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(Pakistan) Blasphemy laws, a pretext to attack Pakistan's religious minorities
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15961&theme=5&size=A

(Pakistan) Dawn: "how would one explain the participation of the common Muslims of Gojra in the attack who were neither paid thugs nor members of the accused sectarian organisation?"
http://blog.dawn.com:91/dblog/2009/08/04/today-i-too-am-a-minority/

Pakistan: Laws to be reviewed post-Christian havoc
-- AP reports: "The Ahmadis, who consider themselves a Muslim sect, are forbidden from calling themselves Muslims or engaging in Muslim practices such as reciting Islamic prayers, according to the U.S. State Department's 2008 Human Rights Report."
-- "Even Shiite Muslims, the second largest sect in Islam, face threats from extremists in the Sunni Muslim majority."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD99TCHI80
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090807/tap-as-pakistan-1st-ld-writethru-d3b07b8.html

Pakistan: Islamabad seeks $2.5 billion from international donors
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3627758198

(Pakistan) The Taliban and music
-- "Militants have led a sustained assault on Pushtun folk culture but are not averse to producing jihadi songs"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/14-the-taliban-and-music-zj-03

(Pakistan) Baluchistan: Unknown militants kill Pakistani provincial minister
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2018405&Language=en

(Pakistan) "Mumbai attacks: Pak arrests key suspect linked to LeT"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Mumbai-attacks-Pak-arrests-key-suspect-linked-to-LeT/articleshow/4863467.cms
-- August 3, 2009: Pakistan court adjourns indefinitely leaving LeT/JuD's Hafiz Muhammad Saeed free
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/articlelist/30359534.cms

(Pakistan) US and Pakistan investigating Baitullah Mehsud's 'death'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5985889/US-and-Pakistan-investigating-Baitullah-Mehsuds-death.html
-- ISPR denies reports of Mehsud killing
http://geo.tv/8-7-2009/47199.htm
-- Report of his death in July 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5769132/US-drone-kills-14-in-compound-of-Pakistani-Taliban-leader-Baitullah-Mehsud.html
-- Report of his death in October 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3116485/Taliban-leader-in-Pakistan-Baitullah-Mehsud-dies-from-kidney-failure.html

(Bangladesh) Dhaka, death threats against the family of a Christian convert from Islam
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15969&theme=8&size=A
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/bangladesh-death-threats/

(India) Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants arrested in Delhi
-- "Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants, who were allegedly planning terror strikes here ahead of Independence Day"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/delhi/Two-Hizbul-militants-arrested-in-Delhi/articleshow/4864905.cms

(India) Mumbai terrorists sentenced to death - 2003 Mumbai bombers
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/article.aspx?id=359923
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3628512042

(Afghanistan) Five US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2018444&Language=en

Afghan officials drop bomb toll from 21 to 5
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090806/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

(Iraq) Bombs kill five in Iraq - in Kirkuk
http://geo.tv/8-7-2009/47187.htm

Iraq: Children Taught to Kill by Islamic Supremacists for $80
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/iraq-children-to-kill-for-80-dollars/
- MEMRI: 'Cubs of Al-Qaeda' In Iraq Arrested
-- "A spokesman for the Operations Command, Major-General Qassim 'Atta, said that Al-Qaeda is currently focusing on recruiting children, single and divorced women, and the uneducated."
-- "The children carried explosive devices for a payment of the equivalent of $80."
-- "In Kirkuk, the commander of the 12th Division announced the arrest of children and young people, including four below the age of 14, who are called the 'Birds of Paradise' [tuyoor al-jannah]."
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/18859.htm

Iraqi girl gets seven years for bombing attempt
-- "The fifteen year old claimed she was forced into the attempt to bomb a security checkpost by her in-laws"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/11-iraqi-teen-girl-gets-seven-years-for-bombing-attempt--il--01

(U.S.) White House: 'War on terrorism' is over
-- "'Jihadists' and 'global war' no longer acceptable terms"
-- "John Brennan, head of the White House homeland security office" "lamented 'inflammatory rhetoric, hyperbole, and intellectual narrowness' surrounding the national security debate and said Mr. Obama has views that are 'nuanced, not simplistic; practical, not ideological'"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/06/white-house-war-terrorism-over/?feat=home_headlines
--- "Obama's Battle Against Terrorism To Go Beyond Bombs and Bullets"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503940.html
--- Obama's counter-terrorism advisor denounces Bush-era policies
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terrorism-brennan7-2009aug07,0,5394795.story
--- August 2007 Barack Obama - America's enemies "seek to create a repressive caliphate. To defeat this enemy, we must understand who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for."
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/the_war_we_need_to_win.php

(U.S.) Georgia: Accused terrorist exhanged letters in jail
-- "Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, accused of helping oversees terrorists wage a violent jihad, told a judge Thursday he and Syed Haris Ahmed exchanged numerous letters in prison -- against prison rules."
-- "They talked about jihad, terrorist groups and possible informants, Sadequee said. Ahmed was convicted in June of conspring to help terrorists."
http://www.ajc.com/news/accused-terrorist-exhanged-letters-109699.html

(U.S.) Connecticut: FBI Agent: Terror Suspect Trained in Connecticut -- Daniel Boyd
-- "FBI Special Agent Michael Sutton testified Tuesday in a Raleigh, N.C., courtroom that a terrorism suspect told him he attended a secret training camp in Connecticut in the late 1980s but did not say where the camp was, the Hartford Courant reports."
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/FBI-Agent-Suspect-Got-Terror-Training-in-Conn-52514962.html
-- FBI Agent: Suspect Said He Got Terror Training At Connecticut Shooting Range
-- "terrorism suspect told him he had attended a terror camp in Connecticut"
-- "Two men convicted of carrying out the 1993 World Trade Center attack in New York and a man later convicted of killing a militant Jewish leader in New York are known to have trained at a remote shooting range in Naugatuck called the High Rock Shooting Range, The Courant reported in 2001"
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-nc-terror-trial-0805.artaug05,0,7533440.story

(U.S.) Feds: Australia Plot Not Mirrored In U.S.
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/08/04/feds-australia-plot-not-mirrored-in-us/?test=latestnews

(U.S.) IPT: "U.S. Taxpayers Fund Pro-Hamas Propaganda"
-- "USIP has issued a new report that twists reality to argue that Hamas has moderated and Israel needs to negotiate with the terror organization"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1349/us-taxpayers-fund-pro-hamas-propaganda
-- USIP: "Hamas: Ideological Rigidity and Political Flexibility"
--- "Hamas has, in practice, moved well beyond its charter"
--- "Hamas is not hostile to Jews because of religion"
http://www.usip.org/resources/hamas
http://www.usip.org/files/resources/Special%20Report%20224_Hamas.pdf
--- Article 7 of the Hamas Covenant - regarding killing "the Jews"
--- Article 32 of the Covenant refers to an antisemitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#The_Hamas_Charter_.281988.29
--- In 2005, Khaled Mashaal called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's December 14, 2005 statements on the Holocaust (that Europeans had "created a myth in the name of Holocaust") as "courageous."
--- In 2003 Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi published an article in the Hamas weekly Al-Risala in which he called the Holocaust "the false Holocaust" and "the greatest of lies"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#Statements_on_the_Holocaust

(U.S.) CNN's Christiane Amanpour: "9/11 taught the U.S. that it ignores rising Muslim resentment at its own peril"
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/generation.islam/index.html

'New Hizbullah arms may alter balance'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418536710&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Gaza: Israeli soldier injured in Palestinian shooting in E. Gaza
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2018426&Language=en

Gaza: Rights group: Hamas may have committed war crimes
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_PALESTINIANS_WAR_CRIMES?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=MIDEAST&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-08-06-09-33-39

Fatah Members: The Principle of Resistance and Armed Struggle Must Not Be Relinquished
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA53809

(Somalia) Washington Post: "Somalia is a traditionally moderate Muslim country"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503790.html?sid=ST2009080503947
-- "Somalia: Girl stoned was a child of 13"
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200810317930&lang=e
-- Somali Islamists Amputate Teenagers' Hands, Legs
http://www.javno.com/en-world/somali-islamists-amputate-teenagers-hands-legs_267541
-- Somali justice - Islamist-style
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8057179.stm

(Somalia) Washington Post: "Clinton Promises More Support for Fragile Somali Government"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/06/AR2009080600997.html
-- Washington Post still views Sharif Ahmed as "moderate," although he calls for Sharia law for all of Somalia

Somali extremists deny link to alleged terror plot
-- Somalia's Al-Shabaab denies link to terror plot in Australia
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOMALIA?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-08-06-11-48-17

Nigeria: Update -- Islamic Supremacists Kill Three Pastors, Raze Twenty Churches
--- ICC reports on update:
--- ICC "has received additional details on attacks by Islamic extremists against Christians and churches in Maiduguri, Nigeria. ICC first reported this story on July 29 ('Islamic Extremists Kill Pastor, Raze Churches in Nigeria'). We have now learned that the Islamists killed 12 Christians, including three pastors, and razed twenty churches."
--- ICC reports that group Boko Haram "opposes Western education and fights to impose Sharia law throughout Nigeria, including areas that are majority Christian."
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=10605
---- ICC Petition for Nigerian Government (PDF)
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/pdfs/2009-08_Petition_for_Nigerian_Christians.pdf
---- Electronically Sign ICC Petition Online
https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/InternationalChristianConcer/OnlineSignupTwo.html
---- ICC urges Americans to call the Nigerian embassy at 202-986-8400, or fax at 202-362-6541
---- Action Alert: Petition to Nigerian Govt on Attacks on Christians
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/action-alert-nigerian-govt/

Sudan: Activists Demand More Action from UN on Darfur
http://allafrica.com/stories/200908060920.html

Turkey - Christian Held Hostage at Knife Point in Istanbul
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=6054&backpage=summaries

Turkish nationalist plotters 'planned to kill Prime Minister'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6741923.ece

(Spain) ETA most wanted arrested
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/5985662/ETA-most-wanted-arrested.html

(Australia) Melbourne terror raids spark angry local backlash
-- "Somali community leaders have branded police as terrorists in the wake of this week's anti-terror swoop."
-- "Hate-filled messages on a Muslim website claim an alleged plot to attack an Australian army base would have been justified."
-- "One posting suggested Australian soldiers were an appropriate target for the alleged Melbourne terrorist cell."
-- In addition, Somali leader Abdurahman Osman stated: "It is the police themselves that are the terrorists"
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25894152-661,00.html

(Thailand) Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya to lead envoys from OIC nations to visit deep South
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30109275/Kasit-to-lead-envoys-from-OIC-nations-to-visit-dee

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

(Iraq) "Modern Day Harriet Tubmans Help Iraqi Women Escape Violence"
-- Judith Rich reports:
-- "No one knows how many so called 'honor killings' have taken place since the war began, but activists in Iraq and abroad believe it's thousands"
-- "The Safe Houses project and the Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women provide emergency shelter for women in danger of 'honor killings', and other forms of domestic violence and sex trafficking."
-- "Honor killing is punishable by 3-6 months in prison. Sometimes the men are let go because Iraqi law does not protect rape victims."
-- "In 2006, women could be pulled out of their cars and executed for driving. In 2007, they could be executed for not covering themselves properly or for walking outside without a male to accompany them."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-judith-rich/modern-day-harriet-tubman_b_250499.html
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/iraq-help-women-escape/

Other News:

(U.S.) Colorado: Anti-Israel Arshad Yousufi Speaks to U.S. Military Base
--- July 3, 2009: ADL - "ADL Letter to Colorado Springs Gazette"
http://www.adl.org/media_watch/newspapers/ColoradoSpringsGazette_070309.htm
--- June 23, 2009: Arshad Yousufi denounces "invasion, occupation and enslavement" by Israel
http://www.gazette.com/opinion/israel-57143-issue-muslims.html
--- June 25, 2009: Arshad Yousufi provides cultural awareness session to Fort Carson, Colorado
http://www.gazette.com/articles/hammond-57334-leaders-cultural.html

Egypt - Economist article referencing Sayed al-Qimani
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14179219&fsrc=rss

Saudi Man Jailed Over Alleged TV Sex Confession
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537691,00.html?test=latestnews

Iran Protest News:

Iran: Trials of reformist protesters 'postponed'
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.3629061632

(Iran) 'Press association in Iran shut down'
-- "Int'l press groups condemn armed men reportedly storming offices of Association of Iranian Journalists"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418543771&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Against Racial Supremacism News:

Mississippi: Church vandalized, shot, "KKK The South Will Rise Again" Graffiti
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/mississippi-church-vandalized/

Louisiana: Judge has suspect in KKK murder case tutored on guilt and innocence
http://www.examiner.com/x-15948-Homicide-Examiner~y2009m8d5-Judge-has-suspect-in-KKK-murder-case-tutored-on-guilt-and-innocence
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/louisiana-kkk-tutored-on-guilt/

Arizona: Chemical attack was racial hate crime against NW side couple, official says
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/303345.php
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/arizona-chemical-attack-was-hate-crime-against-nw-side-couple-official-says/

Against Nazi News:

Idaho: Aryan Nations gone, but stain remains in Idaho
http://www.idahostatesman.com/531/story/853576.html
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/idaho-aryan-nations/

Minnesota: Austin mayor says no to 'Nazi'
http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=2&a=410735

(Germany) Demjanjuk lawyer calls for case to be closed
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GERMANY_DEMJANJUK?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-08-06-12-49-15

Against Totalitarianism News:

(North Korea) Analysis: Obama lets NKorea's Kim save face
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_nkorea_analysis

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