CLIMATE OF FEAR: People attend funeral for French police officer Ahmed Merabet, who was killed during attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Muslims across Europe fear backlash after the incident. (AFP) AGENCIES Published — Wednesday 14 January 2015 PARIS: Firebombs and pig heads thrown into mosques. Veiled women […]
NY Times: President Obama was criticized for failing to attend, or send a proper surrogate to, the giant antiterrorism march in Paris on Sunday. That criticism was right. But it is typical of American politics today that we focus on this and not what would have really made the world […]
Source: Jihad Watch “We will not give in otherwise all this won’t have meant anything.” They are to be commended for their courage and resolution. While the lights of freedom are going out all over the West, as authorities and media outlets rush to capitulate to Islamic supremacist demands for […]
Haaretz.com: PARIS – The flags are back at full mast, the snipers have descended from the roofs and the marchers have gone back to work. World leaders are heading home, […]
Source: Arab News The incident was the latest in a string of hostile acts against mosques in France since three attacks by armed jihadists in and around Paris last week left 17 people dead. In other cases, buildings have been defaced with racist slogans, sprayed with gun shot, or otherwise […]
Washington Post: by Adam Taylor — On Sunday, at least 1.5 million people marched through Paris in a dramatic display of solidarity after extremists killed 12 people at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and four at a kosher grocery last week. A police officer also was fatally shot. It was […]
Source: gulfnews.com Charleville-Mizihres, France: Mourad Hamyd describes himself as a normal 18-year-old who lives with his parents but on the day France was gripped by the Charlie Hebdo massacre, he became known as “the third suspect” — even though he was in class at the time of the shooting. More…..http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other-world/teen-in-shock-after-wrongly-linked-to-charlie-hebdo-attack-1.1439603
Washington Post: PARIS — At a kosher supermarket in Paris, a quick-thinking Muslim employee hides several Jewish shoppers in the basement before sneaking out to brief police on the hostage-taker […]
JIM EDWARDS JAN. 9, 2015, 7:20 AM The police officer executed by gunmen in a street outside the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris was a Muslim. His name was […]
Algeria. Long before the identity of the murder suspects was revealed by the French police – even before I heard the names of Cherif and Said Kouachi – I muttered the word “Algeria” to myself. As soon as I heard the names and saw the faces, I said the word […]
The New Yorker: by Teju Cole — A northern-Italian miller in the sixteenth century, known as Menocchio, literate but not a member of the literary élite, held a number of unconventional theological beliefs. He believed that the soul died with the body, that the world was created out of a […]
Source: Open Salon By Muhammad Zafrullah JANUARY 10, 2015 10:08PM Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo offices during an editorial meeting on January 7, 2015. They killed the magazine’s editor and his police bodyguard and several others, injuring quite a few. The total number killed came to be […]
Up to one million people are expected to attend the Paris Unity rally after the shootings earlier this week, including many European leaders For live transmission go to The Telegraph […]
Source:theguardian.com Ahmed Merabet, the police officer gunned down in the Charlie Hebdo attack, was killed in an act of barbarity by “false Muslims” his brother said in a moving tribute on Saturday, where he also appealed for unity and tolerance. Speaking for a group of relatives gathered in Paris, Malek […]
Source: theguardian.com Up to a million people – including dozens of world leaders – will converge on Paris on Sunday in a show of defiance and unity after terrorist attacks that left 17 people dead last week in the French capital. In what will be one of the most significant […]
By Shahid Khan This week’s 9/11-style attack on France has sent shockwaves through the nation and the entire world, as terrorists murdered 17 people in coordinated assaults in Paris both […]
Source:elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk In Paris, a grand mosque built in honour of the 100,000 Muslim soldiers who died fighting for France in the First World War, became a sanctuary for Jews escaping persecution less than three decades later. Si Kaddour Benghabrit was a French Algerian who was deeply loyal to France. During […]
France is at “war” with terrorism, but not religion, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Friday as police cornered two suspected Islamist gunmen near Paris. “We are in a war against […]
This Muslim Man Saved Several People During The Paris Market Siege Lassana Bathily is being hailed as a hero. posted on Jan. 10, 2015, at 5:23 p.m. David Mack BuzzFeed News […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com On Wednesday, gunmen attacked the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The magazine is known for its controversial depictions of the prophet Mohammad, which is believed to […]