Islamist Terror Plot To 'Assassinate The Queen', Four Men Arrested
Four men have been arrested in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot to kill the Queen. Reported by The Sun, the 88-year-old was to be assassinated over the weekend as she made an appearance at the Albert Hall in connection with the annual Remembrance weekend to celebrate the end of the First World War.
According to the newspaper, police believe the suspected terrorists were conspiring to stab Her Majesty. The conspiracy was reportedly uncovered during routine surveillance.
Update: Islamist Mob in Pakistan Kills Christian Couple Accused of 'Blasphemy'
Pregnant mother of four young children was dead when thrown into kiln; husband burned alive.
By Our Pakistan Correspondent
CLARKABAD, Pakistan, November 5, 2014 (Morning Star News) – Commanded from mosque loudspeakers, a Muslim throng in Punjab Province killed a Christian couple on Tuesday after a co-worker accused the pregnant wife of defiling the Koran, sources said.
Living on the premises of the brick kiln where she worked in Chak 59 village near Kot Radha Kishan, Karur District, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of Lahore, Shama Bibi was beaten to death before the enraged mob threw her body into the kiln, a relative said. The 28-year-old mother of four children was five months pregnant.
The relative told Morning Star News that her husband, Shahzad Masih, was also beaten but was still alive when he was thrown into the kiln with his wife’s body. He was 32.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan - where even unproven allegations can spark demonstrations or violence. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A Muslim mob beat a Christian couple to death in Pakistan and burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked for allegedly desecrating a Qur’an, police have said.
The attack in Kot Radha Kishan, 40 miles south-west of Lahore, is the latest example of violence against minorities accused of blasphemy.
“A mob attacked a Christian couple after accusing them of desecration of the holy Qur’an and later burnt their bodies at a brick kiln where they worked,” local police station official Bin-Yameen said.
'You're never too young to be a Soldier for Khilafah': Radicalised six-year-old chants in support of a Caliphate and calls for Obama to go to hell in shocking extremist videoÂ
Four Australian children, as young as six, call for an end to democracy
Extremist video was reportedly filmed in Sydney in December last year
Bilal Merh, a senior figure in radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir, leads the chants
The event occurred before new Australian terror laws were introducedÂ
Professor claims group wouldn't get away with the same rhetoric nowÂ
Radicalised Australian children, as young as six, have been shown calling for an end to democracy and Australia’s way of life in a shocking extremist video.
Four children, reportedly aged 6 to 13, claim that they want American President Barack Obama to go to hell and chant ‘O Bashar we want your head,’ about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in a video that was unearthed by Channel Seven.
Ted Cruz: Attacks in Ottawa, Jerusalem "stark reminder" radical Islam not confined to Middle East
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas hinted he may hire “good friend” and political lawyer Ben Ginsburg for a potential 2016 White House bid. (Associated Press)
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said the attack in Canada and a separate hit-and-run attack in Jerusalem Wednesday are reminders that “radical Islamic terrorism” is not confined to the Middle East and likened the shooting death of a soldier in Ottawa to the 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas.
“Our great and good friends in Canada and Israel were targeted because both countries share the same core principles of tolerance and freedom that we in America hold so dear — and which are hated by the vicious terrorists whose ultimate goal is to destroy us all,” said Mr. Cruz, a possible 2016 GOP presidential contender.
Axe wielding man shot dead after attacking four New York policemen
One police officer was critically injured and another wounded in the attack
Heather Saul
An axe-wielding man who attacked four police officers posing for a photograph on a busy street in New York has been shot dead.
Two policemen were wounded in the attack, one critically, before the suspect was shot by two other police officers. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
All four officers involved in the New York City incident had recently graduated from the city Police Academy.
The gunman who fatally shot a Canadian soldier and wounded three other people during a shootout inside Parliament Wednesday was reportedly a recent Muslim convert.
Authorities identified the shooter at Parliament Hill in Ottawa as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32.
Catholic leaders in Pakistan will appeal to their country’s Supreme Court after a lower court upheld the death penalty for a blasphemy ruling against a Christian mother of five children.
“Like it or not, we have to accept the court order,” Father Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, director of the National (Catholic) Commission for Justice and Peace, told Catholic News Service.
Public safety minister Steven Blaney called the incident a 'terrible act of violence against our country'. Photograph: Christinne Muschi/Reuters
Terrorist ideology inspired a recent convert to Islam to drive his car into two Canadian soldiers, killing one, before he was shot dead by police, authorities said on Tuesday.
Quebec police spokesman Guy Lapointe said the act was deliberate and that one of the two soldiers was in uniform. There were no other suspects.
"Terrorists, hijackers, these are people minus identity. They are deter mined to make it somehow, to get coverage, to get noticed." You'll say that the author of these words watched a black-clad man from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) beheading Americans. Nothing of the kind. The quote is from 1977. Its author is the well-known media researcher, Canadian Professor of English Marshall McLuhan.
ISIS's weirdest Western jihadi: Australian 17-year-old who vows to fly Islamist flag over Buckingham Palace and calls himself Abu Khaled (but his family call him 'idiot')
Abdullah Elmir, 17, condemned by relatives after appearing in ISIS video
White Muslim convert is seen flanked by jihadists while ranting at West
Titled 'Message Of The Mujahid 4', video taunts US-led coalition fighting ISIS
Now calling himself Abu Khaled, Elmir left his Sydney home in June this year
Australian national told his mother he was going fishing but never returned
Now relatives brand him a 'stupid idiot', adding he has been brainwashed
Relatives of a ginger Australian jihadist have condemned him for appearing in an Islamic State propaganda video in which he says the terror group will not stop their murderous campaign 'until the black flag is flying high in every single land'.
In chilling footage published on YouTube, white Sydney-born Muslim convert Abdullah Elmir, 17, calls himself 'Abu Khaled from Australia' and is seen flanked by other militants.
Speaking directly to the camera, the jihadist tells Western leaders their efforts to defeat ISIS will fail, adding that the terrorists aim to raise their black flag over Buckingham Palace and the White House.
BREAKING NEWS: ASIA BIBI’S APPEAL AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE REJECTED
Barnabas Fund has today received the sad news that the appeal made by Pakistani Christian mother Aasia Bibi against her conviction underPakistan’s “blasphemy law” has been rejected and the death sentence she was given confirmed.
Aasia Bibi has been languishing in jail since June 2009
Aasia’s appeal was dismissed this morning at a hearing held at the High Court in Lahore. She has been languishing in prison since being falsely accused of defiling the name of Muhammad during an argument with Muslim co-workers in 2009.
Please pray for Aasia and her family at this extremely difficult time, and please also consider writing to your elected representative on Aasia’s behalf. Guidance for how best to do so can be foundhere.
Pakistani Christian woman is sentenced to hang for 'blasphemous' comments about prophet Mohammed during row with Muslim women who refused to share water
Asia Bibi, 46, was accused of blasphemy after dispute with Muslim women
Women told her Christians make Muslims' water 'unclean' by drinking it
Tired of insults and calls for her to convert, Ms Bibi defended her religion
She was then accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed, before an angry mob arrived at her home and savagely beat her and her family
She was ordered to convert to Islam or face death on 'blasphemy' charges
Despite international outrage she this week lost an appeal against sentence
Shocking: Christian woman Asia Bibi, pictured, has seen her appeal against the death sentence denied
A Pakistani Christian woman has been sentenced to hang after she was accused of making 'blasphemous' comments about the prophet Mohammed during an argument.
While working as a berry picker in 2009, 46-year-old Asia Bibi got into a dispute with a group of Muslim women who objected to her drinking their water because as a Christian she was considered 'unclean'.
Hours after the incident one of the women reported mother-of-five Ms Bibi to a local cleric, claiming she had made disparaging remarks about the prophet Mohammed during the row.
As a result of the allegations, a furious mob arrived at Ms Bibi's home and savagely beat her and members of her family.
She was later arrested, charged with blasphemy and eventually sentenced to death - with her entire family forced to go into hiding after receiving threats on their lives.
ISIS Jihadists Line Streets of Kobane with 'Hundreds' of Severed Heads, Gouged Eyes
The reports from inside Kobane, the Syrian border town considered a potential watershed capture for the terrorist group the Islamic State, are ever more dire as American-led airstrikes appear to do little to stop the massacre of Kurds in a gateway town to Turkey.
In an exclusive report, the Daily Mail cites the testimony of multiple witnesses, now Kurdish refugees who managed to escape the wrath of Islamic State terrorists. "Headless corpses litter the streets of the besieged Syrian border town, they say, and some of the mainly Kurdish townsfolk have had their eyes gouged out," writes author Sam Greenhill, adding severed limbs, cut-out tongues, and a diverse array of torturous behavior carried out on Kurdish bodies.
In an exclusive report, the Daily Mail cites the testimony of multiple witnesses, now Kurdish refugees who managed to escape the wrath of Islamic State terrorists. "Headless corpses litter the streets of the besieged Syrian border town, they say, and some of the mainly Kurdish townsfolk have had their eyes gouged out," writes author Sam Greenhill, adding severed limbs, cut-out tongues, and a diverse array of torturous behavior carried out on Kurdish bodies.
In Britain, Islamist extremist Anjem Choudary proves elusive
Admirers of Anjem Choudary are photographed with him in a shop in Ilford, northeast London, on Oct. 1. (Andrew Testa/For The Washington Post)
Anjem Choudary has become one of Britain's most outspoken defenders of the Islamic State. Critics say he's helped indoctrinate dozens of impressionable young men who have gone on to plot or carry out attacks. (Griff Witte, Karla Adam and Casey Capachi/The Washington Post)
LONDON — As British war planes arc through Middle Eastern skies and security services race to unravel terrorist plots at home, the nation’s most prominent propagandist for the Islamic State sits in a London sweets shop, laying out his radical vision between bites of dessert.
'Up to 2,000 Brits fighting with IS in Syria and Iraq'
As many as 2,000 British jihadists are fighting with Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, Labour MP Khalid Mahmoud claims.
The politician said more UK youngsters than ever were being recruited by the terror group.
He told theSunday Mirror: "The official figures are a huge understatement. The true figure of British radicals in Syria and Iraq is closer to 2,000. Still the numbers are rising."
Teenage girl jihadis 'want to come home' after joining Islamic State
Sabina Selimovic, 15, (left) and Samra Selinovic, 17 (right).Credit: Interpol
Two teenage girls who fled home to join Islamic State militants reportedly want to come home after being married to foreign fighters and falling pregnant.
Sabina Selimovic, 15, and Samra Kesinovic, 17, left their families in Austria in April and were believed to have traveled to Turkey before crossing over to Syria.
However,the Telegraph reportsthat the pair have grown disillusioned with the restrictions of life under the radical Muslim group, which forbids women to talk with whomever they like.
Pope Francis touches the wall that divides Israel from the West Bank, on his way to celebrate Mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 25, 2014.
A three-day summit of Vatican ambassadors from the Middle East and North Africa, called upon by Pope Francis to discuss persecution of Christians by Islamist extremists in the region, concluded this weekend with a call for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reaffirmation of military force against ISIS.
Vatican envoys from Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, the Palestinian territories, Syria and Turkey met in the Vatican for three days to discuss how persecution of Christian minorities in the region could be better prevented.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia have ignited a "time bomb" by funding the global spread of radical Islam, according to a former commander of British forces in Iraq.
General Jonathan Shaw, who retired as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in 2012, told The Telegraph that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were primarily responsible for the rise of the extremist Islam that inspires Isil terrorists.
