After decades of dreaming of power, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood finally comes face to face with the question of how to use it, as a new parliament that it dominates opens Monday. The fundamentalist group has eased off talk of Islamic-style legislation, saying it will focus on fixing Egypt’s ailing economy, and it has even backed…
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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was asked yesterday whether he would support a Muslim for president. His answer may have been one of the most important teaching moments of the long and difficult campaign season. Speaker Gingrich responding by saying it depends on whether the candidate was “a modern person who happens to worship Allah.”…
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What started as a harmless movement by a religious sect in some parts of Northern Nigeria gradually snowballed into one of the worst terrorist uprisings that the nation has witnessed. In 2002, a group which called itself “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad”, which is the English translation of Jama’atu…
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Oklahoma’s voter-approved ban on Islamic sharia law is likely unconstitutional and should not take force, the federal appeals court in Denver has ruled, upholding a lower court decision and injunction. “Given the lack of evidence of any concrete problem, any harm Appellants seek to remedy with the proposed amendment is speculative at best,” the three-judge…
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A high school test blatantly lauds Islam while slamming Christianity. A seminary in California plans to train Imams and Rabbis along with Christian Pastors. In his book “Slavery, Terrorism and Islam” Peter Hammond notes that the level of governmental control increases in direct proportion to the Islamic population percentage. We are in a culture war…
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Nine Islamic groups have reportedly joined forces in a campaign to prepare local mosques to “wage war” on the growing Christian influence in Bekasi, a suburb in West Java, according to Release International. The group is encouraging each local mosque to form its own laskar or “paramilitary unit” to enforce Shariah or strict Islamic practices…
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Facing a precarious future, Europe has only just begun to reckon with increasing Muslim populations and Islamic extremism. If current demographic trends persist, Europe’s democratic secular foundations will be in serious jeopardy in about twenty five years. This disturbing reality is causing a backlash, forcing European governments to confront the threat of Sharia law —…
Full ArticleA joint congress of Muslim organizations demanded the Bekasi regency and municipality administrations immediately implement Islamic sharia law to deter the growth of Christianity in the area. “We will urge the [Bekasi] regency and municipal administrations to pass more sharia-based bylaws and regulations to limit apostasy and squeeze out attempts to weaken Muslim unity in…
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