CAIRO/MINYA: The Sammallout Prosecution Office in Minya detained 18 Copts and 12 Muslims for four days pending investigation after sectarian clashes broke out in El-Tayaba village, in which one Copt was killed and four injured, including a Muslim.
Gen. Gamal Gad, Minya police chief, said clashes erupted late Friday when Muslim youths allegedly sexually harassed a Christian woman. In the course of the fighting, the Christians were using knives while the Muslims had firearms.
YouTube censors comedian's anti-Sharia video called 'Welcome to Saudi Britain'
A comedian has been censored by YouTube for making a film in which he condemned the existence of Sharia courts in Britain.
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Pat Condell, an outspoken atheist and veteran stand-up comic, uploaded the clip called "Welcome to Saudi Britain" to the popular video-sharing website following claims that judgements made under Islamic law are now legally binding.
In the four-minute clip he denounces the "patriarchal bigotry" of Muslim men and the "corrupt" regime of Saudi Arabia.
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — A Kuwaiti official says authorities abruptly ended a music concert by an Egyptian singer in this conservative Muslim country when a young female fan jumped on stage, hugged the male singer and gave him a kiss.
A Christian man was killed in central Egypt on Saturday after sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims, security and medical sources said.
Nineteen-year-old Yeshua Gamal Nashed was shot dead when scores of villagers fought each other with guns, bricks and sticks in the village of al-Tayeba, near Minya, the sources said. Three Christians and a Muslim were wounded.
The terrorist threat in Britain is approaching critical as police and MI5 face an increase in activity by al-Qaeda militants, senior security officials have disclosed.
The terrorist threat in Britain has been considered severe since the arrest of the men allegedly plotting to attack transatlantic airliners in 2006Photo: REUTERS
Iranian Parliament provisionally approves death penalty for leaving Islam
The Iranian Parliament has given provisional approval, by a majority of 196 to seven, to a bill that mandates the death penalty for apostasy from Islam. Until now Iranian judges could impose the death penalty in such cases only on the basis of Islamic law and fatwas, not on the basis of Iranian law.
The bill prescribes a mandatory death sentence for any male Muslim who converts from Islam to another religion, and lifelong imprisonment for female converts from Islam. It also gives the Iranian secular courts authority to convict Iranians living outside the country of crimes relating to Iranian national security. It seems likely that this could be used against the many Iranian Christians who live outside Iran but are involved in evangelism within it. Apostasy from Islam is viewed by most Muslims as equivalent to treason.
Reports from the Somali key port town of Kismayu, 500 kilometers south of Mogadishu, say Islamists controlling the town on Tuesday destroyed a Roman Catholic church there.
The church that was built by Italians some 60 years ago, has in the past 18 years been occupied by at least 15 Somali displaced families, who have been ordered to move before the devastation begins on Tuesday.
Security officials from several European countries have developed a manual to help prison authorities prevent their jailhouses from becoming incubators for Muslim extremists.
The manual, developed by France, Germany and Austria, includes signs that may indicate that a prisoner was becoming radicalized, including the presence of a growing beard. A prison group feared the manual could stigmatize Muslim inmates.
Islam convert gets 35 years in plot to attack mall
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A 24-year-old convert to Islam has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for plotting to blow off hand grenades in a crowded shopping mall during the Christmas season.
Derrick Shareef must serve 30 of those years — with five off for good behavior — unless he can get an appeals court to reduce the sentence.
Radical Islamic clerics warn of further attacks after publisher is firebombed
Islamic extremists have warned of a wave of reprisals over a controversial book about the Prophet Mohammed after the home of its publisher was firebombed.
North London terror arrests linked to publication of Muslim book
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Four people have been arrested in London over an alleged terror attack which may be linked to the publishing of a controversial book.
Books in the window of the home and office of publisher Martin Rynja in London, who was targeted by alleged extremistsPhoto: PA
The arrests are thought to be linked to a fire at a property in Islington, north London, which is used as the home and office of publisher Martin Rynja.
BRAMPTON, Ontario - A Canadian man accused of participating in military exercises and firearms training as part of a group authorities say plotted to storm Parliament and behead the prime minister was found guilty Thursday.
A MANCHESTER taxi driver was a secret member of al-Qaida who had a terrorists' "contacts book" with phone numbers written in invisible ink, a court was told.
Habib Ahmed, 28, of Cheetham Hill, attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and was funded in his activities by his wife Mehreen Haji, it was claimed.
British Muslim was senior al-Qaeda leader, court told
A British Muslim was a senior al-Qaeda leader who kept a terrorist contact book containing telephone numbers and emails written in invisible ink, a court has heard.
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Habib Ahmed (left) and Raingzieb AhmedPhoto: PA
Rangzieb Ahmed, 33, from Manchester is accused of directing terrorism between April 2004 and Aug 2006.
An Australian woman trapped in Saudi Arabia because of the fallout from a divorce case is being given "all possible consular assistance", Australia's ambassador to Saudi Arabia says.
The Adelaide mother of four has complained the Australian government is not helping her and has told News Ltd that she has been threatened with arrest for exposing her face to a male neighbour in front of her children.
Jordan: father stabs daughter, crushes her head with rock for conversion from Islam
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Unknown to the English speaking world, another grisly apostate/honor killing recently took place in the Muslim world, namely, Jordan. On August 28, 2008, days before her 21st birthday, Rana Riad Muhammad Siwahra, wife and mother of two girls (aged 3 and 5) was murdered by her father. After stabbing her with a knife five-six times in the stomach and chest, he smashed her skull in with a large rock. Afterwards, he washed his hands and went to the market where he was later arrested.
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