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  • Telegraph: West targeted by Isil-linked plots at a rate of more than two every month, says report
    September 30th, 2015
    Islamic State-linked terror plots are increasing with attacks on the West foiled or taking place at a rate of more than two a month, according to a new study.
     
    Since the declaration of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (Isil) "caliphate" last year, nine attacks unfolded out of a total of 32 Isil-inspired plots, or 2.3 a month, the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) said.
     
    The think tank's latest study of Isil-related terror found that the extremist group's slick media operation is contributing to the radicalisation and inspiring attacks in Europe and elsewhere.
  • Daily Signal: Forensic Analysis says that Planned Parenthood videos are 'authentic'
    September 29th, 2015

    “The Coalfire forensic analysis removes any doubt that the full length undercover videos released by Center for Medical Progress are authentic and have not been manipulated,” said Casey Mattox, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom. “Analysts scrutinized every second of video recorded during the investigation and released by CMP to date and found only bathroom breaks and other non-pertinent footage had been removed.” ...

    “Planned Parenthood can no longer hide behind a smokescreen of false accusations,” Mattox said, “and should now answer for what appear to be the very real crimes revealed by the CMP investigation.”

  • Gov.UK: UN sanctions for British foreign fighters who join ISIL in Syria
    September 29th, 2015
    The government has proposed that a handful of British citizens should be added to the UN Al Qaeda sanctions regime which would lead to a global asset freeze and travel ban being imposed against them.
     
    The government put forward the proposal earlier this month to the UN Sanctions Committee and the measures were expected to go through in New York yesterday evening (28 September). The move underlines the government’s determination that those who go and fight for ISIL and threaten Britain will face consequences for their actions.
     
    It is the first time since 2006 that the government has sought to subject British nationals to the UN AQ sanctions regime. The individuals are deemed to be associated with “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of”, “recruiting for” and “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq.
  • One News Now: The 'real issue' re: religious freedom
    September 29th, 2015
    A constitutional law expert argues that a report addressing tensions between freedom of religion and special rights for homosexuals misses the point.
     
    The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, issued the report and offers solutions that would supposedly resolve conflicts with Christians like Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who spent five days in jail for refusing to issue licenses for unnatural marriage.
     
    But Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel tells OneNewsNow the problem is that the report "kicks religious liberty to the curb."
     
    "They do not respect our deep traditions of religious freedom. They mouth religious freedom; they say that you're free to believe, but you're not free to act, and you're not free, as they say, to impose your beliefs on someone else," Staver observes. "But the fact is neither Kim Davis nor any of the other people are imposing their views on anyone."
  • Christian Today: Churches torched by extremists in Tanzania
    September 29th, 2015
    Three evangelical churches have been burned down in an area of northwest Tanzania where Islamist extremists have been making threats against Christian communities.
     
    The devastated churches were Living Water International, Pentecostal Assemblies of God and Evangelical Assemblies of God, all in Kashfa in the Bukoba district. All three counted worshippers into the hundreds.
  • BBC: Stem cell trial aims to cure blindness
    September 29th, 2015
    Surgeons in London have carried out a pioneering human embryonic stem cell operation in an ongoing trial to find a cure for blindness for many patients.
     
    The procedure was performed on a woman aged 60 at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

    It involved "seeding" a tiny patch with specialised eye cells and implanting it at the back of the retina.

    The London Project to Cure Blindness was established a decade ago to try to reverse vision loss in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

    Ten patients with the wet form of AMD will undergo the procedure.
  • Express: Genocide of the Christian martyrs laid bare
    September 29th, 2015

    SPECIAL REPORT: We realise that many readers will find this image shocking, but feel it is vital to show the true horror of ISIS. And now a Jewish survivor of Nazi terror is leading the crusade to rescue the Christian martyrs.

  • Guardian: Four Britons fighting with Islamic State sanctioned by UN
    September 29th, 2015
    Four British citizens fighting with Islamic State militants in Syria are to be subject to UN sanctions in the first such move in a decade, Downing Street has said.
     
    The UK government took the drastic step of asking for some of its own nationals to face UN travel bans and asset freezes, amid increasing alarm about the hundreds of Britons being tempted to travel to Iraq and Syria.
  • Telegraph: Laws against 'extremism' risk criminalising us all
    September 28th, 2015
    In this, the 800th anniversary year of Magna Carta, we like to think that we are governed by the rule of law, but in reality we have the rule of Parliament, or rather of the executive that commands a majority in the Commons. It is open to the government to curtail what most of us regard as quintessential British liberties. Even if it is constrained from doing so by human rights laws and international conventions, Parliament can change or withdraw from those, too.
     
    This debate will be revived when the Government publishes its counter-extremism Bill in a few weeks’ time. Theresa May will doubtless start the ball rolling at the Tory conference next week, promising a legislative crackdown on those who express views that fall foul of a new statutory definition of what constitutes extremist thinking.
     
    Early drafts of the Bill suggest that this will be “the vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and the mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs”.
     
    The definition is so wide-ranging that it is hard to imagine that it will not inhibit free speech.
  • Telegraph: Christian and Muslim refugees should be housed separately, says German police chief
    September 28th, 2015
    Christian and Muslim refugees should be housed separately in Germany to minimise tensions following growing levels of violence at asylum seeker shelters, a police chief has urged.
     
    Jörg Radek, deputy head of Germany’s police union, said migrants should be divided, following increasing numbers of attacks on Christians in refugee centres.
     
    “I think housing separated according to religion makes perfect sense,” Jörg Radek, deputy head of Germany’s police union, told German newspaper Die Welt, particularly for Muslims and Christians.
     
    Two separate clashes erupted between refugees on Sunday at a temporary migrant shelter in Kassel-Calden in northern Germany left 14 people injured, police said.