http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/islamicviolence/ en-us Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:33:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102490/posts Two alleged terrorists threw petrol bombs and shouted "Allahu Akbar" - meaning God is great - as they drove a flaming Jeep into Glasgow airport, a court heard. The vehicle, driven by Kafeel Ahmed, a PhD student from India, smashed into the airport at 3.13pm on June 30 last year. Ahmed, 28, who died a month after the attack, had prepared a will addressed to Osama bin Laden and the leaders of jihad [holy war] in Iraq, Woolwich Crown Court was told. UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102490/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:33:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085797/posts A quote from the Brussels newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, 19 September 2008Tramp Beaten Up For Drinking Beer During RamadanA forty-year old homeless man almost died when he was beaten up in Brussels by a man and his father, both Muslims, because he was drinking beer during the Ramadan. Rachid, the 19-year old culprit, beat his victim Serge with an iron bar with nails.A few days ago Serge had an appointment with a doctor in a policlinic in Blaes Street. He arrived early and, since he had to wait, Serge opened a can of beer. At that moment an elderly Muslim who... The Brussels Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085797/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:39:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027746/posts OSLO (Reuters) - Police in Norway have arrested a Gambian-born man and charged him and his wife with subjecting five of their six daughters to genital mutilation, officials said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT The practice, also known as female circumcision, is outlawed in Norway and arouses horror among many people in the West but is a rite of passage for young women in many countries, predominantly in Africa. The youngest of the five mutilated girls, all born in Norway, is five years old, police officials said. The others are aged seven, 10, 13 and 14 and live in Gambia, national broadcaster... news.yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027746/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 01:32:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949234/posts Neil MacFarquahar of the New York Times artfully navigates politically sensitive waters with an article on the problem of wife-beating among Muslims in the United States. The general question, simply put, is how to admit a pattern of outrageous behavior by designated victim groups, without provoking a serious reaction of outrage. So the reportage is artfully constructed to imply that solution as well as the problem lie within Islam, and non-Muslims have a minor role, if any, to play. Thus, the article begins with insensitive Americans failing to accommodate the special needs of battered women who happen to be Muslim:... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949234/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:09:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948361/posts A manhunt in Texas continued Friday for a father accused of shooting his teen daughters and leaving them to die in a taxi. Yaser Abdel Said, 50, of Lewisville, Texas, is wanted for shooting Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18, in his taxi Tuesday night. Police say they don't have a motive for the shootings, but believe a domestic issue may have led to the deaths. Friends gathered Thursday night for a vigil to remember the sisters. The girls' mother, who has been in hiding since the shootings, attended. The victims' brother made a statement at the... fox news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948361/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:55:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946792/posts PARIS - Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a night the police described as "relatively calm". Cars are burned fairly regularly in France and the image of vehicles in flames in poor suburbs became symbolic of riots in 2005 when angry youths set fire to thousands of cars. There is usually an increase in the number of cars torched on New Year's Eve compared to other days of the year. "The night was relatively calm, without notable incident, there were very few direct clashes with the security forces," said... China Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946792/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:34:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938530/posts TORONTO, Ont. -- A 16-year-old girl has died after allegedly being choked by her father over a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women. Peel Regional Police arrested a 57-year-old man Tuesday morning after receiving a 911 call from a suburban home in Mississauga from a man saying he had killed his daughter, according to a Toronto newspaper Web site. According to the National Post, a Toronto newspaper Web site, when police arrived at the house they found the teen on the floor without any vital signs. ClickOnDetroit.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938530/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:26:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938308/posts News of her death was not an hour old when the words "honour killing" were bandied about. Thanks to freedom, and the fair justice that comes with that, it could be years before we know the exact reason why 16-year-old Asqa Parvez had her life savagely stolen. But we do know her father, Muhammad Parvez, 57, has been charged with her strangulation murder and her brother Waqas, 26, is charged with obstruction of justice. Her schoolmates talk of disagreements over not wanting to wear the traditional hijab and other cultural and religious clashes in her home. Whatever the truth, this... Toronto Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938308/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:07:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930621/posts A British teacher is facing 40 lashes from police in Sudan where she has been accused of insulting Islam after naming a Teddy bear Mohamed. Gillian Gibbons, 54, was being questioned at a police station in the capital Khartoum. She had been working at one of the city's exclusive British schools for the past three months since giving up her job in Liverpool. Police arrived at the old-fashioned brick and stone buildings of the Unity High School on Sunday to arrest Miss Gibbons after a complaint from parents that she had named the bear after Islam's most holy prophet Mohamed.... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930621/posts#comment Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:38:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906965/posts The teaching of evolution is becoming increasingly difficult in UK schools because of the rise of creationism, a leading scientist is warning. Head of science at London's Institute of Education Professor Michael Reiss says some teachers, fearful of entering the debate, avoid the subject totally. This could leave pupils with gaps in their scientific knowledge, he says. Prof Reiss says the rise of creationism is partly down to the large increase in Muslim pupils in UK schools. He said: "The number of Muslim students has grown considerably in the last 10 to 20 years and a higher proportion of Muslim... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906965/posts#comment Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:26:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886494/posts PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - A bomb hidden under a bench in front of a food shop killed one person and wounded 10 others in Thailand's Muslim south on Saturday, police said. The remote-controlled device exploded while Buddhist Thais were waiting to give food to monks in the town of Pattani in one of three southernmost provinces where more than 2,500 people have been killed in violence since 2004, police said. Two civilians were seriously wounded while the shop owner was killed, police said. Monks and the soldiers escorting them were also among the wounded. Nobody claims responsibility for the daily... Swissinfo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886494/posts#comment Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:21:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881815/posts Excerpt - The death toll from the co-ordinated suicide truck bombings targeting the minority Yazidi sect in Iraq could double from 250 to 500, officials have warned. With emergency services overwhelmed, some families have been digging with their bare hands in the search for bodies. It was one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. The US military has blamed al Qaeda in Iraq for the atrocity and one commander called it an "act of ethnic cleansing." ~ snip ~ SkyNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881815/posts#comment Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:30:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880803/posts Iran authorities lash man for having bible in car - report Mon. 13 Aug 2007 Iran Focus Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13 – Iranian authorities in Tehran lashed a man on his back earlier this year for having a bible in his car, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website on Friday. The man was only identified by the initials A. Sh. On 5 May, the man, driving his vehicle, was involved in a road accident with a car belonging to security guards for a government official in Tehran. A bible and a video of Jesus Christ... Iran Focus http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880803/posts#comment Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:19:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880805/posts Swedish society is disintegrating and is in danger of collapsing. The "Swedish Model" no longer refers to a peaceful state with an advanced economy, but to a Eurabian horror story of utopian multiculturalism, socialist mismanagement, and runaway immigration. The newspaper Aftonbladet reported that 9 out of 10 of the most criminal ethnic groups in Sweden come from Muslim countries. The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in just twenty years. Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six times as common today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime have... Brussels Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880805/posts#comment Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:25:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879682/posts Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the southern Philippine island of Jolo after deadly clashes between troops and militants, officials say. More than 50 people were killed on Thursday, almost half of them soldiers. Reinforcements have begun to arrive in Jolo, as the military steps up its campaign against Islamist rebels. Troops backed by US military trainers have been fighting militants affiliated to various groups, hiding in the island's mountainous terrain. Thursday's fighting began when a troop convoy was ambushed near the town of Maimburg, leaving 10 soldiers dead. Fifteen more soldiers were killed and 17 were wounded... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879682/posts#comment Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:28:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870176/posts LONDON (Reuters) - A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man. .... Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2 hour ordeal before she was garroted with a bootlace. Her body was stuffed into a suitcase and taken about 100 miles to Birmingham where it was buried in the back garden of a house. ... In the recordings, transcripts of which were relayed to the court, Hama and his friend... Reuters.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870176/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:11:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858938/posts U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of a possible terror attack in Glasgow against "airport infrastructure or aircraft," a senior US law enforcement officials tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com. The intelligence reports also warned that airports and aircraft in the Czech Republic could be the targets of al Qaeda-connected terrorists. The warnings were kept secret for operational reasons, according to officials. In public, the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff have continued to maintain they know of no specific or credible threats involving the United States, even though the intelligence reports specify US... ABC News Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858938/posts#comment Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:03:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844456/posts JAKARTA (AFP) - Muslim hardliners stormed a church in Indonesia during services, smashing images of Jesus Christ and demanding that it be closed down, the pastor said on Monday. Dozens of churches have had to be closed in the Muslim-majority country in recent years, and Sunday's attack was the second on the small Protestant church in the West Java town of Soreang since 2005. Reverend Robby Elisa, who heads the church, said around 100 hardliners attacked while Sunday school was in session. He said his wife was beaten and that at least four stained glass depictions of Jesus were smashed.... AFP via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844456/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844445/posts In West Java, Islamic terrorists have forcibly closed another Christian church. Typically, a mob of Islamic militants will invade a church, during services, and desecrate the place, drive the worshipers out, and attack any clergy, all the time shouting Islamic slogans. When the police investigate, none of the known Islamic militant groups will take credit for the attack. In the last three years, at least 30 Christian churches have been forced to close in West Java. StrategyPage.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844445/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:08:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843918/posts Fundamentalists in Gaza threaten to behead 'immodest' women broadcasters Radical Islamist group Swords of Truth, responsible for internet cafe bombings, threatens specific group for first time Associated Press A Muslim extremist group threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they don't don strict Islamic dress, leaving the women terrified and marking a further downward spiral in Gaza's anarchy. The threat to "cut throats from vein to vein" was delivered by the Swords of Truth, a fanatical group that has previously claimed responsibility for bombing Internet cafes and music shops. The new threat was the first time the organization targeted a... Y Net News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843918/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jun 2007 03:31:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832257/posts GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas's television station defied the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Friday by airing another weekly episode of a show featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike who urges children to support armed resistance against Israel. "Tomorrow's Pioneers" on Al-Aqsa Television has a central character named "Farfur", an actor dressed in a full body-suit to resemble the Walt Disney cartoon character. Following complaints by Israeli watchdog groups that triggered international scrutiny, Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouthi said he had asked Al-Aqsa to stop the broadcasts so the content could be reviewed. Despite Barghouthi's call, "Tomorrow's Pioneers" went on the air as... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832257/posts#comment Fri, 11 May 2007 23:29:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804026/posts A senior U.S. military officer says insurgents in Iraq used two children to help them pass a coalition checkpoint in Baghdad in recent days, and then detonated a car bomb, killing the children. The officer reported the incident during a news conference at the Pentagon, and VOA’s Al Pessin reports. Major General Michael Barbero says this is the first time he has heard of insurgents using what he called this brutal and ruthless technique. “We saw a vehicle with two children in the back seat come up to one of our checkpoints, get stopped by our folks, the children in... KXNet News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804026/posts#comment Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791883/posts Because of FR rules, we can only link but not excerpt. Summary: At preliminary court hearing, the victims testified that the cab driver ran them over after they disapproved of his statement that Hitler had done the world a great service by attempting to exterminate the Jews. This was the content of the "religious disagreement" mentioned in earlier reports. Tennessean http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791883/posts#comment Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:10:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791651/posts Business operators joined around 2,000 people from all walks of life in a march for peace as violence continued in the deep South, and intelligence reports warned of a new flare-up in the region and possibly in Bangkok in the coming weeks. The demonstrators called on the state to provide more arms and communications devices, and funds so communities can strengthen and defend themselves. Made up of people in the hotel and production industries, community and labour representatives, the demonstrators marched from the Yala municipality to the provincial centre to submit their proposals to Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont through provincial... Bangkok Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791651/posts#comment Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:42:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789944/posts Extremist Muslims who force vulnerable teenage girls to convert to Islam are being targeted by police, Met chief Sir Ian Blair has revealed. Police are working with universities to clamp down on "aggressive conversions" during which girls are beaten up and forced to abandon university courses. The Hindu Forum of Britain claims hundreds of mostly Sikh and Hindu girls have been intimidated by Muslim men who take them out on dates before terrorising them until they convert. Sir Ian spoke about the problem at a conference organised by the forum. A Met spokesman said: "Neighbourhood officers work with university authorities... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789944/posts#comment Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:23:21 GMT