Dutch Soldiers at Risk over Geert Wilders’ Anti-Koran Film
This is ridiculous! Geert Wilders has no need to “besmirch the Koran." The Koran speaks for itself. Read it!

THE TELEGRAPH: Dutch soldiers serving with Nato in Afghanistan will face new threats if their country allows the broadcast of an anti-Islamic film, Bozorgmehr Ziaran, Iran's ambassador to the Netherlands, has said.

He announced his intention to rally global Muslim opinion against plans by Geert Wilders, the maverick Dutch MP, to show a short movie attacking the Koran.

Mr Ziaran also fuelled fears of a violent backlash by issuing a veiled threat that Dutch troops would be regarded as "representatives of people who besmirch the Koran".

"Afghans will view these troops as there to take our power, to destroy us and to ruin our values," he told De Volkskrant newspaper.

But Mr Wilders, the controversial leader of the anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) has vowed to ignore "daily death threats" and pressure from the authorities by broadcasting his film next month on the Koran, which he compares to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.

"The serious threats to my life and the Dutch government's panicked response to my film underline the truth of what I am saying. The Koran is dangerous," he said.

"I am human so I sometimes feel real fear but I will not let the politics of fear stop me from saying what must be said." Dutch soldiers 'at risk' over anti-Koran film: >>> By Joan Clements in The Hague and Bruno Waterfield

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What Is Islam? Walid Shoebat

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Walid Shoebat, Ex-Islamist, Speaks Against Islam

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Miliband in Turkey Securing Turkey’s Future in Eurabia
Miliband thinks that the UK needs to ‘engage’ with Turkey far more. The UK, he says, needs to be “outward looking”.

Really, Mr Miliband? So you believe that Turkey belongs in Europe, accelerating further the Islamization of the European continent.

Now what if the majority of the people of Europe disagree with you and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office? Are you still going to go ahead with bringing Turkey into the EU? Well, yes, of course you are! You wouldn’t wish to let a trifling detail like that stand in your way now would you? After all, what do the ‘common folk’ know about what’s good for them?

Mr Miliband, I don’t think you know what you’re doing, and you certainly don’t know what you’re talking about. But then what should we expect. Isn’t it true that your father was a Marxist theoretician? So what can we realistically expect from you in terms of democracy?

Listen here to David Miliband speaking about his father.


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John McCain, soldat républicain pour la Maison-Blanche
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TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: ÉTATS-UNIS | 00H00 A 71 ans, John McCain fait figure de favori pour décrocher l'investiture républicaine à l'élection présidentielle de novembre et tenter de succéder à son ancien rival de parti, George Bush.

John McCain célèbre ses victoires électorales à angle droit. Le sénateur républicain de l'Arizona, favori à l'investiture républicaine pour la présidentielle américaine de novembre, ne peut pas lever les bras plus haut que ses épaules, séquelle de la guerre du Viêt Nam. En 1967, il s'est cassé les deux bras et une jambe après s'être éjecté de son avion, qui avait été abattu au-dessus de Hanoi. McCain a passé cinq ans et demi dans un camp de prisonniers au Viêt Nam et a connu la torture.

Cet épisode de sa vie marque aujourd'hui encore les Américains. Dans sa campagne pour la Maison-Blanche, McCain utilise constamment son expérience militaire pour mettre sur la défensive son principal rival, Mitt Romney.

Ce dernier, un homme d'affaires mormon et ancien gouverneur du Massachusetts, n'a pas fait l'armée. «J'ai eu l'honneur de porter l'uniforme pendant 22 ans», a lancé McCain, lors d'un débat républicain mercredi soir en Californie. «Je ne l'ai pas fait par profit, mais par patriotisme.» A 71 ans, l'aîné des candidats à
la présidentielle incarne le paradoxe républicain cette année. Les conservateurs se méfient de ce politicien qui n'hésite pas à collaborer au Congrès avec l'«ennemi démocrate». Mais alors que les Américains répètent leur envie de changement après sept ans de gouvernement Bush, les républicains voient apparemment en McCain leur meilleure chance de conserver la Maison-Blanche. John McCain, soldat républicain pour la Maison-Blanche >>>

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Monsieur le Playboy!
Wie Nicolas Sarkozy sich benimmt ist fast nicht zum Glauben! Carla benimmt sich nicht als angehende ‘First Lady’ Frankreichs. Nicolas Sarkozy benimmt sich schon gar nicht als Präsident Frankreichs. Es wäre wirklich interessant herauszufinden, was diese Leute eigentlich denken. Glaubt Sarkozy, daß der Zweck der Übung ist es, in der ganzen Welt herumzujetten mit Carla auf seiner Seite?

Blick: Franzosen reissen sich um brisante Details*
*Vergessen Sie nicht die Fotos gut anzuschauen!

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Wann macht er eigentlich noch Politik?

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Sign Petition Online
The Independent is running an online petition to save the young Afghan, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, who has been sentenced to death in Afghanistan simply for downloading material on women’s rights!

We really need to do all we can to save this young man. He deserves OUR help. The least we can do is sign the online petition. Please take a minute of your time to sign this most urgent petition:

Save Sayed Pervez Kambaksh

Sincerely

Mark

Prager: You Can’t Call Them ‘Muslim’ in the UK
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Mufti of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, Wants Moratorium on the 1905 French Law Separating Church and State
BRUSSELS JOURNAL: The mufti of the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, has dropped what amounts to a political and religious bomb. He proposes a moratorium on the French law of 1905 separating Church and State, because not enough mosques are being built in France.

Besides his position as mufti, he is the president of the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Faith), an association officially established in 2003 thanks to the efforts of Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy.


Questioned by Le Monde, Mr. Boubakeur set forth the idea of a “moratorium of 10 to 20 years” on the 1905 law, which forbids all public funding of places of worship, so that Islam can “catch up” on its needs. “The associations that administer houses of worship need to be given air to breathe,” he says.

This has to be one of the most daring statements made yet by a Muslim leader in France. There are at least 1500 mosques and prayer rooms in France, 75 in Paris alone.

Dalil Boubakeur’s proposal to suspend the 1905 law has incensed France’s radical secularists, the advocates of “laïcité,” who see in his words a predictable maneuver, welcomed by the State and Churches alike, for the purpose of restoring the power of religion to all spheres of French life.

Militants of “laïcité” are convinced that Nicolas Sarkozy intends, through modifications to the existing law, to impose his view of the equality of all religions onto the French people, instead of maintaining the strict separation that has been enforced until recently when Islam came into the picture. Can of Worms: Mufti Wants Moratorium on French Law Separating Church and State >>> By Tiberge

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Obama-Clinton Love-In?
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WATCH highlights of the Obama-Clinton TV debate HERE and HERE

READ the BBC article HERE

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The Netherlands: Refused Asylum-Seekers to Be Deported
EXPATICA: About 5,000 asylum seekers who have exhausted their appeals are not eligible for amnesty and must leave the Netherlands.

1 February 2008



THE HAGUE – About 5,000 asylum seekers who have exhausted their appeals are not eligible for amnesty and must leave the Netherlands. State secretary for Justice Nebahat Albayrak predicts that carrying out the deportations will make 2008 a "very difficult year."



The deportation of these people will require enormous efforts, the minister said on Friday after the cabinet meeting.
Another round of deportations for refused asylum seekers >>>

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Is Berlin Ready to Explode?
SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Following the violent death of a Moroccan teenager in Cologne, hundreds of immigrants have taken to the streets in nightly demonstrations to protest what they see as evidence of their second-class status in Germany. Police warn the city could be ready to explode.

The owner of an electronics shop on Cologne's Kalker Hauptstrasse had rolled down the shutters on the windows in case there was unrest. Now they have photos of a 17-year-old Moroccan boy taped to them. The teenager, whose name was Salih, was killed in front of the shop two weeks ago.

The sidewalk is a sea of candles as hundreds of people chant: "Salih! Salih! We want justice!" They feel that Salih was one of them -- a youth from an immigrant family.

For the police, the case is clear cut. According to their version of events, Salih allegedly wanted to mug a 20-year-old German man, who tried to defend himself. But he panicked and pulled out a pocketknife that he plunged into Salih's heart with an unlucky stab. Prosecutors said it was a clear case of self-defense, and there are witnesses. But none of that matters any longer.

Every night last week, up to 300 protestors gathered at the spot where Salih died to demand "justice" instead of letting his killer walk free. They are protesting against "racism in Germany" -- but since it appears clear that this case involves self-defense, it's obviously about more than just the unfortunate Salih. It's more about how immigrants and their children feel they are currently being treated in Germany. Immigrants Protest Death of Moroccan Teenager in Cologne >>> By Barbara Schmid and Andreas Ulrich

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European Muslims Become Socially Mobile
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”It’s a Great Time to Be a European Muslim. Everyone’s Focused on Us, So It’s an Opportunity, if You Take It.”

TIME: When Famile Arslan showed up for her first day of work, the receptionist pointed her toward the broom closet. "'The cleaning supplies are over there,'" Arslan recalls being told. "I had to say, 'No, I'm not the cleaner. I'm the lawyer.'" In fairness to the receptionist, Arslan was making history that morning, as the first attorney to wear a hijab in the Netherlands. Ten years on, she has her own practice in the Hague. Her name's on the door, her cat Hussein pads around and a veiled assistant fields phone calls. "People keep telling me how successful I am," says Arslan. "But I'm not all that successful. Had I not been a migrant woman in a hijab, I could have gone much further." Still, when younger Muslims ask Arslan how to climb the professional ladder, she's optimistic. "If you think strategically, this is a great time to be a European Muslim," she argues. "Everyone's focused on us, so it's an opportunity — if you take it."

For European Muslims, the era after Sept. 11, 2001, has been both the best and worst of times. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have strained relations between Europe's governments and its Muslims; there has been a rise in Islamophobic incidents; the specter of Islamic radicalism dominates media debates and shapes government policy. But the era in which Muslims became a feared minority also saw another trend: the rise of a Euro-Muslim middle class. A Gallup poll last year found European Muslims to be at least as likely to identify themselves as British, French or German as the general populations. Migrants' children have begun moving from corner shops and factory floors to offices. They swap business cards at Muslim networking events like Britain's Emerald Network or Holland's Toward a New Start, a group for Moroccans who, in the words of founder Ahmed Larouz, are "the sort of people who say, 'I want to be CEO of Philips.'" Parisian professionals go to Les Dérouilleurs, a networking salon whose name (the Un-Rusty Ones) jabs at the stereotype of les rouilleurs — jobless Maghrebi youth "rusting away" in the banlieues.

That's all good news. More disheartening was news in January that the first person convicted under British laws targeting the preparation of terrorist acts was Sohail Qureshi, a 29-year-old dentist from London. That followed the arrest in Britain last summer of three doctors and an engineer on suspicion of attempting to strike Glasgow's airport with a car containing propane-gas canisters. This has challenged the stereotype of jihadis as disenfranchised madrasah students, presenting Europe with a troubling question: Why would those who have made a success of their professional lives be drawn to violent extremism? Breaking Through >>> By Carla Power

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Margaret Thatcher Named as ‘Great Briton’
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THE TELEGRAPH: Margaret Thatcher has been hailed as a Great Briton who transformed the country and left an indelible and lasting mark on politics.

Conservative leader David Cameron heaped praise on the former Prime Minister in a sign that he is determined to be seen as her heir.

At a prestigious dinner in her honour she was awarded the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Lifetime Achievement Award at the Guildhall in London. 



The awards are supported by the Daily Telegraph. 



Baroness Thatcher said: "I am proud to have played my part in helping to transform the British economy and in restoring Great Britain's standing on the world stage. I am delighted to have been honoured with such a prestigious award."



Mr Cameron said: "Today we know exactly what Thatcherism meant for our country; victory in the Cold War, victory against unbridled trade union power, the sale of council houses, the liberation of the British economy. 



"Yet all of this was achieved gradually, by a government that knew it had to take public opinion along with it if real and lasting change was to be made. 



"That change was made. Margaret Thatcher is a fitting recipient of the Morgan Stanley Great Britons award, when we judge greatness as it should be judged: the scale of the legacy. She made the landscape in which we live today." Margaret Thatcher named as 'Great Briton' >>> By Andrew Porter, Political Editor

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Save Pervez! Global Protests to Save Afghan Student from Death Sentence
THE INDEPENDENT: Worldwide outrage over Afghan sentenced to death for reading article on women's rights. Join the Independent campaign now

Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, has been inundated with appeals to save the life of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death after being accused of downloading an internet report on women's rights.

While international protests mounted over the affair, with the British Government saying it had already raised its concerns, hundreds of people marched through the capital, Kabul, demanding Mr Kambaksh's release.

A petition launched yesterday by The Independent to secure justice for Mr Kambaksh had attracted more than 13,500 signatories by last night, and a number of support groups have been set up on the social networking site Facebook with more than 400 joining one group alone.

Mr Kambaksh, 23, was arrested, tried and convicted by a religious court, in what his friends and family say was a secret session without being allowed legal representation.

The United Nations, human rights groups, journalists' organisations and diplomats urged Mr Karzai's government to quash the death sentence and release him.

Instead, on Wednesday, the Afghan senate passed a motion confirming the death sentence. The MP who proposed the ruling condemning Mr Kambaksh was Sibghatullah Mojadedi, a key ally of Mr Karzai. Save Pervez! Global protests to save Afghan student from death sentence >>> By Kim Sengupta, Jerome Starkey in Kabul, Anne Penketh and Ben Russell

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Top al-Qa’eda Leader Reported Dead
BBC: A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, Western counter-terrorism officials have told the BBC.

News of his death emerged on a website used by Islamist groups. Ekhlaas.org said he had "fallen as a martyr".

There is speculation that he was killed by a US missile strike in the North Waziristan area of Pakistan this week.

A dozen militants were reported killed in the attack. US intelligence agencies said they were checking the reports.

A Pakistani daily paper, the News, reported that the suspected US strike was aimed at Libi and another senior figure, Obaidah al-Masri.

The Pakistani government said it knew nothing about Libi's death.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he did not "have anything definitive" to say about it, the Associated Press reported. Top al-Qaeda leader reported dead >>>

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Queen Beatrix Celebrates Her 70th Birthday with Low-Key Party
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PR-INSIDE.COM: THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch Queen Beatrix celebrated her 70th birthday Thursday with a low-key gathering of close friends at her palace nestled in woods on the edge of The Hague, while her subjects hung the national flag and orange streamers from their homes and public buildings.
Despite the public shows of affection, her birthday comes at a time when a recent speech has sparked criticism for interfering in politics.

In her 2007 Christmas speech, Beatrix said: «Rudeness in word and deed tests the limits of tolerance. Discussions end up in rigid stances _ in that kind of atmosphere people are quickly grouped together and prejudices are accepted as truth. That erodes the community spirit.

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party who has warned the Netherlands is in danger of being swamped by «a tsunami of Islamization» and is busy making a film in which he says he will portray the Quran as a «fascist book,» interpreted the comments as an attack on his party, which holds nine of Parliament's 150 seats.

Calling the comments, «multi-culti nonsense,» Wilders said the queen's duties should be limited to «cutting ribbons.»

Under the Dutch constitution, the prime minister is responsible for the queen's speech, and she cannot speak on her own behalf.

The monarchy also came under fire last year when the queen's daughter-in-law Princess Maxima, the Argentine-born wife of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, said in a speech that there was no such thing as a single Dutch identity. Dutch Queen Beatrix celebrates 70th birthday with low-key party >>> ©AP

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Dutch MPs Push for Anti-Muslim Legislation
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CORD WEEKLY: The Dutch parliament is considering a ban on the traditional Islamic garment worn by some women that covers the entire body

As per a Reuters report, of the approximately one million Muslims living in the Netherlands, 50 to 100 women currently wear the burqa. These women will soon be considered to be criminals if a proposed ban on this garment is cleared by the Dutch government.

The burqa is a robe-like outer garment worn by some women of the Islamic faith, which covers them from head to toe and only allows for a small opening for the eyes. It is worn by women outdoors and is only be taken off inside the household.

The Dutch parliament has voted in support of this proposal, and some of the government has shown approval for banning the burqa. Muslims are growing restless in response to this proposal, as the debate between social law and religious freedom intensifies with each passing day.

Some politicians in the Netherlands are linking the burqa to terrorism, saying that the Muslim population is sympathising with radical Islamists. The burqa covers the face from view, which is a concern for some members of parliament who want people to be identifiable in public.

A ban on this garment will certainly result in public unrest, especially since it brings up the issue of violating freedom of religion. In the city of Maaseik in Belgium, a burqa ban is already in place. Police in Maaseik have said that the ban is giving people reasons to resent society and making relations with the Moroccan community difficult.

BBC News interviewed MP Geert Wilders, the first Dutch MP to propose this ban. “It’s a medieval symbol, a symbol against women,” he said. Wilders is a prominent figure in this controversial issue, especially since he produced a film that has been labelled anti-Islam. Although the contents of this ten-minute film are not clear, Wilders tells BBC News that his film will show how the Koran is an inspiration for “intolerance, murder and terror.”

Wilders is the head of the Freedom Party, and ever since Dutch film director Theo Van Gogh was killed by a radical Islamist, Wilders has been under police protection. Van Gogh was killed in 2004 for his film, entitled Submission, which featured a naked woman with scripts from the Koran “tattooed” on her body.

A list pinned on Van Gogh’s corpse named Wilders as an infidel that deserved to be slaughtered. Wilders, however, is determined to release his film, despite warnings of retaliation from the Islamic community, even saying that he will release it on the Internet if no Dutch broadcaster will. Dutch MPs Pushing for Anti-Muslim Legislation >>> By Shagun Randhawa

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Iran Invites Islamic Ambassadors to Wilders Meeting
NIS NEWS BULLETIN: THE HAGUE, 01/02/08 - Iranian Ambassador Ziaran intends to invite all Islamic ambassadors in the Netherlands for a meeting on Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders' film on the Koran.

Ziaran met this week with the LBM, a new umbrella of Moroccan organisations in the Netherlands. On NOS Journaal, the daily TV news of public broadcaster NOS, he said he would organise a meeting with the ambassadors of Islamic countries shortly on the already-controversial film that Wilders has said he plans to air in March.

LBM, chaired by former leftwing Greens (GroenLinks) MP Mohammed Rabbae called on Ziaran to issue a message to the Iranian people not to react violently to the film, in which Wilders wants to portray the Koran as a fascist book. Ziaran could not guarantee that the streets of Tehran would remain calm.

According to De Volkskrant, Ziaran warned the Netherlands that the lives of its troops in Afghanistan may be endangered by Wilders. The newspaper yesterday quoted him as saying that the Afghans would "regard the Dutch troops as representatives of people who besmirch the Koran". [Source: Iran Invites Islamic Ambassadors to Wilders Meeting]

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Afghan Sentenced to Death for Reading about Women’s Rights
Photo of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh courtesy of The Independent
THE INDEPENDENT: A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country's rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after "liberation" and under the democratic rule of the West's ally Hamid Karzai.

The fate of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has led to domestic and international protests, and deepening concern about erosion of civil liberties in Afghanistan. He was accused of blasphemy after he downloaded a report from a Farsi website which stated that Muslim fundamentalists who claimed the Koran justified the oppression of women had misrepresented the views of the prophet Mohamed.

Mr Kambaksh, 23, distributed the tract to fellow students and teachers at Balkh University with the aim, he said, of provoking a debate on the matter. But a complaint was made against him and he was arrested, tried by religious judges without – say his friends and family – being allowed legal representation and sentenced to death. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights >>> By Kim Sengupta

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Wouldn’t You Know? More Sensitivity Must Be Shown Towards Islamic Education!
Photo of young Muslimatoon courtesy of The Telegraph
How much more of this damn nonsense are the long-suffering British people going to tolerate before they make a stand against this pandering by our weak and ineffectual government to the Muslim electorate? Have the British lost all their spunk, have they lost their courage, have they lost their nerve? Do the British now just tolerate every bit of nonsense thrown at them by this dhimmitudinous, appeasing excuse for a government we have in the United Kingdom today?

I tell you here and now: Time is tight if we are to be able to reverse the trend of Islamization in our nation. Before you know it, Muslims will be ruling the roost. And to think that the UK was once such a proud and strong nation!

Giving the go-ahead to Islamic schools to police themselves is as absurd as it is dangerous. We really must put a stop to this dhimmitude. We are giving our country away. The Jihad is victorious without even having to put up a fight for its victory.

Little wonder Gordon Brown wanted to get rid of Britannia on the back of the 50p piece the other day. This must all be a part of his Marxist plan to destroy the realm! It is high time that dear Gord returned to north of the border, where he belongs. Perhaps his fellow Scotsmen will be able to tame him; the English have so obviously failed to do so. - ©Mark

THE TELEGRAPH: Private Muslim schools have been given the power to police themselves, despite widespread fears over religious segregation, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

In a controversial move, they have won the right to appoint their own Ofsted-style inspectors. A new independent watchdog has been set up to be more "sensitive'' toward Islamic education.

The decision comes despite concerns some private Muslim schools are already failing to prepare pupils for life in modern Britain. 



Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the Commons schools select committee, told MPs last month local councils were finding it "difficult to know what is going on in some faith schools - particularly Muslim schools". 



But religious leaders defended the move, saying the curriculum and religious traditions in faith schools demand specialist knowledge. 



Under present legislation, most state and private schools are inspected by Ofsted, the Government's standards watchdog. The Association of Muslim Schools and the Christian Schools' Trust applied to the Government to set up a separate inspectorate for a small number of private faith schools. Muslim schools to conduct own inspections >>> By Graeme Paton, Education Editor

MELANIE PHILLIPS:
Slouching towards dhimmocracy

” Many people still think that the idea that Britain could ever be ‘Islamised’ is just too preposterous and silly to be taken seriously. It is not. It is well advanced. What it relies upon is three things: the refusal of the British public to take it seriously; the Islamists' ability to manipulate moral and intellectual liberal confusion and the resulting paralysis over ‘Islamophobia’, ‘discrimination’ and ‘minority rights’; and the craven desire by the British government to buy off the implicit and explicit threats of Muslim social unrest and yet more terrorist attacks by giving in to the Islamists’ demands. Truly moderate British Muslims who want to live under the umbrella of British laws and institutions are thus grievously undermined, and the entire country is put at ever greater peril from the pincer movement of cultural and terrorist attack.

Members of Parliament with an elementary sense of national self-preservation simply must not let this pass.” – Melanie Phillips

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I Shouldn't Be Here: Ledger's Drugs Dismay
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Speculation about the death of the Australian actor Heath Ledger has resurfaced after video footage emerged of him talking about drug use at a Hollywood party.

Channel Nine last night broadcast excerpts of the video, which was allegedly made two years ago at the Chateau Marmont hotel on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard - the same hotel where the actor John Belushi died.

It was reported that the footage was taken while Ledger's girlfriend, Michelle Williams, and their daughter, Matilda Rose, were upstairs.

Ledger was not shown taking drugs, although others can be seen in grainy footage apparently snorting a substance off a table.

"I'm going to get serious shit from my girlfriend," Ledger says in the video.

Asked by someone why, he replies: "We had a baby three months ago."

He goes on to tell the person his daughter's name and then says: "I shouldn't be here at all." I shouldn't be here: Ledger's drugs dismay >>> By Jonathan Dart

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US television program will not show footage of Heath Ledger openly discussing his drug use

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