Malaysian Hindu loses bid to ban Muslim conversion
By Jalil Hamid
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's highest court threw out on Thursday a bid by a Hindu woman to stop her estranged husband from converting their youngest son to Islam.
A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden.
Aspirants to the American presidency should hope to score so highly in the United States. In Pakistan, though, the al-Qaeda emir easily beat out that country’s current president, Pervez Musharraf, who polled at 38 percent.
ASADABAD, Afghanistan - Afghan intelligence agents said Monday they had detained a woman hiding a bomb-filled waistcoat of the type used in Taleban suicide attacks under her all-covering burqa.
Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yussef Al Badri has issued a fatwa urging Muslims to boycott the businesses of billionaire Naguib Sawiris following comments the tycoon made about the tendency of women in the North African country to wear the Hijab, reported the AFP. Last month Sawiris, a Coptic Christian, said 'I have the impression of being in Iran. I feel like a foreigner'. Sawiris is the Chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom.
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian police detained 14 suspected Islamic extremists on Friday and the government said they were plotting a jailbreak to free an al-Qaida prisoner convicted of planning to attack U.S. military personnel.
A new study commissioned by Germany's Interior Ministry warns of a growing threat from the radicalization of Muslims in the country. Six percent of Muslims in Germany support violence in the name of Islam, the authors write.
UK: Muslim prisoners group ‘is front for banned cleric’
Gulf News
LONDON: An organisation campaigning on behalf of Muslim prisoners in British jails is a front for extremists run by a banned cleric, the Evening Standard can reveal.
Captive Support claims to be a human rights group, monitoring inmates’ welfare and calling for their release.
ISLAMABAD - A government inquiry into the escape of a British terror plot suspect who escaped in Pakistan has determined his police escorts helped him flee, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
British children targeted with terror sing-along DVD for would-be suicide bombers
By CHRIS BROOKE
A shocking sing-along children's DVD which glorifies suicide bombing is being investigated by anti-terrorist police after being found on sale in one of Britain's terrorist hotbeds.
The disc - part of an Egyptian-made series - is on sale in West Yorkshire, where three of the July 7 bombers lived, and is aimed at youngsters from the local Muslim community.
A British convert to Islam is being held by Kenyan police as part of an anti-terrorism operation.
Graham Adams, 31, who also uses the name Ahmed Khalid Ibrahim since becoming a Muslim as a teenager, was arrested in the port city of Mombasa last Tuesday.
Somali Canadian displays the illegal drug khat at a strip mall in Toronto's Little Mogadishu neighbourhood.
Terrorist groups may be funding their activities through khat, an illegal stimulant smuggled daily into Canada, says a newly released intelligence report.
* From Al Reuters. Read the last sentence: “Christians account for up to 10 percent of the population of Egypt and relations between them and the Muslim majority are usually harmonious. Disputes, most commonly over land, religious buildings or young women, sometimes lead to violence.”
The men were members of an Islamic terrorist cell based in California state prison.
By Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Two members of a prison-based Islamic terrorist cell that authorities say was poised to attack military sites, synagogues and other targets across Southern California pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to conspiring to wage war against the United States.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Rashid Rauf, a British suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, escaped from police custody in Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.
Ten Killed, Three Churches Set Ablaze in Bauchi, Nigeria
Upset by damage to mosque under construction, Muslim students spark unrest.
by Obed Minchakpu
BAUCHI, Nigeria, December 13 (Compass Direct News) – Ten persons have been killed and three churches set on fire after Muslim high school students in this northern Nigerian city began a rampage on Tuesday (December 11) that spilled into the city. Today tensions were still high in the area.
BAGHDAD - Religious vigilantes have killed at least 40 women this year in the southern Iraqi city of Basra because of how they dressed, their mutilated bodies found with notes warning against "violating Islamic teachings," the police chief said Sunday.
A new study commissioned by Germany's Interior Ministry warns of a growing threat from the radicalization of Muslims in the country. Six percent of Muslims in Germany support violence in the name of Islam, the authors write.
