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— Terrorism has emerged as the top concern among Republican primary voters, and Donald Trump is seen as the candidate best equipped to combat it. This is the main reason Trump has popped in the polls since his call last week for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration into the United States. A fresh Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that 38 percent of Republicans name terrorism as the single most important issue, compared with 29 percent who name the economy and just 6 percent who highlight immigration. “Asked to choose which candidate among the top five they would trust most...

The Islamic State issued a fatwa condemning to death children with Down's syndrome, according to the Facebook page Mosul Eye, which says it reports news from within Islamic-State-occupied Mosul. "The Shar'i Board of ISIL issued an 'Oral Fatwa' to its members authorizing them to 'kill newborn babies with Down's Syndrome and congenital deformities and disabled children.' [Snip] Mosul Eye claimed to have recorded 'more than 38 confirmed cases of killing babies with congenital deformities and Down's Syndrome, aged between one week to three months.'

The GOP establishment refuses to accept the will of its constituents. Despite their two most popular candidates being political outsiders – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – party “leaders” are plotting against them. Instead, the establishment wishes to see a Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio win the nomination. Would either of these candidates fundamentally change the direction of the country? If the Republican National Committee continues to undermine its most popular candidates, the candidates should leave the Republican Party and start a new party. -Any new or independent party would just be the old Republican Party with a different name....

A Syrian priest who escaped to the West after being held for months by Islamic State believes his life was spared because of his interfaith work.Syriac Catholic priest Rev Jacques Mourad was abducted from the Mar Moussa monastery. He believed he was going to be killed, but was instead held captive in the terrorist group's capital, Raqqa.According to RNS, he told members of Rome's Foreign Press Association: "During these 84 days that I was a prisoner in this bathroom in Raqqa, it could be said that it was one of the most difficult experiences that a person can go through; that...

The poll of 385 Republican supporters or leaners was taken days after Trump proposed a temporary bar on Muslim immigrants into the United States, and shows Trump with 41 percent support nationwide. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is a very distant second, with 14 percent support. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is third, with 10 percent, while neurosurgeon Ben Carson is fourth, with 9 percent support. Carson has dropped 9 points since a previous Monmouth poll in October. Cruz and Rubio each gained 4 points, while Trump's support increased by almost a half, up 13 points from 28 percent. That...

Oral fatwa. I was going to open this piece by asking how the left can possibly explain this away in its larger campaign to deny anything wrong is going on with Islam. Then I realized that was a completely ridiculous question. If the left has a problem with killing Down Syndrome babies as ISIS demands here, it would probably be for letting them be born in the first place. Doesn’t ISIS know you can make more money by aborting them and selling the body parts? Someone get Cecile Richards in touch with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi so ISIS can get this...

Sitting in one room, a young Muslim woman tells an elderly cleric about the parlous state of her marriage to a 50-year-old man. ‘He oppressed me to the maximum,’ she declares. ‘He is violent, physically, and treats me like a dog.’ The woman — who looks barely out of her early 20s — describes her spouse as verbally and physically abusive about ‘every little thing’ she does.

A judge in a British Sharia court told a married couple the wife must divorce the husband, have sex with a different man and wait three menstrual cycles before marrying the husband again in order to validate the marriage, it has been claimed.In her report on the growing number of Sharia courts in the UK, Dutch academic Machteld Zee, says judges are enforcing harsh rules on women who want to divorce abusive and neglectful husbands, and accuses them of allowing fundamentalists to enforce their ideology.Breitbart London wrote about her initial findings earlier this month, but now new detail has come...

Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, called on Dec. 7 for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." Replace one word in this formulation and it goes from outrageous to brilliant. Reacting to massacres by Muslims in Paris and San Bernardino, Trump pointed to a Muslim hatred "beyond comprehension" for the West. Therefore, he concluded, "Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe...

ROME — The threat of terrorism must be confronted sensibly and not by restrictions based on religion, which ultimately threaten religious freedom and incite more violence, said Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the US bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. “As citizens and as believers, Christians and Catholics in the United States cannot possibly countenance” denying people entry into the country due solely to religious affiliation, he told Catholic News Service. Lori was in Rome for a Dec. 10-12 international conference on Christian persecution in the world, held at the Pontifical Urbanian University. While the continuing...

It was the second major jihad attack on France inside of a year. This one was far bloodier than the last, but it was otherwise near-identical. The slaughter of cartoonists in January was an attack on the democratic notion of free speech. This time the strike was an assault on concert-goers and restaurant diners, on people enjoying the leisure and pleasure of a free society. Both events denote an onslaught on Western civilisation, and both drew the same response from world leaders - the reinforcement and the propagation of The Big Lie. Here is the President of the United States:...

COACHELLA, California — Holy prayers at a mosque here on Friday were canceled with families gawking behind fire lines after discovering the front of their holy house had become one big fireball. Late Friday night, authorities announced that they believe the fire was deliberately set, and the local branch of the FBI is investigating as a possible hate crime. In addition, a person of interest has been detained, but not identified. Members of the congregation are blaming GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for setting the ugly tone that charred their house of worship. The mosque began to burn at around...

CNN editor Arsalan Iftikhar, formerly of CAIR, blames Donald Trump for anti-Muslim acts.

We can do a much better job of keeping criminals and terrorists out if we take screening processes seriously. In recent weeks the president and his senior homeland-security officials have pulled out all the stops to assure Americans that the vetting process for immigrants and foreign visitors is robust and thorough — but that even the most fabulous system, such as ours, cannot possibly be expected to prevent the entry of every person who means us harm, as demonstrated by the success of San Bernardino terrorist Sayed Rezwan Farook in obtaining a visa for his fiancée and fellow jihadi Tashfeen...

By the Numbers is an honest and open discussion, hosted by Raheel Raza president of Muslims Facing Tomorrow, about Muslim opinions and demographics. This is about the acceptance that radical Islam is a bigger problem than most politically correct governments and individuals are ready to admit. Is ISIS, the Islamic State, trying to penetrate the US with the refugee influx, are Muslims radicalised in US soil, are organizations such as CAIR who purport represent American Muslims accepting and liberal or radicalised with links to terror organizations. Its time to have your say, go to: http://go.clarionproject.org/numbers-full-film/

New York--New York Judge Carolyn Walker-Diallo, a Black Muslim woman took oath as a civil court judge in New York on Thursday, while swearing to abide by the U.S. Constitution placing her hand on the Holy Quran. In the United States and the majority of Western countries, politicians and members of the courts are sworn in to their positions while placing their hand on the Holy Bible when they take their oath. However, Judge Walker took her oath respecting the sacred book of her Islamic faith, the Holy Quran, while also wearing a hijab. A video posted on Facebook...

Statistics about Radicalization of Islamic Residents and other Muslims 1.       Studies have been done showing that in 8 out 10 US Mosques jihad messages have been preached. Messages stating the listeners should go from listening to the message and go kill an American infidel with a knife or a gun. 2.       From 5 to 25 percent of US Muslims are radicalized. 3.       According to Pew Research 1 in 10 native-born Muslim-Americans have a favorable view of al-Qaeda. 4.       About 1 in 5 British Muslim students would not report a fellow Muslim planning a terror attack. 5.       25% of Muslims...

Saudi authorities agree to retry a Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, according to minister. Harsha de Silva told parliament in Colombo the government had secured a fresh trial for the woman after Sri Lankan diplomats visited her in a Saudi jail over the weekend. "Through our intervention, they (Saudi authorities) have agreed to reopen the case," Mr de Silva told parliament

According to a recent CNN/ORC poll, many white evangelical Christians in the early primary states support Donald Trump. That’s surprising. Trump’s call Monday to bar all Muslims from entering the U.S. is perhaps the biggest act of religious bigotry in modern presidential politics. Such a proposal is a total affront to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s stunning that Trump would ask the American people to punish Muslim refugee families for the sins of ISIS. It’s even more stunning that such positions have traction with the American electorate. As we come upon Christmas, the business mogul turned presidential candidate has...

The trial of five Muslim men and two women accused of sexually exploiting a group of young girls over a period of 13 years heard Friday that the girls were worked "like slaves" in between forced sex acts. A witness told a court in Sheffield, northern England, that she and other girls were held under lock and key by Karen MacGregor, who is accused of befriending the girls before making them available for sex with older men. The witness, who was in her teens when the alleged abuse took place and is now 43, told police that she went to...