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This week in Yemen, an Iran-backed Shia militia captured the presidential palace. The president has since resigned. It was the latest stage in the slow advance of the Houthis, who entered the capital Sana’a in September of last year. The latest Houthi victories do not bring the Shia rebels undisputed control of the country. They do, however, ensure the undisputed …

Originally published under the title, “Cosmopolitan UK Mock-up Cover Depicts Suffocating Victim of Honor Killing The cover is shocking, gruesome, and bold. It features the face of a woman encased in plastic, being smothered to death. A video shows the plastic wrapping being ripped open, “signifying the release of women from violence.” Cosmopolitan magazine in the UK has released a …

A recent epidemic of high-profile attacks perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam — in Canada, Israel, Nigeria, Australia, Pakistan and France — raises an obvious question: How do the Islamist terrorists figure that murdering an honor guard, driving cars into pedestrians, slaughtering non-Muslim bus passengers, taking the patrons of a café hostage and massacring army children and cartoonists …

German police have evidence “that key European cities could be attacked at any time.” — Der Spiegel. “This is a serious situation.” — German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. “You will pay the price as you walk on your streets, turning right and left, fearing the Muslims. We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by …

One of the reasons I avoid attending Friday congregations at mosques is a specific ritual supplication uttered by Imams at many mosques in Canada and around the world, just prior to our formal Friday community prayer, the Juma’a. In the supplication, the cleric prays to Allah for, among other things, to grant “Muslims victory over the ‘Qawm al-Kafiroon,’” the Arabic …

The Islamic world is currently in the midst of a great historic convulsion. This process is giving birth to political trends and movements of a murderously violent nature. These movements offer a supposed escape route from the humiliation felt at the profound societal failure of the Arab and to a slightly lesser extent the broader Muslim world. The escape is …

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi continues to be the antithesis of longstanding mainstream media portrayals of him. First there was his historic speech where he, leader of the largest Arab nation, and a Muslim, accused Islamic thinking of being the scourge of humanity—in words that no Western leader would dare utter.  This remarkable speech—which some say should earn him the …

Yet another young Coptic Christian girl, Sabrine Mushir, has been kidnapped in Egypt, from the village of Dalga. Coptic activists are complaining that not a single person from among the authorities and security apparatus has done a single thing to try to find the hapless girl, adding “If this was the daughter of one of the local authorities, she would …

The previous post ( Who’s to Blame in Iraq? Part I – The Shi’a Side By AYMENN JAWAD AL-TAMIMI ) discussed problems on the Shi’a side that hinder a more general Sunni-Shi’a ‘reconciliation’ in Iraq. Specifically, there is a general reluctance on the Shi’a political spectrum to address basic Sunni grievances on issues such as de-Ba’athification, and the phenomenon of Shi’a …