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["Court of Appeal Overturns Conviction of Woman Prosecuted for Insulting Islam," by Oliver Lane, Breitbart, December 22, 2014: "]

The French decline to adopt Sharia — at least for now. The jihadis will keep trying to persuade them.

"Court of Appeal Overturns Conviction of Woman Prosecuted for Insulting Islam," by Oliver Lane, Breitbart, December 22, 2014: " A French woman who protested a temporary tent-abattoir set up in a car-park near a hospital to ritually slaughter animals for Eid has had her conviction overturned, after she appealed a €4,500 fine and three month jail sentence for calling Islam a "cesspit".

Retired school-teacher Christine Tasin, 58, was convicted under an 1881 law after the prosecution argued criticism of Islam was the equivalent of inciting violence against Muslims, and that in addition to the normal punishment of a fine and imprisonment, Tasin should also be stripped of the right to hold public office.

Her subsequent appeal was supported by Dr. Daniel Pipes' American-based Legal Project, an advisory and funding body established to "protect the right in the West to freely discuss Islam, radical Islam, terrorism, and terrorist funding", who have also backed Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders after his prosecution for criticising Islam.

Overturning the conviction last week, the court confirmed that Islamophobia and blasphemy was not a crime in France, despite the claims made by some Muslim groups after her initial conviction in August. Speaking exclusively to Breitbart London, Tasin said of the verdict: "Last Thursday was a great day for freedom of expression in France. I said, in Belfort, in 2013, before the mobile Eid abattoir that "Islam is sh*t" to Muslims who had recognized me and attacking me because I claim my Islamophobia.

"I was sentenced to a fine of €3,000 including €1,500 suspended after the Belfort court considered that I had incited hatred against Muslims. The [appeal] court in Besançon has now acknowledged that one has the right to express opinions and I did not encourage hatred against Muslims, and I can think and say that Islam is a threat to France, that it is a freedom of expression. "The Resistance to Islam and all those who, in France, fear that freedom of expression is disappearing, and that blasphemy has become a crime again are relieved".

A video of Tasin, taken by a group supporting the abattoir, formed part of the evidence brought against her in the original trial. In it she criticises the slaughterhouse, erected to enable Muslim men to cut the throats of goats and sheep for the Islamic religious festival, for being cruel and unsanitary, but is accused of being an "Islamophobe" for her comments.

Rather than backing down, she wears the label with apparent pride, replying: "Yes I am an Islamophobe, so what? It's Normal! I'm against Islam that causes problems. I don't find it normal to torture animals, I don't find it normal to veil women. I'm talking about a serious problem. "This must not happen in a public space, it is outrageous that everyone has to eat Halal without knowing it... sixty percent of animals killed in France are killed ritually in line with Islam, and people eat Halal without knowing it"....

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/france-conviction-overturned-of-woman-prosecuted-for-insulting-islam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsMeDx4YfeM

Ajoutée le 26 déc. 2014
Topless Female grabs Baby Jesus in St Peter's Square.Topless FEMEN activist 'kidnaps' Baby Jesus from Vatican nativity scene.Vatican: FEMEN activist arrested after snatching Jesus statue from Nativity scene. A topless FEMEN protester tried to kidnap Baby Jesus from the manger at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City after the Pope's Christmas message on Thursday. The activist was stopped and arrested in front of shocked believers.

With the words "God is woman" painted across her naked chest, the activist squeezed though a hole in a fence surrounding the nativity scene.

The woman rushed to the manger in the center of the square, grabbed the Jesus figurine, and raised it above her head while shouting slogans against the Catholic Church. However, a Vatican guard was quick to block her. The activist was quickly covered with a coat and handed over to police.

[White British mother has been luring young girls to Syria through Twitter]

White British mother has been luring young girls to Syria through Twitter

Sally Jones, 45, is encouraging them to join Islamic State as jihadi brides She messaged reporter posing as fictional 17-year-old promising an 'awesome life' in Syria Former lead guitarist said Isis militants would offer to pay travel expenses

A British mother-of-two who joined Islamic State jihadists with her ten-year-old is luring young girls to Syria through Twitter with the promise of 'an awesome life'. Muslim Convert Sally Jones, 45, told a reporter posing as a fictional 17-year-old 'Aisha' that she would 'never want for money again' and live a good life if she made the journey to Syria to become a jihadi bride.

The unemployed mother from Chatham, Kent, who survived on benefits while living in the UK, ranted online about how she wanted to behead Christians after fleeing to wage jihad with her toyboy husband. Using her new name, Sakinah Hussain, the former lead guitarist in an all-girl punk band revealed how Isis militants are offering to pay travel expenses for teenagers looking to become jihadi brides.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2881667/British-rock-musician-turned-ISIS-extremist-luring-teenage-girls-Syria-Twitter-promise-awesome-life-jihadi-bride.html

["anti-Islamization"]

Germany's latest "anti-Islamization" rally has attracted a record turnout, with 17,500 people estimated to have taken part in a Monday night march in the eastern city of Dresden. Protesters sang Christmas carols as organizers made speeches about immigrants and asylum seekers, according to the BBC.

The weekly rallies, organized by the "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West," or Pegida, movement, have seen steadily growing numbers in recent weeks. The far-right populist group says it initiated the protests in October to counter the spread of Islam in Europe, though the message of the rallies has since broadened to include anti-immigrant views.

"Germany is not a land of immigration. Integration does not mean living beside each other, but to live together on the basis of the Christian-Jewish merits of our constitution and our German culture with its Christian-Jewish roots, determined by Christianity, humanism and enlightenment," said the group's leader, Lutz Bachmann, in an address to the crowd on Monday, according to Euronews.

Pegida supporters describe the group as simply educational. "I feel that their mission is to educate people about the dangers of radical Islam and not let the Muslims impose their 'beliefs' on non-Muslims," Gary Hochenstein said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had previously sounded the alarm about the group's aims, warning Germans not to allow themselves to be exploited by extremists. Other senior politicians have also come out against the movement, including Ralf Jäger, an interior minister for the North Rhein-Westphalia state, who described the group's members as "neo-Nazis in pinstripes," according to Deutsche Welle. Significant counter-demonstrations have also taken place across Germany, which remains sensitive to public expressions of xenophobia.

The wave of protests has also sparked concerns that Germany's economy, the largest in Europe, could suffer if skilled foreign workers are deterred from moving to the country, reported Bloomberg. German industry relies heavily on foreign labor, an issue that has been directly in Pegida's crosshairs as it advocates for stricter immigration measures and regulations on asylum seekers.

Immigration has become an increasingly fraught subject in Germany following a recent surge of asylum seekers as a result of the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. The country is currently the largest destination for asylum seekers in the European Union, with an expected 200,000 asylum applications in 2014, according to the BBC.

http://www.ibtimes.com/germany-protests-2014-protesters-sing-christmas-carols-anti-islam-march-1765734

[Eskilstuna]

An arsonist set fire to a mosque in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna on Thursday, injuring five people, police said.

About 15 to 20 people were attending midday prayers in the mosque, located in the ground floor of a residential building, when the fire broke out on Christmas Day. Local media footage showed smoke and flames billowing from the windows before firefighters put the blaze out.

The incident comes amid a fierce debate in Sweden over immigration policies.  The far right wants to cut the number of asylum seekers allowed into Sweden by 90%, while mainstream parties are intent on preserving the country's liberal policy.
"A witness saw somebody throw an object through the window of the building, which serves as a mosque, after which a violent fire began," police spokesman Lars Franzell told reporters.

He said five people were taken to hospital for treatment of injuries ranging from smoke inhalation to lacerations.  Police are treating the incident as arson but no arrests have been made so far, Mr Franzell added.  Eskilstuna, which has a large immigrant population, was the scene of clashes involving neo-Nazi groups opposed to Sweden's immigration policy earlier this year.

On 3 December, the Sweden Democrats - a populist party with a strongly anti-immigration agenda - brought down the minority governing coalition after it had been in power for just two-and-a-half months, by refusing to support its budget plans.



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