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Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and holding an old notebook, Abu Hamizi, 22, spends at least six hours a day searching internet chatrooms linked to gay websites. He is not looking for new friends, but for victims.

“It is the easiest way to find those people who are destroying Islam and who want to dirty the reputation we took centuries to build up,” he said. When he finds them, Hamizi arranges for them to be attacked and sometimes killed.

Hamizi, a computer science graduate, is at the cutting edge of a new wave of violence against gay men in Iraq. Made up of hardline extremists, Hamizi’s group and others like it are believed to be responsible for the deaths of more than 130 gay Iraqi men since the beginning of the year alone.

So reports The Guardian.

Question is: what reputation does Abu Hamizi think Islam has build up over the centuries? Surely he and the fellow members of his hate group must at some point realize that while Islam claims to be a ‘religion of peace’ his actions represent the kind of barbarism that gave Islam the nickname ‘religion of the sword.’

Islamism has no place in modern, civilized society.
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British intelligence chiefs have targeted war-torn Somalia as the next major challenge to their efforts to repel Islamic terrorism, after scores of youths left the UK for “jihad training” in the failed African state.

A number of the “liquid bomb” plot terrorists convicted last week had Pakistani connections and the bomb makers are believed to have received training at an al-Qa’ida camp in Pakistan.
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LONDON (Reuters) – A government minister said a recent rise in right-wing anti-Islamist militancy bore echoes of 1930s attempts by fascists to spread fear in Jewish areas of east London.

Communities Secretary John Denham said far right groups were deliberately trying to provoke ethnic minority groups into conflict in a bid to cause divisions within communities.

His comments came after members of the Stop Islamisation of Europe group were confronted by about 1,000 opponents outside a mosque in north London on Friday.
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Excellent news about the release of Parwiz (aka Perwiz or Pervez) Kambakhsh, the young Afghan student journalist sentenced to 20 years for downloading and distributing material from the internet about the rights of women under Islam. Initially, Kambakhsh had been sentenced to death.

Predictably, conservative and religious groups in Afghanistan have reacted with fury at President Hamid Karzai’s secret pardon for the 24-year-old, who was arrested in October 2007 and quietly freed from jail some weeks ago.

See also Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh is freed and goes abroad, a related article by Reporters Without Borders.
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Scientology ‘vultures’ have latched onto another tragedy. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights — a Scientology front group that runs on ongoing hate campaign against psychiatry and psychiatrists — free DVDs about anti-depressant drugs in the area where killer Shane Clancy lived.

Reports have indicated that gardai are investigating whether Shane, who murdered Seb Creane (22) before killing himself, may have misused anti-depressants that had been prescribed for him a week before the tragic night.

Here’s another look at Scientology’s ambulance chasers.
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An art exhibit depicting various female Palestinian suicide bombers as the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus, which opened at the Sokolov House press center in Tel Aviv on Thursday, was quickly taken down following an outcry from the families of those killed or wounded in the attacks, as well as by organizations that represent terror victims.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Muslims around the world to mobilize their troops alongside Iran against Israel and the United States to prepare for the coming of the “”Mahdi” seen as “the savior of Islam”.

Iran’s supreme leader is described as “a direct representative” of the Mahdi and said following his orders is like “obeying the guided one.”
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11 more defectors from the Church of Scientology have provided accounts of physical or mental abuse by Scientology leader David Miscavige.

The cult — known for its hate- and harassment activities, including character assassination — has a hypocritical response. Yet it cannot get around the fact that its founder codified unethical behavior toward those who criticize Scientology.

More evidence that the cult’s glossy ads hide a stark truth: that of a destructive cult in decline.
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Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, the highest-ranking executives to leave the Church of Scientology, are speaking out for the first time.

Two other former executives who defected also agreed to interviews with the St. Petersburg Times: De Vocht, who for years oversaw the church’s spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, and Amy Scobee, who helped create Scientology’s celebrity network, which caters to the likes of John Travolta and Tom Cruise.

One by one, the four defectors walked away from the only life they knew. That Rathbun and Rinder are speaking out is a stunning reversal because they were among Miscavige’s closest associates, Haldeman and Ehrlichman to his Nixon.
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One of Britain’s most notorious preachers of hate is back on the streets after being freed early from jail.

Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, said the men were a danger to society.

‘Abu Izzadeen and his organisation publicly call for attacks against those whom they see as enemies of Islam,’ he said.
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As Taliban control hits pockets of Pakistan and threatens the nation’s stability, Christians worry their province could be the next to fall under Islamic law.

Christians in Taiser town, near Karachi, noticed on the walls of their church graffiti that read, “Long Live the Taliban” and calls for Christians to either convert to Islam or pay the jizye, a poll tax under sharia (Islamic law) paid by non-Muslims for protection if they decline to convert.
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A white supremacist hate group known as Aryan Nations has moved its ‘world headquarters’ back to Idaho.

One of its leaders says he expects membership to grow because of the election of President Barack Obama.
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The Taleban, whose followers believe they are adherents of the purest form of Islam, have murdered a young couple after accusing them of immoral acts.

The woman, Gul Pecha, 19, and the man, Abdul Aziz, 21, were executed by a Taleban firing squad in front of a crowd.
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The state of Georgia plans to execute a man later this month for murdering a follower of his small white supremacist group more than a decade ago.

A former Ku Klux Klan member, William Mark Mize, shot Eddie Tucker with a shotgun, execution-style, in October 1994 after Tucker didn’t carry out an order to burn down a crack house, state prosecutors said.
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A headmistress who was hounded out of her job after being falsely accused of racism was yesterday awarded more than £400,000 in compensation.

A campaign by two Muslim governors to give Islam a greater presence in a state school played a key part in forcing the successful head from her job, the High Court found yesterday.
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Police raided apartments and offices throughout Germany in the biggest-ever action aimed at stamping out the radical-right music scene.

Authorities searched more than 200 locations on Wednesday, March 4, confiscating 45,000 CDs, more than 170 computers and some 70 weapons.
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The savages who operate the Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — have announced on their website that they intent to picket the funerals of people killed in last Wednesday’s plane crash at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The cult is best known for its despicable practice of picketing the funerals of people its delusional followers object to.
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Glosslip.com reports that well-known anti-Scientology critic Mark Bunker was arrested along with another critic, Mark Lowell at the Scientology’s Hemet, California compound known as Gold Base.

The cult, which has a long history of hate- and harassment activities, has pressured the Riverside County Board of Supervisors into imposing picketing limits.
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A report by an Islamic anti-extremism foundation says “Foreign imams, poorly paid and with limited proficiency in English, are ill-equipped to navigate Britain’s complex, liberal and multi-faith society.

“By failing to reach out to young British Muslims, radical Islamists have the upper-hand. Britain’s young Muslims, without a voice in mosques, are looking elsewhere for religious guidance and will continue to be drawn in by young, articulate extremists who offer an alternative narrative, cause and social space.”
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The Home Secretary has banned two extremist anti-gay preachers from entering Britain. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, who belong to the US Westboro Baptist Church, were planning to come to the UK to protest outside a performance of a youth play which recounts the death of gay university student.

Other members of their hate group will be stopped from entering the country as well.
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The Westboro, Kansas hate group that masquerades as a church has threatened to picket a sixth form college in England during a staging of The Laramie Project, a play about an American youth murdered because of his sexuality.

Details of the group’s first picket in Britain was posted on their website with the slogan “God Hates England; Your Queen Is A W—-”.
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A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.

Women are often allowed through military checkpoints without being searched, making it easier for them to hide explosives under their traditional robes.

Our question: with Muslims around the world going nuts over cartoons, teddy bears and freedom of speech, when will we see them protest this kind of religious insanity?
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An Australian court sentenced a Muslim cleric to 15 years jail Tuesday for leading a terrorist cell that planned to bomb a football match in Melbourne in 2005, ending Australia’s biggest terrorism trial, local media reported.

Several of his followers were involved in stripping stolen cars and selling the parts to raise money for the group.
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Video footage posted on a website shows police officers running way from chanting demonstrators who took part in a violent protest in London against Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip.

The video, posted on YouTube, shows protesters chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Greatest) and ‘Fatwa’, a death threat under Islamic law.

Given the behavior of the Muslims shown in the video, this news item is filed in both the ‘Islam’ and ‘hate groups’ category.
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The man who founded the Virginia nonprofit paying for the push to make English Nashville’s official language also is behind several organizations that have been labeled hate groups.

Dr. John H. Tanton, a retired eye surgeon, started both ProEnglish and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The Southern Poverty Law Center identified FAIR as a hate group last winter based on its acceptance of $1.2 million from a white supremacist organization, employees’ ties to other such groups and a history of “anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes.”
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