20% of the European Union will be Muslim by 2050

Twenty percent of the European Union will be Muslim by 2050, according to forecasts cited in a Telegraph report this week. The current figure, according to the article, sits at five percent, and will be pushed up due to immigration, and low birth rates among native Europeans. The article noted that the UK, Spain and Holland would hit the 20% mark faster. According to the London-based newspaper, experts have criticized lawmakers' failure to address this "demographic time-bomb." They called for a discussion on how these demographic changes would affect "areas of life from education and housing to foreign policy and pensions."

British army wants to enlist Muslims to fight the Taleban

The new head of the Army wants to recruit British Muslims to help fight the Taliban. General Sir David Richards said the UK may be in Afghanistan for 40 years and it needs more ethnic troops to boost numbers.

He told an MoD journal: "There are some hugely capable people I would love to see in the Army. The Army would be better getting more Muslims in to our ranks. "An MoD source added: "He is sending Muslim soldiers on a recruiting drive to Bradford, Leeds, Birmingham and London. This is a sensitive but bold attempt to increase boots on the ground in Afghanistan and increase ethnic numbers."

Chavez tells his military to prepare for war

President Hugo Chavez told his military on Sunday to be prepared for a possible confrontation with Colombia, warning that Bogota's plans to increase the U.S. military presence at its bases poses a threat to Venezuela. Chavez has issued near daily warnings that Washington could use bases in Colombia to destabilize the region since learning of negotiations to lease seven Colombian military bases to the United States. "The threat against us is growing," Chavez said. "I call on the people and the armed forces, let's go, ready for combat!" Chavez warned Colombia that "Venezuela's military will respond if there's an attack against Venezuela." Chavez said he would attend this week's summit of the Union of South American Nations in Quito, Ecuador, to urge his Latin American allies to pressure Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to reconsider a pending agreement to lease military bases to U.S. forces.

Russia attacks Ukraine 's leadership

This week Dmitry Medvedev, Russia 's president, has said that Moscow will delay sending a new ambassador to Ukraine because of its leadership's "anti-Russian" stance. In a letter released on Tuesday, Medvedev said that he hoped Viktor Yushchenko, his Ukrainian counterpart, would lose presidential elections in January because he is ignoring "the principles of friendship and partnership with Russia."

"I want to inform you that under the current anti-Russian course of the Ukrainian leadership, I have taken a decision to postpone sending a new ambassador to Kiev," he said in the letter. "Russia hopes a new political leadership in Ukraine will be ready to create relations between our people that respond to the real hopes of our people." Ties between Russia and Ukraine have soured in recent months following a pricing dispute over gas supplies, which caused large parts of Europe to be left without heating for two weeks in January. Russia has also been angered by Ukraine hopes to join Nato, fearing the military alliance is encroaching on its sphere of influence.

Karzai's re-election as President is uncertain

This week a US-funded poll has indicated that Hamid Karzai, the incumbent Afghan president, might not gain enough votes in the elections on August 20 to avoid a second run-off. Although the survey of 3,566 Afghans showed Karzai was likely to get 36 per cent of the vote, with his rival Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister, second with 20 per cent, he would not pass the 50 per cent threshold needed to be re-elected. A United Nations report recently has said that security fears in many parts of Afghanistan were hindering preparations for the presidential election to be held on August 20.The report, compiled by the UN mission in Afghanistan and Afghanistan's independent human rights commission (AIHRC), said insecurity had "severely limited freedom of movement and constrained freedom of expression for candidates." The elections are crucial for Western efforts to legitimize their rule in Afghanistan, where more than 90,000 foreign troops are fighting the Taliban.

US targets Pakistan's nuclear arsenal

Pakistan's nuclear facilities have come under attack from the Taliban and other groups and there is a ‘genuine' risk militants could seize weapons or bomb-making material, an article published in a West Point think tank newsletter said. The Combating Terrorism Center, which is housed at the US Military Academy at West Point, published the article in the July edition of its ‘Sentinel' newsletter, copies of which were distributed widely on Tuesday. Written by Shaun Gregory, director of the Pakistan Security Research Unit at the University of Bradford in Britain, the article detailed three attacks against Pakistan's nuclear facilities, and warned that sites in the country may be vulnerable to infiltration. ‘The risk of the transfer of nuclear weapons, weapons components or nuclear expertise to terrorists in Pakistan is genuine,' the article said.

Gregory wrote that Pakistani forces guarding the facilities underwent a selection process to keep militant sympathizers out. For added protection, warhead cores are separated from their detonators, and these components are kept in underground sites. Some 8,000 to 10,000 members of the Pakistani army's Strategic Plans Division and other intelligence agencies are involved in providing security and monitoring, he said, citing interviews with Pakistani and French officials. ‘Despite these elaborate safeguards, empirical evidence points to a clear set of weaknesses and vulnerabilities in Pakistan's nuclear safety and security arrangements,' Gregory wrote. Pakistan is believed to have stockpiled approximately 580-800 kg of highly enriched uranium, sufficient amounts to build 30-50 fission bombs. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists estimated in 2007 that the Pakistani arsenal comprised about 60 warheads.

A football anthem and a court room killing-Is Germany turning into a fortress of  Islamaphobia?

An anthem sung by fans of the German football club FC Schalke 04 has drawn protests from Muslims because of its reference to the Messenger (saw) of Allah. The club has received hundreds of e-mails from angry Muslims recently, since Turkish media carried reports about the song. Police in Gelsenkirchen , in the industrial Ruhr region of western Germany , say they are taking the Muslim complaints very seriously. The song is the latest in a series of incidents that demonstrates that the Germany is becoming deeply anti-Islamic. Only a few weeks ago the German government rejected accusations that it tolerates xenophobia and anti-Islamic views after the killing of 31-year-old Marwa El-Sherbiny in a Dresden in which the German media remained relatively silent. Germany has the second-biggest Muslim population in Western Europe after France and is quickly turning into a fortress of anti-Islam.

US eager to engage in Iran

This week the US expressed support for the opposition in Iran but also pressed ahead with its plans to engage Iran under Ahmadinejad.  "We appreciate and we admire the continuing resistance and ongoing efforts by the reformers to make the changes that the Iranian people deserve," Clinton said, shortly after Ahmadinejad was sworn in for another four-year term. She then said that Ahmadinejad disputed re-election would not alter Washington 's readiness to engage Iran . "Our policy remains the same. We take the reality that the person who was inaugurated today will be considered the president," she said. "We are still clear in our policy that engagement is on the table for the Iranians." The US is desperate to a turn a new page in its relations with Iran , after the Europeans openly courted the Iranian opposition.

Somalia: America plan to double arms shipment to fight Al Shabab

The United States plans to double the amount of arms and ammunition it is providing Somalia 's transitional government to help it fend off an Al Qaeda inspired insurgency, a US State Department official said on Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the plan was to double supplies of arms and ammunition 40 to 80 tonnes. ‘That's the idea,' the official said. Since late June the United States has been shipping the Somali government urgent supplies of arms and ammunitions to defend it against the Al-Shabab. An initial 40 tonnes of weapons and ammunition was directed to Somalia in late June.'Because of what's going on in Somalia we are providing the transitional federal government ammunition, weapons to support the efforts of the government to try to provide security,' State Department spokesman Robert Wood said.'We are in the process of trying to make sure that we can get the 40 tonnes of equipment to the TFG,' he said

Rasmussen: The Debaser of Islam leads the crusade in Afghanistan

This week NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was in Afghanistan for his first visit as chief of the 28-nation alliance. The former Danish prime minister who supported the right of Danish newspapers to insult Islam said "It is our clear intention to do everything possible to reduce the number of civilian casualties to an absolute minimum." Unabashed, Rasmussen declared: "I can assure you and the Afghan people that we will stay and support you for as long as it takes to finish our job." So it is expected that during Rasmussen reign that more Muslim blood will be spilt until the Muslims of Afghanistan submit to NATO's will

US fortifies its presence in Islamabad

According to reports, the US will spend $405 million on the reconstruction and refurbishment of its main embassy building in the diplomatic enclave of the Islamabad ; $111 million for a new complex to accommodate 330 personnel; and $197 million to construct about 250 housing units. For this purpose, the US Embassy has acquired about 7.2 hectares of land at what is widely considered a mark-down price of 1 billion rupees (US$12 million), courtesy of the state-run Islamabad Capital Development Authority. A Turkish firm has already built a 153-room compound for the embassy. The fortress-like embassy will eventually accommodate close to 1,000 additional personnel being sent to Islamabad as part of the US administration's decision to significantly raise its profile in the country. The new staffers will augment the current 750-strong American contingent already based in Pakistan ; this against a sanctioned strength of 350. "What appears to be more alarming is that this staff surge will include 350 [ US ] marines. Additionally, the Americans are pressuring Islamabad to allow the import of hundreds of Dyncorp armored personnel carriers," reported Pakistan 's largest English-language daily Dawn. A spokesman for the US Embassy in Islamabad , Richard W Snelsire, told Asia Times Online that the US was "redoing" the embassy compound as it was 40 years old. He said this was also largely because US aid to Pakistan had tripled to US$1.5 billion a year and therefore additional staff were needed. Snelsire dismissed the report of armored vehicles being used at the embassy and also said the notion of 350 marines being stationed there was "fictitious".  Indeed, since the last few months of 2008, the Americans have quietly been working on extending their physical footprint in the country. During this period, about 300 American officials landed at Tarbella, the brigade headquarters of Pakistan 's Special Operation Task Force approximately 20 kilometers from Islamabad . They were officially designated as a "training advisory group", according to documents seen by Asia Times Online. (See The gloves are off in Pakistan Asia Times Online, September 23, 2008).

To attack the Deen and honor of Hizb ut Tahrir members and supporters, the Afghan security forces have aggressively arrested more than 30 people since 15th of Rajab to 5th of Shuban 1430, (8th to 28th of Jul 2009) from Masjids, working places and their residences in Kabul. This was the reaction against the conducted activities for the revival of Islamic Khilafa and the implementations of Sharia of Allah Almight. Most of them are not members of Hizb ut Tahrir, they are Muslims with Islamic emotions.

Hizb ut-Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan severely condemns the arrest of 200 of Hizb activists to stop the Khilafah "Caliphate" conference in Istanbul Turkey. The American agent rulers of Turkey and Pakistan both followed the diktats of their master in the same fashion.