The Politicization of the Boston Bombings Has Begun
Source: The Daily Beast The attacks has nothing to do with immigration reform, but partisans are rushing to exploit them anyway. Howard Kurtz examines the false arguments. More:
Security breach as Maduro sworn in as Venezuelan president
Source: TOI SAO PAULO: The six-day old drama around Nicolas Maudro’s election as Venezuela’s president took a nasty turn on Friday, when he was pushed from the microphone as he delivered his inaugural address. As Maduro was delivering his speech after taking oath as Venezuela’s new president, a man rushed […]
Western double standards – a view expressed by a Saudi reader
Arab News Monday 22 April 2013 While the whole world deplores and condemns this wanton and senseless act of terror in Boston, which claimed 3 innocent lives and injured over […]
Bombing Inquiry Turns to Motive and Russian Trip
Source: NY Times: WASHINGTON — With one suspect dead and the other captured and lying grievously wounded in a hospital, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned on Saturday to questions about the men’s motives, and to the significance of an overseas trip one of them took last year. […]
Boston bombings appear to be Sunni extremist terrorism
Source:MSNBC By: Michael Leiter, NBC National Security analyst Details in Vedio:
To Boston From Kabul With Love
Source: NBC News via Wasim Sr. A chicken vendor in Kabul, Afghanistan expresses sympathy for Bostonians after the marathon attack.By Ron Mott, Correspondent, NBC News KABUL – After more than three decades of war, you would think Afghans would be desensitized to violent attacks like the Boston Marathon explosion. A Boston-based […]
Many Americans converting to Islam despite growing islamaphobia
Youtube: Russian TV: Despite the 9/11 event and more recent terrorist activities painting the wrong image of Islam, people continue to find appeal and peace in the message of Islam. Watch here:
As second Boston bomber is captured, new questions on immigrants and adjustment
Chidanand RajghattaChidanand Rajghatta, TNN THE TIMES OF INDIA WASHINGTON: Cornered in a boat after gun battles with police had left him injured and bloodied, the teenage brother of a radicalized Chechen who was killed in firefight with Boston police was captured alive on Friday. The finale, which ended the four-day […]
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Our hearts are sickened by the horror he inflicted’: Shocked family of All-American girl who converted to Islam to marry Boston bomber say tragedy proves ‘we never really knew him’
Slain Chechen terror suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was married to middle class college student Katherine Russell, 24. The couple have a three-year-old daughter called Zahara Tamerlan spent every weekend with Katherine’s […]
‘Israel prefers US to do the job in Iran’
RT: It would be more convenient for Israel if the US attacked Iran because they have the capacity to do so, journalist and author Yossi Melman told RT. The Israeli […]
Boston marathon bombs suspect captured
Source: BBC The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is in custody after being found hiding in a boat in a suburban homeowner’s backyard. Police said they exchanged gunfire […]
A Giant Setback for Human Rights
Source: NY Times: The Supreme Court’s conservatives dealt a major blow Wednesday to the ability of American federal courts to hold violators of international human rights accountable. The court declaredthat a 1789 law called the Alien Tort Statute does not allow foreigners to sue in American courts to seek redress […]
Read the Mind of Boston Terror Suspect!
Source: NY Times: The suspects were brothers. The one who was on the loose was taken into custody on Friday evening. He was the younger of the two, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The elder, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a confrontation with authorities, but not before participating in the fatal […]
Boston Bombing Suspect Caught
Source: ET The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathonbombings, whose flight from the police after a furious gunfight overnight prompted an intense manhunt that virtually shut down the Boston area all day, was taken into custody Friday night after the police found him in nearby Watertown, Mass., officials said.The suspect, […]
Abraham Lincoln’s Atheist Period and His Journey to God
Huff Post: We have heard the soaring phrases often. They are fixed in the American book of verse. Now, they sound again in Steven Spielberg’s magnificent film, “Lincoln.” They come to us as tones of faith from Abraham Lincoln’s presidential speeches: “a firm reliance on Him who has never yet […]
The U.S. Anti-Muslim Crowd Is Quite Pleased with Itself
The Atlantic: The suspected Boston marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsaraev, are Muslim. Were their actions motivated by religion? And if it was, were they part of an organized radical Islamist group? We don’t know. But that doesn’t matter to a segment of anti-Islam bloggers who are latching onto the sparse biographical details as […]
American Muslims mourn for Boston Marathon victims
Source: Syracuse.com Letter to the Editor: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA expresses its most heartfelt condolences to the victims and families affected by the bombings in Boston and prays that God Almighty gives them patience, comfort and strength during this time of immense struggle. While details of the attack continue to emerge, […]
Immigration and terror
Source: The Economist. THE strangest commentary produced by the news that the Boston terrorists seem to have been a pair of Chechen brothers from Dagestan has been speculation that this could mean trouble for immigration reform. The initial speculation earlier this week, before the bombers’ identities were known, involved comparisons […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA mourns for Boston Marathon victims
Source: www.blog.syracuse.com Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA expresses its most heartfelt condolences to the victims and families affected by the bombings in Boston and prays that God Almighty gives them patience, comfort and […]
HuffPost Jummah: Living With Fear
Huffpost: By: Imam Sohaib Sultan Along with the rest of the nation, I watched in horror as the tragedy and travesty in Boston unfolded before our very eyes this […]