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A Malaysian woman held for months in an Islamic rehabilitation centre says she was subjected to mental torture for insisting her religion is Hinduism. Revathi Massosai, the name by which she wants to be known, says she was forced to eat beef despite being a Hindu. Miss Massosai was seized by the Islamic authorities in January when she went to court to ask that she be registered as a Hindu rather than a Muslim

Immigrants wishing to live in a small Canadian town have been told they must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them. This extraodinary set of rules has been released by the local council of Herouxville, Quebec. The declaration, published on the town's Website, has deepened tensions in the predominantly French-speaking province over how tolerant Quebecers should be toward the customs and traditions of immigrants. "We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here," said the...

The NCAA will consider expanding its ban of championship events in South Carolina, possibly disallowing baseball and football teams from hosting postseason games, because the Confederate flag is displayed on Statehouse grounds.

NEW YORK -- Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception during his appearance at the New School commencement Friday, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised signs in protest and a distinguished student speaker pointedly mocked him as he sat silently nearby. The historically liberal university has been roiled in controversy in recent weeks over the selection of McCain, a conservative Republican and likely 2008 presidential candidate, to deliver the commencement address. Some 1,200 students and faculty signed petitions asking the university president, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, to rescind the invitation. Petitioners said...

RICK ROBERTS IS A CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF REASON ON THE MORNINGS ON CHANNEL 8 IN SAN DIEGO. THE LEFTISTS ARE SEEKING HIS OUSTER FOR COMMENTARY HE GAVE YESTERDAY THAT MERELY POINTED OUT THAT THE WORDS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN SOUNDED VERY SIMILAR TO DEMOCRATIC TALKING POINTS. THEY ARE THREATENING THE STATION AND THE ADVERTISERS. FUNNY HOW THE SO-CALLED "TOLERANT" LIBERALS CANNOT HANDLE SOMEONE ELSE'S FREE SPEECH. PLEASE CONTACT THE STATION IN SUPPORT OF RICK'S RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROVIDING HIS COMMENTARIES IN THE MORNING. THANKS. news8@kfmb.com,programming@kfmb.com,community@kfmb.com, mornings@kfmb.com

The Right loves to sling this smug accusation at critics from the Left. Mark Morford has a reply: I get this a lot: Hey Mark, you nefarious and perverted liberal commie tofu-hugging sex-drunk San Francisco medical experiment gone wrong from the land of fruits and nuts (or some iteration thereof -- so cute, my hate mail can be), hey, I notice you love to ridicule those creepy Christian megachurches and you enjoy spanking wide-eyed Mormons and tweaking the litigious nipples of the cult of Scientology and you recoil from toxic Bush policy like a vegetarian recoils from undercooked veal ......

The elevator door in Jerusalem's City Hall opens on the ground floor and inside stands Mayor Uri Lupolianski with his bodyguard. Waiting for the elevator is Sa'ar Netanel, the forthrightly gay city councilman and nemesis of the haredi mayor. Grinning in full gloat, Netanel – dressed in casual-to-sloppy Jerusalem style, with shirt tails hanging over his loose jeans – gets in and asks the mayor provocatively, "What, don't I get a mazal tov [congratulations]?" Lupolianski – short, well-tailored, every bit the confident mayor – responds in kind. "Mazal tov for what?" he quips. "Did you just have a son? When...

Everyone knows that liberals frequently troll these boards and for some reason one read my little FreepPage and emailed me about it. The following is that exchange. Liberal "joeandsally" : I see on your Freep homepage that liberals are "either willfully ignorant or evil" I am 61, father of three (a second grade teacher, a psychologist and a computer programmer) and grandfather of two. Sally and I have been married for 38 years I have both [b]achelor and master degrees as does my wife. I am a veteran (Captain, USAF) I am a liberal. Armed with this background, perhaps you...

"Making fun of Repubicans won't get them on our side, but threatening to kill them might be more effective."WARNING: The screen blurb on the left of the front page is peppered with F-bombs and similar sentiments from this representative of the Tolerant Left.

Islamist zealots attack Ahmadiyya Mosque in Bangladesh Unruly Islamist zealots attacked an Ahmadiyya mosque and the homes of a number of leaders of the minority Muslim sect in south-western Satkhira district of Bangladesh on Sunday. Witnesses said several hundred bigots brought out a procession in Joginagar village of Samnagar Upazial of the district, demanding that members of the Ahmadiyya community be officially declared 'non-Muslim'. They marched towards the mosque and replaced a signboard inscribed with "It's not a mosque and no Muslim will enter here for namaj (prayer)" instead of the "Ahmadiyya mosque". "The Islamist bigots captured the mosque complex...

...The Taliban was ousted by U.S.-led forces in 2001. The fact that both remaining Jews survived the Taliban's five-year reign is something of a miracle. Taliban authorities, determined to stamp out practices they considered un-Islamic, outlawed music, whipped men who failed to grow long beards and demolished two enormous Buddha statues that were carved into a cliff 13 centuries ago. Kabul's synagogue, an unassuming, white-washed building that was erected around a small courtyard on Flower Street 40 years ago, may have escaped a similar fate because it was so modest, and also because it was deserted and in disrepair when...

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

Muslim militants have threatened to kill Christian nurses serving at the Federal Medical Center in the town of Keffi, in the central state of Nasarawa, unless they stop conducting Christian worship services. An undated letter received by hospital management and the hospital’s chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Nurses (FCN) stated, “We are making it abundantly clear that our thirst for your heads/blood is mounting daily if you continue with your worship services in the hospital unabated.” Subsequently, the medical director and chief executive at Keffi Federal Medical Center banned Christian-related activities at the facility and banned the FCN chapter...

"But the enemy is not just 'terrorism,' some generic evil. This vagueness blurs the strategy. The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism -- especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology."9-11 Commission Report, p. 379 This paragraph from the 9/11 Commission Report should come as no surprise to TCS readers. It reinforces what many of my fellow columnists have been writing about the need to face squarely the role of Islamist ideology in the terrorist threat.Unfortunately, the recommendations from the Commission do not constitute a...

The Temple Mount - Judaism's holiest site - was closed to Jews today in response to Muslim threats of violence if Jews were allowed to visit. The Temple Mount - Judaism's holiest site - was closed to Jews today in response to Muslim threats of violence if Jews were allowed to visit. The decision was made by Jerusalem Police Chief Ilan Franco, citing the threat of Arab violence toward Jews who would enter the holy site. The closure is particularly painful for many Jews, as today is the Fast of Tisha B'Av - the 9th of the Jewish month of...

300 U.S. spies in Bosnia watch mujahedeen Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jul. 26 (UPI) -- Hundreds of U.S. intelligence agents have been moved into Bosnia and Herzegovina to track suspected Islamic militants, the Telegraph said Monday. European intelligence sources say almost a decade after the end of the war in the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina has become a "one-stop shop" for Islamic militants heading from terrorist battlegrounds in Chechnya and Afghanistan to Iraq.

'No gays, adulterers for Muslim villages' By PHOOLO DANNY-MAHARAJ South Bureau Monday, July 19th 2004 Maulana Imran Hosein THERE is a plan to establish Muslim villages in Trinidad and Tobago. Speaking of the plan yesterday Maulana Imran Hosein said it was born of the need to protect and preserve Islam from the ills of society such as alcohol, fornication, adultery, illegitimate children, homosexuality, lesbianism and murders. Hosein, who was earlier this year accused by ASJA of promoting "terrorist-type" ideologies, gave the lecture on the establishment of The Muslim Village in Trinidad and Tobago during a public session at the San...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A headless corpse dressed in an orange jumpsuit has been found by Iraqi police in the Tigris River and handed over to U.S. forces, but it has not yet been identified, a U.S. military spokeswoman said Thursday. She said it was not known whether the body was that of a Bulgarian hostage killed by his captors earlier this week. A deadline for the threatened execution of a second Bulgarian hostage passed last night without news. The body was found near Baiji, 112 miles north of Baghdad, Wednesday night. "The body had been decapitated. It was dressed in...

Iraq's Christian population considers fleeing Iraq as the violence against them increases. Someone forgot to tell the terrorists that islam is a religion of mercy, peace and tolerance...

PARIS, July 11 (AFP) - French officials, civil rights groups and Jewish associations at the weekend expressed outrage at a new anti-Semitic attack committed just as President Jacques Chirac and his government vowed to crack down on racist acts. Chirac himself on Saturday called the attack, on a 23-year-old mother and her 13-month-old baby, "shameful" and said in a statement that the perpetrators must be found and punished with the full severity of the law. The assault occurred early Friday, when six unidentified men said to be of North African Arab and African origin grabbed the victim as she travelled...