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Did you read about Sheik Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, and his call this month to "destroy all the churches of the region?" You might think that’s big news – big enough to garner some attention from America’s leading media – especially because the Grand Mufti is among the Muslim world’s leading authorities. He is President of the Supreme Council of Ulema [Islamic scholars] and Chairman of the Standing Committee for Scientific Research and Issuing of Fatwas, according to the Middle East Forum’s Raymond Ibrahim. A Kuwaiti delegation had asked the Grand Mufti about a...

Islam is peaceful. At least that is the likely defense of Rafiqi Islam, a loving husband, who told his wife that he had a present for her, blindfolded her to make it a surprise and then cut off her fingers. Then the rest of the Islam family mopped up the blood, while Mr. Islam threw her fingers into the trash, and after a few hours took her to the hospital where they warned her to tell the doctors that she had an accident. The proximate cause of this event was that Mrs. Islam wanted to continue her education and Mr....

Remembering the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, President Barack Obama called for national unity in his weekly address Saturday. Just two weeks ahead of the tenth anniversary of the attacks in New York and Washington, the president said it’s not too soon to remember “how the worst terrorist attack in American history brought out the best in the American people.” Obama urged Americans to take part in national service projects to mark the anniversary, pointing them to the website serve.gov as a way of getting engaged.

WARNING! There images are extremely graphic! Then they hanged or beheaded the rest of his family. Yet another example of Muslim on Buddhist violence in a country where Muslims are only a small minority. Live Leak - More than than 4000 people from police and teachers to monks and children have been killed in the past 7 years by Muslims in southern Thailand, but hardly a word in the mainstream media. In Southern Thailand Muslim gunmen continue killing and threatening innocent citizens. The Muslim insurgents have threatened to kill 20 teachers and have distributed fliers that said, “WANTED: 20 Deaths...

Statement by Lars Hedegaard on his conviction for “hate speech” Copenhagen, May 5, 2011 It is with great sadness I have to report that Denmark’s reputation as a haven of free speech and a bastion of resistance to sharia encroachment is irreparably tarnished. Denmark is my country and I used to be proud of it. On May 3 the Eastern Superior Court in Copenhagen convicted me of hate speech under Denmark’s infamous Article 266 b of the penal code – a rubber provision that may be stretched to serve any political purpose dear to the hearts of the ruling elites....

Shock murder, twice over Death and life of a Pakistani adventurer SANKARSHAN THAKUR Jan. 4: Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most populated Punjab province, was shot dead by his bodyguard in an apparent backlash to the high-profile politician’s opposition to the blasphemy law that can send to the gallows those convicted of insulting Islam. The only election Salmaan Taseer ever won in his long political career was a seat in the Punjab Assembly in 1988, the year democracy and Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan after Zia-ul-Haq’s decade-long military-Islamist dictatorship. He lost every subsequent attempt to enter Pakistan’s...

I'll never forget the "Breaking News" logo from ABC News coming across my TV screen as I was watching Wheel of Fortune with my grandma on 12/21/88 at about 7:15pm ET.

GHALANAI: At least 40 people were killed and over 60 others injured in two suicide attacks at the administrative compound of Mohmand tribal region bordering Afghanistan. “Two suicide bombers struck at a time when people, including security guards, were preparing for Zohr prayers,” Amjad Ali Khan, administrator of Mohmand, told Dawn on phone from the regional headquarters of Ghalanai. According to a foreign news agency, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella organisation of several militant groups, has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Mr Amjad put the death toll at 40, but agency’s Surgeon Dr Mohammad Riaz said it could rise to 50...

Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Tourism has said that the Taliban truly represent Islamic ideology, resulting in their vilification by the United States of America, according to local media reports in the country. Maulana Attaur Rehman was reported by the Pakistan-based newspaper Dawn to have made the claims at a public gathering in the country this week, claiming terrorism cannot be defeated unless the US and the world gave respect and equal rights to “the muslims”. Rehman is a member of Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party, the newspaper adds. “Ulema and Taliban are the true followers of Islamic ideology and America...

An Asian gang of 'sexual predators' cruised city streets for girls as young as 12 - usually white - who were then plied with drink and drugs and raped or abused. Up to 100 ‘vulnerable’ girls may have been groomed, abused or supplied cocaine by married fathers Abid ­Saddique and Mohammed Liaqat, and their friends. A court heard the pair used Liaqat’s BMW saloon to trawl for victims, pulling up alongside girls outside shops or schools and chatting them up before a ‘campaign of calls and texts’ to groom them.

Indian schoolgirls aim AK-47s as they learn how to wield weapons and combat militants. They may still wear braids, but living in the turbulent northern Jammu and Kashmir state, these girls are no strangers to violence. One who lost her grandmother to a militant attack is eager to learn. “We have been given training to use big weapons and we have learnt a lot. We felt very nice.” Paramilitary troops are teaching girls to defend themselves and their villages against frequent skirmishes in the disputed Kashmir region. “This is basically to provide training to the children, especially girls, living near...

An al Qaeda suicide bomber killed 17 Shia worshipers in an attack today on a Shia procession in northern Yemen. The suicide bomber targeted rammed a truck packed with explosives into a parade of rebel Shia Houthis who were commemorating an important religious day in the northern province of Al Jawf. A senior tribal leader and his son were among those reported killed. "Seventeen people were killed and 15 wounded in the car bombing that targeted a Shia procession in Al-Jawf province," Mohammed Abdulsalam, a spokesman for the Houthis, told AFP. "Among the dead was provincial tribal chief Hussein bin...

A Muslim woman tried to kill a Labour MP by stabbing him in the stomach 'in revenge' for him voting for the Iraq War, a court heard today. Roshonara Choudhry, 21, is accused of knifing Stephen Timms twice in a shock attack during a constituency surgery meeting after she greeted the MP with a smile and offered him the hand of friendship. A second later the fanatic allegedly lunged forward, repeatedly plunging a three inch kitchen knife into his stomach, sending the MP 'reeling and staggering' backwards, before staff jumped in to wrestle the blade from her grasp.

A woman who was raped by an alleged sorcerer in Saudi Arabia is appealing for executing her rapist who was sentenced to six months in jail. In a report from the eastern province of Qatif on Sunday, Saudi newspapers said the woman told court that she went to the man’s house and stripped off her clothes because she was under his magic spell. The court sentenced the unidentified rapist to six months in prison and 50 lashes with the whip after it could not find evidence of rape. “The man told court he had a relationship with the woman, who...

"Non Sequitur" is a popular comic that runs daily in about 800 newspapers, including this one. But the "Non Sequitur" cartoon that appeared in last Sunday's Post was not the one creator Wiley Miller drew for that day. Editors at The Post and many other papers pulled the cartoon and replaced it with one that had appeared previously. They were concerned it might offend and provoke some Post readers, especially Muslims. Miller is known for social satire. But at first glance, the single-panel cartoon he drew for last Sunday seems benign. It is a bucolic scene imitating the best-selling children's...

Foodstall owner Murni binti Amris wincing as she is whipped by Shariah πolice after Friday prayers in Jantho, Aceh Besar. (EPA Photo) Jantho, Aceh. With heads bowed, two young women walked toward a wooden stage outside Al Munawwarah Mosque in Jantho, Aceh Besar. Friday prayers had just ended, and hundreds of residents surrounded the platform, keeping a respectful distance but keen to watch. The eyes of Murni binti Amris, 27, and Rukiah binti Abdullah, 22, began to water. They feared the worst when officers of the Shariah Police dragged them to the center of the stage. The women had dared to...

Don't expect to see comics from Molly Norris any time soon. The Seattle-based cartoonist landed on a terrorist hit-list this summer, and now her former employer confirms that she's "going ghost." Norris garnered international attention earlier this year when she drew a cartoon calling for "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" The movement gained popularity on Facebook, causing Pakistan to temporarily block the site. Seattle Weekly editor Mark Fefer wrote Wednesday that Norris' cartoons will no longer appear in that paper or in City Arts magazine. "You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week," he...

BAGHDAD | Thu Sep 9, 2010 3:31pm EDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni cleric Thursday and cut his head off before setting him alight in an attack that bore the hallmark of insurgents, a police spokesman said. In a separate attack Thursday, four men wearing women's clothes entered the house of a policeman in a village northwest of Baquba, the Diyala capital, and beheaded his wife when they failed to find the officer, an interior ministry source said. Jabbar Saleh al-Jibouri was killed shortly before dawn at his house in a village near Muqdadiya town,...

Algiers, 1 Sept. (AKI) - One person has been killed and at least eight injured when gunmen burst into a mosque during prayers southwest of the Algerian capital of Algiers, local newspaper Ennahar reported. A large number of people were gathered for Ramadan prayers late on Tuesday when the attackers opened fire on the crowd in the Algerian province of Ain Defla, the report said. The sheikh guiding the prayers was killed in the incident while some of the wounded were taken to hospital serious condition. A bloody civil war broke out in Algeria in the 1991 after the government...

Seriously. I am not kidding. I’m not rick rolling here. This site, although an important site, still has me shaken and a bit nauseous. It depicts pictures and videos of barbaric acts done in the name of Islam and Allah. I link to it with a strong warning. Very strong. Very, very strong. What makes these videos compelling is that they were not made with surveillance cameras, capturing moments that were not to be seen. Many of these videos, depicting incredible brutality, were made by the perpetrators of these inhuman acts. The video that left me shaken was one titled...