Month: August 2010

Bomb attack kills 7, wounds 14 in China’s far western Xinjiang region, government says

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By: Isolda Morillo, The Associated Press KBS RADIO.CA

URUMQI, China – A bomb attack killed seven people and wounded 14 Thursday in China’s far west region of Xinjiang, an area beset by ethnic conflict and separatist violence.

The target of the attack wasn’t known, although an overseas activist for the region’s native Uighur ethnic group said the victims included members of the security forces.

The blast went off after a man drove a three-wheeled vehicle laden with explosives into a crowd of people in a suburb in Aksu city in southwestern Xinjiang, said Hou Hanmin, a spokeswoman for the Xinjiang government.

“Police say it was an intentional act because the suspect was carrying explosive devices,” Hou told a hastily arranged news conference in the regional capital of Urumqi, about 400 miles (650 kilometres) from Aksu. Continue Reading →

Blast kills seven in China’s Xinjiang

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BBC… Seven people have been killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast in China’s Xinjiang region.

The explosion happened in Aksu city in the west of the remote western region.

A local government spokeswoman, Hou Hanmin, said a Uighur [Muslim]  man drove a three-wheeled vehicle carrying an explosive device into a crowd.

The man was arrested at the scene and investigations were ongoing, Ms Hou said.

Four of those hurt had suffered serious injuries, she said.

Last year deadly ethnic riots erupted in Xinjiang after tensions flared between the Muslim Uighur minority and the Han Chinese.

There have also been a number of blasts in Xinjiang in the past, which the government blames on Uighur [Muslim] separatists.

Speaking on Thursday before the blast occurred, Xinjiang Governor Nur Bekri told journalists that China faced a “long and fierce and very complicated struggle” in Xinjiang.

“Separatism in Xinjiang has a very long history, it was there in the past, it is still here now and it will continue in the future,” AP news agency quoted him as saying.

Chinese authorities say a small group of militants are behind attacks in Xinjiang.

But Uighur [Muslim] activists and human rights groups accuse Beijing of using the issue to crack down on Uighur dissidents, who have complained that waves of Han Chinese migrants are undermining their culture.

‘Ban this far-Right rally’: Police move to halt march over riot fears

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MailOnline… A chief constable is seeking emergency powers to ban the far-Right English Defence League from marching through a city’s Muslim neighbourhood, amid fears it could provoke widespread violence.

Up to 10,000 EDL supporters are expected to descend on Bradford over the bank holiday weekend in what is claimed will be a rally against Islamic extremism.

But residents fear the provocative march could cause a repeat of the 2001 race riots.

Then, the West Yorkshire city suffered violent clashes between white and Asian youths after a demonstration by the National Front.

Police now face the prospect of clashes between the EDL and the Left-wing Unite against Fascism group, which plans a counter-protest in Bradford on the same day, as well as outraged local Muslims.

Sir Norman Bettison, chief constable of the West Yorkshire force, has asked Home Secretary Theresa May for permission for a ban on all marches in the city for three days from Saturday, August 28.

In a statement explaining his request, Sir Norman issued a public plea to locals to support the police and ‘avoid confrontation’.

But he also issued a stern warning that officers would not allow violent disorder.

The powers, granted under the 1986 Public Order Act, do not stop all protests  –  they are permitted as long as demonstrators do not attempt to march.

Sir Norman said: ‘We will continue to try to talk to all those who plan to demonstrate and advise anyone intent on causing trouble to stay away.’

It is only the second time in the past three years that a police force has requested the powers. It would be unusual for Mrs May to refuse the request, and a decision is expected later this week.

A similar order was approved by then Home Secretary Alan Johnson for a proposed EDL march in Luton in August last year.

The EDL’s spokesman, Guramit Singh, denied the organisation intended violence. He said: ‘We don’t want ugly scenes at all.

We are coming for a peaceful demonstration.’

But critics have drawn comparisons between the rise of the EDL and that of 1930s fascism led by Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts.

The group was formed in Luton last year, in response to protests by Islamic radicals when troops returned home from Iraq.

Since then it has staged a number of rallies, many of which have ended in violence. Last month there were clashes between police and protesters at a demonstration in Dudley, the second in the West Midlands town this year.

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We will carefully consider any application to ban a march that comes forward from Bradford.’

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Ground Zero Mosque’s Hidden Websites: Follow the Shariah Big Peace

Posted by Christine Brim Aug 17th 2010 at 10:45 am in Featured Story, Islamic extremism |

Do the math.  The 15 floors planned for the Ground Zero Mosque just don’t add up.

What’s the goal? Maybe the Imam’s goal is not simply to force a provocative “insensitivity” about 9-11 on the American public, with the help of America’s elites.  Maybe the Imam’s long-term goal is to force Shariah law on the American public – of course, again, with the help of America’s elites.

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Why don’t the 15 floors add up? How many floors does Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf need for the mosque portion of this triumphal Islamic command center planned for the two building sites at 45-47 Park Place in New York City?  Think about it: maybe 2 floors for the mosque itself and related offices.  A 3rd floor for the swimming pool, a 4th for the 500 seat auditorium, a 5th for the halal restaurant and halal culinary school, a 6th for the art studios, the childcare center and library, a 7th for the gym and basketball court.  Add an 8th floor for miscellaneous storage and offices.  And then add a 9th floor for the September 11 memorial, an after-thought that was recently added to the Imam’s plan, although that may in fact be more of a room off to one side than a whole floor.

That leaves six mystery floors empty – or dedicated to other activities. Six floors – that’s a lot of offices, a lot of employees, maybe more than half of the 150 full-time and 500 part-time jobs the Imam says he’ll bring to Lower Manhattan.   What are Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s plans for those six mystery floors?

Follow the Shariah Index Project to solve the puzzle of the 6 mystery floors: We found two hidden websites with  copiously deleted information, all about the Imam’s Cordoba Institute Shariah Index Project.  For reference, here’s the Imam’s most recent hidden website (also available here as a pdf).  And here’s the Imam’s earlier hidden website (also available here as a pdf).  The information on those websites – information that the Imam tried to hide with a new whitewashed version – suggests that the six mystery floors of the Ground Zero Mosque will be dedicated to the Imam’s long-term goal: the Shariah Index Project, designed to benchmark Shariah compliance, to distribute Shariah propaganda, and to enforce Shariah law in America and worldwide.

Drawing from those hidden webpages and other sites, we’ve constructed a timeline for the Shariah Index Project and a partial list of Rauf’s partners in the Project.  In Part 2, we’ll reveal the disturbing background and views of those partners.  And in Part 3, we’ll present the bottom line – how this all ties together as a historic Islamist effort to market and to enforce Shariah in America, starting from Ground Zero. Continue Reading →

King of Morroco: There can be no secular Islamic states

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The French blog Bivouac-ID — comparable to the German Politically Incorrect and one of the most prominent French blogs on Islam and the dangers it entails — has a published a video of King Hassan II of Morocco in which he briefly explains why it is an illusion to think there ever can be a “secular” Islam (sometimes called a “European Islam”). In short, Islam is incompatible with Western secular rule of law. Indeed, Hassan II, King of Morocco from 1961-1999, suggests that a secular Muslim is not a Muslim simply because “a Muslim can not be secular”.

Andrew Bostom noticed the following similarity in the King’s quote with other Islamic leaders thoughts on the sharia…

From The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, pp 91-92

Ultimately, enforced abrogation of the laws and social practices of dhimmitude [in historical Palestine]  required the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, which only occurred during the European Mandate period following World War I. Remarkably soon afterwards, however,( i.e., within two years of the abrogation of the Shari’a!)  by 1920, Musa Kazem el-Husseini, former governor of Jaffa during the final years of the Ottoman rule, and president of the Arab (primarily Muslim) Palestinian Congress, demanded restoration of the Shari’a in a letter to the British High Commissioner, Herbert Samuels:

No individual or Government has any right to represent the country in legislating laws because the country is better acquainted with its own needs and because laws, as Jurists state, are the reflection of the people’s spirit and because        [Ottoman] Turkey has drafted such laws as suit our customs. This was done relying upon the Shari’a (Religious Law), in force in Arabic territories, that is engraved in the very hearts of the Arabs and has been assimilated in their           customs and that has been applied …in the modern [Arab] states…We therefore ask the British government…that it should respect these laws [i.e., the Shari’a]…that were in force under the Turkish regime

STRATFOR: Man with gun in Turkish embassy Tel Aviv Israel

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August 17, 2010
A lawyer for the man who barricaded himself in the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv, who has kept in contact with the suspect by cell phone, said he is armed with a pistol and knife and claims he is being hunted by Israeli and Palestinian intelligence services because he has information “that could bring down several senior Palestinian Authority officials,” the Jerusalem Post reported Aug. 17.

Just the Facts, Imam

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Canada Free Press… Just the facts, Imam. A Muslim terrorist attack damaged a building, allowing Muslims to pick it up for a fraction of the price, in order to build a mosque on the spot. Some people might say that sort of thing is tacky. A little like coming by to make an offer on the house, after your cousin murdered the entire family who lived there. Sure, you might claim that you’re not responsible, but it just doesn’t look good. Especially once you start paling around with your cousin, and suggesting that maybe he was just misunderstood. And maybe that family brought it on themselves.

But the media still insists that Islam had nothing to do with 9/11. Or if it had anything to do with 9/11, it was those “other Muslims”, not these Muslims. The media isn’t really good at explaining the difference between these Muslims and those Muslims. Often the media insists that those Muslims are actually these Muslims. Sometimes they claim that those Muslims are actually not Muslims at all, but people who are upset about foreclosures and work related stress.

When Malik Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood, the media spent thousands of gallons of ink claiming that he was suffering from some airborne form of PTSD that he picked up from the soldiers he was abusing—all evidence to the contrary. When the Times Square Bomber tried to kill a few thousand New Yorkers, the media claimed that he was upset because his house had been foreclosed on. Inconveniently enough, he turned out to be a Muslim terrorist, complete with his very own Al Queda martyrdom video. Continue Reading →

Horrifying video of daily life in North Korea

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Thanks to our reader erisian23 we now know that “flower Swallow” means a child in North Korea who flits from opportunity to eat, one to the next like a bird.

Kotjebi or kotchebi (???) is a Korean term denoting North Korean homeless children. The term literally means “fluttering swallows”, given because of the kotjebi’s constant search for food and shelter.[1] The kotjebi are not officially recognized in North Korea, with any mention of the term being prohibited in state publications and documents

(from youtube comment)