Category: General

Cameron Stewart and Richard Kerbaj/The Australian

Thanks to Rosie

ON a hot summer’s night two years ago, a carload of Islamic gunmen drove along Auburn Road in Sydney’s west and sprayed bullets into a row of shops owned by Iraqi Australians.

Sunni spiritual leader Fehmi Naji el-Imam, left, and Australia’s Shi’ite spiritual leader Kamal Mousselmani

Australia’s Muhammedans are seething over Wafa Sultan’s visit

This was no run-of-the-mill crime. On this night in January 2005, the gunshots echoed far beyond western Sydney and into the Canberra offices of ASIO, the domestic spy agency. The attack seemed to confirm what ASIO and other law enforcement agencies had long feared: that tensions between rival Sunni and Shia Muslim communities had spilled into violence.

It occurred only a week before the landmark free elections in Iraq, where Sunnis and Shi’ites were locked in a bitter and bloody power struggle.

The Sydney shooting of Shi’ite-owned shops followed the harassment of Shi’ite voters in Auburn the previous day as they lined up to cast their postal vote for Iraq.

A group of Sunni protesters had disrupted the voting, holding up a sign in Arabic saying “vote and die” and chanting anti-Shia slogans. So bad was the harassment that local sheik Haydar Naji advised his fellow voters for their own safety to scrub the blue fingerprint ink off their fingers, ink that was proud proof of their democratic vote.

In the eyes of the authorities, the clashes and the shooting in Auburn were a grim portent for the future. The last thing the nation’s counter-terrorism agencies needed was a mini Australian version of the bloody feud between the Sunnis and Shi’ites in Iraq.

So far, their worst fears have proved unfounded. The global divide between Islam’s two main groups, Sunnis and Shi’ites, has not become a flashpoint in Australia’s Muslim community. On the contrary, as was revealed by The Australian, the nation’s Shi’ite and Sunni leaders have formed a united front against Israel, declaring their support for the Iranian-backed terrorist network Hezbollah.

Yesterday Muslim leaders from both sects attacked the Howard Government and the Opposition for meeting a controversial US-based Muslim thinker, Wafa Sultan, who considers the prophet Mohammed evil and who says there is no difference between moderate and radical Islam.

The Australian yesterday revealed that Sultan, a psychiatrist who shot to fame last year following an interview on the Arabic news and current affairs television channel Al Jazeera in which she attacked Islam, met Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Opposition Deputy Leader Julia Gillard while in Australia on an “under the radar” visit to talk aboutIslam.

Sydney-based Shi’ite leader Salah Qurnawy yesterday joined Sunni leader Keysar Trad warning against anti-Islamic Muslims, saying they were as dangerous as radical clerics who wanted to destroy the West.

* Sure. Keysar Trad and his ‘out of context’ brigades really believe they have a monopoly on destroying Australia

Qurnawy, president of the Al Sajjad Association, believes Sultan’s views and outlook on Islam threaten to undermine the relationships formed between Muslims and wider Australia. He says Sultan – who last year featured in Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people in the world – should not have been allowed into Australia.

“She will create disharmony for the community,” Qurnawy says.

* Really? Informing the government about the Muhammedan agenda creates ‘disharmony?’ It wouldn’t occur to these ‘moderates’ that they themselves created the problem in the first place…

Using our liberal laws against us:

Trad, president of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, has called on Ruddock to investigate Sultan’s views under sedition laws. “These politicians are free to go to bed with whom they choose,” he says of the ministers who met Sultan. “But if they allow people like Wafa Sultan to colour their views about the Australian Muslims with her crusade of misinformation, then they will not be serving the interest of Australian society. Her views are divisive to Australian society.

* Hmm, interesting concept “-crusade of misinformation”– what kind of ‘misinformation’ could that be, Keysar? And what about dividing the world in believers and unbelievers and teaching your kids that unbelievers are ‘the vilest of creatures and must be killed for Allah and then claiming it was all out of context?’

“I would expect (Ruddock) to search through the sedition provisions that he introduced (to see if) the views she has already stated would create division or hatred within Australian society.”

* Sure. In the Islamic state stoning would be the proper penalty for apostasy. There would probably be some extra bit of torture for ‘blaspheming the prophet’ and an few other ways to kill Wafa Sultan. Right Keysar?

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Janet Albrechtsen meets Wafa Sultan:

Breakout from Islam’s mental prison

Question: Why did the Australian government have to sneak Wafa Sultan in?

Answer: Why does Ayaan Ali Hirsi and Salman Rushdie need body guards 24/7?

Wafa Sultan: “Look at any Islamic country. Tell me what you see. Poverty, backwardness, oppression, dictatorship, miserable lives. Somehow we have to help them change their way of thinking, their way of life. We have to re-create a new generation clean of hatred. We have been consumed by hatred. We are not practising our humanity. It’s very sad.”

Read it all

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From dawa to jihad – the various threats from radical Islam to the democratic legal order

For the trolls…

Final email of Glasgow airport bomber:

‘I want to die for Allah’

by NEIL SEARS /Daily Mail

The Glasgow airport bomber who died of burns in the attack sent an email confession to relatives, a security source claims.

Bomber: Kafeel Ahmed sent email saying he wanted to be a martyr

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Kafeel Ahmed, 27, who died in early August of 90 per cent burns just over a month after the bungled terror attack, is believed to have been the driver of the Jeep Cherokee deliberately driven into the terminal.

* He is not ‘believed to have been’ the driver, that SOB WAS the driver…

And it has now emerged that there is damning evidence of the Indian-born engineer’s dedication to terrorism.
Not only is he said to have sent an email claiming he was acting in the name of Allah and discussing martyrdom, his relatives have also identified him in CCTV footage fleeing one of the failed nightclub car bombs in London the day before the Glasgow airport attack of June 30.

In addition, analysis of his computer is said to show he visited bomb-making websites, and his mobile phone was found in the burnt-out Jeep.

The evidence is vital for anti-terror experts, who believe Ahmed, who lived in Glasgow, could have provided crucial information about Al Qaeda networks.

His death came despite a long battle to save him from his injuries, at a cost of £150,000 to the National Health Service.

* No doubt his fellow jihadists will refund it, they always do…

A security source has told reporters that Ahmed sent a text to a relative just two hours before the Jeep was driven into Glasgow airport.

The text contained a password to access a linked email.

In the email, Ahmed is said to admit to both the London car bombing attempt and the Glasgow plot – and to say he was serving Allah.

Although the email apparently accepts that his relative will be shocked by his involvement in terror, he says that he desires martyrdom and appears to describe the Glasgow attack as a suicide bombing.

The email was not read by its recipient however until after the Jeep had been engulfed by flames at the airport.

It is believed that the Glasgow attack was launched in a hurry after the London bombings failed, because the terrorists feared they would be arrested imminently.

Medics at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary said Ahmed never emerged from a coma throughout his long unwilling battle for life after he was hauled from the flaming Jeep.

The source said: “This was one of the worst cases of burns I have ever seen. It was very traumatic for everyone involved in his care.

“I was surprised he survived this long.”

The other occupant of the Jeep, Iraqui doctor Bilal Talal Samad Abdullah, has been charged with conspiring to set off lethal explosions.

Also charged over the attacks are Jordanian doctor Mohammed Jamil Asha and Ahmed’s brother Sabeel, 26.

Australia:

Moonbat Judge Restores Haneef Visa

* Birds of a feather flock together: The failed Glasgow bombers and the Pakistani doctor Haneef shared more than a common interest in stamp collecting and growing beards. To Haneef’s good fortune, the ultimate wisdom of Australia’s libertarian judges will not tolerate the slightest whiff of ‘guilt by association’- even though Haneef steadfastly refused to talk about the jihad during his 20-some day’s interrogation. In a typical grandstanding gesture of defiance, judge Jeffrey Spender claims immigration minister Kevin Andrews acted improperly when he revoked Haneefs visa.

As the criminal case against Haneef crumbled, Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews revoked Haneef’s work visa, saying that he had failed the “character test” because of his association with suspected criminals.

In his ruling Tuesday, the judge, Jeffrey Spender, said that he himself might fail such a test, because he had associated with known criminals as a defense lawyer. A victim of domestic violence might also fail, he said, because she had associated with her partner.

* Judge Jeffrey Spender failed to establish the connection between domestic violence and the global jihad.

Link to Herald Tribune

Andrews to appeal Haneef ruling

INDIAN doctor Mohamed Haneef has come a step closer to returning to Australia after a court ruled his work visa should be reinstated.

But the former terror suspect’s return to Queensland’s Gold Coast is not guaranteed, after Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said he would appeal today’s decision, which hinged on a point of law.

“When I made the decision to cancel Dr Haneef’s visa, I made it in the national interest and I stand by that decision,” Mr Andrews said today.

Link to Herald Sun

Update:

Manipulation: Muslim Website Claims “Indian Aussies turn against Howard over Dr Haneef”

Thanks to Mullah

* An interesting attempt by ‘Indian Aussies’- (in reality none other than our friends from the ummah) to throw some political weight around in order to appeal to some vote whoring labor prop:

By Neville D’ Cruz

Melbourne, Aug 19 (NNN-Bernama) The Howard Government is facing an electoral backlash from the nation’s Indian community over the Mohamed Haneef affair, according to “The Australian” newspaper.

The United Indian Associations (UIA), the peak body representing the 150,000 Indian-born Australians, said the Indian community felt “badly let down” by Prime Minister John Howard and would vent its anger at the polls due before the end of this year.

* One wonders why Hindu’s or Christian’s from India would ‘feel badly let down’ by the PM for having a Muslim terror suspects visa revoked.

Nice try, Muslims. Nice try!

* Australia’s Indian-born population has almost doubled under the Howard Government, from 77,000 in 1996 to 147,000 at last year’s census.

* Their numbers would be too small to matter if they were spread evenly across all electorate but they cluster in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

* More politically correct BS reporting. More obfuscation and political, moral and religious equivalence. Because all religions are equally bad, there are zealots wherever you look (if you refuse to look at the obvious) and because Christians fly jets into buildings, Buddhists blow up Buddha statues and Hindu’s are expert headchoppers. Ahh, and if it wasn’t for the Jooozzz we would have never had any suicide bombers, right? Right.

CNN pretends that Judaism, Christianity, Islam all equally likely to incite violence

“CNN explores religious fundamentalism,” by David Bauder for AP with comments from Jihad Watch

NEW YORK – Christiane Amanpour’s work on the documentary series “God’s Warriors” took her directly to intersections of extreme religious and secular thinking.
She watched, fascinated, as demonstrators in San Francisco accused teenagers in the fundamentalist Christian group BattleCry of intolerance in a clash of two cultures that will probably never understand each other.

Understanding is what Amanpour is trying to promote in “God’s Warriors,” which takes up six prime-time hours on CNN this week. The series on religious fundamentalism among Christians, Muslims and Jews airs in three parts, 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday through Thursday.

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“I’m not interested in drumming up false fears, or falsely allaying fears,” CNN’s chief international correspondent told The Associated Press by phone from France, where she added last-minute touches to the series. “I just want people to know what’s going on.”

Amanpour traveled extensively over eight months to work on the series. The trips to Amanpour’s native Iran are most fascinating. She explored the ancient roots of the conflict between Shiites and Sunnis, and talked with one of the country’s most accomplished female politicians about how Muslim women are treated.

Another segment tried to explain why so many devout Muslims are willing to give their lives to a cause.

“To the West, martyrdom has a really bad connotation because of suicide bombers who call themselves martyrs,” she said. “Really, martyrdom is actually something that historically was quite noble, because it was about standing up and rejecting tyranny, rejecting injustice and rejecting oppression and, if necessary, dying for that.”…

* This is true in both Christianity and Islam. Amanpour fails to point out, however, that in Islam, but not in Christianity, a martyr is someone who kills for Allah, and is killed in the process (cf. Qur’an 9:111). One might forgive “the West” for getting this “bad connotation” in the face of the Islamic scriptural jihadists use to justify suicide attacks.

Read it and weep…

To quote former New York Times Chief of Staff, John Swinton, as he admonished in his speech at the New York Press Club, in 1953:

“The business of a journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie out right, to prevent, to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for our daily bread. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scene. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

Indeed.

Update:

Fitzgerald: The point of CNN’s religious fundamentalism series 

Iranian clerics goose-step over American flag

No march without fiery speeches, though:

Fuhrer Ahmadinejad: ‘Enemies Trying to Replace Divine Faiths with Misleading Thoughts’

”Our duty has gone beyond the geographic borders of the Islamic world. Muslim scholars must invite world population to monotheism and Islam,” said the president.

LGF

There are no words..

Update: Iran hangs 30 over ‘US plots

Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged United States-backed plots to topple the regime, the British Observer newspaper has revealed.

Many executions have been carried out in public in an apparent bid to create a climate of intimidation while sending out uncompromising signals to the West. Opposition sources say at least three of the dead were political activists, contradicting government insistence that it is targeting “thugs” and dangerous criminals.

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Hassan Al Banna, founder of the Muslim brotherhood:

Allah is our goal

The Prophet Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah is our leader

The Qu’ran is our constitution

Jihad is our way

And death in the way of Allah is our promised end.

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Wafa Sultan secretly in Australia:

Warning to West on ‘evil of Islam’

Richard Kerbaj/The Australian

THE West was still underestimating the evil of Islam, an influential Muslim thinker has warned, insisting that Australia and the US have been duped into believing there is a difference between the religion’s moderate and radical interpretations.

On a two-week “under the radar” visit to Australia, Syrian-born Wafa Sultan secretly met both sides of federal politics and Jewish community leaders, warning them that all Muslims needed to be closely monitored in the West.

Wafa Sultan speaks up:

“(As a Muslim) your mission on this earth is to fight for Islam and to kill or to be killed”

* Perfectly clear and unmistakable in sura 9:111 in the ‘immutable’ Koran
In an interview with The Australian, Dr Sultan — who shot to recognition last year following an interview on al-Jazeera television in which she attacked Islam and the prophet Mohammed — said Muslims were “brainwashed” from an early age to believe Western values were evil and that the world would one day come under the control of Sharia law.

The US-based psychiatrist — who has two fatwas (religious rulings) issued against her to be killed –– warned that Muslims would continue to exploit freedom of speech in the West to spread their “hate” and attack their adopted countries, until the Western mind grasped the magnitude of the Islamic threat.

* The ‘hate’ shouldn’t be in quotation marks, Richard. The hate is real!

“You’re fighting someone who is willing to die,” Dr Sultan told The Australian in an Arabic and English interview. “So you have to understand this mentality and find ways to face it. (As a Muslim) your mission on this earth is to fight for Islam and to kill or to be killed. You’re here for only a short life and once you kill a kafir, or a non-believer, soon you’re going to be united with your God.”

Dr Sultan, who was brought to Australia by a group called Multi-Net comprised of Jews and Christians, met senior politicians, including Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Labor deputy leader Julia Gillard.

Private security was hired for Dr Sultan, who left Australia yesterday, and state police authorities were also made aware of her movements in the country.

The organisers of her visit asked the media to not publish anything about her stay until she had left the country because of security-related concerns. Dr Sultan said Islam was a “political ideology” that was wrongly perceived to have a moderate and hardline following.

“That’s why the West has to monitor the majority of Muslims because you don’t know when they’re ready to be activated. Because they share the same basic belief, that’s the problem,” said the 50-year-old, who was last year featured in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Dr Sultan, who was raised on Alawite Islamic beliefs before she renounced her religion, began to question Islam after she witnessed her university teacher get gunned down by Muslim hardliners in Syria in 1979.

The mother of three, who migrated to the US in 1989, said the West needed to hold Muslims and their leaders more accountable for the atrocities performed in the name of Islam if they wanted to win the war on terror.

But while she considered the prophet Mohammed “evil” and said the Koran needed to be destroyed because it advocated violence against non-believers, Dr Sultan struggled to articulate her vision for Muslims, whom she said she was trying to liberate from the shackles of their beliefs.

“I believe the only way is to expose the Muslims to different cultures, different thoughts, different belief systems,” said Dr Sultan, who is completing her first book, The Escaped Prisoner: When Allah is a Monster.

“Muslims have been hostages of their own belief systems for 1400 years. There is no way we can keep the Koran.”

* One would hope that our politicians are listening…

With thanks to the Brussels Journal

A quote from Freddy Thielemans, the Mayor of Brussels, in an op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard, 20 August 2007:

I decided to forbid the September 11 demonstration “against the islamicisation of Europe.” […] Since 2001 I have allowed over 3,500 demonstrations. This is only the sixth one which I forbid. […] The right to demonstrate exists only inasmuch as it does not cause a disturbance of the public peace and order. […] First and foremost the organizers have chosen the symbolic date of 9/11. The intention is obviously to confound the terrorist activities of Muslim extremists on the one hand and Islam as a religion and all Muslims on the other hand. […] Such incitement to discrimination and hatred, which we usually call racism and xenophobia, is forbidden by a considerable number of international treaties and is punished by our penal laws and by the European legislation. The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly pronounced judgements condemning this type of acts. […]

Our society has long fought to achieve that certain codes of behaviour connected with the Catholic religion are no longer enforced as civil law upon everyone. To my knowledge not a single rule specific to the Islamic religion is being enforced in similar fashion. And I see no indication that a large majority of our Muslim population is demanding any such thing.

Let us not forget that Brussels has always shown tolerance and openness towards everyone who lives here or seeks refuge here. Diversity, compromise, tolerance and rejection of extremes remain the foundation of the Brussels identity. […] With regard to the planned demonstration of September 11 “against the Islamicisation of Europe” my mind is made up. And my decision is final: it will not take place.

* Freddy Thielemans owes his position as a mayor to the Muslim vote.

Our comment (TBJ):

Clearly this should be read as a threat. Anyone who intends to participate in the 9/11 demo is a criminal under Belgian and European law: he or she is a racist and a xenophobe (Islamophobe).

Contrary to what the mayor says, rules specific to the Islamic religion are being imposed upon society as a whole. For instance, Brussels has segregated swimming hours for women in public pools; Brussels public schools serve halal meat; Muslims slaughter sheep in the streets of Brussels; the religion-hating (religiophobia, anyone?) Brussels mayor, who toasts the death of the Pope, does not toast the death of Muslim leaders; …

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Puke your heart out: Illegal Islamic Slaughter yard in Brussels

Update:

Belgium: Muslims want ban on Easter eggs 

* As long as the West allows commie vote-whores like Freddie Thielemans and London’s ‘Red Ken’ Livingstone to sell the family silver to the Muhammedan invaders, Western culture and civilization will remain under siege:

ANTWERP – “If head scarves are banned for employees who work at the desk at city services in order to guarantee neutrality of services, then we demand that no Christmas trees be set up in city buildings and that no Easter eggs be given out.” Antwerp trade union representative Badia Miri said this on Wednesday in the Gazet van Antwerpen. 

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* A poster on this blog (atheist) has a beef with Christianity, or better with religion as a whole. But the fact that there is no religion but Islam that glorifies child abuse doesn’t bother him, he/she is hellbent pretending that child abuse is an entirely ‘Christian’ thing, but fails to find one item in the Christian (or Buddhist or Jewish) scriptures or traditions that would support his/her claim.

Child abuse in Islam:

A quick google search “child abuse in Islam” comes up with nearly 2 million cases of child abuse, of the most revolting, unspeakable variety. If you teach children to hate and to blow up Jooozzz is that not child abuse? For ‘atheist’ obviously it is not. ‘Atheist’ ignores the widespread sexual child abuse in Islamistan, something hardly reported, simply because it is suppressed. If there is no law against it, no prosecution and no judge, it is not as if it doesn’t exists.

Genital mutilation, for ‘atheist’ doesn’t seem to count as child abuse either, it must be a cultural thing then.

Madrassah Child

atheist Says:
August 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pm e you miss the point as usual. And to suggest relgion = reality must surely go down as the most obtuse statement I have heard for a long time.
Religion is everything but reality and it is the duty of every free thinking person earth to expose it for what it really is. Relgion poisons EVERYTHING. In the US alone last year more than 600 victims of child rape by Catholic clergy received over 500 million dollars in compensation. I can’t recall the last time I read about a Muslim Imam raping a child even though the Koran encourages it, as you point out. You know, as well I do, that the Bible is full of filth, murder, unspeakable atrocities and sexual perversion. How dare you claim this to be reality !! shame on you

* Well, ‘atheist’- here is a video for you. Perhaps you can find us a similar one about Christian priests:

“…the Bible is full of filth, murder, unspeakable atrocities and sexual perversion. How dare you claim this to be reality !”

* Last time I checked the bible didn’t promote filth, murder, unspeakable atrocities and sexual perversion. Reality is that the bible condemns these activities.

* Your inverted logic is very Islamic, like stoning the victim for being raped. There are hundreds, if not thousands of cases in Europe and America that involve Muslim clerics and child rape.

For ‘atheist’- it simply isn’t because he doesn’t want it to be. That doesn’t make it go away…

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Child abuse in mosques: Lifting the veil of secrecy 

ALI KHAN was sitting at a meeting in a Glasgow mosque, discussing a paedophile assault in a house of God, when he realised he had to take matters into his own hands. A Koranic teacher had been accused of sexually assaulting a young girl under his charge, and Khan, a 47-year-old property tycoon, was sitting alongside a handful of other senior Muslim figures in the community discussing what should or should not be done with the man.

“Horror of horrors,” says Khan over the telephone from his office in Dubai, “what was suggested was that the alleged abuser should be allowed to remain in the mosque.”

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* Once again, an American soldier has been killed by enemy combatants, by Islamic terrorists hiding in a mosque. If America hits back will be an international outcry. But when the jihadists shoot from the mosque, there is no outcry at all. Of course.

* Surprised? That’s what mosques are for, after all, because “War is Deception”- said Muhammad

New mosque in Kurdistan

By Multi-National Division – North PAO

Blackanthem Military News, TAJI, Iraq – Insurgents launched an attack against Coalition Forces from a Sunni mosque in Tarmiyah, Iraq, in Baghdad Province, Aug. 16.

Soldiers from 4th Stryker Brigade Combat, 2nd Infantry Division, were attacked at their outpost with heavy small-arms fire which the unit confirmed came from the Honest Muhammed Mosque. The attack resulted in one Coalition Soldier killed and another wounded as reported previously in MNC-I press release 20070817-04. CF previously reported multiple small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenade attacks on nearby outposts originating from the mosque since May.

* One would hope that the ‘honest Muhammad mosque’ has been turned into a parking place…

“These insurgents displayed total disregard for the community by using a mosque, a sacred place for Muslims worship, as a sanctuary to commit their acts of terror,” said Maj. Mike Garcia, spokesperson for 4th SBCT. “They are fully aware Coalition Forces treat religious centers with the highest regard. This is an obvious sign of cowardice.”

* Really? What is then when the soldiers of Allah shoot at coalition troops and hide behind women and children?

After confirming the source of the attack, CF established an outer cordon of the area and attempted to locate the mosque’s Imam. After being unable to find the Imam, CF talked to the mosque’s groundskeeper in an attempt to resolve the situation.

CF conducted a tactical callout to individuals inside the mosque instructing them to come out. Two armed individuals were identified on the roof.

The groundskeeper instructed everyone in the mosque to exit the mosque and surrender to CF. The groundskeeper and 20 people exited the mosque. After detaining the 20 individuals, the groundskeeper stated the mosque was empty. Two armed individuals remained on the roof.

An air weapons team engaged the armed individuals on the northeast corner of the mosque’s roof with a Hellfire missile.

The roof of the mosque only sustained minor damage.

“Our forces only entered after repeated attempts to have the insurgents come out to avoid damaging the mosque,” said Garcia. “However, we must continue to take action against terrorists that choose to attack our forces and threaten the community.”

One Soldier was transported to a Coalition medical facility where he died of wounds. Another Soldier was treated for superficial wounds and returned to duty.

This incident remains under investigation.

* The ‘honest Muhammad’ mosque is still standing. Why?

Hugh Fitzgerald speaks truth to power:

The American soldiers who went off to Iraq did not know that mosques would be centers from which they would be attacked. They did not know that mosques were used as barracks, as places where, the Muslims understood, they could exploit the innocence of the Infidels and their desire not to offend. The choice not to offend, and to treat mosques as merely “houses of worship” then as what they are — centers for the promotion of the duty of Jihad, places where people are not given sermons using words such as “charity” and “mercy” and “hope” and “love” but rather different words — “struggle” and “war” and “Infidel” and “umma al-Islamiyya” and “Jihad” and “Jihad” and “Jihad,” in so many mosques, in too many mosques, in so many places, in too many places, for it to be merely a matter of this or that singularly fanatical imam.

Start seeing mosques for what they are:

They are far more than “houses of worship.” Far more, and therefore far less entitled to be treated as if that is what they are. If the enemy holds up in a building, that building is not sacrosanct.Mosques are attacked all the time, Sunnis blow up Shi’a mosques, and Shi’a blow up Sunni mosques, in Iraq, and in Pakistan. from those who seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca in November 1979 (which hastily-converted French troops finally managed to dislodge), to those who attack the mosques of their political, sectarian, or ethnic rivals whenever the spirit moves them. And it so often moves them.
American soldiers in, or returning from, Iraq, now know what they should expect from inside those mosques. And so do the security services who have raided, and who have monitored, and who keep under surveillance mosques in England, mosques in France, mosques in Italy, mosques in Germany, mosques everywhere.

Stop pretending that a mosque is merely an innocent “house of worship.” Stop fooling yourself, and others.

* Obviously, we are not learning, are we?

But First: Something to crack you up: Ray Stevens “Ahab the Arab”

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan police freed a female German hostage from a Kabul neighborhood and arrested a group of kidnappers early Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

A German aid worker identified herself as Christina Meier in a video shown on Afghan television.

The 31-year-old aid worker was freed during a raid in the western part of the capital not far from the restaurant where she was seized Saturday while dining with her husband, Zemary Bashari said.

The woman’s husband was not abducted.

“A group of kidnappers were arrested,” Bashari said.

In Berlin, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the woman was “in safety at the German Embassy” in Kabul.

On Sunday, Afghan television broadcast what it said was video of the woman, who identified herself as Christina Meier, calling for the release of unspecified prisoners while being prompted by a man.

Police have said Taliban militants were not behind the woman’s brazen daytime abduction.

The woman was shown sitting on the floor inside a room, her head covered with a white scarf. She said “I am OK” and then read a letter in the Afghan language, Dari, calling for the release of unknown prisoners.

She was prompted to make remarks in English and in Dari by a man speaking in broken English.

The private Tolo TV, which broadcast the video, did not say how it obtained the material.

“I am fine. There are not threats against me. I want from my country to do what it can for my release,” she said in Dari, reading from a piece of paper while seated, occasionally looking up toward the camera.

A male voice off-camera prompted her to say, “to help” and he told her to use the word “urgent.”

“Please help for my release, and help me,” she said.

A man, his head covered with a scarf and wearing sunglasses inside a room, appeared afterward in the video and demanded the Afghan government release a number of unknown prisoners. He said a member of the group would provide the government with the list.

“We are not bad people. We are a special network,” the man said at the end of the video. He did not identify the group or say whether it is linked to the Taliban or other insurgents operating in Afghanistan.

* ‘We are not bad, we are special…” Good one, that. Where did we hear that before?

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Korean hostages released by Taliban return home

New Delhi: Two female South Koreans, Kim Kyung-ja and Kim Ji-na, return home after being held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for more than three weeks

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The Gordon Brownnose Dhimmi government keeps aiding and abetting the global jihad

…and shelters hate preaching Jihadist lunatics

By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph

A Muslim terror suspect -living in the UK has publicly praised the insurgents who are battling British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Watch Hani al-Sibai’s anti-West outburst

Hani al-Sibai was convicted in Egypt of plotting terrorist attacks

Hani al-Sibai claimed that Islamic fighters were humiliating Western forces, adding: “In the battlefield, they are the masters.”

Al-Sibai has lived in Britain since 1994, after fleeing his homeland of Egypt where he has been convicted by a military court in his absence of plotting terrorist attacks. Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, once described the failure to remove him from the country as “not good enough”.

The 46-year-old radical was refused asylum nine years ago after British security chiefs concluded he was a senior member of the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an allegation he denies. He has, however, been granted temporary permission to live in the UK while officials consider his latest claim for asylum.

While he waits, al-Sibai continues to speak out against the West. In a debate on al-Jazeera television last month, he declared: “There are no real men except for the people of Islam. Look at the people who give reason to hold the head of Islam high.

“In politics they are the masters. In the battlefield they are the masters. They are the ones who rub in the mud the nose of the occupation forces in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Palestine, throughout the world.”

He also contrasted Islamic extremists with pro-Western secular leaders in the Middle East, who, he said, “should be placed in public squares so that people can hit them with their shoes and spit on them”.

Al-Sibai’s outburst on al-Jazeera, delivered in Arabic, was spotted and translated by Memri, a US-based translation institute. An Arabic speaker consulted by this newspaper confirmed the accuracy of the translation.

Challenged about his outburst, al-Sibai insisted he was speaking as a political analyst, rather than glorifying the insurgents. He claimed his words had been “mistranslated and taken out of context”.

Fibbi Hooper

* Hmmm? Where did we hear that one before?

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Al Bebeeceera Bans Terror Script

* The BBC exists in a world of New Labour political correctness: Muslim terrorists replaced by animal rights extremists.

The BBC has dropped plans to show a fictional terror attack in an episode of Casualty to avoid offending Muslims.
The first show of the hospital drama’s new series was to have featured a storyline about an explosion caused by Islamic extremists. Link

* Channel 4 will screen a suicide bomber story by a Bafta star as its rival retreats over Muslim plotline

David Smith

The Observer

The BBC has abandoned plans to screen a fictional terrorist attack by Muslim suicide bombers in the primetime drama Casualty after internal clashes over whether the highly sensitive subject matter would cause offence.

BBC drama executives were keen to push the storyline and may even have started filming, a source close to the production told The Observer. But they were overruled by the corporation’s editorial guidelines department, which ordered that the episode be changed so that the Muslim characters were replaced by animal rights extremists.

The producers’ frustration at BBC policy is likely to be intensified by revelations that Channel 4 is to risk controversy by broadcasting a two-part thriller, written and directed by the Bafta-winning Peter Kosminsky, which depicts a suicide bombing by a young female Muslim causing devastation in London’s Canary Wharf.

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Camel AIDS breaks out in Sowdi Arabia

Mystery ailment kills hundreds of Saudi camels

* While some conspiracy theorists blame the Jooozzz, the Mossad claims the camels contracted the virus when Arafish visited the desert kingdom some years ago…

F#*k virgins! I want the 24 boyz…!