Muslims Back Clinton, Poll Finds
Muslims are expected to get out and vote in large numbers on Election Day — and they’re largely voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a poll released Thursday from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It’s perhaps an unsurprising revelation, since the other major-party nominee, Republican Donald Trump, called for a ban on Muslim […]
Deserters describe life under ISIL rule
“When I witnessed the battle against the Shaitat tribe I was shaken. How can you say it’s Islam when you kill a child? How can you say it’s Islam when I kill a woman? How can you say it’s Islam when I take women as slaves who are themselves Muslim? That’s not Islam. I saw […]
The frighteningly high human and financial costs of war
We have always known that war is dirty and destructive, but now a US-led international team of researchers is revealing precisely how destructive and expensive several wars have been for the United States and the countries it invades – and how the ravages and costs of war could persist for generations after the fighting and […]
Fear In America 2016 – What Americans Are Really Afraid Of
Lola Gayle, STEAM Register Creepy clowns may be popping up everywhere these days, but Americans are actually more afraid of government corruption, terrorist attacks and money, according to the third annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears (2016). The survey asked more than 1,500 adult respondents about 65 fears across a broad range of categories […]
Bill O’Reilly Alleges Media Conspiracy Against Trump
Conspiracy theories from alt-right news sources like Infowars and Breitbart have become commonplace at this point in the election. But now Bill O’Reilly is piling on. While Fox News hosts’ have long accused the “mainstream media ” of favoring Democrats, including 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the “O’Reilly Factor” host took things a step […]
Saudi Arabia And Qatar Accused Of Funding ISIS
Correspondence between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, the former chief of staff under Bill Clinton, show the former secretary of state once accused Qatar and Saudi Arabia of helping fund the Islamic State terrorist group, according to a trove of emails released by hacking group WikiLeaks Friday. “We need to use our […]
Iran Foils ISIS Cell’s Plot to Bomb Ashura Mourners
Iranian security services have dismantled a foreign Islamic State militant group (ISIS) cell to target Ashura mourners with explosive devices, one of the latest alleged plots by the group in the Islamic Republic. Police detained several foreign nationals who planned to attack events in the southern province of Fars, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said, as […]
Donald Trump: ISIS Will Take Over U.S. If Clinton Wins
Donald Trump told a rally of supporters in Florida Wednesday that electing Hillary Clinton as president next month would see the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) “take over this country,” as he continued to brush off a string of recent controversies. The firebrand Republican presidential candidate told voters in Ocala, Florida, that the extremist group […]
FRANCE – Wear a veil or be French: Hollande shocks with views on Muslims and migrants
The French president’s candid remarks on the sensitive issue of Islam, part of a wide-ranging collection of interviews that also touch on his troubled private life, have triggered a frenzy on both sides of the political divide. A 672-page doorstopper of a book, “A President Should Not Say That” is the result of a staggering […]
The New ISIS Crisis
Close On June 10, 2014, the day the black flag of the Islamic State militant group went up over the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, life for an ISIS fighter was good. The seizure of a city of nearly 2 million showed that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was making good on his claim […]