It is very prominent that, discrimination towards Muslims is increasing day by day. In the recent past, it has reached on the summit of mount Everest. The time has come to do something to minimize such hatred but is there anything really present in this world which can bring these two almost opponent ideologies united together?

What will you call such behavior where, every Muslim is treated near to a terrorist? Have anyone experienced persecution on western airports just because of being a Muslim? Many of you will say yes, I know. In all European countries including UK and in USA, Islam is the second or the third largely practiced religion everywhere. Still some countries ban wearing hijab, others humiliate people wearing so. What name you will give to such treatment? As you are ill treating a particular group, like you did towards Negroes throughout centuries, why not it is also named “Racism”?

We, Muslims are hopeful that, as the literal racism abolished, one day, discrimination and intolerance towards Muslims will also vanish. To make this possible, people from every corner, of any culture and religion, should try to know individual Muslims. Yes, all Muslims admit that, terrorists are anti socialist. There is no chance of terrorism or extremism in Islam. Every Muslim hates such extremists as others do. It is not justifiable that, the definition of terrorism or extremism is another name of Islam. It is as wrong as when people used to think, the sun is moving around the earth. If native western people take some steps to change their view towards Muslims, then it can be possible, so from Muslims also. The very first step towards this mission is to stop thinking every Muslim Laden.

With respect to each other, understanding every point of view and helping the promotion of Muslims rights can minimize this poison developed between Muslims and the west. Native people should shed of all prejudice and ensure the freedom on their fellow Musolmans.

Many Muslim renowned people are there on earth and in western countries, who have become a very important person as celebrities in their field of work. Some of them are also in politics. They should take care of these issues starting from the state levels. Such representatives can enforce laws to reduce these intolerances and can work on increasing public awareness in conservative ways. Both sides have the freedom of expression, but that should not enhance violence. Research says, education can give pace on such missions, so it should be practiced in every house, and school to maintain a good bonding with Muslims. As there are thousands of organizations in humanitarian grounds, international organization and NGOs should be built on this ‘prevent religious discrimination’ ground. These organizations can emphasize on promoting cultural & religious harmony in the west.

An attempt has been taken a long time ago in the year of 2007 in Spain, a conference held where more than 300 participants, international organizations, NGOs and many elite of Muslim intolerance issues were present. They gave priorities on promoting Muslim-West mutual understanding to reduce racism. Though, we haven’t got any fruitful result from them, still we are hoping to get such a spring devoid of western racism towards Muslims.

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FPÖ leader StracheThe southern Austrian state of Carinthia was long a source of inspiration for right-wing populists across Europe. As early as 1989, the Freedom Party of Carinthia (FPK) briefly nabbed the governor's mansion in the state. In 1999, the right-wingers – behind the charismatic leadership of Jörg Haider – emerged victorious in state elections once again, and have managed to hold onto the state since.

Until Sunday, that is. In a key state election seen as a bellwether for the Austrian general election approaching in September, Carinthian voters delivered a painful blow to the FPK, the state chapter of the national Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Sunday evening exit polls indicated that the FPK managed a mere 17.1 percent of the vote – a veritable collapse since their 45 percent result four years ago. It was the largest vote-on-vote disintegration ever seen in postwar Austria.

The Social Democratic party SPÖ won with 37.1 percent of the vote, while the center-right ÖVP landed in third place with 14.2 percent.

Sunday's result – combined with their meager 8.2 percent showing in the other Austrian state election on Sunday, in Lower Austria – does not bode well for the right-wing populists this autumn. "It was a clear rejection and a … clear demand for a restart," said a visibly irate FPÖ head Hans-Christian Strache on Austrian television on Monday morning.

Spiegel, 4 March 2013

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Loonwatch has an interesting article drawing our attention to the latest twist in Eric Allen Bell's erratic political evolution.

Bell, you may recall, is the US filmmaker who made a documentary giving sympathetic coverage to the Muslim community of Murfreesboro as they struggled to build a new place of worship in the face of fierce opposition from Islamophobes. Not long afterwards, Bell executed a complete about-turn and announced that the Muslim Brotherhood was engaged in a plot to take over the USA and that the Murfreesboro "mega-mosque" was an integral part of this project of Islamist conquest.

Predictably, Bell was enthusiastically taken up by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and David Horowitz who helpfully provided him with a platform to expound his newly acquired hatred of Islam. His conversion to rabid Islamophobia also made Bell welcome in the more mainstream right-wing media, resulting in several appearances on Fox & Friends. Even his demented suggestion that a nuclear attack on Mecca might be a good idea failed shake his admirers' confidence in his political judgement.

Bell still retains his mindless bigotry towards Islam. A recent post on his Facebook page featured a map of the world with countries ranked according to "rates of inbreeding". Claiming that "inbreeding can often cause lower levels of IQ and higher levels of aggression", Bell noted that Muslim-majority countries are particularly prone to this phenomenon because "first cousin intermarriage is a long practiced Islamic tradition", and he invited a Swedish supporter to "look at the percentage of rapes committed by people who came to Sweden from these countries".

However, Bell has now extended the range of his bigotry to target all of the faiths he refers to as the "Abrahamic death cults". This week he asked:

Will there ever be a day when hundreds of millions of women are not suffering under Islamic gender apartheid? Will there ever be a day when hundreds of millions of children are not brainwashed into believing superstitions, for fear of burning in hell when they die? Will there ever be a day when a small but elite group no longer takes from others, under the premise that they are "god's chosen"?

Yes, you read that last question right. Not content with embracing Islamophobia, Bell has lately become a convert to antisemitism as well.

An earlier thread on his Facebook page had already been notable for the expression of openly antisemitic views by Bell. Challenged over his claim (in itself not unreasonable) that "the Evangelicals and the Zionists are taking the lead in Counter Jihad for reasons other than the kindness of their hearts", Bell retorted: "What do you know about Jewish Supremacy?" He went on to argue that Jewish supremacists

control the IMF, the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, the media and Goldman Sachs (which owns Obama). They seek to preserve and expand their influence, geographically, monetarily, culturally and every other way possible. To the Jewish Supremacist, "god" gave everything to the Jews and everyone else exists to serve this interest.

True, Bell emphasised that he doesn't believe all Jews are supremacists – just those who hold influential positions in society, it would appear. In response to a question about what this had to do with religion, Bell advised his critic to "study the Jewish scriptures with regard to Jewish supremacy". He added: "I don't think you understand what Judaism is - Money, power, prestige and supremacy: aka 'God's Chosen People'."

Bell followed this up with another Facebook post that included a graphic depicting leading US media organisations, to which he appended the following observation:

These 6 companies control over 90% of the media. What religion must one belong to, in order to have a chance at being CEO of one of these companies? BONUS QUESTION: What name or names is a person called, for even raising this basic and reasonable question?

In the discussion that followed Bell defended this view, demanding to know:

Is there a head of a TV network or a movie studio that is not Jewish? The answer is almost always no. Look at who runs the IMF, the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury, just to name a few. Is it "the Jews"? No. But is it almost exclusively Jewish? Yes.

He went on to argue:

Our society is slowly overcoming the brainwash around criticizing religion. However, we are not allowed to say anything remotely critical of the Jewish religion without being branded bigots, Nazis or antisemitic. How cleverly engineered our culture is. And who engineers the culture? What is the nerve center of our culture? Hollywood. Having worked in Hollywood for 20+ years I can tell you that everyone in the industry knows who is in charge.

One former supporter expressed his shock at Bell's promotion of such a classic antisemitic stereotype: "A while back you said that the Jews controlling the media was an outright lie.... This is actually really disturbing hearing you do a complete 180 and engage in conspiracy theories like this." In response, Bell wrote: "A conspiracy theory is a theory without proof. Look into how the food chain works in media and find out who is consistently on top. Same with banking."

It was pointed out to Bell that other minority communities are concentrated in certain business activities. "I guess Indians owning the majority of hotels proves it's Hindu Supremacism", his critic commented sarcastically. To which Bell replied: "Motel monopoly is hardly the same base of power as monopolizing banking and media."

Bell is evidently an unstable individual who is prone to sudden and irrational swings in opinion. However, in contrast to the dramatic reversal of views that saw him turn from sympathising with the victims of anti-Muslim bigots to becoming one himself, there is an obvious continuity in Bell's move from simple Islamophobia to the adoption of antisemitism. His paranoid conspiracy theory of Jewish supremacists motivated by their religious beliefs to seize control of the media and the banks has clear parallels with the "counter-jihad" narrative he had already bought into, of Islamic supremacists bent on conquering the West and imposing sharia law.

It's very doubtful that Geller, Spencer or Horowitz will be publishing any more of Bell's rants about Islam. Most likely they will just quietly drop him. But turn to Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch or FrontPage Magazine for a serious accounting of their decision to promote this poisonous hate-monger in the first place and, as Loonwatch points out, you'll probably be waiting a very long time.

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Sinai is a very valuable part of Egypt, and it has a unique place in the hearts of all Egyptians and Muslims because of its history with Prophets and history with wars. Egyptian young men died to get Sinai back after Israel’s occupation in 1973; however, after the January 25, revolution, Sinai witnessed a number of terrorist attacks, which caused worries to spread all over Egypt and Israel. The Egyptian army spokesman said that Sinai is under control and the army is working to end the militants or Jihadi groups working in Sinai, while Israel insists that Sinai is full of Jihadi groups that work to attack the boarders of Israel, like the attack took place in August 2012.

In Ramdan, when Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, militants attacked Egyptian soldiers on the boarders by sunset, which resulted in killing 15 Egyptian security personnel, besides tens were injured. The attackers used a pickup truck equipped with explosives to breach the boarders, while they stole an army vehicle and drove it about a mile inside Israel before a missile killed the attackers and exploded the vehicle.

Eight militants were killed in this operation and Israel gave the bodies of the dead attackers to Egypt. During the examination of the attackers’ bodies it was found that their shoes were “made in Palestine”, which means that the attackers may have came to Egypt from Gazza. Also there are possibilities that the attackers were trained by Hammas in Gazza; however, no one knows the reason that may encourage Hammas to participate in such attack in that time, although attacking Israel boarders can be a good reason for Hammas to work in Sinai.

On the other side, this attack represented a test for Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi and his relationship with Israel. Israeli military intelligence had information about the attack days before it happened, and reports say that Israel shared such information with Egypt, but it doubted that the Egyptian authorities would take an action to avert the attack. Ehud Barack, Israel’s Minister of Defense said after the attack “I hope this will be a wake up call for Egypt regarding the necessity to be sharp and efficient on their side”

About two months ago the Egyptian army started an operation called it “Nesr” or “Eagle” to clean Sinai from militants and Jihadists, besides destroying the tunnels between Gazza and Sinai, which is heavily used to transfer weapons, drugs and criminals between both sides.

The Egyptian army said in its statements that it killed hundreds of Jihadists and destroyed more than 120 tunnels, and the operation is still running. Yet, reports continue to come with expectations that Jihadists are preparing for a huge operation to revenge for the dead attackers in August and this is why Israel insists that Sinai is not yet under control.

The coming days should see more actions taken by the Egyptian army and more cautious from Israel side. Both sides should have learned from the lesson and Mohamed Morsi now knows that the people in Egypt won’t let it go, if more soldiers were killed by militants or Jihadists.

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