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In a few heavily Muslim areas of Western cities, dogs are now unwelcome. The number of pubs in England has fallen dramatically in recent years. In the Houston, Texas area, of all places, Muslim men walked into stores and tried to convince those stores to remove pork products from their shelves. And then there’s the Islamic scholar who recently said that music is a major sin, and that anyone who listens to music is cursed and will be punished by Allah. So, no puppies, no pork, and no Pavarotti or Pink Floyd. Yeah, sure. In Jolly Olde England, Moussa Kadri...

On Tuesday, a British court ruled that belief in the Bible was “incompatible with human dignity.” That statement came in a case involving Dr. David Mackereth, a devout Christian who had worked as an emergency doctor for the National Health Service for 26 years. He said he was fired from his job because he refused to call a biological man a woman. The court’s ruling stated: “Belief in Genesis 1:27, lack of belief in transgenderism and conscientious objection to transgenderism in our judgment are incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the fundamental rights of others, specifically here, transgender individuals.”...

Accused of running jihadi Web site, Briton pushes message from jail LONDON - Second of three articles Babar Ahmad, a 31-year-old computer whiz and mechanical engineer, was hailed as a big catch by U.S. law enforcement officials when he was arrested here one year ago on charges that he ran a network of Web sites that served as a propaganda and fundraising front for Islamic extremists, including Chechen rebels, the Taliban militia and al Qaeda affiliates. Since then, Ahmad has been locked up inside British prisons as he fights extradition to the United States. But the imprisonment has done little...