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Al Qaeda Demands Concessions to Free Spaniards

CAIRO – The "safety” of two Spanish aid workers kidnapped last November in Mauritania by the group calling itself Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb depends on compliance with the organization’s

 

Counterpoint: In defence of Wafa Sultan

National Post 15 March 2010
By Joanne Hill

Tarek Fatah has used the National Post to present a one-sided, inaccurate and potentially dangerous editorial about statements made by Dr. Wafa Sultan during her March 3rd debate in Toronto with Dr. Daniel Pipes.

 

Moderate Islam: Pipes believes in it Sultan calls it a Western myth

Jewish Tribune  15 March 2010
By Joanne Hill

Two years ago, Syrian-born American psychiatrist and activist Dr. Wafa Sultan was forced to go into hiding after an Islamic scholar issued a fatwa (death threat) against her. Last week, she participated in a debate with Dr. Daniel Pipes at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue and prefaced her remarks with, "I am used to debating with a Muslim imam, not with a dear friend like Dr. Pipes. The best part of our debate is, I know for sure at the end of this debate, he's not going to call me kaffir (unbeliever) or to issue a fatwa against my life.”

 

Safe -- but where's the bunting?

Telegraph.co.uk  15 March 2010
By Melanie Phillips

Good news: it appears that the BBC journalist Paul Martin, who was kidnapped by Hamas four weeks ago, has been released. What’s that – you didn’t even know a BBC journalist had been kidnapped by

 

How to Make Defeatism Look Good: Let's Give Up and Cheer the Islamists

Global Politician 15 March 2010
By Prof. Barry Rubin

I'm not going to bash or rant about a Newsweek article about Turkey by Owen Matthews-shocking and dangerous as it is--but rather talk about what is wrong and inaccurate about it. That article is part of a new wave of defeatism sweeping the West, though it still remains subordinate to the more ostensibly attractive idea that there is no real conflict or at least one easy to fix by Western concessions.

 

Obama and the Denial of Genocide

Armenia Diaspora 15 March 2010
By Stephen Zunes

The Obama administration, citing its relations with Turkey, has pledged to block the passage in the full House of Representatives of a resolution passed this past Thursday by the Foreign Relations

 

Second American Woman like Jihad Jane Arrested In Ireland

Gather.com  15 March 2010
By Dexter S.

Kamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31 was arrest in Ireland suspected in terrorism efforts with JihadJane, Collen R LaRose from Pennsylvania . The mother from Leadville Colorado was arrest on charges she was

 

Another US Qaeda suspect held, again Yemen connection

Indian Express 15 March 2010

He was raised in New Jersey, where he was on the school wrestling team and a black belt in karate. Nearly a decade later, Sharif Mobley is under arrest in Yemen, suspected to be a member of the same

 

Canada, U.S. mourn Grand Imam who took on Osama

Vancouverite  15 March 2010
By Karen Mullins

CAIRO – One of the most influential clerics in the Islamic world – the Grand Imam Mohamed Sayyid Tantawi – who took on the 9/11 attackers and described them as cowards, has passed away. Canada and

 

In Rifqa Bary Case, Dhimmi Media Cheers on Sharia Law in Ohio

Big Journalism 15 March 2010
By Pamela Geller

A girl flees from her home in fear for her life – and law enforcement goes after the people who helped her. That’s the situation in the Rifqa Bary case. Bary The Columbus Dispatch reported

 

Immigration: 'Child bride' loophole can't be closed

Toronto SUN 15 March 2010
By TOM GODFREY

Federal immigration officials say there’s little they can do to stop "child brides” from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed them in arranged marriages abroad. Top

 

Report: Sexual Harassment in Egypt - 98% of Foreign Women Sexually Harrased in Egypt

qantara 13 March 2010
By Mohammed Ali Atassi

Confronting a Pressing Social Problem. According to a study, 98 percent of the foreign women and 83 percent of the Egyptian women have at some point been subject to sexual

 

Pakistani Muslim Man Allegedly Rapes, Burns Christian Girl to Death

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Pakistani Muslim man allegedly burned a Christian teenage girl to death in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistani police have not yet arrested the

 

Fatwa condemning terrorism fuels Maghreb debate

Internet: A recruiting tool for terrorists 13 March 2010
By Erin O'Hearn

He says because of blogs, social networking sites and search engines, groups don't have to actively go out and find a target audience; that audience comes to them. "People who get involved in

 

Fatwa condemning terrorism fuels Maghreb debate

magharebia 13 March 2010
By Sarah Touahri

Maghreb imams and other experts on Islam are reacting with everything from doubt to cautious optimism about a fatwa against terrorism issued by a prominent Pakistan-born religious scholar.

The 600-page fatwa, which was issued in London on Tuesday (March 2nd) by Dr. Muhammad Tahir Qadri, says "hellfire" awaits suicide bombers, and categorically rejects attacks that kill innocent people.

 

30 hurt in Muslim-Christian clashes in Egypt

Expressbuzz 13 March 2010

CAIRO: Thirty people were injured when clashes broke out between Christians and Muslims in a rural area in northern Egypt, media reports said. Fighting erupted late Friday in the north-western

 

Love-hate relationship with Arab tourists

The Jakarta Post 13 March 2010
By Java Brew

"We used to feel awkward when passing Warung Kaleng in Sampay, a hangout for dangdut with their revealing dresses. Now we find it hard to recognize prostitutes because most dress decently like we do,

 

Far-Right election poster 'insults' Algeria

France24 9 March 2010

France’s far-right Front National has upset Algeria, a former French colony, in its latest election poster denouncing "Islamism" and featuring a map of France decked in the North African country’s

 

Nigeria violence: Muslim-Christian clashes kill hundreds

As many as 500 people were killed Sunday in Nigeria violence that pitted Muslim herders against Christian farmers near the volatile city of Jos.

 

Libya demands an U.S apology and enforces Swiss embargo

ecPulse 5 March 2010

Libyan officials have demanded a formal apology from the United States following comments regarding Libya's President Muammar Gaddafi, when he called for "Jihad" against Switzerland. The Libyan

 
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