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The West Speaks
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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, 6 May 2012
Curtailing ‘immodesty’: Fatwa against female education and in favour of compulsory marriage for female NGO workers
From the Express Tribune
KOHISTAN / DASSU: A former lawmaker and cleric from Kohistan district, Maulana Abdul Haleem, termed formal education for women un-Islamic and asked parents to pluck their daughters from school, or else they would be ‘doomed’.
The nonagenarian, who was elected to ...Read More...
Posted on 05/06/2012 1:33 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Mali Islamists attack UNESCO holy site in Timbuktu
Reuters - Malian fighters from the Ansar Dine Islamist group attacked and burned the tomb of one of the town's saints, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, residents and a regional official said on Saturday.
The militants broke off doors, windows and wooden gates from the grave and burned ...Read More...
Posted on 05/05/2012 3:41 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Muslim woman beat girl, 10, with steel ladle for not reading enough of Koran
A Muslim woman who repeatedly beat a 10-year-old girl with a steel ladle for not reading enough verses of the Koran is facing jail today.
Asia Parveen, 31 brandished a knife at the child after accusing her of lying about her prayers. Parveen, who was five months pregnant at the time, also forced ...Read More...
Posted on 05/05/2012 2:39 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Religious butchering now commonplace in Britain, leading vet claims
From The Telegraph
Non-Muslim Britons are being forced to eat animals slaughtered in "appalling" pain because religious butchering is becoming so common, a former chief vet has claimed.
Prof Bill Reilly, ex-president of the British Veterinary Association, said cutting the throats of lambs, ...Read More...
Posted on 05/05/2012 2:31 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Macedonia: Hundred of youths gather outside mosque in Skopje
Following the arrest of twenty Muslims accused of the murder of five Macedonian men earlier this week. From Focus Information agency. Photograph from Novinite
Skopje. Hundreds of youths have gathered outside Jaja Pasha Mosque in Skopje in support of the people arrested in Monstrum police ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 4:39 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Two men held in Birmingham over female genital mutilation claims
From The Independent
Two men were arrested today by police investigating claims that female genital mutilation is being offered in the UK.
West Midlands Police said a 55-year-old and a 61-year-old were arrested after officers from the force's public protection unit attended three separate addresses ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 11:31 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Germany: Salafist Muslims arrested as protest turns ugly
From the German edition of The Local
Police arrested 81 people on Tuesday after a Salafist Muslim protest in western Germany against a far-right group displaying cartoons of Mohammed outside mosques turned violent, with rocks thrown at police who responded with tear gas. Around 70 Safalist Muslims ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 3:11 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Osama bin Laden was told Ireland was 'ready for Islam'
From the Belfast Telegraph and the Irish Examiner
Osama bin Laden was urged by a fellow leading al-Qa'ida member to send a message to the Irish people to urge them to convert to Islam. New files removed from Bin Laden's compound reveal how Ireland was occupying the mind of top al-Qa'ida ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 3:04 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Bangladesh teacher 'burns' legs of girl pupils - know the severity of the fire in hell.
Police in Bangladesh are looking for a teacher from a Muslim religious school who allegedly placed burning hot iron rods on the legs of her students for failing to offer prayers regularly. They say 14 girls, aged between eight and 12, received burn injuries.
The girls were learning Arabic and Bengali ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 1:59 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Tower Hamlets Local elections: 'They knock on the door and ask us to give them our ballot papers'
From the Independent
Runa Ali is aware her neighbourhood has a reputation for dodgy electoral practices. Standing on the doorstep of her flat in Tower Hamlets, east London, she is more resigned than she is angry.
"Someone was round here a little while ago asking to collect our ballot. They ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2012 5:33 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Al Qaeda Magazine Calls for Firebomb Campaign in US
From ABC News
The men who launched al Qaeda's English-language magazine may have died in a U.S. missile strike last fall, but "Inspire" magazine lives on without them -- and continues to promote jihadi attacks on Western targets, offering detailed advice on how to start huge forest fires ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2012 5:18 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Illegal immigrant plotted suicide bombing in Sweden, court hears
From The Telegraph and the Swedish edition of the Local
An alleged terrorist has gone on trial in a British court charged with plotting to carry out an attack with a man who died in an explosion on a busy street in Stockholm.
Taimour Abdulwahab died after detonating an improvised explosive ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2012 3:51 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
On the eve of the London mayoral election
in case anybody has forgotten
Mr Livingstone, Labour’s candidate for mayor of London, pledged to “educate the mass of Londoners” in Islam, saying: “That will help to cement our city as a beacon that demonstrates the meaning of the words of the Prophet. . . I want to spend the ...Read More...
Posted on 05/02/2012 1:39 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Adis Medunjanin Convicted Of Plotting To Attack NYC Subways
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A New York man was convicted Tuesday of plotting an aborted suicide mission against New York City subways in 2009 — a case that featured the first-time testimony from admitted homegrown terrorists about al Qaeda’s fixation with pulling off another attack ...Read More...
Posted on 05/02/2012 3:14 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Radical Muslim group involved in Macedonia murders arrested
From AFP via the Canadian National Post
SKOPJE — Macedonian police announced Tuesday that they arrested 20 radical Muslims, suspected to be members of a terrorist group which has been linked to the murder of five Macedonians in early April.
“The ministry of the interior found the perpetrators ...Read More...
Posted on 05/02/2012 3:05 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Jury out in child sex ring trial
From the Lancashire Evening Post, the Guardian and Mancunian Matters
A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of 11 men from Greater Manchester accused of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that five girls were "shared" ...Read More...
Posted on 05/02/2012 2:39 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Porn files reveal Al-Qaeda master plan to terrorize Europe
The document analysed by CNN here wasn't the only one hidden in the porn film. Russia Today has more.
The documents were found by the German Federal Criminal Police in mid-March 2011 after they arrested a man called Maqsood Lodin. Investigators suspect that the Austrian received training in a terrorist ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2012 11:30 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Documents give new details on al Qaeda's London bombings
From CNN. Editor's note: This story is based on a 46-page internal al Qaeda document, details of which were obtained by CNN. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN that U.S. authorities have concluded it was written by British al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf. It was discovered by German ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2012 11:19 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
May Day
Every year for over 500 years the choir of Magdalen College of Oxford University have welcomed May Day morning by singing the Hymnus Eucharisticus from the top of Magdalen Tower.
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Festivities continue on the ground.
Most of the ancient towns and cities have their own May Day tradition. Even ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2012 7:47 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Seven arrested over claims they helped fund terrorism
This was on US newsfeeds over an hour before the British press published the news. The Sun has a particualrly tasty piece of information.
SEVEN people have been arrested on suspicion they helped fund terrorism. Elite cops from the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command swooped on ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2012 4:58 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Call for security at Tower Hamlets ballot stations 'to stop fraud' in Mayor poll
From the London Evening Standard
Scotland Yard today launched a probe into “unprecedented” evidence of voter fraud in a key London borough less than 48 hours before the mayoral and assembly polls open. Worried councillors are now calling for election security to be tightened in Tower Hamlets ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2012 2:54 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Imam under investigation
An update on this report. From the Bristol Post via This is Bristol
POLICE are investigating claims that a Muslim leader in Easton was caught on camera advocating female genital mutilation.
The Imam of Masjid al-Huda mosque on Fox Road was allegedly filmed by an undercover reporter from a national ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2012 2:25 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 30 April 2012
Copenhagen: Details emerge about terror suspects
From The Copenhagen Post
A one-time elite footballer is among the men held for attempting to transfer assault weapons.
A court in Copenhagen has ordered three men suspected of planning a terrorist attack held on remand for four weeks. The men were arrested last week on charges of illegal weapons possession ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2012 4:34 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 30 April 2012
Four British terror suspects 'plotted to use little toy car to attack Territorial Army base in Luton'
From The Daily Mail
A suspected terrorist plot to drive a toy car loaded with explosives under the gates of a Territorial Army base and blow it up has been smashed by police.
Detectives believe the device was to have been detonated in Luton as part of a campaign of terror attacks in Britain.
They ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2012 4:28 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 30 April 2012
Stockholm suicide bombing trial begins
This is from the Swedish edition of The Local. The Scottish legal system is completely different to the English one (it really is another country and they do things differently there) and I can find no reference to it so far in the Scots press.
Nazzedine Menni, the student who allegedly helped plan ...Read More...
Posted on 04/30/2012 2:10 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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