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Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. “Tear up Texas,” the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday. “U know what happened in Paris,” Simpson responded. “So that goes without saying… No need to be direct.” That revelation comes amidst a national debate about the use of undercover officers and human sources in terrorism cases. Undercover sources are used in more than half of ISIS-related terror cases, according to...

Donald Trump, who denies that his provocative and sometimes profane rhetoric (particularly against Muslims_ has anything to do with violence and protests at his University of Illinois-Chicago rally, once blamed conservative activist Pamela Geller for provoking an attempted armed assault by – wait for it – unnecessarily provoking Muslims. As Gideon Resnick noted last December in the Daily Beast, pre-candidate Trump was not as passionately concerned with Pamela Geller’s First Amendment free speech rights as he now is about his own:

Children of the Caliphate. ISIS terrorists are reportedly stripping children at slave auctions and then rapes them. Some slave girls are stripped naked before they are shipped off to auction. ... A UN expert who travelled to the Middle East to meet victims of this vile trade has spoken of the horrors faced by the innocent women and children – including one who had been temporarily married over 20 times, after each occasion forced to undergo surgery to repair her virginity. Zainab Bangura, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, say sexual violence is...

Islamic school turns corner with graduates Six girls 'learn perseverance, determination and hope, and how to have faith' 05/19/2002 By LESLEY TÉLLEZ / The Dallas Morning News GARLAND - Their heads covered by white scarves, the six students at Brighter Horizons Academy spend their days reciting prayers to Allah, huddling over math and English books and reading from the Quran. The routine, which a few have repeated for more than a decade, will end next week when the girls become the Islamic school's first graduating class. "We're like six sisters," said senior Zaira Abu-Baker, a Brighter Horizons student for...