Terrorism

Turkish televangelist given security detail over ISIL threat

The Turkish state has appointed a security detail to protect a popular televangelist, after he was threatened by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

"If I am on God's list, I would die anyway. If I am not on that list, then ISIL cannot intervene [to kill me]," Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü said in reaction to the decision, according to Turkish news website ?nternethaber.

Political provocation worries delay ISIL attack case in central Anatolian city

A Turkish court has postponed the hearing for Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who attacked Turkish gendarmes in the Central Anatolian province of Ni?de, as the case was asked to be moved to another province over "political propaganda" concerns.

UK's Prince Charles voices alarm at radicalization

Britain's Prince Charles said the numbers of vulnerable young Muslims being radicalized by "crazy stuff" on the Internet was "frightening", in an interview to be broadcast Feb. 8.
      
The heir to the throne also voiced concern about Christians fleeing the Middle East in droves, saying the situation might end with very few left in the cradle of the religion.
      

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