Category Archives: Crime

Not So Brotherly After All

By Guest | Published: April 20, 2010
This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips from Harry’s Place **** When the authorities seized the North London Central Mosque from hate preacher Abu Hamza in 2005, the bright idea of some of the not so great and good was to hand the mosque over to a group with close links to the Muslim Brotherhood. Last month, as [...]
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Child Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church

By Faisal | Published: April 15, 2010
The next time the Catholic Church customarily attacks secularism, it should remember what it owes to democratic secular institutions which have protected the child victims by upholding the rule of law. Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker: It is not “anti-Catholic” to hypothesize that these things may have something to do with the Church’s extraordinary difficulty in [...]
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The Abuses of Religious Law

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: February 4, 2010
The National Secular Society has lodged a complaint against Cherie Booth, QC, (Tony Blair’s wife) for ruling to keep a violent man out of jail because he was “religious”. Shamso Miah, 25, of Redbridge, east London, broke a man’s jaw following a row in a bank queue. Sitting as a judge, Ms Booth – wife of former [...]
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Even veiled ‘modest’ women are sexually harassed…

By Houriya | Published: October 8, 2009
A new report has been released by the Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights which discusses issues of sexual harassment that women face in Egypt. The report concluded that most respondents who were victims of sexual harassment wore the hijab and regarded themselves as modestly dressed. Yet some even blamed themselves for being sexually harassed by [...]
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Horrifying News

By Yossarian | Published: September 8, 2009
The BBC reports: Pensioner attacked in street dies A pensioner who was attacked in south London as he returned from a mosque has died from his injuries. Ekram Haque, 67, a retired care worker, was assaulted in Church Lane, Tooting, on 31 August. Four boys, aged 12, 15 and two 14 year olds, have been charged with conspiracy to [...]
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Hook’s bad seed

By Faisal | Published: June 4, 2009
It is always heart-warming when you see the sons follow the principles and example set by the father. Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was jailed for seven years in 2004 for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred. It is possible that his three sons will be joining their old man in prison for their involvement in [...]
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She forced her daughters to marry, so she was jailed for three years

By Houriya | Published: May 24, 2009
Last Thursday a 39-year-old mother was sentenced to three years in jail for forcing her two teenage daughters to marry their first cousins in Pakistan in July 2007. This is the first case where someone has actually been convicted of a forced marriage – and it is about time. The 14 and 15-year-old girls thought they [...]
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Diesel bombers convicted

By Faisal | Published: May 17, 2009
Three men, Ali Beheshti (41), Abrar Mirza (23) and Abbas Taj (31) who conspired to firebomb the residence of publisher Martin Rynja in September 2008, have been found guilty of recklessly damaging property and endangering life. Rynja had been planning to publish a novel by US author Shelley Jones called the Jewel of Medina.
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