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Death sentence for not praying
Islamic regime spells out lawfor Muslims in Somali capita
Posted: July 6, 20065:00 p.m. Eastern
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Muslims who fail to pray five times daily will be sentenced to death under the rule of Islamic clerics who have taken over the Somali capital Mogadishu.

"He who does not perform prayers will be considered as infidel, and Sharia law orders that that person be killed," said Sheikh Abdalla Ali, a founder and high-ranking official in the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia, reported Agence France-Presse.

The edict was issued by a leading cleric speaking at the opening of an Islamic court in the capital last night, who added it was the duty of every Somali to implement the provisions of Sharia, or Islamic law.

The Quran requires Muslims to pray five times daily.

Another example of the "no compulsion" of Islam and Sharia law. Either pray of die! (Read the rest of the story here.)

Yahoo! Asia News
Friday July 7, 8:06 AM
N. Korea missile aimed at area off Hawaii - report

TOKYO (Reuters) - A North Korean missile launched on Wednesday was aimed at an area of the ocean close to Hawaii, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday.

Experts estimated the Taepodong-2 ballistic missile to have a range of up to 6,000 km, putting Alaska within its reach. Wednesday's launch apparently failed shortly after take-off and the missile landed in the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan, a few hundred kilometres from the launch pad.

...North Korea may have targeted Hawaii to show the United States that it was capable of landing a missile there, or because it is home to the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific fleet, the paper said. . (Read the rest of the story here.)

And President Bush responds today:

Bush Tells North Korea: Abandon Weapons And We'll Talk
Friday, July 07, 2006
FOX NEWS

CHICAGO — North Korea needs to get rid of its weapons to move forward, President Bush said Friday, and the international community needs to send a "loud and clear" message that it won't tolerate Pyongyang's actions.

"It's your choice, Kim Jong II. It's your choice to make," Bush said while taking questions from reporters at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry during his first press conference outside the nation's capital.

The president urged the international community to put pressure on North Korea but stressed that diplomacy will take time.

"I believe it's best to make that choice clear to him with more than one voice," Bush said. "What I believe is we can solve the problem diplomatically." (Read the rest of the story here.)

And back on the Muslim Terrorist front, the FBI busts a Terrorist plot by monitoring Internet Chat rooms:

Report: FBI Used Web to Break Up NYC Terror Plot
Friday, July 07, 2006
FOX NEWS

WASHINGTON — FBI agents disrupted a terrorist plot to attack New York City's transportation system after monitoring Internet chat rooms used by foreign extremists, law enforcement officials said Friday.

We have disrupted a terrorist network that was in the planning stages of an attack," said a statement released jointly at midmorning by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. The statement said the investigation "ongoing."

The plot was intended to several of the city's vital transportation networks and strike a blow at the city's economy, possibly by flooding the Wall Street Financial District, one official said.
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