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Amsterdam: Handling of sharia group criticised

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Amsterdam: Sharia4Holland issue death threats against Wilders, passer-by arrested     (Sharia4Holland press conference, Passer-by intervened at around 4:20)  Via Expatica :  Amsterdam VVD councillor, Robert Flos, has criticised the police for the way they dealt with a hate speech on Dam Square on Friday. On local television channel AT5, the councillor says the police failed to arrest the Sharia4Holland speakers, who made death threats aimed at Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders and arrested a passer-by who tried to enter a discussion with the speakers. Mr Flos points out that making death threats is a criminal offence. The passer-by was heavy-handedly removed from the scene. The councillor told AT5 he was shocked but �a message of intolerance can even be made next to our monument of freedom.� ( source ) The group's spokesman was meanwhile arrested.  Via DutchNews : Amsterdam police have arrested the 29-year-old spokesman for radical Islamic group Sharia4Holland ...

'Ex Muslim extremist issues Krekar warning '

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'Ex Muslim extremist issues Krekar warning ' I thought this was an interesting headline .  Anjem Choudary is a former spokesperson of Islam4UK.  In this article he threatens Norway for arresting a terrorist.  So what makes him an ex-extremist?

Germany: Online terrorist threat against far-right party, magazine

Germany: Online terrorist threat against far-right party, magazine Via AP: German officials say they�ve taken security measures at a popular German magazine and for members of a small far-right party after a known terrorist called for them to be attacked in a video online. (...) In it, Bonn-born Yassin Chouka, who is believed to be with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, calls for Muslims to kill Pro NRW members. He also calls for the murder of Der Spiegel employees for printing pictures showing the cartoons. ( source )

Macedonia: Protests signal surge of radical Islam

Macedonia: Protests signal surge of radical Islam Via EurActiv : There is widespread belief among analysts and the Macedonian public that the protests are intended to destabilise Macedonia prior to the NATO summit in Chicago on 20-21 May. Macedonia�s bid to join NATO was blocked in 2008 by Greece over the long-standing name dispute between Athens and Skopje. Some analysts in the region now worry of renewed attempts to carve out an ethnic Albanian state in western Macedonia. ( source )

Germany: Cop suspended for radical Islamist beliefs

Germany: Cop suspended for radical Islamist beliefs via the Local (h/t Jihad Watch ): Western German police chiefs have suspended an officer after they discovered he belonged to a branch of Salafist Muslim fundamentalists, and had been distributing radical religious material, it was reported on Tuesday. �Disciplinary action is underway, with the aim to dismiss the man from the police force,� North Rhine-Westphalia�s Interior Minister Ralf J�ger confirmed on Tuesday. It is the first time a policeman has been suspended for radical beliefs in Germany. The head of the Essen police force told the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that the suspended officer does not believe in the German constitution, which is required of police officers - rather he holds Islamic law to be paramount. When questioned by state security if he lived under Islamic law, he said only that �what he believed privately was his business.� ( source )

Germany: "Germany will not allow anybody to impose religious wars on us"

Germany: "Germany will not allow anybody to impose religious wars on us" Via Reuters : Germany is considering a legal ban on ultra-conservative Salafist Muslim groups, its interior minister said on Wednesday after violent clashes with the police, one of which was provoked by German ultra-rightists. (...) "We will use all the possibilities at the disposal of a constitutional state to oppose them (violent Salafists) wherever they fight against... our constitutional order," Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told n-tv television. "Germany will not allow anybody to impose religious wars on us, neither radical Salafists nor far-right parties such as the Pro NRW," he said, referring to the ultra-nationalist that clashed with the Salafists in Bonn.   ( source )

Bonn: Salafists clash with police over Muhammad cartoon protest (UPDATED)

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Bonn: Salafists clash with police over Muhammad cartoon protest Salafists in Bonn clashed with police on Saturday after a Pro-NRW protest displaying anti-Islam cartoons.  29 police agents were injured, and over 100 people were arrested. Update: Video was mistakenly dropped from original post. English-language report: AGI .

Germany:Police arrest 30 Salafists after clashes

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Germany:Police arrest 30 Salafists after clashes Police spokeswoman Anja Meis said a group of Salafists protesting against a far-right march threw stones and attacked officers separating the two rallies in the western German city of Solingen Tuesday. Three policemen and a passer-by were injured. ( source )

Germany: "We will conquer Rome!"

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Germany: "We will conquer Rome!" Via KATH.NET , translated by Via Catholic Church Conservation : A 26-year-old regularly preaches in a mosque in Solingen - Cologne City Superintendent: His theses are an "impertinence", Representatives of Muslim organizations distance themselves Anti-Christian expressions of a radical Islamic preacher concern the Protestant Church Association of Cologne City. The 26-year-old Austrian Mohamed Mahmoud was released in September 2011 after a four-year prison sentence in a Vienna prison on charges of forming and promoting a terrorist organization . After a short stay in Berlin, he moved at the end of 2011 to Solingen, near D�sseldorf. Currently he is living in Erbach in Hessen(Odenwald). Several television stations reported on his challenge to Christianity: "We will conquer Rome! And then Peter's Square, or whatever it's called, yes, that is [...]to be the site of the conversion and the area to implement Allah's laws in o...

Paris: 100 Muslims protest against religious extremism

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Paris: 100 Muslims protest against religious extremism Via MSN France , translated by Elder of Zion : A hundred Muslims gathered Sunday afternoon on the steps of the Opera Bastille in Paris to "say no to religious radicalism" and proclaimed their attachment to France and the values ??of the Republic, says an AFP reporter. With French flags on their jackets and under a banner saying "Together against fanaticism", demonstrators observed a moment of silence in memory of "Children of Toulouse and Montauban," victims of Mohamed Merah, responsible for seven murders in both cities in March, and who claimed, according to the Interior Minister, Claude Gueant,to have links with Al Qaeda. ( source )

Cambridge: Muslims question militant's speech

Cambridge: Muslims question militant's speech Via Cambridge News (h/t DW): Moderate Muslims are appalled that Dr Haitham al-Haddad, who is a judge on a Sharia law court in London, was allowed a platform at the Mawson Road prayer centre. He spoke to students from Cambridge University�s Islamic Society in a packed room, and has previously told Muslims �to prepare themselves for jihad, all over the world�. Hasan Afzal, director of the anti-extremism monitoring group StandforPeace, who was alerted to the visit by a concerned Muslim attending the mosque, said: �I understand the mosque is looking to expand and this has been a bone of contention with the local community and has attracted the ire of far-right groups, including the English Defence League. (...) Ahsan Mohammed, a Newmarket Muslim leader, said: �I am torn in that I want freedom of speech and think that is what makes Britain great but when the views are bonkers and dangerous we have to draw the line somewhere.� ( source )

Wales: Islamic teacher under fire for calling on Muslims to support fight for sharia law abroad

Wales: Islamic teacher under fire for calling on Muslims to support fight for sharia law abroad Via Wales Onlines (h/t EuropeNews ): An Islamic teacher whose group was at the centre of an anti-terror raid on a Cardiff community hall has come under fire for calling on Welsh muslims to �physically� support the fight for sharia law abroad. Abu Hajar, of Grangetown, Cardiff, is one of the leaders of the Islamic group Supporters of Tawheed, which on its website says its core belief is the �domination of the world by Islam�. (...) In a video posted last month on YouTube called �Support the Muslims of Syria�, Mr Hajar said muslims should: snub western help abroad; demand an �Islamic solution� to problems in the Middle East; and impose sharia law there. In the 14-minute video he addresses the people of Syria, saying: �Our money is with you and, if need be and if we are able to, our muslims will come and respond to your call physically as well. ( source )

Germany: Salafists dominate Islam Conference agenda

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Germany: Salafists dominate Islam Conference agenda ( video report ) Via Deutsche Welle : Although the official topic of Germany's annual Islam Conference was about domestic violence and forced marriage, a recent campaign by Salafist Muslims to distribute free Korans was a key topic of discussion. Senior German officials gathered in Berlin on Thursday for their annual conference with the Muslim leaders from around the country. One of the main talking points of the conference was a recent drive by fundamentalist Salafist Muslims to hand out free copies of the Koran, although it was not officially on the agenda. "We all agree that Salafist extremism is not acceptable and does not work in a free society, as we have in Germany," said German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, adding that the Salafists did not have the support of the majority of Germany's Muslims. ( source )