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STORY HIGHLIGHTSDHS memo says number and pace of attempted attacks have surpassed "any other previous one-year period"Attacks are expected to be attempted with "increased frequency," document warnsReport cites recent cases of homegrown terrorism, including failed Times Square bombing Terror groups are increasingly using westerners as operatives, report says
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Harris County Sheriff's spokeswoman Christina Garza said Wednesday she could not share details. U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling says he "cannot discuss specific intelligence regarding individual groups."
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Ah yes, here we see again, the so called “radicals” within the Muslim community taking center stage over the “moderate” majority. I don’t suppose we’ll see other Muslims groups lobbying to counteract this madness? Probably not…
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During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of "political, economic and social forces," but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in "religious terms."
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STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe Obama administration on Thursday released its first National Security StrategyThe 52-page outline of focuses on both international and home-grown threatsStrategy focuses on "mitigating wherever possible the need for the use of force"Key GOP critic: Administration "refuses to even identify" threat of "radical Islamic jihadists"
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A convicted terrorist made new threats against the US in a propaganda video release by the Yemeni al Qaeda affiliate Wednesday.
Fahd al Quso convicted in Yemeni court for the terror attack on the US warship, the USS Cole, was featured in a video released by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), MEMRI reported Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man accused of pledging allegiance to al Qaeda in Yemen and buying digital watches prosecutors said could be used as explosives timers, was denied bail on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court.
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MEULABOH, Indonesia — Authorities in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province have distributed 20,000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses as a regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothing took effect Thursday.
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STORY HIGHLIGHTSHomegrown terrorism included after spate of terror-related plotsStrategy acts as blueprint for how White House plans to protect AmericansStrategy will require "broad," "sustained" campaign against terror groups
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The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies. During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of "political, economic and social forces," but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in "religious terms." He repeated the administration argument that the enemy is not "terrorism," because terrorism is a "tactic," and not terror, because terror is a "state of mind" -- though Brennan's title, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, includes the word "terrorism" in it. But then Brennan said that the word "jihad" should not be applied either. "Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said. The technical, broadest definition of jihad is a "struggle" in the name of Islam and the term does not connote "holy war" for all Muslims. However, jihad frequently connotes images of military combat or warfare, and some of the world's most wanted terrorists including Usama bin Laden commonly use the word to call for war against the West. Brennan defined the enemy as members of bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and "its terrorist affiliates." ALSO:VIDEO: Obama's Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam' VIDEO: Brennan - 'We Are Not at War with Islamic Jihadists'
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STORY HIGHLIGHTSDepartment of Homeland Security notice alerts local police about man named Mohamed AliNotice based on raw intelligence from variety of sources and is uncorroborated, official saysOfficial says it's standard to send out such an advisory to local police
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A fugitive Saudi Arabian man, who was once detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, was named as a senior member of Al Qaeda's Yemen wing, according to a tape by the group shown on al Arabiya television on Friday.
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English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrestForged on football terraces and targeting Muslim communities, rightwingers return to the streets in an increasingly violent form
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My friend is an Egyptian-born Christian and for 20 years has been an American citizen. He offered to teach the dangerous truth about Islam in a local church and was kicked out. He was told that there were Muslim friends in the church family and Islam would not be talked about negatively there. Muslims who say they are their friends are liars or apostates for in Qur’an Surah 5:51 is: “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends. They are friends to one another.” The biggest lie in the history of man is that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. We are told that radical Islamists are the terrorists and Islam is good. Read and you will learn the terrorists are the true believers and practitioners of Islam. Two of countless verses that preach killing and hate: “Go forth lightly or heavily and perform jihad with your money and your lives for the sake of God. This is best for you, if you had known,” (Surah 9:41); and “Oh you prophet, perform jihad against the infidels and the hypocrites and be harsh to them. And their dwelling place will be hell, and evil is the destination, (Surah 9:73).The Qur’an does not teach peace and tolerance. It teaches sexual immorality and murder. One of the few that even mentions peace says, “So do not be weak and do call for peace when you have the upper hand. And Allah is with you, and he will not leave from you for your work,” (The Generous Qur’an 47:35). Do not let ignorance and fear of offending someone cause your children and grandchildren to be forced into Islam or to be slaughtered.GARY DOWDY, Rome
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''Although Yusuf now denies supporting attempts to murder Salman Rushdie, he is on record at the time for stating that he wanted to see Mr Rushdie himself burn - not just an effigy of him - and he would like to have reported Mr Rushdie's whereabouts to those who were trying to murder him,'' Mr Kavanagh said.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A PajamasMedia.com article by Walid Shoebat, former Islamic terrorist and author, revealed disturbing contradictions between Ground Zero mosque founder Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf's English statements and his Arabic comments. Abdul Rauf directly contradicted his New York Daily News article from earlier this week, and, in the process, lied to New York City about his true intentions. An interview with Shoebat about these revelations is available on PJTV.com.
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The Pakistan Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attacks, says a senior Pakistan intelligence officer, who asked to remain anonymous. If true, it represents the first instance of a highly-coordinated attack against the Ahmadi Islamic sect, which many human rights activists regard as the most persecuted of Pakistan’s minorities.
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Our Jihadist enemies sometimes can be very upfront about their intentions and methods. This is true in the financial arena, just as it is true in violent jihad. We have seen this pointed out twice in recent blog posts on Shariah Finance Watch (SFW).
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If you are a Muslim woman who likes wearing tight jeans or miniskirts, then the West Aceh district may not be the place for you. Starting today, the district government’s Wilayatul Hisbah, or Shariah police, will go out on “raids” to find women they deem to be inappropriately dressed. “Starting Wednesday we are going to strategic points, and women who wear tight trousers or jeans will be given long skirts to wear. Their jeans will also be confiscated,” West Aceh district chief Ramli Mansur said. About 20,000 long skirts have been collected from donations by groups that supported a similar bylaw banning the wearing of shorts by men. However, the effectiveness of the sweeps could be muted after the district chief announced the exact location of the raids. “After a ceremony, we will start the raids at three locations heading toward the [district] capital of Meulaboh. The raids will be conducted at Kaway XVI, Arongan Lambalek, and Nagan Raya,” he said. But if some West Aceh women are hoping that ineffective raids lead to softer clothing bylaws in the future, they could be in for a long wait. “I hope people from other places who come to West Aceh will respect the regulations we have here,” Ramli said. “I am doing this because it is an Islamic command to uphold the Shariah kaffah [to abide by Islamic tenets in their entirety] in Aceh, especially in West Aceh.” Ramli said that under the law, all women should wear the baju kurung, a flowing traditional outfit that covers most of the body and a veil. He also called on shops in the district to stop selling tight-fitting clothes for women. “I am doing this as a leader who will be responsible to God for what I have done for the people of West Aceh,” the official said. Violators who refuse to hand over their jeans or who are repeat offenders are to be punished. “We are going to detain them,” he said, without giving any indication of the length of detention. Shariah law is in partial use in staunchly Islamic Aceh — the only province where it is practiced in the world’s most populous Muslim country. “We are going to implement this in a persuasive way until we reach a stage where nobody wears tight clothes,” Ramli said. But according to a British Broadcasting Corp. report, some women in West Aceh have objected to the new bylaw, saying it curtails their personal freedoms and mobility. The law will only apply to Muslims.
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One hundred and twenty-five Islamic boarding schools or pesantren from Java and Madura island issued a fatwa banning transvestites from cutting and/or styling Muslim women's hair unless they are muhrim (related by blood or marriage).
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West Aceh district local government spokesman Mulia Agus, shows from his office in Meulaboh on May 24, 2010 a sketch illustrating what is acceptable female clothing in the locality. (Photo courtesy: AFP)
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Rifqa Bary, 17, in the courtroom of circuit judge Daniel Dawson for her hearing at the Thomas S. Kirk Juvenile Justice Center in Orlando, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. A Florida judge says he plans to order the teenager who ran away from Ohio to Florida because she feared physical harm for converting from Islam to Christianity sent back to Ohio. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda)
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Access to power and lucrative oil contacts are driving a rise in Christian-Muslim clashes and killings. Nigeria's heavy military presence is not enough to quell violence that plagues the No. 3 supplier of oil to the US.
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Kenyan Muslims in Nairobi carry posters of Jamaican cleric Abdullah Faisal and throw stones at police during a Jan. 15 demonstration demanding Faisal's release from Kenyan custody. U.S. intelligence officials say Faisal was recruiting for al-Shabab, a Somali Islamic militia with links to al-Qaida. Faisal denies the allegations. He was eventually returned to Jamaica from Kenya.
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STORY HIGHLIGHTSKai Bird: Why does Hosni Mubarak still rule in Egypt, royalty in Jordan, Saudi Arabia? Bird grew up in Egypt under Nasser, who envisioned secular path to modernityHe says Nasser's defeat in June 1967 war was a shock to Arab ethos, end to his dreamBird: Jihadists have nothing to offer but a desperate alternative to dictatorships
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STAVROPOL, Russia (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and 20 injured on Wednesday when a bomb exploded outside a theatre in the southern Russian city of Stavropol just before the start of a Chechen dance show, investigators said.
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In some respects, the recent attempted Times Square car bombing and the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized citizen, point to a significant success in America’s Global War on Terror.
In the aftermath of 9/11, our government quickly reformed the Intelligence Community and established the Department of Homeland Security, moves which have been successful in making it more difficult for foreign terrorists to enter the country and carry out attacks. U.S. military action has weakened al-Qaeda Central.
But this has also created a new challenge: the battlefront has shifted from overseas to our homeland.
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The more I think about this, the angrier I become. By now you’ve heard of the plans by a group of Muslims to build a 13 to 15-story mosque and Muslim “cultural” center just two blocks north of Ground Zero in Manhattan.
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To what extent is sharia compatible with Western law? Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Britain’s Supreme Court president Lord Phillips created a stir in 2008 by proposing that British courts might permit the application of Muslim religious law.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A furious eunuch at the centre of a scandal in northwest Pakistan told a court Wednesday that police allegations claiming the teenager married a middle-aged businessman were a "conspiracy".
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