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The Muslim founder of BridgesTV, a cable network whose slogan is “connecting people through understanding” and which tried to “improve the image of Muslims in the United States,” was arrested on Thursday, for allegedly killing his estranged wife in a manner normally associated with Islamist terrorists -- chopping off her head. Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher, reported on Friday that Muzzammil Hassan, “a prominent Buffalo area businessman who founded the BridgesTV network to improve the image of Muslims in the U.S.,” had been charged with second-degree murder in the beheading death of his wife Aasiya Z. Hassan. Mitchell...

Headline News Sunday, November 25, 2007 by Staff Writer Israeli-Arab men brutally rape 'dirty Jew' A group of young Israeli-Arab men recently attacked and raped two intoxicated Jewish teenage girls near the coastal city of Netanya, the Israeli police released for publication on Sunday. The shocking attack took place two weeks ago, when the six Arab men happened upon the two Jewish girls as they sat drinking late at night in a public square in Netanya. According to Ynet, the girls resisted the men's advances, but were soon after were compelled, either physically or due to their inebriated state, to...

And still they're preaching poison Every Friday, the Muslim worshippers begin to arrive just after midday on an anonymous Home Counties urban street. They are hoping to secure a good spot during the weekly Islamic prayer meeting, a short walk from the Surrey town of Sutton's bustling High Street and the old parish church of St Nicholas. They include teenage boys, college students and adult men - a crowd of 100 people, some in white robes and carrying the Koran. Here, in Robin Hood Lane, they are eager to hear the words of a preacher called Abdul Latif and to...

TEHRAN -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the world is “rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadised” and global leaders have started following in his footsteps, press reports said yesterday. “I have travelled to all the continents except for one and I know what is going on out there. Everybody is eager to hear the Iranian people’s message,” the reformist Aftab-Yazd newspaper quoted the president as saying. “The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadised.” The austere hardliner said that Iran’s “two big missions are constructing the country and introducing a model for humanity.” World leaders, he added, had started copying his provincial trips, during...

Imam guilty of selling guns & ammo By GLORIA CAMPISI campisg@phillynews.com 215-854-5935 A man identified by authorities as a West Philadelphia imam has been convicted of selling numerous handguns and assault rifles from a clothing stand he operated at 52nd and Chestnut streets. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office here said a federal jury yesterday convicted Wayne Hogue, 47, also known as "Imam Wadir" and Shahdeed Bay, of selling the weapons and ammunition, including hollow-point bullets, between May 9, 2003, and March 23, 2004. Authorities identified Hogue as "an imam of the 52nd Street Mosque," for which an exact...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Senior Muslim clerics demanded Thursday that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to ``pull him into pieces.''

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon apologized Monday to Denmark after thousands of rampaging Muslim demonstrators set fire to the building housing the Danish mission in Beirut - the most violent in a growing string of worldwide protests over caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. In Afghanistan hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police and soldiers, leaving one dead and four injured. The prime ministers of Spain and Turkey issued a Christian-Muslim appeal for calm, saying "we shall all be the losers if we fail to immediately defuse this situation." In southern Iraq, several thousand Iraqis rallied to demand severing all ties with...

GRACANICA -- Wednesday – Telekom Serbia has reported that Serbian enclaves in Central Kosovo have lost their stationary and mobile phone services as well. Many of these Serbian communities have already been without electricity for several days. According to Telekom, equipment has been damaged in Gracanica, stating that cables have been severed in the region and expert teams are doing everything they can in order to rectify the telecommunications situation as soon as possible. Kosovo Serb leader Randjel Nojkic said that workers of the Kosovo Transport and Telecommunications Ministry cut down all the cables connecting the village Susica, near Gracanica....

What has Fox's hit TV show "24" done to prompt TV Guide to report "24 in Hot Water" and Entertainment Weekly to ask, "Has '24' Gone Too Far?"? Its bad guys are terrorists who are? Muslims. That's it. Few of us need reminding that we are not simply waging a war against terror, but against the radical Islam that animates the enemy. The enemy is not coincidentally Muslim, but they are the enemy because their radicalized version of Islam tells them to be. "24," so far at least, understands that. What makes "24" this season so special, though, is that...

As if Canada’s Muslim community isn’t divided enough, it is now embroiled in a debate over whether portions of the Sharia (Islamic law) relating to divorces, inheritance, child custody, remarriage, marriage contracts and similar issues, should be used as part of Ontario’s Arbitration Act. Both, the Jews and the Christian have been using their religious laws under this act for several years. The Arbitration Act was passed in 1991 as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism to free up expensive court time. The arbitration is binding on both parties although it can be appealed. The proposal was put forward by the...

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WAR ON TERROR Imam tied to hijackers weighing Saudi job offer One-time subject of FBI probe headed hard-line mosque in D.C. Posted: August 5, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – A Muslim cleric tied to two of the Saudi hijackers who crashed a jumbo jet into the Pentagon is weighing job offers in Saudi Arabia, says an official at the hard-line mosque he used to head here. The imam, Anwar Aulaqi, gave politically charged sermons at Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., the largest mosque in the country. He was the subject...

<p>CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait (CNN) -- A U.S. soldier has been detained and is being questioned in connection with a grenade and small arms attack early Sunday at an Army camp in northern Kuwait, the U.S. Central Command said.</p> <p>The attack at Camp Pennsylvania, where soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are stationed, wounded 13 people -- six of them seriously -- U.S. military officials said. Central Command said the suspect is assigned to the division.</p>

Sat March 22, 2003 11:59 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the 13 soldiers wounded in a grenade attack on a tented camp in Kuwait early on Sunday has died of his injuries, CNN reported. Time magazine correspondent Jim Lacey told the broadcaster by telephone from Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait that he had been told of the death by several people. "We're allowed to talk about it," he said.

From the article: FRANCE HAS A PROBLEM with its Muslim population that may be too multifaceted to solve. There have been Muslims in France since the colonization of Algeria in the 1830s, and there were tens of thousands as early as the 1920s, when France officially welcomed Islam in a gesture of gratitude to the Algerian soldiers who had shocked the country with their patriotism, self-sacrifice, and bravery in the Great War. The government, which is working desperately to formulate an official policy on Islam, now estimates its Muslim population at 4 to 5 million. Most social scientists believe this...

Maybe it's just me, but Ramadan seems to come round earlier every year. Around the world, the holy month is being observed in the time-honoured fashion we've come to know so well. There has been the traditional annual call for a "bombing pause" during Ramadan -- this year not from the humanitarian nancy boys at Oxfam and Co. but from Saddam himself, who apparently feels it would be "culturally insensitive" toward Muslims to depose him during the holiest of Islamic festivals. In calling for a bombing pause when we are not, alas, bombing him, the wannabe Saladin has usefully reminded...