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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“Brothers Mushtaq and Ishaq Ali left the police force a month ago, terrified of dying as their colleagues had — beheaded by militants on a rutted village road before a shocked crowd.
They went straight to the local Urdu-language newspaper [...]

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“Egypt’s former military detention camps, feared by all those who ended up there - but particularly by Islamists because of the “special treatment” often reserved to them: torture and beatings in an environment free from judicial oversight - have reopened. Their new occupants are political activists and an assortment of other “troublemakers,” and human rights [...]

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“A group of Muslim clerics is up in arms against some objectionable words used in anti-terrorism banners put up by many political parties around the city.
A group of Muslim clerics is up in arms against some objectionable words used in anti-terrorism banners put up by many political parties around the city.
Around 50 ulema [...]

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“The death toll at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in the recentterror attack should serve to be a lesson to a section of politicians
trying to communalise the issue of terrorism. The two gunmen, who spread terror at CST last Wednesday, killed a total of 58 people at CST, 22 of them being Muslims.
One Muslim [...]

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“The coalition between PPP and MQM is continued and both parties on various occasions are trying accommodating each other but over the Talibanization in Karachi, both coalition partners stand poles apart. The MQM repeatedly have had been insisting since last two months that Talibanizaiton is increasing in Karachi, however, Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza openly [...]

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“Sporadic bursts of gunfire rattled the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday as the security forces tried to prevent more clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs in which hundreds of people have been killed.
“More than 200 people have been killed in two days of clashes between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria,” the Red [...]

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“Witnesses said that the armed Israeli settlers attacked the Yetma and Qeblan villages, attacking properties and damaging more than 20 cars, as well as many livestock fodders. In the Assawiya village in southern Nablus, the settlers drew anti-Islam slogans on the viollage’s walls. Palestinian witness, Hekmat Abu Ras, told media outlets that the villagers woke [...]

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“The Mumbai attacks prove that the whole system is falling apart. The police in India are working on manpower and equipment assessments last made in the 1970s,” says security analyst Praveen Swami.
The fact that the gunmen came by sea - and sneaked into the city through a crowded fishing colony - points to almost [...]

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“A sleepy village in Pakistan has found itself at the centre of the Mumbai terror plot, leaving locals bewildered.
Faridkot, a settlement in the south of the Punjab province, has been overrun by Pakistani intelligence agents and police for the past three days after it was reported by Indian officials that the lone gunman captured alive [...]

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“A group of Indians in Saudi Arabia with deep links back home and abroad, especially in Pakistan, are emerging as key suspects besides the Lashkar-e-Taiba leadership in the investigations into the Mumbai attacks.
They are believed to be key associates of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and avid followers of the pan-Islamic ideology of Taliban and Al Qaeda. [...]

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“Indian Muslims say they do not want the gunmen killed by the security forces during the attacks in Mumbai to be buried in Muslim graveyards.
Community leaders believe the militants cannot be called Muslims because they went against the teachings of Islam and killed innocent civilians.
One leader said the militants had “defamed” the religion. [...]

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An Indian based in Saudi Arabia might have financed the attacks in Mumbai, India, NDTV reported Nov. 27. Some of the militants involved could have been British citizens of Pakistani origin, according to NDTV.

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“When faced with a volley of gunshots, while sipping coffee at the Oberoi Hotel on Wednesday night, Ali Arpaciouglu, a Turkish citizen on a business trip to Mumbai, chose to escape through the hotel kitchen and down a flight of stairs that opened onto the road outside.
This was probably one of the best decisions he [...]

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“An Islamic civil rights group in America has condemned the “senseless and inexcusable” terror attacks in Mumbai, while asking the Indian government to protect its citizens from possible retaliatory violence.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group for Muslims, said the “cowardly attacks” were “senseless and inexcusable acts of violence against innocent civilians”.
“American Muslims [...]

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“A new and highly controversial phrase has entered the sometimes cliche-riddled Indian press: “Hindu terrorism”.
As with the term “Islamic terrorism” and “Christian fundamentalism”, this latest addition to the media lexicon is highly emotive.
It was in the aftermath of the 29 September bomb blast in the predominantly Muslim town of Malegaon in the western [...]

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