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June 14, 2017 • IPT News  
One
mosque leader says it's time for unity. An international Islamist
activist says such discussions shouldn't be aired publicly. Two weeks
after the senior imam at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque endorsed partial female
genital mutilation
(FGM) as "the honorable thing to do," a clear effort is
under way to try to stifle further debate.
June 12, 2017 •
IPT News
A prominent Muslim
American political activist is included on a list of 75 terrorists issued
by a Libyan parliamentary committee.
By John Rossomando • June 12,
2017 • IPT News
A
former Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) member with Muslim
Brotherhood sympathies expressed support for Qatar this week, as the Gulf
State finds itself increasingly isolated for its terror support.
by Ammar Anwer • June 9, 2017 •
Special to IPT News
The
unconscious man rushed to a Pakistani hospital was covered in filth.
Irfan Masih was a sewer cleaner, and stricken by poisonous gases trapped
inside a sewer hole. Time was of the essence. But emergency staff at
the hospital in Pakistan's Sindh province refused to treat
Masih, a 30-year-old Christian, until he was thoroughly washed.
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June 14, 2017 • Reuters 
Confrontation
between Qatar and Saudi Arabia is creating unease among Syrian rebels who
expect the crisis between two of their biggest state backers to deepen
divisions in the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.
June 14, 2017 • The
Jerusalem Post
Hamas
is responsible for the humanitarian crisis, the Trump administration said
as 2 million Palestinian in Gaza struggle to live on four hours a day of
electricity.
June 14, 2017 • Ha'aretz
British
law enforcement struggling to cope with a burgeoning wave of terrorism?
It's the ghost of the Raj,
British rule in India, that has come back to haunt Britain,
says Gilles Kepel, a leading French expert on
fundamentalist Islam and the author of "Terror in France:
The Rise of Jihad in the West."
June 14, 2017 • Palestinian
Media Watch
Contrary
to the statement by U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson that the
Palestinian Authority's "intent [is] to cease the payments" to
families of terrorist "Martyrs" who "have committed murder
or violence against others," PA leaders are denying that they will
stop financially rewarding the terrorists.
June 14, 2017 • Times of
Israel
Russia's
ambassador to Israel has said that his country does not consider the
Islamist groups Hamas and Hezbollah to be terrorist organizations, as
they have not carried out attacks on Russian territory or against Russian
interests abroad.
June 13, 2017 • Times of
Israel
Egypt
offered Hamas more freedom at its border and much-needed electricity amid
a severe power shortage, in exchange for the terror group agreeing to a
list of security demands, Arab media reported Tuesday.
June 13, 2017 • The Hill
The
standoff in the Middle East over Qatar is quickly becoming an intense
lobbying battle in Washington.
June 13, 2017 • The
National
The debate about Islamic extremism is sometimes easier
to have in the Middle East than in the West. Even describing terrorists
as Islamist radicals could make people in the West uneasy, understandably
because such labels could incriminate Muslim communities or for fear of
sounding Islamophobic. I noticed the difference after I moved out of the
UAE in 2015.
June 13, 2017 • Israel
Hayom
According to New York Times, Israel found blueprints
for a bomb capable of evading airport security, prompting laptop ban.
"The intelligence was so exquisite that it enabled the U.S. to
understand how the weapons could be detonated," report says.
June 13, 2017 • Times of
Israel
U.S.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told senators on Tuesday that the
Palestinian leadership had changed its policy and intends to stop paying
the families of terrorists jailed for attacking or killing Israelis.
June 13, 2017 • The
Guardian
Technology
companies such as Google and Facebook must do more to curb the
"poisonous propaganda" that fuels terror attacks such as the
atrocities in London and Manchester, the prime minister has said,
launching a UK-French pact to explore new ways to curb the spread of
online hate.
June 13, 2017 • Reuters
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will meet
European officials this week to discuss new security measures that could
prevent the U.S. government expanding a ban on laptops beyond flights
from ten airport primarily in the Middle East.
June 13, 2017 • Jewish
Telegraphic Agency
Before
he threw Sarah Halimi to her death from a window of her third-story
apartment in Paris, 27-year-old Kobili Traore called his Jewish neighbor
"Satan" and cried out for Allah.
June 13, 2017 • Al-Monitor
The
relationship between Hamas and Saudi Arabia is currently in a stalemate,
and tension is expected to intensify in the coming days in light of the
Saudi crisis with Qatar, Hamas' most important ally among the Arab states
June 12, 2017 • The
Jerusalem Post
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
recently posted a job offering on its website, listing the duty station
for the position as "Jerusalem, Palestine (State of)," The
Jerusalem Post has discovered.
June 12, 2017 • The
Algemeiner
Jonathan
Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), said on Monday
he was "deeply upset" and "troubled" after
discovering that a public statement opposing anti-Muslim bigotry which
his organization recently endorsed was also signed by a number of radical
anti-Israel groups.
June 12, 2017 • PJ Media
During
the attack, the killer Omar Mateen called 911 three times and also called
a local TV station to claim credit, saying he did the attack in support
of the Islamic State. But in a trend I've documented here at PJ Media,
despite these
obvious "investigative clues," there are media outlets,
family members, and law enforcement officials who still
puzzle over Mateen's motive.
June 12, 2017 • RealClear
Politics
What
should we call the vile killers of London, Manchester, Fort Hood, Boston,
Nice, and Paris? For years, our leading politicians have danced gingerly
around that question, preferring to call them simply
"terrorists." No modifiers.
June 12, 2017 • The
National
Emirates
Red Crescent staff came under attack from Israel in response to Hamas
fire from a Gaza hospital where they were working, the charity's
secretary general said at the Crown Prince's Majlis on Monday night.
June 12, 2017 • Jewish
Telegraphic Agency
Alan
Dershowitz is advising a Muslim group accused of promoting female genital
mutilation to instead adopt a variation of the Jewish circumcision
ritual.
June 11, 2017 • Israel
Hayom
In
a rare and scathing criticism, a Saudi Arabian newspaper has compared
Hamas to Islamic State, saying that what the Gaza Strip-based terrorist
group was doing in the enclave "exceeds what Islamic State does in
Syria and Iraq."
June 11, 2017 • Anadolu
Agency
The
statement issued by Saudi Arabian Education Ministry under the signature
of minister Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al-Issa said all books by Yousef
al-Qaradawi, the chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars,
should "immediately" be pulled off from schools, universities
and libraries.
June 11, 2017 • The Hill
The convergence of Iran-sponsored radical Islam with
transnational organized crime in Latin America is a serious threat to the
national security of the United States, especially in the tri-border
area, or TBA, where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay converge.
June 10, 2017 • Times of
Israel
A
senior Hamas official said Saturday that a delegation headed by the
group's leader Ismail Haniyeh would visit Iran in the near future as the
terror group struggles with a possible loss of its main source of
international support.
June 9, 2017 • The
Jerusalem Post 
The
United Nations Relief and Works Agency announced on Friday that they
discovered on June 1 a tunnel under two of its schools in the Gaza Strip:
The Maghazi Elementary Boys A&B School and the Maghazi Prepatory Boys
School, which are located on the same premises.
June 9, 2017 • CNN.com
Two
men traveled repeatedly to Lebanon for years, leading double lives as
regular Americans and terrorist operatives for Hezbollah, according to US
law enforcement officials.
June 9, 2017 • Al Arabiya
English
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an Egyptian Islamic theologian
based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim
Scholars. He is the first Egyptian on the terror list announced by Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain.
June 9, 2017 • Al Jazeera
The United Nations says it is not bound by Saudi
Arabia's "terror list" after the kingdom named several
high-profile Qatari charities that carry out life-saving work in war-torn
and impoverished countries.
June 9, 2017 • The Daily Caller
Imam
Johari Abdul-Malik, formerly director of outreach for Dar al Hijrah
mosque, formally resigned Friday when the mosque's board failed to meet
his demand to fire senior
Imam Shaker Elsayed, according to an AP report.
June 8, 2017 • DailyMail.com
Courtney
Love has slammed a pro-Palestinian activist and accused her of being an
'anti-American fraud' in a Twitter tirade. Love fired off a series of
messages at Linda Sarsour - who helped organize the anti-Trump Women's
March earlier this year - on Wednesday, June 7.
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