Then There Was Light…

Reuter’s reports:
YALA, Thailand, June 15 (Reuters) – Suspected separatists beheaded a rubber tapper and shot dead a school janitor, both Buddhists, in the latest violence in Thailand’s Muslim south, police said on Monday.
The attacks took place in Yala and Pattani, two of the three Malay Muslim provinces where 29 people have been killed [...]

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Scottish authorities have launched a program to “deradicalise Scots who have fallen prey to Islamic extremists.” Apparently England had a similar secret program:
Edinburgh (Scotland), June 14 (ANI): Scotland’s anti-terror chiefs have announced plans to launch a scheme to deradicalise Scots who have fallen prey to Islamic extremists.
According to The Scotsman, vulnerable individuals, including children, [...]

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It might be good for business for now to appease the Islamists, but once they finish taking over Britain, the English will realize there won’t be an England on the map either.
According to Army Radio:
- Israel does not appear in on-flight maps on BMI flights between London and Tel Aviv
- Khefa the pre-Israeli-independence Arabic name [...]

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It’s because of the occupation!
Bethlehem – Ma’an – A woman was killed on Monday morning in the Gaza Strip in the fourth killing related to so-called “family” honor in the last week.
According to information collected by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), 28-year-old Rihab Al-Hazin, from An-Nusseirat Refugee Camp was killed by her 21-year-old [...]

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I never thought in my life that the words ‘8 year old girl’ and ‘divorce’ would be in a headline together.
From Al Arabiya:
A Saudi judge refused for the second time to grant an eight-year-old girl a divorce from her 47-year-old husband, local press reported Saturday, in a decision the girl’s mother promised to appeal.
Judge Habib [...]

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I guess the Mecca Governor’s definition of progress is quite different than mine.
JEDDAH: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal yesterday denounced propaganda by certain westernized Muslims that Islam and Islamic values are the reason for the backwardness of the community.
“Islam, on the contrary, is a religion of progress, civilization, justice, equality and freedom,” the governor told [...]

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Just days after Dubai announced its plans to crack down on couples holding hands, they’ve now jailed a British woman for three months for apparently committing adultery, an ‘honour crime’ according to Dubai law.
DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) A British woman faced losing her children after Dubai’s top court rejected her second appeal and sentenced her to three [...]

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Dancing or holding hands in public could now score you a prison sentence in the Arab world’s apparently most progressive and Western-friendly state.
From my favourite, Arab News:
DUBAI: Playing loud music, dancing, nudity, kissing and even holding hands in public is considered inappropriate behavior under new guidelines laid down by the authorities of Dubai, a report [...]

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The following was said by Egyptian cleric Muhammad Hussein Ya’qoub on Al-Rahma TV on January 17. According to wikipedia, Ya’qoub is “one of the most recognized salafi Sheikhs/islamic scholars in Egypt”. This is not some fringe extremist: this seems to be mainstream, Egyptian theology.
Via memri:
Muhammad Hussein Ya’qoub: “If the Jews left Palestine to us, would [...]

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According to an AP report released today, after years of criticism, Virginia’s Islamic Saudi Academy has modified its religious textbooks so that they don’t incite Jihad anymore. The textbooks were so bad that in 2001 two former students at this school were caught at the Israeli border planning to commit suicide bombings, and in 2005 [...]

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