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Omar Bakri Mohammad’s followers in the U.K. held a conference in support of the imposition of Islamic law. A rare moment of clarity:

“Women need to be covered up, men lashed for fornication [outside marriage] and hands cut off for theft and breaking Sharia law,” he said.

When a woman in a burkha asked how he could justify this when Islam was supposed to be a religion of peace, the crowd mocked her. But it was Choudary who rose to put her in her place. “Islam is not a religion of peace,” he said. “It is a religion of submission. We need to submit to the will of Allah.” for more click here

A council has warned staff not to use the general term ‘British’ - in case it upsets people from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Asia or China.
In extraordinary guidelines, officials at Caerphilly, in South Wales are cautioned that the word creates a false sense of unity. for more click here

Many were taken aback by the news that Islamic arbitration panels are already active in Britain, ruling on financial and marital disputes and doing so with the blessing of the state. Based on its inconsonant response to this outing, the government appears to be among those caught off guard.

Barely a week into his job as Gordon Brown’s race relations minister, Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, slammed the Shari’a panels, arguing that the British Muslim community is not advanced enough to run its own legal system. In particular, he unfavorably compared the Islamic courts to Jewish ones, which in his view do not exhibit the same “areas of concern”: for more click here

Over the last year, during three different Islamo-Fascism Awareness Weeks, I’ve spoken at seventeen university campuses all across the country. I’ve never been shouted off the stage, as have some other speakers. for more click here

“Muslim artist, Sarah Maple has been criticized in the past for how she depicts her religion in her work, but her latest exhibition in London has triggered a new wave of intimidation, death threats and even violence. Since putting the 23-year-old’s exhibit on display on Oct. 16, SaLon gallery in Notting Hill has received a string of violent emails and phone calls about the artist and her family, according to the British Broadcasting Company. for more click here

Barack Obama appears to have personally benefited from funds originating in Saddam Hussein’s regime. It’s a complicated connection, but one that deserves the consideration of Americans voters. for more click here

A Kosovan who was mistakenly shot in the jaw by a British soldier has been awarded £2.4million compensation.
The huge sum is more than 200 times the amount available to a UK soldier suffering a similar injury in a battle.for more click here

Russia is to deploy new missiles in a Baltic enclave near Nato member Poland, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says.

Short-range Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region would “neutralise” the planned US anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, he said. for more click here

A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries. for more click here

The deepest differences between Muslims and Westerners concern not politics but sexuality. Each side has a long history of looking at the other’s sexual mores with a mixture of astonishment and disgust. Here are some examples from the Muslim side of the divide (in reverse chronological order) that have me, for one, shaking my head: for more click here