Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the world’s most influential Muslim preachers who regularly prays for the annihilation of the Jewish people, visited Gaza this week in a show of his support for the territory’s Hamas terrorist rulers. He claims to have previously been in Gaza in 1958. The octogenarian televangelist vowed...
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A scandal triggered yesterday by a Weekly Standard expose today expanded to engulf Washington D.C.’s Newseum, a museum dedicated to showcasing the history of journalism. Yesterday the Weekly Standard revealed that the Newseum would be honoring two Hamas terrorists as journalists killed in the line of duty. The honorees were...
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“Syria has largely disappeared from the internet.” So said services such as Google and Umbrella Security Labs (a component of OpenDNS Inc.), which both documented a “significant drop in the traffic from Syria” around 3 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. As of 3pm Wednesday, some activists reported connectivity is beginning to be restored....
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Iran is one of the world’s worst violators of religious freedoms, according to a recent report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. The report identifies Iran as a “tier 1 country of particular concern” when it comes to persecuting people of faith. Already poor religious freedom conditions...
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Human rights groups are blasting Iran for a wave of executions that this week saw four prisoners hanged in the western city of Kermanshah, two of them women. Kermanshah has become a central location for the Iranian regime’s public and prison executions. Iran has one of the world’s worst records...
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Human rights and civil liberties groups are blasting Turkey after a Turkish court convicted one of the country’s top composers on charges of denigrating Islam. Pianist Fazil Say – a noted critic of the ruling Islamist government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan – was given a suspended sentence for making...
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