Geopolitics and Islam. How many nations does it take to make a world war? Links post 2 July 8 2014

1. Israel claims that it has “taken the gloves off”

(More here as well)

2. Remember how burned korans were found outside a Dearborn mosque recently? Seems it was a muslim who did it. 

Last month, the Imam Husham al-Husainy used the Qur’ans burned at the Karbalaa Center to call for Sharia restrictions on the freedom of speech. Now it turns out that the Qur’ans were burned by Ali Hassan Al-Assadi, a Muslim who was angry with people at the local mosques and says he burned the Qur’ans in retribution.

3. Reported rapes in Slough soars by 59%

THE number of rapes recorded by police in Slough has risen by 59% in a year – although officers have nearly doubled the amount of cases in which alleged rapists are charged.

Recorded rape rose from 61 in 2012/13 to 103 in 2013/14. The figure is higher than the 98 recorded in Milton Keynes and 65 in Oxford – which both have larger populations than Slough.

4. Nazi Flag Flying Over Arab Town – Again

5. Egyptian Researcher: 80% Of The 50 Million Muslims In The West Live On Welfare

(And when that stops, and sooner or later it will have to, those millions and millions of muslims will just go out and get a job and peacefully contribute to our collective economy. Right?)

6. North Korean Army vows to take Revenge on U.S. Imperialists

(Or Chinese government tries its hand at writing opera)

7. No-go areas in Leicester for Muslim women wearing niqab

(The comments are the best part of that article)

Muslim women who wear a full veil say there are no-go areas in Leicester which they feel frightened to visit – even in a car.

They claim they are subjected to abuse every day and that it is getting increasingly difficult to avoid such incidents in the city centre.

The revelations are contained in a new book by two criminology lecturers at the University of Leicester.

8. There seems to be some limited and probably meaningless blowback on the adds for Asian only sheltered housing in the UK

Thanks Buck, M, ML, Oz-Rita and more.