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East London Mosque headquarters for Islamic Forum of Europe

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From The Telegraph U.K.

Inextricably linked to controversial mosque: the secret world of IFE

On Whitechapel Road in the heart of the East End stands the East London Mosque.

By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 8:00AM GMT 28 Feb 2010

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For most of the 15,000 ordinary Muslims who pray there each week, it is simply a place of worship. For many, it provides valuable social facilities, and creche and outreach services.

But for a small number, the mosque is the headquarters of a secretive, fundamentalist political network. The Islamic Forum of Europe is dedicated, in its own words, to changing the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed … from ignorance to Islam”.

The mosque and IFE are inextricably intertwined. Dr Mohammed Abdul Bari, the chairman of the mosque, and its vice-chairman are former IFE presidents.

The director and imam of the mosque are trustees of the group. Of 22 IFE trustees in recent years, only five have not also been trustees or officeholders of the religious centre.

The mosque calls the IFE a “social welfare organisation” and the IFE presents itself as committed to “community cohesion” and “tolerance”.

But the undercover reporters discovered that it was also a sophisticated political group with a structured rank system and hardline goals.

Prospective recruits must attend training. One undercover reporter was told that she would have to take an exam and swear an oath of allegiance and ordered to keep her membership of the IFE a secret. Continue Reading →

Bobby the Butcher Mugabe feasts as nation starves.

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Eight thousand pounds of lobster, 4,000 pounds of caviar, 200 pounds of prawns and 500 hundred bottles of whiskey. Big Bobby the Butcher celebrates his 86th as his own people face crop failure, drought and starvation.

From The Daily Mail U.K.

Robert Mugabe mocks a nation facing famine with a birthday feast broadcast on TV

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:03 PM on 26th February 2010

Eight thousand lobsters and 4,000 portions of caviar were eaten last night at a birthday party for Robert Mugabe which was broadcast live to a nation facing famine.

The £330,000 televised feast to celebrate the Zimbabwe president’s 86th birthday came as crop failure and drought raised the prospect of widespread hunger in the poverty-stricken country.

Mugabe’s political opponents, the Movement for Democratic Change, said the food served was enough to feed 50 villages. Continue Reading →

“Death to gays, Jews are filth, Green is good”: Kings College plays host to Sheikh Quick

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From The London Evening Standard, courtesy TROP.

Islamic preacher who called Jews ‘filth’ to speak at London university

Felix Allen
25.02.10

A London university has been condemned for inviting an Islamic preacher with anti-Semitic and homophobic views to give a lecture to students.

Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick Guest speaker: Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick will lecture students at King’s College.

Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick is due to speak at King’s College‘s Strand campus at six tonight.

Peter Tatchell, of pressure group Outrage, accused university bosses of cowardice and “complicity with fundamentalism” by giving the preacher a public platform.

Sheikh Quick has denounced the “filth” of Jews and once gave a televised lecture in which he said the Islamic position on homosexuality is “death”.

He added: “Muslims are going to have to take a stand [against homosexuals] and it’s not enough to call names.”

He is due to give a talk on the environment in an event organised by the University of London Union Islamic Society for its Green Week campaign.

Mr Tatchell said: “King’s College would not host a white supremacist who advocated racism or death to black people… King’s College has an equal opportunities policy that prohibits the promotion of hatred against minorities, but it is not enforcing it.

“The university is not a safe place for Jewish and gay students when it facilitates a vicious homophobe and anti-Semite like Sheikh Abdullah Quick.”

He claimed that the university’s attitude represented “collusion with the gateways to terrorism”.

A King’s College spokeswoman said Sheikh Quick’s talk would be on “environmental problems, Islamic solutions”, adding: “He has already spoken at other universities without controversy and there is no indication that the topic of his talk will be controversial.

“The Dean of King’s College London, who oversees multi-faith relations, and the president of the students’ union will attend the event. If they deem any comments from Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick to be offensive to minorities, the talk will be stopped.”

Sheikh Quick is also due to visit the University of East London at the weekend.

His website says he was born in America and completed a masters degree and a doctorate in African history at the University of Toronto, and has served as an imam in Los Angeles, Jamaica, Canada and Cape Town.

How sexy; Politiken on it’s knees for Islam.

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After a settlement to the Saudis, Middle Eastern and Australian Muslim groups, Politiken took a swipe at freedom in favour of sharia. “We apologize to anyone who was offended by our decision to reprint the cartoon drawing”. Although the paper stands by it’s decision to print what it wants, they are sorry for any hurt feelings. Islamist groups are thrilled and predictably the Oh I See welcomes the apology.

We should understand that pictures of Muhammed complimentary or not, were and still are, quite common and have not been met with very much if any incident, outside of the Jyllands-Posten episode. We also have to understand that within Islamic theology, the Quran can abrogate itself to suit it’s selected political purpose of the day. For a thorough understanding of such abrogation in Islam see here (second video) and here. Think of  it as an ‘in the heat of the moment’ or the ‘here and now’ doctrine, Muslim scripture in the ‘fast lane’. What better way to charge ahead against the ‘enemies of Islam’ than to conveniently abrogate the Quran to suit the present, chosen circumstance? Foolproof, I’d say.

” None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Sura 2. The Cow-Verse 106.

The picture above is an illustration of Muhammed. Greek, 19th century. It is currently housed in the Benaki Museum in Athens. What would the Imams say? Or what of this one below, used as an illustration advertising soup stock powder? Would it be permitted as long as the soup were made without pork?


1928 German advertisement for bouillon extract shows Gabriel guiding Mohammed up to Allah.

There are thousands of depictions of Muhammed old and new, created by artists around the world including ones created in Muslim nations. The claim that he cannot be depicted in picture form is clearly false.

From The Telegraph U.K.

Danish newspaper apologises over Prophet Mohammed cartoon

A Danish newspaper on Friday became the first in the country to apologise for offending Muslims by printing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb-shaped turban, rekindling a heated debate about free speech.

Published: 5:38PM GMT 26 Feb 2010

Politiken said its apology was part of a settlement with a Saudi lawyer representing eight Muslim groups in the Middle East and Australia.

The daily drew strong criticism from Danish media, which previously had stood united in rejecting calls to apologise for 12 cartoons that sparked fierce protests in the Muslim world four years ago. Continue Reading →

Libyan death scam: Lockerbie bomber will beat cancer family ‘hopes’.

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Wait a minute. Weren’t we told that Lockerbie bomber Megrahi was sent back to Tripoli to die? Scammed by Islamic terrorists once more.

From The Telegraph U.K.

Lockerbie bomber: family hopes Megrahi ‘will beat cancer’ after release from jail

The family of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, hopes he will beat cancer six months after he was released from jail on compassionate grounds.

By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter
Published: 10:26AM GMT 27 Feb 2010
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi: Lockerbie bomber: family hopes Megrahi 'will beat cancer' after release from jail

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi Photo: PA

His elderly father, Ali, keeps a vigil at his son’s side at the family’s home in Tripoli as Megrahi, 57, battles a serious prostate cancer. The father hopes a “miracle” could happen.

Mr Megrahi Snr was quoted on Saturday as saying: “A close relative was diagnosed with a similar disease and he was treated and recovered completely. We hope that Adbelbaset recovers his health as well.

“I think that the sick are not just cured by medicine, but also having a high morale and a sense of freedom, and these were not available to Abdelbaset in prison.” Continue Reading →

New feature: Tales from the ‘Freedom’ Files.

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Remember when saying ” it’s a free country” was actually true? In light of the fact that many of our parents enjoyed more freedom than we do today, Vlad has decided to launch a new weekly feature, Tales from the ‘Freedom’ Files, reminding us of how ‘old fashioned’ rational thought is being replaced by ‘progressive’ irrational ideology.  The feature cites stories that only the Loony Left could manage to bulldoze into government policy without public consultation, debate or consent. We were motivated by ‘ What exactly does the term free country mean, please?’. Our top five headlines, collected from around the world, will be available every Saturday. Enjoy.

#1. From the U.K.  Equality and Human Rights Commission warns it may be illegal for schools to require girls to wear skirts (as part of uniform) as it could discriminate against transsexual pupils. (Vlad note:  this may be a problem as Islam forbids the wearing of pants by girls. No doubt that the same commission will provide an exemption for Muslims).

#2. From France.  The Tunnels for Toads Project. An animal rights protection group is urging French authorities to build specific crossings and tunnels to save frogs, toads and newts from being squashed by motorists.

#3. From the U.K.  Garden gnomes, welcome mats, pottery tortoises deemed health and safety hazard by council.

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#4. From the United States.  Pediatricians urge wieners undergo ‘reshaping’ and hot dogs be affixed with warning labels.

#5. From the U.S.  Third hand smoke labeled dangerous to your health. Researchers call for a ban on smoking in homes.

Note** This story by far the worst of the lot, is the *story of the week that I didn’t have time to mention*……

From the U.K.  Father apprehended by mall security and police, accused of paedophelia and threatened with arrest for taking photo of 4 year old son on childrens’ train toy ride.

al-Shebab fashion police crack down on wardrobe malfunctions

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Get the look: Men’s fashion in Somalia never looked better. Fatigues look great paired with inexpensive tea towels and strands of bullets. Finish off the look with some stolen plastic cups, a bamboo cane, rifle and you’re set to go. For a sexy, sporty look, rub some sand around the eyes. For women, the modern look and ease of the burqa is a must-have in any well-styled wardrobe. They come in two fabulous colours, complimentary to any Muslim women’s skin tone, black and blue. Original designs provided by the House of Allah, brought to you by al-Shebab.

From The Telegraph U.K.

No splitting hairs with fundamentalist fashion police

Armed with assault rifles and scissors, the Shebab’s religious police are imposing a reign of terror – as well as crew cuts and bushy beards – on Somalia’s youth.

By Ali Musa Abdi, in Mogadishu for AFP
Published: 11:05AM GMT 23 Feb 2010
Get the look: the fundamentalist fashion police.

Get the look: the fundamentalist fashion police. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

Wearing a T-shirt with a Western print, a pair of tight jeans and wavy gelled back hair, Ahmed Aydarus Abdi is a dedicated follower of fashion, but not the style advocated in the Shebab’s hardline Wahhabi brand of Islam.

“I was stopped by Shebab gunmen who asked me questions about my haircut. They said the way I designed my hair was very silly,” he said.

“Without waiting for my reply, one of the gunmen pulled out a pair of scissors and cut off huge locks on one side of my head. He was dealing with it like it was grass, not human hair,” Abdi said.

As he recounted how he reluctantly had to finish the job himself, the 19 year-old cast worried glances around him, aware that his appearance was likely to still be offensive to the canons of Shebab sartorial elegance.

His friends encouraged him to comply.

“If he had attempted to defend his right to wear his hair the way he chooses, he would have been lashed in public, so we restrained our friend,” 20-year-old Mohamoud Hassan said. Continue Reading →

`Last Legs Lockerbie`Megrahi living in Libyan luxury villa

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From The Telegraph U.K.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi living in luxury villa six months after being at ‘death’s door’

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is living with his family in a luxury villa in Libya six months after he was released from jail on compassionate grounds because he had less than three months to live.

By Andrew Alderson and Robert Mendick
Published: 9:00PM GMT 20 Feb 2010

Megrahi: Lockerbie bomber Megrahi living in luxury villa six months after being at 'death's door' Megrahi: The latest disclosure will incense many of the relatives of those who died in the bomb blast in December 1988. Photo: AFP

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who is suffering from terminal prostate cancer, no longer receives hospital treatment after ending the course of chemotherapy that he had been given after returning to his homeland last August.

Professor Karol Sikora, the London-based doctor who examined Megrahi and predicted he would be dead by last October, admitted this weekend that the fact the bomber is still alive might be “difficult” for the families of the 270 victims of the attack.

The latest disclosure will incense many of the relatives of those who died in the bomb blast in December 1988 when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in mid air over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on the ground.

Most did not want Megrahi released and they suspected he would live longer than the predicted three months. Continue Reading →

Anti-Semitic hate rife in Malmo, politicians blasé

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From The Telegraph U.K.

Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes

Sweden’s reputation as a tolerant, liberal nation is being threatened by a steep rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the city of Malmo.

By Nick Meo in Malmo, Sweden
Published: 7:30AM GMT 21 Feb 2010

Judith Popinski: Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes

Judith Popinski: Judith Popinski pictured next to the White Bus at the Red Cross museum in Malmo, Sweden Photo: SCANPIX

When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.

She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily in her adopted homeland – until last year.

In 2009, a chapel serving the city’s 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and “Hitler” was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.

“I never thought I would see this hatred again in my lifetime, not in Sweden anyway,” Mrs Popinski told The Sunday Telegraph.

“This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants. The Jewish people are afraid now.” Continue Reading →

Metastasizing political correctness leads to security lapses

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“The Qur’an has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts.

From The Ottawa Citizen

What’s scarier than terrorists? Lawyers

By David B. Harris, Citizen Special February 20, 2010

A month after the panty kamikaze and his explosive shorts smouldered their way into history, the Christmas day flame-up in a Detroit-bound airliner continues to raise questions about aviation security.

Despite occasional hysterics about “security theatre,” there is much to be said for emerging recommendations, like smart screening and body scanning. But Canadians must look at a particular problem — and an unorthodox solution — that, weeks later, continues to escape honest scrutiny.

The problem is the increasing threat that metastasizing political correctness presents to air-passengers. A possible answer involves the only group more widely dreaded than terrorists: lawyers.

Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, former editor of the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, famously said “not all Muslims are terrorists but, regrettably, the majority of the terrorists in the world are Muslims.” The British Home Office reveals 91 per cent of those jailed or remanded on terror offences, are Muslim. Continue Reading →

Canada: Sharia finance comes to Centennial College

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Bankers are lining up to enroll in Canada’s first sharia finance course at Ontario’s Centennial College. Spring classes are full. ‘One of the fastest growing markets is the Islamic business community…..’ Meanwhile, an Ottawa Imam has issued a fatwa against the use of credit cards.

From The Globe and Mail

Toronto school to offer course in Islamic finance

Centennial College will be the first in Canada to offer subject

Elizabeth Church

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Responding to demand from the banking industry, Toronto’s Centennial College is about to become the first school in Canada to offer a course in the growing field of Islamic finance.

The new course will be offered online and led by an Islamic scholar who also is a financial expert. It will be available in September to the general public, but the college has already filled a spring class with staff from a major bank.

John Harris, a chair in Centennial’s business school, said the new course is a clear case of the college answering a need for training in industry.

“One of the fastest growing markets is the Islamic business community in Toronto and Vancouver,” Mr. Harris said. Continue Reading →

Canada: Imam tells Muslims credit card use unIslamic

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From The Ottawa Citizen

Don’t use credit cards: Ottawa imam

Muslim leader reminds faithful interest is forbidden

By Jennifer Green, The Ottawa Citizen February 18, 2010 3:06 AM

Imam Khaled Abdul-Hamid Syed isued a fatwa against credit cards because they entail usury.

Imam Khaled Abdul-Hamid Syed isued a fatwa against credit cards because they entail usury.

Photograph by: Jean Levac, The Ottawa Citizen, The Ottawa Citizen

In an economy awash in easy credit, Ottawa’s leading imam is definitely swimming against the tide.

Imam Khaled Abdul-Hamid Syed has issued a fatwa against credit cards, even if they are paid off every month.

“I conclude that it contains usury … which is forbidden in Islam, so it should not be used,” Khaled said in an e-mail to members of the main mosque on Northwestern Avenue. Continue Reading →

Conspiracies, Islamist propaganda headline Toronto conference

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The Christmas Day underwear bomber was described as the tool of an Israeli plot; Barack Obama was referred to as “Mr. Black Man”; al-Qaeda was called “the figment of the imagination of the West”; and a video was shown that mocked 9/11 by putting the Muppet Show logo over slow-motion footage of the second plane’s impact, with screams of terror for audio.

From The National Post

Conspiracies, propaganda top agenda at Islam summit

‘Media War’

Joseph Brean, National Post Published: Tuesday, February 16, 2010

France: Quick goes halal

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Quick, the fast food chain in France has gone halal. All pork has been removed by the restauranteur at locations in neighbourhoods with high Muslim populations. Non-Muslims who want a classic burger with bacon have to now go to another location elsewhere to buy the classic. One angry regular customer asks, ” I don’t understand, why can’t they sell halal burgers and bacon burgers at the same time?” I understand. Silly question.

From The Telegraph U.K.

French fast food chain makes menus halal

Quick, one of France’s most popular fast food chains, has taken pork off the menu at eight of its restaurants, turning them into halal-only outlets.

By Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 6:11PM GMT 15 Feb 2010

The chain has replaced bacon with smoked halal turkey in restaurants in three branches in a Paris suburb, two in Marseille, and the remainder in Toulouse, Villeurbanne, near Lyon, and Roubaix, northern France – all of them areas with high Muslim populations.

These restaurants now serve only halal food, seen as permissible according to Islamic law. The company said the move was part of a test, which began in November, and that pork may return to the menu at a later date. Continue Reading →

Cupid reviled: Why Islamists hate Valentine’s Day.

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Saudi scholars hate Valentine’s Day. They hate it so much, that the mutawa is sent to patrol the streets of Riyadh and other Saudi cities scouring for lovers caught in the act of walking together. Shops are raided for stocking red roses, heart-shaped candy boxes and red balloons. Vendors found selling  ‘contraband’ Valentine’s love prose, poetry and greeting cards are threatened with arrest and punishment. Young Saudis wishing to celebrate find themselves buying and stashing  love products weeks before the Festival of Love, knowing such items become illegal the week preceding Valentine’s Day. Florists sneak bouquets to customers in the dark of night and young women with the temerity to don red lipstick or a red blouse are ridiculed. A cleric in Indonesia has also instructed Muslims not to mark the wicked day while Russian Muslim leaders claim the day of love preaches ‘ universal permissiveness, amorality and nihilism’. And not to disappoint the politically correct crowd, the headmaster at Britain’s Ashcombe Primary School has banned Valentine’s citing the emotional immaturity of the students.

Certainly if the Saudis spent as much time hunting down terrorists and Muslim scholars issued hearty fatwas against violence committed in the name of Islam as they do initiating jihad against courting couples, red teddy bears and roses, the world would be a far better place. We are correct to realize that Saudi Arabia’s ban on Valentine’s Day relates directly to Islam’s irrational fixation all things sexual and it’s obsession in securing all things repressive, but are we fully clear on the deeper reason Cupid is so reviled? Is it really the winged cherub with the arrow and pink cheeks that set Islamic scholars into such bizarre fits or the fact that Valentine was a Christian Saint? Continue Reading →