 From CAN: The Human Rights Service organization of Norway writes that a town of 6500 in Denmark called Tingbjerg is dramatically changing due to high Muslim immigration and birthrate.
The report says that residents are complaining that many Muslims are not assimilating and are changing Danish society. “As the neighborhood has become increasingly Muslim, it’s also been increasingly plagued by gang violence, burglaries, car-burnings, vandalism, and other offenses,” the report says. “Over the years, the members of Tingbjerg’s non-Muslim minority have come to feel increasingly vulnerable and ill at ease in their community.”
The homosexual pastor of a church in Tingjerg fled the town this month due to persecution from Muslim youth.
His church has been repeatedly vandalized and broken into, and his personal property has been stolen. The church is now for sale. Two journalists from Denmark’s TV-2 station tried to do a story on the church and were threatened by two Muslims who demanded that they delete the tape because they did not want to be seen on TV. The two then smashed the windows of the station’s van. The TV station also ran a letter from one resident describing how they had seen Muslim youth set a dumpsters and buildings on fire and carried wagons of stones to attack those who tried to stop them.
The resident claimed that the local police initially failed to stop their crimes because of the stones and had to come back “dressed for combat.” World Threats
By Amita Parashar
Approximately 15 youths physically and verbally taunted a gay man as he was leaving Twin Cities Pride in Minneapolis on Saturday, in an incident captured on video.
The Somali youths asked the man if he was gay, and when he responded yes, the young people yelled "I hate gay people" and reportedly threw rocks at the man, whose name is not known.
On the video various youths can be heard saying "I hate gay people" repeatedly, along with "Gay is not the way" and "Fuck gay people. They can go fuck each other."
About one minute into the video, a police officer can be seen walking through the crowd of young people.
The man who was taunted walked away, telling the kids, "See how I'm not scared at all?" Source: AdvocateH/T: Atlas
 By Johann Hari Do you believe a religious leader who fights to save Section 28 and says gay people spread disease is a fulminating bigot? Do you believe a “leading cleric” who advocates stoning gay people to death should be denounced? Do you believe sharia law – which requires gay people to be lashed or stoned – is always and forever unacceptable? Then, according to an energetic and aggressive group of white straight boys who surreally consider themselves to be on the left, you are an “Islamophobe” and “objectively pro-Nazi”. People who believe in opposing hatred of gay people everywhere – in Teheran as much as Tunbridge Wells, in Kingston, Jamaica as much as Kingston-Upon-Thames – are being subjected to a bizarre counter-campaign. As so often, Peter Tatchell is facing the most abusive backlash on our behalf. Tatchell believes all people are equal, regardless of their pigmentation. He does not see a difference between the white far-right preacher Jerry Falwell calling gay people diseased, and the Muslim leader Sir Iqbal Sacranie doing the same. He does not see the difference between gay teenagers being lynched to death in Jamaica and murderous gay-bashings on Clapham Common. He reacts to them in exactly the same way – by fighting to stop them. Read more ...Source: JohannHari.com
 By Bruce Bawer One of the pillars of the future totalitarian state in 1984 is the practice of doublethink, which Orwell defined as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. … To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.” As it happens, this is a precise description of exactly what’s been going on in many parts of Europe in recent years, as multicultural ideology has been confronted by realities about Islam that, in a doublethink-free world, would send that ideology crashing to the ground in flames. For a case in point, I will refer the reader to an episode I’ve mentioned previously in this space — an Oslo debate last November at which the deputy chairman of Norway’s Islamic Council, Asghar Ali, refused to reject the death penalty for gays. When Senaid Kobilica, the head of the Islamic Council (which represents 60,000 Muslims), was asked where he stood on the question, he replied that he couldn’t give a definitive answer until he got a ruling from the European Fatwa Council. This week it was reported that he’s still waiting. Read more ...Source: Pajamas Media
 The tenth anniversary of the establishment of a leading Muslim lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans support organisation will be celebrated with a conference in London next month. Imaan is the largest network for Muslim LGBT people outside the USA. Delegates from the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the UK will be joined by representatives of the Metropolitan Police, Stonewall, the Terence Higgins Trust, UK Black Pride at the fourth LGBT Muslim Conference in London from Friday 17 October to Sunday 19 October. The conference is open to all Muslim lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans people, their family, friends, and supporters. Guests from other LGBT communities including Jewish, Christian and Baha’i organisations and non-faith groups will also attend. "With the rise in Islamophobia since September 11th and the stark experience of homophobia in wider society, LGBT Muslim people can find themselves doubly isolated as the victims of prejudice and discrimination within the LGBT, Muslim and wider community," said Pav Akhtar, Imaan’s Chair. Read more ...Source: Pink News
Tehran, 23 Sept. (AKI) - Nemat Safavi, arrested almost three years ago at the age of 16, has been condemned to death by a court in Ardebil, in the northwest Iranian Azerbaijan region.
Nemat has not killed anyone, stolen anything or even carried out any political activism.
Nemat has been accused of having homosexual relations.While that was not stated during the court case, he was accused of "sexual relations that were not admitted".
A year ago, on a visit to Colombia University in New York, Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said "there were no homosexuals" in Iran in response to a question from a student. Source: AKI
 By Duke Helfand LOS ANGELES -- “A Jihad for Love” might not be the blockbuster movie of the season, but the new documentary about the plight of gay and lesbian Muslims is enjoying a degree of acclaim as it casts light on a subject often shrouded in mystery. The film’s gay Muslim director, Parvez Sharma, has spent the past year touring theaters and festivals. “A Jihad for Love” was the documentary centerpiece last week at Outfest, a gay and lesbian film festival in Los Angeles. On Aug. 1, it opens in West Hollywood and Palm Springs. Filmed surreptitiously in 12 countries over six years, the movie offers a window into the distraught lives of gay and lesbian Muslims as they struggle to reconcile their sexual orientation with their devotion to a faith that condemns their way of life. Some are beaten or imprisoned. Others are forced to flee their homelands. Several have their faces obscured in the film to protect their identities and their families from reprisals. But Sharma, 35, a former journalist in India, said he did not intend to attack Islam but to open a dialogue about a dilemma that forces people to endure lives of quiet desperation. Read more ...Source: LA Times
Manama: A lawmaker demanded that the government immediately deny entry to homosexuals to eliminate indecency in Bahraini society. Brotherhood MP Mohammad Khalid told Gulf News on Sunday the government should implement a parliamentary proposal approved early this year by the Lower House on the issue. He also called upon the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to closely monitor saloons and massage parlours. The lawmaker also urged the Vice Police to interfere and deport homosexuals involved in illegal activities, as well as intensify punishments for students involved in homosexuality. Read more ...Source: Gulf News
Meldpunt Discriminatie Internet (MDI) reports that Dutch blogger Ertan was sentenced yet again by the Amsterdam court to 100 hours of community service for inciting to hate and violence against homosexuals. He was also sentenced for insulting and threatening then Minister of Foreigner Affairs Verdonk.
In 2004 and 2005 MDI lodged complaints against Ertan after receving more than 130 reports about his sites. In June 2006 he was sentenced to 100 hours of community service. Ertan appealed, but his appeal was rejected.
Ertan had called on his blog to stone Minister Verdonk. Moreover he wrote that "As soon as the Muslim law is in force in the Netherlands, I will be the first who will push off every protesting homosexual with his head down from the Westertoren." Ertan also wrote he wanted to blow up the monument for homosexuals and called upon his reader to made a "explosive party" of the Canal Parade.
According to the court, Ertan is inciting people against each other with his texts and such expressions conflict with the standards and values of Dutch society. Source: NRC (Dutch) H/T: Islam in Europe
 By Joe Kaufman Is the beheading of homosexuals an Islamic religious duty or an independent political act? This is a question currently being posed on Islam Online (IOL), a website popular to the English and Arabic-speaking Muslim community. Given IOL’s violent anti-homosexual history, the answer may surprise you. Islam Online was established, in November of 1999, as a web portal for everything of concern to radical Muslims, from family matters and Islamic teachings to current events and the latest in technologies. The main individual behind its creation is Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, a spiritual leader and longtime member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who is presently IOL’s Chairman. Given IOL’s background, one can easily understand the extremism that emanates from its pages. IOL has taken stances in favor of suicide bombings, and IOL has mandated attacks against American troops. As well, the site has discussed gruesome punishments towards those that are homosexual. IOL houses its own Shari’ah (Islamic law) Scholars, who provide religious rulings on various subjects. One of those subjects is that of homosexuals. In ‘How to Give Up Homosexuality,’ IOL Scholar Ahmad Kutty states that homosexuals “belong to the group of the wicked sinners condemned by Allah” and “have been condemned to eternal perdition by Allah.” Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
By Kilian Melloy Dancing cheek to cheek with a handsome swain is a dream that, for many gay Arabs, carries with it the implicit risk of violence, even death, back home. But in America, homophobia and anti-Arab sentiment notwithstanding, it’s a dream that can come true. As reported by a June 17 article in the Village Voice, gay Arabs--the subject of the recent documentary A Jihad for Love by filmmaker Parvez Sharma--may find that they need to flee their home countries due to systematic, often forceful, repression of homosexuality by the state. Read more ...Source: Edge
By Iftekhar Hai For years, I’ve been asked what my personal views on homosexuality are, but I’ve always shied away from talking about it openly because homosexual and lesbian behavior are against the teachings of the Quran. Also, I experienced a tremendous inner conflict, having seen that homosexuality has deep roots among Indian and Pakistani Muslims. The Hindu culture has debated the issue of homosexuality and now in the United States, Massachusetts and California have legalized same-sex marriages. The Quran is explicitly clear that God does not condone homosexual behavior. Islamic religious scholars of the Sharia — Islamic laws derived through consensus on the Quran and Hadith — are unanimous in their conclusion that “homosexuality and lesbianism” is a crime. And as a crime, it is punishable. Read more ...Source: Sharia Finance Watch
In reality, 2007 was one of the hardest years for Iranian homosexuals. According to Amnesty International, Iran had the highest number of execution of homosexuals in that year. Several cases of executions of homosexuals were cited in cities such as Shiraz, Esfahan, Tehran, Rasht, Ahwaz, Tabriz, Kermanshah and Mashhad. Read more ...Source: RoozH/T: Dhimmi Watch
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