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August 26, 2008

August 26, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Terror police arrest in Blackburn  - in Lancashire - fourth arrest over alleged plot to kill PM Brown

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7581634.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080826/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliticscrime_080826114033;_ylt=AuBkXUeyKVz0gMf1XVqz3K8Tv5UB
-- Gordon Brown murder threats lead to four arrests under terror powers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/26/uksecurity.gordonbrown
-- 'White' terror suspect arrested over 'Islamic plot to kill Gordon Brown'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1049212/White-terror-suspect-arrested-Islamic-plot-kill-Gordon-Brown.html

(UK) Revealed: Britain's secret propaganda war against al-Qaida -- BBC and website forums targeted by Home Office unit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/26/alqaida.uksecurity
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23544673-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
-- "campaign aims to 'channel messages' through internet bloggers and chatroom members as well as major media outlets such as the BBC"
-- BBC targeted in campaign to taint al-Qaeda
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2623819/BBC-targeted-in-campaign-to-taint-al-Qaeda.html
-- "first dossier of material being despatched to diplomatic posts worldwide cites condemnation of al-Qaida from Sayyid Imam al-Sharif aka Dr Fadl"
-- UK Home Office fails to acknowledge that Al-Sharif continues to support Jihad in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel
--- see also: "False Reports of Jihadists "Quitting" or Abandoning Islamic Supremacism" by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/092.html
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.637/pub_detail.asp
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/false_reports_on_jihad.php
--- see also related article mentioning fraud on Al-Sharif: "Quilliam Foundation and Misdirection on Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa" by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/098.html
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.924/pub_detail.asp
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/quilliam_foundation_and_gomaa.php

August 26, 2008 British Islam Newslinks

UK- ETFS launches Shariah-compliant ETCs

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093209302

(UK) Sharia courts rule on sex lives in Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2625090/Sharia-courts-rule-on-sex-lives-in-Britain.html

August 25, 2008

August 25, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Passport to evil  -- Bulgarian passports for sale in London mosques

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article16763.ece
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/08/london-bulgarian-passports-for-sale-in.html

(UK) Terrorist - or just a curious teenager? -- Guardian propagandist claims those seeking Jihad in UK just "curious"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/25/islam.uksecurity

August 25, 2008 British Islam Newslinks

(UK) Council spending £3million in the fight against Muslim extremism -- to check on mosques, teach imams English

-- "Among the mosques to receive funding is the Green Lane mosque in Small Heath. The Channel 4 Dispatches programme exposed hate preaching at this mosque. A preacher, Abu Usama, urged that homosexuals be thrown from mountains."
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/08/25/council-spending-3million-in-the-fight-against-muslim-extremism-66331-21599047/

(UK) Scotland: When Muslims look to Shari'ah principles, the law of Scotland can be quite accommodating
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/John--Fotheringham--When.4422319.jp

August 24, 2008

August 24, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) How to target the extremists -- by Alasdair Palmer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/24/do2404.xml
-- "Does MI5's behavioural science unit really believe that, if the ideology of extreme Islamism did not exist, the people who blew themselves up on July 7, 2005 would have found another justification for it and done it anyway?"
-- "People in MI5 tell me that denying the connection between Islamism and terrorism derives from the belief that if you accept it, there's no hope for a multicultural society in Britain: we would just have to recognise that part of the population is permanently liable to become terrorists."

August 23, 2008

August 23, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Terror arrests link to PM threat   - men arrested August 14 detained in connection with web posting against PM Brown, signed "Al Qaeda in Britain"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7577562.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/23/gordonbrown.uksecurity
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080822/ap_on_re_eu/britain_terrorism_1;_ylt=AqR23SAkD5UYHeIWYoUEnMATv5UB
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4592445.ece
-- "If the British Government fails to respond to our demands by the last day of March 2008, as they fail to answer to the truce of our Sheikh Osama bin Laden . . . then the Martyrdom seekers of the organisation of al-Qaeda in Britain will target all the political leaders, especially Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. We will also target all Embassies, Crusader Centres and their interests throughout the country, with the help of Allah."
-- August 15: "Men questioned by terror police"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7562197.stm

(UK) Britain 'under constant attack in cyberwar'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2605021/Britain-under-constant-attack-in-cyberwar.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4592677.ece

(UK) Telegraph report on new "Undercover Mosque"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2604023/Channel-4s-Undercover-Mosque-returns.html

August 23, 2008 British Islam Newslinks

(UK) Manchester: Boys 'happy to flog themselves'

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1063910_boys_happy_to_flog_themselves
http://www.wigantoday.net/latest-north-west-news/Boys-happy-to-flog-themselves.4420554.jp

(UK) Scotland Yard says its top Muslim officer is suing
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/22/europe/EU-Britain-Police-Discrimination.php

August 22, 2008

New Dispatches Undercover Mosque-The Return Documentary

(UK) Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque -- documentary to show that Islamic supremacism, calls for killing, continue to spread in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/22/channel4.islam?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
-- a female reporter attends prayer meetings at an important British mosque which claims to be dedicated to moderation and "dialogue with other faiths"
-- secretly films sermons given to the women-only congregation in which female preachers recite extremist and intolerant beliefs"
-- "in one scene, as hundreds of women and some children come to pray, a preacher calls for adulterers, homosexuals, women who act like men and Muslim converts to other faiths to be killed, saying: 'Kill him, kill him. You have to kill him, you understand. This is Islam'."
-- "the reporter visits the bookshop and discovers books and DVDs still on sale, promoting extremist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic and intolerant messages"
-- "films inside a key Saudi-funded Muslim organisation, which claims to promote tolerance and integration yet distributes literature which promotes intolerance for non-Muslims, an extreme version of sharia law and teachings which support discrimination against women".
-- previous "Undercover Mosque" video by Channel 4
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24026_Busted_Islamic_Leader_Reacts&only

August 22, 2008 British Islam Newslinks

(UK) Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque -- documentary to show that Islamic supremacism, calls for killing, continue to spread in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/22/channel4.islam?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews

(UK) Manchester: Boys 'happy to flog themselves'
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1063910_boys_happy_to_flog_themselves

(UK) Censored: imam of Dibley is banned from ITV
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4587798.ece
-- "lawyers said it might be culturally insensitive"


Commentaries:

British Submission -- by Douglas Stone
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F5BFAB45-7CB7-4FEB-8BF3-7E75014BE5BB

August 21, 2008

August 21, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) MI5: Terrorists not frustrated religious loners -- concludes there is no single pathway to violent "extremism"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2593626/MI5-Terrorists-not-frustrated-religious-loners.html
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1932773&Language=en
-- Islamic terrorists could be from any race, warns secret MI5 report
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1047577/Islamic-terrorists-race-warns-secret-MI5-report.html
-- see also Guardian news report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/20/uksecurity.terrorism1

UK resident in Guantanamo wins UK evidence ruling -- Binyam Mohamed
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1932805&Language=en
-- see also AFP report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/wl_uk_afp/usattacksguantanamobritaincourtethiopia_080821124723;_ylt=AgFLRS03cNmNlFIwJ6IS8LITv5UB

August 20, 2008

August 20, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) BBC charity funded jihadists -- donated 20,000 pounds to an organization that funded the propaganda activities of the July 7 bombers

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4569913.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/20/uksecurity.voluntarysector
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1047135/7-7-bombers-given-20-000--Children-Need.html

(UK) Hizb ut Tahrir London meeting: an eyewitness report
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022288.php

August 20, 2008 British Islam Newslinks

(UK) Quilliam Foundation's Ed Husain Argues for new proposed UK Sharia "contract" on women's rights to deal with rape and forced marriages

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/islam.religion
-- ignorning existing UK laws
http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/consent.pdf
-- while Quilliam Foundation's Maajid Nawaz defends Egyptian Grand Mufti Sheik Ali Gomaa
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/quilliam_responds.php
-- and Gomaa calls for the death penalty for adultery, and takes a relativistic view towards wife-beating
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1586.htm
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1154.htm
-- see also Jeffrey Imm article
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.924/pub_detail.asp

UK: Pharmacy to offer Ramadan service
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/08/uk-pharmacy-to-offer-ramadan-service.html
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1218650346187

August 19, 2008

August 19, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Cyber-terrorists jailed for 22 years --  Aabid Hussain Khan sentenced to 12 years, Muhammad Munshi (aka Hammaad Munshi) sentenced to 10 years

http://itn.co.uk/news/e90f786f63a54385cfc0dd5022ff43b6.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2584920/Terrorist-mentor-Aabid-Hussain-Khan-jailed-for-12-years.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046916/British-cyber-groomer-jailed-recruiting-UKs-youngest-terrorist.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080819/wl_uk_afp/britainattackscourt_080819135154;_ylt=AoJ6ZBAmmfaWlcX08IIe1RkTv5UB

(UK) Islamic terror cell 'may have been plotting to attack Queen' -- British Jihadist Aabid Hussain Khan plot included details Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, NYC subway, Washington DC subway, Washington Memorial, and World Bank in U.S.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2580940/Islamic-terror-cell-may-have-been-plotting-to-attack-Queen.html

(UK) 'Model' pupil secretly studied ways of wiping out non-Muslims - Hammaad Munshi
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/39Model39-pupil-secretly-studied-ways.4401314.jp

(UK) Watchdog says Muslim prisoners ask to be isolated at Frankland
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4568736.ece


Commentaries:

Quilliam Foundation and Misdirection on Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa -- by Jeffrey Imm
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/quilliam_foundation_and_gomaa.php
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.924/pub_detail.asp

(UK) Homegrown terror, learned online -- by Stephen Tankel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/19/uksecurity.terrorism?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews

 

 

August 19, 2008 British Islam Newslinks



(UK) Manchester: Teenagers forced to flog themselves, court told -- during Muslim ceremony
http://www.wigantoday.net/latest-north-west-news/Teenagers-forced-to-flog-themselves.4405208.jp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7568953.stm
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23541517-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&

August 18, 2008

August 18, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Trio guilty over terror documents -- Aabid Khan, Hammaad Munshi, and Sultan Muhammad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7568357.stm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710394567&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(UK) Aabid Khan and his global jihad
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7549447.stm

(UK) From toys to terrorism, aged just 12 -- Aabid Hussain Khan
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Background-From-toys-to-terrorism.4401450.jp

(UK) Britain's 'youngest terrorist' jailed -- Hammaad Munshi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2579566/Britains-youngest-terrorist-jailed.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4558496.ece
-- Guilty: Britain's youngest ever terrorist who had guide to death and explosives in his home
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046472/Guilty-Britains-youngest-terrorist-guide-death-explosives-home.html

(UK) Terror suspects remain in Britain despite deportation pledge -- 24 terror suspects not deported
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2574080/Terror-suspects-remain-in-Britain-despite-deportation-pledge.html

August 18, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks

UK Islamic banks to double in five years

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080816/BUSINESS/957576411/-1/ART

(UK) Sharia car insurance: For the first time, Muslims can buy policies in line with Islamic law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1045959/Sharia-car-insurance-For-time-Muslims-buy-policies-line-Islamic-law.html

(UK) Man goes on trial accused of encouraging two boys to flog themselves during Muslim ceremony in Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046370/Man-goes-trial-accused-encouraging-boys-flog-Muslim-ceremony-Britain.html?ITO=1490

(UK) The Sham of Women's Rights Under the Shari'a -- by D. L. Perry
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_sham_of_womens_rights_unde.html
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/08/sham-of-womens-rights-under-sharia.html

(UK) British anti-Americanism 'based on misconceptions'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2575395/British-anti-Americanism-based-on-misconceptions.html

August 15, 2008

August 15, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks


(UK) Three terror suspects arrested in North -- Blackburn men at Manchester Airport -- of "Asian origin"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2560635/Three-terror-suspects-arrested-in-North.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080815/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliceattacksarrests_080815071130;_ylt=Al_qPCCmwdp3UcDLtch4ITETv5UB
-- Counter-terrorism police search houses after airport arrests
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2564132/Counter-terrorism-police-search-houses-after-airport-arrests.html

(UK) Minister attacks Hizb ut-Tahrir plans for East End conference
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED14%20Aug%202008%2015%3A15%3A50%3A147

Commentaries:

For freedom's sake, we must stop libel tourism -- by Tim Luckhurst
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/15/labour.freedomofinformation

August 15, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks


(UK) Shariah Finance: alburaq launches UK 'Halaal' savings plan
http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=ifa2006_articleimport&tempPageName=810047

(UK) British security laws are eroding human rights, says UN -- Government has been criticized by the United Nations for introducing laws that have stifled freedom of expression in the UK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2561251/British-security-laws-are-eroding-human-rights-says-UN.html

(UK) CounterterrorismBlog.org's Michael Jacobson provides Quilliam Foundation's Maajid Nawaz response to criticism on Mufti Ali Goma and others on Quilliam web site: "Mufti Ali Goma must stand innocent until proven guilty"
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/quilliam_responds.php
-- False Reports of Jihadists "Quitting" or Abandoning Islamic Supremacism -- by Jeffrey Imm
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/false_reports_on_jihad.php
-- Quilliam Foundation - About Us
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/about-us.html
-- March 6, 2008 - U.S. News and World Report: Egypt's Grand Mufti Counters the Tide of Islamic Extremism
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/03/06/egypts-grand-mufti-counters-the-tide-of-islamic-extremism.html
--- portrayed Sheik Ali Gomaa as "moderate" calling for "sharia law... [as] the best antidote to Islamic extremism"
-- MEMRI: The New Egyptian Mufti - Dr. Sheikh 'Ali Gum'a: Opinions About Jihad, Supporting Suicide Bombings, and Forbidding Muslims in the U.S. Military From Fighting Other Muslims
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP58003
-- MEMRI: In Interview, Egyptian Mufti Ali Gum'a Questioned On Treatment of Women in Islam, Blames 'Secularists' For Terrorism Worldwide
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP175507
-- MEMRI: The Mufti of Egypt: The True Face of the Blood-Sucking Hebrew Entity has Been Exposed
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP125506

August 14, 2008

August 14, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks

(UK) Sharia Finance: Family Sharia Fund London share offer a major success

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=226122&Sn=BUSI&IssueID=31146

(UK) Sharia Finance: Gatehouse sees more UK Islamic investment banks
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\08\13\story_13-8-2008_pg5_26

August 13, 2008

August 13, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks


(UK) National security: Plans for 'secret inquests' face defeat in Lords
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/13/terrorism.uksecurity

(Europe) Islamist Forum Member Proposes Poisoning Water Systems of Major European Cities
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD202108
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/9132.htm

August 13, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks

(UK) Suicide bomber novel 'censored' from Muslim writing competition, claims author Max Malik

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2546788/Suicide-bomber-novel-censored-from-Muslim-writing-competition-claims-author-Max-Malik.html
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/64997-malik-claims-censorship.html
 -- "An author who won last year's Muslim Writer of the Year Award has claimed his new book was "censored" from this year's competition because it tackled subjects "unpalatable" to Britain's Islamic community like suicide bombings"

(UK) Muslim Writers awards deny censorship of 'unpalatable' novel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/13/muslim.awards.malik


 

August 12, 2008

August 12, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Terror charge student trial set - Bristol student Hashi Ahmed Omer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7557121.stm

(UK) Uproar at plan to hold inquests in secret
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4510259.ece

(UK) A festival of groveling to terrorists -- by Mick Hume
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/mick_hume/article4509698.ece
"If works of art are withdrawn because of fear of reprisal, we lose the chance for open debate"

August 12, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks


(UK) Report: Met chief 'tried to stop Muslim officer who was head of security for 2012 going to Beijing'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043764/Met-chief-tried-stop-Muslim-officer-head-security-2012-going-Beijing.html?ITO=1490

(Scotland) Richard Dawkins: Europe 'is haven of civilisation trapped between Islam and US'
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2423022.0.Europe_is_haven_of_civilisation_trapped_between_Islam_and_US.php

August 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Islamist threat to behead prison officer -- threatening to take a prison officer hostage and behead him on camera, it has been reported.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2538249/Islamist-threat-to-behead-prison-officer.html

August 11, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks

(UK) Video: Killing for 'honor'

-- Britain is stepping up its campaign against so-called "honor-related violence." CNN's Paula Newton reports
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/10/newton.uk.honor.violence.cnn
-- Video addresses case of "Banaz Mahmod, 20, an Iraqi Kurd from south London, was killed and buried in a suitcase in Birmingham in April 2006."
-- August 6 court found her cousin and his friend accused of hiding her body - released due to insufficient evidence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7546184.stm
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/news/article/1157154253541?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController
-- UK Karma Nirvana charity - survivors of forced marriage and 'honour'-based violence
-- Project founder and director Jasvinder Sanghera
http://www.karmanirvana.org.uk/

Newslinks: "Honour Killings"
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Current+Affairs/Ethnic+Issues/Honour+Killings

Newslinks: "Honor Killings"
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/?JavaScript=1&search=honor+killing

News: StopHonourKillings.com
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News

Honor Killings in Muslim majority countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour_Killings#Muslim_majority_countries

UK's first 'sharia-compliant' MasterCard launched for Muslims -- launched today in London
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-08-11-MasterCard-launches-UKs-first-sharia-compliant-credit-card-for-Muslims
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/shariacompliant+mastercard+launch/2392782

UK: Sharia prepaid card
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/08/uk-sharia-prepaid-card.html
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/display.var.2422427.0.shariacompliant_card_launched.php

(Scotland) SNP gives more funding to ally's Islamic group
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/latestnews?articleid=4375178

August 09, 2008

August 9, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Britain under attack from cyber foreign security terrorists, report warns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2524971/Britain-under-attack-from-cyber-foreign-security-terrorists-report-warns.html

August 9, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks


(UK) Is this the beginning of a new European Islam? -- Urmee Khan
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/urmeekhan/blog/2008/08/08/is_this_the_beginning_of_a_new_european_islam
-- argues that segrational Sharia law can be modified so that "Muslim women in Britain will be guaranteed equal rights"
-- refuses to acknowledge that they already have such rights now under British law

(UK) British Muslims Protest for "Shariah for China" (my title)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/08/08/a_cunning_plan
http://wa2.images.onesite.com/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/user/hermione_hoby/protestors3.jpg.jpg

August 08, 2008

August 8, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks


(UK) Nine in ten young people want to address terrorism 'taboo'
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/nine-in-ten-young-people-want-to-address-terroris-18721625.html

August 8, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks

(UK) Muslim Institute: New Sharia law marriage contract gives Muslim women rights

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2518720/New-Sharia-law-marraige-contract-gives-Muslim-women-rights.html
--- Dr. Usama Hasan: "It is high time that Muslim women enjoy the same rights and freedoms under Islamic law as they do under present legal systems in the UK."
--- Never occurs to Hasan that British women all have the same rights under UK legal system, since Sharia seeks separtist law.

(UK) Some good news about Sharia law -- by Janet Daley
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/janet_daley/blog/2008/08/08/some_good_news_about_sharia_law
-- claims Sharia law changes "could mark the beginning of a new phase in the integration of what is now Britain's largest religious minority."

(UK) Muslim marriage contract 'revolutionary' for UK women
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1061862_muslim_marriage_contract_revolutionary_for_uk_women

(UK) Additional Report: Publisher Random House has pulled a novel about Islam over protest fears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2521794/Publisher-Random-House-has-pulled-a-novel-about-Islam-over-protest-fears.html

August 07, 2008

August 7, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Jury out in 'encyclopedia of terrorism' trial - Aabid Khan and three others

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/3579280.Jury_out_in__encyclopaedia_of_terrorism__trial/

UK seeks quick ruling on 'terror cleric' -- European Court of Human Rights stayed extradition of Abu Hamza on Monday
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/06/uk.hamsa/index.html

(UK) 'The carrot of counter-terrorism' -- Birmingham University's M G Khan: "I know organizations who are reluctant to accept funding on the basis of preventing violent extremism simply because they would lose integrity and compromise their access to young people."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7434043.stm

(UK) Daily Telegraph: "New European spying proposals 'threaten British security' "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2512219/New-European-spying-proposals-threaten-British-security.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/07/eu.uksecurity

August 7, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks

(UK) Archbishop is helping Muslim men oppress women, say black feminists

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/08/06/archbishop_is_helping_muslim_men_oppress_women_say_black_feminists

(UK) Trial of men accused of Banaz Mahmod 'honor killing' collapses -- due to "lack of evidence"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4474218.ece

August 06, 2008

August 6, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) European court halts Hamza extradition -- won an interim order from the European Court of Human Rights blocking his extradition to the United States on terrorism charges.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/darticlen.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2008/August/middleeast_August158.xml&section=middleeast&col=
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7544344.stm

(UK) London Times on passport fraud (my title)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4467098.ece
-- and -- False papers are essential to terrorism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4467097.ece

August 6, 2008 British Islam and Other Newslinks


(UK) They told me I was a servant, says Muslim bride 'beaten every day' after being flown from Pakistan for arranged marriage
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041771/They-told-I-servant-says-Muslim-bride-beaten-day-flown-Pakistan-arranged-marriage.html

August 05, 2008

August 5, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks


(UK) Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza has extradition to US postponed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2501037/Radical-Islamic-cleric-Abu-Hamza-has-extradition-to-US-postponed.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/05/hamza.delay.ap/index.html

(UK) Terrorism: Lords say 42-day law will put fair trials at risk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/05/terrorism.lords

August 04, 2008

August 4, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) 7/7 bombing retrial likely after jury discharged - no verdict reached after 15 days of deliberation - three accused of helping bombers pick targets

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/02/july7.uksecurity

(UK) Survivors of 7/7 bombings demand inquiry into attacks after trial collapses
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4445430.ece

'UK faces threat from British Muslims returning from Afghan'
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/PoliticsNation/UK_faces_threat_from_Muslim_ultras/articleshow/3321218.cms
-- Evidence that militant Islamic groups in Helmand Province are suspected of assisting terrorist plots in the UK has also been uncovered
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4448024.ece

(UK) Terror attack warning for restaurants, cinemas in UK
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Terror_attack_warning_for_restaurants_cinemas_in_UK/articleshow/3323044.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Top_Headlines/Terror_warning_issued_for_restaurants_cinemas_in_UK/articleshow/3323046.cms

August 4, 2008 British Islam Commentary

(Anglican) Lambeth report ignores Islamic persecution -- by Damian Thompson
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/08/03/lambeth_report_ignores_islamic_persecution

August 03, 2008

August 2 and 3, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks


(Afghanistan/UK) British Muslims 'fighting with Taliban in Afghanistan'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/2485750/British-Muslims-fighting-with-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4448024.ece

(Afghanistan/UK) 'UK Muslims fighting alongside Taliban'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\08\03\story_3-8-2008_pg7_25

(UK) Prince Harry's security raised following al-Qaeda threat
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Prince_Harrys_security_raised_following_al-Qaeda_threat/rssarticleshow/3321191.cms

(UK) Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Blair: Inter-faith dialogue does address root causes of terrorism
http://www.newsabahtimes.com.my/nstweb/fullstory/20294

August 01, 2008

August 1, 2008 UK Jihadist Newslinks

(UK) Jury fails to agree on verdict in trial of trio accused of helping 7/7 bombers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1037192/BREAKING-NEWS-Jury-fails-agree-verdict-trial-trio-accused-helping-7-7-bombers.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2