Sarkozy says burqa imprisons Muslim women...

...parliament in 136 years, Sarkozy faced critics who fear the burqa issue could stigmatize France's Muslims and said he supported banning the garment from being worn in public. "In our country,... Council for the Muslim Religion, has warned against studying the burqa, saying it would "stigmatize" Muslims. Sarkozy was due to host a state dinner Monday with Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem Al Thani ...

... hate and intolerance squirreling around in the brain of the person who made it -- the way a drunk, if he thinks you might agree with him, will tell you what he really believes about the Jews or Muslims. The way people talk about the Mexicans or Chinese when they don't think there is anybody around to disagree. Anti-gay AIDS humor is so 1988, it should have gone out with Andrew Dice Clay, but as ...

Keep Israel Alive, Part 2

... Wailing Wall Woman praying at the Wailing Wall Praying at the Wall Temple Mount Volunteers - The Religious Muslims in control of Temple Mount are digging it up. They claim it is to re-wire ...of history, ancient coins, relics and such are being tossed aside like garbage by the radical Muslims in control of Temple Mount. Just a few of the ancient coins found in the rubble ...

Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims

Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims 'Work for us or we will say you ...it is untrue that the Security Service harasses Muslims. The organisation says: "We do not investigate any...and indirectly through supporting violence overseas." It adds: "Muslims are often themselves the victims of this ... also employs staff of all religions, including Muslims. We are committed to recruiting a diverse ...

Elizabeth Woodcock, "1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World"

... photographs and written in an accessible style for those with limited knowledge of either Islam or history. A golden age of civilization, from 600 and 1600 CE, will unfold, because medieval Muslims were trailblazers in fields as diverse as medicine and mechanics, cartography and chemistry, education and engineering, architecture and astronomy. No area was too obscure to miss the scrutiny of ...

Anti-Semitism

... There is supposedly very heavy security at this museum. How did this man with a pretty large rifle type gun get into this place at all? And he's 88 years old, all of a sudden he's mad enough to kill people? I think a security guard was killed, I'm not sure if anyone else has died. Last month four radical Muslims tried to blow up a Jewish temple in the Bronx. I just don't fucking get it.

The living world is not “out there", but in your heart.

... not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the ...

Three things you'd not find back 'home'...

1. Neighboring mosques with adhan . Okay, well, lots less Muslims back home, but you won't find mosques with really loud speakers aimed directly at your house (they'd get slapped with noise violation quick), proclaiming the first call for prayers at around 4 AM. Especially if said mosque is like next door (maybe about 10 meters out?) It never ever failed to wake me up. The occupants of the house ...

Links, Cafe

... he's either a Muslim or a Christian, to be honest. But I suspect one of those religions is closer to his heart than the other... On Moderate Islam -- There's no such thing. There are Muslims who are moderates, but that doesn't mean that moderate Islam really exists. Text of Obama's Speech to the Muslim World -- Like I've been saying, it's just downright strange. Psychological Insight -- ...

Obama's Speech

... evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve. On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people – Muslims and Christians – have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring...