Duo 'may have tried terror dry run'

Two men were arrested at Amsterdam airport after arriving on a United Airlines flight from Chicago

Two airline passengers arrested after scans revealed suspicious items in their luggage may have been on a dry run for a terrorist attack, security sources have said.

Walid Shoebat a former Islamic terrorist, whose mother tongue is Arabic as well as understanding the mindset of people from the Middle East, has been doing extensive research in the Arabic speaking media on what Imam Rauf has been saying and writing in the Arabic.

Walid Shoebat states, "Americans need to understand the level of deception and lies as well as the ends that Muslim clergy like Imam Rauf will go to advance their agenda of advancing Sharia law and Islamic domination in America."

Bangladesh bars enforced Islamic dress code

By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News, Dhaka

Most Bangladeshis follow a moderate form of Islam 

A Bangladesh court has ruled that people cannot be forced to wear skull caps, veils or other religious clothing in workplaces, schools and colleges.

Saudi Arabian judge asks hospitals to paralyse man

Country's strict enforcement of sharia law sees 'eye for an eye' punishment sought for after cleaver attack

A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals whether they would punitively damage a man's spinal cord after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralysing him, local newspapers reported today.

Saudi Arabia enforces strict sharia law and occasionally metes out punishments based on the ancient code of an eye for an eye.

توقيف مصرية في إيطاليا ترتدي النقاب

تورينو: أوقفت الشرطة الإيطالية في مدينة تورينو شمال إيطاليا مصرية منقبة تبلغ من العمر 34 عاما بتهمة انتهاك القانون 152 لسنة 75 والذي يمنع على اي شخص تغطية وجهه.

وكانت السيدة تتنزه في وسط تورينو بصحبة زوجها عندما ابلغ بعض المواطنين رجال الشرطة الذين كانوا مترجلين بالمنطقة فقاموا بتوقيفها وتحرير محضر ضدها ولكنها سارعت الى كشف وجهها واكملت سيرها مع زوجها.

نعم تقدمت بتعديلات دستورية

  بقلم   د. يحيى الجمل

على إحدى القنوات الفضائية الأسبوع الماضى - فى لحظة انفعال - أعلنت أننى كنت قد تقدمت باقتراح لتعديل بعض مواد الدستور التى أرى ضرورة تعديلها من أجل استقامة الحياة السياسية فى بلدنا.

وقد تقدمت بهذه التعديلات مكتوبة للأخ الدكتور زكريا عزمى بصفته أميناً عاماً لرئاسة الجمهورية، ليتكرم برفعها إلى مقام الرئيس محمد حسنى مبارك، شفاه الله وعافاه.

وانهالت علىّ بعد ذلك المكالمات تسأل عن مضمون هذه التعديلات وعن ردود الفعل التى تلقيتها إن كان هناك أى رد فعل.

Coptic Blogger in Egypt Released from PrisonPressured to convert to Islam, falsely accused Christian freed under reformed Emergency Law.

By Wayne King 

ISTANBUL, August 17 (Compass Direct News) – A Coptic Christian blogger arrested in Egypt on false charges of insulting Islam, then held for almost two years without charge under the country’s Emergency Law, has been released from prison. 

Hani Nazeer, 31, a high school social worker and blogger was arrested Oct. 3, 2008 in response to a link to a Coptic Web site he placed on his Web log, “The Preacher of Love.” The Coptic Web site had a link to an online copy of “Azazil’s Goat in Mecca,” a controversial book written in response to “Azazil,” a novel critical of Christianity.

اعتداءات كبيرة علي مسيحيين بـ"الصف"

كاهن كنيسة "الصف" يستغيث بـ"مبارك" لحماية الأقباط من اعتداءات المسلمين بعد التواطؤ الأمني
عائلة مسلمة تعتدي على 7 أسر مسيحية في "الصف"
ننشر أسماء المصابين في حادث "الصف"

كتب: مايكل فارس- خاص الأقباط متحدون
 في تصريحات خاصة لصحيفة "الأقباط متحدون" أكد القمص "عزرا ناجح" -كاهن كنيسة مارجرجس بالصف، والتابعة لإيبارشية الجيزة- أنه حدثت مجزرة ضد المسيحيين، وذلك عقب صلاة الجمعة الأولى من رمضان ظهر أمس.

Mainstream Islamic organisations 'share al-Qaeda ideology'

Many apparently mainstream Muslim groups have the same ideology as violent Islamists, according to a secret report from the think tank Quilliam.

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent

The report, sent to the government’s Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT), was not intended for publication but has now been leaked on the internet.

Entitled "Preventing terrorism, where next for Britain?" it says the ideology of non-violent Islamists is “broadly the same as that of violent Islamists” adding “they disagree only on tactics.”

Arrest Warrant Sought for Egyptian Muslim Cleric for 'Hate Speech'

(AINA)

A Christian Coptic human rights group is seeking to initiate an international arrest warrant in the United Kingdom against the leading Muslim fundamentalist cleric Sheikh Yousef al-Badri for inciting Muslims to kill apostates from Islam in Egypt. Al-Badri, who is a member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and is associated with the primary Islamic institute of al Azhar University, is reported to have stated "God has commanded us to kill those who leave Islam."