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A woman in tears approached French police outside the kosher supermarket where hostages were held captive by a gunman in northeast Paris, saying her 37-year-old daughter just managed to call from the supermarket and told her five people have already been killed, the BBC reported. The daughter said many hostages were in the basement of the supermarket. The conversation was interrupted by other hostages making the woman stop talking for her own safety. There is no official confirmation of these claims.

Islamic State urged its followers on Monday to attack citizens of the United States, France and other countries which have joined a coalition to destroy the ultra-radical group. Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani also taunted U.S. President Barack Obama and other Western "crusaders" in a statement carried by the SITE monitoring website, saying their forces faced inevitable defeat at the insurgents' hands.

Islamic Cleric Calls UK Soldier’s Beheading “A Courageous And Heroic Act” Pamela Geller Here again, the calls for murder and war in the cause of Islam comes from a cleric. So again we ask, what is being done to expunge the Quran (and Islam) from the violent teachings that inspire jihad? The cleric has praised the beheading.

LONDON (UPI) -- An Islamic school in England has been accused of poisoning the minds of its pupils with textbooks that portray Jews as "apes" and Christians as "pigs." The charges against the King Fahad Academy in Acton were made by Colin Cook, 57, a former English teacher and Muslim convert, The Daily Mail reports. Cook says the school where he taught for 19 years was very good until 2005 when the majority of British teachers left. Cook says he was told, "This is not England. This is Saudi Arabia," when he complained to school management about the content of...