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In the wake of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, I can already hear the U.S. gun-control crowd calling for new gun-control measures here in the United States. There will be several big problems with their pleas. One, as an article in the International Herald Tribune points out, India has strict gun-control laws. Those laws did not prevent the terrorist attack at the Oberoi and Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel. As libertarians have long been pointing out, terrorists and murderers have no reservations about disobeying gun-control laws. The long-held assumption among the gun-control crowd that murderers and terrorists will respect...

Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian throne had failed, Gavrilo Princip suddenly found himself standing a few feet away from the royal car. He fired twice, mortally wounding the archduke and his wife. Strategically, the assassination succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its Black Hand plotters. Princip had lit the fuse that set off in six weeks the greatest war in history. Last week's Mumbai massacre seems a similar triumph of terror. In so riveting the...

By Andrew Buncombe in Delhi India's financial capital, Mumbai, was rocked by a series of gun attacks and blasts last night that targeted luxury hotels and restaurants – and especially British and American visitors. At least 80 people were reported to have been killed and up to 250 injured. Police said they were still besieging two gunmen who were holed-up in one of the five-star hotels. They said the "terrorists" had struck at least seven locations with a combination of automatic rifles and grenades. At one location, the gunmen had apparently been searching for British and American travellers to take...

It’s not enough for Muslims to be revolted by terror Sultan Al Qassemi Last Updated: November 29. 2008 9:19PM UAE / November 29. 2008 5:19PM GMT "They knock on my door aggressively but I don’t open it, I stay very quiet.” The caller pauses briefly before continuing. “But I am fine.” These were the words of UAE national Rashid al Owais, a 40-year-old marble trader whose business took him to Mumbai last week. Rashid, a Muslim and an Arab, was among the hostages of the co-ordinated terrorist attacks by a cowardly crew of criminal gangsters. He was speaking to Dubai...

(IsraelNN.com) Rebbetzin Rivkah Holtzberg, the slain Chabad representative in Mumbai who was laid to rest in Jerusalem's Mount of Olives cemetery along with her husband Gavriel on Tuesday evening, was five months pregnant at the time of her murder, according to a report by Yeshiva World News. Shimon Rosenberg, the grieving father of Rivkah, made the surprise announcement during his eulogy. Rosenberg and his wife will continue to care for Moshe, the 2 year-old son of Rivkah and Gavriel. The Rosenbergs have acquired an Israeli visa for Sandra Samuel, the Indian nanny whose rescue of the Holtzberg's son was praised...

THE HAGUE, 03/12/08 - The As-Soennah mosque in The Hague is viewed by the tax service as a good cause. The ultra-extreme mosque thereby enjoys tax benefits, De Telegraaf revealed yesterday. The tax service categorises the mosque as a 'an institution of social relevance' (ANBI), meaning a charity group, which gives it all kinds of tax benefits. For example, donations to the As-Soennah foundation are tax-deductible. The mosque is also exempted from death duties on legacies. As-Soennah is headed by Imam Fawaz Jneid. The Syrian national, who also has a Dutch passport, apparently called for the terrorist murder of Islam...

An Egyptian-born writer who was baptised by Pope Benedict XVI last Easter after converting to Christianity from Islam has announced that he has founded a political party to "defend Christian Europe" which would field candidates in next June's European elections. Magdi Cristiano Allam, 56, said the party, "Protagonists for a Christian Europe", would work to defend Europe's Christian values, which were threatened by secularism and moral relativism to the point where Europe risked "committing suicide". The party would be open to people of all faiths. Mr Allam, an associate editor of the newspaper Corriere della Sera, was speaking at the...

Welcome to A Muslim Journey to Hope website Muslim Journey now airs on INI the following days:Thursdays @ 8:00 London time, Fridays @ 8:00  Sydney Time Thursdays @ 23:30 London time, Fridays @ 23:30  Sydney Time Saturdays @ 15:00 London time, Sundays @ 15:00  Sydney Time This web site and our television program are brought to you by people whose lives have been changed by the hope we have found because of the love of God and the truth about Jesus Christ. This hope is available to everyone, and we want to share that same hope with you.On this...

We well know that Muslim extremists are at war with other civilizations. We know, too, that there is a struggle between Islamists and moderates for the soul of Islam. What we often fail to remember, however, is yet another overlapping dispute within Islam - between the Sunni and Shi'ite worlds. Pakistan, for instance, has a history of sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites dating back to the 1960s. Last week's coordinated terrorist attacks in Mumbai seem to have their roots in Pakistan, where Sunni jihadis who cut their teeth on murderous assaults against Shi'ites are now proving that they won't...

MUMBAI: All the 10 terrorists, suspected to have been involved in the Mumbai attacks, were trained by ex-army personnel even as the lone arrested terrorist has admitted to being a Pakistani, the police on Tuesday said. Ajmal Amin Kamal, the only terrorist of the group of ten caught alive, has admitted he is a Pakistani and hailed from the Punjab province of Pakistan, Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor said. "The group of ten had come from Karachi by ship, flew an SOS flag in international waters and then hijacked a trawler which they used to come near Mumbai's shores," Gafoor...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — A senior State Department official says there is reason to suspect that the India terror attacks were the work of a group at least partly based in Pakistan. That's the closest a U.S. official has come to laying blame for the coordinated assaults in Mumbai, although the official was careful to say Tuesday that the evidence isn't all in. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way. The official did not detail the evidence, and did not single out any one terror organization as suspect. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS...

A memorial ceremony for Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg took place Tuesday afternoon in Kfar Chabad, Israel. (Photo: Tamar Runyan) Thousands of people are reciting Psalms in Kfar Chabad, Israel, where the memorial service has just begun for Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, the directors of the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Mumbai, Israel, attacked by terrorists last week. Their burial will take place afterwards at Jerusalem's Mount of Olives cemetery. A delegation of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from around the world flew in for the ceremony. Rabbi Naftali Lipskar, from the Chabad-Lubavitch Youth Organization, mourned the victims as members of the extended...

Text of the letter sent by President George Bush to the funeral of Rabbi Gavriel and Mrs. Rivkah Holtzberg in Kfar Chabad, Israel, today, via Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Washington director of American Friends of Lubavitch: The White House Washington December 1, 2008 Laura and I send our condolences to the Chabad-Lubavitch family and all those honoring the lives lost in this tragedy. The compassionate individuals of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement dedicate their lives to sharing G-d’s teachings with people throughout the world, offering strength, hope and guidance in the unique spirit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of blessed...

If you read the NY Times this weekend, you would have read that the Mubai terrorist attacks were the fault of Muslim Extremists and the Hindus. In this disgusting Op-Ed they tried to give an even handed explanation of the horrid events last week. They refused to acknowledge that the Muslim murderers were targeting Jews and Westerners. Hell, the refused to acknowledge that they were terrorists, they were militants. But its not just the NY Times, their lead was followed by most of the Mainstream Media. ENOUGH ALREADY !! THEY WEREN'T MILITANTS THEY WERE TERRORISTS....LIKE MOST OF THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST...

Americans have been assured that the horror and terror that exploded across television screens from Mumbai in late November will not affect our own sense of security. Such assurances are as disingenuous as they are comforting.  The murders carried out against Western tourists in India's most technologically sophisticated city have far-reaching implications for Americans, not just for those of  us traveling abroad, but for all of us getting up everyday and going about life's routines. Those who have prescribed this analgesic of comfort have focused on where this event took place.  Far and away more important are the terrorists' strategies...

It was obvious to observers around the world that one of the designated targets of the Pakistani Islamist terrorists was the Mumbai Chabad House, the one Jewish center in Mumbai. The 10 Islamic terrorists who came from Pakistan to India chose their targets with great care. If one assumes that the terrorists primary goals were to destabilize India, weaken growing Indian-Pakistani cooperation in fighting terrorism, and greatly increase Indian-Pakistani tension, hopefully to the point of military war between the two countries, every one of the targets made strategic sense. Slaughtering as many people as possible in Indias major economic center,...

A SPEEDING driver has avoided a ban after his lawyer argued that he needed his licence to visit both his wives. Mohammed Anwar, 51, was caught driving at more than twice the speed limit on his way home from work in Falkirk. The restaurant owner, who has two wives under Islamic law, was clocked driving at 64mph in a 30mph zone on the Cumbernauld Road, Muirhead, Glasgow, on 21 August, 2007. Yesterday at Airdrie Sheriff Court, Anwar, of Clouston Street, Glasgow, pleaded guilty to speeding, but his lawyer, Paul Nicolson, said: "He realises his licence is at risk, but this...

Todays politically correct move in the UK is telling Christmas charity workers not to shake their rattles out of fear of offending other religions. How long will it be until the politically correct there call for a complete ban of Christmas? Because it seems that is the direction that they are heading in.

In the past we have heard of Muslim cab drivers who would not allow a passenger into their car who was being accompanied by a seeing eye dog . Now we have a blind man in the UK who was trying to take his girlfriend out for her birthday being barred from a restaurant because of his dog.

Fiery UK Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary who recently had called for war within the UK, has now come out against the holiday of Christmas. He has stated that those celebrating Christmas will burn in hell as Christmas contradicts Islam.