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A leader of a top secular party in Egypt said the 9/11 attacks were “made in the USA,” and the Holocaust is “a lie.” He also called Anne Frank’s diary “a fake.” 

Ahmed Ezz El-Arab, vice chairman of Egypt’s Wafd Party said he accepted that Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews but called the gas chambers “fanciful stories.” 

Wafd is the second most powerful political party in Egypt today, after the Muslim Brotherhood. The party announced it would run together with the Brotherhood in the upcoming September elections to present a united front in Egypt’s new government. 

 

Imagine being hunted down for drawing a picture. Imagine being threatened for publishing a cartoon. Now imagine the unreal being real:                                                     The infamous al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki issued a fatwa against Seattle cartoonist and creator of “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" Molly Norris.

 Editor of Seattle Weekly put it, "You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week. That's because there is no more Molly. The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, "going ghost": moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity. She will no longer be publishing cartoons in our paper or in City Arts magazine, where she has been a regular contributor. She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program—except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab. It's all because of the appalling fatwa issued against her this summer, following her infamous "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" cartoon."

 al-Awlaki had posted: A cartoonist out of Seattle, Washington, named Molly Norris started the 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'. This snowball rolled out from between her evil fingers. She should be taken as a prime target of assassination along with others who participated in her campaign. This campaign is not a practice of freedom of speech, but is a nationwide mass movement of Americans joining their European counterparts in going out of their way to offend Muslims worldwide. They are expressing their hatred of the Messenger of Islam through ridicule

An Australian wrote a "letter to the editor" supporting a ban on burkas and deportation of radical Islamists from their shores. Is this radical or practical? Should Americans and Europeans call for the same?

See letter here or read below:

Dear Editor,

While not usually a supporter of Rev. Fred Nile, I must agree that Australia must ban the Burka. It is a critical measure if we are serious about combating the growth of Islamic radicalism in this country. Further, all those supporting the goals of radical Islam should be immediately deported, including Islamic clerics who advocate fundamentalist militant aims. When is the Gillard Government going to realise that if we are at war with Islamic radicalism abroad, which we are in Afghanistan, then we should be at war with Islamic radicalism at home. Otherwise those Australian soldiers that are now regularly coming home in body bags are dying for nothing. Australian politicians must put the security of our country above their selfish fears of a minority electoral backlash. Our soldiers are putting their lives on the line, we must do all we can to support them domestically.

Dr. Ivan Molloy
Peregian Beach

This is gory, be careful!

"Story of the 12-year-old Indonesian Christian schoolgirls beheaded by Muslims."

Is this just one incident that could have been Indonesian Christians beheading Muslim schoolgirls... or does this say more about Islam?

"Baby Neeha, at the age of 21/2, was raped by the son of her father's employer and left to die by the roadside, he said. No one was arrested for the crime.

 "These horrific events took place because her father, who was Christian, refused to give in to pressure from his Muslim employer to convert to Islam," El Shafie said.

The family went underground in Pakistan to hide from Muslim extremists who were seeking revenge for their non-conversion, he said. "The family has lived for years in hiding and in constant fear of being discovered by the employer's family or Islamic extremists," El Shafie said. "We are thrilled that she's finally in Canada."

Read full article here.

Where are the Christian voices crying out against such abuse? Why are Christians making such politically correct efforts to accommodate Muslims when there is no reciprocation in the name of religious tolerance?

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was  called prostitute because she supports Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother sentenced by Iranian sharia law to be stoned for alleged adultery. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jGKdAlGxhi2IiOMIsA_QzF...

Bruni-Sarkozy published a touching letter http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/post_727_b_691801.html  in French media to Ashtiani, ending with the words, “In the depths of your cell, know that my husband will plead your cause unfailingly and that France will not abandon you.”

Mudslinging her in retaliation, The Kayhan newspaper, whose editor is a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, described Bruni-Sarkozy as a "prostitute" in an article titled "French prostitutes enter the human rights uproar."
Could you believe it? I could. State-controlled media is not "we the people" talking.
Sign a petition to free Sakineh http://www.radicalislam.org/action/sign-petition-stop-stoning-iran

Tariq Ahmad, a doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston wrote an OpEd in the NY Times giving what he thinks is the solution to solving the problem of radical Islam. He states: "The reality is that many Muslims are secular. We do not pray five times a day, do not read the Koran and have not spent much time inside a mosque. We only turn to Islam when a child is born, someone gets married or someone dies. To defeat the threat of radical Islam, I suggest that the answer lies among the people who are the least Muslim." Dr Zhudi Jasser the narrator of the film The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America, who unlike Tariq Ahmad considers himself a devout Muslim, believes that the answer lies with those members of the Muslim faith who believe that religion and state should be kept separate. What do you think the answer is?

Yesterday it was announced that Rifqa Bary is to be sent back to Ohio. But not so fast. There will be another hearing when/if her immigration documents are found. This story of a girl who at the age of 17 ran away from home for fear of an honor killing because she converted to Christianity is getting more and more complicated. No doubt, Rifqa has become a poster child. Rifqa represents freedom of religion- the right to choose your faith. She also represents a clash of cultures within the immigrant population. It is a very touchy case. On one hand in general we should be able to put our trust in parents and assume they are not out to hurt their daughter. It could be that Rifqa is an anguished teen, perhaps on the dramatic end of the scale. On the other hand, Rifqa is living in the United States and feels that she will be under direct threat if returned home to her parents. Plus she is almost 18. There is a general consensus amongst those who feel she should be kept in Florida as her parents would ship her off to Sri Lanka at the first available opportunity, which would very likely result in her death. If you were the judge what would you do? Do her parents have the right to at least prove themselves to be good parents or does her fear of being killed trump all else? Let’s exercise our free speech and get the conversation going.

In Saudi Arabia, a man is entitled to slap his wife if he feels that she has spent too much money. Associated Press reports:

“A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully and said women were as much to blame as men for increased spousal abuse, a Saudi newspaper reported.