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Sharia law could solve Scots housing shortage
Times Online 13 July 2009
By Jason Allardyce
Ministers are considering asking Muslim investors to help fund social housing in Scotland to ease pressure on the government's budget. 
Islamic hotels on the rise in Turkey
Turkish Daily News 13 July 2009
By BETÜL CAL
Islamic tourism is emerging as a new sub-sector in the Turkish tourism industry, offering a variety of services such as segregated swimming pools, beaches and discotheques for men and women.
"ISNA Rejects All Expressions of Racism and Bigotry"
Daniel Pipes Blog 13 July 2009
By Daniel Pipes
That's the title of press release, datelined Plainfield, Indiana, issued by Louay Safi, executive director of the ISNA Leadership Development Center. On behalf of the Islamic Society of North America, he
American Library Assocation caves to CAIR pressure; panel featuring Robert Spencer cancelled
International Free Press Society 13 July 2009
The American Library Association invited me to speak on a panel tomorrow, which led the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case, along with some complicit, bemused, and Leftist academics, to kick up a controversy — previous posts about this here and here.
Hamas-linked CAIR thumps its chest after succeeding in restricting free speech at the ALA
Jihad Watch 13 July 2009
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has succeeded in silencing speech about Islam that it does not want you to hear. CAIR's press release about this incident is entitled:
Panel dropped after invitation of Islam critic
Washington Times 13 July 2009
By Shaun Waterman
The American Library Association has canceled a panel discussion on Islam planned for its annual conference over the weekend, after three speakers withdrew in protest at the inclusion of the fourth, a
Iranian Ayatollah Montazeri Issues Fatwa Against the Regime
Middle East Media Research Institute 13 July 2009
On July 11, 2009, the liberal Iranian website www.khandaniha.eu published a fatwa by Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the most senior contemporary Shi'ite cleric. The fatwa was issued in response to
Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania's presidential election
Telegraph.co.uk 13 July 2009
By Nick Meo
More than half a million slaves are at the heart of a presidential election battle in the former French colony of Mauritania.
Nouakchott/Mauritania. A year after she ran away from her master, Barakatu Mint Sayed prays that the election on July 18 will mark the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania.
Muslim academic claims homosexuality can be compatible with Islam
PinkNews.co.uk 13 July 2009
By Jessica Geen
A leading Muslim academic has said there is evidence in the Koran that homosexuality can be compatible with Islam.
Indian Muslim: attacks against Christians in Iraq "brutal crimes"
AsiaNews.it 13 July 2009
By Nirmala Carvalho
Asghar Ali Engineer condemns the attacks in Baghdad against Christian churches. He emphasizes that violence "has nothing to do with the precepts of Islam" and is the work of "fundamentalists."
Wave of Iraq church bombings stretches into third day
Persecution.org 13 July 2009
A church in Iraq was bombed Monday, the seventh Christian house of worship in the country to be bombed in three days.
More money to address Muslim backwardness: Salman Khurshid
Thaindian.com 13 July 2009
New Delhi. The government has increased the budgetary allocation to the minority affairs ministry by Rs.740 crore for the year 2009-10 to address the educational and economic backwardness of
Brooke Goldstein & Heather Robinson: The Making of a Martyr
The Making of a Martyr 13 July 2009
Journalist Heather Robinson interviews the Middle East Forum's Brooke Goldstein on her documentary 'The Making of a Martyr.'
Watch the Award-Winning Documentary Film, "The Making of a Martyr"
Italy: Moroccan ambassador fired for ladies’ fight
Al Arabiya 10 July 2009
Morocco’s ambassador to Italy Nabil Benabdallah was sacked from his post after his wife got into a “fight” with the wife of the kingdom’s foreign minister during a fine arts festival in the Italian city of Venice
Özgür-Der calls on Germany for responsibility in court murder
Today's Zaman 10 July 2009
The Freedom Association (Özgür-Der), a Turkish rights group, has called on the German government to confront its responsibility in the brutal slaying of a pregnant Egyptian woman, stabbed repeatedly
Gaddafi demands return of Lockerbie bomber in first meeting with Brown
Guardian.co.uk 10 July 2009
By Patrick Wintour
Prime minister tells Libyan leader at G8 summit that Megrahi case is matter for the Scottish courts. In his first face to face meeting with Gordon Brown, Muammar Gaddafi today demanded the return of
Video: Women living under Sharia law
Lionheart 10 July 2009
They have no problem stating their aims of implementing the dark age practices of stonings, and cutting peoples limbs off within our enlightened society.
Islam in Prison: Inmates Running the Asylum
Islamist Watch Blog 10 July 2009
By David J. Rusin
Prisoners are known for trying to extract every last concession, but Muslim inmates appear to enjoy greater success than most. Consider these recent examples:
Customs officers raid £1.2million council house occupied by Afghan mother of seven
Dailymail.co.uk 10 July 2009
A £1.2million council house occupied by an Afghan family and paid for by the taxpayer was raided by customs officials yesterday.
Fury after calls for Muslim debate ban
Hounslow Guardian 10 July 2009
By Lucy Buckland
Hounslow Council is demanding the cancellation of a controversial Muslim debate due to be held at a Hounslow school. The council expressed concerns after it emerged “extremist” group Hizb Ut-Tahrir
