Author: sheikyermami

 * Or never ‘had it’ in the first place…

*  Atlas has the whole pathetic shambles, here 

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* Britney Spears, a product of the value free society,

*  Winds of Jihad resident gynecologist  Mufti bin Mafuzz said she may not be needing a full clitorectomy since she doesn’t have a prominent clit…

Goes from this…

To this…?

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* She has been self-destructive for a long time. But in this, of course, she has no idea what she’s getting into — like so many non-Muslim women in the West.

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“Britney wants to marry paparazzo lover and embrace Islam,”

from ANI
London, Jan 13 (ANI): Britney Spears is planning to marry her paparazzo lover Adnan Ghalib, and convert to his faith, Islam, it has been revealed.

Spears, who has been married twice before, is believed to be adamant on getting hitched with Ghalib, despite several warnings from her close friends and aides.

Shes been told it would be an act of insanity to marry this man. She says shes doing it and she doesnt give a f**k what anyone thinks, the Daily Star quoted a source, as saying.

* Terrorists: We’ll cut off head of ‘prostitute’ Britney Spears

Madonna also targeted by jihad leaders who warn of ‘spreading satanic culture’

The Committees’ Abdel-Al accused Madonna and Spears of “spreading this culture by the Americans as part of the war against Islam.”

“If these two prostitutes [Madonna and Spears] keep doing what they are doing, we of course will punish them. First we will call them to join Islam. But if they keep what they are doing … we can stone them or even we can kill them if they keep … tempting men in order to put them far from Islam. … A prostitute woman must be stoned or must be eighty times hit with a belt.”

Abdel-Al said even before Islam takes over America he would personally kill Madonna and Spears if he ran into them. He boasted he would “be the first one to cut the heads of Madonna and Britney Spears.”

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From the ‘Collective Insanity’ department

* Dr Susanne Winter must be reading Winds of Jihad:

Austrian authorities investigate ‘Islam-bashing’ by rightist lawmaker

* Stating the facts has now become ‘hate-speech’- PC is taking us to the abyss:

Vienna – Remarks by a right-wing politician denouncing Islam and accusing the Prophet Mohammed of having been a paedophile provoked widespread outrage in Austria on Monday, with authorities investigating whether they constituted hate speech.

Susanne Winter, a candidate for the Freedom Party in local elections in Graz in south-eastern Austria, said on Sunday that Mohammed’s marriage to a 6-year-old girl would make the prophet a ‘paedophile in today’s system.’

Speaking at a rally, Winter demanded that Islam should be ‘thrown back where it came from, beyond the Mediterranean Sea.’

Winter later justified her attacks. ‘There is widespread child abuse by Muslim men,’ she was quoted as saying by the newspaper Oesterreich.

‘Why can’t I say this? That has nothing to do with hate speech. We want neither Austrian nor foreign paedophiles. I did not want to incite hatred, or offend a religious community,’ she said.

Winds of Jihad has the youtube video, in German:

Austria’s authorities were investigating whether Winter’s remarks constituted incitement to hatred, a spokesman from the prosecutor’s office said. If found guilty, Winter could face up to two years in prison.

(Freedom of speech?)

* Here’s the link from Spiegel Online

‘Al Arabiya’ issues a rather comical denial:

While the exact age of Ayesha, the prophet’s wife, at the time of her marriage cannot be known for certain, most Islamic scholars deduce she was at least 14 years old, with some even suggesting she was in her twenties.

* This is plain bullshit, as we can see here:

Sahih Muslim Book 008, Number 3310:
‘A’isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) married me when I was six years old, and I was admitted to his house when I was nine years old.

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64
Narrated ‘Aisha:
that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 65
Narrated ‘Aisha:
that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: I have been informed that ‘Aisha remained with the Prophet for nine years (i.e. till his death).” what you know of the Quran (by heart)’

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88
Narrated ‘Ursa:
The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with ‘Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).

Source

Muslims recognize the Quran as the exact word of God as revealed to Prophet Muhammad in the spoken word via Archangel Gabriel, and later committed to writing by scribes.

* But when infidels quote from the Koran the Muhammadans from Londonistan to Lahore go apeshit. Why is that?

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Muzzled (Again) in Finland

Orwellian nightmares in Finland:

Tomashot is a Finnish blogger who has just been convicted of “incitement against a national group”Tuusula circuit court found me guilty today of incitement against a national group. My sentence was a fine of €850 and all of my web pages were ordered to be closed down. Even though I insisted that my pages which were part of the factually based “News From Finland”, which publishes news concerning the crimes committed by immigrants and should be spared, they were also ordered to be closed down as well.

Finnish Blogger Gets Fined And Shut Down by Finnish PC Thought Crime Police…….

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The verdict was exceptionally harsh financially, nor do individuals with families have the money to spare for such a thing. According to the directive, I am to keep my web pages permanently closed. During the trial, I was left with the feeling that everything had already been judged beforehand. I believe that I explained my case and my position in a reasonable and acceptable manner, for which I was slapped with a verdict based on such a weak charge, just because I dared to have a different opinion by bringing the stark realism of multiculturalism for all to see.

But my case has now become just one of these “example cases” by which the voice of truth is silenced.

Bad news for freedom of speech in EUrabia

* The list of suppressed bloggers will soon become too long to post. The trend is accelerating.
* Belgium, Britain, Canada, Israel, Sweden, and Finland are countries that have been affected. Which one will be next?

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Lionheart in the MSM

* Those who have been waiting for a totally independent corroboration of Lionheart’s story, this seems to be it, since the paper has confirmed with the Bedfordshire police that they are “are taking action”.

Web blogger faces ‘racial incitement’ arrest

Police are threatening to arrest an internet ‘web blogger’ for incitement to racial hatred the minute he returns to Britain.

Paul Ray, who ‘blogs’ as ‘Lionheart’, left Britain for an undisclosed location in the Middle East two years ago.

He claims he was receiving death threats which made it impossible to stay in his home town of Luton.

Since leaving Britain, he has regularly updated his blog with news and opinions on subjects such as the heroin trade, Islamic fundamentalism and police corruption.

On January 3, Mr Ray received an email from Bedfordshire Police which he has since posted on his website.

From Hate Crime officer Ian Holden, it read: ‘The offence that I need to arrest you for is ‘Stir up Racial Hatred by displaying written material’ contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986.

‘You will be arrested on SUSPICION of the offence. You would only be charged following a full investigation based on all the relevant facts and CPS consent.

‘Paul I will see you on the 19/02/08 when I will tell you everything that you need to know.

‘Due to being out of the office for six weeks I will not have access to my email as of tomorrow 04/01/08.’

A spokesman for Bedfordshire Police said: “We are aware of this particular internet site and we are taking action.”

 From the ‘psycho-babble’ department:

*  Taqiyya and time-buying tactics from the author of The Islamist and a former activist of the extremist Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir

Ed Husain

*  Of course Husain doesn’t want to tell us what such a ‘Western Islam’ would look like, but engages in disingenuous drivel instead:  

 Bishop right to tackle no-go area in our minds

Ed Husain:  Among Asians, while we cry racism at every perceived injustice, why are our communities reluctant to marry in Britain? Why do so many Asians fuel the identity crisis of our youth by importing spouses from the subcontinent, rather than marrying here from any culture? While black Britons and whites inter-marry in increasing numbers, why are Asians lagging behind? For how much longer will we see fellow Brits as goreh, used as a derogatary term for white people, yet complain against the use of “Paki”?

*  Now Husain: you know full well that Muslims are forbidden to marry unbelievers, (not the men, you will say, of course) but the women are, so all of your whining is bullshit. And we’re not talking ‘Asians’ here, we’re talking about Muslims and the belief-system of Islam that keeps you people shackled. Besides,  Muslims don’t call us ‘goreh’- they call us ‘dirty kuffars’- last time I checked there was no problem with the integration of Hindu’s.

Husain:  Among Muslims we have an extremism problem. We Muslims need to be transparent and accept that significant numbers of our youth hold, and sometimes act out, conclusions based on extremist Islamist discourse. The vast majority of Britain’s Muslims are a bulwark against extremism and terrror, an asset to the fight against fanaticism. It is British Muslims who will pioneer Western Islam, liberated from the political baggage of the Muslim East. But this requires the creation of a public space free from Islamist interference, free for the emergence of a genuinely Western Islam.

*  What a lot of pathetic crock & schlock, Husain!  Where is the evidence that ‘the vast majority of Britain’s Muslims are a bulwark against extremism and terror?’  And where is there a sign of any sort of emerging Western Islam?

*  Get real! 

 

* The Islamo-nightmare is getting more absurd by the day:

* Germany recently had a judge –who ruled by the sharia- that a Muslim-husband is permitted to beat his wife,

* In Australia we now have Muslim ‘leaders’ demanding government help (taxpayers money) to tackle Muslim men who beat their wifes. But what these ‘Muslim leaders’ are not telling us, is that wife-beating is deeply rooted in the Islamic belief system, as we can see here:

Qur’an 4:34 tells men to beat their disobedient wives after first warning them and then sending them to sleep in separate beds. It is worth noting how several translators render the key part of this verse, وَاضْرِبُوهُنَّ, waidriboohunna.

Pickthall: “and scourge them”
Yusuf Ali: “(And last) beat them (lightly)”
Al-Hilali/Khan: “(and last) beat them (lightly, if it is useful)”
Shakir: “and beat them”
Sher Ali: “and chastise them”
Khalifa: “then you may (as a last alternative) beat them”
Arberry: “and beat them”
Rodwell: “and scourge them”
Sale: “and chastise them”
Daryabadi: “and beat them”
Asad: “then beat them”

Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, Al-Hilali/Khan, Shakir, Sher Ali, Khalifa, Daryabadi and Asad are Muslims.

* Are their translations all incorrect?

Call to stop ‘male Islamic violence’

Thanks to Mullah:

MUSLIM leaders want to enlist the federal Government to a campaign to tackle men in their community who distort Islamic culture to justify bashing their wives and children.

Female Muslim leader Aziza Abdel-Halim, who accused Islamic clerics of hushing up abuse to protect male members of their mosques, is planning a coalition of men and women to raise awareness of domestic violence.

A burka comes in handy for some…

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Community leaders yesterday warned that victims were being held captives in their own homes by abusive husbands and in some cases reporting to Islamic social services with broken arms, cuts and bruises.

Sister Abdel-Halim, a senior member of the Howard government’s Muslim advisory board and president of the Muslim Women’s National Network Australia, said the coalition would be set up this year to lobby the Government for assistance.

“There’s wife beating, there’s children beating,” she said.

“Some of them go to the extent of forbidding the woman to leave the house.

“It is a real problem. And as long as people keep hushing it up and sweeping it under the carpet … nobody knows about it, nobody is prepared to do anything about it, even the imams.”

Sydney psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed said some victims felt helpless because when they sought the advice of their imam, rather than social services, the cleric often sided with the abuser. “Very rarely would you get the imam trying to punish the man,” he said. “They’ll see it more as, if not culturally appropriate, then culturally understandable.”

* Dhimmi Damage Control: “Domestic violence affects all communities,”

The Victorian executive officer of the Immigrant Women’s Domestic Violence Service, Diana Orlanda, said there was no evidence Muslim women were at greater risk than other Australians. “Domestic violence affects all communities,” she said. “However, in non-English-speaking background communities, they experience greater barriers to intervention and help because of language difficulties.”

Dr Ahmed said the main distinguishing factor of domestic violence within the Muslim community was that the abusers were not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Instead they were driven by a cultural belief of upholding their honour.*

* No. They are being ‘good Muslims’

“They view wives and daughters as an extension of their honour and when they deviate from what they would view as accepted … they see it as an undermining of their own status,” he said.

* Yes they do. And they kill them if they don’t obey.

Richard Kerbaj / The Australian

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Iran’s Ayatollah: “West Abuses Women, Islam Honors Them”

By Terence P. Jeffrey

*Islamo-‘logic’ at work: these people will soon have the bomb…!

CNSNews.com) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who rules over a nation where men are allowed to have four permanent wives and as many “temporary” wives as they like, declared in a recent lecture to Iranian students that Iran honors women, while the West abuses them.

The ayatollah said one indication of this is that women in Iran are forced to wear the hijab — clothing that covers much or all of a woman’s head, face and body — while women in the West are not forced to wear it.

In the West’s “sensationalism concerning women’s affairs, they blame us by saying: You have made hijab compulsory,” the ayatollah said in a January 3 lecture to a conference of Iranian students. “They themselves have made lack of hijab compulsory.”

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I was depressed. I called lifeline. A call center in Islamabad answered:

By WoJ operative Shem

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Cartoon Rage: Tribalism in Iraq

Thanx to WoJ operative Warner

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Sheik yer’mami reported here

Update:

Watch this scandal unfold!

Thanks to Pamela from Atlas Shrugs: video here

Islamic Infiltration & High Treason in the Pentagon

HANNITY: An Islamist expert at the Pentagon known for his hard stance against radical Islam was recently fired, and now his colleagues want to know why.

Stephen Coughlin was fired after a confrontation with one of the deputy defense secretary’s aides, which ended with Coughlin being called, quote, “a Christian zealot with a pen.”

9/11 Pentagon Attack by OBL’s Islamic Terrorists

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The word from the Pentagon is that Coughlin was fired for fiscal reasons, but supporters of his think that there are ulterior motives behind his dismissal.

Joining us now from InvestigativeProject.com is terrorism expert Steve Emerson, back with us.

Hi, Steve. Walk us through what happened here, who he is, where his expertise was, and why you think — what really went on here.

STEVE EMERSON: Stephen Coughlin has a background in law, international business, and a specialty in academic study of Islamic militant doctrine of jihad.

And what he did is to analyze documents, hundreds of thousands of documents that were released during the Hamas trial, the Holy Land case trial in Texas. He did an analysis of some of those documents that were not disputed which showed that there was a Muslim Brotherhood plan, a secret plan, designed to acquire influence in the U.S., undermine U.S. democracy, and to establish a caliphate. The Muslim Brotherhood plan was spelled out in a document that was introduced at trial.

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* Watch Skeletor display his obstinate stupidity..!

* Here’s the transcript from FOX NEWS:

Islamic Law Expert Fired for Being a ‘Christian Zealot’?

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Update: 

The Implications of the Dismissal of Stephen Coughlin, Joint Staff, Pentagon

Stephen Coughlin Update. Here is an excellent summary piece on Coughlin’s firing, its implications, and what must be done next.

Objective: The objective of this paper is to clarify the incidents surrounding the firing of Mr. Coughlin, and enumerate the implications of this event to U.S. National Security and the GWOT (Global War on Terror).

Background: Mr. Stephen Coughlin works as a contractor on the Joint Staff, J-2 (Intelligence) for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. The Joint Staff specifically requested him because of his knowledge of Islamic Doctrine as it applies to “Jihad” and the Strategic objectives of our enemy. He is, by many accounts, the leading expert on Islamic Doctrinal drivers of Jihad within the U.S. Government, and likely, in the United States. His thesis, “To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad,” was recently accepted by the National Defense Intelligence College, and deals specifically with Islamic Doctrine dealing with doctrinal drivers of jihad, and the failure of the United States leadership to learn and understand this doctrine. He has a background in Law and international business. Mr. Coughlin is also a Major in the U.S. Army Reserves, and was activated after 9/11 to serve as a Strategic Targeting Officer for the U.S. forces. He has taught, lectured, and briefed senior members of DoD, members of Congress, senior U.S. Government officials, and many law enforcement and intelligence officers in the United States. He is a regular briefer at the Information/Operations course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Joint Forces Staff College. He has briefed at the Navy War College and the Marine Corps War College, and recently briefed the General Officers of I MEF, United States Marine Corps.

Event: Via a campaign undertaken by Hesham Islam, the senior advisor for International Affairs to Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, on Thursday, January 3, 2008 Mr. Coughlin was told by his employers that his contract would not be renewed due to the fact his message, and therefore he himself, had become too “politically hot.” In a meeting between Mr. Coughlin and a member of Mr. England’s staff, at which Hesham Islam unexpectedly attended, Mr. Islam asked Mr. Coughlin to “soften his message” regarding Islamic Doctrine. Mr. Coughlin refused. Islam was heard referring to Coughlin as a “Christian zealot with a poison pen.” Despite the fact that no one in his chain of command has disputed the veracity, accuracy, and balance for his thesis, lectures, or briefings, Coughlin’s employment is being terminated for speaking the truth to the Department of Defense.

Analysis: This event on its own reveals that a senior U.S. advisor is being removed from his direct and critical role in the current war in which we are engaged solely because his message was defined as “extreme” by an advisor who caters to Islamist organizations in the U.S., not because it was factually incorrect. This alone seems significantly problematic given the current war in which we are engaged. Additionally, some of the details suggest Mr. Coughlin’s civil rights, to include his First and Forth Amendment rights, as well as federal law, may have been violated, which suggests an inquiry is required. The effort to silence Mr. Coughlin came from a senior advisor to a senior U.S. official under official cover – a violation of law. Most disturbing is that Mr. Islam is associated with groups and organizations which have been designated as Muslim Brotherhood organizations within the United States. If this is in fact true, the implications are devastating.

Implications: If it is determined that Mr. Islam (whose clearances to be handling such high level issues are unsubstantiated) was acting directly or indirectly on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood or any other non-state sponsor or nation, it would indicate a direct effort to thwart the U.S. effort in fighting the war in which we are engaged by an outside entity. This is, therefore, a penetration of our government at the most senior levels. In this case we are obligated to undertake actions to determine, who is Mr. Islam, why was he hired, what are his true intentions, and are there others in our government at this level who have penetrated other U.S. government agencies.

Actions: It is recommended that the following actions be taken immediately:

1) It is imperative that an investigation be open to determine the facts of this matter. If the investigation determines the facts of the matter to be true, provide the extent of the penetration within DoD, an assessment of the damage, potential violations of federal law, and recommended changes to Department policy and procedures to prevent a recurrence.

2) Conduct closed Congressional Hearings to provide oversight of Federal Departments and Agencies, specifically DoD, DNI, FBI, CIA and DHS to determine if there has been (1) a significant penetration of US Government Departments and/or Agencies by non-state actors hostile to the United States, and (2) the ability and structure of the U.S. counterintelligence efforts to identify and prevent penetration by subversive movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

    The Lost Archive

*  Missing for a half century, a cache of photos spurs sensitive research on Islam’s holy text

By ANDREW HIGGINS/The Wall Street Journal

During the 19th century, Germans pioneered modern scholarship of ancient texts. Their work revolutionized understanding of Christian and Jewish scripture. It also infuriated some of the devout, who resented secular scrutiny of texts believed to contain sacred truths.

The revived Quran venture plays into a very modern debate: how to reconcile Islam with the modern world? Academic quarrying of the Quran has produced bold theories, bitter feuds and even claims of an Islamic Reformation in the making. Applying Western critical methods to Islam’s holiest text is a sensitive test of the Muslim community’s readiness to both accommodate and absorb thinking outside its own traditions.

“It is very exciting,” says Patricia Crone, a scholar at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study and a pioneer of unorthodox theories about Islam’s early years. She says she first heard that the Munich archive had survived when attending a conference in Germany last fall. “Everyone thought it was destroyed.”

The Quran is viewed by most Muslims as the unchanging word of God as transmitted to the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. The text, they believe, didn’t evolve or get edited. The Quran says it is “flawless” and fixed by an “imperishable tablet” in heaven. It starts with a warning: “This book is not to be doubted.”

Quranic scholarship often focuses on arcane questions of philology and textual analysis. Experts nonetheless tend to tread warily, mindful of fury directed in recent years at people deemed to have blasphemed Islam’s founding document and the Prophet Muhammad.

* ‘Sensitivity training’, anyone? 

* Stay tuned for ‘Koran Research Project Rage’ 

* Attacks on churches and synagogues never ceased against the ‘people of the book’, who are supposedly protected by a covenant under the sharia. But that covenant also says that the soldiers of Allah should harass and humiliate the unbelievers continuously, ‘to bring them low’, to make them pay the jiziyah and not to allow them to take their grievances to court.

* Once Islam has gained the upper hand, the unbelievers have a bleak future. See Lebanon. See Egypt, see what the so called ‘Palistanians’ are doing to the remaining Christians in Bethlehem & Nazareth or any other place where Islam spreads. But if your not among the ‘people of the book’, your chances of remaining alive are indeed rather bleak, just look at Pakistan and Bangladesh, where Hindu’s (polytheists) and Buddhists (idol-worshipers) have been all but wiped out, their temples and statues destroyed, and in typical Muhammedan fashion replaced by mosques that have been built right on top of the ruins.

Here is a report on the constant jihad against the remaining Christians of Egypt, the Copts:

From the Sons of Apes & Pigs

Followers of the “most merciful” strike again.

With the systematic bombing attacks on churches in Iraq, attacks on churches in Egypt are still the best offerings for Allah. A devout Muslim mob attacked yesterday the Abu Fana Monastery, in the city of Malawi, province of Menia, in Upper Egypt for the second time in less than two weeks.

* The police supports the terrorists:

In a phone conversation with father Mina Abu Fana, one of the monks of the Monastery, he stated that “this attack follows a January 1, 2008, attack by a Muslim mob that kept firing on the Monastery for two hours before the police arrived. The officer in charge acted in a demeaning way towards the monks and let the attackers leave without arresting anyone or filing any charges.” He also said “the non action by the police when Christians or churches are attacked sends a signal to the fanatics that they can continue their attacks with impunity”.

And that’s exactly what happened, father Mina told us, twenty armed Muslims surrounded th monastery and forced their way inside firing on monks that were trying to defend the Monastery. One monk was injured and eight monks’ cells were destroyed. The attackers then entered the church and burned several priceless rare Coptic icons of Jesus, one of the monastery’s church doors, several Bibles and vandalized, looted and destroyed part of the church interiors.

According to Archaeologists, the Monastery of Saint Abu Fana is one of the oldest Monasteries in the world, and considered a rare archaeological treasure from the fourth century, when it was built, with priceless Icons and frescoes dating back to the same period.

Our purpose for reporting this to our readers is not just to highlight a terrorist attack by the followers of the “religion of peace” on a Monastery in Egypt. Which many in the West may consider, after all, very remote to them and away from their security or comfort zone. Viewed just as a local attack on Copts, having no effects beyond that.

But this is not the way Mohammad’s soldiers look at it. And it only proves that Westerners thinking along those lines don’t grasp the far reaching strategy of the jihadists for the sake of Allah.

You should never forget that “every” Muslim, including “moderates” talks and think always in terms of “the Islamic Umma”, which mean “the Islamic Nation”. This is not a term invented by Louis Farrakhan, but a term coined by Mohammad himself.

The other fact that you should equally remember, is the total symbioses and connectivity between jihadists all over the world. More so now, thanks to internet and the communication technological revolution, that virtually eliminated distances and empowered everyone to reach anyone at the other corner of the planet instantly.

No one more than jihadists is taking advantage of that. Besides the fact that Egypt is the home of the infamous “Muslims brotherhood” organization which have members (implanted) established in every Western country, with a big base in America let alone the world. All Sunni’s Jihadists, starting by El Qaeda and Hamas, are offshoots of the “Brotherhood”, as it is referred to.

So what all this have to do with what seems to be an isolated attack on a Monastery in Egypt? You might ask. Well, it’s only isolated to you because you don’t wear the Islamic magnifying glasses, and you don’t think in terms of “the Umma”.

Follow me.

* Read it all from the Sons of Apes & Pigs

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Fjordman: The Legacy of Byzantium 

Another excellent essay by the mysterious Fjordman shows how the jihad finally made ‘secular’  Turkey 99% Islamic

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Northern Lights begin to glow:

* Really! Thomas Hegghammer is an army researcher, and he’s worked it all out by himself: ‘Islamophobia causes Islamic terror’

via Jeffrey Imm

Thomas Hegghammer of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt) says that Islamophobia and racism bring about a security problem. The more Norwegians hate Muslims, the more likely it will be to see Islamic violence in Norway. The more Muslims meet aggression from Norwegians, and taxi drivers have to deal with questions about Iraq and religion, the more they will become radicalized. He thinks the fear of Islam has grown in the West since Sep. 11. “It’s a problem, because Islamophobia brings discrimination that again can lead to terrorism,” says Hegghammer.

Read it all

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Oslo: 34% of schools have immigrant majority

The Oslo education department published data this week about the city’s schools. Of the 51,378 students in elementary schools this year, 19,602 were immigrants, which is 38%. About 11,975 of them get separate Norwegian classes, and about 4,285 get mother tongue instruction and/or bilingual instruction, available in 23 languages

48 of the city’s 138 schools have more than 50% immigrants in their student body, which is 34%. Two years ago there were 37 such schools, seven years ago there were just 21. Five schools have more than 90% immigrants.

This data includes immigrants from Western countries. A list of the schools and percentage of immigrants is available, check Islam in Europe

* There were many responses to this, read it all