The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has warned France and the editors of Charlie Hebdo they may face the same fate as Salman Rushdie after more cartoons were published by the satirical magazine mocking Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader.
“I advise the French and directors of the Charlie Hebdo magazine to take a look at the fate of Salman Rushdie,” Major-General Hossein Salami said according to the Mehr news agency on Tuesday.
A Latina art teacher, a Shiite painting of Mohammed, and tolerance theocracy.
The decision by Hamline University to purge a minority art teacher for showing a Shiite painting of Mohammed has traveled from the outskirts of a few blogs, and a student paper of the small private college in St. Paul, to art sites, a PEN condemnation and finally the New York Times.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have yet to achieve cold fusion, but they have poured their time and money into creating a video game about racism on an airplane.
With real racism being so rare these days, it’s no wonder that it had to be manufactured.
Shamima Begum, who left Britain to join Islamic State as a schoolgirl in 2015, has said she understands public anger towards her but insists she is “not this person that they think I am”.
Begum, who was 15 when she left her east London home to join IS with her school friends Kadiza Sultana, 15, and Amira Abase, 16, has told the story of how she joined the terror group and life in a refugee camp in a 10-part BBC podcast, The Shamima Begum Story.
Begum was found in a refugee camp in 2019, stripped of British citizenship and banned from entering Britain. She said she knew the public saw her “as a danger, as a risk, as a potential risk to them, to their safety, to their way of living”, but added: “I’m not this person that they think I am.”
She knew exactly what she was doing.
Note Google Translate – “According to the first elements of the investigation, the defendant would have shouted “Allah Akbar” during the attack . An element that the investigators of the criminal brigade are verifying, by cross-checking the hearing of witnesses and victims. According to information from Europe 1, the suspect, on whom no paper was found, says he is Algerian . He says his name is Mohamed Amine M. , a name unknown to the police and he was born, according to his statements, on April 14, 1991. He would therefore be 31 years old. Investigators are trying to cross-check his statements.”
We now return you to the English language …
Gare du Nord: Six people injured in stabbing attack
Six people have been injured with one in a critical condition after a stabbing at Paris’s international Gare du Nord station early on Wednesday.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said a man was stopped by two off-duty police officers who were returning home from a shift.
He said the suspected attacker was shot three times and taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Authorities are trying to establish if there was a motive for the attack.
Pro-Tip – start with asking why the stabby Mohammedan shouted “Allahu Akbar”
For Canadians, and millions the world over, the infamous black and white flag flown by ISIS is a symbol of terrorism, death and persecution.
When an image of that very flag was sent in an email to parents in October by the principal of a downtown Toronto elementary school, it left some like May Woo “shocked” and “in disbelief.”
Darlene is rumoured to be a very stupid woman.
A shipment of uranium has been seized at Heathrow airport – sparking an investigation by counter terrorism police who fear there could have been plans to use it to make a dirty bomb.
The undeclared material was discovered on December 29 on a passenger flight which arrived from Oman.
The package originated from Pakistan and was destined for an Iranian business with a premises in the UK.
The terrorist who allegedly killed eight people by ramming into them with a truck on a lower Manhattan bike path smiled at the thought of his murderous rampage while giving a proud confession to an FBI agent soon after the 2017 attack, a federal prosecutor said at the start of his trial Monday.
Sayfullo Saipov, 34, repeatedly proclaimed his support for ISIS after the attack, including to an FBI agent who is set to testify at his terrorism trial in Manhattan federal court, Assistant US Attorney Alexander Li told jurors in his opening statement.
“He smiled at the memory of his attack and asked for an ISIS flag to hang in his hospital room,” Li said, adding Saipov was eager to speak with the FBI and provide a “proud confession.”
ISIS bride, 28, wants to return to US and regrets everything – apart from young son
A woman who fled the United States to join ISIS and marry a fighter has spoken of her desire to return home and help fight extremism.
Hoda Muthana, who ran away from Alabama aged 20, says she regrets everything about joining the terror group bar the infant son she conceived with her soldier husband.
She claims she was brainwashed by online traffickers into joining the group in 2014 and denounced tweets from her account the year after which called for Americans to join ISIS and commit vehicle rammings and other attacks on US holiday celebrations.
NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters) – A man accused of using a truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path on Halloween in 2017 is an Islamic State sympathizer who carried out the attack to satisfy the militant group, federal prosecutors said on Monday.
Sayfullo Saipov, 34, left behind “a scene of destruction and horror” when he employed a rental truck as a weapon and mowed down people on Oct. 31, 2017, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Li told a jury during 30 minutes of opening statements.
A man in Sweden who was praised for cleaning up after last year’s Easter Qur’an riots by Swedish media has been arrested after being accused of participating in the riots himself.
Hate preacher said Harry’s claim he killed 25 Taliban was a ‘wake-up call’ for Muslims everywhere to ‘end the occupation of foreign forces’
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has called for jihadis to “wake up” and target British troops, following Prince Harry’s admission that he had killed 25 members of the Taliban.
The 55-year-old Islamist, who was jailed for terror offences in 2016, accused the Duke of Sussex of being a “Muslim killer” and said he had shown his “true colours”.
Prince Harry made the comments in his forthcoming memoir, Spare, in which he recalled his time serving as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.
I bet Meghan put Anjem up to this!
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says a man was arrested in connection with an arson incident at a power facility.
According to Las Vegas police, at approximately 11:37 a.m. on Jan. 4, officers were notified of a “malicious destruction of property incident” that occurred at a power facility in the 10500 block of Highway 93.
Police say that employees advised officers that an unknown subject had broken into the fenced facility and set a vehicle on fire next to a transformer, resulting in damages.
Through the course of the investigation, LVMPD says its Counter Terrorism detectives identified the subject as Mohammed Mesmarian, 34.
Police detain 32-year-old in town near Dortmund after tipoff from foreign agency believed to be the FBI
German police have arrested an Iranian man suspected of planning a chemical attack motivated by Islamic extremism.
The 32-year-old was seized at his flat shortly before midnight on Saturday in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, close to Dortmund in western Germany. The arrest followed a tip-off from a foreign intelligence agency that the man had obtained toxins, including cyanide and ricin, with which he planned to carry out a terror attack, authorities said on Sunday.
Another man, believed to be the man’s brother, was also detained. He was known to police but not for his links to terrorism, and it is as yet unclear whether he was involved in the plot.
