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UK Plotters Made Martyrdom Videos

Mushtak Parker, Arab News

LONDON, 5 April 2008 — An eight-member gang of British Muslims, accused among other things of plotting to blow up passenger planes mid-air en route to destinations in the United States and Canada, compiled a target list of “limitless ambition” and recorded chilling martyrdom videos warning of a reign of terror attacks against Britons and Jews, in revenge for their actions as accomplices of America, a court in London heard yesterday.

Unfortunately, the trial once again catapulted the specter of so-called “Islamist terrorism” to the front pages of British newspapers and TV and radio bulletins. “Suicide Gang’s Terror War Without Limit” — the headline in last night’s London Evening Standard — was one of the more sober ones.

In the dock at Woolwich Crown Court are: Abdullah Ahmed Ali (also known as Ahmed Ali Khan), 27, of Walthamstow; Assad Sarwar, 24, of High Wycombe; Tanvir Hussain, 27, of Leyton; Mohammed Gulzar, 26, of Barking; Ibrahim Savant, 27, of Stoke Newington; Arafat Waheed Khan, 26, of Walthamstow; Waheed Zaman, 23, of Walthamstow; and Umar Islam (formerly Brian Young), 29, of Plaistow. All of the men are British born and bred.

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Here’s some background:

Jet plot jihadists made “martyrdom” videos: “We will take our revenge and anger, ripping amongst your people and scattering the people … decorating the streets”

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HUGE TRANSATLANTIC TERROR PLOT PLANNED NUKE STRIKE, “FOR THE ACTIONS OF THE US” AND ITS “ACCOMPLICES SUCH AS THE BRITISH AND THE JEWS”

From Atlas

IT’S IN THE KORAN:

A document about an Islamic ruling on the permissibility of self-sacrifice, including suicide and martyrdom, was also found on the memory stick, prosecutors said.

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Jihad: Fun for the whole family!

“Mummy, daddy: watch me grow blow…”

British Muslims Wanted to Take Families on Suicide Missions

Members of a British Muslim terrorist cell discussed taking their wives and children on suicide missions to blow up transatlantic jets, a jury heard yesterday.
The ringleader, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, was bugged by police talking about whether to bring his baby son but said his wife “would not agree to it”.

Umar Islam, however, said his wife might join the plot if it were a “significant operation”.

Six of the eight-strong gang each made “chilling” suicide videos expressing the desire to wreak “death and destruction” against the West and “Kuffar”, or non-believers.

They were intended to serve as taunts from beyond the grave if their horrifying plot had succeeded, it was claimed.

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Update:

“The horizon of Sarwar’s terrorist ambition, we say, was limitless,” Wright said. 

UK jihadist hoped to strike nuclear plants 

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* Some pic’s of Muslims who want you to believe that Islam is a ‘Religion of Peace’

Malaysia

Same question as always: have members of Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) ever extremely condemned Osama bin Laden and the global jihad movement? Have members of Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) ever extremely condemned the violence and supremacism on the part of Muslims, as depicted in Wilders’s film? Have members of Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) ever even marginally condemned these things?

What do you think?

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Moderate, Modern Turkey:

“We will not forgive those who insult Prophet and Qoran”

Still, the riots and violence that Europe and the world was so afraid would come in the film’s wake has not come. That could change any day, of course, but its absence may indicate that at this point the emphasis from the OIC and other Islamic entities is on obtaining actual restrictions on freedom of speech in the West, not on further demonstrations of what will happen if freedom of speech is not restricted.

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Protesting Fitna with Hizballah

An Iranian holds a flag of the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla group outside the Netherlands Embassy to condemn the production and broadcast of the film ‘Fitna’ by right-wing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, in Tehran, April 5, 2008.

Expert comment by Robert Spencer

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A press release from the International Humanist and Ethical Union:

Proponents of free speech at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have accused Islamic countries of “hijacking” a resolution intended to renew the mandate of the special rapporteur on freedom of expression and turning it into an order to report on defamation of religion.
In the words of the Canadian delegation: “instead of promoting freedom of expression the Special Rapporteur would be policing its exercise”.

The amended resolution was adopted on Friday in Geneva by 32 votes in favour (mainly Islamic states with support from China, Cuba and Russia). There were no votes against, but 15 abstentions.

Roy Brown, spokesman at the UNCHR in Geneva for the International Humanist and Ethical Union, commented: “Canada’s position was echoed by several delegations, who objected to the change of focus from protecting to limiting freedom of expression. More than 20 of the original 53 co-sponsors of the resolution withdrew their sponsorship. These included the European Union and the United Kingdom (speaking for Australia and the United States), India, Switzerland, Brazil, Bolivia and Guatemala.”

“Freedom of expression is most important for those who live under the tyranny of Islamic law. This was highlighted by a courageous group of 21 NGOs from the Islamic States who issued a statement appealing to delegations not to support the amendment.”

(See http://www.article19.org/pdfs/press/petition-hrc.pdf )

Death of Human Rights

Link to DW

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The Hesham Islam/Stephen Couglin affair

* An agent of Islam in the state department gets his official blessing as an Islamic mole. The mind boggles. People who are sworn  to protect us are working for Islamintern:

An update on the Stephen Couglin imbroglio: “Islam cleared,” from Bill Gertz’s Inside the Ring in the Washington Times

Infiltration 

Hesham Islam cleared

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England cleared his special assistant of any wrongdoing related to a run-in with former Joint Staff analyst Stephen Coughlin, and amid questions about the Muslim aide’s background.

“The deputy secretary’s office has thoroughly reviewed the issues of concern raised by a few members of Congress and the media and has concluded there is no reason to question Cmdr. Hesham Islam’s credibility or his allegiance to his country,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told Inside the Ring.

Mr. Islam, a retired Navy commander, came under criticism after a meeting last fall with Mr. Coughlin, a leading specialist on the relationship between Islamic law and terrorism, when Mr. Islam told associates that Mr. Coughlin was a “Christian zealot with a pen” because of his hard-line views on the ties between extremism and Islam.

Additionally, journalist Claudia Rosett wrote a National Review Online article questioning Mr. Islam’s official biography that had been posted on the official Pentagon Web site and was removed after her article ran.

Miss Rosett noted that Mr. Islam claimed to be in Cairo when it was bombed by Israel in 1967, but there are no records of bombing the Egyptian capital, only the airport near Cairo.

Mr. Islam also claimed to have been on board a freighter sunk by an Iranian torpedo in the Persian Gulf, but that could not be verified.

Investigators determined there are some things that are “unknowable” about Mr. Islam’s background.

Some defense security officials said the discrepancies raise concerns because Mr. Islam holds a security clearance.

 Mr. England’s investigators also denied that Mr. Islam or Mr. England got Mr. Coughlin fired from the contractor position as a Joint Staff analyst, which happened after the contentious meeting between Mr. Islam and the analyst. Mr. Coughlin left the Joint Staff last month and is working for the Office of the Secretary of Defense shop for special operations and low-intensity conflict.

Mr. Morrell said Mr. Islam has assisted Mr. England for the past three years and is “a valuable adviser” who helps with Mr. England’s contacts with foreign officials.

Including members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Thomas Lifson
How catastrophic would it be if the US abruptly pulled out of Iraq following the innaugural of a future President Obama? Gateway Pundit notices the news that the major media don’t want to headline.

Al-Qaeda’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri released an internet video where he said that after the US leaves Iraq (The Obama Plan) Al-Qaeda will proceed from there and take Jerusalem.

Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri in his “A Review of Events” speech promises that al-Qaeda will take Jerusalem just as soon as the US pulls out of Iraq. (SITE Institute)

All of this makes the question of Obama’s real position on troops in Iraq vitally important.

* You know about the Armenian genocide. But you probably don’t know about the jihad against the Greek population in Turkey in September 1955. Here’s a little history lesson:

TURKISH POGROM AGAINST THE GREEK POPULATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE 6-7 SEPTEMBER 1955

“Special Edition to commemorate the Pogrom of September 1955”

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Radical Islam taking  over Europe & West 

Update:

March 10, 2009

The West stands by idly as its foundations are rent asunder.

 * Caroline Glick in the JP

Last Friday the UN’s Human Rights Council took a direct swipe at freedom of expression. In a 32-0 vote, the council instructed its “expert on freedom of expression” to report to the council on all instances in which individuals “abuse” their freedom of speech by giving expression to racial or religious bias.

The measure was proposed by paragons of freedom Egypt and Pakistan. It was supported by all Arab, Muslim and African countries – founts of liberty one and all. European states abstained.

The US, which is not a member of the Human Rights Council, tried to oppose the measure. In a speech before the council, US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Warren Tichenor warned that the resolution’s purpose is to undermine freedom of expression because it imposes “restrictions on individuals rather than emphasiz[ing] the duty and responsibility of governments to guarantee, uphold, promote and protect human rights.”

By seeking to criminalize free speech, the resolution stands in breach of the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights. Article 19 of that document states explicitly: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

The Europeans’ decision to abstain rather than oppose the measure seems, at first glance, rather surprising. Given that the EU member states are among the UN’s most emphatic champions, it would have seemed normal for them to have opposed a resolution that undermines one of the UN’s foundational documents, and indeed, one of the most basic tenets of Western civilization.

But then again, given the EU’s stands in recent years against freedom of expression, there really is nothing to be surprised about. The EU’s current bow to intellectual thuggery is of course found in its response to the Internet release of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders’ film Fitna.

The EU has gone out of its way to attack Wilders for daring to exercise his freedom of expression. The EU’s presidency released a statement condemning the film for “inflaming hatred.” Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende issued statements claiming that the film “serves no other purpose than to cause offense.”

Then, too, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon blasted the film as “offensively anti-Islamic.”

These statements follow the EU’s quest to restrict freedom of speech following the 2005 publication of cartoons of Muhammed in Denmark’s Jyllands Posten newspaper. They also come against the backdrop of the systematic silencing of anti-jihadist intellectuals throughout the continent. These intellectuals, such as Peter Redeker in France and Paul Cliteur in the Netherlands, are threatened into silence by European jihadists. And the governments of Europe either do nothing to defend the threatened thinkers or justify the intellectual blackmailers by sympathizing with their anger.

IT IS axiomatic that freedom of expression is the foundation of human freedom and progress. When people are not allowed to express themselves freely, there can be no debate or inquiry. It is only due to free debate and inquiry that humanity has progressed from the Dark Age to the Digital Age. This is why the first act of every would-be tyrant is to take control of the marketplace of ideas.

Yet today, the nations of Europe and indeed much of the Western world, either sit idly by and do nothing to defend that freedom or collaborate with unfree and often tyrannical Islamic states and terrorists in silencing debate and stifling dissent.

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* We put the first nail into the coffin of free speech when we sat back and allowed government in this nation to enact “hate crime laws.”  No matter how you try to define them, hate crime laws are really thought crime laws. You’re being punished for what you think, not for what you do.

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Wyoming lawsuit: Prison mealtime violates Muslim inmates’ freedom of religion

Spencer:

They cannot bend to prison practice (although actually there are provisions in Islamic law that would allow them to adapt). Rather, the prison has to bend to them. This is all part of the larger stealth jihad initiative in the U.S., about which I am writing a book: the attempt to get the U.S. to become accustomed to accommodating Sharia — a road that will lead either to the end of that accommodation, or else to America’s becoming a Sharia state. But there is no stopping point within Sharia itself beyond which the demands will not advance.

“Wyo. Lawsuit Alleges Prison Mealtime Violates Muslim Inmates’ Freedom of Religion,” from AP via JW

The ACLU filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of Joseph Miller and Hurie Purdiman Jr., two inmates serving time at the penitentiary in Rawlins.

At issue is an alleged “20-minute rule” requiring inmates to eat their meals within 20 minutes after the food is delivered to a cell or common dining area, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit seeks for the inmates to be exempted from the rule because it forces them to choose between eating and practicing their religion.

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* Hugh Fitzgerald comments:

Of course, this all begs the question: is Islam a religion in the sense in which the Framers understood that word, and as we today in the West understand that word? It is much more than a religion. It is a politics. It is a geopolitics. It is a program for, and justification of, world conquest for Islam and for Muslims. That can be found, quite easily, in the texts. Those who keep refusing to examine those texts, or examining the totalitrian nature of Islam, with its system of Total Regulation, and its justification for the mistreatment of all Unbelievers, or Infidels, needs to be understood by those in Congress and by judges, including of course those on the Supreme Court.

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UK: Misunderstanders of Islam “exploiting growing prison gang culture”

Convicted Islamist terrorists are exploiting the growing gang culture in top security jails, fuelling fears that they are trying to radicalise other inmates and foment unrest.

The emerging contacts between terrorists and existing gangs in jails is occurring as the Prison Service is expecting a big increase in the number of terrorists it must look after in the next few years. The growing concern among senior Whitehall officials at the danger of Islamist terrorists seeking to radicalise other prisoners in eight top security jails is disclosed in a Ministry of Justice document.

It reveals that officials are looking at whether more high-security prison accommodation and high-security courts will be needed to cope with the predicted number of terrorists being prosecuted. It also outlines worries within the department over the radicalisation of nonterrorist Muslim prisoners and other offenders in the high-security estate.

“The numbers of convicted and suspected terrorists entering the high-security estate is becoming ever higher. Concerns over the effects of radicalisation are growing,” the paper says. “Early work needs to be done to challenge terrorist behaviour and the threat of radicalisation.”

* Hmmm. Wonder why that is? Any idea?

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Remember Marranci?

Living Islam in prison: faith, ideology and fear

The claim that Muslims are radicalised by imams while in prison has been challenged by a pioneering new study by a University of Aberdeen researcher.

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* Marranci is a closet Muslim who still won’t admit that he’s a ‘revert’.  This ‘anthropologist’ has a long record of shilling and apologizing for the adherents of the ‘ROP’. Marranci has been exposed and ridiculed both here, on JW and on his own blog for his mental acrobatics.

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* Well, never mind the logical fallacy here, what he meant is probably that there is “global Islamic terrorism”…

* Another rant from the illustrious ‘colonel’ Gaddafi, who often worries that America might come to hang him just like Saddam:

Clare Lopez via ZIP:

Jihad Means Offensive War to Spread Islam: Osama Bin Laden’s Warning to Europe

Europe needs to wake up, and quickly. The obligatory Islamic warning has been given, the Continent put on notice that unless it agrees to compromise on its liberal lifestyle and legal system, al Qaeda will unleash its Jihadi attackers.

“Europe must either somehow assimilate its burgeoning and increasingly hostile Muslim elements, adopt a draconian program of expulsion and immigration control, or acquiesce to Muslim dominance. “

Knowing the enemy, naming the enemy, and mastering the enemy’s culture, history, ideology, and tactics are essential to meeting and defeating his challenge. Only by frankly facing the Islamic Jihad and resisting every urge to dismiss it as primitive, already defeated, or somehow unequal to modern civilizations such as our own, will we have any chance of prevailing.

From Family Matters via Weasel Zippers

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* Knowing how effective these announcements are (we have yet to see any of those 500 clerics deported, once announced by Tony BLiar after 7/7 but never acted upon) we don’t have too much hope that this is going to work either.

* Its really funny, first, there were no ‘NoGo zones’ anywhere in Britain, but somehow, these No No Go zones are creating problems, so something has to be done about it. Yeah. ‘Give peace a chance…’

* Thanks to Mullah

Hazel Blears

Labour: We’ll break up Islamic ghettos

Minister speaks out on ‘no-go’ areas for whites

Muslim ghettos which have become no-go areas for whites must be broken up, Labour will declare today.
In a speech which is set to spark a storm Communities Secretary Hazel Blears will say there is a need to take a hard look at the impact of immigration on cities.
It will be the first time a senior Government minister has called for the break-up of areas dominated by racial or religious groups.

And it follows Church of England Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali attack on Islamic extremists for creating no-go areas across Britain.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, has also warned Britain is “sleepwalking into segregation”. But Ms Blears risks provoking fury with claims Labour are “pandering to the right” by attacking immigrants.
She will tell the Left-wing Fabian Society: “No neighbourhood should be dominated by one group in ways which make others feel alienated or unsafe.
“We must ensure community cohesion is maintained. No one faith or ethnic group can dominate a locality to the exclusion of all others.”
She went on to say there was “nothing wrong” with unthreatening cultural enclaves, such as traditional China Towns.

* Agreed. China Towns are not centers of subversion.

Ministers are considering cutting funding to community groups based on religion or race and thinking of stopping councils allocating housing along ethnic lines.
They believe both have helped create Muslim “ghettos”, especially in the North. Ms Blears will also attack a growing “apartheid” between the rich and poor – with some areas dominated by millionaires living in gated communities with private security, schools and healthcare.

She will add: “As we build three million new homes, I want to see mixtures of tenure, size of property, and household size.

“We must not create tomorrow’s sink estates or enclaves for the rich.”

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Related Story:

Either Britain’s Home Secretary has gone mad or Britain has gone feral, that a politician needs police and an flak jacket just to walk down a London street:

From Andrew Bolt’s blog:

The famously politically-correct deputy leader of the Labour Party, known to her detractors as Harperson, faced ridicule yesterday for the personal security measures she took on the mean streets of Peckham, South London. But her decision to wear the body armour was also seen as a sad reflection of a modern Britain where police feel they have to offer VIP guests “protection”…

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