Freedom of expression

Holiness of Jerusalem to Islam has always been politically motivated

When the Prophet Mohammad established Islam, he introduced a minimum of innovations. He employed the hallowed personages, historic legends and sacred sites of Judaism and Christianity, and even paganism, by Islamizing them.

Thus, according to Islam, Abraham was the first Muslim and Jesus and St. John (the sons of Miriam, sister of Moses and Aron) were prophets and guardians of the second heaven. Many Biblical legends ("asatir al-awwalin",) which were familiar to the pagan Arabs before the dawn of Islam, underwent an Islamic conversion, and the Koran as well as the Hadith (the Islamic oral tradition), are replete with them.

A leading biologist who claimed that creationism should be included in school science lessons has lost his job at the Royal Society as a result.

The Rev Professor Michael Reiss, who was director of education at Britain's scientific academy as well as an ordained Church of England minister, sparked controversy last week when he suggested that pupils should learn about the idea that evolution is wrong and the Earth is only 10,000 years old.

A controversial DVD distributed to millions of Americans during the past week through direct mail and newspapers, including The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, has angered many Muslims in South Florida.

The Tundra Tabloids' good friend and colleague, ESW, forwards the text of her speech given at the recent Counterjihad Conference held in Florence, Italy, over this past weekend.

Both Filip Dewinter and Geert Wilders were there to receive the Oriana Fallaci awards which were presented by the Una Via per Oriana organization.

Though the TT was unable to attend the conference, there will be periodic postings at the Tundra Tabloids about the conference as the soon as the information begins to flow its way. Here is one of the speeches given at the event, which was held on the anniversary of Oriana Fallaci's death.

On the eve of the European Union-Central Asia security summit which the French government, the current holder of the EU rotating presidency, is hosting tomorrow in Paris, Reporters Without Borders draws attention to the lack of press freedom in Central Asia, especially Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

When Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote “Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It,” she assumed she would be protected by the First Amendment. She was, in the United States.

But a wealthy Saudi businessman she accused in the book of being a funder of terrorism, Khalid bin Mahfouz, sued in Britain, where the libel laws are heavily weighted against journalists, and won a sizable amount of money.

Many German think that mosques which are bigger than churches are a provocation.

This according to a debate which has started up again, after authorities gave their permission to the building of one of Europe's largest mosques in the city of Cologne. While Cologne's conservative mayor, Fritz Schramma, strongly defends the buildings, his own party members have decided to oppose the projects, because they regard the building as a show of force from the side of the Muslims.

Dr Ahmad Gumi, a Kaduna based Islamic scholar, has called on the Federal Government to ban advertisements that display nudity. Gumi made the appeal on Friday in Kaduna, while delivering this year's "Ramadan Tafsir" (Preaching) at Sheikh Mahmud Gumi Memorial Mosque.

BELGRADE. Sherry Jones’ The Jewel of Medina, recently withdrawn, will be returned to Belgrade’s bookstores. The publisher said that readers’ reactions were positive and that the book would soon be published in most European countries.