This photograph taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas, shows a copy of the Quran and a briefcase holding this business card that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan gave to his neighbor a day before going on a shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army BaseIt seems Hasan's behavior was strange for some time - in a health class where the topic was dry cleaning chemicals and household mould, Maj. Hasan goes off on a tirade about the US being at war with Islam. Though - the thought doesn't escape me - th... Read Full Story

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Exactly 30 years after militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and began a 444-day hostage crisis that affected U.S. and global politics, HBO Films made a deal to turn the incident into a film. On Wednesday, HBO acquired "Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis, The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam," by "Black Hawk Down" author Mark Bowden.Andrea Berloff, who scripted the Oliver Stone-directed "World Trade Center," will adapt. William Horberg, a producer... Read Full Story

PETALING JAYA: The view that non-Muslims cannot enter mosques is a narrow-minded one and gives the wrong impression of Islam, said former Perlis mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin.Embattled Dr Asri to fight back after being arrested [without charge]“If we have this kind of view, it shows that Islam is creating hostility towards non-Muslims.“This view can even prevent non-Muslims from getting to know Islam better,” he added.Dr Mohd Asri was responding to a statement by Selangor Islamic Affairs D... Read Full Story

Locked out ~ girls in veils were prevented from attending famous Al-Azhar school in Cairo. A part of the sweeping changes of reverse Arabization shrouding the country. Female staff are no longer allowed to wear the burqa in hospitals - schools were next and now obviously headscarves will not be allowed on state TV. On the streets of Cairo Muslim women not wearing a headscarf often face abuse. But if you see Egyptian women from the 70's there is hardly a headscarf in sight. Undoubtedly this wi... Read Full Story

DHAKA (AFP)— Bangladeshi police said Friday they had arrested three suspected militants in the southeastern city of Chittagong who were planning to attack US targets in the country's capital.Deputy Police Commissioner Monirul Islam said Bangladeshi authorities were given intelligence reports concerning the men's whereabouts following the arrest of two other suspected militants in the United States last month."We raided a madrassa in Chittagong and arrested three Bangladeshi men late Thursday ... Read Full Story

A Danish journalism student has been arrested in Iran after covering anti-government protests, unions say.The Danish Union of Journalists named the student as Niels Krogsgaard, 31.Wednesday's Tehran protests coincided with an official rally to mark 30 years since the storming of the US embassy during the 1979 Islamic revolution.A Canadian, a Japanese and an Iranian journalist are also being held for covering the protests without permits, the semi-official Fars agency reports.Iran has tightene... Read Full Story

Islamic perfection ~ what a cut-throat business! Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.Islamist groups run much of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed government only control parts of the capital.This is th... Read Full Story

Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at Fort Hood military base in Texas have reported that gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" - God is great - before opening fire.General Robert Cone, the base commander, said officials had not yet confirmed that the suspected gunman made the comment before the rampage which left 30 people wounded, including Hasan.A woman police officer shot Hasan four times but was herself wounded in the gun battle. Her conditi... Read Full Story

Following is the full text on the 'social publishing' site Scribd.com:"There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero tha... Read Full Story