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UK: Prisoners under pressure to convert to Muslim 'gang' Via the Telegraph : Inmates at HMP Whitemoor told researchers commissioned by the Ministry of Justice that they changed their faith for protection or because they were bullied into it. Prison guards said they had a policy of �appeasement� towards the powerful and growing Islamic population, particularly convicted terrorists who were feared to be recruiting future extremists. Non-believers avoided confrontation with any Muslim in case it led to retribution from the wider group, and said they even avoided cooking pork or bacon in communal kitchens or undressing in the showers in case it caused offence.   ( source )

Moscow: 'Allah's enemy!' Radio host slash-attacked for anti-Islam rant on air Via RT : A radio host has been hospitalized after being cut 15 times by an unidentified criminal. Two weeks ago the journalist ventured to criticize the founder of Islam, the Prophet Mohammed, on air. Sergey Aslanyan, 46, was brought to Moscow�s hospital with numerous non-penetrating knife wounds to the chest, neck and arm. According to the police report, on late Monday evening an unknown man called to Aslanyan�s flat over the building intercom and called him outside for a talk. When the journalist stepped out of the entranceway he was knocked over the head with a heavy object, after which the assailant brought the knife into play. Aslanyan claimed that the attacker was shouting �you don�t love Allah� while slashing at the victim. ( source )

Bergen: Afghan suspect in knifing murder, claims he was attacked for being Christian Via Aftenposten : One man was killed and another injured following a knifing at Ny-Paradis state asylum centre in Bergen western Norway, Tuesday.  The suspect is an Afghan who made headlines last year when he was attacked with boiling water by fellow residents of his asylum center because he was a Christian convert.  A Somali man was charged for the attack, and was sentenced to five months in prison.  On appeal he was acquitted, as the court believed him it had been an accident. "He had big problems due to his Christian faith.  There are many in the asylum center who don't accept people converting from Islam to Christianity,' Issa Hammer says of the Afghan suspect.  He's a friend of the two Christian Afghans at the center and goes with them to church. Tuesday he got a desperate phone call from one of them.  "He said he'd been attacked with a knife by a Somali.  He sa...

Poland: Thugs attack Turkish kebab shop   Via The Austrian Times : Black and Asian England football fans at next month's Euro 2012 are at risk from racist thugs in host country Poland after a series of attacks on ethnic fast food eateries, police fear. In one attack - filmed on CCTV - the white thugs are seen beating the Turkish-born owners of a kebab shop in Opole with sticks and a chair in a frenzied attack. ( source )

Sweden: Proposed legislation to outlaw forced marriages Via The Local : Anyone in Sweden who forces someone else to get married against their will can be sent to prison, according to proposed legislation presented Thursday which aims to criminalize forced marriages. "We want to criminalize child marriage and forced marriage. It should also be a punishable offence to take a child out of the country and marry them off there," G�ran Lambertz, who heads the government inquiry tasked with drawing up new legislation, told Sveriges Television (SVT). ( source )

Sweden: Mosques advise women not to report abusive husbands Via the Local : Six out of ten mosques in Sweden gave women advice about how to deal with spousal abuse and polygamy that contradicted Swedish law, a media investigation has revealed. Using hidden cameras and telephone recording equipment, two women posing as abused spouses visited ten of Sweden's largest mosques as part of a report put together by Sveriges Television (SVT) investigative news programme "Uppdrag granskning". The women then asked leaders at the mosques for advice about how to address issues such as polygamy, assault and non-consensual sex. Six out of the ten mosques visited by the women, who had also claimed that their husbands had multiple wives, told them that they should nevertheless agree to have sex with their husbands even if they didn't want to. Six of the mosques also advised the women against reporting spousal abuse to the police. Leaders at another mosque were divided on the issue, wh...

Brussels: Six people charged in deadly exorcism of Muslim woman Via al-Arabiya : A court in Brussels opened on Monday the trial of six people charged in connection with the 2004 murder of a young Muslim woman in a deadly act of exorcism, a practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person believed to be possessed. The woman was reportedly deceived into believing that she could not have children because she was possessed and that she had to undergo a practice of exorcism. But the woman apparently could not stand the severe punishment the exorcism allegedly entails to scourge the demon out of the body, and she lost her life. The detainees in the case include two self-appointed exorcists, the victim�s husband and three female members of a radical Muslim group, will be standing trial for three weeks and facing charges of �torture leading to death.� If they are convicted, they face up to 30 years in prison. ( source )

Amsterdam: Moroccan woman attacked in racist incident Via Parool h/t NRP : A pregnant Moroccan woman out walking with her Surinamese boyfriend was attacked March 26th.  The attackers, five Moroccans in their twenties, followed the couple, and called the woman a 'nigger whore'.  Her boyfriend responded, which led to a fight.  The woman was also pushed, beaten and kicked. The attackers were arrested and the woman was treated in hospital.  Her injuries seemed light, but a week later she went into premature labor and the baby did not survive.

Malmo: Man charged with shooting immigrants Via the BBC : A Swedish man accused of shooting immigrants in the city of Malmo has been charged with three accounts of murder and 12 accounts of attempted murder. Peter Mangs, 40, was arrested following a tip-off from a member of the public and months of investigation. Chief prosecutor Solveig Wollstad says the motive for the attacks is not clear but most of the victims had a foreign background. The suspect denies any wrongdoing.  ( source )

France: Two elderly Muslims attacked on their way to morning prayers Via France Soir : Two elderly Muslims were beaten up on their way to the mosque in the northern town of Amiens. The attack occurred early Saturday morning, when the two victims, ages 70 and 71, were on their way to morning prayers.  They were accosted by two men with short haircuts who said they were part of the extreme right.  The men were admitted to the hospital with injuries to their legs and ribs.

Belgium: Homophobic murder might be xenophobic hate crime as well Update to this story: Belgium: Moroccan killed in first homophobic murder VRT news reports as follows : The four suspects have all been apprehended. Just like the victim, all four are of foreign descent. Three have a Belgian passport, one a Turkish passport. According to the suspects, the victim "made advances". The judicial authorities were hesitant about the homophobic motives at first, but later during the day they changed the charges after a fourth suspect confessed that they "wanted to teach the man a lesson", Het Laatste Nieuws reports. The four suspects are Eric Parmentier, Jeremy Wintgens, Jonathan Lekeut and Mutlu Kiziaslan. Based on their names, the suspects might be of 'foreign descent', but they are not Muslim (with the possible exclusion of the Turkish suspect).  The family thinks the murderers were both homophobic and xenophobic.

London: Muslim voters in fraud row 'forgot how they signed registration forms' Via the Evening Standard : A senior official at Tower Hamlets has rejected allegations of postal vote fraud � claiming Muslim voters simply forgot how they signed registration forms. Isabella Freeman, borough legal chief, spoke in a bid to explain a spike in rejected ballots following a by-election. The Met has launched an investigation into claims of voter fraud. Today the �120,000-a-year monitoring officer was accused of failing to �face up to reality� and accept voter fraud is on her doorstep � ahead of tomorrow�s London-wide elections for the next Mayor and the 25-seat London Assembly. Asked about an increase in rejected postal votes from 10 per cent to 14 per cent, Ms Freeman said this was because �voters have forgotten how they signed the registered application in the first place ... this is not unusual in relation to Muslim voters.� The council would not comment on whether she was referring to...

Serbia: One dead in Pakistani-Afghan clash Via B92 : A man was murdered in the early hours of Tuesday near Subotica in a fight that broke out between two groups of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan. (...) According to the newspaper's source with the Serbian police (MUP), both groups were hiding on a farm near the northern Serbian town when the Pakistanis attacked the Afghans. After this, the Afghans reportedly decided to retaliate, with the incident resulting in the murder. ( source )

Germany: 'Gender (in)equality not linked to Islam' Via DW : Equality between Muslim men and women has little to do with religion, says G�n�l Halat-Mec. DW's Klaudia Prevezanos spoke to the family lawyer and member of the of the annual German Islam Conference. Deutsche Welle: What's the situation regarding equality between Muslim men and women in Germany? G�n�l Halat-Mec: You have to differentiate: It always depends on the social background of the people we're talking about. What we've worked out in the Islam conference is that many issues are not linked to religion or Islam, but are rather rooted in traditional patriarchal structures of society. And that depends on the social situation of the women � are they working, are they independent? At the conference, we've realized that no matter how religious a woman or a couple is � equality is more a social problem that needs to be looked at separately from religion. Of course, we also have a situation in Islam wh...