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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
by Thomas J. Scheff |
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Here are the Blogs in the Esmerelda Weatherwax category.
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Bomb Plotters are my Students, Admits Choudary
From the Daily Star Sunday
HARDLINE Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary taught six of the nine fanatics jailed last week for plotting to bomb London. The firebrand cleric even praised the terror gang as “decent young chaps”.Choudary claimed he had no idea they planned to kill and maim. He ...Read More...
Posted on 02/05/2012 6:59 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 5 February 2012
'Terror link' pilot who flew 747s for BA can be identified for the first time
From the Mail on Sunday
A Muslim pilot arrested over an alleged terrorist plot involving an aircraft was a senior first officer for British Airways and flew Boeing 747 jets. He can be identified for the first time today as Surrey-born Samir Jamaluddin. The 39-year-old is suing the airline for racial ...Read More...
Posted on 02/05/2012 5:13 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 3 February 2012
Paris, Rome, now London
Pictures from the Daily Mail of Muslim prayer on the streets of London around one of the nearest mosques to the City of London. It is incorrect that this is the only Mosque in the area, I know of two others in adjacent streets - Brick Lane and Redchurch Street..
In the shadow of the glass and steel ...Read More...
Posted on 02/03/2012 5:38 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 3 February 2012
Kuwait: Hardline Islamists seize control of parliament
From The Telegraph
Kuwait's Islamist-led opposition has won a landslide majority in Kuwait's snap polls, with women and liberals the big losers. The Islamists secured 34 seats in the 50-member parliament, results showed today. All four of the female MPs who served in the previous parliament ...Read More...
Posted on 02/03/2012 1:45 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Two German Muslim converts admit terrorism offences
Its like a blooming hydra - you cut one head off and seven more appear. From the BBC
Two German nationals have pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey in London to possessing terrorist materials. Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 23, both Muslim converts from Solingen in Germany, were arrested in July ...Read More...
Posted on 02/02/2012 12:50 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Veiled Muslim Woman Denied Gas Wants Chevron Apology
From ABC News and WSVN 7News
A Muslim woman is threatening to sue Chevron unless the gas giant issues her a better apology for refusing to serve her while she was wearing a veil that exposed only her eyes.
Wilfredo Ruiz, the attorney for La Fleur Mohamed, said Chevron's apology ...Read More...
Posted on 02/02/2012 12:07 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Macedonia: Plea for Muslims to show restraint ignored - Church set on fire after carnival
From the Press Association
An Orthodox Christian church famed for its valuable icons was set alight in southern Macedonia overnight (this was 31st) amid religious tension between Christians and minority Muslims over a carnival in which Orthodox Christian men dressed as women in burkas and mocked the ...Read More...
Posted on 02/02/2012 4:44 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Terrorists admit plot to bomb London Stock Exchange and US Embassy
From the Telegraph
Four al-Qaeda inspired terrorists have pleaded guilty to plotting a Christmas bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange, the American embassy and the home of London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Two of the men conducted a surveillance trip around central London and also talked about launching ...Read More...
Posted on 02/01/2012 5:12 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Muslim teenager attacked by brother and sisters for kissing white man
From The Telegraph
A Muslim teenager was kidnapped, beaten and threatened with hammers and knives by her brother and sisters after kissing a white man, a court heard yesterday. Shamima Akhtar, 18, was bundled into a car, called a whore and a prostitute and had her waist-length hair cut to her neck ...Read More...
Posted on 01/31/2012 3:22 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 30 January 2012
Norway convicts two men over al-Qaeda plot on Danish newspaper
Two men were found guilty on Monday of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, the first convictions under Norway's anti-terror laws. A third defendant was acquitted of terror charges but convicted of helping the others acquire explosives.
Investigators ...Read More...
Posted on 01/30/2012 2:33 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 30 January 2012
Macedonia Muslims urge restraint over carnival
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Muslim leaders in Macedonia appealed for calm on Monday among community members outraged over a carnival in which Orthodox Christian men mocked Muslims by dressing as Burqa-clad women.
The incident at the Jan. 13 Vevcani festival has prompted angry, sometimes violent ...Read More...
Posted on 01/30/2012 2:20 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 30 January 2012
We’ll attack Sokoto, Boko Haram warns Sultan
From the Vanguard
MAIDUGURI – ABUL-Qaqa, the spokesman of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram, yesterday, alleged that security agents have arrested “many” of its members in Sokoto and called for their immediate release.
He however, ...Read More...
Posted on 01/30/2012 3:21 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 30 January 2012
Scholars speak out in favor of “electronic Jihad” against the enemy
From Al Arabiya Riyadh
In light of the increasing support of “the electronic Jihad” and the divergence of views regarding this subject, Islamic scholars have underlined their support for this new phenomenon, arguing that “any attempt to spite the enemy and endorse religion is legitimate”. ...Read More...
Posted on 01/30/2012 2:45 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Shafia jury finds all guilty in 'cold-blooded, shameful' honour killings
From the Montreal Gazette
KINGSTON, Ont. — Three members of a Montreal family have been imprisoned for life after a jury found them guilty of murdering four other family members in a crime the judge called “cold-blooded, shameful murders” based on a “twisted notion of honour.”
Mohammad ...Read More...
Posted on 01/29/2012 4:39 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Forced marriages coming to light in New Zealand
From the Dominion Post
For months, in an ordinary house in a Wellington suburb, a 17-year-old Pakistani was held hostage, trapped in a marriage forced on her by her parents and threatened with death. The woman, who does not want to be identified, was married in 2010 without her consent or knowledge ...Read More...
Posted on 01/29/2012 1:48 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Islington girls forced into marriage at the age of nine
From the Islington Tribune
AN alarming number of under-age girls – some as young as nine – are being forced into marriage in Islington, according to a leading campaign group. The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) claim that at least 30 girls in the borough were ...Read More...
Posted on 01/28/2012 5:32 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 27 January 2012
Ricin recipe man jailed
From the Grantham Journal
A man from Greater Manchester who had a recipe for a deadly poison and documents about how to make bombs has been jailed for two years and three months. Asim Kausar, 25, from Bolton, had the information on a computer memory stick which contained details about the toxin ...Read More...
Posted on 01/27/2012 10:29 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 27 January 2012
Muslim convert pleads guilty in US bomb plot
From AFP and CNN
WASHINGTON — A young Muslim-American man who tried to blow up a US military recruiting station pleaded guilty Thursday and faces 25 years in prison for the scheme, justice officials said.
Antonio Martinez, 22, who changed his name to Muhammad Hussain when he converted to Islam, ...Read More...
Posted on 01/27/2012 2:28 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Jailed terror plotter wanted witnesses slain - his brother and a teacher are arrested
From Associated Press
A North Carolina man sentenced to prison recently as part of a homegrown terrorist ring has been accused in a federal court document of plotting to kill witnesses who testified against him at trial. An affidavit unsealed in federal court Monday accuses Hysen Sherifi of plotting ...Read More...
Posted on 01/26/2012 6:44 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Muslim cleric banned from Britain claims Al Qaeda poised to launch sucide attacks in Syria
Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical cleric banned from the United Kingdom for 'glorifying terrorism', has told the Daily Telegraph from his base in the Middle East that al Qaeda is poised to wage war against the Syrian regime.
Bakri, once nicknamed the 'Tottenham Ayatollah', said hard ...Read More...
Posted on 01/25/2012 2:10 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
'Strict Muslim' raped four women at knifepoint to 'punish them for being on the streets at night'
From the Daily Mail
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 strict Muslim family, dragged his terrified victims - including a 15-year-old ...Read More...
Posted on 01/25/2012 1:17 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Islamic leader of group targeted in Cardiff anti-terror raid rejects 'extremists' tag
From Wales on Line
An Islamic teacher whose group was at the centre of an anti-terror raid on a Cardiff community hall has said “we do not want to cause trouble”.
Abu Hajar, 29, of Grangetown, Cardiff, is one of the leaders of the Islamic group Supporters of Tawheed, which on its website ...Read More...
Posted on 01/24/2012 3:10 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
British links of Al Qaeda chiefs killed by drones on Pakistan border
From the Daily Mail
Two wanted Al-Qaeda leaders killed by U.S. drone attacks are believed to have travelled from Britain to launch terrorist attacks against the West.
One, Aslam Awan, studied in Manchester but joined an Islamic terror cell then went to Afghanistan to fight coalition forces. By contrast, ...Read More...
Posted on 01/24/2012 2:57 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 23 January 2012
Nigeria police find over 100 bombs in violence-torn city
AFP: KANO, Nigeria — Nigerian police foiled fresh attacks in the northern city of Kano Monday, discovering eight bomb-laden cars and over 100 unexploded devices around sites attacked last week.
Clerics meantime said peace prayers after the attacks that killed over 166 people in the the country's ...Read More...
Posted on 01/23/2012 1:19 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Boko Haram strikes in Bauchi
From the Daily Times
Members of Islamist sect, Boko Haram are currently carrying out attacks on several towns in Bauchi State. The State Police Commissioner confirmed that a bomb was detonated near a railway line in Bauchi town.
According to eyewitnesses, they hear three explosions in the Jahun and ...Read More...
Posted on 01/22/2012 10:26 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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