Moscow: 'Allah's enemy!' Radio host slash-attacked for anti-Islam rant on air

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.

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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.

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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.

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Germany: Iranian death threat sends rapper underground

Germany: Iranian death threat sends rapper underground

Via DW:

A Germany-based rapper has cancelled his concerts and turned to the police for protection. An Iranian ayatollah proclaimed one of Shahin Najafi's songs blasphemy, opening the door for him to be killed.

Najafi said on Friday he had cancelled concerts in Europe, but that he wanted to continue working despite the threat to his life.

"I am young, and I am an artist, and I have to perform," the 31-year old told German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, saying that he couldn't accept the idea of living underground for a long amount of time.

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Flanders: Muslims upset at Danni Lowinski episode

Flanders: Muslims upset at Danni Lowinski episode


Via HBvL (h/t RR):

A recent episode of the Danni Lowinski series upset Muslims in Flanders.  In the episode, a Turkish girl wanted help as she was being forced to marry her cousin.  One of the characters, bicycle dealer Fuat, said: 'The Koran says that singles MUST marry.'

Columnist Bahattin Kocak: "It's not in the Koran!  This is fiction, but I think it's a pity that something like that is proclaimed as truth.  This way a million viewers, of whom just a minority know the Koran, get a negative opinion about its content."

VTM apologized if they didn't always show 'a nuanced image of the Turkish community'.  The broadcaster stressed that Danni Lowinski is a fictional show which exaggerates issues, people and problems.

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UK: Can we talk about this? Freedom of speech, censorship and Islam

UK: Can we talk about this? Freedom of speech, censorship and Islam

Via the Telegraph:

The show begins with one of the performers repeating a question posed by Martin Amis: “Do you feel morally superior to the Taliban?” So cowed have we become that only about 20 percent of the audience put their hands up despite our knowledge of their barbarous cruelties.

The piece then goes on to explore the Rushdie affair, the Danish newspaper cartoons of Muhammed, and the murder the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh following his film about the abuse of Muslim women.

It also shines a harsh light on the forced marriages and “honour abuse” among Muslims in this country. Almost every word that’s uttered is verbatim, and the majority come from revealing interviews conducted by DV8 itself.

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Norway: 'Mullah Krekar has right to defend his religion', says his lawyer

Norway: 'Mullah Krekar has right to defend his religion', says his lawyer



Via VG:

The prosecutor in the trail against Mulla Krekar (Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad) asked for five years imprisonment. Krekar is charged with threatening the head of the Conservative Party, Erna Solberg, and with threatening to kill three Kurds who posted a YouTube video of a Koran being burnt.

Krekar's laywer, Arvid Sjødin, said in his concluding statement that the Kurds deliberately provoked a reaction from Krekar by filming the Koran burning and posting it online.

"They knew perfectly well what reaction will occur. Therefore they put into motion a campaign to get Krekar to say what they knew he would say," said Sjødin. "In Western Norway we have a saying, if you sit on barbed wire, don't complain that it pricks. These people sat down on barbed wire."

The lawyer also denied that Krekar threatened the three Kurds. "When Krekar says that when you do such insulting things you can die, it's not a threat, but a factual observation from a religious viewpoint."

Krekar had previously explained to the court that he hadn't threatened Erna Solberg, when he said she'll die if he is killed after she deports him from Norway. "In our religion there are laws on how to punish groups or collectives if they are responsible for killing a person," he said. "My death in Norwegian hands will lead to a backlash against Norwegians."

"If Erna says she will deport me, then Erna and the leaders of her party run the risk of dying." But, he added, "I can't threaten her now. She hasn't done anything."

Sjødin said Krekar's statements are allowed within freedom of speech, and he warned of the consequences of convicting him.

"Naturally Krakar has a right to defend his religion. If Krekar is convicted, it will send a message to the rest of Europe and the Middle East that in Norway you can insult Islam with impunity, while those who defend their religion are imprisoned. It can cause problems for Norway, " said Sjødin.

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UK: Christianity gets less sensitive treatment than other religions admits BBC chief

UK: Christianity gets less sensitive treatment than other religions admits BBC chief

Via the Daily Mail:

BBC director-general Mark Thompson has claimed Christianity is treated with far less sensitivity than other religions because it is ‘pretty broad shouldered’.

He suggested other faiths have a ‘very close identity with ethnic minorities’, and were therefore covered in a far more careful way by broadcasters.

But he also revealed that producers had to consider the possibilities of ‘violent threats’ instead of polite complaints if they pushed ahead with certain types of satire.

Mr Thompson said: ‘Without question, “I complain in the strongest possible terms”, is different from, “I complain in the strongest possible terms and I am loading my AK47 as I write”. This definitely raises the stakes.’

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Brussels: University debate disturbed by Muslim fundamentalists

Brussels: University debate disturbed by Muslim fundamentalists

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Via 7s7 (French):
Yesterday ULB university organized a debate between French journalist Caroline Fourest and Hervé Hasquin on the extreme right.

The debate was heckled by niqab-wearing activists who shouted "Burqa, bla bla bla" and accused Fourest of Islamophobia.

The activists were mobilized by Souhail Chichah, an economics researcher and assistant at the university, who is known for his extremist views. The debate moderator, Guy Haarscher, urged him to come on stage to speak. According to Le Soir, Souhail Chichah had called for 'Burqa pride" on social networks, which was dedicated to the 'stoning of Caroline Fourest'.

Fourest was forced to leave the room, escorted by security. She said she does not intend to return.

Le Soir says UBL are outraged by this attack on freedom of expression, and that Souhail Chichah will have to stand before the disciplinary board.

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