National Geographic presents an intimate and three-dimensional documentation of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca and sheds light on the universal principles of Islam during the days of the Hajj. Learn the historical significance of the city to Muslim and non-Muslim populations alike. And, experience the epic journey of a lifetime, the Hajj, as we witness [...]

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And China has marked the superficial thaw in relations by deploying at its Leping Ballistic Missile Base in Jiangxi province about 200 of a new and improved version of its DF-15 tactical missiles aimed at Taiwan.
So these advances in cross-straits relations, as welcome as they are, are the first steps on a long and difficult [...]

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Eventually, the Arab/Muslim world concluded that Westernizing was too burdensome and probably impossible. Since joining the West wasn’t in the cards, licking it seemed another option. A new generation began to eye fundamental Islam as a route to Arab/Islamic renaissance. Enter the Ayatollah Khomeini, followed by Osama bin Laden.
Today, Pakistan has the bomb, and the [...]

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The American Textbook Council recently published a review on how many text books in public schools give a light touch to Middle Eastern history, Islam and Jihad. (FSM published it; you can find all five parts here.) If public school texts are alarming, what should we think about texts being provided by the Saudi government [...]

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‘WIPE OUT THE JEWS’
Though most Muslims reject Islamism and its propaganda, anti-Semitic messages from satellite channels like the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa are helping to bring a message of hate and intolerance to Europe. The effects of such hate preaching can already be felt in Germany. By Matthias Küntzel more…

TERROR RAIDS IN EUROPE
Police Arrest Members of Alleged [...]

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“Allah is happy when non-muslims get killed”Â
It is a pamphlet, a makeshift collage of horrific and distorted images of Islam. Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders has published his feared video critical of the Koran on the Internet. It has already been met with criticism, while a Danish cartoonist objects to the use of his now-famous [...]

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The summer of 2007 was marked by threats and warnings of an imminent terrorist attack against the United States. In addition to the well-publicized warnings from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and a National Intelligence Estimate that al Qaeda was gaining strength, a former Israeli counterterrorism official warned that al Qaeda was planning a simultaneous [...]

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The refusal to “call a spade a spade” sets a dangerous precedent in our fight against Islamists and their quest for Jihad. FSM Contributing Editor Jeffrey Imm reminds us that Jihad is not a joke, and that failing to heed the danger it poses undermines our ability to defeat the enemy.
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A Saudi billionaire has found a way to squelch information regarding his involvement in financing Jihad. FSM Contributing Editor Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman has details on this alarming trend that, if allowed to continue, will seriously hamper the West’s ability to investigate and halt such funding.
One of these roadblocks is a Saudi billionaire, Khalid bin Mahfouz, [...]

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Seven years ago, on October 12, 2000, the U.S.S. Cole was attacked in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing 17 American sailors. Two years later, to the day, a pair of suicide bombers killed 202 tourists and Indonesians in Bali. Neither attack would have the fateful consequences of September 11. But, in their own way, [...]

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Emerging voice of mainstream Islam
BBC News, UK - 10 hours ago
As well as Muslim terrorism, they include the lack of democracy in Muslim countries and the often violent treatment of Christian minorities, …
Muslim leaders call for peace Telegraph.co.uk
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Hamas: Coming to a School Board Near You?
Pajamas Media, CA - 4 hours ago
Are American schools susceptible [...]

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Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the “survival of the world” is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other.
In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders “to come together with us on the common essentials [...]

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Terrorists may be mad, but they are not stupid. FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan reveals shocking details of how a murdering, admitted threat to Norway’s national security lives off the largesse of taxpayers while claiming to be victimized. It’s a good gig if you can get it.
Mullah Krekar is designated as an [...]

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More details are emerging in the case of the three Islamists who were recently arrested for planning a bomb attack in Germany. Investigators believe that a 15-year-old boy smuggled the detonators from Istanbul to Germany — inside the soles of a pair of shoes. By Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark more…

Foiled Bomb Plot: Terror Suspect [...]

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I have written a couple of essays regarding the Greek impact on the rise of modern science, and why the Scientific Revolution didn’t happen in the Islamic world. I find this to be an interesting topic, especially since there are so many myths regarding this perpetrated by Muslims and their apologists today, so I will [...]

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In 2004, bin Laden objected to our logical conclusion that he instead hated the West simply for its freedom. He posed this rhetorical question: “Contrary to what Bush says and claims — that we hate freedom — let him tell us then, ‘Why did we not attack Sweden?’”
I think we can now answer that by [...]

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Swedish artist Lars Vilks is taking no chances: After murder threats following the publication of a caricature he drew of the Prophet Muhammad, the cartoonist has temporarily gone into hiding under police protection. more…

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Who’d have thought that an organization funneling millions of dollars to HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations through Palestinian universities is based in…Dublin, Ohio?! FSM Contributing Editor Patrick Poole blows the lid off of this operation.
The Dublin, Ohio-based not-for-profit organization, Arab Student Aid International (ASAI), has funneled millions of dollars over the [...]

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‘Islam is a religion of peace and the great majority of Muslims are not party to any plans and actions of the radicals’- so claim academic pundits, leftist journalists, and hired Islamic apologists. The incantation of these “authorities” is the lullaby that puts the people into a sleep of complacency.
Complacency and appeasement on the part [...]

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The Continent is a front line in the war on terror, whether its people know it or not.
To return from the United States to Europe is to travel from a country that thinks it is on the front line of the struggle against jihadist terrorism but is not, to a continent that is on the [...]

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After six years, two wars, and dozens of senior al Qaeda figures arrested, Osama bin Laden and his chief associate Ayman al-Zawahiri remain at large. In this week’s List, FP runs down some of the other most dangerous senior al Qaeda leaders who are still on the loose.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Possible whereabouts: Iraq. Last October and [...]

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