Prayer service led by women

Posted on March 30th, 2005 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

The discussion about the prayer service led by Islamic studies professor Amina Wadud is not over. She led 80 to 100 men and women in Muslim prayer at a church in New York. Muslim clerics denounced her actions and some have suggested that it was part of a plot to corrupt Islam, which requires separate religious services for men and women. The Washington Times has a story on the “heightened state” of security at Virginia Commonwealth University. University spokeswoman Pamela Lepley said on Saturday that inflammatory comments on Internet forums discussing Miss Wadud’s actions and her views about the role of women in Islam “raise concerns.”

No specific threats have been made, but security is at a “heightened state,” Miss Lepley said. The university has consulted Virginia and federal agencies.
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The Hunt for Zarqawi's Webmasters

Posted on March 30th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News, Religious and Political Radicalization.

MSNBC has an item taken from Newsweek on tracking down the operators of Islamic terrorist Web sites. This is like trying to locate a floating craps game: here today, gone tomorrow. During the past year, investigators in America and Europe watched as a business called 357Hosting, based near Utrecht, the Netherlands, became the officially registered Internet host for several notorious militant Islamic Web pages and bulletin boards, including sites that disseminated videos of beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq and messages from Qaeda leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. The public prosecutor’s office in Utrecht tells NEWSWEEK that it has opened a criminal investigation into possible Internet hate crimes.

he says 357 would continue to host radical Web sites to promote “free speech” and to counter what the spokesman claims is excessive Jewish influence in the media.

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The Hunt for Zarqawi’s Webmasters

Posted on March 30th, 2005 by .
Categories: Misc. News, Religious and Political Radicalization.

MSNBC has an item taken from Newsweek on tracking down the operators of Islamic terrorist Web sites. This is like trying to locate a floating craps game: here today, gone tomorrow. During the past year, investigators in America and Europe watched as a business called 357Hosting, based near Utrecht, the Netherlands, became the officially registered Internet host for several notorious militant Islamic Web pages and bulletin boards, including sites that disseminated videos of beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq and messages from Qaeda leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. The public prosecutor’s office in Utrecht tells NEWSWEEK that it has opened a criminal investigation into possible Internet hate crimes.

he says 357 would continue to host radical Web sites to promote “free speech” and to counter what the spokesman claims is excessive Jewish influence in the media.

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