Belgium: Teacher allowed to wear headscarf  A Muslim mathematics teacher in a municipal school in Belgium won her legal battle to wear a veil in class on Thursday when an appeals court overturned a lower court decision. The teacher, whose identity was not given in Belgian news reports, had been banned by school officials last September from wearing a veil while teaching — even though she had done so for more than two years. Her initial attempt to challenge the ban failed when a court in the French-speaking industrial city of Charleroi sided with the school, citing a decree on the “neutrality” of the national francophone school system

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Sweden: Muslim Youth group invites hate preacher to annual conference Swedish journalist Per Gudmundon, reports that Sweden's biggest youth organization invited a hate-preacher, Abdullah Hakim Quick, to headline its annual event. In related news, controversial British Muslim convert Abdurraheem Green was invited to speak at the Scandinavian peace conference by the Norwegian IslamNet

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London: Geert Wilders call to stop Muslim immigration In his speech to the British parliament Geert Wilders called to protect freedom of speech with a First Amendment like law, to end cultural relativism, to stop Muslim mass immigration, to deport criminal immigrants, ban the construction of new mosques and to get more Churchill-like leaders. Wilders’ entire press conference is available at Tundra Tabloids . His speech in parliament is below

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London: Muslim councillor faces death threats over Western dress A SECULAR Muslim woman councillor has been forced to dress more conservatively after receiving death threats and sexually harassing phone calls from members of her own community. Shiria Khatun, 38, has called in the police over the sinister calls in which threats were made not only against her, but also her four young children. In one they warned they would dig up parents’ graves and bury her there instead.

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Shaykh Ebrahim I. Bham is born and raised in South Africa.

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Shaykh Ebrahim I. Bham is born and raised in South Africa. He has attained his masters in the Islamic sciences and theology under great traditional scholars.

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Debate: Is Europe Failing its Muslims?

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Russia: Islamist insurgency mutating towards global Jihad Said Buryatsky is said to have been killed in a recent raid by security forces. —————- The Islamist insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus region appears to be mutating from a grassroots separatist movement toward global jihad or holy war, whose goals, propaganda and patronage point abroad. In February Russia’s most wanted guerrilla, Chechen-born Doku Umarov, vowed on Islamist websites to spread his attacks from the Muslim-dominated North Caucasus into the nation’s heartland, wreaking havoc through jihad.

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UK: Churches against mosque 'political statement' CHURCHES in Camberley have denounced the plans to build a large traditional mosque in the town. This week the Churches Together group said it felt the domed mosque, which will have 100ft minarets, would be making a powerful cultural and political statement

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Norway: Youth suffer from religious coercion Related stories: * Norway: Education minister against hijab in elementary school * Norway: Debate on headscarf in school continues Youth from both Christian and Muslim families say that they forced to use religious symbols. Girls at the Hersleb school in Oslo say that they themselves choose to wear the hijab.  But they too know of others who are forced.

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