'Hurling a Stone At a Mosque' Rumor Leads to Attack on Christians in Egypt
(AINA)
As a result of a rumor that a young Christian Copt hurled a stone towards a mosque, thousands of Muslims congregated and attacked Copts and their properties, leaving several injured and arrested.
The incident, which took place on Wednesday, May 13, 2009,in the area of Saft El-Labn, Giza, resulted in the injury of 14 people from both sides. The police arrested 20 Copts, including 6 women, and 7 Muslims, and security imposed a curfew on the region.
KOTA: Taliban fighters are shaving off their beards and trying to flee from a Pakistani army offensive in their Swat bastion, the military said on Friday.
Clashes had erupted in various parts of the region, the military said on Friday, adding it was achieving successes. It also appealed to civilians to identify Taliban fighters trying to flee.
Egyptian Christian Kidnapped, Pressured to Convert to Islam
AINA
On May, 6 2009, in broad daylight, four bearded Muslim men broke into the home of a Coptic Christian family in Alexandria, armed with swords, sticks and knives, assaulted their son, bundled him into an unregistered car waiting in front of the house and disappeared. The terrorized neighbors were fearful and did not stop them, according to an appeal received by the Middle East Christian Association.
Pakistani men 'part of al-Qaeda network planning attacks in Britain'
Telegraph
Ten Pakistani men released without charge after an investigation into an alleged plot to bomb shopping centres in Manchester were part of an al-Qaeda network planning attacks in Britain and should be deported, a tribunal has heard.
The men were arrested on April 8 after former Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick entered Downing Street with details of the operation against the men visible under his arm.
Egypt cleanses itself of its pig population - god they believe is on their side. Not a single pig or confirmed human infection. A process that they estimate will take 6 months.
Is it wise to kill the capital’s rubbish-ridding pigs?
A high-security prison has been put on alert after intelligence reports that a group of Muslim extremists were plotting to escape.
The gym at HMP Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has been turned into a makeshift mosque so prison staff can keep a better eye on inmates after the chapel, usually used for group prayer, was deemed too 'high-risk'.
Denmark unable to deport him on "humanitarian grounds"
(AFP)
COPENHAGEN - Danish intelligence agency PET suspects a 42-year-old Iraqi man living in Denmark of being the chief Northern European recruiter for suicide bombers for Iraq, Danish newspaper Politiken said Sunday.
PET has for more than a year tried to expel Amer Saeed from Denmark under special anti-terror legislation on the grounds that he poses a threat to the Scandinavian country’s national security, Politiken said.
A Christian man stabbed as he leaves a church in Minya Egypt
From United Copts GB correspondant
United Copts GB learnt from reliable sources that a Christian youth who is an army conscript was subjected to a knife attack on Thursday 30th of April just as he left St Mary church in the village he lives “Dagof” , Samalout district, in Minya province , Egypt which seems to have a hot bed for Muslim fundamentalists.
Egyptian State Security Forces Demolish Church Services Building
AINA
The Egyptian State Security forces attacked and demolished on 26/04/09 at 7.30 am the services building belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Masrah Matrouh, assaulting the Coptic priests and Coptic women and men. More than 1000 Copts have surrounded the remains of the demolished building, ready for martyrdom, said a church member.
Saudi Arabia is ruled under an austere and patriarchal form of Sunni Islam
Media reports say an arranged marriage between a Saudi girl aged eight and a man in his 50s has been annulled, in a case attracting worldwide criticism.
PARIS (Reuters) - A self-proclaimed "gang of barbarians" accused of kidnapping a young Jewish man in a Paris suburb, torturing him for 24 days and killing him went on trial Wednesday.
The death of Ilan Halimi, 23, in 2006 horrified France and came to symbolize a rise in anti-Semitic violence in its poor, multi-ethnic suburbs.
BMI air stewardess fired for refusing to fly to Saudi Arabia and walk behind men
Jihad Watch
"Her letter of dismissal said it was 'proportionate' to ask female employees to walk behind men out of respect for Saudi culture."More dhimmitude from the same airline. "BMI told stewardess to wear Muslim robe," by Jon Ungoed-Thomas for Times Online, April 26:
Masked Taliban militants attacked and killed at least one Christian and injured dozens of others this past week in a Christian colony in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, according to local media.
Taliban gunmen shooting couple dead for adultery caught on camera
Taliban gunmen have been filmed executing a surprised couple whom they repeatedly shot for the alleged crime of adultery.
By Saeed Shah in Islamabad
Their deaths were squalid, riddled with bullets in a field near their home by Taliban gunmen as the execution was captured on a mobile telephone.
In footage which is being watched with horror by Pakistanis, the couple try to flee when they realise what is about to happen. But a gunman casually shoots the man and then the woman in the back with a burst of gunfire, leaving them bleeding in the dirt.
Popular Egyptian host exposes the severity of the Coptic situation
"People, we have a major problem on our hands"
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A recent episode of the popular Egyptian TV program, “Cairo Today,” reveals how bad the situation has gotten for the Christian Copts of Egypt. The Muslim host, Amr Adib, a very famous TV personality, not just in Egypt but across the Arab world—not to mention vocal critic and nemesis of Fr. Zakaria Botros—in a very honest moment, expressed the severity of the situation.
‘Next generation of dreaded terrorists will come from Pakistan’
* Report says fragile state institutions, weak leadership and inadequate resources limit ability of Islamabad to fight militancy
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: If Talibanisation of Pakistan continues at the current pace, the next generation of the world’s most dangerous terrorists will be born, indoctrinated, and trained in Pakistan, the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think tank, warned on Tuesday.
“Today, Al Qaeda’s top leadership is most likely based in Pakistan, along with the top Taliban leaders,” the report – titled From AfPak to PakAf: A Response to the New US Strategy for South Asia – said.
