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Pakistan blasts: Woman suicide bomber involved?

Jun 16, 2013

The death toll in the devastating attacks on a women's university bus and a hospital in the Pakistani city of Quetta rose to 25 today even as reports emerged of the involvement of a woman suicide bomber in one of the incidents. #Terrorism #Islamic terrorism #Pakistan #NewsTracker #Quetta #Pakistan Taliban #Pakistan blasts
Militants attack Nato trucks in Pak, three killed

Jun 10, 2013

Three persons were killed and two others injured when pro-Taliban militants attacked several NATO container trucks in the restive Khyber tribal region of Pakistan today, officials said. #World #Islamic terrorism #Pakistan #NewsTracker #Nato
Bomb kills man and his three children in Afghanistan

Jun 04, 2013

A man and three of his children were killed on Tuesday in a huge blast when their vehicle ran over a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's western province of Farah, an official said. #World #Islamic terrorism #Taliban #NewsTracker #Afghanistan #Afghanistan violence

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Islam and prejudice: Why Girish Karnad is wrong about Naipaul

Nov 11, 2012

Much of what Naipaul has said about Islam's damage to native cultures, based on field reportage, is visible and indisputable unless one is blind to what is around. #Islam #Music #Islamophobia #VS Naipaul #Secularism #Girish Karnad
Anti Islam video: Free speech at what cost?

Sep 14, 2012

#ThatsJustWrong #Libya #Free Speech #Terry Jones #Anti-Islamic Film
Confessions of a Pakistani Leader

May 06, 2011

#Osama bin Laden #Al-Qaeda #Pakistan #Taliban #MyTake #Islam

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KEEPER OF THE SNAILS
Two Books About the Experience of Islam

2013-06-17 12:09:00

I've been reading a few books about Islam recently, and over the last few days have concentrated on two memoirs by Western female converts. Welcome to Islam: a convert's tale is brisk, amusing and intelligent. Lucy Bushill-Matthews met her first Muslim a #United Kingdom #MTV
France 24
LIBYA: Libya to try Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam in August

2013-06-17 15:54:00

Muammar Gaddafi's second-eldest son, Saif al-Islam, and other former regime officials will stand trial in August for crimes committed during the 2011 uprising, an aide to the prosecutor said on Monday. Notorious former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi will #Muammar al-Qaddafi #Libya #The Hague
The Astute Blogger
HOW ISLAM WORKS TO DESTROY EUROPE FROM WITHIN

2013-06-14 08:03:00

James Richard Edwards writes about how jihadists Trojan-horsed into Europe: HOUSTON, June 14, 2013 ― The Muslim Brotherhood described their grand plan for cultural jihad to destroy the West in a 1982 document, The Project: “Cultural invasion … A kind of #Western Europe #Muslim Brotherhood #Trojan

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Why Nitish 'really' dumped the Modi-led BJP

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Last man standing: Why it's easy to feel sorry for Misbah

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Obama's second innings? As a junior engineer in govt service in India

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