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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The 29-to-1 vote, with 10 abstentions, followed a four-hour back-and-forth between those who said the community center would be a monument to tolerance and those who believed it would be an affront to victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Posted: 1:47 PM May 26, 2010 Fox News Poll: U.S. Has Been Lucky in Preventing Terrorist Attacks While 33 percent of voters think the United States has been effective in preventing terrorist attacks, 49 percent think it's been pure luck.Reporter: FOX
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In the 1960s, my parents left their despotic motherland of Syria for the promise of genuine liberty and religious freedom in America. In the decades since, we have led the construction of a number of mosques in the towns where we lived.
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The radical Muslim preacher chose not use english, his native tongue, for his propaganda message. Instead the American-born cleric dressed in Yemeni tribal gear and spoke in Arabic to call for the killing of American civilians and soldiers.
In a video produced by the media wing of al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki praised his student, U.S. Army Major Nidal Hassan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood last November, and described the shooting as an heroic and wonderful act, reports CBS News correspondent Lara Logan.
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This month, two young German girls who were held for 11 months were freed near the border with Saudi Arabia, although their 11-month brother is believed to have died of malnutrition or dehydration during the ordeal.
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Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki described both the Fort Hood Shooter and the Christmas Day bomber as his “students.” in a tape released this weekend, according to press reports.
This is not surprising - the evidence tying Awlaki to both terrorists has continued to mount. But Awlaki’s comments highlight, once again, the U.S. Intelligence Community’s many failures in investigating the al Qaeda cleric. The Obama administration should declassify as much information about Awlaki’s ties to these attacks (as well as previous ones) as possible, because American authorities have repeatedly failed to detect Awlaki’s hand until it was too late. The public has a right to see the evidentiary threads that were missed -- in particular, Awlaki’s emails with Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
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DUBAI - A Saudi scholar who suggested women donate their breast milk to men in an attempt to get around the kingdom’s ban on the mixing of unrelated men and women has sparked controversy, UAE daily Gulf News reported on Sunday.Sheikh Abdul Mohsin al-Abaican, a consultant at the Saudi royal court, issued a fatwa stating there should be symbolic bond between unrelated men and women who regularly come into contact with each other, the newspaper said.Abaican said the act would make a man and woman relatives and therefore their coming into contact would not breach the kingdom’s strict Islamic laws, Gulf News said, citing local Arabic newspaper reports.Much of Saudi Arabia is governed by the conservative Wahhabi version of Islam, under which women are not allowed to go out without male guardians, unrelated men and women cannot mix, and women are not permitted to drive."The man should take the milk, but not directly from the breast of the woman," Abaican was quoted as saying."He should drink it and then becomes a relative of the family, a fact that allows him to come in contact with the women without breaking Islam's rules about mixing.”Abaican said the fatwa applied to men who lived in the same house or come into contact with women on a regular basis, except for drivers, according to the newspaper."The fatwa is only for those who live in the house or need to get in often," he was quoted as saying.Bloggers have slammed the fatwa, labelling it “totally unrelated to reality” and calling on scholars to focus on “much more significant issues”, Gulf News said.Three years ago an Egyptian scholar who attended Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning, called for women to literally breastfeed men as a way of getting around the ban on mixing of the sexes, according to the newspaper. To keep updated with the very latest news sign up to the Maktoob Business newsletter now.
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They say the building Muslim groups plan to tear down to make room for the mosque and a cultural center is historically and architecturally significant. The building was constructed in the 1850s in the Italian Renaissance palazzo style and is noteworthy for its cast-iron storefront.
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Washington, DC, United States (AHN) - U.S.-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is calling for the killing of Americans in a new video, a message dismissed by the White House as coming from a "small m[a]n who will be on the wrong side of history."
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An Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula newsletter was the first to announce his death a week after the United States put terror sanctions on him. The newsletter did not say when it happened but said Al-Qahtani died in Yemen's Abyan province in the south of the country.
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“IF the court finds him guilty, then he should be beheaded.” Those were the words of fiery Malam Lawali Isa, a Zamfara State resident whose right hand was amputated on May 3, 2001 for allegedly
stealing nine bicycles. His case had closely followed that of another Zamfara State resident, Malam Buba Bello Jangebe.
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The King of Saudi Arabia has strongly criticized the country's intelligence officials for disclosing a secret document, which shows Riyadh has links with terrorist activities carried out by al-Qaeda in Iraq. According to a report by Iraq's Buratha news agency on Friday, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz ordered a special committee to investigate the intelligence leak and inform him about those liable in the case. Some 37 members of Saudi's intelligence service, accused of being behind the leakage of the confidential document, were also reported to have been arrested. The condemnation by the Saudi monarch comes as the Iraqi news agency disclosed the amount of money transferred by Saudi government officials to al-Qaeda in Iraq. Saudi officials are also reported to send explosives and weapons to the terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Secretary General of the Saudi National Security Council Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz is said to be the main guilty behind the case. The report came as earlier last week, Saudi army officer Abdullah al-Qahtani was arrested in Iraq over charges of planning a terrorist attack during the upcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The Saudi national entered Iraq in 2004 and was involved in militant operations carried out by al-Qaeda. AGB/CS/MMA
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"In all my travels the city I have come to love most is al-Quds, Jerusalem where three great faiths come together.” Editor's note: John Brennan is Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
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The recent performance—-that’s the only thing you can call it—-of Attorney General Eric Holder before a Senate committee set me thinking. How was it that the AG could not or would not connect the dots between the Fort Hood murders, the Christmas Day bomber, and the failed Times Square bomber? With stunning obtuseness, he professed he could not find any Islamic connection despite, of course, all three being Muslims and all three having communicated with or trained with Islamic terrorist groups.
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The Islamic Utopia presents a beguiling theory of carnal gratification catering to the secret desires of men to have sex with willing young girls. Muhammad held that sexual urges do not perish with death.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani students took to the streets on Thursday as the backlash grew over "sacrilegious" Internet depictions of the Prophet Mohammed that saw the authorities block Facebook and YouTube.
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Some Muslims, including the government of Pakistan , however, don’t have a problem with vocabulary. They object to even the suggestion of an idea having to do with treating Islam exactly the same way every other religion is treated in free societies, namely subject to satire. So Pakistan has shut down Facebook, YouTube and other internet sites in the name of protecting their people’s sensitive eyes from “sacrilegious” content.
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Check out the mug shot of the world's dumbest terrorist.
After his arrest, Faisal Shahzad was questioned in a Brooklyn hotel, where he spun fantasies about attacking Boston, Washington and landmarks across Manhattan and asked investigators why his car bomb in Times Square failed to go off.
The answer is this mutt was unable to build a working bomb almost any idiot could make.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations had urged that Pamela Geller be cut from the Tennessee Tea Party Convention in Gatlinburg over her views on Muslims. Washington-based CAIR said in a release Thursday that it objects to Pamela Geller's presentation titled "The Threat of Islam."
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SLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- A simmering clash between free speech and religious sensibilities in Pakistan burst from the streets onto the Internet on Thursday, as the government blocked the video-sharing site YouTube and other pages it deemed "sacrilegious" to the nation's Muslim majority.
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Most RecentLawmakers Ask FTC For Answers on Google Wi-Fi SniffingLawmakers want to know if the FTC is investigating Google after the company admitted that its Street View cars accidentally collected personal information consumers sent over wireless networks.Samsung Expects Smartphone Shipments to ExplodeGlobal shipments of smartphones may grow 50 percent this year and drive explosive expansion in high-end OLED display sales over the next five years.Lacking DRM, WebM May Lose Out to FlashGoogle released VP8, a Web video codec as part of the WebM Project. But the video codec and HTML5 video tag currently lacks any sort of digital-rights-management wrapper to protect content.
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A team of more than 3,000 "behaviour detection" officers hired to spot terrorists at US airports have failed to catch a single person despite costing the taxpayer $200 million (£140 million) last year.
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