Category: General

* These people have issues! Islam is a cult for the criminally insane…

“We Should Not Hesitate To Use Nuclear Weapons to Take Kashmir from India”

In an interview on the Waqt television channel, that was published by themainstream right-wing Urdu daily Roznama Nawa-i-Waqt, senior Pakistani newspaper editor Majeed Nizami discussed Kashmir’s importance to Pakistan, called it “the jugular vein” of Pakistan, and added that Pakistan should not hesitate to use nuclear weapons to take it from India.

Nizami is editor in chief of both Roznama Nawa-i-Waqt and the English daily The Nation, as well as managing director of the Waqt television channel. Nizami articulated his views in an interview on Waqt, and the interview was reported by Roznama Nawa-i-Waqt.

The following is a summary of and excerpts from the report of the interview. [1]
Roznama Nawa-i-Waqt quoted Nizami as saying: “It is better to die fighting than to die from famine. Kashmir is our biggest issue, and showing flexibility on this matter is tantamount to treason. Anyone who shows flexibility on the issue, I will consider a traitor.”

Nizami noted that Pakistan founder M. A. Jinnah had described Kashmir as Pakistan’s shah-e-rag (“jugular vein”) because all water comes to Pakistan from Kashmir.

According to the report, Nizami said that U.S. think tanks are predicting that Pakistan will become another Somalia by 2018-19, and that India too wants to dismantle Pakistan. He said, “In fact, in 1947 itself [the year Pakistan was created out of India] India planted the time bomb of Kashmir in our foundations.”

He added that the U.N. resolutions about Kashmir should not be forgotten, and that “no matter what the United States says about it, we should wait no longer for Kashmir’s independence.

“Nizami said that his Waqt TV was, like the entire Nawa-i-Waqt group, the torchbearer of Nazaria-e-Pakistan (the ideology of Pakistan) and stood for the Pakistan envisaged by M. A. Jinnah and Islamist poet Allama Iqbal.

He said, “The establishment of an Islamic welfare state in Pakistan is our objective, and to achieve this objective we will use Waqt television, like the Nawa-i-Waqt newspaper.”

* Legal wankfest in the land of the plucky little king:

Jordan: Islamic ‘activists’ to sue over published cartoon

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – A group of Islamic activists in Jordan says it plans to file lawsuits against nearly 20 Danish newspapers and magazines for republishing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

The group says it also plans to sue the editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper that first published the drawings in 2005 and the daily’s cartoonist.

Last month, Denmark’s leading newspapers reprinted one of the 12 original cartoons after Danish police said they had uncovered a plot to kill the cartoonist. The papers said the reprint was meant to promote freedom of speech.

The group says it will file the lawsuits in Jordanian courts because the country’s penal code says publicly slandering religious figures is an offense that carries up to three years in prison.

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Al Reuters calls Suicide Bombers ‘Activists’

Palestinian Hamas activists take part in an anti-Israel rally organized by the Hamas movement in Gaza March 7, 2008. (Reuters)

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* Jihad in Kashmir (this is a link to a radical Islamic website that tells you what the soldiers of Allah have in store for Kashmir)

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The Obama Messiah Industry is in Overdrive

* The AP is forced to issue an apology for falsely reporting his grandma was ‘Christian’

* she’s a lying Muslim, of course…

Correction: Obama’s Kenyan Family

KOGELO, Kenya (AP) — In a March 5 story about the Kenyan family of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, The Associated Press reported erroneously that his step-grandmother is a Christian.

She is a Muslim, according to the family.

Pamela has more: OBAMA’S RADICAL ISLAMIST BROTHER
AND NOW THE SISTER

* These people are so deluded they make your head spin every time they open the mouth…

Islamic leader Sheikh Raed Salah: Jewish Temple never existed

* from JP via JW

* Of course. No reason why it should have, since, after all, even long before the Temple was built, Abraham was a Muslim (Qur’an 3:67).

* Note also this Sheikh’s blood libel. “Arab leader denies temple ever existed,” from the Jerusalem Post (thanks to JW):

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The al-Aqsa mosque was never the site of a Jewish temple, Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement’s northern branch, said Monday during a press conference he convened in Jerusalem to respond to voices calling for the expulsion of Israeli residents of the city who participate in terror activities against Israel.

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“Those calling for the expulsion of Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem are hysterical and stupid and belong in the trash can,” Salah said at the conference.

He went on to deny any Israeli or Jewish historical claim to the city, denying that there ever existed a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount.

“The claims of the Jews are big lies and they have no right to any speck of dirt here,” he said. […]

“I think that we are at a critical time. We believe that al-Aqsa is in danger and that it is under occupation, and we believe that Jerusalem is in danger because it is under occupation,” Salah said. “Jerusalem is not only houses – it is faith, it is history, it is a culture, it is a present, a future and an eternal right that we will not relinquish.” […]

During his sermon in Jerusalem’s Wadi Joz neighborhood on February 16 of last year, Salah urged supporters to start a third intifada in order to “save al-Aksa Mosque, free Jerusalem and end the occupation.”

Salah’s speech also attacked Jews, saying, “They want to build their temple at a time when our blood is on their clothes, on their doorsteps, in their food and in their drinks. Our blood has passed from one ‘general terrorist’ to another ‘general terrorist.'”

* Blood libel:

He also said, “We are not those who ate bread dipped in children’s blood”.

* Actually, you are: “We will drink the blood of the Jews”

* and we have pictures of grazed Palistanian lunatics eating the entrails of slain Jewish soldiers:

Richard Kerbaj | The Australian

Mainstream Muslim?

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KRuddish image improvement for Muslims? 

Hat tip Mullah

* Some of us are still looking for that mystical ‘moderate’ Muslim, while the KRudd government, in typical progressive fashion, storms ahead as the trail blazer of multiculti-diversity engineering:

SPORTING figures, academics and mainstream Muslims will be sought out by the Rudd Government to help recast the overly religious image of Islamic Australia.

A new-look Muslim advisory body is being considered in a bid to help dismantle the stereotypical picture of Islam, despite infighting – fuelled by ideological rivalries and conflicting egos – racking the former government’s board.

And the Rudd Government will also consider reviving the Council for Multicultural Australia – featuring leaders from a cross-section of ethnic backgrounds, including the Jewish and Muslim communities.

* Damn! The Howard government had a least enough sense to move away from that multiculti crap. Now KRudd wants to bring it back…

The previous government abolished the trouble-plagued Muslim advisory board – set up by John Howard after the London terrorist attacks in 2005 – and the multicultural council after their terms ended in 2006.

But Labor is intent on recasting the two bodies, shifting the focus from the spiritual leaders the Howard government courted – at times with disastrous results – to everyday Muslims.

In the Rudd Government’s first statement on Muslims, Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs Laurie Ferguson told The Australian yesterday it was time to tackle the myths surrounding Islam, arguing religious leaders were not representative of the mainstream Muslim community.

“We can’t prescribe how the Islamic community is to organise itself,” Mr Ferguson said. “But we certainly must make sure that the fact there are international tensions and terrorist issues doesn’t kind of stereotype the whole community in Australia.

“A lot of it is about symbolism; it’s about who gets promoted and who gets identified and who gets an option to be seen by Australian society.

“Australia has produced (Muslim) academics, business types, sporting types and it’s often not celebrated enough.”

* Right. What are we doing about the Buddhists, the Hindu’s, the Christians and the Jews then, Laurie? Don’t you think we should start celebrating their achievements before you start throwing more money at the least deserving fringe of society?

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* Winds of Jihad Cartoonist Shem is keeping a close eye on the -temporarily halted- Mosque development in Dunn Street, Cairns:

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* HIDING WEAPONS IN A MOSQUE? SAY IT AIN’T SO!

Mosque building lunacy:

British Army builds mosque in Afghanistan

The lead paragraph here says that the soldiers are “building bridges in Afghanistan.” The bedrock assumption here is that the Afghans who come to worship in the mosque will see that the British built it and think, “Say, they aren’t so bad after all.”

And probably some will. But this assumption completely fails to take into account the fact that at least some of the people who go to the mosque, if not a majority, will see this act through the prism of a Qur’anic understanding: “And the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor will the Christians, till thou follow their creed,” (2:120), so the building of the mosque is just a strategem to that larger end, and the British should still be regarded with suspicion. The jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism, unchallenged, remain in place.

“Army helps build mosque,” by Heather Butler for the Blackpool Gazette (thanks to DW)

* Dutch, US & British forces are building Mosques in Afghanistan

* But none of that can possibly stop the perpetual rage of the Musulmaniacs:

Afghan protesters chant ‘Long live al Qaeda’

Afghan Cartoon Rage: “If our demands are not fulfilled, we will stage more protests and resort to suicide attacks against the foreigners”

Thousands of Afghan students chanted “Long live al Qaeda,” during a protest aimed at Denmark and the Netherlands.

Protesters accused the two European countries of insults against Islam. Sunday’s protest in Jalalabad was one of at least a half-dozen in Afghanistan, including one in the capital city of Kabul.

The demonstrators burned flags from each country and also shouted “Death to America.”

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Al Reuters

5 US soldiers killed, Shia mosque blown up by army

* Once again we see that mosques are not simply places of worship like churches, synagogues or temples. On the contrary: mosques are centers of subversion, incitement and indoctrination.  Mosques are used for weapon storage and as a refuge for the mujaheddin. Hey, but don’t say I told you so:

 In Basra, the Iraqi army blew up a Shia mosque housing the main headquarters of Thaarallah party, witnesses told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa.

The Iraqi army ordered local residents living close to the mosque in Nuab al-Dubat to keep away while it blew up the mosque, the witnesses said.

Security officials told the Voices of Iraq news agency that the destruction of the mosque came after troops found weapons and explosives there.

The leader of the party, Yusif Sinawi, had been arrested in April following clashes between security forces and his guards. He has allegedly been involved in paramilitary activities, killings and abductions in Basra.

Thaarallah was established in 2005 as a local party operating mainly in Basra, 550 kilometres south of Iraq.

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Australia:

“Aggressive policing turns Muslims to terrorism”

* Another wakademic ‘study’ from the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University, but rather unsurprising when you take a look at who’s behind it:

* Ever get pulled over for a traffic violation — perhaps even one that seemed absurd? Did it “radicalize” you so that you resolved to become a worse driver?

* Mental flatulence at its best, read it and weep:

A study from the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University suggests that Australia’s approach to stopping terrorism might actually be encouraging it.

Waleed Aly from the centre says the aggressive police approach is alienating young Muslim men, who may be more likely to turn to radical groups as a result.

* Waleed Aly was previously featured here as the arch- typical bullshit peddler & Islamo-propagandist he is

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He says a community-based approach may be more effective than a hardline approach.

“The problem is that as we repeat that [hardline] approach, what we actually end up doing is exacerbating the problem,” he told tonight’s Four Corners program.

“We set in motion drivers that move us towards greater radicalisation.”

He says currently the police are too willing to use aggressive tactics.

“[Police] feel ‘the more aggressive we can be, the harder we can be, the better’,” he said.

“That is, that it’s better to err on the side of being aggressive than to err on the side of being soft.”

* More on Waleed Aly

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Bunglawussi Panic Watch

* The comical spokesman for the MCB is totally spooked by a BNP campaign that pokes a finger at the rotten Islamo-socialist alliance and the spineless appeasers:

Burka Fashion Monkeys

Hat tip TNR

Why did they create a burka collection?

They want to create a new burka collection that show more of a person’s personality and that is adapted to the Norwegian climate and lifestyle. This way Norwegian Muslims can do ‘more Norwegian’ things without feeling like outsiders. Such as wearing a jeans burka to go to a cafe.

They claim they got positive responses from Muslim girls, but they’re not aiming only at Muslims.

Mariak Kartveit: There are certain advantages to a burka. We will make it possible for Norwegians to wear a burka. Only we sell burkas in Norway.

They say a burka gives one freedom, and is a supplement to the daily wardrobe. when one wants to hide, or has a bad hair day.

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Sydney Moonbat Herald:

Australia: WHITE students are fleeing public schools, leaving behind those of Aboriginal and Middle Eastern origin, a secret report by high school principals reveals.

* But actually NOT.

Its Asian and white Australians who are fleeing from the Musulmaniacs. The multiculti-diversity brigade from the Sydney Moonbat Herald just can’t get themselves to tell it like it is.

Its all about ‘race’, you see:

White flight leaves system segregated by race

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“Poverty causes terrorism” update

Spreading the web of terror

AP

Peshawar: In an internet age, Al Qaida prizes geek jihadis as much as would-be suicide bombers and gunmen. The terror network is recruiting computer-savvy technicians to produce sophisticated Web documentaries and multimedia products aimed at audiences in the United States, Britain and other Western countries.

Already, the terror movement’s Al Sahab production company is turning out high quality material, some of which rivals productions by Western media companies. The documentaries appear regularly on Islamist websites, which Al Qaida uses to recruit followers and rally its supporters.

That requires people whose skills go beyond planting bombs and ambushing American patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“The Al Qaida men who are coming today are not farmers, illiterate people,” said Qari Mohammad Yousuf, an Afghan and self-declared Al Sahab cameraman. “They are Ph.D.s, professors who know about this technology. Day by day they are coming. Al Qaida has asked them to come.”

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‘Climate Change’ Terrifies Euro-Dhimmi’s

Illegal African migrants cause climate change

Europe’s leaders warned of big rise in migration

“The United Nations predicts that there will be millions of ‘environmental’ migrants by 2020 with climate change as one of the major drivers of this phenomenon,” the document noted.

Migration may increase conflicts in “transit” and destinations countries, the report said, adding that: “Europe must expect substantially increased migratory pressure.”

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Fortress Europe?

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Moe’s Jihad News:

Rootin’ with Mufi Ibrahim Desai

UK Update: Another 2000 Musulmanic Police Officers wanted

* Bashed, raped, beaten, genitals mutilated by valued Islamic migrants? Not to worry: your friendly Islamic police officers will straighten you out. Chances are, you are simply suffering from ‘Islamophobia’ and misunderstand the Religion of Peace:

* If your life is in danger because your name is Salman Rushdie, Lionheart, Robert Spencer, Sheik Yer’mami or Geert Wilders, you may rest assured that these friendly hijabbed Muslimahs will swiftly come to the rescue!

* Rudyard Kipling, 1865 – 1936) British novelist and poet, had a completely different view:

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.

LONDON, June 23 — London needs another 2,000 Muslim police officers, Britain’s most senior police officer said Thursday.

London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair also defended the rise in stop and search of Muslim suspects and said they would continue.

In an interview with the “Muslim News” newspaper, Sir Ian said “What I really need is more Muslim police officers.

“We’ve got 200 to 300 members in the Muslim Police Association. I want as many as I can get.

* With thanx to Shiva from the Illustrated PIG

France starts training Muslim imams about French values

* Actually, the French had several hunderd years to educate themselves about Islam. You wonder why they’re so thick and can’t figure it out:

The assumption here apparently is that the imams simply don’t understand French values, including the idea of the separation of religion and government, and so preach Islamic supremacism and decry assimilation. If the poor dears just understood better, all would be well and all manner of thing would be well. In this the French are proceeding in blissful ignorance of the fact that the separation of religion from the government is well understood by influential jihadists such as Qutb and Maududi, and is a linchpin of their critique of the West. They offer Islam, with its denial of any sacred/secular distinction, as an alternative to this, which they see as a defect of the West.

So this program, given that it will not touch on Islamic theology, and will only stress something that these imams almost certainly already despise, is doomed to failure.

“France Starts Muslim Imam Training,” by Lisa Bryant for VOA News via DW

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* And in the Self-Satirization Category, Tzippi Livni wins first prize with this quote:

Livni: “Terror Reducing People’s Trust in Peace”

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Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members protest government crackdown in Egypt

Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: “Thousands of Egyptian Islamists Protest Government Crackdown,” from VOA News

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* Malaysia sinks deeper into the Islamic Morass

* But AFP wants you to believe it was a ‘big win’ by some ‘gentler image’

Analysts say Malaysian Islamic party wins big with gentler image

KOTA BHARU, Malaysia: Malaysia’s Islamic party made huge strides in weekend elections, by putting on a moderate face and dropping fundamentalist rhetoric that had alienated voters, analysts said Sunday.

The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) made a remarkable recovery after 2004 polls when its calls for an Islamic state to be imposed in the multicultural country were soundly rejected by Muslim Malays and minorities alike.

The conservative party of Muslim scholars absorbed that painful lesson, shifting away from its fire-and-brimstone rhetoric and even reaching out to Malaysia’s ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities.

It was rewarded with a big win in its heartland of Kelantan state which it had held by a slim majority, and is expected to join opposition alliances to rule three of the four states wrested from the Barisan Nasional coalition.

It also claimed 23 seats in the national parliament, from just six before.

“There was a big shift in PAS’s attitude by dropping any mention of plans to set up an Islamic state,” said political analyst Shahruddin Badaruddin.

“Instead it concentrated on the idea of a compassionate and welfare-like state,” he told AFP.

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Ask the Mufti, don’t take my word for it:

Burka For Sale

From the ‘Islam Empowers Women’ department:

Today, the aspect of Hijaab is misunderstood greatly. The Niqaab is becoming a fashion, people haven’t understood the aspect of Hijaab. The actual object of Hijaab is concealment and to stay indoors. The object of Hijaab is not to just don the veil and parade the shopping malls and shows where there is intermingling of sexes. Wearing the veil is not a license for coming out of the house as it is misunderstood, but only under extreme necessity if a woman has to come out of her house, then she must don the Hijaab (veil) and under this context does this Aayat fit, i.e. O Nabi (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam)! Instruct your wives, your daughters an the believing women to draw over them their outer garment (veils).’ Otherwise, the law for a woman is she has to remain indoors as we have quoted the Aayat previously, ‘remain indoors’.

What we have understood, thus far, is that a woman must remain indoors at all times, and only due to extreme necessity she is allowed to come out of her house, donning the veil.

What is worse is that today the women adopt al-Tabarruj (i.e. exposure) when they come out. And majority of the time when they come out of their houses, it is without necessity. In doing so, they are going againt the book of Allah in many ways, a) They are coming of their houses without necessity where as the Qur’aan commands them to remain indoors (as we have mentioned earlier), b) They are exposing their faces whereas the Qur’aan has commanded them to draw their veils (as mentioned earlier) and Allah Ta’ala and says in the Qur’aan, ‘and abstain from al-Tabarruj (exposure).

Imam Qurtubi (RA) mentions the meaning of al-Tabarruj after gathering all the views of the previous commentators of the Qur’aan. He says, in short, al-Tabarruj means a woman exposing her beauties to men. (Tafseer al-Qurtubi vol.14 pg.175; Cairo)

It is a well-known fact that from all the beauties of a woman, her face is the greatest. So, Allah is commanding her not to expose her face more seriously. So, if a woman does not don the veil when she comes out of the house (even when it is extremely necessary), she will be grossly disobeying the command of Allah Ta’ala and thereby earning the displeasure of Allah. What a greater can there be in disobeying the command of Allah that earning his displeasure! Earning the displeasure of Allah is worst thing a person can ever earn as this will lead to his destruction.

May Allah Ta’ala give us all the ability to understand the reality of Hijaab and observe it according to its requisites.

and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

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Kos Kidz stupidity on display:

* A Kos Kid gives it his best effort to be as blind and stupid as possible: Daily Kos: Is Islam Really Stuck in the 12th Century on Women’s Rights?

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Bunglawussi Panic Watch:

* Islamofascists call on the BBC to protect them from the perceived fascism of the BNP:

* The BNP may be different things to different people, but most certainly it is not what the sleazy Bunglawussy from the MCB would have you believe it is:

Unite Against Fascism – media alert

UAF media alert – URGENT – Complain to the BBC about Thursday night’s interview with fascist BNP leader Nick Griffin

The BBC should acknowledge that the BNP’s racist, homophobic, Islamophobic hate-speech results in a rise in hate crimes, and these should not receive uncritical coverage or platform on the licence fee.

The BNP are the modern day successors of Hitler and Mussolini. The mainstream media should remember that when fascism took power last century, it shut down the free media. The BNP denies the reality of the Holocaust and whips up racism in areas it targets leading to a rise in racist attacks.

* It would be intersting to see how quickly the MCB would shut down the free media should it ever get a chance….

* Nick Griffin

* The MCB of course has a long history of holocaust denial…

Read it all

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Dreck from Palistan:

Abbas ‘demands peace’ after surge of Mideast killing

The Pali vermin murders and demands.

Al Reuters dutifully reports:

By Ali Sawafta

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for talks with Israel despite a surge of violence and said that a just peace was his people’s goal.

“We condemn all the attacks, we demand peace and we are determined to make peace, and there is no other path but the path of peace based on international justice,” Abbas told a rally at his headquarters.

* “International Justice” for Muslims means ‘sharia for all…’

* Remember: this is the same duplicitous liar who said recently that he was proud of the Palestinians’ past terrorism, and wouldn’t rule out using terrorism in the future. In an Arabic newspaper, where he thought the infidels wouldn’t see it.

Gateway Pundit:

Family of Jerusalem School Terrorist: We Are Proud & Happy

Death cult family is very proud.
Their son gunned down 8 innocent 15 and 16 year-olds in a lunchroom.
…Very proud indeed.

Palestinian Authority Daily:

Killer of eight young men is Holy Martyr- Shahid

Action should cost PA $150 million in US aid

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Mar 9 2008

Mahmoud Abbas’s official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper has honored the killer of the eight high school students gunned down this week with the status of Shahid – Holy Islamic Martyr. In so doing, the PA is sending its people a straightforward message of support for the terror murders and the murderer. According to the PA interpretation of Islam, there is no higher status that a human being can achieve today than that of Shahid.

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Pamela in NYC has a lot more

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Robert Spencer comments:

Official Fatah newspaper: jihadist who murdered students a “martyr”

Remember: Fatah is the moderate group, that sincerely wants peace with Israel. Fatah wants peace, this I know, for George and Condi tell me so. And remember: Islam is a religion of peace — George and Condi told us that also, and no number of stories like this will ever convince them otherwise. Celebrate a mass murderer as a martyr? Never! What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?

Nor is this a partisan matter either, of course. Everyone, just everyone, knows Islam is a religion of peace. Except, unfortunately, the glorious mujahedin and their allies who celebrate their heroic deeds in gunning down high school students.

“PA Daily: Mass Murderer is a Martyr,” by Gil Ronen for Israel National News

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from Flip at flopping via Atlas Shrugs & Music by Cake Secret:

* Just because the man gets his spiritual advice from a racist preacher and goes to a segregated all black church, makes deals with known gangsters, goes and hangs out with dictators, marries a racist woman, to name just a few things, it doesn’t make him a bad DUDE, now does it?

Ophra-bommah sez: “I’m a Christian. For 20 years I’ve been going to the same racist black supremacist church’ – but why didn’t anybody ask what he was before that?

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‘Some Uighurs have campaigned for the mainly Muslim province to become an independent republic’

* News Dreck from Al BeBeeCeera: you have to read yourself through the whole thing to find the above sentence, otherwise you’d never know.

Gang ‘plotted attack on Olympics’

Suspected militants arrested in western China earlier this year were planning attacks on the Beijing Olympics, a Chinese official says.
Two people were reported to have been killed and 15 arrested in a raid on 27 January in Urumqi, Xinjiang province.

Officials now say their aim was to attack the August Olympics.

The alleged plot was disclosed as officials also revealed that a plane crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a jet on an internal flight.

Kashgar market scene

The incident occurred on Friday.

The flight also originated in Urumqi, and was bound for Beijing.

The China Southern Airlines plane landed safely despite an attempt “to create an air disaster”, said Xinjiang Governor Nur Bekri.

He gave few details about the alleged attack.

“Who the people involved in the incident were, where they were from, what their aim was and what their background was, we are now investigating,” he said.

But he said there was “an attempt to crash the plane”, and that the crew responded and brought the plane to an emergency landing in the city of Lanzhou, in neighbouring Gansu province, with no damage or injuries.

Reuters quoted an anonymous source saying inflammable material was found in the plane’s toilet, and that at least two passengers on the flight were taken into custody.

There was no confirmation of this.

‘Sabotage’

Mr Bekri was speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of parliament in Beijing.

At the same event, the boss of the Communist Party in Xianjing, Wang Lequan, said January’s raid in Urumqi had thwarted a plot to attack the Olympics.

“Their aim was very clear,” he said. “Specifically to sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics.”

“Those terrorists, saboteurs and secessionists are to be battered resolutely, no matter what ethnic group they are from,” said Mr Wang.

China has been struggling for years to contain separatist sentiment among the Uighur minority in Xinjiang.

Some Uighurs have campaigned for the mainly Muslim province to become an independent republic.

The Xinjiang governor, himself an ethnic Uighur, said only a “very small number of people” in the region support the separatists.

“They don’t represent the Uighur people,” he added.

* A ‘tiny minority of extremists’- where did we hear that before? And yes: “They don’t represent the Uighur people”,- perhaps not. But they are members of the ummah, the nation of over a billion believers. And there is that ‘tiny minority of extremist’ Muslims  who take their religion seriously…

* Uighurs have a bit of a history…

* they also have Shamnesty support…