Two judges on Tuesday rejected the latest bid by radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to be freed from detention in Britain, which has been trying to deport him for years.
Lord Justice Anthony Hughes said he and Judge Stephen Silber were “quite satisfied” that the cleric’s bid should be rejected. Lawyers for Abu Qatada said they would seek to appeal. The U.K. has been trying for more than a decade to deport Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-Jordanian preacher described in both Spanish [...]
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On November 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas shot and killed 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian Defense Department employee while wounding 29 others. US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the American-born son of two Palestinian immigrants, reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar!”—“God is great!”—before launching his 10-minute shooting rampage at the Soldier Readiness Center. The shooting—the worst ever on an American military base—occurred as Hasan was facing imminent deployment to Afghanistan. A civilian police officer shot Hasan [...]
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International Religious Freedom Report for 2011 United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 18, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
To think, believe, or [...]
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When the International Olympic Committee turned down a request to hold a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian jihadists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, unnoticed in the furor was the shocking moral inversion in the statement from Jibril Rajoub (pictured), President of the Palestinian Olympic Committee. In explaining why he opposed the moment of silence, Rajoub said: “Sports are meant for peace, not for racism… Sports are a bridge to love, interconnection, and spreading of peace among nations; it [...]
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It seems “pork eating crusader patch” is a big hit among some of the troops in Afghanistan.
Not so much among the Muslim community however – who look at the patch as a symbol of America’s hatred and contempt for their religion.
In Islam “pork” is forbidden for religious reasons.
Promoting pork and the eating of pork is not permissible in Islam.
The “pork eating crusader” patch is sold online and are reported sometimes worn on soldier’s uniforms and gear as gimmicks and jokes.
The [...]
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The following article, courtesy of GatesOfVienna, is about the Brussels Conference and was published recently in the print addition of the German newspaper Junge Freiheit. As far as I am aware, no online version of the piece has been posted.
The Islam-Critics Conference: experts warn of impending restrictions on freedom of expression, by Hinrich Rohbohm, Junge Freiheit, in Brussels
Will criticism of Islam soon be a criminal offense across the EU? This is at least what the International Civil Liberties Alliance (ICLA) [...]
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Murat Gurgen, writing for Habertürk, reports that all all units of the Turkish Land Forces’ 2nd Army Command have been put on standby:
Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdo?an, responding to Assad’s threat to use chemical weapons and the Kurdish takeover of towns in Northern Syria, has said military preparations are proceeding “full steam ahead.”
The chemical weapons threat and movements by Syrian Kurds close to the PKK have prompted the Turkish Armed Forces to elevate their combat readiness level. The media is [...]
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The home of an Alevi family was stoned and their stables burned down by an angry mob yesterday after the family allegedly told a Ramadan drummer not to wake them for sahur, the meal before sunrise.
Members of the Alevi family in the Surgu village of the southeastern Malatya province allegedly asked a Ramadan drummer not to drum in front of their home the night of July 28 as they were not fasting and had work early in the morning. The [...]
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A UN human rights expert is calling on the Iraqi government to halt what he says is the possible imminent execution of up to 196 death row inmates in Anbar province.
The UN investigator on arbitrary executions said in a statement that the execution of so many people in a single province was “extremely disturbing” and might breach international law.
Christof Heyns says capital punishment may only be used under tightly limited circumstances and accuses Iraq of “regrettable lack of transparency in [...]
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A Frontier Post journalist, Anwer Abbas, was beaten up by Islamabad police along with his friend Malik Saeed Awan for having a soda during the daytime in Ramadan.
According to the report, Abbas and his friend – who works for Independent News Pakistan (INP) – went to Daman-i-Koh in Islamabad and were drinking beverages in their car when a police constable saw them.
The policeman accused them of committing a sin by violating the Ramadan Act that prevents people from eating and [...]
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U.S. auditors have concluded that more than $200 million was wasted on a program to train Iraqi police that Baghdad says is neither needed nor wanted.
The Police Development Program- which was drawn up to be the single largest State Department program in the world – was envisioned as a five-year, multibillion-dollar push to train security forces after the U.S. military left last December. But Iraqi political leaders, anxious to keep their distance from the Americans, were unenthusiastic.
A report by the [...]
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A female Saudi judo fighter will take part in the Olympic judo competition after being allowed to wear an Islamic headscarf, or hijab, of a specific design, officials said on Monday.
Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shaherkani (pictured) is one of only two Saudi women to travel to London after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) lobbied the conservative Islamic kingdom to end its refusal to send women to the Games.
But she had said she would only compete if she was allowed to [...]
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The White House called Monday on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to explain recent remarks including his apparent endorsement of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a position that counters U.S. policy.
Romney, in the midst of a three-nation tour, gave a speech Sunday in Jerusalem where he hailed the city as “the capital of Israel,” in apparent support of a position held by the Jewish state.
The comment was swiftly rejected by ”Palestinian” negotiator Saeb Erakat as “unacceptable” and “harmful to American interests [...]
A 28-year-old woman believed to be a Saudi citizen, who made headlines escaping to Lebanon after converting to Christianity, has now left for Turkey, UAE daily Gulf news reported on Monday.
“The Lebanese government has informed the Saudi embassy in Beirut that the girl has left the country for Turkey,” Awadh Aseeri, the Saudi ambassador, said.
“The Lebanese authorities said that they were not sure whether the woman would settle in Turkey or would move on to another country,” he the Saudi [...]
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Coming to the aid of a Muslim girl who alleged threats from her family members after she married a Hindu, Madras high court (pictured) bench directed them not to interfere in her life as she was not a minor. Disposing of a petition by 21-year old K Fathima seeking police protection, Justice K Venkataraman said the parents should not interfere and precipitate as the girl was a major.
The girl, an engineering student in Tirunelveli, was in love with her collegemate [...]
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Italy has expelled the former imam of a mosque in suburban Perugia, following his release from prison where he served a six-year sentence for terrorist training.
Moroccan Mostapha El Korchi, former imam of the mosque at Ponte Felcino, was released and repatriated from Rome’s main Leonardo da Vinci airport.
He was regarded as a central character in an investigation that led counter-terrorism authorities in Italy to arrest him and two Moroccan assistants, and seize a wide range of materials.
El Korchi had been [...]
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Lawyers for cleric Abu Qatada will demand his immediate release from prison today.
In his latest appeal, the extremist preacher will ask the High Court to let him out on the streets – during the Olympics.
Qatada is in prison ahead of a court hearing in October which will decide whether he can be deported to Jordan to face terror charges.
His last appeal to the European Court of Human Rights over his deportation failed on May 9.
Then the Special Immigration Appeals Commission [...]
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France’s uneasy relationship with its sizeable Muslim minority, Europe’s largest, has been highlighted by the suspension of four young summer camp monitors accused of endangering children in their care by observing Ramadan.
The local council employing them said a “lack of nutrition and hydration” impaired the assistants’ ability to ensure the smooth and safe running of the camp.
Colonies de vacancies, as the camps are known, were devised by the Swiss in the 19th century and have become a French institution, often [...]
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A Canadian TV anchor appeared in a full face-veil (known in Arabic as the niqab) to present his show on Canadian Sun News TV, ostensibly in a bid to poke fun at the newly-launched Egyptian channel, Maria TV, which features women clad only in the niqab, the Maan News Agency reported on Sunday.
Maria TV, which was launched on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan earlier in July, employs only women in niqab, even for behind-the-camera jobs.
Canadian anchor [...]
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Opponents of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro filed a motion in federal court Monday claiming that U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell accepted “false allegations” in affirming that the controversial mosque can continue its opening process.
Attorney Joe Brandon, who has represented mosque opponents in the past, said he was vexed that federal courts intervened in a local case.
Brandon said the only way to properly conclude the dispute is to provide the public with adequate notice about the mosque, making mosque advocates [...]
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Plans to build a new mosque in Sunderland are expected to be approved tonight.
Sunderland City Council officers have recommended that the development control committee gives the go-ahead to convert a transport depot in St Mark’s Road, Millfield, into an Islamic place of worship.
The application, which was submitted by the Pakistan Islamic Centre, drew 671 letters of objection. Most were based on two template letters. There was also a petition signed by 1,462 people.
The main reasons for objection were given as [...]
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An al-Qaeda-linked Islamic militant group in control of northern Mali stoned to death a married couple accused of engaging in extramarital affairs, the group’s spokesperson said.
The couple were publicly executed in the remote town of Aguelhok, near the vast West African nation’s northern border with Algeria, on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Ansar Dine group told Reuters.
“These two people were married and had extra-conjugal relations. Our men on the ground in Aguelhok applied sharia (Islamic law),” said Sanda Ould Bounama, [...]
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An islamic school in Sydney’s south-west has been ordered to pay back $9 million in New South Wales public funds.
Education Minister Adrian Piccoli wrote to the Malek Fahd Islamic School (pictured) in Greenacre yesterday advising the funds must be repaid.
A spokesman for Mr Piccoli says the order follows a Federal Government audit, requested after concerns about the financial arrangements between the school and the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils.
The spokesman says the school has been operating against not-for-profit guidelines since [...]
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Immigrants with more than one wife will qualify for extra benefits under reforms to Britain’s welfare system, after an attempt to crack down on the problem backfired.
Polygamous marriages, largely confined to Muslim families, are only recognised in Britain if they took place in countries where they are legal.
Currently, any additional wives can receive reduced individual income support, meaning the husband and his first wife are paid up to £111.45.
Subsequent spouses living under the same roof receive around £40. Under the [...]
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When it comes to guest speakers, the Hillsborough County school district trusts teachers and principals to do what’s best for students.
But when it comes to some organizations — say, the Council on American-Islamic Relations — some would like the schools to require parental consent.
Tampa 912 Project, an organization politically similar to the Tea Party, has invited school board candidates to a forum Tuesday evening.
And the group has asked candidates to sign this pledge:
I recognize that the Council On American-Islamic Relations [...]
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