Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafist movement senior official in the Gaza Strip, made the claim in a pre-recorded, hour-long interview to air in full on Sunday on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” the popular weekend talk radio program broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia. Klein doubles as Breitbart’s senior investigative reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief.

Ansari is a well-known Gazan Salafist jihadist allied with Islamic State ideology. During the interview with Klein, Ansari seemed to be speaking as an actual IS member, repeatedly using the pronoun “we” when referring to IS and even seemingly making declarations on behalf of IS.

IS has been reluctant to officially declare its presence in Gaza for fear of a Hamas clampdown, but the group is known to be active in the coastal enclave and Ansari is a suspected IS leader. IS-aligned militants have taken responsibility for recent rocket fire from Gaza aimed at Israel.

Genomics pioneer Craig Venter and more than 20 colleagues engineered a living microbe with a genome simpler than any seen in nature. In other words, they created a life form whose relative simplicity and modular design make it a platform that one day may be as easily manipulated as, say, software.

The most surprising result of their work — and perhaps the most sobering one for the rest of the field: The team still doesn’t understand what 31 percent of the essential genes do in even the simplest organism, to say nothing of a human genome. It's a development Venter called “very humbling.”

Scientists have long theorized how many genes might be required for a simple, viable organism that could be used as a universal template. Many studies have tried to estimate the rock-bottom number by knocking out individual genes; they have settled on 250 to 300 or so. The original bacteria species that the Venter group worked on is already pretty tiny: M. mycoides is found in cow stomachs and has about 985 genes. The human genome has more than 20,000 genes. Golden Delicious apples have more than 57,000 genes. The new organism, nicknamed Syn3.0 by researchers? It has 473.

“We are probably at the 1 percent level in understanding the human genome,” said Clyde Hutchison III, a distinguished professor at the Venter Institute.

Remove the threat of hell for people who are honestly mistaken, and you have a problem: if you don’t have to be a Christian to be saved, what is the point? This is a question that really troubles Benedict. It has led, he says, to a “deep double crisis” in the church. First, it takes away the inspiration for the heroic missionary efforts of the past, and indeed takes away the point of being a missionary in the future. Worse than that, though, it raises the question of why anyone already a Christian should bother to keep it up when they are going to heaven anyway.

The pope emeritus is not the first person to raise this question. It is a commonplace of the sociology of religion that hardline sects, which really do believe that everyone outside them is damned, can demand much greater commitment than those that simply think it would be nice if everyone were right. One reason that the world is full of intolerant fanaticism is that it works. Believing wicked things gives you the energy to propagate them too.

But the old pope can’t go back. He can’t believe that untold millions are being tormented forever by a loving God just because the same loving and omnipotent God arranged for them to be born in countries that are not Christian. So what can he believe?

The British Medical Journal, which publicized the case of the 16-year-old girl, said the damage occurred three years after she was vaccinated. “Parents should be warned by this example not to allow use of Garadsil in the case of their daughters,” Elite Insight reported. The recent study pointed out that the vaccine has the ability to severely damage the function of ovaries; in the case of the Australian 16-year-old, her destroyed ovaries led to very premature menopause.

As reported by Life Site News, Dr Deirdre Little, the Australian physician who treated the girl and co-authored the BMJ report, provided researchers with solid evidence that Gardasil caused the destruction of the girl’s fertility.

In addition, she pointed out that Merck has no supporting information regarding the effects of the vaccine on ovaries, which of course suggests that Merck either did no safety testing regarding the vaccine’s effects on the female reproductive system, or has hidden the data. What’s more, the drug maker was able to get Gardasil approved via the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) despite incomplete fertility testing.

Our traditional Good Friday to Sunday celebration however only accounts for Jesus’ being in the heart of the earth for two nights and one day. Were the facts of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection purposely distorted? There are absolutely no verses anywhere in the Bible that authorize or endorse the keeping of an Easter celebration.

Further, the Bible says nothing about the practice of observing Lent, dyeing Easter eggs, having Easter egg hunts, baskets of candy, bonnets – and so on. Easter has long been known to be a pagan festival. America’s founders knew this.

In the children’s book Easter Parade: Welcome Sweet Spring Time (pp 4-5) Steve Englehaty states:

“When the Puritans came to North America, they regarded the celebration of Easter – and the celebration of Christmas with suspicion. They knew that pagans had celebrated the return of spring long before Christians celebrated Easter. …For the first 200 years of European life in North America, only a few states – mostly in the South – paid much attention to Easter.

“Not until after the Civil War did Americans begin celebrating this holiday… Easter first became an American tradition in the 1870’s… The original 13 colonies of America began as a Christian nation, with the cry of ‘No king but King Jesus’. The nation did not observe Easter within an entire century of its founding.”

Most people accept traditions as fact because they have been part of our culture for so long. Unfortunately, most of these traditions are dark and gory Satanic rituals.

There is also evidence of fake vodka containing toxic levels of methanol and the selling of harmful weight loss pills, such as DNP, which have been linked to the deaths of several young women. The unit says there are more than 20 organised crime groups involved in some aspect of food and drink fraud in Britain.

And a 20 per cent rise in sheep and other farm rustling over the last five years has seen animals slaughtered in unlicensed premises – creating health risks. Part of the Food Standards Agency, the unit was set up in 2013 following the horsemeat scandal.

Yesterday it published the Food Crime Annual Strategic Assessment which sets out the seriousness of the problem and the threats involved. According to the report, British food is generally safe and properly labelled but it warns that fraud represents a “serious criminal threat to the safety and authenticity of UK food and drink”.

France said much the same after suffering its own attacks in Paris last November, which had been linked to plotters based in Belgium, and others around the world have joined the chorus since the bombs went off in Zaventem and Maelbeek.

Security services should be held accountable in these situations, of course, yet there is plenty of blame to go around considering the wider pattern of Islamic terrorism facing Europe, America, and, most importantly, the Middle East, the ultimate source of funding and inspiration for these attacks. Many other countries besides Belgium have suffered such intelligence "failures", while suspects on watch lists have slipped easily through border controls in the US, the UK, France, Belgium, and other countries.

So what is to be done? The blame game has morphed quickly into a search for "solutions", and again the European chorus is singing a familiar, but always dissonant, tune. Those who believe the EU is the root of all evil believe that national solutions, such as strict border controls and limits on migrants/refugees, must prevail. Those in favour of greater European integration stress a need for joint intelligence services, greater cooperation regarding border and refugee/migration policies, and even a common European army.

Yet the EU has had elements of these solutions in place for years, if not decades. Debates over a common defence date back to the 1950s, and over counter-terrorism back to the 1980s, and over migration/refugee policy back to the 1990s. So these are not new problems or solutions. In each case, the EU lacked the consensus to delegate more authority over these policy domains to common institutions and procedures in Brussels. Instead, "intergovernmental" solutions were favoured, which required consensual decision-making by all EU member states.

The inevitable result of this confusion of naming and shaming, wishful thinking, and piecemeal intergovernmental cooperation is the Europe we have today, where all the major recent crises - the eurozone, refugees, and now terrorism - stem from the same problem: profound disagreement among EU member states, particularly the "big three," about the future of Europe and the institutional structures required to maintain its security and prosperity.

Mike Hookem, its defence spokesman and an MEP, said: “I’m once again calling for an immediate suspension of the Schengen [free travel] agreement, the re-establishment of border controls and an end to the EU’s open door migration policies.”

Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, was widely criticised for posting messages on Twitter that seemed to be referencing the Brexit debate. “I'm very upset by events in Brussels today and even more depressed for the future,” he said while the attacks were still going on.

He later retweeted a post by Allison Pearson, a columnist for British daily The Telegraph, who described Brussels as “the jihadist capital of Europe,” adding “and the Remainers dare to say we're safer in the EU!" Geert Wilders, a popular Dutch anti-immigrant politician, said the attacks meant “we must close our national borders and detain all the jihadists whom we have foolishly allowed to return from Syria”. “We need to de-Islamise the West,” he told Breitbart, a US news agency.

Speaking from Canada, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right party, the National Front (FN), said: “I don't get the sense that Islamic fundamentalism is being treated like the threat it really is … whoever condemns Islamic fundamentalism is accused of Islamophobia.”

The flames were doused by other refugees and the young man was taken to hospital. Greek police said his injuries were not life-threatening. The border was closed earlier this month, bringing to a grinding halt the Balkan migration route along which a million refugees passed last year. Around 12,000 asylum seekers continue to camp out in the mud in the desperate hope that the frontier might be reopened.

The incident came as the EU’s grand scheme for staunching the exodus of migrants and refugees from Turkey looked increasingly unworkable after the UN’s refugee agency said it was suspending some of its operations in protest at asylum seekers being held in mandatory detention.

The network of agile and semiautonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria and Iraq.

The officials, including European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker who follows the jihadi networks, described camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly the former Soviet bloc where attackers are trained to target the West. Before being killed in a police raid, the ringleader of the November 13 Paris attacks claimed he had entered Europe in a multinational group of 90 fighters, who scattered "more or less everywhere."

But the biggest break yet in the Paris attacks investigation - the arrest on Friday of fugitive Salah Abdeslam - did not thwart the multipronged attack just four days later on the Belgian capital's airport and subway system that left 31 people dead and an estimated 270 wounded. Three suicide bombers also died.

But MPs and business figures have warned the £21 billion merger will be bad for the City of London and urged ministers and competition authorities to block it. Experts fear Frankfurt would have the upper hand with a 54.4 per cent stake. The combined group will also be run by investment banker Mr Kengeter and will report its profits in euros, not pounds.

Mr Kengeter is reported to have told staff at the Frankfurt headquarters: ‘Die fusion ist gottgewollt,’ which roughly translates as saying the deal was willed by God. The remark was made last Wednesday and leaked to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin.

But the German boss immediately came under fire from critics, including John Longworth who was recently forced out as director general of the British Chambers of Commerce after publicly declaring his support for Brexit. Mr Longworth suggested Germany’s swoop for the LSE was driven by greed, and is bad for Britain. He ridiculed Mr Kengeter, suggesting he could only have been referring to Mammon. He said: ‘This is a very strange thing to say. He must surely have been talking about Mammon. This is a strategic industry for the UK.

‘The Government keeps saying if we leave the EU there is a risk that jobs and influence will move from the City of London to Frankfurt. Isn’t it ironic that it is allowing this merger to go ahead?’

The study reviewed more than 200 scientific papers, which examined the difference between organic and non-organic milk and meat products. The researchers found that organic meat and milk products had far higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in comparison to non-organic contenders. The human body can produce most fats from raw ingredients and other fat. This isn’t true with respect to omega-3 fatty acids, however. They are essential fats, meaning the body cannot produce them by itself but must obtain them from food. The human brain is largely made up of omega-3 fatty acids, meaning organic food is literally brain food.

What is responsible for this difference? The researchers did not look for a specific cause, but suggest the way in which organic animals are raised and the amount of grass they consume bear some responsibility. It should be emphasized that these results were not bound to organic food, however, but encompassed any products grown without pesticides and fertilizers.

“Differences in content such as fatty acids or iodine occur primarily because organic animals are fed more of a forage-based diet, such as grass, than their non-organic counterparts,” Ian Givens, a professor of nutrition at the University of Reading, who wasn’t involved in the research, told sources. “You get the same kind of changes in food composition if non-organic animals are fed forage-rich diets too. It’s the choice of feed, not the organic farming method, which makes the difference.”

Sheikh Ali Abu Ahmad began by slamming a Jordanian plan to install security cameras at al-Aqsa this week. Jordan’s Islamic Affairs Minister said that the cameras will “document all Israeli violations and aggressions,” and that no camera would be placed within mosques. Abu Ahmad rejected this claim, saying that the cameras will instead be used “to monitor the Muslims who confront the Jews, so that they can be arrested by the Israelis, by the Jordanians, or by the Ramallah Authority of Disgrace.”

“The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been suffering under occupation ever since the defeat of the Caliphate in Istanbul,” he added. “The Al-Aqsa Mosque is being defiled by the Jews day in and day out.” Abu Ahmad concluded by praying for the death of all Jews, saying, “Oh Allah, annihilate all the Jews! Oh Allah, enable us to kill them! Oh Allah, make the ground swallow them up, along with their homes!”

Abu Ahmad ended an address at al-Aqsa on November 2014 in a similar manner, shouting, “Oh Allah, annihilate America and its coalition. Oh Allah, enable us to cut off their heads. Oh Allah, help our brothers, the mujahideen in the land of Iraq and Syria.”

ISIS released a video in October pledging to “liberate Al-Aqsa from the defilement of the sons of apes and pigs.” That same month, a Hebrew-speaking ISIS militant vowed that “we will enter al-Aqsa mosque as conquerors, using our cars as bombs to strike the Jewish ramparts.”