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The "honour Killing" of Shafilea Ahmed

London Muslim - 40 min 11 sec ago

The parents of Shafilea Ahmed have been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of their daughter.While being cautious as the parents have not been charged, I am more genuinely perplexed and ...

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Bradford: more charges against EDL thugs possible as police examine CCTV footage

Islamophobia Watch - 2 hours 48 min ago

Police have vowed to bring the full force of the law against anyone involved in violence during a far-right demonstration in Bradford last Saturday. West Yorkshire Police are to scrutinise CCTV ...

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Yes, it is libellous to brand Muslims fascists

Islamophobia Watch - 10 hours 49 min ago

"While there demonstrably are political Islamist movements with programmes expressly advocating totalitarian theocracy – including the destruction of leftist parties and independent trade ...

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Abe Foxman condemns Geller and Spencer's 9/11 protest as 'un-American'

Islamophobia Watch - 10 hours 50 min ago

"... this rally, on this very tragic day for Americans, but most tragic for those who lost their families, to use it and abuse it as a platform for bigotry, is not only tragic, it's ...

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Bundesbank sacks Sarrazin

Islamophobia Watch - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 10:49pm

Germany's central bank today took the unprecedented step of sacking a board member after he repeatedly criticised the country's Muslim population and said "all Jews share the same gene". In a ...

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'The colonisation of Wales continues'

Islamophobia Watch - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 10:28pm

Thus the headline to a piece on the BNP website responding to reports that a disused Miners Institute building in Wrexham is to be converted into a mosque and community centre. The proposed ...

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Demos release report on the power of conspiracy theories

ENGAGE - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 2:00pm

Think tank Demos has released a new publication on the ‘radicalising multiplier’ effect of conspiracy theories and the use made of them by extremist groups. The report ‘The power of ...

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'Ground Zero mosque' protest: Geller and Spencer will be 'confiscating' placards and banners

Islamophobia Watch - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 1:51pm

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have both announced that they "respectfully request that those of you who will be attending our protest against the Ground Zero mega mosque bring American flags, ...

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FPÖ faces police probe over anti-Muslim video game

Islamophobia Watch - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 1:00pm

Members of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), once the political home of the late right-wing populist politician Jörg Haider, sparked outrage this week in the form of an anti-Muslim ...

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'9/11 happened to us all' – CAIR campaign challenges anti-Muslim bigotry

Islamophobia Watch - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 1:00pm

A Muslim advocacy organization has released public service announcements – including one featuring a Muslim firefighter who responded on 9/11 – as part of a campaign to fight recent ...

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DCLG releases survey results on attitudes towards violent extremism

ENGAGE - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 12:04pm

The Department of Communities and Local Government has today released experimental statistics from the first three quarters of the Citizenship Survey 2009-10 (covering months April-Dec 2009) ...

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Creation House Scrubs Terry Jones “Islam is of the Devil” Book

Barth's Notes - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 11:33am

On 4 August I blogged on Pastor Terry D. Jones’ book Islam is of the Devil, which had just been published by Creation House. The imprint was of interest: while Jones appeared to be a ...

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Germany: two polls on public attitudes towards Sarrazin controversy

Islamophobia Watch - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 11:15am

German public opinion is deeply split over the fate of a central banker whose disparaging comments about Muslim immigrants have triggered a heated debate on race and integration, surveys showed on ...

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Iain Dale: crocodile tears for a fellow Tory

Bloggerheads - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 9:20am

Iain Dale is currently very busy putting himself about in the mainstream media taking a ‘principled’ stand against the way Paul Staines (‘Guido Fawkes’) ...

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New York Muslim groups support Park51, condemn promotion of 'ethnic and religious hatred'

Islamophobia Watch - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 7:25am

It is "unethical, insensitive and inhumane" to oppose the planned mosque near ground zero, more than 50 leading Muslim organizations said Wednesday as they cast the intense debate as a symptom ...

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QPR's Devout Muslim Adel Taarabt on the importance of Islam and Ramadhan

London Muslim - Wed, 01/09/2010 - 10:36am

Most of my regular readers will know one of my real passions in life is football and QPR. That's why like most football fans yesterday I was closely watching the drama as the transfer window ...

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