Islam: The Religion of Peace: June 2014

CHURCH ATTACKED BY GROUP OF MUSLIMS WEARING MASKS SHOUTING "ALLAHU AKBAR" (INDONESIA)

Another Catholic community is now under attack in Indonesia in a climate of increasing cases of violence and abuse against religious minorities.

The Parish of the Sacred Heart in Pugeran, in the South of Yogyakarta was targeted early yesterday morning by three different groups of unknown assailants on motorcycles. The attack took place during the first morning Mass: the authors, dressed in black with their faces covered by masks, broke through the parish gates shouting "Allah is great".

The incident coincides with the start of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and prayer which officially began today in Indonesia, although it started on June 28th in most Muslim countries.

According to reports from Fr. Priya Pr, Sacred Heart parish priest, the unknown assailants targeted some objects and posters placed by members of the local Catholic community, most of which are only displayed on the weekend during the celebrations. The reasons behind the attack remain unknown; the authorities have tightened controls around the Christian place of worship, in fear of more attacks.

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"WE POINT THE COMPANIES TO THEIR OWN TERMS OF SERVICE" EU GOVERNMENTS CALL ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND INTERNET COMPANIES TO CLOSE DOWN ACCOUNTS OF MUSLIM JIHADIS

European governments are calling on Internet and social media companies to close the accounts of Islamist militants, as part of a wider effort to contain the threat of European extremists returning from Syria, Dutch officials said Monday.

Ivo Opstelten, the Dutch minister of security and justice, said the companies must make greater efforts to ban Islamic militants from using their platforms for recruitment and propaganda.

"Many companies might have [clauses against jihadist statements] in their terms of service, but they don't act," he said in a letter to lawmakers. "These companies must live up to their own rules on postings and delete propaganda of violent jihadists," he said.

Government officials have approached companies like Facebook and Twitter to discuss the issue, a spokesman for Mr. Opstelten said. "We point the companies at their own terms of service. We cannot force them, but we hope they will take action," he said.

Facebook, Twitter and Google weren't immediately available for comment.

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UK BORDER FORCE DETAIN EIGHT MUSLIM OPPORTUNISTS FROM AFGHANISTAN TRYING TO CROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL IN RUBBER DINGHY

The motorised craft was spotted by the crew of a passing P&O ferry, around five miles from the port of Dover in Kent at 6.40am on Saturday.

There were eight Afghans and one Romanian on board.

They were rescued from choppy seas by Dover Lifeboat and Border Force officers, after their boat’s engine failed.

The Romanian national, Marian Badea, 29, has been charged with attempted facilitation.

He is remanded in custody to appear at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court tomorrow.

The eight Afghan nationals who were detained following the rescue are to be deported, according to a spokesman for the Border Force.

The boat was seen drifting in the sea after suffering engine problems, possibly caused by running out fuel.

It had to be towed into Dover because it was feared the lives of those on board might be at risk as it entered some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.

CHRISTIANS BURN DOWN MOSQUE SUSPECTED OF HIDING JIHADIS THAT CARRIED OUT ATTACK ON THEIR CHURCH (UGANDA)

A group of Christians in Uganda set fire to a mosque which they suspected was being used by Islamist extremist as a base to attack their church, leading to clashes that have seen more than 200 people fleeing their homes.

Two worshipers attending a night church service at a Pentecostal church in Kyegegwa district, 250km west of the capital Kampala, were killed on Friday in what police say is a suspected terrorist attack.

"A group of people from a nearby mosque attacked Mungu Mwema Pentecostal church located in Kyegegwag district," police spokesman, Fred Enaga, said.

"They were wielding machetes, sticks and guns. They killed two people including an 18 year old girl and a man."

He said several people injured during the attack had been admitted to Kyegegwa hospital.

In an attempt to arrest the suspected terrorists, police stormed a nearby mosque where they had reportedly taken cover but were met with resistance when the group opened fire.

"When we followed those who attacked the church, we realised that they were hiding in a mosque. They started shooting at us from the mosque," Enaga continued.

Police, according Enanga, had initially considered the attack as religious rivalry, but later ruled it as an act of terrorism.

"We do not expect guns to be kept in mosques," he said, adding that two of the attackers had been arrested and were being held for questioning.

Enaga said they suspect western Uganda based rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – who were recently attacked in the Democratic Republic of Congo by United Nations and government troops and dispersed – were responsible for the attack.

"'We suspect they could be ADF rebels [...] We are following them and will definitely arrest them," he said.

But Henry Oryem, a police officer, says in retaliation to the attacks "irate Christians and other villagers burnt down the mosque and destroyed all crops in the gardens surrounding the mosque".

YOU CAN ONLY PUSH PEOPLE SO FAR BEFORE THEY BREAK AND START FIGHTING BACK.

Muslim of the Month Poll

Posted by Your Daily Muslim on June 30, 2014 in Muslim of the Month

I know I didn’t write many this month. It’s been tough, dealing with the loss of the Facebook page and thus a good portion of the site’s reach. But the ones that did make it to the site were all pretty nutter-butters, so there’s still a good poll. Happy voting!

Mohammed Abd al-Sattar al-Sayyid (538) – Syrian cleric who claims STDs like Syphilis and HIV/AIDS have killed more people than all wars combined. Also said “If only we had stoned everyone who had committed this abomination [fornication/homosexuality] – wouldn’t it have been better than letting these [sexually transmitted] diseases infect others, spreading to millions around the world?”

Ismail Jabbar (528) – British-born Muslim who traveled to wage jihad in Syria. He has posted images of himself killing Syrian government forces, calling them “dirty kuff[ar],” and has instructed his fellow Muslims to carry out terror attacks like the murder of Lee Rigby. He said Muslims who kill Jews and Christians would be doubly rewarded, claimed all jihadists long to behead infidels, and has expressed an interest in going for 72 virgins.

Falah Khalid (532) – Indian-born Muslim who claims that fitness models on bodybuilding.com are “naked.” Khalid also criticized westerners for using toilet paper instead of wetting one’s hand to clean out after pooping. Most absurdly, he claimed tight clothes are a “gay and feminist conspiracy.”

Masridzi Sat (524) – Malay Muslim politician who claims that eating pork is detrimental to one’s spiritual well-being: “Because the person eats pork, it is difficult to guide him to the right path. When the day of judgment comes, that person will be wearing a pig face because of what he has eaten.” He also commanded Muslims to wage jihad against a company whose chocolates were found to have traces of pig DNA.

Your Daily Muslim #541: Haji Mohammed Ali bin Mohammed Rustam

Totally doesn’t suffer from gay face at all.

Sorry I haven’t been writing as much on here. Losing the Facebook page dealt a big blow to the site’s readership and I’m still deciding whether or not to continue with this.

Some politicians get far too comfortable (not in the Bill Clinton sense) and don’t realize when their entire career is about to slip out of their hands. That’s what happened to Malay Muslim politician Haji Mohammed Ali bin Mohammed Rustam, whose controversy-riddled career was brought to an abrupt end last May.

Rustam’s political life had seen some turbulence. He had been accused of using public funds to pay for the (halal) food costs of an extravagant wedding for his son Ridhwan. He also made controversial anti-gay remarks, which his Muslim constituents appreciated but the civilized world didn’t: “So many people like to promote human rights, even up to the point they want to allow lesbian activities and homosexuality.” Uhh, that’s the point of human rights, you idiot, they’re called rights. Consensual sex between adults is a right and is none of your business.

Of course, the Muslim didn’t stop there, and continued shoving his foot in his mouth: “In Islam, we cannot do all this. [Homosexuality] is against Islamic law.” If that’s how you want to live in your personal life, OK. But when your fictional beliefs start impacting the rights of others, that’s where we have a problem. Muslims’ insistence on sharia compliance is one of many reasons why Islam and our secular society can never coexist.

What did Rustam suggest should be done with gays? He said they should be jailed, fined, and sent to therapy to rid them of their orientation. Newsflash: homosexuality is biologically-determined. It’s not something a person chooses, nor is it a byproduct of jinns (invisible poop-eating spirits) as many Muslims believe.

Of course, that wasn’t the end of this Muslim’s jihad against gays. He even went after their straight supporters – you know, fruit flies, fag-hags, etc. “We want to put it in the [anti-LGBT] enactment so that we can enforce it and bring them to our sharia court,” Rustam said. “Then we can charge them for promoting or supporting these illegal activities.” No wonder there aren’t any moderate Muslim voices – they have all been silenced by the oppressive nature of the very religion they love. Well, that and the fact that Islam isn’t exactly moderate in any way.

Rustam’s career came to an end after he made disparaging comments about the Chinese, accusing them of running illegal businesses: “We can’t have casinos, 4D, Toto, gambling, lottery, massage parlors, ah long. These are all illegal. And the Chinese are the ones dabbling with all the illegal businesses…” Illegal as in against national law is different than impermissible under sharia. Though Malaysia has a bizarre dual legal system in which both sharia and secular law exist, the secular law permits people to run gambling establishments. Accusing a group of breaking the only law they care about just because it violates one’s personal beliefs is absurd.

TO RECOVER $1 BILLION IN DAMAGES OWED TO THE VICTIMS OF IRAN SPONSORED GLOBAL TERRORISM U.S COURT ISSUES ORDER TO SEIZE IRAN'S INTERNET DOMAIN AND IP ADDRESSES

On Tuesday the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to seize Iran’s internet domain (.ir) and IP addresses in order to recover more than $1 billion in damages that the Islamic Republic owes for its sponsorship of global terror.

The Times of Israel reports on the action taken in response to the lawsuit brought by Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center, on behalf of a group of terror victims and their survivors:

The United State District Court decided that the .ir domain name, along with Iran’s IP addresses — without which Iranian websites cannot be included in the World Wide Web — were assets that could be seized to satisfy judgments against the Islamic state of more than a billion dollars, owed by Iran to Israeli and US victims of terror perpetrated by the Hamas and Hezbollah organizations, among others.

As a result, Shurat Hadin, representing those victims, could collect the fees Iran pays to keep its Internet going — or force an auction of Iran’s Internet assets to satisfy the judgment.

ICANN has 10 days to respond to the order. ICANN will likely argue that legally Iran’s internet properties cannot be seized. After that, the plaintiffs will have ten days to respond with a counterclaim.

An intellectual property lawyer interviewed by the New York Post called the legal strategy “very creative and very aggressive.” While it is uncertain that the strategy will succeed in the ICANN case, other efforts to recover damages from Iran have succeeded. Last year a federal court seized a skyscraper belonging to Iran. It was the largest terror related forfeiture. Subsequently, a court ruled that proceeds from the sale of that building could be used to pay damages to families of terror victims.

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IRANIAN CLERIC CLAIMS ISRAEL IS USING JINNS TO SPY ON IRAN AND IT'S ALLIES

An Iranian cleric accused Israel of using demons called jinn to spy on Iran and it's allies. Iranian TV broadcast a video where Waliullah Naqi Borfer, who claims to be an expert in the world of monsters such as Djins, a supernatural phenomenon of Arab mythology says that Jews have long experience in handling jinns.

He added that Israel has tried to use the creature to make spying on Iran,Hezbollah and Hamas. But still he thought Israelis failed in their attempts. He did not give details of this failure.

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"I AM LOOKING FOR A VIRGIN, I AM BEGINNING TO DESPAIR, I THINK I WILL RETURN TO MY VILLAGE AND MARRY ONE OF MY COUSINS " BACKLASH AGAINST NEW MATCHMAKING SERVICES FOR FOREIGNERS TO MARRY DIVORCED AND WIDOWED WOMEN IN SYRIA

Khaled opened his doors nine months ago; since then, he has arranged 23 marriages. He says the majority of these cases involved widowed and divorced women to men who have come from outside Syria, notably from Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He charges 2,000 Syrian pounds ($133) per person per match.

The perceived selling of Syrian women to foreign men is the major reason Khaled and his colleagues are seeing backlash.

"These are overseas brokers who sell Syrian women to wealthy Arabs outside Syria," says Mahmoud Suleiman, 36, an employee at a private-sector company in Idlib. "These bargains involve large sums of money."

"[Local] media outlets have reported that there is an organized network that runs and controls marriages of female Syrian refugees to persons in many neighboring countries in return for commissions or fees ... under the pretext of shielding and protecting the Syrian girls," Suleiman said.

But some support matchmaking as a valid substitute for traditional dating. Mahmoud, a 61-year-old army retiree, now works in a marriage office in nearby Binnish, in rural Idlib. "Our services prevent the outbreak of sin and adultery in society," he says, adding that the matchmakers play a pivotal role in encouraging young people preoccupied by the war to get married – especially now that the number of marriages have decreased due to the sheer number of men killed in battle.

Mohammad, 49, is a former employee of the Idlib Electricity Company and met his wife through a marriage office eight months ago.

"I studied the files of dozens of girls before selecting one," he says. "Had the office had not been there, my options would have been limited. The office also provided facilitation in registering the marriage at the sharia courts."

His bride is a 32-year-old war widow. The two now live at his home in the Khan Sheikhoun area. "Everything is going well for us," he says.

Ditto Hameed, 32, a taxi driver from rural al-Hamdyeh. Unable to find a suitable marriage partner, he contacted a matchmaking service four months ago – but is still looking to find the perfect wife.

"The majority of registered females are widows or divorced," he says, "and I'm looking for a virgin. I'm beginning to despair of finding what I want, and I think I will soon return to traditions practiced in my village and marry one of my cousins."

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FORMER SENIOR GOVERNMENT ADVISER ON TACKLING RADICALIZATION AND EXTREMISM DEFENDS RIGHT OF MUSLIMS FROM UK TO TRAVEL TO WAGE JIHAD IN SYRIA

A former senior government adviser on tackling radicalisation and extremism has defended the right of British Muslims to travel to Syria and fight.

Farooq Siddiqui, a former regional manager for the government's controversial Prevent strategy, said it was acceptable for Britons to "walk the walk" and travel to Syria to fight the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.

As part of a Facebook conversation Siddiqui, 45, defended the right of an individual to be called a martyr if he took up arms against Assad, and questioned whether those who fought against the Syrian president should face arrest upon return to the UK.

Writing on Facebook, in reference to the situation inside Syria, Siddiqui said: "If a man describes himself as wanting to help the oppressed and dies, in that case he is a martyr."

Referring to an individual prepared to travel and stand up for his beliefs, Siddiqui adds: "I'd rather take his word for it because he walked the walk and isn't sat behind a keyboard like me."

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"HE HAS NOT COMMITTED ANY CRIMES IN THE UK" CLAIMING HE HAD BEEN TORTURED IN LEBANON FAMILY OF JIHADI PREACHER OMAR BAKRI APPLYING FOR ASYLUM IN UK

The family of Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammad are applying for his asylum in the UK after claiming he had been tortured in Lebanon.

They say the radical preacher has suffered systematic torture while in custody at a maximum security prison.

The family say he should be allowed back into Britain on "humanitarian grounds" as his health has deteriorated and he is no longer able to walk.

The cleric caused outrage in the wake of the 2005 London bombings after saying he would not inform police if he knew Muslims were planning attacks.

He left the UK in 2005 and was told he would not be allowed to return.

But the cleric's son, Mohammad Bakri, told Sky News: "I'm here on the humanitarian basis. At the end of the day, many people find what he says distasteful, and he quotes things from the Islamic perspective.

"But I think unless you know the character, himself, like my father - I grew up with him - so therefore I understand the tactics that he uses to attract the media in order to pass the message of Islam.

"You may find that distasteful, but at the end of the day he has not committed any crimes in the UK."

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A Home Office spokesman said: 'An individual must be physically present in the UK in order to make a claim for asylum.

'Omar Bakri Muhammad was permanently excluded from the UK in 2005 on the grounds that his presence is not conducive to the public good.

'As Omar Bakri Muhammad is excluded from the UK, he will be unable to make a claim for asylum.'

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MUSLIM BURNS GIRL ALIVE BECAUSE HER FAMILY REFUSED HIS MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (PAKISTAN)

In Punjab, a man burned alive a young girl he wanted to marry after her family refused his proposal. Fayaz Aslam, 26, doused Sidra Shaukat in gasoline before setting the 20-year-old alight in a field, said Akhtar Saeed, a district police official.

Saeed said the girl was taken to hospital where she died overnight. He said Aslam was arrested for murder.

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ISIS ANNOUNCE CREATION OF CALIPHATE AND ASKS OTHER JIHADI ORGANIZATIONS TO PLEDGE THEIR ALLEGIANCE

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has reportedly declared the areas it occupies in Iraq and Syria as a new Islamic state, removing Iraq and the Levant from its name and ushering in “a new era of international jihad”.

The announcement will see the Isis now simply refer to itself as The Islamic State, and the group has called on al-Qa’ida and other related militant Sunni factions operating in the region to immediately pledge their allegiance.

According to Isis’s chief spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the declaration of the “restoration of the caliphate” was made after a meeting of the group’s Shura Council. In recent weeks, Isis has captured large areas of western and northern Iraq and for two years has held parts of Syria, imposing a harsh interpretation of Islamic law and in many cases, killing large numbers of opposition Shia Muslims.

Adnani said all jihadist organisations must now offer up their support to Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has been declared Caliph of the new state.

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BOKO HARAM ATTACK SEVERAL CHURCHES KILLING THIRTY PEOPLE (NIGERIA)

The Islamist militants attacked several churches in the northeastern villages of Kwada and Kautikari in the Chibok district, Abba Aji Khalil, chairman of a vigilante group in Borno state, said in a phone interview today.

“At least 30 persons were killed when suspected Boko Haram members attacked churches in Chibok today,” Khalil said.

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Isil crucifies 8 rebels in Syria's Aleppo

The jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has publicly executed and crucified eight rebels fighting both President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the jihadists in Syria, a monitor said on Sunday.

"ISIL executed eight men in Deir Hafer in the east of Aleppo province" on Saturday because they belonged to rebel groups that had fought against the jihadists as well as Assad's forces, it said. ISIL then "crucified them in the main square of the village, where their bodies will remain for three days", the Britain-based monitor said.

Also in Aleppo province, a ninth man was crucified for eight hours as a form of punishment in Al-Bab town near the border with Turkey. He survived the ordeal.

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"WERE SEEN STORING BOXES OF KHAT IN THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF FLATBUSH" NYPD MOSQUE SURVEILLANCE LEADS TO BUST OF INTERNATIONAL DRUG RING AND ARREST OF 17 MUSLIMS IN U.K AND U.S.

State and NYPD investigators say it’s an addictive drug used in many countries, but many people in the New York area have never heard of it.

Those are not the people in the Tri-State who were using khat, a leaf whose juices have a stimulant effect similar to amphetamine. Enough local residents use khat, however, to have funded what cops call an international drug ring that they broke up on Friday.

The leaves, which users typically eat whole, emit a fragrant smell. Two plastic bags of them filled a display table at the New York State Attorney General’s Office on Friday afternoon, filling the press conference room with a nutty, grainy aroma. But the attorney general himself said that the bags of leaves were part of a large, illegal business that smells foul to law enforcement.

“We’re still tracking the funds,” said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, regarding the khat ring. “But we know it was millions of dollars.”

He said that officers from his agency and the NYPD arrested 17 people in the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

According to the attorney general, the leader of the operation, Yadeta “Murad” Bekri, would ship khat in boxes to two UPS Stores in Manhattan. His two leaders in the U.S., Bayan Yusuf and Ahmed Adem, would pick up the boxes of leaves and send them to distributors, who would, in turn, store the boxes until they could make a sale, the attorney general said.

For example, according to investigators, two Flatbush, Brooklyn residents, Mustafa Sadeq Ali and Sadeq Hassan Ali, were seen on surveillance video storing boxes of khat in the Islamic Center of Flatbush, a mosque located right next door to their building.

Attorney General Schneiderman confirmed that the surveillance was the result of an ongoing terrorism investigation at the mosque. He said that the investigation did not yield any indication of terrorism.

It did uncover, however, a three layered international narcotics distribution ring, officials said, in violation of U.S. laws against khat sales and distribution, in place for two decades.

“It’s key to understand these networks and how the money flows,” said John Miller, the NYPD deputy commissioner for intelligence. He said that, in his travels to Yemen for his job, he had personally observed the devastating effect that khat can have on people who use it. He declined to elaborate.

He and the attorney general did point out that the alleged khat ring they busted would ship the leaves from Yemen, Ethiopia and Kenya to the U.K., Belgium, the Netherlands and China. From there, the leaves were shipped to New York, sometimes in boxes disguised to be carrying a more benign cargo.

“Some of the boxes had labels that said ‘tea,’” Attorney General Schneiderman said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. “It should not be used as tea,” he said, sternly, but half seriously.

A LOT MORE THAN JIHAD PREACHING GOES ON IN THE MOSQUES.

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LED BY KEITH ELLISON MUSLIMS RALLY OUTSIDE TREASURY DEPT. DEMANDING TO BE ALLOWED WIRE TRANSFER MONEY TO SOMALIA (MINNESOTA)

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A renewed push is underway to allow wire transfers to Somalia.

Rep. Keith Ellison, along with members of the community, held a rally outside the U.S. Department of Treasury office in St. Paul on Friday.

The group is calling on lawmakers to change its policies so families in Somalia can receive money from relatives here in the states.

The government's biggest concern is that the money could wind up in the hands of terrorists.

"Because the real problem is that on the other end of the transaction, it's not easy to verify whose picking up the money," Ellison said.

He says he helped get a bill passed through the House of Representatives that addresses this issue, but it still needs to be approved by the Senate.

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COUPLE TIED UP THROATS SLIT BY GIRL'S FATHER BECAUSE SHE "EMBARRASSED" HER FAMILY BY MARRYING A MAN OF HER CHOICE WHO BELONGED TO A "LESSER TRIBE" (PAKISTAN)

A young couple were tied up and had their throats slit with scythes after they married for love, police said on Saturday.

The 17-year-old girl and 31-year-old man married on June 18 without the consent of their families in eastern village of Satrah. The girl’s father and mother lured the couple home late on Thursday with the promise that their marriage would receive a family blessing, said Rana Zashid, a local police official.

“When the couple reached there, they tied them with ropes,” he said. “He (the girl’s father) cut their throats.” Police arrested the family, who said they had been embarrassed by the marriage of their daughter, named Muafia Hussein, to a man from a less important tribe.

Cultural traditions in many areas mean that killing a woman whose behaviour is seen as immodest is widely accepted. Immodest behaviour that sparked recent killings included singing, looking out of the window or talking to a man who is not a relative.

For a woman to marry a man of her own choice is considered an unacceptable insult by many families. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said 869 so-called “honour killings” were reported in the media last year – several a day. But the true figure is probably much higher since many cases are never reported.

The government does not collect centralized statistics and has no strategy to combat the killings. The local law means that even if a woman’s killer is convicted, her family is able to forgive the killer. Many families simply nominate a member to do the killing, then formally forgive the killer.

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"ALL PARENTS AND STUDENTS ARE AWARE OF OUR UNIFORM EXPECTATIONS WHEN THEY JOIN THE SCHOOL" PETITION TO ALLOW MALE STUDENTS TO WEAR ISLAMIC CLOTHING TO SCHOOL DENIED (UK)

A motion by pupils calling for boys to be allowed to wear religious clothing to school has been rejected.

Hampstead School’s student council requested that boys be allowed to wear “cultural dress to school” including the Islamic Taqiyah cap or prayer robes.

But the council was told the idea had been dismissed after being raised with governors.

The uniform policy states that boys are only allowed to wear the Sikh turban or Jewish kippah, though both genders are allowed to wear discreet items of religious jewellery. Female pupils can wear items of cultural dress as long as the school logo is showing.

These include the jilbab, a long loose dress worn by some Muslim women, and the kameez, a long tunic worn by Asian women.

Jacques Szemalikowski, who is headteacher at the school in Westbere Road, Cricklewood, said: “All parents and students are aware of our uniform expectations when the join they school.”

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FAILED ASYLUM SEEKERS AKA MUSLIM OPPORTUNISTS THREATEN TO JUMP OFF THE ROOF OF A SCHOOL IF NOT ALLOWED TO STAY IN GERMANY

Hundreds of police have surrounded a former school in Berlin occupied by refugees who have been refusing to leave for more than 18 months.

The predominantly African refugees are demanding the right to stay in Germany, even though most have lost their fight for asylum.

A Sudanese refugee told reporters many of the migrants had climbed on to the roof and were ready to jump off the building if police entered it.

The tense stand-off at the Gerhart Hauptmann Schule involved 40-80 refugees and supporters who stayed in the building after police this week evicted the majority of about 200 who had occupied it since 2012.

City officials say they are willing to negotiate with the refugees about their demands, but only if they leave.

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"MY FATHER SOLD MY VIRGINITY" PARENTS JAILED FOR FORCING DAUGHTER INTO PROSTITUTION (SAUDI ARABIA)

A father and a mother were jailed for forcing their 16-year-old daughter into prostitution by selling her to a businessman, who paid Dh16,000 to have sex with her.

The Dubai Court of First Instance jailed the 38-year-old Pakistani father, K.A., for five years and his 35-year-old wife, S.K., for three years because they exploited their teenaged daughter sexually and coerced her [emotionally] to have sex with strangers.

The 16-year-old girl had earlier cried when she confronted her parents in court and testified how they sold her body for Dh16,000 to overcome poverty.

“My father sold my virginity because he wanted me to help our family not to stay poor anymore. He and my mother forced me to work in prostitution,” said the Pakistani teenager.

Prosecutors said K.A. and S.K. of human trafficking by exploiting their parenthood and coercing their daughter into the sex industry.

The court also handed the mother six additional months in jail for working in prostitution.

The Pakistani businessman, M.Y., who had sex with the teenager, was jailed for one year.

The girl told the court: “We are poor and my father coerced me to come with him to Dubai… he told me that if I work in prostitution, we would become rich quickly. He became angry when I refused. I was forced to accept because I was under severe emotional pressure.”

“Who was the first customer who had sex with you? And did he know that you had not yet become a woman?” presiding judge Abdul Lat asked the teenager.

Pointing to M.Y., the girl replied: “It was that man. My parents and A.H. took me to M.Y. in a hotel room. He asked me to undress, but I was nervous and cried and begged him not to do that to me. Then he threatened me saying that he would take back the Dh16,000 that he had paid my father if I refused to surrender myself to him. I cried and begged him not to take the money… I removed part of my clothes. When he insisted, I asked him to allow me to call my father. When I spoke to my father, he told me not to sadden M.Y. Yes he knew that I had not yet become a woman and he told me that he paid Dh16,000 for that particular purpose.”

Prosecution records said a police informant posed as a potential client and the parents were arrested in a sting operation. The suspects were taken into custody.

“A.H. and M.S. used a mobile phone to take photos of me and the other women naked or half dressed to put the photos on the internet and lure clients,” the girl told the bench of three judges.

Thursday ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.

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The Rise of British Jihadists in Syria

"WE WANT TO PREVENT AND STOP SUCH ORGANISATION WHO PROMOTE RADICALISATION" POLICE AND BOROUGH COUNCIL ACCUSED OF "INTIMIDATING MUSLIMS" AFTER BANNING ISLAMIC ORG. WITH TIES TO JIHADI GROUPS FROM USING PUBLIC VENUES (UK)

Stopping the promotion of radicalisation was the main reason an Islamic group has been banned from using a council's public venues in Slough, the town's police chief said this week.

Police and Slough Borough Council were accused of intimidating Muslims when they handed letters to a group at Chalvey Community Centre in The Green on Tuesday, June 17.

The letters explained the group was not welcome to use the facilities any longer after authorities were alerted to the possibility it may have links with Al Muhajiroun or Muslims Against Crusades (MAC).

At a media briefing on Monday, Superintendent Simon Bowden, local police area commander (LPA) for Slough, said letters had to be directly handed to the group as there was 'no guarantee that they would get the message' otherwise.

But he described the operation as 'low key' and said there was not 'any fear at all'.

He added: "We had the letters written out in English and translated into other languages as well to make sure everyone was quite certain of what was happening."

When asked about whether he is concerned about extremism in Slough, supt Bowden said ‘no is the straight answer’.

He added: “We want to prevent and stop such organisations who promote radicalisation.”

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MUSLIM PARENTS FILE LAWSUIT CLAIMING A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER CALLED THEIR SON A "TERRORIST" WITH A "STUPID AND FAKE" RELIGION (MICHIGAN)

A middle-school substitute teacher berated a sixth-grader for nearly an hour, calling him a "terrorist" with a "stupid" and "fake" religion, after overhearing him discussing his religion - Islam - with a classmate, the boy's parents claim in court.

Semir and Elma Maric, for themselves and their son, sued Professional Educational Services Group LLC and the substitute teacher, Janice McKay, in Kent County Circuit Court.

The Marics claim that their son was intimidated, falsely imprisoned and abused at Kraft Meadows Middle School, in Caledonia, Mich., on March 4 this year.

The public school district is not a party to the complaint.

The Marics claim that McKay was hired as a sub that day through the defendant Professional Educational Services Group.

On March 4, the parents claim, their son "was discussing Islam with another classmate while in the classroom after one class and going to another class."

They claim that McKay - a substitute sixth-grade Language Arts and Social Studies teacher that day - overheard the conversation and "immediately started berating (their son.)"

"(Their son) returned to his seat while his classmate left to go to another class, but not before that student heard some of the things that McKay was saying to (their son."

The complaint continues: "McKay said many inappropriate and hateful things to (the boy). These things included, but were not limited to, telling (him):

"That he was a terrorist;

"That (his) religion was fake and that his God was fake;

"That (he) needed to go home and pray to Jesus;

"That it was stupid for (him) to pray five times a day;

"That it was stupid for Muslim women to wear headscarves; and

"That (the boy) had the mark of the beast and would be killed."

The Marics claim that McKay scolded their son for nearly an hour, and that he "missed an entire class period in another classroom because he was too afraid to leave."

The boy was alone in the room with McKay during the dressing-down, but "two of his friends came down the hallway several times and were able to hear many of the hateful things that McKay was saying to (him)," according to the complaint.

McKay then her class to stay away from another Islamic student, who began to cry, prompting McKay to tell "the other students that her tears were fake," the Marics say in the lawsuit.

They seek compensatory and punitive damages for ethnic intimidation, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation and negligent training and supervision.

The parents say their son acted out over the next several days because of the traumatic experience, and that other students asked him about the incident, "which forced him to relive this frightening and humiliating experience many times."

The Marics are represented by Tyler Osburn of Schenk, Boncher and Rypma in Grand Rapids.

MOST PROBABLY THEIR SON WAS GIVING DAWAH TO HIS CLASSMATES.

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MUSLIM PLEADS GUILTY TO ATTEMPTING TO PROVIDE MATERIAL SUPPORT TO ISIS JIHADIS IN SYRIA (TEXAS)

A man charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists has pleaded guilty, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Michael Wolfe, 23, faces up to 15 years in federal prison.

According to a release from the Department of Justice, Wolfe admitted that from August 2013 to June 2014 he planned to travel to the Middle East to provide his services to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria, a foreign terrorism organization. Wolfe said he planned to engage in violent jihad in Syria.

Wolfe purchased plane tickets to Europe so he could meet with an undercover FBI agent, who he believed would help him travel to Syria through Turkey. Wolfe was arrested on June 17 in Houston as he attempted to board a flight to Canada.

Wolfe is in federal custody. There is no date set for his sentencing trial.

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"I WOULD HAVE TO GO TEACH THIS CLASS AS VICTIM STARING MY AGGRESSOR IN THE FACE" PROFESSOR QUITS JOB OVER UNIVERSITY'S REFUSAL TO DEAL WITH MUSLIM STUDENTS SPREADING JIHAD ON CAMPUS (CANADA)

A former professor at the University of Calgary says he left his tenured position after colleagues refused to respond to his concerns with students spreading radical Muslim views.

Aaron Hughes, a prolific author on religion who holds a PhD on Islamic studies, said he once found a message scrawled in Arabic across his classroom’s chalkboard endorsing Islamic Jihad and Hamas, widely considered a terrorist group by western countries.

Hughes, who is Jewish, said he interpreted the message as anti-Semitic, but he said the university declined to remove the offending student from his class.

“I would have to go teach this class as a victim staring my aggressor in the face,” he said.

Hughes, who now teaches at the University of Rochester, said he’s not surprised by reports of Calgarians travelling abroad to fight with extremist groups, given what he experienced. He wondered whether influences on university campuses are helping to fuel this movement of young men waging jihad in Syria and Iraq.

The professor and researcher said he also saw a young Muslim stand up during a University of Calgary memorial service for the 9/11 terrorist attacks to say, “Islam will always stand up for those who are dispossessed.” Later, he saw a student wearing a Hamas headband.

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MUSLIM WITH SWEDISH CITIZENSHIP WANTED IN LEBANON FOR PROVIDING EXPLOSIVES TO SUICIDE BOMBERS

The Lebanese Security authorities circulated on Thursday the picture of a suspect who was accused of providing the Duroy Hotel bombers with explosives

Media reports indicated that the two attackers wanted to target Asaha Restaurant which is located on Imam Khomaini road in Dahieh near the Rasoul Azam Mosque.

“Following the authorization of the relevant judicial authorities, the General Security circulated the picture of al-Monzer Khaldoun al-Hassan, who was born in 1990 in Akkar’s Bizbina to a mother who hails from (Syria’s) Aleppo,” National News Agency ( NNA) reported.

Al-Hassan is a dual citizen .He also holds a swedish passport in addition to his Lebanese , NNA added

Al-Hassan “is suspected of having provided the terror cell that was raided at the Duroy Hotel (in Raouche) with suicide vests and explosives,” NNA quoted the General Security agency as saying.

The report added that he drives two cars: An old beige Nissan, and a 2005 silver Mercedes and “both cars may be booby-trapped.”

LBCI television said the man was arrested based on the confessions of the Saudi would-be suicide bomber who survived Wednesday’s blast and who was captured by the General Security.

“The arrested would-be suicide bomber told interrogators that he and his companion had intended to target al-Saha Restaurant near the Great Prophet Mosque in Beirut’s southern suburbs,” LBCI reported.

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MUSLIM SENTENCED TO 29 YEARS FOR MURDERING PREGNANT PROSTITUTE BECAUSE SHE WAS WORKING NEAR A MOSQUE (UK)

A Muslim who stabbed a pregnant Romanian prostitute to death after warning her not to work near a mosque was jailed for at least 29 years today.

Farooq Shah, 21, plunged a knife into Mariana Popa’s chest while riding his bicycle along a stretch of road notorious for sex workers.

Miss Popa, 24, had been in Britain for just three weeks and was trying to earn the money to support her family when she was stabbed in Ilford, Essex.

IMAM ARRESTED FOR RAPING EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRL SENT TO MOSQUE TO DELIVER HIS LUNCH (BANGLADESH)

Abdul Latif, 60, was handed over to police by locals on Friday afternoon after the incident came to light, said Jhikargacha Police Station OC Mosharraf Hossain.

Latif, from Sirajganj, is the Imam of the mosque at Gaburapur village in the Upazila.

Hossain told bdnews24.com the girl was a student of the Shiordah Government Primary School.

A case has been filed over the allegations of rape, he said.

The girl’s father told bdnews24.com her daughter had gone to give the Imam his lunch. Latif tricked her to stay longer and then raped her, he alleged.

After she returned home and told her family about what happened, the locals caught him and then handed him to police, he said.

Family members said the girl was admitted to Jessore Medical College and Hospital Friday evening.

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"SHE HAD TOO MUCH ABCD" MUSLIM PROUD OF ABUSING HIS 14 YEAR OLD EX WIFE BLAMES EDUCATION FOR HER DISOBEDIENCE (NIGERIA)

KADUNA, Nigeria — By the time she ran away, Maimuna bore the scars of a short but brutal marriage.

Her face swelled so much from her husband’s beating that doctors feared he had dislocated her jaw. Her back and arms bristled with angry welts where her father had whipped her for fleeing to him. She was gaunt from hunger, dressed in filthy rags. And barely a year after her wedding, she was divorced.

It would be a tragic story for a woman of any age. But for Maimuna Abdullahi, it all happened by the time she was 14.

“I’m too scared to go back home,” she whispers, a frown crinkling her brow as she fiddles nervously with her hands. “I know they will force me to go back to my husband.”

Maimuna is one of thousands of divorced girls in Nigeria, children who were forced into marriage and have since run away or been thrown out by their husbands. They are victims of a belief that girls should get wed rather than educated, which drew the world’s attention after Boko Haram terrorists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls two months ago and threatened to marry them off. Most are still missing.

Maimuna’s former husband, Mahammadu Saidu, blames her few years of school for her disobedience. A handsome man of 28 who is obviously proud of his ankle-high boots, he does not deny beating his wife.

“She had too much ABCD,” he says. “Too much ABCD.”

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"FOR SOMEONE TO SAY SORRY TO HASSAN JUST DOES'NT CUT IT" ANGRY MUSLIM MOTHER DEMANDS SCHOOL FIRE MEMBER OF CATERING STAFF WHO MISTAKENLY SERVED HER SON A NON HALAL BURGER (UK)

An angry mum is demanding an investigation after her son was mistakenly served a non-halal burger for his school lunch.

Thirteen-year-old Hassan Ramzan was given the wrong meal at Rotherham’s Brinsworth Comprehensive School.

He was told by a friend an error might have been made and when Hassan asked a member of the catering staff she admitted there had been a mix up.

Mum Imtiaz Khan, of Raby Street, Brinsworth, said she had felt sick after hearing about the incident.

“As Muslims we are simply not allowed to eat non-halal meats and for someone to say sorry to Hassan just doesn’t cut it,” she said.

“I’ve been asking the school for an explanation but without success. It’s hard to explain how angry this has made me feel.

“Obviously someone in the kitchen has taken their eye off the ball but they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with an apology – I feel it should be a sackable offence.”

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"PEOPLE CAN'T PRAY LIKE THIS" MUSLIMS DEMAND RAIL SERVICE INSTALL NETTING UNDER BRIDGE TO SAVE THEM FROM BIRD DROPPINGS BECAUSE ISLAM REQUIRES THEM TO BE CLEAN BEFORE ENTERING A MOSQUE (UK)

PIGEONS are making life difficult for people who say the droppings they leave underneath a railway bridge are a safety risk and so dirty they make worshippers reluctant to go to a nearby mosque.

Now councillors and residents in Maindee, Newport, are calling on Network Rail to install netting to stop the birds nesting.

Many worshippers at the Shahporan Bangladeshi Jam’e Mosque just off Chepstow Road have to walk underneath the bridge to get to prayers.

In Islam, there is a requirement that people are clean before they come into the mosque or begin to pray. But some feel the dirty bridge makes this difficult, while others say the pigeon prevalence is dangerous, as people have slipped over on the droppings.

Abbas Meah, 75, who has lived in Maindee since 1962, said the pigeons were causing problems for people going to mosque.

“People must walk through pigeon mess on both sides of the bridge,” he said. “I have spoken to our local MP. If they just put a net up that would help; that’s all we’re asking for. People can’t pray like this.”

Majid Rahman, councillor for Victoria ward, said: “The walls are grubby with pigeon mess. It’s a health and safety issue. Someone badly hurt their hand as a result of droppings on a metal grate. We’re looking to have a meeting with Network Rail.”

Fellow councillor Christine Jenkins said: “They clean it but as soon as they do, the mess is there again. It’s time Network Rail took responsibility for their bridge. It’s dangerous – someone is going to slip on it.”

A Network Rail spokesperson said: “Network Rail has a responsibility to taxpayers to ensure that it spends its limited public funds wisely.

“When looking at the problem and nuisance we know pigeons cause, we look at the scale of the problem and undertake a risk assessment to make an informed judgement. We cannot justify the expense of netting as we don’t believe there is a statutory nuisance.”

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MUSLIM OPPORTUNISTS FROM AFGHANISTAN THREATEN TO BURN THEMSELVES ALIVE IF NOT GIVEN LEGAL STATUS IN UK (FRANCE)

Asylum seekers in Calais have threatened to burn themselves alive if they are not let into Britain.

The 25 refugees have vowed to make desperate and horrific gesture in the town’s main shopping street unless the French and British governments meet a list of demands.

They are among 35 asylum seekers who have been on hunger strike since June 12 in a protest camp near the main ferry port.

They are demanding that refugees who want to cross the Channel are given legal status in Britain, and those that wish to remain in France are granted legal status there.

And they are asking for safe accommodation and an end to police brutality in Calais until a deal between the UK and France on their fate is reached.

One 40-year-old Afghan asylum seeker named John Abdullah told French media: 'We are tired of life. We want human rights. We want the British and French governments to think about us, but nobody cares.

'All 25 of us have decided that if they do not listen, we will kill ourselves. We will go to the high street, throw petrol and set ourselves on fire.'

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MOSQUES MUST PUBLICIZE ANTI TERRORISM CAMPAIGN,SURVEILLANCE INSIDE EVERY MOSQUE,STUDENTS MUST ATTEND PATRIOTIC STUDY CLASSES,RANDOM SEARCHES OF PRIVATE HOMES,JUST SOME OF CHINA'S NEW RULES FOR RAMADAN

Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered mosques frequented by mostly Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs to use the holy month of Ramadan to publicize Beijing's anti-terrorism campaign, according to an exile Uyghur group.

The municipal government in the regional capital Urumqi has ordered mosques to "propagandize" China's anti-terrorism policies on the eve of the beginning of Ramadan on Saturday, and just ahead of the fifth anniversary of deadly ethnic riots that left nearly 200 people dead in 2009, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) told RFA.

Muslim Uyghurs will begin a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting and prayers on Saturday amid increased surveillance from neighborhood committee and security officials, as well as newly installed cameras, WUC spokesman Dilxat Raxit said.

"Between 10 and 18 security personnel have been stationed inside every mosque in the city for surveillance," Raxit said. "Also, all mosques are being required to ensure that the surveillance cameras installed there are in normal working order."

He said restrictions would be extended to Uyghurs at schools and colleges across the city.

"Students will have to attend 'patriotic study' classes, while schools are required to organize meals for students to ensure they don't fast or attend any illegal religious activities," Raxit said.

He said neighborhood-level officials have had all vacation canceled.

"[These] officials won't be allowed to take leave during Ramadan, and they will have to work a seven-day week," Raxit said in an interview. "They will have to keep watch to see whether Uyghurs take part in religious activities during Ramadan."

"There was also a directive issued that calls for them ... to enter and search people's homes during the Ramadan period," Raxit said.

"Surveillance teams are being set up in every town and village to carry out sudden-strike searches of Uyghur households, to see if they are holding any unauthorized gatherings," he said.

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ANCIENT TEMPLE MADE FAMOUS BY MOVIE "EXORCIST" NOW IN THE HANDS OF ISIL JIHADIS

An ancient temple made famous in the film The Exorcist has fallen into the hands of the Islamic militants who have taken over northern Iraq, the Telegraph has learnt.

The pre-Christian worship complex at Hatra, a vast network of 200-ft high sun-god temples that is a Unesco world heritage site, features in the opening sequence of the 1973 horror classic.

But it now lies in the territory claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (Isis), prompting fears that its stone statues could be destroyed as idolatrous images by the militants.

Already, Isis fighters in the city of Mosul, 70 miles north-west Hatra, have demolished a statue of Othman al-Mousuli, a 19th Century Iraqi musician and composer, and the statue of Abu Tammam, an Abbasid-era Arab poet.

A councillor from the Hatra area told The Telegraph that the 20-strong squad of Iraqi policemen who had guarded the temple from looters had fled after the area fell to tribal militants and Isis fighters a fortnight ago

Locals say that since then, the area has been targeted by Iraqi warplanes that have dropped bombs on the militants less than a mile from the temple itself.

“The guards all ran and left their weapons behind when they heard that the tribes and Isis were coming,” said councillor Mohammed Abdallah Khozal, whose own son was killed in the fighting with the militants.

“Currently there is no one protecting the temple at all, and it is in control of the rebels. I am concerned about its safety, although I am also worried about government forces doing bombing.”

An oasis of pre-Christian civilisation in the middle of the desert that stretches toward Syria, Hatra’s columns and statues make it one of the most impressive of Iraq’s archaeological sites.

Dating back to around the 3rd century BC, it is dedicated mainly to the sun god Shamash, whose statues and masks adorn its vast limestone and gypsum walls.

Director William Friedkin filmed in Hatra for the first scene in The Exorcist, in which a priest at an archaeology dig unearths an ancient talisman belonging to Pazuzu, an ancient Mesopotamian demon. A child bogeymen in Mesopotamian folklore, Pazuzu is said to be alerted whenever his talismans are disturbed or touched, and in The Exorcist he goes to possess a young American girl.

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ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS IN JAIL FOR "BREAKING ALLEGIANCE WITH THE RULER,CRITICIZING AUTHORITIES"

Rights group Amnesty International has condemned a Saudi court decision to jail an activist for seven years, labelling the charges as “spurious” and urging that the sentence be quashed.

A court in Riyadh passed the sentence on Fowzan Al Harbi on Tuesday and also banned him from travelling for a further seven years, Amnesty said in a statement.

Harbi was convicted on several charges, including “breaking allegiance” with the ruler, criticising the authorities in the country and participating in founding an “unlicensed organisation”.

Harbi, 36, is a founder of the local Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), and was jailed in December 2013, when a judge ordered his arrest without providing a reason, according to Amnesty.

He was released on Monday, a day before his conviction, and is currently free pending the outcome of an appeal.

Harbi faced charges including “inciting disobedience to the ruler by calling for demonstrations”, and “signing documents that incite public opinion against the authorities”, Amnesty said.

Other members of ACPRA have been sentenced in the past, including co-founders Abdullah Al Hamid and Mohammad Al Qahtani, jailed for 10 and 11 years respectively in March 2013.

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Abu Qatada acquitted of terrorism conspiracy charge

Jordan's state security court acquits radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada of charges of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.

The cleric, who was extradited from Britain after a lengthy legal process, will continue to be held because of separate charges related to a plot to attack tourists during Jordan's New Year celebrations in 2000.

The Islamist preacher had previously been sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to life imprisonment for conspiracy to carry out Al-Qaeda-style attacks against US and other targets inside US ally Jordan.

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"FREEDOM OF RELIGION CANNOT STAND IN THE WAY OF THE PRINCIPALS OF SECULARISM AND NEUTRALITY" TOP APPEALS COURT BACKS DAYCARE CENTER'S RIGHT TO FIRE MUSLIM WOMAN FOR REFUSING TO REMOVE HIJAB (FRANCE)

France's top appeals court on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a Muslim woman who was fired from her job at a privately-run creche for refusing to remove her headscarf while at work, reports dpa.

The Court of Cassation ruled that Fatima Afif's dismissal from Baby-Loup creche in 2008 was justified under the creche's internal rules.

The rules of the creche, which is situated in the suburb of Chanteloup-les-Vignes, state that freedom of religion "cannot stand in the way of the principles of secularism and neutrality."

Wednesday's ruling by the Court of Cassation was its second on the case in as many years and reflects a sea change in its position.

In March 2013, the court had backed Afif, pointing out that a 2004 law banning the headscarf in state schools did not apply to private institutions and accusing the creche of religious discrimination.

The case was then sent back to Paris Court of Appeal, which rebelled against the Court of Cassation, saying that while religious freedom was a "fundamental principle" the creche had a right to make rules about how people working with children in a multicultural environment should behave.

On Monday, the Court of Cassation agreed with that assessment, saying the creche's restriction on Afif's freedom of religion was "justified by the nature of the work undertaken by the association's employees and proportional to its aims."

Secularism is a hot-button topic in France, which has the biggest Muslim population in western Europe.

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Your Daily Muslim #540: Muhammad Abid

Posted by Your Daily Muslim on June 25, 2014 in Activists, Anti-LGBT, Men, Pakistan

Muhammad Abid is not today’s daily Muslim’s real name. Very little about him is known. However, I think this information is too important not to disseminate.

The Muslim who goes by Muhammad Abid on Facebook is a notorious report jihadist. Report jihad, for those unfamiliar, is when Muslims mass-report counterjihad pages in an effort to get them wrongfully taken down. Abid admins the Report Anti-Islamic Pages page, which grew rapidly within days of its creation. Abid’s page has even attracted the likes of YDM featuree Bilal Mohammed.

The Islam Exposed page in that screenshot is one of the largest surviving counterjihad pages on Facebook. Its main page had over 100,000 likes when it was taken down around the same time as the YDM Facebook page. It is unknown whether or not Abid had anything to do with the report jihad that was waged against YDM (every picture on the page was reported, yes, even the entire 2013 daily calendar), but his goal is clear: to suppress any criticism of Islam or Muhammad, pigs be upon him.

Abid is also a homophobe, as evidenced by his reply to a counterjihadist who stumbled across his page:

Homophobic slurs from a Muslim? No way!

Then, the counterjihadist gave the Muslim a dose of reality. Abid’s attempt at a response is pathetic, being unable to refute the point that “blasphemy” is, in fact, victimless. Being offended by an insult against an imaginary entity does not make someone a victim, it makes them thin-skinned.

Sorry if your imaginary friend got its feelings hurt. Grow the f up, Abid, you’re an adult and need to stop wailing whenever someone says something you don’t like. Actually, all Muslims should take that advice.

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