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THE PRICE OF HONOR
By Avi Davis
The parallels between the five stories is chilling. In Berlin this week, 16 -year -old Morsal Obeidi, taking a casual walk with her cousin, is confronted by her 23- year -old brother Ahmed brandishing a knife. Over the course of the next five minutes, Ahmed proceeds to stab his sister 21 times. He flees, only to be confronted and captured by German police 20 hours later. She dies alone in a parking lot. Her crime: She had become too comfortable in the ways of the West, resented by her brother for her uncovered hair, her makeup and her short skirts.
Hatin Sucru, 23- years-old and a mother of a five- year-old boy, is enticed to leave her apartment in Berlin to meet with a family friend. In a freezing wind , at a bus stop , she is gunned down. Days after the crime, police arrest her three brothers, ages 25, 24 and 18. The youngest of the three allegedly bragged to his girlfriend about the killing. At her funeral, Hatin’s Turkish-Kurdish parents draped their only daughter's casket in verses from the Koran and buried her according to Muslim tradition. Absent of course, were the brothers, who were in jail. Hatin's crime, it appears, was the desire to lead a normal life in her family's adopted land. German raised, she divorced the Turkish cousin she was forced to marry at age 16. She also discarded her Islamic head scarf, enrolled in a technical school where she was training to become an electrician and began dating German men. For her family, such behavior represented the ultimate shame - the embrace of corrupt Western ways.
In Kurdistan , 19- year- old Swede Pela Atroshi, returning to visit her relatives in Iraq , is shot twice in the back in a second storey bedroom by her uncle. Blood soaked and stumbling down the stairs with the aid of her screaming mother and sister, she is confronted by her father and three uncles. The men pull the women apart and the youngest uncle then points a gun at Pela as she pleads for her life. The bullet goes through her fingers and into her brain. She dies instantly.
In Manchester , Fakir Mohammed, who had lived in the U.K. for thirty years, comes home from Friday prayers at the local mosque to discover his 17- year- old daughter Shahida in a bedroom with a boyfriend. After the boyfriend jumps out of the window, Mohammed grabs his daughter in a headlock and stabs her 19 times in the stomach with a knife. At his murder trial, Mohammed’s lawyer explains that his client is a strict Muslim who insists on returning all his daughters to Pakistan for arranged marriages.
In Birmingham , 21 -year -old Sahjda Bibi is killed by her distant cousin Rafqat Hussain on her wedding day. She is murdered because Hussain is incensed that she had refused to marry his own cousin and that her own ultimate choice of spouse – a divorced man with children – would dishonor the family.
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NEWS: EUROPE AND AMERICA
HIZBALLAH’S MAY ANSCHLUSS
The fall of Lebanon -Barry Rubin
May 21, 2008, is a date--like December 7 (1941) and September 11 (2001)--that should now live in infamy. Yet who will notice, mourn, or act the wiser for it? On that day, the Beirut spring was buried under the reign of Hizballah. Speaking on October 5, 1938, after Britain and France effectively turned Czechoslovakia over to Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill said, "What everybody would like to ignore or forget must nevertheless be stated, namely, that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat...."[1] In contrast, Assistant Secretary of State David Welch said that the agreement over Lebanon was, "A necessary and positive step." At least when one sells out a country one should recognize this has happened rather than pretend otherwise. But this is precisely what took place at Munich, when the deal made was proclaimed as a concession that brought peace and resolved Germany's last territorial demand in the region. Churchill knew better and his words perfectly suit the situation in Lebanon today: "The utmost [Western diplomacy] has been able to gain for Czechoslovakia...has been that the German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course." Yes, that's it exactly. On every point, Hizballah, Iran, and Syria, got all they wanted from Lebanon's government: its surrender of sovereignty. They have veto power over the government; one-third of the cabinet; election changes to ensure victory in the next balloting; and they will have their candidate installed as president. The majority side is not giving up but is trying to comfort itself on small mercies. The best arguments it can come up with are that now everyone knows Hizballah is not patriotic, treats other Lebanese as enemies, and cannot seize areas held by Christian and Druze militias. It isn't much to cheer about. (Gloriacenter)
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CAMDEN REJECTS PROPOSAL FOR ISLAMIC SCHOOL
 Australian council votes against building Islamic school-AP
An Australian town council on Tuesday unanimously rejected a contentious proposal to build a 1,200-student Islamic school, citing infrastructure concerns. Mayor Chris Patterson of Camden said the decision had nothing to do with religion but was based on the impact on traffic and loss of agricultural land. "It is a site issue, clearly a site issue," Patterson said after the vote. "We said all along religious issues, nationalistic issues, will not be entered into." More than 200 residents attended the council meeting amid heightened security, and applauded after the vote. The Quranic Society, a Sydney-based Muslim group that planned to bankroll the proposed school, was not represented at the meeting. The proposed school created tension in semi-rural Camden, about 40 miles southwest of Sydney. Town council meetings on the issue regularly drew large, vocal crowds, and even a protest rally of nearly 1,000 people. Tensions peaked in November when two pig heads were rammed on metal stakes with an Australian flag draped between them at the school's proposed site. During community consultations over the school, the council received more than 3,000 submissions from local residents, with only 50 in favor of the proposal. A council planner's report last week recommended against the development, but the final decision was left to the council. (JPost)
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CAIR CONDEMNS NEW BOOK BY FORMER MUSLIMS
Mideast Publishers Offered Free Foreign Rights to Controversial Book by Former Muslims (PressMediaWire)
WND Books, whose controversial new release Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out (WND Books, ISBN 9780979267109, April 29, 2008) has already been condemned by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), is offering the foreign rights for free to publishers in the Mideast. With a picture of an unveiled Muhammad on the cover and its two dozen contributors who chose to follow their consciences despite death threats, could Why We Left Islam be the book to launch a much-needed Islamic reformation? Foreign rights sales are important to publishers and it’s rare that they are offered for free. But WND Books and parent company WorldNetDaily have much more than money in mind. They want the raw and honest stories in Why We Left Islam be read by Muslims around the world with the goal of sparking an honest discussion about Islam, freedom of speech and human rights in the very lands where Muslims predominate. (Pressmediawire)
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BROTHER STABS SISTER 21 TIMES IN HONOUR KILLING
 Honor Killing Victim Wanted to Live Like other German Girls-Spiegel Staff
At age 16, all Morsal Obeidi wanted was to live the way other girls in Germany do. She paid dearly: Obeidi's brother stabbed her 20 times. Her murder has sparked a renewed debate in Germany about the failure of many immigrant families to integrate into Western society.
Morsal is buried one week after her death. In the morning, the women wash the body, cleansing it of its earthly sins, in keeping with tradition. The teenage girl's thin body is covered with stab wounds, evidence of the knife that was plunged into her torso. The women wrap the body in linen and lay it into a coffin made of a light-colored wood. At noon, six men lift the coffin to their shoulders and begin walking, leading a procession of 200 men and women dressed in black. Ghulam-Mohammed Obeidi, the father -- who lost his daughter and now, more than likely, his son in a single night -- is at the center of the group. They walk along a path that leads to the new Muslim section at the back of a cemetery in Hamburg's Öjendorf neighborhood, to where a group of construction workers stand leaning against an excavating machine. The women stop as the men carry the coffin to the grave, which is lined with boards, a rectangular hole in the ground with pale sand piled up around its edges.
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“THE UN HAS SHOWN THAT IT IS SO IMMORAL AND SO SELF-SERVING THAT IT HAS NO MORAL AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING”
Jewish groups mull holding alternative to Durban II-Etgar Lefkovits
A coterie of international Jewish organizations is considering holding an event concomitant to a controversial UN anti-racism conference planned for next year. The proposal, which was floated at a Geneva meeting sponsored by UN Watch, an NGO affiliated with the New York-based American Jewish Committee, came a day after the United Nations announced the so-called Durban II racism conference would be held in the same city the following Spring. The event is scheduled for April 20-24, coinciding with Holocaust Remembrance Day.The conference is a follow-up to the notorious 2001 event held in the South African city, which descended into an anti-Israel escapade, prompting a walkout by US and Israeli representatives. Canada has already announced it will boycott next year's meeting, saying the event would promote racism and not combat it. (Jpost)
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SHARIA COURTS AND THE BNP
Fear And Loathing In Middle Britain
State of the nation
A look at two towns in England which have been in the news for all the wrong reasons. First, the Guardian investigates how the Labour stronghold of Stoke-on-Trent is proving fertile territory for the far-right British National Party, which has captured nine of the sixty seats on the city council. Then, in the Times, a look at Dewsbury. A year ago most Brits had never heard of this Yorkshire town of around 55,000 people. Now, it is one of England's most notorious addresses.
Earlier this year, the press was gripped by the story of 9 year old schoolgirl Shannon Matthews, who disappeared presumed kidnapped. Some commentators griped that the media paid little attention to her family's plight, as the working-class Matthews lacked the televisual appeal of Madeleine McCann and her parents. They got more than they bargained for, however, when Shannon showed up in the home of a "family friend" - police suspicions that Shannon's mother and other family members faked the kidnap in order to extract cash from the McCann appeal sent the story spinning into the stratosphere. Newspapers picked apart the complex love lives and parenthood of the Matthews clan with fascinated revulsion; the Dewsbury Moor estate where they lived became a by-word for the exotic livestyles of Britain's white underclass, who are as distant and unreal to metropolitan reporters as the tribesmen of New Guinea.
Dewsbury didn't really need more attention. One of the July 7 suicide bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, lived there in his final months. Earlier, a girl of twelve was reported to be under investigation for the attempted lynching of a five-year-old. And this weekend, seven children aged between 15 and 12 are being held in connection with the death of Amar Aslam (17), who was beaten so badly police had trouble identifying his body. (Eursoc.com)
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH
CHRISTIAN BIBLES A CRIME IN ALGERIA
Christians On Trial: France’s Ambiguous Defense of Habiba Kouider-Tiberge
Here is an interesting follow-up to my recent article on Christians in Algeria, and the specific case of Habiba Kouider, prosecuted for carrying Bibles in her handbag. The news of her trial has received world-wide attention, since the US State Department has mentioned it in its on-line report on Algeria. Not surprisingly the French authorities are also well aware of the event. Secretary of State for Human Rights, Rama Yade, has made some comments on the case as reported by the Catholic newspaper La Croix:
...The prosecutor of Tiaret, in western Algeria, asked for a sentence of three years without parole for Habiba Kouider, 37, a convert to Christianity on trial for illegally practicing a non-Muslim faith, by virtue of a law passed in 2006. The verdict is expected on Tuesday, according to the Protestant Church of Algeria. (BrusselsJournal)
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DENYING THE UNDENIALBLE
Usama's Message: Good Jihadists v. Bad Jihadists- Walid Phares
In his latest audio released by as-sahab (media arm of al Qaeda), the organization’s Zaeem (supreme chief) elaborates on the difference between the pure Jihadists and those Islamists who lost their way and determination to continue the fight in the path of the founding fathers, which he calls the "Salaf of Islam." This complex speech (by Jihadist standards) can be only understood -- and thus explained to decision-makers and the public if the listener-analyst is able to grasp the multi-layered world of Jihadism. But this task has been made unnecessarily difficult for most citizens and certainly impossible to those who in the US bureaucracy are supposed to do the job. By disseminating the so-called "Lexicon", the Bush administration, bureaucrats are prohibited from using the words Jihad, Jihadism, Caliphate, Salafism, Islamism and the like when writing about and analyzing matters related to terrorism. This ridiculous proposition is now put to test when al Qaeda leaders -- and other Jihadist high profile figures broadcast their statements. (HumanEvents)
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ART UNDER THREAT AS MUSLIMS COMPLAIN ABOUT NUDE ABSTRACT
Netherlands: Figurative art removed after Muslim complaints
Artist Ellen Vroegh almost fell from her chair when she was called up yesterday by Huizen municipality. Because several Muslim men had complained about her abstract paintings of half-naked women, the pieces had been removed from the municipality building where they had been displayed. Vroegh: I feel severely discriminated! This passes all bounds. Must Dutch men now integrate in their own country? After the Nekschot affair, now you get this. Soon art will land up at the stage." (Telegraaf (Dutch), h/t CLOSER (Dutch)
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RADICAL ISLAM AT UC IRVINE
UC Irvine Still Enforcing Sharia Law-Jonathan Constantine Movroydis and Reut CohenThe University of California-Irvine is a sprawling campus in Orange County. The institution, located between the Santa Ana Mountains and the shore of the Pacific Ocean, is not only home to some of the best minds in science and engineering, but also to some of the most virulent supporters of radical Islam in America — and a school administration bent on capitulating to them. The university’s Muslim Student Union (MSU) holds several annual events, at which members unashamedly voice support for terrorist groups and denounce Israel, America, and the Western world. Past events hosted during the group’s annual anti-Israel week have had titles such as “Hamas: the People’s Choice” and “Israel: The 4th Reich.” [1] Speakers have included Norman Finkelstein, Ward Churchill, and Anna Balzter. This year, from May 7-15, the MSU hosted a series of programs entitled “Never Again? The Palestinian Holocaust.” As they have done in the past, the MSU appropriated ideas of genocide in order to promote their radical ideology. (Pajamasmedia)
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ANTISEMITISM
UCU'S ANTI-SEMITIC BOYCOTT REDUX
UK union encourages Israeli academia boycott -Jonny Paul
The University and College Union, the largest trade union for academics and academic-related staff in further education in the UK, voted on a motion at their annual conference in Manchester on Wednesday that will reintroduce an academic boycott of Israel.
The motion passed without debate and by a show of hands and asks members "to consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions, and to discuss the occupation with individuals and institutions concerned, including Israeli colleagues with whom they are collaborating."
Anti-boycott activists say the motion demands that Jewish and Israeli academics explain their politics as a precondition to normal academic contact.
"If Jewish and Israeli academics support the UCU's view of the conflict, they will be protected from further action; if they are against it or noncommittal, then they may be considered unsuitable for continued association," said Ronnie Fraser, UCU member and director of Academic Friends of Israel. (JPost)
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SYRIA: ISRAEL IS A ‘POISONOUS MUSHROOM’
Editor of Syrian Government Daily: Israel Is a "Poisonous Mushroom"; "[Its] Rightful Owners Are Capable Of Uprooting It – If Not Today Then Tomorrow"
"The Rightful Owners [of the Land] Are Capable of Uprooting the Poisonous Mushroom - If Not Today Then Tomorrow"
"[These countries] support Israel's terrorism on all fronts: in Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. We must not forget that George Bush supported Israel's pirate attack on Syria [in September 6, 2007]. Today they have gathered in Israel in order to emphasize their unlimited support for [this country] and for the massacres it is perpetrating, without giving a [single] thought to the suffering of the Palestinians these past 60 years. "They who planted this poisonous mushroom have come today to declare their eternal support for it. They fail to heed the lesson of ancient and recent history and especially that of the Crusader [period], which lasted 200 years but ended with the [rightful] owners of the land uprooting the poisonous mushroom from their soil. [Now, too,] the rightful owners [of the land] are capable of uprooting the poisonous mushroom - if not today then tomorrow. (MEMRI)
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“I’D BURN ISRAELI BOOKS IF I FOUND ANY IN LIBRARIES IN EGYPT”
 Egypt Culture Minister under fire for 'burning books' remark-AFP
CAIRO (AFP)---Egypt's Culture Minister Faruq Hosni, a candidate to head UNESCO, has drawn fire from Israel and the Wiesenthal Centre for saying he was prepared to burn Israeli books.
"I'd burn Israeli books myself if I found any in libraries in Egypt," Hosni said in parliament on May 10 in reply to questioning from an opposition MP. The comment, which Hosni admits making but which he says must be put into perspective, sparked an official protest from Israel's ambassador in Cairo Shalom Cohen to the foreign ministry. And this week the international Simon Wiesenthal Centre wrote to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation director general Koichiro Matsuura, saying that Hosni had now ruled himself out as a possible successor to head the Paris-based body. The letter to UNESCO from the Wiesenthal Centre's director for international relations Shimon Samuels charged that Hosni's comment was "couched in the language and actions of Nazi 'Minister of Culture' Josef Goebbels."
The letter said that "the sting in this tail is that literary pyromaniac Faruq Hosni is considered a serious candidate to replace (Koichiro Matsuura) as Director-General of UNESCO." (EuropeanJewishPress)
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HOUSE OF COMMONS CONDEMNS ANTI-SEMITISM AT UNIVERSITy CAMPUSES
MPs slam universities over race-hate-Leon Symons
Anti-Semitism on campus and the internet were the main targets during a debate on anti-Semitism in the main chamber of the House of Commons last week. MPs from all sides of the House took the chance to express their views and comment on the government’s performance in acting on the recommendations of the Parliamentary All-Party Anti-Semitism report. An international conference on anti-Semitism, supported by the Foreign Office, is to be held in London in February next year. The conference will be the first event organised by an international parliamentary coalition dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, it was announced by Labour MP John Mann, chair of the parliamentary All-Party Anti-Semitism group, during the debate. The coalition comprises Mr. Mann, Professor Irwin Cotler, the former Canadian justice minister; Gert Weisskirchen from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe; United States Congressman Chris Smith; and Israeli minister Isaac Herzog. (JC)
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FORMER BELGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER COMPARES ISRAELIS TO NAZIS
 Former Belgian Minister sparks ire of Jewish community with remarks on Israel-EJP
BRUSSELS (EJP)--- A former Belgian Defense Minister sparked the ire of the Jewish community after he reportedly compared Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians to the fate of the Jews during World War II.
In a speech last Saturday at a pro-Palestinian gathering in Nivelles, André Flahaut, a Socialist MP and city councillor, compared Israel to a Nazi state, according to CCOJB, the umbrella representative group of Belgian Jewish organizations. He was quoted as saying: “Like any normal person, I am revolted when I see children suffering, when I see maltreated women, raped, when I see maltreated men and freedoms ridiculed. During the twelve years and half I was minister, I left no stone unturned so that the atrocities against the Jews during WWII be remembered and not forgotten. I also ask that one have the same commitment, the same determination to make that the voice of those who suffer today is heard and to avoid banalization. I am determined to fight against all exclusions, all nazisms, all fascisms wherever they are.” (EJP)
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“ZIONIST REGIME IS AT ITS LOWEST EBB”
Leader: Israel at Weakest Position
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday told the visiting political leader of Hamas that the Zionist regime was now at its weakest position and unable to confront the resisting Palestinians.
"It is evident today that the Zionist regime is at its lowest ebb and is unable to resist the patient Palestinian people," Khamenei was quoted by state radio as telling the Syria-based Khaled Meshaal.
He said that thank God the Palestinian people have stood like a mountain despite the disaster and he added that the ones who choose a path that is not one of resistance will pay a price and be disgraced in the eyes of God.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution praised the brave stance of Hamas officials and the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya and expressed his deep regret over the ongoing situation of the Palestinian people, particularly the blockade of Gaza Strip and the daily killing of innocent women and children.
Meshaal said in the meeting that the people of Gaza are suffering from a disastrous situation and added that despite all the pressures, the Palestinian people would never stop their resistance; nor would they hesitate for a moment in supporting the democratic government of Hamas.
He added that the firm determination of the Palestinian nation has led to the strengthening of the resistance movement.
Meanwhile, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Israel has lost confidence in the face of Palestine liberation movement.
Making the remark in a meeting with Mashal, the president said that the Palestinian nation continues with positive and victorious trend of resistance.
Pointing to the fact that the current situation of Palestinian nation is completely different from that of 20 years ago, Ahmadinejad noted that the victories in Palestine and Lebanon have roots in the resistance movement which will continue in the future.
TERRORISM
“WE TAKE PRIDE IN BEING ENEMIES OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS”
Pakistani Taliban Emir Beitullah Mahsoud: Pakistan Should Use Its Nuclear Weapons to Challenge the Enemies; Only 5% of Fighters in Afghanistan Are Ours; "We Take Pride in Being Enemies of the Jews and Christians"
Interviewer: "With regard to the Al-Qaeda organization and its leaders - some people accuse you of harboring Osama bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri, and some other Al-Qaeda leaders. Is there any truth to this?" "Pakistan Should Use These [Nuclear] Weapons to Defend the Muslims and to Challenge the Enemies" Beitullah Mahsoud: "Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden are two of the greatest mujahideen for the sake of Allah and two of the greatest leaders of the Muslims. All the Muslims love these two men. They fight America with full determination, and we are proud of them. However, these leaders are not in our region. Nevertheless, we are prepared to do whatever they want. If they want to come here - we are ready. If they ask for our support, we will say: We respond to the call. [...] "We have a weapon more powerful than the Pakistani nuclear weapon. We have fidaai fighters. The problem of Pakistan is that it has lost what it used to have, and this is because it no longer has an independent political will, and its army does not adhere to its nuclear weapons. Moreover, it uses the weapons in its possession against the people and against the Muslims. Pakistan should use these weapons to defend the Muslims and to challenge the enemies. But the army has used its weapons to harm the people and the Muslims. [...] "We are happy to have the Americans here and to be their enemies. The Jews and the Christians are among our sworn enemies, and Allah willing, we will fight them to the end." (MEMRI)
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"THE LAST DAY WILL NOT COME UNLESS YOU FIGHT JEWS”
Al-Qaradawi in his own words--Stephen Pollard
Those of us who have highlighted some of the views of Ken Livingstone’s friend, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, are often told we are distorting what he says, or taking the words out of context. So this review in Democratiya by Dave Rich and Mark Gardner of a new translation of al-Qaradawi’s book Fatawa on Palestine is essential reading. It considers his words, in his official translation.
As they write:
It is a book that promises a battle 'between the collective body of Muslims and the collective body of Jews i.e. all Muslims and all Jews' (p.77), which will hasten the end of days for mankind. This is no political analysis of the Israel/Palestine conflict, or even a faith-based lament for the Palestinian people; it is a passionate apocalyptic vision of division, war and final triumph.
Do read the whole review, because it is essential to understand just how malign an influence this man is, and how misguided – to be charitable – are those who support him and give him a platform. These are merely extracts; as I say, do read the whole review for the full story of this man's barbaric, destructive credo:
Qaradawi makes it clear at the beginning of the book that Israel should be removed entirely from what he sees as Muslim land. He discusses his hypothetical reaction to any future peace accord that would leave Israel in control of its pre-1967 territory in the opening chapter: (Spectator.co.uk)
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THE RESISTANCE HAS BROUGHT LIBERATION
Nasrallah hails resistance’s sacrifice
Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the resistance has brought liberation and dignity back to the country through its sacrifice.
He made the remarks in a speech on Monday which marked the liberation of southern Lebanon in 2000.
Nasrallah praised the resistance which liberated southern Lebanon with its blood and sacrifice, adding that when Israel occupied southern Lebanon in 1978 neither the UN Security Council nor Arab states took steps against the regime.
The leader of Hezbollah also hailed the election of General Michel Suleiman as President, which ended an 18-month political crisis in the nation.
The Lebanese Parliament elected Army Chief Suleiman as President on Sunday in line with a political deal reached between rival groups after reconciliation talks in the Qatari capital of Doha. His election has been considered as the first step in breaking the political deadlock that had earlier taken the country to the brink of another civil war.
Nasrallah also hoped for a calm summer this year, saying "There are two dreams, a Lebanese dream and an American dream, the Lebanese dream speaks about a calm summer while the American one speaks about a hot summer." His remarks were made in reference to the speculations that the US and Israel may plan another war against the country.
He called on the Lebanese nation not to allow the enemies "to realize their dreams".
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MULTICULTURALISM HAMPERING BRITIAN’S FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMISM
Britain’s phoney war on terror: We are too concerned with multiculturalism and political correctness to combat the threat of Islamism effectively-Michael Burleigh
After spending time recently with senior Pentagon officials and other Americans involved in counter-terror-ism, I was struck by the global scope of their concerns. Above all I was reminded how different their attitudes are from those of their British counterparts, still obsessed with “community cohesion” and the “radicalisation” of young Muslims. In Britain the views of the nonMuslim majority are largely ignored - or lead to them being branded as potential “Islamophobes”. In the United States the unthinkable and unsayable are debated openly. Last month, for example, the Senate committee on homeland security heard evidence about the likely effects of a terrorist nuclear attack on Washington. It started with a chilling scenario: a 10-kiloton bomb in a truck beside the White House. First, the committee was told, it would kill about 100,000 people and erase a two-mile radius of mainly federal buildings. Most of the casualties would be burn victims, the majority of them African Americans who worked for the government. About 95% of them would die in agony, because capacity to treat such cases is limited to about 1,500. Since the winds blow west to east, the ensuing radioactive plume would drift towards the poor black neighbourhoods of the capital’s southeast, where there is only one hospital. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the committee, concluded: “Now is the time to ask the tough questions and then to get answers as best we can.” (TheSundayTimes)
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INTERNET-TERRORISM
AL-QAEDA’S CYBER JIHAD
Symposium: Cyber Jihad-Jamie Glazov
Al Qaeda has recently declared "Cyber Jihad" on the West. The terror group's electronic experts will now apparently be attacking certain anti-Islamist websites. What exactly is Cyber Jihad? What exactly will wanna-be jihadists who cannot be martyrs on the battlefield be doing on the net to fulfill their jihadi obligations? What dangers does the electronic war pose to the internet and to the West in general? To discuss these issues with us today, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel. Our guests today are: Neil Doyle, one of the world's top investigative journalists, a pioneering author, and a leading expert on international terrorism. He is the author of Terror Base UK: Inside a Secret War. Lawrence Prabhakar, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Madras Christian College, Chennai, India and a Visiting Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Prabhakar specializes in academic and policy research in issues of nuclear weapons and Asian Security, Asymmetric Conflict, Maritime Security and grand strategy of India, China and United States and Arie Kruglanski, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has recently served as member of the National Academy of Science panels on counterterrorism, and educational paradigms in homeland security, and is serving on the NAS Board for Cognitive, Social and Sensory Processes. Kruglanski also serves as a co- PI at START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), at the University of Maryland. (Frontpagemag)
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“ASK YOUR MOTHERS, YOUR WIVES TO ORDER YOUR COFFINS”
 Al Qaeda Warrior Uses Internet to Rally Women -Elaine Sciolino and Souad Mekhennet
BRUSSELS — On the street, Malika El Aroud is anonymous in an Islamic black veil covering all but her eyes.
In her living room, Ms. El Aroud, a 48-year-old Belgian, wears the ordinary look of middle age: a plain black T-shirt and pants and curly brown hair. The only adornment is a pair of powder-blue slippers monogrammed in gold with the letters SEXY. But it is on the Internet where Ms. El Aroud has distinguished herself. Writing in French under the name “Oum Obeyda,” she has transformed herself into one of the most prominent Internet jihadists in Europe. She calls herself a female holy warrior for Al Qaeda. She insists that she does not disseminate instructions on bomb-making and has no intention of taking up arms herself. Rather, she bullies Muslim men to go and fight and rallies women to join the cause. “It’s not my role to set off bombs — that’s ridiculous,” she said in a rare interview. “I have a weapon. It’s to write. It’s to speak out. That’s my jihad. You can do many things with words. Writing is also a bomb.” Ms. El Aroud has not only made a name for herself among devotees of radical forums where she broadcasts her message of hatred toward the West. She also is well known to intelligence officials throughout Europe as simply “Malika” — an Islamist who is at the forefront of the movement by women to take a larger role in the male-dominated global jihad. The authorities have noted an increase in suicide bombings carried out by women — the American military reports that 18 women have conducted suicide missions in Iraq so far this year, compared with 8 all of last year — but they say there is also a less violent yet potentially more insidious army of women organizers, proselytizers, teachers, translators and fund-raisers, who either join their husbands in the fight or step into the breach as men are jailed or killed. “Women are coming of age in jihad and are entering a world once reserved for men,” said Claude Moniquet, president of the Brussels-based European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center. “Malika is a role model, an icon who is bold enough to identify herself. She plays a very important strategic role as a source of inspiration. She’s very clever — and extremely dangerous.” (NYT)
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TERRORIST GROUPS FIND A SAFE HAVEN ON NORTH AMERICAN ISPS
Israeli study shows US a digital haven for terrorists-Sharon Kanon
Terrorist organizations are exploiting well-known Internet Service Providers to get their messages out, according to a new study by an Israeli researcher. Prof. Niv Ahituv, academic director of the Netvision Institute for Internet Studies (NIIS) at Tel Aviv University (TAU), said that some of the world's most dangerous organizations, including Hezbollah and al-Qaeda, host their web sites on servers owned by popular American and Canadian ISPs used by most North Americans. "Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah are among the dozens of terrorist organizations and hundreds of terrorist blogs that abuse the web. They use the same well-known service providers that we all use," Ahituv tells ISRAEL21c. "The coordination of 9/11 was partially done by e-mail, written in plain English," Ahituv continues. The terrorists disguised the logistic information in coded messages, which ostensibly dealt with normal kinds of information, such as registering for a degree at a college. They did this right under the eyes of the FBI. (israel21c.org)
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BIN LADEN’S DANGEROUS THREAT
America in Ashes? - Christopher S. Carson
The latest audio message from al-Qaeda, reportedly from Osama bin Laden himself, is only the most recent confirmation that the jihadist threat to the West remains real and deadly serious. But the fact that it could take the form of nuclear terrorism should be most worrying to citizens and policy makers alike.
Where a nuclear attack once may have been beyond the capacities of stateless terrorists, that is no longer the case. One need only consider Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM), mastermind of 9/11 and chief operating officer of al-Qaeda, who revealed under intensive interrogation -- including the much-maligned tactic of waterboarding -- that a nuclear attack against the United States was a top priority for al-Qaeda.
According to the New York Daily News and its sources, the captive KSM told his interrogators that Osama bin Laden was planning a “nuclear hell storm” in America. Normally such a lurid claim would be disbelieved by our “inside-the-box” intelligence officers, but KSM’s recovered laptop had corroborating details. The agents learned that the chain of command for this new operation went simply: bin Laden, his terrorist doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri, a mysterious scientist named “Dr. X,” and an operational coordinator. The scientist turned out to be Dr. A.Q. Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s atomic bomb, national hero, and nuke material proliferator extraordinaire. The operations ringleader was known as “Jafer the Pilot” (Jaffer al-Tayyar). This ID was corroborated by former al-Qaeda No. 3 Abu Zubaydah when he himself was waterboarded. (Frontpagemag)
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“THE DUST WILL NEVER SETTLE DOWN”
 Imam Anwar al-’Awlaki:: The Dust will Never Settle Down
There has been recently an increase of unacceptable behavior from the kuffar towards our beloved Prophet. So what is the ruling of sharia on such incidents and how did the Sahaba deal with such people and what do our scholars say about them. About this and more Imam Anwar delivered a talk titled: “The Dust will Never Settle Down”. Allaah will suffice His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) against the criminals who mock him. He says (interpretation of the meaning): “For he who hates you (O Muhammad), he will be cut off (from posterity and every good thing in this world and in the Hereafter)” [al-Kawthar 108:3] i.e., he is scorned and humiliated and cut off from all that is good. When the Muslims besieged a stronghold and its people resisted, then they heard them mocking and reviling the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), they would sense that victory was at hand, and it would only be a short time before Allaah granted them victory, to avenge His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). [Al-Saarim al-Maslool (p. 116-117)] This is an excellent lecture by the Shaykh on the subject of what the Hukm is for the Cartoonists as well as those who insult the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhi wassallam) in general and who abuse the Qur’aan. Many argue that we should be “peaceful” and create “bridges” and participate in dialog with such people. In addition, they shun all forms of Jihaad against these people labeling it “violence.” In this lecture, the Shaykh not only refutes these arguments with solid dalaa’il (evidences), but he tears them apart for their cowardliness and weakness to not adhere to the Sunnah, which is Jihaad fe Sabeelillaah.
Some of the things the Shaykh talks about include:
1. The story of Ka’b bin al-Ashraf and the doubts concerning it such as “He was only assassinated because he was gathering the people for war… he was not killed because of insulting the Prophet.”
2. The story of the blind man who killed his wife and the doubts concerning it.
3. The story behind the hadeeth, “No two bulls will butt heads with each other.”
And many more.
This is an excellent analysis on this subject and is filled with strong evidences all throughout. In addition, this is an important lecture because it helps us measure the difference of Imaan and Yaqeen between ourselves and the noble Sahaabah.
This lecture was given yesterday.
“ISLAM-HATERS ARE RESORTING TO ALL MEANS NECESSARY AND USING EVERY OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE TO DEPRIVE THE MANKIND OF THE REMNANTS OF CONSCIENCE AND MORALITY”
Democratic brutalizing the American way
Haters of Islam and natural human morality are showing their most disgusting inclinations in each and every thing. Haters of Islam feel their own inferiority and impairment, and realize their brutish state of being, and are thus trying to bring the mankind down to their level, to desecrate the morals and the sense of shame, and to turn man into a brutish being, unfamiliar with the sense of shame and holiness. After not being sated with bloody violence on the Muslim lands, where democracy is being spread in streams of blood, the Islam-haters are resorting to all means necessary and using every opportunity available to deprive the mankind of the remnants of conscience and morality. Whoever opposes the turning into cattle and brutes, is declared an enemy of "progress, freedom and civilization". One of the American companies started producing urinals in the form of a Muslim woman with a headscarf on. American Muslims find no better way but complain to the authorities and ask that the production of such a loathsome thing be stopped. In this connection I would like to point out that the case with the urinals in a form of a Muslim woman with a headscarf on is only a tiny part of the war that is being unleashed right in front of our eyes all around the world: the war against Islam and human morality. In Europe publications of insulting caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and other anti-Islamic attacks that humiliate and insult the Religion of Allah are continuing. In the end of last year a calendar was published in Europe under the name of "Islamic erotic", where each season is represented with naked women wearing only a Niqab (face-veils). In Italy one of the government ministers has been publicly calling to throw pigs' heads at the mosques. On the top of that he showed in his pre-election show a t-shirt with a caricature of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Also in Italy a toilet is being sold with verses of the Koran painted all over it. In many European countries, as well as in Australia, Muslim schools are being desecrated with pigs' heads thrown at them or attached on the walls. In 2007 anti-Islamic exhibitions were shown all around the world. Thus, in late August 2007 in the exhibition hall of the National Art School of Sydney an exhibition was held under the name of "Bearded Orientals: Making the Empire Cross". One of the pictures exhibited in the school of arts had Osama Ben Laden looking like Prophet Issa (Jesus, peace be upon him). The picture with lenticular image was made as a stereo postcard: at first it looks like an icon, but as soon as the viewer takes a few steps aside, the picture of Prophet Issa (peace be upon him) morphs into Ben Laden. A so-called artist from Sweden, Lars Vilks, has tried to gain fame by using a series of filthy caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). However, the Swedish authorities prevented the further spread of the caricatures. In Iraq and Afghanistan American soldiers are burning the Korans and using them as shooting targets during their training exercises, and then they impudently apologize. In Somalia Ethiopian invaders are turning mosques into toilets and cut the throats of imams of these mosques. In the Caucasus and in Russia the Koran and Islamic scholarly works of the most authoritative Muslim scholars are blacklisted as "extremist literature". Bookstores are being raided. Young people who pray are being shot by "death squads". Girls with headscarves on are being labeled as "Wahabists". Hypocritical stripes instead of a headscarf and wild orgies in indecent clothes, where men and women are all mixed in one crowd, are called a "national tradition". Sectarian cults and polytheism are being spread everywhere. Islam is being turned into mindless rituals, and gravesites and shrines are being turned into sites of worship. A total merciless war of the worldwide Satanism against Islam is being inflamed and spread through each and every millimeter worldwide, without leaving any choice to be neutral or sitting still. This is the war for the future of humankind.
Hasanbek Kadiyev (Jokhar city)
Department of Correspondence,
Kavkaz Center |
