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DUBAI - The militant Palestinian group which kidnapped and freed two Fox News Channel journalists last month vowed on Saturday to target all non-Muslims who enter the Palestinian territories. In a statement posted on the Internet, the Holy Jihad Brigades said all non-Muslim foreigners it captures could face death unless they convert to Islam or Muslim prisoners be freed in exchange for their release. “God ordered that we fight all infidels as they fight us all ... the blood of any infidel who comes to the land of Palestine has no sanctity,” said the group, unknown before the journalists’ kidnapping....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday that would give the United Nations authority over peacekeepers in Darfur as soon as Sudan's government gives its consent - which it has so far refused to do. The resolution is meant to give more power and funding to a force, now run by the African Union, that has been unable to stop the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur. The violence has killed more than 200,000 people and continues to worsen. The document passed 12-0, with China, Russia and Qatar abstaining. Yet the council cannot take any significant action...

Atlant Did Not Carry Five Muslims Egyptian newspaper Akbar El-Hawadeth reported yesterday on the incident with Russian citizens in Sharm El Sheikh airport. Captain of IL-86 aircraft of Atlant-Soyuz company asked five Muslim passengers, 3 women in hijabs and 2 men, to leave the board before the plane took off. The captain acted so according to the demands of other passengers. Atlant-Soyuz stated the pilot’s actions are absolutely justified. Representatives of Muslim community say they “treat such episodes with understanding.” The captain of IL-86 aircraft flying to Moscow from Sharm El Sheikh asked five passengers who caused other passengers’ suspicions...

General The Wrong Kind of Mass Murderer by Ariel ...Non-Arab Muslims such as the Kurds in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran; the Berbers ¯ also known as the Amazighes ¯ in ... Once again, Arab racism marches on. ... http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14118Uncle Boutros and Uncle Tom: A lesson in Arab tolerance ...Having written somewhat myself on the subject of the forced Arabization of ... keep in mind that Arab racist attitudes also extended to those who--to jump ... http://www.kurdmedia.com/articles.asp?id=11344Arab leaders 'Reap what they saw', their failed racist attempts distinguishing between blood all these years - terror comes home to roost. http://lightonthings.blogspot.com/2006/04/terror-made-in-arabia-in-islamia.htmlRADICAL ISLAMISM...

OTTAWA (AFP) - The Canadian and Australian prime ministers expressed concern at unconfirmed reports that said Iran may force non-Muslims to wear colored badges in public so they can be identified. The National Post newspaper reported Friday, citing human rights groups, that Iran's parliament passed a law this week that sets a public dress code and requires non-Muslims to wear a special insignia. Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear a yellow, red or blue strip of cloth, respectively, on the front of their clothes, according to the newspaper. "Anything of that kind would be totally repugnant to...

The importance of a calendar (of events) in the war on terror Chronology of events VS Islamo Arab radicalism & bloodshed Crime-analogy. Putting radical Islam's crimes against humanity, in historically order, thus into clarity perspective. In "light" of dark confusion --at times-- that occur in face of the trendy excuses of Goliath Arab Muslim industry to cover for their militants' crimes, let's all REVIEW the historic events, the like of the following: General ABC 1) Islamo Arabs have led their Jihadi massacres on the British in Africa and in Egypt, already in the 1880's. 2) Islamic genocide on Armenian Christian...

Hamza denounces racism on the stand . Alleged race hate cleric Abu Hamza has denied inciting violence against non-Muslims, saying "racism is one of the greatest sins".

TEHRAN, July 22 (MNA) -- The deputy director of the Qeshm Free Trade Zone Organization said on Thursday that a tourist and recreational complex for non-Muslims will be established on the Persian Gulf island of Qeshm. Islamic law and some restrictions will not be enforced at the tourist complex, Ali-Akbar Einollahi told the Persian service of the Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency. He said that an agency named Marina, owned by an Iranian Christian woman, has obtained a license for the complex and a beach to be shared by men and women, which would be the first of its kind...

RULING PARTY  CADRES UNLEASH TERROR ON MINORITIES IN KALICAHAR VILLAGE, BANGLADESH  OVER ONE HUNDRED HOMES BROKEN INTO, RAVAGED AND LOOTED Report: Daily Janakantha dated 05/08/04.  KALIA in the district of  Norail, Bangladesh is burning from the vengeful terror  attacks of ‘Alliance”  party cadres and their supporters. These terrorists stuck at a minimum of four small villages where minorities live. All night long on Thursday, they attacked and ravaged more than one hundred homes. They robbed the villagers of their possessions. Terrified families deserted their homes and took shelter in the forest or in other villages that so far escaped...

Nigeria - Wednesday June 08, 2005 CHRISTIAN LECTURER DISAPPEARS AFTER DEATH THREAT Muslim dress code stirs unrest in Kaduna and Kano states. June 8 (Compass) — Andrew Akume, a Christian lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria city, Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, has disappeared since the issuance of a death sentence against him. A militant Muslim group at ABU passed the sentence on him claiming he blasphemed Mohammed, the prophet of Islam. The death sentence for Akume, the university’s dean of the faculty of law, is contained in two fatwas (Islamic decrees) issued in the months of May...

Christian Areas Attacked, 200 Homes Destroyed (BosNewsLife) - A human rights investigation continued Friday, July 1, into an outbreak of violence in several Christian areas of Pakistan where hundreds of homes have reportedly been destroyed by Islamic militants. The Voice Of the Martyrs (VOM) USA told BosNewsLife the attacks happened this week in three areas around the city of Peshawar, about 172 km (107 miles) west of the capital Islamabad. Troubles began late Tuesday, June 28, just hours after an illiterate Christian man in his 60's allegedly burned pages with Koranic verses written on them. The organization claimed the burning...

Missionary Tortured and SentencedA young Indian missionary has been sentenced to one year in prison and beaten hundreds of times in Saudi Arabia, a mission organization said Thursday, June 30. Christian Aid Mission (CAM) told BosNewsLife that 30-year old Brother Samkutty, whose family name was not released, was detained after traveling to the Islamic kingdom on the invitation of Christian friends who had asked him to speak in churches of Indian believers. "On March 22, while on his way to a Bible study, Samkutty was arrested by Saudi Arabia's religious police," said CAM, which supports native missionaries across the world....

Naushera blasphemy case: Christian was illiterate, only followed orders: NCJP* Case also registered against angry mob which set temple on fire: policeLAHORE: Yousaf Masih, an illiterate 60-year old sweeper who is charged with blasphemy and desecration of the Quran in Naushera, was only disposing waste on his landlady’s orders, according to evidence gathered by the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP). Yousaf had no way of knowing if some Quranic verses had found their way into the garbage, says the commission. “A child spotted Yousaf Masih burning verses from the Quran. He was in fact just burning garbage....

Pakistan: Police raid a Catholic libraryKarachi (AsiaNews) – Pakistani police have raided a bookshop run by Catholic sisters in the wake of publication of unfounded accusations leveled against the local Christian community. The raid took place in Saddar near Karachi on 13 June: police officers raided the library of the Daughters of St Paul and confiscated merchandise on sale. The police kept a shop salesman for more than 24 hours for questioning while the sisters were intimidated. The raid came after an article appeared in a national Urdu daily and accusations by Islamic extremists. On 12 June, the Nawa-I-Waqt newspaper...

Three Women Face Charges for Evangelizing Children Dufan (Fantasy World) in Jakarta Charges have been laid against three Indonesian women as the result of a picnic which they led at Dufan (Fantasy World) in Jakarta in December 2004.  The picnic conducted by a church-run children's program. Some Muslim children joined the picnic and there were no problems until some of their parents raised complaints last month.  According to VOMC sources in Indonesia, the three women, Dr Rebecca, Mrs Ratna and Mrs Lia, were summoned to the police station on May 3 and charges were formerly laid against them on...

The Pentagon has acknowledged five instances in which guards or interrogators at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, handled the Koran in such a way as to cause offense to some who believe it is the revealed word of Allah. Three are said to have been three deliberate and two unintentional. Amnesty International has put the United States high on the list of countries it says are guilty of prisoner and human rights abuses because of the way suspected terrorists are treated. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Richard Myers, rebutted the notion of inappropriate treatment...

Saudi Arabia - Monday May 16, 2005 GOVERNMENT DENIES ACCESS TO JAILED CHRISTIANS Five East Africans held in Riyadh prison. Yemane Gebre Loul, May 16 (Compass) -- Five East African Christians arrested at a private Christian worship service three weeks ago are being refused any access to visitors at the interrogation center where they are jailed in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. An expatriate friend who attempted to visit the three Ethiopians and two Eritreans last week was refused permission by prison officials of the Mabahith, an internal security force under the Saudi Ministry of Interior. When the...

House Church Raided in Saudi Arabia One week after a prayer meeting in Riyadh was raided and forty Christians arrested, a second house church meeting was broken up by the muttawa (religious police) on April 29 and five leaders taken into custody. According to a May 4 report from Compass Direct, sixty Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians had gathered together for prayer when the muttawa, together with high-ranking Muslim sheikhs, burst into the meeting, confiscating forty Bibles and a cross necklace before warning them to never meet there for prayer again. Those detained have been identified as Yemane Gebre Loul, Gazai...

Catholic Radio Station Bombed in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNS) -- A Catholic-run radio station in Lebanon was destroyed in a bombing attack May 6, the latest in a series of attacks in Lebanon's Christian areas. The attack was an apparent response to the station's campaign regarding the plight of Lebanese detained in Syrian prisons. The Voice of Charity, operated by the Congregation of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries in the port city of Jounieh since 1984, was completely destroyed in the attack, caused by an estimated 50 pounds of explosives in the main square outside the building. One person was killed, and...

Indonesia-wide terrorist plan found in the wake of anti-Christian attack in Mamasa Poso (AsiaNews) – An attack on April 24 that cost the lives of six people in predominantly Christian Mamasa regency (district) in West Sulawesi was part of a wider terrorist scheme, this according to General Saleh Saaf, South Sulawesi Police Chief Inspector, after the arrest of Amirrudin, 22, a terror suspect arrested following the Mamasa attack. General Saaf said that documents in the young man’s possession reveal the existence of “plans to carry out terror attacks and bombings across the country”. Currently, police is analysing the confiscated documents...