The war in Lebanon is over, but Israel is still under attack from terrorists firing rockets from the Gaza Strip.
A female Israeli soldier was wounded Tuesday in a rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Sderot. The army says about 40 rockets have landed inside Israel between August 28 and September 26.
Despite extensive Israeli military operations inside the Gaza Strip over the summer, rockets have continued to fall inside Israel almost daily, and one city official said the attack on Tuesday -- involving two rockets -- was worse than any before it. "What can we think? It gets worse every day," Sderot spokesman Yossi Cohen said in a telephone interview.
Benedict tells Muslim diplomats from 20 nations that world peace depends in large part on the ability to build bridges between faiths. Pope Benedict XVI brought together diplomats from more than 20 Islamic countries Monday and told them that Christians and Muslims must overcome historical enmities and join to reject all forms of violence and intolerance.
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.
A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia and her Queen at a special meeting with Prime Minister John. Howard, he and his Ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown.
As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday, U.S. lawmakers from both parties warned that Iran poses a bigger threat to the United States than al Qaeda. "I believe Iran is on the rise. Iran's influence is very strong. Its threat is very real," said Republican Rep. Jim Saxton from New Jersey at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
The Jerusalem municipality agreed to have the World Pride gay parade in the capital on Nov. 10, thus avoiding a threatened Supreme Court action by the parade's sponsors.
The agreement was reached after three hours of negotiations between the State Prosecutor's Office, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Jerusalem municipality, city police (which will provide security), and members of the Open House gay organization.
Knesset and City Council members, religious councils from all three major faiths in Jerusalem Jewish, Muslim and Christian and international Jewish organizations have fought for months against the event, which was originally slated for August.
What will Tony Blair be remembered for? The post-war debacle in Iraq? Billions largely wasted on unreformed public services? Half-baked constitutional reforms that have threatened the integrity of the United Kingdom?
How about the erosion of privacy and the transformation of Britain into the most snooped-on country in the world this side of Pyongyang? We have more CCTV cameras than the rest of Europe put together. We have thousands of speed cameras linked to number-plate recognition databases.
We await with trepidation the arrival of the national identity database from 2008, entry on to which will make it an offence, for the first time, not to inform the "authorities" when we move home.
The European Commission described as unacceptable the "disproportionate" reactions that "reject freedom of speech," such as those expressed after Benedict XVI's words on Islam at a German university.
"Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of the EU's values, as is respect for all religions, Christianity, Islam, Judaism or laicism," said commission spokesman Johannes Laitenberger in a press conference today.
THE Vatican tried to appease Muslim anger over the Pope's remarks on Islam yesterday, as protests continued and a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda vowed to kill the pontiff.
The new al-Qaida field commander in Afghanistan is calling for Muslims to leave the U.S. particularly Washington and New York? in anticipation of a major terror attack to rival Sept. 11, according to an interview by a Pakistani journalist.
The Catholic League says Pope Benedict XVI - in a speech that angered many Muslims - was trying to make the point that faith must be linked to reason. And he made his point - but not in the way he expected. "Ironically, the violent reaction, and the calls for more violence, on the part of some Muslims underscores the pope's point," said Catholic League President Bill Donohue. "The response of violence to non-violence is barbaric."
A Muslim extremist in London told demonstrators Sunday that the pope should face execution for insulting Islam, the Evening Standard reports. Anjem Choudary, a 39-year-old lawyer, organized the rally, where some carried signs that read "Behead Those Who Insult Islam." This as a nun in Somalia was fatally shot by Islamic gunmen. "Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment," said Choudary. "I am here have a peaceful demonstration. But there may be people in Italy or other parts of the world who would carry that out," he said. "I think that warning needs to be understood by all people who want to insult Islam and want to insult the prophet of Islam."
Those who hold that the world is heading towards a "clash of civilisations", namely open conflict between Islam and the (nominally) Christian West, must have felt vindicated these past few days when most of the Muslim world reacted strongly to what Pope Benedict XVI said during a lecture to academics at Regensburg University on Tuesday.
Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raed Salah tells rally of 50,000 in Umm al-Fahm: Jerusalem will be the capital of the new Muslim caliphate sooner than is thought; says Sharon, Katsav,
Muslim political and religious leaders around the world have been reacting to a speech by Pope Benedict XVI in which he mentioned the Prophet Muhammad.
Muslim religious leaders have accused Pope Benedict XVI of quoting anti-Islamic remarks during a speech at a German university this week.
Questioning the concept of holy war, he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things.