Category: General

* Peaceful students at an Islamic madrassa chant anti-American slogans while burning thousands of DVDs, videos and music CDs at the Lal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan

Militant cleric claims having guns in mosque
“Our only goal is to enforce Sharia in Pakistan through jihad while the political-religious leaders want to impose Sharia though democratic norms, which we don’t admire.”

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Islamabad: The militant cleric who declared enforcement of Sharia in Pakistan’s federal capital and gave a deadline to the government, remains defiant and claims that he has guns on the mosque premises to defend his headquarters if authorities tried to launch crackdown.
In a telephonic interview from Lal Masjid with Gulf News yesterday, Maulana Abdul Aziz reiterated his claims that the mosque has guns on its premises and his followers will defend themselves if the government opted for any sort of crackdown.

He said that female students of Jamia Hafsa will never vacate the occupied library building until Sharia is enforced in the country.

* Musharraf wants to impose Sharia through democratic norms?

We covered the Undercover Mosque stories here. Foehammer, Jihad Watch, LGF and many others ran the story. Youtube had those clips off and on, and the DVD’s are freely available in Islamic stores around the country with a PG rating, which once again proves the ineffectiveness of lame government institutions that are either unwilling or unable (or more likely incompetent) to do what they’re meant to do.

Here is the link from the Sunday Telegraph via Dhimmi Watch

Excerpt: The films urge parents to make their children holy warriors and martyrs, and praises jihad as the pinnacle of Islam.
The radical sheik makes snorting noises on the films as he vilifies Jews as the “army of pigs”.
He blames a lack of courage for martyrdom on the battlefield for the “humiliation” of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Guantanamo.

Watch it before it disappears again, with thanks to Rosie:

Pro-terrorism films banned within a fortnight

Article from: AAP

THE Federal Government hopes it will be able to ban pro-terrorism films within a fortnight, following the classification of a race hate DVD urging children to martyr themselves.
The film, which calls for the murder of infidels and describes Jews as “pigs”, received a PG rating from the Office of Film and Literature Classification, making it suitable to be bought and watched by children.
News of the classification brought swift condemnation from the Federal Opposition, the NSW Government and the Jewish community, as well as by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock.
The film is contained in a package of DVDs prepared by Australian-born Islamic cleric Sheik Feiz Mohammed, who is currently in exile in Lebanon, but reported to be still preaching jihad to his Australian followers by telephone.
His film calls for the murder of non-believers in Islam’s war on the west, News Limited reported today.
Mr Ruddock said he had instructed his officials to seek agreement from the states within two weeks to urgently change censorship laws so that hate films praising terrorists could be banned.
He said Sheik Feiz’s film “clearly advocates terrorism acts” but the classification authority suggested “the law did not give them sufficient capacity to refuse classification of this particular product”.
The current test of whether a publication promoted, incited or instructed people to perform a criminal act was inadequate and material which advocated terrorism should be refused classification, he added.
Mr Ruddock said the states had agreed to toughen laws for material that praised terrorism following passage of federal terrorism legislation in 2005, but that there should be no further delays in the states enacting the changes.
If the states and territories continued to resist, as they had done for more than a year, then he might be forced to go it alone and make the relevant change to the Commonwealth’s Classification Act, he said.
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Vic Alhadeff said it was an “outrage” that such material could be allowed into the country.

*No, Vic, its an outrage that you ignored it for so long.

“One has to seriously question the guidelines which allow such offensive material to be allowed into our country and be distributed,” Mr Alhadeff said.
“For even one person to see this is one person too many because of the race hate that it preaches and the damage that can flow from that.”
Mr Alhadeff said the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies would meet soon to consider making a formal complaint.
Acting NSW Premier John Watkins called on Prime Minister John Howard to take action to ensure the film could not be seen by children.
“It’s disgusting and I advise any parent to ask their child not to go and see the film,” he said.