Tag: Terrorism

Pakistan’s bombing ‘part of wider struggle’

March 29, 2016 Pakistan Blasphemy, Easter, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism

The Lahore bombing on Easter Sunday that killed at least 70 is part of a wider struggle against extremism in Pakistan, explains a British correspondent for . He was in the country during what he calls an Easter ‘weekend of madness’; it also saw 25,000 hard-line Islamic protestors march on . . . Read More

Boko Haram ‘more deadly terror group’ in 2014 than IS

November 20, 2015 Adamawa, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Denmark, Education, Gombe, Hamas, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Israel, Kano, Lake Chad, London, Maiduguri, Middle East, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger, Nigeria, Paris, Quran, Terrorism, UN

Boko Haram was the world’s deadliest terror group in 2014, ahead of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, according to a report released on 18 Nov. by the Institute of Economics & Peace. It was responsible for 6,664 deaths in 2014, more than any other terrorist group in the world, according to the Global . . . Read More

West doesn’t understand terrorist ideology

October 7, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Education, Islamic extremism, New York, Sharia, Terrorism, Tony Blair, UK, Women

Speaking at New York’s 9/11 museum yesterday, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has appealed to the West to understand how terrorists are driven by jihadist ideology. Delivering a speech published by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Blair said: “we have spent the years since 9/11 trying to make sense . . . Read More

How does a man kill ‘in God’s name’? asks former UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

July 8, 2015 Islamic extremism, London, Terrorism

A vital text in winning the peace’ – Sacks’ new bookHodder & Stoughton Ten years on from the 7/7 London bombings, in which 52 people were killed and hundreds were injured by four separate suicide bombers, the world is still looking for an answer as to why religious people kill . . . Read More

Algerian in France ‘planned to attack church(es)’

April 22, 2015 Algeria, Churches, France, Islamic extremism, Paris, Syria, Terrorism

A 24-year-old Algerian, arrested in south-east Paris for possessing handguns, other weapons and bulletproof vests, told police he was planning to attack “one or more churches”. The French Interior Minister said the information technology student had previously come to the attention of the French authorities as possibly wanting to go to . . . Read More

Egypt seeks international help against IS after 21 Christians beheaded

February 16, 2015 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Al-Azhar, Bishop Angaelos, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Libya, Minya, Samalut, Terrorism, Wahhabism

Egypt began seven days of national mourning after Islamist militants released a graphic video on 15 February, depicting the mass beheading of 20 Coptic Christians and a Ghanaian Christian in Libya. Originally it was believed that all 21 men were Coptic Egyptians, but on 25 February MidEast Christian News confirmed . . . Read More

Pakistan haunted by school massacre

December 17, 2014 Pakistan All Saints Church, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Peshawar, Taliban, Terrorism

The attack on a military school in Peshawar, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban as a response to an army offensive in the Khyber area and North Waziristan regions, is the deadliest in Pakistan’s recent memory. Its toll surpasses the September 2013 massacre in the same city at All Saints Anglican Church by . . . Read More

Malatya murders fault of Turkish ultranationalists

August 20, 2014 Turkey Malatya, Terrorism, Turkey

Defendants at the 95th hearing over the murder of three Christians in Malatya, eastern Turkey told the Malatya High Criminal Court on 18 Aug. that a “parallel structure”, an ultranationalist cabal of retired generals, politicians, journalists and mafia members were responsible for the deaths. Prosecution lawyer Erdal Dogan said the . . . Read More

Terrorist link to torched churches

December 3, 2013 Russia Islamic extremism, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Tatarstan, Terrorism

Russia’s Tatarstan Republic is offering 1 million rubles ($30,000) for information relating to the recent torching of several Orthodox churches in the region. Four Orthodox churches were set on fire in the predominantly Muslim Republic in November and explosives were found in the city of Tuban Kama and the Aleksei . . . Read More

Church welcomes US designation of Boko Haram as Foreign Terrorist Organisation

November 15, 2013 Nigeria Adamawa, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Ansaru, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Terrorism, Yobe

One of the major organisations representing Christians in Nigeria has welcomed the US State Department’s announcement on Nov 13 that it has designated Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist group (FTO). The Department also classified its splinter group Ansaru as an FTO. Boko Haram is believed to have links to Al-Qaeda . . . Read More

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