Norwegian Black Metal band Taake has been nominated for the Spellemann Prize. The contemporary music prize has twenty categories, and Taake has been nominated for the Best Metal Album category for its 2011 album Noregs Vaapen (“Norway’s Weapons”).
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January 6, 2012
Anti-Islam Metal band wins prestigious music award
November 23, 2011
Muslim Brotherhood Under Attack by Anonymous Activists
The Muslim Brotherhood has received a video warning from the internet activist movement, “Anonymous.” In a video posted on YouTube by The AnonMessage, and titled “Operation Brotherhood Takedown,” a computer-generated voice says that “Anonymous has decided to destroy the Muslim Brotherhood.” It says that Anonymous “shall proceed to dismantle any form of its [the MB’s] organization from the internet. Nothing will stop us. We will show no mercy. Operation Brotherhood Takedown engaged.”
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September 18, 2011
A bad week for Islam in Europe
On Friday, France passed a ban on praying in the streets. The ban came in response to the two thousand Muslims that had been gathering regularly in northern Paris, and praying in the streets in scenes of mass worship. On the same day, the Netherlands proposed legislation outlawing the wearing of the burka in public.
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