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This long piece in the London Times describes the efforts of some British Muslims to prohibit blasphemy, either through legal action or through mob violence:Britain faces an alarming rise in intimidation and threats of violence against those perceived to have insulted Islam, a new report will warn.Protests condemning acts of apparent blasphemy have become more frequent and radicalised, according to independent research commissioned by the government’s counterextremism chief.The report, seen by The Times, exposes links between activists at the forefront of recent protests in the UK and an extremist Islamist political party in Pakistan whose members have regularly called for...

The African nation of Angola has reportedly become the first country to ban Islam and Muslims, reports On Islam. Concerning the ban, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said Sunday: “this is the final end of Islamic influence in our country.” Angola’s ban was first announced when Angolan Minister of Culture, Rosa Cruz e Silva said: “the process of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice.” Silva reportedly said the ban was necessary since Islam is “contradictory to the customs of Angola culture and...

LUANDA – According to several Angolain newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country. “The process of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice,” Rosa Cruz e Silva, the Angolan Minister of Culture, was quoted by Agence Ecofin on Friday, November 22.

Muslims making a spectacle of desecrating the American flag.

LONDON (AFP) - Police have revealed they were investigating the dumping of a pig's head outside a mosque on the first full day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The head was found outside the Jamia Mosque in Newport, southeast Wales, on Saturday. The Koran strictly forbids Muslims to eat pork. "We treat all incidents of hate crime seriously and are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry to identify the offender," said Gwent Police Superintendent Simon Prince on Friday. Nobody at the mosque was available for comment but Sheikh Mohammad Thair Ullah, the chairman of the nearby Shah...

There is no reason why Western lifestyles have to put up with Muslim females draped from head to toe so that their identities are completely hidden. This is offensive to those enjoying free nations’ liberties. These Islamic customs are not only ridiculous but offensive to reason. If free nations have any self-respect they will see to it that such garb is banned. It is not being irreligious or discourteous. It is being logical. How can a public school teacher in such dress instruct pupils? She can’t. How can a civil servant see through her duties as a social worker or...

CAIR membership plummets June 11, 2007 ONLINE EXCLUSIVE / DEVELOPING: Membership in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has declined more than 90 percent since the 2001 terrorist attacks, Audrey Hudson will report in Tuesday's editions of The Washington Times. According to tax documents obtained by The Times, the number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to less than 1,700 in 2006, a loss of membership that caused the Muslim rights group's annual income from dues to drop from $732,765 in 2000, when yearly dues cost $25, to $58,750 last year, when the group charged...

Murdered schoolgirl 'was put into kebab' By Paul Willis Last Updated: 3:49pm BST 24/05/2007 The owner of a fast food shop accused of murdering a 14-year-old schoolgirl joked that she had been chopped up and put into kebabs, a court heard today. Iyad Albattikhi, 29, is accused of killing Charlene Downes after having sex with her. The girl went missing in November 2003 in Blackpool after kissing her mother goodbye on a Saturday evening. No trace of her body has ever been found. A missing persons inquiry began but police later launched a murder investigation after a witness claimed to...

Al Qaeda has a new opening graphic for its propaganda tapes: the U.S. Capitol under "attack." "The Islamic State of Iraq...March Toward Washington" reads the headline in English superimposed over a digitally created scene of the U.S. Capitol under attack in the introductory sequence of one tape released on the Internet this week. Another from al Qaeda's "as Sahab" production arm announces "Holocaust of the Americans in the Land of Khorasan" and shows an image of the U.S. Capitol to introduce a short clip of al Qaeda fighters. "This is a disturbing new trend," says Laura Mansfield, an Arabic expert...

WASHINGTON, DC - May 21, 2007 (MASNET) Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia gave the keynote address for the 5th Annual Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation 'Standing for Justice Dinner'. The governor, joined by members of his cabinet, spoke individually with Muslim community leaders during a special leadership reception. The reception was followed by the Freedom Foundation Award Dinner. In an occasion marking the first public speech to a Muslim gathering by a Virginia governor, he acknowledged the civic work and civil rights accomplishments of the Freedom Foundation, and stressed the need for people of all faith traditions to work...

TRIPOLI: Deep in a violent and lawless slum just north of this coastal city, 12 men with their faces shrouded by black and red-and-white scarves drilled with Kalashnikovs. In unison, they lunged in one direction, turned and lunged in another. "Allahu Akbar," the men shouted their praise to God as they fired their machine guns into a wall. The men belong to a new militant Islamic organization called Fatah al-Islam, whose leader, a fugitive Palestinian named Shakir al-Abssi, has set up operations in a refugee camp here where he is training fighters and spreading the ideology of Al Qaeda. He...

... Then we talked about terrorism and of all the candidates, Rudy Guiliani included, Romney communicated on Tuesday in the debate a better understanding of Islamic fundamentalism and who hates who and why than any candidate on the Republican side, or at least he can express it in terms that a lay person can understand. Rudy Guiliani, of course understands the on the ground results and how to respond to terrorism and understands the threat but in the debates as well as in interviews has needed to spend a great deal of time clarifying his positions on social issues. Romney,...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Gulf Arab states began working on feasibility studies for a joint nuclear program on Monday and a leading Gulf official said they were set on pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes only. "The promising future of nuclear energy in electricity generation and desalination can make it a source for meeting increasing needs," Gulf Cooperation Council head Abdul-Rahman al-Attiya told the first meeting of Gulf nuclear experts. The GCC, a major energy producing group that includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, agreed with the U.N. atomic watchdog in February to cooperate in...

NEW YORK --A Florida doctor was convicted Monday of providing material support to terrorists by agreeing to treat injured al-Qaida fighters so they could return to Iraq to battle Americans. Dr. Rafiq Abdus Sabir, 52, was convicted in federal court in Manhattan after a three-week trial that featured testimony by him and Ali Soufan, an FBI agent who posed as an al-Qaida recruiter in a sting operation that led to four arrests. When the verdict was read, Sabir looked straight ahead. Later, as he was escorted from the courtroom, he waved to supporters, who said, "Stay strong." His lawyer, Ed...

Islamism, not Islam is the Problem By M. Zuhdi Jasser Most of the attention, scholarship, and punditry in the United States given towards Islam and Muslims since 9-11 have focused upon problems with comparatively little attention toward solutions. Understandably motivated by a need to improve security and understand the enemy, American curiosity about Islam, Islamism, and militant Islamism continues to grow. Yet, comparatively American Muslims have offered few solutions except for the few rare voices of Muslim moderation (anti-Islamism) across America, Canada, and Europe. At times there is only a binary choice in the public ether between the voices who...

Cartoons were terror motive claim 17.05.2007 Prosecutors claim that four men charged with planning a terrorist bombing were seeking revenge for publication of the Mohammed cartoons Retribution for a Danish newspaper's publication of the now-infamous Mohammed cartoons was one of the motives behind four men's alleged plans to detonate a bomb in Copenhagen, according to the assistant crown prosecutor in the Vollsmose terror trial. Charlotte Alsing Juul accused three of the men of using the cartoons and Denmark's participation in the Iraq war as justification for planning to bomb 'a place where political decisions are made', such as parliament's address...

MUSLIMS are outraged that prospective citizens will have to acknowledge the Judeo-Christian tradition as the basis of Australia's values system. Australia's peak Muslim body said the proposed citizenship question - revealed in the Herald Sun - was disturbing and potentially divisive. Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Dr Ameer Ali said the "Abrahamic tradition" or "universal values" would be less divisive ways of describing the nation's moral base. Dr Ali said use of the term Judeo-Christian was the result of "WWII guilt", and before 1945 Australia would have been called only Christian. "That question must be rephrased," he said. Dr...

My question is: What will you do if your children, friends, loved ones are blown up in a mall by Jihadists? Will you hunker down into the safety of your home and neigborhood. Will you lash out to anything Muslim? Will you join a clandestine group to counter said atrocity? What will you do? I'm very sorry to burst your bubble, but it's coming. So then, what will you do? Complain to your local representitives? As if they could do anything about it. What would your REALLY do? Think.

Ah-lah-lah-lah, Ah-lah-lah-lah Ah-lah-lah-lah, Ah-lah-lah-lah, at the mosque! Well, you can watch the heads a-rollin' You can build some bombs that blow up at the mosque When the imams start a spinnin' 'bout a so-called peace religion at the mosque Like the france invasion they are here in this nation at the mosque Ah, let's go to the mosque Let's go to the mosque (allah willing) Let's go to the mosque (allah willing) Let's go to the mosque Come on, let's go to the mosque You can swing your swords at jews You can even worship the moon at the mosque...

"During the Cold War, two things came to be known and generally recognized in the Middle East concerning the two rival superpowers. If you did anything to annoy the Russians, punishment would be swift and dire. If you said or did anything against the Americans, not only would there be no punishment; there might even be some possibility of reward." Thus wrote the eminent historian Bernard Lewis in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. According to Mr. Lewis, these different responses evoked very different attitudes toward the two superpowers among Muslims and Arabs, which eventually culminated in the September 11 attacks: