesday under a cloud of controversy with Iran calling on all Muslim nations to boycott the exhibition because author Salman Rushdie has been invited to speak. Organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair defended the
Tighter border controls announced last month by Belgium’s Minister of the Interior have come under attack for their feeble application. It has transpired that illegal immigrants need only wait until late afternoon or the weekend to cross the border to get
The Society of Black Lawyers has threatened to report the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for incitement to hate crime and persecution. Barrister Peter Herbert, Chair of the Society of Black Lawyers and former vice chair of the now defunct Metropolitan Police Authority,
French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo has published a controversial set of cartoons about Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose death generated international outrage when photos of the boy’s deceased body surfaced online, The Independent reports.
It is only a matter of time until terrorists hit the West once again, the former head of the UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) has warned. In fact, he claims the risk of terrorists attacking the West has grown substantially since
Ayman al Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda’s “core”—the group that was responsible for carrying out the terror attacks against America on September 11, 2001—has released an audio message as part of his “Islamic Spring” recordings that calls for Muslims worldwide to strike America.
The latest edition of Charlie Hebdo has satirised the image of drowned Syrian migrant child Aylan Kurdi, to mock Christian Europe and its apparent obsession with consumerism in the face of the migrant crisis. But many seem to have got
On Sep. 11, Sacramento will honor the three American heroes who saved countless lives when they thwarted a terrorist attack on a crowded train in Europe while vacationing there last month.
In a move that has angered some of his supporters, former CNN show host Piers Morgan tweeted the photo of WDBJ-TV reporter Allison Parker being shot to “4.5 million” people.
The clothing retailer TK Maxx has pulled and destroyed a line of t-shirts emblazoned with the phrase “Je Suis Over It” after a customer complained that it was insulting to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris earlier
Back in July of 2014, California student Adam Dandach, then 20 years of age, pleaded not guilty on counts of passport fraud after FBI agents bagged him at the airport in Anaheim, allegedly en route to pledge his allegiance to ISIS in Syria.
When I joined the National Secular Society (NSS), and was elected to serve on its governing council, I did so because I believed it was secular organisation. I believed its own claim that it was “Britain’s only national organisation working
When people become newly involved in political campaigning, particularly any kind involving Islam, they often do so with apprehension. Many are afraid of violence, or of being labelled a “racist” and therefore ostracised, and they invariably fear losing their jobs.
The Turkish government briefly blocked Twitter on Wednesday to prevent users from accessing images of Monday’s grizzly suicide terrorist bombing, which left 32 dead and wounded at least 100 other innocent civilians.
A 21-year-old Syrian hacker who allegedly belongs to the jihadi “Middle East Cyber Army” has been detained by authorities in Bulgaria, where he has lived with his family for most of his life. The most notorious achievement of which he has been accused involved hacking 3,500 websites around the world to post messages praising the slaughter at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices in Paris.
The editor of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has declared that he will not publish any more cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, just six months after the Islamist terrorist attack on the magazine that killed 11 civilians and one police officer.
Facing up to four-and-a-half years in prison if found guilty, two Turkish newspaper commentators went on trial yesterday for illustrating columns with a cartoon of Mohammed. Charges of “inciting public hatred” and “insulting religious values” were brought against Ceyda Karan and
Turkey opened its trial against two journalists on Thursday for publishing the cover of French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo following the terrorist attack that took the lives of 11 people at the magazine’s headquarters. Hundreds of plaintiffs are alleging that, as Muslim readers, their personal offense at the images of Muhammad constitute a crime by the publishers.
Socialism is having its moment here in America, even as socialism abroad is collapsing in disarray.
Contents: Al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab launches massive terrorist attack in Somalia; ISIS-linked terrorists attack Shia mosque in Kuwait City, killing 27; France in shock after beheading and attack at US-owned factory; Terrorist gunman creates bloodbath in Tunisia, killing 37; Analysis of Friday’s four terror attacks; China’s stock markets continue their free-fall
On June 18–the day after the heinous attack in which nine were killed at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church–President Obama said, “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”
