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Mosque foes now angry over Buddhist ceremonies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 13 March 2010
By Shane Blatt
The same Lilburn residents who protested a giant neighborhood mosque in November are now seething over what they say is a Buddhist temple that has sprung up on Hood Road. More Gwinnett news » 
Waltzing at the Waldorf: Israeli Solders Face Another Kind of War
PajamasMedia 13 March 2010
By Phyllis Chesler
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, the gutsy and determined founder of Z Street, was one of the main organizers of last night’s pro-Israel demonstration outside the Waldorf Astoria.
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
Assyrian International News Agency 13 March 2010
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
The Saudi Touch
ISN, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich 13 March 2010
This week the ISN takes a closer look at the enormous challenges facing Saudi Arabia on both its domestic and foreign policy fronts. The world is watching to see how the Middle East's largest country
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
Glenn Beck calls Geert Wilders a fascist, endorses ban on his entering UK
Jihad Watch 9 March 2010
By Robert Spencer
So now standing up for the rights of women and non-Muslims, the freedom of speech (yes -- here is a post on those who claim that he opposes it), and the freedom of conscience is fascist.
Poll finds the majority of Danes against newspaper apology
editorsweblog.org 9 March 2010
By Robert Eisenhart
A recent poll conducted by the Megafon Institue found that the slight majority of Danes (51%) did not support the recent apology made by the Politiken newspaper for re-publishing cartoons negatively
Something is Rotten in Rotterdam
GatesofVienna 9 March 2010
By Baron Bodissey
Our Flemish correspondent VH has compiled a report about massive voting fraud during the recent municipal elections in Rotterdam, mainly in immigrant neighborhoods. His account reminds me of what
Danes: We are not sorry for Mohammed cartoons
The Swedish Wire 9 March 2010
COPENHAGEN - A majority of Danes are opposed to the apology the daily Politiken made last month to Muslims for possibly offending them by reproducing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in 2008.
International Not-All-Women's Day
American Enterprise Institute 9 March 2010
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. A cause for celebration? Yes and no. Women's emancipation will not progress as fast in the next 100 years as it has in the past century. In many cases it might even regress.
Eurabia Arrives in Sweden
GatesofVienna 9 March 2010
By Baron Bodissey
Tundra Tabloids has posted an excellent article from The Wall Street Journal about the Swedish city of Malmö and its notorious mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, who suggested that anti-Semitism in his city — which
Importing Germany's Imams
Spiegel Online 9 March 2010
By James Angelos
With Germany lacking schools of Islamic theology, Muslim congregations have long imported religious leaders. As Germany considers steps to create more homegrown imams, countries like
Germany says to take in Iranian political refugees
Ynetnews 9 March 2010
Germany plans to grant asylum to a number of Iranian refugees due to human rights concerns, a spokeswoman from the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Operation Anti-halal to Quick Villeurbanne
Tundra Tabloids. 9 March 2010
A herd of 70 dissatisfied pigs invaded Quick Halal Villeurbanne on Sunday morning. They intended to protest against the decision to remove the bacon burger and cons of the new offer Quick who now
Birmingham mosques come out against halal machine slaughtering
meatinfo.co.uk 9 March 2010
Mosques in Birmingham have called for consumers and processors to be made more of aware of machine slaughtering used in halal meat production.
Students open up about faith and life in Islam Awareness Week
Imperial College London 9 March 2010
By John-Paul Jones
A programme of events kicks off today designed to allow staff and students to get to know members of Imperial’s student Islamic Society better, from a faith based version of the Weakest Link to a
Young Indonesian muslim leaders off to Australia
ANTARA 9 March 2010
Jakarta - A delegation of young Indonesian Muslim leaders have left for Australia on a bilateral exchange program.
An Australian Embassy media release made available to Antara on
Living Proof of the Armenian Genocide
The Independent 9 March 2010
By Robert Fisk
The US wants to deny that Turkey's slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 was genocide. But the evidence is there, in a hilltop orphanage near Beirut.
