Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Mar 26, 2015

  ISIS Blows Up 10 Christian Families' Homes in Ninevah After Demolishing Fourth Century Monastery

  Media reports have surfaced indicating that the Islamic State has burned down the homes of 10 Christian families in the northern Ninevah province of Iraq, while a leading human rights organization has reported that Iraqi Security Forces burned down two whole Sunni civilian villages in Iraq last September.

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  Mar 26, 2015

  Did an Ivy League Dean Really Welcome ISIS Fighters to Host a Training Camp on His Campus?

  A recently released undercover investigative video purports to show a dean at Cornell University telling a prospective Moroccan student that the school would welcome student groups to invite ISIS fighters to conduct training camps for students on campus, but the school has since decried the video as misleading.

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  Mar 25, 2015

  Texas Town Supports Forbidding Sharia Law Despite Plea From New Islamic Tribunal; Mayor Says Citizens Need To Respect US Law

  After America's first ever Islamic tribunal was established in Irving, Texas earlier this year, the town's city council dealt the local Muslims a blow by passing a resolution in support of new state legislation that would forbid the implementation of any "foreign laws," including sharia.

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  Mar 25, 2015

  ISIS Increases Child Recruitment: 400 Kids Join 'Cubs of the Caliphate' in Syria; Brutal Training Camps Teach Children to Carry Out Beheadings

  The brutal Islamic State terrorist organization in Syria has recruited at least 400 children for use in combat roles since January, a leading Syrian monitoring group reported this week.

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  Mar 25, 2015

  ISIS Christian Hostage Forced to Call Family While Being Electrocuted; Freed After Parents Pay $80k Ransom

  A Syrian Christian man, who was held hostage by the Islamic State for over five months, revealed recently that his captors forced him to call his family and a friend while he was being tortured in hopes that his cries of pain and agony would inspire them to pay his $80,000 ransom.

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  Mar 25, 2015

  Boko Haram Reportedly Kills at Least 70, Slit-Throat Corpes Found in Mass Grave Under Bridge

  A mass grave of about 70 to 100 corpses, with the majority of them having their throats slit, was discovered near the Nigerian town of Damasak last week, and is believed to be the brutal handiwork of the Islamic State's newest affiliate group, Boko Haram.

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  Mar 24, 2015

  God Helped Ted Cruz Fight Houston Mayor's Sermon Subpoenas, Cruz's Father Says

  Speaking on a conservative radio talk show on Monday, the father of 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz explained how God helped his son and the pastors of Houston fight back against Houston Mayor Annise Parker's subpoena of five pastors' sermons relating to a her and the city's transgender bathroom ordinance.

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  Mar 24, 2015

  Is ISIS a Copycat? 'Rivalry' With Boko Haram Inspired Brutal Abductions of Christians, Yazidis in Iraq, Says Rights Lawyer

  Speaking at a Hudson Institute discussion on the merger of Boko Haram and the Islamic State, a Nigerian human rights lawyer asserted that ISIS' abductions of religious minorities in Iraq last summer were inspired by Boko Haram's kidnapping of over 276 Chibok schoolgirls last April.

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  Mar 23, 2015

  Donor Conceived Woman Agrees With Dolce & Gabbana on Donor Conception: I Sacrificed My Father to Make My Mom Happy (INTERVIEW)

  As gay designers Dolce & Gabbana have been showered in criticism for stating their opposition to the use of third-party reproductive technologies, one woman who was born via donor conception is voicing her agreement with the designers' stance.

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  Mar 22, 2015

  'Curb to Castle' Journey to God: Complete Stranger Invites Homeless Family to Live in His Home for 7 Months

  As an unmarried homeless couple stood on a street corner in northern California with their four children holding up a sign that read "Family Needs Help God Bless," little did they know that within 10 years they would be living comfortably in their own house overlooking Lake Elsinore and living their lives by "God's design."