Now we’re talking! The full story is over at Jihad Watch. Here’s an excerpt: In other words, the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Britain. Yet “opponents say the strategy would brand the vast majority of British Muslims as extremists and alienate them even further.” If a Muslim believes in all the above, he/she has already [...]
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News from the stone age: Afghanistan residents sentenced to life in prison for translating the Kuran
Posted in islam on Feb 16th, 2009
An Afghanistan appeal court has upheld 20-year jail terms for two men who published a translation of the Koran. The prosecution said the translation contained mistakes and called for the defendants to be executed. The men were convicted of modifying the Muslim holy book into Persian while not including the original Arabic text. Critics have [...]
The Austrian Times reports: Social Democrat (SPÖ) Education Minister Claudia Schmied has banned a Muslim man from teaching his religion at a Vienna secondary school after he distributed anti-Semitic leaflets to pupils. Schmied ordered the city school council today (Thurs) to take such action against the man, who had been teaching at the Cooperative Secondary [...]
The Montreal Gazette reports: TORONTO — A Toronto mosque is offering a “12-step extremist detox program” for radical Muslims that its director says is the first of its kind in Canada. The Specialized De-radicalization Intervention program is intended to provide “treatment and counselling” to young Muslims sympathetic to the al-Qaida ideology. The Muslim leaders behind [...]