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(IsraelNN.com) Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal has purchased 5.46 percent of the Fox corporation, according to Gulf Daily News, raising concern that the conservative Fox News may soften its anti-terror stance due to the views of the new shareholder. Al-Waleed, the nephew of the late Saudi King Fahd, was in the news when he visited the World Trade Center's remains just after the September 11th attacks and offered then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani a $10 million check for relief efforts. Al-Waleed then released a statement blaming US foreign policy and support for Israel for the attacks. Giuliani returned the...

THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury has recommended the European secular state as a model for Islamic countries. Despite Muslim antagonism to secularism, Dr Williams maintained that this was the best hope for avoiding extremism. Dr Williams was speaking in Lyons at an international meeting of prayer for peace on Monday (picture, above). A European secular state with the community of faith as its critical partner was, he said, "truest to its Christian roots". Europe taught that it was possible - and in Dr Williams's view, desirable - to separate Church and state. "Once you have recognised the distinction between the Church...

EU, US needs more flexible approach to Iran, say UK bishops London, Sept 19,2005 IRNA UK Bishops-Iran Nuclear Both the US and the EU need to adopt more flexible policy approaches to Iran and accept the country's nuclear ambitions, according to a new report from the Church of England's House of Bishops published Monday. "A policy based on hardened rhetoric and a further distancing of diplomatic relations between Iran and the rest of the world risks hastening Iran's crossing of the nuclear threshold," the bishops warned. Instead of what amounted to the "worst possible outcome at the present time," they...

The bloody attack on July 7 in London was a warning to the world to wake up against the evil of terrorism in all its forms. We have been hearing the cries of innocent victims of terrorism in so many countries, New York City, Karachi, Madrid, Beirut, Bosnia, Jakarta, Israel, Palestine and now London. Iraq is suffering from the sickness of suicide bombings every day. In 150 major terrorist attacks in the last 3 months, 2,400 Iraqis died and thousands more were wounded or handicapped. Mainstream Muslims helplessly find themselves as the main victims of terrorism. We still grieve the...

THis is the kind of brain Numbing stupidity we have to combat... THE uncle of suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer last night told the News of the World the 22-year-old's murderous act did not make him a terrorist. In a searingly frank and shocking exclusive interview, Bashir Ahmed claimed Tanweer was a "desperate" young man "driven" to commit the atrocity by the West's treatment of Muslims. And he BLAMED Tony Blair and George Bush for the July 7 bombings, warning: "There will be more." "These (suicide bombers) are desperate people," said Ahmed. "They can see that their brothers are not getting...

'There are no Muslim terrorists. There are terrorists," Father Paul Hawkins of St Pancras parish church told his congregation on Sunday. "The people who carried out these attacks are victims of a false religion, be it false Christianity or false Islam." Oh, dear. "Britain can take it" (as they said in the Blitz): that's never been in doubt. The question is whether Britain can still dish it out. When events such as last Thursday's occur, two things happen, usually within hours if not minutes: first, spokespersons for Islamic lobby groups issue warnings about an imminent backlash against Muslims. In fairness...

Queen Guitarist Brian May Asks For Reasoning Why Terrorists Hate West Douglas Maher All Headline News Staff Reporter July 12,2005 12:04 PM EST London,UK (AHN)-Brian May,the guitarist for the legendary rock group Queen has made a comment regarding the recent terrorist attacks in London. "I sense there is a mood of quiet resolve among the people I speak to. We are feeling that we must not go any further down the road of escalation...this is old stuff, but I personally feel that in the wake of 9/11 an opportunity was missed...to seek understanding rather than revenge." May told Launch Radio...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair sees the Arab-Israeli dispute as one of the main reasons behind the London bombings. The group claiming responsibility puts it third on a list of grievances. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has attributed last week’s bombings in London to the Arab-Israeli dispute and lack of democracy in the Middle East. At least 70 people were estimated to have been killed in bombing attacks that gripped London last Thursday, with hundreds more wounded. Blair told the BBC that precluding terrorist attacks was not necessarily a question of taking preventative security measures. “The underlying problems have to...