Chechen Rebels declare Caliphate of Caucasus

Rusty from the Jawa Report has reported on the declaration of the leader of the Chechen rebels who has declared war on the U.S. as well as on Russia and has at the same time declared the caliphate of the Caucasus.

Here is what Rusty has reported, and keep in mind that once again we are faced with Islamist revisionist history, because the Caucasus did not ever belong to Muslims.

I appeal to the Mujahideen who are fighting in the Caucasus and the oppressed Muslims of Idel-Ural, Siberia and other parts of the occupied Rusnya (Russia).

I would like to remind the fact that many Muslims are inclined to forget: Russian kafirs (infidels) have occupied our land and swinish life is being imposed on us for a long period of time. This is a punishment of Allah because we have moved away from his right path, because nothing could happen in the world without the will of Allah, praise to Him the Almighty....

Our glorious ancestors were waging Jihad against these enemies, and today Allah is testing our generation, as he tested our fathers. Everything is repeating. The Jihad reveals faith and disbelief. Today, as in earlier times, people are divided on Mujahideen, hypocrites, and apostates....
We, the Mujahideen, went out to fight the infidels not for the sake of fighting but to restore the Shariah of Allah in our land....

Today, as throughout history, our condition can only be changed with a weapon in hand. If Allah's Religion could be established on Earth using another method, then our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would not have engaged in twenty seven battles....

I am officially declaring of creation of the Caucasus Emirate.

All lands in Caucasus, where Mujahideen who gave bayah (oath) to me wage Jihad, I declare velayats (states) of the Caucasus Emirate including Dagestan, Nokhchiycho (Chechnya), Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia), Iriston (Ossetia), the Nogay steppe and the combined areas of Kabarda, Bulkar and Karachay....

I do not believe it is necessary to draw the borders of the Caucasus Emirate.

Firstly, because Caucasus is occupied by infidels and apostates and it is Dar al-Harb, the territory of war. Our first task is to make the Caucasus Dar al-Islam, establishing the Shariah throughout the land and expelling the infidels.

Secondly, after expelling the infidels we must reclaim all historical lands of Muslims, and these borders are beyond the boundaries of Caucasus....

We will wage irreconcilable war with anyone who would oppose the establishment of the Shariah, inshaAllah. Let not think those who openly violate the establishments of God, defying Islamic religion, leave it with impunity. This is a serious mistake....

Today in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Palestine our brothers are fighting. Those who attack Muslims are our common enemies wherever they are. Our enemy is not Russia only, but also anyone who wages war against Islam and Muslims. They are our enemies because they are enemies of Allah.

Hat tip: Beowulf

More on the Israeli strike on Syria

I have reported on this issue a few times and here is some further information from the Counterterrorism blog on why Israel felt that it was necessary to strike the nuclear facility inside the Syrian border:

Interestingly, while North Korea has been mentioned many times, the role of Iran has not been scrutinized.
I just wrote a piece for the Middle East Times on that topic.
Here is an excerpt:
Israel has been providing intelligence and satellite images to the U.S. about a secret Syrian nuclear program for several months, according to media reports. Discussions between Israel and the United States took place last summer regarding a possible strike. But when Israel found the matter so pressing that when they realized the U.S. was not ready to act, on September 6 they attacked a Syrian nuclear site. Hence the question: what is Syria really up to or more to the point what is Iran up to?

First, let's start with an underreported explosion that occurred in a Syrian military base outside Aleppo on July 26. Jane's Defense Weekly reported, citing Syrian defense sources, as saying the explosion took place during a test to fit a "Scud C" missile with a mustard-gas warhead. It quoted the sources as saying the explosion occurred when fuel caught fire in the missile production laboratory.

But there might be another explanation. Kuwait's Al Seyassah newspaper recently reported that a Shiite Lebanese religious cleric claimed the Iranians were allegedly supervising a chemical weapons manufacturing program and that tens of Iranian experts and engineers died as a result of that explosion. He also said Israelis attacked the base. He added that Western officials told him they received proof from Israel on the Syrian chemical weapons program. Even if Israel's involvement is not proven, what remains sure is that it must be very happy that a chemical weapons facility in Syria has been partly destroyed.

You can read the story here

Israel responds to constant mortar attacks from inside of Gaza

 

An Israeli air strike on Wednesday has successfully hit an Hamas controlled post where rockets are being constantly fired into Israeli territory.

Despite the bleating about the alleged "oppression" of Palestinians, there is in fact very little evidence to prove the complaints. Instead, the Hamas controlled Palestinians have been constantly firing their rockets at the town of Sderot, and threaten the lives of at least 300,000 citizens at intervals of every 3 hours.

If Hamas refuses to be a part of the present peace process, then there is little chance of any resolution to the conflicts, because the aims of Hamas happen to be that they should be the ones who control the whole region. As a result Israel's existence remains threatened, first by the existence of Hamas, and secondly by the backers of Hamas, Syria and Iran.

GAZA CITY (CNN) -- An Israeli airstrike Wednesday hit a Hamas post in southern Gaza, killing two Hamas security men in Khan Yunis, according to Hamas sources.

Hamas members in Gaza City watch TV coverage of the Mideast summit on Tuesday.

The Israeli army said the airstrike -- the third in Gaza this week -- was in response to the firing of mortars into Israel.

According to the Israeli military, 11 mortars and Qassam rockets were fired into Israel on Wednesday.

Reacting to incessant rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel's government labeled the Hamas-controlled region a "hostile territory" in September, setting in motion a wide-ranging crackdown that includes military operations and limiting Gaza's power supply.

Gaza militants fire rockets into Israel every three hours, on average, according to the Israeli military.

Speaking at the Mideast peace summit in Annapolis, Maryland, on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said "the continued shooting of Qassam rockets against tens of thousands of residents in the south of Israel, particularly in the city of Sderot, serves as a warning sign -- one which cannot be overlooked."

He said the ongoing attacks are a hurdle to achieving peace with the Palestinians and are the result of "the absence of governmental institutes and effective law enforcement mechanisms" in Hamas-ruled Gaza.

You can name a child Mohammed, but not a teddy bear - give me a break!!

An English teacher has been arrested in Khartoum because children in her class named a teddy bear that she intended to be used for instructional purposes, Mohammed.

The offense is insulting Islam, which is an offense under the Sharia rules in the Sudan.

 

KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) -- A British teacher arrested in Sudan after allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has been charged by authorities with offending religion, British officials say.

An undated amateur photo of Gillian Gibbons.

Gillian Gibbons, 54, is being held by police in the capital Khartoum after she asked her class of seven-year-olds to come up with a name for the toy as part of a school project, Robert Boulos, the head of Unity High School told CNN.

It is expected that she will appear in court Thursday, Sudan state media reported.

A British Foreign Office spokeswoman said Gibbons had been charged under Article 125 of Sudan's constitution, the law relating to insulting religion and inciting hatred.

The spokeswoman said the Sudanese ambassador had been summoned to the offices of the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to discuss the case. Gibbons was arrested under the country's Islamic Sharia law after parents of some of her students complained to police.

Saudi promises a review of Qatif rape case

Prince Saud al-Faisal has promised to have a review of the case of a girl who has been sentenced to 200 lashes because she was raped.

In a typical Islamic fashion the Saudi authorities claim that they are receiving unfair criticism over the case. Al-Faisal is more concerned about the press coverage than about the punishment given to the girl, and then the attempt to claim that she was an adulteress.

Hamas will most likely not honour any peace settlement that is brokered by George Bush

The BBC reports that the Islamist movement HAMAS has reportedly stated that Palestinians will not be bound by any decisions taken at this weeks US-backed Middle East Peace talks. Ismail Haniya, the leader of HAMAS in Gaza, who is not attending the talks, has described the discussions as "fruitless".

 

Several of the Hamas leaders met at the Palestinian Parliament in Gaza city to sign a document stating that Mr Abbas had no right to make concessions in any peace deal.

"The people believe that this conference is fruitless and that any recommendations or commitments made in the conference that harm our rights will not be binding for our people," Mr Haniya said as he entered the building.

"It will be binding only for those who sign it."

Mr Haniya was dismissed by Abbas from his position of prime minister of a national unity government in June, shortly after Hamas seized control of the Gaza strip from the president's Fatah movement.

Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the USA and Israel and is not represented at Annapolis.

It seems that Hamas is only interested in perpetuating the myth that Israel is occupying Palestinian land, but this is clearly not true. Historically, the Palestinians did not exist until around the 1920s. Gaza was won in the 6 day war, and Israel was entitled to occupy that territory. The same goes for East Jerusalem. It does not belong to the Palestinians. Therefore, we should take heed of the following (threatening) words of Mahmoud Zahhar:

Another senior Hamas leader in Gaza, Mahmoud Zahhar, told the BBC that even if the group had been invited, it would be pointless participating because Israel was not prepared to end the occupation of Palestinian land.

"We are very proud that we are not involved in this conference which will bring for us nothing," he told the BBC World Service.

"We don't believe that this is a real peace process, because without fulfilling our basic demand it will be just as previous agreements reached and unable to be practised practically on the ground," he added.

"Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] is not representing the majority of the Palestinian people."

Palestinian officials say, however, that as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Mr Abbas is entitled to negotiate on behalf of Palestinians. Agreements are signed between Israel and the PLO.

Those "minority" youths are at it again

BBC NEWS | Europe | French leader plans crisis talks

Once again the "minority" youths in France have gone on a rampage of rioting, burning cars and causing mayhem. This time the incident that has sparked the riots was the deaths of two "minority" youths who were illegally riding a motorcycle at top speed. The police involved in the incident have stated that the youths rammed the bike into them, but relatives of the boys are of a different opinion and claim that the boys were left for dead.

Police say the motorcycle was going at top speed and was
not registered for street use, while the two boys - who have been named
only as Moushin, 15, and Larami, 16 - were not wearing helmets and had
been ignoring traffic rules.

Mr Fillon, who visited the scene on Tuesday, called the rioters "criminals" and said nothing could justify the attacks.

"

Those who shoot at policemen, those who beat a police
officer almost to death are criminals and must be treated as such," he
was quoted by AFP news agency as telling parliament.

A library and a nursery school went up in flames in Villiers-le-Bel.

Rioting had spread on Monday from Villiers-le-Bel to other areas in the north Paris suburbs.

Ms Alliot-Marie has said the riots were organised and
criminals were using youngsters to lure away police while they pillaged
shops.

The 2005 unrest, also sparked by the deaths of two
youths, spread from a nearby suburb of Paris to other cities and
continued for three weeks, during which more than 10,000 cars were set
ablaze and 300 buildings firebombed.

Mr Sarkozy was heavily criticised at the time after he
called for crime-ridden neighbourhoods to be "cleaned with a power
hose" and described violent elements as "gangrene" and "rabble".


The BBC's Alasdair Sandford says that although plenty of
money has been poured into areas like Villiers le Bel that seems
irrelevant when tension and resentment between young people and the
police is so strong.

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Rape Victim receives sentence of 90 lashes

It seems that nothing is about to change in Saudi Arabia in a hurry when it comes to women's rights. I am not a feminist, and it is probably the reason that I feel so angry about the way in which women are treated in Muslim Sharia dominated lands. The feminist movement on the whole has shown little in the way of outrage at the way that women are treated in such countries as Saudi Arabia. However, I do feel outrage, especially when the 19 year old and her boyfriend were both raped by a gang of 7 men, and yet both have been sentenced to 90 lashes because of the offense of "mingling".

 

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have defended a judicial sentence of 200 lashes for a rape victim.

The justice ministry said in a statement that the sentence was justified because the woman was in a car with an unrelated man.

The case has aroused controversy at home and condemnation abroad.

US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said the sentence was an outrage and urged President Bush to put pressure on Saudi King Abdullah.

The 19-year-old, who has not been named, was travelling in a car with a male friend last year, when the car was attacked by a gang of seven men who raped both of them.

She has become known as the "Qatif girl", a reference to the largely Shia town which she comes from.

Four of the men were convicted of kidnapping - but the court also sentenced the woman and her friend to receive 90 lashes each for the crime of "illegal mingling".

Last week the court increased the woman's sentence to 200 lashes and six months in prison.

It also banned her lawyer from the courtroom and took away his licence.

 

The Saudi justice ministry has defended the verdict and warned against "agitation through the media" - a sign of how sensitive the authorities are to the fact that the woman and her lawyer have sought to use the media to highlight the case, says BBC Middle East analyst Roger Hardy.

What is most alarming about this story is the fact that it is the Republicans who are remaining silent over the punishment given to the woman. It is almost breathtaking to think that the President of the USA is refusing to intervene on a matter that is against the human rights of the individual. It is in fact damning evidence that the White House seem to be in the "pay" of Saudi Arabia, which is an extremely unhealthy situation to contemplate. I hope that I am wrong on this issue, and that the silence is due to the fact that the Republicans know very little about the case. The verdict is totally disgraceful.

Illegal immigrant demands to be flown home because Britons are 'rude and unfriendly' | the Daily Mail

Illegal immigrant demands to be flown home because Britons are 'rude and unfriendly' | the Daily Mail

This is one of those unbelievable stories that shows how ungrateful some people can be. The man is from Algeria and he fled to Britain in 2002 after he was jailed for refusing to give up his home so that authorities could monitor terrorist activities in his region. He lost his case for asylum and is due to be deported but he refuses to go back to Algeria unless the British government pays for the flight.

The man in question has not been all that cooperative with the authorities, yet he has the temerity to claim that his human rights are being breached. I do not think so!! This man has been given food vouchers and accommodation but it seems that what he has been given is not good enough.

His attitude reeks of that Islamic need to hold others in contempt and to expect the dhimmis to pay jizya. The sooner he leaves Britain, and is no longer a leech upon the National Health Service the better.

Police complaints about Islamphobia in documentary rejected

Yes, that is right, it seems that the police went too far in their complaints against the British undercover documentary regarding what is preached in British mosques.

Following today's ruling, the
broadcaster called the police's actions "perverse" and said they had,
in some people's eyes, given "legitimacy to people preaching a message
of hate".

Ofcom said: "Undercover Mosque was a legitimate
investigation, uncovering matters of important public interest. Ofcom
found no evidence that the broadcaster had misled the audience or that
the programme was likely to encourage or incite criminal activity.

"On
the evidence (including untransmitted footage and scripts), Ofcom found
that the broadcaster had accurately represented the material it had
gathered and dealt with the subject matter responsibly and in context."

The programme featured undercover
recordings from speakers alleged to be homophobic, anti-Semitic, sexist
and condemnatory of non-Muslims.

Excerpts from preachers and
teachers included "Allah created the woman deficient" and "by the age
of ten, it becomes an obligation on us to force her (young girls) to
wear hijab and if she doesn't wear hijab, we hit her".

Other
statements included "take that homosexual and throw him off the
mountain" and "whoever changes his religion from Al Islam to anything
else - kill him in the Islamic state".

Police initially
launched an investigation into whether criminal offences had been
committed at the mosques and other organisations featured in the
programme.

They then said that it considered offences may have
been committed by those involved in the production and broadcast of the
programme, specifically in stirring up racial hatred.

After
the Crown Prosecution Service advised that the prospect of conviction
was unlikely, police referred Undercover Mosque to Ofcom, complaining
that intense editing had misrepresented those featured in the
programme.

Ofcom also rejected
the 364 viewers' complaints it received after the programme was
broadcast, which it said appeared to be part of a campaign.

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20 Followers of the false prophet arrested

20 terror suspects arrested in Europe - International Herald Tribune

A Europe wide sweep has successfully disrupted an Islamic cell that was active in recruiting murder-suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Italian police have announced the arrest of 20 suspects.

The Italian police said the suspects, mostly Tunisians had been arrested across Europe as part of the sweep against a cell based in the northern Italian region of Lombardy. In executing the arrest warrants, the police said that they found Qaeda training manuals for making explosives, detonation devices and poisons, and instructions of guerilla tactics.

The suspects were wanted on charges ranging from association with the aim of committing international terrorism to falsifying documents to aid illegal immigrants.

The group's members had been indoctinated in militancy in mosques since at least 1998. In one intercepted call, a suspected cell member said that "things are being done with extreme calm; hasted does not bring the desired results."

Eleven of the suspects were arrested in the Italian cities of Milan, Reggio Emilia, Imperia and Bergamo. Nine others were arrested on warrants issued in France, Britain and Portugal.

The Lomabardy cell has ties with a group of Islamics in the neighbouring Emilia Romagna whose aim is to establish an Islamic state extending from Morocco to China. Intercepted phone calls made clear the aim of sending murder-suicide fighters to Iraq via Syria, including specific instructions on shaving off beards before departure to give the "Impression of making a peaceful trip".

In Britain, the authorities said that two suspects have been arrested in London and Manchester and faced extradition to Ital. The men have been identified as Ali Chehidi and Mohamed Khermiri who are accused of forging documents to help volunteers enter Italy illegaly.

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Lebanese troops fire on IAF jets - are we heading towards another war?

 

Officials: Lebanese troops fired on IAF jets - Israel News, Ynetnews

I bet the MSM will remain quiet over the fact that Lebanese troops, (probably ones not loyal to the government but to Nasrallah) fired upon Israeli aircraft doing routine reconnaissance. This might be a situation that needs to be watched more carefully because it could signal another "war", and yes Syria and her master Iran want that war to take place.

Jihad Watch: CAIR gloats over HLF mistrial, but the celebration may be premature

Jihad Watch: CAIR gloats over HLF mistrial, but the celebration may be premature

The HLF verdict ended up as a mistrial because of jurors changing their minds after the initial verdict was made (were they paid off or threatened?). CAIR and those who were placed on trial are celebrating what they see as a victory, but as Jihad Watch observes, the victory celebration might be a little bit premature:

CAIR gloats over HLF mistrial, but the celebration may be premature

"War is deception" is, of course, a quote from Muhammad himself. "Motion For Retrial," from Investor's Business Daily (thanks to Doc Washburn):

Trail Of Terror: The Council on American-Islamic Relations is cheering a mistrial in a major terror case as a "stunning defeat" for the U.S. government. But the celebration may be premature.

Federal prosecutors say they'll retry the case against leaders of the Holy Land Foundation, the nation's largest Muslim charity, which they accused of funneling more than $12 million to Hamas terrorists.

CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, also cheered a similar outcome in a federal case against Muslim activist Sami al-Arian in Florida. As in the Holy Land case, jurors deadlocked on several terror counts. But prosecutors threatened a retrial and al-Arian later pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

He was defended by the same lawyer defending one of the accused Holy Land leaders, Ghassan Elashi, who happens to also be a founding member of CAIR.

Barring plea bargains, the U.S. will narrow its charges and refile them — hopefully with a new judge. U.S. District Judge Joe Fish barred key evidence helping prosecutors prove willful intent to support terror on the part of defendants.

For example, he threw out a dozen documents seized by the Israeli government in raids of Hamas fronts that would have tied the Dallas-based charity closer to the terror group. Fish also allowed defendants to intimidate jurors.

Not long after the trial opened, after a morning of testimony by government witnesses, a visibly angry Elashi shouted and pointed as jurors exited the courtroom for lunch. The judge scolded him for the outburst — which included a rant about "a Zionist conspiracy" — but decided not to kick him out of the courtroom.

[...]

No doubt they'll streamline their evidence, highlighting the more powerful exhibits, including:

• FBI wiretaps of a meeting in Philadelphia between Holy Land and Hamas big shots in which Holy Land's director is overheard scheming to disguise payments to Hamas as charity, noting that "war is deception."

• Testimony from FBI agents that Holy Land flew Hamas clerics to the U.S. to help raise funds at mosques.

• Videos of a Holy Land defendant pretending to kill an Israeli during a Hamas fundraising skit held at one mosque.

• Key chains, videos and posters praising suicide bombers found inside the Hamas front "committees" that Holy Land helped bankroll.

The defendants also kept two sets of records at their Dallas offices — one in English, the other in Arabic — which they destroyed during the FBI's probe.

Lawyers for the accused expect us to believe that all this suspicious activity was merely an attempt to help needy Palestinians with "vaccinations" and "rice." Civil juries haven't fallen for the subterfuge.

[...]

The evidence is clear. Now it's up to the PC-plagued Justice Department to present it to jurors in a way that doesn't make their eyes glaze over. Retry the case. Only this time, don't try their patience.

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Freedom of Speech denied at Emory U

Gateway Pundit has a good article on the manner in which left wing students and their Muslim "friends" destroyed the right to freedom of speech.

You can read about it here:

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Pulling the strings of the Dhimmicrats

I have to admit that Dr. Sanity never ceases to amaze when it comes to some of the really great articles that she finds, and this one is no exception. Now I am not an American, but that does not mean that I am not interested in the race to become the next President of the USA. Personally, I think that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barak Obama are worthy candidates. Where Hilary is concerned, well I see her as a scheming hard hearted female dog. As far as Barak Obama is concerned, he has been shooting off at the mouth too much. The Democrats need stronger contenders, people who can be trusted to have more concern about the American people than their own selfish pursuits for power, Hilary Clinton style (stepping off soap box to continue with the purpose of this post):

If any of my readers are familiar with the movie Chicago, then you will remember the scene where the lawyer does a quick step two step as he pulls the strings and manipulates the press gallery. It is a really great scene because the reporters are well and truly manipulated by the smoke and mirrors that are being flashed before them as they accept hook, line and sinker the tale that is being fed to them, as to why Roxie shot her lover. It is with this imagery in mind that I have given Dr. Sanity's article my own title since I think that it is quite fitting to point out how the Dhimmicrats are being manipulated by the Islamist propagandists:

DUMMYCRATS, DHIMMICRATS, DEMOCRATS

One of the definitions of the word dummy is "a large puppet usually having movable features (as mouth and arms) manipulated by a ventriloquist". Of course, it also is a word that means "a stupid person".
Per Robert Spencer, Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law (i.e., Sharia) mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, “protected” or “guilty” people, are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the legal superstructure that global jihadists are laboring through violence to restore everywhere in the Islamic world, and wish ultimately to impose on the entire human race

Both sets of definitions apply to today's Democratic leadership when it comes to their foreign policy positions regarding the war on terror.

Here is an extremely interesting bit of writing by Tariq Alhomayed, the editor of Asharq Alawsat, an international Arabic daily newspaper, who catalogs Iran's many efforts to destablize the region and accumulate power to itself. In "Washington and Tehran: Negotiating Over What?", Alhomayed says:

US Democratic candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, have expressed their intention to engage in “unconditional negotiations” with Iran, should either of them attain the presidency. The question is: Negotiate over what?
Are the conflicts in the Middle East a result of a crisis in Washington-Tehran relations; or rather, does it revolve around Iran’s expansion ambitions and its interference in the internal affairs of Arab states for over 20 years?
Is the Washington-Tehran crisis a result of the absence of dialogue, or is it by reason of Iran’s aspirations to destabilize the region?

The list he makes is rather impressive. Iran has

Occupied the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) islands in the Arabian Gulf

tearing Beirut in half, while seeking to restore Syrian occupation over it, under Iranian guardianship

Tehran occupies the heart of Iraq and its peripheries and is undertaking unbelievable actions through its men operating within the regime.

the financial backbone of Hamas and now speaks on behalf of the Palestinian cause

fueling public opinion in Iran and steering it towards hostility with the US. Today, it is this same Arab Street card that the Iranians exploit to recruit suicide bombers and sympathizers.

interferes in all the Arab world’s elections by pumping huge sums of money with the purpose of imposing a different reality than the existing one; the most prominent example of which is the Bahraini elections.

embraces some of Al Qaeda’s leadership and

is disrupting relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan

is instigating and managing sectarian conflicts in the Arab world, which results in giving conflicts in the region a religious cover. This, in turn, has caused the region to drown in a sea of spilled blood

seeks to acquire nuclear weapons, while preparing to wholly devour Iraq with the aid of one of its tools: Syria.

Alhomayed concludes with a blistering denunciation of the Democratic leadership in the U.S. who is sending the wrong--in fact, the worst possible, message to Tehran:

The strange thing is that at a time when international efforts are being made to establish an international coalition against Iran’s pursuit for nuclear weapons, the Democrats are waving the carrot before Tehran. As such, Iran will surely interpret the message as an invitation to consolidate position on the ground and in the region until the Democrats reach power, after which it can negotiate with Washington from a position of power.

The Dummycrats Dhimmicrats Democrats are sending a strong message of appeasement that only encourages the brutal forces that stand against human freedom and wish to enslave mankind. These barbarians intend to herd humanity back to the "idyllic" days of the middle ages and toward another holocaust and world war to achieve their apocalyptic vision.

The Democratic Party of FDR and JFK would have understood this reality; but the party of Pelosi, Reid, Clinton, Obama et al, are oblivious.

Technorati Tags: Iran, Democrats, Dhimmicrats

Dummies or Dhimmis? Or both? You decide.
That is why they cannot and should not gain the White House in 2008.

How people seeking to tell the truth are treated on campus

Speaker Nonie Darwish Says Female Students Are “Hamas Trained”

Robert Stacy McCain blogging at The Washington Time’s Fishwrap sends this update on Nonie Darwish.

Nonie Darwish is an Arab-American writer and public speaker. She is the author of the book Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror. Nonie's message is not about disloyalty but love for her culture of origin. She blames Arab leadership and the media for the endless rage and violence of the Arab street.
Phyllis Chesler describes how Nonie Darwish was treated by the the crowd at Wellesley College last week during her talk at Pajamas Media:

Last week, on October 18, 2007, our hero Darwish spoke at the all-female Wellesley College as the guest of Hillel on campus. She was not treated as a hero; then again, maybe she was, maybe her treatment is precisely how heroes are greeted on American campuses today.
About 80-100 students came. Far more Muslim than Jewish students came and “so many” of the Muslim girls were wearing head-scarves.
According to Darwish, the female students in head-scarves did the following: As she spoke, they made exaggerated, “mean girl” faces at her. They rolled their eyes, practiced “disbelieving” facial expressions—did everything but stick out their tongues. And they continued to talk to each other in loud whispers while Darwish spoke: “How can she tell such lies!” “I was never, ever indoctrinated against Jews!” “Can you believe what she is saying?” “We do not call Jews pigs and apes, how can she lie about her own people?”
In addition to the “mean girl” faces and the continual loud whispering, one by one, at least four to five head-scarved girls, got up to leave the room during Darwish’s speech. This meant that each girl took two minutes to move to the end of her row, physically causing the other students to get up or twist aside, causing the entire room to look at the departing student, not at their invited guest—and then each girl did precisely the same thing when she returned two minutes later, presumably from a bathroom break.
They quadruple-teamed Darwish and did not stop until Darwish ended her lecture. Twenty to thirty minutes of soft-core, well-choreographed, goon squad behavior. “They are Hamas-trained” says Darwish.
“And all the while,” Darwish says, “the Jewish students cringed and cowered, so afraid that they might have hurt Muslim feelings. (Or rather, that the Muslims might physically hurt them afterwards. According to Darwish, one Jewish student told her that “she “was locking her door. I am scared.”)
She is probably right to be. During the Question and Answer period, many of the head-scarved students expressed calculated, injured outrage. “How dare (Hillel) bring this woman to our campus? How dare she insult Islam, tell lies about Islam” etc. “We are free under Islam, how can she deny this?”
…Darwish concludes: “Muslim girls like these are like gangsters. They know more about their rights in America than the Jewish girls do. The Muslim girls all have a chip on their shoulders.”
And then she is silent. Softly, she says: “We are fighting an avalanche. We are too few. I am frightened by my culture of origin. I am scared of my own people.”

Nonie Darwish is speaking tonight at UC Berkeley. Andrew Marcus is filming the event and blogger Megan Sego from California Patriot Blog is in attendance.
This is cross-posted at Incorrect U.

Are Syria and Iran Manipulating Turkey on Iraq

commentary from Walid Phares:

PKK is the Kurdish Worker’s Party that adopted violence in its
struggle against Turkey. As the Turkish Parliament recently voted to
authorize a limited invasion into Northern Iraq to fight the PKK
militias, one can see the rising shadows of two hostile regimes in the
region, eager to see a NATO member, Turkey, eventually clashing with
the United States through their local allies in Iraq. Indeed, the
Iranian and Syrian regimes have been pushing the precarious mechanisms
of a Turkish military intervention into Northern Iraq for a while now.
Logically, a collapse of security in the most secure part of Iraq would
lead to a crumbling of the military stabilization of the country, a
chief objective of US plans in Iraq.

But the Iran plans for Iraq, which I have analyzed in a previous
article, consist of three types of destabilization: An Iranian push in
the south, a Syrian opening for the Jihadists in the center, and
dragging Turkey to a dogfight in the mountains of the north.

In order to launch the third leg preemptively into Iraqi Kurdistan,
Tehran and Damascus have been pushing all the right buttons for the
confrontation. Iran's shelling of villages in the northern part of
Iraqi Kurdistan over the past months aimed at encouraging Turkey to do
the same.

Opening salvos by the Ayatollahs are to test the Kurdish and US
reactions. Moreover, Iran's Pasdaran - the Revolutionary Guard that
provides training and support to terrorist groups throughout the region
and abroad - is said to have infiltrated some circles within the PKK,
since the latter was based in Syria a few years ago. The PKK suddenly
has been waging inexplicable operations inside Eastern Turkey with a
new energy, after years of calm. Sources believe the PKK was
manipulated by both Iran and Syria into these terror acts on Turkish
soil while the official bases of the group are on Iraqi soil. Hence the
attacks triggering Turkish anger and responses may have been
manipulated by the "axis."

But the Syrian regime has another card it could have played.
According to well informed sources in the region, and not to the
surprise of experts, the Alawite regime in Syria (Alawites are
important to the leadership of Syria, as President Bashar al-Assad and
his father, Hafez are Alawite) has had good relations with Alawite
officers inside the Turkish armed forces. The “Alawite connection” may
have been activated to encourage a military response and incursion into
northern Iraq. But nevertheless, the Assad regime and the Turkish
Islamist Government - reinforced by the last Presidential election in
Ankara - have a joint objective interest in weakening the US presence
in Iraq.

Assad thinks that he can help create a major Turkish-Iranian-Syrian
alliance against the Kurds in Northern Iraq. And by the same logic, the
Kurds, solid US allies, will be facing another formal ally of
Washington on Iraqi soil: Turkey. The plan is to drag the Turkish Army
(traditionally not inclined to find itself face to face with its major
ally) to enter a territory where "terrorists are based," but where they
could be indistinguishable from those Kurdish Peshmergas who are the
backbone of the new post-Saddam Iraq. The rest can be guessed.

As the “axis” is using all its cards to crumble Iraq’s and Lebanon’s
democracies, the Kurds in Northern Iraq should have acted quickly and
strategically. There shouldn’t have been any PKK bases in their areas
because these are a recipe for disaster.

The situation in Iraq as a whole is still complex, precarious and
explosive, despite the advances made by the new US military plans,
including the surge. The north must remain stable and secure and, above
all, at peace with the only “NATO” border it has. The other frontiers
Iraqi Kurdistan has are with the Pasdarans and the Syrian Baath. Both
want the new Iraq’s head.

Instead of playing charms with Tehran and Damascus, the Kurdistan
city of Soleimaniye must reinforce its own deterring force and maintain
stability and peace on its northern border with Turkey. Knowing all too
well that the new Islamist Government in Ankara is shifting the grounds
inside the modernist Kemalist Republic, Iraq’s Kurdish leadership
mustn’t offer any reason for a Turkish adventure in their areas.

Hence, it is recommended that the Kurdish leaders of Iraq be the
ones to reign in the PKK to avoid having the Turkish Army crossing the
borders. The US can - and should - broker arrangements between the
Iraqi Kurds and the Turkish military to avoid the rise of an
anti-Kurdish Triangle in the region.

***********

Dr Walid Phares is the director of Future Terrorism Project at the
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a visiting scholar at the
European Foundation for Democracy, and the author of The War of Ideas:
Jihadism against Democracy.

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All in a rage about nothing

Gateway Pundit: Angry Muslims Clash in Dhaka Over Offensive "Cat" Cartoon

The cat cartoon that brought on this latest burst of rage in Bangladesh was drawn by a 17 year old Muslim boy. The imams did their usual thing, went into the mosques for Friday prayers and it was on again....




Activists of the Islamic student group Bangladesh Students Majlish set fire to copies of the Prothom Alo newspaper and their magazine Weekly 2000, during a protest after Friday prayers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 21, 2007. The activists demanded a ban on the paper and magazine after they published cartoons that Muslims said insulted their religion, police and the government said. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

Police broke up a protest today by hundreds of angry Muslims upset over the publication of an offensive cat cartoon.
Dhaka, 21 Sept. (AKI) - Police in Bangladesh broke up a protest by hundreds of Muslims in the capital Dhaka over the publication of a cartoon that they say offended their religion.

A report on the local newspaper The Daily Star said that several hundred activists of six Islamic organisations began the protest march outside the capital's Baitul Mokarram mosque after Friday prayers.

Bangladesh's caretaker government suspended the publication, Alpin, a weekly satire magazine of leading Bengali daily Prothom Alo. The magazine's publishers also apologised and appealed for forgiveness for the drawing.

The cartoon shows a small boy referring to his cat as "Mohammad cat". The image provoked outrage and protestors said that it was a deliberate attempt to ridicule Islam's Prophet Mohammad.

The cartoonist, Arifur Rahman, was arrested on 17 September by the police.

The Daily Star reports that the editors from several leading newspapers including Prothom Alo have appealed for forgiveness.

The editors urged the country's religious leaders or ulema to consider the newspaper's apology and also called for calm and restraint.

Paris-based press freedom group, Reporters Without Borders, has called for the release of Arifur Rahman.
The demonstrators demanded the execution of the paper's editor, Matiur Rahman- BBC.

Activists of Hizb ut Tahrir, Bangladesh, set fire to copies of the Prothom Alo newspaper, during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007. (AP)


Riot policemen baton charge activists of the Islamic student group Hizb-ut-Tahrir, to disperse them as they march towards the office of Prothom Alo newspaper during a protest after Friday prayers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 21, 2007. The activists demanded a ban on the paper and their magazine Weekly 2000 after they published cartoons that Muslims said insulted their religion, police and the government said. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

Anti-Semitic Hezbollah Propaganda or News? You Be the Judge

Gateway Pundit: Anti-Semitic Hezbollah Propaganda or News? You Be the Judge

Some crackpots believe that Iranian President Ahmadinejad did not call for wiping Israel off the map but that it was just some mistake in translation.

An Iranian holds a "wipe off Israel" poster during an anti-Israel rally on Friday Oct. 28, 2005 in Tehran. (AP)

Author Barry Rubin examines the anti-Semitic propaganda in the Western media that is disquised as news today in his article at GLORIA Center:

He identifies bias on university campuses where for example the former president of Harvard was uninvited by the University of California because of his political views. He also points to the group of former terrorists who want to speak about their experiences being excluded or barred from more than one American University Campus. To this I would add the pressure that was being exerted to prevent a former Dutch politician and Somali refugee from speaking in Australia.

The same kind of biases are occurring in the mainstream media, especially the print media:

So should what seem to be lies and those who seem to be crackpots (at least on the particular points they are making) be given space? Should newspapers give their readers a sense that the Iranian president did not call for destroying Israel but that it was just some mistake in translation? (Despite the fact that the official Iranian translation of his words was “wiping Israel off the map”?) Should Hamas be given space for op-eds crafted by public relations operatives claiming moderation? Should easily demonstrable lies be published about Israel committing various massacres and other blood libels?

What has been occurring is that the boundaries have eroded, and where the media used to not give space to Arab propaganda, the publishers are now allowing the publication of inciteful, false antisemitic screeds.

However, what can one believe when the print media (via AP of course) allow the following article by Sam Ghattas to be published:

All of this is leading up to Sam F. Ghattas, AP, “Hezbollah Blames Israel for Killings,” October 5, 2007.

Hizballah’s leader blames Israel for the series of assassinations of anti-Syria, anti-Hizballah politicians. "`The hand that is killing is Israel's,’ Nasrallah told thousands of supporters who occasionally interrupted his speech with roars of approval.” No information is given in the article that would lead a reader to believe that these are pitiful lies. (They are pitiful because Hizballah waited so long to make them. In the old days they would have been blaming Israel within hours of the killings and all Arab media would have been duty-bound to repeat them.)

So is this news?
And by the way the article concludes:

“The gathering by several thousand Hezbollah supporters was organized by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah to mark `Al-Quds Day,’ or Jerusalem Day, in support of Palestinian rights and emphasizing the importance of Jerusalem to Muslims.” So that’s what the demonstration was about? I thought it was about equating Israel with Satan, preaching hatred of the United States, and demanding that Israel be wiped from the pages of history. Perhaps my conclusions were all a mistake in translation and it was a human rights demonstration. Or, again, this is what readers might think. There is more on this anti-Semitic Hezbollah propaganda at the GLORIA Center.

Tony Blair sticks it to the Left about Radical Islam

So it seems that Tony Blair is not so lily-livered when it comes to the truth about radical Islam after all. Gateway Pundit reports on a speech given by Mr. Blair at the 62nd Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York on October 8. It seems that Mr. Blair got stuck into the Left for blaming the rise of radical Islam on the West:

Islamist extremism is similar to “rising fascism in the 1920s and
1930s”, Tony Blair said last night in his first major speech since
leaving office.

At a prestigious charity dinner in New York,
the former Prime Minister said that public figures who blamed the rise
of fundamentalism on the policies of the West were "mistaken".

He
told the audience, which included New York governor Eliot Spitzer and
mayor Michael Bloomberg, that Iran was the biggest exporter of the
ideology, and that the Islamic republic was prepared to "back and
finance terror" to support it.

“Out there in the Middle East,
we’ve seen... the ideology driving this extremism and terror is not
exhausted. On the contrary it believes it can and will exhaust us
first," he said.

“Analogies with the past are never properly
accurate, and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be
easily misleading but, in pure chronology, I sometimes wonder if we’re
not in the 1920s or 1930s again.

“This ideology now has a
state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit
of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.”

He
added: “There is a tendency even now, even in some of our own circles,
to believe that they are as they are because we have provoked them and
if we left them alone they would leave us alone.

“I fear this is mistaken. They have no intention of leaving us alone.

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More information on the riots in Amsterdam

 

With thanks to Gateway Pundit:

 

AMSTERDAM – The man, who was shot by a police officer at the police station of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart and died shortly afterwards on Sunday, was in contact with members of the Hofstad terrorist organisation in 2005. It was Bilal Bajaka, a man of Moroccan descent living in Amsterdam. Chief public prosecutor Leo de Wit said this at a press conference on Monday.
The police and the General Intelligence and Security Service, AIVD had had consultations about Bilal B’s contacts with the Hofstad group, according to De Wit. "Several members of the Hofstad group were detained on 14 October 2005, two years ago yesterday. Bilal was heard as a witness and was scrutinised by the police. In October 2005, the public prosecutor discussed the possibility to 'disturb' Bilal B. but eventually it was decided that there was no reason for this at that moment."
Bilal B. had been appearing in the police data bank since 1998. In that year he was involved in a serious violent offence. He attacked and wounded a person with a screwdriver. During the following years he has been involved in property offences. He belonged to the so-called hard core youths of Slotervaart and ended up in a prison cell on various occasions. From October 2003 he was serving a 15-month-prison sentence for a property offence. In the spring of 2007 it appeared that he had psychological problems.
Police chief Bernard Welten said at the press conference that the medical operations on the two injured police officers had been successful. The female police sergeant who had fired the shot, was stabbed in the chest and twice in the back. A pulmonary artery was hit and her lung was perforated. The bleeding was stopped and the perforation sealed. "Hence the operation can be said to be successful," Welten said. "Her condition is satisfactory."
Her male colleague was stabbed five times and had several cuts in his face and shoulders. An artery in his head was hit and was stitched. The stabbing of his throat was deep and the wind pipe was hit. "This colleague too is doing well given the circumstances," Welten said..
B. appeared at the police station at around noon on Sunday and almost immediately jumped across the reception desk. He began stabbing away at the police officer on duty who was behind the desk. He stabbed her in the chest. She jumped up and tried to escape but the man ran after her and stabbed her twice again. A male colleague who rushed to help her was stabbed in the throat and shoulder, whereupon the female police officer got her gun and fired at the man. He succumbed to his wounds shortly afterwards.

Charles Johnson has more on the rioting that followed the brutal attack.
Klein Verzet is reporting more from Amsterdam.

Outside the police station things were hot. (Telegraaf)
Klein Verzet links Bilal to Theo van Gogh's killer:

Local burgomaster Ahmed Marcouch said he sympathized with the jihadists family because they had to wait for nearly two years before their son could be treated for his 'psychological' problems. And newspaper Telegraaf now reports that while Bilal was in jail in 2003, Mohammed Bouyeri came and visited him. Mohammed Bouyeri was the jihadist who was in 2004 on a suicide mission slaughtering Theo van Gogh (although to his regret he did not got shot dead by the police).

Later, a news crew was attacked by youths while filming the trashed and torched cars from the rioting.
And, then of course, there is this:

It seems that Bilal has shouted in Arabic when he attacked the police officers. This could very well be something like "Allah Akbar", but that's something the Dutch authorities don't want the public to know.

Militants set off plastic explosives bomb in Manila. Was this the work of Catholics?

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | 'Explosives' caused Manila blast

The BBC reports that 9 people are dead and more than 130 people were injured in a bomb blast in Manila.

The president's security adviser Norberto Gonzales said
the Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf has been trying to raise
international support over the internet.

"What is more ominous here is they may be planning a bigger attack," he said on Philippines radio.

Militants have targeted the Philippines capital in the past.

So I guess that this is not the work of the majority Catholic population in the Philippines, but it is the work of the Islamists. There is no doubt that wherever this scum is to be found there is a high death rate with regard to murder-suicide.

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Cars burnt after Amsterdam death

The BBC News has a follow up report on the riots in Amsterdam. It is interesting to note that they specify that it is a very small group of Moroccan youths who are behind the trouble. The 22 year old who was killed after stabbing two police officers at a police station had been treated for psychiatric problems. The BBC also reports that this particular man had been questioned over his links to extremist Islamists who were linked to the murder of Theo Van Gogh.

It really does beg the question as to whether the riots themselves were planned in advance, and it should be made clear that those involved in this particular case are very much a minority in Holland. Nevertheless, they are behaving in the same way as the extremists in both Brussells and Paris in previous years, and the fact that the riot has taken place after the close of Ramadan remains significant.

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Murder-suicide attack in Pakistan

Pakistani Pressure-Cooker

By Aaron Mannes

Assuming Pakistani police reports are accurate (a big if) that the attack on returning former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto's convoy was not a car-bomb but a suicide bomber, it would be the deadliest attack by an individual suicide vest so far.

The massive throng that turned out to see Bhutto was a perfect target for a suicide bomber, and there were warning in advance. Bhutto has refrained from blaming the Pakistani government, but she has stated that security was inadequate. As I've noted before, considering the general level of competence displayed by the Pakistani government, this is hardly surprising.

This brings up a crucial point. The massive crowds were certainly drawn by Bhutto's charisma. But they also came because of their high hopes that Bhutto can bring peace, prosperity, and order. A quick scan of major Pakistani papers reveals crumbling infrastructure, frequent electricity outages, and failing hospitals. This is on top of endemic poverty and corruption and high-levels of political violence (with some areas as effective no-go zones for the government.) In short, for many Pakistanis life is extremely difficult.

Benazir Bhutto is, without doubt, a world historical figure - albeit a flawed one. But saving Pakistan is beyond any one person. The issues are structural. Frequently, U.S. foreign policy focuses on individual leader. Now that Musharraf is problematic, the U.S. has pressed for the restoration of democracy and the return of Bhutto. But the issues go beyond the personalities at the top. In Egypt, the United States has adopted a policy of providing extensive aid in order to maintain stability. It has succeeded, but Egypt has stagnated and become a leading exporter of radical Islam (the managerial and intellectual backbone of al-Qaeda is Egyptian.)

Pakistan is also becoming a leading exportrt of Islamism and it has nuclear weapons. In short, the copying the Egyptian strategy and playing for stability in the short run is not the safe bet and supporting Bhutto (and more importantly the restoration of civilian rule) is only a first step.

Vatican responds to call from Muslim scholars

A top Vatican official has praised the Muslim call for dialogue whilst at the same time saying that there are difficulties in having a real theological debate because they saw the Koran as the literal word of God and would not discuss it in depth.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran stated in an interview in the French Catholic daily La Croix, that Christians would have to discuss the curbs on building churches in the Islamic world in any dialogue with the Muslim scholars.

The Cardinal stated that: "Muslims do not accept that one can discuss the Koran in depth because they say it was written by dictation from God. With such an absolute interpretation, it is difficult to discuss the contents of faith."

The fact that Muslims can build mosques in Europe (and elsewhere) while many Islamic states limit or ban church building cannot be ignored. "In limited dialogue among believers, it is fundamental to say what is good for one is good for the other" he said.
Whilst other Christian denominations welcomed the letter from the Muslim scholars, the key to any coordinated response is the Catholic response. It is expected that Pope Benedict will make a response to the appeal from the Muslim scholars when he addresses an interfaith meeting in Naples.

Muslim Youths cause riots in the Netherlands

It seems that the trend towards rioting after the end of Ramadan has taken hold over the last few years. First it was in Paris, where riots erupted after 3 youths, who had committed a felony died after they were electrocuted at a power substation. These riots spread over the whole of France, where millions of dollars worth of damage was reported. Now, it seems that when a Muslim youth was shot dead, after he pulled a knife on two policemen in a police station, that this was the signal for riots to erupt in Amsterdam.

Nine days in Slotervaart: Immigrant youths turn to violence in Amsterdam," by Georg Schreuder Hes for Radio Netherlands:

It has been an unusually violent week for Amsterdam's western Slotervaart district. Cars were torched and youths clashed with police on several consecutive nights after a 22-year-old ethnic Moroccan was shot dead at a police station. He was killed by a policewoman he had just stabbed a number of times. The riots that followed reminded Amsterdam's Chief Commissioner Bernard Welten of a major nightmare for Western European cities: violence on a Parisian scale. Every major town in the Netherlands has its share of so-called problem youths, the type of violent adolescents who gang up to terrorize the neighbourhood. Many of them are the children of migrant workers of Moroccan descent who arrived in the Netherlands in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Dutch called them guest workers, the operative idea being that they would return to their country of origin when they were no longer needed. So nobody bothered to teach them Dutch, or much of anything else for that matter. The guest workers had their wives come over, but they, just like their husbands were not expected, or encouraged, to integrate into Dutch society....

Like Jihad Watch has pointed out, the author of the article seems to not understand that these "migrant workers" never wanted to integrate in the first place. If the Dutch were remiss in ensuring that there was integration, then the same is true regarding these Moroccan migrant workers.

However, is this the real reason that these riots have been allowed to happen? I do not think that lack of integration is the key issue here. I think that it is a part of a European wide trend to cause chaos. The perpetrators are Muslims, and most are of North African origin. One would think that by now the politicians in Europe would finally "get it", that this group want to impose their own rules and standards upon every one else.

In the above story about the riots in the Netherlands, a few things need to be pointed out regarding the deliberate action of the youth who was killed. First of all, he attacked a policewoman, who then killed him. She had been stabbed multiple times by this Moroccan youth, so was she to stand there and allow herself to be killed? Second, the police officer was a woman.  Third, no one seems to appreciate the fact that this form of rioting is vandalism and that vandalism is a criminal offense. All who are participating should be charged with a felony, without the acceptance of excuses.

How the Banana Boat song became twisted

London, Oct.12 (ANI): Caribbean singer Harry Belafonte's popular "Banana Boat" song was twisted by terror camp leader Atilla Ahmet to preach jihad to kids at the Jameah Islamic school, near Crowborough in Sussex.

Ahmet, according to the Daily Mail, called it his "Jihad Calypso", and convinced children at the school to sing it along with him at a performance. That performance was later recorded, a court here was told.

The lyrics of the 84-worded song went as follows:

"Come Mr. Taliban, come give me kuffir...my Kalasnikov. Come Mr. Taliban, come bomb England... before the daylight come, you wanna see Ten Downing Street.

Come Mr. Taliban, come implement Shariah. Come Mr. Taliban, come bomb England before the daylight come, Insh'Allah, it will be done.

Hey Mr. Taliban, come kill the dirty kuffir, get rid of the haram, because we want halal.

Hey Mr. Taliban, boom, boom, boom, come bomb England before the daylight come. Insh'Allah, it will be done.

Ahmet, a former preacher at Finsbury Park Mosque, has pleaded guilty to three counts of soliciting murder in connection with a case now being heard at Woolwich Crown Court.

Mohammed Hamid and four other men are on trial accused of links to a plot to conduct terrorist training camps in the UK. They deny the charges.

Hamid is accused of radicalizing the July 21 bombers by brainwashing them on paint balling trips.

The four other men on trial are Mousa Brown, 41, of Walthamstow, North-East London; Kibley da Costa, 24, of West Norwood, South London; Kader Ahmed, 20, of Plaistow, East London; and Mohammed Al Figari, 43, of Tottenham, North London.

All the men deny all the charges.

In August 2006, Ahmet told Dawood that Hamid had stopped his Friday prayer meetings because "things were getting a bit hot".

In September, the group convened at their usual meeting place, a Chinese restaurant in Borough, South London.

Hamid and Ahmet went outside to talk and when they returned, Ahmet told the group they had been rumbled by the police.

Moments later, officers burst in and arrested them. A search of their homes uncovered material glorifying suicide bombers and beheadings, the court heard.

The trial continues. (ANI)

Madrid bomb plotters trial due to begin

The trial of 30 suspected Islamic militants accused of planning a series of bomb attacks on Madrid has started in Spain's high court. According to the BBC news, the alleged plot was uncovered just months after the 2004 train bombings that killed 200 people.

Prosecutors say they planned to drive a truck packed with 500 kg of explosives into Spain's High Court. The idea was to kill hundreds of staff and destroy evidence connected with anti-terrorist trials, including the March 2004 bombings.

The charges against the men, most of whom are either Algerian or Moroccan, include conspiracy to commit murder and membership of an armed group. Prosecutors say that the group's leader, Mohammed Achraf plooted the attacks from his prison cell. He is accused of organizing terrorist cells known as the martyrs of Morocco to carry out his schemes.

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Islamists damage giant rock Buddha - Telegraph

Islamists damage giant rock Buddha - Telegraph

It seems that the iconoclasts have decided to have yet another go at a rock Buddha. This time they have damaged the face of the rock carving. It is disgusting that these people think that they can cause damage to something that has been in the rock for such a long period of time. What these iconoclasts are doing is totally evil.

The problem with Buddha is whether or not he ever existed as a man. As far as I understand, Buddhism is a philosophy, but it seems that Buddha is also seen as being a god. As such, Buddha is in my view a false, pagan god. That being said, however, I take note of the fact that within Buddhism there are elements of God's truth, and for this I am personally truly thankful that there is a way for the Buddhists to reach the One True God, through doing what is pleasing to Him, by leading a good life including loving one's neighbour, according to God's Will.

On the other hand, the Islamists constantly claim that they follow the same God as Christians, yet their perception of God is totally off the planet. The Islamist has a master/servant relationship with God. Yet, I might add that this God is also in the image made by Mo the pedophile prophet. I find that the Islamists make claims of offense to Allah when they are the ones who claim to be offended. They always find a way to rage in their anger. Contrast that behaviour with the Buddhist who will sit and pray, and meditate. Admittedly, the monks in Tibet went into the streets to demonstrate against the military junta of Burma, but that is a political and not a religious issue.

The kind of damage that has been done to what must still be considered a work of art, is that which makes the item irrepairable. It is this kind of damage that turns people away from Islam and it causes many who are considered by these people to be kafur to tell the Islamists to simply "go to hell", where they belong.

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'Militants' arrested in Maldives

BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Militants' arrested in Maldives

Police in the Maldives have arrested more than 50 people in associated with a bomb blast near an illegal mosque. The people who have been arrested are members of a militant Islamic Jihadi group.

Who says that this is a religion of peace? It is not peace as I understand the meaning of the word peace.

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Nine Christians murdered by the Muslim ragers - where is the outcry?

Nigeria: Nine Christians murdered over cartoon drawn by a Muslim in Bangladesh

"They cannot control their anger, they take knives and slaughter." Religion of Tolerance -- and Clear Thinking.

"Nigeria: Can Condemns Religious Killing in Kano," by John Shiklam for the Daily Champion (Lagos), with thanks to Twostellas:

GENERAL Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Mr Samuel Salifu has condemned the killing of Christians in Tudun Dankande local government area of Kano State.

He called on the state government to bring the perpetrators to book, warning that Christians would no longer condone any attack on them.

Salifu who spoke with newsmen in Kaduna weekend said that reports reaching him from Kano state said there was trouble in Tudun Dankande local government area of the state Friday where nine Christians, including a youth corper serving in the area were killed and their property destroyed over an internet cartoon said to have emanated from a 20-year-old Muslim boy from Bangladesh.

"Information available to me is that almost all the churches within that local government area have been razed down and shops belonging to Christians had also been burnt including their houses. We have been told that they have been ejected and their property brought down and burnt.

"The information given was that they saw a cartoon on the internet and they discovered that this cartoon was drawn by a 20-year-old Muslim boy from Bangladesh and they decided to visit their anger on innocent Christians and their churches.

"I have been told that nine people including a youth corper are confirmed dead and several others injured while the local government in a desperate attempt to cover the dastardly act pretended to be taking the victims to the hospital while in reality they sent some of the victims to Bauchi and some other places around so that people will not go there and see the number of destitutes or refugees caused by this incident.

"That is the information available, so far. What we have done is to ensure that the vice president is informed," he alleged.

He said Christians and their leaders were getting worried because both the Christian leaders and Muslims had been holding series of meetings within and outside the Nigerian Inter Religious Council (NIREC) to see how to bring about peaceful coexistence between followers of the two religions. Salifu regretted, however, that "the more we continue to meet with Muslim leaders the more some of these people attack our people.

[...]

"It is clear that the cartoonist is from Bangladesh and he is a Muslim, so why should they now visit their anger on Christians unless they are lunatics and if you call them this type of name, they say they are angry, but they go killing.

"They cannot control their anger, they take knives and slaughter. When you tell them what they are doing is wrong, they will turn round and start to kill. Very soon, there would be a lot of blood shed unless they stop this nonsense because the church is getting fed up.

Posted by Robert at October 5, 2007 6:05 AM

Hat Tip: Jihad Watch

Repeat after me, there are no homosexual in Iran

"No Homosexuals in Iran"

By Isaac Schrödinger on World War IV

These Iranian teenagers were executed on July 19, 2005. Initial posthere.

Charles links to a CBC documentary:

Here’s a video documentary in three parts from Canada’s CBC, on the Iranian gay scene and the appalling, barbaric treatment to which they are routinely subjected.

Viewthe You Tube videos.

These young men who are being hanged are homosexuals, and this is the punishment for their crime of being caught in the act of having sexual relations with each other. Of course this does not stop the mullahs of Iran making advances on little boys, including kissing 7 year old boys on the mouth.

Next monthwe'll see a massive protest. (ViaJunk Yard.)

During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.

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Do not tell me that this is a religion of peace (or at least not the way we understand peace)

Religion of Children with Weapons

In RoP

A child with weapons, at an “Al Quds Day” demonstration in Pakistan, and the Associated Press caption couldn’t possibly be more ridiculous.

Pakistanis stage a demonstration for ‘Al-Quds Day’ (Jerusalem Day), in Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. Al-Quds Day is a way of expressing support to the Palestinians and emphasizing the importance of Jerusalem to Muslims. (AP Photo/Jamal Ahmed)

UPDATE at 10/5/07 10:03:59 am:

For more pictures of the Al Quds Day hatefest:
Snapped Shot: Happy Al-Quds West-Hating Fun Day
Gateway Pundit: Ahmadinejad Calls to Relocate Israel to Alaska

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Another Sunni leader opposing Al Qaeda dies

A leader of a Sunni Arab tribal council which opposed al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed in a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials have said.

Sheikh Muawiya Jebara, a senior member of the Salahuddin Awakening Council, and three of his bodyguards were killed as his convoy travelled near Samarra.

His death comes less than a month after the killing of the head of a similar group in neighbouring Anbar province.

Meanwhile, the Shia mayor of Iskandariya died in a separate bombing.

Abbas al-Khafaji, a member of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC), and four of his bodyguards were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their car at a checkpoint, police said.

A mixed Sunni-Shia town 40km (25 miles) south of the capital, Iskandariya lies in a centre of the Sunni insurgency known as the "triangle of death".

Tribal alliance

The attack on Sheikh Muawiya Jebara occurred in mid-afternoon as he travelled to an area south-west of Samarra to support other members of the Salahuddin Awakening Council who were currently fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The sheikh survived the initial blast, but died from head injuries shortly after arriving in hospital, his brother said.

The head of the Tikrit-based Salahuddin Awakening Council, Sheikh Sabah Mutashar al-Shammari, recently said the tribal alliance had conducted more than 100 operations against Sunni extremist militants.

"Our forces are working in co-ordination with the ministers of defence and interior," he told the AFP news agency.

"Our troops consist of 3,000 fighters distributed across seven headquarters in the province."

Last month, the leader of the Anbar Awakening, Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, was killed in a bomb attack near his home in Ramadi.

US officials have pointed to the formation of the tribal alliances as one of the most positive developments in their efforts to reduce violence in Iraq.

MP arrested

In other news, the US military said it had taken an Iraqi member of parliament into custody after he allegedly attended a meeting of suspected al-Qaeda members.

The MP was seized during a joint raid by US and Iraqi forces in the town of Sharqat, north of Baghdad.

The main Sunni Arab alliance in parliament, the Iraqi Accord Front, said the man was one of its members, Naif Jassim Mohammed.

The US military said the man was being questioned by the authorities, but was not formally considered to be a detainee.

Later, parliament agreed to let the Iraqi Accord Front replace another of its MPs with one of the country's most famous football stars.

Ahmed Radhi, the only Iraqi player to have scored in the World Cup, replaced Abed Nasser al-Janabi, who was expelled from parliament in June after saying he was leaving politics to join the insurgency.

Egypt to Pay for Florida Internet Jihadi's Defense

The Egyptian government is going to pay for Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed's defense and they've hired John Fitzgibbons, the same man who defended Debra Lafave.

I'm not sure how Mohamed is going to plead not guilty after admitting to putting up a video on YouTube which explained how to turn a remote control toy into an IED detonator along with a note about how he hoped this would help the mujahidin. Maybe he'll use the Chewbacca defense?

WISTV:

A prominent Florida defense lawyer says Egypt's government is going to hire him to represent a University of South Florida college student charged with making an Internet video showing how to use remote-controlled toys to detonate terrorist bombs.

John Fitzgibbons said Wednesday that Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed will plead not guilty next month to of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction. His accomplice, Youssef Samir Megahed plead not guilty today.

HT:Allahakchew

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Second suspect arrested in Vienna

A second suspect has been arrested in connection with an attempted attack on the US embassy in Vienna. Austrian officials have said.

Police have said that he is suspected of being an accomplice to a Bosnian man arrested on Monday after he tried to take a bag of explosives into the U.S. embassy.

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Sears Tower plot trial begins

Seven men accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago have go on trial in Miami Florida.

The men intended to ignite a guerrilla war that would bring down the US government, federal prosecutors said.

Defence lawyers said FBI informants had devised the plot and the defendants had played along to con money from them.

"These defendants came together for one sole purpose, to
wage a holy war against the United States," said prosecutor Richard
Gregorie in his opening statement.

He said they wanted to bomb a number of landmark buildings and put poison in restaurant salt shakers.

There would be no survivors from the alleged Sears Tower
bomb, Mr Gregorie said, because the defendants planned to shoot anyone
who escaped.

'Con game'

But lawyers for the defendants said the purported plot
was the inspiration of two paid FBI informants, one of whom posed as an
al-Qaeda operative.

Lawyers for the accused said the case against them was overblown

The defendants hoped to con the two men of $50,000 (£24,500) they had allegedly offered the group, their attorneys said.

"All he wanted to do was get his money and run and who
better to con than somebody who was supposedly al-Qaeda," said Ana
Jhones, attorney for Narseal Batiste, the alleged ringleader of the
seven men.

Government officials described them after their arrest
as "home-grown terrorists" but said they posed no real threat because
they had no actual al-Qaeda contacts, no weapons and no means of
carrying out the attacks.

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The Jawa Report: Attack Averted at US Embassy in Austria

The Jawa Report: Attack Averted at US Embassy in Austria


This is a second attempt to attack the US Embassy in Austria. The question is raised: Is there a link between the two attempts. The man who was making the attempt fled when his backpack set off metal detectors. He was captured and has been detained for questioning. A tragedy has been averted.

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London Internet whiz was vital militant link: FBI - Yahoo! News

London Internet whiz was vital militant link: FBI - Yahoo! News

Hat Tip: Jawa Report

The Moroccan-born student's real name was Younes Tsouli and his nickname translates as "Terrorist 007." He was 22 years old when he was arrested in London in October 2005.

Said by prosecutors to have close ties to al Qaeda, Tsouli pleaded guilty in July to inciting terrorism on the Internet and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Tsouli's computer revealed he communicated extensively with two students from Atlanta accused of supporting terrorism by filming potential targets such as the U.S. Capitol and participating in "terrorist training" or "terrorism-related activities" in South Asia, Mueller said.

Tsouli also was in "steady communication" with accused plotters in a case involving a Swedish national and Danish man arrested in Bosnia on suspicion of preparing to bomb targets in Europe, Mueller said.

In addition, he said, Tsouli communicated with members of a suspected militant cell in Canada known as the "Toronto 17" who are accused of planning to attack targets in Canada.

"These individuals seemed to be unrelated, but as we came to find out, they were not," Mueller said.

He said Tsouli was at the "center of this web," facilitating communications and posting thousands of files including manuals for attacks and videotaped beheadings.

"He used his computer skills to build a global virtual network for terrorists and their supporters," Mueller said.

Mueller's speech comes as the Bush administration is seeking to permanently expand legal authority to eavesdrop on the communications of foreign terrorism suspects. Many Democrats are seeking restrictions on the authority to protect the rights of innocent Americans.

Mueller said the Tsouli case showed the importance of adapting legislation to match technological change.

"Our capacity, both by way of the expense of keeping up with that curve, as well as the transformation of our laws, just has not kept pace," Mueller said.

"Growth in technology requires us to have a very swift debate and take measures that are necessary to ensure that we can continue to have the kind of investigative capability ... that enables us to continue to gather information."

What is so interesting about this report and case is that there was a link between 3 different terrorist attempts that had been missed by the authorities. I am not so sure that 10 years in jail is long enough for this terrorist.

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