With thanks to Andrew Bolt:
First it was Michael Leunig insisting that although George Bush and John Howard were of course unacceptably evil, “Might we, can we, find a place in our heart for the humanity of Osama bin Laden?”
Now Sydney’s Central Baptist Church has likewise chosen from among all the people to remember in its prayers the one who’d most want them dead:
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The mother of Muhammed Faisal Saksak, the 21-year-old suicide bomber who carried out Monday’s attack in Eilat, said she was aware of her son’s plan to blow himself up and that she had wished him “good luck.”
*Sheik yer’mami made a song about it: Philistine Child
Dozens of Palestinians, chanting slogans against Israel and the US, converged on the family’s home to “congratulate” them on the success of the attack.
It’s taken them months to do it (and dozens of failed attempts), but the Palestinians managed to sneak another mass murderer into Israel today to attack civilians:
Suicide bomber kills 3 in Israel’s Eilat.
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By Rami Amichai
EILAT, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three people in a bakery in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, one of Israel’s most popular holiday spots, in the first such attack in the Jewish state in nine months, police said.
Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the previously unknown “Army of Believers” claimed joint responsibility for the bombing.
The attack — the first time Eilat has been hit by a suicide bombing — came four days before the so-called Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators was to meet in Washington as part of a renewed effort to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
Islamic Jihad and the Aqsa brigades said the bombing was a response to Israeli “attempts to defile al-Aqsa mosque” in Jerusalem, a reference to recent archaeological excavations. Israeli officials said the work had not damaged the shrine.
The blast tore through the “Lechamim” bakery in a residential neighbourhood far from a strip of beach hotels. Loaves of bread, still on trays, lay on the blood-stained pavement outside.
“I saw a man with a black coat and a bag. For Eilat, where it is hot, it is strange to see someone walking with a coat. I said to myself, ‘Why is this idiot dressed that way?’ Seconds later, I heard a huge blast. The building shook,” Benny Mazgini, a local resident, told Israel Radio.
The identities of the victims were not released.
Update here:
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is, of course, another name for Fatah—the party of so-called “moderate” Mahmoud Abbas.
The “moderate” who just received $100 million from Israel, and more than $80 million from the United States.
UPDATE at 1/29/07 8:49:47 am:
Here’s the gloating announcement of responsibility from Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, translated by Google: Translated version of http://www.kataebaqsa1.com/…. (Hat tip: Tom Gross.)
Notice the photo of Yasser Arafat next to it.
With thanks to Andrew Bolt – Monday, January 29, 07
‘The Wrong Girl’ is a taxpayer-funded film that will argue something strange about the notorious pack rape of a teenage Sydney girl by 14 Lebanese Muslim youths, led by Bilal Skaf. (pictured)
Let writer Nicholas Hammond explain:
Mr Hammond said he hoped that the film would be “provocative’’ and highlight “the misunderstandings between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Its aim was to “stimulate active debate about social issues,’’ he added. “We’re trying to make something that has more global ramifications - particularly between the Muslim and non-Muslim world - and explore the fact there’s a lack of understanding there, which creates conflict,’’ Mr Hammond said.
A teenage girl is brutally pack raped over six hours due to a “lack of understanding”? What part of the word “no” did these animals not understand?
I very much hope the film has message different to the one Hammond suggests, but given that it’s been handed $51,000 of government grants makes me fear it’s exactly as advertised.
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To pretend that rape has ‘nothing to do with Islam’ while trying to present rape as some kind of cultural ‘misunderstanding’ is just absurd; making a movie projecting this kind of idiocy makes matters only worse, much worse.
Muhammad himself had forced sex (rape) with several of his slave girls/concubines. This is perfectly allowed, both in the sunna and in the Koran. If you postulate that many of the Muslims in Europe view themselves as a conquering army and that European women are simply war booty, it all makes perfect sense and is in full accordance with Islamic law. And Muslims do follow their medieval religious laws, even today:…”
The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations are so extremely high that it is difficult to view them only as random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. This happens in most Western European countries, as well as in other infidels countries such as India. In Bradford, England, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abusing white English girls, some as young as 11. Writer Theodore Dalrymple thinks that “thanks to their cultural inheritance, (Muslim) abuse of women is systematic rather than unsystematic as it is with the whites and blacks.” In France, grotesque reports about systematic gang rapes of French or “too Western” Muslim girls keep coming in. At the same time, European jails are getting filled up with Muslims imprisoned for robberies and all kinds of violent crimes, and Muslims bomb European civilians. You can see the mainstream media are struggling to make sense of all of this. That’s because they can’t, or don’t want to, see the obvious: This is exactly how an invading army would behave. Rape, pillage and bomb.
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Excellent stuff from Al Bebeceera (of all places!) and Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch:
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Fjordman sends us this item, along with this comment: “These Taliban people must suffer from Islamophobia or something, since they believe there are numerous calls for violent Jihad in the Koran.”
Indeed. Note Baitullah Mehsud’s words: “Then we will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree to pay jazia (a tax in Islam for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state).”
But try asking a self-proclaimed moderate leader in America about whether or not the Qur’an really calls on Muslims to wage war against non-Muslims and subjugate them, imposing a tax upon them. He will either not give you a straight answer or call you an “Islamophobe,” or both.
And then there will be the inevitable charges that by calling attention to this jihadist use of the Qur’an, I am helping those jihadists instead of the moderates I should be helping. Fine: I invite any moderate to explain what he or she would say to Baitullah Mehsud to try to convince him that the Qur’an does not actually counsel war, and to alert him to the existence of a mainstream Islamic tradition that teaches peaceful coexistence with nonbelievers as equals on an indefinite basis.
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“Pakistan Taleban vow more violence,” from the BBC:
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Baitullah seemed a man with only jihad (holy war) on his mind. During the interview he quoted several verses from the Koran to defend his stance that foreign forces must be evicted from Islamic countries.
“Allah on 480 occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God’s orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world,” he says.
The militant leader on several occasions in the past had openly admitted crossing over into Afghanistan to fight foreign troops.
“We will continue our struggle until foreign troops are thrown out. Then we will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree to pay jazia (a tax in Islam for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state).”
Muhammed was the ‘perfect man, for all time’-
and since he dyed his beard with henna, you have guy’s like these emulate him:
More young Muslims back sharia, says poll. More young people than ever attracted to political Islam: By Stephen Bates and agencies in The Guardian
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More young Muslims back sharia, says poll
Stephen Bates and agencies
Monday January 29, 2007
The Guardian
A growing minority of young Muslims are inspired by political Islam and feel they have less in common with non-Muslims than their parents do, a survey reveals today. The poll, carried out for the conservative-leaning Policy Exchange think tank, found support for Sharia law, Islamic schools and wearing the veil in public is significantly stronger among young Muslims than their parents.
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In the survey of 1,003 Muslims by the polling company Populus through internet and telephone questionnaires, nearly 60% said they would prefer to live under British law, while 37% of 16 to 24-year-olds said they would prefer sharia law, against 17% of those over 55. Eighty-six per cent said their religion was the most important thing in their lives.
Nearly a third of 16 to 24-year-olds believed that those converting to another religion should be executed, while less than a fifth of those over 55 believed the same. The survey claimed that British authorities and some Muslim groups have exaggerated the problem of Islamophobia and fuelled a sense of victim hood among some Muslims: 84% said they believed they had been well treated in British society, though only 28% thought the authorities had gone over the top in trying not to offend Muslims. Munira Mirza, a doctoral student at Kent University who wrote the report, said: “The government should engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity.”
How much more of this? Every day its getting more ridiculous!
With thanks to Andrew Bolt
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What you need to know its this:
January 28, 2007 12:00am
A ROW has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code.
Muslim students have exclusive access to male and female washrooms on campus, sparking claims of bias and discrimination.
The university and Islamic leaders have defended the washrooms as vital to Muslim students’ prayer rituals.
A university student, who did not want to be identified, raised the issue with the Sunday Herald Sun this week.
Australian Family Council spokesman Bill Muehlenberg said concerns over the exclusive facilities were valid.
“Do we have a Christian washroom or an atheist washroom?” he said. “The whole thing is madness.”
Mr Muehlenberg said the separate facilities were divisive.
“If Muslims are saying ‘we are good Australians and want to integrate’, why are they insisting on separate washrooms?” he said.
Victorian Muslim community leader Yasser Soliman said the washrooms were necessary.
He said the separate facilities were also due to concerns from non-Muslim students.
“Muslims need to wash their feet before prayer and in the past there have been complaints about them washing their feet in sinks, so this is a happy medium,” he said.
Mr Soliman said most universities provided Muslim-only prayer and washrooms for students.
Here is what it looks like:
The Wudu Washroom
A La Trobe University spokesman said the washrooms were established with the advice of senior Muslim religious leaders.
He said the university also had a Christian chapel with a meeting room and four chaplains from major denominations had offices.
La Trobe University Christian Union vice-president Richard Thamm backed the washrooms.
(Ask with whom he sleeps)
“It’s part of their religion, they need to wash in a special way before they pray,” he said.
Should Muslims be allowed their own washrooms? Post your comments below.
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Here’s Andrew Bolt’s take on this:
By Andrew Bolt – Sunday, January 28, 07 at 07:57 am
How to make trouble for moderate Muslims with noisy “tolerance” for the extremists:
A ROW has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code.
Muslim students have exclusive access to male and female washrooms on campus, sparking claims of bias and discrimination.
What possible reason could there be for going to this expense in dividing Muslim students from everyone else, reinforcing the unhelpful notion that the two are so dangerously different?
Victorian Muslim community leader Yasser Soliman said the washrooms were necessary…
“Muslims need to wash their feet before prayer and in the past there have been complaints about them washing their feet in sinks, so this is a happy medium,” he said.
Let’s pretend we actually believe Soliman. Solution: Just put up notices explaining the feet-washing. Or install a separate sink in the communal toilets, at a handy foot-washing height.
But insist all faiths share the same toilets. If we can’t even share them…
Why can’t we just hose them off?
Sheik yer’mami
Ruddock refuses to ban Islamic group (Why?)
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Sunday, 28 January 2007
Call rejected: Mr Ruddock says the activities of the group in Australia do not warrant a ban. [File photo]ABC TV
Federal Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock has rejected calls to ban the controversial Islamic group, Hizb ut Tahrir, which has been holding a conference in south-west Sydney today.
The meeting focused on the creation of an Islamic state somewhere in the world, with full Sharia law.
(Translation: ‘Somewhere’ means we start in Australia)
New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma says Australia should follow the lead of Europe and parts of the Middle East in banning the group.
But Mr Ruddock says there is insufficient evidence to proscribe Hizb ut Tahrir as a terrorist organisation.
“I regard their message as being an unacceptable one in a pluralist society like ours,” he said.
“But just because people have messages that I don’t regard as broadly in keeping with Australian values, doesn’t mean they can be proscribed as terrorist organisations.”
Delusion?
Here’s another take from the Sydney Morning Herald:
Federal Opposition immigration spokesman Tony Bourke says the Federal Government should have considered denying a visa to the conference’s main speaker, Indonesian Ismail Yusanto, because he has been quoted as wanting to impose Sharia law in the west.
Mr Ruddock says Hizb ut Tahrir is being monitored but its activities in Australia do not warrant banning it.
(Translation: We wait for them to bomb us and then we’ll get tough, otherwise we miss out on trade with the ME)
Today, Dr Yusanto told about 500 people gathered in Lakemba that the members of an Islamic state would have to be prepared for jihad, or holy war, to defend it.
“It is important… [to move] collectively in the Muslim world to demand this change from such influential people in our lands, even if it means spilling onto the streets to create a revolution or staging a military coup,” he said.
(‘Our lands’ means all the lands on earth, because everything in this world belongs to Allah and his religion, and infidels have no place in it)
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He said the west should be shown the error of its ways.
“Capitalist secularist ideology that they adopt is inherently corrupt,” Dr Yusanto said.
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Yes Yusanto: We need creeps like you to mend our evil ways!
We need a Muhammedan jihadi from Indonesia of all places to tell us how corrupt we are:
Just piss off and never come back, will you?
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