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SNIPPET: "A new report called "The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society" from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life has found that the majority of the 38,000 Muslims surveyed in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa favor the implementation of sharia law, among other things. The report incorporates results from a two-stage survey: 15 sub-Saharan African countries with substantial Muslim populations were surveyed in 2008-2009; and 24 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa were surveyed in 2011-2012. Those hoping for the development of peaceful democratic societies in Muslim-majority countries may be dismayed...

KHAR, Pakistan – A burqa-clad female suicide bomber in Pakistan lobbed hand grenades, then detonated her explosive belt among a crowd at an aid center Saturday, killing at least 45 people in militants' latest strike against the authorities' control over the key tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Police believed it was the first time Islamic militants have sent a woman to carry out a suicide attack in Pakistan, where the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan against al-Qaida and the Taliban insurgents continues to spill over despite Islamabad's repeated claims of victory on its side of the porous border. The bomber, dressed in...

BAGHDAD – The alert action of Iraqi Army Soldiers prevented a suicide bomber from reaching her intended target in the Rusafa District at approximately 10 a.m. Feb. 17. As a result of their quick reaction the only death resulting from the aborted attack was that of the female suicide bomber. Two Iraqi citizens were injured in the blast. The attempted attack took place when a woman, who appeared to be a beggar, was noticed having a bulky protrusion around her mid-section, said Iraqi Col. Fahdel, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division. Alert Iraqi Army soldiers quickly realized her...

A female suicide bomber blew herself up Friday in front of a mosque in the Black Sea city of Ordu, injuring two other people in the explosion, including a suspected accomplice, police said. In a separate incident, a small bomb left on a road close to a military headquarters in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir went off, slightly injuring two people inside a car, an official from the mayor's office said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2005 – Contrary to an earlier report, two suicide bombers who killed at least 27 people and wounded at least 50 others today in a crowded courtyard at the Baghdad police academy were men, military officials reported. "An ongoing investigation indicates the bombers, earlier reported as females, were male," a Multinational Force Iraq news release said. Officials pointed out that suicide bombings by women have been rare in Iraq. Only two such bombings are known to have been carried out by women: one in September 2005 and another in 2003, officials said. The officials went on to...

<p>MONCEAU-SUR-SAMBRE, Belgium, Dec. 5 - Muriel Degauque, believed to be the first European Muslim woman to stage a suicide attack, started out life as a good Roman Catholic girl in this coal mining corner of Belgium known as the black country. She ended it in a grisly blast deep inside Iraq last month.</p>

A Belgian woman carried out a bomb attack in IRAQ earlier this month, Belgian prosecutors said, according to BBC. The woman's Belgian passport was found on her body after the attack on a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad on November 9, the De Standaard newspaper reported. The explosion killed more than seven people, including the bomber. Reports say the woman’s husband have been killed in Iraq in a separate incident. Other European nationals have travelled to Iraq to fight the U.S.-led occupation forces, but the Belgian woman was the first female European bomber. On Wednesday, Belgian police detained more than...

Belgian woman, convert to Islam, ID'd as Iraqi suicide bomber Welcome to Europe's future -- as a source for jihadist recruits. We now have the first European female suicide bomber. And apparently her Muslim husband put her up to this, since evidently he "organized her trip." "Female Belgian suicide bomber hit Baghdad," from UPI, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: BRUSSELS, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A woman who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq two weeks ago was identified Tuesday as the first European female suicide bomber. The Belgian anti-terrorism unit has confirmed that the woman was a Belgian...

Admit it. I bet not a few of you who read yesterday's DUmmie FUnnies EDITION thought I had to do quite a bit of cherry picking in DUmmieland in order to find a few posts blaming the Amman hotel bombings on Bush and/or "neoconsters" and/or the Mossad. For those few skeptics out there, I invite you to tour DUmmieland for yourselves. Such whacko blatherings are the NORM not the exceptions. You DON'T have to look very far in DUmmieland to find wacko conspiricist rantings such as today's featured DUmmie THREAD titled, "I don't believe the 'failed bomber' woman was...

Russian officials investigating the crashes of two passenger planes have discovered the remains of two Chechen women thought to be "Black Widows" - suicide bombers given that name because many have lost husbands in the war with Russia. Officials have also found traces of explosive in the wreckage of at least one of the planes, all but confirming the theory that the jets, which crashed on Tuesday night killing 90, were destroyed by terrorist attacks. Russian soldiers carry the coffin of a victim from the Tu-154 The loss of the two planes, which blew up three minutes apart, is the...

Another day, another terrorist suicide bombing in Israel. Atop more than 100 Palestinian suicide attacks in three years, it’s almost not even news. Yet last Wednesday’s bombing in Gaza was different. The suicide killer was the first to be a mother and the first female bomber from the terrorist group Hamas. (The six previous female suicide attackers were members of al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group sponsored by Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction of the PLO.) In the first suicide attack since Christmas, 21-year-old Reem Raiyishi orphaned a 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter. In a traditional pre-suicide videotape testimonial, Raiyishi,...