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Muslims Won’t Play Together
New York Times 28 February 2010
WE may scoff at the idea that the Olympic Games have anything to do with the “endeavor to place sport at the service of humanity and thereby to promote peace,” as the Olympic charter enshrines as its ideal. But at least nations across the world were able to put aside differences for two weeks of friendly competition in Vancouver. 
A Day of Infamy: The "Field Mattress” Reborn
Gates of Vienna 27 February 2010
By Kepiblanc
Early this morning, Editor-in-Chief Tøger Seidenfaden of the Danish newspaper Politiken — "The New York Times of Denmark” — announced that his paper had reached a settlement with the "descendants of the Prophet Mohammed”.
Global Terrorist Gives Terror Warning to America
Family Security Matters 25 February 2010
By Erick Stakelbeck
The first things you notice as you approach Saad al-Faqih's home are the CCTV signs. There are several of them posted around his London property as a warning to potential intruders that their every
Senior Saudi cleric orders the killing of Muslims who permit mixing of opposite sex
The Asian News 25 February 2010
A leading Saudi hardline Wahhabi cleric issued a fatwa in which he orders the killing of Muslims who allow the sexes to mix freely in the workplace or in educational institutions. The prominent
Embrace Islam, Or Lose Your Job
Strategy Page 12 February 2010
Islamic terrorism comes in many different forms. Christian Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia are complaining that their employers are threatening to fire them if they do not convert to Islam. It's
Fox's fairly imbalanced pro-Muslim influence
The Union of Grass Valley 5 February 2010
By Diana West
Should Fox News register with the State Department as a foreign agent -- an agent of Saudi Arabia? First off, is that a farfetched question?
Not when a leading member of the ruling family of the Sharia-totalitarian "kingdom" of Saudi Arabia, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has made himself the second-largest shareholder of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., Fox News' parent company.
Islamic society donates 17,000 textbooks
New Vision 4 February 2010
By Madinah Tebajjukira
THE World Islamic Call Society has given 17,650 Arabic text books to Muslim-owned schools in Uganda. The books were handed over to head teachers last week at Gadaffi National Mosque in Old
Ihsanoglu Calls For Creation Of OIC Peace & Security Council
BERNAMA.COM 27 January 2010
By Muin Abdul Majid
Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has called for the establishment of a department for peace and security within the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) General Secretariat, an OIC Peace and
OIC: A ‘right’ to finance terrorism?
The Terror Finance Blog 25 January 2010
By Aaron Eitan Meyer
The 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has been the focus of considerable attention recently as a result of its continuous attempts to circumscribe free and open discourse regarding Islam and terrorism, but one of its lesser-known initiatives may well already be on a collision course with US law.
Erdogan voices support for Palestinians
Peninsula On-line 20 January 2010
Riyadh -Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed support for the Palestinians and called on Saudi businessmen to invest in his country during a trip to the Middle Eastern oil
'Illegal' Saudi women's gym shut: media
AFP 20 January 2010
RIYADH — Health authorities in Jeddah have shut down an "illegal" women's fitness centre attached to a hospital, closing one of the few venues where Saudi women are able to exercise, local media said
Saudi man beheaded for murder
AFP 19 January 2010
RIYADH — A Saudi man was beheaded on Tuesday for the murder of his wife and son, the interior ministry announced. Sultan Bin Ali Bin Abdullah al-Qahtani was put to death by the sword in the city
Here comes EuroMed: 14 days left to protest!
By Henrik R Clausen 13 - 25 January 2010
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, also known as EuroMed, has been pretty much under the radar for 15 years. When it caused some public discussion in 2007, it was renamed ”Union for the Mediterranean”, and quietly permitted to proceed. Not much was heard of it, but now EuropeNews has the scoop: It is being established now – and we have a window of merely 14 days to protest it.
Yaron Brook’s Call to Action against Radical Islam
Ayn Rand Institute 13 January 2010
Yaron Brook comments on foreign policy in light of increasing terrorist attacks, and explains what a proper response to them would be.
Terrorism rehab: Fighting jihad with writing, art contests
Ottawa Citizen 7 January 2010
By Shannon Proudfoot
The future of fighting extremism around the world may lie in terrorism rehab, according to the World Future Society. "It's sort of treating jihadism the way a lot of American cities have decided
Muslim scholars: Seek Islamic spirit, not state
Global Arab Network 6 January 2010
By Isabelle Dana
The Islamic state is a controversial issue in the West, as recent news confirms. Last October, an imam was killed and six men arrested by the FBI in Detroit for allegedly conspiring to establish an
Discriminative screening may actually be beneficial
Saudi Gazette 6 January 2010
By Sabria S. Jawhar
It doesn’t surprise me that the United States has put Saudi Arabia on the "countries of interest” list for passengers flying out of the Kingdom. In the wake of the failed terrorist attack at the
Survey: 35% of Egyptian, Saudi respondents consider it a "religious duty" to support jihad financially
Jihad Watch 21 December 2009
Tiny Minority of Extremists Alert. And this, too, is rooted in the core texts of Islam. Qur'an 2:195 says: Spend your wealth for the cause of Allah, and be not cast by your own hands to
Harassment across Arab world drives women inside
Jerusalem Post 16 December 2009
The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab world is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said activists at the first-ever regional
Al-Qaeda killing mostly Muslims: 85% of casualties non-Westerners, report says
National Post 15 December 2009
By Peter Goodspeed
Most victims of al-Qaeda terrorist attacks are Muslims living in Muslim countries, says a new report from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The study, by the academy's Combatting Terrorism
