The following can be found in Bernard Lewis’s book The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (pp. 157-159):
“Usama bin Ladin has made clear how he perceives the struggle by repeatedly defining his enemy as 'crusaders'. The Crusaders, it will be recalled, were neither Americans nor Jews; they were Christians fighting a holy war to recover the lost holy places of Christendom. A “letter to America” published in November 2002, and attributed to Usama bin Ladin, enumerates in some detail various offenses committed not just by the government but also by the people of the United States and sets forth, under seven headings, ‘what we are calling you to do, and what we want from you.’ The first is to embrace Islam; the second, ‘to stop your oppression, lies, immorality, and debauchery’; the third, to discover and admit that America is ‘a nation without principles or manners’, the fourth, to stop supporting Israel in Palestine, the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens, and the Manila government against the Muslims in the southern Phillipines; the fifth, ‘to pack your luggage and get out of our lands'. This is offered as advice for America’s own good, 'so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins’. The sixth, ‘to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or expect us in New York and Washington; seventh, to deal and interact with the Muslims on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of subjugation, theft, and occupation. ‘
He continues with “The case against America in this document is very detailed. It includes, apart from the familiar list of specific grievances, a range of accusations both general and particular. These are of varied and usually recognizable provenance, reflecting the successive ideologies that have at different time influenced Middle Eastern politicians and policies and policies. Some date from the Nazi era, e.g. degeneracy and ultimate Jewish control; others from the period of Soviet influence, e.g., capitalist greed and exploitation. Many are of recent European and even American origin, and come from both left and right. They include world pollution and the refusal to sign the Kyoto accords; political corruption through campaign financing; privileging the 'white race'; and, from the right, the neo-Nazi, white supremacist myth that Benjamin Franklin gave warning against the Jewish danger. The sinister role of Jews is stressed in almost all these offenses.
"Even the vaunted merits of the American way of life become crime and sins. The liberation of women means debauchery and the commercial use of women as 'consumer products'. Free elections mean that the American people freely choose their rulers and must therefore be held accountable and punishable for those rulers’ misdeeds - that there are no 'innocent civilians'. Worst of all is the separation of church and state: ‘You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator.’ In sum, ‘You are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind.’"
That is quite a tall order! It seems that our terrorist enemies want a teensy bit more than changing our foreign policy to be extra super-nice to them.
Where should we begin? How should we re-order American society and culture so that the terrorists can LOVE us with all their hearts? Most importantly, what would Ron Paul do? Will he have the First Amendment changed to have a church, or perhaps the mosque, fused to government? If not th
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June 3, 2007 - 06:37 ET by UnsaneDamn, part of that cut off. I conclude with "If not that, then what?" where the sentence cuts off...
Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum. - Vegetius
Unsane where to start:I am go
June 3, 2007 - 08:07 ET by Airforce_5_OUnsane where to start:
I am going to refer to an interview I have read with Kamal el-Said Habib. This is a close associate of Zawhiri. He is the leader of Tanzim al-Jihad, the largest jihadist organization in the world, and resides in Egypt. This organization waged a war from 1992-1997, ignored by most of the outside world, inside Egypt that cost the Egyptian government billions of dollars to the economy and thousands of deaths. The Egyptian government finally put it down but at a heavy price.
Kamal and Zawhiri were both subjected to the teachings of Hassan al-Banna, a school teacher and ideologue, and Rashid Rida. It was Al-Banna’s teachings were based mostly in Sufism. His reforms lead to the forming of the Muslim Brotherhood. In this organization we find the basic building blocks of the Jihadist.
In the interview Kamal revealed that the reforming of government through Jihad must take place from the bottom up not the top down. This means that even with the Government taking on reform to some what “sooth” the Jihadist they would not be satisfied there. It is the elimination of the whole government and the establishment of the whole way of Islam that they seek. Here is the Jihadist mantle.
Even if we met their demands through appeasement they would still fight for the destruction of Israel and every government not under the rule of Islam.
Not being that familiar with Ron Paul’s policies for President, I am reading his web site as I write this, any alteration to the separation of church and state is bad. This separation keeps the state from establishing religion, as the English did with the Church of England, so that we could practice religion, the one we choose, more freely and without fear of the government.
I am just wondering if WhichW
June 4, 2007 - 16:09 ET by UnsaneI am just wondering if WhichWhine has anything to say about this. I am sure he has SOMETHING to say...
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I do have something to say.
June 6, 2007 - 08:30 ET by WhichWingI do have something to say. Lewis was very liberal with his quotations, wasn't he? I'm pretty sure I've posted the actual quotes from bin Laden, and none of that matches up. Lewis is trying to take you in a certain direction, as opposed to a factual analysis. You have apperently followed his direction.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Translation: "I'm not li
June 7, 2007 - 05:38 ET by UnsaneTranslation: "I'm not listening!!!!" (WhichWhine puts his fingers in his ears and starts screaming like a two year old)
WhichWhine, may I suggest you hit your local library and read that book for yourself? It isn't a door-stopper; it can quite possibly slide under the door. It can be read in mere hours. Besides, on what basis do you whine that Lewis does not use factual analysis if you havent read the whole thing?
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I did read the whole thing,
June 7, 2007 - 17:27 ET by WhichWingI did read the whole thing, how else would I have come to my conclusion? Why don't you post what bin Laden actually said and compare it to what Lewis wrote?
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Even if what Lewis wrote does
June 7, 2007 - 18:42 ET by UnsaneEven if what Lewis wrote doesn't match up to your bin Laden quote in full, the simple fact remains that what I posted reflects much of the thinking in the Islamic radical community you so badly want the United States to suck up to, of which bin Laden is but ONE member of. So the question remains, WhichWhine. Which of our freedoms should go first? Should we force the entire population of American females out of schools and the workplace, and force them to only go out in public wearing burqas?
Should we all recite the Shehada together?
Should we kick Israel to the curb? (I bet that in particular is...well...exciting to you.)
It's only fitting, since you don't give a damn about the United States...only whatever makes al-Qaeda and Islamic radicals HAPPY.
Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum. - Vegetius
Or should we just let YOU d
June 9, 2007 - 06:42 ET by WhichWingOr should we just let YOU decide what others are thinking? You are realize you are somewhat of a radical yourself, right?
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Huh?There is nothing at all r
June 9, 2007 - 06:50 ET by UnsaneHuh? Are you perhaps not dealing with the simple fact that the terrorists are after a little more than us implementing an ass-kissing foreign policy?
There is nothing at all radical about realism, and realpolitik (except perhaps to the delusional). I suggest you read Lewis's book, and follow that up with Machiavelli's The Prince. For starters.
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You are a radical because y
June 9, 2007 - 08:21 ET by WhichWingYou are a radical because you don't believe there is a middle ground in anything. It's kill them all or lead us all to death in your eyes. And you apply that philosophy to just about everything you speak about.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
You must be joking WW, there
June 9, 2007 - 08:38 ET byYou must be joking WW, there are subjects where middle ground is possible but find middle ground with Islamoterrorists?
Reason this out
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
WhichWhine, there IS no middl
June 12, 2007 - 05:27 ET by UnsaneWhichWhine, there IS no middle ground with people whose starting point of negotiation with me or anyone else is 1) convert to OUR version of Islam or 2) die.
There also was no middle ground for communism, either. To them, it was an "all or nothing" proposition.
Thank you for proving my point that Neville Chamberlain was, and is, your hero. Last time I checked, his looking for the middle ground did not turn out so well for the Sudetenland, and after another year, didn't turn out so well for Europe.
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Brilliant, we'll go in with
June 12, 2007 - 06:50 ET by WhichWingBrilliant, we'll go in with an all or nothing attitude, and they will too. I guess the only way either side could claim victory is to wipe out an entire group of people. Good luck to you, sounds like you have quite a challenge ahead of you.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Please quote for me where I a
June 13, 2007 - 05:58 ET by UnsanePlease quote for me where I advocated genocide.
Now, crack open a history book and see what happened to Germany and Japan. They were cured of some very bad habits, but it took them losing lots and lots of people. Violence, not coddling, not hugs, not negotiation, not endless talking, solves many, many problems. To say otherwise is to admit that you are 100% ignorant of history (and in your case, happily so).
So, WhichWhine, based on my original topic (you so endlessly bitch and moan if it even LOOKS like we are going off topic, so what is good for the goose...): what freedoms are you willing to give up in order to make the terrorists LOVE us?
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I think the real question i
June 13, 2007 - 07:24 ET by WhichWingI think the real question is 'How many more freedoms are you willing to give up in order to fight the terrorists?'
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
I assume that, after that que
June 13, 2007 - 07:47 ET by UnsaneI assume that, after that question, you won't ever bitch at me ever again for "changing the subject"?
Try answering a question for a change.
(You wouldn't know tyranny if it bit you in the ass, little boy. Having set foot in three communist countries, I know a little something about tyranny. Now, answer the question.)
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Forget it. I've posed simp
June 13, 2007 - 16:36 ET by WhichWingForget it. I've posed simple yes or no questions to you and all you do is respond with questions. You are the one bitching all the time, usually about reciprocity, maybe you should try to be less of a hypocrite, even if only for one day. You are constantly trying to change the subject, instead of answering a question you'll bring out a historical reference that was no bearing on the topic at hand. (Notice the debate about the Civil War now going on in the Paul vs. Giuliani thread?) You are the one that refuses to believe that the national debt is almost 9 trillion dollars, even after being pointed to 5 different links telling you so. My only hope is that you will some day soon set foot in one of those communist countries, and then keep those feet firmly planted there. I'm sure you will be able to enlighten them all with you vast knowledge about everyting except for current issues.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Thank you for admitting that
June 17, 2007 - 00:54 ET by UnsaneThank you for admitting that I am the man you want to be. :-)
Now, how much of American society do you wish to remake in the terrorists' image to get them to LOVE us? How many of their demands do you wish to give in to? How many freedoms do YOU wish to cough up so that they will fall madly in love with us and leave us alone?
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Perhaps you should ask that
June 17, 2007 - 04:48 ET by WhichWingPerhaps you should ask that question of the people in the Middle East. You know, the ones that you want to love us, instead of hating us.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
YOU are the one who wants the
June 17, 2007 - 06:03 ET by UnsaneYOU are the one who wants them to LOVE us. All I want is for them to know that yes, they CAN try to f#!k with our country, but it will be at their own great personal risk. Making that message abundantly clear requires a little more than what you wish to do: suck up to them and kiss their asses.
You are such a confused little boy...
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You dumbass, they are tryin
June 17, 2007 - 06:14 ET by WhichWingYou dumbass, they are trying to convey the SAME MESSAGE. That's why we aren't getting anywhere!!
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Considering the ass-kickings
June 17, 2007 - 06:24 ET by UnsaneConsidering the ass-kickings they have received (and if I have my way, will continue to receive until they learn to behave), they are slow learners.
You blithering f#!king idiot, WHAT THEY WANT TO ACCOMPLISH HAS BEEN DETAILED FOR YOU AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS THREAD, but you believe with all of your menstruating heart (h/t to FNM) that if we just chicken out of the Middle East, and PROMISE them that we will be 100% extra super-nice to them from here on out, They Will Just Go Away. I, on the other hand, know from history AND human nature that the way you stop such idiocy is to give out as many 5.56 mm brain hemmorhages as possible until they get the point that we will not put up with it! (You know what's scary? I'm not even at the point of advocating what the Mongols did to the Assassins, and believe me, if you are squeamish at what we are doing now, you and the rest of the world would be HORRIFIED to see what was done then. But you know what's even scarier? The Mongols were the ones who crushed the Assassins. Wonder why?)
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Oh, I see, you think you ca
June 19, 2007 - 07:12 ET by WhichWingOh, I see, you think you can lay out the other sides agenda as if you have first hand knowledge. Why don't you go ahead and lay out the agenda of this administration? And try to be more specific than "national interests this and that."
After you've typed it all up, read it a couple of times and take note of how selfish it really is. How it doesn't take anyone else into account. Notice how much it sounds like some sort of Mafia or street gang. (Gangs would probably be able to run just about any neighborhood, except they keep pissing off their neighbors.)
You spin all you want, but I am not, and have not ever, called for some sort of group hug. I don't like you, but I don't feel the need to kick your teeth in. In your mind that only leaves being 100% super-nice. Well, which one of those two have I done?
You may want to up your dosage.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
"...read it a couple of
June 20, 2007 - 05:31 ET by Unsane"...read it a couple of times and take note of how selfish it really is." Am I to surmise that you see selfishness as a bad thing somehow? I don't, you see.
Why not answer MY question and tell us all what freedoms you are willing to give up to allow the terrorists to LOVE us? The difference is, WhichWhine, is that I, unlike you, understand the threat. I don't have a whole lot of patience for people who take embassies hostage, whack people for that unforgivable crime of (gasp!) checking in for a flight at an airline counter, blow up public meeting places like discotheques and cafes, kill wheelchair bound passengers, attack community centers, blow up commuter trains and fly planes into buildings.
These are people I cannot negotiate with! Their starting point is either I adhere to their list of demands noted above or I die. Yet, you whine and cry that I am the radical, of course.
At least the Soviets were somewhat rational! But then again, do you know what it took to get them to understand that they couldn't gobble up Europe? Vittles, REFORGER exercises, NATO, the nuclear unbrella...doubtless if you were living during those times, you would blame the United States for the Berlin Wall.
Hell, here's another question: What's it going to take for you to get through that thick head of yours that these guys mean business? A city?
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Here's your middle ground....
June 12, 2007 - 06:46 ET by Sua Sponte 75Nothing to see here, just move along.......
The video takes place in a London mosque: Abu Izzadeen, a follower of British cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, talks about that peaceful inner struggle called "jihad". Try not to throw anything at your computer screen as you watch.
Terrorism is part and parcel to Islam. Terrorism is part of the deen [Islamic way of life] of Islam. Yes. Allah said ... "to terrify the enemis of Allah, we should prepare ourselves." Prepare to go to war [jihad]. Jihad is [a religous obligation] on Muslims, on the males of like us here. That is why you should teach your son how to ride. How to shoot. It is the sunna [example of the Prophet Muhammed] of Muhammed, and a [religious obligation] on you as a father to teach him to become a mujahidid....
They want to say. "You know, Islam is only self defense. Islam is not offensive jihad"
Two types: Offensive jihad, to conquer and to protect the authority of the sharia [Islamic law]. And defensive jihad: to protect Muslim lands. Two types. And for your information...Mohammed, he took part in 27 battles. 27. And all of them offensive jihads.
All come out of Medina to go to the enemy. Every single battle....All offensive jihads. And we should follow them. Because the messenger Muhammed said in the hadiths [sayings of the prophet], "Upon you, binding upon you Muslims, is the living sunna [example of the prophet] and the sunna of the sahabba."
And for your information the sahabba ...he removed all Jews and Christians from the Hijaz [Arabian peninsula]....completely.
(Allahu Akhbar)
We will do the same.
That's why when you hear on the news that the mujahideen [reference to al Qaeda], you know, of [Saudi Arabia], they killed those British and they killed those Americans [ie, a reference to the beheading of American Paul Johnson and murder of Kenneth Scroggs and BBC cameraman Simon Cumbers] don't be surprised. It's not some new phenomenon to kill the enemies of Allah.
And you may say to yourself, "No, they [Paul Johnson, et al] are innocent."
No kafir [unbeliever, non-Muslim] is innocent. Innocence is only for the Muslims. No kafir is innocent.
Thou sayest.
There's still nothing to see here, please move along.....
The Diplomacy Of Convert Or Die
It seems that Mahmoud has responded (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/06/061206101357.8mjamnal.html) to the Iraq Study Group's calls for diplomacy:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Western leaders to follow the path of God or "vanish from the face of the earth".
"These oppressive countries are angry with us ... a nation that on the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their power," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northern town of Ramsar, the semi-official news agency Mehr reported Wednesday.
"They are angry with our nation. But we tell them 'so be it and die from this anger'. Rest assured that if you do not respond to the divine call, you will die soon and vanish from the face of the earth," he said.
The outspoken president also maintained Iran's defiance over its controversial nuclear program, saying it was on course to fully master nuclear technology.
"Thank to God's help, we have gone all the way and are only one step away from the zenith.
"We hope to have the big nuclear celebration by the end of the year (March 2007)," Ahmadinejad said, echoing comments he has made on numerous occasions in recent months.
This seems pretty “middle of the road”……..ahhh, the Religion of Peace……
I thought I said there's nothing to see here, now kindly close your eyes and move along........
KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan - The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive’s head to cries of “God is great!” and hoists it in triumph by the hair. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_child_executioner_1)
MALATYA, Turkey — Three Protestants murdered at a Christian publishing house in Malatya, Turkey, were tortured for three hours before their assailants slit their throats, a press report said Friday, quoting one of the doctors involved in the grisly case. (http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070420-064724-9427r)
At a mosque in Sudan, the Acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Sheik Ahmad Bahr, calls for Israel and America to be annihilated and for Allah to kill every single Israeli and American citizen. (http://memritv.org/)
In a horrible incident in Mississauga, Ontario, a journalist for a Canadian-Pakistani paper was savagely beaten by two Muslim men who demanded that he “stop writing against Islam.” (http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/departments/newsroom/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003574052)
OLO, Philippines (Reuters) - Muslim extremists decapitated seven men they were holding hostage on the southern Philippine island of Jolo and sent the heads in sacks to two army detachments, the military said on Thursday. (http://in.news.yahoo.com/070419/137/6erfs.html)
ISTANBUL, Turkey: Assailants killed three people Wednesday at a publishing house that distributed Bibles, in the latest attack apparently targeting Turkey’s tiny Christian minority. The three victims were found with their throats slit and their hands and legs bound at the Zirve publishing house in Malatya, a city in eastern central Turkey, local Gov. Ibrahim Dasoz said. One was found still alive, and was taken to the hospital but later died, he said. (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/18/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Bible-Attack.php)
BANGKOK, Thailand: Suspected Muslim insurgents shot and killed two Buddhist laborers and then beheaded one of them as deadly violence and scattered bombings continued Wednesday in restive southern Thailand, police said. (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/18/asia/AS-GEN-Thailand-Southern-Violence.php)
SUSPECTED Islamic rebels shot dead four Buddhists while three others were injured in separate attacks in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south. (http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/story/0,22049,21483511-5001028,00.html)
Ethiopian Evangelist Beaten to Death by Militant Muslims. (http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/194262642.html)
’One Muslim advocacy group’s not-so-secret terrorist ties’ - Google News. (http://www.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22One+Muslim+advocacy+group%27s+not-so-secret+terrorist+ties%22&btnG=Search+News)
On Al Jazeera TV, March 18, 2007, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan openly supports Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons and says, “The time for the chastisement of Allah is here.” (http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1407#)
The Indonesian monsters who slaughtered and decapitated three Christian schoolgirls, and claimed it was done as an act of “Islamic charity,” were given disgracefully light sentences today in Jakarta. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070321/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_beheading_trial_4)
In Nigeria, pupils taking an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam were so offended by something their teacher did with a Koran that they ambushed her outside the school and beat her to death. (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21426086-38195,00.html)
Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday. (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070320203409.spj83omw&show_article=1)
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Suspected separatist militants on motorbikes killed three Buddhist farmworkers in Thailand’s far south as they traveled to work on Monday, a local official said. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070319/wl_nm/thailand_south_attack_dc_1)
LUCKNOW, India - An Indian Muslim group has offered a 500,000 rupee (11,319 dollar) bounty for the beheading of controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen. (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/March/subcontinent_March677.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=)
In a stomach-turning video clip from Al Aqsa TV (the Hamas television station) broadcast on March 8, 2007, the children of female suicide bomber Rim Al-Riyashi talk happily about their mother’s act of mass murder. (http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1398#)
BANGKOK, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents opened fire on nine Buddhists who were riding in a commuter van in Thailand’s restive south Wednesday, killing all of them execution-style, police said. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070314/ap_on_re_as/thailand_southern_violence_6)
PATTANI, Thailand (AFP) - Suspected Islamic militants shot dead three workers from Myanmar and beheaded one of them during an attack on a construction site in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south, police said Monday. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070312/wl_sthasia_afp/thailandmyanmarsouthunresttoll_070312081147)
CASABLANCA, Morocco - A man with explosives hidden on his body blew himself up in an Internet cafe after the owners prevented him from looking at terror Web sites, the Interior Ministry said Monday. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_re_mi_ea/morocco_explosion)
According to the Herald Sun, Islamic jihad literature is proliferating in prayer rooms, bookshops, and web sites across Australia, taking advantage of free speech and tolerance to spread a message of Australia’s destruction. (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,21359122-662,00.html)
NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFP) - Suspected Islamic separatists have killed three people in Thailand’s restive south, including one man they beheaded and set alight, police said Wednesday. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070307/wl_asia_afp/thailandsouthunresttoll_070307082754)
In this clip, a British Muslim cleric praises the videotaped beheading murder of British hostage Ken Bigley as an act of war, says Bigley embraced Islam before he was slaughtered—then jokes about it.
Mohammed Taheri-Azar, who drove an SUV through a crowd of students at UNC-Chapel Hill in a outburst of Sudden Jihad Syndrome, appeared in court today. (http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/05/video-unc-jihadi-says-death-to-israel-during-court-appearance/)
Khar: Two bombs targeting barber shops and a music store exploded in northwestern Pakistan, where militants have issued threats against shaving beards and selling music, a security official said yesterday. (http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10108865.html)
The Sabian Mandaeans - one of the oldest religious groups in the world - are facing extinction, according to its leaders. They claim that Islamic extremists in Iraq are trying to wipe them out through forced conversions, rape and murder. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6412453.stm)
AMBON, Indonesia - A bomb packed with nails exploded at a port in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon on Saturday, wounding 12 people in a region that has seen deadly Muslim-Christian violence in the past, police said. (http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/16822638.htm)
ROCHESTER, MN — A Mayo Clinic researcher is under federal investigation tonight, for possibly trying to use a chemical weapon. (http://www.kttc.com/News/index.php?ID=13166)
Interesting detail on the German organization for ex-Muslims, whose leader recently asked for police protection after receiving death threats from representatives of the Religion of Women’s Rights™. (http://sugiero.blogspot.com/2007/03/germany-ex-muslim-says-islam-inherently.html)
Islamabad - Suspected Islamic militants captured and beheaded a schoolteacher in Pakistan’s Afghan border area for allegedly spying for the United States, said an official on Wednesday. (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2076331,00.html)
Three Palestinian women have been murdered in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, Palestinian Authority security officials and local residents said. The security official said he did not rule out the possibility that the three women were killed by male relatives in the context of what is known as “honor killings.” Such killings are not unusual among Palestinians and many Arab countries. At least 25 women are murdered every year in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for “bringing shame” on their male relatives. (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894534050&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull)
An organized gang of Bedouin Israelis has been prowling northern Israel, raping Jewish women as ‘revenge’ for IDF actions in the Palestinian Authority. (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894534328&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull)
The imam of a Georgia mosque has been sentenced to seven years in prison for funneling money to Hamas; he might have gotten 15 years, but his sentence was reduced because he’s been informing on his former partners in terror. (http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/16794966.htm)
A Nashville cabbie made anti-Semitic statements and praised Adolph Hitler’s campaign against Jews during a religious argument that culminated when he ran over one of the passengers as he left the taxi, witnesses said during a hearing today. (http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/NEWS03/70226043)
Two 18-year old Palestinians stalked, ambushed, then hacked to death a 42-year old Jewish man on Sunday. (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3370041,00.html)
The Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack which left an Israeli man dead on Sunday night. (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3370088,00.html)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Three French travelers were killed by gunmen Monday in the Saudi Arabian desert when they stopped their car to rest on the side of a road leading to the holy city of Medina in an area restricted to Muslims only. ...( http://www.onelocalnews.com/chandlernews-dispatch/ViewArticle.aspx?id=2704&source=2)
In the blood-stained annals of “honor killing,” this is surely one of the most appalling stories ever to emerge: Abu-Ghanem women speak out against serial ‘honor killings’. (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/829440.html)
COLOGNE, Germany, Feb. 23 (UPI) — The founder of a group in Germany for former Muslims has sought police protection after receiving death threats. (http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070223-014518-1922r/)
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, whose Islamic supremacist and antisemitic statements are legendary, told the Muslim Welfare Organization of Malaysia that there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. (http://malaysia-today.net/blog2006/newsncom.php?itemid=2681)
Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, sentenced to prison for “inciting hatred of Islam,” has been disowned by his family—and his father would like to see his son executed under shari’a law. (http://www.sandmonkey.org/2007/02/18/abdel-karim-family-disowns-him/)
An editorial in Pakistan’s Daily Times is unusually honest about Islamic clerics’ near-universal support for the mass murder of non-Muslims: Our clerics favour suicide-bombing! (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C02%5C25%5Cstory_25-2-2007_pg3_1)
Two cousins were arrested Wednesday on federal charges of conspiring to wage holy war against Americans overseas, including U.S. military forces in Iraq. Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, of suburban North Chicago, and Khaleel Ahmed, 26, of Chicago, were accused along with three other men who already had been under indictment on charges of plotting acts of terrorism against Americans overseas. (http://www.nbc5.com/news/11075310/detail.html?dl=headlineclick)
A father killed his wife and four daughters in their sleep because he could not bear them adopting a more westernised lifestyle, an inquest heard yesterday. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/21/nmuslim21.xml)
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected Islamist zealot shot dead a Pakistani woman provincial government minister on Tuesday because he believed women should not be in politics, officials said. The gunman, identified as Mohammad Sarwar, was immediately arrested. Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat told Reuters the gunman had been implicated in six previous murder cases but had never been convicted because of a lack of evidence. (http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-02-21T001827Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-288475-2.xml)
A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1414137.ece)
CHICAGO — An enraged Iranian immigrant used a 3-pound hammer to beat his wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law to death and then stabbed them repeatedly because he felt “disrespected,” police said Monday. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252759,00.html)
At least 28 bombs exploded Sunday in apparently coordinated attacks in parts of southern Thailand plagued by a Muslim insurgency, killing three people and wounding more than 50, the military said. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_as/thailand_southern_violence)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber killed 15 people - including a judge - after blowing himself up inside a courtroom in a southwestern Pakistani province that has seen intense civil conflict for years, police said. (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070217/D8NBFEAG0.html)
At San Francisco State University, you can do anything you want to a US flag or a Christian religious symbol: burn it, deface it, submerge it in bodily fluids. It’s all good. But step on paper copies of Hamas and Hizballah flags, and you’re in a world of hurt. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/08/EDGRJN76O61.DTL)
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - A suicide attacker opened fire at Pakistan’s Islamabad International airport before blowing himself up with a hand grenade, injuring three people, the interior minister said. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070206/ts_afp/pakistanattacksblast)
The Sun reports that a video has surfaced of UK Islamic preacher Abu Izzadeen (formerly known as Omar Brooks before his “reversion” to Islam) calling for all Muslims serving in the British Army to be killed. (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007060114,00.html)
THE al-Qaeda plot to behead a British Muslim soldier was smashed after MI5 intercepted a panic order to the kidnap gang: “If you can’t find a Muslim, ANY squaddie will do.” (http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news4.shtml)
BANGKOK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - An ice cream vendor was killed and his headless body left sitting on the bicycle seat of his cart in Thailand’s rebellious Muslim south on Thursday, police said. (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BKK279390.htm)
It’s a death cult family moment, as the Eilat suicide bomber’s brother exults in mass murder: Bomber’s brother: We’re happy Muhammad is the hero. (http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3358519,00.html)
YALA, Thailand (AFP) - Four people have been shot dead and two others injured in attacks by suspected Islamic militants in Thailand’s insurgency-torn southern provinces, according to police. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/wl_asia_afp/thailandsouthunresttoll)
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - At least 14 people including two senior police officers were killed in a suspected suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan’s main city, police and officials said. About 30 people were also injured in the explosion that targeted a police contingent guarding a procession of the Shiite Muslim community, Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao told AFP. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070127/ts_afp/pakistanattacksblast;_ylt=AgECJFuieTlKPGiRacamjD5vaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-)
PARIS: A French Muslim who attacked a male gynaecologist for examining his wife just after she had given birth, saying it was against Islam, has been jailed for six months by a Paris court. (http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3940505a12.html)
AMMAN, Jordan - A Jordanian man fatally shot his 17-year-old daughter whom he suspected of having sex despite a medical exam that proved her chastity, an official said Thursday. The man surrendered to police hours after the killing, saying he had done it for family honor. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_honor_killing)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A Buddhist man in restive southern Thailand was beheaded by suspected Muslim insurgents who left a note by the body warning Buddhists to leave the area that has been gripped by bloody violence for three years, police said. (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/14/D8MKRNJO0.html)
CHICAGO - A graduate student living in Mississippi was an important Hamas terrorist leader directing thousands of dollars to families of members who were jailed or killed, a prosecutor said Tuesday in closing arguments of the trial of two accused militants. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_us/hamas_trial)
MANILA, Philippines - Three bombs within hours of each other rocked the southern Philippines on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 27 others, officials said, amid warnings that Muslim militants may try to disrupt this weekend’s Asian regional summits. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_as/philippines_explosions)
Yea, he's radical and this is what you're "middle ground" appeasement agenda gets you, but don't worry...I'm sure it's just some mass conspiricy perpetrated by the vast Right wing.....move along now, nothing to see here....
"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"
I give the props where they are due and they are so due here...
June 13, 2007 - 06:02 ET by UnsaneSua - HUGE props to you for your contribution to this little project of mine! Awesome!
FIFTEEN DOWN, ONE TO GO...(until the SPURS' FOURTH RING!!!)
You're welcome
June 13, 2007 - 06:36 ET by Sua Sponte 75My pleasure. I think I have another four or fives pages, but I think the point is made. Keep up the good work.
"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"