"I can say with authority that it is not any Muslim but the Shiv Sena, the RSS and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad who are responsible for the serial blasts in Mumbai," Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari told a gathering inside the historic mosque.

. . . Muslim men were being blamed for "every" terrorist outrage as part of a deep rooted conspiracy.

"We were rulers here for 800 years. Inshaallah, we shall return to power here once again", he said to loud approval by the nearly 200 assembled men.

The prime minister said people must learn road manners, how to give way to pedestrians, how to observe normal rules while overtaking, how to park and when not to blow a horn.

* Sonia Gandhi attended an English language course for foreigners at the Lennox Cook School in the city of Cambridge, which qualified her for a degree from Cambridge University. Sonia Gandhi's father was a member of Mussolini's Fascist Party and fought for the Nazis.

rahulyadav.com is a personal website which "has been designed around the theme of fall (Autumn)," but the author has stated that he is a member of Vishwa Hindu Parishad-America (World Hindu Council of America) and the American Hindu Awareness Committee (AHAC). The intimidated author has now removed this point, but they can be viewed here.

The crackdown on Hindus follows claims by Abdul Rahman Antulay and Arjun Singh - ministers in the Indian government - that Hindus fake jihad blasts and blame them on Muslims!

Readers in India can access the banned sites by going to pkblogs.com.

If the French group, Reporters San Frontières, is to be believed, the arrest warrant against the noted journalist Gurumurthy for writing an article, the ban on films such as The Da Vinci Code, and the crackdown on the internet have all contributed to more press freedom in India. The group laments that despite the "favorable climate" in India, jihadists and Maoists do not get enough freedom! Amnesty International believes that freedom is not an absolute right.

However, the right to freedom of expression is not absolute -- neither for the creators of material nor their critics. It carries responsibilities and it may, therefore, be subject to restrictions in the name of safeguarding the rights of others.

Protestors in Hyderabad ransacked an IMAX theatre for screening the controversial Hollywood movie The Da Vinci Code.
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Fearing more trouble, IMAX has cancelled other shows of the film also.

Many still flock to N.J. winking Jesus

But the "Miracle on Jackson St." - a plaster statue of Jesus that some say opened one of its eyes a year ago - is still drawing scores of religious faithful to Hoboken.

Almaty - A chicken in a Kazakh village has laid an egg with the word "Allah" inscribed on its shell, state media reported on Thursday.

"Our mosque confirmed that it says 'Allah' in Arabic," Bites Amantayeva, a farmer from the village of Stepnoi in eastern Kazakhstan, told state news agency Kazinform.

"We'll keep this egg and we don't think it'll go bad."

Pakistan may field its High Commissioner to Britain Maleeha Lodhi as its candidate for UN secretary general, essentially to counter Indian nominee Shashi Tharoor.

Farmer is now actively collaborating with those involved in spreading the word of Jesus Christ. The message he sent to his mailing list was later doctored, but we have saved a copy of the original message here. The original message was sent on behalf of several Christian groups.

In the doctored post, the "Asst. to the Professor" comes out in support of converting people to Christianity using violence. To buttress his arguments, he uses the report created by the Republican Party government in the United States. He calls opposition to the laws banning violence-based conversions an "important cause."