Tag: Islam

Police officers and rescue workers gather at the scene after gunmen stormed a French newspaper, killing at least 12 people, in Paris, France, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Wall Street Journal hesitates to report Islamic phrases used by Paris gunmen

Eddie Scarry · January 7, 2015 8:24 pm

A person reads on November 1, 2011 in Paris an issue of Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo to be published on November 2, 2011, whose cover features prophet Mohammed. (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Associated Press censored Muhammad cartoons while selling ‘Piss Christ’

Timothy P. Carney · January 7, 2015 8:19 pm

Islamist Terror Attack in Paris

Gary Schmitt · January 7, 2015 4:25 pm

Video: Shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar’ at French Magazine Shooting

Daniel Halper · January 7, 2015 12:42 pm

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Feds gave $450,000 for defunct women’s cricket in Afghanistan

Sean Higgins · December 29, 2014 8:29 pm

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter to wish Merry Christmas to his more than 280,000 followers. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

National Security

Iranian president tweets Christmas well wishes

Zack Colman · December 25, 2014 6:22 pm

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Aussie who started movement to combat anti-Muslim sentiment has a confession

Becket Adams · December 19, 2014 10:00 am

In early April of this year, Brandeis University, under pressure from student activists and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, reversed its decision to give an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a global advocate for womenâs rights. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali fights radical Islam’s real war on women

Ashe Schow · December 8, 2014 10:00 am

Pope Francis delivers his speech during his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential palace in Ankara, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Pope Francis condemned the Islamic State assault on Christians and other religions minorities in Iraq and Syria as he arrived Friday in neighboring Turkey to encourage Muslim leaders to take a stronger stand against extremists who twist religion to justify terrorism. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

National Security

Pope Francis: Christians, Muslims must unite to fight Islamic State

Brian Hughes · November 28, 2014 5:44 pm

This image made from video posted on the Internet by Islamic State militants purports to show British aid worker David Haines before he was beheaded. (AP)

Beating these bloody, banal jihadis

Dan Hannan · November 24, 2014 5:05 pm

Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. A new graphic video purportedly produced by Islamic State militants in Syria released Sunday Nov. 16, 2014 claims U.S. aid worker Kassig was beheaded. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family, File)

Just don’t call it Islamic

Mona Charen · November 19, 2014 4:12 pm

Syrian refugee Amjad Moghrabi stands in front of a photograph of his colleague, American aid worker Peter Kassig, 26, who converted to Islam while in captivity and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig, during an interview with The Associated Press in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. Kassig was helping victims of the Syrian civil war when he was captured in Syria last year and threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group. Arabic reads, "Justice for Abdul-Rahman." (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

National Security

Peter Kassig’s Syrian friends beseech Islamic State for his release

Justin Green · November 8, 2014 8:00 pm