Month: March 2008

Natasha Robinson/The Australian

ISLAMIC cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to “beat up” Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs.

* Bashir is a ‘good Muslim’, you see. One who takes his Islam seriously. Who would accuse him of being a ‘misunderstander of Islam?’ Jews and Christians are under Allah’s curse (9:30) and unbelievers are the “vilest of creatures” (98:6)

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In the sermon, organised by an Islamic youth organisation and delivered a few kilometres from the home village of convicted Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, Bashir likened tourists in Bali to “worms, snakes, maggots”, and specifically referred to the immorality of Australian infidels.

The address was caught on video by an Australian university student.

“The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death,” said the cleric, who was convicted of conspiracy over the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, but was later cleared and released from prison.

“The young must be first at the front line – don’t hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness.”

Observers said the sermon’s content was a clear indication of what many terrorism academics have noted – that the accused spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiah has been emboldened by his release from prison last year after serving 26 months for conspiracy in relation to the Bali blasts.

“Immediately after Abu Bakar Bashir was released from incarceration he was very cautious in spreading hatred,” said Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. “The remarks show that Abu Bakar Bashir has gone back to the pre-incarceration period where he was in a very similar way urging JI members, encouraging JI members to move in the direction of violence, especially violence including terrorism.”

The sermon was organised by the youth group Persatuan Pemuda Islam Pantura (Java North Coast Islamic Youth Group) and delivered on October 22 last year.

It was captured on videotape by Darwin-based political science PhD student Nathan Franklin, who was conducting research at Islamic boarding schools in east Java.

Bashir’s address was observed by the village’s police chief and a horde of plain-clothes Indonesian police officers. It was also attended by relatives of Amrozi, who travelled to the sermon from the Bali bomber’s former Islamic boarding school on the village’s outskirts.

The cleric has warned of retribution should the Bali bombers be executed by firing squad.

During the sermon, Bashir talked of a previous visit to Australia, claiming that he had wanted to see the “beauty of the ocean” but was told by a friend there was “one condition” of a visit to the beach.

“He said if you enter that area you must be completely naked,” Bashir told the crowd of about 300 hearing his sermon.

Bashir likened non-Muslims to crawling animals. “Worms, snakes, maggots – those are animals that crawl.
Take a look at Bali … those infidel tourists. They are naked.”

He called for signs to be erected across Indonesia warning tourists they were entering a Muslim area, and directing they cover up appropriately. But in east Java, he urged the Islamist youth to “beat up” foreigners.

“God willing, there are none here,” Bashir said. “If there were infidels here, just beat them up. Do not tolerate them.”
Bashir has never sought to hide his support for the Mujahideen, or holy warriors, who seek to wage jihad and die as martyrs in defence of Islam. However, he has in the past been careful to distance himself from the Bali bombings, praising the bombers’ intention but not their method.

* That’s BS. Bashir supports them all the way and recently visited Amrozi, Muklas & Samudra in jail…

* Anger as radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir visits Bali bombers

Mr Franklin, who is completing a doctorate in political science specialising in Indonesian politics, agreed that Bashir’s radical address proved the cleric had been emboldened by his early release from prison and was seemingly intent on attracting greater publicity for his cause. “Going to jail, serving a very light sentence, and becoming a media icon – it’s the best thing that’s happened to him,” Mr Franklin said.

He said Bashir sensed his opportunity for greater power and influence as Indonesia increasingly moved away from secularism towards Islamic law.

The PhD student will screen extracts of the Bashir video, which has been sub-titled, at Charles Darwin University in Darwin on Friday as part of an academic talk on how the sermons give inspiration to the radical Islamist cause to create a Caliphate, or greater Islamic state.

* Here’s one PhD student with his head screwed on…

Dr Gunaratna said the radical nature of Bashir’s current sermons showed that Indonesia’s legal system was still not equipped to police terrorism.

“The very fact that Abu Bakar Bashir is spreading hatred and ideological extremism is testimony to the fact that Australia has failed in engagement with Indonesia to build a robust Indonesian counter-terrorism legislation,” Dr Gunaratna said.

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Bashir’s address contained many direct challenges to Indonesian secularism. The cleric urged his supporters to reject the laws of the nation’s parliament and said following state laws that contradicted Islamic Shariah law was an act of “blasphemy”.

“Don’t be scared if you are called a hardliner Muslim,” Bashir said. “It must be like that. We can’t follow human law that is in conflict with Allah’s law.”

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A FANATICAL preacher of hate has been recorded urging impressionable young British Muslims to go to WAR against our troops.

Hat tip Atlas Shrugs

 Anjem Choudary: dole bludging scumbag par excellence

Yet, sickeningly, crazed cleric Anjem Choudary and his wife rake in more than £25,000 a year in welfare BENEFITS—while he plots to destroy British society.

* The paper idiotically asks:

SHOULD HATE PREACHERS HAVE THEIR BENEFITS CUT?

* One would hope that this exemplary piece of human waste is stripped of citizenship and deported along with his brood to an Islamo-hole of his choice. Anything less is an insult to the long suffering taxpayers of the host nation. 

Now Choudary —who once called for the Pope to be executed and described the September 11 hijackers as “magnificent martyrs” — could face arrest under anti-terror laws for his evil ranting on the tape, which was passed to the News of the World.

After hearing his latest inflammatory remarks, terror experts asked: “What more does this man need to do before he is locked up?”

Brainwashed

Choudary, 41, was taped lecturing a secret meeting in west London earlier this month. On it he urges his Islamic followers to persuade would-be terrorists to sign up for killing campaigns.

The bearded mullah describes non-Muslims as “the enemy” and tells his sympathisers they should brainwash at least TEN Britons a month into becoming al-Qaeda supporters.

He also urges his clan to preach that:

FIGHTING jihad against Western society is an obligation.

BRITISH Muslims should travel abroad to fight our troops.

TERRORIST wannabes should “put fear into the hearts” of non-Muslims in the UK and spread al-Qaeda messages.

Choudray’s lecture tour was launched with the aim of teaching Islamic extremist recruiting teams how to win new members and brainwash them into backing the mass-murdering terror group.

His speech was made days before Osama bin Laden’s new video message warning Britain will soon be hit by new attacks.

Choudary says: “Even in the jihad you can see people carrying the dawah and inviting to Islam. The latest video from Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri was dawah, at the end of the day.

“Dawah and, obviously, putting fear into their hearts to say, look, no matter how many people you send in your army, it will not make a difference. We have enough land to bury the whole lot of them.”

Choudary then claims that, by sheer weight of numbers, radicalised Muslims can make anti-terror laws obsolete. He brags: “So, your job is to create propaganda, our role here in Britain is vital.

“We undermine them, we undermine their ideology, we break their back.” He adds: “If we carry on en masse, commanding good and forbidding evil, we say you and your laws can go to hell.”

Read it all 

Source: Reuters

Wilders comes out fighting:

AMSTERDAM, March 23 (Reuters) – A U.S.-based web service, which Islam critic and Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders planned to use to show his film critical of the Koran, said on Saturday that it had inactivated the site due to complaints.

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“This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site’s content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy,” the company said on the site www.fitnathemovie.com.

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Wilders, who has given few details about his 15-minute film, has said he plans to release ‘Fitna’ on the Internet before the end of the month after Dutch broadcasters declined to show it. Fitna is a Koranic term sometimes translated as “strife”.
Wilders still plans to show his film despite the setback, Dutch agency ANP reported.

“If need be, I will personally distribute DVDs in the Dam,” ANP quoted him as saying. The Dam is the central square in Amsterdam, popular with both the Dutch and tourists.
Wilders’ film has triggered fury in the Muslim world. The Dutch government has distanced itself from Wilders’ views, fearing a backlash against the country in the Muslim world, similar to that against Denmark in 2006 after newspapers there published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

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On Saturday, about a thousand Dutch gathered in the Dam to protest against Wilders and his film.
The film is not so much about Muslims as about the Koran, Wilders wrote in a commentary in Dutch daily De Volkskrant on Saturday. He said Fitna was a last warning for the West.

Wilders had previously warned of a “tsunami of Islamisation” in a country home to almost one million Muslims.

He has been under heavy guard due to Islamic death threats since the 2004 murder of Dutch director Theo van Gogh, who made a film critical of Islam’s treatment of women.

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* A quick refresher course:

The Arabic word jihad means “struggle” or “exertion” and is found 28 times in the Kor’an, the sacred text of Muslims. In Islamic teaching, there are five forms of this “holy struggle”– jihad of the heart, mouth, pen, hand, and sword.

Jihad of the heart refers to an individual’s struggle to keep the precepts of Islam and overcome evil tendencies. This is through one’s own efforts or the enforcement of others. In Muslim tradition, this is referred to as the greater jihad.

Jihad of the mouth involves the verbal undermining of opposition to Islam through argumentation, threats, and curses. When Saddam Hussein declared before the first Gulf War that coalition forces would face the “mother of all battles” and experience crushing defeat, he was practicing this form of jihad. Defiant Muslim leaders in Afghanistan and Iraq are doing so today by inciting violence and pronouncing curses on foreign forces in their countries.

Jihad of the pen makes use of the written word to advance Islam and undermine its opponents. Many Muslim scholars, though often sadly ignorant of Biblical doctrines, have made Judaism and Christianity the special target of their apologetic works. Although Mohammed described himself as a sinner, great effort is made to present him as the perfect man and highest prophet of God, and his precepts as binding on all mankind.

Jihad of the hand refers to good works and praiseworthy deeds that promote the cause of Islam. Muslims typically believe that if a person’s good deeds outweigh his bad deeds he’ll have a good chance of entering Paradise on the Day of Judgment, provided he’s a follower of Islam. Deeds that promote Mohammed and his message are deemed to have the greatest weight.

Jihad of the sword is the last and most troubling. Although referred to as the lesser jihad, it has always been foremost in Muslim history, law, and tradition. In the Kor’an, the oft repeated words “jihad in the cause of Allah” refer without exception to armed combat for the protection or advance of Islam. Mohammed regularly engaged in this form of jihad and commanded his followers to engage in it as well. He is described by early Muslim biographers as an active participant in at least seventy battles and military attacks.

Since the time of its founding by Mohammed, the ultimate goal of Islam has been world conquest. The Kor’an and Muslim jurisprudence call for jihad of the sword against any land not yet surrendered to the armies of Islam. Militant Muslims advocate a return to the ways of Mohammed, with all of the terror and bloodshed that entails. This form of jihad poses one of the greatest threats to Western civilization today.

From Jihad Watch:

Jihad (in Arabic, “struggle”) is a central duty of every Muslim. Modern Muslim theologians have spoken of many things as jihads: the struggle within the soul, defending the faith from critics, supporting its growth and defense financially, even migrating to non-Muslim lands for the purpose of spreading Islam. But violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history. Many passages of the Qur’an and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad are used by jihad warriors today to justify their actions and gain new recruits. No major Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrines of armed jihad. The theology of jihad, which denies unbelievers equality of human rights and dignity, is available today for anyone with the will and means to bring it to life.

“Jihad: War against Non Muslims to Convert them to Islam”

What? Who said that?

* It comes from a book, Islam and Christianity, printed by a Muslim publishing house, Waqf Ikhlas Publications, and distributed by the modern, moderate, secular Turkish government to non-Muslims who come to work in Turkey. It’s on page 316 of the 7th edition.

* It’s also on page 318 of the eighth edition. Full text in pdf:

“After reading this book, you will also realize what a lofty, sacred, logical, and perfect religion Islam is, and you will attach all your heart and soul to it in order to attain salvation and repose in this world and in the
hereafter.”

Link

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The Myth’s of Muhammad

Muslims often complain of the “misconceptions” about their religion in the West, yet very few seem to know all that much about the true history of Islam and its founder, Muhammad. As a result, the biggest misconceptions about Islam are often those originating from (and sincerely believed by) Muslims themselves.

Link

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Andrew Bostom: Dhimmitude under Islamic occupation in Sicily 

In light of Magdi Allam’s high profile, public conversion by Pope Benedict, it is worth remembering that Sicily experienced full-fledged, jihad-imposed dhimmitude for both its Christian and Jewish inhabitants, particularly during the 9th century.

Perhaps The Pope has been made aware of this?

At any rate, here is an extract from  Michele Amari, the great Italian scholar of Islam, extracted from his seminal, Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia. [“History of the Muslims in Sicily”]  published in multiple volumes from 1933-1939.

Injurious and troublesome were the statutes of the civil regulations. The dhimmi were forbidden to carry arms, to ride horseback, or to put saddles on their donkeys and mules; to build their homes taller than or even as tall as those of the Muslims; to use Islamic first names and even to use seals with Arabic lettering. Furthermore they were forbidden to drink wine in public, to accompany their dead to the cemetery with funeral pomp and lamentation; the women were forbidden to enter a public bath when Muslim women might be there, or to remain there if Muslim women arrived. And just so that they wouldn’t forget their inferior status for a moment, the dhimmi were enjoined to keep a sign on the doors of their homes, one on their outer garments, to use turbans of a different style and color, and above all to wear a belt made of leather or wool. Along the streets they were forced to yield the right of way to the Muslims or, if they were seated in a group, to stand up at the arrival or departure of a man of the victorious race… …it was forbidden to display crosses in public, to read the gospel so loud that the Muslims could hear it, to speak with them about the Messiah; or vigorously to ring bells or to sound clappers [wooden noisemakers used exclusively in Holy Week ceremonies

The Jews, as every one knows (and there were quite a few living in Sicily then), were subject to the same laws. It is worth noting that everything that I wrote about the dhimmi, and what I will say about the slaves, was drawn from the examples of other countries, but it should be considered as prescribed in Sicily as well, due to the similarity of the circumstances and the uniformity of Muslim customs. 

By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY – Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.

* Comment by Hugh Fitzgerald:

Tariq Ramadan, of course, will claim — as he has tried to before — that Magdi Allam was never a Muslim, was always a Christian (presumably a Copt). It’s nonsense, but it is the only way Muslims will have to deal with his scathing, unanswerable criticism of Islam and of many Muslims, including his special scorn for the meretricious Tariq Ramadan (see the “Lettera Aperta a Tariq Ramadan” appended to Allam’s penultimate book) and with his conversion to Christianity, since they cannot deal with either the way they would dearly like to, if they could only get their hands on him. Their only recourse is to pretend he was a Christian “all along” and the “Pope of the Vatican” engineered the whole thing, pretending to convert someone who was already Christian, because the Pope is “an agent of the Zionists.” Etcetera etcetera.

Just watch and see if I turn out to be right.

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Bin Laden knew all along that the Pope is to blame for this new ‘Crusade’ on Islam:

“Your publications of these drawings — part of a new crusade in which the Pope of the Vatican had a significant role –– is a confirmation from you that the war continues,” said the Saudi-born militant leader, addressing “those who are wise at the European Union”.

You are “testing Muslims … the answer will be what you shall see and not what you hear.”

Bin Laden said the publication of the cartoons was a graver offence than the “bombing of modest villages that collapsed over our women children”, in reference to U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan with European participation. “This is the bigger catastrophe … for which the punishment is graver.”

* Vatican rejects bin Laden’s “new crusade” charges

* Hugh Fitzgerald: the phony declaration of the  ‘Islamic Communities in Italy’

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Go to fitnathemovie.com and you get this:

via JW:
This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site’s content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation. For more information about Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy visit the following URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/aup.jsp

WTF?

How is a site that said only “Geert Wilders presents Fitna, 23 March 2008” in conceivable violation of any acceptable use policy?

Because of what it might say tomorrow, of course. Because of what people are afraid it will say. It’s pre-emptive censorship.

* Muhammadan Demo in Amsterdam:

Netherlands anti-Wilders protestor Hassan: “The government could really do something. That’s in the interest of the country — stop him, just stop him”

He said he believed Wilders is abusing the right of freedom of speech, which he said has limits.

“You can criticize Muslims themselves, but not their religion and not our prophet — that’s our belief.”

From AP via JW

By Peter Mullen

Canon Michael Ainsworth, a priest and colleague of mine just a couple of miles from my rectory in the City of London, was recently attacked in his churchyard by three youths. Michael suffered two black eyes, cuts and bruises. He was taken into hospital and his wife Janina, also a priest, said: “It’s obvious that the attack on Michael does contain a religious element.” It certainly is obvious: his attackers shouted, “You f*kcing priest!” as they beat him up.

* Muslims see the West as decadent and degenerated, without values, Christianity in decline, a tired civilization that is in decay and ready for the the final conquest. Because all the world belongs to Allah and the spoils belong to the followers of the prophet, who are commanded to kill and die to make Islam the only religion .

Quran-9:111: Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain…

* Christianophobia comes to the East End

This is the second time that Michael’s church has been attacked. After the Good Friday service last year, louts threw bricks through the windows. A parishioner, Susan Crocker, said: “It’s not out of the blue – it’s a recurrent problem.”

Well, it’s clear that the yobs who attacked Michael were Muslims. To their credit, the local Muslim leaders have tacitly admitted this by publicly deploring the crime. So why were the police, and much of the media, so vague as to call these thugs “Asians”? If I smashed the windows of a Brick Lane curry house and gave the manager two black eyes, you can be sure the police and the papers wouldn’t describe me as a “European”.

Of course the authorities excuse their evasiveness by saying it’s to preserve good racial and community relationships, forgetting that it was Michael’s attackers who first damaged these relationships and that appeasement always encourages worse violence in the long run.

This attack was one small example of the persecution being endured by the Church worldwide. On four continents Islamic militants are attacking and sometimes murdering Christians and burning down churches. Why do the archbishops and bishops not lead mass Christian demonstrations against these atrocities? Instead, we have to observe the filigree intelligence of the Archbishop of Canterbury as it operates on the precise relation between English law and some “unavoidable” accommodation with sharia. He, with his whole hierarchy, strains at gnats and swallows camels.

Meanwhile, a Nigerian archbishop said that Dr Williams’s words hardly made things better for Christians persecuted under sharia in his country. “Their lives,” he said, “are at the very least unbearable.” If Dr Williams is so intelligent, shouldn’t he have known beforehand that his remarks would only give encouragement to the fanatics? If I tried to walk down the main street in Riyadh wearing my clerical collar, the religious police would throw me into jail. In Britain we allow Muslims to build huge mosques in prominent places such as Regent’s Park. What does this say about the relationship between Christianity and Islam worldwide?

Urgent though it is, the threat from a murderous jihad is not the worst we have to face at Easter 2008. Any civilisation has a hope of defending itself against even the most ruthless enemy so long as it preserves the integrity of its own culture and traditions. But for 40 years our governments in Britain have done nothing but undermine the essential quality of our way of life. Those elected to defend the realm have destroyed it. The shepherds are hirelings.

The authority of Parliament is a joke in an age ruled by spin and the Prime Minister’s gang of party interest. New Labour has created its own client state out of millions on benefits and 800,000 new civil servants, bribed by the sort of job security and pension entitlements long vanished in the private sector. Public services are near collapse – try getting anywhere by road or rail this holiday weekend. The NHS is a disgrace. “State education” is an oxymoron. The Government loses our national records and lately there have been convictions for vote-rigging.

We might have expected the Church to resist the decay, but instead it has connived with the destructive sexual and social revolution begun in the 1960s. Back then, I voted for homosexuality to be decriminalised. But this meant “between consenting adults in private” – where “between” meant two, “adults” meant men over 21 and “private” meant behind locked doors. I did not foresee the obscene and coercive “Gay Pride” pantomimes that now disfigure our high streets.

Who would have thought we would live to see the Bishop of Hereford fined £47,000 and made to attend a re-education course because he refused to employ a practising homosexual in his diocese’s youth services? How long before I am carted from the pulpit to the nick for preaching that sodomy is not morally equivalent to Christian marriage?

I voted also for abortion law reform, because I was told it would put an end to squalid back-street terminations. I did not think I would see the result: 200,000 abortions every year and most as a form of contraception.

We imagine we can ditch Christianity and yet the good things we have inherited in our way of life will continue. They will not. Christianity formed Western civilisation and is so consubstantial with it that if Christianity goes, the lot goes with it. Let T?S Eliot, writing in 1934, give us a text to think about this Easter: “Do you need to be told that even such modest attainments as you can boast in the way of polite society will hardly survive the Faith to which they owe their significance?”

* The Rev Dr Peter Mullen is Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill and Chaplain to the Stock Exchange

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Harvard:

“The Muhammadan war-cry is the exception to Harvard’s unspoken rule of religious tolerance and respect.”

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Two issues of Muslim practice — whether the call to prayer should ring out across Harvard Yard and whether the university should grant women separate gym hours — have unleashed small waves of controversy over how Harvard practices tolerance.

Taha Abdul-Basser, the Muslim chaplain at Harvard, said both episodes were indicative of the growing number of Muslims in the United States.

“There are some people who are not just comfortable that Muslims, by virtue of the change of demographics, are going to become more and more visible,” he said.

New Duranty Times

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Seven in French custody for suspected ties with radical Islamists

PARIS: Five suspected radical Islamists who allegedly trained for combat in hopes of joining the Iraqi insurgency were being held for questioning in southern France, police and judicial officials said Thursday.

Authorities believe they had been in contact with radical Islamists who allegedly trained to fight in Iraq by firing weapons in the woods of eastern France. Those suspects were rounded up in a November sweep.

Preliminary charges were filed against five of the November suspects for “criminal conspiracy with a terrorist organization,” a broad charge often used in terror-related cases in France. Officials said the group had not made definite travel plans for Iraq, but was training to fight there.

More from Herald Tribune

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Germany: Not Jihad Related, (we hope!)

Woman Goes for Leg Operation, Gets New Anus Instead

A German retiree is taking a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new anus instead, the Daily Telegraph is reporting.

The woman woke up to find she had been mixed up with another patient suffering from incontinence who was to have surgery on her sphincter.

The clinic in Hochfranken, Bavaria, has since suspended the surgical team.

Now the woman is planning to sue the hospital. She still needs the leg operation and is searching for another hospital to do it.

Fox News (No Pic’s available, sorry…)

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UK Payback?

Trevelgue Holiday Park in Porth, Cornwall update:

Easter, the most important date in the Christian calendar. But for 700 Muslims who have gathered in a rural caravan park, this week has a different religious significance.

The Illustrated PIG connects the dots

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Uganda: Idi Amin’s dream mosque opens

The crowds chanted “long live Gaddafi”

A huge mosque begun more than 30 years ago by the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has opened in the Ugandan capital.
The mosque is named after Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi who helped finance its construction when funds ran low.

As Libya’s leader opened the mosque, which holds some 15,000 worshippers and dominates Kampala’s skyline, a large crowd chanted “long live Gaddafi”.

Amin, who lived in Saudi Arabia after he fled Uganda in 1979, dreamed of building Africa’s largest mosque.

A number of other African heads of state attended the ceremony, including the presidents of Somalia, Zanzibar and Djibouti.

The Islamization of Africa continues

An Interview with Kurt Westergaard

‘A totalitarian power threatens us in Europe’ 

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‘Portable Seclusion’ Robber Targets Jewellers

* ‘The world is a masquerade…’

Police said the man was ‘pretending’ to be female

An armed robber disguised as a Muslim woman has stolen jewellery from a shop in the West Midlands.
Police said the man went in to the Friend Jewellers in Cape Hill, Smethwick, wearing a burka and pushing an empty children’s buggy.

Police said the Asian man was joined in the store by four other Asian men who were all equipped with hammers.

They sprayed four staff members with an unknown substance and smashed display cabinets before fleeing in two cars.

The burka is a traditional form of Islamic dress for women consisting of a full body covering that also obscures the face.

Staff in the shop were not seriously hurt.

The owner of the shop is now offering an undisclosed reward for any information which leads to a conviction.

BBC

* Update:

Probe after second burka robbery

Officers looking for a man who raided a jewellers while wearing a burka are investigating a similar incident.
A man thought to be wearing a burka threatened a security driver in Birmingham on 14 March with what is thought to be a firearm before fleeing.

Last Thursday, an armed robber pushing a child’s buggy and disguised as a woman in a burka went to the Friends Jewellers in Smethwick, West Midlands.

He was joined by four other men who smashed cabinets before fleeing.

‘Weapon trapped’

The burka is a traditional form of Islamic dress for women consisting of a full body covering that also obscures the face.

More from Al Bebeeceera

* Jewelers in India Consider Burqa Ban After String of Robberies

* Sarajevo: Men disguised as Muslim women rob bank

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Quote of the day:

“Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. The world wants to be deceived, therefore it is deceived”

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Its Friday, kuthba time: “Death to Denmark,” “death to the Netherlands, “death to America,” “death to Jews”

“Afghans chant death to Danish, Dutch in protest,” by Ahmad Masood for Reuters via JW

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The Method Behind The Madness of Islamic Conquest

Not about Qaradawi alone, but about the menace of demographic conquest is the following, just posted at www.newenglishreview.org by Rebecca Bynum:

“Don Morris writes at Doc’s Talk (thanks to Janet Levy):

Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called “religious rights.”

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to “the reasonable” Muslim demands for their “religious rights,” they also get the other components under the table. Here’s how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

…As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States — Muslim 1.0%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1%-2%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark — Muslim 2%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom — Muslim 2. 7%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halaal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. (United States).

France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — Muslim 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris — car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam — Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana — Muslim 10%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:

Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia — Muslim 40%
Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of “Dar-es-Salaam” — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
Somalia — Muslim 100%
Yemen — Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

“Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel. — Leon Uris, “The Haj”…

It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.
Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat”

By Hugh Fitzgerald

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“Its the custom” you see. And ‘customs must be respected’… What’s next? Sucking…?

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* Its not only the deal that stinks: when others are pulling out the Swiss see an opportunity.

Swiss minister sparks veil outcry

From Al Bebeeceera

Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has been widely criticised for donning a white headscarf to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Well-known for her stand on women’s rights, she has provoked headlines such as “Just like a submissive woman”.

Socialist MP Maria Roth-Bernasconi said it was irritating that she had angered feminists in Iran.

Ms Calmy-Rey said she was observing protocol. “When you are a guest you respect local customs,” she said.

* Great. When dealing with Cannibals you share a meal with them. When dealing with Nazi’s you help them shove a Jew in the oven…when dealing with Muhammedans you strap on ….. got it…!

Social Democrat MP Liliane Maury Pasquier accepted that customs had to be observed.

But she was quoted by one newspaper complaining that the minister should have shown solidarity with “the women who fight against wearing the headscarf”.

Gas controversy

The minister also prompted controversy by signing a multi-billion dollar natural gas deal. The United States had complained that Switzerland was sending the wrong message when Tehran was subject to UN sanctions.

Ms Calmy-Rey insisted the deal between Swiss company EGL and the National Iranian Gas Export company did not violate sanctions.

Swiss daily Le Matin said on Wednesday it was shocked that Switzerland’s “icon of a liberated woman” had been transformed into an image of one who was oppressed.

Its tone changed on Thursday, however, by acknowledging that the foreign minister had not really had much choice.

A source told the paper that, without wearing a headscarf, she probably would not have been able to have her meetings with the Iranian leadership.

* In that case, why send a female to deal with these mysogynists?

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