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China bans burqa in capital of Muslim region of Xinjiang

In the wake of a series of deadly clashes and attacks in China’s far west the authorities in Urumqi ban women from wearing the burqa. Here is an article from Shanghai by Tom Phillips.

The capital of China’s most Muslim region has banned residents from wearing the burqa in “an effort to curb growing extremism”.

Women in Urumqi, a city of 3.1 million people in the far western region of Xinjiang, will no longer be allowed to wear the garment, state media announced this week.

“Burqas are not traditional dress for Uighur women, and wearing them in public places is banned in countries such as Belgium and France,” Xinhua, China’s official news agency, wrote in a brief article about the ban.
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Rally for unity against terrorism is France’s largest ever

Millions of people and over 40 world leaders march in solidarity with victims of three-day killing spree in Paris

This an article from the Times Of Israel newspaper.

PARIS (AP) — Masses of people joined with world leaders to fill Paris streets Sunday in a rally for unity that officials said was the largest demonstration in French history. Hundreds of thousands more marched in cities around the country and the world to repudiate a three-day terror spree around the French capital that killed 17 people and left the three gunmen dead.

Their arms linked, more than 40 world leaders headed the somber procession — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas; Keep reading, more amazing things to see below!

The First Charlie Hebdo Cover Since Deadly Terror Attack Is Being Called ‘Perfect’ and ‘Beautifully Subversive’

January 12, 2015
After radical Islamic terrorists raided the Charlie Hebdo offices in France and murdered 12 people last week, the satirical weekly newspaper has reportedly released a defiant new cover featuring the Prophet Mohammed crying and holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign.
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Je suis Charlie, a phrase that became popular across the globe following the attacks, means “I am Charlie.” The other French phrase on the cover apparently means, “All is forgiven.”

Last week’s deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices that killed 12 people is believed to have been revenge for the French satirical publication’s mockery of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and France’s military involvement in Muslim countries.

The main suspects in the attack, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, were killed Friday after police raided the building where they had holed up with a hostage north of Paris.

Anonymous Claim Their First Victim In “Operation Charlie Hebdo”

Earlier this week, hacking group Anonymous declared war on Al-Qaeda and IS amid the terrorist attacks in Paris, and it hasn’t taken long for them to claim their first victim.

The operation has been codenamed #OpCharlieHebdo, and the leader-free hacking group are vowing to take down every single extremist propaganda site, one by one.

Their Twitter account for the mission, @OpCharlieHebdo, posted this video.

As of yesterday, the group claimed to have taken down ansar-alhaqq.net. In 2013, French newspapers described it as a French jihadist website.
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