Following the spectacular arrests of two terror suspects at the Cologne-Bonn Airport on Friday, some are now questioning the timing of the police action. The arrests appear to have been made too hastily, and the decisive evidence may have been a love letter.

PHILADELPHIA. Following his earlier apology to Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, Irfan Yusuf has a second time retracted his defamatory statement about Mr. Pipes. On August 18, 2008, the New Zealand Herald, published Yusuf's "Karadzic trial gives chance to rein in Muslim hardliners."

Plans for the British publication of a controversial novel about a young wife of the Prophet Mohammed have been postponed following a firebomb attack at the publisher's London office.

A report about a Leiden historian who claims that William of Orange was a practicing Muslim (NL) has spread like wildfire on the (Dutch speaking) internet.

"It seems to have struck a sensitive chord," says Jochem van den Berg, who's behind the report.

Kuwait Human Rights Society (KHRS) Chairman Dr Adel Al-Damkhi has asked the government to put pressure on the officials of ‘YouTube’ — a video sharing website — to delete all derogatory statements about Islam and Muslims from the site, reports Al-Seyassah.

The e-mail sent to a Mobile resident last week was as at once preposterous and disturbing.

I am writing in regard to the new novel "Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones (Beaufort Books) and the free distribution in the presidential election battle states of 28 million copies of the DVD "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West."

With winter approaching, local Muslims are no longer facing the spectre of kneeling in the snow outside their crowded mosque. The Muslim Society of Guelph sealed the deal this week to buy a historic downtown church, which will serve as its new place of worship.

PHILADELPHIA: Following his earlier apology to Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, Irfan Yusuf has a second time retracted his defamatory statement about Mr. Pipes.

London and Islamabad. Diplomatic staff in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, will be required to send their children back to the United Kingdom, the British Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday.

The controversial novel The Jewel of Medina may not be published in Britain after the firebombing of her publisher’s London home.

In London, Dutch publisher Marin Rynja's answering machine is so full it can no longer record messages. E-mails remain unanswered. Mr Rynja is the publisher of The Jewel of Medina by US author Sherry Jones. Because of this, police advised him to leave his upmarket London home on Friday.

Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's 'Orientalism' by Ibn Warraq
Prometheus Books, 2007, 343 pages

It is one of today’s sad truths that to be an open critic of Islam is to incur mortal risk—even while living in the West. For this reason, the author of such daring works as Why I Am Not a Muslim goes by the pseudonym “Ibn Warraq,” an alias favored by Muslim apostates for centuries.

Since 1995, this 61-year-old, Indian-born, ex-Muslim secularist has devoted his considerable talents to raising awareness in the West of the dangers posed to democratic liberties by radical Islam. He is also a strident opponent of the tendency—stemming from political correctness and general academic culture—to refrain from critically examining Islam.