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First planeload expected to land in Toronto Thursday night as Canada plans to absorb 25,000 refugees Hours before the first planeload of Syrian refugees is expected to touch down at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, a video of schoolchildren welcoming their new neighbors went viral. In a heartwarming video released by World Vision, over a dozen school children welcome the refugees with a loud "Welcome to Canada!" Hugh Brewster, the national manager for Canadian programs at World Vision told the Toronto Star that the children, who spoke in French, Arabic, Spanish, felt that they needed to make their new friends "feel...

Muslim Students in Britain Reportedly Taught to Chop Off Hands of Thieves, Hate Jews Published February 09, 2011 | FoxNews.com Islamic schools across Britain are reportedly teaching their students how to cut off thieves’ hands and that Jews are plotting to take over the world. One textbook given to 15-year-old students outlines physical punishments for violating Shariah law, according to BBC. “For thieves their hands will be cut off for a first offence, and their foot for a subsequent offence,” the book says. Diagrams are given to teenagers detailing where the amputations should be made, The Telegraph reports. Investigative TV...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suspected suicide bomber killed 13 people at a hotel near Islamabad's Red Mosque on Friday as the government reopened the religious complex for the first time since a bloody army raid ousted Islamic militants from the site.

Keith Ellison is the endorsed Democratic candidate for Congress in Minnesota's solidly Democratic Fifth District (Minneapolis). Ellison's local leadership of the Nation of Islam, his defense of the "truth" of an attack on Minneapolis Jews as "the most racist white people," his affiliation with convicted murderer and Vice Lords gang leader Sharif Willis, his support of the Vice Lords gangbangers charged (and subsequently convicted) with the murder of Minneapolis police officer Jerry Haaf, his outrageous attacks on law enforcement authorities, his demand that Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist Sara Jane Olson be freed, his concern for the continuing freedom of convicted...

The world is a different place today. And people like to believe that we have come a long way. But as far as tolerance is concerned, we have only gone backwards I have been told not to write this piece. For I have a Shia name and Shias are being killed these days. But each time I pick up the newspaper or turn on the TV, something gnawing away at my soul tells me that staying quiet, this time, would be a sin. Last weekend I attended a series of lectures at LUMS given by an American scholar on Islam,...