http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/islamophobia/ en-us Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:21:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401475/posts Study on 'group-focused enmity' conducted by researchers from University of Bielefeld in Germany finds hatred of Muslims decreased over past year, while hatred of Jews and homosexuals growing. Poland defined as most racist country Right-wing parties are growing stronger in Europe, and Swiss citizens have even voted in favor of a ban on mosque minarets, yet the fear or hatred of Islam in the continent has dropped over the past year, according to a study conducted in Germany and published Sunday. However, hatred of Jews and homosexuals is on the rise. For the last eight years, the Institute for Interdisciplinary... Ynet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401475/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:21:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210372/posts A headmistress who was hounded out of her job after being falsely accused of racism was yesterday awarded more than £400,000 in compensation. Erica Connor had run a 'happy and successful' primary school but was driven to a breakdown by the allegations. The Daily Mail can reveal the school's troubles started when a local mosque decided to pack the governing body with Muslims. Paul Martin - a Muslim convert - and Mumtaz Saleem began monopolising meetings with the aim of turning New Monument in Woking into an Islamic faith school. (edit) But when Mrs Connor resisted the new governors'... The Daily Mail (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210372/posts#comment Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:57:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1776221/posts How the Quran commands the Muslims to murder the Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Bahais, Druze, Ahmediyas and all other non-Muslims in cold blood!http://www.historyofjihad.org/quran.html This site is dedicated to frank and fearless reporting and commenting to expose the Islamic Jihad Monday, January 29, 2007 2:37:50 AM The History of Jihad site is brought to you by a panel of contributors. This site is co-ordinated by Robin MacArthur with Mahomet Mostapha and Naim al Khoury, New Jersey. Other contributors to this site include professors and members of the faculty from the Universities of Stanford and Michigan (Ann Arbor), Kansas State University, Ohio... History of Jihad http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1776221/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:53:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168762/posts Note: Video included. January 21, 2009 For hate speech -- after declining to do so last year, which means that Islamic supremacist groups in the Netherlands have kept up the pressure on lawmakers until they got the outcome they wanted. Hate speech, of course, is in the eye of the beholder, and hate speech laws are tools in the hands of the powerful that they can use to silence the powerless and crush dissent. And make no mistake: even though the Muslims in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the West present themselves as embattled victims of racism and "Islamophobia," that... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168762/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:57:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2152761/posts The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), an association of the world's Islamic states, is pushing the United Nations to outlaw "defamation" of religion in general – and of one religion in particular. Family Security Matters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2152761/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:14:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152546/posts Over the past nine months, a major campaign promoted by member-states in the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and its Secretariat General has been aiming at forcing a declaration on "defamation of religion" on the United Nations. The OIC, influenced by radical ideologues including the International Union of Clerics headed by Sheikh Yusuf Qardawi, wants the UN to vote a law banning and punishing any criticism of religion in general and of critical debates about Islam in particular. Aside from obstructing reformers and suppressing democratic movements within Muslim societies, the OIC move will be used by Jihadi Terror networks... COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152546/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:53:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078861/posts Criminalizing Criticism of Islam By ELIZABETH SAMSON FROM TODAY'S WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE September 10, 2008 There are strange happenings in the world of international jurisprudence that do not bode well for the future of free speech. In an unprecedented case, a Jordanian court is prosecuting 12 Europeans in an extraterritorial attempt to silence the debate on radical Islam. The prosecutor general in Amman charged the 12 with blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings, and slandering and insulting the prophet Muhammad in violation of the Jordanian Penal Code. The charges are especially unusual because the alleged violations were not committed... wsj http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078861/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:42:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149834/posts The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate a series of incidents in which Muslim women in Georgia were prevented from entering courtrooms because they were wearing Islamic headscarves, or hijabs. In the most recent incident, a Muslim woman was jailed today following a dispute over whether she could enter the courtroom while wearing her hijab.According to the woman’s husband, she was seeking to enter the courtroom in Douglasville, Ga., to deal with a matter related to a nephew’s traffic citation. After she walked through the security area, a bailiff allegedly told... Council on American-Islamic Relations http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149834/posts#comment Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:12:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145118/posts At a time when Jew haters in the Islamic world have become more assertive than ever, Berlin's Center for Research on Anti-Semitism is concentrating on a different group: the "new enemies of Islam." Who exactly belongs to this category is not clear from the center's latest publication, the "Yearbook for Research on Anti-Semitism." But the potential danger is supposedly known: "The fury of the new enemies of Islam is similar to the older rage of anti-Semites against the Jews," writes Prof. Wolfgang Benz, the institute's director. The center will present its new findings today at a conference in Berlin titled... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145118/posts#comment Mon, 8 Dec 2008 22:02:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143637/posts The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Wednesday called on American Muslims to thank the Fox television network and the creator of "The Simpsons" for a recent episode that used comedy to challenge Islamophobia. The episode, which aired Sunday evening and is titled "Mypods and Boomsticks," highlights anti-Muslim sentiment by featuring a young Muslim character named Bashir and his family who face prejudice after moving to Springfield. In the program, Homer Simpson wrongly suspects that Bashir's family is involved in a terrorist plot. Bart Simpson befriends Bashir and defends him from bullies. CAIR's Greater Los Angeles Area office (CAIR-LA) sent... Al Arabia News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143637/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 21:18:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143307/posts The story has time for the detail that CAIR calls Jihad Watch an "Internet hate site," but no time to tell readers that CAIR itself is an unindicted co-conspirator in a jihad terror funding case, with several of its officials convicted on various jihad terror-related offenses. No time to include the fact that its cofounder and longtime Board Chairman has said: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." No time... JIHAD WATCH.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143307/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:56:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143280/posts Saudi King Abdullah has been urging the United Nations to pass a universal law prescribing imprisonment for criticizing Islam.  Some skeptics, including myself (notwithstanding that I twice enjoyed the King's generous hospitality in Riyadh), have suggested he start instead by establishing religious liberty in his own country,  where all religious observance other than Wahabi Islam is banned.   Two events occurring last week -- the hideous carnage in Mumbai, accompanied by shameful  proceedings at the U.N. -- convinced me it is urgent for His Majesty to radically alter his plans. Since the U.N. actions were less publicized, let me begin there.  A key U.N. committee passed... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143280/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:33:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135207/posts The draft declaration recommends that local, national and international laws and human rights covenants be reviewed and amended as necessary so that "defamation of Islam" is made a criminal offence, losing the protection it has long enjoyed under the "pretext" of "freedom of expression, counter terrorism or national security". It recommends that legal instruments be established to punish offenders -- that is, those who "defame" Islam by associating it with violence, human rights abuses or terrorism.... JIHAD WATCH.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135207/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:03:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2093780/posts A television commercial for an "Ahmed the dead terrorist" ringtone mocks Islam and must be withdrawn, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled. Its ruling followed a complaint by a Moegamat Khan against the GloMobile commercial, flighted on SABC and DSTV. The commercial shows American standup comedian Jeff Durham holding a skeleton puppet with a white cloth around its head, which demands that the audience keeps quiet and says: "Silence! I kill you!" The ASA said Khan had complained that this was offensive to the Islamic religion, and created the impression that all Muslims were terrorists who would kill to get... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2093780/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:45:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088359/posts Mr. David Littman, speaker for Association of World Education, was forbidden to finish his statement regarding islam and human rights this morning, at the 9th session of United Nations the Human Rights Council, in Geneva (Switzerland). Mr. Littman, husband of the well known islamic scholar Bat Ye'or, addressed the delegates about the danger of creating the word "islamophobia" and the endemic antisemitism spread in the muslim world. The Egyptian ambassador interrupted him and told the President of the Council that discussing religion was out of order at the United Nations. He added furthemore that no discussion of the islamic faith... United Nations Human Rights Council http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088359/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:44:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074194/posts How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074194/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 01:13:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057926/posts After a year-long investigation, the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission has rejected a complaint by the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities against former Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant over his republication of the Danish Muhammad cartoons. The allegation that the February 14, 2006, issue of the now defunct magazine was likely to expose Muslims to hatred helped to spark a national debate about human rights law and free speech, and its rejection comes after similar complaints of Islamophobia against Maclean's magazine also failed. ... "I was let go because I'm in the media every day. I've been down to... National Pos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057926/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:01:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052363/posts It was described as an "exemplary piece of programme making" by an award winning film-maker which launched a week of television coverage of Islam. But a Channel 4 documentary on the Qur'an has angered a group of leading Shia Muslim scholars, who have criticised it for making "seriously inaccurate statements" about their branch of the faith. In a letter to Channel 4, they said that the depiction of Shia beliefs in The Qur'an, broadcast earlier this month, was "disappointing, misleading, even defamatory". The signatories to the letter were also angered by the apparent links made between Shiaism and violence, with... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052363/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:05:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048842/posts MUSLIM SUBWAY ADS LINKED TO TERROR PLOTS - New York Post Jul 21, 2008 ... An Islamic group plans to blitz 1000 subway cars with advertisements this September in a campaign being promoted by a Brooklyn imam whom ... nypost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048842/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:37:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044345/posts The author of the best-selling new thriller, "The Last Patriot," says his life already has been threatened for contending the Muslim holy book contains errors and is not based on the last revelations of Muhammad. "I've already had multiple death threats come in, and that's something that we're taking very seriously with the tour coming up," said Brad Thor, whose "Patriot" already has climbed to No. 1 on the Amazon fiction list after its release last week. Thor says he's adding security precautions as he goes forward with a national book tour. In the book, which is being called the... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044345/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:06:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044213/posts [Arab racism against Jews even inside Israel] Fear of calling a terrorist a terrorist Ha'aretz, Israel - Jul 7, 2008 If justifying the murder of innocents because they belong to a certain hated group is not abject racism, I'd like to know what is. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999795.html haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044213/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:15:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042650/posts Three years after the London Tube and bus bombings, it is alarming beyond measure to record that Britain is even now sleepwalking into Islamisation. Some people will think this is mere hyperbole. However, that's the problem. Britain still doesn't grasp that it is facing a pincer attack from both terrorism and cultural infiltration and usurpation. The former is understood; the latter is generally not acknowledged or is even denied, and those who call attention to it are pilloried as either ' Islamophobes' or alarmists who have taken up residence on Planet Paranoia. Certainly, the police and security service have been... The Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042650/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:26:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042568/posts Far right groups in Switzerland have collected enough signatures to force a nationwide referendum on banning minarets, the distinctive towers of Islamic architecture. In what is being seen as a sign of growing Islamophobia in Europe, more than 100,000 Swiss citizens signed a petition to halt the construction of minarets. Under Switzerland's direct democracy rules, that level of support is enough to trigger a referendum. The Swiss interior ministry today confirmed a vote would take place, without setting a date. The petition was launched by Ulrich Schlüer an MP from the controversial Swiss People's party, which was accused of racist... Guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042568/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:46:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041365/posts Vanessa Alikhan was at a Democratic ''unity party'' when she overheard another guest indignantly refute the rumor that Barack Obama is Muslim, as if it was a racial slur. She later recounted the conversation to a friend. ''She told me that this is politics and that I should just deal with it,'' said Alikhan, a Fort Lauderdale graphic artist who converted to Islam about five years ago. ``To me this is the same as telling an African American or a Jewish person they should deal with discrimination because people aren't ready to embrace them as a group.'' She and other... MiamiHerald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041365/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:10:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041366/posts Addressing the issue of anti-Islamic prejudice in the UK, a British government minister has said that the growing culture of hostility has led many Muslims to say they feel targeted like "the Jews of Europe." Labor MP Shahid Malik, Britain's first Muslim government minister, made the statement in an interview with to be broadcast on Monday on the UK's Channel 4, to coincide with the third anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London which killed 52 people. Malik, appointed minister for international development by Prime Minister Gordon Brown last year, said it has somehow become legitimate to target Muslims in... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041366/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:15:26 GMT