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‘All of the world belongs to Allah’ Anjem Chaudry

Chaudry: ‘Unbelievers are not innocent, rejecting Islam is a heinous crime’ 

“Legitimate Demands” with thanks to Jihad Watch

A Video Speech by Adam Yahiye Gadahn Produced by as-Sahab Media

When was the last time a traitor was executed in a western country? Excremental creatures like Mamduh Habib, Muhammed Dawoud aka David Hicks, Jihad Jack and the American Taliban Johan Walker Lind are all alive and well.

Is a society which doesn’t execute her traitors able to survive?

Here is the egregious ‘Azzam the American”

“…You and your people will- Allah willing- experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Virginia Tech.” From the SITE Institute (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):

Adam Yahiye Gadahn AKA Azzam the American, is featured in a 7:57 minute video produced by as-Sahab, the multimedia wing of al-Qaeda, and titled: “Legitimate Demands”. The video was issued to jihadist forums today, Tuesday, May 29, 2007. The speech, spoken in English and subtitled in Arabic, is presented as an address to U.S. President George W. Bush, Gadahn speaking in a condescending tone and accusing him of spearheading a Crusade led by his “empire of evil” against Muslims and embroiling American forces in wars without end. Reinvigoration of old fronts in Somalia, continuation of fronts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, and the region of the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan), in addition to an alleged failure in the media to tarnish the image of the Mujahideen to Muslims, are cited by Gadahn as reasons for Bush to seek escape and “prevent the number of American casualties at home and abroad from rising even higher.”
The demands are emphatically stated by Gadahn to not be construed as negotiations, for Muslims do not negotiate with “baby killers and war criminals”. These entail the removal of American military forces from Muslim lands, cease of encroachment into the political, social, and economic affairs in these countries, and to free Muslim captives from prisons. Should these demands not be met, Gadahn states, “means that you and your people will- Allah willing- experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Virginia Tech.” Withdrawing from Iraq alone, Gadahn states, does not qualify as acceptance of terms, and he mockingly advices for Bush to stop his “futile farcical maneuvers on Capital Hill.”

Link to video 

The gold bazaar neighborhood in Denizli, a Turkey city that has a liberal reputation, but is feeling an Islamic influence. (Lynsey Addario for The New York Times)

Islam taking root in Turkey’s bureaucracy

By Sabrina Tavernise

DENIZLI, Turkey: The little red prayer book was handed out in a public primary school here in western Turkey earlier this month. It was small enough to fit in a pocket, but it carried a big message: Pray in the Muslim way. Get others to pray, too.

“The message was clear to me,” said a retired civil servant, whose 13-year-old son, a student at the Yesilkoy Ibrahim Cengiz school, received the book. “This is not something that should be distributed in schools.”

This leafy, liberal city would seem like one of the least likely places to allow Islam to permeate public life. But for some residents, the book is part of a subtle shift toward increasingly public religiosity that has gone hand-in-hand with the ascent of the party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The phenomenon is complex: The party has not ordered changes, but sets examples through a growing network of observant teachers and public servants who have been hired since it came to power in 2002.

The shift goes to the heart of the question that has gripped this country for the past two months: As the party settles more deeply into the bureaucracy, will it bring Islam with it? Or will it keep its roots in the past, and leave the public sphere as nonreligious as before?

The answer is as complex as Turkey itself. In more-religious Turkish cities, the party has had a moderating influence, persuading deeply conservative residents to support the European Union. But here in Denizli, a city situated closer to Greece than Iran, which never voted for pro-Islamic parties before Erdogan’s, the party’s new recruits seem to be laying the groundwork for a more pious society.

The mayor, Nihat Zeybekci, a charismatic businessman and a member of Erdogan’s party, strongly disputes claims that the party has limited freedoms. Alcohol is still sold near mosques. His party has women in local government. The opposition parties do not.

“I get offended when a lady says to me, ‘When you have absolute control, will I still be able to swim at the beach?’ ” he said. “It’s like asking if I’m a thief.”

But secular residents say that they see changes, and that they are the inevitable outcome of several decades of economic transformation. “In a very quiet, deep way, you can sense an Islamization,” said Bedrettin Usanmaz, a jewelry shop owner in Denizli. “They’re not after rapid change. They’re investing for 50 years ahead.”

At the heart of the issue is a debate about the fundamental nature of Islam and its role in the building of an equitable society. Turks like Zeybekci argue that their country has come a long way since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s secular revolution in 1923, and that it no longer needs to enforce controls such as of women wearing head scarves.

“It’s like locking everybody in a stadium, when you know that only three are thieves,” Zeybekci said in his office, hung with pictures of Erdogan and Ataturk.

But secular Turks argue that Islam will always seek more space in people’s lives, and therefore should be reined in. They look to the military as secularism’s final defender.

“Islam is not like other religions,” said Kadim Yildirim, a history teacher in Denizli from an opposition labor union. “It influences every part of your life, even your bedroom.”

* A history teacher. He would know, don’t you think? 

Read it all: The Herald Tribune 

Protests over minarets a few days ago, now the Muslim generals are coming to whip the soldiers of Allah into the right state of mind for the jihad:

‘Allahu akbar’ in the alps. To blow the alphorn or to yodel is ‘haram’- The Swiss won’t be able to be neutral for much longer.

“The Islamist Threat Arrives in Switzerland: The MEMRI Report,” by Steven Stalinsky in the New York Sun with thanks to Jihad Watch

” Salman bin Fahd Al-Odah is a preacher of global influence and is one of the senior figures of the fundamentalist Islamic Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia as well as a close associate of Osama bin Laden. He was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for his extremist ideologies from 1994 until 1999. Even after his imprisonment, he adopts the call to armed struggle against the infidel Western countries in his writings.”
– A report filed by the Ministry of Justice in Switzerland, May 2007

In another sign of the spread of Islam within Europe, last month, Swiss Muslims announced their plan to open “ Europe’s biggest Islamic center” in the capital city of Bern. The center is estimated to cover 84 acres and to cost as much as $66 million to build.

Switzerland seems to be an unlikely locus for a battle over jihadist Islamism, but according to reports, its Muslim citizens, who make up about 5% of the total population, increasingly look to radical Middle East clerics for spiritual guidance. The country is also home to a controversial professor, Tariq Ramadan, whose visa to come to America was revoked by the State Department, and reports indicate there has been a rising tension between Muslims and non-Muslims there. In what could be considered pouring fuel on a fire, two weeks ago, the League of Swiss Muslims invited Sheik Salman bin Fahd Al-Odah of Saudi Arabia to participate in their annual conference.

Hailing from a wealthy Saudi family, Mr. Odah is a noted Islamic scholar who has a wide following among Islamists throughout the world. He was enraged when American troops were based in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War and has gone on record supporting jihad against American troops in Iraq.

His stance on the American presence in Saudi Arabia earned him five years in jail there for speaking out against the government — a sentence condemned in Osama bin Laden’s infamous 1996 fatwa against the West. According to reports, copies of Mr. Odah’s sermons have been found in an abandoned Afghanistan home belonging to Mr. bin Laden.

14,635 arrested in morals campaign

Whole lotta immorality going on in the Islamic Republic, but they’re on the case. “Iran: 14,635 Arrested in Moralisation Campaign,” from AKI, with thanks to Fjordman via Dhimmi Watch

* Judging by the above, Iran would have to be the most ‘moral’ country in the world:
Tehran, 29 May (AKI) – In the four weeks since a highly publicised government moralisation campaign kicked off, 14,635 people were temporarily detained under strict new Islamic dress code laws punishing offenders with arrest. Another 67,000 people were reprimanded by police, according to a tally kept by the local Rooz daily based on police statements. Only in airports and train stations some 1,115 people, mostly women, were arrested while 17,135 were not allowed to board planes or trains as they were not dressed properly.

* Nothing but the full monty is sufficient these days. Islamic ‘freedom’ ladies, get ready for your ‘liberation…’

“portable seclusion” in Iran

Pamela Bone:

Forget culturalism, rights are universal

Tony Blair was right; personal freedom is not the preserve of the West
There is nothing new in noting that ordinary Muslims are the best hope the West has in fighting Islamic extremism. It is only far-right Islamic fundamentalists (and their far-left Western apologists) who think people want to live in an Islamic theocracy. Most do not. Once given secular government, most people will fight to keep it, which is why up to one million Turks recently marched through Istanbul to protest against the possible election of a new Islamist president.

Read it all…

It’s bad enough that the Bush Administration actually thinks talking with Iran is going to stop them from killing even more of our troops in Iraq. Worse still, these talks officially end our diplomatic isolation of Iran since 1979 when the Iranians took Americans hostage. But it is flat out obscene that the talks were held on Memorial Day. There are Americans at gravesides today mourning loved ones who were cut down by Iranian-backed militias.

Jamaican Islamic Community Welcomes 7/7 Hate Preacher

Abdullah El-Faisal

* Unfortunately he was not a ‘martyr’- he might have got himself an even bigger funeral…

Before being deported from Britain back to his native Jamaica, Islamic hate preacher Abdullah El-Faisal told young British Muslims it was their duty to kill non-believers, Jews, Hindus and Westerners, urging them to adopt a “jihad mentality”. He also promised schoolboys that they would be rewarded with “72 virgins in paradise” if they died in a holy war. He was the “mentor” for one of the July 7 London bombers.

And he’s being welcomed back to Jamaica with open arms by the Islamic community: Islamic community extends olive branch to el-Faisal.

JAMAICA’S Muslims have made it clear they will welcome reputed hate preacher Abdullah el-Faisal into the community unless he proves himself unworthy, following his deportation to the island last Friday.

“As a Muslim coming back to Jamaica, we welcome him. We welcome any and every Muslim who come here as long as they abide by the rules and regulations that are stipulated,” president of the Islamic Council of Jamaica (ICJ) Mustafa Muhammad told the Sunday Observer.

At the same time, he said they were relieved to learn of el-Faisal’s release from prison.“As a member of Muslim family in general, we are somewhat relieved that he has been released from prison. Just like any family member who has gone to prison and is released, family members will experience joy and relief that he is out,” Muhammad said.

* Prislam,- prison da’awa: The fastest way to find ‘reverts’

“It is now up to that person (who was in prison) to prove whether their going to prison was justified and whether they have learned anything from the term they spent in prison. And actions will prove stronger than words,” he added.

* Will it float, will it fly or will it sink? 

Image of Abbey Mills Islamic centre being built in Stratford East London. Once built it will be the largest mosque in Europe, which will be located just outside the London Olympics site in East London

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Joanna Sugden Times Online
An ultra-orthodox Islamic sect has delayed plans to build a “mega-mosque” in East London after the Government warned it could “raise tensions” in the community.

* Hard to imagine that the British government these days concerns itself with ‘tensions in the community’-

Tablighi Jamaat had intended to submit plans to build Britain’s largest place of worship next to the Olympic site, this September. But the group told Times Online that no plans would now be submitted until next year at the earliest.

More than 48,000 people have petitioned the Government to “abolish plans for the £100m mega-mosque” with a capacity for 12,000 worshippers beside the London 2012 Olympic park in Newham, East London.

The Government said that the issue could “raise tensions” and did not expect any planning application to be made in the “near future”.

* Similar situation in Berlin, Germany.

Residents of Berlin’s Heinersdorf neighborhood protested the foundation laying ceremony last week. Residents have also filed legal complaints to block construction of the mosque. (Johannes Eisele/ Deutsche Press Agency)

And the mosque is going ahead in spite of massive protests by the population…

A statement in response to the petition, published on the Downing Street website, said: “We understand from Newham Council that there is no current planning permission or application for a mosque and Newham Council do not expect a planning application in the near future.”

A spokesperson for Tablighi Jamaat said that plans for the 18-acre site in Newham were being drawn up, but he added: “There’s no expectation of any planning application before the end of the year, because of the size of the application.”

The Government called the proposed mosque, which would hold four times as many worshippers as Britain’s largest Anglican cathedral “controversial” and said it had to take into account the views of local communities. “All involved should ensure that discussions are conducted in a manner that respects the views of all sections of our communities and in a way that does not raise tensions in local areas,” the statement said.

* There is that limp dick word again: ‘Controversial..’- the valueless society doesn’t like ‘controversy’…

Tablighi Jamaat’s spokesperson said the group did not think the plans were controversial but admitted there would be a lot of public interest in the application, “It should not be looked at any differently from any other faith building” he said.

Plans for the mosque have been blighted over the last few months. The group, which intelligence agencies fear is a gateway to extremism, recently claimed they had dismissed award-winning architect Ali Mangera from the project, and has yet to announce his replacement.

Alongside the proposal for the mosque the group also envisage a religious boarding school for up to 500 pupils on the site, a former chemical works that they bought for £1.6m in 1996.

* ‘Religous Boarding School’= Indoctrination center for the soldiers of Allah…

Strong local opposition has generated bad publicity for the mosque. A Newham councillor, Alan Craig, who is leading the campaign against the development, described the mosque as an unwanted “landmark” in the East End of London and Tablighi Jamaat as a “ambitious, separatist and isolationist group”.

The beleaguered group have recruited a Westminster lobbying company to undertake their public relations. The public affairs company, Indigo Public Affairs set up a website for the mosque and put Tablighi Jamaat on YouTube with a short statement from an unnamed representative who tries to dispel fears and says the mosque will only reach its maximum capacity of 12,000 at two festivals a year.

Tablighi Jamaat, which translates as “Proselytising Group”, claims on its website to stand for “democracy and freedom” and says it is “a role model to promote social and religious integration”.

* Islam is “Democracy and Freedom?”

Funny, last time we checked we saw Muslims run around with placards reading ‘Freedom go to hell’ and ‘Democracy is western terrorism’

But the site also adds that “complete success in this world and the hereafter is only achieved in following the way of life shown by Muhammad and every other way leads to failure in this world and the hereafter”. Strict followers of the sect’s doctrine sleep on the ground and brush their teeth with a twig following the practices of Muhammad.

French intelligence agencies and the FBI have raised concerns that jihadi groups could use Tablighi Jamaat as a recruiting ground. The movement, founded in India in 1927, has 80 million followers worldwide and refutes all accusations of links to terrorism or terrorists. Its website states: “We do not teach an extremist line, but we clearly can’t speak for every single one of those who have ever attended our mosques.”

* Allah is with the believers… But we are unbelievers. What do you make of that?

Besides: ‘Unbelief is worse than slaughter and resisting Islam is terrorism’- Muslims are only following their religion… got it?

Update:

Boston: Another mega-mosque project runs into difficulties

Breaking: Islamic Society of Boston Drops Lawsuits from LGF

Well, well. The Islamic Society of Boston, who has been filing harassment lawsuits against every critic of its planned mega-mosque project, has suddenly abandoned all their claims without receiving any payment. Apparently, the ongoing discovery efforts by the targets of their suits were getting uncomfortably close to exposing things the ISB didn’t want exposed.

The ISB’s decision to drop all of its claims against all of the 17 defendants it sued back in 2005 alleging “defamation” and accusing them of conspiring to violate its civil rights comes just months after the defendants—who included a Muslim cleric, a Christian political science professor and the Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors, as well as Boston civic leader William Sapers and national terrorism expert Steven Emerson—had begun through their lawyers to conduct discovery into the ISB’s financial records, its receipt of millions of dollars in funding from Saudi Arabian and other Middle Eastern sources, its contributions to certain organizations and the records of certain of its officers and directors. The ISB’s abandonment of its lawsuits comes only weeks after two of its original Middle Eastern Trustees, Walid Fitaihi of Saudi Arabia and Ali Tobah of Egypt, suddenly resigned as Trustees just before they were required to submit themselves to the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts court hearing the case.

The David Project, whose public records litigation against the BRA forced the public disclosure of evidence regarding the below-fair-market land deal between the BRA and the ISB and the role played in that deal of BRA Deputy Director Muhammed Ali Salaam, will proceed exactly as before with its litigation, seeking the remainder of the documents presently withheld by the BRA. That litigation, The David Project v. Boston Redevelopment Authority, is on file in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston.

POLYGAMOUS marriage is flourishing in Britain as the Government admits for the first time that nearly a thousand men are living legally with multiple wives.

Although the families are entitled to claim social security for each wife, no one has counted how many of them are on benefits.

The separate practice of unauthorised polygamy is also believed to have become commonplace in some Muslim communities. The Ministry of Justice admits that it has no estimates of numbers for these unions, which are often presided over by an Islamic cleric.

A senior Conservative MP and immigration expert called for action yesterday to end the scandal of women being pressured into entering unrecognised marriages with no rights.

“The Government has no grip on the situation,” said Humphrey Malins, the former opposition home affairs spokesman and founder of the Immigration Advisory Service. “This is quite clearly exploitation of women.”

MPs and peers have struggled for years to extract figures from ministers about the extent of polygamy. The first official estimate was made in response to a Freedom of Information request by The Times asking for statistics on benefits that are paid to wives who share a husband.

“It is estimated that there are fewer than 1000 valid polygamous marriages in the UK, few of whom are claiming a state benefit,” the Department for Work and Pensions said.

The Government has long reassured parliament that its policy is to prevent the formation of multiple marriages by refusing to allow second wives entry into the country.

Under British law, husbands and wives can have only one spouse at a time. Multiple simultaneous marriages constitute bigamy, a criminal offence.

Britain does recognise polygamous marriages that have taken place in countries where the custom is legal, such as Pakistan and India.

The Times

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is visiting Australia under tight security to give two sold-out talks, and local Muslim groups are seething and issuing veiled threats (as usual):

Anti-Islamic writer stirs hatred, Muslims warn.

* Tell the truth about Islam and we will kill you. That’s what they really mean. Because that’s why Hirsi Ali needs 4 body guards at all times…

* Muslims think the real problem is what she says, rather than the threat to her life from bigots when she says it:

Where’s your hijab, Jamila?
University of Technology Sydney Islamic law lecturer Jamila Hussain said Hirsi Ali’s ideas were extreme and stigmatised Muslims.

* Jamila Hussein doesn’t think catmeat sheik Al Hilali’s or Feiz Mohammeds ideas are extreme. She doesn’t mention Nacer Benbrika either…

“I think she’d be better staying where she came from,” Ms Hussain said. “I’ve read enough of her thoughts. It’s a narrow and radical opinion, and I don’t agree with it. She’s obviously had some dreadful experiences, but they’re not typical.”

* Lipstick on a pig, the usual reaction…

In her writings, Hirsi Ali describes being circumcised as a young girl and how she escaped an arranged marriage.

Nada Roude, of the NSW Islamic Council, said Hirsi Ali’s comments on the prophet Mohammed were a “no-go zone”.

“They (prophets) are not just like you and me, they have special status – you’re supposed to show respect,” Ms Roude said. “There have to be boundaries in how far you go in respecting other’s beliefs. The reaction from the community is likely to be quite worrying.”

* Right. We should be shaking in our shoes, we should pay the the jiziyah, submit to Islam or die, right Nada? Or should we just be worried about terrorism?

Andrew Bolt comments:

Instead of seeing the “quite worrying” likely response from Muslims here to the exercise of free speech as the real problem, Roude quite typically reverses the blame, and claims the real problem is actually the woman who has had to live under police guard for four years.

She’s not a victim, after all. No, the victim is the Muslim community whose more extreme members have given her such reason to fear for her life, and whose leaders so often refuse to defend her right to speak, to visit and to live unmolested. Victimhood is once more triumphantly claimed by people who should instead examine their own illiberal culture:

Nada Roude is on record of stating on Australian TV that ‘Jihad is inner struggle”

Ms Roude said there seemed to be a double standard about who was allowed to visit Australia, particularly as Hirsi Ali’s visit appeared to have the potential to incite hatred.

* Ms Roude would love to have Muslims control the visa policy of Australia?

“Muslims are not treated the same,” she said. “There are a set of rules for one community and another for the rest of the community. Anyone who causes harm to our society because they have the right to express their opinion is not welcome.”

Translated? Shut up and you’ll be safe. Criticise Islam, and the consequences be on your head. No matter what we do to you, we are the victims.

This is mad. Consider: of the three people mentioned above – two Muslims and one non-Muslim – only one needs constant security. Who, then, is the true victim? Who has more to fear?

What Muslims really like to do…

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Update:

* Further vilification, slander and ‘defensive’ action, otherwise known as kitman & taqiyya,- from the Religion of Peace: 

Hanifa Deen, a Melbourne author and Muslim feminist, said … “Sadly, Ali is alienating many Muslim women in the West, forcing them into defensive positions.” 

Hmm. Strange. Who has been ‘forced into a defensive position’- the Muslim or the non-Muslim? 

Women are losers in world of Islam, says author 

Via LGF

* We reported this earlier here, but the Swiss are actually serious about it and seem to ignore the howling from the left and Al Bebeceera.

They do mean business:

The largest party in Switzerland’s Parliament, the Swiss People’s Party, is campaigning to ban the building of minarets on mosques, for the simple reason that they are political statements of Islamic supremacism:

Swiss move to ban minarets.

The BBC, of course, is aghast at this “extreme paranoia.” Never mind that the Islamists themselves say the minaret is a symbol of dominance.

“We don’t have anything against Muslims,” said Oskar Freysinger, member of parliament for the Swiss People’s Party. “But we don’t want minarets. The minaret is a symbol of a political and aggressive Islam, it’s a symbol of Islamic law. The minute you have minarets in Europe it means Islam will have taken over.”

Mr Freysinger’s words may sound extreme, even paranoid, but this is a general election year in Switzerland, and the campaign against minarets is playing well with voters. A recent opinion poll for one Swiss newspaper found that 43% of those surveyed were in favour of a ban on minarets.

“We have our civil laws here,” insisted Mr Freysinger. “Banning minarets would send a clear signal that our European laws, our Swiss laws, have to be accepted. And if you want to live here, you must accept them. If you don’t, then go back.”

* A far left professor adds the usual mental flatliner:

Professor of Islamic studies Reinhard Schulze warns that any hint that Muslims are not peaceful might result in violence. Better to let them have the minarets, so they don’t hurt us.

It’s a harsh message for Swiss Muslims, many of whom were born in Switzerland. There are fears that the campaign against minarets will provoke growing resentment against Swiss society.

* You don’t say! Who are those fearful people? Sheeple?

“I think Swiss Muslims will be angry and bitter over this,” said Reinhard Schulze, professor of Islamic Studies at Berne University. “And we know that anger and bitterness among a community can lead to radicalisation, even to militancy.”

* No doubt Reinhard Schulze has nothing to kill and die for like the Jihadists. No doubt Reinhard Schulze, like most on the far left, sees nothing wrong with an alien cult perverting his country, his civilization and the laws of the land.

Will the left ever learn to tolerate their own society?

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Of course, mosques and minarets don’t come on their own: Its a package deal:

Teaching Children to Hate & Kill

Belgians want Headscarf Ban

Increasing Anti-Dhimmitude in Europe:

Will the Islamophobia never end?

Via LGF: 

According to studies done by the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium, half of all Belgians would like to see the misogynistic symbol of Islamic oppression of women banned: ‘50 pc of Belgians want headscarf ban’.

The researchers, of course, conclude that this is due to “racism,” and re-education must be increased until the mindcrimes stop.

LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE – One in three people in Belgium is bothered by women wearing headscarves in public places. Just over half even would prefer that they be banned in certain places. Intolerance and racism are at the root of these negative views on headscarves.

This was the conclusion drawn by the religious faculty’s centre for psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve after two studies into the Belgians’ attitude towards headscarves.

Some 69 percent of those asked see the headscarf as a sign of oppression and 53.3 percent thinks wearing one goes entirely against modern western values. Some 44.6 percent are disturbed by someone wearing a headscarf at school.

The researchers said that this study is evidence that society still has a long way to go in the fight against racism and intolerance.