The English Defence League, a far-right political organisation formed to oppose the spread of Islamism, Sharia law and Islamic extremism in England vows it will counter demonstrations by Islamic hate groups.Muslim extremists such as ‘Muslims Against Crusaders’ have been disrupting home-coming marches of British soldiers. The hate group also calls for the introduction of Sharia (Islamic law) in the UK.

A senior Iranian cleric has decreed dogs are “unclean” and should not be kept as pets — a move aimed at discouraging Western-style dog ownership in the Islamic state.

With dogs out the way, perhaps the cleric can now turn his attention to a possible fatwa against more important issues, such as terrorist crimes and other acts of hatred committed by Muslim extremist.

Extreme vacations? Tourism officials in Malaysian state of Kelantan, which has been ruled by the hardline opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia for 20 years, plan to soon launch Muslim retreats to offer religious getaways to tourists, a news report said Tuesday.

On Friday four Christian men were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly trying to convert Muslims attending the 15th annual Arab International Festival in Dearborn, MI.

Faisal Shahzad has pleaded guilty to the attempted car bombing of Times Square car bomb "100 times," calling himself a Muslim soldier and defiantly warning of more attacks on the United States.

Iran's hard-line Muslim clerics are determined to reverse the trend of what they regard as "badly veiled women" -- those who wear looser, less strict head scarves and tight overcoats. These Muslim extremists believe they are holding up "the law of God, which is above human rights."

Banned from the UK, Muslim hate speech 'televangelist' Zakir Naik gets top billing at Toronto conference.

Al Qaeda Lays Out Conditions for Peace With U.S., AP reports.

Since March, the Moroccan government has expelled more than 100 foreign Christians for alleged “proselytizing.” Authorities failed to give Christians deportation orders or enough time to settle their affairs before they left.

Observers have called this a calculated effort to purge the historically moderate Muslim country, known for its progressive policies, of all Christian elements – both foreign and national.

Amid a national media campaign to vilify Christians in Morocco, more than 7,000 Muslim clerics signed a statement denouncing all Christian activities and calling foreign Christians’ aid work “religious terrorism.”

A French Muslim butcher at the centre of a firestorm over polygamy was charged on Wednesday with welfare fraud and his four companions will also face charges, a prosecutor said.

Lies Hebbadj, who runs a halal butcher shop in the western city of Nantes, made headlines after his wife was fined for driving in her full-face veil in April.

The head of a Muslim village last week ordered 250 Christian families to leave their homes in Khanewal district, Punjab Province, local residents said.

Abdul Sattar Khan, head of village No. 123/10R, Katcha Khoh, and other area Muslim residents ordered the expulsions after Christian residents objected too strenuously to sexual assaults by Muslims on Christian girls and women, said a locally elected Christian official, Emmanuel Masih.

Zakir Naik, an Indian televangelist described as a “hate-monger” by moderate Muslims, says western women make themselves “more susceptible to rape” by wearing revealing clothing.

Naik, who proselytises on Peace TV, a satellite television channel, is reported to have called for the execution of Muslims who change their faith, described Americans as “pigs” and said that “every Muslim should be a terrorist”.

More than 80 worshipers of a minority Muslim sect, the Ahmadis, were killed and more than 110 wounded Friday in a coordinated assault by seven well-trained attackers on two mosques in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, the authorities said.

The target was the Ahmadis, a group of about two million Muslims in Pakistan who are considered heretical by many mainstream Muslims because the Ahmadis believe that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who founded their movement in 1889, was the messiah foretold by Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

Gunmen stormed two Pakistani mosques belonging to Ahmadiyya, a minority Muslim sect, in Lahore on Friday, seizing hostages among worshippers, setting off grenades and sparking a bloody shootout with police.

Rights groups say the sect has long been persecuted in Pakistan and has remained an occasional target of sectarian attacks.

The French government decided Wednesday to impose a $185 fine on women who wear a full-face Islamic veil in public, pushing ahead with a controversial ban despite signs of tension between France’s Muslims and the Christian-tradition majority.

President Nicolas Sarkozy said his government was forwarding the legislation to parliament because it had a “moral responsibility” to uphold traditional European values in the face of an increasingly visible Muslim population, estimated at more than 5 million, the largest in Western Europe.

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