The idea that a months-old anti-Islam video of dubious and confused provenance, amateur and plodding in its execution, a mere 14 or 15 minutes long and available only on Youtube, was the prime mover behind the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya is and was always farcical. The further idea that it was the catalytic trigger for the riots that mushroomed around the Islamic world on the days after the 11th anniversary of 9/11 is even more farcical.
Yet from [...]
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved new guidelines for advertisements, prohibiting those that it “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace.”
The 8-to-0 vote by the authority’s board came three days after pro-Israel ads characterizing Islamist opponents of the Jewish state as being “savage” began appearing in subway stations, setting off vandalism, denunciations of the authority and calls for the ads’ removal.
The authority had initially rejected the ads, citing their “demeaning” language. The group [...]
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To reach the heart of HM Prison Belmarsh is a bleak and time-consuming process. It means a thorough search at the gate, the issuing of a special biometric identity card, and a long, repetitive journey through successive electronic gates in the vast, brick-built perimeter and concentric layers of razor-wire fence. It is a journey down long, harshly echoing corridors to the centre of a maximum-security onion.
It is also an education in the technology of control – from control rooms linked [...]
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Various translations of ‘blasphemy’ verses in the Koran – Verse 33:57:
Yusuf Ali: Those who annoy Allah and His Messenger – Allah has cursed them in this World and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating Punishment.
Ali Unal: Those who affront God and His Messenger (through disrespect for Him in words and acts and for His Messenger and Islamic values), God certainly curses them (excludes them from His mercy) in this world and the Hereafter, and has prepared [...]
Report 1: Rival protests by a far-right group and anti-fascists have passed off peacefully, police have said.
The Scottish Defence League (SDL) held a static protest outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, while Unite Against Fascism organised its own counter-protest.
Police said that around 60 people attended the SDL event, which lasted for around 45 minutes. The majority arrived by coach.
Meanwhile Unite Against Fascism said its march from the City Chambers on the Royal Mile to the Parliament attracted over 300 people. [...]
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A spate of shootings across the far South on Saturday left five people dead, including one police officer, and several injured.
The dead also included a village defence volunteer who was gunned down while on her way to a shooting club with her husband. She was found dead with a shotgun in her hand.
The policeman, Sen Sgt Maj Mustorfa Laehae, 44, of Pattani police station, was killed in a drive-by shooting on a local road in Ban Sue Dung in Sai [...]
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A Pakistani Christian girl student of grade 6th named Aney daughter of Tariq, resident of Dhula Gujranwala, was kidnapped on September 4, 2012, on her way to school.
The Muslim kidnaper Haider Butt son of Mohammad Ijaz announced same day of September 4th that Aney has converted to Islam and married him with her free will.
The official age of marriage in Pakistan is 18 years when any one becomes officially adult while Islamic law in Pakistan sets that age of 16 [...]
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A prison break in Saddam Hussein’s hometown in which dozens of Al Qaeda-linked militants escaped was an inside job, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said.
The ministry’s statement issued late Friday also raised the death toll to 20, including 16 security force members and four inmates.
It said there was “clear collusion” between some guards and inmates at the Tasfirat prison in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad. Weapons were brought into the prison during family visits, and wardens left locks inside the facility [...]
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A mentally challenged boy’s screams from his ‘jail’ at home, revealed a life of abuse, which led his father to get a two-year prison sentence.
The public prosecution filed a lawsuit against the father after the man’s son was found deprived of food and covered in his own waste as the family went on an out-of-city vacation.
According to the details available from the court, the boy’s father left him alone confined to a room in his house and a left some [...]
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Pakistan Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, who had announced a bounty on the maker of the anti-Islam film, remains undeterred by scathing criticism from several quarters over the offer, saying he would announce head money for anyone who blasphemes Islam.
Bilour, who belongs to the liberal Awami National Party (ANP), said it was unfair on the part of the West to defend the sacrilegious movie as “freedom of expression”, reports The Express Tribune.
Bilour came under criticism from Western countries as well [...]
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While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly toned down his usual anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric in his annual speech to the United Nations General Assembly, he did not hold back Tuesday evening when the Iranian government hosted what was described as a dinner for “leaders of Abrahamic religions.”
Among those in attendance was the notorious anti-Semite and racist Louis Farrakhan, the 79-year-old leader of the Nation of Islam, the group which has recently escalated a campaign promoting a range of propaganda demonizing [...]
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US Embassy in Cairo
The United States warned on Saturday that U.S. women Christian missionaries in mainly Muslim Egypt face threats of terror attacks and urged vigilance.
“The embassy has credible information suggesting terrorist interest in targeting U.S. female missionaries in Egypt,” the American mission in Cairo said in a statement on its website.
“Accordingly, U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance, taking necessary precautions to maintain their personal security,” it said, calling on Americans to ensure they can be contacted by diplomatic missions [...]
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A mob torched and vandalized a village of Buddhists in Cox’s Bazaar’s Ramu Upazila early on Sunday in one of the worst religious attacks in Bangladesh apparently triggered by a Facebook posting allegedly defaming the Quran.
Eyewitnesses and police said the assailants set fire to at least six Buddhist temples and nearly 20 homes and looted and damaged more than a hundred others until 3am in the hate attack.
Cox’s Bazaar district’s Superintendent of Police Selim Mohammed Jahangir acknowledged the violence in [...]
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Court documents show Youssef, 55, legally changed his name from Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in 2002, but never told federal authorities.
Muslims across the Middle East outraged by an anti-Islam film made in America wanted swift punishment for the man behind the movie, and now Mark Basseley Youssef is behind bars. But he’s jailed for lying about his identity, not because of the video’s content.
Court documents show Youssef, 55, legally changed his name from Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in 2002, but never told [...]
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British tourists are flocking to a new shooting range in Las Vegas which offers them the chance to shoot weapons like those used in the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.
The people behind Machine Guns Vegas say it is unlike any other gun range – featuring some of the most high-powered weapons in the world alongside the glamour of Sin City.
And they estimate as many as 20% of their customers are from the UK.
For $200 (£124) customers can choose from [...]
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After a slew of court challenges demanding his homecoming and a decade in Guantanamo Bay, convicted terrorist Omar Khadr is back in Canada.
Khadr landed at CFB Trenton military base Saturday morning after being transported from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, aboard a U.S. government plane and was then brought to Millhaven maximum-security prison in Bath, Ont.
In a hastily organized news conference in Winnipeg, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Khadr is now in the hands of Canada’s correctional services, which he is [...]
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NATO soldier and a civilian contractor have been killed in a suspected insider attack in eastern Afghanistan which also resulted in Afghan army casualties, NATO’s military said Sunday.
The Afghan casualties were “a result of the engagement” on Saturday night, an International Security Assistance Force spokesman told AFP, but could not confirm whether they had been killed by the insider or in return fire by ISAF troops.
No further details of the incident were immediately available but a joint assessment of the [...]
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