According to International Antioch Ministries (IAM), callers from Iran are threatening their workers with disfigurement, injury and death. Farzaneh, an IAM telephone counselor taking phone calls from Iran during IAM’s daily broadcasts into Iran, was threatened by someone who identified himself as Heydar Amiri: “One day you will see that the building of this church will collapse on all of you, we know your address very well and know where you are located. We do not let you continue your programs like this anymore. Shedding your blood in Islam has a reward for me.” Bahnoosh, another telephone counselor, relayed this threat: “One day a bomb will go off in your church and will make you all vanish, because you are all blasphemers.” Read more ...Source: Business Wire H/T: Shariah Finance Watch
An apparent car bomb exploded outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan's capital on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said. The blast echoed through Islamabad and left a crater more than three feet deep in the road in front of the embassy. Shattered glass, fallen masonry and dozens of wrecked vehicles littered the area. A plume of smoke rose above the scene as people, some bloodied, ran back and forth in a state of panic. Read more ...Source: APMuslims Against Sharia unequivocally condemn Islamabad bombing. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. May all animals responsible for this atrocity be brought to justice swiftly.
JAKARTA, Indonesia: Islamic hard-liners broke up a religious tolerance rally Sunday, beating demonstrators with bamboo sticks and calling for the deaths of members of a Muslim sect they consider heretical, witnesses said. About 200 Christians, moderate Muslims and members of Ahmadiyah — an Islamic group the government is considering banning — gathered at the National Monument in the nation's capital of Jakarta to celebrate the country's tradition of pluralism, said Gunawan Mohamad, a prominent magazine publisher who took part in the rally. At least 12 people were injured and four of them were taken to hospitals after members of the Islamic Defenders Front rushed the square waving flags and swinging sticks, organizer Anick Tohari said. "Repent or die," shouted men dressed in green and white Islamic outfits as they punched and kicked bleeding protesters, video footage showed. Read more ...Source: AP
GAZA CITY (AFP) - A Palestinian was killed and another 16 were wounded on Saturday in an early morning explosion at a house owned by a Hamas member in Gaza City, medics and witnesses said. Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, confirmed the incident, adding that medics had not yet identified the person who died. Witnesses said the house belonged to Nadir Abu Shaaban, a member of the Islamist Hamas movement which has ruled Gaza for nearly a year. Source: AFP H/T: LGFMuslims Against Sharia congratulate Hamas on a recent "work accident" and wish Hamas to have many more of these "accidents", preferably away from people.
KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan's appeal court referred Sunday a reporter sentenced to death on blasphemy charges to hospital for medical tests after he said he was tortured by security forces who fractured his nose. Perwiz Kambakhsh, arrested late October and sentenced to death in January, has denied the charges and alleged security forces used torture to force him into a confession. His defence lawyer, Mohammad Afzal Nuristani, repeated the allegation in court Sunday and requested the 23-year-old reporter be referred to hospital for forensic tests. "My client has been tortured while in custody. He has suffered a fracture to his nose and damage to his wrist," he said. Read more ...Source: AFP H/T: Shariah Finance Watch
 Women who reside in the "no go areas". Does this look like England to you?The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a “hate crime” and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned. The incident will fuel fears that “no-go areas” for Christians are emerging in British towns and cities, as the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, claimed in The Sunday Telegraph this year. Arthur Cunningham, 48, and Joseph Abraham, 65, both full-time evangelical ministers, have launched legal action against West Midlands Police, claiming the officer infringed their right to profess their religion. Mr Abraham said: “I couldn’t believe this was happening in Britain. The Bishop of Rochester was criticised by the Church of England recently when he said there were no-go areas in Britain but he was right; there are certainly no-go areas for Christians who want to share the gospel.” Read more ...Source: The Sunday Telegraph H/T: Shariah Finance Watch
 The purpose of this report on religious freedom is to document the actions of governments - those that repress religious expression, persecute innocent believers, or tolerate violence against religious minorities, as well as those that respect, protect, and promote religious freedom. We strive to report with fairness and accuracy on abuses against adherents of all religious traditions and beliefs. The governments we report on range from those that provided a high level of protection for religious freedom in the broadest sense (those that "generally respected" religious freedom) to totalitarian regimes that sought to control religious thought and expression and regarded some or all religious groups as threats. Read more ...Source: State Department
Categorizing American Islamophobes - MPACUK :: Muslim Discussion Forum. Category 1: The Seed Planters Examples: Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Bernard Lewis Usual Profession: Academics Main Motivation: Zionism Category 2: The Theological Warriors Examples: Robert Spencer, Craig Winn, Pat Robertson Usual Profession: Christian preachers Main Motivation: Religious bigotry Read more ...Source: MPACUK H/T: LGF
Muslim hardliners in Kuwait's parliament have walked out of the body's inaugural meeting to protest the lack of head scarves for two female Cabinet ministers. The men left just after lawmakers and ministers started taking the oath of office Sunday. They returned after the women were sworn in. None of the women were wearing long dresses or covering their hair, which Islamists maintain is required by their religion. Unlike elsewhere in the conservative Gulf, women are not required by law to wear headscarves in Kuwait, though most do. Almost half of the oil-rich US-ally's 50-seat legislature are fundamentalist Muslims. No female legislators were elected in recent elections, but the prime minister appointed two to the Cabinet. Source: AP
By Chris Mondics DOBOJ, Bosnia - For years, Saudi Arabia flatly denied it had provided money and logistical support for Islamist militant groups that attacked Western targets. But that assertion is disputed by a former al-Qaeda commander who testified in a United Nations war-crimes trial that his unit was funded by the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ali Ahmed Ali Hamad, the former al-Qaeda fighter, gave the same account to The Inquirer in an interview in this struggling city in the central Balkans. "Because it was the biggest charity, [the commission] helped the mujaheddin the most," Hamad said, adding that it had provided "everything a person needed to exist." Hamad, 37, is expected to be called as a witness in a lawsuit filed by Cozen O'Connor alleging that Saudi Arabia and affiliated charities financed al-Qaeda and other groups as they geared up for the 9/11 attacks. Read more ...Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
 By Afif Sarhan and Caroline Davies Five weeks ago Leila Hussein told The Observer the chilling story of how her husband had killed their 17-year-old daughter over her friendship with a British soldier in Basra. Now Leila, who had been in hiding, has been murdered - gunned down in cold blood. Afif Sarhan in Basra and Caroline Davies report on the final act of a brutal tragedy. Leila Hussein lived her last few weeks in terror. Moving constantly from safe house to safe house, she dared to stay no longer than four days at each. It was the price she was forced to pay after denouncing and divorcing her husband - the man she witnessed suffocate, stamp on, then stab their young daughter Rand in a brutal 'honour' killing for which he has shown no remorse. Though she feared reprisals for speaking out, she really believed that she would soon be safe. Arrangements were well under way to smuggle her to the Jordanian capital, Amman. In fact, she was on her way to meet the person who would help her escape when a car drew up alongside her and two other women who were walking her to a taxi. Five bullets were fired: three of them hit Leila, 41. She died in hospital after futile attempts to save her. Her death, on 17 May, is the shocking denouement to a tragedy which had its origins in an innocent friendship between her student daughter, Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, and a blond, 22-year-old British soldier known only as Paul. The two had met while Rand, an English student at Basra University, was working as a volunteer helping displaced families and he was distributing water. Although their friendship appears to have involved just brief, snatched conversations over four months, Rand had confided her romantic feelings for Paul to her best friend, Zeinab, 19. Read more ...Source: The ObserverH/T: Atlas
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