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By Tom Harper

The Saudi Arabian preachers were secretly filmed ordering women to murder gays and ex-Muslims.

Undercover reporters from Channel 4’s Dispatches recorded the lectures in the women’s section of Regent’s Park Mosque in London.

An unnamed Saudi woman is seen mocking other religions – labelling Christianity ‘vile’ and an ‘abomination’. Another, known as ‘Angelique’, claims Britain is a ‘land of evil’.

The investigators attended lectures for two months at the mosque, which had promised a clean-up after another Dispatches probe just 18 months ago exposed it for spreading extreme Islamic views.

 

Regent Park mosque in London (Daily Mail photo)

Undercover: Regent’s Park Mosque was at t

During one sermon, a woman called Um Amira says: ‘He is Muslim, and he gets out of Islam…what are we going to do? We kill him, kill, kill.’ 

In the programme, to be screened tomorrow, she adds that women adulterers should be stoned to death and people who have sex before marriage should get ‘100 lashes’.

Regent’s Park Mosque is one of the biggest and most prestigious Islamic institutions in the UK. Opened in 1944 by King George VI, it can hold up to 5,000 worshippers.

After the 2007 Dispatches investigation, which also looked at mosques in Birmingham, West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claimed Channel 4 had distorted sermons and tried to press charges. 

But watchdog Ofcom dismissed their findings and Channel 4 won six-figure libel damages from the police and CPS.

This time, Dispatches returned to Regent’s Park Mosque to find exactly the same extremist books on sale there and the female preachers spreading radical Wahhabi Islam.

One Saudi woman, who mocks other religions, says: ‘We feel nothing sometimes going past the church. What they say with their tongues is so vile and disgusting, it’s an abomination.’

Another female preacher, Um Saleem, says it ‘breaks her heart’ to see Muslims ‘working in banks, wearing short sleeves…and make-up’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050917/Revealed-Saudi-women-preaching-hate-British-mosque-promised-clean-act-18-months-ago.html#

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By Mark Trevelyan for Reuters

GORI, Georgia (Reuters) – Russian troops deep inside Georgian territory are stopping thousands of refugees from returning to their homes, a Georgian official said on Saturday.

Russian soldier aboard a tank.

Russian soldiers were still manning checkpoints in Georgia and patrolling a Black Sea port even after Moscowpulled back much of the force it deployed three weeks ago to crush Georgia’s attempt to take back separatist province South Ossetia.

European Union leaders are to meet in Brussels on Monday to debate the bloc’s response to Russia’s military intervention and its decision to recognize South Ossetia and Georgia’s other breakaway region, Abkhazia, as independent states.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedevspoke with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown by telephone on Saturday to defend Moscow’s recognition of the regions and insist it was complying with a ceasefire agreement, the Kremlin said.

Russia has ignored calls by the United States and European powers to withdraw from Georgia, including troops deployed in a “buffer zone” bordering South Ossetia and Abkhazia that Moscow says are needed to prevent further attacks by Georgia.

The governor of Gori, a Georgian city occupied by Russian forces during the brief conflict, said Russian soldiers still occupied nearby Georgian villages.

“The Russians have checkpoints and we still cannot bring these people back home. The threat of paramilitary, irregulars, looting and robbing is still very high,” Governor Lado Vardzelashvili said.

“Apparently the Russian military are not willing to prevent these kinds of cases.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080830/ts_nm/georgia_ossetia_dc;_ylt= AlqDaDkHPl2AQpMtcMExLNys0NUE

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By Hillary White, LifeSite News

BRUSSELS, August 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Population statistics and projections were released yesterday showing that European countries are dying out, even with immigration, their populations aging and shrinking.  A report released this week by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical service, showed that by 2015, the number of deaths in Europe will have outstripped the number of births.  By 2060, the ratio of people of working age to those over age 65 will be two to one. 

None of the countries of Europe currently have a general fertility rate above replacement level and it is predicted that what is being called a “demographic winter” will strike Europe within thirty years. The report showed that the growth momentum of Europe’s 27 member states will continue to carry it until 2035; after this the population will begin to decline drastically from a predicted 521 million to 506 million by 2060. 

The report says that until 2035, “positive net migration would be the only population growth factor.”

“However, from 2035 this positive net migration would no longer counterbalance the negative natural change, and the population is projected to begin to fall.”

All of the countries studied in the report, with the exceptions of the Republic of Ireland, Andorra, Poland, Malta, the Principality of Monaco, allow abortion with few or no restrictions. Nearly all the countries of the European Union maintain state funded contraception programmes. 

The report showed that by 2060, Britain would have the largest population with a current fertility rate, according to the Office for National Statistics, of 1.91 children per woman and nearly restrictionless immigration policies. The ONS predicts a population of 70 million by 2031, but says that at least 70 per cent of the rise will be attributable directly to immigration. Germany, currently the biggest country in the EU with more than 82 million people, will see its population shrink by 14 per cent according to the Eurostat report.

ONS figures released last week showed that there are now more pensioners than children in the UK. Even so, given the situation of other countries, the report revealed that Britain will have the youngest population in Europe. By 2060, 24.7 per cent of people in Britain will be 65 or older but in Poland, the proportion will be 36.2 per cent. About 17 per cent of Europeans are currently aged 65 or older; by 2060 the numbers will have risen to 30 per cent. 

The average age for Britons is 39 and will be 42 in 2060, but this will be the lowest age in Europe with the exception of Luxembourg. The average age of Europeans is now just over 40; this will be 48 by 2060. The current median age for women in France, 40.7 years, is already over that at which women can easily conceive.

Desperate countries have begun implementing various schemes to try to convince their populations to continue the species but these have yielded small results and overall fertility rates have continued to fall.

An example of one of these schemes is in Sweden which offers one of the most generous government child benefits and maternity leave programmes in Europe.  Women may take maternity leaves for as many as 15 months on 80 per cent pay.  Yet the effort has yielded only a tiny increase in the birth rate from 1.5 children per woman in 1999 to 1.71 in 2004. 

Meanwhile the government of Sweden continues to fully fund contraceptive programmes and 36,045 Swedish children died by abortion in 2006.

For more see:  http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082906.html

To watch a trailer for the film Demographic Winter:
http://www.demographicwinter.com/index.html

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Evan Kohlmann on Counterterrorism Blog

The NEFA Foundation has obtained two exclusive interviews with Maulvi Omar, the main spokesman for and a Shura Council member of the Pakistani Taliban movement, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). 

During the first interview, recorded in May 2008, Maulvi Omar emphasized the connection between both the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban movements and Al-Qaida, saying there is no difference between them, and that they are merely different words for the same ideology, working towards precisely the same goals.

Similarly, he accuses former Pakistani President General Pervaiz Musharraf together with the U.S. and its international allies of having “crusader” and “infidel” designs against the entire Muslim world and, as such, are to be considered irreconcilable enemies of Islam.

During the second interview, obtained by NEFA in August 2008, Maulvi Omar declared the TTP to be in total control of Pakistan’s tribal areas. Maulvi Omar further claimed that all other local mujahideen militias–including foreign Uzbek militants and tribal fighters—have all been either incorporated into the TTP, or expelled from the tribal areas.

He denies reports that al-Zawahiri was wounded, or even ever at the location, of the recent U.S. airstrikes in Damadola. Omar even suggests a link between the TTP and several terrorist attacks in Western countries—including the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings in London, which he claimed were planned from Bajaur.

You can find the interviews here:  http://www.nefafoundation.org/

For more on terrorism, click to:  http://counterterrorismblog.org/

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The stories are many.  A super highway connecting Mexico to Canada through the heartland of the United States has been the subject of debate, discussion and rumour.

Last month, North American Union brainchild Robert Pastor issued a statement lamenting the lack of interest in the NAU, or the Security and Prosperity Partnership as leaders from the three North American nations called it in their 2004-2007 meetings.

Yet, the highway is a reality that will not go away; and it is coming whether we want it or not.

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By Compass Direct

NEW DELHI, August 27 (Compass Direct News) – Three more deaths were reported today in the eastern state of Orissa, where a spate of anti-Christian violence began after suspected Maoists murdered Hindu leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his disciples on Saturday (Aug. 23).

The number of people confirmed dead has risen to 21 on the fourth day of ongoing violence in Kandhamal district and other parts of Orissa. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that more than 114 anti-Christian attacks have taken place in various parts of the state. Read More…

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