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Jihad Tag

Palestinians rioting is on the rise in Jerusalem as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan enters its fourth and final week. On Friday, the rioters raised the flag of the Islamist terrorist group Hamas on the Temple Mount, one of the most holiest sites for all Abrahamic religions.

Iran's state-run TV network censored a British soccer Premier League match to comply with the regime's Islamic sharia law. The live telecast was interrupted more than 100 times during the 90 minutes game to prevent showing a female referee dressed in customary black soccer shorts, newspaper reports say.

Pakistan's highest court has ordered the release of an Islamist sentenced to death for the kidnapping and beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl. Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main suspect in the killing, and three other co-conspirators "are to be released immediately if they are not required in any other case," the Pakistan Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Austrian government has ordered the closure two mosques after the jihad terror attack that killed four people in the capital Vienna this week. "Following the terror attack, the legal status of two radical mosques has been revokes. An association linked to them has been disbanded," the Austrian daily Die Wiener Zeitung reported on Friday.

An unidentified gunman shot a Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday afternoon at a church in the French city of Lyon. The priest sustained serious injuries and is "fighting for his life," news reports said. Police have launched a manhunt around the city. "Security and emergency personnel are at the scene," France's Interior Ministry said, urging people to "avoid the area" where the shooting took place.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for a boycott of French goods over the country's response to a school teacher's beheading in Paris.

"Never give credit to French-labelled goods, don't buy them," he said in a televised speech. "I am calling to all my citizens from here to never help French brands or buy them." 

A French teacher was beheaded by an Islamist in a Paris suburb on Friday for discussing Muhammad caricatures with his class. The knife-wielding attacker, identified as an 18-year-old immigrant, shouted "Allahu Akbar" at the scene of the gruesome killing, media reports say. The jihadi was shot dead after he charged at the police following the gruesome killing.