 By Damian Thompson You may have wondered, at times, whether the Guardian-Islamist entente cordiale was a figment of Melanie Phillips's imagination. Well, wonder no more. Today's Guardian leader on the Government's counter-terrorism strategy is sprinkled with little clues that the multiculturalists have won their battle with the secularists at the newspaper. The editorial thinks Hazel Blears was wrong to cut ties with the compromised and self-important Muslim Council of Britain. (So do several of Ms Blears's cabinet colleagues, whose views are reflected in the leader.) "It is not up to ministers whom Muslims choose as their spokesmen," says the newspaper. (Actually, it's not up to ordinary Muslims, either.) Also, it's glad that the Government doesn't regard support for Sharia law as an indication of extremism because, as we all know, there's nothing extreme about Sharia, is there? Likewise, it's good that there is no conflation of "Islamism" (note: not Islam) and terrorism - what an absurd notion! Read more ...Source: Telegraph BlogsThe Guardian
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 By Amil Imani During the U.S. presidential election, President Obama boasted that he would embark on personal diplomacy to solve our foreign policy problems with terrorist countries such as Syria and the Islamic Republic. He said that he would meet their leaders without any preconditions to settle our disputes. Doesn't that sound like a change of heart, a real change and a great relief to us all? Never mind the fact that this president has about zero experience in foreign policy matters, he is foolish enough to aim to negotiate with the ever-conniving Assad of Syria and masters of deceptions such as the mullahs of Iran. President Obama, how do you propose to engage the point-man of the end-of-the-worlder Shiite regime in negotiation or discussion without sacrificing the valiant Iranian people who are struggling to free themselves from the yoke of fascist Islamists? You believe that you, still somewhat wet behind the ears, can do better than the four-year combined efforts of seasoned diplomats from France, Germany, and Great Britain? There are those who see the solution in negotiation with the Mullahs. These people are either naïve or dishonest. The Mullahs' idea of negotiation is Islamic to the core. They take all and you give all since you, according to Islamic fiat, are not entitled to anything. The track record of Muslims negotiating even among themselves in places like Iraq, the Palestinian territory, Pakistan and almost every other Islamic land speaks volumes. Read more ...Source: American ThinkerH/T: Gramfan
 In Cataluña alone, 4,846 girls under the age of 19 at risk of enduring this barbaric ritual practiceBy Gabrielle Devon THANKS to the efforts of Cataluña’s regional police force, Mossos d’Esquadra, during 2008, 104 girls living in the region have been spared from having to go through the suffering caused by female genital mutilation, a practice that is carried out mainly in African and Asian countries. Officers have prevented 18 from going ahead so far this year. Since 2000, the Mossos have made contact with families of girls whom they consider may be at risk of undergoing this procedure, considering their country of origin and the fact that they may not have abandoned this type of tradition. They explain the dangers it involves, and attempt to dissuade them from returning to their country of origin for the ritual to be performed or from having it carried out by clandestine witch-doctors residing in Spain. The parents are also informed that in Spain, this practice is considered a crime punishable by law. Read more ... Source: Euro Weekly
Extremists, among them individuals from Macedonia and Kosovo, work to divide Muslims in Albania, the country's Islamic community president said.
Haxhi Selim Mucha, the President of Islamic Community of Albania, claims that aggressive groups carry out divisions of Muslims.
Some Muslim priests described Mucha's claims as an attempt to fix the forthcoming election of Islamic community president.
Media in Tirana said schism deepened among the leading figures of Muslim community in Albania. Source: Makfax
The Bulgarian government has approved a draft bill banning the Muslim head-dress for women and other religious symbols in schools. "We express our disagreement and bitterness with this decision," Hussein Hafazov of the Chief Mufti office told the Reuters news agency. "It completely damages the rights as well as the responsibilities of Muslim women." The bill calls for banning the hijab and other religious symbols in schools. It still needs to be approved by parliament. Bulgaria is the latest European country to ban the Muslim headscarf. France banned the Muslim veil in public places in 2004, with several European countries following suit. The Chief Mufti warned that the bill would increase community tensions in the Balkan country. Read more ...Source: Balkan Insight
 By James Cohen Believe it or not, Finland still has blasphemy laws on the books, but there have been repeated attempts to rescind Section 10 of chapter 17 of the Finnish penal code. All attempts however, at removing the anti-modern statute from the law books have proved unsuccessful, with the latest attempt failing in 1998. Helsinki city councilman, Jussi Halla-aho was charged with blasphemy and incitement of an ethnic-group in the Helsinki district court today, and ordered to stand trial for publishing on his blog that Islam’s prophet was a pedophile. According to the Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Jorme Kalske: “Halla-aho had uploaded to the Internet and submitted writings to the general public, in which Islam and its sacred institutions were combined with pedophilia, and in which was also presented the robbery of pedestrians and the ooting of tax revenue was a certain national group or a specific genetic characteristic.
The charges were presented in the Helsinki District Court. Halla-aho denies the charges” Read more ... Source: IFPS
 The official French umbrella group for Muslims, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) is angry that the Sarkozy Government appears to be encouraging the formation of a rival secular representative body. The CFCM was originally set up in 2003 by President Nicolas Sarkozy when he was interior minister. The intention was to give a representative voice to the estimated six or seven million French Muslims. But now the CFCM thinks that Sarkozy considers them too powerful and influential and is seeking to establish the rival organisation to act as a curb. Malika Belarabi, an Algerian-born deputy governor of Seine-Saint-Denis district in Paris, who is one of the leading lights behind the plans for a secular Muslim council says that it is well advanced. Previous efforts to establish such a council have failed, but Belarabi is convinced that this time it will get off the ground. “The idea is to bring together all Arab and Muslim groups of secular nature within one framework,” he said. “The goal is to set up a body similar to the one which represents secular French Jews; Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF).” Read more ...Source: National Secular Society
It turns out to be just a bad dream. But for "Mohamed Abdallah," apathy about Election Day leads to his arrest. He is rousted from his bedroom, hooded, and dragged before a judge. "You didn't vote," the judge repeatedly says, his voice rising. Mohamed, a young American Muslim, is more interested in playing "Guitar Hero" than in any election. But the judge explains, "By not voting, you are forfeiting your right to change policy that could affect your community, your country and the entire world." He then sentences Mohamed to "a lifetime of silence," laughing maniacally as Mohamed begs the court to reconsider. Read more ...Source: IPT News
 Hon. John ShadeggAn Arizona congressman says it is a problem when U.S. officials fail to speak clearly – for example calling a terrorist a terrorist – when discussing the dangers the nation faces in confronting enemies. U.S. Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., was interviewed by Greg Corombos of RadioAmerica.org on the issue of new marching orders in the Obama administration that words like "war on terror" and "enemy combatant" no longer be used. Shadegg said those terms are specifically descriptive so that people can understand what's going on. "I think it is a disservice to the people to somehow not speak with clarity about the enemies we confront," he said. "Clearly when Al-Qaida and other radical Islamists or Islamic extremists specifically express their desire to kill Americans, or wipe America off the face of the earth, let's be realistic in acknowledging that threat." Read more ...Source: WND
“Virulent” anti-Israeli rhetoric is behind a decision by a group representing French Jews not to renew dialogue with the French Muslim Brotherhood.An Israeli newspaper is reporting that the organization representing French Jews has decided not to renew dialogue with the French Muslim Brotherhood as a result of “virulent” anti-Israeli rhetoric. According to a report in the Jerusalem Post: The Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), the umbrella body of French Jewry, will not renew dialogue with French Muslim groups that equated Operation Cast Lead in Gaza with the Holocaust, the group’s vice president, Meyer Habib, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.During Operation Cast Lead, some Muslim organizers of pro-Palestinian demonstrations equated Israel’s actions with the Nazi Holocaust, and even carried banners that read “death to Jews.” Read more ... Source: The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report
Tens of thousands of Somali refugees have resettled in America in recent years to escape the chaos of their homeland, but the transition isn't going smoothly in one small town.By Erick Stakelbeck It has been nearly 20 years since Somalia last had a functioning government. Islamic Jihadists now control most of the country – and sharia is the law of the land. Tens of thousands of Somali refugees have resettled in America in recent years to escape the chaos of their homeland, which is located in the Horn of Africa. But the transition isn't going smoothly in one small town. At first glance, Shelbyville is your typical sleepy southern hamlet. It's nestled in middle Tennessee, where the walking horse is king. There's Main St., the local sheriff, a movie theatre. It's all very "Mayberry," except for one big difference: the recent arrival of hundreds of Somali Muslims. Read more ... Source: FSM
 Recently, I was privileged to receive an advance copy of the first time English translation, released today, of Grigoris Balakian’s epic personal memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918, “Hai Koghkotan,” “The Armenian Golgotha,” originally published in Vienna, in 1922. The 1922 volume 1, and the second volume (which apparently “fell into a void for lack of funding,” was found among Grogoris Balakian’s sister Rosa Antreassian’s post-humous papers in 1956, and published in Paris in 1959) are presented in a very accessible, elegant English translation by Grigoris Balakian’s grandnephew, Professor Peter Balakian—an accomplished scholar of the Armenian Genocide himself—with the able assistance of two colleagues, Anahid Yeremian, and Aris Sevag. Modern genocide historians who have been wont to re-examine the disintegrating Ottoman Empire’s World War I jihad genocide against its Armenian minority through the prism of The Holocaust, often cite a comment by Hitler that the mass killings of the Armenians served the Nazi leaders as an “inspirational” precedent for predictable impunity. During August of 1939, Hitler gave speeches in preparation for the looming invasion of Poland which admonished his military commanders to wage a brutal, merciless campaign, and assure rapid victory. Hitler portrayed the impending invasion as the initial step of a vision to “secure the living space we need,” and ultimately, “redistribute the world.” In an explicit reference to the Armenians, “Who after all is today speaking of the destruction of the Armenians?,” Hitler justified their annihilation (and the world’s consignment of this genocide to oblivion) as an accepted new world order because, “The world believes only in success.” Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
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