A third of a million bodies could be dug up from a historic east London cemetery to make way for a new Muslim burial site.
Ed Harris, Evening Standard 11.10.07
Tower Hamlets council is considering reopening its Cemetery Park in Mile End in response to a long-running campaign for a Muslim graveyard in the area.
The park, off Bow Common Lane, was deconsecrated as a Church of England cemetery by Parliament in 1966, after being deemed full with about 350,000 bodies buried there.
'Osama bin London' Muslim fanatic 'trained 21/7 bombers'
By CHARLOTTE GILL
A Muslm fanatic who mockingly called himself "Osama bin London" radicalised and trained the July 21 bombers, a court heard yesterday.
Mohammed Hamid is said to have taken his brainwashed followers on paintballing trips and training camps in the English countryside to prepare them for fighting.
Egyptian Islamists Join Case against Convert to Christianity
Former Muslim sues Egypt for right to become Christian.
by Peter Lamprecht
ISTANBUL, October 10 (Compass Direct News) – Conservative Islamic lawyers came out in support of the Egyptian government last week at the opening court hearing of a Muslim convert to Christianity.
In a move that has caused national uproar, former Muslim Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy is suing Egypt to change the religion listed on his identification papers to Christianity.
Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent Tuesday October 9, 2007 The Guardian
Muslims must respect people of all faiths and not exclude them on the grounds of religion, race or any other personal characteristic, a senior Vatican official said this week. In a message to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of Ramadan, the Pope's interfaith expert has called for a "culture of peace and solidarity" between different religious communities and to spread a teaching "which honours all human creatures".
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.
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’
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.
UK: Muslim medical students refusing to attend lectures on alcohol or sexually transmitted diseases as it offends their religious beliefs
Daniel Foggo and Abul Taher
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
Times on Line "Comments are more interesting than the article"
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.
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.
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.
A Muslim mother’s dying wish: that Christian father lose custody of daughters.
