December 14, 2011  Kuwait  A top Islamic scholar objects to women running in elections. The Head of Sharia Scholars League in the GCC countries Dr Ajeel Al-Nashmi maintains that women have the right to participate in political issues by expressing their opinions or demanding their ...

Read more: Terrorism Against Women Update, January 23, 2012

On Jan. 12, Thai authorities arrested a man they say was a member of the Lebanon-based Shiite militant group Hezbollah who was plotting an attack in Bangkok. In uncovering the plot, Thai police cite cooperation with the United States and Israel going back to December 2011. Bangkok is indeed a ...

Read more: A Hezbollah Threat in Thailand?

Husain Haqqani may soon be put on trial for his life in his native Pakistan. That country's ambassador to the United States until last November, he now faces allegations of treason in the so-called "Memogate" affair, accused of instigating an unsigned memo to the U.S. government warning of a ...

Read more: Defend Threatened Muslim Moderates: Save Husain Haqqani

We made three fundamental mistakes in our dealings with Islam. First, we assumed that the only politically acceptable answer was also the right answer. This is the most common mistake that politicians make.  

Second, we established a construct of a moderate and extreme Islam that reflected how ...

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Beirut--Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of Hezbollah, wants out. Things have gotten so tense for Hezbollah, says Lokman Slim, an independent Lebanese Shiite activist, that according to well-sourced accounts of a meeting two weeks ago, Nasrallah "complained he no longer wanted the job."  

It's ...

Read more: A Hezbollah Crack-up?

Southern state remains most volatile place for third straight year.

NEW DELHI, January 13(Compass Direct News) – Attacks on Christians accelerated over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays in the south Indian state of Karnataka, which was identified as the most unsafe place for the religious ...

Read more: Karnataka Most Dangerous State in India for Christians

In Zanzibar, two church buildings razed; in Comoros, a Christian suffers disease, shunning.  

NAIROBI, Kenya, January 13(Compass Direct News) – Far from the world media’s gaze in remote islands off the eastern coast of Africa, church buildings are razed and Christians are ostracized and ...

Read more: Muslim Extremists Strike at Christians in East African Isles

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe called on Syrian authorities to divulge “the whole truth”surrounding the death of France 2 TV reporter Gilles Jacquier who was killed by an apparent grenade attack as he covered a pro-Assad rally in the flashpoint city of Homs. Jacqueir’s death comes at a ...

Read more: Slaughter in Syria