Author: sheikyermami

Textbook: Islamic ‘jihad’ means doing good works

* Also includes Muslims fighting ‘to protect themselves from harm’

By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

An Islamic “jihad” is an effort by Muslims to convince “others to take up worthy causes, such as funding medical research,” according to a middle school textbook used in California and other states.

And even at its most violent, “jihad” simply is Muslims fighting “to protect themselves from those who would do them harm,” says the “History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond” book published by Teachers’ Curriculum Institute.

But a parent whose child has been handed the text in a Sacramento district is accusing the publisher of a pro-Muslim bias to the point that Islamic theology has been incorporated into the public school teachings.

“It makes an attempt to seem like an egalitarian world history book, but on closer inspection you find that seven (not all are titled so) of the chapters deal with Islam or Muslim subjects,” wrote the parent, whose name was being withheld, in a letter to WND.

Sacramento’s students are being taught “jihad” is an effort to convince “others to take up worthy causes.”

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“The upsetting part is not only do they go into the history (which would be acceptable) but also the teaching of Islam,” she said. “This book does not really go into Christianity or the teachings of Christ, nor does it address religious doctrine elsewhere to the degree it does Islam.”

* Just a bunch of inner strugglers….

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She said the book’s one page referencing Jews “is only to convey that they were tortured by Crusaders to get them to convert to ‘Christianity.’ (It fails to mention that the biggest persecutors of Jews throughout history and still today are Arab Muslims). It gives four other one-liner references to the Jews being blamed for the plagues and problems in the land. It does not talk about the Jews as making a significant impact on the culture at large.”

“How can the writers of this text get away with this?” she asked.

* Muslims have been doing this for a long time and got a way with it. Read it all…

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Australia:

“Hey Jihad, where ya going with that gun in your hand…?”

A MAN who had ammunition in his pocket and a loaded pistol on the back seat of his car when he was pulled over told police he was, “going hunting with my uncle”.

The gun was ready to fire when police pulled over Mahmud Jihad, 26, in Rooty Hill on Tuesday.

Also in a bag in the back seat was a tazer, Mount Druitt local court heard yesterday.

A further three pistols – including a Russian semi-automatic – were found when police raided Jihad’s Shalvey home later the same day.

‘Poverty breeds terrorism:’

Along with the cache of guns and ammunition found in the bedroom of the builder’s labourer, was $59,550 in cash.

Jihad yesterday faced court on 15 charges, including having a firearm in a public place.

The court heard Jihad was sentenced to 12 months’ jail in 2005 for similar offences.

Jihad’s estranged parents and sister were in court yesterday when he applied for bail.

His lawyer Charles Zarb argued that although his client had priors for similar offences, he had always turned up at court, even when a jail sentence was likely.

But prosecutor Pauline McCann said Jihad’s actions demonstrated that he was an active risk to the public.

Jihad was refused bail and remanded in custody to appear again on March 28.

* There is a lot more on infiltration and schoolbook jihad in the comments section on DW, here 

* Not that his activities had anything to do with Islam, look away: nothing to see here!

*  He loved death, now he has it:

Now released for publication: Walid Abid, head of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in northern Samaria, was killed during an IDF arrest operation early this morning in the city of Qabatya, south of Jenin. Another Islamic Jihad terror operative, Ibrahim Fuad Ibrahim Abu-Rob, was arrested. Abid was killed during exchanges of fire that erupted after IDF forces arrived at the house where he was staying in order to arrest him. An M16 assault rifle with a telescopic lens was later discovered on his body.

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Big Bang in Beirut

Beirut bomb hits U.S. embassy car, kills three

By Tom Perry
BEIRUT, Jan 15 (Reuters) – A car bomb damaged a U.S. diplomatic car in Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding 16, and the U.S. State Department said no Americans died in the blast.

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The bomb sent a column of smoke into the sky, tore masonry from buildings and destroyed at least six cars in a Christian suburb north of Beirut, as well as damaging the armored embassy car.
The blast coincided with U.S. President George W. Bush’s visit to Saudi Arabia as part of a weeklong tour of U.S. Middle East allies.
Bush is not visiting Lebanon, though Washington has been a strong backer of the Beirut government in its power struggle with the Hezbollah-led opposition backed by Syria.
The Lebanese government put the death toll at three but the State Department said the bomb killed four Beirut residents. None worked for the embassy.

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“There were no American diplomats or American citizens in the car at the time,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. A Lebanese national working for the U.S. Embassy and a driver were in the car when it was attacked, and the driver was slightly wounded, he said. An American passer-by was also hurt.
Lebanese and U.S. security officials were at the scene, where rescue workers covered a corpse with plastic sheeting. Pools of blood covered the road. Two of the dead were Lebanese and the third a Syrian, security sources said.

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* Which gets us another Picanninni Poontang statement:

“I’d like … to just state the outrage of the United States against the terrorist attack that took place in Lebanon today,” U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is traveling with Bush, said in Riyadh.

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* That’s right folks: Because Islam has is a Religion of Peace, one that orders its adherents to:

* ‘Strike terror in the hearts of the unbelievers’-Quran 8:12:

* Quran 2:191: “… kill the disbelievers wherever you find them …”

Quran 8:12: ‘you shall terrorize the unbelievers. Therefore smite them on their necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.’

Quran 8:7: “Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: ‘Wipe the infidels out to the last.’”

Quran 8:59: “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah’s enemy.”

Terrorism in Kenya

Unlike Kenya, both Uganda and Tanzania have passed their anti-terrorism bills, attracting major funding from the international donor community. Uganda’s Suppression of Terrorism Act of 2002 and Tanzania’s Anti-Terrorism Law of 2003 empower the state to use all necessary means to investigate terrorist activities and confiscate property belonging to people found to be supporting terrorism.

Yet in Kenya, Muslim leaders dismissed their version of the law as a “draconian” document drafted in the United States with the intention of “oppressing” the Muslim community.

“It is a bill that uses shock and awe tactics on its citizens while purporting to fight terrorism,” said Billow Kerrow, a Muslim Kenyan opposition politician (The Nation, December 7, 2003). “In my view,” he said, “our government has gone out of its way to harass its citizens…by arresting, detaining, beating and violating their rights, under pressure from Washington.” The government has vehemently denied the allegations, reiterating that its actions in combating terrorism are not targeting any particular group. “No. We are not targeting Muslims or any other community. We have never done so and will not in the future,” said Lawrence Mwadime, a deputy policy commissioner (The Standard, October 2).

On September 21, Kenyan Muslim leaders urged the Kenyan government to cut off diplomatic ties with the United States until it explained why President George W. Bush discussed Kenya’s political stability with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. The Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) also demanded that Tanzanian authorities give a detailed account on the meeting at which their leader allegedly discussed Kenya’s affairs, contrary to the tenets of the East African Community (The Nation, September 23). In July 2000, the United States agreed to help Tanzania strengthen its capacity to act against financial crimes and terrorism. Since then, FBI agents have been training Tanzanian police in criminal investigation techniques.

Tensions have been high between the Muslim community and the Kenyan government.

Muslims on the coast, the northeast and in Nairobi complain that they have been persecuted on the flimsy excuse of being terrorist suspects. The government-funded Anti-Terror Police Unit has been allegedly fleecing businesses belonging to ethnic Somalis and Arabs on the claim that they finance terrorists (Reuters, May 24). The unit was set up in 2003 to probe Kenya’s Islamic militants, including the recovery of missiles and the forging of links to friendly foreign security services. Its operations, however, have been adversely hampered by the lack of a central government in chaotic Somalia, since security officials fear that extremist groups still take refuge in the volatile Horn of Africa country.
Islamic groups have held demonstrations in the country’s two biggest cities, Nairobi and Mombasa, denouncing the U.S., British and Israeli governments for their actions toward Islam. Most recently, demonstrators in the coastal city of Mombasa burned the flags of the United States and Israel amid chants of jihad in protest of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. In Mombasa, roughly 60 percent of the population is Muslim.

Al-Qaeda’s Financial Assets

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 * While the jihad rages on….

By Muhammad Ayub Pathan and Waedao Harai and Wassana Nanuam

* Thailand: where ‘Muhammad’ reports, and a Muslim General is to ‘win hearts and minds’

UPDATE: Yala _ Forty-four people were injured, six seriously, in a bomb blast when a huge crowd of customers was buying food at morning market stalls in Muang district early on Tuesday morning.

Those seriously wounded were Suwit Anukul, Watcharaporn Rangsimant, Sukanya Kalankul, Son Kwanchoo, Thanu Ampornpong and Tanawat Kaew-oad.They are being treated at Yala regional hospital.

Police said the bombers parked a motorcycle strapped with explosives in front of one of the food stalls close to SP Copy shop.

The blast destroyed the stalls and shattered glass windows of nearby shops.

A bomb disposal squad cut off mobile phone signals to prevent other bombs being detonated before going in to inspect the blast scene.

Also in Yala, two men identified as Ali Deekasor, 20, and Sudeng Taleh, 43, were arrested separately yesterday for alleged complicity in insurgent attacks in the province.

In Narathiwat, six people were detained as suspects in the bomb attack and ensuing ambush in the province’s Chanae district on Monday, in which eight soldiers in a teacher escort team were left murdered.

The attackers made off with the soldiers’ firearms, including eight M16 assault rifles, an 11mm pistol and an M60 machine gun.

The arrest came after a raid on four houses in the district believed to be where the ambushers had taken shelter.

Forensic tests revealed traces of gun powder on at least three of the six suspects. However, all denied that they had carried out the bomb attack.

Authorities were also scouring the blast scene for more evidence yesterday.

Col Thanathip Sawangsaeng, spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc), said the soldiers killed in the blast were not beheaded. Their heads were blown off by the force of the explosion.

The eight soldiers were posthumously promoted and their families provided with cash compensation. They were also awarded special royal decorations for their bravery.

Angkhana Neelaphaijit, chairwoman of the Working Group on Justice for Peace, condemned insurgent groups for Monday’s deadly ambush in Chanae district.

She said in a statement that it was an act of barbarism which had dealt a serious blow to efforts to forge harmony and restore peace in the deep South.

* Muhammadanism is not about ‘harmony & peace’…

Government spokesman Chaiya Yimwilai said the cabinet yesterday approved the extension of the emergency decree for another three months in Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, and this would take effect on Sunday.

The decree no longer covers the four districts of Songkhla _ Chana, Thepha, Na Thawi and Saba Yoi_ which border the insurgent-prone areas of the deep South. The districts, however, remain under martial law due to incidents of unrest

Earlier report here

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Jihadists murder soldiers, set off bomb in Thai market

* Regarding the usual mainstream media bias in this story, lets set the historical record straight: “The claim that the south of Thailand was ‘annexed by Thailand a century ago’ is WRONG. The Sultanate was destroyed during the Thai war against Burma in the mid 1700s because it had sided with the Burmese against the Siamese. By this time the Sultanate was in decline. The Siamese conquered the area and have ruled it since. And whether they took the land 100 or 250 years ago is beside the point. What right does that give anyone to randomly bomb and kill anyone?” Indeed. And that makes it clear that Thailand was entitled to this land by right of conquest, which has been universally recognized throughout human history — except, of course, when it comes to Israel, and apparently, to any Muslim land that is conquered by non-Muslims.

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* Some of the completely false perceptions of jihad, deliberately misunderstood:

“The degree of influence on the insurgents by outside Islamic extremist groups is still a matter of debate, though many experts agree that the rebellion is a homegrown reaction to decades of disenchantment over misrule and discrimination by Thailand’s central government.”

* No one there has the idea that any non-Muslim rule over Muslims is illegitimate and must be resisted violently. Oh, no. It’s all about Thai misrule. Good governments ends jihad, doncha know.

The insurgency flared on Jan. 4, 2004, with a raid by unidentified gunmen on an army weapons depot in Narathiwat in which four soldiers were killed and hundreds of guns were stolen. A government crackdown accelerated the violence, and the region was soon beset with drive-by shootings and small bombings. Most of those killed have been civilians….

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Critics of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a 2006 coup, argue that his government exacerbated tensions with a hard-line approach. But the military-installed interim government that succeeded him has done no better after pledging to take a more nuanced approach that would not alienate southern Muslims.

* Yes, he was a real hardliner, old Thaksin was. Those origami were brutal. Brutal!

* And anyway, if it’s all Thaksin’s fault, why is it still going on? The new leader is a Muslim, and the “hardline” tactics, such as they were, are a thing of the past.

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* A real sucker for ya…

* He must be on something….

*   I’ll have what he’s having…! 

* Riyadh: President Bush called on our friends the Saudis and OPEC to increase oil production in order to bring prices down.

* The Saudis smiled for the cameras, and said, “No.”

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* Saudi Arabia Rebuffs Bush on Oil Request
* The Kingdom Tells the President It Will Only Increase Production When Needed

* Our ‘friends’, the Sowdi’s however, made sure that the decider doesn’t get away without screwing him over:

Bush will face a frosty reception today during a visit to Saudi Arabia amid anger at America’s continued detention of the kingdom’s citizens at Guantanamo Bay.

* Take note: the terrorist scum in Gitmo are mere ‘citizens’- what kind of suckers are we?

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* Meanwhile, in the good ol’ US of A:

Thanx to Weasel: here’s more

Moonbat Convergence in San Francisco

Cynthia McKinney & Mama Moonbat…

Today’s Cartoon Rage:

 Shop bans head scarves and hijabs
By Shuiab Khan

Shoppers wearing head scarves have been banned from a shop because the owner said they cannot be properly identified.

The ruling at Whitegate Wines off-licence and Convenience Store, Padiham Road, Padiham, includes those wearing the hijab – the traditional Muslim head wear.

A sign on the door states: ‘Due to CCTV coverage all headwear must be removed before entering the shop’.

Unlike the veil, where the only the eyes are visible – the full face of the hijab wearer is visible as the scarf simply covers the hair of the wearer.

Hijab-wearers are welcome in banks, through airport security and even the passport office accepts pictures of Muslim women with the hijab

* The hijab, or burka as we can see in this pic from the US, is convenient for robbing banks, shop-lifting and escaping to other countries after engaging in assassinations or terrorist attacks in the bilad-al-kuffr.

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He said: “She returned empty-handed. I then went in with my wife and she was told she would not get served.

“First we tried to explain that unlike a hoodie or a hat, Muslim women wear the hijab for religious reasons.

“Then we tried to explain that if a bank accepts customers wearing a headscarf then shouldn’t that mean this shop should too?

“But the staff were having none of it.”

“I think they are simply taking the headwear rule to its extreme.”

Owner Tom White said security was the overriding concern.

“The police told us that a person is more identifiable if all the headgear is removed.

“So we have decided to implement the policy across the board so as not to favour anyone.

“I have also been told I am perfectly within my rights to do this.

“As you may understand shops such as ours are targeted by shoplifters and security is therefore a major concern for us.

“The policy has been in place for about a year and a half.

“In that that time shoplifting has gone down.”

When asked if any Hijab wearing women had committed any shoplifting in the past Mr White said, ‘No’.

Another customer added, “I know some people might say #What’s a Muslim doing going into an off-licence?’

“But almost all shops and supermarkets everywhere sell alcohol. Should we stop going in them too?

“Many shops have security concerns but banning the hijab is not right at all.”

* Yes it is. It is entirely within our rights to ban anyone from entering our businesses we don’t feel comfy with. And the soldiers of Allah have no right to impose anything on us infidels. Capiche?

“I just think a little common sense should be used here, that’s all.”

* ‘There is no compulsion in religion’ alert:

From Jeremy Pierce/NewsCom thanks to Warner

A GOLD Coast man threatened to kill his daughter and himself if she denounced Islam for Christianity, a court was told yesterday.

The Southport Magistrate’s Court heard accused murderer Kaihana Tahsseen Hussain told police her father had once threatened to kill her if she abandoned the Muslim faith.

Hussain has been charged with murdering her mother, Shaheda.

A forensic officer told Hussain’s committal hearing yesterday that police also told her the defendant had alleged that her mother had tried to strangle her during an argument three months before the October 2006 tragedy.

Anne-Louise Swain said the teenager’s injuries were consistent with her claims that her father Muhammad killed his wife and tried to kill her before turning the knife on himself.

However, Dr Swain could not say categorically whether the teenager’s injuries were sustained fending off an attack or from performing the attack.

Hussain is accused of her mother’s murder and the attempted murder of her father, allegedly over their opposition to her desire to change religions, just days after the family had moved to the Gold Coast.

Dr Swain said she examined Hussain on the night of October 9, observing injuries including scratches, bruises and bite marks on the then 17-year-old.

The girl, who was at that stage not being treated as a suspect in the killing, said her father had killed her mother, tried to strangle her and then slammed her fingers in a door as she tried to escape the murder scene.

She also had dried blood on her hands, but when Dr Swain removed it there were no injuries underneath.

Rodney Benson, a paramedic who treated Muhammad Hussain at the Smith St unit complex, said the former Bangladesh and Adelaide doctor asked police to arrest his daughter because “she stabbed me and my wife”.

The hearing continues today.

* Who do you believe? Him or his lying eyes…? 

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* Picked this up from a loony site, because we couldn’t find it elsewhere:

* Watch it while it lasts!

 Koran Juice

* Somebody had to do it… 

* Boy oh boy! Celebrity day at Winds of Jihad! Dead or alive, all we can do is pass it on to you, dear reader:

* Another Weasel Scoop! 

The mother of Princess Diana called her a ‘whore’ for dating Muslim men, her inquest has heard.
Frances Shand Kydd made the ‘disgraceful’ comment when she discovered her daughter was in a serious relationship with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
The pair did not speak again before Diana died two months later, according to her butler Paul Burrell.

The sensational revelation came on the day that he told how:

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• Diana was planning to marry Dr Khan;
• Her romance with Dodi Fayed was just a ’30-day’ fling;
• Prince Philip did write ‘cutting’ letters to the princess but would not have ordered her murder;
• The Queen warned him of mysterious ‘powers at work’ – but he had no idea what she meant.

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The 49-year-old former butler revealed that Diana’s bitter conversation with her mother happened in June 1997, during the last throes of her relationship with Dr Khan and just two months before she and Dodi died in Paris.
Mr Burrell told the High Court that the princess had held up the phone as they sat together on the sofa of her Kensington Palace apartment so that he could hear her mother’s rant.

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He said Mrs Shand Kydd, who died in 2004, was a ‘formidable lady’ who often expressed herself ‘in extremely forceful terms about Diana’s consorts, especially if they were Muslim’.

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Asked to describe what he had heard on that particular day, he hesitated.
It was only when the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, interjected, saying: ‘This is relevant’, that Mr Burrell replied: ‘Well, she called the princess a whore and she said that she was messing around with f****** Muslim men and she was disgraceful. She said some very nasty things.’

* Yeah.

* How’s that for a lose cannon..?

Want more?

By Martyn Brown/ Daily Express

The Tolerance of Islamic Checkout Clerks

A MUSLIM store worker refused to serve a customer buying a children’s book on Christianity because she said it was “unclean”.

Shopper Sally Friday felt publicly humiliated at a branch of Marks & Spencer when she tried to pay for First Bible Stories as a gift for her young grandson.

When she put the book on the check-out counter, the young assistant refused to touch it, declared it was unclean and summoned another member of staff to serve instead.

Mrs Friday said she was so upset that she has now complained to the store’s management.

Last night politicians and religious leaders supported her in condemning the high street giant and reigniting the debate over religious beliefs in the workplace.

Conservative MP Philip Davies said the refusal to serve Mrs Friday, 69, was “unacceptable” and “damaging” to community relations.

Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, described the assistant’s comments as “offensive” and called for Marks & Spencer to carry out a thorough investigation.

* Bunglawussie recommendation: don’t stock Christian children’s books, they are offensive to Muslims…

Mrs Friday said her trip to the sales in Reading, Berks, with her daughter had been ruined.

“I went to the till and heard the girl say it was unclean and then she got someone else to serve me,” said Mrs Friday.

“At first I wasn’t sure what was going on and then I realised she was wearing a headdress and I clicked that the title of the book had Bible in it. I felt very humiliated and immediately left the store.”

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Update:

Robert Spencer just pointed out that the store clerk acted in accordance with Qur’an 9:28. 

Lets have a closer look at that sura, or ayat, here 

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