A panel discussion Thursday hosted by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) promised to plumb the “the root causes of radicalization” in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks at Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher market.
Symbols matter throughout the world, but no more so than in the Middle East. Like it or not, with President Obama’s no-show in Paris, the Ummah (Muslim world) will likely interpret his absence as another subtle message that he stood with the Islamic Jihadis who were defending the Prophet Mohammed. The Obama Administration is now in full damage control mode by admitting it made an “error.” Was it an error or deliberate?
France is to introduce a national “day of secularity” and teach children about French national symbols, including the tricolor and the Marseillaise, in an attempt to curb rising religious fundamentalism. The government has pledged €250 million (£190 million) over the
Turkish authorities have arrested former Miss Turkey, Merve Buyuksarac, 26, because she quoted a poem on social media that insults President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The arrest is the latest in a crackdown on free speech in Turkey that has worsened since two radical Islamists slaughtered twelve people at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France.
A dozen former French soldiers have joined up with jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria, a French official claimed this week, raising concerns about radicalisation of soldiers within the French Armed Forces. A source within the country’s ministry of defence
Actor Nicholas Cage has been cast to star in Larry Charles’s latest satire film, Army of One, and will reportedly play a “regular guy” who journeys across the world to hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece, American Sniper, has shattered box office records and touched a chord in movie audiences across the country. The film has also unleashed an unbecoming waft of snarkiness from a pair of Hollywood insiders— Seth Rogan and Michael
Police intervened in a clash between an Islamist group and a group commemorating the victims of Charlie Hebdo and journalist Hirant Dink in Istanbul, Turkey. It turned violent, which forced the police to use gas to break up the crowd.
An Iranian newspaper was abruptly shut down after it ran an image of Hollywood actor George Clooney sporting a “Je Suis Charlie” pin under the headline “Clooney: I am Charlie Too” during a recent Golden Globes appearance.
The jihadist attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine known for lampooning Islam, has cast a spotlight on so-called no-go zones in France and other European countries.
800,000 people attended a rally in the Russian region of Chechnya to condemn the Mohammed cartoons published in France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine. President Ramzan Kadyrov attended, delivering an anti-West, pro-Islamic speech.
Forty-five churches were torched Saturday in the Nigerien capital of Niamey and five persons were killed during the riots protesting caricatures of Mohammed published last week by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, the Nigerien police announced Monday.
On January 17, Belgium announced it would be deploying soldiers to guard “vulnerable sites in its two largest cities” following the terror attacks in Paris, the terror threat faced by Belgium itself, and the heightened terror alert across Europe.
Thousands gathered in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday to protest the latest issue of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
War has always historically been fought by men, generally the physically stronger sex, who are more inclined to take up arms than their female countrymen. But the exodus of Europeans making their way to Syria has been followed up by
Following the deaths of two French police officers during the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack and another officer death during an attack the following day, French police are demanding more guns and guns that are more powerful.
Britain’s former Chief Rabbi has reported that anxiety among the Jewish population is at a “record high” following the hostage taking and murder of customers at a Kosher bakery in Paris by a Muslim extremist. It comes as Home Secretary
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when host Chuck Todd asked what would happen if American evangelicals realized Charlie Hebdo is no friend of religion, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said, “Yeah. It would be a real, real
Paris, France – On Boulevard Richard Lenoir, a few metres from the former office of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, a small crowd gathers around the spot where French policeman Ahmed Merabet was killed by attackers as he tried to stop them from fleeing the scene of their mass murder.
Fox News apologizes for misreporting on ‘no-go zones’ in Europe; Swiss franc revaluation panics East European currency markets; Troops and police spread across Europe, in fear of terror attacks; Thousands in Muslim countries protest cartoon depiction of Mohammed; Barack Obama describes an American advantage over Europe
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Charlie Hebdo’s editor-in-chief Gerard Briard said news organizations, including NBC, who refused to show or blurred out the latest cover, with a caricature of Muhammed on it, “blur out democracy, secularism, freedom of religion,
France has been hit with a wave of cyber-attacks following the Charlie Hebdo killings, with many websites altered to show a message reading “The Islamic State Stay Inchallah. Free Palestine. Death To France. Death To Charlie.” Major media sites such
New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he had changed his mind and agrees with PBS’ decision to not air the Charlie Hebdo cartoons on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” “I’ve changed my mind about this. My newspaper, the New York Times, made the
During the weekend, riots broke out throughout the Islamic world in demonstration against the recent publication of a Muhammad cartoon by France’s Charlie Hebdo, several of which resulted in death and destruction.
French authorities arrested Charlie Hebdo gunman Cherif Kouachi in 2005 for his participation in a plot to bring jihadists into Iraq. A court found him guilty in 2008, but in a video resurfacing in light of this month’s attack, he proclaims his innocence.
Columnist Pat Buchanan argued that the West has been “euchred” into defending the “deeply anti-Islamic” Charlie Hebdo on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” “There is a very serious point here about this Charlie Hebdo thing…I think we have been euchred and brought
Armstrong Williams, one of the most recognizable conservative voices in media, is launching “The Right Side Forum with Armstrong Williams,” a new Saturday morning news show on cable’s News Channel 8 in Washington D.C.
A significant exodus of Jews from France is underway. It began long before the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the killing of innocent Jews at a kosher grocery store, but those events may well inspire further relocation. Scott Ott at PJ Media compiled the emigration figures into a graph, and its rocket-like ascent after 2012 is impossible to miss.
The wife of Djamel Beghal says her husband ‘is the victim’ and is being held hostage by the French authorities, despite his string of convictions relating to terrorism, the Daily Mail reports. Beghal, who was once one of al-Qaeda’s top
Parts of the Muslim world have responded with anger at the latest editor of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which featured a cartoon of Mohammed holding a sign saying ‘Je Suis Charlie’. Hundreds of protestors in Algeria gathered, chanting “I am
The New York Times is a staunch defender of freedom of expression. At least as long as it doesn’t involve professing a biblical view of homosexual acts.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized protesters against his commencement speech, and defended Rush Limbaugh in a monologue denouncing anti-free speech leftists on Friday. “Now that it’s been a month since I gave the commencement address at Berkeley, someone
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld said that James Taylor’s performance in Paris during a State Department visit was an indication that America was “run by camp counselors” on Friday’s broadcast of “The Five.” After playing a clip of Taylor’s
Columnist Charles Krauthammer expressed his displeasure at the State Department’s decision to have James Taylor perform in Paris during Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “I would normally have insouciance over
Friday on CNN, a cartoonist from Iran, who came to Paris to flee persecution, defended murdered Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier (Charb), from one of the founding members of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, Henri Roussel’s criticisms that Charb
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, often mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for president, will address the Henry Jackson Society in London on Monday, speaking about foreign policy, terrorism, and immigration.
Long after the great Charlie Hebdo rally had been held in Paris, and Barack Obama’s absence had been painfully noted by the entire world, Secretary of State John Kerry finally chugged into France–with 70s soft-rock crooner James Taylor in tow–for a performance of “You’ve Got a Friend” that Kerry described, along with the entire visit, as a “big hug” to Paris.
Facebook briefly shut down a page dedicated to informing activists planning a Friday protest for charges to be dropped against the arrest of 14 activists who chained themselves to trains and shut down the West Oakland BART station last November. The page was restored a few hours later.
On Tuesday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls addressed the National Assembly and gave the most stirring speech on antisemitism since Chaim Herzog literally tore up the “Zionism is racism” resolution at the UN General Assembly in 1975. Valls reiterated his recent argument that
Belgium police raided ten locations where it was suspected that home-grown jihadists returning from Syria were planning terror acts. One location was in the town of Verviers, where two suspected terrorists were killed after a shootout, and the others were spread across the capital city Brussels, which is also the capital city of the European Union.
