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Sharia comes to Scotland: "I promise it won't hurt a bit.." sez Church of Scotland Rev

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One of the indicators of a society’s wellbeing is its ability to celebrate difference and learn from other people. Another is how justice is administered and disputes are resolved. The advent of sharia courts in Scotland should herald a time of reflection and interest, not fear and outrage (your report, 9 October). What sharia courts bring to our society is another method of dispute resolution. It is a particular group choosing to avoid the expense and time of using the court system

Mark Steyn wins against Muhammedan sock puppets and Canuckistan's perversion of 'human rights'

Andrew BoltÂ

Canada’s human rights police have rightlyÂ clearedÂ columnistÂ Mark SteynÂ of hate speech:

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled today that … the article, an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s book America Alone in which he describes the demographic and ideological dangers posed by a growing Muslim population in the West, was not likely to expose Muslims to hatred or contempt.

The Canadian Islamic Congress, which brought the complaint, has previously failed in two other jurisdictions: Ontario, which said it did not have jurisdiction over printed material, and federally, where the complaint was rejected as without merit.

But the damage is done. Which other commentator would want the stress, legal costs, distraction and calumny involved with being hauled through one forum after another over a couple of years to defend their good name?

One cure for this cancer, of course, is to make the Canadian Islamic Council pay the costs of its attempt to kill free speech – and pay so much that it learns that free speech is a lot, lot cheaper and healthier than expensive censorship.

Here’sÂ THE VERDICT

* From Michelle Malkin:

The Steyn trial, along with other lesser known but equally troubling cases, are chronicled in the new book The Tyranny of Nice: How Canada crushes freedom in the name of human rights, written by Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere (www.TyrannyOfNice.com)

Authors Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere commented today on the verdict in the Steyn & Maclean’s case:

“Unfortunately, this decision is only a partial victory for Mark Steyn, Maclean’s magazine and every other writer and publisher in Canada.

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UK: Conflating "Racism" & "Islamophobia"

* Because it works:Â

NobodyÂ wants to be called a racist in ourÂ intenselyÂ brainwashed, politically correct environment. Few question the motives of the accusers, and the absurd word-construct “Islamophobia”, according to Islamo-agit props, is “Anti-Muslim Racism”.

In our book an ‘Islamophobe’ is a person who knows too much about Islam.

Found on Bunglawussi Watch:

“Footballers support DVD campaign to combat Islamophobia”

SHOW Racism the Red Card will be launching their brand new DVD and education pack ‘Islamophobia’ at Newcastle United FC grounds.

The launch will tale place on Monday atÂ St James’ ParkÂ with overÂ 100 teachers, head teachers, council officials and voluntary sector workers who are interested in educating against Islamophobia.

* Sounds more like ‘interfaith dialogue’ and promotion of Islam than an anti-racism drive…/ed

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France bans burqas in state language classes

* Because the burqa is a symbol of “female submission that goes beyond its religious meaning” Â it is “not unreasonable, for public security requirements … or the protection of civil liberties” to bar it from the publicly funded language classrooms.

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USA TODAY

PARIS â€” In secular France, it is illegal for hotel owners to turn away women wearing Muslim headscarves but OK to ban those wearing head-to-toe burqas from state-sponsored French language classes.

Two recent decisions have demonstrated how tough and touchy it is to legislate religious expression in a country that has a long-standing separation between church and state â€” and an increasingly multicultural society with a growing Muslim population.

A French schoolgirl is accompanied by her veiled mother at the gate of a school in the Paris suburb Aubervillers in September 2004. Such a headscarf would be acceptable under a new French rule because it is not a burqa covering the body and face.

A French schoolgirl is accompanied by her veiled mother at the gate of a school in the Paris suburb Aubervillers in September 2004. Such a headscarf would be acceptable under a new French rule because it is not a burqa covering the body and face.

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"This is how my friends crashed into the towers"

* Â Discovered on ZIP:

“I’m a dove, I’m an eagle, I’m whatever bird you want me to be.”

Update: McCain booed after trying to calm anti-Obama crowd

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By PHILIP ELLIOTT and BETH FOUHY Â Associated Press Writers

The anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is acting to tamp it down. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama’s character, he described the Democrat as a “decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”

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UK Oblivious: Incomprehension Over Jihad Doctors

Doctors’ jihad plot: “who would have suspected two doctors to have been involved in such planning?”

Well, one who is convinced that poverty and/or lack of education causes terrorism might have been surprised. Of course, such a glaring exception to the theory should only point more strongly to the fact that there must be some other factor at work in jihadist violence — something to do with jihad, for starters. Most, however, will continue to search for something else altogether: alienation, “otherness,” British foreign policy, and so forth.

“Terror trial: NHS doctors planned terrorist ‘spectacular’,” from theÂ Telegraph, via JW

* Â U.K.: Official report details concerns among prison staff about aggressive Islamic proselytizing and “radicalization”

Another day, another studyÂ with the same conclusion. “Inmates ‘Forced Into Radicalism’,” fromSky News,Â via JW

India: Cell of jihadist software engineers again calls “poverty causes terrorism” theory into question

“With a job that brought in an annual salary of over Rs. 19,00,000 ($56,000) a year, 31-year-old Peerbhoy is as distant as could be imagined from the madrasa-educated, no-prospects jihadist of media caricature.”

More onÂ this story. “White-collar ‘media terror cell’ alert,” by Arjun Ramachandran for theSydney Morning Herald,Â

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Pak Daily: "Osama Bin Laden & Al Qaeda Jewish"

* Next they’ll tell you that OBL & AQ is aÂ travelingÂ Rock & Roll Band:

Rabbi Shlomo Bin Laden: a Jew who gives Islam a bad name. Who guessed it?

* Yep. You can’t make this s#*t up. And he did it all to tarnish the good image of Islam. Â Trouble is, there are enough Jew-haters and conspiracy nuts among us who are only too eager to believe it.Â

* Just in thanks to Gramfan, Pak Daily News:

Al Queda may be a Jewish organization and Osama bin Laden may be Jewish. These are the two points I will try to make in this essay. This is not an attempt to foist blame on the Jews, to victimize them or scapegoat them, something that has occurred throughout history. It is not intended to be an attack on Jews or an exercise in anti-Semitism. It is however, intended to raise questions.

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Italy: Muslims try to force authorities into building a new mosque

Italy: Muslims protest against mosque closure

Modena, 9 Oct. (AKI) – Muslims in the northern Italian city of Sassuolo plan to protest on Friday against what they claim is the town council’s refusal to allow them to build a mosque.

*Â Milan mosque ‘to be closed down’/ lots o’ pic’s

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* Milan Muzz demands a madrassah/ItalianÂ authorities want the children to go to state schools

“Tomorrow we will perform Friday prayers in the street, to protest against the municipality for not allowing us to have a mosque,” said Hisham Abu Marwan, spokesman for the Islamic Association Huda of Sassuolo, in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI).Â

* Milan soccer outfit offends Muslims:Â Muslim lawyer sues over Inter Milan ‘Crusaders’ kit

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Wall Street

No comments…?Â

Here’s one:Â

They told us immigration was good for us

They told us Islam was a religion of peace
They told us the economy was doing fine

They lied.

* Here’s another one fromÂ Atlas Shrugs:

Liberal democrats used government mortgage agencies to facilitate mortgages to Blacks from the lower classes who were unable to do the math and unable to have the kind of jobs to hold on to their houses. In other words, they used these government agencies to strong arm the American economy to facilitate slave reparations.

“It has become obvious that Obama, Jesse, Al, Louis, Andrew, Rev. Wright, Father Phleger, et all have no intention of ever fixing the bastardization of black America. In fact, I strongly suspect that they see extending that failure to the rest of the world as justice. In other words, because 70% (90% in inner cities) of blacks don’t have fathers, it is only fair that all others on the earth morph into nations of bastards.”

70% of blacks born today don’t have fathers and the hip-hop/rap that they perpetuate on the young in America and the rest of the world encourages those children/victims to act out in at least as perverted a manner.

600,000 white men lost their lives in the war to end slavery in the United States. No other race, religion or ethnic group anywhere, anytime on the earth has ever done that for another.

Slavery has been in existence for millennia in every nation and still is in existence in some Arab states and (cough) African nations. So why is the USA, alone of all the countries being shaken down for reparations?

I know the answer, but I wish more people would ask the question.

Daniel Pipes: "Positively, it implies that most Muslims can be swayed against Islamist totalitarianism"-Not!

* Is the glass half empty or half full? Are we at war with Islam or “Islamism?”

* Â Who gets it and who doesn’t? TwoÂ examplesÂ of the confusion in academia today:

Size of Islamist menace

Daniel Pipes/The Australian

THE recent distribution in the US of about 28 million copies of the 2005 documentary Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West has stirred heated debate about its contents. One lightning rod for criticism concerns my on-screen statement that “10 to 15 per cent of Muslims worldwide support militant Islam”.

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DR. RICHARD L. BENKIN: AN HISTORICAL MOMENT FOR ISLAM

* Â Dr. Benkin, from Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, makes some valid points, but doesn’t get it. He’s obviously never studied the Islamic doctrine of perpetual warfare and the subjugation of unbelievers and compares the Spanish inquisition with 1400 years of jihad against the world:

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http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/13131

While there are several individual fights taking place across the world today, the battle between radical Islam and western-style democracy is the basis for almost all of them. I have been on the front lines of that war for several years and am more convinced than ever that it has no diplomatic or negotiated solution; that for the defenders of freedom, there is no compromise with radical Islam; period. Moreover, history is clear in predicting that ultimately, freedom will triumph.

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