Will Politically Incorrect Opinion Become a Hate Crime?

The New American 8 February 2010
By Selwyn Duke

Many of us have heard about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian currently on trial in Holland because he criticized Islam.

It’s shocking to many that you could be charged with a hate crime for expressing an opinion, but such prosecutions are not unheard of in the Western world beyond American shores. After all, most nations have nothing tantamount to our First Amendment. But could such a thing happen in the land of the (mostly) free as well?

 

Antwerp: 56% of children of immigrant origin

Islam in Europe 8 February 2010

About half the children up to age 9 in the city of Antwerp are of immigrant origin, according to new data from the municipality (municipal research department)

 

The crooked judges of Amsterdam

patcondell 8 February 2010

Europe's cultural inquisition begins in Amsterdam.

Wilders on trial / Geert Wilders' statement in court

 

Wilders - The Hitler Comparison

Gates of Vienna 8 February 2010
By Baron Bodissey

No topic makes Godwin’s Law swing into action more predictably than that of Geert Wilders. In any given article about Mr. Wilders the Nazi comparisons are likely to pop up before the end of first paragraph — or even the first sentence.

 

Austria: Female genital mutilation remains problem, group warns

Austriantimes 8 February 2010

Between 6,000 and 8,000 women in Austria have been forced to undergo genital mutilation, according to Social Democratic MP Petra Bayr. Bayr, a member of the Austrian Platform against Female

 

Something Rotten in ... Sweden

DianaWest.net 8 February 2010
By Diana West

Ilmar Reepalu is the Mayor of Malmo, Sweden, but he could well serve as the Mouthpiece of Eurabia, having crystallized its essence in a recent interview about rocketing Antisemitism in his city.

Malmo (pop. 250,000), a confortable train ride across the Oresund strait from Copenhagen, is Sweden's third-largest city, a Leftist-jihadist territory where like-minded Leftist "antifa" Swedes and Muslim immigrants, the 21st-century's alliance of Brown Shirts and Black Shirts, effectively arm "civilized" Socialist rule with the under-flowing threat and as-necessary implementation of violence.

 

Sarajevo: One-month detention for arrested Islamists

emportal 8 February 2010

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has ordered today a one-month detention for seven members of the Islamist Wahhabi movement, who were arrested on Tuesday in a major action of special forces in the

 

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Condemns French Parliamentary Report

SYS-CON Media 8 February 2010

LONDON -- The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat wishes to express its condemnation of the recommendations of a recent French Parliamentary Report, which called for a partial ban on

 

Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb issues ultimatum over hostages

Thaindian News 8 February 2010

Cairo - In a fresh ultimatum demanding release of four terrorists imprisoned in Mali by March 1, north African wing of the Al Qaeda has offered to free two of the six European

 

France: Municipality wants school cafeteria to stop serving meat to Muslims

Islam in Europe 8 February 2010

I don't fully understand this story. If the parents don't want their children to eat meat in the cafeteria, who's forcing them? Some families did not want their children eating meat

 

Kidnapped French Red Cross worker is released

France24 8 February 2010

A French aid worker kidnapped in November in Chad was released on Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement. Laurent Maurice "regained his freedom today... after

 

Somalia to Close Three Embassies in Europe

Epoch Times 8 February 2010

Somalia's Foreign Affairs Minister said that the country will close three out of its five embassies in Europe, citing funding difficulties. The embassies in Paris, Berlin, and Somalia’s mission to

 

'It's tricky to find men when you're living under a fatwa'

Independent  8 February 2010
By Cahal Milmo and Luke Blackall

The Time Magazine gala held in New York's Lincoln Centre last May was always going to be a high-octane affair. Billed as a celebration of The 100 Most Influential People in the World, it was a chance

 

Video: Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Full Speech at University of Wisconsin - Distinguished Lecture series

Thanks to Snaphanen 8 February 2010

Controversial DLS speaker talks about abuse of women by Muslims, death threats made against her due to her academic work in Holland


 

European Court Rules Against Turkey's Religion ID

Assyrian International News Agency 8 February 2010
By Damaris Kremida and Will Morris

ISTANBUL -- A European court on Tuesday ordered Turkey to remove the religious affiliation section from citizens' identification cards, calling the practice a violation of human rights.

 

Who Are the Real Infidels?

Right Side News 8 February 2010
By Sultan Knish

Infidel - from the latin infidelis. Fidelis, Faithful, Loyal, True. Infidelis, Unfaithful, Disloyal, Untrue ...

Major Nidal Malik Hasan may have indulged himself in tirades against the "infidels", yet in fact Hasan himself was the perfect embodiment of the infidel, the unfaithful and the disloyal.

 

A Non-Violent Jihadi is Still a Jihadi

FrontPage Magazine 8 February 2010
By Ryan Mauro

The British media is reporting that a teacher in the London School of Economics’ government department is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group seeking to internally overthrow democracy and capitalism and replace it with Sharia Law.

Unfortunately, the violence of groups like Al-Qaeda has caused HUT and groups like it to look less extreme by comparison and so they are not receiving the attention they deserve.

 

Muslim husbands with more than one wife to get extra benefits as ministers recognise polygamy

Daily Mail Online 8 February 2010
By JAMES SLACK

Husbands living in a "harem" with multiple wives have been cleared to claim state benefits for all their different partners. A Muslim man with four spouses - which is permitted under Islamic law -

 

Muslim communities sould do more to tackle potential terrorists, a chief constable warns

South Manchester Reporter 8 February 2010
By Richard Edwards

Sir Norman Bettison, the head of West Yorkshire Police, said that Britain is facing another 20 years of having to deal with the threat from radicalised home-grown extremists. He said there was a

 

New Irish finance bill to facilitate sukuk transactions

Zawya  8 February 2010

Following the introduction of tax neutrality laws to facilitate the issuance of sukuk by the UK, France and Luxembourg in recent weeks, Ireland is the latest European Union (EU) country to join the

 

'Islamist' emails from Tower Hamlets council address sent to UKIP

South Manchester Reporter 8 February 2010

TOWER Hamlets council has launched a disciplinary enquiry over pro-Islamist emails sent to a London Euro-MP. Two e-mails, with a town hall address, attacked proposals by the UK Independence Party

 

Britain tightens student visas

Straits Times 8 February 2010

LONDON - BRITAIN is tightening rules on foreign student visas to clamp down on a system which some security experts say has been exploited by Islamist militants. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said

 

'Britain Breeds Muslim Terrorists'

Daily Beast  8 February 2010

Nobel laureate and Nigerian political activist Wole Soyinka wrote an op-ed in the Times of London defending controversial comments he made during an interview on The Daily Beast, when he called

 

Cyprus FM - 'Turkey will have to think seriously about its EU course'

Famagusta Gazette 8 February 2010

Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou has said that Turkey will have to start thinking seriously about its EU accession course, since by the end of this year, this course will not be able to move forward

 

Amnesty International is ‘damaged’ by Taliban link

South Manchester Reporter 8 February 2010

A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims. Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at

 

The Buffalo Interfaith Bluff

FrontPage Magazine 8 February 2010
By Ilya Feoktistov

Rabbi Marc Schneier is a leading exponent of Jewish-Muslim dialogue. As founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, he recently described in Newsweek the successes of his second annual

 

Clinton sees Islamist terror as No. 1 threat

The Washington Times 8 February 2010
By Nicholas Kralev and Jennifer Haberkorn

Obama administration figures took to Sunday's political talk shows to rebut charges of White House weakness on Islamist terrorism, with the nation's top diplomat saying such networks pose the

 

Why is Our Government Hiding the Truth About Our Safety?

Family Security Matters 8 February 2010
By Gadi Adelman

At the time of this writing, the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) website lists our terror threat level as follows: * The United States government's national threat level is Elevated,

 

Iran leader says Israel's destruction 'imminent'

AFP 8 February 2010

TEHRAN — Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the destruction of Iran's arch-foe Israel was "imminent," and called for continued resistance against the Jewish state, state media

 

Iran to begin 20% uranium enrichment on Tuesday: Salehi

Times of India 8 February 2010

TEHRAN - Iran will tell the UN nuclear watchdog on Monday of its plans to enrich uranium to 20 per cent, atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi told state television on Sunday, adding that the process will

 
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