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Freedom of expression
Free speech? It appears guest speakers at synagogues now have to register their opinions in advance with police
ezralevant.com 6 May 2013
By Ezra Levant
Pamela Geller is a New York liberal, concerned about shariah law
Most Canadians don’t know who she is, but she did something for us that no Canadian did: She arranged for a proper gravestone for Aqsa Parvez, the teenaged Canadian girl murdered by her father and brother in a so-called honour killing in 2007. 
Al Jazeera America's Doha Rose
dianawest.net 6 May 2013
By Diana West
"Unbiased"? The Muslim Brotherhood Channel? Are they kidding?
How does Qatar do it? How does Vogue let Qatar do it to it? "Playing it straight?" The Qatari Sharia Muslim Brotherhood Revolution? And who is this Lisa "Playing It straight into MB hands" Fletcher? To be sure, she got the glossy treatment in Vogue, swanning amid a Marc Jacobs' perfume ad (Daisy), breast cancer awareness, and Van Cleef & Arpels.
"Al Jazeera America" is thrilled to bits.
But what price Glossywood?
From an earlier post:
Qatar, after all, is a country Freedom House deems "not free" where, as reported in Freedom House's the 2012 Freedom of the Press Report, it is against the law for journalists to "criticize the Qatari government, the ruling family or Islam."
Aerosmith cancels Jakarta concert: promoter
Rappler 6 May 2013
JAKARTA, Indonesia - US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, May 5, following threats
Justin Bieber attacked by male fan who storms onstage and grabs him midway through Dubai concert
Daily Mail 6 May 2013
By Paul Chavez
A crazed fan stormed onstage and grabbed singer Justin Bieber from behind on Sunday in Dubai during the middle of a piano performance. The 19-year-old Canadian pop star was
Local Muslims Outraged By Card Depicting Muslim Girl Doll Terrorist
CBS2 Chicago 6 May 2013
A Muslim doll as a terrorist. That’s what’s on a birthday card that has upset the head of a local chapter of a civil rights group, reports WBBM’s Nancy Harty. The front of
Leftists Defend Radical Islam — Conservatives Befriend Secular Muslims
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 30 April 2013
By Larry Greenfield
On April 11th, 2013, I participated in a public forum entitled "Islamists Rising in the Middle East: Where Next for America?” The panel was held at the University of
AP Scrubs ‘Muslim’ from Obama’s Self-Referential Joke
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 30 April 2013
By Robert Spencer
Warner Todd Huston reported at Breitbart Monday that "in some of its reports on Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD), the Associated Press failed to include one of President Obama’s own gags.”
European Union Spending Millions to Silence Critics
Gatestone Institute 29 April 2013
By Samuel Westrop
Auditors have refused to sign off on EU accounts for 18 years in a row, and EU officials have been sacked for exposing corruption and fraud within the vast bureaucracy
The European Union (EU) is pouring millions of pounds into organizations that advocate state control of the press. For many, the funding -- uncovered recently by Telegraph journalist Andrew Gilligan -- is yet further evidence of the EU's increasingly Orwellian, authoritarian nature. The Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has for years referred to the organization as the EUSSR. One recipient of European taxpayers' money, Mediadem, for example, has been given 2.3 million pounds. Mediadem describes its mission as working to "reclaim a free and independent media."
Belgian Weatherman Victim of Muslim Road Rage, Posts Anti-Muslim Rant on Facebook Page then is Sacked by Employer
Islam versus Europe 29 April 2013
Luc Trullemans says he isn't a racist. The RTL weatherman, who has just been suspended following a slip-up on Facebook, says today that he acted "in the heat of anger". We
Qatar returns statues to Greece amid nudity dispute
The Guardian 29 April 2013
By Helena Smith
It was a spat that nobody wanted – neither the Greeks, the Qataris nor, say officials, the two nude statues that sparked the furore. But in a classic clash of cultures,
Germany: Islam Critics Prosecuted for Comparing Islam to Nazism
Islam versus Europe 29 April 2013
Because they compared Islam with the Nazis in Marienplatz [a public square in Munich], the party chairman of "Die Freiheit" Stürzenberger and two of his political friends must
Nude Greek Statues Spark Decency Debate In Qatar
International Business Times 29 April 2013
By Mark Johanson
A museum exhibition in Doha that was supposed to open a "bridge of friendship” between Greece and Qatar ended in embarrassment for both after a Greek cultural minister
Morocco's Islamist prime minister warns criticism of Prophet Muhammad 'not acceptable'
The Daily Star 29 April 2013
RABAT, Morocco — Morocco's Islamist prime minister says it's unacceptable to criticize the Prophet Muhammad, entering a war of words between a secular activist and hardline
Violence in Islam: The heart of the matter
Hurriyet Daily News 26 April 2013
By BURAK BEKDIL
- The often apologetic propagandists who discreetly adhere to various shades of Islamism tend to defend their cause by suggesting an unimpressively limited number of arguments which they (sometimes rightly) think would appeal to the Western audience
Their sole purpose is to convince the politically and militarily more powerful West that Islam is not evil but that a few terrorists who think they are Islamists can be. They think this is smart warfare for the advancement of Islam not necessarily as a religion but as a political ideology: the physical and intellectual supremacy of Islam across the world. The apologists think that the terrorists are wrong because they opt for the wrong methodology to achieve the same goal.
Video: Bill Maher Exposes the Leftist Islamophobia Ruse for Even Leftists to See
americanthinker. 26 April 2013
By William Sullivan
On Friday's Real Time program on HBO, Bill Maher hosted an interview with Brian Levin, the director of the Center for Study of Hate and Extremism. It became clear within thirty seconds that Levin was not attending the religious parity party he had expected.
- Bill Maher: Comparing violence of Islam to Christianity ‘liberal bullshit’
One can understand why Levin might harbor such expectations. Maher has a pretty apparent disdain for religious adherents of all stripes. But in that first thirty seconds, Maher spoke, with a pointedly singular focus, of the hypocrisy we witness in such fanatical terrorists as the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon last week.
Kuwait Jails Prominent Opposition Leader
clarionproject.org 25 April 2013
A prominent Kuwaiti opposition politician has been sentenced to five years in jail for insulting the ruling emir, his lawyer said, in a ruling expected to stoke political
Criticism is not Islamophobia
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. 24 April 2013
By David Suissa
Criticism is the oxygen of journalism. Here at the Jewish Journal, we will criticize anything that we believe deserves criticism, including religion
We will criticize preachers who use Christianity to express hatred and bigotry toward gays as much as we will criticize religious Jews who use the Torah to humiliate women rabbis wearing prayer shawls at the Western Wall.
German Newspaper Blanks Out Image of Mohammed
Islam versus Europe 24 April 2013
The prestigious German newspaper Die Zeit has disgraced itself by blanking out an image of Mohammed in an article about the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's Life of
'The Quran is our constitution' Tracing roots of Islamism inside the U.S.
WND.com 23 April 2013
"God is our Goal. The Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our way. Death in the service of God is the loftiest of our wishes. God is great, God is great.”
This is the motto of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt as a vehicle to establish a worldwide Islamic empire governed by Shariah law. In "The Grand Deception”, a 70-minute film by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), Steve Emerson traces the roots of Islamism inside the United States. This film examines the extent of Islamist influence within the country and highlights the danger it for all Americans.
Turkey Convicts World-Renowned Pianist for ‘Defaming’ Islam
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM 23 April 2013
By Andrew Harrod
A Turkish court on April 15, 2013, convicted world-renowned pianist Fazil Say under Article 216(3) of the Turkish Penal Code. This article punishes "[a]nyone who openly
