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Ahmadinejad blames Germany for courtroom murder
AFP 13 July 2009
TEHRAN. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has blamed Germany for the murder of a pregnant Egyptian woman in a Dresden courtroom, state media reported. 
Italy: Young Muslims condemn woman's murder in Germany
AKI - Adnkronos International 13 July 2009
Rome. Young Italian Muslims have joined an emotional international debate, condemning the murder of an Egyptian woman in Germany. Young Muslims of Italy, or Giovani Musulmani d'Italia (GMI)
Italian hostage in Philippines freed after six months
Times of Malta 13 July 2009
An Italian Red Cross official held hostage by Muslim rebels for nearly six months in southern Philippines was freed yesterday, saying the thought of seeing his family again kept him alive throughout his captivity.
Swiss hostage held by al-Qaeda in Sahara released
Deutsche Welle 13 July 2009
A spokesman for Mali's president has said that a Swiss hostage, the last of four who were seized by an al-Qaeda group in the Sahara, has been released.
Pakistani men held in Belgium in suspected honour killing
Expatica Belguim 13 July 2009
Two Pakistani brothers were being held in custody in Belgium on murder charges, a magistrate said Friday, on suspicion that they carried out an honour killing.
Racists Speak Swedish
Gates of Vienna 13 July 2009
By Baron Bodissey
I considered including this news item in our “cultural enrichment” series. However, it’s not really about the Cultural Enrichers themselves, it’s about the madness of the natives who promote, encourage, support, and
Extremist should be ‘re-educated’
Burton Mail 13 July 2009
By RICHARD CASTLE
A CONTROVERSIAL councillor has urged Burton’s Muslim community not to ostracise an activist dubbed ‘an extremist’ for taking part in a protest which appalled the nation.
Hizb ut-Tahrir: Islamic terror conferences in Britain
Lionheart 13 July 2009
Info courtesy Mira Shaw
Islam and the call for Khilafah (Caliphate) are the titles of the conferences by Hizb ut-Tahrir. Their promo video - Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain 2009 Conference Trailer. Their website announcing the event - www.hizb.org.u
We have the same conference here in Chicago, but they are the same people. Here you'll see the details about them: www.investigativeproject.org
British Muslims commemorate Srebrenica genocide
Associated Press of Pakistan 13 July 2009
LONDON. The British Muslims commemorated the Srebrenica genocide by paying homage to more than 8,000 Bosnia Muslims men and boys massacred by Serb forces despite being in a UN-protected safe
Muslim who justified killing British troops back at Treasury
Telegraph.co.uk 13 July 2009
By Duncan Gardham
Azad Ali, a Muslim civil servant suspended after comments appeared on his personal website justifying the killing of British troops in Iraq, has returned to work at the Treasury.
Wearing the burqa is neither Islamic nor socially acceptable
Independent 13 July 2009
By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
To deny face-to-face interaction is to deny our shared humanity
I am a Shia Muslim and I abhor the burqa. I am offended by the unchallenged presumption that women covering their heads and bodies and now faces are more pious and true than am I.
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.
