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Lowe's pulls ads from TV show about U.S. Muslims

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press - Dec. 12 (News Report) - A decision by retail giant Lowe's Cos. to pull ads from a reality show about American Muslims after protests from an evangelical Christian group has sparked criticism and calls for a boycott against the chain of home-improvement stores.

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A decade later, returning to the scene of something unfathomable - latimes.com

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Steve Lopez - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - A columnist goes back to Lower Manhattan, where in 2001 he got a close-up look at the destruction of 9/11. He's reminded anew that we all have a stake in what happened that day and in the days that followed.

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Lawyer: Norway Suspect Wanted A Revolution : NPR

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Jul. 24 (News Report) - The man blamed for attacks on Norway's government headquarters and a youth retreat that left at least 93 dead said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said Sunday. A manifesto he published online, which police are poring over and said was posted the day of the attack, ranted against Muslim immigration to Europe and vowed revenge on "indigenous Europeans," whom he accused of betraying their heritage. It added that they would be punished for their "treasonous acts." "The calculated cynicism in it is really staggering," Goran Skaalmo, an investigative reporter in Norway, told NPR's Linda Wertheimer. "He calls the operation in Oslo the 'ultimate love gift' at one time. He says in the foreword that to put this whole work together has cost him 370,000 euros. Also, he sees himself as a European hero."

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Norway attacks: Suspect identified and at least 91 dead in bombing, shootings

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jul. 23 (News Report) - A man believed to be the gunman in a mass shooting on Norway's Utoya island Friday is also suspected in an explosion in Oslo earlier Friday, police said during a press conference Saturday.

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South Sudan, world's newest nation, is instantly one of the most troubled

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - Jul. 10 (News) - Africa's longest civil war gives birth to South Sudan, a country about the size of France that has broken away from its bitter antagonist to the north. Heads of state gather for a euphoric celebration in the fledgling capital of Juba, but poverty, corruption and questions about its leadership already plague the new nation.The countdown clock ran out, the flag ascended over the fledgling capital and a new nation born from Africa's longest civil war and the deaths of 2 million people joined the world Saturday.

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Islamist militants take over southern Yemen city

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ariel Zirulnick - May. 30 (News) - Islamist militants took over the southern coastal city of Zinjibar (see map) this weekend, bolstering claims that Yemen's unrest, which borders on civil war, is leaving a vacuum that is allowing militants to gain strength. The clashes with the government have so far been concentrated in the north, around Sanaa.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad affirms Khamenei decision, tensions remain

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Thomas Erdbrink - May. 09 (News Report) - Apparently bowing to unprecedented pressure from Iran's clerical establishment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed an intelligence minister he had ousted in April back into his cabinet meeting on Sunday.

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12 dead in Egypt as Christians and Muslims clash

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ernesto Londono - May. 08 (News) - Clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians in a Cairo suburb left 12 people dead, dozens wounded and a church charred in one of the most serious outbreaks of violence the country’s interim rulers have faced since taking power in February.

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Fighting for bin Laden

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Frontline - By Stephen Grey, Martin Smith - May. 03 (Special Report) - Two days after Osama bin Laden's death, Frontline presents this special report with inside access to the two biggest fronts in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. First, correspondents Stephen Grey and Martin Smith go inside The Secret War and uncover new details of CIA-funded Afghan militas tasked with guarding the border, gathering intelligence and launching kill raids against the insurgents and their Al Qaeda allies. Based in Afghanistan, their work is focused on Pakistan. A former commander of one of these teams, the Khost Protection Force (KPF), tells Frontline about how the team crosses the Afghan border into Pakistan's tribal areas. Under the protection of drone aircraft, they fire mortars against Taliban and Al Qaeda targets inside Pakistan.

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Osama bin Laden, the face of terror, killed in Pakistan

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - May. 02 (News Report) - The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces have the body of bin Laden. The enormity of the destruction -- the World Trade Center's towers devastated by two hijacked airplanes, the Pentagon partially destroyed by a third hijacked jetliner, a fourth flight crashed in rural Pennsylvania, and more than 3,000 people killed -- gave bin Laden a global presence. The Saudi-born zealot commanded an organization run like a rogue multinational firm, experts said, with subsidiaries operating secretly in dozens of countries, plotting terror, raising money and recruiting young Muslim men -- even boys -- from many nations to its training camps in Afghanistan.

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Shia in Bahrain: Repression and regression

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Genieve Abdo - May. 02 (News) - Bahrain's decision in recent days to demolish dozens of Shia mosques is just the latest move in a dangerous gambit to head off the unrest gripping much of the Arab world, by playing directly to widespread fears of Shia political power and - by extension - of regional power, Iran. Here, Bahrain stands alone. While other countries have seen an easing of sectarian and ethnic tensions as whole swathes of Arab societies have come together - at least for now - to protest authoritarian regimes, the government in Manama has set out deliberately to fan Sunni-Shia tensions.

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Two killed, dozens hurt in third day of Afghan protests

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Apr. 04 (News) - Two policemen were killed and more than 30 people wounded in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday during the third day of protests across Afghanistan against the burning of a Koran by a militant fundamentalist Christian U.S. pastor, officials said.

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Ten dead in Afghan Koran burning protests

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Ismail Sameem - Apr. 02 (News) - At least 10 people have been killed and 83 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist Christian in the United States.

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Deadly Protests Over Koran Burning Reach Kandahar

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Taimoor Shah, Rod Nordland - Apr. 02 (News) - Violent protests over the burning of a Koran in Florida flared for a second straight day, with young men rampaging through the streets of this southern capital, flying Taliban flags and wielding sticks.

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UN staff killed in Afghanistan amid protests over Qur'an burning

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jon Boone - Apr. 02 (News Report) - Police spokesman in northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif says demonstrators killed at least eight UN employeesThe UN mission in Afghanistan has been thrown into a deep crisis after a furious mob of protesters killed and wounded a number of its staff in one of the country's most peaceful cities.One police source in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif claimed at least eight foreign UN employees were killed after a demonstration in the thriving commercial hub turned violent. Other officials reported different figures.Provincial police spokesman Sherjan Durrani said the demonstrators poured out of mosques in the city in the early afternoon, shortly after Friday prayers where worshippers had been angered by reports that a Florida pastor had burned a copy of the Qur'an.Last year Terry Jones, a US fundamentalist Christian leader, did threaten to burn copies of the Muslim holy book. He backed down after warnings that Islamic opinion around the world could be inflamed and the lives of US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq endangered.But on 21 March Wayne Sapp set light to a Qur'an with Jones standing by.Durrani said that while most protesters were peaceful, others were seeking targets to attack, including shops and the UN compound.Whatever the final death toll, the incident is seen as a disaster for the UN, coming just over a week after the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, announced that Mazar-e-Sharif would be one of the first areas of the wartorn country to be transferred from Nato to Afghan government security control.If the number of UN staff killed is high, the organisation will be obliged to consider closing down or dramatically reducing all its operations in the country – something it came perilously close to doing in late 2009 when an attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul killed five staff.The UN has already issued a "white city" order, which forces all staff in the country into lockdown in their compounds.Earlier in the day hundreds of Afghans marched on the US embassy in Kabul.In a statement the UN confirmed that some of its staff members had been killed. "The situation is still confusing and we are currently working to ascertain all the facts and take care of all our staff. The special representative of the secretary general, Staffan de Mistura, is on his way to Mazar-e-Sharif now to deal with the situation personally on the ground."AfghanistanUnited NationsUnited StatesReligionIslamChristianityJon Booneguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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MoD: no evidence of Libyan civilian casualties

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:29:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Mar. 21 (News) - Maj Gen Lorimer said strikes on Libya had been effective at disabling Col Gaddafi's air force capability. According to opposition forces, pro-Gaddafi troops are withdrawing from Benghazi and are now attacking other rebel-held areas.

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Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison breaks down in Muslim radicalization hearings

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By Lucy Madison - Mar. 11 (News) - In testimony before the Homeland Security Committee's hearing on radicalization in the Muslim community Thursday, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, one of two Muslim members of Congress, broke down in tears while delivering an emotional tribute to a young Muslim-American who lost his life in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - and whose reputation was later maligned due to his faith.

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Peter King's Witch Hunt

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Suhail A. Khan - Mar. 10 (News Analysis) - King has adopted an ominous tone for the proceedings, basing them on the premise that the Muslim American community is dangerously prone to radicalization and has been systematically uncooperative with law enforcement.

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Sectarian clashes in Egypt challenge a revolutionary idealism

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Richard Leiby - Mar. 10 (News) - Although clashes between Muslims and Christians are not new in Egypt, they often take place far from the capital. That the overnight violence continued for hours near the heart of Cairo is bound to add to concerns among Christians that weeks of tumult in Egypt have left them particularly vulnerable in a country that is overwhelmingly Muslim.

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For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Scott Shane - Mar. 09 (News Report) - For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims, it is the most awkward of résumé entries. Long before he became an outspoken voice in Congress about the threat from terrorism, he was a fervent supporter of a terrorist group, the Irish Republican Army.

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Republicans divided over Muslim hearings

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jonathan Allen,Jake Sherman - Mar. 08 (News) - The top two House Republican leaders are divided over how to handle the bubbling controversy surrounding Homeland Security Chairman Peter King’s hearing into “radicalization” in the American Muslim community.

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In Video: NPR Exec Slams Tea Party, Questions Need For Federal Funds

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Mark Memmott - Mar. 08 (Special Report) - "Tea Party people" aren't "just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."

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Minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti assassinated in Islamabad

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Dawn - Mar. 02 (News) - Gunmen shot and killed Pakistan’s government minister for religious minorities on Wednesday, the latest attack on a high-profile Pakistani figure who had urged reforming harsh blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam.

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Next Question for Tunisia: the Role of Islam in Politics

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Thomas Fuller - Feb. 21 (News Analysis) - The second phase of Tunisia's revolution played out in this city's ancient medina last week as military helicopters circled and security forces rushed to carry out an unusual mission: protecting the city's brothels.

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Military Offers Assurances to Egypt and Neighbors

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Kareem Fahim, David D. Kirkpatrick - Feb. 12 (News Report) - As the Egyptian people began to absorb the end of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency on Saturday, the army leadership was contemplating its first steps.aAs a new era dawned in Egypt on Saturday, the army leadership sought to reassure Egyptians and the world that it would shepherd a transition to civilian rule and honor international commitments like its peace treaty with Israel.

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