 Hizb ut-Tahrir espouses the replacement of republican governments in the West with Sharia states, and the establishment of a global caliphate. "LSE's Hizb ut-Tahrir teacher Reza Pankhurst and the secretive 'Brothers' Circle,'" from The Times, January 16 An Islamist radical whose teaching role at a leading university was exposed yesterday by The Times led a secretive "Brothers' Circle" at which he espoused his hardline views. Reza Pankhurst, a senior figure in the hardline group Hizb ut-Tahrir, gathered a group of male members of the London School of Economics (LSE) Islamic Society for private talks. Mr Pankhurst, whose party advocates the creation of an Islamic state governed by Sharia, is a research student employed as a teacher in the LSE's government department. He is due to teach undergraduate classes this term in three topics covering nationalism and revolution in the Arab world. Mr Pankhurst retained his position in the Islamic Society and the college despite a number of students raising concerns last year about the overt political content of his sermons at Friday prayers. The Students' Union confirmed that it had reported those concerns to the Islamic Society and raised them "informally" with academics. Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in Germany for anti-Semitism and covered by the National Union of Students' policy of "no platform" for racist and fascist views.... With thanks to JihadWatch 
 A noted Saudi preacher has called on Arabs to stop flying to the United States, in protest of “enhanced screening” procedures aimed at catching terrorists, the Dubai business website Zawya.com reported. Muslim preacher Sheikh Sulaiman al Dowaish has urged Saudi authorities to consider the travel ban following an announcement by the United States that “enhanced screening" measures will be put into place for passengers from 14 countries, including Saudi Arabia. The extra steps were taken after last month’s attempt by a Nigerian Muslim to detonate a bomb on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan. Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry has asked the Obama administration for clarifications regarding the new security measures.
Officials said the oil-rich kingdom would not tolerate security procedures that tarnish the honor and dignity of Saudis. The website noted that 22,000 students from Saudi Arabia are learning at American universities Saudi security researcher Sultan Al Anqari blasted the new U.S. regulation, telling GulfNews.com that the Obama government is resorting to a form of political blackmail against Saudi Arabia because of the country’s anti-Israeli policies. "It is part of a collective punishment against the Saudis, who are also victims of the wrong doing of some deviant people," he said. INN
 Unfair? Why? Do they have something to hide? "Saudi US Students Fear 'Unfair' Enhanced Security," by Hadi Faqihi and Mina Al-Oraibi for Asharq Al-Awsat, January 10 Dammam, Washington D.C., Asharq Al-Awsat- There is deep concern among Saudi students with scholarships to study in the United States, following the introduction of enhanced security search measures affecting passengers from 14 states, including Saudi Arabia.
These measures have been taken against the backdrop of the attempt by a Nigerian extremist to blow up an American airliner on 25 December 2009.
The fear of these students is all the more acute as they have returned home to spend the New Year holidays with their parents.
Groups of these students have started to return to the United States as the New Year holidays come to an end.
Meanwhile, the sequestration of a Saudi student at Amsterdam airport in the Netherlands, for two days, has fueled these fears. In fact, many students fear a return to the measures that were taken in the wake of the 11 September incidents: enhanced checking of Saudi passengers, delays in granting entry visas, and other complications that followed the blowing up of the World Trade Center in 2001. Ahmad al-Kaabi, a Saudi scholarship student in the State of Texas, in the United States, returned to Saudi Arabia a few days before the attempted airliner bombing.
He said that he had noticed a great deal of concern among his fellow scholarship students, and mainly the fear that the enhanced security checks would affect their entry into the United States and their return there to finish their studies.
Al-Kaabi pointed out that the particular treatment of Saudi nationals at checkpoints on their way to the United States is not the result of this incident; in fact, it has been in force for years, but the announcement that Saudi travelers are part of the list of the nationals of 14 states who will be subject to enhanced security searches will further complicate the situation. Al-Kaabi added: "During our trips to the United States we notice that we are treated differently by the security agents as soon as they see the green passport," which is a sign of Saudi identity. In the same context, Osama al-Naqli, director of the information desk at the Saudi Foreign Ministry, said in a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat that the ministry, through the Saudi Embassy in Washington, has asked for clarifications about the enhanced security checks that will be imposed on Saudi nationals traveling to the United States.
Asked about the details of this clarification request and the measures that will be taken to follow up the situation of Saudi scholarship students, Al-Naqli said that an answer to this question will be given later. For his part, Dr Muhammad al-Isa, cultural attaché at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, said that these measures will not affect the situation of Saudi students who are sent to study in the United States. This will not affect students and should not frighten them, and the measures in question are quite normal, he said.... Thanks to JihadWatch
 These events have been reported to World Threats. Jan. 9 - More than 400 students gathered at the Tehran Azad University south unit to protest the detention of students. The same thing happened at Roodenhen’s Azad University. Students also boycotted their end of term exams at Karaj University. Jan. 9 - The Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, expressed his fear of the revolution to destroy the theocracy. He demanded a decisive confrontation of the regime’s forces with the revolutionaries. He admitted to the crisis of the clerical regime and said: “the country has economical issues, scientific issues, political issues, international issues, security issues and the officials of the country are faced with hundreds of important issues. They have to manage the country; they have to make the country progress. The enemy wants to stop the wheels of the country by these events. We shouldn’t help the enemy. The enemy wants to stop the wheels of progress of the countries by these events. But the scientific wheel is progressing they want to stop it (read achieving atomic bomb). Jan. 10 - The appointment of Pasdar Zolghadr, the deputy of General Headquarters of regime’s Armed Forces as the advisor of Judiciary is a step towards the massacre of political prisoners. Pasdar Zolghadr was appointed as the deputy commander of RCG in 1997. In autumn of 2005 he was appointed the deputy of security and disciplinary department of Interior Ministry. In autumn of 2007 he was dismissed from this office and transferred to the General Headquarters of Armed Forces and at the same time was appointed by Khamenei as the deputy of this headquarter in Bassij’s affairs.
He is amongst the highest eight commanders of RCG that are counted as the commanders of suppression, terror and weapons of mass destruction and are in the list of sanctions of 1747 resolution (of Security Council).
Bagher Zolghadr is a theoretician of regime’s salvation. After Ahmadinejad’s victory in election he emphasized on terrorism as the main tool for regime of Supreme Leadership’s survival. He always pursued especial and terrorist operations in RCG. Jan 9. - Six prisoners were hanged in Isfehan. These people were accused of smuggling drugs. However, we should remember that the regime has frequently hanged protesters under the guise of their being common criminals. World Threats
A court in Egypt has ruled in favour of the government's decision to ban students from wearing the face veil (niqab) while taking university examinations. But female students who had appealed the ban when it was originally imposed by the government last October have vowed to appeal the verdict. The students said the ban on niqab infringed on their religious rights. "We had never hoped to see such a verdict issued by our fair Egyptian judicial system. Our rights are being raped. What freedom would we have after this? Where is freedom in Egypt?," one student told Al Jazeera after Sunday's verdict. Nizar Ghorab, the lawyer of the students, said the ban "supports rape and sexual harassment". "It forces a woman to expose part of her body she doesn't want exposed. It is soul-crushing for these women," he told Al Jazeera. The government said it banned the niqab in part because students, male and female, were attending exams disguised as other candidates by wearing a face veil. Sunday's administrative court ruling will not necessarily be definite because such cases can be appealed and refiled many times in Egypt's legal system. "We will hold on to our right and we will go to a higher court. They claim we are the ones who are backward, then they turn around and ban us from our education," a student told Al Jazeera. Some of the students were in tears at the news but vowed they would not be fazed or put off by the decision. "I will go to my exams anyway, and if they prevent me from entering and expel me, I swear by God, I will never forgive this," another student said. "I swear, I will sue every person who prevents me from sitting my exams. I will never take off my niqab. Never." Full facial cover was also outlawed from the dormitories of public universities in October but the court overturned that ban in mid-December saying it violated the constitutional right of freedom to practice faith. The number of women wearing various grades of hair- and face covers have increased in Egypt in recent years, and so has the controversy around the garb. Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, reporting from the Egyptian capital, Cairo, said the trial reflected a divide in the Egyptian society "It highlights the intensifying divide between the government’s brand of moderate Islam and a population increasingly turning to stricter interpretations of the religion. "For some, covering up has even been a tacit defiance against the system." In 2007, a court ruled that the American University in Cairo, seen as a bastion of Western liberal education in Egypt, was wrong to bar a female scholar from using its facilities for wearing a niqab. The court cited personal and religious freedom as grounds for its ruling. A majority of Islamic scholars say they believe wearing a headscarf is a must, while few consider the niqab obligatory. Al Jazeera
 These events have been reported to World Threats. 1 Jan 10 - All students at the Mashad School of architecture had to present their student ID to enter the school.
Thirty-three students were considered suspicious and arrested. This lead to a protest of about 500 students in front of the self service (food dispensers?) against the detention of 33 students. The Special Security forces then arrested 20 students. 2 Jan 10 - Mullah Raeesi, the first deputy of Judiciary appointed by Khamenei, claimed that those who fight the government such and the People’s Mujahadeen of Iran are counted as fighting against God and their punishment is execution. Mullah Eje-ee, the General Prosecutor of Iran announced that three Ashura protesters will be executed. They have been labeled Mohareb (one who fights against God). Pasdar (Revolutionary Guard) Moshen Rezaee the former head of the RGC and the Secretary of the Expediency Council has called the regime’s status “unpleasant and critical”. Mullah Janati, Secretary of the Guidance Council, admitted that the principal of Supreme Leadership was the target of the revolution and not the election of Ahmadinejad. He warned the nation’s judiciary that it must intensify its suppressive measures. 31 Dec. 09 - in Isfehan the people demonstrated in Ahmadabad Square, Hossein Abad and Imam Hossein area chanting “Death to Khamenei”. The RGC is now guarding Farahabad Base in Isfehan to prevent soldiers from joining the protests. 2 Jan. 10 - The people of Tehran continue the nightly chants of “Allah O Akbar”, “this is the month of blood and Yazid (meaning Khamenei) is overthrown”. Analysis. The revolution isn’t over by a long shot. As I have said before, almost everything in the Middle East must be filtered through the lens of Islam.
If you fail to do this you will misunderstand the entire region. Look at the slogans of the revolutionaries (They have long since gone beyond mere protesters.).
They are all based in Shiite religious history and doctrine. The Ashura celebration is all about the murder of Hossein and his companions by Yazid, the Umyyad governor of Damascus who was supposedly inferior to Hossein as the leader of Islam. Allah O Akbar - God is Greatest - the pretty much universal Islamic chant. Right now the Government of Iran is being run by the Yadzi faction - those who wish to expedite the return of the Hidden Imam.
The recent counter proposal to the 5+1 proposal to take 1350 tons of 5% enriched Iranian uranium out of the country and return it in about two years as reactor fuel rods of either an even trade or the sale of the reactor fuel is telling. The Iranians will not let that enriched uranium out of the country. That is their feed stock for further enrichment. Nor do they trust the West. As long as the Yazdi faction is running Iran there will be nothing but chaos. It is in our best interests to put as much external pressure on the regime as possible. We must also support the Iranian people in their revolution against the mullahs. To do less is to invite continued trouble in the region. World Threats
 Hundreds of students at Tehran University renewed anti-government protests for a second week yesterday, accusing authorities of fabricating images of demonstrators burning photos of the Islamic Republic's founder. Students moved to the forefront of opposition on the streets with massive protests last week. They say authorities are using the images of students burning photos of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a pretext to crack down ontheir protests, which have helped to revitalise the pro-reform movement. State television has repeatedly shown images, ostensibly taken during student-led protests on December 7, of unidentified hands burning and tearing up pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini. It is considered a grave and illegal insult against the former leader, still widely respected in the country. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei yesterday warned opposition leaders to distance themselves from protesters he accused of acting against Ayatollah Khomeini. Student activists say authorities are trying to discredit them just as they begin to put up a new, powerful challenge to the regime.
The opposition's mainstream leaders have struggled to dent the power of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's clerical leadership. Students at Tehran University played a major role in demonstrations in support of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the pro-US shah and brought Iran's clerical rulers to power. Reformists contend Mr Ahmadinejad was re-elected by massive vote fraud, a belief that brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets at the height of post-election unrest. The protests evolved into a broader confrontation against the country's ruling theocracy, but died down in the face of a harsh crackdown by security forces. Former president Mohammad Khatami, a prominent opposition voice, said yesterday the students were not responsible. "Do not use the Imam to justify a harsher approach against those you do not like," he said on a pro-reform website Parlemannews. The Australian
 The most outrageous assault by the Israeli authorities against academic freedom of speech took place in recent days in what is becoming known as the Bukay Affair. The affair combines leftist undermining of democracy, the attempt at thought control by governmental officials and the police, harassment of a university lecturer by an over-zealous anti-democratic prosecutor, and an attempt to create in Israel a political Inquisition against incorrect thinking. The entire saga revolves around Dr. David Bukay, a lecturer in Middle East Studies at the University of Haifa, with expertise in Arab history.
Bukay speaks Arabic better than I speak English. He has conservative points of view and is very outspoken about them. His articles are carried by numerous journals. About five years ago, Bukay was the victim of a smear campaign of demonization at the University of Haifa.
At the time, an Arab student who was active in the university branch of the communist party sat in on one of Bukay’s lectures without being registered in the class. The student then ran to the Arabic press in Israel and claimed that in his lecture Bukay had repeatedly made racist derogatory comments about Arabs. The student claimed that Bukay had said in class that all Arabs should be shot. After the story ran in the Arabic press, it was also reported in the Hebrew press and web. It turned out that the story was planted there and spread by an Israeli “Trotskyite” named David Merhav, who later issued a retraction and apology to Bukay, admitting the entire story had been a tissue of lies. But the retraction did not help.
Today anti-Semitic internet web sites carry the story of Bukay’s alleged racist statements against Arabs. Once the story began to spread, it turned out that none of the other students in the classroom had heard Bukay make any of the “racist” statements the communist student had alleged that he made.
Many of these students went public and claimed that the Arab student had fabricated the entire story. Hundreds of Bukay’s students backed Bukay in the case. Many wrote the Haifa University chiefs to give their side of the story. In any case, because of the uproar, the Rector at the University of Haifa, himself no right-winger (he was a founder of Peace Now), appointed a committee of investigation to look into the charges against Bukay. They found that they were lies. But in response to the media uproar, the Israel state Deputy Prosecutor, Shai Nitzan, decided to open a criminal investigation against Bukay for the “crime” of “incitement.” More at FPM
 TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian anti-government student protests continued on Sunday as debate raged over television images showing the burning of a photo of the revered Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called for calm amid the anger over the images, even as he indirectly accused the opposition of creating an environment to allow such an incident to happen. State television has repeatedly shown a film clip, ostensibly taken during opposition protests on Dec. 7, of unidentified hands burning the picture of Khomeini, who remains widely respected in the country. "Some have converted the election campaign into a campaign against the entire system," Khamenei said without naming any opposition leaders. "We call on those who are angry to remain calm." Reformists, including former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Musavi, maintain that their supporters had nothing to do with the burning of the picture, which they say is being used by the regime to discredit the opposition. Dozens of police surrounded the campus of Tehran University as inside hundreds of pro-reform students protested against the accusations. The students contend the images were fabricated by government agents and are being used to justify further crackdowns on the opposition. The elite Revolutionary Guard, the country's most powerful military force, called on Sunday for the trial and punishment of those behind the move, as it continues to pressure the opposition. "The Revolutionary Guard ... won't tolerate any silence or hesitation in the immediate identification, trial and punishment of those carrying out this ugly insult and the agents behind them," it said in a statement posted on its Web site. Under the law, insult to the late or current supreme leader can lead to two years of prison. The Guard, which is tasked with defending the clerical regime that came to power in Iran in 1979 under Khomeini's leadership after the pro-U.S. shah was overthrown, was at the forefront of squashing Iran's post-election unrest. Reformists contend that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected in fraudulent June contests and for months protested against the government before widespread crackdowns. The Dec. 7 rallies did see numerous attacks on the current supreme leader of the country, Khamenei. Students chanted slogans against him, burned and trampled his photos in unprecedented acts of defiance in a country where Khamenei has final say in all state matters. The actions of the students reflect how a protest movement that began by rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June 12 re-election has evolved to confront the country's ruling theocracy. FoxNews
 The solution to the crisis with Iran was visible on December 7, Students Day in that country, which marks the anniversary of 1953 anti-American protests when Vice President Nixon visited after the coup that removed Mossadegh from power. The Iranian people continued their strategy of hijacking pro-regime holidays to express their opposition and demand democratic change. On the days when the regime is supposed to appear strongest, it instead appears weakest. Liberal Middle East expert Juan Cole marveled at how widespread the anti-government demonstrations were. He described them as being larger than the previous November 4 rallies and only being surpassed by the protests following the “re-election” of Ahmadinejad in June.
These crowds were able to form despite the deployment of thousands of security forces known for their brutality, the closing of schools, the detaining of opposition leaders, and attempts to shut down the information flow with the outside world by slowing the Internet to a near halt and stopping foreign journalists from covering the events. Over 20 mothers publicly decrying the loss of their children were even arrested. The Iranian people and their leaders matched the regime’s viciousness with equal bravery. The regime admits that at least 200 were arrested (and the real number is probably far higher) and former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, who challenged Ahmadinejad for the presidency in the rigged election, reacted to attacks on his wife and harassment of him by the Basiji with anger. The exact quote of what Mousavi said varies from report to report, but the general line was, “You’re agents. Do whatever you’ve been ordered to do, kill me, beat me, threaten me.” The 30 or so thugs later left and Mousavi was able to travel home from his offices to meet up with his wife who had been pepper-sprayed. The story is spreading like wildfire and will electrify the opposition. The Associated Press reported that the protestors “showed an increased boldness, openly breaking the biggest taboo in Iran, burning pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and chanting slogans against him.” According to Juan Cole, the Kurds in Sanandaj and elsewhere joined in, forcing the government to dispatch armored vehicles. Tear gas, intense blasts of water, gunfire, buses and cars with cages attached to detain protestors, steel clubs, knives, bottles and electric batons were all used in an attempt to oppress the people. More at FPM
 These events have been reported to World Threats. This is an eyewitness report from Tehran On 1530 people started a demonstration in Motahari St. and chanted lots of slogans including: “Khamenei is a murderer, his leadership is invalid”, “while Ahmadinejad is in office there is protests every day” and they invited each other to chant Allah O Akbar.
Regime’s suppressive agents especially Bassiji motorcyclists and anti riot forces attacked people and more than hundred were wounded; covered with blood, and more than hundred others were arrested.
The crowd dispersed at 1730. Those agents who didn’t have batons used chains to hit people.
After the crowd were dispersed the inferior suppressive forces distributed sweets between themselves.
Around Tehran University the security atmosphere is even higher than a curfew and lots of students who wanted to join people in were actually under siege but some students succeeded to break the siege and join the crowd in the morning.
Those unable to leave the university hold their great protest inside the university until 2:30 chanting slogans.
Their simplest slogan was death to dictator. Khamenei is a murderer his leadership is invalid was heard times and again. Other slogans were: “we are women and men of fight, Fight and we will fight” and “our shame is our lout leader”.
An eyewitness in the center of Tehran said that the suppression today was far more then a curfew. Some suppressive acts of regime’s agents were:
Mobile antennas were blocked in the whole region. Café nets were closed in the whole region.
In Enghelab Sq. and in a large radial around it RCG and anti riot forces were stationed. Anti riot forces also surrounded Russia embassy and didn’t let anybody to get near it.
In Haft-e-Tir Sq. the number of suppressive forces was horrifying.
As soon as a gathering formed some where all of a sudden hundred motorcyclists (two Bassijies on a motorcycle) entered the scene to crush people.
At the so-called Shirodi Stadium (Amjadieh Stadium) about 2000 suppressive equipped agents with arms were stationed and were deployed to any location that they suppressive forces needed support.
Despite these facts people gathered throughout the city and chanted death to dictator.
I was an eyewitness to the arrest of 100 people in Haft-e-Tir Sq. This was only in the morning and I counted them.
Another eyewitness says: I was at Shariat Razavi Hospital at Mehrabad- Tehran. The ambulance entered the hospital and there was a rush. Two youths about 17 to 18 years old were in the ambulance. One of them was hit with bullet at his ankle and the other at his leg and they were bleeding. It was said that they were hit near Azadi Sq. At 10 am RCG and Bassij forces filled the distance between Vali-e-Asr Sq., Palestine St. towards the east entrance of Tehran University. 16 Azar st. was completely under their control. Behind the east entrance students were chanting slogans but they didn’t let people to get near to the entrance. If anybody resisted he or she was arrested. Each time that they arrested somebody students booed them and shouted let him/her go. At Haft-e-Tir Sq. people especially women resisted the suppressive agents. A 60 years old man stood in front of the Pasdars and said I will not move. This is our country; we are the majority you get lost.
A vicious agent in black clothes was severely beating a youth with baton that a girl stood in between to save him. I saw a lot of people clashing with Pasdars.
Source: World Threats Previous Updates can be read here, here, here, here and here.
 These events have been reported to World Threats. In an attempt to control student anti-government activities, the government is ejecting students from their dormitories.
In a plan named “Social Discipline”, Special Security Force officers will be stationed in schools just as the Herasat officers are stationed in the universities. The Judiciary has sent Karrobi’s file to the Special Court for Clerics. The government is spreading rumors that the complaints against Mousavi have been forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office. By order of the regime, some parts of the health care system cannot accept bills with slogans written on them. In Sanandaj the security forces are stopping people in the parks and recreation areas and inspecting their cell phones. They check the memory of the cell phone for any photos and messages. An Iranian reporter was arrested by Lebanese agents in Tehran. One of the arresting agents was Iranian but the two agents with him were Lebanese. Source: World Threats
Three students at the Janson-de-Sailly school (16th arrondissement in Paris) were victims of an attack, Thursday, Jan. 8th, in front of their school. The Students, aged 15-17, of North-African origins, were beaten by youth who came to distribute leaflets for the Jewish Defense League (JDL), an extremist organization banned in the United States and Israel. The families of the victims lodged a complaint for an intentional attack of a racist character. "The attackers were not identified and the investigation is ongoing," said a spokesperson for the prosecution. M., one of the two victims assaulted, says he was waiting for his cousin in front of the school and saw the youth handing pamphlets. He refused it and his cousin put it in the trash. The youths asked his cousin why he threw it away. He approached and then they hit him, he got a knee in his stomach and a blow to the eyebrows. They then attacked his cousin. Then someone said 'there's the cops' and they left. Read more ...Sources: Figaro, Le Monde (French) H/T: Islam in Europe
Over the week-end Muslim fanatics target a Christian school in the capital’s east side. Police evacuate the institute to protect students. Hundreds of police agents are now guarding it to prevent further violence.By Benteng Reges Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Police evacuated the Christian Theological Arastamar Institute (STT SETIA) which is located in an eastern district of the Indonesian capital after it suffered damages during clashes between Christians and Muslims over the week-end. At least 1,500 students were moved to nearby police headquarters and a local Christian-based political party. The situation remains critical and further violence between opposite factions cannot be ruled out. “The school foundation urged us to intervene to protect people,” said East Jakarta District Police Chief Senior Superintendent. “For this reason we moved everyone out.” Last night hundreds of residents from the village of Kampung Pulo had taken up arms threatening to storm the school after being instigated by an imam at a local mosque who claimed that a bunch of Christian gangsters were coming to “protect” the school after it was attacked on Saturday by a Muslim mob, causing damage to the building and hurting hundreds. Read more ... Source: AsiaNet
A third of Muslim university students believe killing in the name of religion can be justified, a survey has revealed.By Duncan Gardham A study on the attitudes of students has found that 28 per cent said killing could be justified if the religion was under attack and another four per cent supported killing in order to "promote and preserve" the religion. Over half, 53 per cent, said killing in the name of religion was never justifiable but among non-Muslim students that figure was 94 per cent. While most students showed a typical generation gap where their parents were more religious than they were – 72 per cent – a significant 18 per cent said they were more strict in their religious observance than their parents. The importance of sharia law to most Muslim was underlined by the 40 per cent who said they supported its introduction into law for Muslims in Britain, although 37 per cent opposed it. A third of those surveyed supported the creation of a worldwide Muslim caliphate but 25 per cent opposed it and 42 per cent said they were not sure. Half of the students said they would not be supportive of a friend who wanted to leave Islam. Hannah Stuart, from the Centre for Social Cohesion, co-author of the report, said: "These findings are deeply alarming. Students in higher education are the future leaders of their communities yet significant numbers of them appear to hold beliefs which contravene liberal, democratic values. Read more ... Source: TelegraphRead the report
The MSA-UCSB website features a section titled "Common Islamic Terms Explained," which laments that "the rhetoric about Islam and Muslims has grown exponentially in recent times," and urges readers "not to settle for the media definition of highjacked sic Islamic vocabulary." Among the more important terms whose meaning MSA-UCSB seeks to clarify is "jihad," which the organization defines as a "struggle" waged to advance "the cause of God," to "perfect oneself," to "establish what is just and right," or to defend oneself physically. Most importantly, says the webpage, jihad is absolutely "not a preemptive, antagonizing, or 'holy' war." Source: FrontPage Magazine
Al-Talib is the news magazine of the Muslim Students Association of UCLA (MSA UCLA). Founded in 1990 and staffed entirely by unpaid students, it is the largest Muslim student publication in the United States. The press run for each issue is approximately 20,000 copies, which are distributed to more than 150 locations (mostly mosques, community centers, and college campuses) in 37 states. All told, Al-Talib’s estimated national readership is about 56,000. Source: Discover The Networks
 By Steven Emerson Eight young men, unarmed and in the relative security of their Jerusalem yeshiva, are gunned down in cold blood. In Gaza, thousands take to the streets to celebrate. Their government encourages them to do so. How toxic is a society when the governing party suggests celebrating a massacre of teenaged boys? The brutality of Thursday's massacre at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva exposes some ugly truths about the blood lust that has been fostered by leaders in Palestinian society and the unwillingness of most American Muslim political organizations and the mainstream media to confront it. When the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) is accused of raising money for Hamas terrorism, the defendants and their allies say they merely sought to relieve Palestinian suffering. But the silence from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and others shows their unwillingness to condemn the terrorist act and its glorification. Read more ...Source: IPT News
TAMPA, Fla. -- A federal prosecutor disputes defense claims that two Egyptian college students arrested near a South Carolina Navy weapons station were carrying harmless fireworks and not dangerous explosives. An attorney for Youssef Samir Megahed filed a motion last week asking a judge to reconsider granting bail. He cited an FBI report that characterized the items found in the trunk of the car as a pyrotechnic mixture that burned but didn't explode when tested. But federal prosecutor Jay Hoffer, in a motion filed Monday opposing bond for Megahed, said defense attorney Adam Allen "mischaracterized" the FBI report in describing the items in the trunk as harmless. Hoffer said the items including PVC pipe containing a mixture of sugar and potassium nitrate and capped with cat litter meet the federal legal definition of explosives. FBI analysts determined that the mixture could explode if it was packed more tightly in the pipe and capped, Hoffer wrote. Read more ...Source: AP
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Hizb ut-Tahrir espouses the replacement of republican governments in the West with Sharia states, and the establishment of a global caliphate. "LSE's Hizb ut-Tahrir teacher Reza Pankhurst and the secretive 'Brothers' Circle,'" from The Times, January 16 
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