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Sometimes poetic justice is very poetic. Other times it’s ironic. And sometimes it’s a teachable moment about the folly of appeasement. Not that Dr. Christopher Stone will have learned anything from his experience. Leftist academics are not very educable. Not even when their Muslim teachers are stabbing them in the neck. (via Debbie Schlussel) A man stabbed in the neck near the US Embassy in Cairo on Thursday has been identified as Chris Stone, an American academic. Stone is associate professor of Arabic and head of the Arabic Programme at City University.

is story is developing. The stabbings occurred at the Cy-Fair campus at Lone Star College located at 9191 Barker Cypress. One suspect has been detained and possibly another at large Stay tuned, next the liberals will be demanding a national knife registry. Posted by Gateway Guest Blogger on Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 1:25 PM By: Rachel Pulaski This story is developing. The stabbings occurred at the Cy-Fair campus at Lone Star College located at 9191 Barker Cypress. One suspect has been detained and possibly another at large Stay tuned, next the liberals will be demanding a national knife registry. Via...

Photos of the bodies of several aborted babies were shown to the jury today, each with a gaping wound in the back of their necks, as testimony continued in the Kermit Gosnell murder case. The babies were all intact and had the appearance of being partially mummified or dried. The brownish-black skin had shrunk as it dried, revealing the upper spinal column that authorities say was pierced with scissors in order to snip the spinal cords of newborn babies born alive during abortions by Gosnell. Photos of the remains of Karnamaya Mongar, the woman who died as a result of...

HOUSTON – Police say two suspects got away with a 71-year-old woman’s purse, but they didn’t get away with it for long. According to court documents, just 10 minutes after the theft, the same suspects were stabbed by another victim they were trying to rob. Now, Mitchell Womack and Ronnie Curry are facing aggravated robbery charges. It all started on March 30, 2012, around 7:15 p.m., when police said the suspects approached the 71-year-old victim as she walked to her car after work in the 7400 block of Harwin. The victim said she noticed the men pull up in a...

A New Mexico woman repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend after accusing him of cheating during a Monopoly game early yesterday, according to police. Laura Chavez, 60, and her boyfriend were playing the popular board game at her Santa Fe apartment when the dispute occurred. Chavez, pictured in the mug shot at right, allegedly admitted stabbing her beau, Clyde "Butch" Smith, with a kitchen knife. Police reported that both Chavez and the 48-year-old Smith appeared to be intoxicated. The man, who cops found bleeding heavily from wounds on his head and right wrist, was hospitalized yesterday in stable condition. Smith told investigators...

It was shaping up to be another rowdy Cinco de Mayo in San Jose late Thursday, as police and emergency crews were busy breaking up crowds, picking up the glass from shattered windows and treating people who had been beaten up and even stabbed. As of 11 p.m., one person had walked into Regional Medical Center after being stabbed in the festivities and several other people had suffered more minor injuries, Assistant Police Chief Diane Urban said. "Many fights, we've had multiple fights along Santa Clara Street," she said "And it's busy." The crowds had also knocked out windows of...

WASHINGTON - D.C. Police say a teenage boy was stabbed inside the National Zoo in Northwest. Sources tell FOX 5's Wisdom Martin that a 14-year-old male was stabbed in the chest in the zoo after being jumped by another group of young people. ... In a statement, the National Zoo says they have a person in Zoo police custody and that individual will be turned over to D.C. Police. Easter Monday is traditionally African American Family Day at the National Zoo. Easter Monday has been a Washington-area multicultural tradition that spans more than 100 years. In 2000, there was a...

A Muslim woman tried to kill a Labour MP by stabbing him in the stomach 'in revenge' for him voting for the Iraq War, a court heard today. Roshonara Choudhry, 21, is accused of knifing Stephen Timms twice in a shock attack during a constituency surgery meeting after she greeted the MP with a smile and offered him the hand of friendship. A second later the fanatic allegedly lunged forward, repeatedly plunging a three inch kitchen knife into his stomach, sending the MP 'reeling and staggering' backwards, before staff jumped in to wrestle the blade from her grasp.

A military recruiter was stabbed Tuesday at a career center in Illinois, ksdk.com reports. The attack reportedly occurred at the Armed Forces Career Center near St. Clair Square Mall in Fairview Heights, Ill. Lt. John Proffitt of the Fairview Heights Police Department told the station that a man walked into the center Tuesday to inquire about enlisting. The suspect then reportedly used a pair of scissors to stab the recruiter in the back.

DENVILLE, N.J. (CBS) Did the ex-husband do it? Police have named a "person of interest" in the brutal murder of a New Jersey teacher. The grisly details rocked a quiet New Jersey community Sunday. The 62-year-old woman was stabbed more than 80 times. Now, police want to ask her live-in ex what he knows. "It's beyond belief right now, it really is," Denville resident Kelly Stevens said. Stevens said murder victim Judith Novellino was gentle and caring, a beloved teacher at her alma mater, Morris Catholic High School. While showing CBS 2 the most recent photo of the educator –...

ELIZABETHTON — There will be no charges placed in the Feb. 6 death of Elizabethton police dog Yoris. Yoris was euthanized after receiving stab wounds and other injuries in an encounter with six boys. Three of the boys suffered dog bites. First Judicial District Attorney General Tony Clark announced his decision not to place charges on Friday, following his review of an extensive investigation of the incident between the dog and the six boys between the ages of 14-16. Before the attack, the boys were playing a sport called airsoft in a grassy field near Yoris’ kennel. They were carrying...

A woman talking on a cell phone during a movie didn't take kindly to being "shushed" by another moviegoer. Or at least her boyfriend didn't. In a drama that turned more lively than the one on screen -- "Shutter Island" -- the boyfriend allegedly attacked and stabbed the "shusher" in the neck with a meat thermometer. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said the stabbing occured Saturday during a screening of the Martin Scorsese film. The stabbing victim is expected to survive and is recovering at a hospital. Two others who tried to help the victim also were injured, according to Whitmore....

A BRITISH man remains critically ill today after being stabbed through the eye with a stiletto heel last weekend. Gavin Taylor, 28, suffered a severe head injury in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is believed he was in a taxi with a female passenger after a night out when the incident occurred, The Sun reports. Staci Hargreaves, 33, was charged Tuesday with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, an offence which carries a possible life sentence. It is alleged she used one of her needle-edged stiletto heeled shoes to stab Taylor in the face. The pointed...

Reporting from Mexico City - A Mexican lawyer who has represented some of the country's best-known drug suspects was stabbed to death outside his home, authorities said Saturday. Americo Delgado was ambushed Friday evening by at least three men in the city of Toluca, an hour or so outside Mexico City, police said. He was stabbed in the neck, officials said. They did not identify a possible motive. Over the years, Delgado, said to be 81, has represented a number of prominent drug figures, including Tijuana crime boss Benjamin Arellano Felix and Jesus Amezcua, one of the so-called "methamphetamine kings."...

Hillary Clinton was accused Monday of stabbing the Big Apple in the back. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said her betrayal has cost the city $260 million in lost tax revenues and counting. It didn't take long for Clinton to double cross New York City. Six months into her tenure as secretary of state she has suddenly exempted diplomats from paying some property taxes here. "It is totally unfair," Bloomberg said.

The family of a man who was stabbed to death by teenage thugs after he asked them to keep the noise down have been denied compensation - because he tried to fight off his killers. Kevin Johnson, 22, was brutally murdered by the gang who invited him to 'meet Mr Stanley' during a confrontation outside his home moments before plunging a blade into his chest, arm and back. The young father collapsed a few feet from his front door whilst the trio - aged 19, 16 and 17 - ran off in 'triumphant mood' before stabbing their second victim a...

A 33-year-old Houston man is being held in the McLennan County Jail after Waco police say he stabbed a man Tuesday in the chest and leg because he was passing gas in their room at the Clarion Inn, 801 S. Fourth St. Jose Braule Ramirez was sharing a room with three other men from Houston, including 35-year-old Juan Antonio Salano Castellano. While the other two men were outside the room talking on their cell phones at about 7:15 p.m., Castellano passed gas “which upset Ramirez to the point he picked up a large knife and threw it at Castellano, striking...

The mother of the notorious Waco sect leader David Koresh has been found stabbed to death at the house of a sister in Texas, police say. Bonnie Clark Halderman, who was in her sixties, was found dead at the home of Beverly Clark who has been taken into custody pending a court appearance. Police say they have no idea of a possible motive for her death.

Students stabbed and set alight Two French research students found stabbed to death following a flat fire had been tied up and suffered horrific, excessive injuries, police have said. The bodies of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were found in a ground-floor flat in New Cross, south-east London, on Sunday night. They had suffered a total of 243 stab wounds to the head, neck and chest before being set alight. The biochemistry students had been studying at Imperial College, London. Det Ch Insp Mick Duthie said he had no idea why the students were killed. Fiancee's tribute Speaking...

Wichita, KS - June 24, 2008 - A murder investigation has been opened involving Shelley Sella, a California abortionist employed by George Tiller, who is reported to have intentionally stabbed to death an infant born alive during an abortion at Tiller's Women's Health Care Services abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. Operation Rescue reported the incident to the Wichita Police Department after a former Tiller employee, Tina Davis, told Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger of the stabbing in April. It is believed that the alleged infanticide took place sometime in the past two years. In addition, the incident has been reported...

A prominent anti-gun campaigner has been stabbed to death at a flat in West Yorkshire. The body of Pat Regan, 53, was discovered at the property on Marlborough Grange in the Hyde Park area of Leeds on Sunday. Mrs Regan, a mother-of-six, started campaigning against gun crime after her son Danny was shot dead in 2002. A 20-year-old man, a family member, has been arrested. Police said post-mortem tests would take place later. Mrs Regan's son Danny, 25, became involved in criminality and was shot at his then home in Haydock, near St Helens, Merseyside. His killer has not been...

BOSTON — A Boston firefighter is mending from what could have been deadly stab wounds he suffered early yesterday morning when he was allegedly jumped in East Boston while off duty by a group of Hispanic males who told him they "don't want any gringo here." Though police are not classifying the incident as racially fueled, the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit is investigating. The 32-year-old jake, whose name officials were not releasing, is white. Ironically, the firefighter's life was likely saved because he sought refuge from his alleged assailants at Engine 5 on Saratoga Street - the station...

SUN CITY, Fla. -- Hillsborough County officials are looking for the people responsible for stabbing and stealing pigs from the Sun City Stables. The sheriff's office reports that a 400-pound pig was stabbed dozens of times sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Another pig at the petting zoo was also attacked and two others are missing. Authorities have dusted for fingerprints around the pig pen but they are still looking for suspects. Meanwhile, the pigs are being treated for their wounds.

A Lawndale man was arrested by Redondo Beach police Monday, accused of threatening the life of a family member and stabbing a police dog, authorities said. Jimmie Lunceford, 39, allegedly stabbed the dog, apparently in an effort to get officers to shoot him, said Lt. Joe Hoffman, a spokesman for the department. Lunceford was arrested on felony counts of making terrorist threats, inflicting injury on a police dog and attempted burglary, along with misdemeanor evading arrest. Lunceford was taken into custody about 5 a.m. after a short slow-speed chase that ended outside a woman's home on the 2200 block of...

BAGHDAD, July 21 -- A top aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was stabbed to death in what Sistani's supporters believe was a warning to Iraq's senior Shiite cleric, authorities said Saturday. Abdullah Falaq was killed Friday in his office, which is adjacent to Sistani's home in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, according to an aide to the cleric. Sistani is considered one of the most influential Shiite leaders in Iraq, and Falaq was his chief adviser on matters of Islamic law. Police said they had taken four suspects into custody. An...

Policeman stabbed in random London attack By Martina Smit Last Updated: 3:25pm BST 03/07/2007 A community police officer has been stabbed in an apparently motiveless attack as he sat in a stationary van in central London . The police community support officer (PCSO), who is in his 30s, suffered slash injuries to his arms as he tried to fend off the attacker from his vehicle. An eyewitness described how the knifeman walked up to the police van in Victoria Street, near Victoria railway station, and lunged at the driver through the window just before 10am today. "I saw a white...

Horrified witnesses watched as a man allegedly picked up a two-year-old girl late Friday afternoon and repeatedly stabbed the child alongside Interstate 110 near the Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge Police spokesman Corporal L'Jean McKneely says the incident began around 5:15 p.m. Friday. As of 8:30pm Friday, the infant was listed in extremely critical condition at a Baton Rouge hospital. "She has a 50-50 chance to live," McKneely said. McKneely says a knife was still lodged in the girl's head when she arrived at the hospital. A 27-year-old man, his 26-year-old wife, and little girl were riding in...

A policeman stabbed his son through the heart while demonstrating a tribal killing, an inquest heard today. Conor Johnson, 11, of Littlehampton, West Sussex, died from a single thrust of the knife by his father, Pc Ian Johnson. Worthing Magistrates' Court heard that Mr Johnson had a passion for self-sufficiency and spent many weekends teaching Conor how to track animals and live off the land. Conor was given his first knife at the age of five. On the day before he died - August 13 last year - Conor was staying at his father's flat and Mr Johnson was cooking...

NEW YORK -- An Indonesian man found dead in the blood-spattered basement of his country's consulate on the Upper East Side took his own life by repeatedly stabbing himself with various knives in a gruesome fashion, authorities said Monday. The man, identified by officials in Indonesia as Bambang Welianto, 36, of Jakarta, was found Sunday with a kitchen knife in his chest and his left wrist almost severed. Several more knives, including a meat cleaver, were found around him inside the four-story Beaux-Arts mansion on East 68th Street, off Fifth Avenue. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, Ellen Borakove,...

A prominent physician at San Francisco General Hospital who once headed the San Francisco Medical Society was found stabbed to death inside the doorway of his Diamond Heights home Thursday, police said. Dr. Robert J. Lull, 64, was discovered on the floor in the entryway of his hilltop home on Gold Mine Drive at Jade Place shortly after noon. Hospital officials, concerned when he did not show up for the clinic he ran in nuclear medicine, alerted his personal assistant, Elsie Garce, who found the body, authorities said. Lull had been chief of nuclear medicine at the hospital since 1990...

STAMPEDE!! Injuries at IKEA opening By MICHAEL MCDONOUGH - Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A man was stabbed and five other people were taken to hospital after thousands of customers caused a stampede at the midnight opening of a new IKEA furniture store in north London, British authorities said Thursday. The Swedish retailer expressed regret at the incident. The stabbing victim, a man in his 20s, was attacked at around 1:30 a.m. near the IKEA store, a spokeswoman for London’s Metropolitan Police said, adding that his condition did not appear life-threatening. The new IKEA warehouse in the Edmonton district had...

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Editor's note: Readers may also be interested in Holland: Portent of Things to Come? and Dutch Center-Right Coalition Stands up to Islamism."Education by murder" describes the slow and painful way people wake up to the problem of radical Islam. It took 3,000 deaths to wake up Americans, or at least to wake up the half of them who are conservative. Likewise, it took hundreds of deaths in the Bali explosion to semi-wake up Australians; it took the Madrid assault for Spaniards, and the Beslan atrocity for Russians. Twelve workers beheaded in Iraq awoke the Nepalese.But it took just one death...

TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 28) - A seriously wounded 8-year-old boy calmly described his father's deadly knife rampage during a call for help to 911. "My daddy killed me with a knife and I'm gone," the boy told a dispatcher. "Can you please send the Army men or the ambulance?" The soft-spoken child gave a wrong address and then hung up. But a second dispatcher called back, keeping him on the line while a frantic search was under way. On Wednesday, authorities released the remarkable tape of Anthony Sukto's calm courage during the Oct. 22 ordeal, and the frantic efforts to...

Mob kills cleric who urged Muslim calm Shooting of Khoei follows strife over status of Islamic shrine NAJAF, Iraq - In one of the holiest mosques in this sacred Islamic city, an angry mob attacked and killed a pro-Western Shiite cleric Thursday, just days after he returned to the war-torn nation from exile in London to help with reconciliation. Witnesses said Abdul Majid al Khoei was shot, stabbed and hacked to death. As many as three others also were killed. The mob apparently was angered over who would get to control the Grand Imam Ali Mosque, a shrine to the...

Saturday, 4 January, 2003, 04:00 GMTRabbi stabbed at Paris synagogue Rabbi Farhi was alone at the time of the attack A Jewish rabbi needed treatment in hospital after being attacked as he left a synagogue in eastern Paris on Friday. Rabbi Gabriel Farhi was stabbed in the stomach by an unknown assailant who then fled the scene. Mr Farhi, 34, said his wound was "large but not deep". Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe: Stabbed in October The rabbi told the French news agency AFP that he had earlier received a threatening letter referring to Jihad - the Muslim holy war -...

TOKYO -- A Japanese lawmaker has died after being stabbed in front of his home in Tokyo, shocking a nation where violence against politicians is rare. The lawmaker, Koki Ishii, was stabbed in the stomach as he was getting into a car on a quiet residential street. He died soon after, said Shoji Toyohara, a spokesman for the Democratic Party. "There is absolutely no excuse for the use of violence to silence politicians," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said. "I feel anger rising up inside me." The attacker fled the scene on foot and was still at large hours after...

A Muslim who stabbed an orthodox Jew 20 times on the top deck of a London bus, was yesterday ordered by an Old Bailey judge to be detained in hospital without limit of time. Algerian Nabil Ouldeddine, 29, made three separate attacks with two knives on student Mayer David Myers, 21, as passengers pleaded for the 253 bus to stop. Mr Myers, whose injuries included a severed artery, was saved after a 10-hour emergency operation and was introduced to the Queen when she visited Homerton hospital, east London. Police treated the attack as a racially motivated incident. It happened in...

<p>NEW YORK — A troubled 13-year-old Brooklyn boy found beaten to death and stuffed in a closet earlier this week was killed in a dispute over a dollar, police said.</p> <p>The grim details of Patrick Bhola's death came to light Thursday after an 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were charged with his murder and kidnapping.</p>

Police have arrested a woman who admitted stabbing her seven-year-old son in La Mesa. Police responded to an emergency call shortly before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. They found the body of a boy in an apartment in the 4500 block of Third Street in La Mesa. The woman reportedly stabbed the boy, then went to her parents' home, where she confessed that she had just killed her son. The woman apparently was going to kill herself, but her family convinced her to turn herself in. Police raced to the apartment to check on the status of the boy, but found the...