Category: General

The Blood Runs Cold

Melanie Philips

* The inquisition is alive and well in Canuckistan: 

The lights are going out on liberal society – and it is the most liberal societies with their fingers on the ‘off’ switch. The thesis of Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, that Europe was succumbing to an Islamist takeover, has been proved spectacularly correct — in Canada, and with himself as the designated victim. The New York Post reports that both Steyn and Macleans magazine, which reprinted a chapter of his book, are to be hauled before two Canadian judicial panels to answer the charge that they have spread ‘hatred and contempt’ for Muslims. And what was the heinous view Steyn vouchsafed to occasion such a charge?

…the notion that Islamic culture is incompatible with Canada’s liberalized, Western civilization.

Well excuse me, but some of us were under the impression that a global war was currently being waged by a section of the Islamic world in order to write the truth of that assertion in blood.

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The irony, of course, is that by this action Canada is thus demonstrating that if any culture is incompatible with liberalised western civilisation, it is clearly Canada’s. The idea that certain arguments must not be made, and that to do so is to find oneself arraigned before a judicial tribunal, is the very antithesis of a liberal society. It is a symptom of totalitarianism. It is also doubly ironic that it is the Islamic world, through the Canadian Islamic Congress, that is bringing this action — since in seeking to suppress the view that the Islamic world is incompatible with liberalism, it is demonstrating with the starkest possible clarity the truth of that proposition.

It is no accident that it is uber-‘liberal’ Canada, which worships at the shrine of human rights law, where this medieval inquisition is taking place. The fact that the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Human Rights Commission are to conduct this oppressive hearing is grotesque but not in the least surprising. The belief fundamental to human wrongs law, that minorities are sacrosanct and that to criticise them is proof of rampant prejudice, is part of the mindset which has turned truth, morality and freedom inside out. If a writer who tells the truth about Islamists spreading hatred and contempt for the west is himself hauled before a court charged with spreading hatred and contempt by telling such a truth, then the Orwellian nightmare has well and truly arrived.

As I have said many times before, the real threat to civilisation comes not from acts of terror, appalling though these are; it comes from the fact that Islamists are progressively making slaves out of us in our own countries.

* Dhimmi Watch has more:

Two separate panels, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Human Rights Commission, have agreed to hear the case. These bodies are empowered to hear and rule on cases of purported “hate speech.”

Of course, a ban on opinions – even disagreeable ones – is the very antithesis of the Western tradition of free speech and freedom of the press.

Muslim Brotherhood Leader: “We’re Ready to Send 10,000 Fighters to Palestine”….

* The dark spot on the foreheads of the believers are marks of religious fervor, often seen on particularly pious adherents of the prophet, from banging the forehead on the floor during prayers.

* The story behind the stain 

(IsraelNN.com) The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Muhammad Mahdi Akef, and Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri both recently addressed the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its campaign against Israel. Akef pledged 10,000 fighters. Al-Zawahiri called on Hamas to cut ties with the PA’s Mahmoud Abbas and to fight for an international jihad movement.

Brotherhood ‘Must Support All the Forces of Resistance’

In a November 30 interview with the United Kingdom’s Al-Hiwar television, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Akef was asked, “During the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, you said that the Muslim Brotherhood was prepared to arm 10,000 young men, and to send them to Lebanon in order to support the resistance. Does this apply to Palestine too?
Akef replied, “This applies to any country under occupation. One of the principles of the Muslim Brotherhood is to rid the Arab and Islamic nation of any foreign rule. The Muslim Brotherhood must support all the forces of resistance in the Arab and Islamic world.”

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Fashion and Faith Meet, on Foreheads of the Pious 

A man reading the Koran has a zebibah, seen as a sign of piety in Egypt.

CAIRO — There is a strong undercurrent of competition in Egypt these days, an unstated contest among people eager to prove just how religious they are. The field of battle is the street and the focus tends to be on appearance, as opposed to conviction.

It is not that the two are mutually exclusive, but they are not necessarily linked. As Egyptians increasingly emphasize Islam as the cornerstone of identity, there has been a growing emphasis on public displays of piety.

For women, that has rapidly translated into the nearly universal adoption of the hijab, a scarf fitted over the hair and ears and wrapped around the neck. For men, it is more and more popular to have a zebibah.

The zebibah, Arabic for raisin, is a dark circle of callused skin, or in some cases a protruding bump, between the hairline and the eyebrows. It emerges on the spot where worshipers press their foreheads into the ground during their daily prayers.

It may sometimes look like a painful wound, but in Egypt it is worn proudly, the way American professionals in the 1980s felt good about the dark circles under their eyes as a sign of long work hours and little sleep.

Two decades ago, Egypt was a Muslim country with a relatively secular style. Nationalism and Arabism had alternated places as the main element of identity. But today, Egypt, like much of the Arab Middle East, is experiencing the rise of Islam as the ideology of the day.

With that, religious symbols have become the fashion.

“The zebibah is a way to show how important religion is for us,” said Muhammad al-Bikali, a hairstylist in Cairo, in an interview last month. Mr. Bikali had a well-trimmed mustache and an ever-so-subtle brown spot just beneath his hairline. “It shows how religious we are. It is a mark from God.”

* Good heavens! Read it all 

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Turkey Watch:

Islamist Columnist: The Jew Is a Curse

Fahri Guven of the antisemitic Islamist Turkish daily Milli Gazete quoted in his column the following excerpts from a recently published book by M. Ertugrul Duzdag and Ali Ulvi Kurucu presenting them as historical truths that every Muslim must take into account:

“The Jew is a curse. If you enter a war against the Jew you end up fighting powerful nations behind him. If you try to make peace, years pass with no result. He lies 70 lies. It is not surprising that America supports Israel. It is because America is a province of Israel! Last century it was god-damned Britain that was under [Jew’s] command, this century they made the U.S. their servant…

“Don’t forget the Russian revolution. The only non-Jew was Stalin but his wife was Jewish. Karl Marks was a Jewish psychopath. Behind the Free Mason’s that played a role in every revolution is Jewish power and intelligence. The Jew wants to rule the world, and step by step, he is advancing towards his goal of destroying faith, respect, love, honor, family values in the world.

“The Zionist organization, exaggerated what was done to the Jews at the time of Hitler; created a genocide balloon; blew into it hard enough so it could fly. He blew it to ten, fifty, hundred times more than what it really was. Then they [Jews] made this the subject of thousands of novels, plays and films.

“Who would have believed a hundred years ago? But here it is now; a Jewish state in the midst of Muslims like an abscess.”

“Look at Armenia. This too will become tomorrow’s Israel. It was built by Christians to severe the ties between Turkey and the Muslim Turkish world and it will grow. It will be the roadblock between Turkey and Azarbaycan and the rest of the Turkic world.”

Source: Milli Gazete, Turkey, December 15, 2007
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Are you dreaming of a Rage Boy Christmas?

Here you go…

The Nose On Your Face released Rage Boy’s holiday greeting:

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Postcard from Somalia

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How Embarrassing!… “Dead” Iraqis Show Up at Press Conference– Smile & Wave For Cameras!

How Embarrassing!

Picture this…

** You report to the international news agencies that 11 of your family members in Iraq have been slaughtered!

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** You hold several press conferences and gain great sympathy.
** You become an overnight sensation with the antiwar media.
** You’ve never had so much sympathy and attention in all your life.
** You even get a state funeral in Jordan where you make a living as a Baathist anti-Iraq War journalist.

Read it all from Gateway Pundit here*

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Lying Bunglawussi Agit-Prop Watch:

Who Hijacked The Religion of Hijackers?

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Demented Sheik Muhammad Sa’id Ramadan Al-Buti masters the art of projection, accuses Jews of doing what soldiers of Allah are doing for 1400 years:

Muhammad Sa’id Ramadhan Al-Bouti: We have no interest in war. We all dream about peace. But it is Israel that fans the flames of war, like Lyndon LaRouche said yesterday. I would like to conclude my speech by quoting the will that Benjamin Franklin read out loud to his American “sons” – but the sons and grandsons have torn this will to shreds. In a speech that Benjamin Franklin delivered at the committee for the drafting of the U.S. constitution in 1789, he warned the committee, and the Americans in general, of the Jewish danger for America and the world. Let me read his speech to you, translated into Arabic.

There is a great danger threatening the United States of America. That danger is the Jewish danger. Gentlemen, in whichever land the Jews have settled, they have corrupted the morals, and lowered the level of commercial honesty. They always isolate themselves and never mix with others. Because of their feelings of persecution, they always attempt to choke the nations economically, like they did to Portugal and Spain. Since 1700 [sic.], they have been lamenting their fate. But gentlemen, if the world were to give them Palestine, which they claim along with other property, they would soon find a reason to start lamenting their fate once again. How come? Because they are vermin – he was referring to grave-dwellers who leave their tombs to suck the blood of others. They cannot live among their own kind. They live at the expense of Christians and others who do not belong to their race.

“Jews should be deported from the United States”

Here’s the clip from MEMRI

If they are not deported from the United States by the Constitution, within a century they will be streaming into our country in such large numbers that will enable them to rule the country, destroy us, and change the form of government for which we Americans shed our blood, and for which we have sacrificed our lives, our property, and our personal freedom. If we do not deport the Jews, our children will become, within 200 years, field laborers working to feed the Jews, while the Jews will stay in the banks, gleefully rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, that if you do not deport the Jews once and for all, your children and grandchildren will curse you in your graves. The values of the Jews are not the same as those of the Americans, and they will not be the same even if they live among us for ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. The Jews will pose a danger to this country, if they are allowed in. They will destroy our institutions.

I think I can declare this truth openly. I do not live in Germany or Europe, and so I do not need to whisper these things. We are in a country from which we want to declare who is the number one enemy lying in wait for world peace. Thank you, and may God be with you.

* There’s a Projection Alert above, when he starts talking about threats to world peace.

* Benjamin Franklin of course never said what Sheik Buti claims he did…

* Some headbangers sure have a hide…

* Just about every day the genocidal ‘Palistanians’ set out to burn schools, all kinds of community buildings, kill Israeli’s any which way they can, kill each other (if they can’t get hold of a Jew) and go on mass-demonstrations. These demo’s are fun for the whole family, where armed thugs shoot holes in the ozone and ululating mobs scream ‘death to America,- death to the Jooozzzz…’

* Such efforts must be rewarded. The ‘international community’ has decided that the worlds most murderous, parasitic zombies should get everything they want and more:

Karin Laub has long been a bleeding heart for Pali-causes. She took it upon herself to write this peace for AP here:

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PARIS – The world rallied to the support of the embattled Palestinian government Monday, pledging $7.4 billion in aid over the next three years at a donors’ conference — a sum that tops the Palestinians’ own expectations.

The real winner today is the Palestinian state,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told a news conference after the gathering of nearly 90 countries and international organizations.

“We wanted $5.6 billion, we have $7.4 billion — not bad,” he said.

World leaders at the conference also urged Israel to ease restrictions on movement in the West Bank and Gaza to make a recovery of the Palestinian economy possible.

“Our feeling is great, this is generous. It is a vote of confidence for the program, and a sign of solidarity on the Palestinian question,” Palestinian Planning Minister Samir Abdullah told The Associated Press.

He confirmed the overall figure and said the pledges include $2.9 billion for 2008.

U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a bilateral meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian government needs quick cash…

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged $555 million for 2008. However, the money includes about $400 million that the White House announced but has not been approved by Congress.

For renewed peace efforts to succeed, she said, “the continued and unwavering support of the international community is absolutely vital. That is why we are here today, and not a moment too soon.”

Rice called the U.S. pledge “a significant increase” from earlier pledges.

“The Palestinian Authority is experiencing a serious budgetary crisis,” Rice said. “This conference is literally the government’s last hope to avoid bankruptcy.”

* When were they ever not bankrupt?

Referring to renewed Middle East peace efforts stemming from the U.S.-sponsored conference in Annapolis, Md., last month, Rice said, “This is the most promising opportunity to seek peace that we have had in nearly seven years. And we need to seize it.”

* Only Rice can force ‘peace’ on a bunch of genocidal lunatics who live to wage war.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the pledges amounted to “an endorsement.”

He called it part of the process for “establishing an independent Palestine.”

The sum raised Monday was substantial even compared to the more than $10 billion that donor countries have given to the Palestinians in the past decade, according to the World Bank. Officials have said the Palestinians have received more international aid on a per capita basis than any other nation or group of people in the postwar period.

* What happened to the 10 billion the Pal’s got before? Gone? Dissappeared?

* Professional parasites and extortionists. Lets reward them! Lets give them a state!

From international Mideast envoy Tony Blair to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, participants called for urgent action, saying a new chance for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal must not be missed. Peace talks resumed last week after seven years of diplomatic deadlock, and international aid is seen as key to making the process work.

* BLiar, forever deluded:

“We will not rest until we have that two-state solution a reality in this region of the world,” Blair, a co-sponsor of the conference, told the conference.

* BLiar obviously has a learning disability.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the donors must “invest now, invest generously, and remain steadfast in their financial commitments over the next 36 months.”

* Does Ban Ki-moon invest his own money in a black hole? If not, why does he ask the ‘donors’ to do so?
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the conference was “very constructive” and had “created a momentum to continue the good start we had in Annapolis.”

The EU said it would give $650 million in 2008 and Norway pledged $140 million a year for three years. Britain, France and Germany announced a combined $1.08 billion for three years.

Western donors have urged Arab states to do more. Since 2002, Arab League members have been promising the Palestinians $55 million a month but have not always paid in full.

* If the rich Arabs have no money for their own people, why should the overtaxed Europeans pay for this rabble? Awright, got it: they’re dhimmi’s!

* The rest of the article is about the ‘international community’ urging Israel to commit suicide. Read it here

* Meanwhile, in Israel, the Kassams just keep on coming:

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, right, shows a Palestinian homemade rocket that was fired at Israel from the Gaza strip, as police officer Michael Cardash, left, speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. Palestinian militants fire crude rockets almost daily at southern Israeli border communities, but the inaccurate projectiles rarely cause casualties or damage.

* Not that AP do any biased reporting! Hohoho, it must be the silly season!

Israel Annihilation Watch

Female Palestinian militants take part in a rally organised by the Hamas movement to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its foundation, in Gaza December 15, 2007. (Reuters)

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Rudy Giuliani Opposes Pali State

New York — Israel National News reported that “former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has bucked the party line of successive US administrations and come out against the establishment of a Palestinian State.” They added that he “warned against the push by President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to establish a state in Judea & Samaria ruled by Fatah.”

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Senior Islamic Jihad leader roasted in IDF strike in Gaza

Palestinian officials confirm three Islamic Jihad members killed in airstrike on their vehicle in Gaza City. Among those killed – general commander of the al-Quds Brigades.

Car said to be packed with explosives

Ali Waked

A senior Islamic Jihad commander was killed Monday evening after Israeli aircraft targeted his explosives-laden vehicle in Gaza City.

The bombing set off a huge blast heard around the city and killed two terrorists, including Majed Harazin, a senior Islamic Jihad commander in charge of the rocket squads responsible for the daily Kassam rocket attacks in the western Negev. A third occupant of the car was seriously wounded.

The Islamic Jihad terror group is responsible for many of the Kassam attacks on Israel and was behind the rocket bombardment on Sunday that wounded a two-year-old in Kibbutz Zikim.

Islamic Jihad supporters gathered around the morgue in Gaza and pledged revenge. “The blood of our comrades will be the fuel for the rockets that will bring death and destruction to the Zionists,” Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Hamza said.

* They always say things like that…

* Previous carswarm (archive photo)

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* Actual carswarm

Hamas radio said the car was filled with explosives and warned people to stay away, but people crowded around the burning vehicle. Witnesses said the initial blast was followed by smaller explosions after the car was hit while slowing down near a mosque.

* C A R S W A R M – Fun for the whole family:

A car burns after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike, in Gaza City, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. An Israeli aircraft hit a car filled with explosives in Gaza City after nightfall Monday, setting off a huge blast heard around the city and killing two militants from Islamic Jihad and critically wounding a third, witnesses and hospital officials said. (AP Photo )

* International pressure had nothing to do with it, its just because the Wahabite King has such a good heart:

Saudi Arabian Justice Minister says pardon does not mean king doubted country’s judges.

RIYADH – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.

Saudi Justice Minister Abdullah bin Muhammed al-Sheik told al-Jazirah newspaper that the pardon does not mean the king doubted the country’s judges, but instead acted in the “interests of the people.”

“The king always looks into alleviating the suffering of the citizens when he becomes sure that these verdicts will leave psychological effects on the convicted people, though he is convinced and sure that the verdicts were fair,” al-Jazirah quoted al-Sheik as saying.

* Press reports say King Abdullah’s move “did not mean the sentence was wrong.”

* The question no is: where will she go now? Her own brother has already promised to kill her because she ‘brought shame on his family’- perhaps Norway can exchange her for Mullah Krekar, how about it?

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Gaddafi Swine Watch

Misguided Sarkozy-Gaddafi -Circus-Watch: we know Sarkozy will deliver, but will Gaddafi pay?

Islamic scholar opposes ban on female circumcision

Marwa Al-A’Sar | Cairo, Egypt

In an act that has sparked outrage among Egyptian women’s rights activists, a controversial Islamic scholar filed a lawsuit against the minister of health protesting against a recent ban on female circumcision, a practice referred to by rights groups as female genital mutilation (FGM).

Egyptian Sheikh Youssif al-Badri claims the ministerial decree violates the Egyptian Constitution as well as Islamic principles.

Conservative Muslim and Christian Egyptian families have their daughters circumcised as a means to preserve their chastity. Recent studies revealed that about 90% of Egyptian women have been subjected to the practice.

In June, the Health Ministry banned doctors and nurses from carrying out the procedure. The announcement followed the death of an 11-year-old girl in Upper Egypt as a result of the procedure. Medics who carry out circumcisions may face imprisonment and being stripped of their medical licences.

While al-Badri argues that the practice is necessary in curbing women’s sexual inclinations, women’s rights activists and physicians disapprove of his view.

“Many of the circumcised women who seek our help were traumatised, having no ability to lead a normal sex life, which affects their relationships with their husbands,” said Nihad Abul-Qomsan, head of the Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights.

She accused Muslim sheikhs in the Arab world of being distracted from the vital issues. “No one of the sheikhs coming up with such arguments has ever considered in his agenda the deteriorating socio-economic conditions we are undergoing,” she noted. “Instead they try to play the role of the Islam advocates.”

Egypt’s top Islamic and Christian authorities were quick to voice support for the ban, saying the practice had no basis either in the Qur’an or in the Bible.

“The Constitution is based on the Islamic sharia law, which does not stipulate FGM, giving a wife the right to enjoy sex with her husband,” Khalil Mustafa Khalil, who holds a master’s degree in FGM legislation, told the independent al-Badeel newspaper.

* Wow! A ‘masters degree in FGM legislation’- talk about job creation!

In the 1950s, the Egyptian government tried to stop midwives from performing the procedure, while allowing doctors to do so, in a bid to minimise the risk of families who insist on circumcising their daughters doing so in unsafe conditions.

Public outcry followed the 1994 CNN television broadcast of the procedure being performed on a nine-year-old girl by a barber.

The minister of health at the time decreed that female circumcisions should be performed only one day a week at government facilities, and by trained medical practitioners, only in the event that they failed to persuade the parents from going through with it.

According to the World Health Organisation, FGM comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

A more minor form of the procedure is also undertaken in some parts of the Middle East and South Asia. — Sapa-dpa

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More Muslim Pussy Watch:

Why one Muslim girl became a born-again virgin for her wedding night

When Aisha Salim marries her fiance in Pakistan next March, it will be the wedding of her dreams.
Wearing a veil and gown, she will be every inch the fairytale virgin bride and as befits her strict Muslim religion, after the ceremony, she will hand her blooded wedding-night sheets to her in-laws as proof of her virginity.

But far from being the traditional untouched bride that many Muslim families demand, she is a modern-day university graduate who has smoked, drunk, made love to – and even lived with – a previous English boyfriend.

To disguise the fact that she has had sex, she has paid for painful surgery to “restore” her virginity.

“My virginity was restored in a delicate operation just last week, and I honestly view it as life-saving surgery,” says Aisha. 

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A target rich environment

* Krekar lies whenever he opens his mouth:

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 15 (UPI) — An Islamic leader facing deportation from Norway wrote a defense published in the newspaper Aftenposten, saying he is ‘being punished for talking freely.’

Mullah Krekar, who was born Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad in Iraq, remains in Norway because authorities are unsure of his safety if he returns to his native country.

* Norwegian authorities better start growing some balls: this scumbag has been costing the taxpayers millions already. Time to make an end to it….
In his letter, published Friday, Krekar said his ultimate ambition is to “return home for good, sit on a mountain in peaceful Kurdistan and die a good Muslim.”

He suggested his presence ‘may be keeping Norway safe from terrorist attacks.’

Krekar said ‘he opposes violent actions in European countries.’ He specifically mentioned the bombings of commuter trains in Madrid and public transport in London.

“Islam forbids the killing of civilians, destruction of religious temples, churches, the cutting of trees and the extermination of animals,” he said. “Therefore I hereby declare any action on Norwegian soil — terrorism. But mercenaries in Iraq are not civilians.”

* The soldiers of Allah have 1400 years of history of destroying temples, churches and killing unbelievers and Jooozzz, regardless. Koran 8:7 : ‘Wipe the unbelievers out to the last’ and (Tabari IX:69)“Killing disbelievers is a small matter to us” … Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. Q :89 … are clear commandments in the Koran. Besides, unbelievers are not ‘civilians or innocent’- because they already ‘live in sin for not submitting to Islam.’

* “Unbelievers are not innocent, there is no such thing as civilians” sez Anjem Chaudary

Mullah Krekar, Islamo-Ratbag par excellence, threatens host country with terrorist attack if deported

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* You know they will not be executed because they’re ‘good Muslims’, don’t you?

TEACHER & STUDENT: Cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir (back to camera) talks Saturday with Bali bomber Imam Samudera at the Nusakambangan prison

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Ba’asyir pays homage to Bali bombers in jail

Suherdjoko, The Jakarta Post, Cilacap

Hard-line Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir visited three Bali bombers on death row at their prison Saturday, warning that Indonesia would suffer a “big disaster” if the militants were executed.

Should the government, the Supreme Court and prosecutors — who are all Muslims — execute Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Muchlas, they would be “apostates”, Ba’asyir said.

The cleric was speaking to journalists on his way to Nusakambangan, an island prison complex in Cilacap, Central Java, where the three are awaiting execution. Ba’asyir was accompanied by Muslim lawyer Achmad Michdan and dozens of his followers from the Indonesian Mujahidin Council, as well as family members of the three convicted terrorists. Imam, Amrozi and Muchlas were sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 nightclub bombings on the resort island of Bali, which killed 202 people, mostly Western tourists.

“I’m worried that if they are executed there will be a big disaster in Indonesia,”

Ba’asyir said without elaborating. He said the visit to the three bombers was to show “concern among Muslims who are being tortured”. Once again, he did not elaborate. The cleric called the three convicts “mujahid”, an Arabic term for holy warrior, despite the fact that the Bali bombings killed innocent people.

“They were not terrorists but counter- terrorists.”

He said that during the visit he wanted to advise the convicts to be patient and to seek God’s forgiveness if they had done wrong. “I would advise them that if their methods were true, they should be patient. But if their methods were wrong, they must repent to God.” According to Ba’asyir, the three convicts felt guilty of using the Bali bombs to “defend” Islam as innocent Muslims were among the dead. “That is why they are now fasting for two months to make up for the loss of innocent lives,” he said. The cleric did not say if the innocent lives included those of foreign holidaymakers, the majority of the victims killed during the attacks. No date has been set for the execution of the three Bali bombers, although the Supreme Court has rejected their final appeals. Ba’asyir was once convicted of conspiracy in the Bali bombings, and served 2 1/2 years in prison before being freed in June 2006 after the Supreme Court quashed the conspiracy conviction on appeal. The Bali bombings and several other deadly attacks have been blamed on militants from Jamaah Islamiyah, of which Ba’asyir was alleged to have been the spiritual leader and co-founder. Although there have been no major bomb attacks since 2005, police say Indonesia still faces a considerable threat from militants.

* Something makes me think that targeted assignations are a good way for disposing of poisonous filth like that.

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Anti-dhimmitude in Berlin

* Trouble is that it should have never been allowed in the first place.

BERLIN: A conservative German state governor is considering a ban on students wearing the all-encompassing Muslim burqa in schools, according to an interview published on Sunday ahead of regional elections next month.

The state of Hesse — which includes Germany’s financial center, Frankfurt — already has the country’s widest-reaching legislation preventing public school teachers and civil servants from wearing head scarves at work.

Governor Roland Koch, a prominent member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, was quoted as telling the weekly Focus that his government “specifically encourages the integration of the Muslim population in our society.”

“Many Muslims feel that they are put under pressure from within their own ranks — that is not acceptable,” he said, according to the report. “That is why we are also thinking about a burqa ban in schools.”

“A fully veiled girl cannot participate equally in classes — she is massively obstructed in the development of her personality,” Koch was quoted as saying. “Every student must be able to show her face openly.”

Koch added that he has no intention of preventing female students from wearing head scarves at school.

Koch has governed Hesse since 1999, when he ousted a center-left regional administration following a campaign in which his party hit out at a federal government proposal to liberalise German citizenship laws.

Here’s what happened when Jack Straw tried to ban the burka in Britain

“Arrest Jack Straw”

* British dimmi’s, as we all know, backed off… 

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“JEWS….. WE HAVE ALREADY DUG GRAVES FOR YOU”

* via JW

“Celebrating anniversary, Hamas warns of Intifada,” by Nidal al-Mughrabi for Reuters (thanks to Pamela):

200,000 rally for Hamas in Gaza

GAZA, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Hamas threatened to launch a new uprising against Israel on Saturday when hundreds of thousands of Islamist supporters rallied in Gaza City to mark the group’s 20th anniversary.

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“Our people are capable of launching a third and a fourth intifada until the dawn of victory rises up,” said Khaled Meshaal, the group’s exiled leader, in a speech recorded on Friday at his base in Damascus.

The Tiny Minority of Extremistsâ„¢ is actually not so tiny.

The central square in Gaza City was awash with green flags and dozens of armed, masked men from the group’s military wing patrolled in a crowd estimated at between 300,000 and 500,000.
Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said the movement was growing more popular because of its stance against the United States and Israel.

“Today is the day of Jihad, resistance and uprising,” Haniyeh said.

* But don’t be concerned. Remember, jihad has many meanings, and is primarily an interior spiritual struggle. (Memo to Ibrahim Hooper: See, Ibrahim, I could do your job for you, my good man!)

“Those who remain committed to the constant rights of their people, those who make an enemy of America and the Zionist occupation (Israel) gain popularity. This is Hamas.” […]
Meshaal said Abbas, whose administration is backed by the West, lacked the support of the Palestinian people.

“Whoever thinks his legitimacy comes from the international backing is under an illusion, the legitimacy is the people,” Meshaal said.

Alluding to last month’s Israeli-Palestinian talks in Annapolis, Maryland, Haniyeh said conferences “will achieve nothing”.

“We will never cede our land … The choice of resistance and Jihad is the shortest way to liberate Palestine and return Jerusalem,” Haniyeh said.

* In other words, “f**k off, just send money!”

GRAVES ALREADY PREPARED

In another speech to the rally, senior Hamas official Mushir al-Masri warned Israel to expect many casualties if troops invade the coastal territory in an attempt to stop almost daily rocket firing by militants into Israel.

“Jews, go back, because we have already dug graves for you,” Masri said. Israel carries out regular raids on Gaza and has killed dozens of militants in the past month.

The crowd featured many who are poor and devout, with many veiled women and masked men. Layali al-Kher, 27, said there was little money in her family, because restrictions on cement and raw materials have led to the closing of factories and a halt to construction. “But this siege was not imposed by Hamas but on them, so why should we criticize them?” she asked. “They’ve put Hamas in a bottle and they are trying to suffocate it. But they have achieved a lot: the streets are safe, the traffic is controlled. They have adapted quickly and have a strong will.”

A Hamas legislator, Mushir al-Masri, told the crowd that after 20 years, the roots of Hamas “stretch into the heart of the nation and every part of the land.”

“Twenty years,” Mr. Masri said, “from the stone to the knife, the bullet to the bomb, the mortar to the rocket, and from the martyrdom operations to the tunnels of hell.”

On Monday, in Paris, Mr. Abbas and Mr. Fayyad will attend a donors conference of Western countries who are likely to pledge the $5.6 billion in budgetary and development support over the next three years, in large part to try to show Gazans that Fatah’s willingness to negotiate a peace with Israel is a preferable path.

Steven Erlanger reported from Jerusalem, and Taghreed El-Khodary from Gaza City.