Tag: Islamic extremism

Extremist Islamists torch shops in Egypt

June 3, 2014 Egypt Blasphemy, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Luxor

An Islamic extremist mob threw gasoline bombs at shops owned by Coptic Christians in a village near Luxor, Egypt on Monday. Authorities are investigating the attack, which happened hours before the nearby blasphemy trial of Kerolos Ghattas, a Coptic Christian, accused with contempt to Islam over his alleged Internet postings. . . . Read More

Grenade attack on Central African Republic church

May 29, 2014 Central African Republic Bangui, Central African Republic, Islamic extremism, Seleka, UN

Militant Islamists poured grenades and gunfire into a Catholic church compound in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui on Wednesday, killing an undetermined number of people, including a priest. The Associated Press said its journalists counted five bodies at local hospitals, but also cited a priest who estimated as . . . Read More

Sudanese woman gives birth on death row

May 27, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Mariam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, 27, gave birth to a baby girl at a prison near Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. She is allowed to nurse her new-born baby for two years before the death sentence is fulfilled and her 20-month-old son has been in prison with her since she was arrested. Mariam, . . . Read More

Uganda churches warned of Al-Shabaab ‘threats’

May 22, 2014 Uganda Al-Shabaab, East Africa, Islamic extremism, Kampala, Kenya, Somalia

Uganda and Kenya authorities have scaled up security in recent days in response to warnings from Western countries that a jihadist group is planning to attack churches in Uganda. The U.S. embassy in Uganda warned that churches there may face “specific threats” from Al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based militant Islamist terrorist group. . . . Read More

68 Pakistani lawyers charged with blasphemy

May 14, 2014 Pakistan Blasphemy, Islamic extremism, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, Punjab

Pakistani police in Punjab have opened a blasphemy case on Sunday against 68 lawyers after they staged a protest last week against a police officer. The police complaint stated that the protesting lawyers had insulted a close companion of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed while they were demonstrating outside a district police . . . Read More

How does Boko Haram justify kidnap of 230 Nigerian teenage girls?

April 25, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Islamic extremism, Nigeria, Trauma

As the world vacillates between outrage and numb impotence in the face of Boko Haram’s recent kidnapping of about 230 teenage girls from the mainly Christian enclave of Chibok, northern Nigeria, the questions “Why these girls?” and “How much longer?” beg yet again for answers. But from whom? A timely . . . Read More

Tony Blair calls for focus on radical Islam

April 23, 2014 Global News -- No Particular Country China, Islamic extremism, London, Middle East, Russia, Tony Blair, UK, Ukraine

Former UK Prime Minister and now Middle East envoy Tony Blair has encouraged Western leaders to focus on the threat of Islamic extremism and to put aside their differences with Russia over Ukraine. In his speech at Bloomberg’s London office Mr Blair called on Western leaders to “elevate the issue . . . Read More

Sharia postponed in Brunei

April 23, 2014 Brunei Brunei, Islamic extremism, Prophet Muhammad, Sharia, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, UN

Brunei’s all-powerful Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has postponed the introduction of tough Islamic criminal punishments that were due to begin on April 22. Brunei said in October that it would introduce Islamic law (Sharia) punishments including flogging, death by stoning and the severing of limbs for theft. No new date was given . . . Read More

Christianity and genocide?

April 20, 2014 Global News -- No Particular Country Angela Merkel, David Cameron, Genocide, Islamic extremism, Lord Alton, Shahbaz Bhatti, Syria, UN

In the lead-up to Easter, UK Prime Minister David Cameron committed his government to fighting the persecution of Christians abroad, saying no group is under more pressure for its faith. Cameron is not alone in making the claim. In February, US Congressman Chris Smith said “The global persecution of Christians . . . Read More

Killing in Kessab

April 17, 2014 Syria Aleppo, Armenians, Islamic extremism, Syria

Further details have emerged of what’s been happening since the invasion of Kessab by Islamist rebels, which sent thousands of Syrians fleeing the predominantly Armenian Christian town. According to a World Watch Monitor source 23-year-old Kevork Jourian was killed by members of Syrian rebel groups as they were searching for guns . . . Read More

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