Ex-honor student gets 5 years in terrorism case

April 17, 2014   An immigrant teen who had earned a scholarship to an elite U.S. college but helped solicit support for Jihadists he met online was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison. Mohammad Hassan Khalid had earned a full scholarship to Johns Hopkins University after just a few years in the United States,

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Jewish scholar lectures on ‘How Islam Saved the Jews,’ at UAB

April 22, 2014   David J. Wasserstein, a professor of Jewish History at Vanderbilt University, will lecture on “How Islam Saved the Jews” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. The free, public lecture will take place at UAB’s Volker Hall, Lecture Room A, 1670 University Blvd. The

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Mosque leader compares being gay to paedophilia and murder

March 20, 2014   The chairman of a mosque at the centre of a BBC censorship row over the issue of being both Muslim and gay has compared homosexuality to being “a compulsive murderer, gambler, or paedophile”. Free Speech, the BBC 3 debate show, deliberately dropped the question “When will it be right to be

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Mohammad Asghar case: 28,000 people sign a petition calling for the release of the mentally ill Scot on death row in Pakistan

February 20, 2014   More than 28,000 people have backed a petition calling for the release of a mentally ill Scottish man sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy. Demands for Mohammad Asghar to be freed on humanitarian grounds have intensified since The Independent published an open letter today from politicians, academics, human rights campaigners

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Relaxed photographs of ‘suicide bomber Briton’ emerge

February 14, 2014   Pictures of a man suspected to be Britain’s first suicide bomber in Syria have emerged showing him looking relaxed and smiling with local children. The images were sent by Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, from Syria to his family in the Langley Green area of Crawley, West Sussex. In one picture, he

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