CAIRO – When Syria’s president visited Iran late last year, he received a heroes’ medal and spoke about unbreakable bonds in a ceremony broadcast on national television. Now, a nervous leadership in Iran has imposed a media blackout on Bashar Assad’s struggle against a swelling Syrian uprising and Tehran faces the unsettling prospect of losing… Read More Iran nervous as Syria fights
The fire continued as they drove out, killing Ben-Yosef Livnat, a 24 year-old father of four from Jerusalem and the nephew of Minister Limor Livnat, and injuring five others. A group of Breslov Hassidim’s regular twilight visit to Palestinian controlled Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus came to a tragically violent end Sunday: According to one of… Read More Arab Palestinan police murder Jewish visitors to Joseph’s Tomb
A Florida pastor arrested in Dearborn, Michigan before his planned protest outside the Islamic Center of America says he plans to file a lawsuit. Controversial pastor Terry Jones said he would file a lawsuit against the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office, The Detroit News reported Sunday. The Koran-burning pastor was arrested Friday after a jury deliberating… Read More Terry Jones arrested for disturbing Islamic peace
A Nigerian human rights group says more than 500 people died after presidential elections earlier this month. The Civil Rights Congress said the violence happened mostly in the northern state of Kaduna and that the number of victims could be even higher. Rioting broke out when it emerged that Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian –… Read More Islam mocks “democracy” as 500 die in post-election Nigeria
