Category: General

* They have rights, you see: because one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter…

Omar bin Laden and his British wife, Zaina al Sabah bin Laden, pictured during an interview in Cairo. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters

Osama bin Laden’s son is prepared to take his fight for a British visa to the highest legal authority in Europe, his wife said today in a television interview.

Omar bin Laden, 26, met his wife at the pyramids in Egypt and is now determined to come to the UK to build a life with her.

Zaina al Sabah bin Laden, 52, who used to be known as Jane Felixe-Browne, has a home in Moulton, Cheshire.

She told GMTV Omar had passed all the necessary immigration tests, but said she was “99%” sure his application would be rejected because his father was the boss of al-Qaida.

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Meanwhile, back in the caves of Waziristan:

‘May Allah curse Berlusconi & the Pope’ 

Dubai, 15 April (AKI) – A jihadist message posted to an al-Qaeda linked website urges Allah to “curse” Italy’s prime minister-elect, billionaire media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, and also Pope Benedict XVI.

“May Allah curse and unleash his wrath on him [Berlusconi], and the evil Pope,” read the message, which recently appeared on one of the main jihadist websites, the al-Qaeda linked Al-Hesbah.

The message was signed by ‘al-Wahabi’.

“Urgent news” read a banner headline on Al-Hesbah.

“Berlusconi wins the Italian general election and becomes premier for the third time.”

The message is signed by ‘Qannas al-Jazira’ – meaning ‘Sniper from the Arabian Peninsula’ in Arabic.

Berlusconi’s centre-right People of Freedom party scored a decisive victory in Italy’s general election held on Sunday and Monday. He is already reported to be putting together the cabinet for his new government, the third he has led as prime minister.

A third message posted by ‘Fursan al-Fajr’ reads: “Several days ago, Berlusconi said that if he won [the elections] he would visit Israel.”

* Allah favors those who are persistent, Islamic clerics speak with one voice:

Pali Sheik: “Islam Will Rule U.S/U.K,  Jews are AIDS

 Classic, our favorite: Friday Sermon, Abd Al-Kadr al-Kilani Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq.

Teacher at U.K. Islamic school who exposed “apes and pigs” texts receives £70,000 settlement for unfair dismissal

 Remember this?

“Teacher accuses Islamic school of racism,”

by Alexandra Frean for the Times Online:

A former teacher at an Islamic school, who alleged that it taught an offensive and racist view of non-Muslims, has been awarded £70,000 by an employment tribunal after winning his case for unfair dismissal.
Colin Cook told the tribunal in Watford that pupils were taught from Arabic books that likened Jews and Christians to “monkeys” and “pigs” at The King Fahad Academy, which is funded and run by the Saudi Arabian Government.
The tribunal ruled that Mr Cook, a British Muslim, was unfairly dismissed from his £36,000-a-year post at the school in Acton, West London, in December 2006 after blowing the whistle on systematic cheating at a GCSE exam.
The panel found that the school created a “smokescreen” to try to justify his dismissal after 18 years’ unblemished service.
It awarded Mr Cook £58,800 in compensation for loss of earnings and £10,500 for injury to feelings. But it rejected his claim that the school discriminated against him on racial grounds.
Mr Cook told the hearing that after leaving the school another member of staff gave him extracts from an Arabic textbook, which encouraged students to believe that all religions other than Islam were worthless.

The books referred to “the repugnant characteristics of the Jews”. Another passage said: “Those whom God has cursed and with whom he is angry, he has turned into monkeys and pigs. They worship Satan.”

Mr Cook alleged that the books were spreading race hatred. “They should not be brought into this country and they should not be used in this country,” he said.

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The school denied ever teaching any form of racial hatred and insisted that the offending passages in the books were “misinterpreted” and were never used in class. But it later got rid of the books.

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Not exactly.

 *     “We will conquer your country with the bellies of our women…”

Alluding to the tactic of demographic conquest, while also speaking volumes about the value and role of women in the jihadist vision for society. “Mashaal Praises ‘Palestinian Reproductive Machine’,” from Israel National News via DW:

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal made a speech in favor of the “Palestinian reproductive machine” at his daughter Fatima’s wedding over the weekend. The “machine” is constantly active, Mashaal said. He told his daughter and son-in-law that their children would one day live in the “48 territories,” that is, within Israel’s 1948 borders.

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Mashaal took time from his speech to thank Syria for allowing him, Islamic Jihad head Ramadan Shallah, and other senior terrorists to live in Damascus. “We realize the pressures on Syria for housing Mashaal and Shallah,” he said. Shallah attended the wedding, as did PFLP head Mahir at-Tahir, Iranian ambassador Ahmed al-Musawi, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, and other Arab and Muslim diplomats.

Izzydeen Atik tells terror trial of credit card fraud

Benbrika

* While a few of the so called ‘radicals’ are in the dock for being good Muslims, which means they followed the Koranic instructions to ‘strike terror in the hearts of the unbelievers’ Quran 8:12 , the ‘moderates’ are doing their obligatory da’awa and sing lullaby’s to put the irritated kuffars back to sleep:

THE 2005 AFL Grand Final was nominated as the original bombing target of an alleged home-grown Melbourne terror cell by the man described as its leader or ‘sheik’.

A jury heard today that in conversation with a witness at the terror trial Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 48, said the MCG bombing had been cancelled because of police and ASIO raids on members of the group in July 2005.
Izzydeen Atik told the Supreme Court that Mr Benbrika nominated two other targets, the NAB Cup and Crown Casino during the 2006 Melbourne Grand Prix weekend.

Mr Atik, 27, has admitted he had discussions about bombings with Mr Benbrika as a follow up to two earlier secretly taped conversations heard by the jury today.

While they were driving together Mr Atik said they had a conversation about terrorist attacks.

“The original target was supposed to be the Grand Final of 2005,” Mr Atik said he was told by Mr Benbrika.

Mr Atik said Mr Benbrika told him the raids on group members had disrupted funding.

On trial before Justice Bernard Bongiorno are: Mr Benbrika of Dallas, Shane Kent, 31, Meadow Heights, Majed Raad, 23, Coburg, Abdullah Merhi, 22, Fawkner, Mr Joud, 23, Hoppers Crossing, Ahmed Raad, 24, Fawkner, Fadl Sayadi, 28, Coburg, Ezzit Raad, 26, Preston, Hany Taha, 33, Hadfield, Shoue Hammoud, 28, Hadfield, Bassam Raad, 26, Brunswick and Amer Haddara, 28, Yarraville.

According to a 12-page indictment the alleged act or threat would have involved the detonation of an explosive or use of weapons.

This was said to be in pursuit of “advancing a political, religious or ideological cause, namely the pursuit of violent jihad” with the intention of coercing or intimidating the Government or the public.

The jury was played two bugged conversations in Mr Benbrika’s Dallas home on March 4, 2005 between him and Mr Atik.

In the conversations Mr Benbrika talks of members of the group being under suveillance and their phones being bugged.

At one point Mr Benbrika says tio Mr Atik “we’ll damage buildings. Blast things.”

Mr Benbrika continues:”It has to be proper because it’s very difficult to get them. I mean, especially the product. After 11 September it’s not easy.”

Earlier, Mr Atik told the court he carried out credit card fraud to help a group of fellow-Muslims who are alleged to have formed a home-grown terror cell in Melbourne.

Mr Atik said he had previously carried out credit card frauds and was persuaded by Aimen Joud that it would be helpful to a group of men he had met at secret religious lectures.

“It would be useful to the group,” Mr Atik told the Supreme Court.

Mr Atik said he obtained credit card details from taxi drivers for $10 each and used them to purchase mobile phone SIM cards and airline tickets.

He said he would put $1200 credit on the SIM cards and hand them to members of the group. Members of the group also took flights using assumed names.

Mr Atik said he had been reluctant at first to resume credit card fraud because it was against the Muslim religion.

But Mr Joud told him “you would be surprised what’s permissable in our religion”.

Mr Joud said it was permissable to take money from the “kufur”, or disbelievers, because they had shed the blood of Muslim innocents in countries like Afghanistan.

“Their blood is lawful and their wealth is lawful,” Mr Atik said he was told.

Mr Atik said he came to Melbourne from Sydney in 2003 and lived with his cousin in Newport.

He went to Mecca in 2004 with his cousin and when he returned to Melbourne he struck up a friendship with Mr Joud.

The pair attended Dars classes, or religious lectures, when he met Mr Benbrika, whom he described as ‘the sheik” and ‘the chief’.

Mr Joud told Mr Atik not to tell anyone about the Dars classes and through them he met all of the men on trial and he identified them to the jury.

Mr Atik said he was arrested in 2005 by police and charged with credit card fraud.

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But all’s well, no worries mate:

“Muslim majority wants secular law”

Nothing to see here, its all good, look away!

Another steaming pile of taqiyya from Shahram Akbarzadeh

Read it all

* And especially here, this gem: Osama bin Laden should be a protected species because “he represents a popular mood in the Middle East and that public mood is pretty much anti-American.”

Protected Species…? 

Only eight out of 10 Arabs hate the US!

*  Its all our fault. Lets give them some more aid, weapons, a state…

 By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eight out of 10 Arabs have an unfavorable view of the United States and only six percent believe the U.S. troop build-up in Iraq in the last year has worked, said a poll of six Arab countries released on Monday.

The poll by the University of Maryland and Zogby International, also found most Arabs did not see U.S. foe Iran as a threat and they sympathized more with Hamas in the Palestinian Territories than U.S.-backed Fatah.

“There is a growing mistrust and lack of confidence in the United States,” said Shibley Telhami, a University of Maryland professor in charge of the annual poll.

The survey canvassed the opinions of about 4,000 people over the past month in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. It has a margin of error of about 1.6 percent.

Of those polled, 83 percent had an unfavorable view of the United States and 70 percent had no confidence in the superpower.

“You see this (mistrust) in the number of people who are more comfortable with the US withdrawal from Iraq,” said Telhami, noting that more people in this year’s annual survey wanted the United States to leave Iraq.

Last year, 44 percent believed Iraqis would find a way to bridge their differences if the United States pulled out but that figure rose to 61 percent this year.

Only six percent of the respondents believed the U.S. boost of troop levels in Iraq last year by 30,000 had worked to reduce the conflict and one in three mistrusted news reports that violence had declined at all. 

Continued…

* And here’s the only man in the world who can make peace:

 

Italian Moonbat-Mama raped & murdered in ‘moderate secular’ Turkey:

* Not even Cindy Shehan would be that dumb..! Wandering around the Middle East unescorted dressed as a bride is equivalent to smearing yourself with honey and strapping yourself to an anthill.

* Link to Hurriet

An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.

The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the northern city of Gebze on Friday.

She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.

Turkish police say they have detained a man in connection with the killing.
Reports say the man led the police to the body.

Autopsy

Ms di Marineo was hitch-hiking from Milan to Israel and the Palestinian Territories with a fellow artist on their “Brides on Tour” project.

Ms di Marineo’s sister, who had gone to Turkey to look for her, identified the body. An autopsy is being conducted in Istanbul.
“Her travels were for an artistic performance and to give a message of peace and of trust, but not everyone deserves trust,” another sister, Maria, told the Italian news agency, Ansa.

* Ya think?

* ‘Secular Turkey’: going fast…

Tens of thousands demonstrate in Turkey in favour of secularism

Tens of thousands demonstrated in the Turkish capital on Saturday to defend the country’s secularist tradition amid simmering tensions over an attempt to ban the Islamist-rooted governing party.

Protesters arrived from various regions carrying Turkish flags and pictures of modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. They chanted: “We will defend the values of the republic.”

The protest lasted three hours and finished without incident.

Several demonstrations have been organised across Turkey against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over the past year. Opponents accuse it of aiming to advance its Islamist ambitions under the guise of improving religious freedoms.

Critics point in particular to the abolition of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities and the prohibition of alcohol in restaurants run by AKP municipalities.

The AKP is also currently the subject of a court case seeking to ban the party for allegedly undermining Turkey’s secular order in favour of an Islamist regime.

It rejects the charges, saying that it is committed to the separation of state and religion, but argues that a rigid interpretation of secularism in Turkey often violates freedom of conscience.

European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said during a visit to Turkey this week that bridging political rifts is crucial for the country’s EU membership bid.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn signalled last month that Turkey’s accession talks, which opened in 2005, could be derailed if the AKP is banned.

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Thousand Island Jihad

Website calls on Israeli Arabs to avoid dressing after consumer discovers it contains alcohol

Roee Nahmias

A website affiliated with the northern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement warned its readers to avoid a brand of Thousand Island dressing produced by a well-known Israeli company. The warning was issued after a local Arab discovered that the dressing contains alcohol.

The Palestine 48 website called on its readers to stay away from the dressing after being approached by Majdi Khatib.

“In recent days, another product was added to the list of products forbidden to Muslims because they contain alcohol,” the website said. “Khatib discovered that the dressing contains alcohol and is sold naturally and inadvertently at Arab and Muslim shops.”

Islamic cleric: We will conquer Rome, and then Eastern Europe and the Americas

* I guess we need more ‘interfaith dialogue’ …

As the EU President insists that there is no link between Islam and terrorism, this Islamic cleric explains that the conquests he dreams of are “Islamic,” and that Muslims need to be prepared to carry out these conquests “by means of the mosques and the Koran books, and the history of our Prophets.”

Has the world ever before witnessed cognitive dissonance on this grand a scale?

“Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal in a Friday Sermon: We Will Conquer Rome, and from There Continue to Conquer the Two Americas and Eastern Europe,” from MEMRITV (thanks to JW):

Following are excerpts from an address by Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on April 11, 2008.

Yunis Al-Astal: Allah has chosen you for Himself and for His religion, so that you will serve as the engine pulling this nation to the phase of succession, security, and consolidation of power, and even to conquests thorough da’wa and military conquests of the capitals of the entire world. Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our Prophet Muhammad. Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam – this capital of theirs will be an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe.

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I believe that our children or our grandchildren will inherit our Jihad and our sacrifices, and Allah willing, the commanders of the conquest will come from among them. Today, we instill these good tidings in their souls, and by means of the mosques and the Koran books, and the history of our Prophets, his companions, and the great leaders, we prepare them for the mission of saving humanity from the hellfire on the brink of which they stand.

Netherlands: Christian youth fear Muslims

“Islam is a peaceful religion. Who agrees with that?” barely anybody does. In a meeting this weekend in Barneveld many Reformed Christian youth were afraid of “all those Muslims” who will “murder if they get power.”

The fear of the unknown violent Muslim only increased Saturday evening among almost 700 Reformed youth. Breathlessly they listened to a heated debate between Islam critical Arabist Hans Jansen, Ayhan Tonca, CDA (Christian Democratic Appeal) member and former chairman of the Contact Organ Muslims and Government and SGP (Reformed Political Party) head Bas Van de Vlies.

A woman with darker, curled hair said to the crowd that she still thinks of the Biblical text that says foreigners will waste the land. “Really we are too late. Mosques sprout out from the ground, against our culture.”

Van der Vlies nods in agreement and says that when he said Wilders’ movie was stimulating and spurred to discussion, the entire country attacked him, but there were also people who agree. “You don’t want to know how many people in The Hague, politically correct as they are, just watch the 750,000 moderate Muslims.”

Among the calls to vigilance, because Muslims will in the end never respect Christians, and maintaining why the Bible is so much better than the Koran, there’s one different note. A boy in a dark-blue shirt says it makes him think of discussion sites where opinions are hurled about without good knowledge, and that without dialog we would never get anywhere.

In reaction Jansen said that he doesn’t think talking is a solution. “It’s of the greatest importance that we stay vigilant, not listen to the nagging that Islam is a peaceful religion. That is not true.”

Tonca: “I’m here for forty years now and know many Muslims who want their children to grow up in harmony. We Must get to know each other better.” About thirty hands are raised to his question who is acquainted with Muslims. He says that as believers we must be open and go out from that we believe in one god who shows mercy. If Muslims will come to power, we won’t really all need to put on masks and cut off everybody’s head.

Tonca’s words don’t touch everybody. In the recess a nurse tells that her Muslim colleague, dead-serious, said he’ll murder her if Muslims get to power. “They want to simply have us dead.”

‘out of the way, you infidel dogs…’ 

 ‘Unbelievers are dogs’- children told at mosque visit

“The school wishes to play this down. That is precisely the problem”, as one mother commented. 

THE HAGUE, 09/04/08 – A primary school in Amsterdam wished to provide its pupils with an understanding for other cultures. But during a visit to a mosque, the children were told they were dogs.

With a view to developing understanding and respect for other cultures among children, primary school De Horizon regularly organises outings to various religious organisations. The chairman of the El Mouchidine mosque told the children from group 7 (aged 10) and their chaperones however that non-Muslims are dogs.

In a letter to the children’s parents, the school expresses its regret at the incident: “We are shocked that during the guided tour, the mosque’s chairman told the children and chaperoning parents that non believers were dogs. We consider this statement as unacceptable since we allow our children to partake in this project to develop respect for freedom of religious choice”.

In the meantime, the school’s management has addressed the mosque on the undesirable behaviour of the chairman. Both parties will say nothing further on the matter. “We will resolve the matter amongst ourselves and I have no inclination whatsoever to discuss the matter with the media”, as newspaper De Telegraaf quoted the school’s spokesperson Mariet ten Berge. “We have been to the mosque before and it always went well”.

Angry parents had sent the letter on to De Telegraaf but were reportedly rapped on the knuckles by the school’s management. “The school wishes to play this down. That is precisely the problem”, as one mother commented.