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Qatar to invest US$5b in Malaysia
Business Times - Malaysia 29 January 2013
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund plans to spend half of the US$10 billion it expects to invest in Malaysia on a petrochemicals complex aimed at transforming the Southeast Asian 
This Week in Muslim Amputation News
FrontPage Magazine 28 January 2013
Amputation in Islam is like football in America. Muslims don’t really understand how important football is to Americans and the Yanks don’t understand how important mutilating body parts is to Muslims.
While Muslim technology continues to lag behind the West, advances are being made in key areas, such as finger amputation machines.
Turkish PM to visit Qatar
Trend.az 28 January 2013
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Qatar on a working visit on Jan.29, Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday. Erdogan will meet with Emir of Qatar, Sheikh
UAE charges 'plotters' linked to Muslim Brotherhood
BBC News 28 January 2013
The United Arab Emirates has ordered 94 people to be tried on charges of trying to seize power. The attorney general said the alleged suspects had formed a secret group that
Saudi beheading brings nanny ban
Bangkokpost 28 January 2013
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka has banned women under 25 from seeking work in Saudi Arabia after authorities beheaded a 24-year-old maid earlier this month. "As a first step, we are
UAE to put 94 Islamists on trial over plot
FRANCE 24 28 January 2013
The United Arab Emirates is to put on trial 94 Islamists accused of plotting against the Gulf state, attorney general Salem Kobaish announced on Sunday. He said the accused,
Ex-diplomat flees Qatar amid fears of deportation to torture in Saudi Arabia
Amnesty International 28 January 2013
A former Saudi Arabian diplomat who was due to be deported from Qatar to his native country was able to travel to Morocco after receiving support from Qatar’s National Human
Qatar, Sponsor of Islamist Political Movements, Major Ally of America
Center for Research on Globalization 24 January 2013
By Nicola Nasser
In his inaugural address on January 21, U.S. President Barack Obama made the historic announcement that "a decade of war is ending” and declared his country’s determination to
Persecution Rises in Oil Rich Brunei
persecution.org 24 January 2013
By Stefan J. Bos
Dutch Queen Beatrix has begun a two-day visit to Brunei, focusing on expanding economic relations despite concerns about the reported increased persecution of minority
The OIC Needs to Show It’s Serious About Human Rights
Algemeiner 24 January 2013
On January 21, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) placed a half-page ad in The New York Times (posted below) entitled "OIC-US Partnership:
'Landlord' Of London: Emir Of Qatar Visits PM
Sky News 23 January 2013
By Tim Marshall
Even at today's prices $50bn (£31.56bn) goes a long way. For that sort of money you don't just get Harrods, the Shard, Chelsea Barracks, part ownership of Barclays,
Kuwait seeks review of France hijab ban
Saudi Gazette 23 January 2013
Kuwait called on France to reconsider its ban on wearing Islamic face veils in public during a speech at the UN Human Rights Council, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported
Turkish PM Erdogan due to Qatar
World Bulletin 23 January 2013
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Qatar on January 29 on a working trip. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Turkish Prime Ministry Press Center
Is Qatar fuelling the crisis in north Mali?
FRANCE 24 22 January 2013
By Mark Thompson
Oil-rich gulf state Qatar has a vested interest in the outcome of the north Mali crisis, according to various reports that have been picked up by French MPs, amid suspicion
Alcohol could revive Pearl-Qatar - expert
ArabianBusiness.com 22 January 2013
By Francesca Astorri
Lifting a ban on alcohol at the Pearl-Qatar could lead to a resurgence in the number of tourists visiting the man-made development, according to one real estate expert in the
Freedom House ranks Israel as region’s only ‘free’ state
Tundra Tabloids 21 January 2013
US-based watchdog’s report says that while in recent years controversies have surrounded proposed laws that threatened freedom of expression, in most cases they gave been
Qaradawi Criticizes French Military Intervention In Mali
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report 21 January 2013
Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi has criticized the recent French intervention in Mali which he called "hasty”: According to a MEMRI translation of a
Qatar: Women banned from working in boys’ schools
gulfnews.com 21 January 2013
By Habib Toumi, Bureau chief
Manama: An unexpected decision on ban women from working in boys’ schools in Qatar has left the establishments, teachers and staff struggling to readjust, according to a
Chicago businessman gets 14 years for role in Danish terrorist plot
Medill Reports: Chicago 18 January 2013
By Carrie Eidson
A Chicago man convicted of conspiring to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons offensive to Muslims was sentenced in federal court to 14 years in prison
Mohammed’s Greatest Discovery, Part 1
Right Side News 18 January 2013
By Kenneth Roberts
What causes a Muslim woman to honor-kill the children she has borne and raised? The explanation is ‘the Stockholm Syndrome’. It is one of the secret keys of political Islam and Mohammed’s greatest discovery
The Stockholm syndrome or ‘capture bonding’ is a psychological paradox in which hostages develop empathy and positive feelings towards their captors, even to the point of adopting the captor’s oppressive ideology. One would expect captives to experience resentment and hatred towards an abuser, but that is not what occurs in the Stockholm syndrome.
