Clarifying islam: Links 2 for Oct. 14 – 2014

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1. David Wood’s top 10 Koran verses explaining the behaviour of the Islamic State

2. UK: Six arrested by anti-terror police
Police outside a house in PortsmouthPolice stand guard at an address in Portsmouth

Three men and three women from Portsmouth, Farnborough and Greenwich are being held in connection with a police anti-terrorism operation.

Thames Valley Police said the six, aged between 23 and 57, were arrested by the South East Counter Terrorism Unit.

They said the arrests were related to the conflict in Syria and were “not linked to any immediate threat to local communities”.

On Monday, anti-terrorism police arrested three men in central London.

3. UK: Trojan Horse schools ‘not improved’, Ofsted warns
Sir Michael Wilshaw
Sir Michael Wilshaw has sent the findings to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan

There are still significant problems at the five Birmingham schools placed into special measures following concerns about a hard-line Islamist takeover.

England’s schools watchdog Ofsted says the action plans are still “not fit for purpose” in some of the five

4. In the previous post I posted a video of the Swedish FM describing the crisis in the Swedish economy and blaming it on tax cuts. Perhaps the video below should have been watched first.

5. Swastika chemically burned into Avon yard, police report says

6. Islamic State sympathizers in Turkey

 

Thank you UK Pete, Richard, M. and all. More to come.

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10 Replies to “Clarifying islam: Links 2 for Oct. 14 – 2014”

  1. Miliband in denial: Our immigration policy is right Labour leader tells MPs as poll shows just 13% agree (dailymail, Oct 14, 2014)
    http://dailym.ai/1v94rc6

    “Ed Miliband has urged Labour MPs not to panic about public concern over immigration – despite polls showing the party’s reputation on the issue slumping to a six year low amid a surge in support for Ukip. The embattled Labour leader told a private meeting of MPs that the party could not ‘out-Ukip Ukip’. He insisted Labour had the right policies on immigration and told MPs they needed to just ‘keep going on at it’, a source told MailOnline.

    But Mr Miliband risks accusations of being in denial over the scale of the party’s problem on immigration in the wake of last week’s shock by-election in Heywood and Middleton, which saw Ukip fall just 600 votes short of beating Labour in its Greater Manchester heartland.

    A damning YouGov survey released today reveals Labour’s poll rating on immigration has fallen to its lowest since September 2008 – despite Mr Miliband unveiling the party’s set-piece pledges on the issue over the weekend.

  2. GlobeGazette: Report sees flaws in case against vanishing Marine
    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The lawyer for a U.S. Marine accused of deserting his unit a decade ago in Iraq is asking for another chance to dissuade the military from proceeding with a trial.

    In the request for a new Article 32 hearing for Wassef Hassoun, defense attorney Haytham Faraj says prosecutors have a circumstantial case and are going to have a hard time finding witnesses to testify, in part because the case is so old.

    Faraj also says prosecutors waited until after the hearing to turn over evidence that sheds new light on Hassoun’s initial disappearance.

  3. #4 What an idiot.

    #5 If he wanted to be really mean he would have used fertilizer, this would have made the man mow his yard a lot more often.

  5. VICE NEWS – Kurds Left Helpless as Kobane Falls to Islamic State: Turkey’s Border Wars (Dispatch 1) ( 5min 16 )