Toronto-area author attacked in possible hate crime

The Toronto Sun – August 25, 2011   Halton police are treating an attack on a first-time author whose self-published book has been branded anti-Muslim as a possible hate crime. Raised Muslim, Paris Dipersico, 24, reported being dragged from his bicycle Aug. 17, tied up among trees, then beaten briefly unconscious by two Muslim men.

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Kidnapped Tarragona woman still missing

The whereabouts of a woman alleged to have been kidnapped and condemned to death for adultery in a shari’a court in Tarragona are unknown. She didn’t make an appearance at court, and now the judge has advised the Morocco government that she is missing and her presence is required by the Spanish justice system. The

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Woman tried in Tarragona “shari’a court”

Seven men have been sent to prison without jail in Tarragona, and two others released with charges, for planning to kill a woman for “adultery” after kidnapping her from her home in Tarragona and holding her in a farmhouse, from which she escaped to a local police station. The men allegedly created an Islamic Tribunal

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Europe unfriendly to Muslims, Princeton scholar says

Many Muslims today struggle to integrate into Western society, but those in the U.S. are better off than those in Europe, said Islamic scholar Ralph Ghadban during a lecture Monday at Ohio State. “Many of the millions of Muslims that have moved to the West wish not to integrate into society,” Ghadban said. As a

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Imam prosecuted for not preventing murders

Prosecutors in Ghent have demanded a one-year prison sentence for Muhsin Paksoy, the former imam of the Ghent central mosque. Paksoy is accused of doing little to prevent the murder of four women, after being approached by the killer. On November 11th 2004, Osman Calli called up Paksoy; the next day he killed four women.

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