On Tuesday 27 January 2015

Anthropologists exploring a cave in Israel have uncovered a rare 55,000-year-old fossil skull that they say has a story to tell of a reverberating transition in human evolution, in the time and place when some early humans were moving out of Africa and apparently interbreeding with Neanderthals.

More evidence of human evolution.

Source : New York Times

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It is a trope among people who loathe and fear Islam that their fear and loathing has nothing in common with racism because Islam is not a race, the implication being that hating Muslims is rational and wise whereas hating black people is deeply irrational and stupid.

"I hate Islam but not Muslims." A lie.

Source : Guardian

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NEWS

	Rock concert, rallies overwhelm Germany's anti-Islam group Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's anti-IslamPEGIDA movement was overwhelmed by opponents of the far-right group at a rock concert for tolerance in ...
	Only Muslims can change the world's view of Islam Jerusalem Post Israel News Terrorism today stems primarily from Muslims in the name of Islam, and we cannot brush off accusations about our faith just by saying that the terrorists ...
	Rand Paul: Saudi Arabia Needs to Quit Funding Radical Islam Breitbart News Tuesday on Fox News Channel's “America's Newsroom,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Saudi Arabia “needs to be working against radicalIslam.”.
	Anti-islam San Francisco Muni ads defaced …. with messages of love SFGate (blog) A clever street art activist in San Francisco transformed anti-Islambanners on the back and sides of Muni buses into action-packed messages of love.
	Muni anti-Islam hate ads defaced with Islamic superhero San Francisco Examiner Muni buses city-wide have featured anti-Islamads from the American Freedom Defense Initiative off and on over the years. Just two weeks ago they ...
	Anti-Islam Protest Fails in Frankfurt as Opponents Rally Bloomberg Germany's Pegida movement against the Islamization of Europe abandoned a protest last night after 100 of its supporters faced ...
	Saudi-backed rebels from Army ofIslam shell major Syrian cities World Tribune The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Islamic militia attacks on at least three major Syrian cities. The British-based opposition group said ...
	Arif: The Muslim world is diverse, contradictory The Detroit News The headlines about Islam have been dominated by the brutal and violent activities of extremists. This includes the brutal regime of ISIS in the Middle ...
	Insulting the Prophet of Islam FrontPage Magazine Do not let Obama or Islamists deceive you: the Qur'an is very clear about the double standards and the discriminative theology of Islam. Can we all ...
	Islam in Europe Now a No-Go Subject American Spectator In exposing threats from Islamic extremists, Emerson has subjected himself to numerous death threats by jihadists and, for the past two decades, has ...

	In India, Obama fires back at claims he's Muslim Washington Times India is nearly 80 percent Hindu but also has significant Muslim, Sikh, ... than 1,000 Muslimsin the state where he was the highest elected official.
	New anti-Muslim ads on San Francisco's Muni buses vandalized abc7news.com The ads draw parallels between the Muslim faith and Hitler's Nazi genocide of the Jewish people. Anti-Muslim ads on San Francisco Muni buses ...
	43 Philippine police officers killed in 11-hour firefight with Muslim rebels The Japan Times MANILA – More than 40 Philippine police commandos were killed in an 11-hour firefight with Muslim rebels that erupted while they were chasing one ... Philippines Police Say 43 Commandos Killed In Clashes With MuslimRebels - International Business Times BangkokPost - Facebook Full Coverage
	Boycott Israel's "Muslim Leadership Initiative," Palestinian civil society urges The Electronic Intifada (blog) Palestinian campaigners say delegations visiting their country should not do so in “a manner that is complicit with Israel's regime of occupation, ...
	Andre Carson, 1st Muslim on House Intelligence panel: 'I love keeping people safe' Washington Times Andre Carson, the first self-declared Muslim to be appointed to the House Intelligence Committee, said he's aware of some of the suspicious eyes cast ...
	The Grand Myth of 'MuslimCommunity' in the UK ChristianToday It is a common language. Many people in the UK, including some Muslims, use it. It saves time and energy in media conversations and most ...
	Anti-Islam Bus Ads Defaced with Muslim Marvel Comics Character FOX40 A group is defacing anti-Islam bus ads with messages of love and images of Marvel's Muslimsuperhero, Kamala Khan. The ads began to pop up on ... Racist San Francisco bus ads defaced with Muslim superhero -dazeddigital.com Full Coverage
	In India, Obama Fires Back at Claims He's a Secret Muslim Fox News (blog) In India, Obama Fires Back at Claims He's a Secret Muslim ... India is nearly 80 percent Hindu but also has significant Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and ...
	Muslim Brotherhood Starts A Political Party Out Of Chicago The Inquisitr According to the Center for Security Policy, the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) has initiated to building the framework for a political ...
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	Jewish Voice for Peace on the Shalom Hartman Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative Jewish Voice for Peace Jewish Voice for Peace echoes the concerns of our Muslim partners who reject the efforts of the Shalom Hartman Institute's Muslim Leadership ...
	Religion, tradition and inter-faith relations in theMuslim world Humanities - Leiden University NISIS represents a network of Dutch experts on Islam and Muslim societies. It provides a platform for Islam-related education and research in The ...

	Students strive to dispel myths about Islam University of Regina The Muslim Students Association is holding its third annual IslamAwareness Week January 26-30.
	Conflict News on Twitter: "BREAKING: Army of Islamis bombing #Damascus with Katyusha rockets ... twitter.com @kzeus64 @rConflictNews @documentssy basically islamic front have combined all of these groups together and taken them under their wing.

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	Anti-Islam bus ads defaced with images of Ms. Marvel Robot 6 - Comic Book Resources Controversial ads on the sides of San Francisco buses that equateIslam with Nazism have been defaced with images of Marvel's Kamala Khan, ...
	Franklin Graham: There is NOTHING peaceful aboutIslam The Right Scoop Man I love Franklin Graham and his unwillingness to be cowered into political correctness when it comes to Islam. Now this clip of Graham was ...

Hospitals Reporting Sinister Muslim Practice, Nearly 15 Cases Daily Mad World News The UK has openly embraced Muslim immigration, and has subsequently seen the horrors that are achieved through Islam's decrying of Western ...

On Monday 26 January 2015

According to the Colombo office of the UN Refugee Agency, or UNHCR, there was a nearly 780 percent increase in the number of Pakistani asylum seekers in Sri Lanka from 2012, when 152 people sought asylum, to 2013, when this number jumped to 1,338. While most of them are Ahmadis, the number also includes Pakistani Christians and Shia Muslims, who have also faced increasing persecution in Pakistan over the years.

Ahmadis in Sri Lanka

Source : Al Jazeera

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An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 were perpetrated by Muslims.

What percentage of terrorist attacks in the US was carried out by the Muslims?

Source : Washington Blog

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On January 6, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi became the first Egyptian president ever to visit the St. Mark Cathedral during Coptic Christmas Eve Mass and offer his good wishes to the nation's Christian minority.

Because Islamic law bans wishing non-Muslims well on their religious celebrations, all previous presidents -- Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak, and of course Morsi -- had never attended Coptic Christmas mass.

We are all Egyptians first.

Source : Gatestone Institute

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In what WikiLeaks called a “serious violation of the privacy and journalistic rights of WikiLeaks’ staff”, Google handed over the information under a secret search warrant issued by a federal judge in 2012. Google then wrote to Wikileaks on Christmas Eve 2014, telling the group that it had complied with an order from the Justice Department to hand over digital data including all email and IP addresses of three WikiLeaks staff members.

Google helps US government snoop on you.

Source : The Independent

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NEWS

	How did Islam come to this? Youngstown Vindicator “Islam is a religion of love. My brother was killed by terrorists, by false Muslims.” These were the words of Malek Merabet, the brother of the policeman ...
	German anti-Islam rally shrinks, first since leader resigned Reuters ... said in an interview with newspaper Bild am Sonntag that PEGIDA's anti-Islam protests were damaging Germany's reputation in the world. German anti-Islam rally shrinks, first since leader resigned - Reuters UK German anti-Islam rally shrinks, 1st since leader resigned - Jerusalem Post Israel News Thousands join anti-Islam rally in Germany - www.worldbulletin.net Full Coverage
	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Meet The Press: 'Islam is a Religion of Peace' NBCNews.com "Islam is a religion of peace, Islam does not tolerate wanton murder." That was the message basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said he wanted ...
	Kurdish officials, Syrian activists: Islamic State group militants nearly pushed out of Kobani Fox News Syrian activists and Kurdish officials say the extremist Islamic State group has been nearly pushed out of the Syrian border town of Kobani.
	Graham to discuss threat of radical Islam during Greenville visit WHNS Greenville U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) will be in the Upstate Monday to discuss the rising threat of radical Islam that the U.S. is facing, ...
	On Islam, critical thinking, and why it's so difficult to speak one's mind Your Middle East No, supporting the freedom of speech of the dead cartoonists, or the Saudi blogger being flogged for “insulting Islam” doesn't make me a westernized ...
	Islam and the National Front New York Times She assumes that most Muslims do not already understand the distinction between Islamicradicalism and their faith — an assumption utterly devoid of ...

	At Least 30 Dead as Police Clash With Muslim Rebels in Philippines NBCNews.com MANILA — At least 30 people were killed in heavy fighting between police andMuslim rebels in the Philippines on Sunday, military and local officials ... Dozens killed in clashes between police, Muslim rebels in Philippines - CNN 43 Philippine commandos killed in battle with Muslim insurgents - The Guardian Nearly 50 police commandos slaughtered by MILF Muslim rebels in the Philippines - Daily Mail Full Coverage
	Women facing anti-Muslim backlash CNN She is the author of From the Oppressed to the Terrorist: Muslim Women Caught in the Crosshairs of Intersectionality. The views expressed are her ...
	Jindal Courts Religious Conservatives, Warns of MuslimNo Go Areas in US Daily Beast ... too” if Muslims aren't assimilated into the dominant culture. He later told Christian evangelicals gathered at “The Response,” a daylong prayer rally, ...
	Sticking up for Muslim rights New York Post The court ruled that Gregory Holt, a.k.a Abdul Maalik Muhammad, a Musliminmate in an Arkansas prison, was improperly denied permission to grow a ...
	Irvine activist launches moderate Muslim effort OCRegister “The Muslim leadership in this country is not taking action,” she said. “They should be standing outside mosques saying, 'We condemn the violence ...
	A Muslim Woman is Suing Michigan Police for Violating Her Religious Freedom During a Routine ... IJ Review Muslim women must wear their hijab in public and in front of men who are not closely related to her. Because Kazan was forced to remove her head ...
	American Muslim Group Attacks American Sniper, Demands Eastwood and Cooper Denounce ... Breitbart News George Bush believed that the moderates in the Muslim world would denounce and destroy the devout (that is, the “radicals”). He was expecting a war ...
	BLOGS
	Watch Bill Maher absolutely DISMANTLE Howard Dean for denying ISIS is Muslim The Right Scoop ... head while making Howard Dean look like a moron. Specifically he dismantled Dean sentiment that “ISIS is about as Muslim as I am.” Watch below: ...

	Kareem Abdul Jabbar says POVERTY to blame for terrorism, not Islam The Right Scoop Former NBA star Kareem Abdul Jabbar went on “Meet the Press” to defend Islam against “Islamophobia,” and claimed that poverty was the real reason ...
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	Jobs: 2015-16 Postdoctoral Fellowship on Islam in Africa, Stanford University H-Net Stanford University's Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral position for a scholar working ...

On Sunday 25 January 2015

"While it poses no threat to Earth for the foreseeable future, it's a relatively close approach by a relatively large asteroid, . . . "

Will the Last Day be when an asteroid hits the earth?

Source : UT San Diego 

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On Monday the Department of Defense took Abdullah’s eulogy to another level, with Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Dempsey announcing a research and essay competition in honor of the late leader for students at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. 

Pentagon sponsors an essay contest about the late King Abdullah

Source : National Review on line

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In December 2014 Facebook pushed a new advert to peoples ‘news feed’ in which a Sikh man, in a turban, explained how new algorithms meant that people would only see the things they want to see (liked) when they log into their Facebook account. Unfortunately that simple message was lost in a torrent of racist comments by people who didn’t want to see that “terrorist” on their screen.

On-line nasty racism will get worse in 2015

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

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NEWS

	Video Claims ISIS Killed Japanese Hostage Wall Street Journal Japanese officials said on Saturday that they were investigating a new video claiming to show that a Japanese hostage had been killed by Islamic ...
	Gingrich: We are losing against radical Islam DesMoinesRegister.com Gingrich compared the threat posed by militant Islam to the threat the world faced from the Nazis before World War II and by the former Soviet Union ... Newt Gingrich Focuses on Radical Islam at Iowa Freedom Summit - Breitbart News Full Coverage
	Basketball legend: Terrorists using Islam as a 'mask' The Hill (blog) He said aggressors who say they follow Islam, have "this Insane idea about what religious life is about and they are getting the world to buy it that this ...
	Gingrich: U.S. losing the war with radical Islam Politico Newt Gingrich issued a stinging rebuke of American policy toward Islamicextremism Saturday, saying elites in both parties refuse to acknowledge the ...
	Far from 'outsiders,' Europe and Islam have long been intertwined The Globe and Mail The underlying claim at the root of Mr. Jindal's comments concerns the supposedly 'foreign' nature of Muslims and Islam in Europe and the West.
	Bill Maher Slams Howard Dean's Defense Of Islam, Leaves Democrat Speechless The Inquisitr After targeting the entire religion of Islam for what he says are “backward” beliefs, he's become somewhat of a go-to for conservatives who are fearful ...
	Rally by German Anti-Islam Group PEGIDA Draws Smaller Crowds ABC News A group protesting against the perceived "Islamization of the West" mustered fewer supporters than previously, with police in the eastern city of ...
	Islam always opposes killing innocent people Columbus Dispatch Islam does not stand for killing of innocents in the name of religion. Instead, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community condemns it. The Holy Quran clearly ...
	The Mother Of One Of The Japanese ISIS Hostages Says Her Son Only Wanted To Help Children Business Insider The Islamic State movement has threatened to kill her son, a respected freelance journalist, and Haruna Yukawa, a self-employed contractor, whom ...

	American Sniper blamed for hundreds of threats against American Muslims Telegraph.co.uk Arabs and Muslims in the US have seen a surge in threats since the release of the controversial film American Sniper, according to a campaign group. 'American Sniper' Triggers Flood Of Anti-Muslim Venom, Civil Rights Group Warns - Huffington Post Full Coverage
	30 Filipino commandos killed in clash with Musliminsurgents New York Post MANILA, Philippines — More than 30 police commandos were killed in a clash with Muslim insurgents Sunday in the southern Philippines in the ...
	Hundreds join peaceful 'Je suis Muslim' rally in Sydney Ynetnews SYDNEY - Hundreds of Muslims rallied in Sydney on Friday night to protest negative media coverage of Islam and the French magazine Charlie ... After Charlie Hebdo Attacks, French Muslims Face Increased Threats - Daily Beast Hundreds join 'Je Suis Muslim' rally in Sydney - euronews More Than 128 Anti-Muslim Incidents Registered Over 2 Weeks In France - Mintpress News (registration) (blog) Full Coverage
	MSU students write guide to Muslims Livingston Daily Students at Michigan State University work on a short book about MuslimAmericans. The guide offers a basic introduction to Islam and the practices of ...
	Should Schools in US Recognize Muslim Holidays? Voice of America (blog) In most U.S. public school districts, the number of religious minorities is small. But in Montgomery County, about 10 percent of students are Muslim.
	Ten Beacons of Light in the Muslim World Daily Beast When he made the decision—without precedent in the Muslim world or elsewhere, to my knowledge—to declare those women birangona, national ...

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	SEX DRUGS & ISLAM CreateSpace I am a little surprised to say the least. Wonder what am I doing wrong. My book in a non-fiction autobiography "SEX DRUGS & ISLAM." Message was ...