Pakistan: Muslim League Thugs Beat Journalists

Via IFEX:

(PPF/IFEX) - Activists of Pakistan's ruling Muslim League (PML-Q) party stormed the Peshawar Press Club on 29 June 2006 to foil a news conference being held there by dissident leaders of the party. The intruders, who were armed with Kalashnikovs, pistols and sticks, beat journalists and the dissident party members.


The press club was attacked as PML-Q's dissident bloc president Haji Ulas Khan and fellow party dissidents Zikria Khan and Ihsanullah were to hold a press conference. When journalists asked the intruders to leave the club premises, they and dissident party members were beaten.

Activists?

Poll: Most Germans Against Turkey Joining EU

The Germans have reversed their opinion regarding Turkish EU membership:

BERLIN - A big majority of Germans are against allowing Turkey to join the European Union, a poll published on Thursday showed.

Some 63 per cent of Germans oppose giving Turkey EU membership, said the Emnid Institute poll conducted for a magazine published by the Greenpeace environmental group.

The biggest reason for rejecting Turkey joining the EU is "fear of a growing influence of Islam in Europe," the poll revealed.

Fears of high costs of subsidizing Turkish membership and expected Turkish migration were also top reasons cited for rejecting Turkey as a possible EU member.

In December 2002, 60 per cent of the Germans backed Turkish membership.

Who wants totalitarian and violent islamists in their country, who are more outraged because of some stupid cartoons than beheadings in the name of Islam?

It´s not islamophobia, it´s fear.

Also read Jihadi Porn And Education. Where is the outcry?

20-Year-Old Girl Stoned To Death Because of a Letter

The letter, apparently, was insulting for the worshipers of Islam. And they did what they are taught to do in these cases: Stone her to death, after the police had fled (?!).

Mob stones 20-yr-old girl to death in Minna:

The life of a 20yr old girl (name withheld) was prematurely terminated in Izom in Gawu Babangida Local Government Area of Niger State yesterday as she was stoned to death by irate youths for distributing inciting leaflets bordering on religion.

Trouble started at about noon when the girl whose identity is yet to be ascertained was said to have walked straight into the Jumat Mosque in Izom where she dropped the inciting letter in the Mosque.

As the letter was opened, it was discovered that it was a letter full of unprintable materials accusing both Prophet Muhammad, Jesus Christ and even some living and dead Pastors of some misdeeds.

And of course, for having an opinion, she got arrested:

The lady was immediately trailed and arrested by the people who also handed her over to the police.

While the lady was under protective police custody for interrogation, the news of the inciting letter had spread to the town while the youth immediately mobilized and stormed the Izom Police station where they demanded for the release of the girl for instant judgement.

Instant judgement?

The helpless policemen including those on highway patrol drafted to the scene to protect the girl were overpowered and eventually got hold of the girl.

As the policemen flee the scene, the youth rained stones, sticks and other dangerous weapons on her and killed her instantly.

The Niger State Governor rushed to the scene to ascertain the extent of the damage (of the police station?).

This girl had never been seen in the area and the police could not trace her to any household, which did not allow them to investigate. However, they concluded she was "insane".

How convenient...

VIDEO: Stand up Comedian Stephen Lynch

Stephen Lynch (born July 28, 1971), is an American musician, Tony Award nominated actor and a comedian famous for his raunchy comic lyrics.

Although Lynch was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, he grew up in the suburbs of Saginaw, Michigan. He attended Western Michigan University and graduated with a B.A. in drama in 1993. During his time there, he learned to play the guitar. As a child in Michigan Lynch performed in community theater, and has experience in musical theater from high school, university and, later, summer stock.

Considering himself a musician first and a comedian second, Lynch cites great singer/songwriters Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell as his childhood inspirations, rather than comics. The mockumentary This is Spinal Tap was his greatest inspiration, and led him to decide his career path.

Lynch has opened for comedians Jay Mohr, Jeff Foxworthy, Steven Wright, Bobcat Goldthwait and Lewis Black. In the summer of 2004, he went on a tour co-headlining with Mitch Hedberg. The tour was such a success that they added an extra leg and ran into 2005. This was the last tour of Hedberg's before his death.

He has also appeared in five short films, including The Love Seat in 1999 and The Confetti Brothers in 2001. Both films were written and directed by Kirker Butler. The Confetti Brothers, a satire, screened to packed houses at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. It continues to play the film festival circuit. As of July 2nd, 2002, Butler has announced to The Courier Journal that Lynch will compose the music for his upcoming feature-length movie musical, Bats: The Vampire Baseball Musical Comedy.

Here´s a great clip from Comedy Central

Jihadi Porn And Education. Where is the outcry?

A Palestinian child attends a Hamas and Islamic Jihad group demonstration to protest against the referendum in Gaza city June 10, 2006. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, stepping up a power struggle with the Hamas-led government, announced on Saturday a July 26 referendum on a statehood proposal that implicitly recognises Israel. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah










'Jihadi Porn' Puts Beheadings Online:

"The slaughter of that American [Nicholas Berg] under the slogan 'Allah Akhbar.' You know, in schools today ... 6-and 7-year-old children are shown how to slaughter, and the children have to shout 'Allah Akhbar.' There are thousands of terrified children ... who cannot sleep at night. ... Can anything good come out of this generation? Murder has become our folklore."
Hisham Al-Iqabi, Al Mustakillah TV June 9, 2004

Jihadi porn includes footage of the brutal killings of Westerners taken hostage by Islamist terrorists in places such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, and Pakistan. These hostages are often beheaded or shot in the back after being tortured. The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes this "pornography of violence" as "the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick, intense emotional reaction."

(...)

The widely popular Iraqi TV terrorist confession series on Al-Iraqiya and Al-Fayhaa TV often focuses on beheadings. Notable examples include a February 23, 2005, episode featuring a captured Iraqi terrorist, Shihab Al-Sab'awi, who detailed how Syrian intelligence officials in Syria taught him to murder and behead; a March 30, 2005, episode with a captured Iraqi terrorist, Omar Allawi, who admitted he was paid $200 to film beheadings, and a April 21, 2005, episode with a captured Iraqi terrorist, Adnan Elias, who confessed to slaughtering hostages by pulling "the guts" out of their stomachs.

(...)

Those who do the beheading, and those who watch them online, share the same beliefs as the September 11 hijackers and those who send suicide bombers to attack cafes, churches, buses, and schools. As the war on terror continues, it should be remembered whom we are up against.

Indeed.

The constant indoctrination of children, promoting killings, hate and suicide bombings as an ideal that is expected of them, will never bring peace and public security. It´s a really sickening culture/education performed in the name of Islam.

What is being done by the Muslim communities to prevent this from happening? Where is the outcry?

We do hear from them when they are busy protesting anti-terror or moaning about Islamophobia...

VIDEO: Would You Send Your Children To This Carnaval?

Honor Killing In Denmark: Nine Found Guilty

The largest honor killing case in Europe.

Court finds family guilty of honour killing: (Hattip: LGF)

The High Court of Eastern Denmark delivered a 'guilty' verdict on Tuesday to all nine defendants in the most far-reaching honour killing ever tried in Europe.
The verdict is considered a landmark finding, since not only the brother who fired the gun that killed Ghazala Khan was found guilty.

The court also found Ghazala's father and seven others guilty of conspiring to murder the young Pakistani woman and her husband for disobeying orders not to marry last September. Jurors determined that a group of uncles, aunts and acquaintances apparently plotted to lure the couple to the train station of Slagelse in western Zealand, where the brother waited with a loaded gun.

Ghazala suffered fatal wounds while her newly wed husband narrowly escaped death.

Although lawyers of seven of the defendants sought a reduced sentence for their clients, jurors rejected their plea that mitigating circumstances should release a milder sentence.

The verdict came as no surprise to Vagn Greve, a law professor at Copenhagen University. Jurors merely made use of Danish law's broad guidelines in defining who acts as an accomplice in a crime, he said.

'From what I have heard and read, I cannot see that we have done anything new. The jurors found that existing rules should be put to use.'

Legal experts in Germany, Sweden and other countries have followed the case closely, since it marks the first time accomplices have been found guilty in an honour killing.

Honor?

Previously:
'Honor killing' caught on tape
Pakistan: Honor Killing - The Most Nauseate "Custom"
Pakistan: 14-Year-Old Shot Five Times, Survived
Pakistan: 14-Year-Old Noor Jehan Dies Alone In The Hospital
UN Urges Probe On Suicide Cases Among Women

Two arrested in Manchester under Terrorism Act

Via UTV:

British police are questioning two men suspected of involvement in terrorism, following a series of early morning raids.

The men were arrested under the Terrorism Act after officers swooped, unarmed, on eight houses in Bolton, Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the arrests were not linked to Irish terrorism or any other recent anti-terrorism raids.

Assistant Chief Constable and head of crime Dave Jones said: "We believe that the action taken today was absolutely necessary to minimise any risk to communities at home and abroad.

"The arrests have been made after careful planning and are part of an ongoing investigation.

"We have been liaising with community representatives to ensure the operation has been carried out with the minimum impact on local people."

The raids were carried out at around 7am, at addresses on Bradford Avenue, Claremont Court, Halliwell Road, Lansdowne Close, Eastbank Street, Yates Street and Stewart Street.

Around 50 officers were involved in the actual swoops, with 200 more working behind the scenes.

GMP said they had targeted "individuals suspected of possession of information that could be used for a terrorism purpose" but refused to clarify what that "information" was.

Neighbours described seeing the family of five - mother, father and three young boys - being taken away in police cars.

"The family who live in the house are a Muslim family. I think they`ve been there for about six months but nobody really knows them.

I get the sensation the police are apologising already for the inconvenience of having to arrest terrorist suspects...

Islamic Intolerance Alert

Kuwait urges religious tolerance at Human Rights Council meeting:

Najeeb al-Bader, first secretary at Kuwait's UN mission, urged for tolerance and understanding between religions, cultures and civilizations during a meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, the official Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported.

"The religion of Islam has an important recognized role in human civilization, which is based on justice, tolerance and coexistence with others," he added.

No.

Prayer campaign for Lina Joy, the law does not allow her to convert to Christianity:

After becoming Christian in 1998, Lina Joy (formerly Azlina Jailani) applied first to the National Registration Department (NRD) and then the Court of Appeal to change her identity papers to remove ‘Islam’ as her religion. She was refused in both cases because as an ethnic Malay she was legally Muslim and “could not change religion”.

De facto, two legal systems coexist in the country: one based on Islam; the other, on the constitution. And the two are often in conflict. Lina Joy’s case illustrates this clearly. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion; Islamic law prohibits conversion to any other religion.

Just a reminder:
Afghans Want Abdul Rahman To Be Executed

Iran To Allow Drug Traffic Into Europe

Europe must pay, or else...

Via News24: Iran issues drugs threat:

Tehran - Iran has threatened to allow traffickers to flood Europe with narcotics unless its costly border security operation is given a massive hike in United Nations funding.

The Islamic republic's new anti-drugs czar said Iran had asked the UN office on drugs and crime (UNODC) for a hefty $500m in order to combat smugglers from neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Fada-Hossein Maleki said Iran also wanted to use the half-a-billion dollars in cash to fund substance abuse prevention and treatment projects inside Iran.

"For the moment we do not allow drugs to transit, but if they do not aid us we will naturally reconsider," he told reporters on Sunday.

"The West should have a lot to fear if Iran changes its policy," Maleki said, adding that Iran "cannot tolerate a selective attitude in contributing financial aid" to the war on drugs.

Well, for some lunatics it´s a noble responsibility spoiling the Western society with drugs: Narcotic Jihad.

Aristegui, expert on Islam: "In Europe a new generation of radicals is being formed"

“20 to 30 percent of the believers of Islam have a certain degree of sympathy with jihadi theses”. Gustavo de Aristegui.

Gustavo de Aristegui is a former member of the Spanish Parliament and he was a confidant of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. He is a frequent lecturer on the Arab world, the Middle East and the issue of terrorism. Aristegui is viewed as a leading analyst on militant Islam.

Last Friday Aristegui held a conference in Oviedo, capital of the provence of Asturias, located in northern Spain.

I´ve translated this article published Saturday by the spanish newspaper La Nueva España.

Aristegui: "In Europe a new generation of radicals is being formed"

“After my father had been kidnapped by Shiite radicals we went to see him in Lebanon. There I started a conversation with a person who asked me where I was from. When responding Spain, he mentioned al-Andalus. He said something to me that I will never forget: “Don´t worry. We will liberate you from the western corruption”. Then I realized that we had a serious problem”. This story, told by the director of Citizen Tribune Javier Gámez, happend twenty years ago to the deputy of the PP (spanish People´s Party), diplomat and expert on Islamic issues Gustavo de Arístegui, who offered yesterday (Friday) a conference in the Asturian Press Association of "La Nueva España" under the title “Islam´s relation with the West: past, present and future”.

After explaining the difference between Islam and islamism; the religion and what the islamist radicals have made out of it, Arístegui opened his speach citing the French philosopher André Gluckman, who, “ very mistakenly, assured that the terrorists are nihilists”. In his opinion, however, “nobody knows clearlier his objectives than a terrorist”. Most important for the jihadi terrorism, he affirmed, “is to overthrow to the regimes and governments who they consider corrupt, infidels, anti-Islamic but, most of all, apostates”.

Apostasy, he explained, “is a concept of extraordinary importance in the Islamic Laws, since the infidel is considered an ignorant who has not seen the light of the revelation, whereas to the apostate who is denying faith is considered a traitor and a dangerous example for the rest of the community”. “Apostasy is punished with the death”, he precised, “and to the condemned, no human instance can pardon him”. That is, according to the diplomat, the utter justification of the barbarism.

“Their number two obsessions is”, according to Arístegui, “the reconquering of the territories that were in their power at some time in history, even if it just was for a single day”, and remembered that “Gijón (city in northern Spain) had had a governing Moor”, which “means that whoever lives in territories that previously belonged to islamic rule, is an illegal occupant in the best of the cases and, in the worst, descendents of apostates”.

The third priority for the radical islamists, “a minority among the 27 million believers of Islam who live in Europe”, is “the restoration of the islamic caliphate abolished by Ataturk”. It would be, according to Arístegui, “a federation of brutally opressive states as the taliban regime was” and “the propagation of Islam, as they understand it, in the world”.

Arístegui defined the islamism as “a radical ideology” that sustains its bases in the “Andalusi syndrome”, nostalgia of the past; hatred to the West, of which the apostates are in power; the unification of the sunnism religious schools of Islam; the expulsion of Israel from its State or reconquering Jerusalem. In addition, according to the analyst, “20 to 30 percent of the believers of Islam have a certain degree of sympathy with jihadi theses”. He pointed out that “they consider that to the West, jihad can only be applied as "holy war" and that “in Europe a new generation of radicals is being formed because these abject people know that the attenders will be easily convinced”. “The recruitments”, he concluded, “are made by extremely intelligent and trained people who are looking for suicide terrorists in cultural districts, mosques, stores and centers”.

The Religious Moral Police Detain Stewardess

You may wonder why? She and her male friend were being very naughty in a restaurant:

Two Turkish air stewards, one male and the other female, working on a Fly Air plane rented by Saudi Arabian Airlines, were taken into detention by the religious police after they entered the family area of a restaurant in Riyadh. An unnamed air stewardess and a male member of the cabin crew entered a restaurant opposite their hotel and sat in the family area, minutes later they were detained after the Saudi Arabian religious police (Mutawwa), entered the restaurant.

Asked if they were married

The two young Turks were immediately arrested when they replied, “No” when asked whether or not they were married. They were released eight and a half hours later, with the intervention of Fly Air and the Ambassador to Turkey in Riyadh.

Yes, I know. It´s outrageous.

Russian Hostages Beheaded by Al Qaeda in Iraq

Islamic slaughter in Iraq:

CAIRO, Egypt - An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Sunday showing the killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. A fourth also was said to have been killed.

An accompanying statement by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization linking seven insurgent groups including al-Qaida in Iraq, said all four Russians had been killed. Russia's Foreign Ministry said it had not yet confirmed the hostages' deaths.

The 90-second video, posted on an Islamic Web site that frequently airs militant messages, showed the beheading of two blindfolded men and the shooting of a third.

In the footage, two men clad in black and wearing black ski masks shout "God is great!" before beheading the first man. Then one militant appears standing over the decapitated body of a second victim lying in a pool of blood, with the head placed on top of the body.

The footage of the beheading victims shows a closed room with white walls. The shooting appears outdoors in what looked like an alley between buildings.

The footage was stamped with the logo of al-Qaida.

"God's verdict has been carried out on the Russian diplomats ... in revenge for the torture, killing and expulsion of our brothers and sisters by the infidel Russian government," the statement said.

Gateway Pundit has more.

Bag Holding Police Anti-Terror Files Lost In Street

Via The Guardian:

Anti-terrorist police have been ordered to revamp security procedures after a bag containing details of bomb plots and suspects identified for surveillance was lost in the street.

The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, has imposed strict new rules on the carrying of sensitive material after files were accidentally lost in a rucksack in south-east London. Sources yesterday told the Guardian the files held important information and that anti-terrorist officers were desperate to get them back before they fell into the wrong hands.

A disgrace and a shame.

We can´t afford making it easier for the terrorists!

But what NY Times did was even worse: they deliberately blew an U.S. anti-terrorism program.

Building "Titanic" In Africa To Transport Illegal Immigrants To The U.S

"More than 200 illegal immigrants reach the Canaries at the weekend" is a frequent headline in Spanish newspapers:

The Coastguard have rescued 39 illegal immigrants from a vessel which had been adrift at sea for two days, since setting off from Morocco on Friday morning. Rescue services began the search for the boat after the 112 emergency number in Las Palmas received a call for help on Saturday. They were finally located to the south of Fuerteventura at 2.30 on Sunday afternoon. There were two babies and four women on board. Most of the passengers were said to be in good health.

Another three boatloads of illegal immigrants arrived on the Canary Islands on Saturday, 187 in total that day.

This has lamentably been going on for years and now Spain has reached its capacity for receiving immigrants (no surprise here), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Bernardino Leon said on Friday:

With more than 9,500 migrants flooding the Spanish Canary Islands this year in ramshackle boats, Madrid has launched a diplomatic offensive offering aid to stem the tide from West Africa and return the immigrants to their countries of origin.

"Spain does not have the capacity to accept more workers," Leon told a news conference.

Spain has provided residence papers for some 7,000 Malian illegal immigrants. Its socialist government launched an amnesty for about 600,000 illegal immigrants last year.

But Leon said any new arrivals would face either a life on the run as an illegal alien or repatriation.

The European Union has finally decided to deploy vessels and aircraft to intercept boats carrying undocumented immigrants before they leave West African waters:

Four vessels, a reconnaissance plane and a helicopter deployed by the EU in July will seek to intercept immigrant boats in the territorial waters of Senegal, Mauritania and Cape Verde, according to the paper.

The migrants will then be handed over to the local authorities. So far, only Mauritania has authorised the EU to patrol its waters, but agreements with Senegal and Cape Verde were reportedly in the pipeline.

A coordination centre will be established on the Canary Island of Tenerife, where EU experts will help in tasks such as identifying immigrants.

The countries involved are Spain, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Finland, France, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Norway, Britain and Austria.

And now the U.S can be affected too because the African mafia gangs are building a huge canoa ("supercayuco" - a bigger indian canoa), with capacity for 100 passengers. They plan to use it to send illegal immigrants from Africa to the U.S.

I´ve translated the following from this article published Friday in El Mundo:

DAKAR. - The Mafia gangs have constructed an "boat" denominated “Titanic” at the senegalian coast that they will employ to try to transport more than one hundred illegal immigrants to the United States crossing the Atlantic Ocean, according to senegalian newspaper “Walf Fadjri”.

This immense canoa has been under construction for a month and its objective is to reach the United States, transferring as many immigrants as possible. The newspaper assures the senegalian Police already have detected strange movements around the ship and watches the goings and comings surrounding the “Titanic”.

This cayuco is made with white wood, has great dimensions and his proprietor is at the moment in prison. The senegalian newspaper emphasizes that the owner and promoter of the canoe have decided that the United States will be the destination of the indian canoa and not Spain, as usual.

Cannot make it

The Mafia organisations do not lower the guard and are trying to change the destinations and means of the "boats" to confuse the police authorities. “This boat has been under construction for more than a month and curious people come to contemplate it”, emphasizes the newspaper.

The “Titanic” is a long boat, painted in different colors, and has a depth of one meter (about 3 feet). “Walf Fadjri” assures that their editors have been able to visit the boat and adds that the Police do not think that the boat can reach the American coasts in the future.

“The wood used for the other boats that have departed already is red, whereas the one of the “Titanic” is of white wood. With the high seas it´s more than probable that the "boat" would not be able to support the weight of the bags the immigration candidates would bring”, the newspaper indicates.

While the "supercayuco" prepares its departure, tens of clandestines gather to register with the purpose of reaching the United States. The carpenter and constructor, who says he stays out of the controversy, assures that he is only a worker limiting himself to accomplish his job.

The total cost of the construction of the “Titanic” is about 1.5 to million euros.

The Titanic is not the only large canoe to depart with tens of Africans. The senegalian press also refers to the existence of another cayuco with similar dimensions that has been made in the Bargny area. They affirm that this boat, whose destiny is not known, would be on the verge to set off.

As much the senegalian coast as the mauritanian is full of cayucos that formerly were used for fishing. Now these cayucos are often being used to transport illegal immigrants. But, in addition to the cayucos, tens of bigger boats remain at the coast. For a long time, the Forces of Security have been alerting that the Mafia criminals are rehabilitating these ships to use them for cross-border human traffic.

The Forces of Security have detected that the Mafia have varied their route and are moving their operational base from Mauritania to Senegal. Therefore, the Government tries to initiate a cooperation program in Dakar similar to others that have been started in Mauritania, where the collaboration is giving good results.

***

The outcome of this seems quite clear: There´s no way that "boat" could reach the coast of the U.S., the passengers would die and the mafia would earn more money.

If the police, who appear to know all about it, don´t prevent it from happening of course.

By the way:

80.000 Africans are waiting to depart towards Europe. No government could nor would handle that rate of immigration. And it´s getting worse...

Muslims and Their Silence

In an article published last week, Robert Spencer takes a closer look on the Imam´s jihadists speaching taking place in mosques and the muslim communities tolerance of such speeches. Via Frontpagemag:

We have heard many times that the vast majority of Muslims in the West are decent, law-abiding citizens who do not engage in jihad terrorism. That is manifestly true: most Muslims in the West are not engaging in terrorist activity. Many no doubt have no intention of ever doing so. But the recent arrests in Canada have raised questions about to what extent Muslims in Canada and other Western countries who are not engaging in terrorist plotting actually disapprove of such plotting – and how many passively allow it to continue under their noses either out of fear or because the ideological kinship between them and the plotters is closer than most Western authorities would like to believe.

The core of this problem and part of the solution:

The jihad arrests in Canada should focus scrutiny not on the alleged misbehavior of Canadian law enforcement officials, but on the Muslim communities tolerance of the jihadist evil they profess to abhor. Law enforcement authorities in the West should call Muslim communities in their countries to account on this, and quickly -- or risk the successful execution of a jihad plot planned and executed under the noses of silent and supposedly moderate Western Muslims.

The muslim communities could do much more themselves to improve their own situation. I find it more than reasonable to expect that jihadi ideology spreading and hate-preaching would be reported to the police or the government.

Today LGF features a related article, which asks some obvious questions: Muslims address silence on Europe attacks:

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Europe's Muslims have remained largely silent in the face of terrorist attacks that have killed 254 people in Madrid, London and Amsterdam. Europeans want to know why.

Why have so few of them publicly condemned the train and bus bombings in Madrid and London? Why have so few spoken out against the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, killed because his work was considered an insult to Islam?

But if you want to know what muslims think you´ll have to ask them privatly, because they fear being outspoken against islam (reflects Islam´s intolerance). Or they don´t have the time (I do remember that at least some had the time in London...):

Why, then, the public silence?

For some of the more than five dozen Muslims interviewed for this story in Amsterdam, Paris and London, it's a sense of shame, or even guilt, that innocents have been killed in the name of Islam; they say those feelings make them seek to be "invisible." For those lucky enough to have jobs, there is little time to protest or even write letters to newspapers. For others, there is fear of being branded anti-Islam in their communities.

Dutch Muslim rapper Yassine SB wrote a song about his anger over Van Gogh's murder but scrapped plans to perform it out of fear of being ostracized by the Islamic community. He also turned down requests by a popular Amsterdam radio station to sing a song against terrorism.

"If you sing that, it's like you choose the Dutch, not Muslims," said Yassine SB — the initials stand for his surname Sahsah Bahida — who is popular among Dutch North African youths like himself for his songs against racism.

"People will say 'you are a traitor,'" said the 20-year-old musician.

If I get this right, you´re to be considered anti-islam and pro-dutch if you oppose murdering innocents? Is that why westerners are vastly conceived as Islamophobes?

The same article has more:

But there is another reason for the silence — one that for many overrides all others.

Why, many Muslims ask, should they have to speak out against, or apologize for, actions of radicals who do not represent them — people they do not even regard as true Muslims?

Many find the very idea of being asked or expected to denounce such acts "extremely offensive and insulting," said Khurshid Drabu, a senior member of the Muslim Council of Britain.

"I'm British," said Tuhina Ahmed, 24, a British-born Muslim in London whose family came from Gujarat in India. "I could have been blown up as well." Why, she asked, should she have to make a public statement to prove her objection to terrorism?

Well, I can think of two reasons immediatly: 1) There´s a lot of killing going on in the name of Islam, your religion. 2) You could help improving the relationship between westerners and muslims.

Islamic communities in Europe weigh in:

"If they protest as a group of Muslims against these terrorist attacks, they take on an extra responsibility which is not theirs. So I can fully understand their reasons," said Ruud Peters, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam.

I disagree. The misunderstanders of Islam are doing big harm to their religion, and it is their duty to defend it, isn´t it?

Video: Blackadder The Third - Dictionary

Sorry about the light blogging this weekend, but I´ve had some internet trouble.

Muslims In Britain Are The Most Anti-Western In Europe

A recent poll by the Washington-based Pew Global Attitudes Project, via The Guardian (excerpts):

Public opinion in Britain is mostly favourable towards Muslims, but the feeling is not requited by British Muslims, who are among the most embittered in the western world, according to a global poll published yesterday.

The poll found that 63% of all Britons had a favourable opinion of Muslims, down slightly from 67% in 2004, suggesting last year's London bombings did not trigger a significant rise in prejudice. Attitudes in Britain were more positive than in the US, Germany and Spain (where the popularity of Muslims has plummeted to 29%), and about the same as in France.
Less than a third of British non-Muslims said they viewed Muslims as violent, significantly fewer than non-Muslims in Spain (60%), Germany (52%), the US (45%) and France (41%).

By contrast, the poll found that British Muslims represented a "notable exception" in Europe, with far more negative views of westerners than Islamic minorities elsewhere on the continent. A significant majority viewed western populations as selfish, arrogant, greedy and immoral. Just over half said westerners were violent. While the overwhelming majority of European Muslims said westerners were respectful of women, fewer than half British Muslims agreed. Another startling result found that only 32% of Muslims in Britain had a favourable opinion of Jews, compared with 71% of French Muslims.

Across the board, Muslim attitudes in Britain more resembled public opinion in Islamic countries in the Middle East and Asia than elsewhere in Europe. And on the whole, British Muslims were more pessimistic than those in Germany, France and Spain about the feasibility of living in a modern society while remaining devout.

The Pew poll found that British Muslims are far more likely than their European counterparts to harbour conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks. Only 17% believed that Arabs were involved, compared with 48% in France.

The poll also shows that the Britons as a whole were much less likely than other Europeans to blame Muslims and declared themselves sympathetic to Muslims offended by the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published in the European press last year.

I´m surprised to see that the atrocious London suicide bombings last year, haven´t had any effect in the poll...

Read it all.

Breaking: FBI Raids Targeting Suspected Terror Cells In Miami

Hotair and LGF (with video of FBI Director Robert Mueller’s first statement about the raids) are covering the story. Hotair has a clip from Fox News where they say "...the men were plotting to wage jihad in conjunction with Al Qaeda.”

Gateway Pundit says the jihadists thought that if they brought down the Sears Tower they would topple the US economy. He also has a link to a video of the arrests.

ABC News:

ABC News has learned that federal agents, including the FBI, are launching a series of raids tonight targeting a suspected terror cell based in Miami. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the group allegedly planned to bomb the FBI building in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago.

The group has been under surveillance for some time and was infilitrated by a government informant who allegedly led them to believe he was an Islamic radical. The suspects are described as African Americans and at least one man of Caribbean descent.

Hamas: Islam Will Conquer US and Britain

Terrorist group Hamas, beloved by many Europeans, is happy to reveal their future plans (hattip: Jihad Watch):

Hamas video just released on their web site focuses on the broader Palestinian Islamic ideology, promising the eventual conquering and subjugation of Christian countries under Islam. The way Israel "ran" from Gaza after terror is presented as the prototype for future Israeli and Western behavior in the face of Islamic force.

The video is a collection of statements by Hamas terrorist leader, Yasser Ghalban, killed last week by Palestinians, in the ongoing internal fighting.

The following is the transcript of selections from the Hamas video:

"We will rule the nations, by Allah's will, the USA will be conquered, Israel will be conquered, Rome and Britain will be conquered…

The Jihad for Allah... is the way of Truth and the way for Salvation and the way which will lead us to crush the Jews and expel them from our country Palestine. Just as the Jews ran from Gaza, the Americans will run from Iraq and Afghanistan and the Russians will run from Chechnya, and the Indian will run from Kashmir, and our children will be released from Guantanamo. The prisoners will be released by Allah's will, not by peaceful means and not by agreements, but they will be released by the sword, they will be released by the gun".

Video available here.

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The Cartoon Crisis and The London´s Underground Attack

Via Turkish Zaman:

One hundred Muslim youths from 15 western countries will meet in Denmark July 7-9 to address the problems they face and to seek a solution.

The forum will focus on the difficulties Muslim youths face today, looking at how they can be overcome, and at the circumstances surrounding the “Prophet-insulting cartoons.”

The forum was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the attack on London’s Underground.

Tell me if I get this right: At the anniversary of the terrible attack on London´s public transportation system, carried out by Islamic paramilitary group al-Qaeda, the main issue for the conference will be the Muhammed cartoons!?

[Update: They will marginalize religious extremism as well:

The forum hopes to build a constructive movement of young Muslims to reject and marginalize extremism and foster positive Muslim identities in the West.

That´s good.]

They´re whining over some drawings, while others have lost daughters, sons, mothers, fathers and friends in hands of terrorists who had planned these atrocious suicide bombings, killing 56 and injuring 700, in the name of Islam.

As for the extremly offended by cartoons: *Sympathy totally off*




















The cartoon via Cox and Forkum, of course.

Flash Features Iranian President Ahmadinedjad and Adolf Hitler Playing Soccer With a Nuclear Bomb

Honestly Concerned Launches Internet Cartoon as Part of World Cup Campaign Focused on the Dangers Posed by an Extremist Nuclear Iran:

FRANKFURT, Germany, June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Honestly Concerned launched an animated cartoon as part of a larger campaign surrounding the 2006 Football World Cup, to draw attention to the dangers of a nuclear Iran and the current policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad's Mullah-regime.

The cartoon begins with question "GOAL????" and then fades to a cartoon President Ahmadinedjad playing soccer with a nuclear bomb on the same team as Adolf Hitler. They dribble past defenders including Andrea Merkel, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Condoleeza Rice, finally scoring a goal, at which point the soccer ball explodes into a nuclear cloud after reaching the net. The cartoon ends with the text "GOAL!!!" while Hitler and Ahmadinedjad celebrate.

Ahmadinejad has caused controversy and uproar in Germany because of his repeated denial of the Holocaust and his threats to "Wipe Israel off the map." By using over-the-top humor in this cartoon, Sacha Stawski, president of Honestly Concerned, hopes to bring attention to the dangers of Iran, not just to Jews or Israel but to the West and the world. "From Hitler to Slobodan Milosevic, history proves again and again what happens when the world fails to take the threats of an aggressive leader seriously. Now is the time to exert utmost international diplomatic pressure on Iran," says Stawski.

The German state of Bavaria's interior minister, Gunther Beckstein, who spoke at the anti-Ahmadinejad demonstration, said: "We are not against the Iranian people, we are only against their president... If he didn't hold a diplomatic passport, he would have been arrested upon his arrival in Germany. The Iranian people are our friends, but people like Ahmadinejad, who denies the Holocaust and calls and incites for murder, is a criminal."

"Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, led by a man [Ahmadinejad] whose extremist religious ideology dictates the need and desire for a violent confrontation with the rest of the world in order to bring the messiah. We are facing a regime that values death over life. A leader with this mentality, coupled with missiles that can reach Europe, is far too dangerous to possess nuclear weapons," added Stawski.

"This cartoon reminds viewers that while Hitler talked about exterminating the Jews, history has shown us, that what starts with attacking Jews, never ends there. Indeed, while Hitler killed 6 million Jews, the war he started cost 60 million lives. Ahmadinedjad speaks about targeting Jews and Israel, while his real goal is to target all infidels with violent conflict. He repeatedly says so himself," said Stawski. Just last July on Iranian TV, he proclaimed, "Have no doubt... Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world." Stawski added, "Our cartoon uses humor to raise awareness now, because we want strong international diplomatic and economic measures in order to prevent violence. At the end of the day, however, the world can not risk a nuclear Iran."

Watch the FLASH here.

Pakistan: Police Protect Gang Rapists

This is gruesome.

A 17-year-old girl was raped by several men and the police try to cover it up because the rapists are "influential people".

Via The Daily Times:

HYDERABAD: A 17-year-old girl from Tando Adam town of Sanghar district has accused six men of kidnapping and raping her, and has accused local police of protecting them.

“In the afternoon of June 6, I was out with my relatives to attend a Quran Khwani (recitation of the Holy Quran). Sanaullah, who lives in our neighbourhood, along with five other men kidnapped me and took me to a deserted place, where they took turns to rape me,” the girl told a news conference in tears at the Hyderabad Press Club on Tuesday.

The father took her to the police station to file a report and perform a medical exam. Both petitions were initially rejected by the officers:

“We identified the offenders but the SHO (Station House Officer) refused to register an FIR (First Information Report) because they are influential people,” the girl said. She said that the police finally lodged an FIR when her father threatened to take the issue to senior officials. However, the FIR did not name three of the alleged rapists, she said. The girl said that the police had deliberately tried to delay the proceedings of the case, and took her for a medical examination on June 10, four days after the incident occurred.

She appealed to the government to incorporate all the assailants in the FIR and punish them according to the law.

Secularist Alliance for Restoration of Democracy is trying to push through a rape law reform. Everybody would support that initiative, right?

Wrong. Islamist grouping Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal opposes such a reform:

islamabad • Islamist grouping Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal wants assurances from secularist Alliance for Restoration of Democracy that controversial rape laws will not be reformed before it signs the Charter of Democracy.

The MMA will present its reservations on the Charter of Democracy, with emphasis on resistance to changing the controversial Hudood Ordinance, which equates rape with adultery, in writing to the ARD in a meeting today, sources said here Monday.

*Humanity absent*

Burqas To Be Banned In Oslo Schools

Via The Daily Times:

OSLO: Schools in the Norwegian capital will ban Muslim girls from wearing the burqa, adding to the list of European cities and states that have banned the headdress.

Oslo’s city council wants to ban the burqa or naqab, which covers the face, because teachers cannot do their job properly without seeing their students’ faces, the head of the city’s Education Department Toerger Odegaard said.

“We will introduce a ban after the summer holidays at the end of August,” he said on Wednesday.

Lawyers at the Ministry of Education had just told the council that it would not be illegal under Norwegian law to ban the headdress.

I find it reasonable.

Others don´t:

Muslims in Norway – which has large Pakistani and Somali minorities concentrated mainly in Oslo – said the move was an encroachment on personal freedom. “We have been having a discussion about whether you should wear the naqab or not, but making laws which ban it is just going too far,” said Fakhra Salimi, the head of MiRA, a partly state-sponsored group that helps female immigrants in Norway.

France, Holland and Belgium have banned the burqas. Belgium´s case is a bit different because the law states that people must be, logically, identificable in public.

This burqa would distract the teachers from doing their job too, I assume:

Video: "I´ve been ready to explode"

David Thompson has had some trouble with a helicopter flying over his house once in a while. Apparently it has been irritating him and on this day he could finally share it with us. Will he lose it?


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Santorum: Military has found 500 chemical munitions shells in Iraq

Allahpundit is following the story here.

CNS News:

Reading from unclassified portions of a document developed by the U.S. intelligence community, Santorum said, "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist."

According to Santorum, "That means in addition to the 500, there are filled and unfilled munitions still believed to exist within the country."

Day In Pictures

Football fever reaches as far afield as India where Hindu ascetics play the beautiful game on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad.


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Economically Interesting Being A Terrorists Wife

If your dear husband is a terrorist and your mayor concern is what to do if he gets arrested (eventually blow himself and other innocent people up), don´t worry! The terrorist organizations proudly announce their "allowance to terrorist wives-program":

CENTRELINK will investigate the wives of Melbourne's alleged terror suspects for possible welfare fraud after revelations that an Islamic group is paying them an allowance while their husbands are in jail.

The federal welfare agency yesterday said it was illegal not to declare extra income such as donations, as Attorney-General Philip Ruddock also attacked the Muslim community for donating thousands of dollars to the families of the 13 suspects at a special fundraiser last month.

It was also revealed that the families of the accused men - who are among 22 accused terrorists awaiting trial in Melbourne and Sydney - were collectively receiving more than $1 million a year in taxpayer-funded benefits and legal aid.

The accused Melbourne men, including alleged spiritual leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika, are held at the maximum-security Acacia unit in Barwon prison, southeast of Melbourne.

Mr Benbrika's wife and seven children will receive almost $50,000 in welfare benefits each year while her husband remains behind bars awaiting trial.

Your terrorist-taxes at work. And donation-fraud to boot.

France: 17 Jihadi Suspects Arrested

In France the police have arrested an Imam and 16 associates, allegedly for financing terrorism (hat tip: Jihad Watch):

PARIS — Police have detained a prayer leader at a suburban Paris mosque and 16 associates as part of an investigation into alleged terror financing, a police official said Tuesday.

Dahou Meskine, imam at the mosque in the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, and the 16 others were apprehended in separate raids around the capital early Monday, the official said.

Prosecutors believe the suspects were involved in a money-laundering scheme to benefit radical Islamic groups, the official said on condition of because the case is ongoing.

French intelligence officials say terror cells here have been changing their financing and planning methods, with funds often coming through inventive, small-scale sources such as halal butcher shops, trade in cannabis and ATM scams.

The police say the number of terror operatives is increasing and warn that France could be in line for a terrorist attack.

What´s wrong with these Imams who constantly demand, smear, threaten and insult the West, taking advantage of our excessive tolerance. A line must be drawn and I´m eager to see if the moderate muslims will make an effort reporting these lunatics to the police.

But why haven´t they already?

Update: Last week Imam Meskin attended the opening of a French Islamic Institute whose mission is to counter the rise of Islamophobia. Frauding France Inciting Islamophobia, is exactly what this despicable Imam is doing. (Hattip: LGF)

Daw Meskine, the imam of the Clichy-Sous-Bois mosque and the secretary general of the French Council of Imams, welcomed the new institute.

Canada, Toronto: Jihadist Video Aimed At Muslim Youth

Via CBC News:

CBC News has obtained a copy of the video allegedly handed out by one of the Toronto bomb-plot suspects in the parking lot of a local mosque.

Muhammad Robert Heft, a Canadian convert to Islam, said he was given a copy of the video by Fahim Ahmed, one of 17 people arrested on June 2.

The video offers a chilling glimpse inside the jihadist mind and is intended as a wake-up call to Muslim youth in Canada.

The Sept. 11 attacks are a central theme in the video, appearing again and again, not as a nightmare but as an inspiration. "America was struck within its homeland … and the youths of Islam invaded it on that great day. So the whole world was totally changed as a result of this blessed invasion."

That message was handed out in the parking lot of the Salaheddin mosque in suburban Toronto, allegedly distributed by Ahmed. The video is subtitled so that Muslim youth who grew up speaking English, not Arabic, could understand the narrator.

The star of the video is Osama bin Laden, who is seen urging Muslims to kill infidels. "Therefore each individual from amongst the Muslims should come forth to kill the Jews and Americans," bin Laden says, "for killing them is foremost of obligations and the greatest form of worship."

Follow the link and read it all. And while you do so, ask yourself: How many muslims reported this wicked hate-video, and the evil people behind it, to the police? And how many complained about broken windows and vandalism at their mosque?

Yeah. All the "moderates" did.

Allah Says You Can´t Write That

Allah is at it again - More control by holding down creativity, the source for evolution.

Participants Warned Against Un-Islamic Writing Styles:

Dr Haji Morsidi Haji Muhammad, the head of Malay Literature Department, Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), however advised local novel writers to be careful as certain styles in novel-writing are classified by literary critics as anti-religion and un-Islamic.

"The development of writing styles in novel started with classicism in 17" century, romanticism in 18'h century, realism in 19'h century, modernism in 201 century and post-modernism in late 20th century.

"The latest trends in novel-writing include cartoonism, expressionism, abstract expressionism, imagism, absurdism, nouveau roman and existentialism to name a few.

"However, a few latest trends are classified to be antireligion and un-Islamic by critics.

Therefore being Muslim waiters, you must be careful not to adopt writing styles that-could provoke critics into classifying your works as un-Islamic," he said.

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." Benjamin FRANKLIN

Blogger Alaa To Be Freed Tomorrow

The Big Pharaoh and Sandmonkey report that blogger Alaa will be released by tomorrow night.

About 45 days ago Alaa and several others were arrested during a protest to support the Judiciary's branch fight for independence.

I Don´t Like Cats...

...but I truly hate Nazi-Cats.

Update: Reader mahdihotline says the fourth one is the clear winner (follow the link). Must say I agree. It even has Hitler´s appeal...


















Hattip: Sargasso (dutch language)

A Video of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s Wedding Celebration

A Video of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s "Wedding" Celebration in the City of Zara’a, in Jordan, on the Occasion of His Martyrdom is being distributed to password protected jihadi-sites. Apparently the video (no link available so far, only the picture below) was recorded with a cellular phone.


The SITE Institute reports:

On the occasion of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, a “wedding” for his martyrdom was held in his native town of Zarqa’a in Jordan - a celebration which was captured by what seems to be a video recorder from a cellular phone, and subsequently distributed to password-protected jihadist forums. The footage, running roughly eight and half minutes, features a throng of people, some holding up their camera phones and others carrying a banner that reads: “The Martyred Hero, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,” and two speakers giving a eulogy oration and encouraging the observers to follow Zarqawi.

The speakers put forth speeches that both heap adulation on Zarqawi and motivate the people to jihad, emphasizing the position that martyrs receive in Paradise. Their prayers to Allah to accept Zarqawi and present the Muslim Nation with a leader who is better and may inflict greater pain upon the enemy are set against a backdrop of the people shouting “Allah is Great!”

...and two speakers giving a eulogy oration and encouraging the observers to follow Zarqawi. ...to where he is now. I second that one!



More about SITE (The Search For International Terrorist Entities)

Methodology:

Through continuous and intensive examination of extremist websites, public records, and international media reports, as well as through undercover work on both sides of the Atlantic, the SITE Institute swiftly locates links among terrorist entities and their supporters. Once a potential terrorist entity is identified, either through SITE's ongoing internal research or via a client's specific query, SITE conducts a comprehensive investigation on the target and entities affiliated to it, scouring corporate records, tax forms, credit reports, videotapes, internet newsgroup postings, and owned websites, among other resources, for indicators of illicit activity. Such research has often yielded important leads that have been, and are continuously being, forwarded to pertinent law enforcement or government agencies, and/or information that has been used for government investigations, raids, and prosecutions, in the U.S and abroad.

Rita Katz, Director and co-founder, is the author of Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America (HarperCollins, 2003).

SITE also reports about an electronic jihadi encyclopedia being distributed among jihadi forums:

An electronic book titled: “The Great Security Encyclopedia,” which was recently distributed amongst several jihadist forums, provides tactical lessons for urban combat, communications, espionage, and security preparation for anonymity and stealth. The e-book is presented with an Internet-browser interface and contains a wealth of long and detailed manuals, short articles concerning Mujahideen operations, information about U.S. security agencies, including the CIA and NSA, and explanations of torture methods used by intelligence investigators in American prisons. A foreword to the encyclopedia explains its origin and purpose: “This encyclopedia has been composed from several encyclopedias written with the blood of our Mujahideen brothers. Brothers, we ask you not to distort this encyclopedia; I entreat you by Allah not to use this encyclopedia against Islam, Muslims, and Mujahideen”.

Meanwhile, The U.S Military is looking for data tools to combat terrorism:

WASHINGTON --(Business Wire)-- June 20, 2006 -- The Pentagon is embarking on a revamped IT strategy of "seamless data interoperability," by implementing a bold new program called Net Centric Enterprise Services (NCES). The overarching goal of NCES is to make military capabilities leaner, more flexible and more responsive in the fight against terrorism.

NCES is an initiative within the DoD that will provide all military personnel pervasive, real-time access to actionable data through a net-based services infrastructure called Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). A recent webcast, produced by Larstan Business Reports, sheds new insights on this urgent topic. For free access to this webcast, go to Larstan Business Reports. (Also follow the link above, as you´ll find more information in the article).

Update: Good for the war on terror: US troops kill Zarqawi's 'right-hand man':

The US military says it has killed the "right-hand man" of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Major General William Caldwell says Iraqi Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani was killed on Friday by US forces in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad.

"We do know that Sheikh Mansur was a key leader in Al Qaeda in Iraq with excellent religious, military and leadership credentials within that organisation," General Caldwell said.

He describes him as Zarqawi's right-hand man and a liaison between Al Qaeda and tribes in the restive area south of Baghdad.

The Mashhadani are a major tribe of Sunni Arabs.

"He was tied to the senior leadership, including having relationships with both Zarqawi and al-Masri," General Caldwell said, referring to Abu Ayub al-Masri, whom the US military claim to be Zarqawi's successor.

"We do think that his death will significantly continue to impact on the ability of this organisation to regenerate and organise itself."

General Caldwell says Sheikh Mansur was "multifunctional" with responsibilities including spiritual advice, recruitment, leadership and media operations.

Arab Man In Germany Defines Culture Clash

"It seemed pretty odd for the first few days", he said:

In Saudi Arabia, the law bans alcohol, pork and pornography, and women aren't allowed to drive.

In Germany, drinking in public is legal, major newspapers feature naked bodies on their front pages and policewomen drive patrol cars.

Heh.

Saudi Arabia: "Porn In Mosque" Alert

During prayers you´re not allowed to be distracted, which is the reason why female and male muslims can´t worship Allah together in the same mosque. I guess a good porn movie would be considered a source for distraction and impure thoughts:

RIYADH, 19 June 2006 — Police in Riyadh arrested an expatriate who was watching a pornographic film in a mosque compound in the Al-Naseem district of Riyadh, Al-Watan daily reported yesterday. The man was caught watching the film during afternoon prayers on Thursday. Worshippers and policemen who were praying at the mosque heard bizarre sounds of men and women moaning and groaning. After prayers police searched the area and found an expatriate worker in a room watching a porn movie. Police arrested the man and found 160 CDs in his possession. After conducting investigations the man will be deported.

It´s still better than the imams continuous hate-preaching or the blowing up of mosques and the innocent people inside.

Thanks to LGF-commenter St. Pancake for pointing me to the article.

Update: While arab men are watching porn in mosques, iranian female muslims unveil themselves while watching soccer in Germany.

Iranian Women Lose Veils For World Cup

Iranian women are enjoying their liberty, assisting the World Cup in Germany.










An Iranian woman dances and waves the national colors prior to the Portugal v Iran Group D soccer match at the World Cup stadium in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, June 17, 2006. The other teams in Group D are Mexico and Angola. (AP Photo/Darco Vojinovic)









An Iranian woman waves a national flag prior to the Group D soccer match between Portugal and Iran at the World Cup stadium in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, June 17, 2006. The other teams in Group D are Mexico and Angola. (AP Photo/Darco Vojinovic)









Iranian women wave national flags prior to the Portugal v Iran Group D soccer match at the World Cup stadium in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, June 17, 2006. The other teams in Group D are Mexico and Angola. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Islamic ban ignored:

FRANKFURT, Germany, June 19 (UPI) -- Iranian women in Germany are ignoring the Islamic ban on them attending soccer matches and taking off their veils to watch the World Cup.

Even though their team lost 2-0 to Portugal in Frankfurt Saturday, The Times of London reported thousands of the women not only left their veils at home, but dyed their hair and painted their faces the red, white and green of their flag's colors.

Iran's ruling Muslim clerics decreed women cannot attend soccer games where they can see the bare legs of a man to whom they are not married.

The newspaper said while some Iranian women attended the game in conservative clothing, others sported T-shirts saying "Iran Girl" and screamed as loudly as any other fans.

Iran's final World Cup game this year is Wednesday against Angola.

ENJOY!

When they return:










An Iranian woman watches the practice session of Iran's national soccer team from behind a fence as women are banned from entering the stadium at Azadi (freedom) sport complex in Tehran, Iran May 21, 2006. WORLD CUP 2006 PREVIEW REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

World Cup: Antisemitism! Now With Extra Anti-Ghanaism!!!

The other day I watched the Ghana soccer team beat the Czech Republic one. The big news was that an African team had outclassed the world´s second ranked.

I was wrong.

During the celebration of the second goal, when the Ghanaian players understood they actually were about to win, John Paintsil decided to honor his team mates in Israel (Hapoel Tel Aviv) showing the israeli flag. When I saw the match I noticed it, and thought it was a nice gesture.

Over at Gateway Pundit and Sandmonkey I learned that not everyone enjoyed the "israeli flag celebration" and now it has become a political issue.

Why don´t you let the African players, particularly Paintsil, celebrate the way they consider and wish? I would like to see him repeat some flag waving, but I guess that´s not gonna happen. Sad.

LGF reports that an apology has been given to the worlds Israel-haters, which is even worse.

Watch the dreaded celebration. Min 1:15.
Note: This video is in Spanish language, but it´s the shortest and the one with the best images of the israeli flag-waving. See below for better quality and highlights from the whole match (no israeli flag).

Afghanistan: Taliban Jihad Alert

The killing in the name of islam continues:

Taliban in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency have announced jihad (holy war) against the Afghan government and foreign troops in Afghanistan.

A Taliban member Obaidullah told Pajhwok's correspondent in Islamabad over the telephone that their chief Maulvi Abdul Aziz announced that the holy war would continue till the implementation of sharia (Islamic code of life) in Afghanistan.

The self-proclaimed leader was quoted as saying they would continue suicide attacks and target the Afghan and foreign troops till the ouster of coalition forces.

It´s a disease. A cancer destroying and consuming the society.

Joan Rivers: If You´re Fat And Ugly Wear Burka

That will bring her trouble for sure. And a couple of fatwas I guess...

Joan Rivers (born June 8, 1933) is an American comedian, talk show host, and celebrity. She is known for her brash manner and loud, gruff voice with a heavy metropolitan New York accent. Like the ground-breaking Phyllis Diller whose career preceded and overlapped hers, Rivers' act relied heavily on poking fun at herself. A typical Rivers joke about her unattractiveness: "I used to stand by the side of the road with a sign, 'Last girl before freeway.'"

Via PR Inside:

Comedienne JOAN RIVERS is jealous of orthodox Muslim women - as they can cover up their "trouble areas" by wearing a burqa.

The acid-tongued funnywoman, a great believer in cosmetic surgery, jokingly believes Islam is the best religion for those keen to conceal their bulging thighs.

She says, "If you're really ugly, stay home. It's better in the long run. "Or wear a burqa. How great is that? You don't know what your thighs look like!"

Joan Rivers at the Logies!

Bangladesh: Political Incorrectness Discovered

I´m sorry to see Bangladesh suffering, but at least they´re trying to resolve their problems by, first of all, calling their problems by their names:

The problems are massive poverty, widening socioeconomic disparity, corruption, terrorism in the name of Islam, lack of public confidence in national institutions like Election Commission, rising population and food insecurity, environmental problem, water resources related problem, energy crisis, shortage of foreign currency, inflation, lack of capacity at every stages, absence of participatory democracy and absence of safety net for the marginal people.

Now, try saying that in the West...

UK: Muslims Slam The Police, But Not Eager To Help

I´m so sick and tired of this moaning:

MUSLIM leaders in Waltham Forest have spoken of the "thoughtlessness" of police during the Forest Gate terror raid.

Dr Abdul Qayyum Sheikh, chairman of the Waltham Forest Muslim Trust, wrote to the Guardian expressing concern that the incident might have damaged the relationship between police and Muslim communities.

Dr Sheikh said: "While we are relieved that both the young Muslims in Forest Gate have been released without charge, we regret that the thoughtlessness on the part of police and all those who condone the incident have once again damaged the police and community's, particularly the Muslim community's, relationship.

And he adds:

"We all work so tirelessly to co-operate with the law and order agencies and condemn the extreme elements in any community, including Muslims, but events like these put us back in our efforts to project the true message of Islam."

Then why don´t you all stand up against hate preaching in mosques and report those hate preaching pro-killing imams to the police?

I´d say that would help...

Rent Out Your Wife And Sell Your Daughters. Or Become The Broker...

To attract tourists, Indian Gujarat has published this on their web page:

Where azure seas meet sparkling sands, blushing sunsets embrace rosy dawns. The jungles are verdant, lush and green, where lions prowl and flamingoes preen. Marble temples white and pure, reflect the glory of the days of yore. Age-old palaces browned in the sun and water parks for a day of fun. Here tribal life is a celebration, of music, dance and multicoloured traditions.

Sounds nice, doesn´t it? What they left out is that brokers are making money mediating rent of wives and sales of daughters. Must be part of that multicoloured thing... Anyway, it has become an irresistible business opportunity because of the skewed sex ratio in the state:

If many tribal daughters are being sold in marriage, there are also reports of husbands agreeing to their wives staying with higher caste men, who are not able to find a wife in their own community, for a monthly rental.

In Netrang taluka in Bharuch, police officials quote the recent instance of Atta Prajapati allowing his wife Laxmi to stay with a Patel in Mehsana for a monthly rental of Rs 8,000 ($174).

These circumstances give you the chance to earn money:

Laxmi has two children back in Netrang, and used to work as a farm labourer at Patel's farm. The demand of brides fuelled by the dwindling number of girls in Mehsana, Patan, Rajkot, Gandhinagar and other districts has inspired many agents and poverty-struck families to capitalise on the situation and make a quick buck.

In certain pockets of Netrang, Valia, Dediapada, Sakbara, Rajpipla and Jaghadia, Tribals from Vasava community families can be witnessed entering into financial agreements with brokers, called 'Vachetias' from Banaskantha, Mehsana and Ahmedabad districts to marry off their daughters to Patels or those from the Thakur community for a price.

The broker charges anywhere between Rs 65,000 to Rs 70,000 from the Patel and then pay the Vasava families Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 for their daughters.

The market value depends on how poor and desperate the girl's family is. With the demand being high, a committed agent easily makes Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 2 lakh every month.

It´s a disgrace, but actions cannot be taken because no complaints have been filed.

Activist Kanu Brahmbhatt concedes that many tribal families in Chota Udepur and Devgadh Baria get more than Rs 50,000 for marrying their daughters to men from other communities, especially from North Gujarat and Saurashtra.

1000 Indian Rupees = $21.8

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Muslim Clerics Chose Madness And Muslim Youth Chose Recreation

Muslim clerics in Kerala, tropical southwestern India, are having hard times with the youth in the area. They´re concerned because they see the juveniles are making priorities and decisions that are a direct result of the imperialist West´s cultural invasion. We´re talking about the dreaded game of soccer. Yes, it´s true. The muslim clerics have discovered that the youth prefer watching the World Cup matches to praying all day long in a mosque somewhere:

Clerics are a worried lot in the Muslim-dominated districts of northern Kerala with soccer-frenzied youth sleeping most of the day and watching football until the wee hours.

Apparently they are very interested in soccer:

Youths gone febrile with the game are scarce at Friday prayers. In last one month, shops selling flags, shirts, headbands and souvenirs have been roaring business. Hair stylists are working overtime to daub heads with preferred flags.

The amount of people who actually permit themselves to have fun during this "soccer month", seems to be unacceptable:

This is of scandalous proportions for a section of society. Football greats are being deified, lamented speakers at a seminar organized in the northern Kozhikode district by the Koran Study Centre to make youths aware of the game's evil influence.

Remember, it´s the evilness of the game. Or the fun? Anyway, the clerics seem to be "right" again:

Clerics’ fears are not totally unfounded. The police have warned they would raid joints and pick up those who bet on the games. Cinemas have switched over to screening live matches instead of running super star-studded films.

“We may be accused of being conservative for taking a stand against the kind of mania. But we're proud of being branded so”, says Koran Study Centre director Rahamatullah Qazimi Moothedam.

Two words related to the game of soccer: Evilness and mania. Bad stuff.

More amusive elements and more concerns:

A release issued by the study centre said it was alarmed by reports of youths indulging in the use of liquor, drugs and gambling, caught in the madness of the game.

Three words referring to the game of soccer: Evilness, mania and madness. Who can possibly enjoy this game?!

But hey, they´re not against the game of soccer. If you already thought so, I have a message for you: Don´t be so goddamn prejudice!:

“We are not against football. But the madness attached to the game is really worrying. In the last world cup when Argentina lost one fan was driven to suicide”, said Salahuddin Faizi, spokesman of the Samsatha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF).

More words for this game: Evilness, mania, madness and suicide. With games like this who needs agony?

The muslim clerics have done what they can to save the society. Awareness classes:

The SKSSF has conducted more than 30 such awareness classes. It has asked local parish committees to watch out against the situation going out of hand.

They´ve been polite enough to mention the West as well:

It believes this is another manifestation of the imperialist West's cultural invasion.

And you know what? You almost had me convinced, but this one person comes along and ruins the whole goddamn party:

But there are the likes of Prof M N Karassery who do not share such fears of cultural decadence because of football. “Clerics are worried about losing their foothold. Youths had better watch out”, he said.

So I´ve decided to change the four magic words:

Evilness for Competition
Mania for Passion
Madness for Recreation
Suicide for LIFE

I´ve made up my mind.

Have you?

Canada: "Said In A Mosque" Alert

If this is what their leaders preach, what do their listeners, the muslims, think? And why don´t more "moderate" muslims oppose the hate preaching imams, like Dr. Kanwar did? Do they agree with the imams?

"Divided loyalties":

Dr. Mahfooz Kanwar recently attended Calgary's largest mosque for a funeral.

At one point in the proceedings, a man Kanwar has known for more than three decades led the prayers.

"He was saying in Urdu (the official language of Pakistan): 'Oh, God, protect us from the infidels, who pollute us with their vile ways,'" recalls Kanwar, a professor of sociology at Mount Royal College in Calgary.

"I stood up and grabbed him by the lapels, which was shocking even to me because I have never done anything like that in my life and I said: 'How dare you attack my country.' And then I addressed the crowd and said: 'I have known this man for more than 30 years and he has been on welfare for almost all of those years.' "

Kanwar chuckles at the memory.

"Then I said to this semi-literate man, 'you should thank me and those you call infidels.'

"He asked me why and I said: 'Because the taxes I pay are putting food on your table as are the taxes of the so-called "infidels.' "

Most Canadians and many Muslims would applaud Dr. Kanwar's righteous outburst. But guess which of the two men is no longer welcome at the Sarcee Tr. S.W. mosque?

Not the intolerant, hate-spewing semi-literate. No, it's Dr. Kanwar who's persona non grata.

Dr. Kanwar the bad guy?!

Read it all.

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Muslims in Europe Foster Conflict Instead of Coexistence
The Muslims Are The Ones Who Failed To Repay The Kindness
The Terror Threat In Canada
Imam Abu Laban: One of Five Dane Is Stupid
Muslim leaders: Children Abused at Madrassas in Great Britain
Danish Imam: Cartoon Controversy Good For Muslims

Islamic Laws: Women Complain

A woman suffered abuses, but he didn´t want to give her the divorce. Islamic laws biased, Malaysian women complain:

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia // Aida Melly Tan Abdullah was in a marital wilderness for seven years because her abusive husband refused to give her a divorce even after secretly taking a second wife.

She says she lost count of the number of times she was in and out of Islamic courts to fight for her freedom, unable to convince judges that she was the aggrieved party, the victim of a man who regularly abused her verbally and once punched her at a supermarket.

"I was in a state of limbo. ... It was mentally torturous," recalls Abdullah, 39, who has a 12-year-old daughter.

Her case is not unique. Many consider Malaysia one of the most progressive Muslim nations, but activists say the country has an outdated Islamic law system for its Muslim citizens that discriminates against women in family and inheritance matters, and violates their fundamental liberties under the federal constitution.

Moreover, women say, the situation is growing worse as religious authorities become stricter and political parties increasingly compete for the votes of conservative Muslims.

"Muslim women here are only going backward," Marina Mahathir, an activist and daughter of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, wrote in a column for the Star newspaper.

Continue reading.

Danish Cartoons: London: No Charges For Hate Protesters

Remember this?

Chilling Islamic Demonstration of Cartoons, February 2006, London.


That´s legal?

Well, yes. The Nordish Portal has the whole story.

Hat tip: LGF

Related:
Five Men Arrested in London
Respect and Disrespect
UK: Brother of Poison Bomb Suspect Was On Sick Demo

UK: Imam Supports Attack On Tony Blair And George Bush

While muslims are busy protesting anti-terrorism and demanding unqualified apologies, imams are preaching jihad to worshippers of Islam:

BRIGHTON, England - June 18, 2006 (UPI) -- A militant British Muslim imam says both Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George Bush are "legitimate targets" for terrorist attacks. Abubaker Deghayes made the remarks to an undercover reporter in Brighton for The Times of London, which reported the conversation Sunday.

The reporter spent two weeks at the Al-Quds mosque, which on Fridays, draws 100 to 200 worshippers.

Deghayes reportedly agreed with a Respect party's member of parliament's remarks several weeks ago that an attack on the prime minister by a suicide bomber could be morally justified.

"He (Blair) is a legitimate target. Him and Bush are part of all that we see now," the report quoted him as saying.

The Times said Deghayes then suggested the reporter be careful about discussing his views for fear of prosecution.

"Don't talk openly ... Now you can be taken in for glorifying terrorism," the newspaper quoted the imam as saying.

In only two weeks he uncovered this. Try it for a year, please.

Btw, I demand an unqualified apology for letting this pass and not reporting scumbags like this to the police!

Update: Was this pro-murdering imam one of those muslims the British police were going to give terrorism intelligence?

I´m sure he would be interested...

IRAQ: Islamic Law Would Lead To Encroachment On Civil Rights

This one had to come:

ARBIL, 18 June (IRIN) - Islamic parties in northern Iraq have called for Islam to be a "principal source of legislation" in the regional constitution and have criticised the secular character of the current draft charter.

Their statements followed the launch of discussions on the formulation of a draft constitution for the country's northern, majority-Kurd region.

"As in the federal constitution, we want Islamic Law to be a principal source of legislation since the majority of people in Kurdistan are Muslim," said Zana Rostayi, a parliamentarian from the Sunni Kurdistan Islamic Group.

Rostayi added that his party – together with the Kurdistan Islamic Union, another major Sunni party – will campaign against the draft and "won't concede to a constitution that doesn't consider Islam as a primary source of legislation".

Some local human rights officials, however, voice concern that the inclusion of Islamic Law in the constitution will serve to hamper women's rights, particularly in issues like divorce and inheritance. "A constitution with Islam as a major source of legislation would be an encroachment on civil rights, especially those of women," said Narmin Qaradaghi, general director of the human rights ministry within the Kurdish Regional Government. "And it would serve to strengthen the patriarchal structure of society."

Those are good and obvious reasons to not include Islamic laws in any constitution.

UK Honors Anti-Terror Chief. The MSM Don´t.

This award is well earned:

Andy Hayman, Assistant Commissioner with the Metropolitan Police, is awarded the gong in today's Queen's Birthday Honours for his response to the July 7 terror attacks

But, of course, the usual outcry is the main issue in the article:

There has been a storm of protest after it emerged that a senior police officer involved in a controversial anti-terror raid in which a suspect was shot was to be awarded a CBE.

An anti-terror raid searching for chemical bombs, doing their job, which is, protecting the society from terrorists etc. Note how The Telegraph has left out the words muslim and islam.

We won´t offend anyone, right? But what about Mr. Hayman, who joined the police in 1978? Via Metropolitan Police webpage:

Mr Hayman joined Essex Police in 1978 where he served as a uniformed officer and in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

In November 1998 Mr Hayman was appointed Commander in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and given responsibility for drugs, crime and complaints investigations. In this role he commanded Operation Trident an investigation into drug-related murders in the capital.

In September 1999 he was appointed Director of the Anti-Corruption and Complaints Investigation Department, which became the Directorate of Professional Standards, responsible for discipline and anti-corruption.

From April 2001 to December 2002 he was Deputy Assistant Commissioner, retaining responsibility for professional standards and assuming extra responsibilities as deputy to the Deputy Commissioner.

In December 2002 he was appointed Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary. Whilst in Norfolk he was elected the chair of the Criminal Justice Board, a role he retained until February 2005 when he was appointed Assistant Commissioner - Specialist Operations in the MPS. This role encompasses responsibility for terrorist investigations, Special Branch, the protection of Royalty, VIPs, diplomats, their residences and aviation security.

Mr Hayman's current national responsibilities include Chair of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Drugs Committee, a member of the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs, Chair of the ACPO Media Advisory Group, Chair of ACPO Terrorist and Allied Matters and Chair of the National Counter Terrorism (CT) Tasking and Coordinating Group.

He is on the Board of Governors of Anglia Polytechnic University, is an external examiner for Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

Mr Hayman was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours June 2004.

Add the award for the July 7 terror attacks.

He deserves your respect, but all you´re capable of doing is vomiting this incredible biased article. You´re offending police officer Hayman, his colleagues and most residents in the UK.

Update: Muslim protesters, protesting anti-terrorism, now demand an unqualified apology:

Organisers of the march issued a statement of seven points they want addressed. Muddassar Ahmad, spokesman for the organisers, said: "We clearly, clearly want an apology - unqualified. If you're going to apologise, apologise properly, don't apologise for 'hurt'."

Pathetic. How long till it happens?

London/Brussel: Stand Up Comedian Eddie Izzard Interviews Tony Blair

Eddie Izzard, british transvestic stand up comedian, podcasts with Tony Blair during the flight to Brussel and some others during his stay in the European political capital.

Mr. Izzard wonders (like most of us) what all the leaders are doing at the European Council meetings. He decided to find out and went podcasting "behind-the-scene".

Mr. Izzard has a related article in The Guardian:

London, England, No 10 Downing Street, and I'm about to start a whirlwind visit to the European council. Why? Because I love the fact that after years of fighting each other in Europe, now we just argue in conference rooms. But politics is boring. And Europe is complicated and boring. I find it boring too - even though I'm interested in it.

Listen here.

I find it innovative and slightly amusing. But what are they really doing over there, except from blabering and watching soccer?

More at the Downing Street website.

Background Eddie Izzard (video below):

Eddie Izzard (born February 7, 1962) is a British transvestic stand-up comedian and actor. As a comedian, he has a very individual style of rambling, surreal monologue. He has turned his attention to acting as well as maintaining his demanding touring schedule.

Izzard was born in Aden, Yemen, as the youngest son of Harold John and Ella Izzard. In 1963, shortly before Britain abandoned the capital of Aden, the Izzards moved to Northern Ireland. He lived in Bangor, County Down until 1967, when troubles started brewing there as well, and the family moved to Skewen, Wales, and Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, where he studied at Eastbourne College.Izzard was born in Aden, Yemen, as the youngest son of Harold John and Ella Izzard. In 1963, shortly before Britain abandoned the capital of Aden, the Izzards moved to Northern Ireland. He lived in Bangor, County Down until 1967, when troubles started brewing there as well, and the family moved to Skewen, Wales, and Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, where he studied at Eastbourne College.

His stand-up work brought him British Comedy Awards in 1993 (for Live at the Ambassadors) and 1996 (for Definite Article). After the British leg of the tour, he took Definite Article to major cities outside the UK including a successful stint in New York City. However, his US breakthrough did not really come until 1999, when Dress to Kill was shown on American television channel HBO, about a year or so after performing the show in America, England, and France. Suddenly, America was aware of Izzard, and the show went on to earn Izzard two Emmy Awards in 2000 (for performance and writing). He only rarely appears on television, as he says it uses up material at too high a rate, whereas stage material can be continually re-used in front of different audiences for several months.

In January 2006, the U.S. television network F/X announced the production of a new drama series (co-written by Izzard) called Low Life. Izzard and British actress Minnie Driver star as a married couple, Wayne and Dahlia Malone, who have been part of a caravan of con-artist Irish travellers swindling their way across the States. As the series begins, Dahlia has just been released from jail, and the Malones decide to start a new life with their children as law-abiding suburbanites in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

He also performed with Scottish musician Midge Ure at Live8 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He played the piano accompaniment for the song, "Vienna".

Izzard describes himself as an 'executive' or 'action' transvestite and as 'a male tomboy'. He regularly cross-dresses both on and off stage and makes it clear that cross-dressing is, for him, not a sexual thing – he simply enjoys wearing make-up and clothing which is traditionally perceived in the West as female-only. He dismisses claims that he is homosexual, saying he is either a straight transvestite or a "male lesbian". He has also described himself as "a lesbian trapped in a man's body", but this is not generally taken to mean that he actually identifies as a transgender lesbian.

Eddie Izzard - Being Bilingual


Clip from Dress To Kill:
In Dress to Kill, Eddie Izzard spins free-flowing jokes about San Francisco (where the comedy concert was filmed), transvestitism, squirrels, American optimism, Hitler, the British royal family, mass murder, and Stonehenge--and that's only the first 30 minutes. It's as if this ingenious comedian says whatever comes off the top of his head, but giving that impression demands cunning and skill; Izzard romps through human history and transforms surprisingly complex ideas into biting satire--as well as knockout bits of sublime frivolity, like describing the movie Speed entirely in French.


Hattip: Ian Dale

UK: Honor Killing: 18 Stab Wounds And 3 Throat Cuts

Another ferociousness because of a sick, backward and primitive culture. In Britain this time (hattip: LGF):

A BUSINESSMAN is facing a life sentence for stabbing his sister to death in front of his two young daughters in a so-called honour killing.

Azhar Nazir, 30, and his cousin, 17, used four knives to cut Samaira Nazir’s throat and repeatedly stab her after she fell in love with an asylum-seeker from what they saw as an unsuitable caste.

The father, also called Azhar, Nazir and the youth launched the attack and at one point dragged her by her hair back into the property.

Miss Nazir, a businesswoman described as “strong-willed”, was heard to shout at her mother, Irshad Begum: “You are not my mother any more.” She was then held down as a scarf was tied around her neck and her throat was cut in three places. Nazir’s daughters, aged 2 and 4, were screaming and were splattered with blood. Police fear that they were ordered to watch as a warning to them. Neighbours called the police after hearing the screaming.

Nazir was found guilty yesterday of murdering his sister; a day after his cousin, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted for his part in the murder. They were remanded in custody and will be sentenced at the Old Bailey in London next month.

The court was told that the 17-year-old believed that Miss Nazir had become a victim of black magic at the hands of Mr Mohammad, an Afghan asylum-seeker. Nazir denied murder but told police that his sister “had to be stopped”.

“We were as boyfriend and girlfriend for about five or six years. But we couldn’t tell her family because Samaira said her father was a very strict man who would not allow any female in his family to marry outside of his caste or tribe. We had discussed marriage. Samaira wanted to tell her family herself. Her father was very upset and said I was only after their money.”

The amount of blood on the children suggested that they were only feet from the attack. A neighbour spotted Miss Nazir’s bloodstained arm emerge momentarily from the front door before she was dragged back inside and the door slammed shut.

She received 18 stab wounds and three cuts to her throat.

No honor at all.

Previously:
'Honor killing' caught on tape
Pakistan: Honor Killing - The Most Nauseate "Custom"
Pakistan: Muslim Hafiz-e-Quran Rapes and Kill 11-Year-Old
UN Urges Probe On Suicide Cases Among Women
Pakistan: 14-Year-Old Shot Five Times, Survived
Pakistan: 14-Year-Old Noor Jehan Dies Alone In The Hospital

World Cup 2006: Dutch Muslims Decorate Mosques

They want to demonstrate their loyalty by supporting the dutch national soccer team:

"The Muslim minority wanted to demonstrate their loyalty to the Netherlands and support for the national soccer team in World Cup 2006," mosque imam Yasin Dagruyol told IslamOnline.net.

Well, that´s nice of you.

This is not:

He said that World Cup was a golden opportunity for Muslims to clear out misconceptions about their worship places and religion.

"It will help remove misconceptions and allay fears triggered by media exaggeration and show that the Islamic faith is no obstacle to entertainment," he added.

Why? Because you lie and erroneously blame the media (seems to be a pattern there...)

Here we go:

Iran's religious right is voicing growing opposition to a decision to let women to watch football matches for the first time since the 1979 revolution.

Four grand ayatollahs and several MPs have protested against the move, saying it violates Islamic law for a woman to look at the body of a male stranger.

Members of the clergy say it is wrong for men and women to look at each other's bodies, even if they have no intention of taking pleasure from it.

And:

ISLAMIST militiamen fired into the air to disperse hundreds of Somalis protesting early today against moves by sharia courts to stop them watching the World Cup in the capital Mogadishu.

The gunmen loyal to the Joint Islamic Courts (JIC), cut electricity, cleared cinema halls and warned residents against watching the football tournament in areas they control, forcing a violent protest late on Saturday in which two people were killed, residents said Sunday.

And:

One of the men accused of plotting bomb attacks in the UK discussed poisoning football fans by contaminating beer cans and burgers, a witness has said.

Minsconception? Or misunderstanders of Islam?

Muslims make up one million of the Netherlands’s 16 million population.

There are more than 300 mosques, 1000 Islamic cultural centers, two Islamic universities and 42 preparatory schools in the country.

Cartoons: Timid Pink Pig Piglet Alert

Piglet is an outrageous cartoon hero and the kids shouldn´t confront such traumas.

Turkey´s public television kills Winnie the Pooh (hattip: LGF):

TURKEY'S public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish press reported today.

Several other cartoons featuring pigs also failed to win the green light from TRT management, according to the left-wing Cumhuriyet daily.

To their defense, they did consider cutting out the scenes where Piglet appeared, but there were too many of them:

The station initially considered scissoring the scenes showing Piglet, but abandoned the idea because the small pink-skinned character, one of Winnie the Pooh's closest friends, appeared too often, Cumhuriyet and the mass-circulation Sabah newspaper said.

Can you imagine adults, during their morning meeting, actually discuss the ban of cartoon-Piglet?

LOL!!!

Piglet must be saying: "Oh dear! Oh dear, oh, dearie, dearie, dear!

Update: Cox and Forkum had a related piece October 4, 2005:

Is it really a victory for "tolerance" to say that a council worker cannot have a Piglet coffee mug on her desk? And isn't an ability to turn a blind eye to animated piglets the very least the West is entitled to expect from its Muslim citizens? If Islam cannot "co-exist" even with Pooh or the abstract swirl on a Burger King ice-cream, how likely is it that it can co-exist with the more basic principles of a pluralist society? As A A Milne almost said: "They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace/ Her Majesty's Law is replaced by Allah's."

Police May Let Muslims See Terrorism Intelligence

Intelligence:

1.- the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

2.- the operation of gathering information about an enemy

3.- secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage"

4.- news: new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome"

WTF!:

The police are considering a proposal to let selected British Muslims examine the intelligence used to mount anti-terrorism raids before they take place, the Guardian has learned.

"We are working on sharing more information with the community before, during and after events so they understand as much of the context as we can provide."

Also on the table is more rapid compensation, whether police can do more to stop or counteract leaks "smearing" suspects.

The review includes members of the Muslim Safety Forum, which aims to improve relations between police and British Muslim communities.

Azad Ali, its chairman, said fresh measures, such as British Muslims being able to advise the police on their intelligence and how to act on it before any raid, must be found. "Greater cooperation with the police is possible, but it needs the police to take creative steps to build trust," he said. "There are people keen to help the police, but episodes like Forest Gate and the way it was mishandled stoke up the mistrust."

Video: Meteorite Collision

Asteroids and comets are believed to be ancient remnants of the earliest years of the formation of our Solar System more than four billion years ago. From the beginning of life on Earth to the recent spectacular impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, these so-called "small bodies" play a key role in many of the fundamental processes that have shaped the planetary neighborhood in which we live.

Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter. Comets are thought to originate from a region beyond the orbits of the outermost planets. Scientists believe that gravitational perturbations periodically jar comets out of this population, setting these "dirty snowballs" on orbital courses that bring them closer to the Sun. Some, called long-period comets, are in elliptical orbits of the Sun that take them far out beyond the planets and back. Others, called short-period comets, travel in shorter orbits nearer the Sun.

Some asteroids pass very close to Earth's orbit around the Sun. Scientists have found evidence that asteroids have hit our planet in the past. Usually, asteroids and smaller debris called meteoroids are too small to survive the passage through Earth's atmosphere. When these burn up on their descent, they leave a beautiful trail of light known as a meteor or "shooting star." Larger asteroids occasionally crash into Earth, however, and create craters, such as Arizona's mile-wide Meteor Crater near Flagstaff. Another impact site off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, which is buried by ocean sediments today, is believed to be a record of the event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Fortunately for us, these big asteroid impacts are rare. A smaller rocky meteoroid or comet less than 100 yards in diameter is believed to have entered the atmosphere over the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908. The resulting shockwave knocked down trees for hundreds of square miles.

Over the next ten years, NASA expects to spend more than $1 billion gaining a better scientific understanding of asteroids and comets. Major areas of research supported by NASA include detecting and tracking so-called Near Earth Objects (NEOs) that could possibly impact the Earth in the future, and numerous spacecraft missions to learn more about the physical properties and evolution of asteroids and comets, including returning samples of them to Earth.

Note: comments not in english


HOW MUCH OF A HAZARD?

The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, are extremely rare. These bodies impact the Earth only once every 100,000 years on average. Comets in this category are thought to impact even less frequently, perhaps once every 500,000 years or so.

The risk from NEO impacts increases with the size of the projectile. The greatest risk is associated with objects larger than a half-mile to a mile (1-2 kilometers), which are large enough to perturb the Earth's climate on a global scale by injecting large quantities of dust into the stratosphere. Such an event could depress temperatures and the amount of surface sunlight around the globe, leading to loss of food crops and related problems. An ocean impact could trigger large ocean waves, or tsunamis.

Such global catastrophes are qualitatively different from other more common hazards that we face daily, given that these common events occur with much greater frequency but affect fewer people. No individual person should worry about being struck by a comet or asteroid. The daily threat to an average person from disease, car accidents, home accidents and from other natural disasters is much higher.

It is entirely feasible that we could divert a large asteroid or comet that may collide with Earth from its orbit using existing technologies. The potential response depends on the lead time. If we can predict the event long in advance, by at least 10 to 100 years, then conventional rockets and explosives would probably be adequate, even for bodies as large as a half-mile. However, if we discover the object only a few years before impact, these technologies might not be adequate. Such a response would be coordinated in the United States by the departments of Defense and Energy, and likely would include international partners.

***

Stephen Hawkins stated recently that "life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."

If this were to happen, I´m convinced some would say it´s because the humans have ruined this paradise through sin.

That would annoy me the most.

Hardline Cleric Abu Bakar Bashir Preaches Jihad

He´s just out of jail and already anxious to encourage killings of innocents and infidels.

Bashir, who Western and regional intelligence officials say was once spiritual leader of the al-Qaeda linked Jemaah Islamia (JI) militant network, was freed on Wednesday after serving a prison sentence, 26 months, over the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. Do the maths and you´ll find that he stayed in prison less than 4 days for each innocent person killed.

"Fight for Islam and ignore criticism branding those involved in the struggle as terrorists":

"The Prophet was accused of being crazy. The infidels have not yet accused us of being crazy. I was accused as a terrorist but they said I was still sound," he said, referring to the obstacles Prophet Mohammad faced when introducing Islam in the 7th century.

"Do not hesitate in maintaining the faith until death. The form is through jihad whether defined as struggling or combating infidels. From preaching to education and jihad ... that's already a war," said Bashir, wearing a white skull cap and shirt.

"For what? Only for one purpose. To uphold the faith. The faith is more expensive than any wealth in the world, more valuable than children, wife or even life itself..."

It is the faith. It is the jihad. It is Islam.

And yes, it is crazy.

Bashir's release a cause of great pain: Howard:

Prime Minister John Howard has delivered a strongly worded message to Indonesia lamenting the release of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir from jail, saying it would cause great pain in Australia.

Understandable.


Tags: abu bakar bashir, indonesia, islam, religion, muslim, terrorism, bali, bombing

China Builds 51 Dams to Slow Toxic Spill

The spill of 60 tonns of coal tar is reaching a reservoir serving 10 million people in a city in north China´s Shanxi:

Chinese authorities tried to slow the spread of a toxic spill by building 51 makeshift dams along the tainted river and using fire trucks to pump out polluted water before it reaches a reservoir serving a city of 10 million people, state media said Friday.

A villager who lives along the river described seeing dozens of dead fish floating in the water.

In the Dasha river spill, a truck overloaded with 60 tons of coal tar _ a substance linked to cancer _ crashed Monday and dumped its contents into the river. Measurements Friday showed that levels of phenol, also known as carbolic acid, were 100 times greater than acceptable levels in some spots.

The pollution was said to be traveling about nearly 1 mile per hour downstream toward Baoding, which is about 45 miles from the site of the accident.

Working against the clock.

Via Drudge.

World Cup: Saudi Soccer Players Won´t Accept Award

The Saudi football players will refuse the award "Man of The Match", sponsored by an American brewer:

A senior Saudi soccer federation official says that as representatives of the birthplace of Islam, "Saudi players will not accept an award linked to the maker of an alcoholic beverage."

I resist to believe it´s because they wouldn´t like a cold beer on a hot summer day, after intense exercise. It´s more likely due to the flogging-part when the law offender returns home.

You kind of... wouldn´t enjoy it.

Idahoe: More Heads Than Bodies At Crash Scene

A gruesome scene.

A man smashed his pick up into another car on a road in Boise, Idahoe. If you were a police officer and found that there were less bodies than heads at the scene, how would you react?:

The estranged wife's severed head was found at the scene of the Boise crash; her body was found in her Nampa home. The head flew out of the truck Time was driving and fell onto the roadway, where it was discovered by investigating officers.

Tragically, the driver also killed a woman and her 4-year-old daughter. An 8-year-old sister was hospitalized for injuries.

Theresa Time´s body was found in the garage:

Alofa Time, 51, told Boise officers at the scene he was involved in a homicide in Nampa, said Nampa police. Boise police informed Nampa police, who got a search warrant for the Nampa home the couple owned in the 1800 block of Lotus Ponds Court. They found Theresa Time's headless body in a car in the garage, investigators said.

An arrest warrant on first degree murder charges for Time (pronounced tee-may) in connection for the death of his wife, 47-year-old Theresa Time was issued late Thursday. The couple, married in December, have a history of domestic violence and a no-contact order was lifted May 30 at Theresa Time's request.

Horrific.

Microsoft´s Bill Gates Is Stepping Down

Microsoft's Gates to Leave Daily Role:

REDMOND, Wash. Jun 15, 2006 (AP)— Bill Gates plans to withdraw from day-to-day duties at Microsoft Corp., so he can focus on his charitable foundation while others run the company he co-founded and guided to industry dominance and vast personal wealth.

Gates, 50, said Thursday he will remain the company's chairman after transferring his daily responsibilities over a two-year period.

"This was a hard decision for me," said Gates, who founded the world's largest software company with childhood friend Paul Allen. "I'm very lucky to have two passions that I feel are so important and so challenging. As I prepare for this change, I firmly believe the road ahead for Microsoft is as bright as ever."

"I'm not leaving Microsoft," he said.

Gates also said he had no plans to give up the distinction of being the company's largest shareholder.

Gates to Leave Microsoft, What Does it Mean?:

The loss for Microsoft is not the loss of Gates since Bill probably doesn't do as much as he did 10 years ago anyway. It's the symbolic loss. All great companies need a symbolic leader. Ballmer is a good guy, but hardly a symbolic person in the mold of Gates.

So what will this mean to Microsoft? Except for some corporate culture changes, which are likely after losing a symbolic leader, probably will not amount to much. The company has long since become a mega-corporation in the mold of IBM and they are entrenched into all aspects of the IT industry worldwide. How can that change?

Some of the creativity that may have been held down by Gates' personal vision may rise and benefit us all.

Killing In The Name of Islam at Cemetery

Islamists aim to kill families of previously killed:

Baghdad - Security forces found bombs planted in a cemetery Thursday after an Iraqi woman and two of her children were wounded by one as they were visiting her son's grave.

He'd been killed in a sectarian attack northeast of Baghdad on June 4 in which 21 Shi'ites were killed.

A witness said at the time that one of the gunmen had told the victims they were being killed "in the name of Islam".

Qara Tappah's mayor, Serwan Shokir, said security forces responding to Thursday's attack had found bombs planted throughout the cemetery, apparently aimed at the families of those killed on June 4.

And you thought you´d seen it all...

Poll In Danish Newspaper: Sharia To Be Admitted In Court?

Should danish lawsuits take into consideration Sharia laws?










Yes - 2%
No - 98%
Votes: 2977 (at 20:07 hrs)

As you can see of the result, it is as we want it to be (yet). The idiocy is that such a cuestion actually is being made in an important Danish/European newspaper (Berlingske Tidendes Netavis)!

I mean, do the dhimmis really consider this poll necessary?

Thanks to La Kimpolina and her great blogg Polemiken for the hat tip.

Danish Editor burnt alive

No, not really. It would have been on the frontpage of the danish newspaper JP by now...

Via Saudi The Nation (hattip: Jihad Watch):

The editor of the Danish newspaper ‘Jyllands Posten’ was burnt to death when a fire mysteriously broke out in his bedroom, a Saudi newspaper claims.

According to the newspaper, the editor was sleeping in his bedroom when the fire ravaged his bedroom. He and his newspaper became controversial when it had published blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

The paper claims that the Danish govt is trying to cover up the news of the death. He was hit by divine retribution, the paper added. Muslims, all over the world, strongly denounced this blasphemous act and massive protests were held in all Muslim countries including Pakistan. Text messages and emails that claim that the editor or the cartoonist has been burnt alive have also been circulating since Tuesday, lending support to this report.

Oh, you wish.

It sounds more like "Islamic porn" to me...

Young Teen Performs Extreme Myspace Dating

You know how you always tell your daughters not to date strangers they´ve meet on the internet? Imagine your daughter tells you she is in love with a guy she has been chatting with for the last seven months and that they´re planning to get married. You would be skeptical, right?

And you´d probably start sweating when you get to know his nick name is Abdullah Psycho... And he´s living in the Middle East... (Update: West Bank) And he has sent your daughter a one-way-ticket... And your daughter wishes to convert to Islam...

Well, this occured to a 16-year-old from Tuscola County, Michigan. Except the parents didn´t know:

Lester left her home in Tuscola County last week and headed to Tel Aviv, Israel, to meet the man known on MySpace.com as Abdullah Psycho. FBI agents found her in Amman, Jordan, and brought her back to Michigan. The two had planned on marrying.

The husband wannabe, and his mother, are suffering:

Now that she's back home, relatives of the 20-year-old man, Abdullah Jinzawi, are distraught that he and Lester failed to connect and marry as planned.

Sana Jinzawi, Abdullah Jinzawi's mother, waited for the no-show Lester at the airport in Tel Aviv. She said her son is heartbroken and insisted the two are in love.

The marriage-/conversion-package was ready:

"She was going to sign a marriage contract as soon as she got here," she told the Associated Press, adding that she told Lester to "bring a pink dress for the engagement party and a white dress for the wedding.

"She wanted to convert to Islam and wear the head covering and live with us and adopt our culture," she said.

The girl has put herself in a dangerous situation:

Attorney Diana Bare of Ortonville said the circumstances surrounding the case might make it more likely that law enforcement and the courts would be aggressive in trying to keep Lester in the country, but ultimately, her parents would have to seek help from the courts.

"I really think the danger in which this girl has put herself makes it a different kind of case," she said. " ... The fact that she met him on the Internet, that he surreptitiously moved to get her out of the country, without her parents knowing, it just smacks of criminality."

The parents may need to use the court to control their daughter:

Michigan law allows children as young as 16 to wed with parental permission.

It also allows 16-year-olds to become what's known as emancipated minors, freeing them from parental control.

But that takes a court order and there is no such order in the Lester case, at least not yet.

If the Lester family decided to try to control the girl with the court's help, they would have to ask that a judge find her incorrigible -- meaning she refuses to obey her parents -- which would allow them to place her in a secure juvenile facility until she turns 18.

This kid obviously didn´t understand what it would imply marrying a muslim man.

More here.

Mark Steyn´s "You can´t believe your lyin´ eyes"

Mark Steyn´s "You can´t believe your lyin´ eyes" tells you how a nation dies nowadays:

I believe the old definition of a nanosecond was the gap between a New York traffic light changing to green and the first honk of a driver behind you. Today, the definition of a nanosecond is the gap between a Western terrorist incident and the press release of a Muslim lobby group warning of an impending outbreak of Islamophobia. After the London tube bombings, Angus Jung sent the Aussie pundit Tim Blair a note-perfect parody of the typical newspaper headline:

"British Muslims fear repercussions over tomorrow's train bombing."

An adjective here and there, and that would serve just as well for much of the coverage by the Toronto Star and the CBC, where a stone through a mosque window is a bigger threat to the social fabric than a bombing thrice the size of the Oklahoma City explosion. "Minority-rights doctrine," writes Melanie Phillips in her new book Londonistan, "has produced a moral inversion, in which those doing wrong are excused if they belong to a 'victim' group, while those at the receiving end of their behaviour are blamed simply because they belong to the 'oppressive' majority." If you want to appreciate the forces at play among Western Muslims in societies enervated by multiculturalism, Londonistan is an indispensable read. "It is impossible to overstate the importance -- not just to Britain but to the global struggle against Islamist extremism -- of properly understanding and publicly challenging this moral, intellectual and philosophical inversion, which translates aggressor into victim and vice versa."

(...)

That's how nations die -- not by war or conquest, but by a thousand trivial concessions, until one day you wake up and you don't need to sign a formal instrument of surrender because you did it piecemeal.

Read it all.

Singapore: Blogger Under Investigation For Publishing Mocking Cartoons

No, don´t worry. Not Muhammed-cartoons but mocking cartoons of Jesus Christ. No rioting, embassy burning nor beheading threats have been reported.

The poor blogger could face three years in jail and/or a fine not more than $3144:

A Singaporean blogger is under investigation for posting cartoons mocking Jesus Christ and could be jailed up to three years, the police said.

A police spokesman declined to give details about the suspect, who was described by the Straits Times as a 21-year-old office worker with his own blog site. His race and religion were not disclosed.

The blogger himself is understandably surprised that someone actually felt sufficiently offended to report him to the police:

The blogger, who described himself as a "free thinker," had first posted a cartoon depicting Jesus Christ as a zombie biting a boy's head in January, the Straits Times said.

He ignored an online message asking for the cartoon's removal and went on to post more caricatures of Christ to spite the sender.

"I never thought anyone would complain to the police because the pictures were not insidious," he told the newspaper, adding the cartoons have already been removed from his site.

He was called in to the police and as I write this, some police officer is spending time on resolving this silly issue. But it´s still better than encouraging to kill, burn and riot.

Last year two men were jailed:

Singapore, a multi-racial island nation, clamps down hard on anyone inciting communal tensions. Two ethnic Chinese men were jailed last year for anti-Muslim blogs.

If you´re offended, behave civilized and sue the bastard. But sending a guy to prision for some mockery is just plain stupid.

Anyway, mocking, satire and sarcasm have been around for many, many years.

Update: If you come across a cartoon that fits this description: Jesus Christ as a zombie biting a boy's head, please e-mail me at sugieropost-at-gmail.com

Fjordman: Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism

Fjordman has published a new essay: Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism

Cultural Marxism — aka Political Correctness — and Islam share the same totalitarian outlook and instinctively agree in their opposition to free discussion, and in the idea that freedom of speech must be curtailed when it is “offensive” to certain groups. Former Muslim Ali Sina notes that “there is very little difference between the Left and Islam. What is lacking in both these creeds is the adherence to the Golden Rule. Just as for Muslims, everything Islamic is a priori right and good and everything un-Islamic is a priori wrong and evil, for the Left, everything leftist is a priori oppressed and good and everything rightist is a priori oppressor and evil. Facts don’t matter. Justice is determined by who you are and not by what you have done.” “Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means expediently lying when telling the truth is not expedient.

Another former Muslim, writer Ibn Warraq, visited Denmark to launch his book Why I am not a Muslim. In an interview, Ibn Warraq stated that especially among the Left there is a post-colonial guilt complex that constitutes an almost insuperable obstacle to any criticism of Islam and Third World cultures. The Left have thus put their own, universal values aside in favor of a dangerous relativism. Ibn Warraq pointed out that more than fifty years after the West left its colonies in the Third World, Leftists are still blaming all the ills of Africa and the Middle East on the former colonial powers, while the same left-wingers only ten years after the fall of Communism blamed Russia’s troubles on unrestrained capitalism. “The Left refuses to seek answers elsewhere. At the same time they are, because of Marx, accustomed to look for economic explanations to everything. Consequently, they seek the explanation to Islamic terrorism in the economic situation. But it is a great mystery to me how 200 dead people in Madrid are supposed to help the poor in the Islamic world.”

Michael Gove, a Conservative MP, and political commentator Mark Dooley complain about lopsided coverage of certain issues: “Take, for example, the BBC’s coverage of the late Yasser Arafat. In one profile broadcast in 2002, he was lauded as an “icon” and a “hero,” but no mention was made of his terror squads, corruption, or his brutal suppression of dissident Palestinians. Similarly, when Israel assassinated the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in 2004, one BBC reporter described him as “polite, charming and witty, a deeply religious man.” This despite the fact that under Yassin’s guidance, Hamas murdered hundreds.” “A soft left worldview influences too much of what the corporation produces. We have a right to expect more honesty from the broadcasting service we are being asked to pay for.”

Read it all.

How Not To Steal A Sidekick II

Stealing a a mobile phone is dangerous nowadays. Read this fascinating story.

Iraq: "US.-Led Multinational Force Must Stay"

While the Iraqis express their desire to maintain the troops in Iraq:

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq has formally notified the U.N. Security Council that it wants the U.S.-led multinational force to remain in place for now as Iraqi troops and police are not yet ready to ensure security on their own.

"While great achievements have been gained by the people of Iraq in the realm of political development, the continuation of the mandate of the multinational force in Iraq remains necessary and essential for our security," Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said in a letter dated June 9 and circulated at the United Nations on Tuesday.

...Italy starts the withdrawal of their troops:

Rome - Italy began Wednesday its gradual withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Italian state television reported.

By the end of June there should be just 1,600 Italian soldiers stationed in the country, the report said.

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, who entered office three weeks ago, promised that all the troops would be withdrawn by next spring. It was a central promise in his election campaign against his predecessor as premier, Silvio Berlusconi, who originally sent the troops to Iraq.

Other countries did so some time ago:

Spain withdrew its 1,300 troops in 2004 and the Netherlands 1,300 soldiers a year later. Ukraine also withdrew its 1,650 troops and Nicaragua, the Philippines and Honduras pulled out their small contingents.

Countries such as Britain and South Korea have also reduced their troop numbers. There are still around 138,000 foreign troops in Iraq, the vast majority of them American.

It is irresponsible and shows a complete lack of seriousness retiring the troops from a country where democracy just have been established.

Tony Blair says an Iraq pull out would be a mistake:

Pulling British troops out of Iraq will damage the UK's security, Prime Minister Tony Blair has insisted.

He said "our job is to stand with the thousands of people who are fighting for democracy" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I think anything else would be a very, very great mistake for this country's security and the wider world," he said.

He said terrorists in Iraq were "trying to stop them having the same rights we have to elect their government", to equality and to freedom.

"Those people are fighting a struggle that I think concerns us as well," he said.

"I believe now, with the attack on the democratic forces in Iraq, our job is to stand with those people who are fighting for democracy, stand with them in Iraq, stand with them in Afghanistan and stand with them until the job is done."

This Iraqi woman, who just voted, nails it:



Also read Gateway Pundit´s Bush Continues Rally in DC- "We Will Succeed in Iraq."

Update: Assorted good news from Iraq that MSM doesn´t care telling you about. Hattip: The Astute Blogger.
Many Next Generation Terrorists Already Dead

Update: Senate rejects U.S. troop pullout in Iraq:

WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected a call for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by year’s end on Thursday as Congress erupted in impassioned, election-year debate over a conflict that now has claimed the lives of 2,500 American troops.

The vote was 93-6 to shelve the proposal, which would have allowed “only forces that are critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces” to remain in 2007.

93-6.

Hattip: LGF

Palestinian Minister Takes $20m Into Gaza

While Palestinian Foreign Minister and Hamas terrorist was smuggeling 12 suitcases with a total amount of $20m into Gaza...

The Palestinian foreign minister returned from a trip abroad to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday with an estimated $20m (£11m) packed in 12 separate suitcases, according to officials.

On Saturday one transported €4.5m (£3.1m) and earlier in the month another attempted to smuggle $804,000.

...palestinian government workers storm the parliament:

Palestinian government employees protesting against the non-payment of salaries stormed the parliament building in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, AFP correspondents reported.

The vast majority of civil servants have not been paid since February owing to a serious financial crisis following Western aid cuts to the Palestinian Authority since Hamas formed a government.

Obvious question: What was the $20m for?

Arms, food or salary?

Clerics Want Women Banned During Prayers

A typical Muslim Male Problem:

Popularly known as "Ajmer Sharif", the latest controversy has come out into the open after groups of Khadims (who serve the pilgrims in the shrine) at Dargah Sharif raised objections to the presence of Muslim women offering their Namaz along with men. They believe that if a lady comes between the Namazi (one who offers prayer) and Allah (Muslim god), the prayer and devotion to Allah becomes meaningless as a man has a tendency to lose his attention.

Lose attention? You mean you get aroused?

If that´s the case, you should probably see women more frequently, not less...

You´re showing a complete lack of tolerance towards women and their legitimate rights.

And all this because you can´t control yourself.

Is that fair, you think?

Europe: Ansar al-Islam: Terror Suspect Arrested At Frankfurt Airport

Via Der Spiegel:

An Iraqi man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of providing support to a terrorist group in Iraq. The 36-year-old man, identified only as Burhan B., was arrested on Monday in the transit lounge of Frankfurt Airport and charged with financially and logistically supporting Ansar al-Islam, a radical group linked to al-Qaida in Iraq.

The detained man is said to have had contact with Ata A. R., who is accused of playing a central role in Ansar al-Islam's European network.

Mullah Krekar, former leader of Islamic guerrilla group Ansar al-Islam, is still living in Norway. In his case, the good news is that some anti-dhimmitude has been detected:

The youth section of the Norwegian Fremskrittspartiet, the major conservative opposition party in the country, has set up a fundraising campaign in which they say they will buy Mullah Krekar a one-way airplane ticket to his home in Northern Iraq. Krekar, whose real name is Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, is an Iraqi Kurd who received political asylum in Norway in 1991. According to Krekar’s lawyer the campaign is not funny and proves that the Fremkrittspartiet’s youth section has no respect for human rights.

This guy, who threatens with terrorism if he´s thrown out, is a provokative and despicable person. There´s too much tolerance in Europe and his case is a perfect example.

Philip van Laenen in Brussel Journal asks the perfect question and gives the correct answer:

Barely one month ago, if anyone had predicted that the Netherlands would sooner get rid of the Dutch parliamentarian and “European of the Year” Ayaan Hirsi Ali than Norway of Mullah Krekar, few would have believed it. Apparently, in contemporary Europe it is harder to get a terrorist expelled than to get a camel through a needle’s eye or a member of parliament stripped of her citizenship.

The difference between Krekar and Hirsi Ali?

He threatens the Norwegians with terror attacks if they throw him out, and she is kicked out because her enemies threaten the Dutch with terror attacks if she is allowed to stay.

It´s time to draw a line.


Related:
Hirsi Ali
When Danes Pay Danegeld – Dealing with Islam in Scandinavia

FATWA Against National Song

The eager muslim clerics issued a fatwa against tennis player Sania Mirza last year telling her she should cover up during matches. The clerics stated that she would be a corruption influence for the young muslim girls. Mirza has not changed her attire but has employed security guards when in India.














I don´t know what the fatwa demanded her to wear, but the skin has to be covered (muslim clerics can´t take it). This outfit covers the desirable skin almost completely.

And now the hyperactive and supermoral clerics are at it again: Fatwa against their own national song:

They have issued a fatwa (religious edict) against the Song, and have asked Muslim parents in the city not to send their children to schools where they are required to recite the Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composition.

The clerics are of the view that the Song goes against the teachings of Islam.

"If our kids are made to recite Vande Mataram, we will withdraw them from the school," a parent Mohammad Abdul Raouf says.

Here you have an excerpt of the outrageous national song:

Glory of moonlight dreams,
Over thy branches and lordly streams,
Clad in thy blossoming trees,
Mother, giver of ease
Laughing low and sweet!
Mother I kiss thy feet,
Speaker sweet and low!
Mother, to thee I bow.

Too much. Just too much...

Destroy That Mosque And Build A Supermarket

You´re a constructor. You´re a constructor who is going to build, let´s say, a supermarket. On the property there´s a mosque, the last one in the city, which has to be demolished. Would you dare to give the order?

Hmmm...

Don´t worry. I was only kidding. It´s "only" a Hindu temple:

The only Hindu temple in Lahore, Pakistan, has been demolished to make way for a commercial building, reports Pakistan's English-language newspaper Dawn.

The report said officials of a government agency, responsible for maintaining properties of Hindu and Sikh minorities in the predominantly Muslim country, allegedly concealed facts so as to get approval from their chairman allowing a private developer to raze the Krishna Mandir (Temple).

The Hindu temple was the last remaining in Lahore after another in the region was similarly permitted to be demolished.

Being a Hindu temple, would it be easier to give the order?

Why?

UK: Recrimination Against The Police And Pleasure By The Failure

Simon Heffer, english journalist and writer, says in this piece in today´s The Telegraph that we're still in denial about the threat from radical Islam:

Normally we should celebrate our national trait of seeing a funny side to the most trying predicaments.

However, the amount of pleasure given to certain people by the failure of the police raid on a house in east London on June 2 is deeply disturbing. The police acted on intelligence, and this raid was (we were told) the result of an operation lasting for some time.

Now a torrent of recrimination against the police - and by implication against the Government's anti-terrorist policy - has been unleashed. The brothers' sister said yesterday that "you do not expect to be woken at 4am with a gun in your face". The Muslim community in the area is outraged and complains of harassment and disruption.

And, inevitably, it is also said that the police should be put back in their box, the security services exposed to full accountability and that we should stop this paranoia about radical Islam being any sort of threat to us.

Anyone tempted to buy that line might - depending on the extent to which he is sunk in his own prejudices - benefit from a book out this week. Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state from within is written by a seasoned observer of radical Islam, Melanie Phillips.

Miss Phillips refers, in a particularly powerful passage, to the "dirty little secret" kept by the Establishment during the late 1990s and at the start of this decade. It was that, as a nation that prided itself on its tolerance, multiculturalism and freedom of speech, we would allow those extremists forced out of their own countries in the Muslim world to come to settle here, and to engage in their radical activities.

Miss Phillips's contention is that we were, and still are, a country in denial about the threat from radical Islam. The reaction to the recent raid exemplifies this. First, we failed to implement basic border controls.

Read it all.

Pakistan: Muslim Hafiz-e-Quran Rapes and Kill 11-Year-Old

A "Muslim Hafiz-e-Quran" is a person who has learnt the Quran by heart.

Could this be another honor killing?

KARACHI: An eleven-year-old girl was murdered after reportedly being raped while two of her sisters, including an 11-month-old baby, were injured by their uncle in Orangi Town Tuesday.

Shamsuddin, a garment worker and resident of Ghaziabad, Orangi Town, went to the NADRA office along with his first wife and father-in-law for their ID cards. Shamsuddin, who is a Bengali by birth, left his three daughters with Abdul Rehman, his second wife’s brother. A few months ago, Shamsuddin had divorced his second wife, who was deported to Bangladesh. She left her 11-year-old daughter with her ex-husband.

Being out with his first wife after having divorced Rehman´s sister could be enough for the uncle to justify the "offense" and the "dishonor".

Pakistan Bazaar police told Daily Times that Rehman sent one of his two step nieces, Aqsa, 13, to buy fodder and locked the house from the inside.

Aqsa told the police that when she returned after 15 minutes, she found the door locked. She said that she knocked at the door for a while and when her uncle opened the door he suddenly pulled her inside. She said that Rehman had a knife in his hand and Iqra, 11, was lying in the kitchen with blood all over the place.

According to police sources Rehman is a hafiz-e-Quran and had recently completed the Gardan, in which the holy book is memorised in seven different ways.

Following the same link, you´ll also find this atrocity:

Sodomised: The Defence police brought a thirteen-year-old boy of Masoom Shah Colony to Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre for a medical examination and treatment Tuesday. According to the boy, R, his neighbour Shakeel tortured him and sodomized him two days ago. The medico legal officer at JPMC told Daily Times that the boy had torture marks on his body while the initial examination had confirmed that he had also been sodomized.

Plain gruesome.

Related:
'Honor killing' caught on tape
Pakistan: Honor Killing - The Most Nauseate "Custom"
UN Urges Probe On Suicide Cases Among Women
Pakistan: 14-Year-Old Shot Five Times, Survived
Pakistan: 14-Year-Old Noor Jehan Dies Alone In The Hospital

Al Jazeera, a Propaganda Tool

Yesterday Michelle Malkin wrote about how Al Jazeera used a false photo (demonstrated nine days before) in an article about the Haditha massacre. The photo has now been changed and critical posts written by angry commenters have been removed.

The Big Pharaoh now reports about his encounter with Al Jazeera in an interview on BBC Radio:

Mr. Ahmed, with all my respect, Al Jazeera doesn't treat all news events equally. Let me give you an example. You defended the channel’s use of the word “massacre” to describe the Gaza beach bombing. I don’t have a problem with that. However, has Al Jazeera used the same terminology when referring to the daily terrorist attacks in Iraq? The answer is a definite no. Take last May’s market bombing where over 25 people were blow up by one of Zarqawi’s suicide bombers. Did Al Jazeera play footage of the carnage over and over and over again. No it didn’t. Did it run sensational and emotionally crushing programs one after the other? No it didn’t. Did Sheikh Qaradawi, Al Jazeera’s “spiritual mentor”, appear on his show and really concentrate on this incident? No he didn’t. Does Al Jazeera treat an Iraqi family that was wiped out by Zarqawi the same way it treated the Gaza beach family? No it does not. Please note that I am only talking about Iraq here, Darfur is another similar case.

Read it all.

The Big Pharaoh also wants an independent investigation for the Gaza Beach incident:

Now, no one would believe the IDF conclusion. This is the reason why Israel, if it can back up the finding, must demand an international inquiry into the incident and make a huge fuss out of it. Otherwise, a splendid opportunity to undermine Hamas would be wasted. Will Israel do us all a favor and be smart enough in doing that?

I agree.

Also read Attacking Each Other Again.

Iranian Sources Publish Highlights of E.U. Proposal of Incentives to Iran

Iran's Obligations:

"- A commitment to examining the suspended issues [i.e. issues raised by the IAEA that Iran has repeatedly refused to address] and all the global concerns by means of full cooperation with the agency [i.e. the IAEA].

"- A complete halt to all activity connected to uranium enrichment and production, and a commitment to continue this commitment during negotiations.

"- Renewal of the implementation of the Additional Protocol [to the NPT].

"Future cooperation will be determined in negotiations on a long-term agreement.

That´s why Ahmadinejad needs the secret nuclear weapons site:

Fresh evidence has emerged that Iran is working on a secret military project to develop nuclear weapons that has not been declared to United Nations inspectors responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme.

Nuclear experts working for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna are pressing the Iranians to make a full disclosure about a network of research laboratories at a secret military base outside the capital Teheran.

The project is codenamed Zirzamin 27, and its purpose is to enable the Iranians to undertake uranium enrichment to military standard. Zirzamin means “basement” in Farsi, which suggests the laboratories are underground and 27 refers to the 27-year-old Iranian revolution.

Suspicions have been growing that Iran has a secret military nuclear research programme since UN inspectors discovered particles of enriched uranium at a research complex at Lavizan, a military base on the outskirts of Teheran, in 2003.

The Iranians agreed to allow IAEA inspectors to visit the Lavizan complex but then razed it to the ground before the inspectors arrived.

"This is a truly alarming development,” said a senior western diplomat working with the IAEA. “This evidence indicates that the Iranians remain committed to developing nuclear weapons, despite their claims to the contrary that their nuclear ambitions are entirely peaceful.”

Indeed.


Hattip: LGF commenter Kosh's Shadow.

Something Bad Brewing In Spain?

Via Internet Haganah:

The Society for Internet Research today released a restricted-access report regarding the users of a prominent Arabic-language jihadist forum. We are not going to name the forum here, but feel obliged to note that the number of users in Spain has increased dramatically. In our survey forum users currently residing in Spain ranked 2nd among all Europeans, behind Germany and ahead of the United Kingdom. This is not good.

They also report about a new Dutch Jihadi site.

More news from Spain

American Thinker: Media averts eyes from huge Spanish demonstration:

Something between 200,000 and one million people took to the streets of Madrid (see photo) for a demonstration against appeasement of terrorists. The ETA Basque terrorists, who are to enter talks with the government were the proximate cause. But also the Muslim terrorists who dream of reconquista - re-claiming Spain for the Dar al Islam. Speakers and many in the chanting crowd denounced PM Zapatero, who unexpectedly won Spain for the Socialists in the wake of the Madrid terror bombing and who now proposes to negotiate with the ETA thugs. The crowd was apparently chanting against both forms of appeasement.

More here.
Sonitus weighs in.
And so does "The Cafeteria Is Closed".
Dialogue with ETA: Not in my name!

Saddams Brother Is Now Against Dictatorship

It´s funny to see how things change when you´re stripped for your absolute power. The dictators brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, is outraged about the today´s existing dictatorship:

THE chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial barred the former Iraqi leader's half-brother and co-accused Barzan al-Tikriti from attending today's session after guards forced him out of court the day before.

"The court decided to continue keeping defendant Barzan away for his repeated violation of the order of the court," Chief Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman said as the trial resumed at a heavily-fortified courtroom in Baghdad.

Former intelligence chief Barzan, who like Saddam and six other defendants face charges of crimes against humanity, was forced out of court on Monday screaming "This is a dictatorship" after an argument with Mr Rahman.

Heh.

Hattip: The Jawa Report

Hawking Says Humans Must Go Into Space

And preferably to another star system:

HONG KONG (AP) - The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.

The British astrophysicist told a news conference in Hong Kong that humans could have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40 years.

"We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added Hawking, who arrived to a rock star's welcome Monday. Tickets for his lecture planned for Wednesday were sold out.

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."

He also adds: "If humans can avoid killing themselves in the next 100 years".

Religious Moral Police: Argentine Soccer Players Flat Raided

A muslim woman must pay $333 for having been to close to a local Argentine football player:

Kuala Lumpur, June. 12 (AP): A 21-year-old Malaysian Muslim woman has been fined 1,200 ringgits (USD 333) after she was caught by Islamic moral police in an Argentine soccer player's bedroom, a news report said today.

It said Farrah Aina Safian Sauri pleaded guilty to the charge of "khalwat," or "close proximity," which under Malaysia's Islamic law is described as a couple not married to each other being alone together in a private place.

The Moral Guardians raided Gustavo Alberto Romero´s flat. It´s not known whether the disaster (she was found in his bedroom) already was a fact:

The New Straits Times reported that Religious Affairs Department officials in the northeastern state of Kelantan raided the flat of Gustavo Alberto Romero on May 7 and found Farrah Aina in his bedroom. Romero is an imported soccer player, serving as a striker on Kelantan's state team.

For yet unknown reasons, this young student had visited the strikers flat three times:

Farrah Aina, a pharmacy student at the International Islamic University, admitted in a Shariah Court to visiting Romero's flat at least three times, the daily said. She pleaded for a lighter sentence, saying she is still studying.

"I have repented and I promise never to repeat" the offence, she was quoted as saying.

It´s a good thing we have the RMP taking care of us and making sure we stay "pure". Specially if you consider today´s trend for sex.

Video: Shirley Phelps On Fox News, Interviewed By Julie Banderas

Shirley Phelps enjoys showing up in dead soldiers funerals. The hatemonger runs this site: God Hates Fags.


Members of the Westboro Baptist Church hold signs and stand on the American flag at the funeral of Pfc. Caleb Lufkin June 2, 2006, in Galesburg, Ill. (courtesy: Westboro Baptist Church)






Go get 'em, JULIE!!!
Note: Apparently this is a video uploaded by Westboro themselves (therefore the Westboro link at the end). I would say it´s contraproductive...

In an earlier interview by Hannity and Colmes:
"You´re as mean and as sick and as cruel as anybody that I´ve ever had on this programme"


More hate propaganda from Westboro: You´re going to hell!!


Well, I´d rather go to Hell as long as you guys promise not to follow me there...

Iran: Police Beat Women At Rally

Iranian women who were protesting peacefully in Tehran for more rights and a better life, were beaten by the Iranian Police. You know, the usual intimidation:

TEHRAN, Iran (CP) - Iranian police with batons and shields beat women's rights demonstrators in a downtown Tehran square Monday, injuring one protester and detaining 20.

The injured woman was taken to a hospital with wounds to her face and head. Her identity and further details were not immediately available.

The protest by about 200 women was organized by a previously unknown group calling itself the Labour and Communist party. An invitation delivered to The Associated Press on Sunday demanded equal rights for women and the nullification of a law allowing Iranian men to have four wives.

"We are women, we are human, but we don't have any rights!" protesters chanted.

Some 100 police, including female officers, attacked the demonstrators and dispersed them about an hour after the protest began.

As male police aren´t permitted to touch women (suspects) according to Islamic laws, it was the female officers that carried out the beating part.











An Iranian female police officer, left, beats a female protester, during a protest in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 12, 2006. Iranian police beat women at an equal rights demonstration in Tehran Monday, injuring at least one protester and arresting 20 others. (AP Photo)

Nearly 100 were arrested during this peaceful demonstration:

Tehran, Iran, Jun. 12 – Nearly 100 women were arrested by State Security Forces (SSF) in a clampdown on a peaceful demonstration by several thousands Iranian women in Tehran, protestors told Iran Focus by telephone.

Security forces used truncheons and teargas to attack the women who had gathered in 7 Tir Square demanding equal rights, the sources said.

“Put an end to misogyny”, the women chanted. There were also chants of “freedom, freedom”, “we are human beings but have no rights”, and “we want equal rights”.

Hundreds of young men took part in the rally and clashed with the agents of the SSF.

I guess the Islamic laws do not forbid men from using teargas against women...

Gateway Pundit has more.

World Naked Bike Ride

World Naked Bike Ride is some kind of strange event to protest against oil consumption. Their FAQ section is here...










Zombie was in San Francisco. Pics are self-explanatory.

Many Next Generation Terrorists Already Dead

First of all, Zarqawi was not beaten to death as some have been saying:

Austinbay:

QUESTION: Any evidence Zarqawi was beaten?

Medical pathologist (over phone): No, no evidence.

Dr Jones: The injury to his lungs (Zarqawi’s) were not survivable.

He died of "internal injuries":

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes after a U.S. warplane bombed his hideout northeast of Baghdad, and he died of extensive internal injuries consistent with those caused by a bomb blast, the U.S. military said Monday.

Colonel Steve Jones, chief surgeon for Multinational Forces, said an autopsy concluded that Zarqawi died from serious injuries to his lungs. An FBI test positively identified Zarqawi's remains.

Zarqawi´s successor:

Al Qaeda in Iraq has named a little-known militant to succeed its slain leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to an Internet statement on Monday. "The shura council of al Qaeda in Iraq unanimously agreed on Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir to be a successor to Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," said a statement signed by al Qaeda and posted on a Web site frequently used by Islamist militants.

"Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir is a good brother, has a history in jihad (holy war) and is knowledgeable. We ask God that he...continue what Sheikh Abu Musab began," said the statement, which could not be immediately authenticated.

Good news:

Many in ‘next generation' of global terrorists already dead

MADRID, Spain - They rose up quickly to take up Osama bin Laden's call for jihad, ruthless men in their 20s and 30s heralded as the next generation of global terror.

Two years later, 40 percent are dead, targets of a worldwide crackdown that claimed its biggest victory with the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's front man in Iraq.

Manhunts in Asia, Africa and Europe have pushed most of the rest deep underground - finding refuge in wartorn Somalia or the jungles of the southern Philippines. While there are still recruits ready to take up al-Qaida's call to arms, analysts say the newcomers have fewer connections than the men they are replacing, less training and sparser resources.

Anti-terrorism is working.

Palestine: Attacking Each Other Again

Fatah gunmen attack Palestinian parliament:

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Hundreds of Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas went on a rampage against the Hamas-led government Monday night, firing bullets and setting a Cabinet building on fire in retaliation for an earlier attack by Hamas gunmen.

The security men shot out the windows of the parliament building before storming the two-building Cabinet complex, where they smashed furniture, destroyed computers and scattered documents. No casualties were reported.

Abbas has been locked in a bitter power struggle with Hamas since the Islamic militant group beat Fatah in January legislative elections. Hamas now controls the parliament and Cabinet.

Political correctness seems to be absent...

More Palestine News: Check out the falsified video clip of the tragic Gaza beach incident.

Update: Israel: Gaza blast not from Israeli shell:

JERUSALEM - An Israeli investigation into what caused an explosion on a Gaza beach that killed eight Palestinians will conclude that the blast was most likely caused by a mine planted by Palestinian militants and not an Israeli shell, military officials said Tuesday.

The Palestinians had blamed an Israeli shell for the killing of the civilians in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, and had recognized as a hero a Palestinian girl whose image was broadcast around the world crying over her father's body at the scene.

According to the findings, shrapnel taken from two wounded Palestinians who were evacuated to Israeli hospitals showed that the explosives were not made in Israel, the officials said. In addition, the last Israeli shell fired toward Palestinian rocket launchers who operate in the area was seven minutes before the blast and landed 250 yards from the scene, the officials said.

Also, after the blast, Israeli military viewed Hamas militants collecting the shrapnel from the area, in an apparent effort to prevent authorities from revealing that the explosion was caused by explosives it had laid, the officials said.

The results of the investigation are also based on threats by Hamas to stop Israeli naval commandos from landing on the beach after group militants were killed in the area in an ambush by Israeli navy divers last month, the officials said.

Political Correctness And Multiculturalism

Professor Mahfooz Kanwar, a Canadian Muslim, is interviewed by Licia Corbella (editor of Calgary Sun):

“Multiculturalism takes away our complete undivided loyalties to this country,” explains Kanwar, a criminologist, and professor of sociology at Mount Royal College in Calgary.

“Multiculturalism has been bad for unity in Canada. It ghettoizes people, makes them believe, wrongly, that isolating themselves and not adapting to their new society is OK. It is not,” says Kanwar, a devout Muslim.

“And political correctness threatens us because we can’t fight something we refuse to label and understand.”

Kanwar, 65, says the amount of political correctness stemming from last weekend’s arrests of 17 radicalized Muslims in the Toronto area is “sickening” and “dangerous.”

“Everybody was tripping over themselves not to state the obvious, that these men mostly attended the same mosque,” said Kanwar, referring to the Al-Rahman Islamic Centre—a small store-front mosque in Mississauga, a suburb just west of Toronto, that twists true Islam.

Toronto police Chief Bill Blair actually boasted that “there was not one single reference made by law enforcement to Muslim or the Muslim community” at the post-arrest news conference a week ago.

“That is an absurdity. Political correctness has gone too far. Political correctness threatens our society,” said the Pakistani-born Kanwar. “It is the responsibility of the minorities to adjust to the majority, not the other way around,” added Kanwar.

Islam Has No Room For Terror: London Scholar

A London Islamic Scholar says there´s an ongoing international conspiracy to malign the Religion of Peace:

PUNE: Associating the word 'terrorism' with Islam is an international conspiracy to malign the religion of peace, Maulana Qamruzzama Azmi, general secretary of London-based World Islamic Mission, said here on Saturday.

"When the BBC sought my reaction to the September 11 attacks in the US, I at once said that the attackers were not Muslims, because no Muslim, according to the Quran, can kill an innocent person," he said.

Citing the Quran, Maulana Qamruzzama said anyone who saves one life, saves all humanity. And anyone who kills one innocent person, slays entire humanity.

"A muslim cannot kill an innocent person."

Well, I´m a proud infidel.

Therefore I´m not an innocent.

It´s a muslims duty to kill me: "Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (But if they desist in their unbelief, then don't kill them.)" 2:191-2

Religion of Peace?

VIDEO: Nazis In Michigan

Old news, but:

What´s going on in Lansing, Michigan?

Michigan - Lansing - april 22, 2006 .


Unreal...

Media coverage:

More than 800 protest neo-Nazi rally, about 75 supporters take Capitol steps

Approximately 75 members got off the bus, many of them in brown shirt uniforms, some carrying swastika flags. They ranged in age from the elderly to young children.

One man was carrying a black flag that reads "White pride worldwide."

There are also more than a dozen supporters inside the rally area.

The group took the steps of the Capital at about 2:15 p.m. They shouted "Sieg heil" to which the crowd responded, "Go home" and expletives.

Source

The corporate media, which spent several weeks both in Lansing and in Michigan as a whole focusing on security preparations, largely focused their post-rally coverage on how the police prevented violence and kept “order” during the protest. Even in light of the physical attacks on at least three Nazi supporters, the media stuck to this line and downplayed the arrests of sixteen protestors, instead choosing to emphasize the success of the preparations of state and local police. While all media reports on the rally prominently featured the protests, it was rare that they did so in any substantive manner, instead choosing to quote people who discussed the need to come out and show “love” in the face of hate. In the same manner that media failed to fully engage the reasons why groups organized against the Nazis, media reports also failed to engage the substance of Nazism and instead reported on the Nazis as if they were just another political party or group in United States and not a movement based on an ideology responsible for the deaths of some six million people in concentration camps. The corporate media described how the NSM promised that they would “close the borders” because “the people” allegedly want the borders closed and that the NSM will participate in upcoming elections in the United States. The reporting largely ignored the NSM’s racism, despite the fact that racism is the crux of their ideology and political movement.

The NSM has announced that it plans further rallies and activities in Michigan. The NSM initially expressed considerable frustration with the way the rally went, citing the fact that the strict security allegedly kept away their supporters, that the media underplayed their numbers, and that multiple supporters were physically beaten leaving the rally.

Source

Much more here.
















































Neo-Nazis in Germany support Madman Ahmadinejad.

The Jawa Report has more about neo-nazi idiots.

More photos.
Thanks to Atlas Shrugs for the video link.

Canada: Imam: We Failed Our Youth

Via The Star:

Imams across the GTA urged families and communities to take more responsibility for shaping the minds of young Muslims, following the arrest of 17 young men and boys on terrorism-related charges last Friday.

In Mississauga, North York and Scarborough, they spoke to thousands gathered for Friday afternoon prayers, some addressing concerns about backlash, others urging the community to have faith in the Canadian justice system to provide a fair trial.

"There is nothing wrong in saying we failed our youth," said Imam Munir El-Kassen at the Toronto and Region Islamic Congregation in North York. "We did not fail them intentionally, but our community was in a formative stage and our youth searching to fill the vacuum within received wrong advice and training.

"We should be more careful in controlling the youth in the public domain — not everybody should be allowed to talk or lead the youth. They are the most vulnerable."

I´m glad to see some self-criticism, and not the usual "islam basher" nonsense.

Islamists ban World Cup

The dreaded World Cup:

ISLAMIST militiamen fired into the air to disperse hundreds of Somalis protesting early today against moves by sharia courts to stop them watching the World Cup in the capital Mogadishu.

The soccer tournament had drawn huge crowds to television screens set up under trees and iron-sheeted shacks, providing some escape from the tension that has gripped Mogadishu since Islamists seized control from an alliance of warlords on Monday.

Witnesses said scores of young men set fire to tyres last night in protests that carried on into the early hours of today after Islamist gunmen pulled the plug on makeshift cinemas airing the soccer tournament.

Two people were wounded when militia tried to break up the demonstrations that centred around the main livestock market in an Islamist stronghold in the capital's north, residents said.

"The Islamic militia of the area issued an order to stop them watching films as well as the World Cup this year in Germany," said Elmi Muse, a resident said.

Similar moves by Islamist militia to close cinemas and video stores in Mogadishu last November triggered heavy fighting that killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 20.

Update: Two were killed:

The gunmen loyal to the Joint Islamic Courts (JIC), cut electricity, cleared cinema halls and warned residents against watching the football tournament in areas they control, forcing a violent protest late on Saturday in which two people were killed, residents said Sunday.

Hattip: LGF

Dutch Fear Muslim Reaction to Hirsi Ali’s Gay Movie

Via Brussel Journal:

The Dutch authorities fear that “Submission 2,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s soon to be released new movie, might make the Netherlands a target of angry Muslims worldwide. The movie criticizes Muslims for their intolerance of gays. In a report published last Wednesday the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Coordinator (Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding, NCTb) warns that one must seriously take into account the possibility of an international Muslim boycott of the Netherlands, similar to the boycott of Denmark by the Islamic world earlier this year over the Muhammad cartoons.

The NCTb writes that “Submission 2” has already attracted attention in the Arab world and in Iran. The Dutch authorities are working on a plan about what to do if the movie does, indeed, stir up international Muslim indignation.

Read it all.

The "moderate" muslims will go nuts again, showing us the true nature of islam and their intolerance toward "infidels".

Iraqis Celebrating Zarqawi´s Death

If you only read main street media, you´ve probably missed the photos and story that Gateway Pundit has here.

Zarqawi had time to think about his 72 virgins before he died. Story here and here.

VIDEO: Stand-up Comedian BJ Novak - Islam and The 72 Virgins

Motivation is important if you want to convince someone to blow up himself and others:




Would these motivate you?














Obvious:


















Feel like "going for it"?

















Previous: Islam: It´s All About Sex, Isn´t It?

Update: I forgot to give the proper credit for the graphics. The sources: here, here and here.

Terrorist Leader of Bali Bombings To Be Released, Targets Australia

The 2002 Bali Bombing occurred on October 12, 2002 in the resort town of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring a further 209. It is considered the deadliest act of terrorism in Indonesian history. The majority of the dead were foreign tourists, especially Australians, but nearly one fifth were Indonesian nationals.

A number of Indonesian nationals were sentenced to death for their parts in the bombings and in October 2002. Abu Bakar Bashir, a leader of the Jemaah Islamiah organisation often accused of being behind the attacks, was charged over his alleged role in the bombing. In March 2005, Bashir was found guilty of conspiracy over the attacks in Bali.

Bashir is now to be released after only 25 1/2 months in jail:

A HERO'S welcome awaits Australia's nemesis, Abu Bakar Bashir, the cleric convicted for blessing the Bali bombing, when he is freed on Wednesday after 25½ months in an Indonesian jail.

Canberra is bristling at the early release of the founder and leader of the terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah — whose most deadly attacks were the 2002 Bali bombings, which took 202 lives, 88 of them Australian.

Proofs of The Days of Abu Bakar Bashir in Prison, written with an acolyte who paid regular visits to his cell in Jakarta's Cipinang Jail, have been obtained by The Age. To be released next week, the book demonstrate's that Bashir is determined to continue his crusade against the West, targeting Australia.

Bashir plans to travel across Indonesia with his message of defiance, a lightning rod for radical followers of Islam. JI, the organisation he co-founded, is fragmented and damaged but still an active threat, according to the International Crisis Group's Sidney Jones — who has interviewed many of its leading members. It retains an ultimate aim of creating an Islamic state stretching from Indonesia to the Philippines and beyond.

Rather than planning more terrorist attacks, Bashir's role will be to augment the moral battering ram being wielded by fundamentalists trying to impose Islamic sharia law. Expect Bashir to be "cheerleading" attempts to introduce a draconian anti-pornography law that would criminalise kissing and exposed navels, Jones predicts.

Although Bashir's schools, a fertile recruiting ground for suicide bombers, could not be closed, Australia could insist that Indonesia ensure through its education system "that moderate Islam is promoted, not this sort of perverse extremism", Downer said. Under international counter-terrorism laws, Indonesia should freeze Bashir's assets and prevent overseas travel, he said.

However, Indonesian Justice Minister Hamid Awaluddin said there would be "no strings attached whatsoever" to Bashir's release, including his ability to travel.

In a recent interview made by Scott Atran, the terrorist leader had this to say:

Scott Atran: What are the conditions for Islam to be strong?

Abu Bakar Bashir: The infidel country must be visited and spied upon. If we don't come to them, they will persecute Islam. They will prevent non-Muslims converting.
SA: What can the West, especially the US, do to make the world more peaceful?

ABB: They have to stop fighting Islam. That's impossible because it is sunnatullah [destiny, a law of nature], as Allah has said in the Koran. If they want to have peace, they have to accept to be governed by Islam.

SA: What if they persist?

ABB: We'll keep fighting them and they'll lose. The batil [falsehood] will lose sooner or later. I sent a letter to Bush. I said that you'll lose and there is no point for you [to fight us]. This [concept] is found in the Koran.

SA: Have you met Osama Bin Laden?

ABB: No, no. I want to though. After my release, I hope I can meet him.

SA: So this fight will never end?

ABB: Never. This fight is compulsory. Muslims who don't hate America sin. What I mean by America is George Bush's regime. There is no iman [belief] if one doesn't hate America.

SA: How can the American regime and its policies change?

ABB: We'll see. As long as there is no intention to fight us and Islam continues to grow there can be peace. This is the doctrine of Islam. Islam can't be ruled by others. Allah's law must stand above human law. There is no [example] of Islam and infidels, the right and the wrong, living together in peace.

This lunatic will be out on the street on Wednesday.

Religion of Peace?

Abu Bakar Bashir (also Abubakar Ba'asyir) alias Abdus Somad (born August 1938) is an Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council (MMI), who intelligence agencies claim is the spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), and has links with al-Qaeda. Bashir denies he has anything to do with Jemaah Islamiyah or terrorism. He is in poor health.

Bashir was arrested for suspected involvement in the 2002 Bali terrorist bombing. On April 14, 2003, he was formally charged by the Indonesian government with treason, immigration violations, and providing false documents and statements to the Indonesian police. The charges are mainly related to the series of bombings against Christian churches on Christmas Eve, 2000, which killed 18 people.

In the Indonesian court, he was found not guilty for treason due to a lack of evidence, but was found guilty on immigration charges. He was sentenced to three years in prison, but the sentence was subsequently reduced to 20 months. If more evidence is found on his involvement, he may be tried again for treason.

On October 15, 2004, he was arrested by the Indonesian authorities and charged with involvement in a bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta on August 5, 2003, which killed 14 people. Secondary charges in the same indictment accuse him of involvement in the Bali bombing, the first time he has faced charges in relation to that attack.

On March 3, 2005, Bashir was found guilty of conspiracy over the 2002 attacks, but was found not guilty of the charges surrounding the 2003 bomb. He was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment.

On 17 August 2005, as part of the tradition of remissions for Indonesia's Independence Day, Bashir's jail term was cut by 4 months and 15 days.

He was also linked with bomb attack on the Bhuddist monument Borobudur in 1985 but managed to escape trial by seeking asylum in Malaysia (this explain the immigration charges against him above).

First Post quotes him saying that "[the West, especially the US] have to stop fighting Islam. That's impossible because If they want to have peace, they have to accept to be governed by Islam. [...] Muslims who don't hate America sin."

Source


Tags: Abu Bakar Bashir, Jemaah Islamiyah, indonesia, terrorism, bali, bombing, australia, atran

FATWA: This Could Be A Great Comedy Sketch

...but it´s serious:

Fatwa # 14309 from South Africa Date: Thursday, June 8th 2006

Category
Food and Nourishment
Title
Can an animal (venison)be eaten that was shot with a bow & arrow?

Question
Can an animal (venison)be eaten that was shot with a bow & arrow? Or does the person have to recite the dua before shooting it?

If a non muslim shoots the animal with a bow & arrow, can it be eaten or not?


Answer
In order for an animal to become permissible for consumption (Halal) through being shot by an arrow, the following conditions will have to be fulfilled:

1. The hunter must be a Muslim or from Ahl al-Kitab (Christian or Jew) 2. He must not deliberately leave out the name of Allah when releasing the arrow. If he left it out forgetfully, then he would be excused.Note that the name of Allah has to be taken simultaneously with the release of the arrow.

If he deliberately delayed it, then the animal would not be halal.

3. The animal must be one whose consumption is permitted in Shari'ah.

4. The arrow must wound the prey.

5. The hunter must continue pursuing the prey until he catches up with it.

If he takes a break and then finds it dead, it will not be Halal.

6. If he finds the prey alive, he must slaughter it, in the same manner as other animals like sheep etc are slaughtered.

The answer to your questions would thus be:

1. If the person deliberately didn't take the name of Allah- even if it was because of his not knowing that he had to take it- the animal would not be halal.

2. If the non-Muslim is a Christian or Jew who took into consideration all the other conditions eg.taking the name of Allah when shooting, pursuing the animal etc, then the prey would be halal, otherwise not.

Ref: Rad al-Muhtar Vol. 6 Pg. 461-470.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Husain Kadodia
FATWA DEPT.

CHECKED & APPROVED: Mufti Ebrahim Desai (Fatwa Dept.)

Hattip: LGF-commenter flipflop.

Al-Jazeera Airs Video Of Al Qaeda's No. 2

Via CBS4:

(AP) CAIRO, Egypt The Al-Jazeera network broadcast a video by al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri on Friday in which he spoke about Palestinian and Egyptian politics and the situation in Darfur.

The tape apparently was made before the announcement that Iraq's most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed Wednesday by a U.S. airstrike. Al-Zawahri praised the al Qaeda in Iraq leader's efforts to confront U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

"God bless the prophet of Islam in Iraq, the persistent hero of Islam, the Holy Warrior Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," al-Zawahri said.

He also calls on all muslims to reject the referendum in Palestine, being a "House of Islam".

Meanwhile, Hamas is getting more and more nervous:

GAZA (Reuters) - The Hamas-led Palestinian government made a last-minute appeal on Friday to President Mahmoud Abbas to abandon a proposed referendum on statehood that would implicitly recognize Israel.

"Brother president, I appeal to you in the name of Islam ... to endorse dialogue and not a referendum," Haniyeh wrote in a four-page letter to Abbas. "We must confront the imminent danger and unite in the face of the unjust siege."

Tags: islam, iran, al qaeda, zarqawi, zarkawi, palestine, hamas, israel

Iran: Increasing Uranium Enrichment

Via Los Angeles Times:

Iran began to enrich a second batch of uranium in its research plant this week on the same day that world powers offered it an incentive package conditioned on its suspension of nuclear activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report released Thursday.

The timing of the nuclear work, which Western diplomats suggested was politically calculated, appeared to signal that Iran would fight to continue enriching uranium despite the demands by the global community.

"On the timing, knowing the Iranians, nothing is left to chance," said a European diplomat, who requested anonymity.

I´m shocked!!!

Solana optimistic:

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Thursday he was "more optimistic than pessimistic" about reaching an agreement with Iran over its disputed nuclear programme. Solana said there had been a "positive atmosphere" when he visited Tehran this week to hand over a packet of economic, technological and security incentives in return for Iran suspending work which could eventually produce atomic bombs. "The meeting, the talks (with the Iranians) were very constructive, very positive. The atmosphere was very positive," Solana told reporters after meeting French President Jacques Chirac. "I think they understood the content of the proposal well and I hope they will react soon," he said.

"So I'm more optimistic than pessimistic," he said.

Stop being foolish. Madman Ahmadinejad has said in several occasions that "We will negotiate about common concerns and for clearing up misunderstandings in the international atmosphere. But we will never negotiate about what kind of technology we want to use."

Crystal clear.


Tags: iran, ahmadinejad, uranium, enrichment, nukes, nuclear, solana, european, union

Muslims protest at police treatment

Muslims protesting against anti-terror. Yes, really.

The Telegraph informs:

Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators are set to gather in east London to protest at being treated as "second-class citizens" following a controversial anti-terror raid.

One of Scotland Yard's most senior officers appealed for calm ahead of the protest outside Forest Gate police station.

Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman said it was not the time for "conflict and anger" and urged all communities to "pull together".

His words came after he apologised directly for the "disruption and inconvenience" when a house was raided in the hunt for a suspected chemical bomb last Friday.

Apologised?! For looking for chemical bombs!? For heaven´s sake, you´re doing the job you´re expected to do!

Muslim demonstrators, you are too sensitive!

Tolerance have gone too far. Courageous Ms. Hirsi Ali warned us a while ago:

Hirsi Ali speaks softly, but her words are uncompromising. "In Europe, there is a tendency to appease radical Muslims," she says. "We have forgotten how to draw the line."

Hirsi Ali also blames Europe's immigrant problem on concepts of European tolerance that have gone too far.

Indeed.

Update:





Muslims in East London shout anti-government chants during a protest against the treatment of the Muslim community by British police in London, Friday, June 9, 2006. About 100 people demonstrated outside a London police station, chanting and waving placards a week after officers shot and wounded a man during an anti-terror raid. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson)


Gateway Pundit has more about the muslims protesting anti-terror raids.

LGF reports that threats were made against PM Tony Blair:

The noisy demonstration outside Forest Gate police station was contained within a police pen opposite. Protestors waved placards against police tactics and shouted: “Hands off Muslims. Tony Blair is a terrorist and Tony Blair, watch your back.”

In a chilling aside, a statement put out by al-Ghurabaa, followers of Alh us-Sunnah Wal Jamaa, said that the killing of Muslims was the price Britons have to pay because of the ‘real terrorists in our midst’.

In an apparent non-sequitur, the statement added: “After all, imagine what would happen if a nuclear device were to be unleashed onto the streets of Britain or if our water supply were suddenly poisoned killing millions of us.”

A 10-year-old boy, Fedai Bunaust, from Tunisia, handed out leaflets headlined: “Police Target Muslims: Will You Be Next?”

“The mosque gave me the leaflets,” he said. “It’s about the police.”

A bearded Irishman from Dublin, a convert of five years who gave his name as Khaled, said: “The Prophet Mohammed said ‘you should carry weapons’ and he is right.”

Tags: UK, england, great britain, muslim, islam, terrorism, chemical bomb

Indonesian Playboy: Islamic Hardliners Threatening

As I said a couple of days ago, this one had to be wathed closely:





A man reads a copy of the second issue of the Indonesian edition of US adult magazine Playboy at a news-stand in downtown Jakarta weeks after publishers halted operations following violent protests by Muslim hardliners.(AFP/Jewel Samad)


And today the intolerant and fanatic muslim hardliners are threatening again:

The second edition of Indonesian Playboy, which hit the streets Wednesday, is not opposed by the nation's Press Council but hard-line Islamic groups are threatening street demonstrations until the magazine is shut down for good.

The council said Playboy had broken no laws and should not be banned. However, the militant and often-lawless vigilante group, the Islam Defender Front (FPI), said the adult magazine threatened the moral fiber of the nation.

The Press Council's Sabam Leo Batubara told The Jakarta Post that the second edition of Playboy had met all requirements for a legal publication.

"The magazine had not violated the press law, and no one should prohibit it," he said.

"Soft porn is allowed as long as it is not sold to children. Soft porn and sex education is OK for adults," Sabam said.

FPI leader Habib Riziq Shihab said that by continuing to publish, Playboy had "challenged" the Muslim majority and said Muslim activists would "take the challenge."

"We will take to the streets soon to protest the publication," he told the Antara news wire.

Gateway Pundit covered the reactions when the first publication took place. It´s quite clear what the muslim activists have in mind when they say they´re "taking the challenge"...

Tags: playboy, muslim, islam, indonesia, jakarta, indonesian, intolerance

Canada: Muslims Ask Governments For Help

Canada´s muslim communities is asking for help to weed out extremists:

We're not here to say we don't have an issue. Of course we have an issue, but we can't deal with it ourselves," social worker Shahina Siddiqui, president of the Islamic Social Services Association, told a news conference yesterday.

"We are part of the Canadian society and so we demand that the Canadian society come forward and help us to root out this."

Her group was among several organizations that called on Harper, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller to hold a summit by month's end to tackle the problem of marginalized youth in their community who are falling prey to the pull of radical elements.

You may think the radicals are a tiny minority? You would be wrong:

The Chronicle Herald reports that there was a struggle over leadership at the Ar-Rahman Islamic Centre and that the Islamic fundamentalist element won out over Muslim moderates.

Thus there are more radicals than moderates. That´s the real issue.

Did the muslim communities inform the government about this fact? If they didn´t, why?

Siddiqui warns:

...more and more Muslim youth feel "marginalized and isolated" by the "ongoing harassment" of their faith, and are open to the recruiting of extremists.

"I'm seeing the children feeling as if they don't belong because of the onslaught on Islam and Islamo-phobia, the anti-Islam tilt in the media," she said.

Atrocities made in the name of Islam have that effect on people. Bookmark LGF and Jihad Watch and you´ll get the picture in a couple of days.

Islamophobia is originated by Islam itself. Islam and violent actions fulfilled in the name of Islam, without any apparent outrage from "moderates", may explain the, as Siddiqui puts it, "ongoing harassment"...

She adds:

...parents need to stay alert to the influences on their children.

"If your children are hanging out in the mosque and they're talking to someone that you don't know, it's your duty to find out who they are," she said.

Indeed.

The following association isn´t good for your religion, but don´t blame westerners/non-muslims for being "islamophobes" for opposing it:













Tags: canada, toronto, islam, jamal, muslim, terror, terrorism, threat, ammonium nitrate, internet chat, CSIS, ontario, training camp, canadian, canadians, jihad, jihadis, islamic, fundamentalists

Canada/UK: Police Probe British Links

Via Hamilton Spectator:

English police have stormed an Internet cafe and confiscated at least a dozen computer hard drives as part of a widening investigation into British links with Ontario's terror suspects.

A teenager who often used the Internet at the cafe said one of its customers was Sultan Khan, whose house was raided by police Wednesday.

Police arrested Sultan's friend, 21-year-old Abid Khan, when he arrived at Manchester airport Tuesday night on a flight from Pakistan. He spent yesterday being questioned by police about alleged links to the Ontario terror suspects, said his lawyer, Javid Arshad.

"He denies any links to terrorism whatsoever," Arshad said in an interview. "He said he has no dealing with any terrorist group either in this country or abroad."

Report lists suspected Canadian targets:

TORONTO — Jailed terror suspects accused of plotting attacks in Canada had been making plans to detonate truck bombs against the stock exchange and the country's spy agency, according to a news report citing court documents.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp., which obtained the documents filed in the case against 12 men and five teenagers, reported that some of the men allegedly identified possible targets including the Toronto Stock Exchange, an unspecified military installation and the headquarters of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

A defense lawyer for one suspect revealed earlier that prosecutors accuse some of the Muslim defendants of plotting to storm Parliament, take politicians hostage and behead them unless Canada withdrew its troops from Afghanistan.

Tags: canada, toronto, islam, jamal, muslim, terror, terrorism, threat, ammonium nitrate, internet chat, CSIS, ontario, training camp, canadian, canadians, jihad, jihadis, islamic, fundamentalists

MSM Picture Manipulation

The Brussel Journal has the background of this picture, and more examples.

Terror Leader al-Zarqawi Dead

Via CNN:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted insurgent in Iraq, is dead, according to an aide to Iraq's prime minister.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was expected to make a public announcement of the death, the details of which are unclear.

Two Pentagon officials told CNN that the government is awaiting al-Maliki's announcement in Baghdad before commenting on the report officially.

One official says the Pentagon is not sure of how the death was confirmed and that there might need to be "additional forensics" done before they can be fully confident the terrorist leader is dead.

Update:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, has been killed in a US airstrike, it was announced today.

Zarqawi, an iconic figure who acted as the axis of foreign insurgent operations against the Iraqi government and coalition forces, died in a military operation last night that targeted a house north-east of Baghdad.

News of his death was announced at around 8.30am today by the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and was greeted by rapturous applause from his audience.

"Today, Zarqawi was eliminated," he said.

Mr Maliki said Zarqawi and seven aides were killed last night in a house 30 miles north-east of Baghdad, in the volatile province of Diyala.

Zarqawi victim's brother: "may he rot in hell":

LONDON (Reuters) - The brother of Ken Bigley, the engineer beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, said the militant leader should rot in hell.

"The man was an animal and he deserved what he got. And may he rot in hell," Paul Bigley told Channel Four television.

Zarqawi's followers captured Ken Bigley, held him for weeks and filmed his beheading in 2004. Bigley's death traumatised his native Liverpool and his body has not been recovered.

Iraq announced on Thursday that U.S. forces had killed Zarqawi in an air strike.

"He's gone. The world has rid themselves of a very bad person. So he thinks he's going to paradise? I'm convinced the man is in hell," Paul Bigley said.

Timeline.

Update: al-Qaida in Iraq Vows to Continue Holy War (link via Drudge):

Al-Qaida in Iraq confirmed the death of its leader, Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, and vowed it will continue its "holy war" in a statement posted on the Web on Thursday.

"We want to give you the joyous news of the martyrdom of the mujahed sheik Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," said the statement, signed by "Abu Abdel- Rahman al-Iraqi," identified as the deputy "emir" or leader of al- Qaida in Iraq.

"The death of our leaders is life for us. It will only increase our persistence in continuing holy war so that the word of God will be supreme," it said.

Update: Iraqi PM makes the call.

Islam Incompatible with Europe, Say Dutch

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Many adults in the Netherlands hold strong views on the way Muslims adapt to the European continent, according to a poll by Motivaction released by GPD. 63 per cent of respondents believe think Islam is incompatible with modern European life.

They´ve just thrown her out of Holland, but Ms. Hirsi Ali has helped increasing that 63 per cent:

Hirsi Ali speaks softly, but her words are uncompromising. "In Europe, there is a tendency to appease radical Muslims," she says. "We have forgotten how to draw the line."

Hirsi Ali also blames Europe's immigrant problem on concepts of European tolerance that have gone too far. Memories of the Holocaust made Europeans especially sensitive to the stigmatization of any group. "We never want to draw distinctions between us and the other," says Hirsi Ali, "but in the process we went overboard. For example, we don't register the number of honor killings (in Muslim communities), because we don't want to stigmatize any group. We don't keep records of (immigrants by) ethnicity or religion."

Until recently, this effort at tolerance led policymakers to ignore the serious problems within some of their Muslim communities - from the preachings of radical imams to repression of women to the teaching of radical Islamist ideas to children.

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“My criticism of the West, especially of liberals, is that they do take freedom for granted,” Ms. Ali responded. She noted that Western Europeans born after World War II are unused to conflict. “They have lost the instinct to recognize that there can be such a thing as an enemy or a threat to freedom, and that’s what I’m witnessing in Europe now,” she stated. “[There is] a pacifist ideology that violence should never be used in any circumstances, and so we should talk and talk and talk. Even when your opponent tells you, ‘I don’t want to talk to you, I want to destroy you,’ the reaction is, ‘Please, let’s talk about the fact that you want to destroy me!’

Malaysian Elections: Non-muslims Are Accepted...

...to boost the support for Islamic hardline party:

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia's fundamentalist Islamic opposition party is considering accepting non-Muslims to boost its waning support, the party's president said, despite accusing minorities of trying to undermine Islam's role in the country.

The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party has long sought to woo non-Muslim voters to become a viable challenge to the ruling coalition government, dominated by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's United Malays National Organization, which supports a moderate form of Islam.

However, most non-Muslims -- and a majority of Muslims -- reject the party's goal of imposing Islamic jurisprudence that includes amputating thieves' hands and stoning adulterers.

Kempinski Hotels: Sharia Compliant

Via Express Hospitality:

But who would have thought of non-alcohol hotels? Yet, it is happening and the concept is off the drawing board. A prestigious chain line Kempinski is the designated executor backed by investors who wish to put their money into what is called `sharia compliant' (Islam-financed) projects.

(...)

Muqbil also explains why Kempinski agreed to accept the challenge. Kempinski, he says, has a tradition of breaking new ground in the Middle East. It was the first to announce a new hotel project on Palm Island and also managed the first ski-slope in the desert. What about those who `have' to stay at a Shaza and also need a drink. "A bar next door or even in this same premise under a separate company would be the answer," quipped a hotel consultant.

Is the alcohol ban the only measure or will other Sharia laws be considered as well?

Jamal 'ran a terror training camp'

Via The Times:

NEIGHBOURS in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga were curious about why so many young Muslims used to visit Qayyum Abdul Jamal.

The oldest of the 17 arrested as part of a North American terror cell, Mr Jamal is alleged to have encouraged his followers to attend training camps in Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. Some of the Canadians are believed to have attended the same camps, run by al-Qaeda, as British militants — thought to include at least two of those who murdered 52 people in London on July 7.

The Westerners were taught weapons handling and bombmaking, and how to operate cells and stay in touch with activists from other countries, using the internet. Their role back in suburbia was to radicalise other young people and pass on expertise.

Radicalise in the name of Islam, that is...

'Honor killing' caught on tape

Via Jerusalem Post:

A 26-year-old resident of Ramle was indicted in the Tel Aviv District Court on Wednesday on charges of murdering his 24-year-old sister Miriam by stabbing her 29 times.

Basel Abu-Dahal was caught on tape by security cameras at a parking lot of Bank Hapoalim in Ramle two weeks ago. In the footage, he is seen stabbing his sister while passers-by witness the act and do nothing. He is then seen calmly walking away carrying the knife (see images).

According to the indictment, Abu-Dahal, a former felon, stabbed his sister with a 23-centimeter knife. In his interrogation, he admitted to the stabbing, claiming he perpetrated the crime because of what he claimed was the improper way in which his sister had raised her daughter.

This primitive creature said in court that he was "willing to do the time for the sake of honor."

Related:
Pakistan: Honor Killing - The Most Nauseate "Custom"
Pakistan: 14-Year-Old Shot Five Times, Survived
Pakistan: 14-Year-Old Noor Jehan Dies Alone In The Hospital
UN Urges Probe On Suicide Cases Among Women

The "Religion of Peace"-List

" The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 5 Months

Also read Bryan´s post over at Hotair.

Amazing R/C airplane demo

Precision flight of a radio-controlled airplane, indoors.



Failed landing:

Keep out of Somalia, Islamist warns US

Via Mail and Guardian:

The leader of Islamist fighters controlling Somali capital Mogadishu warned the United States it would pay dearly for any intervention in the country, a pan-Arab paper reported on Wednesday.

Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the chairperson of the Islamic courts that have battled warlords for four months, said the US would face a disaster similar to a botched 1993 intervention that left 18 US army officers and 300 Somalis dead.

"If US forces intervene directly against us in Mogadishu, then we are ready to teach them a lesson they will never forget and repeat their defeat in 1993," Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed told Saudi-owned daily Asharq al-Awsat.

Blogs and Freedom of Speech

An interesting read about blogs and blogging:

The issue of free speech is a very important in discussions about blogs and blogging, as noted in London's business-oriented Web site Silicon.com (May 15): "In the same way that the Internet and technology provided the original facility for both sides — those who want to be free and those who want to constrain — it also provides new opportunities for communication and anonymity. IP tunnels, proxy servers, encryption, phantom email accounts and spoof addressing are among the obvious examples — not to mention the hiding and/or embedding of data in apparently passive files! And then there are all the tools used by the spreaders of viral infections and bot networks. All could be turned and used to keep free speech alive and safe."

"Dictators would seem powerless faced with this explosion of online material. How could they monitor the e-mails of China's 130 million users or censor the messages posted by Iran's 70,000 bloggers? The enemies of the Internet have unfortunately shown their determination and skill in doing just that. Censorship of the Web is growing and is now done on every continent. Traditional 'predators of press freedom' — Belarus, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Libya, the Maldives, Nepal, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam — all censor the Internet now. In 2003, only China, Vietnam and the Maldives had imprisoned cyber-dissidents. Now more countries do.

Read it all.

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A review here.

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