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France On Terror Alert For Threat To Paris Transport System

The Threat To Paris Transport System

Within a week of the French Senate passing a law that would effectively ban the wearing of full-face veils, France received warnings that a suicide bomber would blow herself up on the Paris transport system. This threat is said to have been come from two separate sources, one of which is [...]

David And Victoria Beckham In Global Hunt For Hooker Irma Nici

Seeing Red Over Threesome Claim

David Beckham probably had that awful feeling that he had seen it before.  Afterall, it was only recently that his former team mate Wayne Rooney, striker from Manchester United FC and England international was exposed by an escort as having had paid sex with him over the period when wife Coleen was pregnant with [...]

Iran – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Says Insults Against Carla Bruni-Sarkozy A Crime Worse Than A Crime

“What Kind Of Islam Allows That?”

“What kind of Islam allows that?” asked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in reference to the recent insults hurled by an Iranian newspaper at France First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.  While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not specifically name the newspaper when he spoke at an interview to the media, he has condemned [...]

Fidel Castro Says Holocaust Is Real

Fidel Castro Criticized Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad For Denying The Holocaust 

I was surprised to read a press report that the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Fidel Castro, has come to the defense of Israel over the reality of the Holocaust and Israel’s right to exist.  You may recall that it was Iran’s President Mahmoud [...]

Shark-Attack Victims More Than Forgive Their Attackers

Shark-Attack Victims’ Plea

Nine shark-attack victims, some living not just with scars of the attack but also with missing limbs, gathered at the United Nations in New York for a news conference to urge the world to increase efforts to protect the shark. They were brought to the United Nations by the Pew Environment Group, which is [...]

Iran – Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Says Reports Of 99 Lashes Untrue

“Lies And Rumor”

“These are all lies and rumor,” so says a woman purportedly to be Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani on media reports that she had been lashed 99 times by the Iranian authorities for a published photo of herself without a headscarf.  Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is the Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for [...]

India: Half A Million Muslims Take Pledge Against Terrorism

The Pledge

“We, the servants of Allah and followers of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), affirm in good faith that we will strive for the virtue and well being of our family, friends, teachers and the entire humanity. We will be in the forefront of giving a helping hand to the poor and the oppressed.  We have assembled here [...]

Are There No Honor Killings In Egypt?

Egypt’s Line On Honor Killings

According to The Independent, a UK newspaper, “Officially, Egypt has no ‘honor’ killings. Young women may commit suicide, yes, but they are never murdered”. But what is the real situation? The newspaper, which devotes one part of its four-part series on honor killings to the situation in Egypt, describes how the government [...]

Pakistan: Teenage Girl Kidnapped And Converted To Islam

Police Not Stepping In

When it comes to forced conversion through kidnapping, it seems that this issue is not unique as to Kamelia Shehata’s case in Egypt.  Now, a similar case has surfaced in Karachi, a port city in Pakistan.  According to media reports, 13-year-old Poonam – a Dalit girl – was kidnapped and apparently forced to [...]

Of Buddha Bar And La Meca Nightclub – What’s In A Name?

Furore Over Names

Is there money to be made in using religious names for entertainment outlets?  Some entrepreneurs obviously think so.  Not long ago in Indonesia there was a Buddha Bar.   And then in Spain there is the La Meca Nightclub (La Meca is Spanish for Mecca). But then both Buddha Bar and La Meca Nightclub ran [...]