Entries Tagged as 'Islam/Muslims'
If you are a wannabe terrorist with hate in your heart, do not despair. The doctor will see you now. Over a cup of tea and a few Rorschach inkblot tests, he will sort out this silly jihad nonsense once and for all. Custard cream? Now let’s concentrate on the cards.
What do you see? Bloody [...]
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[Why did they pick on a white child?-ed]
A court in Dubai, in the UAE, has jailed two men for 15 years for the abduction and sexual assault of a 15-year-old French-Swiss boy.
The men, one of whom is HIV positive, took the teenager to the desert and raped him at knifepoint.
The victim’s mother, Veronique Robert, says [...]
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A private Islamic school supported by the Saudi government should be shut down until the U.S. government can ensure the school is not fostering radical Islam, a federal panel recommends.
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In a report released Thursday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom broadly criticized what it calls a lack of religious freedom in Saudi society and [...]
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For the first time since a demonstration in 1990, a group of Saudi women is campaigning for the right to drive in this conservative kingdom, the only country in the world that prohibits female drivers.
After spreading the idea through text messages and e-mails, the group’s leaders said they collected more than 1,100 signatures online and [...]
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The Finnish Islamic Party plans to collect 5,000 signatures in order to qualify for official registration by the end of the year. Counting on support from the 55,000 Muslims living in Finland, the party anticipates some success in next year’s municipal elections as well as in the 2011 parliamentary elections. Party spokesman Abdullah Tammi acknowledged [...]
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Taliban militants agreed today to free 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage for more than a month after Seoul agreed to end all missionary work and keep a promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
The agreement, reached in direct talks between Taliban negotiators and South Korean officials meeting [...]
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A suicide bomber blew himself up next to a group of NATO troops helping to build a bridge in eastern Afghanistan today, killing three soldiers and wounding six others, the alliance said in a statement.
The bomber was also killed in the blast, the statement said. NATO did not disclose the nationalities of the victims or [...]
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Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo’s campaign stood by his assertion that bombing holy Muslim sites would serve as a good “deterrent” to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from attacking the United States, his spokeswoman said Friday.
“This shows that we mean business,” said Bay Buchanan, a senior Tancredo adviser. “There’s no more effective deterrent than that. But he is [...]
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A 70-year-old British grandmother is facing life imprisonment after being convicted on Thursday of the “honor killing” of her son’s wife who she murdered after luring her to India.
Bachan Athwal, 70, who has 16 grandchildren, is believed to be one of the oldest women ever to be convicted of murder in England. Her son was [...]
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Confidential reports by the Central Intelligence Agency have found that a prominent Saudi banking family, Al Rajhi, is a major financier of jihadist activities in Kosovo and Bosnia and their bank, the Al Rajhi Bank, is the most favored bank by the world’s extremists to funnel money for violent Muslim activities across the globe.
“There is [...]
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