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Of all the leaders in the anti-Trump Women’s March earlier this year, Linda Sarsour’s name has stood out the most. After all, she’s been the subject of much media attention — most of it hardly positive, and for good reason. One need only go through her social media history to see that she supports Sharia Law, even calling for anti-Islam apologists Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brigette Ganriel to have their vaginas taken out (Ali was the victim of female genital mutilation as a child), and praising cop killers. She’s also public about her friendship with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom she describes as her...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Wednesday announced enhanced security measures for airlines, amid “renewed” terrorist interest in targeting planes and airports. “The threat has not diminished. In fact, I am concerned that we are seeing renewed interest on the part of terrorist groups to go after the aviation sector —from bombing aircraft to attacking airports on the ground,” Kelly said at a security conference hosted by the Center for a New American Security....

As millions of Americans prepare to travel for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, the State Department warned that potential attackers could target private or government interests. "Authorities believe the likelihood of terror attacks will continue as members of (Islamic State) return from Syria and Iraq," it said. "Additionally, there is a continuing threat from unaffiliated persons planning attacks inspired by major terrorist organizations but conducted on an individual basis."

The former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence says President Obama has no coherent strategy to defeat ISIS, and he alleges one of Obama’s top advisers “lied to the American people” to perpetuate a misguided program allowing tens of thousands of refugees into the U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes appeared on multiples Sunday morning news shows. When asked whether the news that one and possibly two of the Paris terrorists came to Europe as refugees would alter the Obama administration’s plan to accept tens of thousands of refugees, Rhodes said there would be no re-evaluation....

Plundering the possessions, lives, and dignity of Christians in the Islamic world: is this a random affair, a product of the West's favorite offenders—poverty, ignorance, grievance—or is it systematic, complete with ideological backing? Consider the very latest from the Muslim world: Pakistan: Muslim landowners used tractors to plough over a Christian cemetery in order to seize the land illegally. A young Christian mother was raped by six men. "In both cases, police covered up for the culprits."Iraq: A Christian youth was kidnapped and decapitated: his family could not pay the €70,000 ransom demanded by his abductors. "The murder was meant...

Time for a quick refresher course for our itty-bitty-brained politicians: Why did bin Laden choose the World Trade Center as his target? Three words, chumps: World. Trade. Center... Pop quiz, President Obama: Which three American symbols did Osama bin Laden target on 9/11? In case you're too engrossed in improving your golf handicap to remember, I've got the answer right here: the Pentagon, symbol of America's military power; Congress, symbol of America's governmental power; and the World Trade Center, symbol of America's economic power. Bringing down the symbols of American power was radical Islam's strategic opening move -- and now...

Blair backs MI5 terrorism warning Tony Blair said the terror threat had been building for some time Tony Blair has said he supports MI5's assessment that Britain is facing the threat of multiple terror plots. He said the dangers were "very real" and he spoke of "poisonous propaganda" warping the minds of young people. MI5's boss has said she knows of 30 terror plots threatening the UK and revealed that her staff had 1,600 individuals under surveillance. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said attacks could be chemical or nuclear and al-Qaeda was linked to many plots. The prime minister said the...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The major powers voiced concern on Friday at tensions in northern Kosovo, where there are growing signs of Serb resistance as the majority Albanian province pushes for independence from Serbia. It did not specify which developments. Reports suggest Serbs there are strengthening what they say are self-defense groups made up of former military and police officers. "Both Belgrade and Pristina should take immediate steps to reduce tensions in northern Kosovo, particularly to encourage responsible leadership and build confidence among communities," said the statement, issued by the U.S. liaison office in Kosovo on behalf of the United States,...

Kosovo will make its formal bid for permanent independence from Serbia on Monday in the opening round of top-level negotiations on the UN-administered province’s future. Agim Ceku, Kosovo’s provisional prime minister, said the chance to spell out basic positions could open the way for the international community to decide in favour of independence, as demanded by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority, by the end of this year. The one-day meeting under United Nations mediation in Vienna will be the first between the two sides’ leaders since Nato’s 78-day air campaign drove Yugoslav Serb forces out of Kosovo in 1999.

"We will sit with the experts to work on a compromise," a U.N.-appointed mediator, Petr Ivantsov, said after the meeting, which deadlocked over the protected perimeters around 39 Serbian Orthodox religious sites in Kosovo. Albanian representatives suggested the Serbs were at fault. Ylber Hysa, the head of the ethnic Albanian delegation, said "the Serbian side was not at all open" to compromise. Kosovo's minority Serbs, whose communities have been attacked by ethnic Albanians several times since the end of the war, want guarantees that their religious and cultural sites will be protected. They also want more say in running their...

(Title too long, sorry) Jessen-Petersen Signs Act for Protection of Families of KLA Members 3 May 2006 | 14:32 | FOCUS News Agency Pristina. Head of UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Søren Jessen-Petersen signed a law that ensures institutional protection to the families of the over 20,000 members of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), thus acknowledging their contribution to “Kosovo’s liberation”, Pristina media inform cited by TANJUG. Petersen stated the wounds from the war will heal slowly but “the law acknowledges the contribution of the militaries to Kosovo’s freedom,” Koha Ditore newspaper reads.

Strategic Forecasting -Stratfor Kosovo: The Quiet Support Behind Ceku's Political RiseMarch 03, 2006 19 40 GMT The ministerial substitution comes during a delicate period between the first and second rounds of U.N.-mediated talks between Kosovar Albanians and Serbians regarding Kosovo's status. The United Nations, which has administered the province since 1999, believes Kosovo will gain independence by the end of 2006. However, Ceku's sudden appearance on the political scene will exasperate Serbia, because Belgrade considers him a war criminal. Ceku's possible appointment seems to be a slap in the face for Serbia, but that will matter little if the U.S....

BELGRADE -- Monday - Serbian Radical Party senior official Tomislav Nikolic said that he and Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica agreed that any eventual proclamation of independence in Kosovo would represent an occupation of Serbia. Kostunica and Nikolic met over the weekend to talk about Kosovo. After the meeting, Nikolic said that Kosovo independence would be considered an occupation of Serbian territory. “Faced with the talks of Kosovo independence which the English Diplomat (John Sawyers) has begun, we agreed that if it ever got to the point where Kosovo was declared independent, the Serbian Parliament would adopt a resolution which...

Indonesian Mob Kills 12 Christians Mob Kills 12 Christians in Capital of Indonesia's Maluku Province, Threatening Peace Pact The Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia April 28 — A mob stabbed and burned to death 12 Christians in the religiously divided capital of Indonesia's Maluku province Sunday, witnesses said, in the worst violence since a fragile peace was forged earlier this year. About a dozen people wearing military fatigues and black masks attacked mainly Christian Soya village on Ambon's outskirts, setting 30 homes and a Protestant church ablaze, a witness said.The assailants stabbed six Christians to death, including a 6-month-old baby....