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The delectable Jemimah, now Haiqa, is committing sins in abdundance here: she is showing her hair, showing her arms, and revealing her boobs. She is also wearing tight-fitting clothes. What next? Allah will not be best pleased, to be sure.

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Ahmadinejad: Gay, Perhaps? Or Does He Just Enjoy a Little Snog?
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Sydney Priest Comes Down Heavy on High Court Judge: Repent about Your Gay Lifestyle, or Face the Wrath of God!
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SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: A SENIOR minister of a Sydney Anglican parish has made an extraordinary attack on the High Court judge Michael Kirby, warning he would face the wrath of God if he remained unrepentant as a gay man.

The rector of St Stephen's Church in Bellevue Hill, the Reverend Richard Lane, denounced the judge for calling himself a Christian Anglican while living in an openly gay relationship and warned as a "messenger, watchman and steward of the Lord in the Anglican Church of Australia", he faced God's judgment.

To call himself a Christian Anglican was a "perversion of truth" and to continue to do so without changing his lifestyle would brand him, like Herod, a "coward, a liar, a deceiver" and a "lawless one".

"I appeal to you to cast yourself on the mercy of Jesus … That is admit your sin, confess your wrongdoing and turn in humble repentance to the Lord Jesus, who alone can forgive you," Mr Lane said. Admit Your Sins to the Lord, Priest Tells Gay Judge >>> By Linda Morris, Religious Affairs Writer | April 10, 2008

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The Weird World of the Mormon Polygamist Sect
DAILY MAIL: Children rescued from a polygamist sect had their first taste of the outside world yesterday, as details emerged of the life they had endured on the Yearning for Zion ranch.

Many of the teenage girls were pregnant and some already had babies. Few of the 416 youngsters brought out of the sect in the Texas desert knew their full names, their birth dates or could even identify their own mothers.

Some had been beaten so badly they suffered broken bones and younger girls, some as young as 12 and 13, had been expected to have sex with much older men.

Ominously, a disproportionate number of the children, ranging in age from toddlers to 17-year-olds, had the surname Jeffs, as in Warren Jeffs, the leader and self-styled prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, rumoured to have more than 80 wives and 250 children.

But yesterday, as the youngsters played with donated toys, social workers claimed the shadow of fear was finally lifting for the children of the Yearning for Zion Ranch.

A sinister picture of systematic underage sexual abuse and violence was emerging for the first time from interviews with the children and some of the 140 mothers with them following a police raid on the isolated compound in Eldorado, Texas. Inside the Weird World and the Palatial Churches of the Mormon Polygamist Sect By David Gardner | April 9, 2008

DAILY MAIL:
Hundreds of Women and Children in 19th Century Clothing Flee from Mormon 'Polygamy' Ranch of Dark Secrets By David Gardner | April 9, 2008

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:
Young Girls in Sect Forced to Have Sex in Temple

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Bedingung Sarkozys für die Reise nach Peking
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NZZ Online: Präsident Sarkozy hat die Entscheidung über seine Teilnahme an der Eröffnungszeremonie der Olympischen Spiele in Peking von der Wiederaufnahme des Dialoges zwischen China und dem Dalai Lama abhängig gemacht. In einer Stellungnahme am Tag nach dem Fiasko der Olympia-Fackel-Stafette in Paris bedauerte der Staatschef das «für jeden etwas traurige Schauspiel» der Zwischenfälle. Zugleich bekundete er indes auch sein Verständnis für die Solidaritätskundgebungen zugunsten Tibets und des Dalai Lama. Die meisten Manifestanten hätten übrigens von ihrem in einer Demokratie selbstverständlichen Demonstrationsrecht in völlig korrekter Weise Gebrauch gemacht. Dass das olympische Feuer und einige der als Stafettenläufer mitwirkenden Sportler ausgepfiffen worden seien, bleibe indes zu bedauern. Bedingung Sarkozys für die Reise nach Peking: Forderung nach Dialog Chinas mit dem Dalai Lama >>>

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It’s Against My Faith, You Must Understand! It's Haram!
DAILY MAIL: Muslim sex offenders are asking to be let off a prison treatment programme on religious grounds.

Rapists, paedophiles and other dangerous attackers are expected to discuss their crimes with other inmates as a condition of release.

But Muslim prisoners complain that criminals should not have to talk about their offences - a "legitimate Islamic position", according to Ahtsham Ali, the Prison Service's Muslim adviser.

One thousand inmates were put on the Sex Offender Treatment Programme last year with places usually reserved for the most dangerous attackers.

Failure to complete the course can weigh against an offender at parole hearings.

The possibility of an exemption for Muslims came to light in a letter from an unnamed inmate to Inside Time, a newspaper for prisoners.

The convict said: "I have always insisted that it was against Islamic teachings to discuss your offence to anyone, let alone act it out within a peer group."

Experts said ministers, who have launched a review of the issue, could face a legal challenge from Muslims kept longer in prison because they had not undergone the treatment programme. Muslim Sex Offenders Could Opt Out of Treatment Programme 'Because It's against Their Faith' >>> By James Slack

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Mayoral Candidates Unite in Call for Illegal Immigration Amnesty
THE INDEPENDENT: Today, all four major candidates in London's mayoral election join religious and business leaders in proposing a radical solution for illegal immigrants

A formidable coalition of businessmen, politicians, religious leaders and community workers will pledge their support tonight for an amnesty for illegal immigrants who have been resident in the UK for several years and can pass strict tests to prove their contribution to British society.

All four of London's main mayoral candidates – including, against the official policy of his party, the Tory candidate Boris Johnson – will back the campaign to offer undocumented workers the chance to be integrated into mainstream society and obtain papers allowing them to work and pay taxes legally.

In an unprecedented move that will exert even more pressure on the Government to heed calls for an amnesty, they will be joined by an array of influential figures from outside the political world, including Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, leader of the Muslim Council of Britain and Stephen O'Brien, one of the City's leading businessmen.

"Enormous untapped potential and appalling waste is taking place right in front us," Mr O'Brien, chairman of the lobby group London First and former chief executive of Business in the Community, said yesterday. "Business leaders recognise that the case for an amnesty is both principled and pragmatic. The economic and moral case for liberating this army of workers from the underground economy is irrefutable." Mayoral Candidates Unite in Call for Illegal Immigration Amnesty >>> By Amol Rajan | April 9, 2008

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Jihad with Money
THE SPECTATOR – Melanie Phillips: Alex Alexiev on National Review Online sets out the reasons why sharia finance — described by Sheikh Yusuf al Qaradawi as ‘jihad with money’ — is a serious threat to the west:

The legitimization of sharia in the West and its gradual imposition in Muslim communities and beyond is a key objective of sharia finance, and there is no doubt it has already made huge strides. …

Notably, for those Muslims who cannot engage in physical jihad using force of arms, sharia requires that they support jihad financially. This is what sharia finance is all about.

Far from being a legitimate investment vehicle, sharia finance facilitates religiously sanctioned support for terrorist organizations — as well as providing radical Islamists with highly paid sinecures as sharia-finance board advisors in the sanctum sanctorum of capitalism, all the while that they are pursuing a subversive campaign to destroy it.

Predictably, none of this is even remotely disclosed by any of the dozens of Western banks promoting sharia finance today, which obviously exposes them to huge non-disclosure risks ranging from fraudulent misrepresentation, to material support for terrorism.

And not disclosed either by Gordon Brown, whose stated ambition is to make London the global centre of Islamic banking (reported to be yet another brilliant wheeze from Ed Balls). Of all the manifestations of the Islamisation of the west (see this piece by Dan Rabkin on the acceleration of Londonistan) sharia finance is perhaps the most deadly, because it effectively sells the west to Islam, and the most difficult to stop — because for the financiers and politicians in the west who are thus selling it, all they can see are the trillions of dollar and pound signs being dangled enticingly before their eyes. [Source: Jihad with Money By Melanie Phillips]

Cross-posted at The Shrewd Economist

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It’s Official: Tony Now ‘Does God' - BIG Time!
Tony Blair the Interfaither
TIMESONLINE: Tony Blair talks about his Faith Foundation, which is no less than an attempt to save religion from extremism and irrelevance

You can’t fault Tony Blair’s ambition.

Within hours of his leaving office last June, the UN announced that the former Prime Minister would take up a role as a Middle East peace envoy. As if attempting to solve that ancient conflict was not enough, Mr Blair will set up his Faith Foundation this year — no less than an attempt to save religion from extremism and irrelevance, and find a way for the world’s religions to co-exist peacefully. If the Blair years are over, no one’s told him.

His new London office is more adviser to JPMorgan than spiritual guru. It may not be Downing Street, but the premises overlooking Grosvenor Square in the shadow of the US Embassy are fitting for a global statesman. The carpets are plush.

Bobby Kennedy’s speeches are cheek by jowl with William Hague’s biography of William Wilberforce. And against the wall is the trademark Blair sofa so that he can conduct business as in the old days.

It is here that he talks passionately about his own faith and the cause of interfaith dialogue. As Prime Minister, faith was an issue he talked about rarely — it was not going to give him answers about public-service reform, he explained.

This was summed up by Alastair Campbell, his press secretary, who famously said: “We don’t do God.” It is clear now though, that freed from the burdens of office, Mr Blair does God very publicly.

“If you are somebody of faith it affects your politics, it affects everything that you do,” he said. “But when I was Prime Minister, if I was to give interviews on faith, I’d just have ended up with a great load of trouble.” Tony Blair Didn’t Do God in Downing Street. Now He’s Making Up for Lost Time >>> By Murad Ahmed and Daniel Finkelstein | April 8, 2008

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Risk of Alienation of Muslims. Or Should That Be: Muslims Risk Alienating Themselves?
Integration Muslim style! But you must remember that Allah will punish them for showing a square inch of flesh. So will their husbands!
BBC: Muslims' sense of belonging could be eroded by European nations not tackling discrimination, a watchdog has warned.

A report by a European Union-backed anti-racism body says the number of Islamophobic incidents in the 25 member states is probably under-reported.

The report calls on governments to speed up Muslim integration - but says Muslims must also do more to counter stereotypes and fears of extremism.

At least 13 million Muslims are thought to live in European states.

In the report, the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) says it has documented a wide range of anti-Muslim or Islamophobic abuse across the EU's 25 member states.

The body was established by Brussels in 1998 to collect accurate data on extremism across the continent.

It says that Muslims are confronting a rise in racism [sic] ranging from violence through to discrimination in housing and employment.

The EUMC's report lists hundreds of reported cases of violence or threats against Muslims from across the continent. These incidents include attacks on mosques, verbal abuse of women wearing veils or headscarves and other forms of discrimination. Muslim Alienation Risk in Europe >>>

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Ahmadinedschad: Witzfigur!
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…seit dieser Präsident am Ruder ist, vergeht kaum eine Woche, in der nicht ein neuer Ahmadinedschad-Witz, eine Karikatur, ein Comicstrip oder ein kleiner Film in Umlauf gebracht wird. - ein 35-Jahriger
WELTONLINE: Der iranische Staatspräsident Ahmadinedschad bringt die Iraner zum Lachen. Seit er am Ruder ist, vergeht kaum eine Woche, in der nicht ein neuer Ahmadinedschad-Witz, eine Karikatur, ein Comicstrip oder ein kleiner Film in Umlauf gebracht wird. Dabei sind die Scherze vor allem sarkastisch.

Am „Nationalen Atomtechnologie-Tag“, den der iranische Staatspräsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad zum zweiten Mal feiern ließ, hat der Präsident erneut versucht, die Aufmerksamkeit des Volkes zu gewinnen. Bei einer großen Feier in der Uran-Anreicherungsanlage in Natans wies er darauf hin, dass es nun genau zwei Jahre her sei, dass iranische Wissenschaftler Uranium mit 3,5 Prozent anreichern können.

Doch statt solche pompösen „Gedenktage“ ernsthaft zu würdigen, macht das Volk momentan lieber Witze über den Präsidenten. „Ahmadinedschad hat uns zwar eine ganze Menge Probleme beschert“, sagt ein 35-Jähriger, „doch andererseits hatten wir in unserem Land selten so viel Spaß wie heute.“ Denn seit dieser Präsident am Ruder ist, vergeht kaum eine Woche, in der nicht ein neuer Ahmadinedschad-Witz, eine Karikatur, ein Comicstrip oder ein kleiner Film in Umlauf gebracht wird. Ahmadindschad wird im Iran zur Witzfigur >>>

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Sudan Calls Off Visit by Dutch Defence Minister
IOL: The Hague - The Sudan cancelled at the last minute a planned visit by Dutch Defence Minister Eimart van Middelkoop without giving a reason, The Hague said on Tuesday.



The Dutch Defence Ministry said the Sudan informed the government that it would not provide an entry visa to van Middelkoop, whose visit was to have begun on Tuesday.



No reason for the move was given. But Dutch media speculated that the recent anti-Islamic film of rightist politician Geert Wilders was behind the decision.



In his film Wilders, who is known for his anti-Islamic views, argues for a ban on the Koran and cites passages in it which he claims incites [sic] violence by Islamic extremists. [Source: Sudan Calls Off Dutch Minister’s Visit]

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Could It Be that Andrew O’Hagan of The Telegraph Is Related to Pollyanna?
THE TELEGRAPH: The wish genuinely to address political ills in this country is often stymied by a need people have to cling either to what is Right or what is Left. You see it at work every day, the instinct to turn with the shoal of mackerel or the flock of starlings, without a moment's pause to examine what is really at issue.

Our politicians do this as a matter of course, but so does the public and so very often do the media, wishing life's complicated circumstances to conform immediately to the expectations which are born of our own prejudices. But sometimes we must go against the grain of what we think in order to do some thinking.

Islamophobia is one of the big questions of our day, and one, perhaps more than most, which causes each of us to dig in to our entrenched positions. The problem is answered most often with ignorance or with common hysteria, and almost never with fresh thinking. What is the nature of the feeling in our communities and in our courts against Islam, and how can we put an end to it? Are we not hurting our own society and our own security by making a monster where it shouldn't exist, a monster made from the mania of our own fear? Fear of Islam Is Ruining Our Chance for Peace >>> By Andrew O’Hagan | April 8, 2008

This is my comment on this absurd article:

Mr O'Hagan, you're assessment of the problem couldn't be worse than this!

Islamophobia is a term bandied about by all and sundry these days. A phobia is an irrational fear. To fear Islam is NOT irrational. On the contrary, it would be irrational NOT to fear Islam! Why? Because Islam wants to destroy our way of life, as it has destroyed the way of life of millions upon millions of people before. Each and every country Muslims have been allowed into, and Islam has been allowed to put down roots, it has eventually taken over. The whole lot: Egypt, Syria, the Lebanon (in the process of being Islamized), and so many other countries besides.

There has been but one exception: Moorish Spain (Al-Andalus). It took five hundred or so years for the Christians to win back their country, and many a bloodbath, before Spain could be liberated from the darkness that is Islam.

The fact of the matter is this: People are beginning to wake up to the dangers that lie before them. Might I be cheeky enough and suggest that you do the same. Perhaps then, you will be able to write a far more realistic assessment of the predicament we have placed ourselves in vis-à-vis this growing geo-political system, clothed as it is in a deity. - ©Mark Alexander

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Muslim Population of the UK Increases by 400,000 Since 2001, Adding 50,000 a Year!
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"We are proud to live in such a diverse country.” - Jacqui Smith
DAILY MAIL: Two million Muslims are now living in the UK, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith revealed yesterday.

The milestone total includes 10,000 millionaires, she said during a visit to Pakistan to discuss counter-terrorism.

It means the Islamic population in the UK has increased by 400,000 since the 2001 census - adding more than 50,000 to the total each year.

Miss Smith told the Pakistan National Council of the Arts: "After Christianity, Islam is the largest faith community in the UK. Two million Muslims now live in Britain and 10,000 are millionaires, reveals Home Secretary Jacqui Smith during visit to Pakistan >>> By James Slack

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Muslim Leaders Demand Legal Action against Wilders
THE JAKARTA POST: Indonesian Muslim leaders and foreign envoys have demanded the Netherlands take legal action against politician Geert Wilders for producing and distributing the anti-Islam film Fitna.

In a meeting with Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia Nikolaos van Dam, held at Muhammadiyah headquarters Monday, the protesters said his government's statement condemning the film was not enough to dampen the anger of Muslim countries over the movie.

"The Dutch government must criminalize Wilders' conduct. Freedom of expression has a limit," People's Consultative Assembly chairman Hidayat Nur Wahid told the gathering.

He said Wilders could not hide behind the doctrine of freedom of expression, and insulting Muslims and causing unrest among them in the Netherlands and other countries were sufficient reasons for the Dutch government to prosecute Wilders.

"We are still waiting to see what punishment the Dutch government will give Wilders, because the film has clearly insulted and disgraced Islam," Indonesian Ulema Council deputy chairman Amidan said. Muslim Leaders Demand Legal Action against Wilders >>> By Abdul Khalik

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Unruhe in Ägypten wegen steigenden Preisen des Grundnahrungsmittels
NZZ Online: Bei landesweiten Protesten gegen steigende Preise in Ägypten ist es am Sonntag zu Auseinandersetzungen mit der Polizei gekommen. Rund 150 Personen wurden laut offiziellen Angaben festgenommen, darunter prominente Gewerkschafter. Etwa 50 Personen wurden verletzt.

(ap) In der nordägyptischen Industriestadt Mahalla el Kobra, wo sich die grösste Textilfabrik des Landes befindet, schleuderten 2000 Demonstranten Ziegelsteine auf Polizisten, die mit Tränengas gegen die Protestierenden vorging.

Preise für Grundnahrungsmittel fast verdoppelt

Die Regierung hatte die Bevölkerung vor einer Teilnahme an Streiks oder Demonstrationen am Sonntag gewarnt. Dennoch blieben tausende Ägypter der Arbeit fern oder liessen Seminare an der Universität ausfallen. Der Streik war ein Versuch von Oppositionsgruppen, zwei Tage vor Kommunalwahlen den wachsenden Unmut über steigende Preise und sich verschlechternde Arbeitsbedingungen in der Bevölkerung zu kanalisieren. Landesweite Proteste gegen steigende Preise in Ägypten: 150 Festnahmen und 50 Verletzte >>>

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Dutch Court Refuses to Ban Fitna
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION: A Dutch court has refused to ban an internet-based film criticising the Koran.

A group representing Dutch Muslims had sought an injunction banning right-wing politician Geert Wilders' film "Fitna", which links terror attacks by Muslim extremists with texts from the Koran.

In a written judgment, a civil judge at The Hague District Court said Mr Wilders' right to free speech allows him to criticise radical Islam and passages from the Muslim holy book. Dutch Court Refuses to Ban Fitna >>> | April 7, 2008

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Interview with Geert Wilders: ‘Moderate Islam Is a Contradiction’

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25,000 Pakistanis Rally Against Anti-Qur’an Film
CKWS: KARACHI, Pakistan - More than 25,000 people rallied in Karachi on Sunday in the largest protest in Pakistan so far against an anti-Qur'an film made by a Dutch legislator.

The 15-minute film by Geert Wilders, which sets verses from the Muslim holy book against a background of violent images from terror attacks, was released in March.

It has since sparked weekly protests in Pakistan, usually drawing hundreds of people after prayers on Friday, the Muslim Sabbath.

But on Sunday, Pakistani police estimated the crowed at 25,000, many of whom demanded that their government expel the Dutch ambassador.

Munawwar Hasan, a leader of the main Islamic party Jamat-e-Islami and a keynote speaker at the rally, was among those who denounced the film.

Hasan said the West calls such films freedom of expression, but that Muslims see it as "freedom of aggression."

Wearing head bands inscribed "We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the sanctity of the Prophet," the crowd marched more than a 1 1/2 kilometres, then gathered on Karachi's main street to listen to speeches. More than 25,000 Pakistanis Rally against Anti-Qur’an Film, Prophet Cartoons >>> | April 6, 2008

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Creating a European Indigenous People’s Movement
BRUSSELS JOURNAL: An American friend of mine has proposed that native Europeans should create a European Indigenous People's Movement. I have hesitated with supporting this because it sounded a bit too extreme. However, in more and more European cities, the native population is being pushed out of their own neighborhoods by immigrant gangs. The natives receive little or no aid from their authorities, sometimes blatant hostility, when faced with immigrant violence. In an age where the global population increases with billions of people in a few decades, it is entirely plausible, indeed likely, that the West could soon become demographically overwhelmed. Not few of our intellectuals seem to derive pleasure from this thought.

Bat Ye'or in her book about Eurabia has documented how the European Union is actively allowing Muslims to colonize European countries. The next time EU leaders complain about China's treatment of minorities, I suggest the Chinese answer the following: "Yes, we represent an anti-democratic organization dedicated to subduing the indigenous people of Tibet, but you represent an anti-democratic organization dedicated to displacing the indigenous peoples of an entire continent." There is no love lost between me and the Chinese Communist Party, an organization responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of its citizens, but even Chinese authorities do not actively seek to displace their own people with violent Muslims. European authorities do. Creating a European Indigenous People’s Movement >>> By Fjordman

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Newt Gingrich: "I’m Deeply Worried"


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