Moments later, Gainesville Fire Rescue issued the church a citation for violating the city's fire ordinances.Saturday's act of protest took place in spite of published reports that the Pentagon had urged Jones to reconsider, expressing concern that American soldiers in Afghanistan and elsewhere could be put at greater risk because of the act.About 20 people gathered Saturday on church property at 5805 NW 37th Street about 5 p.m. for the planned burning. Several Gainesville police officers were stationed across the street from the church or were patrolling the area. A few people watched the scene, but there were no protesters.Jones and another pastor demanded the release of the Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani from an...

Anti-Islam advocates from across the U.S. gathered Sunday in Dearborn for a conference to bring attention to what they say is a problem of Muslim honor killings.About 150 gathered at the Hyatt in Dearborn for the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference, named after a 20-year-old Arab-American Muslim woman who was killed by her stepfather last year in Warren.But at another conference in Detroit, about 100 people gathered earlier in the day to oppose the anti-Islam conference, saying it was the latest attack on metro Detroit's Arab-American and Muslim communities. Dearborn has the highest concentration of Arab-Americans in the U.S., many of them Muslim."We stand for America," said Osama Siblani, publisher of the Dearborn-based...

The Daily Telegraph draws our attention to an open letter to London Metropolitan University's vice chancellor Prof Malcolm Gillies from the university's Islamic and Shia Muslim societies in response to press reports that Gillies in considering a ban on alcohol on some parts of the campus.Dear Professor Gillies,We are responding to your recent comments regarding the proposed alcohol ban within the university on religious grounds.London Met is a diverse and multicultural university with approximately 30,000 students representing over 150 different countries. We, as Muslim students, value democracy and respect diversity and multiculturalism and we also acknowledge that we are able to practice our faith more freely...

A far-right party on the campaign trial in Germany's most populous state is threatening to put caricatures of Mohammed outside mosques in a string of cities.The "Pro NRW" party in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia has already shown...

The head of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, will be named deputy leader of the British Freedom party this week after proposing that the group adopt virulent anti-Islamic policies as its central strategy.Confirmation that Robinson...

The Conservative peer and party financier Lord Ashcroft has published a study titled Degrees of Separation: Ethnic minority voters and the Conservative Party. It can be consulted here, and has some interesting statistics concerning the attitudes...

Mayoral candidates Boris Johnson and Ken Livingston participated in a hustings in front of the Muslim community on Friday ahead of next Thursday's election. Both candidates were asked to cover issues ranging from Islamophobia to social deprivation...

Happier times: Alan Lake and Roberta MooreRichard Bartholomew points out that the 4 Freedoms Community website run by former English Defence League financier and ideologist Alan Ayling ("Alan Lake") has updated its Code of Conduct.Under the...

Unease is growing in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right UMP party a week before a presidential election over his lurch to the right in pursuit of supporters of anti-immigration candidate Marine Le Pen.Some mainstream conservatives...

Dearborn, home to one of the nation's largest concentrations of Arab Americans, once again will become a focal point for debate over the practice and persecution of Islam in the west.Pamela Geller, conservative activist and co-founder of Stop...

France's socialist presidential candidate says that, if elected, he won't seek to overturn a law banning face-covering Muslim veils enacted by President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives.François Hollande, who leads Sarkozy in all polls, and most other Socialists abstained from the 2010 vote in the National Assembly to ban mesh-screen burqas and niqabs – which have slits for the eyes.On RTL radio Friday, Hollande said he would keep the ban, but "have it applied in the best way." He did not elaborate.Controversy surrounded the law that took effect last year. Muslim leaders say it unfairly stigmatizes Muslims. Supporters insist it helps defend France's secular state. Only a tiny number of women wear the veils.The presidential...

Jailed again: Martin PottleThree men who joined a hooded and masked gang to attack Kingston Mosque with sticks and bottles have been jailed today. Judge Geraldine Kent overturned their pleas for leniency after hearing that all three men still...

Sarkozy told a French TV station this week that Tariq Ramadan, a controversial Muslim intellectual and Swiss national, supported Hollande. "This is a man who solicits votes for Hollande," Sarkozy told the TF1 TV station, before adding, "And...

London Assembly member Murad Qureshi has written to complain about the election address from the British National Party that appears in the booklet distributed by London Elects to inform voters about the 3 May elections for the London...

EDL protestors outside Sajjad Karim's homeA politician's eight-year-old daughter was "petrified" when anti-Islamic protesters marched into the garden of their home with banners and banged on the window.Lancashire MEP Sajjad Karim's home was...

An Islamic community center in Riverview was vandalized in an act that Baltimore County police have classified as a hate crime.According to police, between 7:30 p.m. on April 20 and noon the following day, someone tossed a rock through a rear window of the Bab E Mustafa Community Center on the 4300 block of Hollins Ferry Road. No other businesses or buildings were damaged in the incident, police said.The community center includes a mosque where daily prayers are held, as well as a child care center. According to former Imam Raja Khan, the community center has been located in Riverview for more than two years and primarily serves Muslims of Indian and Pakistani origin.Members of the community center report being routinely...

A lecture by a controversial Muslim speaker has been called off at the last minute by Sheffield Hallam University – the second cancellation in a month.Jalal Ibn Saeed had originally been asked to speak at an event titled The Pursuit of Paradise organised by the Sheffield Hallam Islamic Society but pulled out at short notice. The society booked another speaker, Murtaza Khan, claimed by opponents to be an anti-Semitic extremist.But university authorities stepped in and told the society to cancel the meeting as the speaker had been changed at a late stage. A spokesman said: "Changing the speaker invalidated the conditions of the booking and therefore event due to take place last night had to be cancelled. The society...

Thick bigot: Stephen Tweed of the BFPITV Anglia News has covered the controversy over the proposed conversion of a disused pub in King's Lynn into an Islamic community centre. They interview Stephen Tweed of the British Freedom Party who has...

His name is Rob Sims and he's the man wearing the black EDL t‑shirt in the centre of the picture. (It is taken from his Facebook page, as is this photo which gives a clearer view of his face – and Zionist sympathies – and this one which illustrates...

Mass murderer Anders Breivik has received letters of support from sicko fans in the UK.The Norwegian racist, who slaughtered 77 people last summer, has had more than 100 messages from warped well-wishers around the globe. Several of his penpals said they were "inspired" by the far-right nut. Breivik, 33, has been so overwhelmed by the volume of notes that he has been unable to reply to them all.Knut Bjarkeid, director of the Norway's Ila Prison, which has been holding Breivik for the past nine months, confirmed the killer received letters every day. And in a psychological report, jail psychiatrist Terje Tørrissen revealed they had been sent from Britain, Sweden, Russia and Germany, among others.He said: "These letters...

An English Defence League member was arrested last night for assault and being in possession of racially inflammatory material after posts were made on Facebook allegedly threatening the Muslim community with a bomb attack "Oslo style".In...

Al Jazeera (via Islam in Europe) has an interesting interview by Yasmine Ryan with M'hammed Henniche, general secretary of the Union of Muslim Associations of Seine-Saint-Denis (UAM93).M'hammed Henniche states: "We did a survey on our website,...

The Pentagon is appealing to Florida pastor Terry Jones against repeating last year's burning of the Qur'ran and images of Muhammad that led to widespread rioting and deaths round the world.US officials are monitoring the situation and the...

Over at FrontPage Magazine Bruce Bawer is having a go at Hope Not Hate and their recently published study The 'Counter-Jihad' movement: Anti-Muslim hatred and the ideas that inspired Anders Behring Breivik. The "lies" in the HNH study...

That's the headline to an article in today's Daily Mail, reporting on the conviction of a group of men for abducting, assaulting and raping two girls, aged 15 and 16.The article quotes one of the convicted men as claiming that sex with the...

A new book by Geert Wilders aimed at the American market is not due to be officially launched until May 1, but details gleaned from advance and review copies are already doing the rounds.The book is entitled Marked for Death, Islam's war against...

The mayor of  Molenbeek, Philippe Moureaux (Parti Socialiste), has made some very harsh remarks about the RTBF [Radio Télévision Belge Francophone] journalists who made the "Questions à la Une" programme broadcast last Wednesday...

Having succeeded in convincing the AFL [Australian Football League] to introduce prayer rooms at all venues, Bachar Houli was unfazed last night by a stinging backlash sparked by former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett, who called the idea "stupid"...

One of the established clichés of the Islamophobia industry is the claim that Muslims can't be trusted because they all practise taqiyya, which is characterised as a licence to lie to non-Muslims.Robert Naiman takes up a recent article in New York Times in which the paper's intelligence correspondent James Risen assessed the public statements of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on his country's nuclear programme. Risen wrote:".... some analysts say that Ayatollah Khamenei's denial of Iranian nuclear ambitions has to be seen as part of a Shiite historical concept called taqiyya, or religious dissembling. For centuries an oppressed minority within Islam, Shiites learned to conceal their sectarian identity...

The British National Party have announced that they are selling a "great new book on the Muslim tide, and how to turn it". The book is titled Inch'Allah? The Islamization of Europe, its author is Vlaams Belang leader Filip Dewinter, and the...

Well, that the title to an article in the East London Advertiser reporting that the independent candidate Gulam Robbani won a council by-election in Tower Hamlets yesterday. Harry's Place prefers the headline "Lutfur Rahman's Islamists beat Labour, again".But then, Harry's Place is a blog whose commitment to political balance and accuracy is illustrated by a recent post describing the Guardian newspaper as "The UK's leading publisher of Jew-haters". You do wonder why Harry's Place and CifWatch don't effect a merger. This would provide internet users with a convenient one stop shop for frothing-at-the-mouth Zionist rants. View the Original arti...

She calls herself the "voice of the people," the anti-system candidate who will ensure social justice for the have-nots and purify a France she says is losing its voice to Europe and threatened by massive immigration and rampant Islamization.She...