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Let The Death Threats Begin!
2007-12-06 02:37:00
Geert Wilders a member of parliament in the Netherlands created a anti-Islam film. We all knew that it was only a matter of time before this happened.This via Islam In EuropeThe former Jan Lighthart school in Gouda has been covered with death threats against Geert Wilders. Text saying "Wilders must die" and swastikas also covered windows, pavements and walls in nearby streets."Wilders must die" and swastikasunder a sign saying 'the school yard is for everybody,respect each other and don't discriminate'The Hollands-Midden police has gotten three reports since the weekend, and waiting for complaints to be lodged and is investigating the case. Wilders said in reaction that he'll lodge a complaint.The Gouda municipality says that they try to remove all types of graffiti within 24 hours, especially if it's discriminating or threatening. A spokesperson regretted that the text was still there several days later on the information point in the school. By Tuesday afternoon the place mu...
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Iran: Man Executed For Being Gay
2007-12-06 02:32:00
Makvan Mouloodzadeh, a 21-year-old Iran ian who was accused of committing anal rape when he was 13, was executed in Iran on the morning of Dec. 5, according to a release from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( IGLHRC ) . The execution occurred despite an order from Iranian Chief Justice to cancel it.In issuing his order, Chief Justice Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi thought that the death sentence violated the teachings of Islam, according to 365Gay.com.At Mouloodzadeh?s trial, witnesses retracted their prior testimonies, claiming that they had been forced to speak their statements. However, despite this development?and the fact that Mouloodzadeh said that he was coerced into a confession?an Iranian criminal court found him guilty in June and recommended death.?This is a shameful and outrageous travesty of justice and international human rights law,? said IGLHRC Executive Director Paula Ettelbrick, IGLHRC?s executive director. ?How many more young Ir...

UK: BBC Reporter Nasreen Suleaman Takes Jihadist Paintballing
2007-12-06 02:08:00
Not to mention they knew they were terrorist supporters and didn't feel they had to report this! The BBC should be in hot water over this! This via Times OnlineThe BBC funded a paintballing trip for men later accused of Islamic terrorism and failed to pass on information about the 21/7 bombers to police, a court was told yesterday.Mohammed Hamid, who is charged with overseeing a two-year radicalisation programme to prepare London-based Muslim youths for jihad, was described as a ?cockney comic? by a BBC producer.The BBC paid for Mr Hamid and fellow defendants Muhammad al-Figari and Mousa Brown to go on a paintballing trip at the Delta Force centre in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2005. The men, accused of terrorism training, were filmed for a BBC programme called Don?t Panic, I?m Islamic, screened in June 2005.The BBC paid Mr Hamid, an Islamic preacher who denies recruiting and grooming the men behind the failed July 2005 attack, a £300 fee to take part in the programme, Woolwich Cr...
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Ohio: Jihadist Supporter Sentenced To 10 Years
2007-12-06 02:04:00
An Ohio man has been sentenced to serve ten years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, according to an announcement on Tuesday by Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Nuradin M. Abdi, 35, a Somali national living in Columbus, Ohio, was named in a four-count indictment returned under seal in the US District Court in Columbus on June 10, 2004. On July 31, 2007, Abdi pleaded guilty in federal court to Count One of the indictment, which charged him with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.The federal indictment specifically alleged that on April 27, 1999, Abdi applied to the Immigration and Naturalization Service -- now known as ICE -- for a travel document, wherein he concealed his destination by representing that he intended to visit Germany and Saudi Arabia for the purpose of "Umrah (Holly[sic] - Mecca) and visit my relative," when he actually planned to travel to Ogaden, Ethio...
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Germany: 3 Men Convicted Of Aiding Al-Qaida
2007-12-06 02:01:00
DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) -- Three men were convicted Wednesday of aiding the al-Qaida in Germany -- including one who prosecutors say was part of the terrorist network's command structure and had contact with top leaders.Ibrahim Mohamed Khalil, 32, and Yasser Abu Shaweesh, 34, were convicted of membership in a terrorist organization and multiple counts of fraud. Khalil was sentenced to seven years in prison; Abu Shaweesh to six.Ismail Abu Shaweesh, 30, was convicted of the lesser charge of supporting a terrorist organization and fraud. He was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison by the state court in Duesseldorf.Khalil, who lived in Mainz, trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan and fought U.S. forces in the country between October 2001 and July 2002, according to the indictment. He had contact with top leaders, including al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, according to statements by prosecutors after the men were charged in 2005.Khalil said he was a native of Mosul, Iraq, though pr...
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UK: Daughter Of Imam Converts To Christianity... Recieves Death Threats
2007-12-06 01:56:00
The daughter of a British imam is under police protection after she received death threats from her family for converting to Christianity .The woman, aged 32, whose father is a Muslim imam in Lancashire, has moved house 45 times to escape detection by her family since she became a Christian 15 years ago.Hannah, who uses a pseudonym to hide her identity, told The Times that she became a Christian after she ran away from home at 16 to escape an arranged marriage. The threats against her became more serious a month ago, prompting police to offer her protection in case of an attempt on her life.She was speaking on the eve of the opening of Lapido Media, a charity that is seeking to promote ?religious literacy? in world affairs.Muslims in Britain who wish to convert to Christianity are living in fear of their lives because of Islamic apostasy laws, a senior Church of England bishop will warn at the invitaton-only charity event in West London.Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, ...
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Expose CAIR To Companies That Dropped Savage Advertisement
2007-12-05 05:51:00
Many companies have dropped advertising on the Michael Sava ge show now. I believe many in these companies are ignorant of who CAIR even is. I propose that everyone email the Presidents of these companies and let them know who CAIR really is. If that is not possible at least call these companies and let them know you are very dismayed at them dropping advertisement on Michael Savage.Here is a list of the companies dropping advertisement on Savage as of right now:# Citrix Systems, Inc.# Trusted I.D.# Office Max# JCPenney# AutoZone# AT&T# Wal-Mart#Universal OrlandoHere is the contact information for these companies.Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.702 Southwest 8th StreetBentonville, AR 72716Primary Phone: 1-800-925-6278Fax: 479-277-2473E-Mail: Lee Scott, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.AT&T908-221-4191Email AT&T hereTrustedID555 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 610Redwood City, CA 94065Ph: 1.888.548.7878Fax: 650.631.8111Email: pr@trustedid.comOfficemax263 Shuman Blvd.Naperville, IL 60563Phone: 630-438-7800JCPenne...
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Pakistan: Female Suicide Bomber Targets NATO Troops
2007-12-05 05:42:00
You can view a image of the woman hereWARNING: GRAPHIC PICTUREhttp://i169.photobucket.com/albums /u201/Jana_1/1.jpgMore discussion on this story on a Pakistan military forum here.Police in Pakistan say a woman suicide bomber in a burka has blown herself up near an army checkpoint in Peshawar.Islamist radicals have carried out a wave of suicide attacks in Pakistan in recent months, but this is thought to be the first by a woman since 9/11.The attack happened in a neighbourhood which is home to senior retired and serving army officers.Police say the bomber - thought to be an Afghan woman in her 30s - was the only casualty."She was carrying a basket over her head. She blew herself up as she came close to the checkpost," Peshawar police chief Tanvir-ul-Haq Sipra told Reuters news agency.The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan in Islamabad says the only previous suicide attack known to have been carried out by a woman in Pakistan took place in Karachi on 6 November 2000.At least five people were kil...
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Saudi Arabia: Lawyer Who Represented Rape Victim May Have License Revoked
2007-12-05 05:18:00
Update on this story.The lawyer who represented a victim of gang rape predicted he would have his revoked license to practice law reinstated and would represent the Saudi woman again."I believe in the system and the law, and I believe I didn't do anything wrong," Abdul Rahman al-Lahem told CNN in a telephone interview from Riyadh on Tuesday.A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday on the status of his law license.The Saudi judge who revoked al-Lahem's license last month did so to punish him for speaking to the news media about his client, al-Lahem said.His client is a teenage rape victim who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for violating the kingdom's strict Islamic law by being alone with an unrelated man before the rape. The attacks took place in Qatif in March 2006 when the woman was 18 and engaged to be married.Her seven rapists were sentenced to two to nine years in prison.Under Saudi law, women are subject to numerous restrictions, including a strict dress c...
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Philippine Catholics Free For Their Lives
2007-12-05 04:58:00
When Christians in the southern Philippines heard that the government and Islamic rebels had agreed to expand a homeland for Muslims on their island, they panicked."We started buying some weapons to defend our families and community," said Berting, a coconut farmer, whose farm sits in the heart of a mainly Muslim province in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.Berting, who declined to give his last name, is a Catholic whose grandfather settled in the area nearly 80 years ago when Christian farmers moved to the lush jungles and valleys of mostly Muslim Mindanao.A conflict between Catholics and Muslims has raged on the island for the past 40 years, resulting in the deaths of 120,000 people. But now the sides say that they are close to a final peace deal and might sign an agreement next year.After a decade of stop-start negotiations, the government and the country's largest Islamic rebel group agreed last month on the boundaries of a proposed homeland for Muslims, who make up a...
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Canadas Own Flying Imam Case
2007-12-05 04:57:00
TORONTO - A Canadian Muslim who says racial profiling was behind Air Canada's decision to deny him a ticket to board a flight three years ago filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Canadian Human Rights Commission.While attempting to purchase a ticket in Vancouver to fly to Victoria in May 2004, Shahid Mahmood said he was flagged as a security threat, despite his valid government ID - and the fact Air Canada did not yet have a Canadian "no-fly" list."I was stunned at their refusal to allow me to board this flight," Mahmood told a news conference in Toronto.The sales agent at the time said his name was "flagged" by the system and that he also wouldn't be able to fly the next day. He was also warned that future flights aboard Air Canada would require him to show his passport, he said.Mahmood's Chilean-born wife, however, was allowed to purchase a seat without incident.Despite repeated attempts to find out why he was flagged, the Toronto-born editorial cartoonist said the airline...
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Sears Drops Ads On Michael Savage
2007-12-04 22:12:00
Just another one to add to the list of companies bowing to the Islamist.WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition (HHA) today announced that Sears , one of the nation's largest retailers, has joined a growing list of advertisers that have stopped advertising or refuse to place their ads on Michael Sava ge 's "Savage Nation" radio program.In an e-mail to HHA, a Sears official wrote: "Sears Holdings will not be advertising on 'The Savage Nation.'"HHA, a group of religious and civic organizations seeking to challenge hate speech on talk radio, was formed as a result of Savage's recent rhetorical attacks on Muslims, Islam and the Quran, Islam's revealed text. Coalition members are calling on advertisers nationwide to stop airing commercials on Savage's nationally-syndicated program.SOURCE
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5,600 Al Qaeda Websites
2007-12-04 22:10:00
And most of them are probably hosted right here in the United States.RIYADH (Reuters) - There are now about 5,600 Web sites spreading al Qaeda 's ideology worldwide, and 900 more are appearing each year, a Saudi researcher told a national security conference on Tuesday.Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, has identified the Internet as a key battlefield with militants who launched a campaign to topple the U.S.-allied ruling royal family in 2003."Research shows there are more than 5,600 sites on the Internet promoting the ideology of al Qaeda," Khaled al-Faram told the Information Technology and National Security conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh."There are some 900 news sites appearing every year, and despite the retreat of some media outlets specifically run by al Qaeda, extremist Web sites are constantly on the rise."He said it was difficult to track most of the sites, though hardcore al Qaeda sites often change addresses to avoid detection or start up again elsew...
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Pakistan: Jihadist Blow Up Music And Barber Shops
2007-12-04 11:54:00
ISLAMABAD: Suspected pro-Taliban militants blew up a CD shop and a barber salon in Pakistan 's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) after warning the owners to close down their establishments, saying they were against Islam and should be banned.The CD shop and the barber salon were blown up in the NWFP's tribal agency of Sheikh Mohammadzai area on Monday, the police said.The owner of the CD shop, Daud Khan, told the police that they had received threats from some unidentified people to close down his establishment. The police have started investigation in the matter, the Dawn daily reported on Tuesday.In a related development, some unidentified militants blew up a video shop with explosive material in Mardan district of NWFP. However, no casualty was reported in the incident at Mangla Bagh Chowk on Mardan Malakand road.Earlier, pamphlets were distributed by unknown men in residential areas of Mardan, warning people to halt un-Islamic business of selling video cassettes.Last month a ...
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Canada: Radical Islam Spreading In Prisons
2007-12-04 11:48:00
MONTREAL -- There are no plans to isolate prisoners with connections to terrorism in order to avoid the possible indoctrination of the other inmates to radical Islam , a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said yesterday."It's always case by case," spokesman Melissa Leclerc said. "The prisoners are evaluated upon their arrival. Everything depends on their degree of risk, their needs, and on the rehabilitation programs."Leclerc was responding to Sun Media reports yesterday that Canada 's secret service is concerned by this new phenomenon in our federal prisons -- the recruitment and indoctrination of prisoners into radical Islam.The concerns were unearthed in a "secret" report from the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, prepared in January 2007 and obtained by the Sun Media's Montreal newspaper, Le Journal.'RECENT PHENOMENON'Although this problem is well documented in other countries -- especially in Europe -- it's a "recent phenomenon" in Canada, says Manon Beru...
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Mistrail For Muslim Hiding Connection To Imam Musa
2007-12-04 04:10:00
And update on this story.GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a former Andrews Air Force Base security guard accused of failing to include his Muslim name on a background check to hide his ties to an outspoken Washington imam and mosque.U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow made the ruling after jurors failed to reach a verdict for Darrick Michael Jackson, who did not put on a defense, after two days of deliberations. Jurors sent a note to the judge Monday afternoon, saying they could ''see no light at the end of the tunnel.''Jackson, 37, of Washington, was charged with making a false statement for not listing ''Abdul-Jalil Mohammed'' as an alias on the federal form he was required to fill out in 2005. He could have been sentenced to five years in prison if convicted.Jackson's defense was that he did not know he had to include his religious name for the background check he needed to work at the suburban Washington base, which is hom...
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Palestine: Christians Being Driven From Churches
2007-12-04 03:45:00
The ever-dwindling Christian communities living in Palestinian-run territories in the West Bank and Gaza are likely to dissipate completely within the next 15 years as a result of increasing Muslim persecution and maltreatment, an Israeli scholar said Monday."The systematic persecution of Christian Arabs living in Palestinian areas is being met with nearly total silence by the international community, human rights activists, the media and NGOs," said Justus Reid Weiner, an international human rights lawyer in an address at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, where he serves as a scholar in residence.He cited Muslim harassment and persecution as the main cause of the "acute human rights crisis" facing Christian Arabs, and predicted that unless governments or institutions step in to remedy the situation - such as with job opportunities - there will be no more Christian communities living in the Palestinians territories within 15 years, with only a few Western Christians and top c...
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UK: Muslims Order Hospital Beds To Face Mecca
2007-12-04 03:43:00
OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients? beds so they face towards Mecca.The lengthy procedure, which also includes providing fresh bathing water, is creating turmoil among overstretched staff on bustling NHS wards.But despite the havoc, Mid- Yorkshire NHS Trust says the rule must be instigated whenever possible to ensure Muslim patients have ?a more comfortable stay in hospital?.And a taxpayer-funded training programme for several hundred hospital staff has begun to ensure that all are familiar with the workings of the Muslim faith.The scheme is initially being run at Dewsbury and District Hospital , West Yorkshire, but is set to be introduced at other hospitals in the new year.It comes on the back of the introduction in some NHS hospitals last year of Burka-style gowns for Muslim patients who did not wish medical staff to see their face while operating or caring for them.READ IT ALL
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Canada: Muslim Professor Upset Over Video Portraying Him As Pimp
2007-12-03 23:35:00
Of course he says this is a hate crime. Im sorry this story is just funny! If anyone has the video of this professor please contact me. I also find it absurd that Youtube will pull this video but yet allow jihadist to post propaganda.A Halifax professor who was portrayed as a pimp in an online video said Monday he was the victim of a hate crime based on his Islamic faith.Halifax police have been asked to investigate the video, which was posted last week on the popular Internet site, YouTube. "It's a hate crime, defamation based on a religion and race," the Dalhousie University professor, who asked not to be named, said in an interview.The professor said lawyers and the university's faculty association were looking into the matter.Charles Crosby, a Dalhousie spokesman, said the six-minute video showed photographs of the professor's wife and two daughters while audio believed to be from a pornographic film played in the background.Crosby described the photos as "benign," but said w...
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Universal Orlando Dropping Ads On Michael Savage
2007-12-03 23:23:00
Another one bows to the Islamist. For the other organizations see here.WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition (HHA) today announced that Universal Orlando Resorts has joined a growing list of advertisers that have stopped advertising or refuse to place their ads on Michael Savage 's "Savage Nation" radio program.HHA, a group of religious and civic organizations seeking to challenge hate speech on talk radio, was formed as a result of Savage's recent rhetorical attacks on Muslims, Islam and the Quran, Islam's revealed text. Coalition members are calling on advertisers nationwide to stop airing commercials on Savage's nationally-syndicated program.SOURCE
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Norway: Jihadist Roams Freely
2007-12-03 23:05:00
Update on Mullah Krekar who said "It is allowed for me to kill Australian soldiers in Iraq."Norway wants to deport this man to Iraq. They can't deport him because they have a law that says they can't deport anyone to a country that has the death penalty. My question is why would they want to deport him? Why should he not be jailed in Norway for his terrorist connections? Mullah Krekar, once a jihadi superstar, has faded from the international limelight, but in Norway he won't go away.An outspoken Islamist, founder of the militant Iraqi Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam, and targeted by CIA agents in 2003, he was the incarnation of a truly bad guy.Nowadays, even American intelligence agencies seem to have little interest in the 51-year-old Iraqi Kurd. At the same time, the five-year-long "Krekar case," as it is known in Norway, grinds on. A month ago, an Olso court upheld an expulsion order against him, and he was thrust back onto the Norwegian front pages."Sadly, it has become a farce...

US Intel: "Iran May Have Nukes By 2009"
2007-12-03 22:59:00
Everyone seems to be focusing on this from the story..."We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program," reads a declassified version of the National Intel ligence Estimate key findings.And seems to forget the important part which is this..."We judge with moderate confidence that the earliest possible date Iran would be technically capable of producing enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) for a weapon is late 2009."SOURCESo do we wait till 2009 to attack Irans Nuke facilities? I dont think so!
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FBI To Share Stage With 9/11 Skeptics And Jihadist Supporters
2007-12-03 22:54:00
Oh the crazy world we live in! Jawa Report has all the details.Muslims meet up for the annual Texas Dawah Conventiona, what could possibly go wrong? You may remember that two years ago Yahya Ibrahim, who was to be a featured speaker, was denied entry into the U.S. by Customs agents.The event is being billed as "focusing on the family", but the speakers include known associates of convicted terrorists, terror supporters, and 9/11 skeptics. In addition to the various seminars, some of them given by supporters of the most conservative brand of Sunni Islam, the event will also have a variety of carnival rides--and a petting zoo!What's interesting about this year's meetup of Islamists in the U.S. is that an FBI agent will be a featured speaker. Ironically, Special Agent Randall Clark appears to be on the cyber crimes task force. Given that Islamists are experts at using the internet to propagandize and recruit new blood for jihad, you'd hope he was there in a monitoring capacity.Don'...
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Indonesia: 6 Jihadist Jailed For Killing Christians
2007-12-03 22:47:00
AKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Six Islamic militants were sentenced to up to 19 years in prison Monday for terrorist acts in eastern Indonesia that include beheading three Christian schoolgirls and shooting to death a priest.The harshest sentences were given to Abdul Muis bin Kamarudin and Rahman Kalahe, who were convicted in the 2006 killing of Rev. Irianto Kongkoli, and in the beheadings in 2005. Both crimes were in Central Sulawesi province.The men were also punished for the shootings of two high school students, and the bombing of a busy New Year's market that killed eight people on Dec 31, 2005.Kongkoli was shot in the head while shopping with his wife in Palu, the provincial capital of Central Sulawesi.Alleged members of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network left a handwritten note close to the bodies of the girls, vowing more killings to avenge the deaths of Muslims in earlier sectarian violence on Sulawesi island.The beheadings gave fresh impetus to the country's war on ter...
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Muslim Leader Wants Apology From Feminist Writer
2007-12-03 22:44:00
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who is in hiding in India after protests by Muslim s, must apologise for her ?anti-Islamic? writings, a prominent Indian Muslim scholar said yesterday. The 45-year-old writer, who fled Bangladesh in 1994, is currently living in an undisclosed location near New Delhi after being forced to leave the eastern Indian city of Kolkata last month following violent protests.Indian Muslims will ?not tolerate the infamous authoress Taslima Nasreen on the Indian soil? unless she apologised, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, chief cleric of New Delhi?s 17th-century Jama Masjid mosque, said. ?India is a democratic nation and the constitution here neither does permit any citizen nor allow any foreign national to be irreverent to the tenets of any religion,? the cleric said.?The entire responsibility of the consequences shall rest upon the government of India,? Bukhari warned. The Indian government has pledged to protect Nasreen and moved her to a safe house in Ne...
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Showing Of Movie "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West." Makes C
2007-12-03 11:54:00
Students and faculty gathered Thursday for a panel discussion about misconceptions of Islam in response to the controversial promotion of a movie about "Radical Islam."The panel, sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Islam On Campus, addressed the controversy that arose when students hung posters advertising the movie, "Obsession : Radical Islam's War Against the West ."Posters promoting the movie, shown on campus Nov. 13, had the phrase "Radical Islam Wants You Dead!"Matt Klein, a justice on the Student Government Supreme Court, sent out an e-mail before the movie was shown accusing students of removing the fliers and identified them with "Radical Islam." He later apologized when students took offense to the e-mail.Before the discussion, Yaser Ali, president of Islam On Campus, said the accusations in the movie posters and e-mails used "sensational language" and could threaten students' safety."It insinuated that our organization promotes terrorist ideologies o...
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Pakistan: Bomb Goes Off In School Kills 6
2007-12-03 11:45:00
QUETTA, Pakistan - Officials say a bomb exploded inside an Islamic school in southwestern Pakistan on Monday.Police official Mohammed Farooq says the blast killed six people and left at least four others injured. The explosion ripped through the madrassa in Qilla Saifullah, a town about 140 kilometres north of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. Pakistan's army is trying to stamp out a low-level insurgency in Baluchistan, a resource-rich but underdeveloped province bordering Afghanistan and Iran.The region has seen protests and bomb attacks since last week's reported killing of the leader of the Baluchistan Liberation Army guerrilla group.SOURCE
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Sudan President Will Pardon British Teacher
2007-12-03 11:42:00
Sudan's president on Monday agreed to pardon a British teacher jailed after letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad, and officials said she would be released and would fly back to England later in the day.Lord Nazir Ahmed and another Muslim representative from Britain's House of Lords, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Monday at his presidential palace to plead for Gillian Gibbons' pardon."The president has told us he has already signed the papers for her pardon," Ahmed told reporters afterward.Sudanese presidential spokesman Mahzoub Faidul told The Associated Press that Gibbons would "be released today and will fly back to England today."Gibbons had been sentenced Thursday to 15 days in prison and deportation for insulting Islam because her students gave the teddy bear the same name as Islam's revered prophet a violation under Sudan's Islamic Sharia law.The case inflamed passions among many in Sudan, where demonstrators called for her t...
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Evangelist Bill Keller Post Muhammad Pig Video On Youtube
2007-12-03 04:32:00
Heres the video...More on this from World Net Daily:An American evangelist has jumped into the fray over the fate of a British teacher facing calls for death over a teddy bear named "Muhammad ."Bill Keller, host of LivePrayer, has posted a video on YouTube featuring a pink pig named Muhammad after the Muslim prophet. "Indeed Muhammad was a man of murder," the pig, voiced by Keller himself, states in the video. "He was a pedophile, having a wife at the age of six. And I came to find out that the Quran really is nothing more than a book of fairy tales."Keller, a vocal critic of Islam, made the video in response to the case of Gillian Gibbons, who was moved to a secure location last week after street demonstrators called for her death. Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in a Khartoum jail after being convicted of insulting Islam.(Story continues below)If she had been found guilty of inciting religious hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs, her sentence could have been 40 lashe...
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Algeria: 4 Al Qaeda Supporters Arrested
2007-12-03 01:59:00
Four people in possession of cassettes containing speeches by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were arrested on the northwest coast of Algeria , police said today.Police seized 15 video cassettes, 60 CDs and 222 audio cassettes with information ?defending terrorism and incorporating the speeches of Osama bin Laden and images of terrorist operations downloaded off the Internet?, according to the police source.They were charged with crimes including supporting terrorism and held in custody, police said.The four members of the group ranged in ages from 27 to 35, and collected intelligence for the commander of the Houmat Eddaaoua Essalafia (HDS) group, an organisation active in the centre of the country, according to the police.The western Algeria-based HDS is a splinter group formed from the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which was dismantled by authorities in January 2005.The four arrested comprise part of HDS logistical support group and spread propaganda to recruit young people, according...
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