Leaders of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, or World Hindu Council) dispatched a letter to several Muslim groups asking them to issue a fatwa declaring India a friend of Islam against which jihad should not be waged.  They also included another, even more bizarre, request.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has sent a letter to 13 prominent Muslim [...]

This video was recorded as Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, spoke to the European Parliament in Brussels last Thursday.
Some of those MEPs sure didn’t like what Mr Klaus had to say, did they? So, what did he say, anyway?
Fortunately, Czech ex-pat blogger Tanja has summarised his main points:

“The EU is a revolutionary [...]

Straight talk from Yakin Erturk, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women:
MUSLIM women around the world are facing a “growing crisis” as Islamic governments fail to honour commitments to end inequality and violence against them, a senior UN official has warned.
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“There is no time left to lose any more as this is a growing crisis,” [...]

Yemen’s parliament recently agreed to legislate a minimum age of 17 for marriage, but now the legislation is reported to be in jeopardy because a few MPs maintain that it contravenes Sharia law.
Horiah Mashour, deputy head of the National Women’s Committee (NWC), a government body, said there was still some resistance to the amendments by [...]