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A Lovely Example of Anti-Abortion Extremism
2008-05-03 00:00:00 While reading some kick ass feminist news over at Feministing, a picture on their Flickr widget caught my attention. The picture to your left is yet another lovely example of anti-abortion extremism. This picture was taken at the 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington, DC. By holding a sign that says something ...
By: Menstrual Poetry
Mishra proposes multi-national action to counter ?Pak extremism? - Daily Ti
2008-04-28 00:00:00 Mishra proposes multi-national action to counter ?Pak extremism?Daily Times, Pakistan -2 hours ago?The elections in Pakistan were free and fair and have brought about a situation where ... there?s hope of democracy in Pakistan,? he said. ... . via
By: Pakistan News
Believe it Or Not, We Are Just Human
2008-04-14 23:14:00 It’s expected that some Muslim faith schools are to add an extra subject to the academic syllabus to tackle extremism, an action that some governments have recommended. With groans from students having to study for yet another class, Citizenship lessons might actually prove useful. Topics tackled are issues that wouldn’t necessarily be discussed in a teacher-student environment. Already some Muslim schools ...
By: Unique Muslimah
Muslims Across Europe Unite Against Extremism
2008-04-09 02:12:00 Wow! Muslims in Europe are finally uniting against extremism? Could it be true? Not quite… Muslims Across Europe Unite Against Extremism Press Release 28 March 2008 The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), one of founding members of the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE), calls on all communities across Europe to unite against growing incitement and attacks against the European Muslim ...
Arab Study: 55% Say Offensive Words Justify Violence
2008-04-04 22:51:00 Via LGF: The poll adds weight to the vote at a session of the Doha Debates held on March 3 in Doha, where the motion ?This house believes that Muslims are failing to combat extremism?, was carried by more than 70% of the audience. In the YouGov survey, nearly half of all Arabs in the Gulf, Levant ...
By: The Hot Joints
Part IX: Leaders' Statements Illustrate CAIR's Extremism, Anti-Semitism
2008-04-03 16:43:00 Repeated statements by CAIR's leaders illustrate the group's extremist and anti-Semitic positions. Today's installment in the Investigative Project on Terrorism's detailed analysis of the self-proclaimed civil rights group, the ninth in a series, presents a compilation of those statements. Here are some of the highlights: · CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper is on record as supporting financial assistance to the families of "martyrs." Reporting in 2002 on tens of millions of dollars that Saudi Arabia...(read more)
?Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear?
2008-03-19 18:34:00 What a strange header for an article by the well known Canadian writer Naomi Klein! The Nation: Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear, by Naomi Klein Hillary Clinton denied leaking the photo of Barack Obama wearing a turban, but her campaign manager says that even if she had, it would be no big ...
By: Islam for Women
Extremism in Islam - How do We Understand the War on Terror
2008-03-12 01:33:00 For some reason there is a tendency to make any Muslim who pops his head up apologize for all the evil in the world before he is allowed to speak. This so called reverse discrimination racism blow back is causing some Muslims to tire of having to explain that they are not terrorists. Download Gathering Storm - Ibn Misr.mp3 Here is a debate that aired where we have an example of a gentleman named Ibn Misr who believes that all Muslims are lost without a chance and there fore there is no way but total war on Islam. I try to start the conversation on a positive note but the time goes on with nothing but attacks against Islam. In vain I try to suggest that it is only a hand full of extremist that incorrectly interpret the religion and cause a bad name for the overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world. I sometimes wonder why we do so much to help promote the interpretation and views of extremists. The glorifying of Al-Qaeda by the western media as well as the cont...
By: Hot Conflict
Caricature controversy
2008-02-27 23:02:00 CARTOONS, CONTROVERSY, BIGOTRY Here we go again! The Islam caricature controversy hardly needs introduction, it was in prime time news all over the world in 2005. The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten invited cartoonists to participate in a caricature contest about Islam and its Prophet. Twelve cartoons were ...
By: Islam for Women
Bishop threatened after claims that Islamic extremism had turned some commu
2008-02-04 13:13:00 Bishop Nazir-Ali wrote in a national Sunday newspaper in January that there had been a worldwide resurgence of Islamic extremism, leading to young people growing up alienated from the country they lived in.
Religious extremism planned in Pak since 1960s: MQM chief
2008-02-04 12:16:00 Religious extremism has been promoted in Pakistan through an organised plan since the 1960s, claimed Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Sunday. “New terms that were never heard before were coined and disseminated (in society),” the Daily Times quoted him as saying while addressing the MQM’s Defence Clifton Resident Society, Research and Advisory Council and Cultural Literary Forum on phone from London. He claimed that Pakistan’s founding fathers had never used these terminologies. (ANI)
By: B4U India
Transition to democracy essential for Pak to combat extremism: NYT
2008-02-03 12:07:00 A leading US newspaper says that “successfully moving Pakistan from military rule to civilian-run democracy is essential to combating extremism,” and adds that President Pervez Musharraf can play a major role in this regard. In an editorial published on Friday, the New York Times says: “Since the political crisis mushroomed last year, Mr Musharraf has worked overtime clinging to power. It’s hard to believe that if he is faced with a tidal wave of popular dissatisfaction, he will let voters choose a parliament that could one day remove him. We hope we are wrong. He has promised world leaders a fair election. If it is rigged, they must hold him accountable.” Reflecting on Musharraf’s eight-day European trip, the NYT further says: “Mr Musharraf petulantly lashed out at an influential group of retired officers from Pakistan’s powerful military that had urged him to step down immediately, dismissing them in a Financial Times interview as in...
By: B4U India
So Now President Bush Won't Call It "Islamic" Terrorism or Extremism?
2008-01-29 16:20:00 I noticed something unusual last night during President Bush's State of the Union speech - he never used the words "Islamic" or "Islamist" to describe the most dangerous forms of terrorism and extremism which the U.S. and the West face in the Middle East and around the world. Contrast that to his 2007 SOTU speech (emphases mine): "Al Qaeda and its followers are Sunni extremists , possessed by hatred and commanded by a harsh and narrow ideology. Take almost any principle of civilization, and their...(read more)
Britain, Pakistan agree to combat terrorism, extremism together
2008-01-29 12:09:00 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf have reportedly agreed that both countries will take appropriate steps to enhance the level of cooperation on combatting both terrorism and extremism. The reported agreement was reached during a one-to-one meeting between the two leaders at 10, Downing Street on Monday. Brown held talks with Musharraf even as a large group of demonstrators, including cricket star Imran Khan and his ex-wife Jemima, chanted anti-Musharraf slogans outside. Speaking after the discussions, Brown hailed Pakistan as a "key ally in combating terrorism". "I urged President Musharraf to work with all political parties in Pakistan for a peaceful, democratic future for the country and I called on him to continue to promote reconciliation - as I know he wants to do - between moderate forces to unite against the growing threat of violent extremism," The Sun quoted him, as saying. British experts are currently in Paki...
By: B4U India
What Is Christian Extremism?
2008-01-28 14:02:00 The tagline for Atheist Revolution is "Breaking free from irrational belief and opposing Christian extremism in America." Most people are familiar with the concept of "religious extremism," but what exactly is Christian extremism?I trust that you are used to hearing terms such as "religious extremism," "Islamofascist," "Islamic extremist," and the like. If you have been exposed to any of the American media's coverage of Bush's unjust war in Iraq, you have encountered these phrases countless times. They provide us with a useful starting point in defining Christian extremism.In the interest of both brevity and improved understanding, I will place the following discussion in a Christian context, exploring the meanings of Christian fundamentalism, extremism, and terrorism. What do we mean by Christian fundamentalism, and what criteria identify a Christian fundamentalist? Drawing on multiple scholarly sources, we can utilize the following criteria:Biblical Inerrancy/Literalism (at leas...
The Collective Denial
2008-01-27 17:41:00 The collective denial By Nadeem F. Paracha It is not general apathy or distracted energies of the people that the extremists are feeding on; it is a collective case of denial on the part of an increasing number of Pakistanis that is strengthening the extremists. Newsweek in its recent cover story claimed that Musharraf?s stubbornness to desperately hang ...
Dangers of academic extremism?
2008-01-16 16:18:00 Observers throughout the world have observed the recent decision of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to cancel his visit to Sapienza Universita di Roma this week after student dissidents objected to a speech he made years ago as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Unfortunately, the disgruntled faculty and student body that cite this previous text have not ...
Dangers of academic extremism?
2008-01-16 16:18:00 Observers throughout the world have observed the recent decision of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to cancel his visit to Sapienza Universita di Roma this week after student dissidents objected to a speech he made years ago as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Unfortunately, the disgruntled faculty and student body that cite this previous text have not ...
Dangers of academic extremism?
2008-01-16 16:18:00 Observers throughout the world have observed the recent decision of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to cancel his visit to Sapienza Universita di Roma this week after student dissidents objected to a speech he made years ago as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Unfortunately, the disgruntled faculty and student body that cite this previous text have not ...
Do US Nativists Project Europe’s Islamic Extremism Into US Illegal Immigr
2008-01-11 16:27:00 ARE WE CREATING THE SAME PROBLEMS? PART II: On Monday I featured Part I of my question about the ...
IOL Does Not ?Behead? Poem But Calls for Alternative
2008-01-07 05:59:00 Almost a week since publishing the “How to Behead” poem, a poorly-made decision thought by many, editors at leading Islamic website Islamonline.net (IOL) gave what should have been a statement on Sunday. But the latest article implies that Islamonline are not ready to apologise or justify their actions, which have confused some Muslims and given Islamophobics a golden opportunity ...
By: Unique Muslimah
Extremism flourished as UK lost Christianity
2008-01-06 23:28:00 In fewer than 50 years, Britain has changed from being a society with an acknowledged Christian basis to one which is increasingly described by politicians and the media as “multifaith”. Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims One reason for this is the arrival of large numbers of people of other faiths to these shores. Their arrival ...
By: 1913 Intel
BBC NEWS | Politics | More diplomats to fight extremism [del.icio.us]
2008-01-06 17:56:00 "More British diplomats are to be sent to the Middle East and South Asia to combat extremism" - That'll do the trick!
Christian extremism raises alarm
2008-01-04 15:23:00 "This group [Watchmen on the Walls] has engaged in extremely vicious antigay propaganda, and oftentimes it is that kind of propaganda that is taken by hate criminals as permission to go ahead and attack," says Mark Potok, editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Intelligence Report," which tracks hate crimes nationwide.
Domestic Islamic Extremism
2007-12-14 08:04:00 It is commonly known that Islam breads terror. We find it evident all over the world in its many manifestations, Islamic beliefs are often the root cause of violence and a false justification for violent action carried out with malicious intent. The most redolent form of Islamic terror can be witnessed in observance of the political struggles, in especially the Middle East, that cause extreme devastation upon millions of people all over the world. And proven by terrorist attacks such as the World Trade Center attack of September 11th 2001 and the London City Subway bombings of July 7th 2005, both attacks inspired by Islam, Islamic extremists are not just a threat to operating only in the Middle East, but are a threat to the homeland security of the entire Western World. But what about Muslim families? Is violence provoked by radical Islamic extremity a danger to our Muslim youth? Recently in Toronto Canada, a Muslim father, so viciously passionate about his...
Solving Extremism With Concessions
2007-11-25 00:45:00 Terrorism has been a problem for thousands of years, and it's only recently that the Western nations have had to deal with it head on. Nine times out of ten, our instinctive response to a terrorist act is to strike back, and strike hard.5 Zoom(s)
Rice accuses Iran of spreading extremism
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2007-11-14 00:00:00 ef="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dail-ynews/rss/topstories/*http://ne-ws.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/pl_n-m/iran_usa_rice_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.-com/p/nm/20071114/2007_11_13t16-5111_450x300_us_iran_usa_rice.j-pg?x=130&y=86&sig=QflWV-rmikIifayhntWVDAg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addresses delegates at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, November 13, 2007. (Josh Anderson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday accused Iran of spreading "violent extremism" across the Middle East and said a strong Palestinian state could act as a bulwark against this threat.</p>
Oppressed in Her Own Home
2007-11-10 02:23:00 Hannah came to me one evening, her eyes blood-red, her cheeks wet. What was the matter? I asked her; it was past six and she had a long way to commute home from the library. “It’s my dad,” she slumped on the chair beside me, putting her hands on her lovely, olive-tanned face. I looked ...
By: Unique Muslimah
The Collar - Distinctiveness & Extremism
2007-11-08 13:30:00 Two weeks ago we started a discussion on the security and symbolism of ?the collar? this lead to some interesting discussion on not only the use of the collar but also the use (in our movement) of inflated clerical titles (see the great posts on this over at John?s, Tim?s and David Kling?s). The emphasis thus far has been on clericalism ? but what about a more general exploration of symbols of faith?Yesterday?s Guardian had an article about a Sikh schoolgirl being excluded from school because she wore the Kara, an iron bangle that reminds devout Sikhs of their duty not to sin. The symbolism is wonderful ? a sinful act is often committed with the hands, thus the Kara is the last thing one sees before acting upon a sinful idea; a moment of reflection, a stepping back from the brink.This is not an isolated occasion ? indeed there have been a whole raft of reported instances, across the spectrum of faith in the past couple years when individuals have been expelled, fired, or suspended. ...
By: Bozhe!
Pyschological Warfare or an Innocent Film?
2007-11-01 01:12:00 Is the new two-part series BRITZ a new tactic to remind viewers that the terrorist threat is very real while we go about our lives thinking otherwise? The BRITZ shows a young Asian Muslim man who joins the MI5 (intelligence service) and helps track down British Muslim terrorists. Is this drama part of a psychological warfare to ...
By: Unique Muslimah
Choose your extremism carefully
2007-10-29 12:25:00 © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for more graphical humour based on the worldwide idiocy pandemic ...
By: plooptionary
Pakistan, India to form strategy against extremism
2007-10-28 08:02:00 CNews ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said Pakistan and India would jointly work out a strategy to eradicate the extremism. Aftab Khan Sherpao said this while talking to the journalists at Islamabad airport on Saturday as he returned after attending the SAARC conference. The interior minister said the member states of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) agreed on developing a mechanism for exchange of information to eradicate the curse of terrorism and drugs. He said the recommendations regarding the information mechanism were discussed during the conference and the participants agreed upon the need for collective efforts to combat terrorism. He went on to say that the issues including human trafficking, money laundering and fake currency were discussed in the conference and it was decided that the SAARC states would hold three meetings next year in Islamabad in which police chiefs, law experts and experts working against terrorism, prese...
Extremism is promoted through dictatorship: BB
2007-10-27 20:52:00 CNews LARKANA: Chairperson Pakistan People?s Party and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said that she has taken her party into confidence on the issue of becoming prime minister for third time. However, no agreement could be made in the negotiations with the government on the abolishment of 58 (2) B.While talking with journalists in Larkana, Benazir Bhutto said that the negotiations are being held with the government for the restoration of democracy and the prosperity of the people.Benazir said that she wants the people to get the ruling power, unemployed persons to get employment and the backward people to get betterment.She said that General Musharraf had said to retire before oath-taking of the president but still there are many works to do for the restoration of democracy.On the national reconciliation ordinance, Benazir said that the cases made against her were not strong and the cabinet signing the ordinance admitted that the cases were fabricated as revenge against her. T...
The False Threat of Islamic Extremism
2007-10-24 22:28:00 Over at Political Grind, Roger challenged me this:Simmons -- instead of always looking for new ways to be offended by my choice of language, instead of being so concerned about staking out and defending your personal political position, why don't you just address the issue? In what way have I mischaracterized this Muslim threat to our Western culture and our impotent reaction to it?I responded:There are moderate Muslims. Not all Muslims are extremists. And the Muslims that are extremists ARE NOT STRATEGIC THREATS TO THE U.S.I think some people are taking this whole thing a little far. Islamic terrorists have launched one successful attack on our soil, and relative, it really was not as horrible as an attack as we would believe. Yes, it was horrible, but compared to any other wars the U.S. has ever fought, it's nothing.9/11 was significant because it changed the U.S.'s foreign and domestic policy SIGNIFICANTLY.Right now, no terrorist group, I repeat NO TERRORIST GROUP, has the abi...
Tony Blair: Iran extremism like rise of 1930s fascism
2007-10-21 06:33:00 Times Online article link Tony Blair: Iran extremism like rise of 1930s fascism Islamist extremism is similar to “rising fascism in the 1920s and 1930s”, Tony Blair said last night in his first major speech since leaving office. At a prestigious charity dinner in New York, the former Prime Minister said that public figures who blamed the rise of fundamentalism on the policies of the West were "mistaken". He told the audience, which included New York governor Eliot Spitzer and mayor Michael Bloomberg, that Iran was the biggest exporter of the ideology, and that the Islamic republic was prepared to "back and finance terror" to support it. “Out there in the Middle East, we’ve seen... the ideology driving this extremism and terror is not exhausted. On the contrary it believes it can and will exhaust us first," he said. “Analogies with the past are never properly accurate, and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading but, in pure...
Iran extremism like the rise of fascism in the 1930s: Blair
2007-10-20 12:28:00 Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has drawn parallels between Islamist extremism the “rising fascism in the 1920s and 1930s”. Delivering his first major speech ...
By: B4U India
Muslims tell Christians: ?Make peace with us or survival of world is at sta
2007-10-11 17:06:00 Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the “survival of the world” is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other. In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders “to come together with us on the common essentials ...
By: The Hot Joints
Al-Jazeera Report Shows American Citizen Training Al-Qaeda Fighters in Soma
2007-10-11 01:26:00 Treason is the first thing that came to mind when I watched this video. It’s an Al-Jazeera news report from Somalia and several Al-Qaeda fighters are interviewed at a training camp. Among them is a white American citizen that speaks perfect English. The report claims that not only his he an Al-Qaeda fighter, but he’s also ...
By: The Hot Joints
New Bin Laden Tape Declares War On Musharraf
2007-09-20 16:27:00 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is calling on Pakistanis to rebel against President Pervez Musharraf in a new audiotape. The announcement of the upcoming message came as al-Qaida released a new video in which bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, boasted that the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other ...
By: The Hot Joints
Will Europe never learn from its past?
2007-09-17 17:13:00 When the Europeans first came to the US continent, they stereo typed the natives as either being the “Noble Savage” - in order to justify trading with them - and then as “the Savage barbarian”, almost demonic, in order to justify slaughtering them. They did the same when they colonized most of the world. It came ...
Anti-television extremism and snobbery
2007-09-12 01:50:00 During my conference period, my colleague at crowded Hunting Park high school teaches a class in my classroom. Today, during the course of his lesson, he asked one of the students what he did in his off-time, and the student replied that he enjoyed watching television. Some teachers would have reacted to the student's admission with mild horror and a two or three minute lecture-harangue: "How can you waste your time...etc." if not stop class altogether for a mass intervention. => Read more!
By: Asymmetric
Iran?s Ahmadinejad has ?proof? US won?t attack
2007-09-03 16:14:00 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sought to justify his confidence the United States will not attack Iran, saying the proof comes from his mathematical skills as an engineer and faith in God, the press reported on Monday. Ahmadinejad told academics in a speech that elements inside Iran were pressing for compromise in the nuclear standoff with the ...
By: The Hot Joints
Presseschau against right-wing extremism
2007-08-29 10:40:00 The end of the “week of the bürgerschaftlichen commitment ” I would like to make attentive on a completely particularly engaged citizen: one looks for such a press mirror elsewhere in vain. Magnus offers it further daily - and that, without also only one cent for it for wars. My respect, my respect! Further so!! More humans such a diligence work would not nevertheless only deliver, the NPD would have a chance!
By: el-blog.com
Right-Wing Extremism, Neo-Nazism and Xenophobia on the Rise in Germany?
2007-08-28 01:15:00 by- Suzie-Q @ 4:15 PM MST It’s been a week since eight Indian men were chased through the small eastern town of Muegeln, Germany, by a drunken mob while people looked on. In the last seven days, speculation about why it happened, finger-pointing, soul-searching, worries and concerns over the violent incident have followed and brought back ...
By: Suzie-Q
A REAL American speaks
2007-08-27 17:21:00 Frederik Vorhees relates his opinion pre and post 9/11. I loved his post! He explains his background: I love the United States. As an 80?s and 90?s kid growing up in America I was blessed with a number of luxuries, including perhaps the best education system of any country in the world. My American education taught me ...
German Jews alarmed by mob attacks
2007-08-23 01:24:00 Jews in Germany sounded the alarm on Wednesday over a mob attack on Indian immigrants in the ex-communist east of the country, saying Berlin had failed to define a strategy to fight far-right violence.The general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Stephan Kramer, said the government had not managed to stop right-wing ...
By: The Hot Joints
Attack on Indians fuels debate on extremism in Germany
2007-08-21 15:24:00 Berlin, Aug 21 (DPA) A vicious attack that injured eight Indians has fuelled the debate about increasing violence by right-wing extremists in the eastern part of Germany.
By: Latest News
Turkey bans Wordpress.com!
2007-08-20 22:24:00 Holy shit and here I thought they were on their way to liberalism!!! The ban is because of the sway a particular sect of Muslims hold over the government: the Harun Yahya nipple suckers. Here’s the whole story: “the attorneys of the cult leader Adnan Oktar aka Harun Yahya, a 51 year old former interior design student known ...
Book Review: Secularism Confronts Islam by Olivier Roy
2007-08-16 09:26:00 This week’s Economist has a review of Secularism Confronts Islam by Olivier Roy. Dr. Roy has a masters in Persian language and culture and a PhD in political science. His other works are: Globalized Islam: The search for a new ummah, Today’s Turkey: A European State? and The Illusions of September 11. His book L’Echec ...
Animal Rights Activists Plant Explosives Under Doctor?s Car
2007-08-10 22:37:00 THE HOME OF DR. ARTHUR ROSENBAUM isn?t hard to find. He lives a few blocks south of Sunset Boulevard, near the UCLA campus, in a white two-story house with a front yard jammed with aspen trees. There is a short driveway on the side of the home, and during the evening, a bright, white light ...
By: The Hot Joints
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