Shoe Hurled as Chinese PM Speaks
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BBC: A protester has thrown a shoe at Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University and called the Chinese prime minister a "dictator".

The shoe landed about a metre away from Mr Wen and the protester, a young man, was then removed by security guards.

Mr Wen, who earlier signed a series of trade agreements with Gordon Brown on the final day of a three-day UK visit, described the incident as "despicable".

Protests have taken place about human rights and Tibet during his visit. >>> | Monday, February 2, 2009

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Christians Fear of Being Marginalized Ahead of Polls
THE JAKARTA POST: Christians in the country are concerned Muslim parties could ratchet up their political leverage by winning more votes in the upcoming legislative elections, and continue to pin their hopes on nationalist parties, a discussion heard Saturday.

Dozens of regencies have enforced sharia-based ordinances without challenge recently, sparking fears in Christian communities that Islamic-based parties would push Indonesia toward a nationwide implementation of Islamic law if they win the April polls, speakers of the discussion said.

Centre for Strategic and International Studies researcher J. Kristiadi said that to a certain extent, Christians already felt they were being treated as second-class citizens in the predominantly Muslim country, as evidenced by the issuance of a joint ministerial decree which restricts them from building their places of worship. >>> The Jakarta Post | Monday, February 2, 2009

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New Report about Islamism in Sweden
STOCKHOLM NEWS: A new study from Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS) states that radical Islam is a reality and a threat to some people in the area Rosengård in Malmö.

The study shows that a group of individuals with an extreme interpretation of Islam have a big impact on the local community. Some individuals harass woman who do not want to wear veil and sometimes prevent boys and girls in the neighborhood to play with each other. They also stop girls from participating on stage at local cultural days. Social workers who have tried to distribute information about women’s rights have also been threatened and harassed.

Another conclusion in the report is that many new families in Rosengård get visits from radical groups who tell them “about the rules in Rosengård”. Some families have said to the respondents that they were freer in their former country than they are now. >>> Tommie Ullman | Friday, January 30, 2009

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A United American Committee Interview of Dutch MP Geert Wilders

Jesse Petrilla and Tom Trento interview Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders about the Islamization of Europe and its implications on America and the entire Western world

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The UK's Islamic Warning to the World
RIGHT SIDE NEWS: For years many people have been saying that the people of the U.S. should look to Europe to see what is coming our way in regards to Islam and Muslim immigration. The reason being that the Muslim population is higher there, but we are not far behind. Many Muslims see that they can use the freedoms of the West against us to slowly get the West to suit Islam. While most of Europe is having problems with their Islamic communities, the island of the UK has it the worst.

Over the years the Islamic community of the UK has had an endless list of demands, some of them were store workers not wanting to touch a Bible because it is "filthy" or cigarettes because they are un-Islamic to suing supermarkets because a Muslim worker had to handle closed bottles of alcohol. Some Muslim cab drivers even refused to allow passengers into their cabs because they were accompanied by a seeing-eye dog.

In acts of appeasement the Muslims of the UK were given special housing that catered to the dietary needs of Muslims. Banks implemented Sharia banking, toilets in the prisons were rearranged to accommodate Islam as Muslims cannot face Mecca while going to the bathroom and some public schools started serving only halal meat. A cemetery was even built under Islamic tradition with no concerns for the beliefs of the Christians and Jews being buried there. >>> By Christopher Logan | Monday, Febraury 2, 2009

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Emma Hartley: Waitrose's Delivery Company Goes Islamic
TELEGRAPH BLOGS: What could be more middle England than Waitrose? So it was intriguing to learn that the delivery company most closely associated with it - Ocado - has accepted a £10 million investment from the Bank of London and the Middle East (BLME), which advertises itself as "sharia'a compliant".

At first glance this is perplexing. Will the wide-aisled bastion of high quality deli and fine wines for the upper middle classes have to forgo the delivery of alcohol and pork products in order to receive its cash? "No," Ben Lovett, a spokesman for Ocado, tells me. "No change there."

So how does the Islamic financing house justify this arrangement? Surely the whole point of Islamic financing is that it has no truck with that which is haraam, or forbidden - and pork and alcohol fall squarely into this category? Otherwise what's the point of pretending it's any different from any other kind of bank?

Professor Habib Ahmed, who holds the Sharjar Chair in Islamic Law and Finance at Durham University, explains that matters are not, as I suspected, quite so straightforward. "There are different opinions about financing this kind of company. There are two possibilities. One is that because alcohol and pork are not their main business an allowance has been made.

"Second, it is possible that they have structured the deal so they have only invested in a part of the business that is not involved with pork or alcohol. An example might be if an investment is made in a hotel that has a bar, it may possible to organise it so that the two elements are separated financially.

"But unless the sale of alcohol and pork is a very small part of the business it would be difficult for sharia to allow this transaction. It would hang on a technicality - the contracts would be screened by a sharia board. A permissable percentage would typically be three to five per cent." Continue reading and comment here >>> Emma Hartley | Monday, February 2, 2009

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Pro-Hamas Demonstration - Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Islamic Association Seeks to Teach Americans about the Quran
YEMEN OBSERVER: An Islamic Association in Oklahoma has presented an impressive idea for non-Muslims in America to learn more about the faith.

The organization began in 2003 after the unfortunate treatment by American soldiers of the Holy Koran in the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.

The association decided to teach Americans about Islam and Muslims, and they recently decided to print the Holy Quran in English. This English language version will come with explanations of the Holy verses, an introduction to Islam, the fundamental of Islam, and how to deal with Islam. This idea has yielded considerable success, and the organization has raised a lot of contributions from Muslims and non-Muslim Americans. The organization has said they have received many requests from non-Muslim Americans for a copy of the Holy Quran. [Source: Yemen Observer] Observer staff | Saturday, January 31, 2009

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Obama Says US Can Work with Muslims: OIC
KHALEEJ TIMES ONLINE: RIYADH - President Barack Obama told the Organisation of Islamic Conference that he has full confidence that the United States can work together with the world's largest grouping of Muslims, the OIC said on Sunday.

In a letter to OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihasanoglu, Obama said he would work to improve relations with the group, the Jeddah-based organisation said in a statement.

It did not release the text of the letter.

Obama also thanked the OIC, which represents 1.5 billion Muslims in 57 countries, for its congratulations on the occasion of his inauguration on January 20, the organisation said.

In an open letter published in major US newspapers on January 21, the OIC urged Obama to work for a "shared" peace in the world rather than one that is "imposed."

"We warmly welcome your expressed desire to give a major address in a Muslim nation soon after you assume the presidency and hope it will mark the beginning of a more fruitful and better-informed dialogue between the West and the Muslim world," the OIC said at the time.

"We firmly believe that America, with your guidance, can help foster that peace, though real peace can only be shared -- never imposed. A nation can either be great or feared, but rarely both at the same time." [Source: KTO] AFP | Sunday, February 1, 2009

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Turkey's Turn From the West
WASHINGTON POST: Turkey is a special Muslim country. Of the more than 50 majority-Muslim nations, it is the only one that is a NATO ally, is in accession talks with the European Union, is a liberal democracy and has normal relations with Israel. Under its current government by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), however, Turkey is losing these special qualities. Liberal political trends are disappearing, E.U. accession talks have stalled, ties with anti-Western states such as Iran are improving and relations with Israel are deteriorating. On Thursday, for example, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked out of a panel at Davos, Switzerland, after chiding Israeli President Shimon Peres for "killing people." If Turkey fails in these areas or wavers in its commitment to transatlantic structures such as NATO, it cannot expect to be President Obama's favorite Muslim country.

Consider the domestic situation in Turkey and its effect on relations with the European Union. Although Turkey started accession talks, that train has come to a halt. French objections to Turkish membership slowed the process, but the impact of the AKP's slide from liberal values cannot be ignored. After six years of AKP rule, the people of Turkey are less free and less equal, as various news and other reports on media freedom and gender equality show. In April 2007, for instance, the AKP passed an Internet law that has led to a ban on YouTube, making Turkey the only European country to shut down access to the popular site. On the U.N. Development Program's gender-empowerment index, Turkey has slipped to 90th from 63rd in 2002, the year the AKP came to power, putting it behind even Saudi Arabia. It is difficult to take seriously the AKP's claim to be a liberal party when Saudi women are considered more politically, economically and socially empowered than Turkish women.

Then there is foreign policy. Take Turkey's status as a NATO ally of the United States: Ankara's rapprochement with Tehran has gone so far since 2002 that it is doubtful whether Turkey would side with the United States in dealing with the issue of a nuclear Iran. In December, Erdogan told a Washington crowd that "countries that oppose Iran's nuclear weapons should themselves not have nuclear weapons." >>> By Soner Cagaptay | Monday, February 2, 2009

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Suicidal Appeasement
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM: One of the most potent weapons in the jihadist arsenal is the failure of nerve that has afflicted the West for the last forty years. Our own doubts about the core values of Western civilization have hamstrung us in defending these goods against those who want to destroy them. Whether the source of this self-loathing is Marxism, postmodernism, or multicultural noble-savage delusions, our failure to acknowledge the superiority of our own way of life, to teach our children the history of the West and its singular achievements, and to fight against the erosion of those defining beliefs has emboldened the jihadists and confirmed them in their belief that we are decadent and doomed.

In Europe, this pathology has advanced far beyond what we see in the United States, bad as that is. Faced with a sullen, unassimilated, underemployed, welfare-subsidized, and growing population of Muslim immigrants, many Europeans have responded to this challenge with one Munich after another, compromising, if not abandoning outright, core Western beliefs in an attempt to appease an alien culture that has nothing but contempt for the nations that have taken them in. Europe is in the midst of an unprecedented historical experiment: whether a civilization can survive when a critical mass of its own people no longer have faith in the rightness and goodness of their own way of life.

The latest act of suicidal appeasement is unfolding in the Netherlands. To the vicious murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim immigrant, and the craven capitulation to Muslims protesting the innocuous Mohammed cartoons, we can now add the prosecution of Geert Wilders, the Dutch member of parliament, for “inciting hatred and discrimination” against Muslims. His crime? Last year Wilders released online a 17-minute film called Fitna, which juxtaposed images of Islamic terrorism, and sermons advocating terrorism, with the verses from the Koran that sanction violence against unbelievers. Wilders has also been a vocal critic of the Islamization of Dutch society. In other words, Wilders is being prosecuted for telling the truth about Islam in its own words, and for defending his own culture against its enemies. >>> By Bruce Thornton | Monday, February 2, 2009

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Saudis Hope Turks Will Help Stem Shi'ite Influence
REUTERS: RIYADH - Turkish President Abdullah Gul can expect a warm welcome when he starts an official visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday with the stated goal of boosting business ties with the world's largest oil exporter.

Saudi Arabia hopes the visit will bring it closer to forming a strategic alliance with the NATO member state to counter the growing influence of Iran in the region, diplomats say.

Bilateral ties have improved dramatically since Gul's AK Party and King Abdullah came to power in 2002 and 2005 respectively.

Saudi Arabia's ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim rulers were for decades wary of the avowedly secular Turkish state -- having helped to evict the Ottomans from the Arabian peninsula in the early years of the 20th century.

But the Saudi economy has more recently provided work for thousands of Turks, including Gul himself, whose daughter was born in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

Diplomats say that rising Shi'ite influence in the region, foremost from Iran, is now bringing a further rapprochement.

"Saudi leaders see in Turkey a strong ally to counter Iran's growing influence in the region. They don't mind giving Turkey the means that will enable it to supersede both their own influence and that of Iran," said one Western diplomat. >>> Editing by Thomas Atkins and Kevin Liffey | Monday, February 2, 2009

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Afghanistan: Die Rückkehr der Taliban-Tyrannei
DIE PRESSE: Die Islamisten beherrschen wieder weite Teile des Landes und führen sogar gegen Kinder Krieg.

Atifa Bibi Husainai sieht zum Weinen aus. Ihre linke Gesichtshälfte ist verschrumpelt und von tiefen Narben durchzogen. Das Auge ist geschwollen, Teile des Lids fehlen, das macht den Augapfel übernatürlich groß. Deutlich sieht man die Furchen, die sich in das Weiße und die Pupille hineinfressen. Atifa Bibi ist 14 Jahre alt, aber ihre Zukunft hat sie hinter sich.

Es war Säure, die das kleine Mädchen derart verunstaltet hat. Geschüttet auf sie und fünf ihrer Freundinnen, als sie in Kandahar auf dem Weg in die Schule waren. Das störte einige fanatische Islamisten. Eines Morgens im November 2008 warteten sie mit dem Säurebehälter auf die Mädchen.

Atifa Bibi ist kein Einzelfall. Die Taliban, Radikale, die sich als Vertreter der wahren islamischen Lehre sehen, gewinnen in Afghanistan langsam wieder Oberwasser und fühlen sich stark genug, gegen jene vorzugehen, die sich nicht an die Scharia halten. Etwa kleine Mädchen, die nach islamischem Recht keine Schulen besuchen dürfen. >>> Norbert Rief, Die Presse | Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009

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Rücktrittsforderung: Erzbischof wirft Vatikan Schlamperei vor
WELT ONLINE: Papst Benedikt XVI. gerät wegen der Rehabilitierung des Bischofs und Holocaust-Leugners Richard Williamson immer stärker unter Druck. Mehrere Theologen legten dem Kirchenoberhaupt den Rücktritt nahe. Der Hamburger Erzbischof Werner Thissen hat zudem einen besonderen Rat für den Papst.

Papst Benedikt XVI. gerät wegen der Rehabilitierung des Holocaust-Leugners Bischof Richard Williamson immer mehr unter Druck. Israel drohte am Wochenende mit dem Abbruch der diplomatischen Beziehungen zum Vatikan. Mehrere Theologen sprachen sich für eine Ablösung des Papstes aus.

Der Tübinger Theologe Hans Küng, ein früherer Weggefährte des heutigen Papstes, erklärte, Benedikt XVI. sei im Vatikan offensichtlich „so abgeschirmt und der realen Welt enthoben, dass er sich keine Vorstellungen davon macht, wie verheerend sein Tun aufgenommen wird“. Nach Protestanten und Muslimen habe er nun die Juden vor den Kopf geschlagen. „Es wird Zeit, dass er abgelöst wird.“


Der emeritierte Theologieprofessor Hermann Häring sagte: „Wenn dieser Papst der Kirche etwas Gutes tun will, müsste er zurücktreten.“ Jeder Bischof müsse sein Amt mit 75 Jahren zur Verfügung stellen, jeder Kardinal verliere mit 80 seine Rechte. „Es ist nicht einzusehen, warum sich ausgerechnet der Papst an diese sehr weise Regel nicht halten sollte.“ >>> AP/AFP/ab | Montag, 2. Februar 2009

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No Thaw with US as Iran Marks Anniversary of 1979 Revolution
THE GUARDIAN: Iran yesterday rejected the idea of improved relations with the US unless there is a sharp change of policy from President Barack Obama, as the country began celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

The intelligence minister, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejeie, denied a report that there had been secret contacts between Tehran and Washington about the contentious nuclear issue. "There have been no official negotiations with the Americans," he said, referring to a report from the US Pugwash Conferences, a non-governmental organisation, claiming that Obama advisers and Iranian officials had met in Europe several times.

Iran also denied that its foreign minister, Manuchehr Mottaki, would meet US officials at a conference in Munich which the US vice-president, Joe Biden, will be attending. Expectations are mounting for a positive response from Tehran to Obama's dramatic call for Iran to "unclench" its fist, amid reports that the new administration is considering further gestures.

But the 1979 anniversary celebrations are striking an inevitably militant tone, which makes it hard to sound "soft" on the traditional enemy of the revolution.

On Saturday morning bells and sirens marked the moment on 1 February 1979 when Ayatollah Khomeini landed back in Tehran after 14 years in exile. Ten days later, the shah's rule effectively collapsed. The anniversary was early because this is a leap year in the Iranian calendar. >>> Ian Black in Tehran | Monday, February 2, 2009

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THE SPECTATOR: The Iranians Look Very Frightened

As was entirely predictable, the Iranian government has reacted with utter contempt to the exciting new approach of US President Obama towards resolving the crisis over Iran’s nuclear weapons programme:

US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of ‘domination’ has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday. ‘This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,’ Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency. ‘Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change,’ he added.

>>> Melanie Phillips | Saturday, January 31, 2009

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Cricket Team Told It Can't Call Itself 'the Crusaders'...in Case It Offends Muslims and Jews*
MAIL Online: A cricket team has been forced to change its name after angry complaints from Muslims and Jews.

The Middlesex Crusaders, who have played under the name for almost 10 years, will play next season as The Panthers.

Bosses at the county club acted after protests about the name from Jewish and Muslim communities, who said they felt it was a reference to the religious wars waged by Christians in Europe against other faiths.

But Middlesex members condemned the decision to change the team’s name and described the move as “batty”.

“The world really has gone mad,” one said. “It’s a real kick in the teeth and is bound to upset a lot of fans.” >>> By Daily Mail Reporter | Monday, February 2, 2009

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Wildcat Oil Strikes: Europeans Are Finally Waking Up to the Demise of Democracy
THE TELEGRAPH: Angry people across the EU are discovering the fine print in all the treaties signed by their leaders, says Janet Daley.

The peoples of Europe have finally discovered what they signed up to. I do mean "peoples" (plural) because however much political elites may deceive themselves, the populations of the member states of the EU are culturally, historically and economically separate and distinct. And a significant proportion of them are getting very, very angry.

What the strikers at the Lindsey oil refinery (and their brother supporters in Nottinghamshire and Kent) have discovered is the real meaning of the fine print in those treaties, and the significance of those European court judgments whose interpretation they left to EU obsessives: it is now illegal – illegal – for the government of an EU country to put the needs and concerns of its own population first. It would, for example, be against European law to do what Frank Field has sensibly suggested and reintroduce a system of "work permits" for EU nationals who wished to apply for jobs here.

Meanwhile, demonstrators in Paris and the recalcitrant electorate in Germany are waking up to the consequences of what two generations of European ideologues have thrust upon them: the burden not just of their own economic problems but also the obligation to accept the consequences of their neighbours' debts and failures. Each country is true to its own history in the way it expresses its rage: in France, they take to the streets and throw things at the police, in Germany they threaten the stability of the coalition government, and here, we revive the tradition of wildcat strikes. >>> Janet Daley | Sunday, February 1, 2009

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Barack Obama to Allow Anti-terror Rendition to Continue
THE TELEGRAPH: The highly controversial anti-terror practice of rendition will continue under Barack Obama, it has emerged.

Despite ordering the closure of Guantanamo and an end to harsh interrogation techniques, the new president has failed to call an end to secret abductions and questioning.

In his first few days in office, Mr Obama was lauded for rejecting policies of the George W Bush era, but it has emerged the CIA still has the authority to carry out renditions in which suspects are picked up and often sent to a third country for questioning.

The practice caused outrage at the EU, after it was revealed the CIA had used secret prisons in Romania and Poland and airports such as Prestwick in Scotland to conduct up to 1,200 rendition flights. The European Parliament called renditions "an illegal instrument used by the United States".

According to a detailed reading of the executive orders signed by Mr Obama on Jan 22, renditions have not been outlawed, with the new administration deciding it needs to retain some devices in Mr Bush's anti-terror arsenal amid continued threats to US national security.

"Obviously you need to preserve some tools – you still have to go after the bad guys," an administration official told the Los Angeles Times.

"The legal advisers working on this looked at rendition. It is controversial in some circles and kicked up a big storm in Europe. But if done within certain parameters, it is an acceptable practice." >>> By Alex Spillius in Washington | Sunday, February 1, 2009

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