September

09-03-2009 QUETTA, Pakistan (PCP) Six Christian shot dead by Islamic militants in Pakistan. The Islamic extremists gunned down 6 Christians and injured 7 more in Quetta city of Baluchistan on August 28, 2009, after threats of “Convert to Islam or Die”.

09-01-2009 TEHRAN, Iran (LA Chronicle) Criminalizing religion: Bad things in Iran. As far as Iranian men are concerned, temporary marriage has been largely the preserve of the mullahs. This is why those seeking muta marriages have tended to go straight to Qom and Mashad, two popular and important religious centres in Iran, where eager religious scholars can be seen wandering the streets, muta contracts in hand, enticing visiting women to sign them.

09-01-2009 CAIRO, Egypt (Christian Post) Egypt Muslim Council: Building of Churches is 'Sin' Against God. Egyptian Muslim leaders are caught in a storm of controversy after a human rights group confronted them about a fatwa (Islamic edict) that stated the building of a church is “a sin against God.”

August

08-31-2009 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (US News) Digging Up the Saudi Past: Some Would Rather Not. In the eyes of conservatives, the land where Islam was founded and the Prophet Muhammad was born must remain purely Muslim. Saudi Arabia bans public displays of crosses and churches, and whenever non-Islamic artifacts are excavated, the news must be kept low-key lest hard-liners destroy the finds.

08-18-2009 KABAL, Afganistan (Times, UK) Right to rape: is that what we’re fighting for? Mr Karzai, the West’s indecisive placeman in Afghanistan, eager to please everyone, has quietly signed an amended version of what has become known as the “marital rape law”, to retain popularity with clerics and his male followers.

08-18-2009 LONDON, England (Telegraph, Belfast) Minister who left Muslim wedding attacked. A Labour peer has demanded an apology from Jim Fitzpatrick, the Farming minister, after Mr Fitzpatrick publicly criticised the segregation of men and women at Muslim weddings.

08-18-2009 KOSH-KORGON, Kyrgyzstan (Gadsden Times) Central Asia Sounds Alarm on Islamic Radicalism. The three men were locals who were said to have once crossed into nearby Afghanistan to wage war alongside the Taliban. They then returned, militant wayfarers apparently bent on inciting an Afghan-style insurgency in this tinderbox of a valley in Central Asia.

08-12-2009 NEW ALBANY, OH (ABC News) Christian Teen Flees Home, Says She Fears Honor Killing by Muslim Father. An Ohio teenager who secretly converted from Islam to Christianity has fled to Florida because she claims her father threatened her with an "honor killing" for abandoning her Muslim upbringing.

08-12-2009 GORJA, Pakistan (BBC) Sectarian violence hits Pakistani town. He described how an angry Muslim mob came through the area, known here as the Christian Colony. "I think there were thousands," he said. "My elderly father went out to see what was happening and they shot and killed him.

08-11-2009 KARACHI, Pakistan (Times, India) Jihadis thrice attacked Pakistan nuclear sites. Pakistan's nuclear facilities have already been attacked at least thrice by its home-grown extremists and terrorists in little reported incidents over the last two years, even as the world remains divided over the safety and security of the nuclear weapons in the troubled country, according to western analysts.

08-11-2009 KARACHI, Pakistan (Hurriyet, Turkey) Pakistan cannot afford Christian controversy. The killing of seven Christians in Muslim-majority Pakistan sparks tense debate over the controversial blasphemy laws with analysts saying the legislation is badly misused by extremists. There is no option but to abolish this law. More than that, the government should revive the secular nature of the state, says an expert.

08-08-2009 LONDON, England (Telegraph, UK) A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050. Last year, five per cent of the total population of the 27 EU countries was Muslim. But rising levels of immigration from Muslim countries and low birth rates among Europe's indigenous population mean that, by 2050, the figure will be 20 per cent, according to forecasts.

08-07-2009 BUFFALO, NY (Buffalo News) 'The Stoning of Soraya M.': Cruel reality is behind powerful story. The film, based on a true story told by Paris-based Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam in the 1994 best-seller of the same name, is a graphic depiction of the brutality of fundamentalist sharia law sanctioned in Iran and other Islamic countries, including U. S. ally Saudi Arabia.

08-03-2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AINA) Muslims Attack Christians in Pakistan, 8 Burned Alive. On Saturday, a frenzied mob of three thousand Muslims stormed the tiny Pakistani Christian village of Gojra. Enflamed by (unconfirmed) charges that a Christian had burned pages of the Qur'an, the mob burned down fifty homes, burned eight Christians alive, and wounded twenty others. Thousands of Christians fled the area.

08-03-2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Seattle Times) Religious riots kill Pakistani Christians. Hundreds of rioting Muslims attacked Christians in eastern Pakistan on Saturday, burning and looting their homes in a rampage that killed six Christians, including a child, and wounded 10 others in the latest violence against minorities in the conservative Muslim country.

08-03-2009 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) Nigerians count cost after uprising by Islamic sect. Samuel Yunana's father, Fayam, was taken from his home, stabbed in the side of the stomach and told to convert to Islam. When he refused, his throat was slit.

08-03-2009 KARACHI, Pakistan (Morningstar) Christian Schools Close After Pakistan Killings. Christian schools went on strike in Pakistan on Monday to protest the killing of seven Christians in riots that heightened fears of widening unrest, officials said.

08-03-2009 LONDON, England (Times, UK) Iran is ready to build an N-bomb - it is just waiting for the Ayatollah's order. Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times.

08-01-2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (NYT) 6 Christians Killed in Riots in Pakistan. Members of a banned Muslim organization began burning the homes of Christians in the Punjabi city of Gorja on Thursday after accusing them of desecrating pages of a Koran, said Shahbaz Bhatti, the federal minister for minorities. He said there was no truth in the allegation that the Koran had been defiled.

July

07-29-2009 KHARTOUM, Sudan (Yahoo) Sudan court adjourns 'lashes for trousers' case. A Sudanese court on Wednesday adjourned the case of a woman journalist facing 40 lashes for wearing "indecent" trousers, with 10 women already whipped for similar offences against Islamic law.

07-22-2009 RAIWIND, Pakistan (EI) PAKISTAN: Arrest of human rights leader due to 'anti-Christian bias,' group says. "This is not the first time that the court has showed prejudice when it comes to Muslim versus Christian," said the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) in a statement following the July 9 arrest of its founder-director Joseph Francis.

07-20-2009 OAK LAWN, IL (IPTNews) Hizb Ut-Tahrir: Shariah Takes Precedence over U.S. Constitution Imam Promises to Fight "Until Islam Becomes Victorious or We Die in the Attempt". Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the international movement to re-establish an international Islamic state ­ or Caliphate - kicked off a new campaign to win American recruits Sunday afternoon in this Chicago suburb. Nearly 300 people packed the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel for its Khalifah Conference on "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" to listen to HT ideologues blame capitalism for World War I and World War II; the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown; the current violence in Iraq and Afghanistan; world poverty and malnutrition and inner-city drug use.

07-17-2009 OAK LAWN, IL (FoxNews) Islamic Supremacist Group Holds First U.S. Conference. A group committed to establishing an international Islamic empire and reportedly linked to Al Qaeda is stepping up its Western recruitment efforts by holding its first official conference in the U.S.

07-13-2009 Kasar, Pakistan (MNN) Muslim mob attacks Christians in Kasur. Recent violent attacks on the Christian community in Pakistan are continuing. After accusing of blasphemy, a Muslim religious leader whipped a mob into a frenzy and led them on an attack on a Christian village June 30th.

07-13-2009 MINNEAPOLIS, MN (CNN) Missing Somali-American killed in Somalia. Bana is the third Somali-American from Minneapolis to head to Somalia and die there. His is one of more than a dozen missing Somali-American men whose families believe have gone back to fight alongside an al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgency.

07-13-2009 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Wave of Iraq church bombings stretches into third day. A church in Iraq was bombed Monday, the seventh Christian house of worship in the country to be bombed in three days. At least three children were wounded in Monday's attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.

07-13-2009 TEHRAN, IRAN (CNN) Man's family learns of his death one month after Iran protests. An Iranian family learned of their 19-year-old son's death nearly a month after he was shot during a demonstration over the Islamic republic's disputed election results, an international human rights group said Sunday.

07-12-2009 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) 4 killed, 32 wounded as 6 Baghdad churches bombed. At least four people were killed and 32 wounded as six Baghdad-area churches were bombed within 24 hours, officials told CNN. ... George said he is concerned about the church bombings. If this continues, he said, "there will be no Christians left in Iraq."

June

06-22-2009 DUBAI, UAE (Pakistan News) Would Use Pakistani Nukes: Al Qaeda. “God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans,” Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the leader of al Qaeda in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Al Jazeera television.

May

05-12-2009 CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters, India) Egypt's pig cull fans sectarian tension. "The Christians are Egypt's garbage men, and we are not liked," said Marzouk Badr Adli after taking part in a recent protest against the cull in Cairo's Manshiet Nasser shantytown. "We serve the people and they come and cut off our livelihood.".

05-11-2009 LONDON, England (Telegraph, UK) Controversial Muslim programme-maker to be head of BBC religion. Aaqil Ahmed will move to the corporation from Channel Four, where he upset Roman Catholic priests by commissioning documentaries that appeared to contain a pro-Islam bias.

05-11-2009 LONDON, England (Guardian, UK) BBC appoints first Muslim head of religious programming. The move is likely to be controversial with some – the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was reported to have raised concerns with the BBC director general Mark Thompson that the "Christian voice is being sidelined" after Ahmed was first connected to the role last month.

April

05-12-2009 KABAL, Afganistan (Fox News) Afghans Throw Stones at Women Protesting Rape in Marriage Law. Dozens of young women braved crowds of bearded men screaming "dogs!" on Wednesday to protest an Afghan law that lets husbands demand sex from their wives. Some of the men picked up small stones and pelted the women.

March

03-22-2009 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Fox News) Saudi Clerics Urge Ban on Women, Music on Television. A group of Saudi clerics urged the kingdom's new information minister on Sunday to ban women from appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines, making clear that the country's hardline religious establishment is skeptical of a new push toward moderation..

03-21-2009 PHILADELPHIA, PA (MEF) Muslim Strategies to Convert Western Christians. Freedom of religion guarantees every person the right to convince or be convinced that a different faith than his own is true; however, some Muslim converts reject the very liberal foundations that allow them to operate freely. And the same Muslims who accept conversions to their faith may not accept conversion away from it.

03-07-2009 Baghdad, Iraq (Time) Iraq's Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters. The youngest victims, some just 11 and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, others for as little as $2,000. "The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it's like the trade in cattle," Hinda says. "I've seen mothers haggle with agents over the price of their daughters."

03-05-2009 NEW YORK, NY (EE) UN will attempt to ban speech on religion - especially Islam. "The U.N. now wants to make this anti-blasphemy resolution binding on member nations, including, the United States. It would then be a crime in the United States ... to criticize religion, in particular, Islam."

03-05-2009 STOUGHTON, MA (IC) Will Obama Stand With Geert Wilders? Simply put, if Wilders goes to jail for Fitna then shouldn't the Muslim leaders who call for the murder of Jews, Christians and others they deem non-believers also face time in prison? Wilders called for the withdrawal of all hate speech legislation in Europe as it only applied to people critical of Islamic extremism, not Islamic extremists who call for the destruction of Israel and other terrorist acts.

03-05-2009 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (MSNBC) Militants bomb ancient shrine in Pakistan. A bomb exploded Thursday at the mausoleum of a 17th century Sufi poet in northwestern Pakistan, underscoring the gulf between hard-line Muslims and those in the region who follow a traditional, mystical brand of Islam.

03-04-2009 PRISTINA, Kosovo (WS) Wahhabism in the Balkans. Extremist rhetoric and violence by Wahhabi Islamists continues to rock the Kosovo Republic. As described a month ago here, the Balkan territory, with an overwhelming Muslim majority, has experienced a sudden campaign of propaganda and physical assaults against Islamic moderates. Wahhabi bombast in mosque preaching now encompasses grotesque and vulgar anti-Christian insults.

03-04-2009 DARFUR, Sudan (CNN) Sudan soldier: 'They told me to kill, to rape children'. As the International Criminal Court issues a landmark warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over war crimes in Darfur, CNN's Nic Robertson interviews a man who was told to rape and kill children.

03-02-2009 LONDON, England (Telegraph, UK) Church schools could be forced to promote Islam and homosexuality, Catholics fear. Church schools could be forced to promote Islam and homosexuality under a new legally-binding code of conduct for teachers, it is feared.

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