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Terrorism / IDF & Security / Islamists / Judea & Samaria

IDF Finds Terror Tunnels Under Jenin Mosque Full of Explosives and Weapons

By Pesach Benson / TPS

Two underground shafts in the mosque contained weapons, explosives, military equipment and radios.

France / Islamists

France Closes Mosque Accused of Inciting Violence Against Jews, Christians

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

In late August, France adopted a controversial separatism law that the government said aims to fight Islamic radicalism.

Terrorism / Islamists / Israeli Arabs

Arabs Using Mosque Minarets To Direct Pogroms in Lod

By Jewish Press News Desk

The rioters in Lod aren't randomly roaming around looking for targets for their pogrom.

The Courts / Islamists / The Temple Mount / Israeli Arabs

Following Court Ruling, Senior Muslim Cleric Calls for ‘Defense’ of Temple Mount

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

“We do not recognize the Israeli court’s decision to close the Bab al-Rahma prayer compound,” Tsabari stated.

Palestinian Authority / Coronavirus

PA Arabs Riot, Burn Tires, Throw Rocks Over PA Eid al-Fitr Mosque Closures

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Clashes erupt in the Palestinian Authority as residents take to the streets to protest against virus lockdowns imposed for the holiday.

Islamists / Jerusalem / Jordan / Interfaith Relations / Religion

Jewish Quarter Residents Fear Unrest Following Opening of Mosque Next to Jerusalem's Hurva Synagogue

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

Authorities have reportedly intervened in the matter and are seeking to ensure that no loudspeaker for the muezzin or green lighting is installed on the mosque.

Headline / Terrorism / Police and Crime / The Temple Mount

Temple Mount Briefly Closed to Muslim Entrance Following Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

Unexpectedly, the police closed the Temple Mount to Muslims visitors and not to Jews following the attack on a Jewish group.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Israel's 'Muezzin Law' with Tougher Fines Submitted for Preliminary Knesset Vote

By JNi.Media

'Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens in the Galilee, Negev, Jerusalem and other locations in central Israel suffer routinely and daily from the noise caused by the PA systems of houses of worship.'

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Islamists / Religious & Secular in Israel / Israeli Arabs

Haredim Block Muezzin Law, Say It Threatens Pre-Shabbat Siren

By JNi.Media

Interestingly, several Muslim and European countries have enacted laws compelling their mosques to "muffle" their loudspeakers, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Islamists / Jerusalem / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Former Jerusalem Grand Mufti at War with Knesset over Mosque Noise Pollution

By JNi.Media

The original Muezzin bill was tabled and the Knesset ordered a report that said mosque loudspeakers have been around since loudspeakers had been invented, recommending a dialogue with the Muslim authorities.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Update: Naqba Day Sirens to Sound at Noon (or Not)

By Shalom Bear

If you hear the siren, don't get nervous, it's not an air raid. It's just the Arabs upset they didn't succeed at genocide in 1948.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Jerusalem Silences Plan to Turn Down the Volume of Mosque Loudspeakers

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Jerusalem officials, who loudly proclaimed they will ease the ear aches of Jerusalem residents suffering from the wails from mosques, have whispered, "Wear earplugs."

News Briefs / Interfaith Relations / Canada

Canadian Synagogue Invites Muslims in after Mosque Firebombed

By JNi.Media

On Friday, Beth Israel hosted two prayer sessions for local Muslims and a potluck dinner.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount

Netanyahu Says Police Removed Arab MK from Temple Mount

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Netanyahu: MK Ghattas went up to the Temple Mount, not in order to pray buy only to inflame the situation.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Religion

Compare Obama's Rosh HaShanah and Eid-ul-Fitr Messages [Video]

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The President preached to Jews that they are not in control and should have a "sweet year" with neighbors. He told Muslims in July they celebrate a great holiday.

Israel / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

PA Arabs Blame ‘Settlers' for Burning a Mosque

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

There was no graffiti and there is a possibility that an electric short circuit caused the fire.

Terrorism / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / ISIS

US Plays Down Oklahoma Beheading as Muslim Terror

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The “odd” man who beheaded a woman prayed at a local anti-Israel mosque.

Global / News Briefs / Assimilation

Kerry Lauds ‘Tolerance’ in Indonesia Months after Synagogue Leveled

By Jewish Press News Desk

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised Indonesia for its religious tolerance on Monday, six months after the last synagogue in the country was destroyed. “Yesterday, I had the privilege of going to the Istiqlal mosque,” Kerry said at a press conference during his visit. “And it’s my pleasure to not only say good morning […]

Israel / News Briefs

Attack on Mosque Is Third Price Tag Incident in a Week

By Jewish Press News Desk

Suspected right-wing Jewish vandals set a mosque in the Arab village of Deit Istiya in Samaria on fire late Tuesday night and painted graffiti on the mosque’s wall with hate messages such as “Revenge for spilled blood in Kusra,” referring to the village where Arabs brutally beat a group of Jews last week after the […]

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Religious & Secular in Israel / United Nations (UN) / Religion / Settlements / Judaism

PA Mourns Failure to Take over Rachel’s Tomb as Muslim Holy Site

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Jews visit Rachel’s Tomb Tuesday to pray that she cries for them. Today, the anniversary of her death, the Palestinian Authority has failed to turn it into a Muslim holy site. Chalk up one for the truth.

US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Religion / Judaism

An IMAX Film of the Jerusalem You Never Have Seen Before (Video)

By JTA

Move over Kohn Kerry and let the moviemakers take over. It took five years of negotiations for an IMAX visual tour of Jerusalem, including the three major religions, to come to the screen.

Op-Eds

Iceland to Get its First Mosque

By Soeren Kern

The Muslim Association of Iceland now admits that foreign donors will be paying for the mosque's construction costs.

Video of the Day

Arab Violence on the Temple Mount (Video)

By Jewish Press News Desk

Arab violence on the Temple Mount is not a new thing. Nor is their abuse of what they supposedly consider a holy site, such as a mosque. The video from 'Chadashot 0404' below is a closeup of what the police regularly face from the hooligans who hide inside the Al Aqsa mosque and attack the […]

Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Arabs Stone Temple Mount Visitors, Try to Block Jewish Entry

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

There was a concerted effort this morning by Arabs, to block Jewish entry onto the Temple Mount.

Guest Blog

Al Aqsa Mosque Collapsing, But only in English

By Elder of Ziyon

Certainly the Al Aqsa Foundation web page will have this story, right? Well, no, it doesn't.

Op-Eds

Spain's New 'Fornicators'

By Soeren Kern

The imam had threatened to burn down the woman's house because, according to him, she is an "infidel" as she works outside of the home, drives an automobile and has non-Muslim friends.

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / Islamists / Religion

Muslim Brotherhood Digging Roots in Boston

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Good American Muslim citizens in Boston have been shocked to find material in local mosques backed by the Muslim Brotherhood movement and calling for jihad against the United States. Boston has been eyeballed by anti-jihad monitors since the Boston Massacre in April, carried out by Islamic terrorists Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. They were not known […]

Terrorism / NY / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Islamists

Police Remove 9/11 Wing from Mosque Site; No Human Remains Found

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

No imagination could write a weirder post-9/11 script – the removal of a wing from one of the jets hijacked by Muslim terrorists and discovered at the site of a new mosque. No human remains found.

Rubin Reports

The Motive Cover Up of the Boston Bombings Begins

By Barry Rubin

Why are government officials, politicians, army officers, academics and journalists afraid to point out the truth?

The Courts / News Briefs / Settlements

Civil Administration Demolishes Illegal Mosque

By Jewish Press Staff

The mosque demolition followed a Regavim movement's appeal to the Supreme Court.

Jewish / Iran / News Briefs

Iranian Jewish Woman Stabbed To Death in Isfahan

By Malkah Fleisher

A Jewish woman was stabbed to death in Isfahan, Iran, as part of an ongoing religious fight between the woman and her Muslim neighbors.

Op-Eds

Islam Overtaking Catholicism as Dominant Religion in France

By Soeren Kern

A majority of people in France, according to a new poll, believe that Islam is too influential in French society, and almost half view Muslims as a threat to their national identity. The survey reveals a significant degradation of the image of Islam in France. The findings also show that French voters are growing increasingly uneasy about mass immigration from Muslim countries, which has been encouraged by a generation of political and cultural elites in France dedicated to creating a multicultural society.

My Right Word

Iranian Woman Strikes a Few Blows (and Kicks) For Freedom

By Yisrael Medad

Reported: Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning ... An Iranian cleric said he was beaten by a woman in the northern province of Semnan after giving her a warning for being “badly covered,” the state-run Mehr news agency reported.  Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman in the street while on his way […]

Analysis

Bacon Hate Crimes and Islamophobia Witch-Hunts

By Daniel Greenfield

In the last five years there have been multiple Muslim plots to bomb synagogues. The NYPD is investigating bombs in synagogues, not bacon, because there really is a disturbing trend of anti-Semitic hate crimes. The best evidence that there is no similarly disturbing trend of Islamophobic attacks is that the NYPD is bagging and tagging bacon at a Staten Island football field.

Analysis

The New Mega-Mosque in Paris: 'Building a French Islam'

By Soeren Kern

The Socialist government in France has inaugurated a new mega-mosque in Paris as a first step towards "progressively building a French Islam." It is not only vast in its dimensions, but is also highly visible and symbolic: its towering minaret, which has purposely been designed to change the suburb's skyline by being taller than any church steeple in the neighborhood, is supposed to become the "new symbol of Islam in France."

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Mosque's Loud Prayer Generates Mega-Decibel 'Battle of the Bands'

By Tibbi Singer

A Jerusalem neighbprhood decided to play very loud music, in defiance of the volume and disturbance of the sound of the muezzin at the nearby mosque,

Analysis

Finland's Iranian Mega - Mosque

By Soeren Kern

Although critics of the Helsinki mega-mosque have warned that the building will be used by the Iranian regime to recruit impressionable Muslim immigrant youths for service to Hezbollah, Finnish politicians have embraced the Shia mosque as a symbol of multicultural progress.

Analysis

Italy: 'Mosques Springing Up like Mushrooms'

By Soeren Kern

As in many other European countries, multiculturalists in Italy hope that by promoting Islam, they will eventually succeed in destroying the country's Judeo-Christian heritage. Now, with the creation of the Italian Islamic Confederation, Italy may be one step closer to hosting yet another mega-mosque, this time in the northern Italian city of Bologna.

Editorial

The Gray Lady Versus Our Security

By Editorial Board

The New York Times recently threw a hissy fit over what it felt were overzealous efforts by Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly to defend NYPD anti-terrorist surveillance programs the Times opposes.

Analysis

Islam Expert: Numbers Don't Add Up in CAIR Survey of US Mosques, Islamic Radicalism

By Jacob Edelist

A survey released two weeks ago, titled “The American Mosque 2011,” revealed a tremendous growth in the number of mosques across the US since 9/11, and claims that Islamic radicalism in the US is on the wane. But Islam expert David Yerushalmi says that many of the numbers presented in the survey don't add up, and in fact contradict similar surveys conducted in recent years.

News Briefs

Jewish Group Visiting Temple Mount Pelted with Rocks, Shoes

By Jewish Press Staff

Rocks and shoes were hurled from a mosque as police escorted a Jewish group that was visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. One police officer was lightly injured, as was one of the visitors.

Analysis

Second Thoughts About The Mosque Fire In Tuba-Zangariya

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Conventional wisdom states that the January 14th mosque fire in Tuba-Zangariya was perpetrated by vindictive Jewish vandals, but upon closer inspection, such a claim seems dubious at best.

Op-Eds

Is Change Finally Coming to the Mount of Olives?

By Menachem Lubinsky

“I believe that there are still 60,000 more graves that have to be rehabilitated,” he says. If he is correct, it would mean that the Jordanians destroyed 75,000 graves, a number impossible to imagine and probably unprecedented in history, including the Nazi period.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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