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  • The Stealth Crusade
    The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
  • McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam
    McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam By David Corn | Wed March 12, 2008 12:00 AM PST Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of d...
  • Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire
    Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire Last Updated: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 12:06 PM ET Comments340...
  • UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery
    UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery Last Updated: Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 5:58 AM ET Comments189...
  • UN: No fighters in targeted school
    UN: No fighters in targeted school ...
  • UN and Red Cross halt Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli attacks on staff
    UN and Red Cross halt Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli attacks on staff Module body ...
  • Time Magazine Explains the Israel & Palestine Situation - "The End: How It Got That Way"
    Monday, Jul. 01, 2002 The End: How It Got That Way By DAVID VAN BIEMA Calamity is the mother of end-of-the-world prophecy. This is true as millions of Americans, many rattled into an End Times frame of mind by Sept. 11, line up to buy the latest installment in the Left Behind series, The Remnant. It was true when the first prophecies of the End appeared in the Hebrew Bible in response to a great national catastrophe in 586...
  • UN Security Council must not fail civilians caught in Gaza conflict
    UN Security Council must not fail civilians caught in Gaza conflict 5 January 2009 Amnesty International today urged the UN Security Council to take firm and decisive action to address the increasingly grave situation in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel. “Civilian casualties and destruction in Gaza are on an unprecedented scale. T...
  • UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets
    UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets Last Updated: Monday, December 29, 2008 | 9:53 PM ET Comments1198...
  • U.S. authorities uncover skinhead plot to assassinate Obama
    U.S. authorities uncover skinhead plot to assassinate Obama Last Updated: Monday, October 27, 2008 | 6:01 PM ET Comments145...
  • Charges dropped against 5 Guantanamo detainees
    Charges dropped against 5 Guantanamo detainees U.S. defence secretary calls for swift closure of prison Last Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 8:11 PM ET Comments20...
  • Who speaks for Islam? - Gallup Report Disproves Stereotypes Against Muslims & Islam
    Who speaks for Islam? by John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed 14 February 2008Washington, DC - Extremists and terrorism have too often monopolised the media's coverage and thus the message coming out of the Muslim world. But what do the vast majority of mainstream Muslims really believe, think, and feel? What are their hopes, fears, and resentments? Why is it that a robust anti-Americanism see...
  • Hamas, Hezbollah websites hosted by Canadian servers
    Hamas, Hezbollah websites hosted by Canadian servers Last Updated: Friday, July 11, 2008 | 7:38 PM ET Comments23...
  • Emotions run high over Maclean's article
    Emotions run high over Maclean's article TheStar.com - Canada - Emotions run high over Maclean's article ...
  • Israel fires missiles into Palestinian presidential compound
    Israel fires missiles into Palestinian presidential compound Last Updated Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:52:28 EDT CBC News Israeli aircraft fired three missiles Tuesday into the Gaza Strip compound of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, injuring two people. Abbas was not in the compound during the attack, which left deep craters in the ground. ...
  • Trio detained in attack on Nazareth church
    Trio detained in attack on Nazareth church Last Updated Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:16:03 EST CBC News Police in the northern Israel town of Nazareth removed three people from the Basilica of the Annunciation Friday, hours after they caused a major disturbance by setting off explosives in one of Christianity's holiest churches. Witnesses said the trio entered ...
  • Row builds over Jerusalem voting
    Row builds over Jerusalem voting by Wednesday 21 December 2005 8:53 AM GMT Shaath said without voting in Jerusalem there would be no election The Palestinian Authority says will cancel 25 January parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with plans to bar Jerusalem Palestinians from voting. "If the Israelis insist on not allowing us to conduct the elections in Jerusalem, then there will be no elections at all," Nabil Shaath, the Pales...
  • Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote
    Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote 06:52:14 EST Dec 21, 2005 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinian Authority will cancel Jan. 25 parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with its plan to bar Palestinians from voting in disputed Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been under growing pressure from his Fatah Party to postpone the vote, amid concer...
  • Israeli court upholds guerrilla's right to claim compensation for torture
    Israeli court upholds guerrilla's right to claim compensation for torture 11:44:49 EST Dec 20, 2005 JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli court on Tuesday upheld a Lebanese guerrilla leader's right to demand compensation for torture he says he underwent in an Israeli prison. Israel abducted Mustafa Dirani in 1994, hoping to use him as a bargaining chip for information on Ron Arad, an Israeli airman whose jet was downed over Lebanon in 1986. Israel claims Dirani's Amal ...
  • Life returns to Palestinian village
    Life returns to Palestinian village by Motasem A Dalloul in al-Syafa, Gaza Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:32 AM GMT Al-Syafa was under a virtual Israeli lockdown for five years Nearly four months after Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian village once cordoned off between two Jewish settlements is slowly coming back to life. Located in the northern Gaza Strip, the village of al-Syafa had been caught between the Israeli set...
  • Emotional Democrat becomes latest symbol of gathering storm over Iraq
    Emotional Democrat becomes latest symbol of gathering storm over Iraq 18:51:37 EST Nov 17, 2005 BETH GORHAM WASHINGTON (CP) - The pressure on President George W. Bush over Iraq just keeps mounting as his popularity dips. Some Democrats are talking more about an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. Republicans want Iraqis to assume more control for security, though they're not seeking a definitive timetable for pulling out of a war that's increasingly unpopular with A...
  • White House blamed for Iraq abuses
    White House blamed for Iraq abuses by Thursday 17 November 2005 5:12 AM GMT Karpinski: I was made a scapegoat by my colleagues The former US commander of Abu Ghraib prison says that she was held up unfairly as a scapegoat by "male warriors", but the real blame for the abuse scandal rests with military leaders and the White House. In her newly released autobiography, One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story, ...
  • Religious turbulence hits Indonesia
    Religious turbulence hits Indonesia by Marianne Kearney in Jakarta, Indonesia Sunday 09 October 2005 9:25 AM GMT The attacks have been a blot on Indonesia's religious tolerance A spate of recent church closures and attacks on the compound of a sect has highlighted a debate raging within the Indonesian Muslim community over religious freedom and tolerance. On 21 September, hundreds of young men attacked the compound of a small sect, the A...
  • US televangelist wants Chavez killed
    US televangelist wants Chavez killed by Tuesday 23 August 2005 6:56 AM GMT Chavez has emerged as one of America's harshest critics US televangelist Pat Robertson has called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while a radio host has been fired by a Washington station after he refused to apologise for calling Islam a terrorist organisation. Calling Chavez a "terrific danger" to the US, Robertson, founder of the Christ...
  • Gaza evacuation begins; Israeli gunman kills 3 in West Bank
    Gaza evacuation begins; Israeli gunman kills 3 in West Bank Last Updated Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:26:28 EDT CBC News Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of protesters in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday. Unarmed soldiers broke through burning barricades and marched door-to-door ordering people out of their homes in at least five settlements. * INDEPTH: FAQ on Israeli settlements Also today, An Israeli gunman opened fire on Pa...
  • Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip
    Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip 10:13 AM EDT Aug 04 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel announced plans Thursday to expand a settlement near Jerusalem, its latest effort to consolidate control over parts of the West Bank even as it prepares to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The plan to build 72 housing units in the Beitar Illit settlement are liable to put Israel on a collision course with the U.S. government, which oppo...
  • Palestinians protest Gaza smokescreen
    Palestinians protest Gaza smokescreen by Laila El-Haddad in Gaza Thursday 28 July 2005 12:40 PM GMT Six Palestinian protesters were wounded by Israeli forces Palestinians have burned rubber tyres along the trail of the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank in a symbolic protest against its ongoing construction under the smokescreen of the Gaza pullout. Black smoke seen rising along the wall's path from the areas of Marda to Qalandi...
  • Israeli forces kill teenager in Jenin
    Israeli forces kill teenager in Jenin by Wednesday 27 July 2005 2:49 PM GMT Yusuf Haseef was shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces Israeli occupation troops have shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian bystander in the West Bank town of Jenin while a four-year-old was seriously wounded in shooting at the Rafah refugee camp near Gaza. The forces, backed by Israeli tanks and bulldozers, entered the Palestinian town of Jenin around midd...
  • Angered by Iraq war, bombers driven to suicide attacks, say friends
    Angered by Iraq war, bombers driven to suicide attacks, say friends 12:20 PM EDT Jul 15 SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI LEEDS, England (AP) - Shahzad Tanweer, the 22-year-old son of an affluent Pakistani-born businessman, turned to Islam, the religion of his birth, a few years ago. The transformation was gradual, but then his relentless reading of the Qur'an and daily prayers became almost an obsession, his friends told The Associated Press. He became withdrawn...
  • Top Israeli official says barrier meant to ensure Jewish majority in Jerusalem
    Top Israeli official says barrier meant to ensure Jewish majority in Jerusalem 02:06 PM EDT Jul 11 KARIN LAUB JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's separation barrier in and around Jerusalem is meant to ensure a Jewish majority in the disputed city, a cabinet minister acknowledged Monday, contradicting government claims that the divider is solely a temporary security measure. Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved final details of the 65-kilometre Jerusalem barrier, ...
  • Israel accused of redrawing borders
    Israel accused of redrawing borders by Sunday 10 July 2005 12:04 PM GMT Palestinians have reacted angrily to the Israeli plan Israel's approval of a new route for its West Bank separation barrier is part of a political agenda designed, under the pretext of security, to mark the state's borders, a Palestinian official has said. Ziyad Abu Ziyad, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was reacting to the move by Tel Aviv to extend...
  • Thousands mark 10th anniversary of slaughter of almost 8,000
    Thousands mark 10th anniversary of slaughter of almost 8,000 Srebrenica Muslims 12:09 PM EDT Jul 11 SAMIR KRILIC SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - World leaders joined some 50,000 survivors and guests Monday in marking Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War - the death of nearly 8,000 Srebrenica Muslims 10 years ago. But Fatima Budic was alone with her grief. Budic huddled over the coffin of her 14-year-old son, and the s...
  • EU envoy says Jerusalem barrier raises humanitarian concerns
    EU envoy says Jerusalem barrier raises humanitarian concerns 12:09 PM EDT Jul 11 KARIN LAUB JERUSALEM (AP) - The separation barrier Israel is building in Jerusalem raises humanitarian problems for Palestinians and could complicate future negotiations on a final peace deal, the visiting European Foreign policy chief said Monday, after meeting with Israeli leaders. Israel's Cabinet on Sunday approved final details of the Jerusalem barrier, which will cut...
  • Israel razes Palestinian homes
    Israel razes Palestinian homes by Tuesday 05 July 2005 3:29 PM GMT Several families have lost their homes in the demolition The Israeli occupation army, using bulldozers, has demolished up to 17 homes in the village of Bait Fureik east of Nablus city on the West Bank, leaving tens of families homeless. According to a report quoting local sources, troops also demolished a mosque and school in the area, housing some 450 inhabitants as well...
  • Israeli army seals off Gaza strip
    Israeli army seals off Gaza strip Last Updated Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:53:25 EDT CBC News Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have stormed a hotel in the Gaza Strip in order to remove 150 Jewish extremists, who had barricaded themselves inside for several weeks. The ultra-nationalists had vowed to make the derelict Palm Beach Hotel their base of operations to protest Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza. An opponent of Israel's planned pullout from the G...
  • Israel signals renewed assassinations
    Israel signals renewed assassinations by Wednesday 22 June 2005 6:44 AM GMT Israel says it will resume its attack on Palestinian fighters Israel has resumed an assassination policy against resistance fighters from the Islamic Jihad group, confirming Palestinian reports of a failed Israeli missile strike in Gaza a day earlier. "There was an attempt in Gaza to intercept an [Islamic Jihad] activist yesterday. It was unsuccessful," Public Se...
  • Israel to build 700 new settler homes
    Israel to build 700 new settler homes by Sunday 19 June 2005 1:41 PM GMT Illegal West Bank settlements continue to expand Israel has announced that it will seek tender offers within months for 700 new homes in the occupied West Bank, as furious Palestinians accused the government of trying to change the face of Jerusalem. A spokesman for Israel's housing ministry said on Sunday that by the end of the year the ministry would put out to te...
  • Israeli army kills Islamic Jihad leader
    Israeli army kills Islamic Jihad leader by Tuesday 07 June 2005 7:54 AM GMT The Israeli army targeted the head of Islamic Jihad in Jenin Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers, including a top Islamic Jihad fighter, during an incursion into the northern West Bank town of Qabaty. The military said it entered the Palestinian town on Tuesday morning in an operation to arrest a senior member of the Islamic Jihad group....
  • Jerusalem engineer wants to demolish Palestinian homes for national park
    JERUSALEM (AP) - The Jerusalem municipality will push ahead with plans to demolish 88 homes in an Arab neighbourhood in the disputed city to make room for a national park, the city engineer overseeing the project told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The plan has infuriated the Palestinians. It comes at a time of growing Israeli-Palestinian tension over the fate of Jerusalem, a city claimed by both as a capital. The demolition campaign, if approved, would be one of the largest i...
  • The Prophet Muhammad Had Nothing To Gain By Challenging The Existing Leaders
    Many anti-Islamists charge the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him), with being an egocentric tyrant among other things, insisting that his only goal was to deceive people and that he invented Islam himself and that he did not receive divine revelation as Jesus had.The biggest flaw with that argument is the obvious point that they would never mention. Muhammad already had protection and influence because of a wealthy Uncle.He risked the life of his fri...
  • I’m Free
    I’m Free boschick I wrote this after my younger sister who was blind from birth died after a bomb exploded in her class room, in Bosnia. Sweet sister, I miss you! There’s too much here for me to learn, I’m quiet and afraid, more than alone. Isn’t there anyone else with me? Can no one else be here to see. That I’m alone and afraid, someone please be here, I can’t see, my hands are cold and I’m not free...

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  • The Stealth Crusade
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  • Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire
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  • Time Magazine Explains the Israel & Palestine Situation - "The End: How It Got That Way"
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  • UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets
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  • Charges dropped against 5 Guantanamo detainees
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  • Who speaks for Islam? - Gallup Report Disproves Stereotypes Against Muslims & Islam
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  • Hamas, Hezbollah websites hosted by Canadian servers
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  • Emotions run high over Maclean's article
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  • Israel fires missiles into Palestinian presidential compound
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  • Trio detained in attack on Nazareth church
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  • Row builds over Jerusalem voting
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  • Israeli court upholds guerrilla's right to claim compensation for torture
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  • Gaza evacuation begins; Israeli gunman kills 3 in West Bank
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  • Israel to build 700 new settler homes
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