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Sky News reports British Police have arrested three men on an Emirates flight after an alleged bomb threat. Emirates released this update regarding flight EK004: Following remarks made as the EK004 prepared to depart London Heathrow for Dubai yesterday evening (Friday), crew alerted the Metropolitan Police who subsequently boarded the aircraft and detained three passengers. [...]
An RAF Tornado has crashed in Scotland. No word on the pilot. The Ministry of Defence confirms that “a Tornado F3 aircraft from RAF Leuchars crashed at approximately 1145hrs today, Thursday 2 July 2009, during a routine training flight in Glen Kinglas, Argyll.” The Ministry of Defence has just announced that the aircrew died in [...]
The Daily Mail is reporting on the conversion of a white boy by radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary. Howie at the Jawa Report has the video of the boy’s conversion. The Daily Mail says the “bewildered 11-year-old, who gives his name as Sean was filmed repeating Arabic chants and swearing allegiance to Allah.”
Mark Silverberg writes today about the resurgence of Anti-Semitism—the oldest of hatreds: Anti-Semitism never really died after the Holocaust, it just became unfashionable. That is no longer the case. In the wake of the Gaza War and with the global economy in a tailspin, disturbing events have been occurring in Britain – events that do [...]
Al Sharpton must be on vacation this week. Credits: Image: Peter Brookes, Times Online
Embarrassed by the Obama White House, British diplomats protested its decision not to have a formal press conference with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The Daily Mail says the White House has relented and will allow a “brief” period of questions from journalists.
Spraying too much deodorant in a confined space has been ruled the cause of death for a UK boy. Foxnews has the full story.
Rep. Tom Tancredo has moved to introduce anti-Sharia legislation here in the United States. Tancredo’s move comes in response to the UK’s decision legitimizing Sharia courts. His office released this statement: Amid disturbing revelations that the verdicts of Islamic Sharia courts are now legally binding in civil cases in the United Kingdom, U.S. Representative Tom [...]
The Islamic Shiite Resistance in Iraq claim British hostage “Jason” has committed Suicide. Sky News reports that in a video statement, the group says that “one of the five British hostages seized in Baghdad last year has killed himself.” The group’s claim has not been confirmed.
Not so shocking report out of Britain today. Two ministers say they were threatened with a hate crime prosecution if they didn’t stop preaching the Gospel in a predominately Muslim area of Birmingham. Once again we see that it is Jesus the World hates. And because it hates Him, it will also hate his followers. [...]
