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Judge Jeanine Opening "Christians Under Attack" Investigating The Attacks On Christians

Several 'high value' ISIS leaders killed by US airstrikes in Iraq, officials say

VIDEO: ISIS coming here to the US?

Kurdish Iraqi forces launch operation to retake ISIS-held town of Sinjar

PAPER: OBAMA BACKED ISIS TALKS IN BID TO SAVE HOSTAGE...

DIA: North Korea Planned Attacks on US Nuclear Plants

EU Backs Palestinian Dictatorship

Motivation behind the Sydney terrorist attack

ISIS reportedly turning churches into torture chambers, selling artifacts

Top ISIS leaders reportedly killed in airstrikes

OPINION: Iraq’s quiet Christian genocide

State Dept. warns US travelers to be extra cautious

Israel carries out airstrike on Hamas site in Gaza

Mastermind of Pakistan school attack ID'd as militant known by 'Slim'

77 militants killed in Pakistan after school massacre

Israel strikes Hamas training facility in response to rocket fire...

Netanyahu: We will not ignore even one rocket...

Muslim cleric gets death threats after wife appears with him on TV without face veil

Video: Robert Spencer on Sun TV on the Peshawar jihad massacre and more

North Carolina public high school proselytizing for Islam in vocabulary lessons

Pakistan grants bail to Mumbai jihad massacre mastermind

After $28 billion in aid, US still can’t get Pakistan to confront jihadists

Islamic State propagandist: “I’m a soldier…I don’t regret what I’ve done”

Jihad groups largely mum on CIA torture report

Spain frees ex-Muslim jailed for criticizing Islam, expels him from country

Merry Christmas from Al Qaeda

‘Little London’ ‘Little Berlin’ in jihad-wracked Syria

Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: Arafat Provided Us with Weapons to Carry Out Attacks

Halal certification boss is now denying having been in the Sydney cafe just before jihad siege began

Civil servants, including armed forces personnel, university scholars, government departments support ISIS operations in Malaysia

Harvard Removes Labels From Israeli SodaStream Machines To Avoid Offending Muslims

Saudi Arabia Reportedly Passes Law to Execute “Bible Smugglers”

Imagine No Religion: The Western Media and Islamic Terror

Iraq Tank Sale Will Profit ISIS

How ISIS Surgeons Are Using Hostages In The Most Inhumane Way To Bank Roll Their Terror State

Official: Russia plotting to start war on Israel

Brigitte Gabriel to Muslim Woman Who claims Majority of Muslims are Portrayed Badly: The Peaceful Majority are Irrelevant

Germany, Anti-Islam, and Vladimir Putin

New York Police Officers Shot Dead in Squad Car ‘Assassination’

Jihadist Cops Killer Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley’s Quran Tweets #NYPD #DefeatJihad #Savages

VIDEO: NYPD officers turn away from Mayor de Blasio as he enters police presser for cops murdered by #jihad

Brooklyn cop killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley’s FB page has Qur’an quote: “Strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah”

Obama releases four more detainees from Gitmo, sends them back to jihad in Afghanistan

The Islamic State (ISIS) turning churches into torture chambers, selling Christian artifacts

France: Muslim attacks police, stabs one in the face, yells “Allahu Akbar” “Takbir”!

Taliban threaten to kill politicians’ kids next

Britain just ‘days away’ from terror plot, says Met chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe

Nigeria: Islamic jihadists take elderly people to schools, open fire, murder 50

Indonesia: Muslim group warns President not to say “Merry Christmas”

Sweden: Two car bombs rock Muslim area of Malmo

Islamic State mocks US with photoshopped Santa held hostage

Yemen: Islamic jihadists murder 15 children in car bomb attacks

Islamic State releases graphic images of man’s hand being amputated for theft

New York legislator gets Islamic State-style threat

New Gitmo release sparks safety fears for troops in Afghanistan...

Iran has know-how to build nukes, senior cleric claims...

FEAR IN FRANCE - Second car attack in as many days injures 11

Driver reportedly heard shouting 'Allahu Akbar' hurts 13 in French city

Muslim Driver Runs Down Pedestrians for Half Hour Shouting “Allahu Akbar” - Eleven Injured

ISIS mines compound hidden killer that's plagued Iraq for decades

Xenophobia rises in Berlin...

Record 17,000 rally against 'Islamisation'...

Italian authorities crack neo-Fascist plot to attack immigrants...

Turkey's President Slams Birth Control as 'Treason'...

Who at the @StateDept @ThinkAgain_DOS is Working with Terror Group Hamas-CAIR?

Islamic State (ISIS) Says Only a Matter of Time Before Europe Is Conquered; Plan ‘Largest Religious Cleansing Campaign’ in History

US Govt Offers $5 Million Bounty for Islamic Terrorist It Released

HORRIFIC Propaganda VIDEO: Dozens of “infidels” slaughtered in jihad massacre in Nigeria: “We can’t live with unbelievers on the same land.”

Denmark: 8 of the 9 top ethnic groups that commit violent crime are immigrants from Muslim countries

VIDEO: ‘Dragged by hair and sold for $24 at markets’ – Western Muslim converts buying girls as young as 12 for sex slavery

ISIS Beheads Syrian Soldier, Threatens Obama With Similar Fate: ‘[We Have] Come To You, O Barack Obama… To The Heart Of New York… We Will Slaughter You As We Slaughtered This Pig”

The NYPD Cop-Killing: The Chickens Come Home to Roost

Obama: Against Free Speech Before He Was For It

Another Muslim from Minnesota killed fighting for the Islamic State

Nigeria: Islamic jihadists massacre civilians, say they’re being killed because they’re infidels

Nigeria: Islamic jihadists bomb bus station, murder at least 20 people

Islamic State: “Our expansion will be perpetual…Those who do not convert to Islam or pay the Islamic tax will be killed”

Egypt: Churches burned by Muslim mobs last year still in ruins

PA jihadi tries to murder IDF soldier at checkpoint

Pakistan: 11 Christians, including a pastor, accused of blasphemy

The Islamization of France in 2014

Heading for a Jew-Free Turkey

A British Mother Reportedly Left Welfare Behind and Is Now Helping Recruit for the Islamic State

A dark future for Afghanistan grows more likely as U.S. forces withdraw

Rare Islamic State visit reveals 'brutal and strong' force

Sex-slavery trauma

How extremist groups raise money

Mosul diaries: Poisoned by water

Yazidis' tales of survival

American Soldiers’ Support for President Obama Breaks 15% - All-Time Poor Record

U.S. Government Puts $5 Million Bounty on Al-Qaeda Terrorist It Had Just Released from Gitmo

Germany's Nationalist Marches Grow...

Demonstrators Sing Christmas Carols Against 'Islamization'...

Rising anti-Semitism in UK...

France gripped by fear after attacks...

300 extra soldiers deployed into streets...

Bullet smashes through window at Paris synagogue...

From Iraqi mountaintop, a fierce battle to free IS-held town...

Women tortured, raped, sold into sexual slavery...

Dress Code: Long black robes with gloves and face veils...

France: Muslim destroys Christmas decorations, screams “Allahu akbar”

French prosecutor: Muslim driver who hit pedestrians screamed “Allahu akbar” “to give himself courage to act, and not out of religious belief”

FBI warns of possible Islamic State jihad terror plot in Memphis

Saudi Grand Mufti: Child marriages are OK

French Arrest Gunman “Armed to the Teeth” Headed to the Center of Cannes, Troops Deployed

NYC Jihad Cop Killer’s Undiscovered Social Media Accounts Show Islam/Jihad Side [VIDEO]

French authorities: No evidence of religious motive or terror behind 3 “allahu akbar” attacks that have injured dozens

17,500 Patriots Gather to Sing Christmas Carols Against Islamisation in Germany

Tens Of Thousands Of Germans Gather Together To Protest Against Islam - Keep Germany Christian, Not Islamic

Canada: 21-year-old Muslim convert arrested for Islamic terrorist plot against Montreal police precincts

President of Montreal’s police says jihadists pose real threat to police

UPDATE: Jordanian warplane crashed in Syria; Not shot down by ISIS...

Militants capture pilot...

Turning Christian churches into torture chambers...

Grisly finds in Iraqi Yazidi village taken back from ISIS militants

ISIS ramps up persecution of Christians in Middle East

Attacks stir Afghan fears as US mission ends

VIDEO: Will US troop drawdown embolden the Taliban?

Survivor of Saddam '88 gas attack recalls the horrors

Krauthammer: Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo Bay ‘completely illogical’

New issue of jihadist magazine suggests attacks against USA...

Jihad Magazine INSPIRE Issue 13 Urges More “Lone Wolf” Attacks

DRAMA: Netanyahu disqualified for party primary...

Israel police reveal huge political corruption investigation...

Germany on high alert over Islamic terror attack threats “highest in 40 years”

VIDEO of Pennsylvania Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen: “Explode yourselves like a bomb against the US”

EU Parliament shoots down anti-Semitism task force

Islamic State (ISIS) Says Only a Matter of Time Before Europe Is Conquered; Plan ‘Largest Religious Cleansing Campaign’ in History

2ND VEHICULAR JIHAD IN FRANCE IN 2 DAYS: Muslim Shouting “Allahu Akbar” Rams His Car into Christmas Shoppers

Al-Azhar professor cites Protocols of the Elders of Zion, says Jews promote atheism to rule the world

ISIS Fighters Use Amphetamines For Courage

Fearing more “mental illness,” France deploys soldiers in city centers

Obama State Department Working With Designated Islamic Terror Group to Whitewash Them

NYPD Cop Killer Worked for Muslim Brotherhood Hamas-Linked Islamic Society of North America

Montreal: Muslim arrested for terrorist threats against police

Feds Flooding U.S. With Muslim Immigrants, As Government Data Shows Economy Is Falling Apart

Israel's Gas Dream – The End Is Nigh

France’s Anti-Semitic Nightmare

ISIS’s Sex Slave Pamphlet — on The Glazov Gang

Why Do 80% of Palestinians Support Murder?

Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System — on The Glazov Gang

Christians and Churches Attacked in the West - Muslim Persecution of Christians, September 2014

The Modern Day Miracle of Israel - A Lesson in Optimism from Israel

The Unexpected Founding Fathers Of ISIS, And The Shocking Connection To Hitler - ...exerted pressure on Hitler to solve the "Jewish problem" once and for all.

US military equipment being detoured for possible battle vs. ISIS

Days After Shots Fired in Attack on Synagogue, “Gunmen” Open Fire at Jewish Restaurant in Paris

German is stabbed in back by Muslim after wishing him and two Muslim women Merry Christmas

13-year-old girl: My father gave me to Boko Haram

Christian priest: Thanks to Israel, I can have a Merry Christmas

UK: Muslim driver hits two pedestrians with his car, kills them

Saudi women drivers referred to terrorism court

Pakistan agrees on new antiterrorism plan, pledges to “eradicate Taliban”

Mauritania sentences man to death for apostasy

Pope says Islam is religion of peace, then begs Muslims to condemn violence

Designated terror group CAIR’s Christmas Card CON

Boko Haram’s 2014 jihad: 9,000 killed, 1.5 million displaced

BBC: Yazidi Women Recount the Horror of the Islamic States Slave Trade

Jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber in Iraqi army uniform murders 33 people south of Baghdad

Salon: “No proof that Jesus even existed”; Muhammad’s existence “established beyond the shadow of a doubt”

Muslim who said “Australian government needs to stop picking on the Muslims here” arrested on jihad terror charges

German Salafis set out to convert Poles to Islam: ‘Our brothers and sisters are already preparing videos on YouTube’

Pakistan: Muslim cleric says fight against Taliban is “un-Islamic”

Egypt: Christians “pray outdoors in spite of the cold air and coming of Christmas”

France: Now 1,000 soldiers deployed on streets to combat Christmas jihad terror attacks

How Western Media Enable Islamic Terrorism

Kurdistan: More Like Israel, Less Like Iraq – Good news, and good reading.

To Kill a Kafir — on The Glazov Gang - The discussion occurred within the context of Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System, in which Dr. Dalcour unveiled the nightmare spawned by Islamic “theocracy.”

Al-Qaeda’s Younger Brother in Florida

Obama Won’t Stand Firm Against the Taliban Even in Wake of Pakistan School Massacre

Israel: “Palestinians” firebomb car, 11-year-old Jewish girl in critical condition

Germany: Muslims attack Church-goers, force their way into the St. Mary’s Church, shouting “Shit Christians”

Libya: Islamic jihadis murder 13-year-old Christian girl

New issue of al-Qaeda magazine devoted to “jihad in America”

Al-Qaeda warns of more lone wolves...

Australia: Muslims planned to “turn Blue Mountains into killing ground”

US gives Pakistan free pass and $1 billion, ignores its ties to jihad terror groups

Malian academic: What Islamic jihad groups did in Mali “has nothing to do with Islam”

Pakistan: Christians in Peshawar celebrate Christmas behind cement blocks, barbed wire, and 2,000 policemen

Egyptian security forces foil jihad terrorist attack on Coptic Christmas celebrations