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In Karachi, activists of Awami Himayat Tehreek party protest against the Danish newspapers’ republication of Prophet Muhammad’s cartoons.
Source: Roznama Jang, Pakistan, MEMRI
* The leftist media has gone into a lunatic frenzy to smear  Camden residents as hicks, racists, rednecks, Islamophobes, Nazis and ‘far right extremists’, in spite of the fact that residents in this Australian country town are unanimous against having a Muhammedan madrassah planted in their midst.
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May 24, 2008 12:00am
CAMDEN residents have claimed victory over an Islamic school proposed for the middle of their rural hamlet.
Camden Council has recommended the application for a 1200-student school be rejected when councillors meet to decide its fate next week.
*  Should the school be prohibited? Tell us in our  comments below.
But the victory could be short-lived, with the school’s backers keeping the door open for a challenge in the Land and Environment Court.
“It is disappointing but I will have to meet with my colleagues and see what I can come up with,” Quranic Society spokesman Issam Obeid said.
“But we’re not millionaires, three people have already mortgaged their houses to buy the land.
“Hopefully the council approves the school next week because it is for all Australians, not just Muslims.”
The council is expecting so many people at next Tuesday night’s council meeting it has moved it into a bigger hall and hired private security.
Camden Mayor Chris Patterson said he was disappointed some people had tried to turn the school into a debate about religion and nationalism.
“I think there’s been a lot of out of town influences that have tried to make it both of those issues,” he said.
“There have been people and groups that have tried to make it an issue that it is not.”
Local courier driver Gary Cornish said that the issue was never about the religion of the school but whether the community was big enough to house it. “My only concern was the traffic,” Mr Cornish said.
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* The Greens are like watermelons: Green on the outside, Red inside
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Omar Khadr
* The youngest member of Canada’s most notorious terrorist clan is becoming a celebrity:
*   “A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him”Â
A Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay has won the right to use interrogation transcripts to help him prepare for his trial before a military commission.
Omar Khadr is accused of murdering an American soldier in Afghanistan in 2002.
In a unanimous ruling, the Canadian High Court said Khadr has a constitutional right to transcripts of interviews that Canadian foreign affairs and security agents conducted with him during his detention at Guantanamo Bay.
But the court rejected demands for additional documents that Canadian authorities may have dealing with other parts of the case.
The court ruled that information can be withheld because of national security.
Defence lawyers say the ruling falls far short of what they had hoped for, but they say it confirms that Guantanamo Bay is contrary to US domestic laws and violates obligations to protect fundamental human rights.
Khadr was 15 at the time of his capture in Afghanistan.
*Â The Khadrs, Canada’s First Family of Terrorism, in the News
*  Congratulations, Condoleezza! We have just lost a country called Lebanon, or better betrayed  that country by doing nothing. To talk about ‘elections’ now after the fact reeks a lot like Forrest Gump:
*Â On every point, Hizballah, Iran, and Syria, got all they wanted from Lebanon’s government: its surrender of sovereignty. They have veto power over the government; one-third of the cabinet; election changes to ensure victory in the next balloting; and they will have their candidate installed as president.
Defying the laws of logic; real politics or wishful thinking?
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PALO ALTO, California – Hezbollah has been left weakened by the recent turmoil in Lebanon and could pay the price in next year’s elections, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart said on Thursday.
“Hezbollah has lost something very important which is any argument that it is somehow a resistance movement on behalf of the Lebanese people,” Rice told journalists aboard her plane as she and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband headed to Palo Alto, California.
“Yes, I think they have been hurt in the long term.”
The two top diplomats spoke a day after Hezbollah won concessions in a deal with the government in Lebanon.
Under the agreement signed in Doha, the Hezbollah-led opposition secured veto power in the new government after having seized large swathes of west Beirut from their rivals in sectarian fighting.
“The context was set by an unacceptable show of force on the streets and that did create an illusion, I think, in the first few days, of Hezbollah’s strength,” Miliband said.
“I think what struck us in the subsequent days is that the reaction of the Lebanese has been very negative about that, because, as Condi said, the guns of Hezbollah were turned on their own people,” he said.
* What a nitwit! Of course they turn their guns on their own people, its called ‘living under the gun’- that’s what they do! Just look at Gaza!
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“And I think the long term consequences of that are actually potentially going to strengthen the forces of moderation and democracy in Lebanon.”
* That train left the station. But these two twits somehow still didn’t get the message yet…
Tokyo:Â The government said in a statement Friday that it is ‘‘regrettable’’ that a section of a Japanese cartoon has sparked an outcry in the Muslim world and stressed the need to foster understanding to prevent similar incidents in the future. ‘‘While it resulted from carelessness, the Japanese government considers it regrettable that Muslims’ feelings were hurt by the content of some of the cartoon,’’ Foreign Ministry Press Secretary Kazuo Kodama said. ‘‘In any case, we think it is important to prevent a recurrence by fostering understanding and respect for other religions and cultures.’’
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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is an ongoing Anime/Manga cartoon series produced byShueisha & A.P.P.P. of Japan, and recently they made and inadvertent mistake. They pictured a villain vowing to kill the hero while reading pages from the Quran. The series is old, but seething is eternal, here’s the Fatwa Committeewho’s raising the stink.
The scene from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, adapted from a comic strip published from 1987 to 2003, generated angry responses on more than 300 Arab and Islamic Internet forums, with many accusing Japan of insulting the Koran, Kyodo said.
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The statement came a day after Japanese publisher Shueisha Inc and Another Push Pin Planning Co, which created the animated images, apologized for offending Muslims but insisted the detail had simply been overlooked and there was no intention of showing any disrespect for the Quran. At issue is a 90-second segment from ‘‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure,’’ which depicts Dio Brando, a villain, picking up a Quran from a bookshelf and apparently examining it as he orders the execution of the hero and his friends.
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* Hmm, Really? Muslims have problems with cartoons but not with this???
*Â We beg to differ, Sheikh Abdul.
* More cartoon protests in Pakistan
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*  Meanwhile, in Seattle the notorious CAIR,  a Hamas & Muslim Brotherhood front group, (Council on American Islamic Relations)  is doing what it always does —sabotaging efforts to educate law enforcers about Islamic terrorism:
And again, the Seattle Times quotes representatives of CAIR without a single word about their ties to terrorist groups or their status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial.
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* A wake-up call? It should be. Â A dose of reality for the despicable multiculti-panderers who believe the soldiers of Allah should feel indebted, or even gratitude for the cowardly, despicable treason these naive twits engage in:
A happier Jean Calvert during her time as mayor.
* Â Â ‘Women are deficient in intelligence…”
Her comments came in her departing speech as she handed over mayoral duties to Coun Karam Hussain (Lib Dem, Dewsbury West).
Coun Calvert was referring to her invitation to attend a community cohesion event at Dewsbury Town Hall in March.
It was organised by the North Kirklees Sunni Muslim Council of Mosques and local imams to mark Eid-Milad-Un-Nabi, the prophet Mohammed’s birthday.
In her tearful speech to the full council and members of the public at Huddersfield Town Hall on Wednesday, Coun Calvert said she had checked whether the invitation was really for her rather than deputy mayor Coun Karam Hussain, but organisers insisted she was welcome.
She said: “I attended this event and was horrified to be left on my own in a room full of people that I didn’t know. The press wanted to take photographs of the group with the mayor.
“The photographer was told in no uncertain terms that ‘we don’t have photographs taken with women.’
* Not only that: It seems that many of these Islamo-thugs don’t like to have their picture taken at all.
*Â Row as new Kirklees mayor takes office
*Â If you live in the West, play by its rules or leave
“That was bad enough but then to stand on my own for a further 15 minutes while photographs were being taken of all the other guests in the room was very upsetting.”
*Â Cllr Karam Hussain, Mayor of Kirklees
Continue reading UK: Useful Idiot Mayor Gets The Boot. Muhammedan Mayor Takes Over…
Ayatollah Khomeini said Salman Rushdie must be killed for apostasy
* This is the reality. For that reason there are now thousands of ex-Muslims in hiding and live in fear of being killed by the soldiers of Allah…
“He who leaves his Islamic religion, kill him”
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*  Two things happened in Iraq last week. A US soldier shot a discarded copy of the Qur’an, and al-Qaeda strapped explosives to an 8-year-old girl, killing more Iraqis in the name of Allah. Only one of these acts enraged Muslims.Â
Do you know Islam well enough to know which?
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A Malaysian MP told parliament that there would be fewer marital problems and a lower divorce rate if Muslim women were taught to accept polygamy, news reports said today.
Ibrahim Ali, an independent parliamentarian, proposed moves to address the issue in response to complaints that women were always blamed for marital issues.
“Such problems happen because women cannot accept polygamy. From a preventive point of view, what about doing a big campaign so that women can accept polygamy?” Ibrahim was quoted saying in the Star daily.
The ethnic Malay Muslim lawmaker said women who are pregnant or who have “problems” when they hit their 50s do not understand that men still want to “have fun”.
* This is an interesting admission, because we are usually told that ‘men are the protectors of women’- and that its only for this ‘protection’ that women are to be kept under black cloth in the house. Now this guy spills the beans and says ‘for fun’- good one, that!
Fuziah Salleh, an opposition politician, had earlier questioned the qualifications of Islamic sharia court counsellors as she had received complaints from women that they were forced to take the blame for most marital problems.
“They are not counselled but given ‘advice’. And every time, they are told that the woman is to be blamed. If it is a family problem, they must be patient. If they are beaten up, they must also be patient,” she said.
Muslim men in Malaysia are allowed up to four wives. Activists and women’s groups say polygamy is cruel and has deviated from its original purpose in Islam, which was to protect widows and orphans.
Islam is the official religion of Malaysia, where more than 60 per cent of its 27 million people are Muslim Malays. Polygamy is illegal for non-Muslims.
* Â Nothing to laugh about: written by the daughter of Catmeat sheikh Hilali’s ‘out of context’ spokesman, Keyzar Trad who holds Australians in high esteem: “the criminal dregs of white society colonised this country, and now, they only take the select choice of other societies, and the descendants of these criminal dregs tell us that they are better than us…”
Sanna Trad | May 17, 2008Â
“GO home, Osama,” was not a particularly clever insult. “Go to hell, you educated pigs,” was much better, although a little unexpected.Â
Call for a new conversation conversion … Waleed Aly with his wife, Susan Carland, and children, Aisha, 4, and Zayd, four months.
*Â Muslim bigot smears Australians
Waleed Aly, a counter-terrorism expert (if Waleed Aly is a counter-terrorism expert’ you just go ahead and call me Elvis)  and founding member of the new SBS comedy Salam Cafe, reckons there came a point where the racist insults (which race is Islam again?) he received in the street stopped offending him and started making him laugh.Â
“The funniest thing is the one-liners you get,” he said. “How can you compete with comedy like that? After a while it stops being offensive and just starts being funny.”Â
Salam Cafe, the brainchild of the show’s regular panel members Mr Aly, Ahmed Imam and Susan Carland, takes a rare look at the funnier side of the issues that affect Muslims.Â
* Remember: ‘there is no fun in Islam’– Ayatollah Khomeini…
The show includes regular comedy skits, panel discussions and, disturbingly for Australia’s international image, vox pops providing viewers with an insight into some of the inaccurate perceptions of Islam.Â
* Just what are these “inaccurate perceptions of Islam?’ Why don’t they tell us? And why is nobody asking the obvious: why there are so many ‘inaccurate perceptions’ about Islam? But perhaps its not at all the case, because we understand much better what’s at stake while our politicians diddle and fail us every day…
Continue reading Australia: Islamic da'awa at taxpayers expense
Masood Was Leader Of Islamic Center Of New England
BOSTON –Â A local imam who pleaded guilty to immigration fraud charges faces sentencing in federal court.
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Muhammad Masood is the former spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of New England’s mosque in Sharon.
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The arrest of Masood and another local imam in November 2006 prompted an outcry from local Muslims who accused the government of charging the men simply because they are Muslim.
* Surely Australian resident Islamist lawyer Yusuf Irfan would come down like a ton of bricks on this criminal, since he is so concerned about immigration fraud. Â Ayaan Ali Hirsi seems to bother him especially…
Masood is a citizen of Pakistan and has lived in the United States for about 20 years. He admitted lying to immigration officials after he applied to become a permanent U.S. resident in 2002.
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Federal prosecutors have agreed to recommend a sentence of three years probation, with no prison time, when Masood is sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court.
Masood’s guilty plea could lead to his deportation.
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Hafiz Saeed Lashkar-e-Taiba: Brother deported from US
WASHINGTON: A controversial imam at a Massachusetts mosque, with his visa status already in question, has been given notice to leave his residence on the grounds of the Sharon mosque, headquarters of the Islamic Centre of New England. Imam Muhammad Masood is the brother of Hafiz Saeed, founder of the Pakistan-based Markaz Dawaatul Irshad and Jammatud Daawa.
