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Ramallah: Palestinians throw Molotov cocktails at bus
Published: 01.13.07, 23:10
Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails at an Israeli bus Saturday west of Ramallah. No injuries or damages were reported.
IDF forces began scanning the area. (Efrat Weiss)
Low domestic birth rates and rising immigration from the former Soviet republics have produced an explosive growth in Russia's Muslim community. At the same time Russia's overall population is in crisis. Short life spans and low birth rates among ethnic Russians mean the population is declining by 700,000 people a year.
The return of long-denied religious freedoms in Russia has seen Islam flourish. As a result, many ethnic Russians fear their country is losing its national identity. There are around 25 million Muslims in Russia today, a rise of 40 per cent since 1989. By 2020, with the continued growth rate, Muslims will account for one-fifth of the entire population.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F8C5F608-FA29-4BB3-A7CA-A6F05B98BE23.htm
Strong rise in number of Germans converting to Islam
Jan 13, 2007
There has been a surge in the number of Germans converting to Islam, the weekly Der Spiegel on Saturday cited an Interior Ministry-sponsored study. Around 4,000 Germans converted to Islam between July 2004 and June 2005 which is four times as many as in the prior space of time, said the study which was conducted by the Islam-Archive Central Institute, based in the western town of Soest.
The head of the German Islam think-tank, Salim Abdullah pointed out that that most of those who converted to Islam, have been women and well-educated.
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http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-20/0701139478163715.htm
Letter threatening church schools has Islamic undertone
1/13/07
Prague- The anonymous letter threatening with an explosion in church schools in Prague on Thursday, implies an Islamic undertone as if someone wanted to take revenge on Christians for suppressing Muslims, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today, referring to well-informed police sources.
Police experts, who requested anonymity, assess the letter's author as either a psychopath, an absolutely unscrupulous joker or a really outraged Muslim, the paper says.
Asked about a distinctive Islamic undertone in the letter, Interior Minister Ivan Langer (Civic Democrats, ODS) refused to comment on these speculations. Police received the threatening letter on Thursday. Next day, policemen were searching the schools, but no explosives were found.
Detectives are investigating the case on suspicion of attempted terrorist attack. Other parts of the Integrated Rescue System participated in the security measures. The civilian counter-intelligence service (BIS) was also on alert over a possible danger, MfD says
INTELLIGENCE-SUMMIT.blogspot.com (AKI): Madrid - "MIDDLE EAST: IRAQ-TRAINED JIHADISTS RETURNING TO SPAIN, REPORT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police believe the 11 Ceuta suspects are related to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), which is thought to have been involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings - in which 191 people died - and the 2003 suicide attacks on Casablanca that killed 45.")