Tag: terrorism

Understanding Islamic terrorists

By Philip Rosenthal — Christian View Network With the recent terror attacks in Paris and Kenya, many Western leaders foolishly describe Islamic terrorist attacks as ‘senseless’ killing. From our vantage point, these Jihadists are hard to understand. Nevertheless, this is just a failure to try see things from their point […]

Evangelicals ponder Christian response to the Paris attacks

Originally published in The Baptist Standard American evangelical leaders remain at odds over whether the best response to the bloody terrorist attacks in Paris is a war on terrorism and militant Islamic ideology or Christian reconciliation and pacifism. Franklin GrahamFrench President Francois Hollande’s description of the Nov. 13 attacks that […]

Paris attacks shock the world

By INcontext Ministries — Originally published in A World In Motion, Issue 137, Nov 19, 2015 French, Russian, British and US warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq as the harrowing attacks carried out by the jihadi group in Paris spurred international efforts to crush the terrorist organisation. […]

Beirut: Police arrest 11 after ISIS suicide bombing

 Originally posted in The Christian Post Lebanese security forces have arrested 11 people, most of them Syrians, in connection with the last week’s double suicide bomb attack in Beirut, which killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 239 others, targeting Shiite Muslims. Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nuhad Mashnuq announced […]

Britain: ISIS likely brought down Russian plane

Originally published in Charisma News Britain said on Thursday there was a significant possibility that Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate was behind a suspected bomb attack on a Russian airliner that killed 224 people in the Sinai Peninsula.  Russia said such theories were speculation at this stage and only the official investigation can […]