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Rafia Farook, the mother of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim organization that promotes the establishment of a caliphate and has ties to a radical Pakistani political group called Jamaat-e-Islami. Farook’s affiliation with ICNA was revealed on Friday when MSNBC and other new outlets scoured the Farooks’ apartment in Redlands, Cal. An MSNBC reporter found a certificate of appreciation presented to Safia Farook last summer by ICNA’s sisters’ wing. On Wednesday, Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeed Malik, killed 14 people during a holiday party being...

March 21, 2011 Brotherhood the victor in Egyptian referendumRick Moran A referendum in Egypt on changes to the constitution brought a record turnout to the polls and a victory for both the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed president Hosni Mubarak's political party. The referendum carried by a 77-23 margin and will bring on quick elections for parliament in June and a presidential election in August. The secularists were routed. New York Times: The Muslim Brotherhood and remnant elements of the National Democratic Party, which dominated Egyptian politics for decades, were the main supporters of the referendum. They argued the election timetable...

Khamenei ordered Hezbollah to form an "Islamic Lebanese Republic" in Lebanon Iranian opposition sources revealed that the Islamic Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave orders to Hezbollah to establish the Islamic Republic in Lebanon , Western diplomatic sources expressed grave concern over the power of Damascus and Tehran, to start a civil war in Lebanon, and called on the government of President Fuad Siniora to alert the army and declare martial law in the country to prevent war ...