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Behind-the-scenes talks are trying to put a stop to terrifying, violent attacks on a minority religious community, write Eamonn Duff and Natalie O'Brien. IT BEGAN with minor acts of vandalism, including egg throwing and smashed...

Too bad they didn't hit him in the head: A 27-year-old Somalian was wounded in the incident at the Aarhus home of Kurt Westergaard, 74, who drew cartoons of Islam's prophet Mohammed. Guards stopped three men trying to break into the house, Danish media reported. The intruder is being held in...

Raising the medicare levy to 2.25 % is a big jump. Our generation is going to be taxed to buggery pay for the baby boomers and this is just going to make things worse: Mr Rudd acknowledged there would be costs to taxpayers if the government embraced all of the commission's...

One year in jail is really pathetic especially since the prosecutors had a good case. Just makes the prosecutors look like lazy bastards who would prefer to settle rather then go to trial: Queensland's attorney-general is considering appealing the sentence given to an American man over the...

I'm not one to sing the praises of Australian politicians but when you look around the Western world we are in really good shape compared to the other poor bastards. Really Screwed Spain-unemployment at 16 % and is expected to hit 25 %. Austria-Austrian banks have outstanding loans with...

Wish this truckie had ran over this piece of shit. LiveLeak.com - Adelaide police investigating a frightening case of road rage

This is a joke: Airlines are now forced to give obese passengers an extra seat after Canada's Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal. The world-first decision was released Thursday, leaving airlines obligated to provide, at no extra charge, an extra seat to passengers who are functionally...

This winner slaps his wife at their wedding. You can tell he's going to spend the marriage beating her up. You can really see the respect muslim men have for women when it's apparently permissible to hit your wife in public. http://www.break.com/index/great-way-to-start-off-a-marriage.html

SLAMABAD, Pakistan — A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said. The blast echoed through Islamabad and left a crater over a meter (three feet) deep...

A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh. Yara, who does not want her last name published for fear of retribution...

I wonder what would be the implications if it became generally accepted that "equality of intelligence, in the sense of racial averages on tests, turns out not to be true"? Last month, James Watson, the legendary biologist, was condemned and forced into retirement after claiming that African...

I think any fairminded observer would have to agree that the Saudis are backward, barbaric savages: A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The 19-year-old...

These people are savages: "By now, almost anyone in Syria who follows the news can supply certain basic details about Zahra al-Azzo’s life and death: how the girl, then only 15, was kidnapped in the spring of 2006 near her home in northern Syria, taken to Damascus by her abductor and raped...

These people are barbaric savages: An Iranian woman faces being stoned to death for having an affair with a married man. Mother- of- two Mokarrameh Ebrahimi has spent the last 11 years in jail for adultery with Jafar Kiani. Authorities in Tehran confirmed yesterday that Kiani had been...

Immigration authorities warned the Fraser government in 1976 it was accepting too many Lebanese Muslim refugees without the "required qualities" for sucessful integration. The Fraser cabinet was also told many of the refugees were unskilled, illiterate and had questionable character and...