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Indonesia’s police chief, Tito Karnavian, said the bombings had been the work of one family, who set off three different kinds of bombs. ... Mr. Mangera said the bombs had been detonated in different parts of the city within minutes of one another. He said the victims included many worshipers who were entering and leaving the churches between services. Two police officers were among the victims, he said. At a news conference on Sunday, the police chief identified one attacker as Dita and the woman as Puji Kuswanti. He said two sons, Yusuf, 18, and Alif, 16, were also involved....

Islamic scholarship divides the world in two: the House of Islam (dar al-Islam, nations ruled by Sharia law) and the House of War (dar al-harb, nations in rebellion against Allah). It is incumbent on dar al-Islam to make war upon dar al-harb until all nations submit to the will of Allah and accept Sharia law. "He it is who has sent His Messenger (Mohammed) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam) to make it victorious over all religions even though the infidels may resist." -- Koran 61:9. Jihad is the force that gives Islam meaning. In his book, Lights...

Though some in law enforcement are concerned about the potential for an attack, other terror experts downplayed the risk. “It has not been in the jihadists’ playbook,” said Brian Jenkins, a senior adviser at Rand Corp. and a top official with Mineta Transportation Institute. Therein lies the problem. Jihadists are not going to repeat the same attacks in the same way. There strategy is not to do that. The idea that this is not a threat because they haven’t done it before is beyond stupid. And if this is the thinking we can expect from intel agencies, we are doomed....

Pastor J.D. provides answers to four questions concerning what Islam really is, and what Islam is not in response to the continuing lies that the Islamic State has embraced a perverted interpretation of Islam. video https://youtu.be/tKUcvzq1pqo

Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that to counter the ideology of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its claim of a "religious foundation" for its actions, part of the strategy of the international coalition he is attempting to assemble must be to "begin to put real Islam out there." Kerry, in Paris for talks with various world leaders to build that coalition, further said that all of the Arab leaders he had spoken with earlier concurred about their focus on "real Islam and how important the Friday sermons are." The secretary of state recently...

Islam expert on Coast to Coast Art Bell show ...... on now

http://www.matusa.org Ms. Yasemin Saib, I was both surprised and pleased to learn of you and the organization to which you belong last night while watching a part of the PBS series on Islam currently being broadcast by Georgia Public Television. I was impressed by your evident commitment to your faith and your willingness to openly address what has become a major issue or bone of contention in Islamic-Western relations - that, for some Muslims, islamicism and militant jihad and terrorism ARE articles of their faith, that for these people the global conflict between nationalistic Islam and all other systems of...