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Sokoto Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah thanked state governor Aminu Tambuwal for imposing the curfew to quell protests, as well as the security forces for preventing further damage to diocesan facilities.A mob has attacked a Catholic cathedral in Nigeria amid protests demanding the release of two suspects in the killing of a Christian student. The Diocese of Sokoto said in a statement that youths targeted Holy Family Catholic Cathedral in Sokoto, north-west Nigeria, after police arrested two students in connection with the murder of Deborah Samuel. Samuel, a student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, was beaten and burned...

Deborah Yakubu, a second-year student at a college in Sokoto State, was killed by her Muslim classmates A Nigerian Christian woman studying at a college in Sokoto State was brutally stoned to death and later burned after being accused of blasphemy. Deborah Yakubu from Zuru in Repa Local Government Area was said to be in her early twenties. She was killed by Muslim men studying with her at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto on March 12. Deborah, a second-year student of home economics, was accused of posting comments on a students' WhatsApp group that allegedly insulted the Prophet...

Chilling footage has emerged of the moment Norway's notorious bow and arrow killer began his rampage in a supermarket in the town of Kongsberg last year. Espen Andersen Bråthen, 38, went on trial yesterday for the murder of five people and attempted murder of 11 more on October 13, 2021. The Muslim convert, who was listed by Norwegian security services as a person of concern as early as 2015, hacked his victims to death with a hunting knife after having unleashed a torrent of arrows at innocent bystanders in a Co-Op Extra supermarket. CCTV footage, released by police as Bråthen's...

Palestinian Islamic Scholar Mohammed Afeef Shadid: Our Right of Return Is Not Only to Palestine; We Must Use Palestine as a Starting Point to Conquer the World, Deliver It from Darkness to Light pic.twitter.com/ByX5DQ84iC— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 16, 2022

The war between Russia and Ukraine is following a trajectory that is perfectly in line with NATO’s, or rather the Anglo-American world’s, expectations. It is clear that this war has been brewing for quite some time – the start perhaps dates back all the way to the Barack Obama era. Considering it on a continental plane, the war will include an Atlantic-Pacific showdown. This showdown is progressing not directly and all at once, but gradually. There are two simultaneous objectives in the first stage. Accordingly, the Anglo-Saxon bloc planned and programmed to divide from Eurasia continental Europe, which is thought...

This is a new low… We’ve seen Palestinian extremists like Hamas use women and children as human shields, but today they used the dead body of #ShireenAbuAkleh as a human shield as rioters destroyed neighborhoods in Jerusalem

A teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting several schoolgirls, police said. Muhammed Taimoor, of Richmond Road, Birmingham, is charged with causing or inciting child sexual exploitation. He is also charged with sexual activity while in a position of trust and two counts of trafficking within the UK. It is alleged some assaults happened while he was at work, West Midlands Police said. The trafficking charge is in connection with an accusation Mr. Taimoor drove girls around in his car with the intention of sexually assaulting them, the force added. The 28-year old was initially arrested on 9 May on...

The death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known reporter for Al Jazeera's Arabic language channel, sparked immediate outrage in the region and beyond.A veteran Palestinian American journalist was fatally shot Wednesday morning while covering Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank for Al Jazeera. The death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known reporter for the broadcast network's Arabic language channel, sparked immediate outrage in the region and beyond. Al Jazeera, Palestinian officials and another reporter who was wounded in the incident all said she was shot by Israeli security forces. Israel suggested she may have been killed by Palestinian gunmen...

A curfew has been imposed in the Nigerian state of Sokoto for at least 24 hours. The reason is a demonstration by hundreds of residents against the arrest of two students, who are allegedly involved in the death of a fellow student. Christian Deborah Samuel was lynched on Thursday by a mob of students from Shehu Shagari University in Sokoto for allegedly making blashphemous comments on Islam and the prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp group. Images of the lynching were then distributed via social media, in which at least two perpetrators were recognizable in the picture. They were arrested on...

Against the background of the wave of terrorist attacks, Ohad Hamu went to East Jerusalem and discovered to his amazement (or not) that young Arabs there wanted to kill us An article by Ohad Hamu, the commentator on Arab affairs of News 12, was broadcast last night (Monday) with a precise timing: Hamu went to East Jerusalem to hear what young Arabs think of Jews, with the sequence of attacks continuing in the background. "Every Jew and Jew should die. Every Jew," said a boy named Ahmed Lehemu. "me too?" The reporter asked twice and the young man answered...

A few days after Memorial Day, when in the midst of the shocking attack in Elad - it seems that hatred continues to rise, and with it incitement. And everything - about a quarter of an hour from Be'er Sheva. Following a report of graffiti spray-painted on signs on the outskirts of the Bedouin settlement of Arara [عرعرة] in the Negev, Israeli police officers arrived at the scene. There - the policemen from the Aroer station were exposed and noticed that graffiti with swastikas was spray-painted on signs and electrical cabinets. In addition, the word was written - Hitler (in...

Taliban officials announced that women and girls would be expected to stay home, and if they were to venture out, to cover in all-encompassing loose clothing that only reveals their eyes – preferably, a burka. The restrictions on women's movement and dress are the harshest that the Taliban have announced since they came to power in August. It suggested the increasing dominance of the group's hard-line leaders, who appear to be behind the extended ban on most women and girls attending secondary school. Saturday's announcement seemed to confirm the fears of many Afghans that the Taliban remained unchanged after two...

Arab Islamic "Palestinian" butchers targeting another peaceful, pious town * Elad, a Haredi town (which means, overwhelmingly avoiding serving in the army - conscientious objectors) is what is called 'within the Green line.' * Days after Hamas head called to atrack Jews with axes & shooting. Prepare the axe - he said. * Attackers hit with an axe to the head. * The attackers shouted Allah Akbar. * It came hours after a councilman spotted illegal Arab residents staying and he was rather arrested by an (Haaretz type) ultra liberal police. * Hamas blessed the butchery. * "Palestinians", such as...

A 42-year-old Chicago man charged with murdering his daughter confessed in a letter to his son afterwards: 'I lost my mind, went out of control and beat the sh**t out of her.' Mohammed Almaru has been charged with first degree murder for the death of his daughter Mia Maro, 17. She was found dead inside the family home on Sunday by an aunt. Her father had beaten her to death with a metal pole and rubber mallet after going through her phone and discovering she was 'lying' about things to him, according to charging documents. In the days before her...

Madrid, Spain, May 2, 2022 / 14:57 pm The Observatory for Religious Freedom in Spain has reported that during Holy Week this year there were 19 attacks against Christians. There were eight incidents of belligerent secularism; four attacks on places of worship; four acts of ridiculing religion; two incidents of harassing believers; and one act of violence against believers. In Granada a group of young immigrants from the Bermúdez de Castro Center for the Protection of Minors attacked a Holy Thursday procession. According to the Spanish media outlet OK Diario, the attack occurred when the procession of Our Christ of...

A candy store employee is facing murder charges after allegedly attacking a woman outside the Tacoma store with a "samurai-like" sword. Abdelhakim Choubabi, 52, murdered the woman outside the Candy Market in the 700 block of Market Street around 7:50 p.m. on April 30, according to court records. Tacoma police say they were called to the scene by a resident nearby who saw what they described as a woman being hit multiple times with a pole of some kind. The woman was found dead from multiple stab wounds about 20 feet outside the store entrance. Choubabi, though, had left in...

At least 50 killed after suicide bomber targets last Friday prayers of the month Eyewitnesses describe 'dead bodies everywhere' after 'deafening blast' in Kabul Hundreds were inside the mosque at the time of the attack, survivors claim Today's Zikr remembrance prayers seen as heretical by hardliner Sunni Muslims Whitehall adviser says death toll could be 200 as Taliban insist only ten dead A suicide bomb blast killed at least 50 worshippers during Friday prayers at a mosque in Afghanistan today. Hundreds were gathered inside the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in western Kabul when the huge explosion took place. It's thought hundreds...

Against the background of the talk of "never again" and while the people of Israel commemorate Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day and the memory of the millions of murdered, tonight (Wednesday) hundreds of Arabs called for the massacre of Jews. The Arabs chanted "Khaybar Khaybar Ya Yahud" and "Muhammad's army will return" and waved PLO flags on the Temple Mount. The police are preparing with large forces to prevent riots and terrorist incidents, against the background of the arrival of tens of thousands of Arabs this evening in Jerusalem in order to mark Lil al-Qedar, in which the Muslims believe...

The whole Arab world needs to see this! How bad has the situation gotten? Hamas-supporting Palestinians enter a *Muslim* cemetery desecrate and break the graves so that they will have more stones thrown at Israeli security forces!They have no respect for the dead or the living! pic.twitter.com/mg41bZRzzr— יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) April 22, 2022

Karachi [Pakistan], April 27 (ANI): The husband of the woman who blew herself up at Karachi University in Pakistan said her selfless act has left him speechless but he is proud of what she did. On Tuesday, an explosion took place near Confucius Institute — a Chinese language teaching centre at Karachi University. Taking to Twitter, Afghan journalist Bashir Ahmad Gwakh said that Habitan Bashir Baloch, husband of female suicide bomber Shari Baloch, tweeted from an unknown location saying that he is proud of what she did. He also informed that Shari Baloch has had two kids (8 and 5...