It is only a matter of time before jihadis in al-Qa’ida-type groups that have taken over much of eastern Syria and western Iraq have a violent impact on the world outside these two countries. The road is open wide to new attacks along the lines of 9/11 and 7/7, and ...
Read More »Tory activist: “Every single Muslim should be expelled”
Stephen Lees, a long-term Conservative activist, has tweeted that all Muslims should be expelled from Britain, and all mosques demolished. His Tweet came a few minutes after he tweeted a link to a Telegraph article entitled “Head teachers raise ‘serious concerns’ over Islamic school take-over”. Mr Lees describes himself on Twitter ...
Read More »Iran not just focused on Maliki in Iraqi elections
It would be an understatement to say that Iran does not have an interest in the Iraqi parliamentary elections held April 30, and far too simplistic to conclude that Tehran is backing the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for a third term. The Iran-Iraq relationship is a complex mosaic of ...
Read More »Tory candidate for Brentwood South resigns after tweeting that Islam was the “religion of rape”
Conservative local election candidate who tweeted that it was good to be anti-Islam and that the Islam was the “religion of rape”, has had to resign just weeks after being chosen to represent the party in the Brentwood local elections. David Bishop, who was due to stand as the Conservative ...
Read More »Jihadists execute seven in Syria, two by crucifixion
BEIRUT: The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, two of them by crucifixion. ISIL, which has been disavowed even by Al-Qaeda, said it held the seven responsible for a grenade attack on one of its fighters earlier this month in ...
Read More »UK party leader arrested for quoting Churchill on Islam
Quoting Winston Churchill can get you arrested, as one British candidate in the European elections found out after referring to the iconic wartime leader’s thoughts on Islam from his book ‘The River War’, published in 1899. The book chronicles young Churchill’s service in Sudan at the time of the Anglo-Egyptian ...
Read More »Government computers made Anti-Muslim comments On Wikipedia
Government computers have been used to insert insults into Wikipedia entries about Muslims. An investigation by the BBC revealed the phrase “all Muslims are terrorists” had been added to an article on veils. The changes were made from a Whitehall IP address around October 2006. Stevie Benton from Wikimedia UK, ...
Read More »Syria’s bloodshed spills into Iraq as al-Qaeda bombs Shia rally
Syria’s sectarian war came to the capital of neighbouring Iraq as al-Qaeda bombed a rally for a Shia militant group that has sent fighters to defend the regime in Damascus. A team of suicide bombers killed at least 33 people and left many more injured after detonating two huge blasts ...
Read More »HIV on alarming rise among UK Muslims
The United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that since the start of the global HIV pandemic around 29.4 million people have been infected with HIV. Although many Muslim countries claim that they have not been affected by HIV, this is not true. HIV infections have been reported in ...
Read More »Foreign domestic workers in Qatar: Shocking cases of deception, forced labour, violence
The Qatari authorities are failing to protect migrant domestic workers who face severe exploitation, including forced labour and physical and sexual violence, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. “My sleep is my break”: Exploitation of domestic workers in Qatar paints a bleak picture of women who have been ...
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