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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“From the Crusades to the Battle of Lepanto to the cleansing of Kosovo, Christians and Muslims have been spilling blood between our people for more than a thousand years,” said Iranian Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during a recent joint interview with U.S. catholic politician Rick Santorum. “But after a millennia of violence, followers of both religions have started to realize that our faiths are not as different as once assumed. We actually have much in common – from our weird rules about sex to our strange obsession with Israel.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bombing, which left three abortion clinic employees injured, marked the first time in nearly 1,300 years that the independent organizations have worked together to commit an act of religious violence.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“In many ways, Christianity and Islam are more alike than different,” added Santorum. “In several instances – condoms, women’s rights, homosexuality, the subtle push toward unification of church and state – hardline Christians have much more in common with fundamentalist Islam than with the godless heathens of liberal democracy. This bombing marks a new effort to combine the power of our two religions in order to impose our overlapping religious ideals upon the frightened masses.”–<i>Drew Miller</i></span><br />
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America's largest city, an ethnically diverse, politically
liberal melting pot of more than 8 million people, routinely violates
the civil liberties of its racial and ethnic minorities. New York City's
"Stop and Frisk" policy, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/03/the-stop-and-frisk-challenge.html">the subject of class action lawsuit</a>, annually <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/03/the-stop-and-frisk-challenge.html">ensnares</a>
hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers, a majority of them black
and Latino. Complaints about searches sans probable cause are constant.
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/the-horrifying-effects-of-nypd-ethnic-profiling-on-innocent-muslim-americans/274434/detain%20and%20abuse%20a%2017-year-old%20Harlem%20boy,%20calling%20him%20a%20%22fucking%20mutt%22%20and%20threatening%20to%20break%20his%20arm">Listen for yourself</a>
as a 17-year-old Harlem boy is stopped, called a "fucking mutt" and
threatened with a broken arm. Read about the part of "Stop and Frisk"
that was <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/01/nyc_federal_cou.php">already declared unconstitutional</a> in federal court. See <a href="http://newyork.newsday.com/news/new-york/rally-in-manhattan-against-nypd-s-stop-and-frisk-policy-1.4835210#5">the appalled street protesters</a>. The visible activism and vocal dissent is as it should be.<br />
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Mosques are also shying away from giving him a Muslim burial. <br />
Imam Talal Eid of the Islamic Institute of Boston, told <em>Huffington Post</em>.<br />
"I would not be willing to do a funeral for him, this is a person who deliberately killed people."<br />
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were seeking a motive for the Boston Marathon bombings and whether
others were involved as they awaited a chance on Sunday to interview the
surviving ethnic Chechen suspect.<br />
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was in a
Boston hospital seriously wounded and unable to speak, after he was
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His brother, Tamerlan, 26, was killed in a firefight with police earlier on Friday.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Saudi cleric claims the best way for his country
to prevent sexual molestation of young girls is to require them to wear
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The comments, made by cleric Sheikh Abdullah Daoud,
come in the wake of the Fayhan al-Ghamdi verdict. Al-Ghamdi is a Saudi
cleric accused of raping and torturing his five-year-old daughter to
death. On Saturday, Digital Journal <a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/342697" target="_blank">reported</a> al-Ghamdi was ordered to pay "blood money" to the slain girl's mother, but was spared a jail sentence.
Following the verdict, Manal al-Sharif, a women’s rights activist, launched the "Ana Lama" campaign via <a href="https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23AnaLama&src=hash" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.
The campaign is aimed at forcing the Saudi government to enact
legislation that would criminalize violence against women and children.
Under Saudi Arabia’s current Islamic law, a father cannot be executed
for murdering his children, or for murdering his wife.
Daoud, whose critics have dubbed his idea the "baby burkas” campaign,
made the comments in October of last year. However following the
al-Ghamdi verdict, the comments are just now beginning to receive
widespread attention.
During a television interview on Islamic Al-Majd TV, Daoud said wearing
veils that completely covered the face would help prevent baby girls
from being molested. He went on to claim that unnamed medical and
security sources say there is an increase in the number of babies and
young girls being molested, citing the <a href="http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/jordan-father-rape-daughter-444817" target="_blank">case</a> of a 49-year-old man accused of raping his daughter no less than 288 times as an example.
Former Saudi Board of Grievances judge, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Jzlana, is publicly criticizing Daoud for his comments, telling <a href="http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/saudi-burka-fatwa-468002" target="_blank">Al Arabiya</a> that the comments were denigrating to Islam and Shariah and “made Islam look bad”. <a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/342731">Read more</a><br />
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How will burqa prevent girls from being raped by their own fathers or brothers? Every woman in Saudi Arabia is covered in burqa and are completely segregated. There have been wide spread cases where men have dug up the graves of women and raped the dead women. They can hide them in burqa or bury them, these monsters will not leave them alone. Almost always foreigners are hanged publicly for these crimes but Saudis pay blood money and go free. What a shame!!!<br />
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(Reuters) - A
coordinated attack involving at least three suicide bombers and a
powerful car bomb took aim at the headquarters of the Kabul traffic
department on Monday, followed by a clash between at least one insurgent
and security forces, police said.<br />
<span id="midArticle_1"></span>The attack took place just days after six suicide bombers attacked the Afghan spy agency in Kabul, killing two.<br />
<span id="midArticle_2"></span>The Taliban claimed responsibility for Monday's attack.<br />
<span id="midArticle_3"></span>"Today
at 5 o'clock in the morning (8:30 p.m. EST Sunday) a number of
mujahideen martyrs entered a government building close to an American
training centre... Heavy fighting is ongoing," spokesman Zabihullah
Mujahid said in a text message to media.<br />
<span id="midArticle_4"></span>Police
said it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties in the
attack, which involved a second bombing, a tactic favored by Islamist
insurgents elsewhere but relatively rare in <a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/afghanistan" title="Full coverage of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.<br />
<span id="midArticle_5"></span>"About
an hour after the initial attack (triple suicide bomb attack) a fourth
man drove a car to the same compound and detonated another bomb," the
head of the Kabul police criminal investigation department, Mohammad
Zahir, told Reuters.<br />
<span id="midArticle_6"></span>Violence
across the country has been increasing over the last year, sparking
concern over how the 350,000-strong Afghan security forces will be able
to manage once foreign troops withdraw by 2014.<br />
<span id="midArticle_7"></span>(Writing by Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by Nick Macfie)<br />
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United States is celebrating the inauguration of President Obama today. Are the terrorists trying to interfere in these celebrations?What are they accomplish other than kill the innocent people? When will these attacks end? When will Karzai crack down on these terrorists? America will soon leave Afghanistan, but will Afghans always live in terror?<br />
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International (MQI) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on February 5, and sought
explanation from him for violating the oath he took while seeking
asylum, <i>Express News </i>reported.<br />
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The authorities said that Qadri violated the oath stating that he was
not allowed to enter the country he had sought asylum from.<br />
According to <i>Express News </i>correspondent Shakeel Anjum, Abdul
Shakoor Qadri, otherwise known as Tahir Qadri, had sought asylum from
Canada in 2008, fearing threats to his life after he met with the Danish
cartoonist responsible for making blasphemous caricatures of Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh).<br />
Qadri, through his lawyer Mendel Green, had requested that he was
receiving death threats from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan,
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba.<br />
On October 17, 2009, his asylum application was accepted, while he was issued the Canadian passport about six months back.<br />
The MQI chief has also been receiving welfare funds from the Canadian government, citing health issues.<br />
Qadri, who led a 5-day long march in Islamabad which concluded Thursday evening, is currently present in Pakistan.<br />
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United States said on Wednesday that U.S. citizens were among the
hostages taken when Islamist militants raided a gas facility in Algeria
and that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had telephoned
Algeria's prime minister to discuss the incident.</span></span><br />
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<span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph"> </span></span>"Beyond confirming that there are Americans
among the hostages, I will ask you to respect our decision not to get
into any further details as we try to secure these people," State
Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a news briefing.<br />
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Nuland
said Clinton had spoken with both Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek
Sellal and the U.S. ambassador in Algeria on Thursday, and that U.S.
officials were also in contact with the security office of British
Petroleum, which operates the gas field together with Norway's Statoil
and Algeria's state company Sonatrach.<br />
<span id="midArticle_2"></span>The
militants said they had kidnapped up to 41 foreigners, including seven
Americans, in the dawn raid in retaliation for France's intervention in
Mali, according to media reports. The raiders were also reported to have
killed three people, including a Briton and a French national.<br />
<span id="midArticle_3"></span>U.S.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, speaking to reporters in Rome where
he was on an official trip, said that "by all indications, this is a
terrorist act."<br />
<span id="midArticle_4"></span>"Obviously we're continuing to review the situation to determine exactly what happened," Panetta said.<br />
<span id="midArticle_5"></span>"I
want to assure the American people that the United States will take all
necessary and proper steps that are required to deal with this
situation."<br />
<span id="midArticle_6"></span>Panetta said he did not
have any firm information on the number of hostages, or on whether
there were links to the situation in Mali, where French troops launched
their first ground assault against Islamist rebels on Wednesday after
six days of air strikes.<br />
<span id="midArticle_7"></span>"I do know that terrorists are terrorists," Panetta said.<br />
<span id="midArticle_8"></span>(Reporting By Andrew Quinn, additional reporting by David Alexander in Rome; Editing by Sandra Maler and Paul Simao)<br />
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Names of the hostages will be released as soon as the families are informed. According to some reports this attack was in retaliation to France involvement in Mali. We condemn these attack and urge that the hostages be released immediately. <div class="blogger-post-footer">Join us on Facebook
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A Canadian cleric, who has twice played a part in backing military juntas in nuclear-armed Pakistan, is back in that country. And once more, he appears to be facilitating a military takeover in Islamabad.<br />
Tahir-ul-Qadri is better known for his role in the creation of the infamous “Anti-Blasphemy Law” of Pakistan, that has brought untold misery to religious minorities and agnostics.<br />
In the 1980s, Qadri backed the military junta of the Islamist General Zia who had overthrown former prime minister Z.A. Bhutto. In 1999, he backed the administration of General Pervez Musharraf, which had staged a coup against former prime minister Nawaz Shariff.<br />
By the time democracy was restored in Pakistan, Qadri had emigrated to Canada, where he went into political hibernation until he became eligible for a Canadian passport.<br />
With that in hand, Qadri left Canada to manage his worldwide network of devotees, who believe the Prophet Muhammad has appeared in Qadri’s dreams and gives him instructions.<br />
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A series of
bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 115 people on Thursday,
including 81 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall
in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said.<br />
The
blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan,
where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in
the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest. <a href="http://QUETTA, Pakistan A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 115 people on Thursday, including 81 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said. The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest.">read more</a><br />
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Thursday's attack came despite a massive security operation mounted to safeguard the millions of pilgrims travelling to and from Karbala for the conclusion of Arbaeen commemorations.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Join us on Facebook
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Why raise the bar to the use of these weapons? On Monday alone 300 people were killed according to human rights observers. Isn't it enough that he is killing hundreds of people every day, now the World will wait to see if he will actually use these weapons? We have removed dictators for lessor of crimes in the past so why wait on this one? Any thoughts?<div class="blogger-post-footer">Join us on Facebook
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The vote was 138 in favor,
nine against and 41 abstaining. <br />
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“The moment has arrived for the world to
say clearly: Enough of aggression, settlements and occupation,” Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said to the packed UN General
Assembly.<br />
“We did not come here seeking to delegitimize a state
established years ago, and that is Israel; rather we came to affirm the
legitimacy of the state that must now achieve its independence, and that is
Palestine,” he said.<br />
“We did not come here to add further complications
to the peace process, which Israel’s policies have thrown into the intensive
care unit; rather we came to launch a final serious attempt to achieve peace,”
Abbas continued.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Join us on Facebook
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What happens when the schools close and it 'missile day'. When it's not the beautiful snow falling from the sky but missiles, when parents are not worried about going to work but worried about saving their young ones, when there is is no sledging other than sledging into bunkers. Missiles were being launched by Gaza into Israel indiscriminately, and they were landing at schools and populated ares. Same way Israel was sending missiles into Gaza killing hundreds, including children. Pictures coming out of Gaza were horrific, wounded children, veiling mothers and helpless grand parents. <br />
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Schools were closed on the both side of the border and children were traumatized on both side of the border. Will these children get any therapy and consoling? Will the the adults work towards the lasting peace? When these children look at their missing limbs will they hold the their adults accountable or will they hold grudge for the enemy? These children have deep wounds both physically and emotionally. My fear is that if these children are ignored and they will turn into the new crop of extremists. <br />
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We need two State solution, we need the parties to come to the table and work toward peace. Israel is here to stay and no one can will it away. Sooner Palestinians realize that the better it would be for them and the World. Children need to be children where they ran and laugh and not have a care in the World and not worry about the loud blasts that would rupture their ear drums or worse kill them.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Join us on Facebook
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CAIRO (AP) — <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1353519706_2">Egypt</span> has announced a cease-fire agreement to end a week of fighting between <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1353519706_3">Israel</span> and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.</div>
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<span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1353519706_0">Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr</span>
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In Jerusalem, <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1353519706_1">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</span> confirmed the deal, saying he had agreed after consulting with President Barack Obama.</div>
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The deal is to end a week of fighting that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and five Israelis.</div>
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Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated Monday afternoon. “If what has been done up to now will not return quiet to the South, we
have no choice but to expand the operation. The residents of the South — and in
recent days not only the South — cannot live under a constant barrage of
missiles and rockets. This is an intolerable situation.”<br />
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<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/while-both-sides-talk-of-ceasefires-and-ground-offensives-day-six-of-gaza-conflict-ends-with-no-decisive-change/">Read more</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Join us on Facebook
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TEL AVIV – A missile launch site in the Gaza Strip was set up<span id="more-20710"></span>
by Hamas just half a block from a mosque and children’s playground,
according to aerial photographs provided to KleinOnline by the Israel
Defense Forces today.<br />
Israel yesterday carried out a surgical strike of the site in
question – a Fajr-5 missile launch pad established in the heavily
populated Zeitoun district of Gaza to fire long range rockets into the
Jewish state.<br />
The photograph of the launch site, posted above, shows a children’s
playground and a mosque located about a half a block away as well as two
civilian factories and a gas station also within a half a block radius. <a href="http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2012/11/15/photo-hamas-missile-launch-pad-near-mosque-playground-civilian-factories-gas-station-also-half-a-block-from-fajr-5-site/">Read more</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Join us on Facebook
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media, said in his twitter account the Israeli army has 'targeted 70
underground pads of medium range rockets in the Gaza Strip.'<br />
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Rockets are raining on the both side and innocent people are dying. Businesses are closed and people have hunkered down. The fear is that it can escalate into full blown war as Israeli troops are marching towards the border. <div class="blogger-post-footer">Join us on Facebook
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Malala Yousufzai was shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday as she was leaving her school in her hometown in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad.</div>
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The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying her promotion of education for girls was pro-Western and she had opposed them.</div>
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The shooting has outraged people in a country seemingly inured to extreme violence since a surge in Islamist militancy began after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.</div>
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When a group put posters on subway stations in New York calling Islamic fundamentalists barbarian, a lot of people all over the world got upset. This the face of barbarianism my friends, who would try to kill a beautiful, intelligent young girl.</blockquote>
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We here at MMV are deeply saddened at this act of barbarianism, and send deepest apology to all Americans and especially to the families of the victims.<br />
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Here are the pictures from Libya <br />
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