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Anti-Muslim Fliers Cause Uproar

Posters May Be Intended to Mock Conservative Group

By Susan Kinzie, Washington Post Staff Writer

Posters appeared all over the George Washington University campus yesterday morning blaring the message: "HATE MUSLIMS? SO DO WE!!!"

NIGERIA: ISLAMIC COURT ENDORSES ABDUCTION OF GIRLS

 A Muslim mother’s dying wish: that Christian father lose custody of daughters.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, October 9 (Compass Direct News) – It has been more than a year since Allabe Kaku Chibok lost his three daughters because he became a Christian – paradoxically, he lost custody of them only after his ex-wife died.

Maid arrested after Saudi employer ‘bewitched’

(AFP) 

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia’s religious police have arrested a domestic worker accused of having put a spell on her employer, the Al Madina newspaper reported on Sunday.

The arrest of the maid, whose nationality was not revealed, followed a complaint by the wife of the employer who she said had been ‘bewitched by the maid’

 Haaretz israel news English

Palestinian Christian activist stabbed to death in Gaza

A Palestinian Christian activist who had received repeated death threats was found stabbed to death in a street in Gaza City early Sunday.

Rami Khader Ayyad, 32, was director of the Teacher's Bookshop, Gaza's only Christian bookstore, which is run by the Bible Society of Gaza Baptist church.

Times Online

UK: Muslim medical students  refusing to attend lectures on alcohol or sexually transmitted diseases as it offends their religious beliefs

Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs.

Egypt police investigate possible sectarian slaying of two Christians in sensitive village

Herald Tribune 

CAIRO, Egypt: Egyptian police were investigating Friday the slaying of two Coptic Christians found dead in the same village where one of the country's worst sectarian massacres took place seven years before.

Chicago Tribune

Ramadan request stirs tumult in school district

 By Jo Napolitano | Tribune staff reporter

Dozens of parents said at an Oak Lawn school board meeting Tuesday night that while they're happy to have a student body of varying religions, they want to keep celebrating what they say are traditional American holidays and customs.

Two Copts murdered in cold blood in Sohag  

On Wednesday 3rd October 2007, two Copts Mr. Wasfi Sadek Ishaq (40) and Karam Klieb Endarawis (24) were shot dead in cold blood while guarding their crops of maize in their field 200 meters outside Awlad Toq Garb, Dar El-Salaam district, Sohag Governorate, an incident reminiscent of El-Kosheh I (where 2 Copts were killed by Muslim fanatics and the Egyptian police framed an innocent Christians man, Shaiboub William Arsal who is still in prison for a crime he never committed)

Terror Threat Against Danish Cartoon Editor Flemming Rose

pajamasmedia.com 

PajamasXpress blogger Flemming Rose learned yesterday that he was the target of a planned terrorist attack. The editor who published the controversial Mohammed cartoons writes that he is determined not to let the revelation change his life.

Girl, 7, who wears veil, allowed back to school

Expatia 

MADRID - DPA - A seven-year-old Moroccan girl living in Spain went back to school Tuesday after the Catalan regional government allowed her to do so wearing the Muslim headscarf.

Meca members given another 30 days in jail

By Jonathan Spollen, Daily Star


 

CAIRO: A court in Abbasiya has extended the jail terms of the two Egyptian Christians accused of “defaming” Islam, by another 30 days.

Peter Ezzat and Dr Adel Fawzy Faltas Hanna, both members of the Canada-based Middle East Christian Association (Meca), have been imprisoned since August 8 after police raided their homes confiscating CDs, computers and books, which prosecutors allege contain materials offensive to Islam.

Muslim checkout staff get an alcohol opt-out clause

MUSLIM supermarket checkout staff who refuse to sell alcohol are being allowed to opt out of handling customers’ bottles and cans of drink.

Islamic workers at Sainsbury’s who object to alcohol on religious grounds are told to raise their hands when encountering any drink at their till so that a colleague can temporarily take their place or scan items for them.

 

Syrian cleric assassinated

DAMASCUS: A Syrian cleric who recruited foreigners travelling to Iraq to fight US-led forces was assassinated in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday, his aides said.
Sheikh Mahmoud Abou al-Qaqa was shot dead after he emerged from Friday prayers, they said.

Yahoo! News 

Afghan teenager with US dollars hanged

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.

Egypt papers agree day of protest

 BBC News 

The editors of 15 opposition and private newspapers in Egypt have agreed not to publish on 7 October.

The action is in protest at what they see as government harassment of the printed press.

Wife divorced for watching male TV host

RIYADH: A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.

The man, whom the paper did not identify, ended his marriage on the grounds his wife was effectively alone with an unrelated man, which is forbidden under the strict Islamic law enforced in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the paper said.

Men in Saudi Arabia have the authority to divorce their wives without resort to the courts.

Experts Debate the Influence of Islamism During the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995

27 September 2007

Islamis fighters in Bosnia
More than 6,000 Arab volunteers arrived during the early stages of the war. About 1,000 of them remained in Bosnia as naturalized citizens

The role of the mujahadeen, or holy warriors, in Afghanistan during the 1980’s has become well known in the six years since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. But some Balkan analysts say that in the 1990’s Bosnia served as a “crucible for the global jihad” led by Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida organization.

Sharia-bank bids trigger concerns

The Globe  

OTTAWA and TORONTO -- Ottawa has received its first applications to start up Canadian banks operating within the strictures of Islamic religious law - financial institutions that, if approved, would be among the first in the West.

Canada's bank regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, is studying two proposals for banks that offer services in keeping with Islamic laws that forbid speculation and interest but are in favour of transactions where profit and loss is shared.

LOO WITH NO ONE TO USE IT

BAKERY giants Greggs have installed a Muslims-only toilet at their new Scottish headquarters - despite the fact that no Muslims work there.

Workers at the state-of-the-art factory were shocked when they were given a tour of the building and told a cubicle had been fitted for the use of Muslim employees. The staff said they are baffled at the decision because they are not aware of any Islamic workers at the base in Cambuslang, near Glasgow.

 

 Swedish Muslims Upset by Cartoon Ruling

By Ahmad Maher, IOL Staff

CAIRO — Swedish Muslims were disappointed Saturday, September 22, at a ruling by Justice Chancellor Goeran Lambertz, who said the anti-Prophet Muhammad cartoon published in a local newspaper did not constitute incitement to racial hatred.

"Of course we reject the ruling, but we can't help but respect it," Stockholm-based Chaka Benmakhlouf, President of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, told IslamOnline.net over the phone.


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