Archive for July 19th, 2008
Salafism also grows in Palestine
Salafis — sometimes referred to as Wahhabis — dream of a world before Islam became cluttered with new innovations and cultural influences. They seek to live a pious, god-fearing life governed by the laws of religion, a life resembling those of the original Muslims. At first glance, such a belief system doesn’t differ much from that of other utopian sects — were it not for their ideas related to holy war. To make their vision a reality, Abu Mustafa and his men are willing to fight — and they are willing to slaughter innocent bystanders.
“Look,” says Abu Mustafa, whose beard cascades down his chest, “there will be three possibilities. Some will find their way to Islam. Those who don’t want to convert will be able to live in peace under the authority of Islam.” For those who don’t want to accept the hegemony of Islam, however, holy war is the only recipe. “Then we have to fight — just like our brothers on Sept. 11,” Abu Mustafa says.
The attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. seven years ago were a response to the contempt held for Islam by the Western world, he says. “If Muslims are attacked anywhere in the world, one has to hit back, and it doesn’t matter where.” Salafist Islam is like a cat, he says. “It is very friendly, but if it is attacked, it turns into a tiger.”
(…) Abu Mustafa has a degree from the University of Saarbrücken in Germany’s far west. For seven years, until 2000, he studied chemical engineering and led a largely normal student existence. He had periodic jobs with a moving company or in construction, and he occasionally cooked up Palestinian specialties for other students living in the dormitory. “I miss Germany,” he says. He’s even looked on Google Earth for the street where he used to live and the cafeteria where he used to eat.
He explains that he was largely accepted in Germany and found people there to be quite friendly. The only problems came about when he encountered scantily clad women or fellow students who spent much of their time in clubs and bars. He says such experiences rooted him even deeper in his beliefs. “It would be better for such people were they to follow the pure Islam,” he says. “We are going to try and bring the faith to them.”
The Salafi warns that Germany, by supporting Israel and participating in operations in Afghanistan, is a clear target for his fellow Islamists. He claims he himself would never move against his “second home,” but he warns that “Germany should be afraid of being attacked.”
Interesting that it doesn’t matter that he was treated well in Germany and that he is a University graduate (so no personal aggrievances, no discrimination and no illiterate man). The important thing for him is that women were not veiled and men were spending too much time in clubs and bars… and that Germany helps Israel (wow… how pro-Zionist) and has troops in Afghanistan… so Germany, beware!!
Just to remind some people: those are the same people who are growing in numbers in Catalonia, Spain. Marvellous hein?
Technorati Tags: Salafism, Wahabbism, Palestine, Israel, Abu+Mustafa, Hamas
UK: British Government to fund a board of Islamic theologians
The move will see Oxford and Cambridge Universities host a group of scholars who will lead debate on key issues such as women and loyalty to the UK.
The plans have angered some hardline activists who accuse ministers of trying to create state-sponsored Islam.
But Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said it was government’s job to support Muslim leaders on controversial issues.
Under the plans, the two universities will bring together about 20 leading thinkers, yet to be named, to debate critical issues affecting Muslims in the UK. The Department for Communities is responsible for the government’s strategy to combat violent extremism, known as “Prevent”.
If this would indeed have good results, it would be a truly great achievement, but I’m not the least optimistic…
via Conservative Home.
Technorati Tags: UK, Islamic+theologians, Uk+to+fund+group+of+Islamic+theologians, Communities+Secretary+Hazel+Blears
Another honor killing in USA: Muslim brother knives his sister
Infuriated because his younger sister was going to clubs, wearing immodest clothing and planning to leave her family for a new life in New York City, Waheed Allah Mohammad stabbed her outside their Henrietta home, prosecutors allege.
- Waheed Allah Mohammed “allegedlly” knived his sister because she was a “bad Muslim girl”.
Afterward, he told Monroe County sheriff’s investigators that he attacked his sister because she had disgraced their family and was a “bad Muslim girl,” according to court documents.
Mohammad, 22, is scheduled to appear Friday in Monroe County Court on charges of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault in the May 8 attack on Fauzia A. Mohammad, 19.
The case is the second in four years in Monroe County in which an immigrant from South Asia is alleged to have killed or tried to kill a family member over the perceived loss of family honor — an occurrence that is not uncommon in South Asia but is rare in the United States.
Then it goes on with the normal mumbling about “not being in Islamic traditions”. Well, then Muslims have a problem because in a nearly 100 percent of honor killings Muslims are involved and they keep on saying that the reason is that the woman is not a good Muslim. In Turkey the perpetrators are even praised for what they have done:
Murder becomes inevitable when honor is at stake and turning to murder in such a situation is seen as a respectable act by the society.
One must ask why those Muslims killing other Muslims because of being bad Muslims is not an Islamic issue.
This is not the first brother-trying-to-kill-his-sister-out-of-honor that we see this year, though. Really disgusting.
Technorati Tags: Waheed+Allah+Mohammed, honor+Killings, Fauzia+A.+Mohammad,
USA: Muslims intimidating police to create special treatment for themselves?
An otherwise unremarkable hearing in the Fairfax County, Virginia, general district court last Thursday marked an ominous trend with respect to the cherished American judicial principles of the rule of law and equality before the law. The hearing on four misdemeanor charges against Dr. Mustafa Ahmed Abbasi featured all of the usual players — judge, bailiff, clerks, prosecutors, police officers, criminal attorneys, and defendant — but with one notable addition to the judicial drama, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
CAIR’s intervention in the Abbasi case is a manifestation of a larger campaign against law enforcement to use political alliances and legal threats to intimidate police in cases involving Muslim defendants and to establish separate and preferable treatment for Muslims in the American legal system.
The circumstances concerning the charges against Dr. Abbasi are as unremarkable as last Thursday’s hearing. On February 9, Abassi committed an improper turn which prompted a traffic stop by Fairfax County police. After consent for a search of the vehicle was given, police discovered loose pills, needles, and prescriptions written to other individuals in the trunk of the car, violations of Virginia law. Dr. Abbasi admitted that he treated members of his mosque out of his vehicle, also a violation of Virginia medical rules (it should be noted that he is also a U.S. Customs and Immigration Service-approved immigration doctor). Abbasi received a summons for unlawfully prescribing drugs and three others for possession of controlled substances, and was allowed to leave the scene on his own recognizance.
More than two months later, a letter was sent from CAIR national legal counsel Nadhira Al-Khalili to Colonel David Rohrer, chief of the Fairfax County Police Department, claiming that the traffic stop was made on the basis of profiling and that Dr. Abassi’s consent to the vehicle search was never given. She also claimed that Abbasi’s arrest was part of a pattern of “religious discrimination” by the department.
Hmm, this is truly curious: so you first admit something and later you say you didn’t and that everything was made for religious profiling… Truly worrying.
Technorati Tags: Islamism, Islamist+agenda, USA, CAIR, Abbasi
Bolivia: oil companies demand compensations
Four international firms have sued Bolivian state for US$925 millions after the nationalizations made by Bolivian President Evo Morales.
The information was made public by the Ministery for Legal Defense of the State Recoveries (what an euphemism), created specifically to defend the State before International Tribunals.
The suing companies are British Ashmore, Italian Telecom, Chilean Quiborax and Gas Transboliviano.
Ashmore is suing Bolivia for the higher quantity: US$500 millions for the nationalizations of the oil company Transredes, a hydrocarbons’ transport firm that is now property of Bolivian state. Ashmore has sued Bolivian state before the Commerce Chamber of Stockholm, Sweden.
Telecom has sued Bolivia for US$350 millions for the nationalization of the National Telecomunications Firm (ENTEL) before the International Center for the Arrangement of Differences related to Investments (CIADI), of the World Bank.
Chilean Quiborax asked for US$40 millions because the State ended a mining concession. The case is also being overlooked by CIADI.
Gas Transboliviano is also asking for US$35 millions because of taxes’ devolutions.
Technorati Tags: Ashmore, Quiborax, Italian+Telecom, Gas+Transboliviano, Bolivia, Center+for+the+Arrangement+of+Differences, CIADI
“The Photoshop will cut their hands”
Well, no, not really, Ahmadinejad menaced again some days ago every one who is not himself and supporters:
“Before the enemies can put their fingers on the trigger, the armed forces will cut off their hands,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
But well, considering the missiles’ photoshopped photos…
seen at Dry Bones Blog.
Today they have insisted again on not suspending uranium enrichment:
An Iranian official says his country will refuse requests to freeze its uranium enrichment program in exchange for a pledge of no new U.N. Security Council sanctions.
The uranium enrichment, is also real or are they photoshopping everything?
NOTE: Some people maybe think that joking about this is unrespectful, but there is nothing as unrespectful for me as not laughing about Ahmadinejad, because isn’t he ridiculous menacing every single people who does not obey and bow to him but without fighting really for the needs of Iranian people?
Lastly, Ahmadinejad has claimed some US military men hold a special place for him in their heart and that a US General told him that he “wanted to have their picture taken with me said he had postponed his holidays in the United States to be able to meet me.“
Must have problems with his glasses this US generals or Ahmadinejad has been imagining things or having visions…
Technorati Tags: Ahmadinejad, Iran, Islamism, moonbats
Kantar in Lebanon
Wow what a peaceful guy via Steynianism:
Kantar, proving what he really is.
Well, once again this proves how foolish the swap was… People who are dead are not going to resurrect by the swap but this people can kill more (yes, I know, Jewish have to bury their dead because if not they do not resurrect on the Last Day)… and they have vowed it…
Technorati Tags: Samir+Kantar, Jihad, Hizbullah, Lebanon, Islamism, terrorism, Israel
Israel detains six terrorism suspects
Two of the men are Arab citizens of Israel, both of them students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, according to the statement. The other four are Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem. (Note: the same place where the bulldozer jihadist was living in) The men range in age from 21 to 24.
The new charges follow the arrest this month of two Israeli Arabs on suspicion they gave strategic information to al-Qaida. Those arrests marked the first time Israel had accused any of its citizens of cooperating with the terror network.
Investigators found bomb-making instructions on the personal computers of several of the six new suspects, the Shin Bet said. But the statement gave no indication that their activities ever moved beyond the planning stage.
None face charges of active involvement in any attacks.
One of the Israeli Arabs, a 24-year-old chemistry student, lived in a Jerusalem college dormitory overlooking a helicopter landing pad used by Bush during a visit in January, the statement said.
Using his cell phone, the student filmed helicopters taking off and landing, and sent a message to a Web forum linked to al-Qaida asking about shooting Bush’s helicopter down, according to the Shin Bet.
Of course, killing Bush was going to solve the world’s problems…
Technorati Tags: Israel, Al-Qaeda, Shin+Bet, terrorism, Jihadism, trying+to+kill+Bush, East+Jerusalem
