Ramadan Prayer Day 16: Government –“Sterilizing the Threat”
Following the 9/11 attacks on our nation, President Bush addressed a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001 and said, “Our ‘war on terror’ begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It...
View ArticleReCap April 2013
Welcome to the April edition of Best Current News’ ReCap series – brief summaries of selected articles chosen to keep you informed of threats to traditional Judeo-Christian values and western culture...
View ArticleRamadan 2013 – Day 22 – The Root of Modern Sunni Islamic Terrorism
Modern Sunni Islamic terrorism can be traced back to the ideas and theories of two primary Islamist leaders, Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and Sayyid Qutb commonly referred to...
View ArticleRamadan 2013 – Day 27 – Closing Western Embassies – Are We Willingly Becoming...
Today U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East are closed as a precautionary measure against a potential terrorist attack by al Qaeda. General Martin Dempsey of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said...
View ArticleRamadan 2013 – Day 28 – Al Qaeda “Inspiring” Terror
The U.S. State Department announced that nineteen embassies will remained closed this week because of a “specific” and “serious” terrorist threat from an al-Qaeda affiliate. Al-Qaeda, which is Arabic...
View ArticleA New Caliphate?
Much attention has been focused in recent weeks on the nation of Iraq. News commentators have debated the West’s role in Iraq while much of the nation has fallen under the control a former al-Qaeda...
View ArticleWestern Jihadists
It is not a new phenomenon for Muslims in the West to travel to areas around the world to engage in jihad, however with the ongoing war in Syria and the recent announcement of the formation of a new...
View ArticleThe Jayvee Team Strikes Again
During the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign, President Obama announced at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, “Al-Qaeda has been ‘decimated.’” A little over a year later, after ISIS had captured Fallujah, a...
View ArticleThe Root of Modern Day Islamic Terrorism: Part 2
In the late 1980s, two new leaders became prominent in radical Islam: Osama bin Laden from Saudi Arabia and Ayman al-Zawahiri from Egypt. Both of these men followed the ideology of a teacher named,...
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