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“Mr. Trump has demonstrated that our elaborate headgear, indicating religious authority, is no match for that… thing on his head.” Rome, February 27 – Officials in the Roman Catholic Church admitted today that Republican Party frontrunner for the presidential nomination ...

“If we stop killing people for their sexual orientation, that would mean creating expectations of enlightened behavior.” Riyadh, February 24 – Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond that persecute and kill gays voiced relief this week that unlike ...

After all, it worked with Iran. Washington, February 25 – As the presidential campaign heats up, Secretary of State John Kerry weighed in on the prospect of a Republican victory in November by proposing a repeat of the diplomatic success ...

“The lack of official inducement to kill Palestinians is a little too much to attribute to a bureaucratic oddity.” Jerusalem, February 25 – Israel’s National Insurance Institute does not offer lifetime financial support to those who have killed Palestinians, an investigation ...

“The Mavi Marmara is small potatoes in the eyes of her voters, compared to complicity in the mass murder of Jews.” Umm El Fahm, February 24 – Firebrand lawmaker Haneen Zoabi of the Balad Party revealed to confidants today that ...

By Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President When I signed a slew of international treaties last year, making a big show of Palestinian legitimacy on the international stage, I had one more thing in mind: using those treaties as cudgels with which ...

They have only increased their supply to those very security forces of attackers to shoot and imprison. London, February 23 – Activists urging individuals and organizations not to maintain commercial, cultural, or other contact with Israel over its treatment of Palestinians ...

Galilei must withdraw his conclusions and submit to the authority of the infallible Palestinian pope. Ramallah, February 22 – Ecclesiastical officials in the Church of Palestine have placed a ban of excommunication on Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei for strong evidence ...

They hope other like-minded militants will step up and do that, or perhaps Assad regime loyalists themselves. Gaza City, February 22 – Representatives of the Islamic Resistance Movement that took control of the Gaza Strip in early 2007 voiced frustration ...

“Israeli insistence on its own security, sovereignty, and survival disempowers Muslims, whose culture takes Islamic superiority for granted.” Stockholm, February 21 – As a trend of sexual assaults on women continues, perpetrated by groups of immigrant men from Muslim countries, disagreement ...