Pakistan: ‘Islam in Europe a reality despite challenges’ Via the International News : Islam in Europe today is a reality the world would have to contend with despite the immense challenges it faces there.
Birmingham: Four men arrested over ’suicide plot’ Via the Daily Telegraph : Four men have been arrested in connection with an investigation into an alleged suicide bomb plot in Birmingham. The four men – three aged 19 and one aged 24 – are accused of raising funds for terrorism and travelling to Pakistan for terrorist training.
UK: East Lancashire mosque donates £47k to local hospitals Via the Blackburn Citizen : MEMBERS of an East lancashire mosque has donated £47,000 to provide home comforts for patients at Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital.
Norway: “It was an attack against the Labour Party” Via VG (Norwegian): According to Geir Lippestad, Breivik’s lawyer, Breivik went to Utøya to warn the Labour Party that Judgement Day will come if the party won’t change its policies. He wanted to hit the Labour party and its recruitment as hard as possible
“Anwaar-e-Suhaili is a well known Persian book. In it has been narrated a very thought provoking story: Once a man saw a crow whose wings were cut. He thought, “poor thing, how is it going to survive?
Ireland: 'Best place to assassinate President Obama' Via the Belfast Telegraph : Police in Dublin are interrogating a 44-year-old Muslim convert in connection with alleged threats to kill US President Barack Obama.
UK: Asian women subjected to ‘virginity tests’ at Heathrow Via the Telegraph : The government is facing calls for an official apology after documents showed that Asian women were subjected to humiliating “virginity tests” when they tried to move to Britain in the late 1970s. At least 80 women from India and Pakistan hoping to emigrate to Britain to marry were intimately examined by immigration staff to “check their marital status”, according to confidential Home Office files. The files show the practice was more common than previously thought.
OT: US forces kill Osama bin-Laden in Pakistan
Wikileaks: Al-Qaida assassin ‘worked for MI6′ Via the Guardian : An al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was at the same time working for British intelligence, according to secret files on detainees who were shipped to the US military’s Guantánamo Bay prison camp. Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili, an Algerian citizen described as a “facilitator, courier, kidnapper, and assassin for al-Qaida”, was detained in Pakistan in 2003 and later sent to Guantánamo Bay.
Poland: Grand Mufti declares suicide bombings ‘haram’, offers to mediate in Pakistan I think this is the first time that a European Muslim says radicalism and terrorism in the Muslim world should be dealt with since they reflect back on European Muslims.
