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• HT:Vladtepes.Video : The Emancipation of the Dhimmi &European Imposed Reforms.Not to mention the genocide of the Armenians.

• Get Over the Quran Burning!As a Florida pastor plans a Quran-burning bonfire on September 11, The Daily Beast’s Asra Q. Nomani, herself a Muslim, says there are a few brutal passages in the Quran that need to go up in smoke.On the plan to burn Qurans this weekend, I say to Muslims: Let's get over the symbolic insult and deal with the very real issues of literal interpretations of the Quran that are used to sanction domestic violence, terrorism, militancy, and suicide bombings in the name of Islam.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iraqi Christians also condemn Qur‘an burning, says Kirkuk archbishop.Mgr Louis Sako issues a statement extending best wishes to the Muslim community on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. He uses the opportunity to condemn an appeal by a US pastor to burn Islam’s sacred text to mark the 9/11 anniversary, something “irresponsible and immoral, an act of violence against the Islamic religion but also all religions.”Just take a look at the next news link????Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• No place for democracy and human rights in Islam, says Qom theologian.Imam Mesbah Yazdi, great supporter of Ahmadinejad, makes the claim. For him, sexual and moral deviants like Sakineh should be punished and suppressed. Obeying Ahmadinejad is like obeying God. Pro-reform students are beaten, pro-reform professors are fired, all for being against Iran’s rulers. Journalists are accused of being “mohareb”, enemies of God.As the world mobilises against the stoning of Sakineh, a 43-year-old woman convicted for adultery and killing her husband, Iranian police continue to threaten and arrest journalists and human rights lawyers. Dozens of university professors are fired and pro-reform students are beaten. The reason is simple. “Democracy, freedom, and human rights have no place” in Islam, said Mesbah Yazdi, who heads Shia Taliban, in a speech reprinted in Rooz, an online Iranian news website.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Critics, Proponents Spar Over 'Islamic Symbols' in Flight 93 Memorial Design.But the newspaper ad notes that the tower is "cut at an angle at the top so that its crescent arms reach up into the sky. Crescent-topped minarets are a daily sight across most of the Islamic world. Is this really a proper marker for the victims of Islamic terrorism?""It's really revolting to me, this whole thing," he told the newspaper. "It's an insult to my son and all the others."Islamophobia at its best Stop using your fake words. I have no "irrational" fear of Muslims - my fear is completely justified.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iran Says Stoning Sentence Suspended. Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world."The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has stopped and it's being reviewed," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran's state-run English-language Press TV.I believe this woman should be released from prison NOW!The humiliations and mock executions are punishment enough,how can any one still live a "normal" life after going through this kind of abuse?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Christian Copts Living As Slaves to Muslims in Egyptian Village.Since the Christmas Eve Massacre on January 6,2010, when six Copts were killed and nine seriously injured by Muslims in a drive-by shooting outside a church in Nag Hammadi (AINA 1-7-2010), the Coptic Patriarchate in Cairo has become a Mecca for oppressed Copts from all over Egypt.Nearly every Wednesday, when Coptic Pope Shenouda III gives his weekly sermon, Copts go to complain to the Pope and make known their grievances to other Copts who never come to hear about those cases due to media blackout. They hope to meet with human rights activists attending the sermon without fear of getting arrested by State Security for congregating under the prevailing emergency laws.Coptic human rights activist Dr. Fawzy Hermina has called the large courtyard of the Patriarchate the “Coptic Hyde Park.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• British Man arrested & jailed for "racist" ringtone - PC gone mad.A pandemic has hit Great Britain (and the Western world) and it's not the bird flu or the swine flu - it is a disease more infectious and vile. A disease that makes the host literally stupid - and that disease is Political Correctness. Political correctness is a festering boil of mind and thought control with the purpose of ending rational dialog by being particularly adept at shutting down disagreeing critics. The media enables the metastasis of PCism by being complicent and is also guilty of inflicting political correctness on the masses. PC is often coupled with (false) accusations of "racism" or labelling the offender "racist" in order to muzzle any dissent and pave the way for the forced brainwashing of "acceptable" thought via 'sensitivity training'.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Canadian Muslim women's group opposes addition of Dishonour killings to Criminal Code.The Canadian Council of Muslim Women opposes the addition of "honour killings" to the Criminal Code on the grounds "murder is murder" and a special category could stigmatize new immigrants and some ethnic or religious groups.Opposition Liberal and New Democrat MPs and several legal experts also objected Tuesday to such a change, floated by Rona Ambrose, federal minister for the Status of Women, at a news conference Monday.Read the full dishonour story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Top Cleric at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University Says Planned Koran Burning is “Religious Terrorism”.Yet in their twisted minds at Al-Azhar University (Sunni Islam’s highest authority on Islamic law) a Hamas suicide bomber blowing up a bus full of Jews is not terrorism and is justified by the Koran as a “legitimate” practice against Israeli “occupation”…Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.India: Islamists Threaten to Blow up Church if U.S. Group Burns the Koran…The letter posted on Aug. 31 threatened to blast the Church of North India’s 53-year-old Bethlehem Church situated in Bhopal, the state capital.Western leaders condemn the plan, Islamists threaten violence, see how that works?…Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:VladTepes.Video : Islamic TV personality responds to MEMRI’s expose of Muslim savagery.Click here for comments.

• The Ground Zero Mosque’s Strange Background.The New York Post has been digging around the financial background of the Ground Zero mosque. What they’ve discovered is that, far from being clear and transparent, the sale had plenty of oddities. For instance, mosque developer Sharif El-Gamal paid just $4.8 million for the building — despite the fact that another developer had offered $18 million in 2007.If this wasn’t odd enough, the plot thickens in today’s story.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:PajamasMedia.The Battle for America: Around the Nation, Sept 8, 2010.Introducing PJM's weekly roundup of the latest election news from battleground states. We've got correspondents covering 12 of the most important races, plus more in the weeks ahead.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Barack's Cunning Plan?Some of you may know and love the British "Blackadder" TV series. It featured Rowan Atkinson as an upper-class twit and Tony Robinson as Baldrick, his crafty lower-class servant/sidekick. A recurring theme was "Baldrick's cunning plan" that usually failed to get them out of a jam.We will return to Barack's cunning plan in a moment. But first this message.Last Friday, the Labor Department issued its monthly employment data. And the news was unexpected. The unemployment rate was up and jobs were down, but private-sector jobs were up.Read the full scam story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers. Video : Evangelical Leader Says Those Who Criticize Islam “Bring Dishonor to the Name Of Jesus Christ,” Another Blames “Intolerant” Rhetoric on “Christians in the West”Correct me if i'm wrong but were the Crusades not started by the Church.You had no more sins if you participated??Click here for comments.

• Google Introduces Realtime Stats for Blogger.com.Popular blog platform of Google's, Blogger, has just introduced a full-featured, real time stat service into the dashboard.Though Google Analytics and many other third party tools are available to track Blogger.com's blog traffic, they mostly have to be configured by the user. That's not the case with Bloggers analytics, which is pre-configured. The user has nothing to install or configure.Read the fll story here.Click here for comments.

• Israel worried by Jones proposal for int'l force in W. Bank.American proposal to establish a multi-national force in the West Bank could be way to expedite a withdrawal following any peace deal with PA.Israel is concerned about an American proposal to establish a multi-national force in the West Bank as one of the ways to expedite an Israeli withdrawal following any peace deal with the Palestinian Authority.The idea is being promoted by US National Security Advisor James Jones, who served as securitycoordinator to the West Bank under former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.He also served as the top NATO commander in Europe, and therefore is believed to be a proponent of using multinational forces to solve conflicts.I've been saying this was coming for the last 3 months!And it wouldn't surprise me if the Multinational force would be mostly Turlish troops.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.