April

04-21-2008 LONDON, England (BBC) When Muslims become Christians. There's a widespread belief that the penalty for leaving Islam is death - hence, perhaps, the killing of a British teacher last week.

04-21-2008 LONDON, England (Telegraph, UK) Archbishop of Canterbury: Christians victims of UK and US foreign policy. Against a backdrop of rising Islam extremism, Dr Rowan Williams said Christian groups were increasingly seen as a "foreign and aggressive presence" as a result of Western policies.

04-20-2008 DAKAR, Senegal (IHT) Boy flees Islamic school that makes beggars of African kids. The Associated Press exposes Islamic schools that use the false promise of a free education to lure children into a life of begging.

04-19-2008 ISTANBUL Turkey (WND) Martyrs remembered on anniversary of savage attack. Memorial for Christians scheduled in Istanbul's cathedral.

04-17-2008 NEW YORK, NY (NY DailyNews) 'Why We Left Islam' may face Muslim wrath. If radical Muslims judge a book by its cover, there could be trouble next week when "Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out" hits shelves.

04-17-2008 SAN'A, Yemen (CNN) Girl, 8, granted divorce in Yemen. A Yemeni judge dissolved the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man nearly four times her age, and the girl's lawyer said Wednesday that the court also ordered the youngster removed from the control of the father who forced her into the wedding.

04-15-2008 TEHRAN, Iran (FoxNews) Iranian Police Chief Jailed After Being Caught Nude With 6 Women. Tehran's police chief, who was in charge of fighting vice, has been taken to jail and his case is currently under investigation, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said Tuesday.

04-15-2008 LONDON, England (DailyMail) Radical Muslims 'exploit jail staff to convert prisoners'. Extremist Muslim inmates are radicalising other prisoners at London's Belmarsh jail by exploiting staff inexperience, a government watchdog warned today.

04-15-2008 BELED-WEYNE, Somalia (AP) Murdered teacher converted to Christianity. Mr Ali was born a Muslim but converted to Christianity after meeting Western missionaries.

04-15-2008 BELED-WEYNE, Somalia (BBC) Man shot 'for Christian beliefs. A man killed by Islamist fighters in Somalia was shot because he had converted from Islam to Christianity, his widow has claimed.

04-14-2008 LONDON, England (DailyMail) July 7 accused 'called tourist board and Natural History Museum during reconnaissance trip to London'. Mobile phone records tracked the movements of Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem across London while they were alleged to have been visiting potential targets.

04-12-2008 LONDON, England (IBN Live) UK bomber's last mail to his brother revealed. “It’s about time that we give up our lives and families for the sake of Islam, to please Allah.”

04-11-2008 WASHINGTON, DC (CQP) Saudi Giving at the Heart of a Great Debate Over Middle East Studies. The gifts of $20 million each were for the establishment or expansion of Middle East studies programs, but critics are questioning whether the prince’s involvement has led to pro-Muslim, and specifically pro-Saudi, scholarship.

04-11-2008 LONDON, England (Times, UK) Spy photos reveal 'secret launch site' for Iran's long-range missiles. The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.

04-07-2008 CAIRO, Egypt (BBC) Egypt Islamists' wait for power. The Brotherhood tasted success in 2005 polls.

March

03-31-2008 NEW YORK, NY (GP) Leftist-Atheist-Islamist alliance. Globally in recent years, Communists (leftists), atheists and Islamists are getting close and closer in forming anti West and anti American platform, which is gradually becoming a potential threat to international peace and stability.

03-14-2008 BONN, Germany (Spiegel) German Schools Introduce Muslim Classes. German-language Islam instruction for Muslim schoolchildren helps with integration and the development of language skills.

03-13-2008 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) U.S. is sent severed fingers of Iraq kidnap victims. The U.S. military in Iraq recently received the severed fingers of five men kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago, a law enforcement source told CNN.

03-10-2008 DALLAS, TX (CC) Jihad Comes to Dallas. The Female Relatives of the Honor Murderered Teenagers Speak Out. “I have been warned to shut up. But when Yasser Abdul Said killed those girls he did not just spill Muslim blood on American soil. He shed my blood.

03-10-2008 NEW YORK, NY (CSM) Iraq War Cost Estimates Run Into The Trillions. In a book published last month, she and Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from Columbia University, New York, estimated the total long-run cost at $3 trillion in 2007 valued dollars.

03-06-2008 BARTELLA, Iraq (CSM) Iraqi Christians Cling To Last, Waning Refuges. Christian churches in Baghdad, Kirkuk, and Mosul have been bombed throughout the war. Now, priests and others in Nineveh Plain say they pay large sums of money to Al Qaeda-linked militants in Mosul, the provincial capital, in exchange for protection for themselves and their churches.

03-06-2008 AMSTERDAM, Holland (ABC) Dutch up threat level as brace for Koran film: ANP. The Netherlands is to raise its national risk level of a terrorist attack to "substantial," partly due to a new film made by a politician that is expected to be critical of the Koran, media reported on Thursday.

03-05-2008 DARFUR, Sudan (BBC) Slave rescue bid resumes in Sudan. At least seven South Sudanese have been freed from their Arab abductors after the resumption of an operation to rescue them, the BBC has learnt.

03-04-2008 BAGHDAD, Iraq (NYT) Violence Leaves Young Iraqis Doubting Clerics. After almost five years of war, many young people in Iraq, exhausted by constant firsthand exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach.

03-03-2008 WASHINGTON, DC (DP) Media to blame for Islamic misconceptions. The managing editor of one of the country’s biggest newspapers thinks news organizations ought to hire more Muslim reporters.

03-03-2008 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) Dutch cabinet may seek ban for Koran film: paper. Government lawyers are looking into whether there are legal grounds to ban the film by anti-immigration lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, the Telegraaf reported, citing sources close to the cabinet.

03-02-2008 SULEIA, Sudan (IHT) Arab militias, backed by the government, return in Darfur. The janjaweed are back.

03-02-2008 DHAKA, Bangladesh (IHT) Surviving torture in Bangladesh. I was threatened at gun-point while my wife, holding my six-month-old son, watched. I was pushed into a car, blindfolded and handcuffed.

03-02-2008 CAIRO, Egypt (Fox News) Al Qaeda Deputy Leader Al Zawahiri Pens Book Condemning Militants Who Rejected Violence. Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader wrote a book published Sunday on militant Islamic Web sites in which he slams radical militants who have disavowed armed struggle and turned their backs on violence.

February

02-29-2008 MOSUL, Iraq (BBC) Iraqi Chaldean archbishop seized. Gunmen have kidnapped the archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and killed three of his aides, his church says.

02-29-2008 BERLIN, Germany (NineMSN) Danish art show shut after Muslim threat. Authorities in Berlin have closed down an exhibition of works by the Danish art group Surrend after protests by Muslims, organisers said.

02-28-2008 TEHRAN, Iran (Spiegel) Iran to Punish Apostasy with Death. Apostasy — or the formal renunciation of religion — is already punishable in Iran with death. But now, Iran wants to make the death penalty for apostasy part of the penal code. The European Union is concerned and has asked Iran to reconsider.

02-28-2008 FALLS CHURCH, VA (Spiegel) Imam From Va. Mosque Now Thought to Have Aided Al-Qaeda Even before the 2001 terrorist attacks, American-born imam Anwar al-Aulaqi drew the attention of federal authorities because of his possible connections to al-Qaeda.

02-28-2008 MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Times, UK) Saudi professor faces lashes for having coffee with female 'student'. A university professor allegedly caught in a Saudi-style honey trap has been sentenced to 180 lashes and eight months in jail — for having coffee with a girl.

02-27-2008 LIVERPOOL, England (Daily Mail) Muslim medics refuse to roll up their sleeves in hygiene crackdown - because it's against their religion. Women medical students at Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool objected to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands and removing arm coverings in theatre, claiming it is regarded as immodest.

02-27-2008 LAHORE, Pakistan (Hindu News) Top militant linked to assassination of Benazir Bhutto arrested. Pakistani authorities have arrested a top militant leader blamed by slain former premier Benazir Bhutto for plotting a suicide attack on her in the port city of Karachi in October last year.

02-26-2008 ANKARA, Turkey (BBC) Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts. The country's powerful Department of Religious Affairs has commissioned a team of theologians at Ankara University to carry out a fundamental revision of the Hadith, the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran.

02-20-2008 BAGHDAD, Iraq (IHT) 2 women bombers in Iraq had severe mental problems, U.S. says. Psychiatric case files of two female suicide bombers who killed nearly 100 people in Baghdad this month indicate that they suffered from depression and schizophrenia but do not contain information suggesting they had Down Syndrome, U.S. officials said.

02-15-2008 GAZA (WND) Muslims destroy YMCA, Christian books: 'We don't need any of these missionary institutions'. In the latest attack on Christians in Gaza, 16 Palestinians forced their way into the YMCA library, stole everything but Christian books and then burned down the building.

02-13-2008 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) U.S. probes hospital link to bombings. Gen. Abboud Qanbar, the head of the Baghdad security plan, said the women most likely had Down's syndrome.

02-12-2008 COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Daily Mail, UK) Islamic terror suspects seized over plot to murder 'Mohammad' cartoonist. One of the three was a Dane of Moroccan descent, and two were Tunisian.

02-12-2008 LONDON, England (Spiegel) A Bishop Pleads for Islamic Law. With his plea for recognition of the Muslim legal system in Britain, the archbishop of Canterbury has outraged his people.

02-12-2008 PARIS, France (FT) Call for EU fund to protect victims of extremism. The French government will press the European Union to create a fund to protect individuals such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the controversial Dutch former MP, who are threatened by extremists.

02-12-2008 PARIS, France (AN) Former Dutch MP seeks French refuge. Former Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the target of death threats over criticism of radical Islam, said yesterday she had asked France to grant her citizenship because she could not be assured of protection at home.

02-12-2008 COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Jyllands-Posten) Murder plot against Danish cartoonist. Early Tuesday morning, Danish police arrested three men with a Muslim background suspected of conspiring to kill Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist with Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten.

02-12-2008 BANGKOK, Thailand (CA) New Thai govt to consider self-rule for Muslim south. Thailand's new government will consider granting some degree of self-rule to Muslim-majority provinces hit by bloody separatist unrest, Interior Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said on Tuesday.

02-12-2008 COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN) 'Terror plot' to kill Mohammed cartoonist. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service said police arrested a 40-year-old Dane of Moroccan origin and two Tunisians.

02-12-2008 WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic) Archbishop of Canterbury Recommending Islamic Law? This time he allegedly affirmed the adoption of certain aspects of Islamic Law, or Sharia, for Britain, saying adoption was “unavoidable.”

02-11-2008 OXFORD, England (Reuters) Will Muslim call to prayer ring out over Oxford? A battle of faiths is being waged in the ancient English city of Oxford, where some people are bitterly opposed to Muslim plans to broadcast the call to prayer over the fabled dreaming spires.

02-11-2008 LONDON, England (Belfast Telegraph) Rowan Williams has shown us one thing – why multiculturalism must be abandoned. For five days now, the Archbishop of Canterbury has been chorusing: how do you solve a problem like Sharia? Ever since he suggested it is " unavoidable" – and desirable – for Britain to have Islamic courts ruling on Muslim family affairs, bashing the bishop has become a national sport.

02-10-2008 LONDON, England (Times, UK) Minister warns of ‘inbred’ Muslims. Medical research suggests that while British Pakistanis are responsible for 3% of all births, they account for one in three British children born with genetic illnesses.

02-10-2008 ANKARA, Turkey (GDN) Turkey lifts ban. Turkey's parliament yesterday lifted a ban on female students wearing headscarves at university, a landmark decision that some Turks fear will undermine the foundations of their secular state.

02-10-2008 LONDON, England (Telegraph, UK) Sharia law may result in 'legal apartheid'. Senior religious leaders attack multiculturalism and sharia law today, warning that they are "disastrous", socially divisive and are destroying Britain's culture and values.

02-09-2008 WASHINGTON,DC (Globalist) European Islam and Tariq Ramadan. Some in the West have voiced high hopes for the emergence of a European Islam, a version of the religion that would take into account European traditions and values.

02-08-2008 LONDON, England (Times, UK) Archbishop of Canterbury argues for Islamic law in Britain. The Archbishop of Canterbury came under fierce attack last night from the Government, his own Church and other religions after he advocated the adoption of parts of Sharia, or Islamic law, in Britain.

02-08-2008 TEHRAN, Iran (RI) Iran introduces law that imposes death penalty on converts. LEGISLATION has been brought by the government of President Mahmoud Amadinejad before the Iranian Majlis that would mandate the death penalty for apostates from Islam.

02-08-2008 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (MMDN) Muslim Student Threatens Former Terrorist's Life at Air Force Academy. During the event a Jordanian college student, identified as Omar Khalifa of Metro International, approached Kamal Saleem and spoke to him in Arabic, "you are an enemy of Islam and you must die." The incident was reported to Military Police, who investigated Khalifa's threat.

02-08-2008 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (Military) Muslims Protest Air Force Academy Guests. Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are scheduled to speak Wednesday at the 50th Annual Academy Assembly in Colorado Springs, where the topic of the four-day event is "Dismantling Terrorism."

02-07-2008 RIYADH, SA (Times, UK) Religious police in Saudi Arabia arrest mother for sitting with a man. Yara, who does not want her last name published for fear of retribution, was bruised and crying when she was freed from a day in prison after she was strip-searched, threatened and forced to sign false confessions by the Kingdom's “Mutaween” police.

02-05-2008 MANCHESTER, England (Express, UK) Worker Sacked For Stopping Muslim ‘Insult’ To The Cross. A HOSPITAL porter was “devastated” last night after he was sacked following a row with a Muslim doctor over a crucifix.

02-04-2008 OTTAWA, Canada (Star) MPs denounce death sentence for Afghan journalist. The House of Commons has unanimously condemned a death sentence handed to an Afghan journalist and appealed for a halt to all legal proceedings against him.

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