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Saudi arrests 10 Iran spy suspects: ministry
FRANCE 24 22 May 2013
Saudi authorities have arrested 10 more suspects in an alleged Iranian spy ring unveiled two months ago, an interior ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. 
Qatar National Bank to start India operations
The News International 22 May 2013
DOHA: Qatar National Bank (QNB), one of the most acquisitive Gulf Arab lenders, will start operations in India in the third quarter of this year, the bank said on Tuesday,
France deports Moroccan accused of calling for 'acts of murder'
UPI.com 21 May 2013
France is continuing a crackdown on suspected Islamic radicals with the expulsion of a 24-year-old Moroccan man who allegedly called for "acts of murder." French Interior
Radicals, Moderates and Islamists
Canada Free Press 21 May 2013
By Daniel Greenfield
We cannot weaken Islamism except by weakening Islam, economically, militarily and demographically
The radical-moderate continuum that has defined the dialogue on Islam in the War on Terror is not an authentic perspective, it is an observer perspective.
US might step in for a Cyprus solution to appease Turks
Hurriyet Daily News 21 May 2013
President Barack Obama gave two messages to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by hosting him in Blair House, a gesture that was last made in 1999. First, in view
Turkish police clash with protestors against policy on Syria
Business New Europe 21 May 2013
Turkish police battled protestors in Istanbul and the Syrian border town of Reyhanli over the weekend, as violence broke out at demonstrations against the government's policy
Islam is Hate-Crime Par Excellence
islam-watch 21 May 2013
Recently, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the Biblical Speech Opposing Homosexual Behavior is a ‘Hate Crime’. Hate is demeaning to human dignity – for both the hater
Andrew Bostom Agrees to Debate Daniel Pipes on His Conception of "Islamic Antisemitism”
Right Side News 21 May 2013
Here is Daniel Pipes’ most recent pronouncement (published 5/16/13) on the subject, ostensibly, of "Islamic Antisemitism”: Islamic antisemitismHe said the religion of Islam
Nazi flag flies high over West Bank mosque
Examiner.com 21 May 2013
Keeping alive the long history between National Socialism and Jihaddist Islam, the twisted cross of Naziism is flying high and proud over a heavily Arab-Muslim town south of Jerusalem today, as reported by the Israel National News Service via Google News on May 20, 2013
In the West Bank town of Beit Omar, an over-sized red, white and black swastika-emblazoned flag of the Third Reich was reportedly clearly visible to Israeli residents living in the southern outskirts and suburbs of Jerusalem, especially the Jewish town of Gush Etzion.
Islamic anti-Semitism: 20th century invention?
WND.com 21 May 2013
By Pamela Geller
Sugar-coating harsh realities and pretending that unpleasant facts don’t exist opens doors and gets you accolades – but is it worth it at the price of the truth?
According to an article about a speech he gave last week in Toronto, scholar Daniel Pipes "suggested it is Islamism, a political ideology, that inspires hatred of ‘the other,’ rather than Islam. … He emphasized that while Islam has existed since the age of the prophet Muhammad, Islamism is a recent phenomenon and need not be considered an authentic expression of Islam.”
Islam and its Infidels
The Jewish Press 21 May 2013
By Daniel Pipes
Islamism represents the transformation of Islamic faith into a political ideology
What motives lay behind last month’s Boston Marathon bombing and the would-be attack on a VIA Rail Canada train? Leftists and establishmentarians variously offer imprecise
Accused rioter Mohammed Issai Issaka berated in court after refusing to stand for Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge
news.com.au 21 May 2013
By PETER BODKIN
A MAN accused of rioting during last year's violent Muslim protests has been berated for his "disrespect" after refusing to stand before a magistrate at his court
The woman who is inspiring Africans to turn against female genital mutilation
Evening Standard 21 May 2013
By Anna Davis
A revolutionary education programme that has saved tens of thousands of African girls from female genital mutilation could work in London, claims the woman behind the
Video: Chaos and killing in Syria
danielpipes.org 21 May 2013
By Sun News Network, The Arena with Michael Coren
"Financial Times: "Qatar spent billions of dollars in the past two years to fund the Syrian opposition
Syrian Radio & TV Online 21 May 2013
The British newspaper Financial Times published an investigation on Friday entitled "Qatar spent billions of dollars in the past two years to fund the Syrian
Christian student killed by firing of Muslims in native village of Shahbaz Bhatti
Pakistan Christian Post 21 May 2013
A Christian village named Khushpur in sub-district Samundari of Faisalabad district came under attack of Muslims on May 19, 2013, killing one Christian student of 10th Grade
UN Pressures Germany to Bow to ‘Hate Speech’ Hysteria
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 16 May 2013
By Andrew Harrod & Sam Nunberg
A recent decision by the United Nation’s (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) foreshadows an ominous future for free societies should Muslim entities like the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) achieve their goal of having "Islamophobia” defined internationally as a form of prejudice
Former German central bank board member Thilo Sarrazin has got himself in trouble with the UN, as the Turkish Union in Berlin-Brandenburg (Türkischer Bund in Berlin-Brandenburg or TBB) stated with satisfaction in an April 18, 2013, German-language press release. The spokesman of this German-Turkish interest group, Hilmi Kaya Turan, praised a February 26, 2013, "historic decision” by the CERD condemning Germany for not having prosecuted Sarrazin’s criticism of Arab and Turkish immigrants.
Muslims Demand Germany "Make Islam Equal to Christianity"
Gatestone 16 May 2013
By Soeren Kern
Muslims attending the German Islam Conference were apparently offended by the insinuation that Islam could be radical or violent
A major conference on German-Muslim relations has ended in failure after Muslims attending the event refused to acknowledge the government's concerns about the threats to security posed by radical Islam.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich had wanted the eighth annual German Islam Conference, held in Berlin on May 7, to focus on finding ways the government could work together with "moderate" Muslims in Germany to combat Islamism and extremism.
Why Islam Leads to Violence
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 16 May 2013
By Jack Kerwick
- As Robert Spencer, Pamela Gellar, and others have shown, as far as Islam is concerned, neither this infamous attack nor others before and since are anomalous. Rather, from its origins in the seventh century to the present, from Muhammad to bin Laden, Islam has been animated by a violent impulse
Authors defending this thesis invariably allude to the military conquests of the Prophet, the particularly harsh punitive measures by which Islamic societies deal with transgressors of Islamic law, and any number of passages from the Koran calling for the death of unbelievers. And to be sure, all of this supports their case.
Turkey hit by Terrorism: Erdogan and Davutoglu only Interested in Anti Syria Rhetoric
Global Security News 16 May 2013
By Helmet Joachim Schmidt and Lee Jay Walker
Vast numbers of terrorist attacks have devastated many parts of Syria because of the collective policies of America, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
