Christians Under Attack

(AP) ALGIERS, Algeria — Two former ranking members of a banned Islamist party called on Algerians on Wednesday to demand that all bars and stores where alcoholic beverages are sold be shut down.

The theological braintrust of budding mujahideen-wannabe artists has done it yet again, creating more jihad-themed comics geared at recruiting youngsters to the cause. From a release by SITE Intelligence group:

DETROIT -- A Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down an international jetliner with a bomb in his underwear walked into the start of his federal trial Tuesday and declared that a radical Islamic cleric killed by the U.S. military is alive.

Warned that they are watched by “acute eyes of the unknown soldiers,” 11 Protestants who have fled Iran have received e-mails offering them “the opportunity to repent and ask forgiveness from … the Great Allah. Otherwise, according to the Fatwa given by Mehdi the Hidden Imam, they must be killed.”

Egypt is back to “business as usual” with the Islamic majority harassing and attacking its Christian minority.

The village chief in Mekargalih, along with members of the Islamic Defender Front, expels Christians from their place of worship for allegedly engaging in “proselytising” in a predominantly Muslim area. A Christian woman complains, “Police have no guts against this radical group.” Pancasila principles are violated.

Even U.S. President Barack Obama took notice of them. Now, New Yorkers may do, too, as the Arab world’s first superheroes make their screen debut at the New York Film Festival.

As the Bogor Municipal government remains steadfast against reopening Taman Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church (GKI), members of the congregation suffered more harassment on Sunday during a Holy Communion service.

DETROIT -- A federal judge in Michigan has ordered a man suspected of supporting terrorist groups held on allegations he tried to crash into the car of an FBI agent who was following him as part of heightened security for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Donal Blaney expresses surprise at the silence surrounding the impending death of a Christian preacher in Iran.

US-born radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a key al-Qaeda leader, has been killed in Yemen, the country's defence ministry said.