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ISIS Trying To Recruit Westerners

From The LA Times: The new video, which was uploaded to YouTube but later taken down, features members that the militants say are from Western countries, including Britain and Australia. They call upon fellow believers abroad to join them in … Continue reading

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“Islamic” Areas Popping Up in England

From The Times of India: The British police are investigating a poster in a London Park ordering dog walkers to stay away because “Muslims do not like dogs”. The poster declared the park in Bartlett an “Islamic area”. One shocked walker … Continue reading

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al-Shabaab Murders World Cup Watchers

From The Daily Mail: Somali militants who murdered 48 people in a Kenyan village as they watched the World Cup went door to door asking residents if they were Muslim or spoke Somali – and shot them dead if either … Continue reading

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Boko Haram Killed 75 In Explosion In Nigeria

From Fox News: Nigeria’s Islamic extremists are claiming responsibility for the massive explosion at a busy bus station that killed at least 75 people in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, this week.

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What is Boko Haram?

From Wikipedia: The Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad[2][3] (Arabic: جماعة اهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد‎ Jamāʻat Ahl as-Sunnah lid-daÊ»wa wal-Jihād)—better known by its Hausa name Boko Haram (pronounced [bōːkòː hàrâm], “Western education is sinful“)[4]—is an Islamic jihadist … Continue reading

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Islamists Force Christians To Submit To Islam In Syria

From Times of Israel: The document, dated Sunday and disseminated through Islamist Twitter accounts, states that the Christian community in the province of Raqqa, captured last March by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), was recently given … Continue reading

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Islamists Murder 43 in Nigeria

From The Daily Mail: The terrorists, thought to be from Boko Haram, set a locked hostel on fire, before shooting and slitting the throats of those who tried to climb out the windows. Some were burned alive. Adamu Garba said … Continue reading

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Islamists Better Armed Than Nigerian Army

From TheStar.com: “Boko Haram are better armed and are better motivated than our own troops,” Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima told journalists at the presidential villa after a meeting with President Jonathan. “Given the present state of affairs, it is … Continue reading

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Islamists Murder Wedding Party in Nigeria

From BBC: The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has carried out frequent attacks in the area despite a state of emergency declared in north-east Nigeria in May. Thousands of additional troops have been sent there to fight Boko Haram – … Continue reading

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Islamists Blowup Bus in Russia

From the BBC: A suspected female suicide bomber has set off explosives on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, killing at least six people.

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