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Dutch Labour party leader stands down
Financial Times 15 March 2010
By Michael Steen
The Dutch Labour party announced a sudden change of leader on Friday, just three months ahead of a general election, in what appeared to be the latest sign of increasing alarm inside the established 
Video: Shocka! Geert Wilders not 'Far Right'
wilderssupport 15 March 2010
Canadian TV points out the obvious. Geert Wilders is not 'far right' [1]
Qaddafi, Wilders, and the Jihad Against Switzerland
PajamasMedia 15 March 2010
By Andrew G. Bostom
Ever since the triumphs of Islam’s prophet became the ultimate inspiration for jihadism almost 14 centuries ago, Muslims have especially revered the bellicose, conquering Muhammad of Medina. (For a pious contemporary example, see Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s "The Prophet Muhammad as a Jihad Model.”) According to a canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 001, Number 0272), Islam in essence belongs to Medina, as a serpent to its lair, the specific words being, "Verily the faith [i.e., Islam] would recede to Medina just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.”
Al Qaeda Demands Concessions to Free Spaniards
Latin American Herald Tribune 15 March 2010
CAIRO – The "safety” of two Spanish aid workers kidnapped last November in Mauritania by the group calling itself Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb depends on compliance with the organization’s
'The Swedish cartoonist' and his eye for the absurd
Irish Times 15 March 2010
By DONALD MAHONEY
On Tuesday, gardaí investigating a plot to kill artist Lars Vilks arrested seven people in Waterford and Cork. Days later, defiantly chomping a burger in a Stockholm branch of McDonalds, the target
Turkish diaspora accuses Sweden of double standards
News.Az 15 March 2010
Head of the Turkish Diaspora of Sweden has commented on the adoption of the resolution on the so-called "Armenian genocide" in the Swedish parliament. "I regret the decision which might cast
Turkish ambassador to Sweden returns home in protest of genocide resolution
People's Daily Online 15 March 2010
Turkish Ambassador to Sweden Zergun Koruturk returned to Turkey on Friday, noting that the resolution passed in Swedish parliament Thursday recognizing the Armenian genocide was groundless. Local
Spanish Hostages: AQIM wants 5 million dollars and the release of Islamists
Ennahar 15 March 2010
MADRID - Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) asked the Spanish government $ 5 million (3.7 million euros) in ransom and the release of imprisoned Islamists in Mauritania, in exchange for the two
FM Verhagen: Wilders Spreads Hatred
Netherlands Info Services 15 March 2010
THE HAGUE - In an address to foreign journalists, opinion-maker and students, Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen has stated that MP Geert Wilders spreads hatred. Wilders is currently on
France: Teacher Sprayed with Gas after Denouncing al-Qaeda
Independent Online 15 March 2010
Lyon - A 15-year-old French schoolboy sprayed a teacher with teargas after she described al-Qaeda as a "terrorist group", she told reporters on Tuesday as prosecutors began their
French mosque reopens after protest disruptions
Reuters India 15 March 2010
By James Mackenzie
DRANCY - A French mosque, whose imam says he has received death threats over his promotion of dialogue with Jews, reopened for Friday prayers after it was forced to close down this
France plans bill banning burqa for spring
France24 15 March 2010
French premier Francois Fillon has announced plans for a bill banning the full Muslim veil for the spring. His announcement comes just days ahead of regional polls which are expected to end in heavy
German Islamic leaders postpone conference decision
Monsters & Critics 15 March 2010
Cologne - Islamic leaders in Germany postponed Friday evening taking a decision on whether to suspend their involvement in a government-sponsored forum on German-Islamic integration, after a
Hamas Sermon in Gaza: Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam
MEMRI 15 March 2010
Preacher: "The prophecy of the conquest of Rome remains valid, Allah willing. Just like Constantinople was conquered some 500 years ago, Rome too will be conquered. "Our prayers, our fasting, and
Counterpoint: In defence of Wafa Sultan
National Post 15 March 2010
By Joanne Hill
Tarek Fatah has used the National Post to present a one-sided, inaccurate and potentially dangerous editorial about statements made by Dr. Wafa Sultan during her March 3rd debate in Toronto with Dr. Daniel Pipes.
Moderate Islam: Pipes believes in it Sultan calls it a Western myth
Jewish Tribune 15 March 2010
By Joanne Hill
Two years ago, Syrian-born American psychiatrist and activist Dr. Wafa Sultan was forced to go into hiding after an Islamic scholar issued a fatwa (death threat) against her. Last week, she participated in a debate with Dr. Daniel Pipes at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue and prefaced her remarks with, "I am used to debating with a Muslim imam, not with a dear friend like Dr. Pipes. The best part of our debate is, I know for sure at the end of this debate, he's not going to call me kaffir (unbeliever) or to issue a fatwa against my life.”
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
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
