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Pakistan: Islamabad "uses terrorism against minorities"
Spero News 23 June 2010
Peter Jacob, secretary general of the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace Pakistan, visiting Europe tells AsiaNews, "Under the guise of Islamic identity and the war on terror, the government 
Islam, the fastest dying religion
TruthTube.tv 22 June 2010
The testimony of a muslim sheikh lamenting conversion figures to Christianity for a series of countries where Islam supposedly is strong. Or was strong.
Germany to Launch Exit Program for Militant Islamists
Spiegel Online 22 June 2010
Germany has been offering programs for people who want to leave the neo-Nazi scene for years. Now, in a bid to combat the threat of Islamist terrorism, authorities are setting up a telephone hotline
'Radical Moroccans Orchestrated PvdA Coup in Amsterdam'
Netherlands Info Services 22 June 2010
Conservative Muslims have press-ganged aggressive young Moroccans into seizing power via intimidation in Amsterdam's Nieuw West district, according to De Volkskrant newspaper. In the district
view the location of this item Wilders' Palestine statement angers Jordan
Radio Netherlands 22 June 2010
The anti-Islam Freedom Party of Dutch MP Geert Wilders has provoked anger in Jordan. The party leader said in a speech last week that "Jordan is Palestine". "If you change the name of that
Arab song for kids: Allah loves martyrs
Israel News 22 June 2010
By Roee Nahmias
Anti-Israel television for children: The Birds of Paradise band has released a new song in which children express their desire to be shaheeds (martyrs). The song, sung by young children on the
Hamas Cleric Says Islam Will Fight Jews and Crusaders Until End of Time
FamilySecurityMatters.org 22 June 2010
MEMRI has reported on a sermon delivered on Hamas TV by a Hamas affiliated ceric in which he says that the conflict between Muslims and "Jews and Crusaders will continue to the Day of Judgement” and
Second Swede arrested for Somalia attack plot
The Associated Press 22 June 2010
A Swedish man suspected of planning an attack in Somalia was arrested in Stockholm Tuesday, security police said, a month after the arrest of another Swedish national on the same charges. "The
British student held in Yemeni prison with al-Qaeda members
BBC 22 June 2010
By Oliver Holmes in Sana'a
A British student visiting Yemen was held in a high security prison with al-Qaeda leaders and members of a Shia militant sect after being arrested for an expired visa. Jamie Mearns:
Boldly confronting the problems of Islam
Bellingham Herald 22 June 2010
By KEVIN FERRIS
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a big believer in freedom of speech. So she practices it daily, fearlessly, and at great personal cost. "Every important freedom that Western individuals possess rests on free
Canada to bar Islamic preacher
Global Toronto 22 June 2010
By Kathryn Blaze Carlson
An Indian Muslim televangelist who was banned from Britain last week for "unacceptable behaviour" will not be allowed into Canada to speak at an upcoming conference in Toronto, sources familiar with
Terrorist Supporting Islamist Group Coming Back to Chicago
ChicagoNow 22 June 2010
By Warner Todd Huston
While Mayor Richard "King" Daley goes about his important work of destroying Chicagoan's 2nd Amendment Rights, a terror supporting Islamist organization is again coming to the Windy City to spread
Turkey, from Ally to Enemy
Commentary 22 June 2010
By Michael Rubin
Traveling abroad on his first trip as president, Barack Obama tacked a visit to Turkey onto the tail end of a trip to Europe. "Some people have asked me if I chose to continue my travels to Ankara
Ask a Harvard Genius: Does Sharia Law Mandate Child Rape?
Right Side News 22 June 2010
By Jeanette Pryor - NewsRealBlog.com
Did God tell Mohammad, at the age of 50, to marry Aisha, who was only nine?
More importantly, does Sharia Law, based in part on the conduct of Mohammad, still permit the imposing of marriage upon Muslim girls at the age of nine?
Armenia says new Turkish foreign policy 'regrettable'
Dalje.com 22 June 2010
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian said Tuesday that he thought a perceived new direction in Turkish foreign policy was undermining any easing of tensions between the neighbours. "This new path
Hamas's Web School for Suicide Bombers
Right Side News 22 June 2010
By Yohanan Manor and Ido Mizrahi
All states use education as a medium to encourage responsible behavior in their children, at least in part to develop a law-abiding, civic-minded citizenry. Authoritarian regimes have a history of
Islamic indoctrination soon to be enforced by law in Brunei
Brudirect 22 June 2010
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Religious Education Order is now in its second stage of revision (penyemakan), said the Director of Islamic Studies Department, Ministry of Religious Affairs. Briefing
Why Lefties will always assume that Eurosceptics are bigots, regardless of the evidence
Telegraph Blog 22 June 2010
By Daniel Hannan
You realise you’re winning the argument when former opponents start quoting your own contentions back at you. They often do so in a manner at once patronising and irritable, as though explaining an original theory to an imbecile.
Study: Ethnic diversity at school has a negative effect on learning
Maastricht University 21 June 2010
By Press release
Inauguration of Jaap Dronkers as professor of International Education Research
Fifteen-year-old pupils from schools with high ethnic diversity perform worse than comparable pupils from schools with homogenous student populations. This applies not just to the immigrant children, but also to the pupils from the country in question. For the latter group, the negative effect is strongest in school systems with a hierarchy of school types, such as the Dutch and German systems.
Norway: Sharia courts a possibility
Islam in Europe 21 June 2010
In the UK, local Sharia councils have been operating for many years, but in 2007 the Muslim Arbitration Tribunals (MAT) were established. Recognized by the UK's justice ministry and the Archbishop of
Iraq: Shocking statistics on "female genital mutilation"
GlobalPost 21 June 2010
By Tracey Shelton
VIDEO: Shocking statistics on "female genital mutilation"
PASHQROTAL, Iraqi Kurdistan — Along with her pink pajamas and playful eyes, Delan has an 11-year-old’s endearing smile. She leans against an old stone wall and chats with friends as chickens and geese cluck around her feet. Rocky mountains form a towering backdrop. This is Iraqi Kurdistan, where
Muslims rally for Sharia law in UK, prompting nationalist protests
RT 21 June 2010
Muslim protestors gathered in London on Sunday calling for aspects of Sharia law to be introduced in Britain. The rally turned into chaos, sparking a counter-demonstration by English right-wing
Trashing a Freedom Fighter
FrontPage Magazine 21 June 2010
By Robert Spencer
The New Yorker carried last week an attack on freedom fighter Ayaan Hirsi Ali that borders on the obscene in its extenuation of evil and denigration of those fighting against it: "Islamismism: How should Western intellectuals respond to Muslim scholars?,” by Pankaj Mishra.
Mishra begins by asking some questions, to which he clearly believes that Hirsi Ali has supplied the wrong answers:
Kent Ekeroth "When Sweden Surrendered"
FrontPage Magazine 21 June 2010
By Jamie Glazov
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Kent Ekeroth, the international secretary for the political party, Sweden Democrats (SD) and a candidate for the Swedish parliament in the elections in September 2010.
FP: Kent Ekeroth, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Serbian Muslims demand 100 million euros over photomontage in daily
Earth Times 21 June 2010
Belgrade - Serbia's Islamic Community on Saturday protested against a photomontage published in the daily Blic and demanded a "symbolic" compensation of 100 million euros (124 million
Are Dutch police going undercover as Haredi Jews?
Haaretz 21 June 2010
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Initiative for undercover cops to dress as ultra-Orthodox comes in wake of frequent attacks against Jews by Moroccan immigrants. Dutch police may employ undercover
The Mosques and Bank Robbers of Paris
Before It's News 21 June 2010
By Sultan Knish
What does this horde of slaves,
Of traitors and conjured kings want?
For whom are these ignoble trammels,
these long-prepared irons? La Marseillaise
While Jews are fleeing Paris due to Muslim violence and harassment, Robert Haroush, an Israeli businessman, decided to fund the reconstruction of a mosque in order to build a "bridge of peace". The shortage of mosques in Paris, is of course almost as grave as the surplus of intact cars that need burning.
Turkey’s rising star (Opinion)
New Europe 21 June 2010
By Robert Ellis
Now the dust is settling after Israel’s commando attack on the aid flotilla to Gaza,and perhaps the widespread criticism will abate as the facts come on the table. Or as Die Zeit’s editor, Josef Joffe, put it in the Financial Times: "In the Middle East nothing is ever what it seems.” And Josef Joffe was right again when he claimed that "Sailing into the Turkish trap was a blunder worthy of General Custer at Little Big Horn.”
Worst human rights offenders condemn West
Calgary Herald 21 June 2010
By Licia Corbella
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- Adolf Hitler.
In what can only be described as Orwellian double-speak, the Organization of the Islamic Conference told the United Nations Human Rights Council -- made up of many of the world's worst human rights violators -- that Muslims in western democracies face unbearable racism and discrimination, and demanded that the UN do something about it.
Geert Wilders: ‘If Jerusalem falls, Athens and Rome are next’
Jerusalem Dispatch 21 June 2010
By Dan Slobodkin
Geert Wilders, who leads the right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in Holland, said last week he believes Jordan should be renamed Palestine. The Jordanian government responded by saying Wilders’ speech
