Author: sheikyermami

…and every fourth Muslim who happens to reside in the fatherland is ‘gewaltbereit’- that means willing to use violence ‘in the way of Allah’- to get to the Islamic paradise:

Islamic Paradise:

Source: Frankfurter Rundschau

* According to a survey commissioned by Germany’s interior ministry and politically incorrect published by the FR

* But surely the Koran, the Muslim ‘holy book’ or Islam itself are not to blame, we are told, because Islam means ‘peace’.

Well, not exactly. Lets take a closer look at Surah 4:74: “To him who fighteth in the cause of Allah – whether he is slain or gets victory – soon shall we give him a reward of great (value).”

And Surah 3:157: “If ye are slain, or die, in the way of Allah, forgiveness and mercy from Allah are far better than all they could amass.”

But here, the all-time favorite of the true believer:

KORAN 9:111: “They slay and are slain…”

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: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur’an

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Antisemitic, anti-Christian resentment and prejudice is widespread even among highly educated Muslims.

These highly educated Muslims see themselves as victims of racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia. For that reason the enlightened, progressive elites of the EU will soon implement legislation to make it a hate crime to mention anything negative about the Islamic doctrine of hatred: the neutered, politically correct Euro-dhimmi’s must be put in their place,

this here will fix it:

EU: Common Criminal Provisions Against Racism and Xenophobia

The study didn’t mention that terror-video’s and Islamic hate-literature is widely available and freely sold in Germany. It appears no action is being taken to put a stop to it. This seems to be in line with the EU-philosophy that a neutered population can be further reduced to dhimmi status.

In the UK the police has recently confiscated some of the most hateful publications and DVD’s from Islamic bookshops and mosques.

Yorkshire Post

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Spreading the love in Allah’s way

* Cupidity and stupidity go hand in hand, sanity takes a backseat and doctor Haneef, a close associate to the failed Glasgow suicide-bombers, is now ‘free to come back’- yeah baby: the leftie loony jihad alliance is working day and night to bring us the light of Islam!

* Fuckwit alert

Minister won’t block Haneef visa

IMMIGRATION Minister Chris Evans says he will take no action to cancel the work visa of former terror suspect Mohamed Haneef after it was effectively reinstated by an appeal court today.

The full bench of the Federal Court today dismissed an appeal lodged by Federal Government lawyers against a judge’s decision to reinstate Dr Haneef’s visa.

As things stood, the former Gold Coast doctor was now free to return to work in Australia, Senator Evans said.

Former federal immigration minister Kevin Andrews cancelled Dr Haneef’s visa on character grounds after terror-related charges were laid against him. Those charges were later dropped.

Senator Evans said he had reviewed the latest Australian Federal Police information on Dr Haneef and found there was no basis to cancel his visa on character grounds.

“I formed the judgment there was no basis for me to seek to move to cancel Dr Haneef’s visa,” he said in Perth.

“The effect of that is that Dr Haneef’s visa stands as valid.

“Dr Haneef is therefore entitled to return to this country and take up employment in accordance with his 457 visa.”

Senator Evans also said he was seeking solicitor-general’s advice on the Federal Court’s interpretation of the Migration Act, and had not ruled out a possible appeal to the High Court.

However, he was not inclined to pursue an appeal at this stage.

The Government could also consider changes to the Migration Act, he said.

Australian Federal Police arrested Dr Haneef at Brisbane International Airport on July 2 as he attempted to board a one-way flight to India, just days after failed terror attacks in Britain.

He was held for 12 days before finally being charged with providing support to a terrorist organisation for giving his mobile phone SIM card to his cousin Sabeel Ahmed, one of the men accused of the attempted UK bomb attacks.

The charge was dropped a fortnight later after Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions Damien Bugg found there was no reasonable prospect of securing a conviction against the 27-year-old.

However, Mr Andrews had already cancelled his visa on character grounds, meaning Dr Haneef was unable to return to work at the Gold Coast Hospital.

Dr Haneef has spent most of the past five months at his family home in Bangalore but his lawyer has repeatedly said the doctor wants to return to work on the Gold Coast.

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Haneef may seek compensation

THE lawyers for former terrorism suspect Mohamed Haneef have said that their client was considering seeking compensation.

Dr Mohammed Haneef when he returned to India after his visa to Australia was cancelled by the then immigration minister Kevin Andrews

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Dr Haneef’s lawyer, Peter Russo, said a decision was yet to be made about whether Dr Haneef would seek compensation.

The counsel representing Immigration Minister Chris Evans has applied for the judge’s decision to be stayed pending a possible appeal to the High Court.

Dr Haneef’s barrister, Stephen Keim SC, opposed the application and said there was no justification for it as his client’s life should not be disrupted further.

Dr Haneef has spent most of the past five months at his family home in Bangalore.

He is now in Mecca in Saudi Arabia on the annual Muslim pilgrimage.

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Anti-Dhimmitude spotted in the USA:

‘Keep on knocking but you can’t come in’

* not welcome in the US of A: Tariq Ramadan

ACLU whines: Federal Judge Wrongly Allows Exclusion of Renowned Muslim Scholar

from Weasel Zippers:

The ACLU’s defending a notorious Islamist?

* Yes, brother: that’s what they do.

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David Hicks was ready to die a Muslim ‘martyr’

* Headbangers everywhere:

“Fit, young Muslim, ready to defend Islam”

DAVID Hicks’s enthusiasm for dying as a Muslim martyr has been revealed in a letter he wrote to his mother while he was training with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2001.

The letter is one of a series released by the Australian Federal Police as part of their bid to persuade a federal magistrate that the confessed terrorist, who is due to be released from an Adelaide jail on December 29, should become only the second Australian subject to a terrorism control order.

“There are many privileges in heaven,” Hicks said in the letter.

“One reward I get in being martyred – I get to take ten members of my family to heaven who were destined for hell. But first I also must be martyred.

“Islam will rule again but for now we must have patience … we are asked to sacrifice our lives for Allah’s cause – why not?”

Hicks also described himself as a “fit, young Muslim, ready to defend Islam”, and in another letter wrote of the “poison” of the West, which he said was trying to crush Islam.

“Jihad is still valid to this day,” he wrote.

Barrister Andrew Berger, for the AFP, yesterday outlined the sophisticated terrorism training Hicks underwent at camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he learned to use shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles capable of bringing down airliners.

Mr Berger said the evidence repudiated any suggestion that Hicks was “all talk, no action”.

“Rather than a dog whose bark was worse than his bite, (Hicks) has demonstrated a willingness to take action,” Mr Berger said.

* Hicks aka Mahmud Daoud, role model for Labor Party youth and Australian progressives! Read it all!

With thanks to Baron Bodissey from the Gates of Vienna

* Isn’t it strange that this video never made it into the MSM?

* The video below (courtesy of the Devil’s Kitchen) shows a protest by MEPs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on December 12th. The occasion was the signing of the “Charter of Fundamental Rights”. The protesters were objecting to the fact that most of their governments have refused to hold a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon. It appears that some rights are not all that fundamental after all.

How Liberty Dies

* More from Devils Kitchen here

Defaming Islam

by Baron Bodissey

According to CNS news, the UN General Assembly has passed a resolution against the “defamation of religions”, especially Islam.

I’ve never felt a particular need to defame Islam, since Islam is perfectly capable of defaming itself.

But this, of course, is hate speech, not to mention racism and xenophobia, and is thus defamatory in its own right. Once the UN gets its way, I won’t be able to say it anymore.

The anti-religious defamation resolution was introduced by the OIC as a corrective to the Islamophobia revealed by the Mohammed cartoon crisis in Denmark. It has been kicking around the UN in committee for a couple of years, and generally flew under the radar until it was passed by the General Assembly this week without attracting any undue attention.

What makes the UN resolution different from the EU’s initiatives — and what probably caused some European countries to vote against it — is that the UN version mentions Islam as a specially protected religion. No other religion is specified in it. The United Nations now makes it official: Islam has been elevated above other religions, and has effectively become the established religion at the UN.

The Islamic countries of the OIC are well-versed in human rights jargon, and have used it to great effect in this resolution. The text asserts that “respect for cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity, as well as dialogue among and within civilizations, is essential for peace, understanding and friendship among individuals and people of the different cultures and nations of the world”, and wants “to promote greater harmony and tolerance in all societies”.

But the wording leaves no doubt about which religion and culture it intends to protect. The resolution:
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Opposes “the introduction and enforcement of laws that specifically discriminate against and target Muslims”;

Points out “the increasing trend in recent years of statements attacking religions, Islam and Muslims in particular, especially in human rights forums”;

Asserts that “Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism”; and

“Stresses the need to effectively combat defamation of all religions, Islam and Muslims in particular, especially in human rights forums”.

The camel’s nose under the UN human rights tent is the concept of “racism and xenophobia” as a violation of human rights. Conflating the fear of Islam with racism and/or xenophobia is a well-established technique for placing criticism of Islam out of bounds. Such logic is fundamentally flawed — Nigerian Christians are, after all, the same race and nationality as the Muslims who burn their churches, but any mention or criticism of such an issue will be forbidden under the UN’s guidelines.

* Read it all. You must!

* Hard to believe: you probably thought such a thing -a ‘Zionist Muslim’- doesn’t exist. It would be a rare and endangered species, almost as elusive as the Tasmanian tiger. But if it does exist, and it seems  there are indeed ‘Zionist Muslims’- , Sheikh Palazzi is living dangerously. Because for most Muslims,  ‘Zionists’  are the vilest creatures on earth and must be assassinated.

My Prayer for the Jewish People

by Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi

As a Zionist Muslim clergyman and a friend of the Jewish people, I cannot keep silent. I feel a moral urge to declare that the nations of the world are once again preparing bad days for the Jewish people.

A US Administration, which pays lip service to a supposed “war on terror,” is ready to bow to Saudi-funded Islamist terror and to accept the Saudi diktat compelling Jews to withdraw from the Land of Israel. The Jewish people is at risk of getting restricted by order of its American “friends,” ever closer to what Abba Eban used to call “the Auschwitz borders.”

People are rarely satisfied with their politicians, and the case of contemporary Israelis is no different. Most of them feel betrayed by both leftist politicians who try to introduce surrender to Abu Mazen as a “step toward peace,” and by reputed nationalist politicians who declare they oppose Jewish deportation from Judea and Samaria, but who do not move a inch to prevent it.

The more time passes, the more moral leadership of the Jewish people at home is restricted to a powerless minority. The nightmare of Oslo returned and became even darker in Annapolis. That was the reason for the recent creation in Jerusalem of the New Jewish Congress, a federation of different authentic Zionist groups and organizations, blessed by the New Sanhedrin and by the most authoritative Israeli rabbis, and supported by 30% of concerned secular Israelis. I regretted being unable to attend the founding session, held in Jerusalem, Israel, on November 27, but I was thankful to Allah the Most High for giving me the opportunity to thank Prof. Hillel Weiss for the honor of the invitation and to send the participants my greetings.

I was glad to have been given the opportunity to reiterate that the territories of Judea and Samaria are the home Allah granted to the Jewish people, and that any attempt to steal them from their legitimate owners is a declaration of war against a Divine decree. In my humble view, each of my Jewish brothers and sisters is morally obligated to struggle for the integrity of the Land of Israel, in order to ease the task of the Jewish people to be a “light unto the nations” and to pave the way for Redemption.

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NEW STUDY SHOWS ISLAMIST MINORITY

Spiegel Online/ Hat tip Weasel Zippers

* How many times did we see Western dhimmi governments commission expensive studies on the Muhammedan problem only to to come up with the same results we have seen years before? Once again we are told hat only 6 % of Germany’s 3 million Muslims are supposedly radicals who would use violence. And of course this is entirely our own fault because we somehow ‘failed to integrate or assimilate them.’ The predictable result of this bullshit study like all the others before it will be that Muslim immigration continues unhindered and the government will throw more money at the problem, but integration will not happen. On the contrary: it is them who will assimilate us.

Germany has around 3 million Muslims, if 6% have “violent tendencies,” then there are 180,000 jihadis drooling at the thought of killing us kufr. On the plus side, if everyone one of them is killed, that would be 12,960,000 virgins Allah would have to serve up. Isn’t math fun!…

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A new study released by Germany’s Interior Ministry has added new fuel to the debate about integration of Muslims in Germany, with the report warning about the danger of radicalization of Muslims.
According to the study, which was published Tuesday, around 40 percent of Muslims surveyed had a “fundamentalist orientation,” which the authors defined as a strongly religious worldview and moral values.

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UPDATE: 180.000 radical Muslims in Germany ! 

 

* Tiny ‘minority’ alert,  Sugiero does the math:

In concluding that 6 percent of Muslims in Germany have violent tendencies, the study appears to contradict to some extent the findings of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which monitors Islamist activity in the country. According to its 2006 report, there are currently around 32,000 Islamists in Germany who pose a potential security threat. That figure represents slightly more than 1 percent of the around 3 million Muslims who live in the country.

Tiny minority?

So instead of “only” 32.000 radical muslims, 180.000 is more accurate.

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However, the authors concluded that the vast majority of Muslims in Germany reject religiously motivated terrorism and violence: Some 92 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that terrorist acts in the name of Islam were a serious sin and an insult to Allah.

* They lie whenever they open their mouth’s: the Muslims know very well how to conceal and obfuscate their ideology, its called kitman & taqiyya.

But the authors saw a potential threat in a small minority with Islamist leanings: Around 6 percent of those surveyed were classified as having “violent tendencies,” while 14 percent of respondents had “anti-democratic” tendencies.

Around 12 percent of the Muslims in Germany identified with a religious-moral critique of the West and supported corporal punishment and the death penalty. The report also concluded that religious beliefs are becoming increasingly important for young people.

The study, which was carried out by Katrin Brettfeld and Peter Wetzels from the Institute for Criminology at the University of Hamburg, was commissioned by the Interior Ministry in an attempt to finding out the extent to which the Muslim community in Germany provides a breeding ground for extremist groups and potential terrorists. The authors interviewed 1,750 Muslims living in Germany for the study. Of that number, around 40 percent had German citizenship.

Read it all

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Italy:

Milan imam convicted for promoting jihad

Thanks to JW

* Yet another imam misunderstands the peaceful teachings of Islam, while the most prominent peaceful Muslims direct their efforts not at making sure that Muslims do not misunderstand Islam in this way, but at making sure that non-Muslims don’t notice that so many Muslims are misunderstanding it. “Milan imam convicted for promoting jihad,” from Reuters

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MILAN, Dec 20 (Reuters) – A Muslim cleric who preaches at a Milan mosque and 10 other people were convicted on Thursday of being part of a group that promotes jihad.

The Milan court sentencedAbu Imad to three years and eight months in prison under anti-terrorism statutes drafted before Sept. 11 that are weaker than those currently in place.

The group was accused of promoting jihad and recruiting potential suicide bombers.

A source at the Milan’s prosecutors’ office said however investigators did not believe Imad was still a threat and was allowed to remain free pending an appeal.

Sentences for the other accused ranged from two to 10 years in prison.

Abu Imad preaches at the Viale Jenner mosque in Milan, which the United States once accused of being a European logistics base for al Qaeda.

It was the same mosque where Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, preached before Italian prosecutors believe he was kidnapped in 2003 by a CIA-led team as part of the secret U.S. rendition programme.

Abu Omar, who says he was flown to Egypt and tortured under interrogation, is accused of terrorist activity in Italy. (Writing by Phil Stewart; Editing by Ibon Villelabeitia)

...and their husbands and their fathers must die too; but when a totally brainwashed headbanger in Canada chokes his 16 year old daughter to death for not wearing the hijab the whole ummah howls:

“Nothing to do with Islam..”

Iran, 19 Dec. (AKI) – A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.

“Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die,” said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.

“I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive,” he said.

“These women and their husbands and their fathers must die,”

said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.
Hassani’s statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state.

It is believed that his statements and the arrests could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not respect the Islamic dress code in Iran.

Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their “un-Islamic dress” such as wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves.

Eid Festival Around The World – Graphic

Iranian hajj pilgrims shout “Death to Israel” and “Death to America”

Disavowal of Pagans ritual started in this sacred desert on Tuesday attended by a huge group of Iranian pilgrims.

The pilgrims chanted anti-US and anti-Zionist slogans during the ceremony also attended by the Supreme Leader’s representative for Hajj affairs, Hojatoleslam Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri.

“God is Great,” “There is no Deity but Allah,” “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” were among the slogans chanted by the masses in unison as they gathered in the Desert of Arafat, 20 km (12 miles) from Mecca, for a day of prayer and meditation.

The faithful — men clad in two-piece seamless white shrouds and women all covered except for their hands and faces to symbolize equality — converged on Arafat by bus and on foot from the tent city of Mina, where they spent the night.

“…men clad in two-piece seamless white shrouds and women all covered except for their hands and faces to symbolize equality…” To “symbolize equality.” That’s rich.

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US: Judge Bans Mass Lamb Slaughter On First Day Of Islamic Holiday

* You get the impression from this article that Muslims somehow have a natural ‘right’ to slaughter animals in the most barbaric way:

SMITHFIELD, N.C. — Hundreds of Muslim families don’t have a place to perform a religious ceremony to start the three-day Islamic holiday, Eid al-Adha.

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A Johnston County judge refused Tuesday to lift a ban on a farmer hosting a mass slaughter of lambs on Wednesday, the first day of a holiday also known as the Festival of Sacrifice.
Judge Tom Lock barred the slaughter at a farm owned by Eddie Rowe at the request of state agriculture officials, who said the farm does not have proper sanitary facilities.

Several Muslim families from Wake and Johnston counties asked the judge use the U.S. Constitution to eliminate a ban they said hinders religious practices.
Lock said the ban doesn’t prevent the free exercise of religion because the families are allowed to slaughter their own lambs at a state-licensed facility.

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Rivers of Blood – Blood-Cult Watch 

More graphic pic’s here… 

The IP address traces back to the Netherlands:

when the last breath reaches your filthy throat you will see your destiny clearly for ever to burn in hell.For now enjoy your life,and be a good slave of zionist and the terrorist racist nations of the west.You just parrish in your rage and fear.Islam will rule the planet ist a garantee.Just be patient,as millions of free people in the west are joining the the only truth.The light of ISlam.MAy ALLAh keep USama and his followers safe from the zionist pigs and their slaves.

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* Indeed: Holland does have a big problem!

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Ghannoushi Delusional Westophobia Watch

* The ‘Guardian’ has long been a forum for Muhammedan and Stalinist crackpots. Looks like the progressives there will publish anything to attract who exactly? Cannibals? Satanists? Occultists or what?

One of our favorite crackpots is the shrill and forever unhinged Soumaya Ghannoushi, who has a long record of Muhammedan agit-prop activities and is backed by the MCB.

* Here’s the latest sample of Sumaya Unhingement Syndrome with the blessing of the Bunglawussi, who is featuring her on his aptly named ‘Islamophobia Watch’ website:

But “love” and “honour” haven’t exactly been the experience of Iraqi women when their cities fell under American occupation. Rights which took decades to secure have crumbled away in the space of months. From doctors, scientists, engineers or businesswomen, today they find themselves incarcerated in their homes unable to move around for fear of being kidnapped, raped, or assassinated. Those who escape the bombs and bullets of the occupying army, die at the hands of the Iraqi security forces and out of control extremist and sectarian militias which flourished since 2003, as Maggie O’Kane demonstrated in her moving piece on Cif yesterday. In the past three months 45 innocent women were murdered in cold blood in Basra.

The truth is that just as there is a military machine of hegemony, there is a discursive machine of hegemony. When armies move on the ground to conquer and subjugate, they need moral and ideological cover. It is this that gives the dominant narrative of the “Muslim woman” its raison d’etre.

No wonder then that the “Muslim woman” liberation warriors, the likes of Nick Cohen, Christopher Hitchens, and Pascal Bruckner, were the same people who cheered American/ British troops as they blasted their way through Kabul and Baghdad, and who will no doubt cheer and dance once more should Iran or Syria be bombed next. Soldiers shoot with their guns; they with their pens. They are hegemony’s apologists. Without them the emperor stands naked.

Another typical Sumaya rant against the west, one that looks more like a rant against trying to liberalize Muslim women. The 45 women killed in Iraq were killed by Iraqi Muslims, in order to force another area of Iraq under the burka.

We should shut up about all aspects of Islamic backwardness. Next time we hear about a father beating his daughter to death in London or Toronto for not wearing ‘traditional dress’, we should stay quiet and celebrate our doing so as a step forward for emancipation.

Let’s also join Ghannoushi in blaming the invasion of Iraq for the fact that Islamic militants are killing women in Basra who don’t wear traditional dress.

* Sick. One commenter nails it:

I’m as sick of her uninformed pedantic anti-feminist rantings as I am of the unintentional satire of her sexy come-hither porn pose photo in a gliterry hijab whilst pretending to be the upholder of anti-western virtue.

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Germany’s Liberal Party opts for multiculti-diversity

* The placard is slightly modified…

More Jihad:

Pali Child Abuse & Degenerated Savages Watch 

Parasitic Scum Watch:

This is the same brave holy-warrior who begged the British government to evacuate him from Lebanon, where he was exiled, during the Israel/Hezbollah War in 2006. Unfortunately for him, they declined….

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Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

December 17, 2007 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – Exiled radical sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed gave a shocking answer to a question he was recently asked in an Internet chat room.

Asked on one of his regular sessions on Paltalk whether, “Muslims can attack “Christian invaders” on Christmas Day,” Bakri says that the celebration is not a holiday, or a “proper day of respect” for Muslims and is an appropriate day for attacks.

“That is really for them and not for us,” he said, adding that times of attack are chosen by Islamic commanders, and they make a decision whether to attack regardless of the festival or celebration.

Bakri is the founder of banned Islamic fundamentalist groups Al-Muhajiroun and Al-Guraba. He left London for Beirut after the July 2005 London terrorist attacks, which claimed the lives of 52 people. He is still banned from reentering Britain, see: http://omar-bakri-news.newslib.com/story/5347-2391600.

Bakri caused a media storm after the bombings by declaring that the only people he blames for the London bombings are the government and British public, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4144892.stm

Bakri and Santa Claus

Another member of Bakri’s cyber flock asked him, “I have a son going to (elementary) school, being given Christmas cards and being told to believe (in Santa Claus). What can be done?”

Bakri tells the father he needs to obey the laws of Allah, and that to save his family from Allah’s hellfire he should not send his son to the kuffar (heathen) school during the Christmas period. He went on to say that during the Christmas season, his son could be exposed at school “to all that corruption and (heathen goings on), and even celebration.”

* Bakri left his brood behind at the mercy of British taxpayers and the welfare department

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Security boosted at Baghdad mosques in anticipation of Islamic holiday

From AP

* When infidels Celebrate their their high holidays it offends the soldiers of Allah. When is there a better time to roll a few hand grenades into a church? When is there a better time to rape and behead those filthy kuffars?

BAGHDAD – Security will be increased at Baghdad’s mosques and other holy sites ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday that begins Wednesday, an Iraqi official said.

Extra bomb-detecting equipment will be deployed throughout the capital’s places of worship, along with other sites, such as amusement parks, that are likely to attract crowds during the four-day holiday, chief military spokesman for Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Mousawi, said at a news conference on Tuesday….

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Hajj Watch 

‘Death to America, Death to Israel’ 

Filled with holy hajj spirit:  

Iranians Chant “Death to America” & “Death to Israel” at Hajj Ceremony in Saudi Arabia

“God is Great,” “There is no Deity but Allah,” “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” were among the slogans chanted by the masses in unison as they gathered in the Desert of Arafat, 20 km (12 miles) from Mecca, for a day of prayer and meditation.