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If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!First we had the kaffiyeh. And now… couture?

Islamic Red Carpet Fashion - World’s Most Expensive Abaya Costs $350,000 (GALLERY)

(TREND HUNTER) The Abaya, a traditional Islamic outfit for females, gets the “world’s most expesnive” treatment on the [...]

Tonight at 7:00 PM, Irshad Manji will speak at Penn in Meyerson B1. Manji is a Muslim activist, journalist and filmmaker who has become a target from radical Muslims after publishing her bestseller The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith. The Daily Pennsylvanian interviewed Manji in a piece published yesterday [...]

If your life is threatened, who do you contact? The police. What if the police don’t help you?
From The Astute Bloggers:
Nissar Hussein, 43, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, who was born and raised in Britain, converted from Islam to Christianity with his wife, Qubra, in 1996. The report says that he was subjected to a number [...]

This, and more, on today’s Conservative Crusader.

Remember the Flight 93 Memorial plans I blogged about last month? The petition, headed up by StixBlog, is picking up steam. Here’s a portion of the StixBlog official update on its progress:
World Net Daily has a very informative article today about our petition to investigate the Flight 93 memorial. It includes excerpts from Tom Burnett’s letter to the American people; it includes [...]

I can’t believe the wife shot this idea down [apologies for the bad pun].From Hot Air: 
According to testimony in the London trial of al-Qaeda jihadists, at least one of them wanted to take along his wife and baby on their suicide mission in order to get past security. That suggestion got nixed by his wife, who nevertheless seems [...]

Can’t you just feel the love? This is what we’re up against. A religion that crosses all bounds–even familial ones.From Conservative Crusader:
His mother broke his nose by slamming him in the face. He did not celebrate Ramadan. His mother was angry and so banged him in his face.
Adam, born a Muslim in Morocco, now lives for [...]

I’m intrigued. Stix Blog writes about a petition circulating in Pennsylvania that highlights four cases of Islamic symbolism in the proposed Flight 93 memorial. Here are the features, straight from the official iPetitions petition: 
1. THE GIANT CRESCENT. The centerpiece of the original “Crescent of Embrace” design was a giant red Islamic shaped crescent. Every particle of this original crescent design remains completely intact in the so-called redesign, [...]