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Muslim school 'that taught pupils from race hate textbooks made photocopies after order to shred them' (U.K.)
20th February 2008
A prestigious Islamic school in London was forced to shred 2,000 textbooks used to poison pupils' minds with lessons of hate, a former teacher claimed yesterday.
Colin Cook, who taught English at the King Fahad Academy for 18 years, told a tribunal how "incompetent" Ofsted inspectors reported that the school's teaching of Islamic studies was "mostly good". But their report was wildly inaccurate, he said, because pupils as young as five were being taught by rote from Arabic textbooks describing Jews as "monkeys" and Christians as "pigs".
Mr Cook said that when he exposed the racist teaching, the school's head Dr Sumaya Alyusuf lied on television, insisting that hateful passages had never been taught. Under public pressure the Academy eventually agreed to destroy 2,000 books but photocopied them first for future use, he told the tribunal.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=516703&in_page_id=1770
Saudi Warnings Mark Lebanon Jitters
2/20/08
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi Arabia is warning its citizens against traveling to Lebanon, the U.S. Embassy is urging Americans to be vigilant and French cultural centers in two major Lebanese cities have temporarily closed.
Lebanon's intractable political crisis is no longer business as usual — not after the slaying last week of a top fugitive Hezbollah commander, Imad Mughniyeh.
The killing prompted the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, to declare "open war" against Israel, which Hezbollah and Iran accused in the assassination. Israel, which denied any role, went on high alert. A Hezbollah retaliation would most certainly draw Israel's wrath and risk igniting another war.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfZ5SRYsUEnKYuShA0IXta2e7yvgD8UU85C80
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Travel Warning
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This information is current as of today, Thu Feb 21 2008 18:43:30 GMT-0800 (PST).
LEBANON
October 17, 2007
MADRID: The Spanish government on Thursday put the country on a state of maximum terror alert ahead of legislative elections scheduled for March 9, the interior ministry said.
The official campaign starts Friday and the ministry said the alert would provide for a “total mobilisation of forces and state security corps to monitor and protect” party headquarters, election meetings, public transport, shopping centres and sporting events.
Islamist militants planted bombs on Madrid commuter trains on March 11, 2004, three days before the last national election, killing 191 people and wounding 1,800. Spain, which has three security levels, had previously been on level two “medium” alert amid concerns over a possible attack by the armed separatist group ETA which called off a 15-month ceasefire in June 2006. “We believe ETA will try to kill before the elections,” Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Wednesday night during an interview with public television TVE.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\02\22\story_22-2-2008_pg4_6
Snippets: A security officer at Tampa International Airport found a box cutter hidden in a hollowed-out book on Sunday.
Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book. Officers found books in the backpack titled "Muhammad in the Bible," "The Prophet's Prayer" and "The Noble Qur'an." He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible.