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Norwegian Islamist Arfan Bhatti has been remanded in custody for four weeks, suspected of involvement with a cache of weapons found in Oslo last week. Bhatti has appealed the decision of the authorities to hold him in custody, reports broadcaster NRK. Oslo District Court believes that there are several grounds on which to suspect that Bhatti may attempt to destroy evidence should he be released, according to the report. […] The Islamist, who has Pakistani parents, was born and brought up in Oslo, where he joined the Young Guns gang in the early 1990s. He later became radicalized, and was...

Islamist's Threatening Letter in Pakistan Pakistani authorities have released details of a letter threatening Christians and others who support repeal of Pakistan's blasphemy law. The note was found along side the body of Shabaz Bhatti, the Christian minister of minorities following his assassination this week. The Islamic terrorists responsible for Bhatti's murder--Tanseem Al Qaeda and Tehrik-e-Taliban theaten to send all of those like Shabaz Bhatti "one by one to hell." Here's an English translation of the letter: All praise is for none but Allah Most High, who bestows glory on believers and makes them victorious and humiliates the infidels and...

Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore, Pakistan Lahore, Pakistan, Mar 8, 2011 / 05:56 am (CNA).- The Catholic bishops of Pakistan will consider a proposal to ask the Vatican to declare assassinated Pakistani minister Shahbaz Bhatti a martyr.“Bhatti is a man who gave his life for his crystalline faith in Jesus Christ,” Bishop Andrew Francis of Multan, who drafted the proposal, told Fides news agency. “It is up to us, the Bishops, to tell his story and experience to the Church in Rome, to call for official recognition of his martyrdom.”The country’s bishops’ conference will consider the proposal during its...

Exclusive video footage was just released showing the final words of a Christian who was martyred for daring to question sharia law! He knew the dangers islamic sharia law imposed on his life and on the world, but he was willing to put his life on the line to let us know how our lives are in danger from this real threat. He saw first hand the suffering of nonmuslims under sharia law and he wanted the world to know that he would rather die than be kept quiet by politically correct forces. Those supporting sharia law threatened his life...

Pakistan's, "blasphemy law holds a death sentence for anyone who insults Islam. ... Although no-one convicted under the blasphemy law has ever been executed, more than 30 accused have been killed by lynch mobs." Today, Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani government's only Christian cabinet minister was, "shot dead by gunmen who ambushed his car in broad daylight in the capital, Islamabad. ... In January, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, who had also opposed the law, was shot dead by one of his bodyguards." ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A senior al-Qaida operative lived in New Jersey and posed as a student while conducting surveillance of financial institutions as possible targets for a terror attack, according to a published report. The operative, identified by U.S. officials in Washington as Dhiren Barot, 32, entered the United States on a student visa, The Record of Bergen County reported in Thursday's editions.