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June 02, 2008
The Muslim View of a Kingdom: Racism, Tyranny, Apartheid and Genocide
This is yet another example of how Muslims dictate public policy by throwing public temper tantrums and rewriting history. Rafiq Al Husseini is just another Islamic poster child in its most recognizable form: a screaming banshee who delights in threatening racism, tyranny, apartheid and genocide.
Religion of peace, my ass.
March 31, 2008
Islamism and art
Did you know that back in 1955, a campaign to censor a Mohammed statue in another American court building was successful? The New York City-based courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, which was built in 1902, featured on its roof balustrade an eight-foot marble statue of "Mohammed" by Charles Albert Lopez as one of ten historic lawgivers. Egyptian, Indonesian, and Pakistani ambassadors to the United Nations responded to an overhaul of the building in 1953 by asking the U.S. Department of State to have the Muhammad statue removed. New York City's public works commissioner Frederick H. Zurmuhlen had the statue carted off to a storehouse in Newark, New Jersey.
Read more about destroying sculptures of Mohammed to appease Mohammedans, here, by Daniel Pipes.
Click here to view a comprehensive collection of images of Mohammed in Islamic Art through the ages.
Read more about the hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed that have been created over the centuries, with no complaint from the Muslim world, here.
April 24, 2007
Taliban Child Beheads American "Spy": The Return of Zarqawi Chic
I've been warning about this for some time, the return of beheading chic to Islamc terror propaganda videos. Think the Islamists could get any more disgusting than Abu Musab al Zarqawi's frequent beheading snuff films? Think again. Imagine the same video, but this time a child does it.AP:Oh. My. God.
The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair.
A video circulating in Pakistan records the grisly death of Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official who was killed in a December airstrike in Afghanistan...
The footage shows Nabi making what is described as a confession, being blindfolded with a checkered scarf.
"He is an American spy. Those who do this kind of thing will get this kind of fate," says his baby-faced executioner, who is not identified.
A continuous 2 1/2-minute shot then shows the victim lying on his side on a patch of rubble-strewn ground. A man holds Nabi by his beard while the boy, wearing a camouflage military jacket and oversized white sneakers, cuts into the throat. Other men and boys call out "Allahu akbar!"—"God is great!"—as blood spurts from the wound.
The film, overlain with jihadi songs, then shows the boy hacking and slashing at the man's neck until the head is severed.
What's odd is that the video isn't making the rounds on the normal internet forums yet, where they are usually released. Perhaps the media savvy American Adam Gadahn, who helps produce propaganda videos for al Qaeda, warned that the video wouldn't go over too well? After all, these videos are designed to inspire either fear or sympathy, and showing a child murder a hostage simply inspires disgust.
Palestinian Sheikh Calls on Allah to Kill Every Single Israeli and American
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Following are excerpts from a sermon delivered by Ahmad Bahr, acting speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, which aired on Sudan TV on April 13, 2007.
Ahmad Bahr: "You will be victorious" on the face of this planet. You are the masters of the world on the face of this planet. Yes, [the Koran says that] "you will be victorious," but only "if you are believers." Allah willing, "you will be victorious," while America and Israel will be annihilated, Allah willing. I guarantee you that the power of belief and faith is greater than the power of America and Israel. They are cowards, as is said in the Book of Allah: "You shall find them the people most eager to protect their lives." They are cowards, who are eager for life, while we are eager for death for the sake of Allah. That is why America's nose was rubbed in the mud in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and everywhere.
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America will be annihilated, while Islam will remain. The Muslims "will be victorious, if you are believers." Oh Muslims, I guarantee you that the power of Allah is greater than America, by whom many are blinded today. Some people are blinded by the power of America. We say to them that with the might of Allah, with the might of His Messenger, and with the power of Allah, we are stronger than America and Israel.
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I tell you that we will protect the enterprise of the resistance, because the Zionist enemy understands on the language of force. It does not recognize peace or the agreements. It does not recognize anything, and it understands only the language of force. Our Jihad-fighting Palestinian people salutes its brother, Sudan.
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The Palestinian woman bids her son farewell, and says to him: "Son, go and don't be a coward. Go, and fight the Jews." He bids her farewell and carries out a martyrdom operation. What did this Palestinian woman say when she was asked for her opinion, after the martyrdom of her son? She said: "My son is my own flesh and blood. I love my son, but my love for Allah and His Messenger is greater than my love for my son." Yes, this is the message of the Palestinian woman, who was over seventy years old – Fatima Al-Najjar. She was over seventy years old, but she blew herself up for the sake of Allah, bringing down many criminal Zionists.
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Oh Allah, vanquish the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, vanquish the Americans and their supporters. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them all, down to the very last one. Oh Allah, show them a day of darkness. Oh Allah, who sent down His Book, the mover of the clouds, who defeated the enemies of the Prophet – defeat the Jews and the Americans, and bring us victory over them.
April 07, 2007
Three Charged in 2005 London Transit Attacks
British authorities charged three Muslim men Thursday with conspiring to help with reconnaissance and planning for the July 2005 suicide-bombing attack on the London transit system, which killed 52 people. The attack, Britain's deadliest in peacetime, was carried out by four Britons of Pakistani origin. Mohammad Shakil, 30, Sadeer Saleem, 26, and Waheed Ali, 23, are from the Beeston area of Leeds. Three of the four suicide bombers lived nearby.
March 31, 2007
Muslims in Nigeria club Christian teacher to death and Muslims in Ethiopia murder a Christian evangelist
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FaithTree.com has the very sobering story of "Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, a teacher at Government Secondary School of Gandu in this northern Nigerian town, [who] was in high spirits last Wednesday (March 21) as she made her way to school where she teaches government… Soon her happiness would be cut short. Muslim students at the school, along with outside Islamic extremists, murdered Oluwasesin on March 21 over claims that she desecrated the Quran."
The following story comes from Ethiopia where a Christian street evangelist was dragged into a local mosque and beaten to death:
WASHINGTON, Mar. 29 /Christian Newswire/ — The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) has just learned that an Ethiopian evangelist named Tedase was beaten to death by militant Muslims on Monday, March 26th, as he and two young women were on a street evangelism assignment in Jimma, Ethiopia. This marks the second time in six months that Christians residing in Southeast Ethiopia have been attacked and killed by extremist (Wahabbi) Muslims. On Monday afternoon Tedase and two female coworkers were conducting street evangelism on Merkato Street in Jimma, Southern Ethiopia. Merkato Street runs by a Wahabbi Mosque. As the team was walking by the Mosque, a group of Muslims exited the Mosque and began to run after them to confront them. Tedase's female coworkers ran away from the mob but Tedase continued on. The Muslims caught up with Tedase, pulled him into the mosque, and savagely beat him to death. Sources from Jimma reported that Tedase was beaten with a calculated intention to kill him. This was no accident or case of mob frenzy getting out of control. His body was later taken to the hospital for an
autopsy and he was buried Tuesday, March 27.Our sources also reveal that Jimma Christians were conducting an evangelism campaign, and news of the outreach was spreading among Jimma residents as well as militant Muslim groups in the area. The Muslims that belonged to the Wahabbi sect purposefully beat Tedase to death as a message to Christians that they are ready to combat evangelism.
This most recent incident in Ethiopia confirms ICC's decision to include this country in its Hall of Shame list, which highlights nations where Christians are enduring the most severe persecution. It is important to note that the Muslims who attacked Tedase belonged to the Wahabbi brand of Islam, an extremist sect imported from Saudi Arabia. It is clear that the Christians in Ethiopia are feeling Saudi Arabia's influence, particularly in Jimma, a Muslim dominated area where local authorities are almost exclusively Muslim. It was only six months ago, in September of 2006, that Muslim extremists burned down a number of churches and parishes, as well as Christian homes. As many as 2,000 Christians were displaced by the attack, an attempt to intimidate Christians with the hopes of converting them to Islam.
Evangelical church leaders are fearful that if police ignore Tedase's death, it will be a green light for Muslim groups in the area to attack their Christian neighbors at will and without retribution.
March 24, 2007
Chlorine cache found in Iraq
U.S. troops sweeping Baghdad have found containers of nitric acid and chlorine, raising concerns that insurgents are expanding their use of chemicals in the war for power in Iraq, military officials said yesterday. The containers were found as part of a larger cache of weapons discovered as U.S. and Iraqi troops cleared house after house in the Sunni-majority Ghazaliyah neighborhood in western Baghdad.
In a new twist in the Iraqi conflict, chlorine gas set off by suicide bombers in villages west of Baghdad killed at least eight and sickened hundreds last week. It was the first time the chemical was found in the capital. Athough both nitric acid and chlorine have a variety of industrial uses, finding them alongside weapons stashes in known terrorist havens signified a change of tactic for the fighters, said a U.S. military official who asked not to be named.
"We've seen them use caustic acid with improvised explosive devices to burn the skin," said the official, adding that although the acid does not increase the lethality of a bomb, it does make
it "nastier."In one house in nearby Amariyah raided by Iraqi troops and the U.S. Army's Striker Brigade yesterday, soldiers found mortar shells stored in a bag in the front yard, along with a meat cleaver and a bomb fashioned from a propane tank.
Inside the house, clothing, photographs and children's toys were piled high in filthy corners. Black and white banners declared the rule of the Islamic Army, a Sunni extremist group.
British Make Arrests in Terrorist Transit Attacks
Counter-terrorist police arrested three men Thursday in the 2005 suicide attacks on the London transit system, the first major development in the investigation in months. Two of the suspects were detained as they prepared to board a flight to Pakistan.
The third man was arrested in Leeds - the northern city that was home to three of the four bombers. Police also raided five properties in the city - at least one on the same street where one of the bombers lived.
"Anybody who imagined that this had simply been treated as four lone wolves or a lone pack of wolves on July 7, 2005 is very wrong," Lord Carlile, the government's independent reviewer of terror laws, told the British Broadcasting Corp. "There is a lot of work going on."No one has ever been charged in connection with the bombings, which were the deadliest attack on London since World War II. The four bombers and 52 commuters died in blasts on three subway trains and a double-decker bus, and more than 700 people were injured.
None of the men were identified. The two arrested at Manchester Airport were aged 23 and 30 and the third was 26. Under British law, police will have 28 days to question them before they must be charged or released.
March 15, 2007
9/11 mastermind confesses in Guantanamo
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a string of others during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon.Here's a transcript.
"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mohammed said in a statement that was read during the session, which was held last Saturday.
Mohammed claimed responsibility for planning, financing, and training others for bombings ranging from the 1993 attack at the World Trade Center to the attempt by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
In all, Mohammed said he was responsible for planning 28 individual attacks, including many that were never executed. The comments were included in a 26-page transcript released by the Pentagon, which blacked out some of his remarks.
March 14, 2007
Shin Bet: Palestinians Working to Improve Missile Capabilities
The Palestinians are taking advantage of the restraint demonstrated by the Israel Defense Forces to bolster their arms and improve the range of their rocket fire, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) Director Yuval Diskin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday. He said Hamas was sending hundreds of men to Iran for prolonged periods of advanced training, and that 31 tons of explosive material had been smuggled into Gaza in the last year by terror groups, a six-fold increase. Palestinian terror groups are attempting to increase their rocket range to strike Kiryat Gat and Ashkelon; Islamic Jihad succeeded in launching a Grad rocket some 16
kilometers last July. In the West Bank, both the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades of Fatah and Islamic Jihad aspire to be the first to launch rockets into Israel. Diskin said the Palestinians have employed improved roadside bombs, some capable of penetrating armored vehicles.
March 09, 2007
Jordanian Islamists Accused of Plot to Assassinate Bush
Jordan on Wednesday put on trial three suspected Islamists for conspiring to assassinate President George W. Bush when he visited the country last year, as part of a previously undisclosed plot to bomb the U.S. and Danish embassies.
February 27, 2007
Taliban Muslims target Cheney in Afghan suicide blast
Folks, this is another act of war against the United States which will be ignored by the politically screwed-up media.
February 26, 2007
Today in History
Today is Monday, February 26th, the 57th day of 2007.
Today's Highlight in History:
In 1993, a bomb built by Muslims exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than one-thousand others.
Two (18 yr old) arab Murderers Confess to Last Night's Murder of Israeli Citizen
In a joint IDF and ISA operation, the two Palestinian suspects of the murder of the Israeli civilian yesterday evening were arrested in the following hours. The two are Mudar Mussa Ahmed Abu Dia and Mussa Adam Salem Ah'lil.
In their investigation, the two admitted that the motive for the murder was based on religious grounds.
Yesterday evening, February 25th 2007, the body of Erez Lebanon, a resident of the Israeli community of Bat Ayin, was found stabbed in a wadi near the community. Erez Lebanon was father to three children.
According to intelligence information indicating the involvement of the two Palestinians in the murder, IDF and ISA forces arrested them several hours after the body was found, in the village of Beit Ummar, south of Bethlehem.The two murderers, about 18 years old, residents of the village of Safa, near the village of Beit Ummar, were taken for questioning by security forces.
In searches in the village of Beit Ummar by IDF forces earlier today, the burnt vehicle of the murdered Israeli citizen was found, and transferred to the Israeli Police.
In their investigation, the two confessed the murder. They claimed of previous planning, which included preceding patrols in the area of the attack.
On the day of the attack, the two left their village armed with knives. As they spotted the victim, they ambushed and stabbed him to death.
Cleared for publication: Intelligence information attained by defense establishment indicates Erez Levanon was murdered Sunday night by two Palestinians hiding in building in village of Beit Omar, not far from scene of stabbing.
Film - The Islamic Mein Kampf
Plese pass this on to as many people as you know.
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamic-mein-kampf/
February 07, 2007
Islamorage at the Holy Jewish Temple Mount
On another note, pay close attention to API's pernicious usage of the terms: "disputed holy site" and "ancient", as well as diminutive qualifiers that describe what is holy to Jews, for example "shrines" and "ancient temples" which insinuate old and no longer viable vs . "the compound where Islamic tradition says Muhammad ascended to heaven" which conjures images of "alive and living and recent".
Baruch Hashem Himself dwelt in the Holy Jewish Temple, you can't get holier than that, but, according to API, Jews don't deserve a holy building because their holy building was built approximately 3,000 years ago, and Muslims *are* allowed their holy building because it was built approximately 1,400 years ago. Makes no sense, but that's the double standard for Jews and Israel, manifested quite clearly by API via Yahoo:
One more thing. The only religious argument that makes sense is to point out how so many Jewish holy places do exist in Israel. It's hardly irrational that Jews should want to live near the Wailing Wall or other sites of great importance in Jewish history and religion, particularly given how poorly Muslims have treated such sites. Really, folks, would you want Muslims to babysit your fifth-century Bamiyan Buddha statues?Police scuffled Wednesday with a Muslim leader and several of his followers near a disputed holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem where Muslims have been protesting excavations and repairs. Raed Salah, the fiery leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and six supporters were taken for questioning after "a brawl" with police guarding work near the hilltop compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, home of the Al Aqsa mosque complex, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
Three Palestinian youths were questioned on suspicion of throwing stones at an Israeli bus near the Old City, but there was no other trouble, he added. Rosenfeld said about 2,000 Israeli police — double the usual number — were on duty in the city to quell any violent protest against Israel's plan to build a new walkway up to the compound where Islamic tradition says Muhammad ascended to heaven and which Jews revere as the site of their ancient temples.
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