NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A church in northern India remains closed more than a month after four masked Hindu extremists stormed a worship meeting and beat a 66-year-old pastor unconscious.

After prayer and song at his church in Naupur, Jaunpur District, Uttar Pradesh state on May 22, pastor Lalta Ram stood up to preach when the assailants with bamboo sticks entered from the back and began accusing him of forceful conversion as they beat him, sources said.

“Pastor Ram was beaten up sever..

A photograph from 2010 of human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar addressing the press outside the High Court of Scotland after his client Mohammed Atif Siddique, on his right, who was jailed in 2007 on a charge of possessing terrorism-related materials, was freed.

A leading Muslim human rights lawyer has received death threats after he called for unity among members of his own faith.

Police are now investigating after Aamer Anwar, from Glasgow, received death threats from fanatics.

The threat..

Zac Goldsmith has pledged that his “number one” task if elected Mayor of London is to make the capital safe from terror.

The Conservative candidate told Christian Today he is worried about the possibility of another attack.

He remembers clearly where he was on 7/7 – in hospital with a family member and had been up all night.

“That was the first time in my life where I've had a profound fear for this city. I've never felt anything like it before or since.”

Speaking on Good..

Below is a guest post from my friend and Liberty Alliance colleague, J. Matt Barber which was first published on his site: BarbWire.com.

“When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.”
– The Quran, Surah 9:5

When it comes to the global scourge of orthodox Islam, the Western world, which Islamists expressly seek to “destroy from within,” is an upside-down realm wherein objective facts, logic and reason ..