“I politely [told] her to cover herself up,” said Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti, an Iranian cleric in the city of Shamirzad in Semnan Province, describing a recent encounter with a woman he believed was improperly veiled.
“She responded to me by saying: ‘You [should] close your eyes.’”
The cleric, who spoke to the semi-official Mehr news agency, said he repeated his warning to the “bad hijab” woman, which is a way of describing women who do not fully observe the Islamic dress code [...]
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is pleased to announce the publication of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, by bestselling author and commentator, Andrew C. McCarthy, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Freedom Center, our East Coast branch.
McCarthy describes Spring Fever as “an alternative way to understand what is happening in the Middle East, an antidote to the delirious ‘Arab Spring’ narrative.” It shows that Islam is a culture and civilization distinct from and hostile to the West, and that [...]
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Some 1,500 devoted Tunisian Christian, most of them former Muslims, worship in church buildings or in house churches despite death threats and growing influence of Islamic extremists.
Open Doors, which supports “persecuted Christians” worldwide, mentioned a man identified only as Steve who was allegedly threatened by Islamists. “They said to me: ‘Do you know that it is not forbidden to kill you?’ But I didn’t really feel afraid,” Steve was quoted as saying.
“I could answer them: ‘Yes I know you can do [...]
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A controversial sheik whose teachings have been linked to the Sydney riot is due to address a gathering of hardline Muslims today about their “responsibilities” in the wake of the YouTube clip mocking their prophet.
Hundreds of hardcore Islamists are due to converge on the Bukhari House bookshop-cum-prayer hall in Auburn to hear firebrand cleric Sheik Feiz Mohammed and several other sheiks speak. Police are aware of the event but would not comment yesterday on whether they would have a presence [...]
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would transfer the chemical weapons to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, a Syrian defected general told the Times of London.
Former Syrian general turned defector, Major-General Adnan Sillu, said that aside from plans to transfer weapons to Hezbollah, Syria had planned to use chemical weapons on the Syrian people, “as a last resort,” a report on the Israeli online edition of Haaretz said, quoting the Times.
“We were in a serious discussion about the use of chemical weapons, [...]
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A Salafist cleric in Egypt is calling for the deaths of all those involved in the making of an anti-Muslim film that has outraged the Islamic world, SITE Intelligence Group said.
In a statement, the terrorism monitoring service said Ahmad Fouad Ashoush issued his fatwa, or religious edict, against the cast and crew of “Innocence of Muslims” via jihadist Internet forums over the weekend.
“Those bastards who did this film are belligerent disbelievers,” Ashoush said, according to SITE’s translation of the lengthy [...]
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A Libyan Salafi group which has denied it was involved in a deadly assault on the American consulate in Benghazi said on Tuesday Libya would turn into “an inferno for U.S. troops” if the U.S. military retaliated.
Yousef Jehani, a senior member of Ansar al-Sharia, told Reuters that the armed group, which espouses an austere form of Islam, wanted to avoid confrontation but was ready for a showdown if Washington acted “foolishly.”
Any U.S. military intervention could push Libyans to wage a [...]
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A senior radiographer accused of groping a junior colleague threatened to make a counter claim of sexual harassment when she complained, a hearing was told.
Ahmed Omar repeatedly touched the woman’s bottom and joked that she should become his ‘second wife’ during a leaving do at Newham University Hospital in east London.
When the woman, referred to only as S1, threatened to report him, he warned her that he would tell bosses she touched his ‘willy.’
Giving evidence from behind screens at the [...]
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My hands are tied. This, in essence, is the response that Chris Bowen, the Minister for Immigration, has given to questions in Parliament this week about why he granted a visa to an Islamic fundamentalist, Taji Mustafa, who spoke over the weekend at a conference organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group notorious for religious intolerance, disdain for Western values and sympathy for jihad.
“Hizb ut-Tahrir has not been proscribed in Australia and nor has it been proscribed in the United States [...]
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Transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” September 17, 2012.
BILL O’REILLY, FNC HOST: Now for the “Top Story”. Tonight, why do so many millions of Muslims hate the U.S.A.? Joining us now from Portland, Oregon, Harris Zafar, National spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community; and here in the studio, Irshad Manji author of the new book, “Allah, Liberty and Love.”
All right, Miss Manji, what if — if you had to point to one thing that makes some Muslims hate the U.S.A., it would [...]
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The FBI is investigating vandalism at a mosque that was spray-painted with obscene graffiti that included a misspelled reference to Iraqis and the phrase, “This is America.”
Lawrence Barry of the FBI office in Richmond said Monday that the agency is helping local authorities investigate. He said the FBI joined the investigation at the request of officials at the Islamic Center of the Shenandoah Valley, one of three Harrisonburg buildings targeted by vandals late last week.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations [...]
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The Indonesian government has formally complained to the United States over the production and distribution of a movie defaming Islam and the Prophet Muhammad called “Innocence of Muslims.”
“Who doesn’t condemn [the movie]? Even the American government condemns it, let alone us. We’ve already conveyed our objections to them,” said Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa at the presidential palace on Tuesday.
Marty said he could understand why the movie sparked so many protests.
With regards to Monday’s anarchic demonstration in front of the [...]
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Mother Teresa Catholic secondary school is turning a second-floor office into an Islamic prayer room — the first high school in the city, private or public, to do so.
Carpet will soon cover the tile flooring, speakers will be installed and prayer mats purchased to provide the school’s Muslim students, estimated at around two dozen, with a quiet and private place to pray.
The idea has been in the works since the end of the last school year after a group of [...]
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France is to ban a demonstration against Innocence of Muslims planned for Saturday in Paris, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Wednesday. As demonstrations against the film continued in Afghanistan, Ayrault declared that the controversy has nothing to do with France.
Calls to protest against the film, which has had insulting references to the Prophet Mohammed dubbed into it, have been issued on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks this week after police broke up an unauthorized demonstration in Paris last [...]
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“Innocence of Muslims,” a controversial film which has sparked violent protests across the Middle East over the past 10 days due to its anti-Islamic content, will be discussed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) members next week at a meeting in New York, the OIC’s secretary-general announced on Tuesday.
OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin ?hsanoglu told a press conference at the headquarters of the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah that the efforts he had made over the previous few days had resulted [...]
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Councilors are set to tell a mosque in Blackburn to move out of a terrace house after objections from neighbors.
The town’s MP Jack Straw has backed objectors to an application for retrospective planning consent for the place of worship above the Ashrafi Study Centre Madrassah, in Accrington Road, Audley.
He has told Blackburn with Darwen planning committee that using terraced houses as mosques was no longer necessary, or appropriate, to allow Muslims to practise their faith.
Farooq Mohammed has been operating an [...]
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German politicians and Muslim groups are agonizing over whether to ban a small far-right group from screening in public an anti-Islam film that has sparked violent protests from Pakistan to Sudan.
The Pro Deutschland (Pro Germany) group has vowed to show the full-length version of the film “Innocence of Muslims”, which was made in America and has been deemed insulting to Islam in a cinema, in Berlin, which has a large Muslim community.
Fearing the sort of violence that has swept parts [...]
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A French satirical magazine published nude cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed today, a move that could further inflame tensions after violent protests in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film.
The cover of Charlie Hebdo shows a Muslim in a wheelchair being pushed by an Orthodox Jew under the title “Intouchables 2″, referring to an award-winning French film about a poor black man who helps an aristocratic quadriplegic.
Another cartoon on the back page of the weekly magazine show a naked turbaned [...]
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The authorities in Egyptian have charged seven Coptic Christians living in the United States along with a Florida based Pastor Terry Jones with insulting Islam and inciting sectarian strife for their alleged links to an online video. Egypt has identified alleged filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula as Elia Bassili. He is believed to be Coptic Christian. Some media quoted the Egyptian authorities saying that they would approach Interpol, who in turn will contact the US Government.
“Were such a request to be [...]
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A Derby Muslim who was found to have extremist literature on his computer has been jailed for a year.
Old Bailey judge Mr Justice Fulford agreed that the material found at Umran Javed’s home was old and had not been accessed since he had served a jail sentence for inciting murder during a protest march but he added that the two documents contained extremist views and encouragement for terrorism.
Father-of-two Javed had been sentenced in 2007 to six years jail – reduced [...]
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A United States bank had its website targeted by hackers Tuesday in revenge for the obscure amateur video that mocked Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. Visitors to the U.S.-based Bank of America website were temporarily unable to perform transactions as a result of the attack.
The hackers, who called themselves “Cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam” appeared not to be U.S.-born, or at least, seemed to post in English as a second – or third – language. They added in the jihadist statement posted [...]
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