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<p>Some Houston residents are upset after Korans were left on the doorsteps of hundreds of homes in their neighborhood as part of a campaign to educate people about Islam.</p> <p>Residents of Braes Timbers in southwest Houston began finding the holy books two weeks ago, MyFOXHouston.com reported. The Korans came with a note saying they had been left by the Book of Signs Foundation, which claims to have distributed 30,000 free copies of the texts to residents throughout the city.</p>

TORONTO - A Mississauga, Ont. man will be formally charged on Tuesday with murder in connection with the death of his 16-year-old daughter. The girl, Aqsa Parvez, was in critical condition on Monday after being strangled, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women.

MALIBU, California (CNN) -- "Hey, that's the boy I just saw on TV!" a voice shouted out from the beach. Unaware, Youssif streaked past, little legs pumping as fast as they could across the sand, coming to a screeching halt a few feet away from the waves breaking at the shore. Frightened and excited, the 5-year-old Iraqi boy shrieked and laughed as his father lifted him to safety as each wave crashed around their legs. It was the first time either of them had seen the ocean. The "voice" belonged to a member of the Valley Peak church group from...

Christians in Charsadda, a town in North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan, have been warned that if they do not convert to Islam by 17 May they will face “dire consequences and bomb explosions”, Christian Today has learned. The threats were made in a letter circulated last week to the town’s Christian population, according to the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance. They come as Pakistan’s National Assembly overwhelmingly rejected proposed amendments to the blasphemy laws, which were tabled by a minority representative Member of Parliament, Mr Bhandara. On 8 May, the Government led the movement in the National Assembly to defeat the...

Iran is seeking to create a paradise for female tourists by turning an island on a northwestern lake into male-free zone, the press reported on Wednesday. All public transport, restaurants and facilities on the island -- on the gigantic Oroumiyeh lake close to the Turkish border -- will be staffed only by women, officials said. "The island of Arezou (Wish), one of the 102 islands in the Oroumiyeh Lake, will be equipped especially for women," a municipal official in the West Azerbaijan province, identified only as Aghai, was quoted as saying by the Tehran Emrouz newspaper. "There will be no...

An influential Malaysian mufti has said men can watch women athletes if they are decently clad after a northern state banned male spectators from a female sporting event, according to a report. Kelantan, the sole state ruled by the hardline Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party, will hold the first Malaysian All-Women Games from Saturday and plans to only allow men to attend the opening ceremony, the Star daily reported. However, the mufti of northern Perlis state, Mohamad Asri Zainul Abidin, said men could watch all the events if certain conditions were observed. "During Prophet Mohammed's days, even his wife Aishah participated in...

Celebrating Valentine's Day is sinful and forbidden for Muslims, an Indonesian Islamic leader warned. "This celebration comes from another religion and has no legal basis in the Islamic Sharia law," said Muslim Ibrahim, who is chairman of the highest authority on Islamic affairs in Aceh province. "Therefore, taking part in celebrating the day of love is haram (forbidden) for Muslims," Ibrahim told the state Antara news agency. St Valentine's Day is named after a Christian martyr and over the years has become the day on which lovers traditionally express their feelings for each other. Ibrahim said Valentine's Day went against...

Meet Daniel P. and Allison B. and their children, Mujahid Daniel and Mujahid David, ages 13 and 11. Not your typical American family, but their situation may affect your right to speak to your children. During their marriage, according to court documents, Daniel and Allison followed a "quasi-Muslim philosophy." They also "amassed a large quantity of weapons," and Daniel was imprisoned for illegal weapons possession and making threats. The couple divorced in 1997, when Daniel was in prison. Daniel, now out on parole and living in Hawaii, wants to see his children, who live with their mother in New York....

Textbooks used in Iran's schools are instilling students with hatred toward the West, especially the United States, and urging them to become "martyrs" in a global holy war against countries perceived to be enemies of Islam, a new study says. An Iranian human rights activist, Ghazal Omid, praised the findings, saying they prove hard-liners in Iran are using the books to turn children into "ticking bombs." However, a U.S. academic who specializes in Iran and Islam, and a former Iranian teacher said they believe the textbooks are a reflection of Iran's history and its deep suspicions of the West, not...

An Indonesian clinic is keeping a baby until her impoverished parents pay the escalating bill for her delivery and care. Her father Sutrisno, who pedals a bicyle-taxi, is 2.2 million rupiah (about 250 dollars) short of the 3.5 million rupiah owed to the clinic, The Jakarta Post reported Thursday. The 33-year-old has so far paid 1.3 million rupiah to the Murni Asih clinic near Jakarta after borrowing from friends to cover the birth of his baby girl, earlier reported as a boy. "I don't know where I'll get another 2.2 million rupiah from," said Sutrisno, who earns between 10,000 (just...

An explosive device strapped to a woman suicide bomber was activated Thursday afternoon near IDF soldiers operating in the Jabalya area in north Gaza. The terrorist was killed, and three soldiers sustained light injuries in the incident, bringing the number of troops injured in the Strip throughout the day to seven. Palestinian sources said the terrorist was identified as 57-year-old Fatma Najar, claiming she was sent on the suicide mission by Hamas. Ceasefire in Works? Her family said she had nine children and nearly 30 grandchildren. She was the first known Palestinian grandmother to attempt a suicide bombing against Israelis....

Sales of a controversial Turkish novel on a conspiracy to kill Pope Benedict XVI are on the rise ahead of the pontiff's historical visit to Turkey beginning next Wednesday - his first to an overwhelmingly Muslim nation. 'The Plot Against The Pope' is a highly speculative potboiler narrating how the conservative Roman Catholic society Opus Dei, a subversive masonic lodge and the CIA collude to make the pontiff's murder a pretext for a US attack against Iran. Yuvel Kaya's book, which features Benedict XVI in front of a burning cross with a bearded gunman aiming a rocket launcher at him,...

Two Turkish men who converted to Christianity went on trial Thursday for allegedly insulting "Turkishness," and of inciting religious hatred against Islam, the Anatolia news agency reported. The trial opened just days before a visit to Turkey by Roman Catholic Pope Benedict, during which the pontiff was expected to discuss improved religious rights for the country's tiny Christian minority who complain of discrimination. Hakan Tastan, 37, and Turan Topal, 46, are accused of making the insults and of inciting hate while allegedly trying to convert other Turks to Christianity. The men were charged under Turkey's notorious Article 301, which has...

Forget the bloated deficit, forget the fact that Italy's national airlines and train network may go bust; the hottest debate in the country now is whether it is politically correct to make the Pope the butt of comic satire. That was the question on most front pages of Italy's newspapers on Wednesday after the Roman Catholic officials reacted to a spate of Italian television and radio programmes poking fun at Pope Benedict. "The Vatican doesn't like satire," headlined Rome's La Repubblica. L'Unita, the newspaper of the largest party in the centre-left government, even put its banner headline -- "The Vatican...

According to the Iranian media Monday, Iranian President Mahoud Ahmadinejad declared that Israel was destined to ‘disappearance and destruction’ at a council meeting with Iranian ministers. “The western powers created the Zionist regime in order to expand their control of the area. This regime massacres Palestinians everyday, but since this regime is against nature, we will soon witness its disappearance and destruction,” Ahmadinejad said.

Al Qaida?s leader in Iraq today vowed his fighters will never rest until they have blown up the White House and reached Jerusalem. In an audio tape made available on militant websites, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir claimed to be winning the war in Iraq and said the US President was ?stupid?. He praised the Republican defeat in the US midterm elections as ?reasonable?, and claimed the al Qaida army has 12,000 fighters in Iraq, ready to die for their cause. Also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, al-Muhajir became the leader of al Qaida in Iraq after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed...

Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in a new audio tape Friday to be winning the war faster than expected in Iraq, saying it had mobilized 12,000 fighters. The leader meanwhiled vowed his fighters will never rest until they have blown up the White House. The group also said it welcomed the Republican electoral defeat that led to the departure of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, also urged the U.S. to stay in Iraq so his group would have more opportunities to kill American troops. "The al-Qaida army has 12,000 fighters in Iraq,...

TEHRAN, Iran - A Moroccan won the first prize of $12,000 yesterday in an Iranian contest to draw cartoons about the Holocaust - a vile competition that has sparked outrage worldwide. Iran's best-selling newspaper, Hamshahri, launched the "International Holocaust Cartoons Contest" in February to make fun of the murder of 6 million Jews. The contest was a retaliation for caricatures of Mohammad in a Danish newspaper, and was inspired by Iran's fanatical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called the Holocaust a "myth." Abdellah Derkaoui's cartoon shows a crane with a Star of David putting up a wall separating the Muslim shrine,...

Sydney - A cleric who said women who didn't wear a veil were 'uncovered meat' asking to be raped will keep his job as the spiritual leader of Australia's 350,000 Muslims. Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali was confirmed as Mufti of Australia on Friday after the governing body of Sydney's largest mosque rallied behind the Egyptian-born cleric. 'The board is satisfied with the notion that certain statements made by the mufti was misinterpreted,' Tom Zreika, head of the Lebanese Muslim Association, told local radio. Zreika said that as a sop to public opinion, al-Hilali wouldn't be preaching until he goes on...

Muslim activists called on Pace University yesterday to crack down on hate crimes after a second copy of the Koran was found in a toilet at its Manhattan campus. "This incident meets the legal definition of a hate crime," said Aliya Latif, a member of the Association of Muslim American Lawyers. "Indeed, this is no different from placing a burning cross in front of a house or painting a swastika on a locker." The discovery of the holy book in a toilet at Pace's lower Manhattan campus on Oct. 13 follows a similar act at Pace on Sept. 21. Earlier...

Lawyers for an American citizen facing execution in Iraq appealed Friday in U.S. federal court to keep the man in American custody — preventing his death — while another case is being appealed. The citizen, Mohammad Munaf, was convicted and sentenced to death by an Iraqi judge earlier this week on charges he helped in the 2005 kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Baghdad, court papers show. Iraqi-born Munaf, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2000, was working as their translator and guide. He maintains his innocence. In an emergency request filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, Munaf's attorneys...

Hollywood star couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are due to arrive in western India next month for filming of a movie based on the murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl. The movie, "A Mighty Heart," is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Pearl's widow Mariane. Pearl, a US citizen, was beheaded by Islamic militants in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2002. Jolie and Pitt had booked rooms in Aundh, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) southeast of India's financial capital Mumbai, to shoot part of the film there, industry sources said. Daniel and...

BAGHDAD, Iraq In America, six-year-olds are usually in first grade. In Iraq, some are being recruited by militias. That's what U-S soldiers say is going on in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, the stronghold of a radical cleric. The militias are assembling gangs of as many as 100 children, some as young as six or seven. Their mission: to throw gasoline bombs and stones at passing U-S convoys. The hope is that the troops will be lured into sniper ambushes. The soldiers say they've seen young men with bandanas covering their faces, talking to kids before such incidents. Sometimes the children...

The country's first Muslim Miss England has slammed Prime Minister Tony Blair, accusing him of fuelling hysteria over terrorism and Islam. Hammasa Kohistani, 19, said government statements since last year's 7 July attacks had created a 'negative image' of Muslims. Ms Kohistani represented England at the Miss World finals in China in December. 'Tony Blair addressed Muslims in particular, telling them that they need to sort out the problem within,' she said. 'That was a huge stereotype of the Islamic community.' She added: 'Even the more moderate Muslims have been stereotyped negatively and feel they have to take actions to...

The Islamic al-Khasba website has published on August 4 a document titled "How to Kill a Crusader on the Arabian Peninsula," The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported. The document details several possible ways to kill western victims and provides tips on selecting them, following them, and finally murdering them. The Islamic guide urges the potential attacker to pray before embarking on his mission so that God leads him in the right path. Assailants are also instructed to change their appearance as much as possible in order to ensure they do not appear to be religious – this includes...

"Young Israelis dream of being inventors, and their role models are the Israeli innovators who made it to the Nasdaq. Hezbollah youth dream of being martyrs, and their role models are Islamic militants who made it to the Next World." — Thomas Friedman, New York Times, August 9 The act of infanticide, the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant, is rarely practiced today. Yet in the Middle East, it has taken on a new form. Under the direction of some leading Muslim religious figures, some parents in the region are encouraging their children to commit suicide as...

Police in northern India have heightened security around the Taj Mahal after receiving a letter threatening to blow up the monument, officials said Friday. ADVERTISEMENT Sandbag bunkers have been set up outside the towering entrance gates leading to the 17th century monument and soldiers belonging to an anti-terrorist squad have been posted on 24-hour duty, said Ashok Kumar, a senior government official in Uttar Pradesh state where the Taj Mahal is located. Police were investigating a handwritten letter purportedly sent by an al-Qaida supporter, saying the terrorist group planned to carry out blasts at the Taj Mahal. Police were skeptical...

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU 'My goal is to kill Ariel Sharon' Terror leader makes threats during ABC Radio segment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 21, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com In case he wasn't clear enough during an exclusive interview this week with WorldNetDaily in which he said his terror group would target the ranch of Israel's prime minister with rockets, the spokesman for a coalition of three Palestinian terror groups warned on an American radio show the same day his "first and foremost goal" is to kill Ariel Sharon. Listen to ABC Radio's John Batchelor and WND's Jerusalem chief...

CAIRO, May 26, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – A North Carolina pastor has apologized to American Muslims for posting a sign outside his Danieltown Baptist Church in Forest City that urges the desecration of the Noble Qur'an. "I apologize for posting that message and deeply regret that it has offended so many in the Muslim community," Rev. Creighton Lovelace said in a statement, a copy of which was sent to IslamOnline.net. "When I posted the message on the sign, I did not realize how people of the Muslim faith view the Qur'an that devoted Muslims view it more highly than many in...

Mohammad Hossein, 4, plays with his toy gun, in front of his mother, who is a member of a suicide commandos unit, during a meeting where more than 200 young men and women volunteers prepared themselves for special training to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and Israelis, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iraq’s interim President Ghazi al-Yawer said on Saturday that most Iraqis will not vote in Sunday’s elections due to deteriorating security conditions and warned that the poll will not be successful if the Sunnis don’t participate. "What we hope is that everyone will take part," President Ghazi al-Yawer said at a press conference on Saturday. "But if the majority of the Iraqi people does not take part, and we know that the majority will not take part because of the security situation and not because they are boycotting the elections," "There are only very few who will boycott, but the...

The Iraqi people started voting Sunday in their country's first election after ousting the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, as anti-occupation and anti-government rebels, bent on wrecking Sunday’s vote, stepped up their deadly bombing and mortar strikes at several polling stations across Iraq. Rebels killed two people in a string of bomb and mortar attacks across the country Sunday, three hours before the polling stations opened. Casting his vote in Iraq’s first multi-party ballot in half a century, interim President Ghazi al-Yawer called it Iraq's first step "toward joining the free world." Although Iraqi authorities adopted strict security measures, numerous...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A Muslim group plans to slaughter 100 lambs on a farm this weekend as part of a religious rite, but state officials plan to be there with their video cameras to monitor what they consider an unlicensed slaughterhouse. The arrangement is the result of negotiations between the state, the Muslims and father-son farmers Kenneth and Eddie Rowe, who have leased their farm in rural Princeton for use during Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice.

A WEDDING party in Saudi Arabia turned violent after a female guest was caught using her mobile telephone to take digital photographs of other women at the celebration, a newspaper reported today. Al-Madineh said a fight broke out as a woman used her mobile to take pictures at the segregated wedding party in Khamis Msheit, about 1000km south-west of Riyadh. "The scuffle spread to the male section of the party. A number of guests were hospitalised," the daily added. Camera-equipped mobile phones are ostensibly banned in the conservative kingdom, where men and women celebrate weddings separately, so that women are...

Sharon, Bush, Chirac are the world's worst 'Islamophobes'of 2004 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, US President George Bush, and French President Jacque Chirac are the world's worst "Islamphobes" of 2004, according to a leading British Muslim rights group. The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) selected the three leaders on Saturday, marking the annual "Islamophobia Awards" to highlight what they described as growing anti-Muslim prejudice. "It is with great sadness that we reveal this year's winners," the commission said in a statement. "Sadly, the competition was extremely tough and we see no signs of this abating in the year to come."...

TOKYO (AP) — Kiss bassist Gene Simmons (news), who sparked outrage in Australia after making comments seen as anti-Muslim, said Friday he was speaking only of "extremists" and that his remarks were taken out of context. "I was asked about extremists," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "And that's what I was talking about — only extremists." Simmons sparked outrage when Kiss toured Australia earlier this month with comments seen as attacking Islam. "This is a vile culture and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit...

TAKI Theodoracopulos sounds like he's ready to go to war for the right of women to strip, and men to watch them. The co- founder of the American Conservative is riled up because he sent "a high-class stripper" to the "downtown dive" where his son John-Taki was celebrating his 22nd birthday. "I rang it, spoke to the barman-owner, got permission and dis patched a high-class stripper to do what strippers do while he was cutting the cake. Everything went hunky-dory until the stripper began to undress. A large, drunk, fearsome-looking man at the bar objected. The boys were polite and...

Terrorists unveil female suicide bomber pictures Hamas has posted photos on its internet site of its first female suicide bomber posing with her two young children. The terror group's move is its answer to Palestinian critics who say the Islamic militant group was wrong to send 22-year-old Reem Raiyshi on a mission that left her toddlers without a mother. The pictures show Raiyshi in camouflage dress holding an assault rifle in one hand while cradling her three-year-old son, Obedia, in the other arm. The boy is clutching what appears to be a mortar shell, and both mother and child wear...

<p>January 15, 2004 -- A 22-year-old Palestinian woman carried out what is believed to be the first homicide bombing by a mother when she blew herself up at a Gaza Strip checkpoint yesterday, killing four Israelis.</p> <p>Reem Riyashi spoke of love for her two young children in a "farewell" video - but also said she had dreamed of turning "my body into deadly shrapnel against Zionists" since she was 13.</p>

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- A Grant County man has been charged with trying to kidnap his sister from her Sedro-Woolley home in what police believe was an attempt to punish her for marrying outside her Muslim faith. Khalil Nassar, 21, and a 24-year-old acquaintance, Antonio Cortez, were charged Wednesday with attempted kidnapping, said Robin Webb-Lakey, a Skagit County senior deputy prosecutor. Nassar also was charged with felony harassment. The two men told police they were simply planning to visit Nassar's sister, according to an affidavit signed by Sedro-Woolley Police Sgt. William Tucker and filed in Skagit County Superior Court. Nassar...

Last week's column contained excerpts from my interview with Robert Spencer, author of "Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West." He makes the case that violent Islam stems from a straight reading of Islamic religious texts, and that moderate Muslims need to face up to and repudiate this so that true reform can take place. This is Part II of the interview: Larry Elder: You cite Koran passages that state Jews, Christians and nonbelievers have three choices: conversion, second-class citizenship or death. When people say these kinds of things are "taken out of context," you say...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - Fired by promises of Paradise, Muslim militants have turned Islam's traditional month of piety, Ramadan, into a bloody season of death and destruction. And some analysts, expecting militants to intensify their attacks as Ramadan draws to a close, fear that the worse is yet to come. The lunar month is expected to end early next week. Suicide bomb attacks have ripped through the Middle East from Turkey to Saudi Arabia during the holy month, killing at least 133 people and wounding hundreds more. The toll includes the devastating attack on the International Red Cross...

<p>The brazen missile attack on the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad and a recent spate of suicide bombings illustrate that anti-American violence is increasing in frequency, sophistication and deadliness. Moreover, a recent poll by an Iraq research center showed fewer than 15% of Iraqis see U.S. forces as liberators, down from a tepid 43% six months ago. That's an ominous sign that popular discontent over a prolonged occupation could cause anti-U.S. attacks to snowball. The only way to let the air out of the resistance is to quickly turn Iraq back to the Iraqis and withdraw U.S. forces. The violence arises primarily as a reaction to the invasion and occupation by a foreign superpower.</p>

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A terror defendant accused of plotting to cut through the cables that support New York’s Brooklyn Bridge was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday by a judge who refused to let him withdraw his guilty plea. Iyman Faris was sentenced to 15 years for aiding and abetting terrorism, plus five years for conspiracy. According to prosecutors, Faris, 34, traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, carrying out low level missions for terrorists. He provided sleeping bags, cellular telephones and cash to members of al-Qaida and met with Osama bin Laden in 2000 at a terrorist training camp in...

Ex-Head of Islamic Charity Pleads Guilty .c The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) - The former head of an Islamic charity accused of having ties to terrorism has pleaded guilty to bank and visa fraud. Bassem Khafagi, who is Egyptian, was ordered deported earlier this year. He pleaded guilty Tuesday. The FBI said Khafagi is a founding member of the Islamic Assembly of North America, a charity that purports to promote Islam. Federal investigators contend the charity, and another man - Sami Omar Al-Hussayen - provided Web sites for two radical Saudi sheiks, Salman Al-Awdah and Safar al-Hawali. Both have direct...

<p>BAGHDAD &#8212; An explosion that killed nine persons inside a mosque Monday night was triggered during a bomb-making class in the building, U.S. military officials said yesterday, offering the strongest evidence yet that Muslim clerics are participating in a violent campaign against U.S. forces.</p>

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said Wednesday a deadly explosion in a mosque that enraged the Iraqi town of Falluja was triggered by a bomb-making class inside the building. "The explosion was apparently related to a bomb manufacturing class that was being taught inside the mosque," the U.S. Central Command said in a statement. Falluja residents had accused U.S. forces of attacking the mosque late Monday. Residents said the blast killed nine people, including the mosque's imam, or prayer leader. They had blamed it on an American air strike -- an accusation U.S. military officials flatly denied. Two rocket-propelled...

Most of the world is grieving, but some say 'God has retaliated' 02/02/2003 The Washington Post LONDON – Much of the world expressed shock, grief and condolences Saturday for the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew, but some in the Arab world saw the tragedy as divine justice against the United States and Israel. < snip > But on the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, where many are braced for U.S. military action, some said the loss of the shuttle and its crew was God's retribution. "We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul...

Indian flogged for sacrilege By Abdullah Al-Fehaid SUDAIR, 20 January 2003 — An Indian worker in Roudhat Sudair, 150 km north of Riyadh, was sentenced to 70 lashes in public and deportation by a Shariah court here for urinating on the walls of a mosque. The man, a non-Muslim tailor, was proved guilty of repeating the sacrilegious act several times with malicious intention. He was flogged at the courtyard of the Sabeen Mosque in Roudhat Sudair. Security agencies are now taking steps to deport him.

A leading organizer of Palestinian suicide attacks against Israel has advised Iraq to raise an army of suicide bombers and allow the Jihad warriors to join the fight if the U.S. attacks Iraq. Hamas, an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya (the Islamic Resistance Movement), is on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations. Its goal is to establish an Islamic state in all of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It has claimed responsibility for many suicide bombings and other terror attacks during the last decade. Since the beginning of the intifadah, Hamas has been a leader in suicide...