Egypt: Thousands of Muslims Attempt Again to Attack Copts during Prayers
EGYPT (ANS)
Thousands of Muslims, who were angered by Copts celebrating mass in the Zagazig Diocese’s Hospitality Hall on Wednesday, December 10, gathered in the village of Kafr Farag Guirgis, in an attempt to attack the building.
Britain's Muslim schools have been sharply criticised in a controversial draft report commissioned by a leading think tank which suggests that over 60 per cent of them are linked to potentially dangerous Islamic fundamentalists.
Mother told to take down her Christmas lights... in case they offend her non-Christian neighbours
Daily Mail
A woman has spoken of how she was told to remove her Christmas lights by a housing association worker - in case they offended her non-Christian neighbours.
Dorothy Glenn decorates her home in South Shields with hundreds of festive lights every year, including a giant tree and a 4ft Santa Claus.
Mrs Glenn outside her South Shields home with her neighbours. She was told to remove the decorations by a council worker in case they offended non-Christians
Several people were wounded in renewed clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt over the past week.
Several people were wounded in renewed clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt over the past week.
Christians, also known as Copts, were on their way to a monastery to pray when children hurled stones at them, according to a report in the London-based A-Sharq Al-Awsat.
Iraqi doctor found guilty of Glasgow airport bomb plot
Abdulla plotted to set off car bombs
in busy spots in London and Glasgow
Times
An NHS doctor who waged a terrorist car-bomb campaign intended to kill and maim hundreds of people in London and Glasgow has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder.
Dr Bilal Abdulla was part of a cell that set up a bomb-making factory and bought five cars to convert into firebombs to create a terrorist “spectacular” in Britain.
UK Terrorism adviser to Met police is on wanted list
Interpol notice urges arrest of Islam TV chief
The Times
Mohamed Ali Harrath
Richard Kerbaj in Tunis and Dominic Kennedy in London
A man wanted by Interpol for his links to an alleged terrorist organisation has been advising Scotland Yard on countering Muslim extremism, a Times investigation has discovered.
Yemen: Muslim suspected of killing Jewish villager confesses, it was way to get "close to God"
A Yemeni rabbi on Sunday said Muslim extremists in the northern town of Riydah continued to harass his small community after one of its members, Moshe Yaish Nahari, was gunned down last week.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN)-- Britain's prime minister Sunday asked India and Pakistan to allow UK police to interview Mumbai siege suspects as he revealed the extent of Pakistan-based extremists' involvement in terrorism in his country.
Britain's Gordon Brown meets with India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before heading to Pakistan.
Thousands of Muslims, who were angered by Copts celebrating mass in the Zagazig Diocese's Hospitality Hall on 10th December, gathered in the village of Kafr Farag Guirgis, in an attempt to attack the building.
UN says Pakistan charity front for terrorist group
An alleged plotter of Mumbai attacks
UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. Security Council panel declared Wednesday that a Pakistan-based charity is a front group for the terrorist organization blamed in the attacks on Mumbai that killed 171 people.
Belgian police Thursday arrested a woman they called an "al Qaeda living legend" as part of an operation to thwart a terror attack being planned to coincide with an EU summit in Brussels, a Belgian police source told CNN.
Malika El-Aroud is the widow of one of the men who killed Afghan anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Police seized 14 people, one of whom was planning to carry out a suicide attack in Belgium, the source said. They had contacts at the "highest levels of al Qaeda," the source said.
Muslim lawyer Anjem Choudary brands Christmas 'evil'
Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary has branded Christmas "evil" in a sermon posted on the internet.
Telegraph
Choudary sai Christmas was 'the pathway to hellfire'.Photo: PA
The lawyer, who recently praised the Mumbai terror attacks, urged all Muslims to reject traditional Christmas celebrations, claiming that they are forbidden by Allah.
Pakistan Arrests 20 Mumbai Suspects, Won't Extradite to India
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi speaks during a rally
Pakistan will not hand over to India captured terror suspects believed to be responsible for last month's deadly attacks on Mumbai, Pakistan's foreign minister said Tuesday, insisting the nation will try militants under its own laws.
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, 'Mumbai mastermind', among 12 arrested in Pakistan raids
(Abu Arqam Naqash/Reuters)
Times
Zahid Hussain, in Islamabad, and Jeremy Page, in Delhi
Pakistani security forces have raided a training camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the militant group blamed for last month's attack on Mumbai, and arrested at least 12 of the group's activists, government officials said today.
Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants have said they want to plead guilty at a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay.
But Mr Mohammed said he would postpone entering his plea until an investigation into the mental state of two of his co-defendants was complete.
Christians in Orissa, India Fear Violent Christmas
Hindu extremists move to stop yuletide celebrations as suffering in Kandhamal continues.
By Mahruaii Sailo
NEW DELHI, December 3 (Compass Direct News) – Christians in Orissa state are anticipating Christmas with fear as Hindu extremists have called for a state-wide bandh, or forced shut-down on all sectors of society, on Dec. 25 – a move that could provide Hindu extremists the pretext for attacking anyone publicly celebrating the birth of Christ.
UK Muslim leader: "In an Islamic state, non-Muslims will have to wear a sign to show what they are – it should say Kaffir.
We won’t discriminate on height, race or appearance but we will discriminate on faith."
Choudary believes no non-Muslim is innocent
"The subject peoples," [i.e., the dhimmis] according to a manual of Islamic law endorsed by Al-Azhar University in Cairo, must "pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)" and "are distinguished from Muslims in dress..." ('Umdat al-Salik, o11.3).