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Wives, daughters, girls are punished by having acid thrown on them, permanently disfiguring them. The government prohibits the sale of the corrosive liquids, but they are easily found on the market. The phenomenon is spreading. The victims now include children and adult males. Dhaka (AsiaNews) - Women in Bangladesh suffer marginalization. And the violence against them, at home and outside, continues to grow. Recently, a new weapon has been added: acid, which disfigures their faces and bodies. Parul's husband is 30 years old. In 2000, he disfigured her by throwing acid into her face, because her relatives had not paid...

How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

IN GENERAL Tears of Jihad These figures area rough estimate of the death of non-Muslims by the political act of jihad.AfricaThomas Sowell [Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture, BasicBooks, 1994, p. 188] estimates that 11 million slaves were shipped across the Atlantic and 14 million were sent to the Islamic nations of North Africa and the Middle East. For every slave captured many others died. Estimates of this collateral damage vary. The renowned missionary David Livingstone estimated that for every slave who reached a plantation, five others were killed in the initial raid or died of illness and privation on the...

Dhaka, Aug 24, 2008 / 09:54 pm (CNA).- Critics have charged a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative with providing the “menstrual regulation” abortion method in countries where abortion is otherwise illegal.Menstrual regulation, also known as "menstrual extraction," is used by women who missed their regular menstrual period and suspect that they are pregnant but cannot or do not want to wait for the results of a pregnancy test. If the woman is pregnant at the time the menstrual extraction is performed, an abortion results. The evidence of an abortion is either destroyed during the procedure or is easily disposed...

A Moderate Muslim in Danger of Extinction by Lori Lowenthal Marcus Shoaib Choudhury defies party line of hatred towards Israel and contempt for all religions other than Islam. He may be executed for those beliefs. There lives in Dhaka one of the elusive souls for whom most of the world, or at least most Western politicians, have been searching: a true Islam-loving moderate Muslim who believes in brotherhood among all religions and respect for all nations by all nations. Unfortunately, it is possible that this priceless and endangered species may soon become extinct. At least since September 11, 2001, world...

An Islamic parliamentarian in Bahrain has called for the expulsion of Bangladeshi immigrant workers after one of them was accused of a gruesome killing. "We need to expel all the Bangladeshi workers that are in our country," said Abdel Halim Murad of the hardline Salafi bloc according to a report in the local newspaper Akhbar al-Khalji. "We cannot tolerate the way in which these people continue to repeat crimes," he said. Murad said this during a political debate on Sunday after a Bahraini citizen was allegedly killed by a foreign worker from Bangladesh who worked as a mechanic. The victim...

NEW DELHI: With the role of illegal Bangladeshi migrants coming under the scanner in the wake of the Jaipur blasts, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has claimed that the Centre had suggested to it to put them in a "transit camp". She said the state government had written numerous letters to the Centre from time to time on the issue of deportation of Bangladeshi nationals who were finding their way into Rajasthan. "We wrote to them in June 2007 to say, look we need to do something about this. We got a reply back from them (Centre) saying, well why...

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Muslim villagers in Mymensingh district eager to rid the area of the Christian work of a local pastor have gang-raped his 13-year-old daughter. Pastor Motilal Das of United Bethany Church said that at around 3 a.m. on Friday (May 2) the villagers sexually assaulted his daughter, Elina Das, and left her unconscious in front of his house in an attempt to drive him and his Christian ministry out of Laksmipur village in Fulbaria sub-district, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of the capital. Local residents have long been angry with him for his ministry and evangelism, he said,...

Archaeologists have found another ancient brick-built structure with floor and artefacts under the basement of the main temple at world heritage site Paharpur. Earlier, two brick-built structures of Gupta dynasty were found during an excavation, according to archaeologists of the Department of Archaeology. Dr Md Shafiqul Alam, director, Department of Archaeology, said the recently excavated structures were built in pre-Pal period. "Most probably the structure of temple was built by followers of Jain religion," Alam added. Nahid Sultana, custodian, Rabindra Kacharibari, Sirajganj and member of the excavation team, said the 2.1-metre width brick-built structure crossed the basement of the main...

Barack Obama wants us to think that he has a special sensitivity to injustice and that his entire life has been about combating it. Yet, in this one concrete situation he faced, he failed to act. The fact that not one of the dozens of other lawmakers failed speaks volumes. The fact that support was never contingent on ideology speaks volumes. I often wondered if his refusal to act was strategic, ignorant, or simple cowardice. No matter, the impact on Shoaib Choudhury was the same, as it would be on any freedom fighter. When speaking about this, I ask potential...

He fired the first salvo in 2003 and has been sticking his thumb in Islamist eyes ever since. Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury describes himself as a "Muslim Zionist." He is unabashedly pro-US, pro-Israel, and anti-Islamist. More importantly, he remains all of that from within the Muslim world, which he refuses to leave. I have fielded any number of asylum requests for him, and he declined them all. "Retreat is not in my vocabulary," he says, for he believes that if he were to leave his country, his credibility would be gone, and Islamists would claim victory; a satisfaction...

NEW DELHI -- Every year in March, Bir Bahadur Singh goes to the local Sikh shrine and narrates the grim events of the long night six decades ago when 26 women in his family offered their necks to the sword for the sake of honor. At the time, sectarian riots were raging over the partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan, and the men of Singh's family decided it was better to kill the women than have them fall into the hands of Muslim mobs. "None of the women protested, nobody wept," Singh, 78, recalled as he stroked his...

Bangladesh bank offers loans to US poor By Daniel Pimlott in New York Published: February 15 2008 Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank has made its first loans in New York in an attempt to bring its pioneering microfinance techniques to the tens of millions of people in the world’s richest country who have no bank account. The bank’s entry into the US, its first in a developed market, comes as mainstream banks’ credibility has been hit by the mortgage meltdown and many people are turning to fringe financial institutions offering loans at exorbitant interest rates.

Human Rights Watch today accused Bangladesh of beating and torturing a reporter employed by the New York-based group, forcing him and his family to flee the country. Tasneem Khalil, a 27-year-old reporter who worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch, was picked up last May by the intelligence services after a series of reports accusing the Bangladeshi military of carrying out extrajudicial executions and persecuting minority groups in the country. He says he was taken at gunpoint from his family home at night, blindfolded, bound and bundled into a waiting car before being beaten with batons in a cell...

THE Holocaust Memorial Day marking the genocides of the 20th century was marred on Sunday when a gang of youths stoned Jewish tourists on a guided tour of London's East End. A group of 96 visitors looking at sites of Jewish interest were attacked by youths hiding behind a fence in a back street in Whitechapel. Two were struck by the missiles, an American woman just starting a new post at London's Metropolitan University and a Canadian lecturer. The woman had blood pouring from her head and needed hospital treatment. The tour was organised by leading local historian Clive Bettington,...

DHAKA (AFP) — An extremely rare river dolphin has been beaten to death by fishermen in southern Bangladesh. Fishermen at Mongla, near the Sunderbans mangrove forest, netted a Ganges river dolphin on Monday and beat it to death as they had not seen this kind of creature before, the state-run BSS news agency said Tuesday. A group then tried to sell it as a rare fish, before giving up and dumping it outside a museum. The Sunderbans area straddles the borders of Bangladesh and India's West Bengal state and lies on the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta. According to the World Wildlife Fund,...

BANGLADESH: ELDERLY CHRISTIAN WOMAN’S HOME SET ABLAZE Set to be baptized in February, 70-year-old suffers burns on 70 percent of body. DHAKA, Bangladesh, January 24 (Compass Direct News) – Unknown attackers tried to burn a 70-year-old woman to death on January 7 after learning that she would be baptized as a Christian next month. Rahima Beoa, who was planning to be baptized on February 13 in Muslim-majority Rangpur district, 248 kilometers (154miles) northwest of the capital city of Dhaka, suffered burns on 70 percent of her body. “The unknown people wanted to burn alive the elderly woman because they came...

Garlic combats arsenic poisoning 14 January 2008 NewScientist.com news service Keya Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology Information on arsenic in drinking water, WHO Arsenic in Bangladesh, British Geological Survey Garlic may provide some relief for millions of Bangladeshis and Indians whose drinking water is contaminated with arsenic. Keya Chaudhuri of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in Kolkata, and her colleagues gave rats daily doses of arsenic in their water, in levels equivalent to those found in groundwater in Bangladesh and West Bengal. Rats which were also fed garlic extracts had 40 per cent less arsenic in their blood...

Britain is in the midst of a population boom that may be solving one pressing social and economic problem, but is creating several new ones, including a significant cultural issue. Since the baby boom of the 1960s, British women had been giving birth to fewer and fewer babies so the country's birth rate had fallen well below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per mother. This decline, coupled with longer life expectancies, had the United Kingdom entering the new millennium worried about dwindling numbers of workers available to support rising numbers of pensioners. There were fears that pension plans would...

U.S. sailors and Marines on a humanitarian mission to Bangladesh are being met with extreme gratitude as they work to prevent and treat waterborne illnesses and meet basic needs in the aftermath of a Nov. 15 cyclone, a U.S. commander there said today. “With all of our deliveries, we’ve been greeted warmly and with gratitude by the Bangladesh people,” Rear Adm. Carol M. Pottenger, commander of Navy Task Force 76, said in a news briefing broadcast from the USS Kearsarge. Upon receiving medical treatment, one local man told American troops, “In the eyes of my village, you are the face...

First it was Bangladesh now it Baluchistan Hussain Gadehi November 27, 2007 Lesson from History Burning Baluchistan is reminding us of Dhaka, where Al_Badar myriad thousands Bengali professors, scientists, intellectuals, politicians, writers, doctors, poets and others for assassination. The series of assignations in Bangladesh was started from 1969 whena Shams Duaa-Haa, professor of Chemistry in Rajshahi University, was assassinated in daylight. Let me explain what the Al-Badar and Al-Shams were and are? Al-Badar was and is militant wing of Jamait Islami and a paramilitary force formed in Bangladesh in 1971 by the Pakistan Army. However, the war between Pakistan and...

Pakistan : Repeat of 1971? Sunday 25 November 2007, by Sreedhar Since the declaration of Emergency on November 3, the developments in Pakistan indicate that the country is slowly drifting into a civil war. General Musharraf’s rule is being opposed by two groups—Jehadis on the one hand and defunct political parties and activists of civil society on the other. The latest reports indicate there is even an under- ground movement opposing General Musharraf. According to unconfirmed reports, the Jehadis have captured large parts of the Swat area and Waziristan and they are moving in two directions—some are moving towards Peshawar...

Fresh water appears to be the most urgent need in cyclone-torn Bangladesh and will be a major aspect of the U.S. military's relief efforts there, Navy Adm. Timothy Keating, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said Friday in Honolulu. Residents of southern Bangladesh rely on freshwater ponds as a source of drinking and household water, as well as for shrimp farming, but many ponds were polluted with salt water by Tropical Cyclone Sidr when it struck Nov. 15, Keating said at Hickam Air Force Base after returning from a weeklong trip to the Asia-Pacific region Friday. "When the tidal surge came...

haka, Nov 24 - Several hundred activists of the radical Islamic group Hizb ut Tahrir staged protests here before the arrival of two ships of the US Navy for distributing relief supplies among cyclone-affected people. Two warships, USS Essex and USS Kearsarge -- each carrying 20 helicopters and 3,500 marines on board with emergency relief supplies, medical and emergency evacuation teams -- are scheduled to enter Bangladesh waters Saturday and Tuesday. The protesters Friday carried a banner reading 'Prevent American ships from entering the Bay of Bengal in the name of distributing relief' and chanted slogans 'Go back to America'...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The official death toll from a savage cyclone that wreaked havoc on southwest Bangladesh reached 1,723 Saturday — the deadliest storm to hit the country in a decade. Military helicopters and ships joined rescue and relief operations and aid workers on the ground struggled to reach victims. Tropical Cyclone Sidr tore apart villages, severely disrupted power lines and forced more than a million coastal villagers to evacuate to government shelters. The latest death figure tallied to 1,723, with 474 deaths reported from worst-hit Barguna district and 385 from neighboring Patuakhali, a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Moyeenullah...

Bangladesh cyclone toll at 328 By Anis Ahmed Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:34am EST DHAKA (Reuters) - A severe cyclone killed at least 328 people in Bangladesh, triggering a 15-foot (5-metre) high tidal surge that devastated three coastal towns and forced the evacuation of nearly one million people, officials said on Friday. Local officials and Red Crescent workers said at least 328 deaths have already been confirmed while hundreds more were injured or missing following the cyclone, which struck overnight packing winds of 250 kph (155 mph). "The death count is rising fast as we get more information from the...

One million displaced by 140mph cyclone By Peter Foster, South Asia Correspondent Last Updated: 7:15pm GMT 15/11/2007 More than a million people were evacuated from the coasts of Bangladesh and eastern India today with a cyclone with wind-speeds of up to 140mph due to make land-fall, destroying houses, crops and trees. In an echo of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, meteorologists warned tidal surges of up 20ft could cause devastating flooding across low-lying areas of Bangladesh and the Sunderbans mangrove forest of India’s West Bengal state. In Khulna district alone 250,000 people were reported to have been moved to temporary...

Millions of Bangladeshis were being evacuated from low-lying areas ahead of Cyclone Sidr's expected landfall late Thursday, as the low-lying nation braced for its strongest tropical storm in years. Sustained winds of 149 mph and an expected storm surge as high as 20 feet were in store for the coastal areas and flood-prone Ganges River delta as the cyclone swept in from the Bay of Bengal, officials said. Some 3.2 million people were expected to be evacuated in all, Ali Imam Majumder, a senior government official told reporters in Dhaka. No damage or casualties were immediately reported, but rescue teams...

KURMITOLA AIR BASE, Bangladesh — For a week, U.S. Marine and Bangladeshi air force pilots flew over this Indian subcontinent nation in a combined training event called Exercise Sumo Tiger. Although Lance Cpl. Clifford Souza was not one of the Marines boring holes in the skies over Bangladesh, he was one of the many support Marines on the ground ensuring the F/A-18s remained airborne. An aviation supply clerk with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12, out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, the 2006 graduate of Tombstone High School said the challenge of the deployment was to make sure “we...

UNICEF Among Sponsors of New Campaign Promoting Abortion US, Canadian government development agencies among participants in campaign By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, October 4, 2007 (C-FAM.org) - A new global initiative was launched by various UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in New York last week that includes a call for legal abortion. Among the sponsors of the initiative called "Deliver Now for Women and Children" is the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), a UN agency that persistently denies they support abortion in any way, shape, or form.  Marketed as a campaign to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...

Commentary: China silently nuclearizing South Asia MANIPAL, Sep. 17 M.D. NALAPAT Column: Future Present In 1999 this columnist put forward the theory of a "proxy nuclear state," a country that has had nuclear capability grafted onto it by an outside power. Thus far, China has developed two such states -- North Korea (to harry Japan) and Pakistan (to contain India). A third, Bangladesh, is well on the way, with Iran a likely candidate for a future in which tensions with the United States reach the 1950s level. China's warming strategic relationship with Russia has resulted in Moscow going along as...

Breaking 10-year silence, China reveals it’s now No 1 arms supplier to Bangladesh Pranab Dhal Samanta Sunday, September 09, 2007 Pakistan remains big buyer, but from artillery systems to missiles, combat aircraft to guns and ammo, Dhaka now tops China’s list of importers; India’s only export: six anti-aircraft guns to Lanka in ‘05 NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8:While Islamabad remains Beijing’s traditional business partner when it comes to weapons and military equipment, it’s Dhaka that’s emerging as the prime buyer of weapons made in China. This has been revealed for the first time in 10 years when last week, China submitted...

About 50 million people are affected in Bangladesh About 140 million people, mainly in developing countries, are being poisoned by arsenic in their drinking water, researchers believe. Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) annual meeting in London, scientists said this will lead to higher rates of cancer in the future. South and East Asia account for more than half of the known cases globally. Eating large amounts of rice grown in affected areas could also be a health risk, scientists said. "It's a global problem, present in 70 countries, probably more," said Peter Ravenscroft, a research associate in...

Islamist terrorists have long been at war with the United States and frequently have proclaimed their determination to win the war. In fact, they see their enemies' unwillingness to acknowledge this war as an act of cowardice. If their enemies refuse to wear the mantle of warrior, terrorists assume that they are weak, lacking in honor, and spiritually infe­rior—and the notion that their enemy is vulnerable emboldens them. Failing to acknowledge that we are at war only encourages the enemy to be more warlike.Conclusive proof that terrorists are at war with us requires little more than reading their own words....

New research shows us that people around the world, including in the West, are satisfied with their lives and are enjoying a rising quality of life. So why are westerners so pessimistic, asks Nima Sanandaji, of think-tank Captus. Our planet is a happier place these days. That, at least, is what the Pew Research Center is telling us. Their latest survey of global attitudes in 47 nations has found a number of trends that are worth analyzing. According to Pew, people in the developing world are growing ever more satisfied with their personal and financial situations. In Latin America, 59...

What a country! Monday, July 02, 2007By DAN MURTAUGH Staff Reporter In 1977, Zaki and Mahfuza Ali left their home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for the United States with just a few dollars in their pockets and thoughts of the American dream in their heads. They earned Ph.D.'s in chemistry, got jobs with 3M in St. Paul, Minn., On Saturday, 30 years after they first came to America, their daughter Nora was named America's Junior Miss. "I cannot describe to you in words how I felt," Nora's mother, Mahfuza said Sunday. "The place I came from, and where we are now,...

Thursday June 28, 2007 BANGLADESH: CHRISTIANS BEATEN; MOB THREATENS TO BURN HOMES Muslim neighbors strike converts from Islam with bricks, clubs; extremists say they will kill two. DUBLIN, June 28 (Compass Direct News) – Muslim villagers armed with bricks and wooden clubs savagely beat 10 Christian converts in Nilphamari district, Bangladesh, on Tuesday (June 26) and threatened to burn down their homes if they did not leave by today. The mob gave the Christians an ultimatum on Wednesday (June 27) to leave the village within 24 hours, threatening more beatings along with home burnings; that deadline expired today without incident....

SUJATPUR, Bangladesh (Map, News) - Everyone knew it was out there somewhere, an invisible line that cut through a cow pasture and, at least in theory, divided one nation from another. But no one saw it as a border - it was just a lumpy field of grass, uneven from the hooves of generations of cattle, and villagers crossed back and forth without even thinking about it. Today, no one can ignore the line. In a construction project that will eventually reach across 2,050 miles, hundreds of rivers and long stretches of forests and fields, India has been quietly sealing...

U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons -Full Story- Omar Khyam, the ringleader of the thwarted London bomb plot who was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday, showed the potential for disaffected young men to be lured as terrorists, a threat that British officials said they would have to contend with for a generation.But the 25-year-old Mr. Khyam, a Briton of Pakistani descent, also personifies a larger and more immediate concern: as a British citizen, he could have entered the United States without a visa, like many of an estimated 800,000 other Britons of Pakistani origin.American officials, citing...

What is my crime? My crime is that I have found that Islam does not consider woman a separate human being. Man is the original creation and womankind was created secondarily for the pleasure of man. Islam considers woman a slave, a sexual object and a son-producing machine. The Hadith says that two prayers that never reach the heavens are: those of escaping slaves and of women who frustrate their husbands at night. Islam considers women psychologically inferior. In Islamic law, the testimony of two women is worth that of one man. In a case where a man suspects his...

Radical and militant Islamist organizations have existed as an opposing force to Bangladesh’s secular and democratic system since Bangladeshi independence 1971. Once a surreptitious force in Bangladesh, these organizations are now operating overtly, as is witnessed by a steady increase in Islamist TERROR attacks across the country; (Bangladesh saw over 500 Explosions in 2005, all carried out by militant Islamists). Membership of Bangladeshi Radical- militant Islamist organizations is RAPIDLY INCREASING because of two key factors: deep economic turmoil-severe political instability. ...A consequence of the ongoing political rivalry between the country's two main political parties, the Bangladeshi National Party and Awami...

On April 15, The New York times ripped the current government of Bangladesh as a “military dictatorship.” It also challenged the Bush administration for remaining silent given its goal of “promoting democracy, especially in Islamic countries.” Unfortunately, The Times did not bother to produce any evidence to support is assertions; but then again it did not have to given the dearth of information about Bangladesh among Americans. A search of The New York Times itself showed only a handful of articles about Bangladesh among the thousands upon thousands in its database. Successive Bangladeshi governments have done a singularly incompetent job...

In northwestern Pakistan, student supporters of Islamic militants fought police, which left six students dead and over twenty wounded. The student mob was trying to destroy the headquarters of an Islamic moderate group. In northeast India, police killed three tribal militants. Police acted on a tip, that a group of ULFA rebels had set up camp in the hills. Overall, however, the tribal rebels are not taking much of a beating. They have developed extortion, and other rackets, that are keeping them financially secure and well armed. April 23, 2007: At least one police station in eastern India has been...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh police busted a den of suspected militants in the capital hours after six Islamists were hanged on Friday over a series of bomb attacks in 2005. The army-backed government has vowed to stamp out extremist violence and security has been beefed up across the country, which has been under emergency rule since January. Police said they had detained 22 suspected militants meeting in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area. They said the detainees were members of Hizbut Tahrir, an Islamist group, and were being interrogated. Police also captured two suspected members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen in northern Rajshahi district on...

DHAKA: Six top Jamaatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) militants convicted of carrying out a string of bombings in 2005 that left two judges dead were hanged early Friday. The six militants - Shaikh Abdur Rahman, Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, Abdul Awal and Khaled Saifullah, Ataur Rahman Sunny and Iftekhar Hasan Al-Mamun - were executed in four separate prisons in Bangladesh, a private TV channel reported. "Bangla Bhai" was hanged in northern Mymensingh district jail and his body was sent to his home village in Bogra district. Families of two militants have confirmed that they have been executed. Seven members of...

West Indies v Pakistan, Group D, Jamaica Smith and Bravo come to the fore The Bulletin by Will Luke March 13, 2007 West Indies 241 for 9 (Samuels 63, Sarwan 49) beat Pakistan 187 (Malik 62, Smith 3-36, Bravo 3-42) by 54 runs The West Indies shrugged off any early-tournament nerves with a convincing 54-run win over Pakistan in the opening match of the World Cup at Kingston in Jamaica, with a notable allround performance from Dwayne Smith. It was an impressive win, not least for their ability to absorb the expectation of hosting their first World Cup. Furthermore, the...

The rally is intended to unify the region (Picture by Focusbangla) One of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's dreams came true when a South Asian car rally flagged off on Thursday from the south-east of Bangladesh.The rally - which organisers say is the first of its kind in the region - began from the resort town of Cox's Bazar. About 100 participants, including celebrities, sportsmen, government officials and journalists, packed 26 jeeps for the nearly 8,000km rally. They will travel through Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. 'Expand goodwill' The rally, which finishes in April, will take drivers...

According to the doctrine of pre-emptive strike which the US has adopted since 9/11, it too can be subjected to a pre-emptive nuclear strike, as it poses a threat to other peaceful nations of the world. The US has a sordid track record for using such weapons against civilians and it has constantly maintained a large stockpile of such weapons of mass destruction, and continuously develops them. There are additional reasons to nuke the US, however I have decided to highlight only seven, which I have listed below. This is partly for brevity and I hope it might have some...

http://thegiantotter.blogspot.com/2006/09/statistics-majority-of-muslims-support.html Statistics: Majority of Muslims support suicide bombing We now know from my previous article that a majority of Muslims in Palestine and Iraq support terrorism (53% and 61% respectively), while a large minority of Muslims in the UK support terrorism (25%). A further look into polls from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press has confirmed my previous conclusion; a majority of Muslims in most Islamic nations support terrorism. The PRC interviewed over 38,000 people during a four-month period in 44 nations. The conclusions of the Pew Global Attitudes survey are as follows: A majority of people...

Bangladeshi police rescues unwed mother from Islamic punishment Dec 19, 2006 - 9:52:32 PM Mahmuda became pregnant and on Nov 15 gave birth to a male child, who died after two days. Dhaka, Dec 19 - Police in Bangladesh have rescued a teenage vagrant from being caned as per a 'fatwa' - issued by a Muslim clergy on charge of becoming an unwed mother after a liaison with an influential father of two. According to the fatwa announced last Friday by Abdus Sobhan, khatib of the Jawa Jame mosque at Chhatak in Sylhet district and an assistant teacher of a...