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8/27/2009 | News | Steven Erlanger and Souad Mekhennet

Islamic Radicalism Slows Moroccan Reforms

Under pressure from Islamic radicalism, King Mohammed VI has slowed the pace of change.

8/24/2009 | News | Israel Today Staff

Iran Appoints Terrorist as Defense Minister

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday announced his intention to appoint a terrorist involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina as Iran's next defense minister.

8/24/2009 | News | The Christian Science Monitor

Under Burqas, Afghan Women Voted in Protest

A relatively high female turnout in many areas showed a desire to keep the Taliban at bay and to gain more rights.

8/21/2009 | News | Joshua Rhett Miller

Court Expected to Send Runaway Teen Home

A 17-year-old girl who fled to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity will almost certainly be forced to return home to Ohio, experts say, despite her fears that she will become the victim of an honor killing for abandoning her parents' faith.

8/20/2009 | News | Sara R. Johnson

Fate of born-again teen remains in hands of Fla. court

Her father, Mohamed Bary, had allegedly threatened to take her life in an "honor killing" because the teen had converted from Islam to Christianity.

8/18/2009 | News | AP

Last defendant sentenced in Calif. terrorist plot

A man who helped a prison-based Islamic militant group to plot against the U.S. government was sentenced Monday to 70 months in federal prison, prosecutors said.

8/17/2009 | News | AP

American Is Convicted of Aiding Terrorists

A 23-year-old American man was convicted Wednesday of aiding terrorist groups by sending videotapes of American landmarks overseas and plotting to support “violent jihad” after a federal jury rejected his arguments that it had been empty talk.

8/14/2009 | News | Christian Action Network

United Kingdom Now Home to 85 Sharia Courts

The Civitas think-tank has published a report concluding that 85 Sharia courts, which are courts where people voluntarily submit their dispute to be resolved based on Islamic law, are now operating in the United Kingdom, The Guardian reports. The report's author, Denis MacEoin, warns that the non-Muslims are sometimes not allowed to know the rulings made by the court

8/12/2009 | News | Fox News

Muslim Teen Who Converted to Christianity Says Family Threatened to Kill Her

An Ohio teenager says she ran away from home to Florida because her family threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity, local media reported.

Rifqa Bary, 17, testified Monday at a custody hearing in Orlando that she'd recently changed religions and is worried her relatives will do something drastic, according to WFTV in Orlando and Central Florida News 13.

"They have to kill me because I'm a Christian. It's an honor (issue)," the girl told WFTV.

8/11/2009 | News | Amanda Lamb

Seventh terrorism suspect denied bond

A federal magistrate on Monday denied bond for a Holly Springs man facing charges in an alleged international terrorism plot.