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Once upon a time in an America that I once remember, Universities and Colleges were homes that housed “Free Thought” and “Free Speech”. Now it seems that those ideals have become as extinct as the Dinasours. In the city that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calls home, San Fransisco State University has taken upon themselves to officially ban Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion and have brought all of us one scary step closer to the State Sponsorship of the Islamic religion here in the United States of America. (Read the whole story) This story starts with an “anti-terrorism...

Leader of Arab-European group calls on Arabs to use Danish flag as substitute for toilet paper Brussels, Feb 4, IRNA Belgium-AEL-Cartoons The leader of the Belgium-based Arab- European League (AEL), Dyab Abou Jahjah, has condemned the double standards of the West regarding freedom of speech as far as Muslims are concerned. "Europeans think that freedom of speech is guaranteed in Europe, and that they are defending it against Islamic pressure. Reality, however, presents us with Muslims living in Europe with another experience," said Abou Jahjah in an article posted on the AEL's website. "Muslims and others in Europe cannot say...

Riyadh - Paper cups made in Israel have caused a storm of protest in a Saudi hospital, the Saudi newspaper Arab News reports. Officials at the King Khaled National Guard Hospital says they are investigating after the catering subcontractors for the coffee shops in the hospital ran out and began using Israeli paper cups with Hebrew writing on them, sparking outrage among the customers. Hospital executive director, Saleh Al-Mazroi, said the matter had been referred to the authorities in Riyadh and action would be taken. The manager and owner of the catering company, Ibrahim Al-Musbah, told Arab News that the...

RUTHERFORD, N.C. (BP)--After receiving volumes of negative feedback over a sign carrying a disrespectful message about the Koran outside the church where he is pastor, Creighton Lovelace has apologized for his actions and says he will remove the sign. In a statement released May 25, Lovelace said he "did not realize how people of the Muslim faith view the Koran -- that devoted Muslims view it more highly than many in the U.S. view the Bible." "Now I realize how offensive this is to them, and after praying about it, I have chosen to remove the sign," he said. "I...

A Muslim can never think of even touching the Holy Qur'an if not clean; whereas to hear such a heinous crime committed by the perpetrators at Gunatanamo Bay. An ordinary Christian or Jew cannot commit this act. Only one example (1) narrated by a prisoner released from Guantanamo Bay should be enough to paint the true picture of the profanities used by the interrogators. “Wisam Abd al-Rahman Ahmad said he was captured in Iran, transferred to a Kandahar detention facility in Afghanistan, and finally imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Claiming he was beaten and routinely insulted with profanities while in Afghanistan,...

Claim that the Holy book was defiled by US guards at Guantanamo Bay has incensed Muslims AT LEAST nine people were killed yesterday as a wave of anti-American demonstrations swept the Islamic world from the Gaza Strip to the Java Sea, sparked by a single paragraph in a magazine alleging that US military interrogators had desecrated the Koran. As Washington scrambled to calm the outrage, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, promised an inquiry and punishment for any proven offenders. But at Friday prayers in the Muslim world many preachers demanded vengeance and afterwards thousands took to the streets,...

Within an hour, the entire village would learn that the 25-year-old married woman had been discovered in a darkened nearby hut with her lover. Within two days, Amina was dead -- killed by her fellow villagers April 20 after the men of the community ruled that she had violated Islamic law by having an affair with a neighbor....Under Sharia, the punishment for adultery is death by stoning. But the code requires that there be undeniable proof of the crime -- for instance, multiple witnesses to the sex act, a confession, or other signs such as an inexplicable pregnancy....

Pakistani officials say they are "deeply dismayed" over reports that the Koran was desecrated at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. The latest edition of the American Newsweek magazine said such tactics were used to rattle suspects. It says that US personnel on one occasion flushed a copy of Islam's most holy book "down the toilet". Pakistan, a conservative Muslim nation, is also a key US ally in its war against terrorism. 'Highly objectionable' Pakistani foreign office spokesman, Jalil Abbas Jilani, told the AFP news agency Pakistan was also concerned about "the highly objectionable and regrettable treatment meted out...