| Michael Jackson announces his conversion to Islam Pop star Michael Jackson is on his way to converting to Islam, or perhaps already has. Israeli radio quoted journalists in Bahrain as reporting that Jackson is learning the rules of Islam with his brother Jermaine, who converted to Islam a few years ago with several friends.
A mosque once stood here
It was as if Sami Hilmi of the Al-Aqsa Institute was waiting for a phone call. The scenes of destruction of the synagogues in Gush Katif had put Muslims in Israel on the defensive. On the physical defensive the police announced it was stepping up its security around the country’s mosques for fear of Jewish attacks; and on the political defensive for years, Arab public leaders have spoken of the damage done to mosques and Muslim cemeteries in Israel
Emergency meeting called to discuss continued violation of holy sites
The head of the Sharia appellate court in Israel, Judge Ahmed Natur, has called on the Arab Higher Follow-Up Committee and all the organizations in charge of Islamic holy sites in Israel to call an emergency meeting to put a stop to the continued violations committed against holy sites by official institutions.
A settler in Hebron becomes a Hamas activist
Mohammed al-Mahdi Ibn Iskander (Abu Yaqub) was once a Jew who lived in the settlement of Kiryat Arba. To mark the month of Ramadan, he told the Hamas website how he became a Muslim eight years ago.
Sharon accused of abandoning the Temple Mount
A member of the Antiquities’ Preservation Committee, Dr. Mazar, accused Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of intentionally failing to enforce the law forbidding burials in the Islamic cemeteries near the Temple Mount. Many public figures across the political spectrum participated in a court petition filed against the continued burials
Men suspected of throwing pig’s head into Jaffa mosque arrested
A week after a pig’s head was thrown into the Hassan Bey Mosque in Jaffa, triggering an uproar in the Arab sector and in Arab states, the identities of the suspected perpetrators were revealed
Jew behind terrorist attack on US mosque sentenced to 20 years in prison
Earl Krugel, an activist with the Jewish Defense League,* founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the US on Thursday, after he was charged with planning a terrorist attacks against a mosque and a US congressman of Lebanese origin
The illusion of peace
We have among us, the people of Israel, a group that delights in self-flagellation perpetuating the illusion of peace with the Arabs
Extremists break into Lod mosque and hang up obscene photos
Right-wing extremists broke into Lod’s Dahamsh Mosque yesterday and hung up obscene pictures. Before leaving, they left a note saying, “Kahane was right.” This is the second time this year that far-right extremists have attacked a mosque in Lod.
The new anti-Semitism
The Friday morning after the brutal terrorist attacks in London, hundreds of people headed as usual to the mosque on London’s Brick Lane
The first Islamic fast-food meal
The famous Big Mac and Whopper have been joined by a new French meal: the Muslim Burger, a hamburger prepared for Muslims
Britain will expel 500 Muslims on charges of incitement
Apparently, the punishment for incitement is harsher in Britain than in Israel: Yesterday a British court decided to deport about 500 Muslims who incited people to commit terrorist attacks from Britain to the Arab world.
Muslims complain of desecration of graves in northern Tel Aviv
Islamic organizations are angry: They say that the city of Tel Aviv, which recently did some digging for infrastructure work in the Bavli neighborhood, discovered several Muslim graves, but they continued to treat them carelessly
Fashion for women suicide bombers: Brought to you by Hamas and Islamic Jihad—M.
“In the name of the Lord, stop terrorist attacks” Can the Pope put an end to terrorist attacks? Today, Pope Benedict XVI gave a moving speech in which he not only called for the end of terrorist attacks, but also asked for mercy on the souls of the perpetrators of Thursday's attacks in London. Kiryat Arba: The construction of a minaret will threaten the lives of citizens More than 500 Kiryat Arba residents demonstrated on Friday against the construction of a minaret at a mosque. The protestors oppose the construction of a minaret that surveys a large part of Kiryat Arba, arguing that it is a security threat. Flyers in Jerusalem : We will blow up the Aqsa mosque Recently, anonymous parties have been distributing flyers threatening to blow up the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as “revenge” for the disengagement plan. Muslims: A pig's head in a mosque warns of impending explosion The Islamist movement's leadership in Jaffa warned that the pig's head thrown yesterday in the Hassan Bey Mosque was a serious blow to Muslim sentiments. Pig's head tossed into mosque courtyard Are we witnessing Jewish provocation? Yesterday a pig's head was found near the Hassan Bey Mosque on the Tel Aviv coast. “Prophet Mohammed” was scrawled on the pig's head, which was covered in a kuffiya. Pig's head wrapped in kuffiya thrown into mosque courtyard in Tel Aviv Muslim worshippers on their way to perform the evening prayer at the Hassan Bey Mosque on the Tel Aviv coast found a pig's head covered in a kuffiya with “Prophet Mohammed” written on it in the mosque's courtyard Lod resident arrested for distributing photos offensive to Muslims
A 52-year-old citizen of Lod was arrested on charges of distributing flyers that offend the sensitivities of the city's Muslim population. The flyers, which show naked women sitting on the minaret of a mosque, were released over the weekend and sparked widespread anger among Muslim leaders in the coastal region. “ Megiddo Prison guards tore up copies of the Quran” Palestinian prisoners in the Megiddo Prison claimed that during an inspection of cells and tents today, copies of the Quran were desecrated. Mamluk cemetery in Furdis damaged Today, a judge with the Islamic Court of Appeals, Ahmed Natour, and the vice-president of the northern wing of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib, are going to survey the area of Umm al-Tut, east of the village of Furdis, with the aim of determining the degree of damage inflicted on the Islamic cemetery dating to the Mamluk period The reason behind the confrontation: “Mohammed is a pig” This afternoon clashes broke out between settlers from Tal Yam and Palestinians from the southern Gaza city of Muwasi , near Khan Yunis. Three people—a Palestinian, a settler, and an IDF officer who tried to break up the fight—were slightly injured during the confrontations, during which rocks were thrown Demolishing dilapidated mosques In the context of the demolition of temples and religious sites, I think that we should propose a logical, feasible idea: The time has come now to demolish the ruins of the mosques left in our old cities, if only to create a small degree of balance. They chant against us in the field saying, “Mohammed is gay” “Mohammed is gay,” “Anyone who doesn't jump is a martyr,” “The Temple Mount is ours”—these are the chants that were invented especially us, Bnei Sakhnin The secret motive of Islamic terrorism At every occasion Arab propagandists and their followers around the world rush to declare the primary motive of Arab and Islamic terrorism: “the Jewish occupation of Arab Palestine.” Despite this, there were no Palestinians among the suicide bombers who committed the carnage of September 11, but the mouthpieces of Arab propaganda convinced millions of people in the world that it was a result of that occupation Distasteful graffiti in Hebron push residents to the point of “insanity” Residents here awoke Wednesday morning to find graffiti denouncing Muslims and the Prophet Muhammad scrawled on a wall outside the Jewish city of Kiryat Arba The word “Allah” is in the cinema of Rav Chen in Givatayim The proverb says that God is everywhere—and this is exactly what a worker laying carpet noticed in the new Rav Chen movie theater in the new mall in Givatayim. Suicide terrorism requires new perspectives Colonel Hanan Shai said during the 2005 Low Intensity Conflict Warfare (LIC) conference, “We now need a leadership different than that which we have witnessed to this day.
This week, a new, modern Hebrew translation of the Quran, the sacred book of Muslims, will be available in Israeli libraries. A leading international expert on the Quran and its Islamic interpretation, Professor Uri Rubin, translated the book from Arabic.
Today, the head of the Jewish National Front, Baruch Marzel, called on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to consider destroying the al-Aqsa Mosque. Shin Bet: Five Jews planned to fire missiles at the Temple Mount ; not enough evidence to charge them Shin Bet and the Jerusalem police announced today that they had uncovered two Jewish rings planning to attack the Temple Mount to disrupt the disengagement plan. Appeal to consider the administrative detention of suspects who plotted to attack the Temple Mount Shin Bet and the Jerusalem police announced yesterday that they had uncovered two Jewish rings planning to attack the Temple Mount to disrupt the disengagement plan. Another attempt to destroy the Hassan Bey Mosque in Jaffa At dawn yesterday, unidentified people threw two Molotov cocktails inside the Hassan Bey Mosque in Jaffa. They landed near one of the windows and caused minor damages, and those who were praying inside were able to intervene and put out the flames before any severe damage occurred Attempt to destroy the Hassan Bey Mosque in Jaffa A group of Jewish rioters attacked the Hassan Bey Mosque in Jaffa last Saturday at dawn, throwing rocks inside it in an attempt to inflict damage. At 3:30 am that day, a policeman called a mosque official in Jaffa, asking him to come and protect the mosque from the group of Jewish extremists The police suspend the investigation into the attack on the Hassan Bey Mosque In response to an inquiry submitted by MK Jamal Zahalka, the Minister of Domestic Security said that the police had suspended investigations into an incident in which two Molotov cocktails were thrown in the Hassan Bey Mosque in Jaffa, claiming that there was insufficient information They're judging Islam The Quran on trial: This morning (May 4) in the Magistrates' Court in Safed, the trial begins of Tawfiq Jabarin, the editor of The Voice of Truth and Freedom , the mouthpiece of the Israeli Islamist Movement, and Sheikh Abd al-Rahman Bakirat, a columnist for the paper. The two are being charged with incitement to violence and terrorism. It is also forbidden to build mosques in the Negev This week, Judge Ido Rosen of the Beersheba Magistrates' Court ordered 86-year old Sheikh Moussa Abu al-Qiyan—a resident of the unrecognized Arab village of Um al-Hiran in the Negev —to demolish the only mosque in the village The Prison Authority reduces prisoners' time for prayer At the beginning of February, some guards at the Eshel Prison confronted a group of 40 security prisoners who were getting ready conduct their Friday prayers A lesson in anti-Semitism and racism and Beitar Jerusalem It was recently reported that Beitar Jerusalem fans opposed the addition of a new player to the team simply because he embraces a different religion Between Adino the Eznite and Yehiel Hazan A painful awakening from the nightmare in which we live: This time, MK Hazan has come under attack for describing the Arabs as “worms”—even though MK Hazan was right, and even though we should condemn those who condemn him French comedian says that Holocaust ceremonies are memorial pornography The controversial French comedian Dieudonne—responsible for several statements condemning Jews and Israel —sparked a new uproar last weekend after he said in a press conference that Holocaust ceremonies are “memorial pornography” because they are “completely exaggerated and irrational Mercy killings and Islam Yasser Arafat is still alive, and it is forbidden to take him off life support, according to Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi, the head of the Islamic courts in the Palestinian Authority. Transfer extremist Islam now Pym Fortuyn was a sociology professor in the Netherlands , a country not considered to be a stronghold of the extreme right. Fortuyn was a difficult person for the extreme right to swallow: he was gay, opportunistic, and liberal
On 21 November 2004, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel against the Minister of Religious Affairs, the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister, demanding that the Court issue an order compelling the Minister of Religious Affairs to issue regulations for the protection of Muslim holy sites in Israel No Muslims at Betar, fans warn Two months after Nigerian defender Ibrahim Nadala departed from Betar Jerusalem after fans verbally harassed him for being a Muslim, some fans are voicing similar feelings about a possible Betar signing of Ghanaian forward Ismail Ido. Uproar: Tel Aviv University opens mosque in the dorms Mosque in academia: Ynet has learned that today at 6 pm, a mosque will be inaugurated in the dormitories at Tel Aviv University for the use of some 1,000 Muslim students. One university employee recently turned to dismissed minister, Uzi Landau, asking him to act against the establishment of the mosque.
A religious leader at the Azhar institution in Egypt issued a new religious injunction declaring it permissible for Muslims to eat insects, monkeys, cats, dogs, and locusts, causing an uproar.
The city of light A typo. What they meant was the City of Stables —Abu Yasmin. The anti-mosque missiles are ready for launch—Abu Yasmine. Between Chechnya and Palestine Some Russians and Israelis on the right like to compare the Chechen national struggle to the Palestinian national struggle Etzion: We will die before a minaret is built on the Temple Mount In response to news that permission will be granted to build a new minaret on the Temple Mount , members of the Temple Mount Loyalists say that they will prevent this by any means A doctorate in hatred One of the most prominent phenomena since the beginning of the Oslo war has been the verbal and physical aggression directed by Muslim intellectuals all over the world against the state of Israel and Jews Jerusalem of the Arabs Recently, dozens of Arab families in Beit Hanoun and Shuafat have wanted to move to Jewish neighborhoods in northern Jerusalem due to the winding path of the separation wall in northern Jerusalem , its rapid construction, the checkpoints, and security force activities in the region. | 
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