Al-Azhar University, the world’s largest Sunni Islamic educational institution, is where many of the world’s most brutal terrorists received their formal religious training. This is to be expected, given the nature of the material taught there. Al-Azhar has thousands of affiliated mosques, schools, learning centers, and universities around the world, such as the Islamic American University in Michigan. The institution has also been unofficially controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood for decades.
London (CNN)British authorities have arrested a second man in connection with the bombing ofa London Underground train on Friday, officials said Sunday.
The 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday in Hounslow, west London, by detectives from the London Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.
On Monday, Americans observed a solemn remembrance of the lives lost in the horrific terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney says victory will be tough to achieve unless the U.S. gets serious about specifically identifying the enemy as radical Islam and getting Muslim leaders to publicly condemn the perpetrators.
في تقويم الكنيسة اهتمامٌ خاص بالاستشهاد والشهداء، وفي عيد النيروز نذكر الآلام والدماء والجهاد الذﻱ احتمله القديسون، والذﻱ صار لنا بداية وأساسًا للكنيسة وبذارًا للإيمان. ولازالت الكنيسة تقدِّم حتى الساعة شهادة الدم، فليس شهداء /// ماسبيرو ونجع حمادﻱ والعمرانية والمقطم والقديسَيْن بالإسكندرية والاقباط في ليبيا ؛ واللاحقون لهم والسابقون ببعيدين عنا. وقد تسجلت الضيقات والتحقيرات والتعييرات والإهانات والمظالم التي أصابت عبيد الله في الذاكرة الإلهية.
لذا جعلت الكنيسة من اليوم الأول في تقويمها السنوﻱ عيدًا لتكريم الشهداء والمعترفين، الذين غلبوا وانتصروا وعبروا ولم يحبوا حياتهم حتى الموت. فبدم شهدائك أيها المسيح إلهنا تزيَّنتْ كنيستك منذ شهادة أبينا البكر مارمرقس الإنجيلي مرورًا بشهدائك مينا ورفقة ودولاجي ودميانة وموسى الأسود وأبانوب وأبسخيرون وسيدهم بشاﻱ وبطرس خاتم الشهداء.
The Coptic Egyptian Church celebrates the Coptic New Year (Anno Martyrus), or year of the martyrs on 11th of September. The Coptic calendar is the ancient Egyptian one of twelve 30-day months plus a "small" five-day month—six-day in a leap year.
The months retain their ancient Egyptian names which denote the gods and godesses of the Egyptians, and the year’s three seasons, the inundation, cultivation, and harvest, are related to the Nile and the annual agricultural cycle. But the Copts chose the year 284AD to mark the beginning of the calendar, since this year saw the seating of Diocletian as Rome’s emperor and the consequent martyrdom of thousands upon thousands of Egypt’s Christians.
Egypt Closes Church Over Muslim Extremist Opposition, Blocks Worship at Another
(PHOTO: REUTERS/ASMAA WAGUIH)Coptic Christians attend a church service during Holy Easter week in central Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2014.
Authorities in Egypt have reportedly closed down a 1,300-member church in the Minya governorate and are preventing Christians from worshiping at another church in the area, according to a report.
Morningstar News, a donor-funded news agency that reports on persecuted Christians worldwide, reported that the Virgin Mary and St. Paula Church in Kedwan village was shut down last month by authorities based on the claim that local Muslims objected to the church.
Buckingham Palace suspect was brandishing 4ft sword, police say
he repeatedly shouted "Allahu Akbar", police say..
A man arrested outside Buckingham Palace on Friday night was brandishing a 4ft sword as he repeatedly shouted "Allahu Akbar", police say.
Dean Haydon, head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, said the man drove at a police vehicle before stopping and being confronted by three officers.
CS gas was used to "quickly" restrain the 26-year-old, from the Luton area, who is now in custody, Cdr Haydon said.
'Britain committed to war against terrorism,' UK minister Burt tells Egypt's FM Shoukry
Egypt's minister of foreign affair Sameh Shoukry "R" and UK's state minister of Middle East and North Africa affairs Alistair Burt (Photo:Egyptian foreign ministry)
Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry met on Thursday in Cairo with Alistair Burt, the UK's minister of state affairs for the Middle East and North Africa, where they discussed the war against terrorism and the latest developments in the Middle East, the Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Finland 'terror attack': knife-wielding attacker 'shouting Allahu Akbar' stabs at least eight people leaving two dead
Two people have been killed and at least eight others have been hospitalised after a knife-wielding attacker went on the rampage in Finland.
Armed police officers are said to have shot one suspect in the leg after the group allegedly started stabbing people in the city of Turku this afternoon.
As they carried out the terrifying attack, cries of "Allahu Akbar" were apparently heard - although the phrase sounds like "watch out" in Finnish. Police said they cannot confirm if the man was shouting in Arabic.
At least eight people - reportedly including a woman with a pushchair - were hospitalised after the rampage, the city's hospital told local news agency STT.
Two people are said to have been killed.
The incident, which has sparked terror fears, comes just a day after a white van mowed down crowds of pedestrians in Barcelona, Spain, killing 14 and injuring more than 100 others.
An injured victim lies at the scene of the attack in Turku, Finland(Image: Twitter)
