 THE man who disrupted a flight as it was leaving Miami by saying he wanted "to kill all the Jews" has been charged with threats against a public servant. He's also been charged with disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest without violence, NBC Miami reported today. Passenger Mansour Mohammad Asad said "I'm a Palestinian and want to kill all the Jews," and had to be removed by officers from the plane, according to police reports Northwest Airlines Flight 2485 returned to the gate after Asad's disruption, where he and three companions were taken into custody by officers. The three other men have since been released. It was reported that Asad, 43, struggled during his removal and had to be tasered. He is said to have threatened officers, used racial slurs, and was reportedly chanting in a foreign language. After the inccident, the Transportation Security Administration released a statement saying, "While Northwest Airlines Flight 2485 taxied prior to departure from Miami International Airport (MIA), a passenger was heard making inappropriate remarks and acting disruptively. Local law enforcement and TSA met the aircraft upon its return and all passengers were deplaned. "The passenger and three travel companions are being questioned by Miami-Dade County police. The aircraft, bound for Detroit Wayne County International Airport (DTW), was swept with negative results and has been cleared for departure." The Australian
 AN axe-wielding Somali terrorist is behind a foiled attempt to break into the home of a Danish cartoonist whose depictions of Islam's Prophet Mohammed infuriated Muslims. The 28-year-old Somali national armed with an axe and a knife had terrorist intent and was close to the Somali Shebab movement and al-Qaeda, which was responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the United States, the internal security service PET said in a statement. Danish police shot and wounded the man who tried to enter Westergarrd’s home. He was shot in a knee and a hand but his life was not in danger, according to reports. He was expected to be charged with attempted murder of Westergaard and a police officer. It is understood the Somali man had a legal permit to be in Denmark. Kurt Westergaard, who has received several death threats since a Danish newspaper four years ago published his drawing featuring Prophet Mohammed wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb, was at home in Viby near the western city of Aarhus guarded by police when the intruder tried to get in. Prosecutors said a Chicago-based men spent at least a year working with a Pakistan-based terrorist group to plan an attack. The security alarm was set off when the man tried to enter the house before being shot by the guards, the daily Politiken reported online. The intruder, wounded in the arm and leg, was hospitalised. It is unclear whether the Somali man managed to enter the home. “I locked myself in our safe room. He tried to smash the entrance door with an axe,'' Westergaard, 74, who was in the house with a five-year-old grandson, told Danish news agency Ritzau. PET said in a statement: “The attempted murder of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is linked to terrorism. The person arrested ... has close links with the Somali terrorist organisation al-Shebab as well as with the heads of al-Qaeda in east Africa. “He is also suspected of being implicated in terrorist activities when he was in east Africa. The individual arrested has also been a member of a terrorist network implanted in Denmark that has been under surveillance by PET for a long time.'' Police had earlier reported there were three intruders before saying there was just one. Ritzau said a dozen police vehicles were at the scene while sappers were sent in to look for a bomb that might have been laid. Westergaard is one of 12 cartoonists whose drawings of the Muslim prophet were first published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005, sparking controversy among Muslims worldwide. The 12 cartoons were considered offensive by many Muslims and their publication sparked violent protests worldwide in January and February 2006. Two men had already been arrested in 2006 for plotting Westergaard's murder. Demonstrators burned Danish flags in protests that culminated in February 2006 with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Damascus and Beirut and dozens of deaths in Nigeria, Libya and Pakistan. The Australian
 The Danish cartoonist, who has received several death threats since a Danish newspaper four years ago published his drawing featuring Mohammed wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb, was at home in Viby near the western city of Aarhus when the 27-year-old and two others tried to get in, daily Politiken reported online. Guards repulsed the three intruders as security alarms were set off, and the wounded man was hospitalised. Denmark's Ritzau news agency said a dozen police vehicles were at the scene while sappers were sent in to look for a bomb that might have been laid. Contacted by AFP, Jutland police confirmed an incident near the home of the 74-year-old cartoonist but refused to give details pending the release of a statement later. The 12 cartoons were considered offensive by many Muslims and their publication sparked violent protests worldwide in January and February 2006. Demonstrators burned Danish flags in protests that culminated in February 2006 with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Damascus and Beirut and dozens of deaths in Nigeria, Libya and Pakistan. The Australian 
 ISTANBUL: In response to a Swiss vote banning the construction of new mosque minarets, a group of Muslims this month went into a church building in eastern Turkey and threatened to kill a priest unless he tore down its bell tower, according to an advocacy group.
Three Muslims on Dec. 4 entered the Meryem Ana Church, a Syriac Orthodox church in Diyarbakir, and confronted the Rev. Yusuf Akbulut. They told him that unless the bell tower was destroyed in one week, they would kill him.
“If Switzerland is demolishing our minarets, we will demolish your bell towers too,” one of the men told Akbulut.
The threats came in reaction to a Nov. 29 referendum in Switzerland in which 57 percent voted in favor of banning the construction of new minarets in the country. Swiss lawmakers must now change the national constitution to reflect the referendum, a process that should take more than a year.
The Swiss ban, widely viewed around the world as a breach of religious freedom, is likely to face legal challenges in Switzerland and in the European Court of Human Rights.
There are roughly 150 mosques in Switzerland, four with minarets. Two more minarets are planned. The call to prayer traditional in Muslim-majority countries is not conducted from any of the minarets.
Fikri Aygur, vice president of the European Syriac Union, said that Akbulut has contacted police but has otherwise remained defiant in the face of the threats.
“He has contacted the police, and they gave him guards,” he said. “I talked with him two days ago, and he said, ‘It is my job to protect the church, so I will stand here and leave it in God’s hands.’”
Meryem Ana is more than 250 years old and is one of a handful of churches that serve the Syriac community in Turkey. Also known as Syrian Orthodox, the Syriacs are an ethnic and religious minority in Turkey and were one of the first groups of people to accept Christianity. They speak Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, a language spoken by Christ. Diyarbakir is located in eastern Turkey, about 60 miles from the Syrian border.
At press time the tower was standing and the priest was safe, said Jerry Mattix, youth pastor at the Diyarbakir Evangelical Church, which is located across a street from Meryem Ana Church.
Mattix said that threats against Christians in Diyarbakir are nothing out of the ordinary. Mattix commonly receives threats, both in the mail and posted on the church’s Internet site, he said.
“We’re kind of used to that,” Mattix said. He added that he has received no threats over the minaret situation but added, “I wouldn’t be surprised if we do.”
Mattix said the people making threats in the area are Muslim radicals with ties to Hezbollah “who like to flex their muscles.”
“We are a major target out here, and we are aware of that,” Mattix said. “But the local police are taking great strides to protect us.”
Mattix said he also has “divine confidence” in God’s protection.
The European Syriac Union’s Aygur said that Christians in Turkey often serve as scapegoats for inflamed local Muslims who want to lash out at Europeans.
“When they [Europeans] take actions against the Muslims, the Syriacs get persecuted by the fanatical Muslims there,” he said.
The threats against the church were part of a public outcry in Turkey that included newspaper editorials characterizing the Swiss decision as “Islamophobia.” One Turkish government official called upon Muslims to divest their money from Swiss bank accounts. He invited them to place their money in the Turkish banking system.
In part, the threats also may reflect a larger and well-established pattern of anti-Christian attitudes in Turkey. A recent study conducted by two professors at Sabanci University found that 59 percent of those surveyed said non-Muslims either “should not” or “absolutely should not” be allowed to hold open meetings where they can discuss their ideas.
The survey also found that almost 40 percent of the population of Turkey said they had “very negative” or “negative” views of Christians. In Turkey, Christians are often seen as agents of outside forces bent on dividing the country.
This is not the first time Akbulut has faced persecution. Along with a constant string of threats and harassment, he was tried and acquitted in 2000 for saying to the press that Syriacs were “massacred” along with Armenians in 1915 killings.
In Midyat, also in eastern Turkey, someone recently dug a tunnel under the outlying buildings of a Syriac church in hopes of undermining the support of the structure.
At the Mor Gabriel Monastery, also near Midyat, there is a legal battle over the lands surrounding the monastery. Founded in 397 A.D., Mor Gabriel is arguably the oldest monastery in use today. It is believed local Muslim leaders took the monastery to court in an attempt to seize lands from the church. The monastery has prevailed in all but one case, which is still underway.
“These and similar problems that are threatening the very existence of the remaining Syriacs in Turkey have reached a very serious and worrying level,” Aygur stated in a press release. “Especially, whenever there is a problem about Islam in the European countries, the Syriacs’ existence in Turkey is threatened with such pressures and aggressions.”
 Human rights violations in Iran are as bad as at any point in the last 20 years, Amnesty International, the human rights group, has said. Amnesty's report, released on Thursday, examines allegations of torture, rape, death threats, forced confessions, intimidation, cover-ups and unlawful killings in the period after the country's disputed presidential election in June. The rights group called on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, to allow United Nations human rights experts to visit the country to help carry out an investigation. Official inquiries to date "seemed to have been more concerned with covering up abuses than getting at the truth", the report said. Iran has dismissed previous criticism of its human rights record. "Members of militias and officials who have committed violations must also be promptly held to account and on no account should anyone be executed," Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, the deputy director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme, said in a statement on Thursday. Official figures say 36 people died in post-election violence, but Iran's opposition says around 70 people died. More than 4,000 people were arrested after the poll, and around 200 remain in prison. The report claimed "patterns of abuse" before, during and after the election, when authorities deployed the the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guards to suppress mass protests against its disputed outcome. Mass demonstrations against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, plunged the Islamic Republic into crisis. However, opposition rallies no longer muster the huge crowds that flooded the streets immediately after the June 12 ballot. Mirhossein Mousavi, a defeated election candidate, has alleged that the vote was rigged. Some of those detained during the protests have since been forced to flee the country, the report said. One former detainee says he was held at the Kahrizak detention centre for about 58 days, kept in a shipping container throughout and only allowed to contact his family after 43 days, the report said. "Anyone who is arrested or detained must be protected from torture or other ill-treatment, prisoners of conscience must be released and those convicted after unfair trials - including the "show trials" which made a mockery of justice - must have their cases reviewed, or be released," Sahraoui said. "All death sentences should be commuted, and others not yet tried must receive fair trials." Al Jazeera
 Ayaan Hirsi Ali has put her life on the line to defend women against radical Islam.
For five years she's lived under the threat of death from Islamic radicals, and in those five years, she has become an acclaimed and provocative author on matters about Islam and the West.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born into a Somali Muslim family and eventually made her way to the Netherlands as a refugee.
There she wrote a screenplay for a short film about women's treatment under Islam.
Just over two months after it aired, the filmmaker Theo van Gogh was assassinated. A letter threatening Ali's life has meant she has lived under guard ever since -- most recently thanks to a fund set up by private donors.
Controversy follows her: In 2006, she resigned from the Netherlands parliament under fire for lying on her asylum papers; the complex charges and countercharges precipitated a Dutch political upheaval.
She now works for the conservative American Enterprise Institute, which is headquartered in Washington. She established her AHA foundation to defend the rights of women in the West against militant Islam.
Her autobiography, "Infidel: My Life," which detailed her own genital mutilation in Somalia, was a bestseller, and her next book, "Nomad," is to be published in February. H/T: David F.
 Muslim Fatwa Call to Kill a German Girl (Dena Milany)
By Bassam Allen
Sheikh Abu Hassan, head of the Fatwa Committee, and former adviser to Al-Azhar issued a "fatwa" to "shed the blood" of the German Girl Dena Milany, who adopted an invitation on Facebook to use the Quran as a "Toilet" paper. Sheikh Hassan said that in case it was proved that Dena is responsible for this group, then she MUST BE KILLED, (if it is possible to get access to he). Abu Hassan said for the "Al-Youmalshba" Newspaper: Although this girl is not addressed by the laws of "Sharia - Islamic laws" (because of her different religion), but what she did is "immorality" that could not be replied to it by only insulting.he continues to say:.. and this is because Allah didn't command us (as Muslims) to insult the believers of other religions, so that they don't insult our religion (Islam). But she (means Dena) has committed a "crime" that can't be accepted by any person with a grain of faith. Abu Hassan continued and said that Egypt should address the German state to take all legal action against this "ignorant" girl, because she insulted Islam.the Terrorist sheik is From Al-Azhar mosque the Most Important mosques In Egypt, And Al-Azhar mosque is responsible of Sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians Copts and last Muslim Attacked was before few hours, it Caused Killed one and Three wounded. And From Other Side Dena Milany Said In her Site to the Sheikh Terrorist If You would Like to Kill Me than Come to Germanythe German Girl Greated the Group because She Took about 130 Killing thrats From Muslim Like She Said. and She said in her Group that She hate Islam Not Muslimsshe dont hate anyone, and why Muslims are Blaming us, Saudi Arabia government Damage & Burn Bibles and the Torah Everyday.And there is Some Fatwas Said that you Can use Bible and Torah as Toilet Paper.Soooooo Dont Blame me,Blame Yourselves Muslims...) فتوى أزهرية بإهدار دم الألمانية دينا ميلانى بعد ان عبرت عن رأيها عن القرأن كتب عمرو جادأفتى الشيخ على أبو الحسن رئيس لجنة الفتوى الأسبق والمستشار السابق لشيخ الأزهر، بإهدار دم الفتاة الألمانية دينا ميلانى والتى تبنت دعوة على الفيس بوك لاستخدام القرآن كورق" تواليت"، مؤكدا أنه فى حال صحة ما نسب إليها فيجب قتلها إذا أمكن الوصول إليها.وقال أبو الحسن لليوم السابع، رغم أن هذه الفتاة لا تخاطب بأحكام الشريعة نظرا لاختلاف ديانتها إلا أن ما فعلته وما تدعو إليه هو "سفالة" لا يمكن الرد عليها بالسباب فقط، لأن الله يأمرنا بألا نسب أصحاب الديانات الأخرى فيسبوا ديننا، ولكنها ارتكبت جريمة لا يقبلها أى إنسان لديه ذرة من الإيمان".وأضاف أبو الحسن أنه يجب على الدولة المصرية أن تخاطب نظيرتها الألمانية لاتخاذ كافة الإجراءات القانونية ضد هذه الفتاة "الجاهلة" لازدرائها الدين الإسلامى ." .و يجدر الاشارة ان جامع الازهر هو المسؤول عن احداث الفتنة الطائفية في مصر بين المسلمين و الاقباط و التي تسببت اخرها بمقتل قبطي و جرح ثلاثة.و من جهة اخرى اعلنت دينا ميلاني انها لا تكره المسلمين و لكن تكره الاسلامو هي لا تحقد على اي شخص.و قالت "اشعر بالشفقة على المسلمين المساكين الذين هم ضحيه لارهاب شيوخ جامع الازهر الارهابيين. Source: http://stopislamisation.blogspot.com/2009/09/muslim-fatwa-call-to-kill-german-girl.html
 Since 2003, Bangladeshi journalist and peace activist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury has been investigated by Bangladeshi authorities on charges of sedition, treason and insulting religious belief. Choudhury, 44, has spent years opposing Muslim extremism through his writings, especially the Weekly Blitz which he started in 2003. He has called for interfaith dialogue and for normalizing relations between Muslim countries and Israel. On Wednesday, Choudhury returns to court. He is accused of insulting Islam and harming the state's reputation abroad, charges which, when couched as "sedition," carry a possible death penalty. "According to my lawyers in Bangladesh, the government is determined to conclude the trial as soon as possible," he wrote in a public letter over the weekend. "No one knows what will be the verdict. But, of course, seeing the past track record, we cannot hold any hope for a good [result] because the court is not applying its judicial mind, but trying to appease the Islamists." Choudhury's newspaper offices were bombed on July 6, 2006, after he expressed public sympathy for the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam. On October 5, he was attacked in his office by a mob that included prominent members of the then-ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which historically has aligned itself with Islamist parties in the country, who accused him of being an Israeli agent. He was badly beaten. Choudhury was the subject of US House Resolution 64 of March 13, 2007, which objected to continued "harassment and intimidation" and his incarceration in 2004 for 17 months without legal recourse, during which he was placed in solitary confinement and "suffered harsh interrogation techniques and received no treatment for a debilitating case of glaucoma," according to the resolution. The House resolution called for the Bangladeshi government to "immediately drop all pending charges against Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury… and take steps to protect Mr. Choudhury." It noted that the "US Commission on International Religious Freedom visited with Mr. Choudhury on their trip to Bangladesh in February and March 2006... and identified Mr. Choudhury as one of those voices that should not be silenced." Choudhury's case has been taken up by human rights groups and activists including Canadian human rights expert and MP Irwin Cotler, Dr. Richard L. Benkin - like Choudhury, an advisory board member of the Islam-Israel Fellowship - the Committee to Protect Journalists, the American Jewish Committee and Reporters Without Borders. Source: JP Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
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 The use of Sharia courts – those driven by Islamic law - in Great Britain is far more widespread than previously believed, and it raises troubling questions about human rights and equal protection under the law, according to a new study by Civitas, an independent British think-tank. Five Sharia courts – in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford, and Nuneaton -- are generally acknowledged to exist in the country today. But Civitas researchers found that there are another 85 such courts operating largely out of mosques. The study concludes that such courts or tribunals are issuing rulings that breach basic principles of British law and calls for removal of their formal legal recognition under Arbitration Act 1996 (c. 23), one of the nation's most important legal statutes. "The reality is that for many Muslims, Sharia courts are part of an institutionalised atmosphere of intimidation backed by the ultimate sanction of a death threat," Civitas Director David Green writes in an introduction to the report. "It cannot be accepted that Sharia councils are nothing more than independent arbitrators guided by faith." The reality, Green adds, "is that for many Muslims, Sharia courts are part of an institutionalised atmosphere of intimidation backed by the ultimate sanction of a death threat." Read more ...Source: IPT Blog
 Banned: Gay MuslimsBy Peter Dyke CHANNEL 4 has come under fire from Islamic leaders over a television documentary showing how gay and lesbian Muslims suffer under their laws. Its director has already had death threats because homosexuality is strictly forbidden by The Koran. Now station chiefs are bracing themselves for a backlash. Its digital channel More 4 will show A Jihad For Love tonight. It lifts the lid on the battle gay and lesbian Muslims face as they struggle with their faith and their sexuality. The documentary not only shows gay Muslims daring to kiss, holding hands and talking about getting married, it also provides harrowing reports on the suffering they have faced under Islamic law. And it reveals the death threats and punishments handed out to gays in countries including Egypt and Iran. Indian film maker Parvez Sharma – who spent six years making the programme – revealed: “I have had death threats on my blog after making this film. Some countries have even banned it. Read more ...Source: Daily Star
 The Brisbane radio announcer who suggested the hijab be removed in banks and shops has received death threats.
4BC announcer Michael Smith on Wednesday said wearing a face-covering such as some Muslim women do posed a security risk because it made identification difficult in the event of a crime.
Wearing a face-veil in certain places, such as shopping centres, was also offensive and scared little children, he said.
In a recorded threat on the station website a caller says "you're head is on a plate (expletive beeped). You're going to be dead soon (expletive beeped), racist bitch".
Station general manager David McDonald on Friday said most of the calls seemed to emanate from Sydney and he said Smith's original comments had been taken out of context.
"This has been really blown out of total proportion," Mr McDonald said.
"There was never any racism in this at all. There was nothing about religion, it was all about purely security and safety issues."
Mr McDonald said Mr Smith's call was only to show the face, not to remove headwear.
"A lot of criminals have used this to sort of disguise themselves."
Mr Smith, an ex-policeman, was aware of the trauma robberies cause, Mr McDonald said.
"It was never about racism.
Complaints, both to official channels and those phoned in to the radio station, were based on media interpretations of Mr Smith's comments rather than the comments themselves, the general manager said.
"That is extremely disappointing that it's been hijacked for other purposes."
Mr McDonald said upset staff had been counselled and security stepped up.
On the station's website Mr Smith defends his comments.
"It seems this country's media finds it difficult to talk sensibly about certain topics," Friday's entry reads.
"I've been branded a racist in writing by a major national television network who should know better.
"How could anyone say that my comments were racist?"
Queensland police acknowledged that a complaint had been made by the radio station and said it was under investigation. Source: Yahoo News
 Bernard-Henri Lévy, author of Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, participated in a seminar last fall (pictured above, with link) about how the West is thinking about Islam too much -- indeed, that it is "obsessed" with it, and that this obsession is "costing us." I don't know what stand BHL took on that issue at the seminar, but in any case, now he has been targeted for death by jihadists. Perhaps those who think we are thinking about Islam too much are not thinking about it enough. Read more ...Source: Jihad WatchWelcome to our world, Mr. Lévy
 ISLAMABAD: Taliban extremists in Pakistan's troubled northwest Swat valley have banned girls from attending school, threatening to kill any female students, officials said Thursday. The threat was delivered this week by local Taliban commander Shah Durran in an address carried on an illegally-run radio station in the area, local officials told AFP. "You have until January 15 to stop sending your girls to schools. If you do not pay any heed to this warning, we will kill such girls," one official quoted the commander as saying. "We also warn schools not to enrol any female students; otherwise, their buildings will be blown up." The mountainous Swat valley was until last year a popular tourist destination featuring Pakistan's only ski resort. But the region has been turned into a battleground since radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who has links to Pakistan's Taliban movement, launched a violent campaign for the introduction of Islamic Sharia law in the valley. Durran said local Taliban leaders were determined not to allow girls to attend school, saying: "We want to enforce the true Sharia in the area -- for this, we are fighting and laying down our lives." Swat residents said Taliban fighters had already destroyed scores of government-run schools, leading some to set up private schools in their homes to educate girls. An official at the Pakistani education ministry said there are about 1,580 schools registered in Swat -- once known for its top-flight schools. But the official, Naeem Khan, said: "Already Taliban militants have destroyed 252 schools, mainly those where girls and boys were studying together." Read more ...Source: Times of India
 Bangladeshi Christians constitute
about 300K of the 140 mln people
in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. DHAKA, BANGLADESH (BosNewsLife)-- Muslim clerics and neighbors have ordered the father of a Muslim man who converted to Catholicism to remain confined to his home in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka until retaliatory punishment can be carried out against the convert, Christians said Thursday, October 16."Are you not ashamed that your son became Christian?" the founder of a mosque here reportedly asked Ruhul Amin Khandaker, father of a 32-year-old businessman who went to Australia earlier this year to court a Philippine Catholic woman, converting to her faith in April. "Why did you not sacrifice your son like cattle before telling the news to us,?" Christian news agency Compass Direct News quoted the mosque as saying. Khandaker said he has become a social outcast and that his family members live under threat from their fellow Muslims. His son, Rashidul Amin Khandaker, has reportedly applied for protection from Australian immigration officials as he believes police in 88 percent-Muslim Bangladesh would do nothing to protect him from Islamists threatening to kill him. Read more ... Source: BosNewsLife
By Barbara Kay I had the privilege of spending a few hours today, October 2, amongst the bravest people in Canada. One, Marc Lebuis, is a name you won't recognize, because up to now he's kept a low profile as the one-man show running www.pointdebasculecanada.ca. This is an anti-Islamist site that brings francophone Quebecers the news and frank opinions on the relentless push of the soft jihadists in our midst to Islamicize society, opinions that the mainstream media are too politically correct to publish. Marc and some close associates organized today's press conference on the subject, "Political Islam - A Threat to Our Freedoms." The three other brave people appearing with him should be household names, but their courage and eloquence is, shamefully, only known and saluted by a relative handful of grateful Canadians: Salim Mansur, Tarek Fatah and Raheel Raza, three Canadian Muslims facing death threats by other Canadian Muslims for exposing the dangers of Islamism, a totalitarian ideology that wears the mask of religion. The room at the Omni hotel in Montreal was filled to capacity, reverberating with frequent applause to statements like these from Salim Mansur: "Islam is my private life, my conscience...[but] my faith does not take precedence over my duties...to Canada and its constitution, which I embrace freely;" "I am first and most importantly a Canadian;" "only in a free society will you find Islam as a faith and not a political religion." Appreciation was shown as well for the statements of Tarek Fatah, who spoke about the threat to freedom of speech posed by Islamists who constantly seek to chill any perceived criticism of any Muslim. In explaining the danger Islamism poses to society, Fatah said that "Islam is to Islamism as uranium is to weapons of mass destruction." Having lived 30 years in Pakistan and 10 in Saudi Arabia, Fatah knows intimately what constitutes "soft jihad" when he sees it. He expressed his sorrow, as a lifetime social democrat that after 17 years of engaged support for the NDP, he could no longer be affiliated with that party. He saw the doors opening to Islamists under Alexa McDonough and now, under Layton, he has seen them "flood" into the party. Read more ...Source: National Post
Associated Press are reporting that the planned release of ‘The Jewel of Medina’ is under doubt following the alleged arson at the offices of Gibson Square.
Alan Jessop of Compass, Gibson Square’s sales representative, said that publisher Martin Rynja has put “publication in suspended animation while he reflects and takes advice on what the best foot forward is.”
The US publisher of The Jewel of Medina yesterday closed its offices as a "precautionary action", but intends to go ahead with publication. Borders Group Inc have confirmed they will sell the book in stores, however Waterstones has said that they are undecided as to whether to do so due to safety concerns for both customers and employees.
Three men suspected of involvement with the fire at Gibson Square are still being questioned by London Metropolitan Police. Source: AP H/T: The Centre For Social Cohesion
 Sir Paul McCartney:
Terrorists, F.U.!From correspondents in Jerusalem | September 24, 2008
POP icon Paul McCartney, one of two surviving members of the Beatles, arrived in Israel today ahead of his first-ever concert in the Jewish state.
The British musician told journalists and fans who greeted him at Ben Gurion airport outside Tel Aviv that he wanted to bring "a message of peace and love'' to the Middle East, according to Israeli public radio.
He will perform an outdoor concert in Tel Aviv tomorrow.
The gig, part of a series of one-off concerts in places the 66-year-old musician has never visited before, comes after two previous unsuccessful attempts by McCartney to perform in the Jewish state.
The Beatles drew up plans to play in Israel at the height of Beatlemania in 1965, but they were cancelled after sponsors failed to raise enough money and lawmakers voiced concern that they might corrupt young Israeli minds.
McCartney also nearly performed in Israel in the late 1970s, but concerts with his post-Beatles band Wings were cancelled due to problems with the venues, he said in comments posted on his website.
In January Israel apologised for the cancellation of the 1965 concert in letters to the two surviving members of the Beatles - McCartney and Ringo Starr - and the families of deceased members John Lennon and George Harrison.
McCartney has played a number of one-off concerts this year, including the "Independence Concert" in Ukraine in June and in Quebec in July. Source:The Australian
 August 31, 2008
THE former bodyguard of a Lebanese president is reported to have said he will be killed if the Australian government forces him to return to Lebanon.
The Sunday Herald Sun reports Naji Mazloum, who has lived as a refugee in Melbourne's western suburbs since 2001, will be deported to Lebanon this week unless the Rudd Government grants him a last-minute reprieve.
Mr Mazloum was once a vocal member of the Lebanese Liberal party, and says he will be murdered by political opponents if sent back to Lebanon. The Federal Government has reportedly refused his plea for political asylum.
Mr Mazloum's wife and three children live in Lebanon.
"I fear for my life," he said. "My wife says `I would rather speak to you on the phone than for you to come back here and be killed.'
"She says `I'd rather you talk on the phone to your children than for them to have no father.'"
The Department of Immigration said Australia had a "comprehensive, fair and transparent" refugee protection process.
"People who are owed protection will receive it," it said. "It is expected any person whose case has been finally determined, and they have no grounds for remaining in Australia, should depart." Source: The Australian
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THE man who disrupted a flight as it was leaving Miami by saying he wanted "to kill all the Jews" has been charged with threats against a public servant. 
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