Nucléaire : La Russie perd à son tour patience face à l'Iran
LE POINT: La Russie a sensiblement durci le ton mardi face à son allié iranien, condamnant sa décision d'enrichir de l'uranium sur son propre territoire et évoquant désormais ouvertement la possibilité de sanctions économiques contre Téhéran.

Traditionnellement alliée à l'Iran, pour qui elle construit la centrale nucléaire de Bouchehr et fournit le combustible nécessaire à son fonctionnement, la Russie a longtemps traîné les pieds pour de nouvelles sanctions, et cela bien que le conflit n'ait cessé de s'envenimer ces derniers mois. Mais l'annonce par le président Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dimanche du démarrage de la production d'uranium hautement enrichi (20 %) par l'Iran, au nez et à la barbe des puissances occidentales, a visiblement été mal accueillie en Russie, où plusieurs hauts responsables ont vivement réagi. >>> AFP | Mardi 09 Février 2010

Israël appelle à des sanctions "paralysantes" et immédiates contre l'Iran
LE POINT: Le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahou a appelé mardi la communauté internationale à prendre des "sanctions paralysantes" et immédiates contre l'Iran en raison de son programme nucléaire controversé.

"Je crois que ce qu'il faut à présent, c'est une action dure de la part de la communauté internationale", a déclaré Benyamin Netanyahou lors d'une rencontre à Jérusalem avec les ambassadeurs des pays de l'Union européenne. "Cela signifie non pas des sanctions modérées ou amoindries. Cela veut dire des sanctions paralysantes et ces sanctions doivent être appliquées immédiatement", a-t-il plaidé. "L'Iran est dans une course en avant pour produire des armes nucléaires avec un mépris impudent pour la communauté internationale. Celle-ci doit décider si elle veut sérieusement neutraliser cette menace pour Israël, pour la région et le monde entier", a ajouté le chef du gouvernement. "Il faut bien plus que des mots", a-t-il souligné. >>> AFP | Mardi 09 Février 2010

Iran to Produce Drones: Nuke Expansion Planned
SAUDI GAZETTE: TEHRAN - Iran said it will start making higher-grade reactor fuel on Tuesday and will add 10 uranium enrichment plants over the next year in a nuclear expansion sure to stoke tensions with the West.

Iranian defense minister also announced launch of two production lines to build unmanned aircraft with surveillance and attack capabilities.

It was also announced that Tehran would soon deploy a missile air defense system more powerful than the advanced Russian S-300 system it has ordered from Moscow in 2007 but has yet to receive. The state television quoted Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the unmanned aircraft would be able to carry out surveillance as well as offensive tasks with high precision and a long range.

The two types of aircraft, or drones, are named Ra’d (thunder) and Nazir (herald), with the former possessing offensive capabilities. >>> Agencies | Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Sweden: Muslim Man Wins Handshake Case
ONEINDIA: Stockholm – A Muslim man has won the discrimination case against Sweden’s unemployment agency, for kicking him out of the job training program, after he refused to shake hands with a woman. >>> OneIndia News | Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Iranian Unity on Anniversary Will Deliver ‘Punch’ to Enemies, Says Supreme Leader
CNS NEWS: As the U.S. and European Union joined Monday in condemning “continuing human rights violations” by the Iranian government, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ratcheted up tensions ahead of Thursday’s anniversary of the Islamic revolution by vowing that the nation would deliver a “punch” to stun its enemies.

“Through its unity, the Iranian nation will by Allah’s favor stun the arrogant powers, including the U.S., Britain, and the Zionist regime on the 22nd of Bahman,” he said in a speech to air force personnel, using the Persian calendar date for February 11.

Khamenei’s remarks, in a speech to air force personnel, are the latest by top regime figures seeking to discredit opposition supporters ahead of the anniversary by accusing them of being agents or tools of hostile countries. >>> Patrick Goodenough, International Editor | Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Sam Harris: The Clash Between Faith and Reason

Klatsch! The History Man and the Fatwa Girl
MAIL ONLINE: The internationally celebrated historian and TV presenter Niall Ferguson has broken up with his wife of 16 years after a string of adulterous affairs.

The 45-year-old Harvard professor has left former newspaper editor Susan Douglas, with whom he has three children, for his mistress, the Somalian-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Ms Hirsi Ali, 40, is a lawyer and former Dutch MP who wrote the script for a controversial film that criticised Islam and resulted in the assassination of its director. She is currently living under police protection in America.

Professor Ferguson, whose books, television programmes and work with financial hedge funds earn an estimated £5million a year, is understood to have been in a relationship with Ms Hirsi Ali since last summer.

Today, The Mail on Sunday can reveal how Ferguson’s philandering behaviour – described by one confidante as ‘more akin to a Premiership footballer’s louche ways than an esteemed professor’s’ – wrecked his marriage to Ms Douglas, one of Tory leader David Cameron’s closest friends, a leading member of the Tory ‘A-list’ of potential parliamentary candidates and a former Fleet Street editor.

Ferguson, who also has high-level links to the Tory Party, with a seat on the board of the Right-wing think-tank the Centre for Policy Studies, has been seen with Ms Hirsi Ali at a number of high-profile events over recent months.

Just two weeks ago they attended the Jaipur Literary Festival in India where they were photographed kissing in the opulent surroundings of the spectacular Diggi Palace.

Ms Hirsi Ali had been flown to the event secretly. She has been the subject of threats from Muslim extremists since writing the script for the movie Submission, which was critical of Islam. The history man and fatwa girl: How will David Cameron take news that think-tank guru Niall Ferguson has deserted wife Sue Douglas for Somali feminist? >>> Katie Nicholl, Miles Goslett and Caroline Graham | Sunday, February 07, 2010

'It's Tricky to Find Men When You're Living Under a Fatwa'

THE INDEPENDENT: Right-wing circles are transfixed by the relationship between Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the neoconservative historian Niall Ferguson

The Time Magazine gala held in New York's Lincoln Centre last May was always going to be a high-octane affair. Billed as a celebration of The 100 Most Influential People in the World, it was a chance for the globe's intellectual and political glitterati to rub shoulders while making small talk about geo-politics and contemporary literature.

But amid the mingling of eminent grey matter – guests included Barack Obama's speechwriter and Oprah Winfrey – there was also a crackling of mutual physical attraction between two glamorous invitees with a shared taste for conservative politics and speaking their minds.

Yesterday, the affair sparked that night between the British historian and television presenter Niall Ferguson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born feminist whose criticism of Islam provoked a fatwa which has left her living under police protection since 2004, was revealed – along with the news that the millionaire academic is to divorce his wife of 16 years.

Friends of the 45-year-old Harvard professor, whose books, media activities and work in high finance have made him one of the world's most bankable intellectuals with an estimated income of £5m a year, confirmed that he has left the former Fleet Street editor Susan Douglas and their three children for Ms Hirsi Ali.

A close friend of the former editor of the Sunday Express said that the split was due to Professor Ferguson "conducting a private life in a manner more akin to that of a Premiership footballer than a professor". >>> Cahal Milmo and Luke Blackall | Monday, February 08, 2010

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Submission

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Urges Jihad
BBC: A Yemen-based offshoot of al-Qaeda has called on Muslims in the region to wage holy war against the US and its allies.

A purported audio statement by Said al-Shihri, deputy leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, warned "American and Crusader interests are everywhere".

"Attack them and eliminate as many enemies as you can," Mr Shihri urged.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has said it was behind a failed bomb attack on a US passenger jet as it flew into Detroit on Christmas Day.

A Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has been charged with attempting to blow up the Northwest Airlines Airbus A330.

He has allegedly said AQAP operatives trained him in Yemen, equipped him with a powerful explosive device and told him what to do.

'Glorious invasion'

In an audio message posted on a jihadist website, Mr Shihri praised the "glorious invasion" by Mr Abdulmutallab and said it had been carried out in co-ordination with al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

"We repeat what our Sheikh Osama said, that America will not dream of security until we live in security in Palestine," he said, referring to a purported audio statement issued by the Saudi militant leader last month.

Mr Shihri, a Saudi national who was released from the US military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in November 2007, urged Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula to "prepare and carry your weapons and to defend your religion and yourselves, and to join your mujahideen brothers".

"The Christians, the Jews and the treacherous apostate rulers have pounced on you," he said. "You have no other way out from this plight other than to wage jihad." >>> | Monday, February 08, 2010

VOICE OF AMERICA: Al-Qaida Threatens to Attack US Interests 'Everywhere' >>> | Monday, February 08, 2010

Yemen Qaeda Wants Red Sea Blocked, Website Says
REUTERS INDIA: DUBAI - The Yemen-based wing of al Qaeda, in a recording posted on the Internet on Monday, called on Somali insurgents to help gain control over a narrow strait at the mouth of the Red Sea to block U.S. shipments to Israel.

The wing's deputy leader, Saeed al-Shehri, urged Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist insurgents to help return the Bab al Mandab strait, which separates Yemen from the Horn of Africa, "to the lands of Islam".

"At such a time the Bab (al Mandab) will be closed and that will tighten the noose on the Jews (Israel), because through it America supports them by the Red Sea," Shehri said in the audio recording posted on a website often used by Islamist groups. >>> Editing by Michael Roddy | Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Terrorisme : Le no2 d'Al-Qaïda au Yémen menace d'attaquer «partout» les intérêts US
20 MINUTES ONLINE: Le numéro deux d'Al-Qaïda au Yémen a appelé ses partisans à attaquer «partout les intérêts américains et croisés».

Saïd al-Shihri a affirmé l'ambition du réseau de prendre le contrôle d'un détroit stratégique commandant l'entrée de la mer Rouge.

Dans un message audio mis en ligne lundi sur un site islamiste, Saïd al-Shihri, recherché par les autorités yéménites, exhorte les musulmans à «proclamer le jihad».

«Les intérêts américains et croisés se trouvent partout, et leurs agents se déplacent partout. Attaquez-les et éliminez autant d'ennemis que vous pouvez», lance le numéro deux d'Al-Qaïda dans la péninsule arabique (Aqpa).

Il accuse «les croisés et les sionistes» de mener «une invasion haineuse du Yémen» et appelle les tribus, très influentes et qui contrôlent de vastes régions échappant au contrôle du gouvernement, à «attaquer les agents qui complotent avec les croisés contre les musulmans». >>> ats/afp | Lundi 08 Février 2010

Al-Kaida ruft zu Anschlägen auf Saudi-Arabien und USA auf: Lebenszeichen des stellvertretenden Führers in Arabien
NZZ ONLINE: Der Ableger des Terrornetzwerks al-Kaida in Jemen hat zu Anschlägen gegen die saudiarabische Herrscherfamilie und gegen US-Einrichtungen in der Region aufgerufen.

Die am Montag im Internet verbreitete Audio-Botschaft der Kaida stammt von Said al-Jiri und ist das erste Lebenszeichen des stellvertretenden Führers der Kaida auf der Arabischen Halbinsel (AQAP) seit dem 24. Dezember. >>> ddp | Montag, 08. Februar 2010

Anjem Choudary: What Is the Khilafah (خلافة)?
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Dubai Skyscraper Burj Khalifa Closes to Public
Burj Khalifa: At 2,716 feet tall, the tower contains a hotel, apartments and offices. Photo: The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH: The world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, has closed to the public due to technical problems just a month after it was formally opened.

The observation deck on the Dubai building's 124th floor, which had been open since the building was formally named on Jan 4, has been closed indefinitely because of unspecified technical problems.

At 2,716 feet tall, the tower contains a hotel, apartments and offices. The first occupants of the apartments were due to move in later this month.

But a statement from Emaar, the builders, said: "Technical issues with the power supply are being worked on by the main and sub-contractors and the public will be informed upon completion." >>> Richard Spencer in Dubai | Monday, February 08, 2010

Multicultural Britain! Sikh Schoolchildren Should Be Allowed Ceremonial Daggers, Says Britain's First Asian Judge
THE TELEGRAPH: Sikh schoolchildren should be allowed to wear their ceremonial daggers at all times in all public places, Britain's first Asian judge has said.

Sir Mota, who received a knighthood in the 2010 New Year Honours list, said he had worn his Kirpan without problems for up to 40 years. Photograph: The Telegraph
Sir Mota Singh QC spoke out after a number of Sikhs were refused entry to schools and other venues because they were wearing the Kirpan or other religious artefacts.

Sir Mota, who received a knighthood in the 2010 New Year Honours list, said he had worn his Kirpan without problems for up to 40 years, in public buildings including Buckingham Palace.

"Not allowing someone who is baptised to wear a Kirpan is not right," Sir Mota told BBC Asian Network.

The sheathed scimitar, which is attached to a cloth belt and normally worn discreetly under clothes, is one of five "articles of faith" that baptised Sikhs must be carried [sic] at all times. The others are Kara (a steel bangle), Kesh (unshorn hair), Kanga (a comb) and Kacha (special underwear).

Last year, a 14-year-old Sikh boy was refused entry to the Compton School in Barnet after governors ruled his Kirpan was a health and safety risk.

The same year, a Sikh police officer won his case for discrimination against Greater Manchester Police after he was told to remove his turban during riot training.

And in 2008, 14-year-old Sarika Singh won a High Court case against Aberdare Girls' School in south Wales after it excluded her for breaking its "no jewellery" rule for wearing a Kara. The school was found guilty of indirect discrimination under race relations and equality laws. >>> Aislinn Laing | Monday, February 08, 2010

News You Can’t Believe*! Saudi Arabia Opens to Outsiders as It Looks to the Future
THE TELEGRAPH: Gulf nation is liberalising and the West needs to alter its outdated perceptions

The Kingdom Tower in Riyadh. Photo: The Telegraph
If anything sums up the mystery of Saudi Arabia, it is the story of two women who "mingled" with members of the opposite sex.

One was Khamisa Sawadi, a 75-year-old grandmother sentenced to 40 lashes for being found in the presence of a man who was not a blood relative. It was her late husband's nephew, and he had called at her house to deliver a loaf of bread.

The other was Aisha Natto, a businesswoman from Jeddah, who was to be seen the other day "mingling" quite openly with a large number of men: Saudis, other Arabs and Westerners. Many of the women around her were not even veiled.

The very same government that has refused to intervene on behalf of Mrs Sawadi was hosting the Global Competitiveness Forum at Riyadh's Four Seasons Hotel, where Dr Natto received an award as founder of one of the country's fastest growing businesses.

The forum is one of a string of initiatives by which Saudi Arabia is trying to change its reputation as an inward-looking, conservative – and men-only – state whose economic policies revolve around deploying its oil wealth in the interests of its ruling family. >>> Richard Spencer in Riyadh | Sunday, February 07, 2010

*They’ll be telling us next that we can go skinny dipping there!

Anjem Choudary: The Downfall of the Western Economy

A United Muslim World
Map of the Caliphate. Map: Khilafah.com
KHILAFAH (Caliphate): When one thinks of the Muslim world, it conjures up images of poverty, corruption and war. Many negative connotations exist about the state of the Muslim world which continues to occupy news space and newspapers. The global media tends to neglect the achievements of the Muslim world and the contributions it made to humanity. The Muslim world has a rich history of development and discovery, the results of which are being reaped today.

Over the last decade, the call for a united Islamic world i.e. the Khilafah has gained momentum and this momentum continues to grow. The possibility of a united Muslim world behind one ruler (Khaleefah) is something that the Muslim Ummah can achieve as this was achieved in the past and even western historians have testified to this fact. The Muslim lands currently posses:

• The Largest population in the world, 1.6 billion

• Largest army in the world

• Control of half of the world's oil and many other natural resources 

• Control key strategic naval straits (A third of the world's oil travels through the straits of Hormuz which is between Iran and UAE) and airspace

• Largest land mass 

• Nuclear weapons

The golden period of the Ummah saw many technological developments. Muslims utilised technology which Europe at that time could not even dream of. For example, some of the technology we take for granted today would not have existed if mathematical concepts such as algebra did not develop during the golden period of Islam. Computers which are used today would not have been possible if mathematical concepts such as algorithms did not exist. Many scholars such as Donald Routledge Hill express the view that Islam was the driving force behind the Muslim achievements while Robert Briffault even sees Islamic science as the foundation of modern science. >>> Amar Khan | Sunday, February 07, 2010

Anjem Choudary: Khilafah in the UK

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Vs. Sharia
Sharia enforced dress code. Photo: Independent World Report
INDEPENDENT WORLD REPORT: Maryam Namazie — rights activist, commentator, broadcaster, and spokesperson for One Law for All — on resisting the misogynist, medieval and barbaric Islamic code. There is a world of difference between sexists and bigots who believe religion gives them the go ahead to think that gays are perverts and unveiled women whores and a state that puts those beliefs into laws, under which gays are executed and badly veiled women are fined, imprisoned or have acid thrown in their faces by Hezbollah and Basiji thugs.

Sharia. Just the word to me is like a kick in the stomach, particularly when I hear it being mentioned favourably. I know in this day and age of multiculturalism, it is not surprising to find tolerance for even the most intolerable of things, but, I still have to catch my breath when I hear the very word.

I suppose it is because I can not hear it without remembering sixteen-year-old Atefeh Rajabi hung for crimes against chastity; mother of three Maryam Ayoubi stoned to death for sex outside of marriage; Shirin Alam-Hoei who was sentenced to life in prison for enmity against God; and Neda Agha-Soltan who was shot dead at a June 2009 protest in Tehran, and whose twentieth birthday would have been on January 23, 2010.

Now, I know there are those who will say that these examples I give, or the many others we have come to know so well, are merely harsh interpretations of Sharia law — that Sharia law is misunderstood, and that it is not entirely medieval and draconian. But, one need only take a glance around the world to see the extent of its brutality.

To say it is misunderstood is merely an exercise in PR, which aims to make Sharia more palatable to a western audience and pave the way for its, at least partial, implementation in places like the United Kingdom. The Islamists have no time for such niceties when you are living under their rule.

Of course Sharia law rulings on divorce and child custody are not the same as its rulings on stoning and amputation. Yet, even in civil matters, a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s; she does not have the right to child custody after a prescribed age regardless of the child’s welfare. A woman has limited rights to divorce whereas men have unilateral rights to divorce. Men can marry up to four wives, and, in the Shia tradition, have as many temporary wives as they want as well. Women can not even sign their own marriage contract; a male guardian must sign it on their behalf and so on and so forth.

The misogyny behind a law that stones a woman to death, and one that denies her the right to divorce from a violent husband, is a matter of degree — the fundamentals are the same. In fact, the civil aspects of Sharia law are some of the pillars of women’s oppression and the reason why so many have fled their homes and sought refuge elsewhere.

Clearly, Sharia law is seen to be draconian because it is.

It is perceived to be misogynist, medieval and barbaric because it is. >>> Posted by IWR | Monday, February 01, 2010

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