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Archives for June 2005

Dutch Withdraw Salvation Army Subsidy Over Hiring Practices

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In unofficially translated news from the Netherlands Trouw: Amsterdam – Secretary de Geus of Social Affairs withdraws 200.000 euros subsidiaries from the Salvation Army. The Army refuses to hire two muslimas who are currently employed as volunteers for one of their projects. The Army only hires Christians. De Geus has, so he says, insisted in […]

Turkey: Prez Vetoes Bill to Relax Gov’t Control Over Religious Schools

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From Islamonline, “Sezer Vetoes Penal Code Over Religious Schools,” with thanks to KAOSKTRL. ANKARA – Turkey’s President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday, June 3, vetoed a government-sponsored law reducing penalties for unauthorized religious schools teaching the Noble Qur’an, arguing that it infringed on the secularist principles of the Muslim-majority country. The provision was part of a […]

UK: ‘Offensive’ hospital bibles may be banned

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Political correctness run amok in the UK, from the Telegraph, with thanks to MJ. The century-old tradition of bibles in hospital bedside lockers could be ended in one health trust today after officials decided they might offend ethnic minorities. Senior executives at the University of Leicester NHS Trust said it was also concerned that the […]

U.S. Confirms Gitmo Soldier Kicked Quran

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From AP: WASHINGTON – U.S. military officials say no guard at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects flushed a detainee’s Quran down the toilet, but they disclosed that a Muslim holy book was splashed with urine. In other newly disclosed incidents, a detainee’s Quran was deliberately kicked and another’s was stepped on. On March […]

Making Muslims peaceful via the Qur’an

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I got an email this morning from someone as full of moralizing as any old-fashioned schoolmarm: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” -John Adams. While Mr. Spencer writes eloquently and persuasively as ever, his […]

Iraq: Fallujah Sheikh Says Al-Zarqawi Died On Friday

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As yet unconfirmed. From AKI, : Baghdad, 2 June (AKI) – The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq – died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah’s cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out […]

Europe battles young terrorists

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European jihad and visa insanity update from UPI, : LONDON — European counterterrorism officials say they are facing a new, more dangerous generation of Islamic extremists, who are younger and more radical than their forebears, and in some cases trained and battle-hardened in Iraq. Judge Balthazar Garzon, an investigating magistrate who is leading Spain’s effort […]

“What is important is how the Quran is judged. People should learn what it is saying, then judge (Islam).”

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I’ll take you up on that. The words in the headline were spoken by Noyan Er, a doctoral student at Ohio University who asserts, as do many other American Muslims, that “the important question is not why (bin Laden) did it, but ‘is it because of” the Qur’an? Er answers his own question: “The answer […]

Prosecutors say city officials gave cleric “money for nothing”

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Here’s a very strange story from AP, with thanks to Kaosktrl: PHILADELPHIA (AP) “” City officials conspired to give a politically influential Muslim cleric “money for nothing,” a federal prosecutor argued Thursday, wrapping up his case in the latest of four City Hall corruption trials. Prosecutors allege that a city tax lawyer and a council […]

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