Jihad

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls

OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer. He's also got fans, or more accurately, he's got fangirls, thousands of them. These besotted double-X chromosome-...

Tags: Social Media, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Health Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)

Syrian soldiers warned daily of sectarian dangers, defectors say

MARAAT NUMAN, Syria — Each morning, after saluting the Syrian flag and before the warplanes take off, soldiers at army bases across Syria are given political orientation. During the lectures, conscripts and career officers alike are repeatedly...

Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Free Syrian Army, Armed Forces, Religious Conflicts, Iran

Setting Times stories to music: From Nirvana to Yo La Tengo

By Kari Howard The stories I read spark musical connections every day. It’s a bit more rare when the walk to work does. But one of my favorite moments this week came when I was strolling down Broadway past Grand Park in downtown LA, a section...

Tags: Boston Marathon, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nintendo Company Ltd., Sports, Religious Conflicts

Early terrorist in U.S. condemns today's jihad

WASHINGTON — Long before Sept. 11, the war on terrorism and two pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon, a young Muslim from Egypt walked into the ballroom of a New York City hotel and shot to death an outspoken Jewish rabbi. El Sayyid A....

Tags: Long Island, Boston Marathon, Belief and Faith, Punishment, Prisons

FBI chief concedes lapses on accused Boston bomber

WASHINGTON — The head of the FBI said Thursday that there were lapses in tracking accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's visit to Russia last year, saying that U.S. security officials failed to act on "text" alerts to a U.S. Customs agent about...

Tags: Justice System, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Travel Alerts, Sports

Library of hate: KKK, racist writings join university collection

“U.S. GOVERNMENT INITIATES OPEN WARFARE AGAINST AMERICAN PEOPLE,” blared one headline. “DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY UNDER ATTACK,” warned another. “DEATH TO ZOG!” urged a third — referring to Zionist Occupation...

Tags: Human Rights, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Ku Klux Klan, Christianity

Russians monitored calls of Boston suspect's mother, U.S. says

BOSTON — Russian authorities secretly wiretapped a conversation between a man believed to be one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and his mother in 2011 discussing the idea of jihad, a U.S. counter-terrorism official said Saturday. The...

Tags: Justice System, Terrorism, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)

'Lone wolf' terrorists get what they want in global spotlight

If late bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev attacked the Boston Marathon with an aim to draw attention to Muslim suffering in Chechnya, his ancestral homeland, he succeeded. Or if, as alleged by some who knew him, he was angered by U.S. military...

Tags: Sociology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Military, Sports, Religious Conflicts

In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath

Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...

Tags: Islam, Internal Medicine, Health and Medical Professionals, Internists, Sports

Rockets fired at Israeli resort city of Eilat

JERUSALEM -- At least two rockets landed in the Israeli town of Eilat on Wednesday morning, police said, and residents of the Red Sea resort community reported a number of explosions as well as an air raid siren. No injuries were reported. A battery...

Syrian opposition begins rewriting history in textbooks

ANTAKYA, Turkey — In newly printed textbooks at dozens of Syrian refugee schools, a small piece of Middle East geography has been amended. Seventy-five years ago, Turkey annexed the northern Syrian territory of Hatay against the will of Syria, but...

Tags: Turkey, Sociology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Refugee, Armed Forces

Boston bombings: Muslims fear another 'hysteria'

We will know soon enough who unleashed Monday’s grotesque violence on Boston. But it is fair to say that many Muslims who heard that explosions had marred the end of the Boston Marathon had a simple, poignant thought: Please don’t let it be...

Tags: Belief and Faith, Sports, Religious Conflicts, Separation of Church and State, September 11, 2001 Attacks