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Sinhalese men run a mock throwing stones at Muslim owned shops in Gampaha district. The incident occurred on Sunday night when a Sinhalese man started serving alcohol inside a Muslim owned hotel. After the police were called and the man arrested. The police refused to release him resulting in Sinhalese men attacking Muslim owned shops in
Poogoda:

“Sinhalese hoodlums attacked Muslim shops in Poogoda in Gampaha district in the western province Sunday evening after a Muslim hotel owner had a Sinhalese customer arrested by local Gampaha police for violating hotel rules by bringing liquor inside hotel premises and serving to others, sources in Gampaha said.

Muslim hotel owner had called the Police promptly when the said customer refused to adhere to the hotel rules.

Sinhala thugs when notified of police refusal to release the customer, started pelting stones at several shops owned by Muslims in the area.” (Source: TamilNet)

P.S. Sri Lanka is the same country where the Kattankudy mosque massacre took place in which 125 Muslims were killed including 25 children.

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UPDATE: Islam-West Videos now has a news report on this case. The couples marriage video is included. It can be accessed by clicking Chandrasekhar Pant And Sabra Khan’s Wedding Video

Sabra Khan is a 21 year old Muslim Afghan women who worked as a translator for the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul. In 2006 it is alleged that she married Major Chandrasekhar Pant an army doctor during a Muslim ceremony in Afghanistan. Sabra Khan claims that Dr. Chandrasekhar Pant even converted to Islam and decided to call himself Himmat Khan in order to secure the marriage.

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After spending 15 days with his new Muslim bride he made his excuses and returned to India. Sabra Khan meanwhile waited 6 months for her Muslim husband only to find out during a telephone call with Chandrasekhar Pant that he was not returning. He informed her that he was already married and had two children. The Times of India in New Delhi has the details:

“…she has crossed the border, from Kabul to New Delhi, seeking justice. A young Afghan translator, Sabra Khan, is in the Capital, complaining about having been deceived by an Indian army doctor who allegedly married her and then abandoned her in Afghanistan.

Sabra, 21, has alleged that a Major, Dr Chandrasekhar Pant, who was associated with the Indira Gandhi Hospital run by the Indian mission in Kabul, married her during his stay in Afghanistan in 2006. “I was initially attached as a translator to another doctor but Major Pant asked for my services. In time, he asked for my hand in marriage but my parents refused on the ground that we were from different religions and he was much older than me,” she claims. According to Sabra, the doctor then converted to Islam and her parents finally agreed to the match.

But after living together for 15 days, Pant allegedly told her he had to go to India for work and would return in a year’s time. According to Sabra, she finally got a call from the doctor six months later but only to be left completely shocked. He said he won’t be able to take her to India as he was already married and had two children.

“I decided to come to India and look for him,” she told TOI. “I went to the Army hospital in Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand where the Major is currently posted. But he said he had made a mistake and asked me to go back. He even offered me money.”

…Meanwhile, the Army has already started probing her allegations. A day after she met Chidambaram in Delhi, the Army said a probe has been initiated. “The matter is under investigation. Based on facts from the investigation, further action will be taken. If found guilty, law will take its own course against Major Pant, director-general of medical services (Army) Lt-Gen NK Parmar said on Tuesday.” (Source: Times Of India)

In the words of Sir Walter Scott “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”

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For those who do not know I run two blogs, the first being this one, Islam and the West and the second is called Islam – West Videos. In the second blog I concentrate solely on material that is related to online media such as Youtube, Google and Liveleak videos.

Since its coming up to the end of the year pretty soon I thought it would be nice to go through a top 10 list of videos from that blog. So here is my list of top 1o videos from 2008:

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Dear reader it is that time of week again when we have a look at some of the interesting posts that can be found on weblogs throughout the internet. So without anymore ceremony here are my “accelerated links” (in no particular order) for 12/28/2008:

1. Yid With Lid on Muslims in Nazareth reminding Christians that God has no Son.
2. Wake Up America with Christmas in Baghdad.
3. Unveiling Christianity with a series of articles on Saul of Tarsus.
4. The Rude Pundit on torture, detention and morality.
5. The Political Jungle with U.K. government reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Christmas message on Channel 4.
6. The Hasbara Buster asks the question can one say “the Jews ?”
7. Samson Blinded on Russia’s bid to control the Middle East.
8. Right Wing Jew reproduces Rabbi Meir Kahane’s message of “down with Hannukah!”
9. James H. Shott on why he will not be attending Barack Obama on January 20th.
10. Majority Rights on the moral imperative of ethnic cleansing to save a racially pure Europe.
11. Lobe Log on the Neo-Cons still keeping busy over Iran.
12. LFG2 on Mattel and its Islamic brainwashing doll.
13. Lancaster Unity on a Christmas poll based around the BNP.
14. Judeopundit on British newspaper The Guardian characterising Israel’s operation “Cast Lead” in Gaza with the Deir Yassin killings.
15. Fiery Spirited Zionist on Muslim males fearing educated women.
16. Dr. M’s analysis of Raheel Raza.
17. Crossroads Arabia on a Saudi camel beauty contest.
18. Craig Murray on the Harold Pinter he knew.
19. Atlas Shrugs on threats by Gazan terrorists to kidnap female members of the Israeli Defence Force.
20. Atheo News with Barack Obama and a no comment on the situation in Gaza.
21. An Indian Muslim with post election analysis of the Jammu and Kashmir election.

The links in this post are provided solely for informational purposes and inclusion should not be construed as endorsement or acceptance by the author of this weblog.

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Earlier on in the year I reported on the case of Muslim gravestones being desecrated in France’s largest military cemetery in Notre Dame de Lorette.

Now reports are emerging from France which say that the Saint-Priest mosque situated in the suburbs of Lyon has been suffered an arson attack. This latest attack has like the previous one in Notre Dame de Lorette been condemned by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. However it seems that even the French President is unable to stop the tide of attacks/discrimination being faced by the Muslims of France:

“Racist acts against Muslims has taken the French press by storm. After the defilement of gravestones at the military cemetery of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, in Northern France, it is now the turn of the Saint-Priest mosque, situated in the suburbs of Lyon. A part of the Muslim holy grounds has been partially damaged by arson. This act, which has been widely criticized, reveals a growing trend of islamophobia in the French society.

Thousands of Muslims, including Christians and Jews, Sunday, demonstrated in front of the Saint-Priest mosque, to express their anger and confusion over the fresh upsurge of islamophobia in the country.

The mayors of Lyon, Gerard Collomb and Saint-Priest, Martine David were both present at the demonstration to protest against the arson at the mosque.

They both denounced the act as ‘racist’ and ‘heinous’. In a communiqué, Martine David urged the authorities to ‘act quickly to bring the authors of the crime to book’.

In a speech, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, ‘firmly’ condemned the crime, however, not a single member of his government went to Saint-Pierre to observe the state of affairs….

…The arson brought back vivid memories of the December 8 defilement of Muslim gravestones at the Notre Dame de Lorette military cemetery, in the north of France. Kamel Kabtane, head of the Lyon mosque said ‘he was outraged and appalled’ indicating that the acts have become an object of a mainstream political rhetoric, which stigmatize Muslims. ‘Politicians refer to people who slaughter sheep in their bathing tubs and talk of radical Islam. This is very far from the truth’. (Source: Africa.com)

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