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The British media is reporting that a teacher in the London School of Economics' government department is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group seeking to internally overthrow democracy and capitalism and replace it with Sharia Law.

Even with its centuries-old roots throughout the continent, is Christianity history in the West?
In a speech at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.

As the Geert Wilders case goes into pre-trial, National Review Online asked our experts: Is there any legitimate reason he's in court? What are the implications of such a trial being held, nevermind its outcome?
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On Christmas Day, Attorney General Eric Holder decided to prevent the obtaining of crucial enemy intelligence from airline terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab by granting him the "right" to remain silent.

(AINA) -- Last week the council of Europe debated the long awaited report by Mr. Hunault from France on religious minorities in Turkey and Greece.
Since the treaty of Lausanne, both countries have considered their minorities as foreigners and treated ...

Religious organization established in Turkish city of Mardin under the auspices of Democratic Society Party initiated "Mesopotamia: First religious congress" event.

BAGHDAD (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi parliament postponed to Monday an extraordinary session due to be held on Sunday to discuss the decision of an appeals panel to allow hundreds of banned candidates to run in the March 7 parliamentary elections.

The Chairman of the Committee On Human Rights and Civil Integration, Giorgi Arsenishvili starts meetings with the representatives of various Diasporas, residing in Georgia.

With a population approaching 30 million, roughly the size of Canada's, the Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, after the Arabs, Turks and Persians.

The first honor killing story I delved into as a journalist was of a Turkish girl from Germany.
Hatun Surucu was 23 years old when her youngest brother shot her at a bus stop in Berlin in 2005.

QARAQOSH, Iraq -- There was a hope, not long ago, that democracy would mean peace and stability for Nineveh, a place where cultures and armies have clashed since biblical times.

The violent persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt is becoming harder for the free world to ignore. This is true thanks to thousands of Copts who recently expressed their decades of frustration and anguish in street protests across the globe.

ISTANBUL -- A European court on Tuesday ordered Turkey to remove the religious affiliation section from citizens' identification cards, calling the practice a violation of human rights.

BAGHDAD -- The campaign for Iraq's parliamentary elections does not officially begin until next week. But for the crowd gathered beneath a tent sponsored by the Sadr movement in the southern neighborhood of Dora, it was well under way.

Cairo - Father Metyas Mankarios ministers to garbage men and runs a newspaper for Coptic Christians from an office crammed with brittle archives above vegetable sellers and fishmongers barking out prices along the muddy roads of a Cairo neighborhood.

BAGHDAD -- Iraq staggered toward a resolution of its election crisis on Sunday as the country's leaders gave an appeals court time to reconsider a ban on hundreds of candidates barred from next month's election because of alleged links to Saddam Hussei...

Zowaa – Washington, D.C.
At an invitation from the State Department to Mr. Younadam Kanna and his accompanying delegation, Mr. Alaa Mansour: United States and Canada Branch Director of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and Dr. Agnes Mirza, Branch Comm...

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he doesn't regard Iran as close to an accord with international powers on the handling of uranium.

BAGHDAD (Xinhua) -- Top Iraqi leaders are expected to meet on Saturday to discuss a row over an appeals panel's decision to allow some 500 barred candidates to run in the March 7 parliamentary election, which is seen as a crucial test for the war and v...

The Honorable Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Shadow Minister for Ageing Liberal Senator for New South Wales has raised concern for the Assyrians in Iraq and has urged the Australian Federal Government and the International community to give consid...

The father and grandfather of a 16-year-old Turkish girl will face trial for burying her alive because she had developed friendships with boys.
The body of Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied in a 6ft hole dug underneath a c...

Billed as "Canada's largest Muslim convention," Reviving the Islamic Spirit – 8th Convention was held in Toronto on December 25 – 27, 2009. Having heard the reports that 17,000 attendees from Canada and the U.

The issue of terrorism is broadcast every day over the airwaves. Yet, so many of our government officials are clueless about it. How else would a leader from the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- two grou...

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Nonie Darwish, the co-founder of FormerMuslimsUnited.com and the author of Cruel and Usual Punishment.

FP: Nonie Darwish, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

(AINA) -- A member of Australia's parliament has spoken on the plight of the Assyrians of Iraq. Senator Fierravanti-Wells made the following remarks: Senator Fierravanti-Wells (New South Wales) (1:38 PM) -- I rise to speak on an important issue relati...

(VOA) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the United States would oppose any new effort to exclude large numbers of Sunni Arab politicians from Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections.

Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play.
Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran's nuclear program and impose the "crippling" sa...

Zowaa – Chicago
Mr. Younadam Kanna: Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and member of the Iraqi Parliament, on the morning of Monday, February 1st, 2010 visited His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV: Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the Eas...

BAGHDAD -- Almost four years after his accidental rise to power, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is trying to retain his job without the allies who made him Iraq's ruler the first time around.

According to a recent ABC report [1], “As many as three dozen criminals who converted to Islam in American prisons have moved to Yemen where they could pose a ‘significant threat’ to attack the U.

After being roundly condemned for charging Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a criminal defendant -- a decision that granted the would-be Christmas bomber the right to remain silent after a brief 50-minute interrogation session -- the Obama administration t...

Christians and other minorities in Pakistan continue to face enormous discrimination and persecution, and in extreme cases, but not rare cases, many Christians have been killed by either Muslim mobs or by state sanctioned policies.

"Egypt resembles an iceberg," the late Coptic-Egyptian writer Louis Awad once wrote. "One-eighth is above sea level. Seven-eighths are submerged in the depths.

(BBC) -- Iraq's electoral commission has said it will delay the start of campaigning for next month's parliamentary elections.
The move follows a court decision to overturn a ban on candidates barred because of alleged affiliations with Saddam Hussein'...

I'm standing in the entrance lobby to the European Parliament in Brussels, and suddenly there is a flurry of activity. A group of middle-aged Middle Eastern men, bunched together and clearly on a mission, are being ushered quickly through security.