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LAHORE – The banned outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir or HT has suffered a major blow as its 19 top leaders and activists have been sent to jail, days after they were arrested during a joint operation in Model Town area and booked under sedition laws. Sources in the joint investigations team disclosed that some of the arrested leaders of HT have alleged that they were receiving funding from the MI-6. H [ ... ]

With the big-name draw of Walid Shoebat, more than 200 people gathered at the Waukesha Expo Center Saturday night to hear the message that Islam is a growing threat to law and peace in the United States. The rally was an especially strong draw for Brookfield residents who oppose a mosque proposed for the city by the Islamic Society of Milwaukee. Shoebat, who says he is an ex-terrorist, has be [ ... ]

Tarek Mehanna is no David Stone.

David Stone and members of his Hutaree anti-government militia amassed a huge arsenal of weapons, including the ingredients for explosives, and allegedly plotted to kill a police officer and bomb his funeral. A federal judge in Michigan said they were just venting and exercising their First Amendment rights. Mehanna, a 29-year-old pharmacist from Sudbury, Massa [ ... ]

If Mehanna is a terrorist conspirator for advocating resistance to US military occupation, then so am I, a Marine veteran On 12 April, Tarek Mehanna was found guilty of conspiracy and of giving material support for terrorism and was sentenced to 17 years in prison. The prosecution accused Mehanna of translating statements for al-Qaida and of disseminating pro-jihadist material on the interne [ ... ]