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Feb 112012

Several historical artifacts exhibited at the Maldives National Museum, including Buddhist statues were destroyed in a mob attack on Wednesday morning, an act of vandalism that is said to have caused “unimaginable damage” to the treasured Maldivian heritage. Speaking to Minivan News, a museum official said that a group of five to six men stormed into the building twice, “deliberately targeted the Buddhist relics and ruins of monasteries exhibited in the pre- Islamic collection, destroying most items “beyond repair”. The official said that the details [...]

Sharia For Hindustan

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Feb 112012

British Islamist Anjem Choudary Launches ‘Shariah for India,’ Vows to Demolish Hindu Temples and Bollywood; Muslims Urged to Join In New Delhi March Next Month Marking 88th Anniversary of the End of Islamic Caliphate British Islamist Anjem Choudary and Omar Muhammad Bakri – both former leaders of British jihadist organization Al-Muhajiroun – have launched an organization called Shariah for Hind (India) to advance their agenda for reestablishing Islamic rule in India. The group has planned a major public event in New Delhi on March 3, [...]

Four women raped at knifepoint to ‘punish them for being on the streets at night’

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Jan 292012

Four women raped at knifepoint to 'punish them for being on the streets at night'

Sunny Islam, 23, kidnapped and raped girl, 15 Subjected victims to his ‘trademark double rape’ Attacks took place over 2 months in east London Jailed indefinitely due to danger he poses to women Sunny Islam, 23, has been jailed indefinitely because of the dangers he poses to women A Muslim man who raped women to ‘teach them a lesson’ for being on the streets at night was jailed indefinitely today because of the danger he poses to women. Sunny Islam, 23, who comes from a [...]

Listen to the Cries of Hindus from Pakistan; Appeals RSS Mouthpiece ‘Organiser’

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Jan 132012

Listen to the Cries of Hindus from Pakistan; Appeals RSS Mouthpiece 'Organiser'

A group of Hindus from Pakistan have been living in miserable conditions in Delhi for weeks now, refusing to go back home because of the threat to life and honour in their homeland. “Kill us but do not deport us” they say in anguish. (Organiser issue dated December 25, 2011 and January 1, 2012). Is anyone listening? During partition, the Hindu population in Pakistan was around 25 per cent. Sixty years later, it has dropped to less than two per cent. Of the 400-odd temples then, [...]

Bomb kills Iran nuclear scientist as crisis mounts

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Jan 122012

Bomb kills Iran nuclear scientist as crisis mounts

An Iranian nuclear scientist was blown up in his car by a motorbike hitman on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to blame Israeli and U.S. agents but insist the killing would not derail a nuclear programme that has raised fears of war and threatened world oil supplies. The fifth daylight attack on technical experts in two years, the killer’s magnetic bomb delivered a targeted blast to the door of 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan’s silver sedan as he drove down a busy street close to Tehran University during the [...]

FIRE to rescue DR Swamy

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Jan 072012

Today, FIRE has asked Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to reverse its action against a controversial economics professor after it canceled all of his courses due to an op-ed he published in India in the wake of last year’s Mumbai terrorist bombings. Although Harvard’s administration had defended Professor Subramanian Swamy’s rights after intervention by FIRE, FAS blatantly and shamefully violated them in its meeting in December. Anyone reading the op-ed will have no trouble detecting why it was controversial, but this action by the Harvard faculty places speech and academic freedom in danger [...]

Dr. Subramanian Swamy’s Interview by Radio Boston – Video

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Jan 052012

Dr. Subramanian Swamy’s interview with Radio Boston. Dr. Swamy also demanded the apology from Harvard. Watch and listen to the full interview in the video:

Muslims attack Police over Mosque demolition in China

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Jan 052012

Muslims attack Police over Mosque demolition in China

Beijing, January 03: Hundreds of Muslim residents in Taoshan, a northwestern village of China, confronted police armed with teargas, truncheons and knives to prvent demoltion of an iilegal newly built mosque. Hundreds of Muslims trying to prevent the demolition of their mosque clashed with police, causing several deaths, Hong Kong media and residents said on Tuesday. Fighting between police and members of the largely Muslim Hui ethnic group broke out on Friday in Ningxia region, adjacent to Inner Mongolia province, after authorities declared their newly built mosque [...]

Pakistan: Taliban cut breasts off woman breast-feeding child

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Dec 232011

ISLAMABAD, 15 DEC: Pakistani Taliban fighters cut the breasts of a woman who was breast-feeding her child and asked other women to eat the pieces, in a gory incident highlighted in a new report that details the abuse of women in the militancy-hit tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. The incident occurred when five militants walked into a house and saw the woman breast-feeding her child, The Express Tribune quoted the report titled ‘Impact of crisis on women and girls in Fata (federally Administered Tribal Areas)’ as saying. [...]

Russian Federal Security Tries to Ban Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

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Dec 202011

Russian Federal Security Tries to Ban Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

Will the third Russian edition of Bhagavad-gita As It Is be labeled “extremist literature”? Devotees in Tomsk, Siberia, are currently in court fighting an attempt by the Russian government’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to prove that Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is is an extremist literature that should be banned. It all began in May 2010, when an officer of the Tomsk FSB division approached Sergey S. Avanesov, the dean of the philosophy department at Tomsk University, and asked him for his “expert assessment” [...]

Institutional Dutch Catholic abuse ‘affected thousands’

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Dec 172011

Institutional Dutch Catholic abuse 'affected thousands'

Allegations of abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions multiplied after ex-pupils at a school came forward Tens of thousands of children have suffered sexual abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions since 1945, a report says. The report by an independent commission said Catholic officials had failed to tackle the widespread abuse at schools, seminaries and orphanages. But the report also found that one in five children who attended an institution suffered abuse – regardless of whether it was Catholic. “This episode fills us with [...]

Spanish Model Tells Court, Saudi King’s Nephew Raped Her On Yacht

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Dec 162011

Spanish Model Tells Court, Saudi King's Nephew Raped Her On Yacht

Ibiza, Spain, Dec 15: A Spanish fashion model with dual German citizenship has told a court here on Wednesday that she was raped by a wealthy Saudi Prince, the nephew of Saudi King on a yacht in August 2008. The model has given a fresh testimony after prosecutors said some details needed to be clarified. The 23-year-old woman, who arrived at court in Ibiza on Wednesday wearing a black hat and dark sunglasses, repeated her accusation against the prince, despite what her lawyer called ‘tough questioning’. [...]

Latest from Saudi Arabia : Woman beheaded for ‘sorcery’

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Dec 122011

Latest from Saudi Arabia : Woman beheaded for 'sorcery'

This is the law of Arabia, where shariah law is implemented strictly… Sorcery may be defined as the use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits especially for divining , even witchcraft, idolatory can fall under this category. A few weeks ago we heard some weird news from the same country… ‘End of virginity’ if women drive, Saudi cleric warns A well-known academic Kamal Subhi – has presented a new report to the country’s legislative assembly, the Shura. The aim was [...]

Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas, cucumbers, carrots and zucchini to avoid any “sexual thoughts”

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Dec 082011

Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas, cucumbers, carrots and zucchini to avoid any “sexual thoughts”

CAIRO: An Islamic cleric residing in Europe said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, in order to avoid any “sexual thoughts.” The unnamed sheikh, who was featured in an article on el-Senousa news, was quoted saying that if women wish to eat these food items, a third party, preferably a male related to them such as their a father or husband, should cut the items into small pieces and serve. He said that these fruits and vegetables “resemble the male penis” [...]

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