After what had happened on 9/11 the world changed quite abruptly. There were quite drastic changes in the foreign policies by America, and it was felt by other nations of the world that America seems to indulge into torture activities. There have been quite different views about this fact, but many think that a high number of people were taken to detention after 9/11. There is a difference between torture and taking the person into custody without being involved in a crime. But who should be held responsible for such kind of activities after 9/11. Obviously, there would be some well-known names behind these kinds of activities.

The American president and his administration members are directly involved in all of those brutal killings of the innocent people that were murdered without any reason in the form of war against terrorism. A report said that the President George W bush also crossed the lines defined for interrogating the people in the constitution. It was also mentioned in the same report that the task forces were not given an access to the classified information, but there were signs, and found proofs during the investigations that the task forces were given illegal access to the classified information.

The report emphasized on the fact that, as far as the finding goes it is absolutely true that America has been involved in torture activities one way or another. There were no solid evidences found, that the task forces use torture and killing to have their operations done so they still continue to be involved in illegal killing. The report also added that the number of people that were held in detention by the task forces has divulged any kind of information to the force, but there is a high probability that the information provided by the person held in detention is 100% correct. All of the records are also not shown.

The detention centers are quite highlighted by the media as it was shown that how prisoners were treated in those detention centers. At some places, it was also written that these detention centers were worse than hell. One the navy men - from Navy department - who was on duty during the treatment of the prisoners in Guantánamo Bay said that the way with which the prisoners were treated was quite unethical. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel made it clear in its statement that the way the prisoners were treated during the detention was quite under the defined interrogating laws. Many media organizations have held debates on this hot issue as lots of people are convinced with the fact that these kinds of killings should be stopped. Human activists are also playing their part regarding this issue.

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Two exchange students attending school in Perham, Minnesota say they were kicked out of a church there when they questioned a nationally known speaker who says "Islam equals terrorism."

The boys were kicked out of the Assembly of God church in Perham during a question answer period following a speech by Walid Shoebat. Shoebat says he is a former terrorist, and claims to be an anti-terrorism expert. He now calls Islam the devil and tours the country speaking to churches and schools – even collecting fees from Homeland Security.

CNN has exposed Shoebat, calling him a fraud. Today, the DC based Council on American-Islamic Relations contacted WDAY and said it is calling for a meeting with Assembly of God church leaders in Perham, in hopes of strengthening interfaith relations and promoting understanding.

The two teenagers are Muslim, and attended the event featuring Walid Shoebat, a Muslim turned Christian.

Fikri, from Indonesia, and Elshan, from Azerbhjan, came to the United States as exchange students. Their home right now is Perham, Minnesota and host Mary Anderson. When the students heard that Walid Shoebat was speaking at a public forum at Assembly of God in Perham, they wanted to go.

Shoebat is known as a former Muslim, now Christian, speaking out against Islam.

Elshan Mirzazade – Perham Exchange Student: "Our message is not to argue with him, but to say to people that what he says is wrong."

The boys heard what they say are mistruths and distortions coming out of Shoebat. So, during question and answer time they questioned Shoebat, and quickly were told to leave.

Fikri Rahmat – Perham Exchange Student: "I would conclude in my mind that he got mad because maybe he was afraid of the truth. One of his companions came to us and said, 'Out, Out,' rudely to us."

Elshan Mirzazade: "They ushered us out and asked us to leave and we said, 'OK, OK.' So when I was leaving, I shouted, 'Good way of promoting peace, bravo, bravo.'"

WDay, 5 March 2013

See also "CAIR-MN seeks meeting with church after Muslim students kicked out", CAIR press release, 5 March 2013

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Sunday evening's soccer encounter between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Netanya ended in a 1-1 draw, but the event was again overshadowed by a blunt show of racism by hundreds of Beitar fans.

Considering Beitar's dire recent form in the Premier League – four losses and a draw in the last five games – one could believe that that the home fans would be overjoyed when their team scored in the 48th minute. After a weak first half from the hosts, Avi Rikan sent a delicious through ball which cut through the Netanya defense, finding Chechen forward Zaur Sadayev, who controlled the ball with his chest and sweetly struck home from inside the box. While most Beitar fans and players celebrated the goal, some 300 fans walked out in disgust.

Haaretz, 3 March 2013

Update:  See also "Beitar Jerusalem fans walk out over signing of two Muslim Chechen players", Independent, 4 March 2013

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CHIPPING NORTON: No one has yet been arrested for a threatening phone call that led to a planned mosque being stopped.

The town's small muslim community had won permission to open the mosque in a former shop in Hitchmans Mews.

But following the decision landlord Georg Wissinter, 79, received a call saying the mosque would get "very hot" if it went ahead. He pulled out of the scheme on Friday.

Oxford Times, 14 February 2013

See also "Chipping Norton mosque threat claim investigated", BBC News, 14 February 2013

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The Muslim community in Philadelphia held a meeting venting frustrations over people committing crimes dressed in traditional Muslim garb.

"We have a right to wear a face veil if we choose to, that's our right, our God-given right," said Alia Walker.

Muslim women in West Philadelphia are becoming increasingly fearful.

This as the pressure mounts for the capture of the woman dressed in Muslim garb and her accomplice, who kidnapped a 5-year-old girl from her classroom and brutally assaulted her.

"Right now, a lot of the Muslim sisters are saying, 'People are walking around looking at them cross-eyed.' They haven't done anything wrong," said Rep. Ron Waters.

At a standing room only meeting to discuss the matter, Muslims expressed outrage that it's happening again and again.

Criminals have been committing crimes disguised as Muslim women – robbing banks, stores and now kidnapping. Violent crimes they fear put Muslim women in danger.

"We consider anyone dressing up like a Muslim woman perpetrating a hate crime," said Iman Asim Abdul Rashid.

WPVI Philadelphia, 2 February 2013

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A Muslim family say they have been forced to move from their home after offensive graffiti and a cross wrapped in ham were left outside their house. Murad Alam, 39, said his wife and two sons, aged eight and 10, had moved out of their home in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, to a "safe" place.

Mr Alam said he had found his son plotting escape routes on his computer after the "horrific" attacks last year. "My wife and children also had names called at them in the street," he said. "The first incident was when the big, wooden cross, wrapped in ham, fell into the house after a knock at the door," said Mr Alam.

He said they had names such as "Paki" and "tramp" shouted at them in the street. "The kids have been abused a number of times; the eldest had smoke blown in his face by an elderly local gentleman." Offensive graffiti was also painted on the path outside the family home.

"It really annoys me that they should use a cross and try and turn this into a religious argument," said Mr Alam. "My family were terrified from the very first incident; my wife had never experienced racism, neither had my kids.

"In fact I had to explain to my children what racism even was, because they're so young they didn't understand the concept that someone could dislike you because of your skin colour or religion."

The family has now moved to West Bridgford where they say they feel safe.

Mr Alam said Bingham was generally a nice area with a good reputation and it was a shame it had been tarred by their experiences.

"The week before we moved there, Bingham was named the eighth best place to live in the UK – but that's if you're white – there are not many Asian or black faces there. It is a nice, generally middle-class village and I'm sure most of the people there are great, it's just these choice few."

BBC News, 31 January 2013

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English Defence League protestors in Shotton Colliery last monthPolice last night sought to reassure residents of a village where a far-right group protested against a planned Islamic education centre.

Around 200 members of the English Defence League gathered in the former pit village of Shotton Colliery, County Durham, on Saturday, December 1. Two people were arrested on suspicion of breach of bail and a woman was given a police warning.

It came after Durham County Council passed plans by businessman Kaiser Choudry to transform the Melrose Arms, a disused pub on Front Street, into an education centre.

Shotton Comrades Social Club was almost full for the special meeting last night attended by police, Stuart Timmiss, the council's head of planning and assets and councillor Eunice Huntingdon, who represents the area, to discuss the plans. Several residents voiced fears about extremism at the meeting.

Mr Choudry has said the centre is for the use of the whole community though it is intended to primarily serve the local Muslim community, which comprises around 10 to 12 families.

A 102-signature petition and 12 letters of objection were lodged with the authority, mostly raising concerns about parking. But the meeting also heard of concerns about how Muslims would integrate into the village community.

Coun Ted Hall, who sits on the Shotton and Peterlee parish councils, summed up the mood. He said: "The feeling in the village is totally hostile. People in this village see no need for it [the centre]."

Mr Timmiss said the community needed to pull together. "I have seen some opposition to the plan tonight again and we're here to ensure that we have all agencies working together to resolve some of the integration issues that exist here in the village," he said.

"I think that is the message that Durham County and the police are trying to get across. Shotton is a great community and it has got some great people. It is going through change and we have got to support it through that change. We need to get the community working together and to dispel some of the fears that we have heard about tonight."

Chief Superintendent Ivan Wood said the force would ensure relations between factions of the community remained calm. He said: "Shotton is a peaceful, quiet village and there is no reason moving forward why it can't still be that way."

The Journal, 17 January 2013

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A member of the Thanet division of the English Defence League has quit the extreme political party after being contacted by the Isle of Thanet Gazette over posts on his Facebook page.

Gary Field's page on the popular social networking site is under the pseudonym of Pat Riot. Messages posted since the start of the year, when he was the EDL's area organiser, include comments directed towards Muslims.

The Isle of Thanet Gazette asked Mr Field to respond to posts put on his Facebook account. But after speaking with our reporter, Mr Field then said in a statement that he had left the EDL.

While he was still an EDL member, during his conversation with the Gazette, Field said that he is not a racist and that the comments posted on his page are simply his beliefs.

In an interview with this newspaper last year, Mr Field said: "Our aims are to highlight radical Islam through peaceful protests. It is not a case of colour but rather a small culture within Islam that radicalises people. We feel that honour killings, the grooming of young girls, burqas or sharia law have no place in Britain."

This is in stark contrast to some of the words posted on his Facebook page, some of which include: "Islam is evil", "There be (sic) blood shed if muzzrats moved into my street it wont be mine", and "kick Islam out of England".

When asked by the Gazette's reporter why these were posted on Facebook, Mr Field said: "They are my beliefs that I share with my friends. They have nothing to do with my work for the EDL or anything to do with my court case. I am fully entitled to air my views in what I believe in and I can't understand how it is of any relevance."

When it was put to Mr Field that he is, or now was, a leading member of what is considered a political party, he replied by saying: "They are not party views. They are my own personal views and I am within my rights to share them."

Isle of Thanet Gazette, 14 January 2013

Hope Not Hate notes that Field also uses the name Gary Milsom.

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The Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an official investigation into a mosque attack at the NATO İncirlik Air Base in the southern province of Adana, following claims that the attack was carried out by U.S. soldiers, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Turkish and U.S. generals, as well as other relevant authorities, will be asked for information about the incident as part of the investigation, reports said.

Local media in Adana had earlier reported that a number of soldiers at the İncirlik base entered the mosque on New Year's Eve, destroying its minbar and windows along with the Quran. Turkey's chief of staff subsequently denied the allegations.

Windows in the prayer room were broken by unknown individuals and there was some additional small-scale damage, the chief of staff said in a written statement issued late Jan. 10.

Hurriyet Daily News, 13 January 2013

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Pasco County deputies are investigating an attack outside a Walmart as a hate crime. It happened around 3 a.m. Wednesday at the Walmart at 1575 Land O'Lakes Blvd in Lutz.

Deputies say a man and a woman in their 20s were heading out to their car in the parking lot. Another man, also in his 20s, approached them and asked them a series of questions.

"The first question to the male was 'are you of Middle Eastern descent?'" explained Doug Tobin, spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. Tobin said the male victim responded, "No, I'm not."

Then the man asked another question: "Are you Muslim?" The victim again responded, "No, I'm not a Muslim."

Deputies say the suspect then yelled a racial slur, alluding to the fact the victim was "with a white woman." Then the man pulled out a BB or air soft gun.

"The suspect shot about 20 rounds of this air soft/Pellet gun, toward our victims. Fortunately, they weren't seriously hurt. But it's a serious crime," Tobin said.

The man was hit twice in the face. He was treated on the scene and released, and the woman he was with was not hurt.

Surveillance cameras caught the attack. The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is working with Walmart to get that video.

A shopper and a store employee witnessed the attack and told deputies the man ran off towards Dale Mabry Highway. A K-9 picked up his scent but lost it at the road. So it's unclear if a car was waiting nearby for the man.

The sheriff's office is asking for the public's help. "If someone may have said something, like if this person bragged about what he'd done to someone else, we ask for them to step forward and call our Pasco County Sheriff's Office," Tobin said.

Their tip line is 800-706-2488.

The suspect is described as between 18 and 30 years old, with blond, short hair, about six feet tall, weighing around 180 pounds, wearing blue jeans, a brown jacket and green sandals.

The Council on American Islamic Relations released a statement this afternoon urging local Muslims to be cautious.

MyFox Tampa Bay, 3 January 2013

See also "CAIR asks FBI to probe shooting of 'Middle Eastern' man in Fla.", CAIR press release, 2 January 2013

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A woman who launched a racist attack against a Muslim and pulled her hijab from her head as she robbed her of her phone has been jailed for more than two years.

Eileen Kennedy, 28, and her 16-year-old niece Paige Bain assaulted Umaimi Musa in Glasgow in September.
 The teenager also assaulted Ms Musa's friend, Mary Marandran, who was five months pregnant with her third child.

The victims were sitting in a playpark when they heard one of the accused make racist comments before they were attacked. The incident was captured on CCTV and the camera operator alerted the police as the incident happened.

Passing a sentence of two years and six days on Kennedy yesterday, Sheriff Kenneth Mitchell told her: "There is no place at all in a modern Scotland for this sort of behaviour. This is a very serious matter. Your conduct was wholly unacceptable, and conduct of this sort can only result in a custodial sentence. You joined in a sustained attack upon this lady and robbed her of her mobile phone."

Social work reports had been requested by the sheriff before passing sentence, but Bain's was not ready. She will return to be sentenced next month.

Kennedy and her niece pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to racially assaulting 41-year-old Ms Musa to her injury. Kennedy also pled guilty to resisting arrest and claiming she had an infection before spitting on a police officer. Bain admitted the racially aggravated assault on Mrs Marandran, 40, by repeatedly punching her on the head and pushing her to her injury.

The Scotsman, 1 January 2013

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A Swedish lawmaker once seen as a future leader of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party announced Sunday he was quitting parliament and the party after a racist scandal.

Erik Almqvist, 31, was one of three party officials caught on film hurling racist abuse at two men, arming themselves with iron bars after a heated argument outside a fast-food restaurant, and calling a woman who tried to intervene a little "whore".

"No, this is not your country, it's my country," Almqvist is seen telling one of the men in the clip.

Almqvist, who had been the party's economic affairs spokesman, stepped down from that position in mid-November when the Expressen newspaper published excerpts of the two-year-old video clip, filmed by the party's justice spokesman Kent Ekeroth on his cell phone.

On Sunday Almqvist said he was leaving the party immediately and would resign from his seat in parliament once it reconvened after the Christmas break. He will be replaced in parliament by Anna Hagwall, 59, the Sweden Democrats said.

"This has been an incredibly difficult and weighty decision for me. I realise that my behaviour that night two-and-a-half years ago has hurt both the party and me as a politician," Almqvist said in a statement on Sunday. "I have decided, after consultation with the party, to resign from both parliament and the party," he said.

Ekeroth meanwhile announced after the film clip emerged in November that he was taking a temporary break from his position as justice spokesman, but he remains a member of parliament.

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Aakesson recently announced a purge of racist and "extremist" elements in the party.

Recent polls have suggested that the party has been unharmed by the scandal, with its support hovering around 10 percent. The party entered Sweden's parliament in 2010 after winning 5.7 percent of the vote.

AFP, 30 December 2012

Update:  See "'You won't get rid of me': Almqvist", The Local, 31 December 2012

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A Rock Hill Walmart employee was fired Saturday after police say she grabbed a co-worker’s arm, threatened to cut her throat and called her an anti-Muslim, derogatory name, according to a police report.

Police spoke with the victim, 23, who said she was on her break at the Walmart on Old York Road and tried to buy some items, according to a Rock Hill police report. While in the checkout line, a co-worker stepped behind her but tried to check out first by skipping in front of the woman and moving her items.

The two employees began to argue before the co-worker called the victim a derogatory, anti-Muslim name. She grabbed the woman's arm twice and said she was going to cut her throat, the victim told police.

The employee told her manager, who fired the employee, according to the report. No arrests were made. The victim will seek a courtesy summons against her former co-worker, according to the police report.

The Herald, 3 December 2012

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Earlier this month Anjem Choudary announced his latest publicity stunt – a conference at the Lal Masjid in Islamabad on 30 November, where fatwas would be issued against Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, its current president Asif Zardari, and Malala Yousafzai, the young woman shot by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan last month.

Choudary of course has a long history of announcing provocative plans that he has no intention of actually carrying through, and then, having milked the resulting outrage for all the publicity he can, calling them off at the last minute. These non-events have included a March for Shari'ah in London in 2009, a demonstration at Wootton Bassett in 2010 where his followers were to carry 500 coffins to symbolise the deaths of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, a rally outside the White House the same year to advocate sharia law in the US, and a protest against the royal wedding in April 2011. So nobody had any excuse for falling for Choudary's latest con-trick.

If any confirmation was required that Choudary's Islamabad conference was a fraud, on 21 November the London correspondent of The News reported that a representative of Lal Masjid had contacted the paper to insist that they had never even spoken to Choudary or his organisation and knew of no proposal to hold a conference at the mosque on 30 November. The spokesman emphasised that "Maulana Abdul Aziz and the whole mosque administration condemn the inflammatory statements used by this group, clearly seeking publicity".

It was hardly unexpected, therefore, that earlier this week Choudary should issue a press release stating that the conference had been "postponed". In a statement to The News, Choudary cited as one of the reasons for this decision "the refusal of the apostate Pakistani regime to issue visas to key speakers". However, the paper reported that he and his supporters "never applied for Pakistani visas" in the first place.

This entirely predictable outcome didn't prevent certain interested parties from treating Choudary's Lal Masjid conference as if it was a serious proposal. In response to the initial announcement of the event, Maajid Nawaaz of Quilliam demanded indignantly "We gonna let this happen??" On 18 November, in an article that was considered sufficiently important to be advertised on its front page as an "exclusive", the Daily Star Sunday informed its readers: "British-based Muslim extremists want the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban to face a possible death sentence. The radicals will head to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad to link up with hardliners for a demonstration urging a fatwa against Malala Yousafzai."

The Spectator for its part ran a piece by Shiraz Maher which similarly accepted the announcement of the Islamabad conference as good coin, and went on to suggest that Choudary – a British citizen – should be prevented from re-entering the UK when he came back from Pakistan. The article, headlined "Few would shed tears if Britain barred Anjem Choudary from returning", appeared on 27 November – the same day that Choudary revealed that he had in fact no intention of going. Maher's stupid article was reproduced with evident approval by the anti-racist organisation Hope Not Hate.

Will this latest nonsense from Anjem Choudary lead to commentators taking a more sceptical view of his next provocation? It's highly unlikely, unfortunately. Whether it's the Islamophobic right-wing press or "experts" like Maajid Nawaz and Shiraz Maher who have built careers out of exaggerating and misrepresenting the threat of "Islamist extremism", there are plenty of people who have a vested interest in promoting Choudary and his minuscule group of nutters as if they represent a significant trend within the British Muslim community.

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A 16-year-old boy was arrested by police investigating a hate crime after pieces of ham were thrown at a mosque.

The teenager was held on suspicion of a religiously aggravated public order offence by officers called to Broadfield Mosque in Crawley, West Sussex.

Sussex Police said "real anguish and anxiety" was caused to worshippers who witnessed the incident as they left the mosque at around 4pm last Tuesday.

The arrested teenager, who is from the local area, has been freed on police bail pending further inquiries.

Sergeant Jim Collen, of Sussex Police, said: "This was a very unpleasant incident which has naturally caused real anguish and anxiety amongst worshippers at the mosque.

"Sussex Police take all reports of hate crime extremely seriously and this investigation will be no exception."

Disorder which broke out following the incident was also being investigated, police said.

Mr Collen said: "We are aware of a relatively minor altercation that we hope to resolve using our restorative justice programme.

"It must not be allowed to take the focus away from our investigation of the hate crime as this remains our priority."

Anyone with information is asked to call Sussex Police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Press Association, 27 November 2012

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Tunisia is the city where people cherish and live happily. The people of Tunisia enjoy their life with freedom. Every country has its own beauty. Allah has made the whole world very beautifully. This natural beauty also exists in Tunisia. The country is very vast and is maintained. It is a developing country.

Every country needs a president so that he could look after the country. To choose the correct president of the country, elections are organized in which people give votes to the people that are nominated for the positions of president and vice president.

The elections for the constitutional assembly were held in Tunisia on October 23, 2011, following the Tunisia revolution, the results of Tunisia elections were announced on March 3, 2011. It was announced that the new assembly will have 217 members. It was the first free election which was held in Tunisia, since the country has been independent since 1956, as well as the first election in the Arab world.

The people of Tunisia were very excited and were very tense regarding what will be the next steps of Tunisia after elections. Many rumors and controversies were made about the elections. These elections were not peaceful. One of the Islamic parties won most of the seats which was the Ennahda party. Many of the people believe that Ennahda party will take the position of prime minister while Moncef Marzouki will become the interim president.

In Tunisia after elections, the people were very much frightened, since they have heard rumors that the Islamic party Ennahda will take the position of president. Preliminary results were announced which show that the Ennahda party will be on the commanding post. The people of Tunisia didn’t want the Islamic party to be on the commanding post so they protested against the party and didn’t supported the Islamic party. After a long time period of time, when the results were declared, the Islamic party Ennahda was on the top of the votes and then the party became the president of Tunisia.

When the Islamic party Ennahda was finally declared as the president, the reaction of the people during the elections was very bad. The people who wanted to become happy after the elections became violent and the country lost its peace.  Many of the shops were broken and the people of Tunisia became out of control. This became a very serious matter and many of the lives were lost due to this protest. Tunisia faced great difficulties and hard challenges, this protest became an open matter and was covered by newspapers, TV and media. In every news channel, this news was spread.

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I am 20 years old from Karachi, Pakistan. I am doing graduation from Karachi University. Right now, doing freelance writing for Muslim Academy.

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GOLETA, Calif. — Afaf Turjoman is a board member of the Islamic Society of Santa Barbara and says the society has been receiving hate mail recently regarding the mosque they have wanted to build in Goleta since 2001. "The letters were anti-Muslim. There is like Islamiphobia up here. And there is no real merit."

The hate mail was enough for the city of Goleta to have law enforcement officers present at a design review board last month and again at the next meeting on October 9th. Turjoman says she doesn't know for sure if recent violence in the Middle East is the reason for the letters but the Islamic society took issue with the violence when it happened. "We released a statement that any violence that was done was something that we don't condone."

If the design review board meeting on October 9th goes smoothly, the plans will then be heard at a planning commission meeting. And despite all the bumps in the road, Turjoman remains confident. "Every year we say next year. We're very hopeful and this has been going on for 11 years. Again, we're very hopeful and optimistic that this is going to pass through within the next couple of months."

KCOY, 2 October 2012

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Police clashed with members of the English Defence League during protests in Walsall town centre today.

During speeches given by leaders of the EDL, the crowd surged towards police lines on Leicester Street. Officers with riot gear used batons and shields to hold back the demonstrators. Scores of missiles – including bricks, bottles and litter bins – were hurled at police.

At 3pm officers cleared Lichfield Street with a shields charge as members of the EDL were herded on to buses to transport them away from the town centre.

West Midlands Police said they have no power to ban a static protest and the right to protest peacefully was a sign of a healthy democracy.

Birmingham Mail, 29 September 2012

See also "28 arrested following EDL demonstration in Walsall", ITV News, 29 September 2012

And "EDL's Walsall flop is another nail in its coffin", UAF news report, 29 September 2012

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Nazi graffiti on the doors of Limoges mosqueA Muslim leader called Wednesday for surveillance cameras to be installed at every mosque in France following the latest in a series of attacks on Islamic places of worship.

A mosque in Limoges in the centre of the country had excrement smeared on its doors overnight in an incident that reflects a growing trend, according to Abdallah Zekri, who chairs an Islamophobia Observatory set up by France's Muslim Council.

"It is time that town councils took this problem seriously and started putting cameras in front of mosques, as is already the case for synagogues," Zekri said.

Local police said the mosque doors had been daubed with neo-Nazi graffiti at the end of July. They also said it was possible the attack was random, as a local restaurant unconnected to the Muslim community was subject to a similar attack earlier this month.

Unlike many mosques in France, the Limoges centre is immediately recognisable as an Islamic place of worship because of its minaret.

"This attack is a grave assault on the dignity of Muslims and is shocking for every citizen who upholds the values of respect and tolerance," Interior Minister Manuel Valls said in a statement.

The incident in Limoges came a month after two pig heads were deposited at the entrance of a mosque in Montauban in the south of the country.

AFP, 12 September 2012

"Possible the attack was random"? The graffiti on the kebab restaurant included a pig's head and the clear assumption behind the attack was that the business was run by Muslims. The graffiti was signed with the initials NRF (presumably a reference to some obscure neo-Nazi group), which were also found on a bridge in Limoges along with the same Odal runes that were sprayed on the doors of the mosque. Who's in charge of the police investigation in Limoges – Inspector Clouseau?

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“Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.”
― Alan Moore

The consequences of Muslims in United States after 9/11 attacks created havoc, global war and counter terrorism operations across all Muslim countries. Radical, dogmatic and arrogance gained its impact for Muslims in United States as aftermath consequences of 9/11 attacks and even after ten years of 9/11 attacks world has become totally arrogant towards Muslims. The war in Iraq, regime of President of Iraq, Saddam and dramatic changes in Pakistan were the most potential and significant events in American history. After ten years of 9/11 attacks American Muslims dynamics has created a chaos and negative impact of Muslims in United States. Two most common words “everyone knows” have depicted Muslims in United States as terrorists. “Everyone knows” Muslims are inherently violent and are compelled to be terrorists. Islam is a religion of peace has become a bridge of negativity in United States of America.

9/11 attack consequences gathered the world with so many surprising events. American Muslims who were free and comfortable in American environment are now the signal and target of terror and fear. Killing in Iraq war, then Afghanistan, regimentation of President Saddam were the significant factors after 9/11 attacks. Even after ten years of 9/11 attacks Muslims in United States are spotted for every criminal act. Such situations have misrepresented Muslims and Islam across the globe. This has become a viscous fact after September attacks that Muslims are accused of not speaking up and have become lunatic in their perspectives. After ten years of 9/11 attacks Muslims were suspected as terrorists. The misrepresentation of American Muslims slaughtered their civil rights from United States.

American Muslims are now abused by their civil rights to wrong perception of terror, morals, ethics and religion. American Muslims after September attacks have faced discrimination and racism on basis of their religion. Day to day low level harassment is now common against Muslims. In 2011, a Muslim boy was caught with a knife in his pocket. Only because he was Muslim, on basis of his religion he was suspected as terrorist. Hate, racism and anti religion starts on basis whether they are Muslims or not.  Mosques and other religious places are an easy approach of killing and torturing Muslim society. Mosque is a holy place where Muslims practice their religion and bow their head towards God. During the ten years after September attack mosques and religious places in certain areas of United States have been burnt and damaged.

Aftermaths of 9/11 attacks are though tragic for Muslim countries. Even ten years have been passed still Muslims are suspected as terrorists. In decade of 9/11 nobody has tried to get the real meaning of Muslim. This is indeed tragic and an alarming situation. Islam is a true religion of prosperity and peace. Muslims are not terrorists. They are peace lovers. People have suspected wrong about them.

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I am 20 years old from Karachi, Pakistan. I am doing graduation from Karachi University. Right now, doing freelance writing for Muslim Academy.

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