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Mosque foes now angry over Buddhist ceremonies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 13 March 2010
By Shane Blatt
The same Lilburn residents who protested a giant neighborhood mosque in November are now seething over what they say is a Buddhist temple that has sprung up on Hood Road. More Gwinnett news » 
Over 13 Honor Killings in Two Months in Palestine
Palestine Think Tank 13 March 2010
By Kawther Salam
Seven women were killed in the Palestinian territories because of "honor killings” in the first month of the year 2010. These news were released by Palestinian human rights organizations interested 
Waltzing at the Waldorf: Israeli Solders Face Another Kind of War
PajamasMedia 13 March 2010
By Phyllis Chesler
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, the gutsy and determined founder of Z Street, was one of the main organizers of last night’s pro-Israel demonstration outside the Waldorf Astoria. 
Report: Sexual Harassment in Egypt - 98% of Foreign Women Sexually Harrased in Egypt
qantara 13 March 2010
By Mohammed Ali Atassi
Confronting a Pressing Social Problem. According to a study, 98 percent of the foreign women and 83 percent of the Egyptian women have at some point been subject to sexual 
Pakistani Muslim Man Allegedly Rapes, Burns Christian Girl to Death
Assyrian International News Agency 13 March 2010
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Pakistani Muslim man allegedly burned a Christian teenage girl to death in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistani police have not yet arrested the 
The Saudi Touch
ISN, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich 13 March 2010
This week the ISN takes a closer look at the enormous challenges facing Saudi Arabia on both its domestic and foreign policy fronts. The world is watching to see how the Middle East's largest country 
Fatwa condemning terrorism fuels Maghreb debate
Internet: A recruiting tool for terrorists 13 March 2010
By Erin O'Hearn
He says because of blogs, social networking sites and search engines, groups don't have to actively go out and find a target audience; that audience comes to them. "People who get involved in 
Fatwa condemning terrorism fuels Maghreb debate
magharebia 13 March 2010
By Sarah Touahri
Maghreb imams and other experts on Islam are reacting with everything from doubt to cautious optimism about a fatwa against terrorism issued by a prominent Pakistan-born religious scholar.
The 600-page fatwa, which was issued in London on Tuesday (March 2nd) by Dr. Muhammad Tahir Qadri, says "hellfire" awaits suicide bombers, and categorically rejects attacks that kill innocent people. 
30 hurt in Muslim-Christian clashes in Egypt
Expressbuzz 13 March 2010
CAIRO: Thirty people were injured when clashes broke out between Christians and Muslims in a rural area in northern Egypt, media reports said. Fighting erupted late Friday in the north-western 
Love-hate relationship with Arab tourists
The Jakarta Post 13 March 2010
By Java Brew
"We used to feel awkward when passing Warung Kaleng in Sampay, a hangout for dangdut with their revealing dresses. Now we find it hard to recognize prostitutes because most dress decently like we do, 
Interest rates: A coordinating economical principle
Henrik R Clausen 11 March 2010
Changes to the interest rates are usually eagerly followed by home owners, farmers, bankers and others, whose economical situation depends on the interest rate. But their desire to keep interest rates low constitutes a deadly fallacy. Keeping interest rates low will harm, not help, our economies. 
Muslims Terrorizing Christian Girls in Iraq
FrontPage Magazine 10 March 2010
Frank Kitman edited and translated a most heartbreaking testimony by Sister Hatune, of the Syrian-Orthodox monastery in Warburg, Germany. She makes an amazing effort to help and protect the ruthlessly persecuted Christians in Iraq. 
Far-Right election poster 'insults' Algeria
France24 9 March 2010
France’s far-right Front National has upset Algeria, a former French colony, in its latest election poster denouncing "Islamism" and featuring a map of France decked in the North African country’s 
Glenn Beck calls Geert Wilders a fascist, endorses ban on his entering UK
Jihad Watch 9 March 2010
By Robert Spencer
So now standing up for the rights of women and non-Muslims, the freedom of speech (yes -- here is a post on those who claim that he opposes it), and the freedom of conscience is fascist. 
Poll finds the majority of Danes against newspaper apology
editorsweblog.org 9 March 2010
By Robert Eisenhart
A recent poll conducted by the Megafon Institue found that the slight majority of Danes (51%) did not support the recent apology made by the Politiken newspaper for re-publishing cartoons negatively 
Something is Rotten in Rotterdam
GatesofVienna 9 March 2010
By Baron Bodissey
Our Flemish correspondent VH has compiled a report about massive voting fraud during the recent municipal elections in Rotterdam, mainly in immigrant neighborhoods. His account reminds me of what 
Danes: We are not sorry for Mohammed cartoons
The Swedish Wire 9 March 2010
COPENHAGEN - A majority of Danes are opposed to the apology the daily Politiken made last month to Muslims for possibly offending them by reproducing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in 2008. 
International Not-All-Women's Day
American Enterprise Institute 9 March 2010
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. A cause for celebration? Yes and no. Women's emancipation will not progress as fast in the next 100 years as it has in the past century. In many cases it might even regress. 
Eurabia Arrives in Sweden
GatesofVienna 9 March 2010
By Baron Bodissey
Tundra Tabloids has posted an excellent article from The Wall Street Journal about the Swedish city of Malmö and its notorious mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, who suggested that anti-Semitism in his city — which 
Importing Germany's Imams
Spiegel Online 9 March 2010
By James Angelos
With Germany lacking schools of Islamic theology, Muslim congregations have long imported religious leaders. As Germany considers steps to create more homegrown imams, countries like 
Germany says to take in Iranian political refugees
Ynetnews 9 March 2010
Germany plans to grant asylum to a number of Iranian refugees due to human rights concerns, a spokeswoman from the Interior Ministry said on Monday. 
Operation Anti-halal to Quick Villeurbanne
Tundra Tabloids. 9 March 2010
A herd of 70 dissatisfied pigs invaded Quick Halal Villeurbanne on Sunday morning. They intended to protest against the decision to remove the bacon burger and cons of the new offer Quick who now 
Birmingham mosques come out against halal machine slaughtering
meatinfo.co.uk 9 March 2010
Mosques in Birmingham have called for consumers and processors to be made more of aware of machine slaughtering used in halal meat production. 
Students open up about faith and life in Islam Awareness Week
Imperial College London 9 March 2010
By John-Paul Jones
A programme of events kicks off today designed to allow staff and students to get to know members of Imperial’s student Islamic Society better, from a faith based version of the Weakest Link to a 
Aston Martin may seek Kuwait aid
TopNews 9 March 2010
he Kuwaiti Islamic investment firm, owned by Aston Martin, may prepare itself for the state legal protection aid as it is struggling with its debt to pay off its creditors bills. 
Young Indonesian muslim leaders off to Australia
ANTARA 9 March 2010
Jakarta - A delegation of young Indonesian Muslim leaders have left for Australia on a bilateral exchange program.
An Australian Embassy media release made available to Antara on 
Living Proof of the Armenian Genocide
The Independent 9 March 2010
By Robert Fisk
The US wants to deny that Turkey's slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 was genocide. But the evidence is there, in a hilltop orphanage near Beirut. 
Jihad Tax On America
Right Side News 9 March 2010
One year ago, in a speech before the Turkish parliament, President Obama declared "We are not at war with Islam." Basically, he said that our concerns were confined to al Qaeda. 
What's Really Behind Turkey's Coup Arrests?
Foreign Policy 9 March 2010
For the last several decades, the Turkish military was untouchable; no one dared to criticize the military or its top generals, lest they risk getting burned. The Turkish Armed Forces were the ultimate protectors of founding father Kemal Ataturk's secular legacy, and no other force in the country could seriously threaten its supremacy. Not anymore. 
Activist takes on radical Islam
THE JEWISH STATE 9 March 2010
By Sarah Morrison
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff may not be a household name, but she is now a high-profile personality in the growing movement against radical Islam's steadying foothold in Europe. 
PVV firm over headscarf ban in Almere
DutchNews.nl 9 March 2010
Geert Wilders' anti-Islam party PVV is sticking firm by its earlier commitment to make a headscarf ban in public buildings a central element in the negotiations to form a new city council executive in Almere. 
Unrest within PvdA on Immigrants Taking Over
NIS News Bulletin 9 March 2010
ENSCHEDE - Immigrant voters provided important support for Labour (PvdA) in Wednesday's local elections, but this support is now causing unrest among PvdA council members who are losing their 
Wilders to take council seat in the Hague
DutchNews.nl 9 March 2010
Geert Wilders is to take a seat on the Hague city council after winning 13,000 preference votes in last week's local elections.
Earlier Wilders, who is a sitting MP, said he would not take up a seat 
France/Belgium: Women's organizations want burka ban
Islam in Europe 9 March 2010
In Paris, sixty activists of Ni Putes ni Soumises made an early start on International Women's Dyy by marching with liberty caps in the place de la République, and then symbolically covering the statue 
Nine accused of al Qaeda ties on trial in Belgium
Reuters AlertNet 9 March 2010
By Antonia van de Velde
BRUSSELS - Nine people suspected of links with al Qaeda, including one who prosecutors say may have been planning a suicide attack, went on trial in Belgium on Monday, facing possible prison terms 





