http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/muslim/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:23:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051396/posts Attacking a Jewish girl and the friends who came to her rescue has landed a Muslim man a one-year jail sentence. Mustafa Taj must also serve a year of probation following his release for what provincial court Judge Bill Cummings ruled was a racially motivated assault. "In this case, I'm satisfied that imprisonment is necessary," Cummings said in accepting the Crown's bid for a jail term. Prosecutors Ken McCaffrey and Inayat Jetha had sought a sentence of up to two years for the hate crime. Taj, 21, was convicted in May of attacking four teenagers the night of Nov. 3,... CNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051396/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:23:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2051201/posts n any other day, Sobia Ahmed would opt to forgo many of the snacks on offer at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee. To perform the Islamic prayers she recites five times a day, she likely would slip onto a secluded path at the amusement park or look for solace under a shady tree for a few furtive minutes. But this Saturday Ahmed and her family will eat and pray at their leisure in the park with hundreds of other Muslims from the Chicago area who plan to visit the sprawling entertainment center for a day catered especially to them.... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2051201/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:48:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051093/posts link only per rules: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/METRO/807250385/1409/METRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051093/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:33:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050884/posts Islamofascism: A new study confirms our "ally" Saudi Arabia is still poisoning young Muslim minds with anti-Western textbooks. So? Its hate-filled graduates are enrolling at our colleges.The Hudson Institute reviewed the 2007-08 textbooks distributed by the Saudi Ministry of Education and found that, despite promised reforms, the kingdom still teaches students to "hate the infidels." The texts assert that it's "permissible" for a Muslim to kill an "apostate," an "adulterer," a "homosexual," as well as non-Muslims practicing "polytheism," or Christianity. The violent ideology is introduced in a religion textbook in the first grade and reinforced and developed in following years... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050884/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050516/posts With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation’s 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning for the transition. "Barack is well aware of the complexity and the organizational challenge involved in the transition process and he has tasked s small group to begin thinking through the process,” a senior campaign adviser said. “Barack has made his expectations clear about what he wants from such a process, how he wants it to move forward, and the establishment and execution of his timeline is proceeding apace.” Last month, the... The Atlantic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050516/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050672/posts My brother recommended a simple solution for Barack Obama’s Muslim “image problem”. It can all be fixed with a simple apostrophe. http://obamaformessiah.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050672/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:12:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050634/posts 6:55 p.m.: Obama leaves his hotel to make his way to the Victory Column, where he to give his speech. Around 100,000 people are reported to be awaiting him there. der spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050634/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:12:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050483/posts A French court’s decision last month not to grant French citizenship to a burqa-clad Muslim woman provided a ray of hope to those willing to stand up for western values and oppose Islamization of their societies. But you would never know it according to the New York Times. While the media focus was on the head-to-toe, body-encompassing robe that leaves only a slit for the eyes, the part of the ruling stating the Moroccan citizen had adopted as her religious practice a very dangerous strain of Islamic fundamentalism was mostly ignored. Previously, citizenship had been denied to those involved with... Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050483/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:16:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050337/posts OBAMA VISITS WESTERN WALL IN OLD CITY JERUSALEM... ARRIVES AT 5:08 AM LOCAL TIME [10:08 PM ET]... SUNRISE... SHOUTING MAN: 'JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE, OBAMA'... MOB SCENE... CHAOS... BOWING HIS HEAD IN PRAYER... PLACES NOTE IN WALL... POSES FOR PHOTOS... LOTS OF SHOUTING... LEAVES 5:20 AM... DEVELOPING... Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050337/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:59:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050207/posts A baby boy died in an Italian hospital after his Nigerian parents performed a circumcision at home, police said. The mother, 24, and the person who performed the procedure might be charged with manslaughter, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The 2-month-old boy began bleeding heavily. He was taken to a hospital in Bari, but doctors there were unable to save his life. Fabio Ferri of Bambin Gesu Hospital in Rome told the news agency even hospital circumcisions can be risky because the penis holds a large amount of blood. He said the procedure should never be done outside a... Web India 123 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050207/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:19:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049935/posts Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. are outraged over remarks made last Friday by Bud Day, a key supporter of John McCain. Day, a much-decorated Air Force Colonel and Medal of Honor recipient who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam with McCain, said during a conference call organized by the Florida Republican Party that “the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they’re going to kill us.” Day added: “I don’t intend to kneel, and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.” The reaction was swift. Saif Ishoof, president of... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049935/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:14:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049918/posts Gillerman in Final Speech: Whatever Happens, Israel will Prevail by Gil Ronen Israel's outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, gave his last speech Tuesday to the U.N. Security Council. Referring to Jerusalem's second tractor terror attack in three weeks, which occurred just hours before his speech, he said that when the first tractor attack occurred, people said the driver was "a madman." It now is clear, he added, that the problem was not a solitary madman but rather "a phenomenon." Arutz Sheva - Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049918/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:52:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049077/posts Egyptian Sociologist Dr. Sa'ad Eddin Ibrahim Abandons His Support for the Iraqi Resistance, Says: "Even if Islam Is a Solution, the Arab Muslims Are the Problem" On December 21, 2007, MEMRI reported on a polemic between Iraqi liberal writers and the Egyptian sociologist Sa'ad Eddin Ibrahim, a well-known reformer who currently heads the Arab Democracy Foundation in Qatar. The Iraqis were angered by two articles Ibrahim wrote on the war in Iraq, in which he compared the Iraqi resistance to the liberation movements in Vietnam and Algeria. [1] The Iraqis were profoundly disappointed at Ibrahim's position, and claimed that he... MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049077/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:49:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048988/posts NEW YORK — A Muslim group, in collaboration with a Brooklyn imam once investigated as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, paid $48,000 to run Islamic advertisements on the city's subway cars this September. The ad campaign — known as the "Subway Project" — was designed to inform people about Islam and dispel common misconceptions about the religion, a representative for the Islamic Circle of North America told FOXNews.com. The story was first reported Monday in the New York Post. But the effort to plaster 1,000 subway cars with pro-Islamic messages has given new life to... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048988/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048853/posts Welcome to your Monday morning blood-boiler. The NY Post reports that a jihadi group in NYC planning on running a series of subway ads is led by a Muslim imam tied to the terror plot to bomb the city’s landmarks. Submission: Allah board!An Islamic group plans to blitz 1,000 subway cars with advertisements this September in a campaign being promoted by a Brooklyn imam whom federal officials have linked to a plot to blow up city landmarks.The group says its mission is to explain the true nature of Islam to non-Muslims who believe the religion is bent on acts of... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048853/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:54:33 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 16:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048890/posts Obama's campaign has hired Hiam Nawas as its Muslim liaison, according to two sources familiar with the move. Nawas, a Jordanian-American who filled a similar role for the campaign of General Wesley Clark in 2004, has a role complicated by the fact that Obama has been forced repeatedly to deny that he is Muslim, a situation which grates on some Muslim-Americans. Nawas wrote in 2005 that the Bush Administration should take a more nuanced approach to public diplomacy directed at Muslim women. "We need to recognise that the social structure in the Muslim world is very different from America's," she... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048890/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:55:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048386/posts (IsraelNN.com) A new Islamist jihad group that may become as much of a threat to Hamas as it is to Israel is gaining strength in Gaza. The Gaza-based group of Salafi Muslims, known as the Army of Islam (Jaish al-Islam), first made headlines a year ago when it kidnapped British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reporter Alan Johnston near his Gaza City bureau office. "It was nothing personal," commented their leader, Abu Mustafa, in an interview published over the weekend by the German Der Spiegel. "It was a message to the West that they should release imprisoned Muslims." He added that at... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048386/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:59:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048233/posts State school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons. The move - part of a package of initiatives announced by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears yesterday - is designed to curb extremism. Education campaigners warned however against giving Islam a privileged position over other faiths. Other plans announced by Miss Blears also drew criticism - including a state-funded panel of Islamic scholars and theologians to provide community leadership. Prominent Muslims said this scheme was naive because Government endorsement would erode the credibility of those taking part, especially among the young and disaffected. Another measure... dailymail.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048233/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:33:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048217/posts LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The body of a Christian teenager has been hauled out of a canal in Pakistan's second largest city Lahore after he was beaten to death there for courting a Muslim girl, BosNewsLife learned Friday, July 18. The 19-year-old boy, whose name was changed into Peter for security reasons, was murdered by the girl's father and two uncles in what they described as an 'honour killing', Christian family members and investigators said. Peter and the 19-year-old girl apparently began their relationship through mobile phone chatting, an increasingly popular way of communicating among youngsters across Asia. Interfaith contacts and... bosnewslife.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048217/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:20:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048187/posts (ANSAmed) - PARIS, JULY 17 - A "luminous and liberated" veil, in the spirit of Islam's poetics, will cover but not hide, thanks to a light transparent structure, the Visconti Court of the Louvre Museum in Paris, in the right wing, to host the new museum of Islamic arts, to be established in 2010. ¿It is a political museum¿, as explained to ANSA by Rudy Ricciotti, of Italian origins, one of the two architects, with Mario Bellini from Milan, who designed the project, selected among 52 applicants. "In the sense that it recognises all the peoples in a lay state,... ANSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048187/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:36:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048159/posts Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki supports US presidential candidate Barack Obama's plan to withdraw US troops from Iraq within 16 months. When asked in and interview with SPIEGEL when he thinks US troops should leave Iraq, Maliki responded "as soon as possible, as far as we are concerned." He then continued: "US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes." Maliki was careful to back away from outright support for Obama. "Of course, this is by no means an election endorsement. Who they... Spiegel Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048159/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:18:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048170/posts WASHINGTON — Two years after protracted American-Saudi negotiations persuaded the State Department that the Saudis would remove religious intolerance from their national textbooks, a new study finds the books still portray non-Sunni Muslims as the enemies of true believers. The report from the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute finds that the Saudi textbooks are filled with the austere supremacism of the Wahhabi sect of Islam, despite promises from the Kingdom in 2006 to alter them. For example, a textbook for 10th graders on Islamic jurisprudence not only says it is permissible in Islam to murder a homosexual,... nysun.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048170/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:54:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047807/posts <p>'Conversion' to Islam means they cannot be 'restored to their family of origin'</p> <p>A Pakistani judge has ruled two young girls from a Christian family who were reported kidnapped cannot be "restored to their family of origin' because they "converted" to Islam.</p> World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047807/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:44:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047791/posts War On Terror: After 9/11, Pakistan promised to close its radical madrassas as part of anti-terror reforms. Now we learn they're not only still open, but also recruiting and brainwashing American boys.All told, 600 American children are being indoctrinated into jihad in 22 madrassas across Pakistan. A U.S. filmmaker stumbled on them while tracing the path of the London suicide bombers. He discovered they attended the same radical Islamic schools. A congressional delegation has confirmed his findings. One particularly radical school in Karachi freely displays a banner at its main gate urging Muslims to join the Taliban. At least 80... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047791/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:07:42 GMT