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Remember Derek Fenton, the New Jersey transit worker who burned a few Koran pages in New York on his free time and got canned for it across the river by Christie's New Jersey Transit? Well there's a happy ending. Fenton has won back his job, damages and lost wages. The importance of this goes beyond Fenton, warning municipalities against this form of appeasement. Of course New Jersey decisionmakers probably think this brand of appeasement was cheap at the price. This is what Fenton had to say "Our government cannot pick and choose whose free speech rights are protected, based on...

Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists intent on imposing sharia law on parts of Britain, it was claimed today.Other targets of the 'Talibanesque thugs', being investigated by police in the Tower Hamlets area of London, include homosexuals.Stickers have been plastered on public walls stating: 'Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment'. Troubled: Whitechapel in east London is at the centre of the hate campaign by the 'London Taliban' (file picture) Posters for H&M which feature women in bikinis and a racy poster for a Bollywood film have...

New York City About 1,000 Muslims and Leftist anti-war activists met at Union Square in New York City on Saturday for a “Stop War/Terrorism/Islamophobia” rally. The rally was organized by a coalition of leftist anti-war activists and Muslim groups, including the Islamic Circle of North America and the Muslim Peace Coalition USA.Most of the protesters for this well-organized event had arrived in a long line of yellow school busses. Most protest signs were professionally made and bore the stamp of the group being represented. Speakers called for revolution world wide against war and Islamophobia

British Muslim radicals were among at least 61 people arrested in Paris today in connection with an illegal rally against France’s burka ban. They included Anjem Choudary, the radical cleric who advocates sharia law for the UK and who calls British soldiers murderers. Omar Bakri and Abu Izzadeen, who are also controversial figures, tried to get to the event but were stopped by police. Nineteen veiled women were arrested. A police spokesman said: ‘Muslim leaders from Britain and Belgium were among those detained as they travelled to the event. ‘The fear was that they would inflame the situation. This was...

RIO DE JANEIRO—At least 11 people, mostly children, died Thursday and more that 15 were wounded when an armed man attacked a school in Realengo in the poor suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Police initially said that 13 people had died, but Rio de Janeiro’s Health Ministry later lowered the death toll. According to a preliminary police report, the attacker—a 24-year-old former student at the school—was among the dead after shooting himself in the head. He attacked Tasso da Silveira school, where some 400 students ages 9-14 were in classes. Police Col. Djalma Beltrami said the killer used two handguns...

Subhi Othman, who admitted to stabbing his daughter to death in November last year, was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison by the district court in Nyköping, south of Stockholm. When police arrived on the scene, they found his daughter lying in the foetal position at the bottom of the stairs. She had been stabbed 53 times. During questioning, Othman claimed he saw no other solution as his daughter was leading what he viewed as an ‘indecent’ lifestyle. The court found that the murder had been premeditated and especially brutal.

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Cathay Pacific's cabin crew union has called for a halt to overnight crew stays in Saudi Arabia after a male guest tried to force his way into a female flight attendant's hotel room late at night. The incident at the Marriott in Riyadh, which left the woman terrified and crying, took place days after the airline started doing "layovers" in Saudi Arabia rather than Bahrain because of political unrest there. The junior flight attendant answered a knock on the door of her room on February 28 to find a local man standing there who tried to force his way in....

The Islamic Demolition of the Statue of Liberty One of the founding principles of the Islamic constitution is to ensure that all sovereignty and supremacy belongs solely to God; the Shari’ah is a practical manifestation of this sovereignty and supremacy because it seeks to establish His command in society. The status of a nation subsequently does not depend on its number, strength or technological advancement, but rather how much it submits to the commands of God. When a nation seeks to be free from such commands, then ultimately it will meet its destruction. The Statue of Liberty, designed by Frederic...

Welcome to one of Britain’s most influential Islamic faith schools, one of at least 2,000 such schools in Britain, some full-time, others part-time. They represent a growing, parallel education system. This school is required by its inspectors to teach tolerance and respect for other faiths. But the Channel 4 filmed secretly inside it – and instead discovered that Muslim children are being taught religious apartheid and social segregation. Filming over a period of four months, the camera recorded children being taught a hardline, intolerant and highly anti-social version of Islam. The film shows children as young as six sitting on...

Madam Speaker, allow me, first, to express my sincere thanks to you personally for having planned a debate on Islam on the very day of my birthday. I could not have wished for a nicer present! Madam Speaker, approximately 1400 years ago war was declared on us by an ideology of hate and violence which arose at the time and was proclaimed by a barbarian who called himself the Prophet Mohammed. I am referring to Islam. Madam Speaker, let me start with the foundation of the Islamic faith, the Koran. The Koran's core theme is about the duty of all...

A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl allegedly raped by a much older cousin has died after being publicly flogged for adultery, media reports said. Hena Begum was sentenced to receive 100 lashes by a village council made up of elders and Muslim clerics in the district of Shariatpur, about 35 miles from the capital, Dhaka, the BBC said today. She endured about 80 lashes before collapsing Monday, according to The Daily Star, a Bangladeshi newspaper. Her family took her to a hospital, where she died. "What sort of justice is this? My daughter has been beaten to death in the name of...

While many on the Left continue to deny any danger in Sharia, every week more women and children are persecuted under Islamic law all over the world. Sadly the only way to find out about these sad stories is through international papers or blogs like NRB. We have heard stories of death for adultery in the past, but this week there was a case so beyond the pale that even some mainstream media picked up on it. Late in the night last Sunday, in a village in Bangladesh, a 40 year old married man (Mahbub) abducted his 14 year old...

The men from Sweden currently being held in Copenhagen on suspicions of planning a terror attack against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper planned on slitting the journalists' throats, police wiretaps reveal. The goal of the attack was to shoot and kill as many people as possible within 20 minutes, according to recordings made by Danish security service PET and published on Monday in the Ekstra Bladet newspaper, according to Danish news agency Ritzau. The three men traveled to Denmark during the evening of December 29th. They then met in an apartment on Mörkhöjvej in the Herlev neighbourhood near the Danish capital to...

As we follow the unfolding story in Egypt, we are torn between hope and fear -- hope that democracy will gain a toehold and fear that the fundamentalist Moslem Brothers could take control of Egypt. Perhaps you have heard the Moslem Brothers are the oldest and largest radical Islamic group, the grandfather of Hezbollah, Hamas, and al-Qaeda. What you haven't been told is this: the Moslem Brothers were a small, unpopular group of anti-modern fanatics unable to attract members, until they were adopted by Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich beginning in the 1930s. Under the tutelage of the Third...

A SYDNEY artist whose anti-burka mural has infuriated left-wing and Islamic activists is vowing that the provocative artwork will stay in place despite death threats, abuse, a string of vandalism attacks, a violent weekend protest and a police request to remove it. Newtown glass sculptor Sergio Redegalli has this week restored the mural painted outside his studio for more than the 40th time after dozens of graffiti and paint-bomb attacks by protesters who say it is racist and inflammatory. In the latest incident last Sunday, a crowd of 50 activists hurled paint at the mural and then turned on...

In the Arab world, there is an age-old tradition of blaming Israel for almost everything that goes wrong. Some Arabs do it out of a genuine conviction that Israel is capable of spoiling or destroying anything it wants. Others blame Israel as a way of diverting attention from real problems at home. The Israel Effect Egyptians believe that Mossad, Israel’s secret intelligence service, had dispatched a shark to Sharm el-Sheikh with the aim of damaging the country’s tourism industry A female candidate who ran in the Egyptian parliamentary poll is believed to have lost simply because her father’s name is...

"This Islamic republic has no place for rape victims like me." Mauritanian laws are based on Sharia law and the penal code forbids relationships between both sexes outside marriage. That includes a consensual relationship between a boyfriend and girlfriend but can also criminalize a woman who is forced to have sex. Sidi Athman Ould Sidi Salem, a law specialist and legal adviser to the government, said: "If raped women don't bring strong evidence, which is not easy, they would be accused of Zina -- an Arabic word meaning sex out of marriage -- and end up in jail. It's because...

A MOTHER allegedly hacked her four-year-old daughter to death while chanting verses of the Koran. Shayma Bharuchi is believed to have stabbed her young daughter in the heart and horrifically chopped out her organs. Police suspect she carried out the gruesome killing as a religious offering while chanting verses of the Muslim holy book. The girl’s father, Jerome Negrey, is said to have returned from work on Thursday afternoon to find his part-ner covered in blood and clutching a kitchen knife. A police source said: “It appears to be some sort of bizarre ritual killing. “She was chanting passages of...

Footage has emerged of a woman being publicly whipped in Sudan for wearing pants. The video offers a rare glimpse of the type of punishment inflicted on women who break the country's strict morality code. The victim was punished under Sharia law for wearing pants under her Islamic clothing.