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Pakistan Leads World in Homophobia, And in Googling Gay Porn - Reports

Hannah Osborne 17 June 2013
By Drishya Nair

According to data published by the American Pew Research Centre, Pakistan and Nigeria are two of the most homophobic and LGBT intolerant countries in the world. In the report

 

Shariah-Compliant Finance could reach 25%-40% market share in Tunisia

Shariah Finance Watch 17 June 2013

The emergence of Shariah-compliant Finance in Tunisia is hardly surprising given the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist factions in the wake of the so-called

 

Sunni militants claim twin Pakistan attacks

france24. 17 June 2013

A Pakistani militant group behind a series of bloody assaults on minority Shiite Muslims says it carried out attacks on a bus carrying women students and on a hospital that

 

Iran to send 4,000 troops to Syria to aid Assad forces

Ya Libnan 17 June 2013

Iran will send 4,000 of its troops to Syria to aid president Bashar al-Assad’s forces in its fight against rebels, according to the UK’s Independent newspaper. The "military

 

Video: Turkish Revolution - police brutality COLLECTION - Istanbul Taksim #OccupyGezi, polis siddeti

youtube. 6 June 2013

 

A license to rape

DAWN.com 6 June 2013
By Murtaza Haider

A series of events in the past few weeks have again highlighted the injustices being committed against women in the name of Islam in Pakistan

Recently, the three accused of raping an 18-year old woman at Jinnah’s Mausoleum were set free by a court in Karachi. The court refused to entertain the DNA evidence, which reportedly proved the guilt of the accused, and gave the accused the benefit of the doubt because the victim could not produce four eyewitnesses to the rape. Weeks later, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) decreed that the DNA evidence in the absence of four righteous men as witnesses to rape is not sufficient for conviction under Islamic law.

 

It's only graffiti, right?

the elder of ziyon - 6 June 2013

From the Belfast Telegraph: The half-finished former headquarters of the Anglo Irish Bank has been defaced with anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic graffiti. Gardai and the Central Bank,

 

Hague Court Rejects Libyan Trial of Gadhafi's Son

Wall Street Journal 6 June 2013
By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER

The International Criminal Court rejected a request by Libya to try Moammar Gadhafi's son at home, setting the stage for Seif al-Islam Gadhafi to face charges of crimes against

 

Bulgaria wavers on Hezbollah role in Burgas bomb

JPost.com 6 June 2013

SOFIA - Bulgaria said on Wednesday it only had an "indication" that Lebanon's Hezbollah might have been behind a deadly bus bombing in July and that this alone did not justify

 

Turkey Erupting 'Like a Volcano'

clarionproject.org 6 June 2013
By Ryan Mauro

Prime Minister Erdogan with his Islamist agenda faces his biggest challenge as protests continue to mount all over Turkey

I’ve referred to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan as the "king of the Islamists” because of his ability to swoon the West, make Israel bend and maintain popularity while

 

Turkey's reaction to protests follows Islamist playbook

USA TODAY 6 June 2013
By Oren Dorell

The Turkish prime minister's dismissal of anti-government protests as the work of opposition thugs fits a pattern of how many Islamist political leaders are responding to

 

French, German women face court for Tunisia topless protest

RFI 6 June 2013

Two French women and a German went on trial in Tunisia on Wednesday for holding a topless anti-Islamist protest in the capital, Tunis. The members of the "sextremist” group

 

Turkey: 24 arrested in Smyrna for pro-protest tweets

ANSAmed 6 June 2013

Police arrested 24 people Tuesday night in Smyrna on charges of ''incitement to disorder and propaganda'' for tweeting support for nation-wide protests against Prime Minister

 

Could protests be Erdogan's undoing?

BBC News 6 June 2013
By Jeremy Bowen

This week Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan decided the crisis at home did not merit cancelling a trip he had planned to North Africa. He left his deputy to look

 

Miss World axes bikinis for Muslim Indonesia

FRANCE 24 6 June 2013

Contestants at this year's Miss World beauty pageant will not wear bikinis in the parade in a bid to avoid causing offence in Muslim-majority Indonesia, organisers confirmed

 

Hasan: I Shot Comrades to Defend Taliban

The IPT Blog 6 June 2013

Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan said twice this week that he waged the 2009 Fort Hood shooting massacre to defend "others" from his fellow soldiers. Those others, he said

 

If Assad survives, Hezb'allah will reap the benefits

americanthinker 6 June 2013
By Rick Moran

It's hard to overstate the importance of Hezb'allah's intervention in the Syrian civil war. The Lebanese terrorist group had never deployed beyond the borders of their tiny

 

Portland: Muslim thugs bully College Republicans out of own counter-jihad event

Creeping Sharia 6 June 2013

This is what happens anytime anyone tries to tell the truth about the global jihad and Islamic supremacism on an American college campus today: Muslim and Leftist thugs, the

 

Local Residents Challenge U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Mosques

clarionproject.org 6 June 2013
By Ryan Mauro

The controversies in Oklahoma and Alabama are just a glimpse of what the North American Islamic Trust is up to nationwide

Local residents are challenging proposals to expand Muslim Brotherhood-linked mosques in Oklahoma and Alabama. The mosques’ land is owned by the North American Islamic Trust

 

Three jihad terrorists arrested trying to enter India from Pakistan

Jihad Watch 6 June 2013

They were coming to surrender, they said. Yeah, sure, that's it. "Three terror suspects from Pakistan detained in Uttar Pradesh," from NDTV, June 6 (thanks to Suneil):