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While Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iran is playing Holocaust-denying cartoons on public television, Channel 2 News reported on Wednesday night. for more click here

Under pressure from a well-funded Muslim education group, the nation’s public school textbooks increasingly present a politically correct portrait of Islam, according to a new report. for more click here

Brooklyn, New York (VICE) — “We are breaking the law,” says Madiev Tynchtyk, a member of local government in a small village outside of the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, “but here everyone understands this is a tradition and you can’t change it.” Madiev kidnapped his wife, Elmira more than 10 years ago. He is one of the many Kyrgyz men who have gotten married through the Central Asian practice of bride kidnapping. for more click here

(AFP) — German officials raised serious concerns Thursday about an ultra-conservative Islamic group’s drive to hand out 25 million copies of the Quran, calling it an abuse of the holy text. Amid a politically charged debate, some lawmakers however admonished critics to respect freedom of religion.

Volker Kauder, parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, called the free distribution of millions of copies of Islamic scripture by ultra-conservative Salafists a cover for jihadist recruiting. for more click here

Israel Hayom presents a special roundtable discussion in which five Israeli experts in Middle Eastern and international politics discuss the Iranian nuclear threat, whether Israel can trust the U.S. and whether the era of American deterrence in the region is over • Meanwhile, 60 percent of Israelis believe the only way to stop Iran is by means of a military strike, according to a new poll. for more click here

For some reason, John McCain continues to double down on a strategy that would put the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Syria by calling for the arming of Syrian rebels. for more click here

Four alleged terrorists targeted Danish Crown Prince Frederik as part of their planned revenge attack on a newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a court heard today. The suspects intended to attack the offices of Politiken in a Mumbai-style terror attack when the crown prince was handing out awards, it was claimed. for more click here

In the Home Affairs Committee’s third report of the year into the Work of the UK Border Agency, it criticises the ‘Agency’ for failing to deport more than 600 Foreign National Prisoners who were released between 1999 and 2006 are still in the country and for failing to clear the ever increasing “controlled archive”. At the current rate it will take a further 4 years to close all cases. for more click here

An attempt to stop the issue of abortion being freely discussed at University College London has failed after students objected to what they considered to be a serious attack on free speech. for more click here

ISTANBUL. – In an interview with Hurriyet daily of Turkey, Dutch MP Barry Madlener, who attended an international conference in Istanbul, yet again stressed that Turkey has no place in the European Union. for more click here