Every evening, silence reigns in the Khanke refugee camp near the Kurdish city of Dohuk in northern Iraq. Winter has already arrived, bringing with it rain, mud, and cold.
A fire has been lit for warmth, but the flame is potentially dangerous. A Yazidi family is crowded into each tent. The tents afford no protection from the rain, and if any of the structures catch fire, they can turn into death traps. About 60,000 Yazidis live in this camp. Last summer, they managed to survive and escape from Mount Sinjar, which was taken over by the Islamic State terror group. Every person at the camp knows someone who was either killed or wounded, or is currently missing. Every refugee has a sister, wife, or daughter who was kidnapped and raped.
Al Shabaab Executes 28 Non-Muslims in Northern Kenya
At least 19 Christians among those killed.
y Our East Africa Correspondent KHARTOUM, Sudan, November 24, 2014 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the Somali insurgent Al Shabaab stopped a bus in northern Kenya on Saturday (Nov. 22), separated out the non-Muslims and killed 28 people, including at least 19 Christians, sources said.
Among those executed, an area Christian leader told Morning Star News, were 10 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; three members of the Anglican Church of Kenya; three members of the Redeemed Gospel Church; and three members of the East Africa Pentecostal Church (EAPC). The three slain members of the EAPC were youth leader Kennedy Tiraito and two choir and praise leaders, Patrick Mukopi and a woman identified only as Janet.
SYDNEY:Australiais confronting what authorities say is a growing threat from homegrown Islamist radicals and fears a new danger is about to rumble over the horizon – would-be militants hooking up with biker gangs.
Islamism and organized crime are already mixing, said retiredNew South WalesAssistant Police Commissioner Clive Small, and the new gang members use radical Islam as a justification for joining.
“You can have a person who says I’m in it [a gang], I’m selling drugs, because Australia’s a bad place and we need to raise money to take over,” Small told Reuters.
‘Outstanding’ London school accused of promoting extremists, enforcing segregation
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets (Photo from wikipedia.org)
An ‘outstanding’ London secondary school is due to be placed in special measures, over concerns that it was not doing enough to protect its students from ‘extremist’ activities.
The issues raised by the schools watchdog investigation include gender segregation and the posting links to ‘extremist preachers’ on students’ social media pages.
Sir John Cass Foundation and Redcoat School, East London, is believed to have failed to monitor students in the school who were allegedly running an Islamic society that promoted a radical preacher on its Facebook page.
Saudi prince paid for the 9/11 pilots to learn to fly': Incredible claims of '20th hijacker' serving life in prison for terrorism as he asks to testify again in court and reveal all
Islamic State Supporter Pictured Forcing Baby To Kick A Severed Head In Syria (GRAPHIC PICTURE)
WARNING VERY GRAPHIC CONTENT
A horrifying photo has emerged showing a smiling father encouraging his baby to kick the severed head of a dead soldier in Syria.
The shocking picture shows the toddler, too young to stand, being held up by its delighted father so it can kick the decomposing head with its bare feet.
The man, pictured wearing camouflage, is thought to be a supporter of the Islamic State.
The image of the child is believed to have been posted by militants fighting across Iraq and Syria and was the latest to have emerged in a collection of children posing like terrorists.
It's not the first time the terrorist group has used shocking images of children in their propaganda campaign, with a previous image showing a baby lying on an Islamic State flag next to guns and grenades.
Islamist Terror Plot To 'Assassinate The Queen', Four Men Arrested
Four men have been arrested in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot to kill the Queen. Reported by The Sun, the 88-year-old was to be assassinated over the weekend as she made an appearance at the Albert Hall in connection with the annual Remembrance weekend to celebrate the end of the First World War.
According to the newspaper, police believe the suspected terrorists were conspiring to stab Her Majesty. The conspiracy was reportedly uncovered during routine surveillance.
Update: Islamist Mob in Pakistan Kills Christian Couple Accused of 'Blasphemy'
Pregnant mother of four young children was dead when thrown into kiln; husband burned alive.
By Our Pakistan Correspondent
CLARKABAD, Pakistan, November 5, 2014 (Morning Star News) – Commanded from mosque loudspeakers, a Muslim throng in Punjab Province killed a Christian couple on Tuesday after a co-worker accused the pregnant wife of defiling the Koran, sources said.
Living on the premises of the brick kiln where she worked in Chak 59 village near Kot Radha Kishan, Karur District, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of Lahore, Shama Bibi was beaten to death before the enraged mob threw her body into the kiln, a relative said. The 28-year-old mother of four children was five months pregnant.
The relative told Morning Star News that her husband, Shahzad Masih, was also beaten but was still alive when he was thrown into the kiln with his wife’s body. He was 32.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan - where even unproven allegations can spark demonstrations or violence. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A Muslim mob beat a Christian couple to death in Pakistan and burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked for allegedly desecrating a Qur’an, police have said.
The attack in Kot Radha Kishan, 40 miles south-west of Lahore, is the latest example of violence against minorities accused of blasphemy.
“A mob attacked a Christian couple after accusing them of desecration of the holy Qur’an and later burnt their bodies at a brick kiln where they worked,” local police station official Bin-Yameen said.
'You're never too young to be a Soldier for Khilafah': Radicalised six-year-old chants in support of a Caliphate and calls for Obama to go to hell in shocking extremist videoÂ
Four Australian children, as young as six, call for an end to democracy
Extremist video was reportedly filmed in Sydney in December last year
Bilal Merh, a senior figure in radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir, leads the chants
The event occurred before new Australian terror laws were introducedÂ
Professor claims group wouldn't get away with the same rhetoric nowÂ
Radicalised Australian children, as young as six, have been shown calling for an end to democracy and Australia’s way of life in a shocking extremist video.
Four children, reportedly aged 6 to 13, claim that they want American President Barack Obama to go to hell and chant ‘O Bashar we want your head,’ about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in a video that was unearthed by Channel Seven.
Ted Cruz: Attacks in Ottawa, Jerusalem "stark reminder" radical Islam not confined to Middle East
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas hinted he may hire “good friend” and political lawyer Ben Ginsburg for a potential 2016 White House bid. (Associated Press)
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said the attack in Canada and a separate hit-and-run attack in Jerusalem Wednesday are reminders that “radical Islamic terrorism” is not confined to the Middle East and likened the shooting death of a soldier in Ottawa to the 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas.
“Our great and good friends in Canada and Israel were targeted because both countries share the same core principles of tolerance and freedom that we in America hold so dear — and which are hated by the vicious terrorists whose ultimate goal is to destroy us all,” said Mr. Cruz, a possible 2016 GOP presidential contender.
Axe wielding man shot dead after attacking four New York policemen
One police officer was critically injured and another wounded in the attack
Heather Saul
An axe-wielding man who attacked four police officers posing for a photograph on a busy street in New York has been shot dead.
Two policemen were wounded in the attack, one critically, before the suspect was shot by two other police officers. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
All four officers involved in the New York City incident had recently graduated from the city Police Academy.
The gunman who fatally shot a Canadian soldier and wounded three other people during a shootout inside Parliament Wednesday was reportedly a recent Muslim convert.
Authorities identified the shooter at Parliament Hill in Ottawa as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32.
Catholic leaders in Pakistan will appeal to their country’s Supreme Court after a lower court upheld the death penalty for a blasphemy ruling against a Christian mother of five children.
“Like it or not, we have to accept the court order,” Father Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, director of the National (Catholic) Commission for Justice and Peace, told Catholic News Service.
Public safety minister Steven Blaney called the incident a 'terrible act of violence against our country'. Photograph: Christinne Muschi/Reuters
Terrorist ideology inspired a recent convert to Islam to drive his car into two Canadian soldiers, killing one, before he was shot dead by police, authorities said on Tuesday.
Quebec police spokesman Guy Lapointe said the act was deliberate and that one of the two soldiers was in uniform. There were no other suspects.
"Terrorists, hijackers, these are people minus identity. They are deter mined to make it somehow, to get coverage, to get noticed." You'll say that the author of these words watched a black-clad man from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) beheading Americans. Nothing of the kind. The quote is from 1977. Its author is the well-known media researcher, Canadian Professor of English Marshall McLuhan.
ISIS's weirdest Western jihadi: Australian 17-year-old who vows to fly Islamist flag over Buckingham Palace and calls himself Abu Khaled (but his family call him 'idiot')
Abdullah Elmir, 17, condemned by relatives after appearing in ISIS video
White Muslim convert is seen flanked by jihadists while ranting at West
Titled 'Message Of The Mujahid 4', video taunts US-led coalition fighting ISIS
Now calling himself Abu Khaled, Elmir left his Sydney home in June this year
Australian national told his mother he was going fishing but never returned
Now relatives brand him a 'stupid idiot', adding he has been brainwashed
Relatives of a ginger Australian jihadist have condemned him for appearing in an Islamic State propaganda video in which he says the terror group will not stop their murderous campaign 'until the black flag is flying high in every single land'.
In chilling footage published on YouTube, white Sydney-born Muslim convert Abdullah Elmir, 17, calls himself 'Abu Khaled from Australia' and is seen flanked by other militants.
Speaking directly to the camera, the jihadist tells Western leaders their efforts to defeat ISIS will fail, adding that the terrorists aim to raise their black flag over Buckingham Palace and the White House.
BREAKING NEWS: ASIA BIBI’S APPEAL AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE REJECTED
Barnabas Fund has today received the sad news that the appeal made by Pakistani Christian mother Aasia Bibi against her conviction underPakistan’s “blasphemy law” has been rejected and the death sentence she was given confirmed.
Aasia Bibi has been languishing in jail since June 2009
Aasia’s appeal was dismissed this morning at a hearing held at the High Court in Lahore. She has been languishing in prison since being falsely accused of defiling the name of Muhammad during an argument with Muslim co-workers in 2009.
Please pray for Aasia and her family at this extremely difficult time, and please also consider writing to your elected representative on Aasia’s behalf. Guidance for how best to do so can be foundhere.
