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The Zionist state is accelerating its Hasbara campaign, by forming “Internet Warfare Squads”, their sole remit: to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. This assault on free speech and effectively muzzling any criticism of Israel is a tool which will be used in the public relations war, the Zionist thought police are only a click away.

When young Barack Hussein Obama lived with his American mother and Indonesian stepfather in Jakarta nearly 40 years ago, the Muslims of Southeast Asia were renowned for their moderation. Women may have covered their hair with a light scarf, but almost none veiled their faces. It was the rare Muslim man who grew a beard, and many drank with non-Muslim friends.

The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.

The mayhem at Fort Hood in Texas, which has left 13 men and women dead and 30 injured, is a byproduct of the brutal wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. It is a form of “collateral damage” for which the American political and military establishment is ultimately responsible.

  Anti-government fighters in northern Yemen claim to have captured a number of Saudi soldiers, amid reports of the kingdom’s increasing involvement in the conflict.Mohammed Abdel-Salam, a spokesman for the Houthis, told Al Jazeera on Friday that the men were seized after Saudi ground forces crossed into Yemeni territory.“We will carry out interviews with them … they will be treated with respect,” he said.Abdel-Salam urged Riyadh to end the “unjust Saudi aggression” and to stop Yemeni forces from using bases inside Saudi territory to attack the Houthis.Saudi Arabia has not commented on the claim, but has previously said that its operations against the Yemeni fighters have been limited to air raids and artillery strikes.The Yemeni government accuses the Houthis of seeking to restore an imamate overthrown in a 1962 coup that sparked eight years of civil war.The Houthis insist they are fighting to defend their community against government aggression and marginalisation.via Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Yemen group ’seizes Saudi troops’.Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Iranian police disperse protestAl Jazeera English in Saudi ArabiaAl Qaeda: Stop The SearchLiverpool Team Has Saudi Suitor

[Note: The cover interview of Rorotoko has an essay by historian of Islamic science George Saliba on his fascinating study entitlted Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. Here is the start of the essay, the whole of which can be read at Rorotoko.]

  The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France have pledged to enhance cooperation in the trade sector, which grew by 25 percent to more than $4 billion in 2008, WAM news agency reported.UAE Foreign Trade Minister Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi and her French counterpart Anne-Marie Idrac met here Thursday to discuss ways to improve trade relations.Idrac said France was willing to tap all opportunities on offer in the UAE.More than 115 French firms were registered in the UAE in addition to 257 trade agencies and 4,419 trademarks, according to the report.via UAE, France seek to boost economic cooperation.

  A Tunisian court has sentenced eight men to up to 12 years in jail on charges of belonging to a terrorist cell, a defense lawyer said on Saturday.Three received 12-year terms and five were imprisoned for between three and six years, Anouar Kousri told Reuters.Kousri said the defendants were convicted of belonging to a terrorist group and helping to provide it with weapons. He did not name the group.Government officials were not immediately available to comment.Lawyers say about 2,000 people have been arrested since 2003 on terrorism charges, including recruiting fighters for the Iraqi insurgency. The Justice Ministry says the number does not exceed 400.via Middle East News | Tunisia jails 8 for terrorism links.

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But after Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly opened fire on soldiers and others at the base, the troops at Fort Hood were forced to face the reality that even the home front can be violent.

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The alleged shooter received his medical degree from the military’s Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001 and is a graduate of Virginia Tech. Early on Thursday, he showed no signs of worry or stress when he stopped at 7-Eleven for his daily breakfast of hash browns, said Jeannie Strickland, the store’s manager. “He came in (Thursday) morning just like normal,” she said, “nothing weird, nothing out of the ordinary.”

Beheadings and amputations. Iraqi-style brutality, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, and murder. More than 7,200 dead—almost double last year’s tally—in shoot-outs between federales and often better-armed drug cartels. This is modern Mexico, whose president, Felipe Calderón, has been struggling since 2006 to wrest his country from the grip of four powerful cartels and their estimated 100,000 foot soldiers.

  Ed Boyden from the MIT Media Lab on exciting new brain-computer interfacing techniques. Uploaded by Singularity Institute Media Director Michael Anissimov.via Ed Boyden at Singularity Summit 2009 — Synthetic Neurobiology: Optically Engineering the Brain to Augment Its Function on Vimeo.

A Taliban fighter killed this spring by NATO troops in southern Afghanistan was found to have a tattoo from the Aston Villa Football Club, indicating he may have grown up in Britain’s West Midlands. It was the latest evidence that British Muslims of South Asian origin have joined the fight in Afghanistan. (Read the full report here.)

WASHIGTON – American Muslims were united Friday, Friday, November 6, in condemning an attack at a US military base as indiscriminate violence unjustified by any religious or political ideology, fearing a backlash over the incident.

“Under the ministry’s Tobacco Control Program (TCP), we have printed around 1.5 million leaflets in different languages for distribution among pilgrims — both smokers and nonsmokers,” said Majed Al-Munif, TCP’s supervisor-general.

Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al-Mazroua, a judge at the Court of Cassation in Makkah, said the use of scented sanitizers while pilgrims are in ihram is a violation of the rules of ihram. “There are plenty of scentless sanitizers which pilgrims can safely use,” he added.

When I walk to the Groningen railway station by way of the Folkingestraat, slightly rising and then dipping towards the Zuiderdiep, I pass the Synagogue built in 1905-6. It’s a handsome building in the Moorish Revival Style which was much in vogue in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade or so of the twentieth. Its design was by the well-known Dutch protestant architect of churches, Tjeerd Kuipers (1857-1942). He’d been much influenced by the school of Gottfried Semper (1803-1879), who’d planned the famous Semper Synagogue (1838-40) of Dresden, Germany.