A history teacher in Paris was beheaded on October 16 after he showed his class cartoon pictures of the Islamic prophet Muhammed.
Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, called on Dec. 7 for \”a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country\’s representatives can figure out what is going on.\”
An Israeli court sentenced a prominent Islamist leader to 11 months in prison for incitement to violence and racism.\n
Egyptian soldiers killed at least three supporters of Mohamed Morsi in Cairo hours after Islamists attacked sites in the Sinai.
Islamists attacked Egyptian military posts in the Sinai, killing at least one on the Gaza border.
Egypt\’s military said on Wednesday it would broaden its offensive against militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a campaign that has raised concerns in Israel about the movement of heavy armor into the area near its border.
Which is the more serious problem today: Islamic extremism or anti-Islamic bigotry? The latest contribution to this debate comes from The Nation, the leading magazine of America’s left, in its current special edition on “Islamophobia: Anatomy of an American Panic.” Its articles address a real and serious issue — but they also illustrate the pitfalls of ignoring its other side.
Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defenses on its airliners, a security official said on Friday, seeing an enhanced risk of attack by militants using looted Libyan arms.
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