British Broadcasting Corporation South Asia Al-Qaeda’s remaining leaders After 11 September 2001, the US issued a list of suspected al-Qaeda leaders. Many have now been captured or killed, including Osama Bin Laden, while some new names have emerged. Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant group, is […]
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NEWSMAX.COM Why Obama Doesn’t Think Much of Easter Tuesday, 26 Apr 2011 By L.D. Breen The media and the blogosphere are abuzz with dumbfounded reactions to the White House’s snub of Christians during the weekend. No presidential proclamation celebrating Christianity’s highest holy day of Easter was issued, compounded by the White House chief spokesman’s scoffing
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Perish the Thought Who killed the spirit of inquiry in Islam? David Aikman April 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 29 The Closing of the Muslim Mind How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly ISI, 244 pp., $26.95 What happened to Islamic culture? Why did a
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APRIL 9, 2011 The contradictory faces of political Islam in post-Mubarak Egypt. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Cairo Two months after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptian politics are a dervish of confused agitation. Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches. A joke has it that 10% of Egyptians
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APRIL 7, 2011 Mobs murder more than 20 innocents in the name of God—and the commander of Afghan forces rebukes a publicity-hungry pastor in Florida. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ It must have come as a disappointment to the mullahs of Mazar-e-Sharif—who sent the faithful out on Friday with instructions to avenge the recent insult to the
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APRIL 5, 2011 Mr. Goldstone Recants Now the U.N. author says he didn’t have the facts when he accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza. Regrets, Richard Goldstone has a few, if you can believe it. The principal author of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s notorious “fact-finding mission” report on the Gaza war of 2008-09
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