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The assaults on a pair of Virginian-Pilot reporters in Norfolk, Va., two weeks ago at the hands of 30 black youths, reported for the first time Tuesday, are the latest in a series of attacks driven by a warped sense of racial vigilantism hiding behind calls of “Justice for Trayvon.” At least 15 whites have been beaten not just with fists, but with potentially deadly weapons including hammers and lengths of chain. Many of the victims have been hospitalized, some may never fully recover, and one lingers on the verge of death. David Forster and

A 22-year-old bochur in the Chabad Yeshiva in Kiev, Ukraine was savagely beaten on his way back from the Seder on the second night of Pesach; he is reportedly in grave condition. Please say Tehilim for Aaron Alexander ben Avraham. From Yeshiva World News: Efforts continue to bring the victim of the Seder night attack in Kiev to a medical center in Eretz Yisrael. Rabbi Yaakov Zilberman, a Chabad Rabbi who is also the local Zaka official in Kiev confirms that the young talmid, 22, is now listed in grave condition and he is in need of Am Yisrael’s tefilos....

We'll bet you didn't see THIS story reported by the mainstream media. In a direct challenge to the Obama presidency, pro-life challenger Randall Terry embarrassed the White House, tallying 18 percent of the total vote in the 2012 Oklahoma Democratic primary, and beating Obama head-to-head in 14 counties. Terry had promised to wage an active campaign in at least six, key, swing states, including Oklahoma. The shocking Super Tuesday results guarantee that pro-life delegates, pledged to Terry, and millions of abortion victims, past, present, and future, will have a voice at the Democratic National Convention, to be held this summer...

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 5:44 AM HOPE Obama HOPE artist Shepard Fairey was beaten bloody in Copenhagen by anarchists who told him to, “Go back to America.” The Guardian reported: When graffiti artist Shepard Fairey turned his talents to US politics, his reward was international acclaim and a letter of thanks from Barack Obama. When he employed a similar tactic in Denmark, however, the response proved altogether less edifying. Last weekend, Fairey – creator of the famous “Hope” poster that came to encapsulate Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign – was beaten up after the opening of...

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, N.Y. (PIX11)— Administrators at Brooklyn Academy High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant canceled Friday's talent show in the wake of a all-girl gang assault on one of the student contestants, PIX 11 has learned. According to authorities, 17-year-old Shacara McLaurin was brutally attacked by at least five other students on April 1st, one of them hitting her in the face with a padlock wrapped in a sock. "Yo, b--ch, I got a lock," one of the teen suspects allegedly shouted, as she pummeled McLaurin with the weapon. "I wasn't able to open my jaw. I wasn't able to talk. I...

According to one source, reported in The Sunday Times newspaper, sensitive parts of her body were covered in red marks that were originally thought to have been bite marks. After further examination they were revealed to be from aggressive pinching. And medical sources have revealed  that marks on her body were consistent with being whipped and beaten with the makeshift poles that were used to fly flags during the demonstration.

A Harry Potter star was beaten, called a ''slag'' and threatened with death after she met a young man who was not a Muslim, a court heard today. Victim Afshan Azad, 22, played Padma Patil, a classmate of the teenage wizard, in the blockbuster Hollywood films based on the children's books by JK Rowling. She was assaulted and branded a ''prostitute'' after meeting a young Hindu man, a relationship which brought anger from her father, Abul Azad, 53, and brother, Ashraf, 28, Manchester Crown Court heard. The frightened actress later fled through her bedroom window after threats were made to...

A Macon woman arrived home from work Thursday to discover her house had been burglarized and her puppy severely cut, beaten and burned. Kristy Lipscomb, of Beddingfield Drive in south Macon, said she left home about 6 p.m. Wednesday to go to work at Houston Healthcare in Warner Robins. When she returned home just before 8 a.m. Thursday, she found her bedroom had been ransacked and her kitchen cabinets left open. The electrical meter had been stolen from an outside

A Harris County jail inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge allegedly beat a young illegal immigrant accused of robbing and fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl in the back as she was walking home on Aug. 6. Melvin Alvarado, 22, one of two men charged with capital murder in the death of Shatavia Anderson, was beaten Thursday evening, sustaining serious enough injuries to be hospitalized and receive stitches, said Alan Bernstein, of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Accused in Alvarado's beating is Robert Williams, 38, Bernstein said.

The infant boy sealed in concrete by a Brooklyn couple charged with pimping out his enslaved hooker mom, was beaten to death, the Daily News has learned. The baby, Carlos Santillana, was only 2 months old when he died, but his brief life was miserable. A spokeswoman for the city medical examiner said little Carlos suffered blunt impact injuries to his head, torso and extremities. "The cause of death is battered child syndrome," said spokeswoman Ellen Borakove. Federal agents and cops made the horrifying discovery of Carlos' body sealed inside a Rubbermaid storage bin on Nov. 25 after raiding a...

CHICAGO – The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both calling for an end to youth violence. Farrakhan said he came to the funeral because he was "deeply pained" by the death of 16-year-old honor roll student Derrion Albert. The boy was walking to a bus stop after school when a group of teens attacked him during a street fight late last month. "Naturally, we wonder why such a beautiful life? Such a...

Here is a surveillance video of a 71 year-old gas station clerk that was beaten for refusing to sell cigarettes to a teenager. (Watch Video)

This is the bruised and battered face of 24-year-old burglar Gregory McCalium who got more than he bargained for when he broke into the home of a 72-year-old former boxing champ. Former boxer Frank Corti, 72, said he was compelled to defend himself and his wife after Gregory McCalium threatened them at their Oxfordshire home and gave him a black eye and bloodied lip. McCalium, 24, confronted the elderly couple after a row over noise levels between the neighbours on Queens Close, Botley, Oxford. Oxford Crown Court heard McCalium was drunk after attending an all-night party when he forced his...

Look on the bright side: This’ll make for one hell of a Slate column once he gets back. I can only assume they didn’t recognize him, as the opportunity to scalp one of the world’s foremost atheists surely would have been irresistible. I dont know if you find this as news worthy or not, but Christopher Hitchens is currently in Beirut sponsored by the same group that owns that crap NOW Lebanon. He got in a few nights ago and surprisingly went out drinking. On his way out of the bar he saw an SSNP poster and wrote on it...

Raipur (India), 22 Dec. - In a remote village in the Indian jungle around 50 women have been attacked by inhabitants, who beat them and shaved their heads because they believe the women to be witches: police sources in the poor Indian State of Chhattisgarh reported this. It seems that the attackers acted on advise of a local guru, who claimed that punishing the 'witches' that way they would earn protection from evil spirits. The persecution, the climax of a purification ceremony to ward off evil spirits from the village, continued for nine days. Indian Prime Minister Raman Singh condemned...

The chief executive of a company in Greater Noida, just outside Delhi, was on Monday beaten to death by a group of dismissed employees inside the office premises after a meeting called to resolve dispute between them and the management failed. L K Chaudhury, the CEO and managing director of Italian electronics company Gradiano, in Udyog Vihar, Greater Noida, was beaten to death by the agitating workers, senior superintendent of police (Noida) R K Chaturvedi said. Chaudhury was rushed to Kailash hospital where he was declared brought dead. About 34 people, all from the company's management, were injured in the...

(IsraelNN.com) Two Jewish children ages nine and ten were attacked and beaten by two Arab teenagers last Friday in Ramle. The teens attacked the younger boy as the two made their way home from school, and attacked the older child when he attempted to help his younger brother. The two managed to run away. Both suffered injuries to their faces and limbs, and paramedics found traces of blood in one of the boys’ urine. The boys’ father filed a report with police. Neighbors who witnessed the attack from a distance said the attackers were two Arab Christian teens, both of...

(IsraelNN.com) A Jewish youth who was wearing his yarmulka was badly beaten in Paris as he stood near the entrance to his building on Shabbat one week ago. According to a report by the European Jewish Press, 17-year-old Raymond did not want to violate Jewish law by opening the electronic door to the building in which he lives and was waiting for a neighbor to exit the building when a group of approximately 20 young Muslims surrounded him and began to beat him. The Muslim youth, most of them immigrants or the children of immigrants, beat Raymond while shouting verses...

(IsraelNN.com) A rabbi suffered critical wounds after being severely beaten in the latest of several anti-Semitic attacks that have hit the community of Lakewood, New Jersey, home of the world-famous Lakewood Yeshiva. Rabbi Mordechai Moskowitz, age 53, was stabbed, reportedly by a black man, as he was walking to a synagogue. The attacker wielded an aluminum baseball bat and inflicted critical wounds on his head and other parts of the body. Several weeks ago, attackers pelted a group of orthodox Jewish youth with eggs in a nearby community. Tension in the city has increased fears among the Jewish community. One...

Changanassery (Kerala, India), SVM News, September 22, 2007: A group of narcotoc sellers attacked Christian aid worker, who is also a prayer warrior in Changanassery in Kottayam district of Kerala, India on September 16. Fatimapuram Parayil Thomas, 30, was severely beaten by the selling agents of narcotic distributors and admitted at Changanassery Taluk hospital with serious injuries. The incident was happened in front of the KSRTC (Kerala State Road Transport Corporation) bus stand on Sunday night. Thomas is a Christian aid worker and an active member of the Salem Voice Ministries prayer fellowship. He earns for his family as an...

Kochi (Kerala, India), SVM News, September 8, 2007: An 81-year-old village bishop of Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Church was severely beaten and hospitalised on August 29 at Kanjiramattam in Ernakulam district of Kerala state, India. Mathews Pulimoottil Cor-episcopa, aged 81, the village bishop and the vicar of the Kajniramattom St. Ignatius Orthodox Syrian Christian Church was severely beaten on Wednesday on the public road near his house while on his way home from the church after the funeral of a member of his parish. The accused, known as Baby of Kaniyamparmbil, apparently slapped the bishop on his face several times until...

BOGOTA (AFP) - A feckless stick-up man chose the wrong target when he was beaten and hospitalized in an attempted robbery of a karate school in Bucaramanga in northwestern Colombia, police said. "The man entered the academy with a firearm, but could not intimidate the dozens of students, who fortunately reacted and disarmed him," said Colonel Julio Cesar Santoyo, police commander in the province of Santander. Police arrived at the scene only to take the would-be robber to hospital for treatment of multiple contusions at the hands of the karate students.

A 50-year-old Dallas man with a history of abusing his elderly mother lived with her decomposing corpse for about a week after allegedly beating her to death, MyFoxDallas reported Monday.

Four face charges of torturing boys Police say pair burned, starved, forced to sleep in closet BY JASON WOMACK The Lubbock County Criminal District Attorney's Office filed criminal charges on Monday against four people who police said systematically tortured, beat and starved two boys. Police said the boys' stepmother and father - 37-year-old Melissa D. Lively and 40-year-old Steve A. Lively - routinely burned the boys with a battery charger, forced them to sleep in a closet and fed them habanero peppers. They each face four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Each charge carries a maximum punishment...

Police are appealing for calm after four men were beaten up in a mosque last night. Two men were arrested on suspicion of racial assault after police were called to the Eccles Mosque on Liverpool Road in Salford, Greater Manchester, shortly before 9.30pm following a report of an attack inside the building. One man was taken to Hope Hospital but has since been discharged. The other three men were only slightly hurt and did not need hospital treatment. A 37-year-old man from Eccles and a 19-year-old man from Davyhulme, Trafford, were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated Section 37 assault...

DETROIT - Republican Rep. Joe Schwarz lost his district's nomination Tuesday, falling to a staunchly conservative challenger in a race dominated by a struggle over GOP principles that attracted more than $1 million in spending by outside groups. Schwarz, a moderate who supported abortion rights, was defeated by former state lawmaker Tim Walberg. With 88 percent of the precincts reporting, Walberg had 54 percent, or 30,592 votes. Schwarz had 46 percent, or 26,441 votes. Walberg, a former pastor, contended Schwarz's views did not represent the rural district in southern Michigan. He vowed to vote against pork-laden spending plans, tax increases...

KUTV) SOUTH JORDAN A former high school teacher accused of having sex with a student was severely beaten inside her home. Thirty-year-old Melinda Lee Deluca told police she came home Friday afternoon and was alone when she was jumped from behind. Police said she was beaten so badly that she was flown by medical helicopter to the hospital from her home in South Jordan. Deluca was recently accused of having sex with one of her students at Copper Hills High School in West Jordan. Police believe the assault could be related to the charges. “It does appear that this is...

Two British newspapers report Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have have been beaten to death by US forces following the air strike on his house. The Observer and the Sunday Times both carry reports on events leading up to Zarqawi's death on Wednesday, citing apparent witnesses to the immediate aftermath of the attack. In a two-page report, the Observer says that although the claims have not been confirmed, revelations of revenge killings by US troops "means it cannot be discounted". It quotes one man as saying US soldiers pulled a man resembling Zarqawi from an ambulance...

Iraqi Troops Ride Recon Off the Beaten Path Iraqi soldiers at Al Kasik learn motorcycle riding techniques for use in base reconnaissance and forward convoy scouting. By U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Mark Woodbury Multinational Security Transition Command — Iraq AL KASIK MILITARY TRAINING BASE, Iraq, March 8, 2006 — Iraqi soldiers at Al Kasik are embracing a new mode of transportation for use in base reconnaissance and forward convoy scouting. The soldiers here are learning proper on and off-road motorcycle techniques from coalition forces that will allow them to access areas they could never reach using conventional vehicles.Before...

Women voters beaten at Egyptian polling site Authorities block polling station in Muslim Brotherhood stronghold Updated: 6:27 a.m. ET Dec. 7, 2005 ZAQAZIQ, Egypt - Police beat back women voters with sticks when they tried to enter a cordoned-off polling station in an opposition stronghold in the Nile Delta on Wednesday, the final day of Egypt’s staggered legislative elections. The clashes were the latest violence in a three-stage election that has been marred by state interference. Police blocked access to a polling station in the city of Zagazig’s Nasiriyah district, where a candidate supported by the Muslim Brotherhood was favored...

Lu Banglie, the Chinese democracy activist who was savagely beaten at the weekend, has been found injured but alive. Mr Lu has told the Guardian that he was battered unconscious and later driven hundreds of miles to his home town where he is now recuperating. Civil rights lawyers said they were considering a legal case against his attackers, thought to be a group of thugs hired by the local authorities to put down an anti-corruption campaign against the chief of Taishi village.

Schoolgirls riot at tourist spot By NIGEL ADLAM 17sep05 HUNDREDS of people watched in horror as a mob of schoolgirls rioted at Darwin's biggest tourist attraction. Most of the youngsters were in their teens. But several witnesses said a few were as young as six. About 20 girls threw sticks and stones, and even pulled out a street bollard, as they fought with security guards. Fighting between rival gangs of boys and girls has been escalating at Mindil Beach markets (pictured). Market manager Tim Robinson said four guards were beaten. Security and market managers are to hold a crisis meeting...

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Inmates on Friday beat up a suspected al-Qaida cell leader jailed on charges he helped plot the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, breaking his jaw, nose and a tooth and injuring one of his eyes, Spanish officials said. Imad Yarkas, 42, a Syrian-born Spaniard, was set upon by other prisoners in the dining hall of a prison in the eastern city of Castellon, said officials at the Interior Ministry department that oversees Spain's prisons. Spanish government press officials did not give their names. An investigation has been opened because Yarkas, who is being held...

OAKLAND — A 41-year-old Hayward software engineer who has worked to improve West Oakland rentals to earn extra income for his family was beaten last week by a gang of local drug dealers who refuse to stay off his property, police said Friday. Convicted drug dealer Marcus Smith, 23, the accused ringleader in the attack, was charged Friday with violating probation and making terrorist threats, police said. Investigators said Smith threatened the owner with a gun and forced him to the pavement at the Mead Avenue fourplex where he and at least three other drug dealers beat and kicked him....

Oklahoma City -- The husband of a woman accused of shooting him in the head, beating him with a baseball bat and leaving him for dead says his wife is innocent. Now he wants her back — and out of prison. William McDonald filed a federal lawsuit in Oklahoma City claiming his wife was coerced into pleading guilty, police botched the investigation and he was never contacted about the case. Caren McDonald, 32, is serving a three-year prison term after admitting she beat her husband with a bat June 21, 2002, at the couple's Choctaw home. A charge of shooting...

Last Updated: 12/03/2004 05:43 pm Elkhart County, IN - After a final autopsy report and a failed plea deal, The Truth in Elkhart is reporting that prosecutors have charged Chad Strong with the murder of three-and-a-half year old Taranova Glick. Taranova Glick was the daughter of Strong’s girlfriend. She died on July 13th from blunt-force trauma to the abdomen. County prosecutors also filed neglect charges against Taranova's mother, Dusty James. Strong was previously charged with battery causing death and neglect causing serious injury. Last month, the Elkhart County prosecutor asked for permission to add a murder charge. Related Link Coroner...

FOUR British men who were released from Guantánamo Bay detention centre after three years in captivity have formally sued the US government after alleging they had been subjected to torture and other human rights violations. The groundbreaking legal claim was brought in Washington yesterday by Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed, who during their incarceration became known as the Tipton Three, and Jamal al-Harith, from Manchester, who have each demanded £5.5 million in the lawsuits from the United States. The men, who were captured in Afghanistan during the US "war on terror" in the aftermath of the attacks on...

TEHRAN, Sept 22 (Reuters) - An Iranian woman, beaten every day by her husband, asked a court to tell him only to beat her once a week, a newspaper said on Wednesday. Maryam, the middle-age woman, said she did not want to divorce her husband because she loved him, the Aftab-e yazd daily said.

Russian media report that a man suspected of being involved in plans to assassinate President Vladimir Putin was beaten to death while being interrogated. The man was arrested in Moscow on Saturday after police found explosives in his car. He claimed he had been instructed to park the car along a route often used by President Putin to travel to and from the Kremlin. The man died several hours after his arrest. Police claim he had had a heart attack. But a post mortem apparently revealed that the man had been beaten to death.

Another Saudi face: TV presenter is beaten up by husband By Robin Gedye (Filed: 16/04/2004) A Saudi television presenter who was beaten unconscious by her husband has allowed pictures of her severely battered face to be published in an attempt to highlight the abuse of women in the kingdom. Rania al-Baz, who works for Saudi Arabia's state television's Channel One, is having a series of operations for 13 fractures to her face. She said she wanted to break the taboo on domestic violence. "I want to use what happened to me to draw attention to the plight of women in...

Guantanamo Britons were 'chained to the floor and beaten' By Sandra Laville and Nick Britten (Filed: 13/03/2004) Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, was last night forced to address allegations that the American military subjected British prisoners to psychological torture and beatings during their two years of detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Al- Qa'eda and Taliban suspects on their knees at the American base Speaking for the first time since his release this week, Jamal Udeen, 37, from Manchester, outlined a brutal regime of oppression including being chained to the floor during 12-hour interrogations and having an unknown...

Asian terrorists are 'bloodied but not beaten' By Kathy Marks in Sydney 13 October 2003 As survivors and victims' relatives marked the first anniversary of the Bali bombing yesterday, security experts warned that Islamic terrorists continue to pose a threat in south-east Asia. Last October's blast was the work of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a regional group with close links to the al-Qa'ida network. While 200 JI members, including a former operations chief, Hambali, have been arrested, experts say that the organisation remains intact and capable of mounting another attack. Bali's chief of police, General I Made Mangku Pastika, said recently...

Taliban quit running, start returning By Kathy Gannon The Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The Taliban are no longer on the run and have teamed with al Qaeda again, according to officials and former Taliban members. They say the religious militia has reorganized and strengthened since a U.S.-led coalition defeated it nearly two years ago. The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan and espoused a strict version of Islam, are receiving help from some Pakistani authorities and disgruntled Afghans fed up with lawlessness under the U.S.-backed interim administration, a former Taliban commander said. "Now the situation is very good for us. It...

Afghan Govt Says Ousts Taliban from Dai Chopan Wed September 03, 2003 02:14 AM ET By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) - After more than a week of intense bombardment and ground fighting, Afghan and U.S.-led forces have driven out Taliban fighters from Dai Chopan district in the southern province of Zabul, a senior official said on Wednesday. Zabul's intelligence chief, Khalil Hotak, also said that authorities from neighboring provinces had rushed fighters to the borders of the district to arrest Taliban forces trying to flee. He told Reuters he had received reports of skirmishes between fugitive guerrillas from the hardline...

Three suspected robbers may have picked the wrong Norcross apartment over the weekend, finding 13 people who were not willing to give up without a fight. By the time the dust cleared, two of the intruders had fled while the third man was beaten and held for police as a suspect. The incident occurred about 12:40 a.m. Sunday in a home in Crescent Lake Apartments, at 4762 Jimmy Carter Blvd., said Gwinnett police Cpl. Dan Huggins. Three males, one armed with a handgun, entered the apartment to find 13 residents inside, Huggins said. The men demanded money and took the...

A man has a right to take an innocent late-night walk without being waylaid and beaten up by police -- even if he turns out to be carrying heroin, a Toronto judge has ruled. Tossing out heroin-trafficking charges against Vincenzo Pitaro, Ontario Court Judge Joseph Bovard said police lied to obscure the fact that they stopped Mr. Pitaro "on a phantom of a suspicion that he might be up to something." Judge Bovard said the two Toronto police officers who accosted Mr. Pitaro on Sept. 27, 2001, were on a "fishing expedition," and stopped the man to note his identity...

Jewish Man Beaten In Berlin (IsraelNN.com) An Orthodox Jew was beaten up in Berlin. Tuesday's attack on the 19-year-old, who wears a black hat and sports a beard, occurred in the Berlin subway. Three youths made anti-Semitic remarks to the man. They then followed him out of the subway, throwing fruit at him and asking if he is Jewish. They beat him when he refused to answer. The men are believed to be of Arab descent, police said. Earlier this week, a non-Jewish man who was wearing a Star of David also was beaten in Berlin by attackers who mistook...

NEW YORK (AP) _ More than 250 protesters were arrested during Saturday's massive rally against military action in Iraq, police said a day after the demonstration. Tens of thousands converged on Manhattan's East side for the demonstration, which drew peace activists from around the country. Organizers estimated the crowd at 375,000 to 500,000 people, while police said it had been about 100,000.

A man who was arrested as a major terrorism suspect after the 11 September attacks and has been held in custody ever since has told the BBC that he was beaten and held for months without legal representation. Nabil al-Marabh was one of hundreds of men swept up in the nationwide terrorism investigation. They beat me, they hid everything and then they refused to take any notes, they crack my finger and they beat my head Nabil al-Marabh Few have spoken about their detention and none as high profile as Mr al-Marabh. After 11 months of exhaustive investigations, no evidence...

02-24-2002Pastor's Message From the desk of Fr. Joseph McLafferty..... The lead article in this month's Maryknoll magazine is about Bishop Francis Xavier Ford, M.M., a Maryknoll missionary who served in China for almost 40 years.  This past Thursday, February 21st, marked the 50th anniversary of his death in a Chinese prison. Francis Xavier Ford was born in Brooklyn on January 11, 1892, the son of Austin and Elizabeth Rellihan Ford.  Ford attended St. Francis Preparatory School in Brooklyn and Cathedral College in Manhattan.  In 1912 he was the first student to apply to the seminary of the recently established...