Can Jihadis Be Rehabilitated?

Right Side News 26 May 2010
By Katherine Seifert

As U.S. policymakers become increasingly uneasy about the fate of the remaining detainees currently held at Guantánamo Bay, greater attention is being paid to so-called jihadist rehabilitation

 

Immigrant Kids in Cultural Conflict with Parents

YLE - Yleisradio Oy 26 May 2010

Children's welfare officials in Helsinki say the number of immigrant children who have been taken into protective care has risen slightly. The most common causes are serious arguments with

 

Vilks invited to complete Uppsala lecture

The Local 26 May 2010

Uppsala University has invited artist Lars Vilks to speak again after his lecture on May 11th was interrupted when he was attacked. The university's Department of Philosophy has

 

"Enemies of Islam" driven from Facebook

The Observers 26 May 2010

Facebook groups have launched a successful campaign to ban what they call "enemies" from the social network by reporting them to the site's administrators. Their main targets are human rights

 

Video: David G. Littman, a retrospective on the UN and various Human Rights bodies

Kitman TV 26 May 2010

I remember watching the compelling speches of David Littman and Hillel Neuer back when Durban II seemed to morph into a very real threat for the internet enlightenment project I have come to enjoy so much over the years.

David G. Littman, a retrospective on the UN and various Human Rights bodies from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.

In fact Durban II was one of the main reasons I startet making this aggregator, because I thought that if they do manage to take down most of the counter-jihad documentaries due to their "islamophobic" nature there should atleast be some kind of record online, of what was once available.

 

Showing your face in public? The ayes have it

NEWS.com.au 26 May 2010
By MARK DAVIS

MOST voters favour a ban on Muslim women wearing the burqa in public, according to an opinion survey by the polling group UMR Research. The national survey of 1000 people of voting age earlier

 

Turkish PM Erdogan arrives in Brazil

Hurriyet Daily News 26 May 2010

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brazil on Wednesday for a formal visit on the first leg of his tour of Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The visits will be the first of their

 

Ahmadinejad urges Obama to accept nuke swap deal

Hurriyet Daily News 26 May 2010

Iran's president on Wednesday urged Barack Obama to accept a nuclear fuel swap deal, warning the U.S. leader will miss a historic opportunity for improved cooperation from Tehran if the offer is

 

RUSSIA: Dagestan's controls on Islamic literature

Forum 18 News Service 26 May 2010
By Geraldine Fagan

Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan does not formally ban particular items of Islamic literature, but it grants the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Dagestan exclusive vetting powers over

 

Prosecutor demands life for Turkish police officers in torture death case

Hurriyet Daily News 26 May 2010

Seven police officers, including a police chief, are facing the possibility of life imprisonment for torturing a robbery suspect to death, CNNTürk’s website reported Wednesday. The prosecutor

 

Jamaican Cleric Uses Web To Spread Jihad Message

89.3 KPCC 26 May 2010

Young Muslims in the U.S. are becoming radicalized in a new way: on the Internet. Radical clerics such as Abdullah Faisal are directing young Muslim men to take up violent jihad. Faisal, who recently

 

New York Community Board Supports Ground Zero Mosque

Voice of America 26 May 2010

A community board in New York has voted to support a proposal to build a mosque in a building just a short walk away from "ground zero," the site of the devastating terrorist attack on September 11,

 

Amnesty criticises Egypt over rights lawyers, blogger trial

Amnesty International criticised on Wednesday Egypt's use of a defamation law to pursue three activists for slander and blackmail after they allegedly accused a judge of plagiarism. "We fear that

 

Muslim Rebel Group in Philippines Removes Key Commander

Vatican Radio 26 May 2010

The Philippines' largest Muslim guerrilla group has removed a commander the government blames for an escalation of violence in 2008, saying they wanted to revive momentum in peace talks under the

 

Saudi Princess to Religious Police: Loosen Your Grip on the Population and Fight Government Corruption

In her column in the government daily Al-Madina, Saudi Princess Basma bint Saud attacked the Saudi religious police, accusing it of instituting religious terrorism. She claimed that it operates

 

Wahabis have imposed a tax on business owners in Dagestan

Interfax-Religion 26 May 2010

"All traders have to pay the "bearded guys". Wahabis come over about once a week and claim money. All people in Dagestan who are engaged in business have to pay, both small shopkeepers and cognac

 

Video: Why We Won on Draw Mohammad Day

Thunderf00t 26 May 2010

Previously 12 cartoons had resulted in cartoons that prompted embassy burnings, death threats and murders, all of which had a significant chilling effect on the free press of the West.

Now, after Draw Mohammad Day, there are over 12000 cartoons, and the Islamic world has been shown to be essentially toothless. The best that they could do was shut down parts of the Internet for Pakistan (a country where it is still possible to get executed for blasphemy). A short sighted mover as they cannot expect to integrate into the modern world without embracing the internet.

 

Family strife blamed for high suicide rate among Turkish women

The Local 25 May 2010

A new initiative aims to lower the disproportionately high number of suicide attempts among young German-Turkish women thought to be caused by familial conflicts.

 

How Islamists Came to Dominate European Islam

National Review 25 May 2010
By Daniel Pipes

Western governments have a history of ignoring the Islamists’ repulsive ideology and working with them; the results have never been good.

The 7/7 bombings in London, in which Islamists killed 52 and injured 700, prompted British authorities to work with Muslims to avoid future violence.

 

Why Sharia Is Incompatible With Western Law

First Things 25 May 2010
By David P. Goldman

To what extent is sharia compatible with Western law? Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Britain’s Supreme Court president Lord Phillips created a stir in 2008 by proposing that British courts might permit the application of Muslim religious law.

Numerous American scholars have suggested that sharia might have an application to family law. All the proponents of importing sharia into the West cite the example of Jewish religious law, Halakha, which has coexisted seamlessly with Western law for two thousand years.

 

Switzerland: 57% want to ban burka

Islam in Europe 25 May 2010

A majority of Swiss citizens are in favour of banning the wearing of the burqa, a poll released Sunday found. According to Swiss television, 57.6 per cent of those interviewed for the survey

 

Sex And The City 2 Blasted As 'Anti-Muslim'

Key 103 Manchester 25 May 2010

The first reviews of Sex And The City 2 have been published, with one critic claiming the new film featuring Carrie and the girls is "anti-muslim". The scathing review came as the cast and crew

 

State Department Endorses Islamic Law

HUMAN EVENTS 25 May 2010
By Robert Spencer

Last Thursday was "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” and Muslims, predictably, are outraged. Thousands of Pakistanis demonstrated against the drawings of Muhammad, and the Pakistani government shut down

 

We’re in village, there’s nothing you can do about it: Last words of ‘honour killing’ father gunned down in wedding day massacre

Kent Online 25 May 2010
By Simon Parry and Shahzad Ahmed

The British couple and their daughter killed in a bloody family feud in Pakistan were gunned down in an apparent ‘honour killing’ after two armed security guards hired to protect them fled the

 

No prosecution over Crawley mosque pig's head attack

Kent Online 25 May 2010

SUSSEX Police have said their is 'insufficient evidence' to prosecute three men arrested in connection with an attack at a Crawley mosque. Three men were arrested by Sussex Police after a pig's head

 

Merkel in Saudi after raising Iran sanctions in UAE

German Chancellor Angela Merkel landed Tuesday in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah after calling for Gulf nations to help press Iran over its nuclear drive, a German official

 

Swedish university re-invites Muhammad artist

A Swedish university has invited an artist who angered Muslims by caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad to finish a lecture that was disrupted by violent protests. Officials say Lars Vilks has agreed

 

Chatham pub's call to Muslim prayer

Kent Online 25 May 2010
By Keyan Milanian

A former pub's boozy past might have to be swiftly forgotten after an application to convert it into a Muslim community centre was submitted to the council. Consultation started on May 10 after an

 

Do Clothes Make the Muslim?

FrontPageMagazine 25 May 2010
By Phyllis Chesler

Last week, Newsweek published yet another liberal opinion piece: Superficially but falsely even-handed, optimistic, pro-Arab and Muslim culture, pro-Judeo-Christian Western culture—safely

 

Halal meat hub hopes for the UK

MeatInfo.co.uk 25 May 2010

A central halal hub supplying the demand for meat in the UK is now in full trading, with further expansion plans to supply the European mainland. The European Halal Food Park, based in Banham,

 
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