Germany: Iranian death threat sends rapper underground

Germany: Iranian death threat sends rapper underground

UK: Iran attacks BBC for Muhammad documentary

UK: Iran attacks BBC for Muhammad documentary

Via the Guardian:

Iran's minister of cultural and Islamic guidance has attacked an upcoming BBC2 documentary series on the life of the founder of Islam, the prophet Muhammad, saying the "enemy" was attempting to "ruin Muslims' sanctity".

The three-part series, The Life of Muhammad, presented by Rageh Omaar, a Somali-born British Middle East correspondent for Al Jazeera English, is scheduled to be broadcast on BBC2 in mid-July and has been drawing increasing criticism from senior figures in Iran.

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Speaking to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency, he said: "The BBC's decision to make a documentary on the life of [the] prophet Muhammad seems dubious and if our suspicions are proved to be correct, we will certainly take serious action."

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Iran: Dutch-Iranian sentenced to death

Iran: Dutch-Iranian sentenced to death

Oslo: Iran 'preparing Muslims for action'

Oslo: Iran 'preparing Muslims for action'


Iran finances mosques and sends imams to Norway. Here they preach hatred against the West. The aim is to prepare Norwegian Muslim ideological to carry out terror attacks, if they'll be ordered to do so one day, a source told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

UK: Iranian gang sold virgins to wealthy Arabs

UK: Iranian gang sold virgins to wealthy Arabs

Via Daily Mail:

A sex trafficking gang offered to sell the virginity of underage girls to wealthy businessmen for up to £150,000 each.

The three women and a man were offering girls as young as 13 but were arrested in an undercover Scotland Yard operation after staff at a luxury hotel tipped off police.

Copenhagen: Iranians in exile want boycott of Iran

Copenhagen: Iranians in exile want boycott of Iran

See also: Sweden/Denmark: Protests outside Iranian embassies turn violent

The Danish Red-Green Alliance party barely manged to put the showdown regarding the Muslim parliamentary candidate Asmaa Abdol-Hamid behind them, and now a new religious war is threatening the party.

A group of the Red-Green Alliance's exiled Iranian members are criticizing the party's support for a great Shia Muslim mosque in Copenhagen, and calling for a boycott of the theocracy in Iran. Several of the Iranians have used the party's annual meeting to bring the issue up for debate.

"We think that Denmark should boycott Iran and close the embassy in the country, just as we did with South Africa," says parliamentary candidate Jaleh Tavakoli, a member of the Copenhagen council.

Jaleh Tavakoli abstained when the city council voted in April to approve the plans for the mosque construction - with 35 votes of the Social Democrats, Social Liberals, Socialist People's Party and Red-Green Alliance

The mosque plans have caused great debate, because the mosque is to be built as a traditional mosque with 32 meter high minarets and a blue dome, and there was also criticism that the great mosque is supposedly financed by the Iranian theocracy.

"Several hundred Iranians in exile have been killed by Iranian agents in recent years outside Iran's borders. These murders are well documented and were committed in many different countries all over the world. Therefore we consider the development of the mosque as a serious threat against Iranians in exile," says a joint statement by the Iranians.

The party's foreign affairs spokesperson, Frank Aaen, admits that there's internal disagreement within the municipal council group, but rejects a boycott of Iran.

This article was prepared by the Islam in Europe blog - islamineurope.blogspot.com

Source: Kristeligt-Dagblad (Danish)

Sweden/Denmark: Protests outside Iranian embassies turn violent

Sweden/Denmark: Protests outside Iranian embassies turn violent


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Protests outside Iranian embassies in Sweden and Denmark turned violent Thursday as rock-throwing demonstrators tried to force their way into the compounds.
This article was prepared by the Islam in Europe blog - islamineurope.blogspot.com

In Stockholm, one demonstrator received minor arm injuries and several people were arrested as protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the embassy building. Police said the crowd of around 250 people demonstrating against capital punishment in Iran also burned flags.


Police spokeswoman Christina Johansson said the violence began when about 70 demonstrators tried to push their way through a line of police and into the embassy grounds.


The exact number or arrests was not available, but Johansson estimated them at about five.


In a similar protest at the Iranian Embassy outside Copenhagen, police used pepper spray to try to disperse a group of around 100 rock-throwing demonstrators. Police spokesman Mads Firlings said one officer received minor injuries and four people were arrested.

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The protest was "in defence of the Iranian people," according to the application the organizers had submitted for the permission to protest, Andersson said.

CNN Swedish affiliate TV4 reported that an organization called the International Committee against the Death Penalty was behind the protest.

"We are protesting against the death penalty and for the fight in Iran against executions. We condemn the regime that had five political activists executed this Sunday," Mamad Amiri, who represents the organization, told Sweden's TT wire service.

Another protest is scheduled to take place Friday at the same time.

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Sources: Canadian Press, CNN (English)