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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) 
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 
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 





