Tag: Terrorism

The former Elizabeth Arden account analyst testifies to being a “Muslim soldier” intent upon punishing the West for attacking “Muslim lands.”

In Pakistan, gunmen attacked two mosques of a Muslim sect.

Robert Wright discovers (again!) that Islam is not a problem.

RevolutionMuslim.com posted a warning following the 200th episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ‘South Park,’ which included a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad disguised in a bear suit.

A female suicide bomber attacked a column of Shiite pilgrims on the outskirts of Baghdad on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding 100.

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan keep a tight grip on religion, fearing both Christian and Muslim fundamentalism. Bolot, a young evangelical preacher in Kyrgyzstan, says he already been arrested twice this year after setting up a new church. He says he is the victim of a new law on religion, which critics say severely restricts religious freedoms and is forcing some groups underground. Under the law, new religious groups have to have at least 200 members before they can register with the authorities and operate legally - previously the figure was 10.

The Daily Dish blog responds to the terrorist attack on Dutch cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with a collage of cartoons.

Somalia has become a playground for an Islamist group known as al-Shabaab. It has banned bras, football, dancing and musical ringtones in the areas it controls. This weekend al-Shabaab decreed that men must grow beards and shave their moustaches. Its fighters have destroyed Sufi tombs and disinterred colonial-era Italian corpses. Its Sharia courts have ordered public floggings, the chopping off of hands and feet of thieves, the stoning to death of adulterers and beheadings of apostates and spies.

A Pakistani correspondent interviews an aspiring suicide bomber.

A physicist at the lab that houses the Swiss Large Hadron Collider, built to replicate the conditions of the ‘Big Bang’, has been arrested on suspicion of terror links.  Suspects are innocent until proven guilty, but if the police are correct, here’s another example of Sam Harris’s worry about people who are intelligent enough to be nuclear physicists, but still believe in 42 virgins in the afterlife.

On September 7, three British men — Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain — were convicted of conspiring in 2006 to bomb seven transatlantic passenger flights, using liquid explosives hidden in drinks bottles. Five others were tried with them. One, Umar Islam, was convicted of conspiracy to murder, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on three others. The fifth, Donald Stewart-Whyte, was cleared altogether.Yet only a day later, attention was diverted by events closer to home. Police in Northern Ireland discovered a 600-pound bomb in County Armagh, which was thought to be the work of a dissident republican group. In January another bomb was found near an army base in County Down; in March two soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked a base; and in May bomb components were discovered in County Fermanagh. Also on September 8th Neil Lewington, a white supremacist, was jailed in England for planning a terrorism campaign against the “non-British”.

JAMES MORTON argues that honour killing is a form of terrorism

A massive non-sequitur from Wright and attempted critique of the New Atheists

A far-flung jihadist movement has found a foothold in America’s heartland.

Fear and beheadings in the heartland of the militants

Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Nafisi Suggests a Biological Attack at the White House and Prays for the Bombing of a Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan.