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U.S. Based Revolution Muslim Website Spreading Messages of Hate -- RevolutionMuslim.com isn't being maintained in some remote safe house in Pakistan. Instead, Yousef al-Khattab, the Web site creator, runs it from his home in the New York City Borough of Queens. And, because al-Khattab enjoys the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, all the authorities can do is watch. Formerly known as Joseph Cohen, al-Khattab is an American-born Jew who converted to Islam after attending an Orthodox Rabbinical school, which he later described as a "racist cult." The 39-year-old New York taxi driver launched RevolutionMuslim.com with the mission of "preserving Islamic culture."
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"Palestinians" Overwhelmingly Favor Terror And Kassams, Oppose Negotiations -- The New York Times today publishes the results of a poll of 'Palestinians' and discovers that an astounding 84% - the largest number to support a single terror attack - supported the murder of eight Jewish boys at the Merkaz HaRav yeshiva. Some 75% wish to terminate 'negotiations' with Israel and 64% support the launching of rockets on Sderot and Ashkelon. |
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Iran |
Parliament To Discuss Death Penalty For Converts Who Leave Islam -- In its first session since last week's general elections, the new Iranian parliament is expected to discuss a law that will condemn to death anyone who decides to leave the Muslim faith and convert to other religions. The parliament, also known as the Majlis, will debate the new law which has been presented by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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Saudi Arabia |
Top Saudi Cleric Calls For Writers' Deaths -- Saudi Arabia's most revered cleric said in a rare fatwa this week that two writers should be tried for apostasy for their "heretical articles" and put to death if they do not repent. Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak was responding to recent articles in al-Riyadh newspaper that questioned the Sunni Muslim view in Saudi Arabia that adherents of other faiths should be considered unbelievers. "Anyone who claims this has refuted Islam and should be tried in order to take it back. If not, he should be killed as an apostate from the religion of Islam," said the fatwa, or religious opinion, dated March 14 and published on Barrak's Web site. |
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Saudi Islamic Scholar -- "By Allah, we will not be satisfied even if all the Jews are killed" |
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United Kingdom |
It's Time To Take A Stand Against Islam And Sharia -- Picture this, says Maryam Namazie: "A child is swathed in cloth from head to toe every day. Everything but her face and hands are covered for fear that a man might find her attractive. At school she learns that she is worth less than a boy. She is not allowed to dance or swim or feel the sun on her skin or the wind in her hair. This is clearly unacceptable, yet it is accepted when it is done in the name of religion." |
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Should Islam Be Blamed For "Barbaric" Acts? -- Al-Jazeera television on March 9 apologized to viewers after a talk-show guest, Syrian-American psychologist Dr Wafa Sultan, described as "barbaric" the response of Muslims to a Danish newspaper's cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed. "The Muslims' barbaric reaction added to the value of these cartoons. It simply proved their rightness," said Dr Sultan on the Qatari network. "The Muslim is an irrational creature, and the things he learned overpower his mind and inflame his feelings. That is why these remarks have turned him into an inferior creature, who cannot control himself and respond to events in a rational way." |
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Man Faces Only 1 Year Jail For Killing Sister, Lover -- The Jordanian citizen who first killed his sister and her alleged lover with an automatic rifle and then surrendered to the police faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison. The man explained that he committed the crime to avenge the family honour. The double honour killing, the fourth since the beginning of the year, took place last Friday. |
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Latest Terrorists Are "Looking For Thrills" -- The third wave of terrorism facing the world is a leaderless mishmash of young and bored terrorist wannabees, according to a leading US expert. Former CIA officer and now author Marc Sageman says that the latest jihadis taking up the global call for action more closely resemble criminal gang members than religious fanatics. Dr Sageman who has just published his second book on terrorism networks, Leaderless Jihad: Terrorist Networks in the Twenty First Century, said they were typically young men looking for action, and wanting to copy their heroes, who include Osama bin Laden. "It is more about hero-worship than about religion," said Dr Sageman. "It's about youth culture ... about being cool - jihadi cool."
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Iraq |
U.S. Forces Find Mass Grave With 100 Bodies In Iraq -- A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered Saturday in a region north of Baghdad that has seen years of intense fighting between Shiites and Sunni extremist members of Al Qaeda in Iraq. The grisly discovery came as Iraq's Sunni parliament speaker called on the nation's Shiites and Kurds to work together with the minority he represents to pass an election law that would help reconcile Iraq's often warring sects and splinter groups. The grave, near Khalis in the Diyala province about 50 miles north of Baghdad, is still being investigated, but the U.S. military said the skeletal remains appear to have been there for a long time. |
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The International Veiling Of Statues -- This morning residents in Germany, Finland, and Russia woke up to find veiled statues in their cities. The event is timed to coincide with International Women’s Day, with the aim of reminding people in Europe of the widespread oppression of women under Islam in countries all over the world. |
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Egypt |
Egyptian Police Hold Leading Islamists In Crackdown -- Egyptian police detained 26 Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on Thursday including three leading members in a growing crackdown the opposition group says is meant to block them from contesting local elections in April. Mahmoud Ghuzlan, a member of the Brotherhood's 15-member Guidance Office, was taken from his Cairo home at 2 a.m.
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Plot To Attack U.S. Embassy In Philippines Foiled -- Philippine authorities say they have arrested three suspected Middle Eastern militants suspected of involvement in a plot to bomb the Israeli and three other foreign embassies in Manila. Two senior Filipino security officials told The Associated Press that investigators were verifying intelligence information that the three may have been involved in an active plot to bomb the U.S., British, Australian and Israeli embassies in Manila.
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$148M For Permanent Palestinian "Refugees" -- The US government has pledged 148 million dollars this year to the UN refugee agency to aid Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and neighboring countries (welfare for terrorists). |
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United Kingdom |
U.K. Eyes Forced Marriages In Students' School Absences -- More than 30 children have been absent for at least two months from school rosters in an English city and officials fear they may have been forced into arranged marriages, |
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United States |
Jury Convicts Former Navy Sailor Of Leaking Details About His Own Ship -- A former Navy sailor was convicted Wednesday of leaking details about ship movements to suspected terrorism supporters, an act that could have endangered his own crewmates. Jurors convicted Hassan Abu-Jihaad, 32, of Phoenix of providing material support to terrorists and disclosing classified national defense information on the second day of deliberations. The American-born Muslim convert formerly known as Paul R. Hall faces up to 25 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in May. |
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A New Motoon — Live From Finland -- Evidently the Finns are jealous of the Danes, the Dutch, and the Swedes, who seem to get all the attention from the world’s 1.78 quadrillion offended Muslims. So the Finnish cartoonist Seppo Lehto decided to videotape himself drawing a Mohammed caricature. He posted the result on YouTube: Mohammed as a "pig pedophile prophet." |
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Osama bin London’s Country Camps -- "Fifty-two. That’s not even breakfast for me." Those were the words of an Islamic preacher in Britain, Mohammed Hamid, who liked to call himself “Osama bin London.” Hamid was referring to the fifty-two people murdered by Islamic jihadists in the London bombings of July 2005, and was boasting that his own plots would lead to, presumably, lunch and dinner -- far more deaths. One police official, discussing surveillance tapes made of conversations inside Hamid’s home, said, "There was repeated talk of finding and killing nonbelievers."
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Inspired By Allah, Hamas Fighters Battle On -- Abu Mohammed picked up his rifle, said farewell to his wife and six children and went out to face the Israeli tanks, helicopter gunships and missile-firing airborne drones. "Being unable to defeat Israel is no reason to surrender," the Hamas fighter said with a smile as he headed to the Gaza Strip's front line last Saturday, ignoring pleas from his family to stay. "My children and wife are very dear to me," he said. "But reward in Heaven and the homeland are dearer." |
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Saudi Arabia |
Uncle Beheads 15-Month-Old Nephew In Saudi Supermarket -- A man beheaded his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in a supermarket in Saudi Arabia apparently after a family dispute, newspapers reported Monday. The 25-year-old Syrian national picked up a knife from the store in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Sunday and decapitated the little boy in full view of shoppers. |
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United States |
Chicago Sun-Times Columnist's Outrageous Support Of Racist Louis Farrakhan -- Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell has proven that skin color is deeper than hate in her Sunday column as she scolded Barack Obama for distancing himself from the endorsement of the racist Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan. Mitchell scoffed at Barack's denouncement of Farrakhan as merely a "game" to placate racist white people and tried to pump up the legitimacy of Farrakhan at the same time. Shockingly Mitchell excused every hateful thing ever said by Farrakhan and said that Barack should have "found a way" to accept Farrakhan's endorsement "without denigrating Farrakhan's legacy." |
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Indonesia |
Security Forces Comb Forests, Seas for Singapore's Escaped Terror Suspect -- Security forces in Singapore and Indonesia combed the undergrowth and traveled on jet skis to outlying islands in a hunt for a top Islamic terror suspect who staged a stunning escape from a high-security jail.
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Dutch Film To Slam Islam -- Europe's uneasy relationship with its Muslim minority faces another blow next month, when Dutch politician Geert Wilders releases a 15-minute film that compares Islam to Nazism and communism. |
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Prosecutors Rest In Navy Terrorism Case -- Federal prosecutors played secretly taped phone conversations Friday to show jurors that a former Navy sailor charged with leaking ship movements to suspected terrorism supporters used coded speech to discuss intelligence about military bases. In the calls, Hassan Abu-Jihaad, 32, of Phoenix, speaks of "fresh meals" and "cold meals" in conversations with associates. A "fresh meal" referred to useful information, while "cold meal" was code for outdated intelligence, prosecutors said.
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Iran To Punish Apostasy With Death -- Apostasy, or the formal renunciation of religion, is already punishable in Iran with death. But now, Iran wants to make the death penalty for apostasy part of the penal code. The European Union is concerned and has asked Iran to reconsider.
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Relax! There Are Only 91 Million Jihadists! -- A huge Gallup survey of the world's Muslims released Tuesday, says about 93 percent of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are moderates and only seven percent are politically radical, according to the poll, based on more than 50,000 interviews. |
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Terror Trial Exposes Network Of Terror Camps In Picturesque Rural England -- Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslim men trained in picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings. |
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Europe's Muslim Radicals: The Next Generation (Shocking photo) -- "And he will be, indeed, a formidable soldier for jihad: if he can slit a person's throat at five years old, just imagine what he can do at 20" |
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Al-Sadr Threatens To Lift Cease-Fire -- Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq, officials said Wednesday. Sheik Salah al-Obeidi, a spokesman for al-Sadr in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, said that if the cleric failed to issue a statement by Saturday saying that the cease-fire was extended "then that means the freeze is over." The cease fire was declared in August and due to expire at this month's end. Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army is among the most powerful militias in Iraq. The crux of the message being sent by the organization was that al-Sadr followers would be free to resume their activities if no message was sent by the cleric on Feb. 23. |
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Father "Stones 14-Year-Old Daughter To Death" -- A man known as Sharif has reportedly stoned his fourteen-year-old daughter to death in southeastern Iran because for allegedly having a relationship with a man. Sharif showed no sign of remorse, telling police who interrogated him: "I suspected that my daughter had a relationship with a man and I had to stone her to death as she had besmirched my honour. I had no other choice." |
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U.S. General Explains How To Fight Terrorism -- US Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Nick Halley, a veteran Vietnam, Grenada and Desert Storm (Iraq) commander and general, says the war against radical Islam is a no-choice prospect, in which the West must do everything it can to win. In his book Terrorism: The Target is You!, Gen. Halley calmly but emphatically calls upon the American public to internalize that the war imposed upon them by extremist Muslims is for real. Each and every citizen has a role to play in this war, Halley says, mainly in understanding that a concerted war effort is crucial. His list of Do's and Don'ts includes the following: Don't judge progress based on casualty reports; Don't have unrealistic expectations; Don't overreact to bad news or future terrorist attacks; Do be alert; and Do put aside political differences in order to present a unified front against radical Islam. |
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Wikipedia Defies 180,000 Demands To Remove Images Of The Prophet -- Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, despite being flooded with complaints from Muslims demanding the images be deleted. More than 180,000 worldwide have joined an online protest claiming the images, shown on European-language pages and taken from Persian and Ottoman miniatures dating from the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, are offensive to Islam, which prohibits any representation of Muhammad. But the defiant editors of the encyclopaedia insist they will not bow to pressure and say anyone objecting to the controversial images can simply adjust their computers so they do not have to look at them. |
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Attacks In Baghdad Fall 80 Percent -- Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen up to 80 percent in Baghdad and concrete blast walls that divide the capital could soon be removed, a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday. |
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Library Designed To Stir Up Jihad, Says Prosecutor -- An article praising the September 11 hijackers and videos of Muslim extremists beheading hostages were found in raids on a home-grown terror cell, a court heard yesterday. A "common library" of terror manuals and videos was shared by group members and was designed to stir them up to commit violent jihad, prosecutor Richard Maidment, SC, said. |
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Nigeria |
Six Sharia Convicts Await Stoning Death In Nigeria -- Six people convicted by Islamic sharia courts in a northern Nigerian state are awaiting death by stoning, while 46 others are waiting for amputation, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Friday. |
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Commander Of Fath Al-Islam in Palestine -- Palestinians' War with the Jews is Part of Global Jihad. Al-Ghazzawi (whose name means "from Gaza") urges the Palestinians to participate in the war against "the unbelievers, headed by the U.S., Europe and Iran" who are attacking Islam. He stresses that they must begin by fighting the Jews, who are their nearest enemies. |
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Australia's Biggest Terrorism Trial Starts -- Australia's biggest terrorism trial started on Wednesday, with 12 Muslim men charged with being members of an unnamed terrorist organization planning violent jihad to force Australia to withdraw its troops from Iraq. The 12 men faced charges of preparing to use explosives or weapons for an undisclosed terrorist act, with the intention of coercing a government or intimidating the public. |
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Executions May Be Carried Out At Gitmo -- If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba. |
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Denmark To The Jihad: Drop Dead -- According to some of my other Danish contacts, billboards and posters of the drawings of Muhammed are prominent all over Copenhagen. |
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U.S. Muslim Blogger Threatens Over Muhammad Cartoon -- "You fools seem to forget the end of Theo Van Gogh. Keep fearing for your life you white trash...." Anyone who wages war against Allah and His Messenger defiantly and arrogantly, will inevitably face the banner of Laa Ilaaha Illallaah: they will face those who will show them no mercy. |
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Ramadan’s Stone Love -- If the practice of stoning (lapidation) exists across the Islamic world—most visibly in Afghanistan, Iran, Nigeria, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates, it speaks much to Western forbearance that this same penalty, though reviled, can make the fortune of one who commends the practice. Consider the case of Hani Ramadan and the state of Geneva. |
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Islam And Its Taboos -- The discussion, which took place yesterday, is called "Islam and its taboos." It features, according to the France 24 site, "Muslim writer and feminist Irshad Manji, Amel Boubekeur, leader of the Islam and Europe programme, Richard Spencer, director of jihadwatch.org and Abed Ayoub, legal advisor for American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee." |
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The Muslim Brotherhood's Infiltration Of The West -- An important overview of Muslim Brotherhood activity in the West from the European essayist Fjordman. |
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British Cops: Jihadis Have Infiltrated Government And Public Utilities -- Islamist extremists have infiltrated Government and key public utilities to pass sensitive information to terrorists, the security services have warned…
The development is detailed in intelligence reports circulated to the Home Office, police and Whitehall officials.
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Embattled Muslim Aide To Leave Pentagon Job -- In a stunning turn of events, a high-level Muslim military aide blamed for costing an intelligence contractor his job will step down from his own Pentagon post. Hesham Islam's 'resume didn't add up,' official says
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The Battle For America Has Just Begun -- A Conversation with Bat Ye'or, who begins by saying, "The West is engaged in a very careful exercise of self-censorship. We are trying not to offend Muslim sensibilities. Western governments want to impose respect for Muslim sensibilities in the hope that this will avoid jihad. They are ready to suppress the truth." |
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U.S. Election 2008: Your Vote -- Al Jazeera readers cast votes for their favorite candidate. (You'll never guess who they favor) [cursor down and click "View Results"] |
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Minister Warns Of "Inbred" Muslims -- A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society. The minister, whose views were supported by medical experts this weekend, said: "The issue we need to debate is first cousin marriages, whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children]." |
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17,000 Victims A Year Of Honor Violence In Britain? -- Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to "honour" related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs. And official figures on forced marriages are the tip of the iceberg, says the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). |
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Guantanamo Bay Detainees Could Face Charges Over 9/11 -- Military prosecutors are close to filing charges against suspected conspirators in the plot that led to thousands of deaths in Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, The New York Times reported. According to people who have been briefed on the case, the charges would be brought against as many as six detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, according to the report. Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a former senior aid to Usama bin Laden, is expected to be among the six. |
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Iran Envoy Defends Amputation -- Iran's ambassador to Spain has compared chopping off the hands of thieves to a "surgeon amputating a limb to prevent the spread of gangrene." In a defence of Iran's tough implementation of Islamic law, Seyed Davoud Salehi called for "the traditions, religion and economic development" of Iran to be taken into account by those monitoring human rights in the country. He also argued that the death penalty was necessary "to preserve the health of society as a whole".
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Religion Of Perpetual Outrage Prepares For March Madness -- It looks like Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam film, “Fitna,” is set to launch next month (hat tip - Sugiero). He’s calling it “Fitna,” which is Arabic for “ordeal.” He’s hinting at a fiery conclusion, which promises to set off a worldwide conflagration not seen since, oh, Submission-gate, Koran-flushing-gate, Mo Cartoon-gate, Fallaci-gate, Rushdie-gate, Pope-gate, Veil-gate, Mo Teddy Bear-gate, etc., etc., etc. |
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Death Penalty Proposed For "Apostates" -- The Iranian parliament may mandate the death penalty for citizens who leave Islam, a human rights group announced this week. For the first time in Iranian history, a proposed penal code demands the death penalty for “apostates,” according to a February 5 statement by the Institute on Religion and Public Policy (IRPP). "Apostasy was always illegal, but the court could hand down a jail term, hard labor or the death penalty," said IRPP President Joseph Grieboski. "Now apostasy [would only] get the death penalty." But women who leave Islam would be subjected only to ‘hardship’ until they recant. |
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The AMERICAN Leader Of Al Qaeda In Somalia -- Late last month the Global Islamic Media Front [GIMF] released a statement from the Movement of Jihadi Youth [Shabab], an al Qaeda linked organization, which officially severed its ties from the Islamic Courts Union [ICU], the former government of Somalia which modeled itself after the Taliban movement, and which also has close ties to al Qaeda. But perhaps the most intriguing part of the document is that it is signed Abu Mansour Al-Amriki, or Abu Mansour from America. |
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Sharia "Crime Courts" Are ALREADY Operating In Britain -- An Islamic Council in Leyton also revealed that it had dealt with more than 7,000 divorces while Sharia courts in the capital have settled hundreds of financial disputes. Today's revelations came as controversy raged over Dr Williams's call for parts of Sharia law to be adopted in Britain. Most are understood to concentrate on divorce cases - although such judgments are not recognised in British law - as well as financial disputes. Suhaib Hasan, a spokesman for the Islamic Sharia Council in Leyton, which was set up in 1982, said that he and his colleagues dealt with more than 200 cases a year, ranging from inheritance to marriage and divorce. |
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Egypt Threatens To Break The Legs Of Gaza Infiltrators -- Egypt said on Thursday it would no longer tolerate Palestinians infiltrating the country from the Gaza Strip, and threatened to break the legs of anyone crossing the Rafah border illegally. "Anyone who breaches the border will have their legs broken," Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on public television overnight. |
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Iranian Ayatollah: Arab Countries Should Have Chopped Off Bush's Head -- Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati: Death to those who participated in the Annapolis Summit, and who got rewarded for this. Their mouths were stitched up, so that they could not speak out anymore. You really deserve death for being so despicable, and for wanting to please Bush, America, and Israel, rather than pleasing God, the Prophet, the Muslims, the oppressed, and the wretched. |
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Religious Police In Saudi Arabia Arrest (American) Mother For Sitting With A Man -- A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh. |
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Pentagon Aide Hesham Islam Scheduled Meetings With Muslim Brotherhood, Others, In Contradiction Of U.S. Policy -- At the urging of a subordinate, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England scheduled at least two meetings with foreign emissaries in direct contradiction of U.S. policy at the time. The meetings date back to 2005. They involved a Lebanese ambassador considered a proxy for the Syrian government and a leading member of Syria's Muslim Brotherhood. |
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Muslim Convert Slurs Bali Victims -- Rabiah Hutchinson, the Mudgee-born grandmother accused of being the "grand dame" of extremist jihadis in Australia, says she has limited sympathy for the victims of the Bali bombings because those holidaying on the Indonesian island engaged in pedophilia and drug taking. |
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Hayden Names Al Qaeda Jihadis Waterboarded By CIA -- Two of them you knew. The third: Abd-al Rahim al-Nashiri, mastermind of the Cole bombing. Like KSM and Abu Zubaydah, he went under the towel more than five years ago. |
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Muslims Enraged, Seething at Wikipedia -- Apparently there are a whole lot of Muslims enraged and offended at Wikipedia, because there are ... gasp ... drawings and images of Mohammed in his Wikipedia entry. |
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Pentagon Aide's Invitations Contradicted U.S. Policy -- At the urging of a subordinate, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England scheduled at least two meetings with foreign emissaries in direct contradiction of U.S. policy at the time. The meetings date back to 2005. They involved a Lebanese ambassador considered a proxy for the Syrian government and a leading member of Syria's Muslim Brotherhood. U.S. policy at the time was not to engage in talks with either man, because they represent groups with whom the United States was not to communicate. The meetings were organized by England's special assistant for international affairs, Hesham Islam. |
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We Must Defeat Islamofascism -- Unfortunately, some in America, even some running for president, don't get it. Those who don't understand that the war in Iraq is a critical part of the war on terror, don't get it. Those who pledge to withdraw our troops according to some politically-motivated rationale before this war is won, don't get it. Iraq must be stable and secure within its borders. It is not just Iraq's security that is at stake, but the security of the entire region and of the United States. |
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Muslim Police "Blocking Crackdown On Honor Killings" -- Some Asians in the police and in Government jobs have been accused of blocking the crackdown against so-called honour killings. It is alleged they are not only failing to help desperate women trying to flee abuse and arranged marriages but are actively encouraging punishment for those they believe are breaking traditional taboos. |
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U. S. al-Qaeda Strategy Is Fatally Flawed Say Analysts -- "Without knowing our enemy, we cannot fulfill the most basic requirements of an effective counter-terrorist strategy: pre-empting and preventing terrorist operations and deterring their attacks," |
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The War Against Jihadism -- We are fighting: jihadism, the religiously inspired ideology which teaches that it is every Muslim's duty to use any means necessary to compel the world's submission to Islam. That most of the world's Muslims do not accept this definition of the demands of their faith is true—and beside the point. The jihadists believe this. |
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"Jihad Is Everthing The Golden Rule Is Not" -- Bostom’s book amply documents the systematic and destructive character of Islamic jihad, refuting the much-repeated argument that jihad is a “rich” concept that has many meanings and that jihad first of all signifies “inner struggle.” Jihad is first of all war, bloodshed, subjugation, and expansion of the faith by violence. |
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'No one leaves Islam,' judge rules -- No one ever leaves Islam, according to a judge in Egypt who has cited Islamic religious law in rejecting a request from a Muslim convert to Christianity to be allowed to change his religious affiliation on his national identification card. |
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Islamic Terror Leader Seized In Kyrgyzstan -- The arrest in Kyrgyzstan of a suspected Central Asian Islamic terror leader has highlighted his movement's close relationships with the Taliban and al-Qaida. |
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Islam Probed -- The Pentagon is looking into conflicting statements about the background of Hesham Islam, a special assistant to Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England who was the focus of a dispute with a Joint Staff counterterrorism analyst. |
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In War Against Islamism, We Must Listen To The Words Of Our Enemies -- This war is about listening to the words of our enemies. It is about the ideas of our enemies which make them repel from freedom. In this debate season where vagaries are shunned and specifics lauded, it is time for the candidates to get specific. Here are the questions which will probably never be asked in this year’s debates but whose answers would separate real leaders from demagogues. |
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Young "Alcoholic" Faces Death Penalty -- A young Iranian man is facing execution after a court judged him a 'hardened and incorrigible drinker," Iranian daily Etemad Melli reported. A section of Tehran's criminal court is currently deciding whether the 22-year-old man, known as Mohsen, should be executed. |
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Ahmadinejad Tells West: Accept Israel's "Imminent Collapse" -- "Accept that the life of Zionists will sooner or later come to an end," the Iranian president said in a televised speech. He added, "What we have right now is the last chapter [of Israeli atrocities] which the Palestinians and regional nations will confront and eventually turn in Palestine's favor." |
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New Crop Of Jihadis Is "Set To Step Up" -- A new crop of home-grown jihadis, groomed to step up and replace the leaders of Australian terror cells who have been arrested or jailed, is almost "mature" enough to launch an operation, an international terror expert has warned. |
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Another Honor Killing In Jordan -- A 17-year-old girl died after being strangled to death by her brother in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Jordanian town of Jerash. He was apparently angered by her absence from home. |
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"Is The British Muslim Allowed To Kill British civilians...?" -- Ayman's question box is filling up. But as for the question about British Muslims killing British civilians, does anyone know who asked it, where this person is, and what he is doing? Does anyone care? |
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Court Denies Fla. Ex-Professor's Appeal -- A former Florida college professor who pleaded guilty to aiding a Palestinian terrorist group was not immune from a subpoena forcing him to testify in an unrelated probe of Muslim charities. |
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Dutch Politician Plans To Air Film Criticizing the Koran -- A Dutch politician known for his views against Islam plans to air a film he produced that is critical of the Koran, which he likens to Adolf Hitler's hateful writings. "I believe the Koran is, indeed, 'Mein Kampf.' They are the same package," Wilders said. "I believe that our culture is far better than the retarded Islamic culture." |
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Dutch Braced For "Koran Insult" Backlash -- If I insult you, am I responsible for your violence? It's a question being debated in the Netherlands this week as Dutch embassies around the world beef up their security ahead of the release of a film on the internet which allegedly insults the Koran. It's reported to show the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated. |
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European Union |
Europe: Major Staging Area For Islamic Extremists -- Europe, with its ongoing and uncontrolled colonization by Muslims and their attendant radical brothers and sisters into its midst, is now viewed as one of the world’s major training grounds for terrorists planning attacks against it and the USA. Europe’s area is large and its people are more consumed by and concerned with political correctness (PC) and allowing terrorists to express their own viewpoint (and ultimately their right to murder anyone who disagrees with them) than they are with their own survival. This also seems to be an increasing agenda and belief system within many in the United States. |
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Afghanistan |
Afghan Journalist Sentenced To Death -- An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam. |
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Malaysia |
Malaysia Seizes Christian Books -- Malaysian authorities confiscated Christian children's books, claiming the illustrations of prophets such as Moses and Abraham violate Islamic Shariah law. |
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The Netherlands |
Holland On Alert -- Holland is on high alert in anticipation of the upcoming release of yet another anti-Islam film, this one created by far right Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders, who has been living under high security since the death of Theo van Gogh in 2004 (van Gogh was murdered on the streets of Amsterdam by a radical Muslim in retaliation for a film that he directed, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Submission"). The government has recommended the evacuation of all its embassies "in sensitive areas," and has been engaging for weeks now in discussions with police officials as to the best way to handle the riots and violence they expect will erupt when the film is aired. And even Hirsi Ali, creator of "Submission," when interviewed in the Dutch press, ironically called the film "too provocative," suggesting that violent responses are indeed likely. |
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United States |
ABC Reporters Fawn Over Bin Laden Son And His "Curious Proposal" -- ABC correspondent Nick Watt conducted a softball interview with the son of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden on Tuesday's "Good Morning America" and he credulously repeated Omar bin Laden's goals of being an "ambassador for peace." Host Diane Sawyer called the idea a "very curious proposal," while Watt announced that the younger bin Laden "wants to meet with President George W. Bush" and labeled the idea "astounding." |
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United States |
Festival Of Ashura In New York (7 photos) -- Shi'ite Muslims at the al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens prepare to flagellate themselves during a procession marking the festival of Ashura. |
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Egypt |
Sympathizers Seek Answers From Al-Qaida -- Sympathizers submitted hundreds of questions to al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri's "on-line interview" before a recent deadline. Among them: Why hasn't al-Qaida attacked the U.S. again, why isn't it attacking the Israelis and when will it be more active in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria? |
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United Kingdom |
Iraq Deputy Prime Minister's "Blackburn Mosque Jibe" -- The Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq has claimed mosques in Blackburn are more extreme than in his home country. "I am not surprised that you British are facing so many problems with extremists after what I saw in those mosques in Blackburn. What I saw...would not be allowed here in Iraq. It would be illegal."
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The Netherlands |
Violence Fear Over Islam Film -- The Dutch government is bracing itself for violent protests following the scheduled broadcast this week of a provocative anti-Muslim film by a radical right-wing politician who has threatened to broadcast images of the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated. |
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Palestinian Territories |
Hezbollah Has "Heads" Of Israeli soldiers -- "We have the heads, the hands, the feet and even a nearly intact cadavre from the head down to the pelvis," he said in his first public appearance in more than a year to commemorate Ashura, Shiite Islam's holiest day. |
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Spain |
Spanish Police Arrest 14 In Anti-Terror Raids -- Spanish police have smashed a suspected Islamist terror cell, arresting 14 people and recovering bomb-making equipment in overnight raids in Barcelona. Those arrested included 12 Pakistanis and two Indians. |
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United States |
Secret Al Qaeda Terrorist to be Sentenced in New York -- He pleaded guilty more than five years ago to plotting bomb attacks on American embassies, but the case against Al Qaeda member Mohammed Mansour Jabarah has been shrouded in secrecy until now. |
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United States |
Canadian Qaeda Bomb Plotter Gets Life In U.S. Prison -- A Canadian who admitted plotting to bomb U.S. embassies in Singapore and the Philippines was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after telling the court he had been "brainwashed" by al Qaeda. |
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World Wide |
Today's Terrorist Roundup -- The Terrorist Roundup for January 18, 2008. |
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Australia |
Firestorm In Austria As Politician Calls Mohammed A Child Molester -- Susanne Winter, a right-wing politician with the FPÖ party running for a city council seat in the city of Graz, blasted Muslims on Sunday, saying that "in today's system" the Prophet Muhammad would be considered a "child molester." Austrian prosecutors are also looking into the possibility of filing charges against the 50-year-old politician for incitement. |
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Pakistan |
Rs 5,000 Fine Impose In Pak For Shaving Beard -- A radical Islamic group in Pakistan’s Khyber Agency bordering Afghanistan has warned that any man shaving his beard will have to pay a fine of Rs 5,000.
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Palestinian Territories |
Let's Give Them More Money - And a State! -- Palestinians are still firing dozens of rockets into Israel every week (sometimes dozens in a day), they’re still murdering Israelis every chance they get, and you can be sure they’re planning more attacks from the West Bank as well. The “government” of Israel’s partner in peace, Mahmoud Abbas, continues publishing maps without Israel, and yesterday Abbas even called Hamas thug Mahmoud Zahar to commiserate over the death of Zahar’s terrorist son. |
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Australia |
Daughter "Threatened If She Denounced Islam" -- A Gold Coast man threatened to kill his daughter and himself if she denounced Islam for Christianity, a court was told yesterday. |
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United Kingdom |
The Murderous "Muslim Boys" Are Back -- Back in 2005, I reported on the phenomenon of the gang in London which called themselves "The Muslim Boys." Since their tactics haven’t changed, click on the link to see the perverted ingenuity of these "boys." |
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United Kingdom |
British Muslim Computer Geek, Son Of Diplomat, Revealed As Al Qaeda's Top Cyber Terrorist -- Younes Tsouli, 23, an IT student at a London college, used his top-floor flat in W12 to help Islamist extremists wage a propaganda war against the West. Under the name Irhabi 007, combining the James Bond reference with the Arabic for terrorist, he worked with al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and came up with a way to convert often gruesome videos into a form that could be put onto the Web. |
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