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Bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami being loaded into an ambulance after a shoot-out with police in Linden
September 19, 2016 By Faith Matters

Bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami being loaded into an ambulance after a shoot-out with police in Linden

A still image captured from a video from WABC television shows a conscious man believed to be New York bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami being loaded into an ambulance after a shoot-out with police in Linden, New Jersey, U.S., September 19, 2016. Save

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Islamic State claims responsibility for Minnesota mall attack
September 18, 2016 By Faith Matters

Islamic State claims responsibility for Minnesota mall attack

A man who stabbed nine people at a mall in central Minnesota before being shot dead is a “soldier of the Islamic State,” the militant group’s news agency said on Sunday, as the FBI investigated the attack as a potential act of terrorism. The man, who was wearing a private security uniform, made references to […]

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Killing of Imam Jalal Uddin Shows How Extremism Is Morphing
September 18, 2016 By Faith Matters

Killing of Imam Jalal Uddin Shows How Extremism Is Morphing

The brutal killing of Imam Jalal Uddin, a 71 year old respected Imam in Rochdale, by Mohammed Hussain Syeedy throws up an element that is part and parcel of Salafist Jihadist ideology. Such ideology has been seen to drive the destruction of Muslim shrines in Afghanistan, Timbuktu, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Shrines, taweez (or worn […]

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Suicide bomber kills at least 25 in Pakistani mosque
September 16, 2016 By Faith Matters

Suicide bomber kills at least 25 in Pakistani mosque

A suicide bomber shouted “Allahu akbar” and blew himself up in a packed mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 during Friday prayers, a local official said. A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ur-Ahrar (TTP-JA), claimed responsibility for the blast in Payee Khan, a village in Mohmand […]

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More than half of UK girls sexually harassed in school – report
September 12, 2016 By Faith Matters

More than half of UK girls sexually harassed in school – report

More than half of girls in British schools and colleges have faced sexual harassment, according to a new report on Tuesday that called for sex education to be provided for all children in primary and secondary school. A parliamentary committee report said sexual bullying had become an expected part of girls’ everyday lives. The report […]

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Drones keep watch as pilgrims ascend Mount Arafat for Haj climax
September 11, 2016 By Faith Matters

Drones keep watch as pilgrims ascend Mount Arafat for Haj climax

Saudi authorities deployed drones to watch over nearly 2 million pilgrims as they ascended Mount Arafat at the climax of the haj pilgrimage on Sunday, part of stepped up efforts to avoid a repeat of last year’s crush. In one of the deadliest disasters to befall the annual Muslim rite in decades, the crush killed […]

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Bell rings for 9/11 attack victims
September 11, 2016 By Faith Matters

Bell rings for 9/11 attack victims

The Bell of Hope rings at New York City’s St. Paul’s Chapel at 8:46 a.m., the time American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the North Tower 15 years ago. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). The Bell of Hope rang at St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City on Sunday (September 11) to remember the lives […]

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Netanyahu ‘ethnic cleansing’ comment against Palestinians draws U.S. rebuke
September 10, 2016 By Faith Matters

Netanyahu ‘ethnic cleansing’ comment against Palestinians draws U.S. rebuke

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said the Palestinians wanted to form a state devoid of a Jewish population and termed it “ethnic cleansing”, drawing sharp criticism from the United States. In a video message, Netanyahu said in reference to the removal of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, “The Palestinian leadership actually demands […]

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Gare de Lyon Attack Was on Cards, Say French Police
September 9, 2016 By Faith Matters

Gare de Lyon Attack Was on Cards, Say French Police

Three women arrested in connection with a car loaded with gas cylinders found in a side road near Notre Dame cathedral had been planning an attack on a Paris railway station, the French interior ministry said. “An alert has been issued to all stations but they had planned to attack the Gare de Lyon on […]

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Top Saudi cleric says Iran leaders not Muslims as haj row mounts
September 7, 2016 By Faith Matters

Top Saudi cleric says Iran leaders not Muslims as haj row mounts

Saudi Arabia’s top religious authority said Iran’s leaders were not Muslims, drawing a rebuke from Tehran in an unusually harsh exchange between the regional rivals over the running of the annual haj pilgrimage. The war of words on the eve of the mass pilgrimage will deepen a long-running rift between the Sunni kingdom and the […]

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