Wales: Islamic teacher under fire for calling on Muslims to support fight for sharia law abroad Via Wales Onlines (h/t EuropeNews ): An Islamic teacher whose group was at the centre of an anti-terror raid on a Cardiff community hall has come under fire for calling on Welsh muslims to “physically” support the fight for sharia law abroad. Abu Hajar, of Grangetown, Cardiff, is one of the leaders of the Islamic group Supporters of Tawheed, which on its website says its core belief is the “domination of the world by Islam”. (…) In a video posted last month on YouTube called “Support the Muslims of Syria”, Mr Hajar said muslims should: snub western help abroad; demand an “Islamic solution” to problems in the Middle East; and impose sharia law there

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Copenhagen: Churches shouldn’t be turned into mosques since ‘Islam is an enemy of Christianty’ Via JV : Islam is an enemy of Christianity, says former Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, Birthe Rønn Hornbech (Liberals), and therefore Muslims shouldn’t be taking over churches which have closed down.

Germany: Ministry caught in Muslim study leak lie Via the Local : Germany’s Interior Minister was forced to admit on Friday that his ministry had leaked a controversial study on young Muslims in the country to populist Hans-Peter Friedrich and the tabloid newspaper both presented the study as showing that young Muslims were not integrating into German society – infuriating the authors who said their presentation was a gross distortion of what they actually said.

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London: Don’t ban alcohol — we’ll get blame, say Muslim students Via the London Evening Standard : Muslim students at a university considering banning alcohol from parts of its campus have hit out at the plan — fearing they will be blamed for the move.

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Morocco: Italian fashion company upsets Muslims with madrassa pictures Italian fashion designer Fornarina got Muslims upset by their latest advertising shoot in Marrakesh.

France: Muslims ‘likely to vote for far left’ Via Al-Jazeera : Al Jazeera’s Yasmine Ryan spoke with M’hammed Henniche, head of the Union of Muslim Associations of Seine-Saint-Denis (UAM 93) [Fr], about how all the negative attention had affected Muslim voters in the run up to the first round of voting – to be held on Sunday, April 22. (…) YR: During her campaign, Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front candidate, has used the term “Islamoleftism”.

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Germany: Merkel ally says Islam not part of Germany Via Reuters : A leading conservative politician said on Thursday that Islam did not belong in Germany, fuelling tension at a conference on integrating Muslims that also debated a controversial Salafist campaign to hand out copies of the Koran across the country. “Islam is not part of our tradition and identity in Germany and so does not belong in Germany,” Volker Kauder, head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in parliament, told the Passauer Neue Presse.

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Morocco: Preacher calls Muslims to leave France Via Telegraaf : Omar al-Haddouchi, ideological leader of the Jihadist movement in Morocco, published a fatwa saying all Muslims should leave France for North Africa. Al-Haddouchi says Muslims have no reason to stay in France, listing as reasons the burqa ban, the limits on the call to Friday prayers, and the stricter controls on Muslim radicals following the terror attack in Toulouse. He said non-Muslim countries where like a toilet, where you do your thing and then leave

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Translated by Ramy Noaman Sheikh Muḥammad Ibn Saalih Al‐`Uthaymeen was asked about the creed of the Muslims with respect to Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him. He replied: “The creed of the Muslims concerning Jesus, son of Mary, peace and blessings be upon him, is that he is one of the noble messengers

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Malmö: “Sweden Democrats have infiltrated the Jewish community in order to push their hate of Muslims” Via the Local : The letter comes following an interview published on Thursday in the liberal-leaning magazine NEO in which Reepalu discussed the “strong ties” between the Jewish community and the Sweden Democrats, a political party with a clear anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim line which has its roots in Sweden’s neo-Nazi movement. According to Reepalu, “Sweden Democrats have infiltrated the Jewish community in order to push their hate of Muslims”.

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