Things tend to get noticed only when Americans or perhaps other Westerners get affected. ISIS had killed over 2000 Syrians in the six months prior to executing a Western Journalist and no one in the West seemed to notice. Recently the Kingdom sentenced a man to 1000 lashes for running a liberal website. The site did not even defame Islam. He is unlikely to survive that many lashes. Yet there was the Saudi representative marching in Paris shoulder-to-shoulder with Putin's guy and others in support of freedom of speech. You can cut the hypocrisy with a knife.
In recent news from the various fronts:
- A court overturned
the embezzlement convictions of former President Hosni Mubarak and his
two sons.
- Egypt's Grand Mufti, who had previously condemned the
terrorist attacks in Paris, warned the magazine Charlie Hebdo about publishing its latest caricature of Mohammad, calling it an "unwarranted provocation" of Muslims.
- A police captain was found dead in North Sinai, two days after his disappearance; Ansar Beit al-Maqdis is suspected in the killing.
- Jihadists allied with the Islamic State claimed they are holding 21 Egyptian Christians captured near Tripoli.
- Islamist factions have postponed
an announcement of whether they will attend UN-sponsored peace talks
until Jan. 18.
- A suicide bombing at a checkpoint near Benghazi killed three Libyan soldiers and wounded two others.
- Internationally-recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al Thani called for international support of his government and warned of Libya becoming a sanctuary for terrorist groups.
- Police reportedly
arrested two "terror suspects" in the city of Gafsa and broke up a
"terror cell in Medjez El Bab (Beja province) that was planning attacks
on public facilities, police and army forces."
- The Tunisian National
Army launched counterterrorism operations in Forsane and the Mount Ouergha areas.
- The Nigerian government refuted
reports of 2,000 dead after Boko Haram attacked the town of Baga,
stating that the terrorist group killed up to 150 people.
- A bomb
detonated near a checkpoint in Gombe killed
one person and wounded about 18; the bomber was caught and killed by an
angry mob, according to a local source.
- The Archbishop of Jos accused the West of ignoring the threat from Boko Haram. The jihadist group is reportedly forcing young girls to become suicide bombers.
- Approximately 20,000 Nigerians have fled to Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the face of terrorist attacks over the past two weeks.
- Bulgarian police acting on European arrest warrants detained French citizen Fritz-Joly Joachin, who is of Haitian origin, as he was trying to cross over into Turkey from Bulgaria. Joachin reportedly had contacts
with Cherif Kouachi, one of the twin brothers suspected in last week's
terrorist attack in Paris, shortly before leaving France for Turkey. A
Muslim convert, Joachin was allegedly trying to take his three-year-old son to join a jihadist community in Syria. France has requested Joachin's extradition.
- Prime Minister Valls told Parliament that
the country is at war with "terrorism, jihadism and radicalism" but
emphasized that "France is not at war against Islam and Muslims."
- The
forthcoming issue of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, targeted by
Islamic extremists in a deadly attack last week, will feature a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on its front page.
- Turkey accused France of
"insufficient" cooperation in antiterrorism efforts, complaining that
French intelligence has provided Turkey with the names of only 500 of
the 1,200 suspects on France's Islamic State blacklist.
- A Pakistani Taliban splinter
group released a nearly 17 minute video again pledging its allegiance to
the Islamic State. The group primarily consists of low to mid-level
former Pakistani Taliban officials from Khyber, Arakzai, Bajaur, Hangu,
and Dir in Pakistan, and from Kunar, Logar, and Nangarhar in
Afghanistan.
- US adds Mullah Fazlullah to list of global terrorists. Fazlullah has presided over
the fracturing of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, which remains
a dangerous terrorist group.
-
An IED blast in the northern Malian town of Kidal has left seven
Senegalese peacekeepers from the UN mission wounded. The attack follows a
string of operations in central Mali by al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb.
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