Author Archive | Ted

ASSIUT, Egypt, May 30 (UPI) — A Christian teenager sentenced to three years in jail for defaming Islam has lost his appeal before an Egyptian court, the government said. An appeals court in the southern Egyptian city of Assiut upheld the prison sentence handed to 16-year-old Gamal Abdu Massoud, the Egypt Independent reported Wednesday. Massoud was […]

By Walid Shoebat The people of Saudi Arabia are furious with the McDonald’s fast food chain for a toy which they say desecrates the name of Muhammed, the prophet of Islam. They are demanding retribution. According to the Arabic news website, Kermalkom.com, “[the McDonald’s fast food restaurant] abused the Prophet Muhammad by placing his name at the base of a […]

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistani judges are often pressured to convict people accused under the country’s blasphemy laws that call for the death penalty for anyone insulting Islam, a special U.N. representative said Tuesday. Gabriela Knaul, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, told a news […]

From the AP   SANAA, Yemen –  A U.S. drone strike Monday aiming for an al-Qaida leader has killed five militants in the country’s south as part of a Yemeni offensive against the Islamist group, Yemeni officials said. They said the airstrike targeted Qaid al-Dahab, a local leader of al-Qaida, in a convoy of three […]

From The Blaze   PS 368, a public elementary school in Manhattan, New York, has implemented a school-wide mandate that is capturing headlines. Principal Nicky Kram Rosen is requiring all 200 students in grades second through fifth to spend two 45-minute sessions each week learning Arabic. The requirement, which will begin next semester, is intended […]

(From the AP)   ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run news agency says a prosecutor has proposed charging an internationally known Turkish pianist and composer with insulting Islamic religious values in comments he made on Twitter. Anadolu Agency said Friday that an Istanbul court will decide whether to accept the proposed indictment against Fazil Say, who […]

By Tom Perry (Reuters) – When he joined the race for Egypt’s presidency just five weeks ago, Mohamed Mursi was mocked as the Muslim Brotherhood’s uncharismatic “spare tyre” after its first-choice candidate was disqualified. But the 60-year-old engineer came first in the opening round, according to a Brotherhood tally after most votes were counted, thanks to […]

Professor J. Rufus Fears, of the University of Oklahoma, gives quite an accurate, and learned, view of revolutionary Egypt: its being taken over by Islamic fundamentalists, and its dark future.   Part 1   Part 2     Posted by Theodore Shoebat, author of the book For God or For Tyranny.

By Theodore Shoebat Marxists in Egypt, like the left in the West, will help pave the way to an Islamic Egypt. It must be remembered that not so long ago it was the Marxists in Egyp, alongside Muslims, who had called for the downfall of Mubarek. Now, Abdel Moneium Abul Fotouh, a politician who is […]

By Theodore Shoebat Although the motive for the North Sudanese is the control over the South’s oil, there lies an even deeper motivation: a hatred for Christianity. For those who would disagree, one only needs to point to the recent burning of a church in Khartoum by a Muslim mob just this Sunday. If the […]