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... Now, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP, has released a video boasting about the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and vowing another attack on the scale of 9/11 but even "more painful." The video, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, is titled "A Message to the American People: You Have Yet to Understand the Lesson." It features Ibrahim Al-Qousi, a former prisoner at the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Al-Qousi said, regarding the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, that "the greatest loss America suffered, besides its material and human losses, is its reputation...

Salafists destroy ancient Morocco carvings: NGO RABAT — Stone carvings in Morocco's High Atlas mountains dating back more than 8,000 years and depicting the sun as a pagan divinity have been destroyed by Salafists, a local rights group said on Wednesday. "These stone carvings of the sun are more than 8,000 years old. They were destroyed several days ago," Aboubakr Anghir, a member of the Amazigh (Berber) League for Human Rights, told AFP. "One of the carvings, called 'the plaque of the sun,' predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco," Anghir said. "It lies in a well-known archaeological site...

It must have come as a disappointment to the mullahs of Mazar-e-Sharif—who sent the faithful out on Friday with instructions to avenge the recent insult to the Quran—and to the mobs who consequently went forth to slaughter 12 people at U.N. headquarters, nine more in Kandahar the next day, and two more the next, that their bloody enterprise had counted for so little in the eyes of Western military leaders. So it would appear at least from the response by Gen. David Petraeus, who delivered an impassioned rebuke of a publicity-hungry Florida pastor who had presided over the mock trial...

Iraq: Sisters behead uncle and aunt in front of their children - because he wore Western-style trousers 23rd November 2007 An Iraqi couple were beheaded in front of their children by their cousins because the man wore Western-style trousers. Three suspected al Qaeda militants, including two sisters, beheaded their uncle and his wife, forcing the couple's children to watch, according to Iraqi police. The killing came because the school guard Youssef al-Hayali was considered an infidel because he did not pray and wore western-style trousers. The militants, later arrested in Diyala province northwest of Baghdad, killed Hayali and his wife...

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, political correctness is the tribute intelligence must pay to ignorance. That's the moral in the controversy between Benedict XVI and radical Muslims, which cooler heads are working to prevent becoming a war between the Vatican and the "religion of peace."

Three of the alleged ringleaders of the foiled airplane bomb plot have been identified by western intelligence agencies involved in unraveling the plot. Two of them are believed to have recently traveled to Pakistan and were later in receipt of money wired to them from Pakistan, reportedly to purchase tickets for the suicide bombers. Sources identify the three, who are now in custody, as: --Rashid Rauf --Mohammed al-Ghandra --Ahmed al Khan

WHEN Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, collected his post from the letterbox on Wednesday he got an unpleasant surprise. Among the bills and junk mail was a letter addressing him as “ugly dog”. It told him he would soon be beheaded. It was an unnerving way to start the day. Only 24 hours earlier Theo van Gogh, the film maker who had often attacked radical Muslims, had been riding along on his bicycle when a Muslim fanatic first shot and then butchered him on a busy street with the nonchalance of an abattoir worker.

FAITH UNDER FIREIndonesia's new 'legal' jihadMuslims now take on Christians through legislation Posted: September 15, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In the aftermath of the Bali bombing, jihadists in Indonesia have begun fighting on a new front – through government legislation designed to make life a living hell for non-Muslims, according to a Christian relief organization. Voice of the Martyrs points to a June 10 law approved by the Indonesian Parliament that requires schools with 10 or more students of any particular faith to be taught religious studies by a teacher of the same faith. The law, the group says, is...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey -- Arif has a decision to make. Should his wife live or die? The reason for this quandary, whether to kill for honor, is starkly simple. Yet it reaches deep into the cultural complexities of life in rural villages in southeastern Turkey and into how men and women define their roles. So-called honor killings occur around the world, although they are most frequent in countries with large Muslim populations. Recent reports to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights recounted these types of murders in at least 14 countries, including Britain, India, Jordan, Pakistan, Sweden and Turkey. Advocacy...

March 26, 2003 Officials Say Iraqis May Have Killed Some PrisonersBy ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER ASHINGTON, March 25 ? Some of the Army mechanics captured on Sunday after they took a wrong turn in the Iraqi town of Nasiriya were apparently executed by their captors, probably in front of townspeople in the area, American officials charged tonight. The officials cautioned tonight that this information was based on a single source, apparently a communications intercept, and that they were seeking corroborating evidence. It is unclear how many of the seven slain soldiers were executed, rather than slain in...

Breaking.....Hang the bastard

I've heard a lot of rumors lately about the Muslim Student Association – the national organization of Muslim college students that boasts chapters in over a thousand colleges across America and Canada, and is one of the most influential religious organizations around. They've been accused of promoting Islamic fundamentalism and inviting speakers who spew violent anti-American rhetoric. I thought I'd check things out for myself. I'm Jewish, but thanks to my Middle Eastern features, I can easily pass for an Arab. So, last week, I attended a closed (as in Muslim students only) meeting sponsored by the MSA at Queensborough...