The ACLJ’s Tweet for Youcef campaign is now reaching more than 2 million Twitter accounts worldwide.
Thank you to the thousands of you who have signed up to Tweet for Youcef. You are making a tremendous difference in the fight for the life of Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who faces execution in Iran for his faith.
Tweet for Youcef is now one of the largest, if not the largest, donate a tweet campaign in the world.
In fact, if the Tweet for Youcef [...]
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Police in Amsterdam have arrested the spokesperson of the Islamist group Sharia4Holland on charges of making death threats against the Dutch Freedom Party leader, Geert Wilders.
Abu Qasim was arrested after a speech he gave in Amsterdam’s central Dam Square on May 25 when he warned that Wilders would be “dealt with” once the Netherlands became an Islamic state.
Qasim also called Wilders “this dog of the Romans” and — referring to the Dutch filmmaker and Islam critic who was murdered by [...]
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Several days ago, the world was shocked with the news from Europe. A family couple from Bosnia and Herzegovina had been keeping a young German woman as their slave for eight years. The victim of family violence is now 19 years of age.
The Bosnian couple – Milenko Marinkovic, 52, and his wife Slavojka Marinkovic, 45, – were torturing and starving an underage girl, whose name was Karla (pictured). The girl would be raped by other men on a regular basis.
It [...]
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Azerbaijan said its agents foiled plots by Islamic rebels to kill foreigners at the Eurovision song contest in Baku and assassinate President Ilham Aliyev (pictured).
Azeri law-enforcement officials killed two members of the armed group, including its leader, and arrested 40 more, the National Security Ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. The rebels have links to insurgents in the Dagestan region of neighboring Russia, according to the ministry.
The group planned to detonate explosives at Crystal Hall in Baku during this [...]
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Zaytuna College, a small school in Berkeley that offers majors in Islamic Law and Theology and also Arabic, is moving across town to a spot on “Holy Hill” north of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
The college, now on Hillegass Avenue near People’s Park on the south side of campus, raised $4.9 million through a “brick by brick campaign” to buy a 1939 church building in the angle where Le Conte and Scenic avenues meet. Walter Ratcliff Jr. designed the [...]
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A British aid worker kidnapped nearly three months ago in Sudan’s conflict-plagued Darfur region has been freed, the UN’s World Food Programme said on Wednesday.
“After 86 days in captivity in the South Darfur region of Sudan, British aid worker Patrick Noonan, who was working for the UN World Food Programme, has been released,” WFP said in a statement.
Noonan had been in Sudan for about two years and was working as a logistician in Nyala town when he was abducted by [...]
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Synagogues and schools line Park Heights Avenue in Pikesville — Temple Oheb Shalom, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and the Shoshana S. Cardin School, among them. Nearby is the nation’s largest kosher grocery store, and signs promoting Jewish organizations dot the neighborhood.
Now the street that runs through the heart of Baltimore’s Jewish community is getting a new religious building: a mosque for Ahmadi Muslims. That plan has taken some area residents by surprise and even stirred some concerns.
The Baltimore congregation of the [...]
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Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank ADIB.AD, the second-largest Islamic lender in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), opened its first branch in London’s swanky Knightsbridge on Wednesday, targeting wealthy Gulf clients in Britain.
Sheikh Khalid Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, joined Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, to open the office at One Hyde Park, the 1 billion pound luxury Candy and Candy development located near the Harrods department store.
Trad Al Mahmoud, chief executive of ADIB [...]
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (pictured) warned on Wednesday against the devastating consequences of a Libyan-style intervention in Syria.
According to a report in the Iranian-based Fars news agency, Larijani said that a policy of intervention in Syria would spread to “the occupied Palestinian territories” and would harm Israel.
Noting the recent remarks by U.S. and Western officials on Syria, Larijani was quoted as having said, “It seems that the U.S. and the West are seeking to prepare the ground for a [...]
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A military judge overseeing the Sept. 11 conspiracy trial at Guantánamo has set the next hearing in the case for five days during Ramadan, and says the month when Muslim fast during the day is no excuse for a delay.
Army Col. James L. Pohl, the judge, made note of the holy month, in a scheduling order that grappled with the complexities of mounting the joint capital trial of accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged accomplices at the [...]
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In another twist to a case that is straining Islamabad’s ties with Washington, a Pakistani court says the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden was imprisoned for aiding militants and not for his links to the CIA.
It is the third different explanation for the 33-year jail sentence handed to Dr. Shakil Afridi.
Last week after his conviction by a court in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said the decision was based on [...]
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Iran’s United Nations mission has strongly denied a U.S. newspaper report alleging evidence existed implicating Tehran or its Lebanese proxy militia Hezbollah in international assassination plots, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
“Iran has always condemned any terrorist acts and these baseless accusations are being made against the Islamic state in line with Iranophobia and the policy of putting illegal pressure on Iran,” the Iranian mission said in letter to the Washington Post newspaper, which published the report, according to the Arman [...]
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It reads “We Will Never Forget,” but lawmakers in California can’t say that’s the case. Money raised through the sale of a commemorative license plate meant to fund families impacted by the September 11 terrorist attacks has been grossly mismanaged.
An investigation carried out by the Associated Press reveals that millions of dollars designated to go towards scholarships for the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks living in California and other endeavors has instead been spent elsewhere; in many cases, [...]
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Two U.S. tourists have been kidnapped in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula by Bedouins protesting the arrest of one of their tribesmen on a drugs charge, a security official said on Thursday.
The tourists were abducted late on Wednesday near the resort of Dahab on the Red Sea, the official said, adding that talks were under way in a bid to secure their release.
The two men were driving near the Dahab resort when they were stopped by a group of Bedouins at a [...]
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Recently, northern Italy has been rocked by earthquakes. Temporary camps have been set up to offer shelter to people in the affected area.
Naturally, as happened in Spain last year, immigrants and wastrels, people who might have no fixed abode even in ordinary circumstances, descend on these camps to grab whatever they can get.
There have been several complaints that the immigrants are receiving privileged admission to and treatment in the camps compared to native Italians. What’s clear is that the Muslims, [...]
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A public inquiry was set up by The Planning Inspectorate in February to inspect the council’s enforcement notice on the grounds that the primary school and nursery was not safe or fit to operate as a school.
The enforcement notice was quashed and planning permission granted at Newham Town Hall in East Ham.
Headteacher Hasib Hikmat (pictured) estimates it has cost the school £52,000 in legal fees to overturn the decision.
He said: “In a time of austerity, the council think it’s fine [...]
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According to the popular Egyptian website, El Bashayer, Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, just declared that he will “achieve the Islamic conquest (fath) of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Islam, or else pay the jizya,” the additional Islamic tax, or financial tribute, required of non-Muslims, or financial tribute.
In a brief report written by Samuel al-Ashay and published by El Bashayer on May 27, Morsi allegedly made these comments while speaking with a [...]
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Over 150 girls and teachers are being treated at a hospital following a poison attack on their school on Tuesday in the Takhar province. According to doctors this is the third attack on schools in northern Afghan provinces of Balkh and Takhar.
Takhar province Police Chief, Mahmood Hassan, said an investigation team at the school found that a toxic material appeared to have been sprayed in the air prior to the girls’ entering the premises.
Many of the students suffered headaches, vomiting [...]
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An estimated 66,000 girls have been illegally mutilated in the UK, but no one has yet been prosecuted for this practice.
**Advisory: Graphic language and descriptions of a sexual nature**
“After the pain, it was the screaming that I’ll never forget. It wasn’t just mine and my sister’s screams, there were so many other girls there – all being cut. I’ve never heard screams like that again and I don’t think I ever will.”
Aissa, from Mali, West Africa was just six [...]
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Construction work continued on a Murfreesboro, Tenn., mosque Wednesday despite a judge’s ruling a day earlier voiding building permits for the controversial project.
Chancellor Robert Corlew III of the 16th District Chancery Court ruled that construction must cease because not enough notice was given about a May 24, 2010, public meeting in which Rutherford County planning commissioners approved the site plan for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.
“This is Sharia law,” Joe Brandon, plaintiffs’ attorney, said of construction continuing [...]
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Department of Defense spokesperson George Little said on Tuesday that the unmanned drones and its missile strikes operated by the CIA are “lawful and precise” and that they operate within the confines of American law and policy.
In a press briefing at the Pentagon on Tuesday, the DoD spokesperson was asked about the specifics of the drone program, which has drawn condemnation and even lawsuits from different international quarters, that it was currently being deployed in various countries by the US [...]
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The National Commission for Minorities has recommended that the government enact a law under which new converts belonging to non-Muslim communities should be stopped from marrying until at least six months of their conversion.
The recommendation from the newly-formed representative body of minorities comes at a time of mushrooming allegations of forced conversions, mainly of Hindu girls in Sindh. Minorities claim that, in most of the cases of conversions followed by marriage, girls belonging to non-Muslim communities are victims of rape [...]
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The official results of the first round of the Egyptian presidential elections were announced, the run-off will be between Mohamed Morsy, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and Air Marshal Ahmad Shafik, Mubarak’s last PM, who served for less than one month during the revolution and before Mubarak was ousted.
This results, which were expected since Friday, has enraged many Egyptians who feel that they are left with two options, each worst than the other, namely either going back to the Mubarak regime [...]
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More than 30,000 children under the age of 15 are employed in Morocco as domestic servants, according to figures released Tuesday by the planning ministry.
A law banning this practice was drawn up by the previous government but has still not been passed by parliament.
During a seminar on Saturday in Rabat, a rights group stressed that the employment of under-age maids was “the result of poverty, illiteracy and the lack of infrastructure in rural zones,” where most child workers come from.
The [...]
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A Palestinian Authority woman author has managed to get the Univ. of Texas not to publish a book on the Middle East – because it includes Israeli authors. She would have preferred that they be excluded, but the university would not do that., so she ruined the possibility of the book’s publication.
“I am so proud of having the book cancelled,” Palestinian author Huzama Habayeb (pictured), who lives in Dubai, told Gulf News, “I am a Palestinian and to achieve this, to be [...]
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