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Sweden gets all-clear for Iraq deportations
The Local.se 26 November 2010
Sweden can resume deportations to Iraq, the migration authority has announced, following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights to lift its suspension. "The European Court of Human Rights has 
Saturday People, Sunday People
Weekly Standard Online November 17, 2010
by Lela Gilbert
First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People. Such graffiti can sometimes be found in Muslim neighborhoods in the Middle East. The "Saturday People" are, of course, Jews, today nearly gone from Muslim lands. Now the Sunday people"—Christians— are in the crosshairs, and they, too, are fleeing at an alarming rate. Both religions are unwelcome in many Muslim-majority lands for reasons of Islamist ideology—the declaration of jihad, or holy war, against infidels.
An Interview with Austrian Free Speech Advocate Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
New English Review 17 November 2010
By Jerry Gordon
Photo (C) 2007 by Snaphanen
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a Viennese housewife is going before a Kafkaesque tribunal on November the 23rd for doing something which is legal under our US Constitution: criticizing a religion. That is one of the express purposes of the First Amendment which protects the freedom of speech in America.
She had been suborned by a glossy weekly publication, NEWS, in Austria that sent a journalist into several lectures she gave about Islam, the Sunnah and Sharia, secretly recording them. Then lawyers for the left liberal publication gave the transcripts to the Viennese public prosecutors office as evidence of hate speech against one of the officially recognized religions under Austrian law - Islam. On September 15th charges were filed by the Austrian State against her and a trial before a single female Judge convened to be heard on November 23rd.
The Real Threat To Homeland Security
Family Security Matters 17 November 2010
By Peter Huessy
Many analysts continue to concentrate on individual terrorists and their network of mosques from which they emerge. Many assume they represent the most serious security threats facing the
Christians murdered and persecuted in Middle East, but Obama silent
Examiner.com 16 November 2010
By Jim Kouri
Thousands of Christians from Europe began a demonstration in Brussels on Saturday to protest the escalation of violence against Christians in Iraq and other nations in the Middle East. Unfortunately, when
MPs defiant in face of threats from fanatics over Iraq war support
This is Total Essex 12 November 2010
By Chris Richards
HATE clerics based in the US have urged Muslim fanatics to take up arms against the British MPs who voted for the Iraq war, including Brentwood's Eric Pickles. Their chilling message surfaced this week after
Iraq leaders reach deal on new government
CNN 11 November 2010
By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jomana Karadsheh
Baghdad, Iraq -- After eight-months of bickering and political paralysis, Iraqi leaders have finally reached a power-sharing agreement that is expected to usher in a new government. Politicians cobbled
Arrest over website that encouraged Muslim to attack MPs
Telegraph.co.uk 11 November 2010
By Duncan Gardham
The individual is thought to be involved with a website that praised the stabbing of the MP Stephen Timms and published a list of other MPs who voted for the war in Iraq, along with details of where to buy a
Al-Qaeda in Iraq: 'All Christians are Legitimate Targets'
Arutz Sheva 4 November 2010
By Chana Ya'ar
Christians across the Middle East were put on notice Wednesday by the Islamic State of Iraq – better known as the Iraqi branch of the international al-Qaeda terrorist group – that they are now
Iraqi Christians Frustrated with Gov't Promises, Says Ministry Head
The Christian Post 4 November 2010
By Michelle A. Vu
Iraqi Christians are frustrated with the Iraqi government’s inability to protect them, said the head of a ministry that supports persecuted Christians. The Iraqi Christians feel that “it’s just words from
Video: Christians - helpless victims in Muslim lands
Divine Ripples 4 November 2010
Christians are helpless lambs when facing Muslims abroad. Here is the funeral of the slain priests and congregation from last Sunday in Irag. Here's a question: is it moral to engage mercenaries to protect Christians who are victimized ?
Terror Hits Greece, Germany, Iraq as US Votes; Bombs Kill 62
Arutz Sheva 03 November 2010
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
A wave of terror hit Tuesday in Iraq, Greece, and Germany, where officials discovered a parcel bomb at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office as Americans went to the polls. At least 62 people died in a series
Iraqi Christians mourn 52 killed in church siege
Globe and Mail 1 November 2010
By BARBARA SURK and HAMID AHMED
Iraq's dwindling Christian community was grieving and afraid on Monday after militants seized a Baghdad church during evening Mass, held the congregation hostage and triggered a raid by Iraqi
• Found it: The Islamic Golden Age!
EuropeNews 19 September 2010
By Henrik R. Clausen
Book essay: The Closing of the Muslim Mind, by Robert R. Reilly.
One of the more interesting memes regarding Islam is that of a so-called "Golden Age", a historical period when the Islamic world was affluent, progressive and a great place to live. As a historical, physical fact, that meme has been proven false. However, in the secluded area of philosophy, things are somewhat different. As the introduction states:
This book is about one of the greatest intellectual dramas in human history. Its landscape is the Muslim mind.
Honor Killings; An Islamic Cultural Tradition
Persecution.org 13 September 2010
By R. C. Camphausen
At least 5,000 women a year are killed or driven to suicide by fathers or brothers who think that, according to tribal tradition, the inferior female has shamed the family. It is most worrying that
Circumcised Girls Have Less Marriage Chance in Kurdistan
Rudaw 3 August 2010
By NAJIBA MUHAMMAD
Muhammed Hassan, 22, is a single man who says one of the qualifications that his girlfriend has to have is that she has to have escaped circumcision, or female genital mutilation (FGM), a phenomenon
Car Bomb Destroys Al-Arabiya TV Building in Central Baghdad
MEMRI 27 July 2010
A small passenger bus driven by a suicide bomber was able to enter the main security gate of al-Arabiya TV building unmolested, only to blow himself up 10 minutes later, killing three guards and a
Iraq: Pope urges more protection for Christians
AKI - Adnkronos International 13 July 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has urged Iraq's authorities to give greater protection to Christians and other religious minorities. The pontiff reminded Iraq's new ambassador to the Holy See, Habib Mohammed Hadi
Turkish warplanes bomb northern Iraq
Press Association 28 June 2010
Turkish warplanes bombed northern Iraq on Monday, the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and an Iraqi Kurdish official said, as Ankara stepped up its riposte to increased fighting with the
Iraq: Shocking statistics on "female genital mutilation"
GlobalPost 21 June 2010
By Tracey Shelton
VIDEO: Shocking statistics on "female genital mutilation"
PASHQROTAL, Iraqi Kurdistan — Along with her pink pajamas and playful eyes, Delan has an 11-year-old’s endearing smile. She leans against an old stone wall and chats with friends as chickens and geese cluck around her feet. Rocky mountains form a towering backdrop. This is Iraqi Kurdistan, where
