November 2007

Life savers run swim event for Muslim girls

After the 2007 Oz Federal Election, life goes on, with more multicultural madness:

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Life savers run swim event for Muslim girls

A swimming carnival for young Muslim girls is taking place today at an aquatic centre in Sydney's south-west.

The Royal Life Saving Association and New South Wales Sport and Recreation are running the event, which is aimed at educating Muslim girls about the importance of knowing how to swim.

The ladies-only competition will also require Islamic dress to be worn.

Muhamed Abu Maryam from the Global Islamic Youth Centre says the carnival will give the girls more freedom to learn valuable swimming skills.

"You look at the culture of Australia and we're very much focused and we've got a strong emphasis on participating in water activities and water sports," he said.

"You have a look at our beaches - we love our beaches and therefore it's important that all girls and girls within our community as well are able to participate in something like this."

Source: " ABC News"

Forum on Jerusalem Calls for Unifying Islamic and Arab Ranks

The battle described in Ezekiel 38 & 39 moves a bit closer.

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Forum on Jerusalem Calls for Unifying Islamic and Arab Ranks

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 08:40 PM

ISTANBUL, (SANA)- International Forum on Jerusalem called Thursday for unifying Islamic and Arab ranks to liberate Jerusalem from occupation and face schemes aiming at judizing the city.

Participants at the opening session demanded to support the Palestinian issue, warning against Israeli plots to demolish al-Aqsa Mosque.

They called for an immediate stop to the digging acts under the Mosque and other Islamic and Christian sanctities.

Assistant Secretary General of the Arab League Mohammad Sbeih said that Jerusalem city is 'a red line' for all Arab and Islamic peoples , adding that the Israeli occupation turned the holly city into besieged one .

For his part, Bishop of al-Qudes Atallah Hanna condemned the Israeli brutal policy to judize al-Qudes and attempts to cancel its historical and civilized features, expressing hope that this gathering will come out with practical proposals and resoulotions to support al-Qudes and its peoples in facing this policy.

Bishop Hanna affirmed the need to liberate the occupied Arab territories in Golan, South Lebanon and the Palestinian lands.

Meanwhile , Iranian President 'Advisor Ali Akbar Mohtashami said in his speech that US and Israel seek to provoke division among the Arabs to pass their plots and demolish al-Aqsa Mosque ,calling for supporting the Palestinians in facing all pressures .

British former MP George Galloway said that al-Qudes is a treasure for all humanity but it is in hand of usurpers, noting that Palestine will not be liberated unless the Palestinians are united.

Jerusalem International Forum on Thursday started in Istanbul with the participation of a Syrian delegation of cultural, social and intellectual figures headed by Minister of Expatriates Dr. Buthaina Sha'aban.

Thawra- Mazen

Source: " Syrian Arab News Agency" [SANA]

More Muslim Mosque Mayhem

Shooting incident in Swiss Islamic centre, one wounded

13 November 2007 | 02:23 | FOCUS News Agency

Geneva. A Muslim Swiss citizen opened fire late Monday in the Islamic centre at Crissier, western Switzerland, seriously wounding a fellow Muslim, police said.

First reports said the 23-year-old fired a dozen shots in the prayer room on the first storey of the Islamic centre where there were about 10 people present, the

Vaud cantonal police said in a statement, AFP reported.

A 43-year-old Swiss Muslim was seriously wounded in the abdomen, but he was expected to recover.

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Full article at " FOCUS Information Agency"

No-Goh policy on mosques and Islamic immigration

No-Goh policy on mosques and Islamic immigration

By Elise Kinsella

A 10-year ban on Islamic immigration to Australia and on the construction of any Islamic schools or mosques is the

main election policy for one of Macarthur's federal election candidates.

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) candidate Godwin Goh said his party, if elected, would also lobby the

NSW Government and Federal Government to change any anti-vilification or anti-discrimination laws that could make

such a proposal illegal.

Mr Goh said he wanted: "No Muslim immigration for 10 years, no setting up schools and mosques, too."

A decade is the time Mr Goh said was needed to review the impact of Muslim migration to Australia.

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Full article at " Camden Advertiser"

Muslim issue will turn and bite us if we fail to act

Muslim issue will turn and bite us if we fail to act

It's time to show the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland tough love, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards

Sunday November 11 2007

YOU can't get away from the Muslim issue in Britain unless you keep your eyes and ears closed. Week after week, criminal courts are dealing with a procession of young Muslims charged with terrorist offences, and civil courts and employment tribunals are clogged with Muslim allegations of religious discrimination, often inspired by the Islamist radicals who want to make it impossible for the decent majorities -- Muslim and non-Muslim -- to live together in amity.

Thursday provided two examples of the kind that make the media salivate. First, there was Samina Malik -- who had security clearance to work in the airside Heathrow departure lounge, in her spare time studied bomb-making manuals, dubbed herself 'the Lyrical Terrorist' and posted on the internet poems about training seven-year-olds to murder non-Muslims (sample: 'Kafirs your time will come soon,/and no one will save you from your doom') -- who was found guilty of 'possessing articles likely to be useful to terrorism'.

Second, there was an interview with Sarah Desrosiers, an enraged owner of a hair salon which specialises in "urban, funky punky" cuts, who is being sued for £15,000 for injured feelings by 19-year-old Bushra Noah -- whom she refused to employ because she wore a hijab that covered all her hair. "To me," said Miss Desrosiers, who has already spent £1,000 fighting the case and fears ruin, "it's absolutely basic that people should be able to see the stylist's hair. If an employee were wearing a baseball cap or cowboy hat, I would ask them to remove it at work."

Miss Noah, however, who is "devastated and depressed" at having been turned down by 25 hair salons, has decided to make an example of Miss Desrosiers.

I hope that such ludicrous carry-on may yet galvanise Londoners into stopping Tablighi Jamaat (an organisation described by the French intelligence service as an "antechamber of fundamentalism") from building a £300m gigantic mosque complex just beside the site of the 2012 Olympic games.

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Full article at " Independent" (Ireland)

LAPD to build data on Muslim areas

Too little, too late, perhaps?

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LAPD to build data on Muslim areas

Anti-terrorism unit wants to identify sites 'at risk' for extremism.

By Richard Winton, Jean-Paul Renaud and Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

November 9, 2007

An extensive mapping program launched by the LAPD's anti-terrorism bureau to identify Muslim enclaves across the city sparked outrage

Thursday from some Islamic groups and civil libertarians, who denounced the effort as an exercise in racial and religious profiling.

Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing, who heads the bureau, defended the undertaking as a way to help Muslim

communities avoid the influence of those who would radicalize Islamic residents and advocate "violent, ideologically-based extremism."

"We are seeking to identify at-risk communities," Downing said in an interview Thursday evening. "We are looking for communities and

enclaves based on risk factors that are likely to become isolated. . . . We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are

so we can reach out to those communities."

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Full article at " Los Angeles Times"

Indonesia Sentences 41 Christian To Five Years Imprisonment

BREAKING NEWS: Indonesia Sentences  41 Christian To Five Years Imprisonment, report

Thursday, 01 November 2007

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Indonesian court has sentenced 41 Christian leaders to five years imprisonment on

charges of blasphemy because they openly prayed that Muslims "come to know Christ," local Christians and a well-informed human

rights group told BosNewsLife Thursday, November 1.

Voice Of the Martyrs (VOM) Australia said the Christians, who are linked to the international mission group Campus Crusade for Christ,

participated in a December, 2006, prayer gathering in the Indonesian province of East Java.

"During this time they prayed for their nation asking that all Muslim leaders come to know Christ. Video footage of this prayer meeting

was filmed and was leaked to a Muslim organization," VOM Australia said.

The organization quoted local sources as saying that the 41 believers "have been found guilty of abusing the Koran," seen as a holy

book by Muslims. "The judge sentenced them to five years in prison". Their lawyers are planning to appeal the sentence in

East Java High Court in Surabaya, VOM Australia added.

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Full article at " BosNewsLife"

Mystery, Babylon The Great

World Conference on Dialogue among Religions and Civilizations in Ohrid

Sunday , 28 October 2007

Adoption of Declaration on improvement of inter-religious dialogue, understanding and unity in Ohrid

Ohrid, October 28 (MIA) - The participants at the World Conference on Dialogue Among Religions and Civilizations in Ohrid

Sunday adopted a Declaration on improvement of inter-religious dialogue, understanding and unity.

The Declaration condemns all forms of religious violence and intolerance, misuse of faith as well as all types of discrimination

and actions that humiliate the dignity of the human. All believers are asked to act according to the reciprocity principle, behave

with others the way you like them to behave with you.

"We are fully committed to strengthening and developing the dialogue among different religions, cultures and civilisations and

essential role of this approach is fight against terrorism", the Declaration reads.

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Also the idea of establishment of Managing Council of Religions under UN sponsorship is supported which will promote development

of dialogue among religions, cultures and civilisations.

The Declaration will be submitted to the UN General Assembly, the High Representative of the UN General Secretary for the Alliance

of the Civilisations, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the Arab League, OIS, the African Union, the Association of South Asian Nations,

the Organisation of the American States, the World Council of Churches, the International Francophone Organisation, and the governments

of member states of the UN.

After the adoption of the Declaration Macedonian FM Antonio Milososki who presided over the Conference said that we should not try to

convert somebody’s faith to another faith but to make the Muslim to be better Muslim, the Christian to be better Christian.

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Full article at " The Journal of Turkish Weekly"