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Islamic extremist chosen to head police-Muslim forum

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From The Irish Sun:

Irish Sun
Sunday 25th July, 2010
(ANI)

An Islamic extremist, who has described al-Qaeda as a “myth” and justified the killing of British troops in Iraq, has been chosen to head the Muslim Safety Forum (MSF), which is recognised by London’s Metropolitan Police as “the principal body in relation to Muslim community safety and security”.

Azad Ali was the founding chair of the MSF in 2006, but left that job in 2008 and resigned entirely from the group last year after publicity over his extremist comments.

Last week, he was quietly reappointed as its chairman.

Mr Ali is a senior official of the fundamentalist Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), which works, in its own words, to create an Islamic state under sharia law in Europe.

The IFE and the MSF share the same offices.

He has previously praised a key mentor of Osama bin Laden.

Ali’s comments about terrorism were made on his official blog on the IFE website.

Patrick Mercer, a Conservative MP and counter-terrorism expert, said: “It beats me why the police should want to take the advice of this man. They should have nothing to do with him. I know for a fact that there are just as knowledgeable members of the Muslim community who do not share his subversive views.” (ANI)

Woman arrested for spitting at Muslims UK

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In a previous post I used this analogy as a ‘joke of logical extreme’ to contrast the attitude towards an attempted arson of a synagogue in Malmo. Not 20 minutes later did I find this story over at Winds of Jihad by way of TT

UK: Arrested for Spitting

by sheikyermami on July 25, 2010

There are many Muslims who regularely spit on  returning British soldiers and insult them in the vilest ways, but were they ever arrested, imprisoned or deported?

There are also Muslims like this one who nearly bashed a Briton dead with a baseball bat, but has he been arrested?

But when a drunk makes a fool of herself and curses Muslims, the law comes down on her like a ton of bricks. (English Law, that is)

Was she  arrested  for not being Muslim? You be the judge:

Woman jailed for abusing and spitting at Muslims as they left mosque

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N. Korea vows nuclear war

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Belicose North Korea vows to use nuclear weapons should South Korea and the US do war games in preperation for a potential N. Korean nuclear strike. And people ask me why Iran should not be allowed to have nukes. It freaking stuns me frankly.

From the Washington Times:

To U.S.-S.Korea, North vows nukes

Clinton trades barbs with Pyongyang official at Asia security forum

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, signs the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation along with others at the end of the 17th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Hoang Dinh Nam, Pool)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, signs the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation along with others at the end of the 17th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Hoang Dinh Nam, Pool)

By Jim Gomez ASSOCIATED PRESS

Updated: 10:32 p.m. on Friday, July 23, 2010

MugshotU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, arrives to attend the opening of the ASEAN Regional Forum on Friday July 23, 2010, in Hanoi. The forum is attended by foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and their counterparts from partners countries including U.S., China, Russia, Japan and South Korea. (AP Photo/HOANG DINH Nam, Pool)

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — North Korea threatened Saturday to mount a powerful nuclear response to upcoming joint U.S.-South Korean military drills, calling the exercises an “unpardonable” provocation on top of wrongly blaming Pyongyang for the sinking of a South Korean warship.

North Korea‘s powerful National Defense Commission, led by leader Kim Jong Il, warned that its troops would counter the move to hold military maneuvers involving a nuclear-armed U.S. supercarrier with a “retaliatory sacred war.”

“The army and people of the DPRK will legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces,” North Korea‘s official news agency in Pyongyang quoted an unnamed commission spokesman as saying, referring to the country by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Pyongyang routinely threatens war when South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which North Korea sees as a rehearsal for an attack on the North. The U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in the South to deter against aggression, but says it has not intention of invading the North.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young announced earlier this week in Seoul that the allies would stage a massive four-day military show of force starting Sunday to send a “clear message” to North Korea to stop its aggressive behavior.

Washington and Seoul blame Pyongyang for the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in the waters off Korea‘s west coast. Forty-six sailors were killed in what Seoul calls the worst military attack on South Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War. Continue Reading →

Geert Wilders discloses more on Ground Zero Mosque

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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 from New English Review:

Geert Wilders’ PVV discloses Dutch government support for ‘ground zero’ Mosque
Today’s New York Times, has an op ed by Robert Wright, “A Mosque Maligned”, in which he decries criticism of Imam Faisal Rauf and the controversial Cordoba House Initiative, the ‘ground zero mosque’ by asserting: “So far as I can tell, [Imam] Rauf is a good person who genuinely wants to build a more peaceful world.”
Former Muslims United (FMU) issued a news release on July 13th disclosing that Imam Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan had not signed a Freedom Pledge request sent them last October, abjuring death fatwas against those who leave Islam. So much for Rauf and Khan’s taqiyya about building a ‘peaceful’ tolerant world, given their intolerance.
Then there is this stunning revelation courtesy of a Gates of Vienna report that Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) has uncovered Dutch government support for the ‘ground zero’ project: a $1 million grant made to the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) headed by Imam Rauf and Ms. Khan.  Given this disclosure should Imam Rauf and Ms. Kahn be required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA? This information obtained by GoV has been passed on to the alliance of Ground Zero Mosque opponents in Manhattan.
Bravo to Wilders, architect of the newly launched International Freedom Alliance for questions raised in the Hague Parliament. A tip of the hat to Baron Bodissey and the team at GoV for bringing this to our attention.
Note the GoV report based on translation of Dutch news reports:
Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated an article from today’s De Telegraaf about the Dutch government’s indirect role in financing the proposed mosque at Ground Zero. Geert Wilders and the PVV have been instrumental in exposing this sordid little arrangement:
“Netherlands subsidizes Ground Zero mosque”

The Party for Freedom has filed parliamentary questions in response to an article on the Dutch website “text2|Dagelijkse Standaard}”in which it is reported[1] that the Netherlands co-finances the construction of a mosque a stone’s throw from Ground Zero in New York City with a million U.S. dollars of Dutch taxpayers’ money.

The website of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that a subsidy of $ 1,000,000 was awarded to the organization American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA). That organization is, in cooperation with the Islamic organization Cordoba Initiative, responsible for the hundred million U.S. dollar cost of the Islamic Center Mosque, which will be built near Ground Zero.

The PVV demands clarification[2] and calls the already-approved plans for the building of a mosque right next to Ground Zero absurd and an insult to the thousands of relatives of the victims who fell on September 11, 2001.

The scandal was first made public by the Dutch section of International Civil Liberties Alliance in May this year: “A mosque too far”. According to the article, it is not “only” the mentioned $1,000,000 that has been funded by the Dutch Minister of Development Aid, Bert Koenders (PvdA, Labour Party, Socialists). His “Millennium Development Goals Fund” (MDG3) also transferred half a million dollars directly to ASMA, only days before Feisal Abdul Rauf closed the purchase of the building (June 20, 2009). Continue Reading →

CAIR pushes for Muslim holidays to be added to New York school calendar

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From TROP

Muslims seek to add holidays on NY school calendar

By Karina Ioffee

NEW YORK | Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:15pm EDT

(Reuters) – Muslim parents, students and civic groups are campaigning to add two of their religious holidays to the New York City public school calendar, pinning their hopes on state lawmakers after failing to win over Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the idea.
Putting Eid Ul-Fitr, a holiday marking the end of Ramadan, and Eid Ul-Adha, celebrating the end of the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, on the list of official school holidays will help ease suspicion and reduce anti-Muslim sentiment nearly a decade after the September 11 attacks, they say.

Supporters say there are more than 100,000 Muslim students in the public schools, or about 12 percent of the enrollment. Continue Reading →

STRATFOR: Pakistan intel agency central to Mumbai attack

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India: ISI Behind Mumbai Attack – Home Secretary STRATFOR
July 14, 2010
India has obtained evidence that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate played a more significant role in the planning and execution of the November 2008 Mumbai attack than had previously been thought, according to Indian Home Secretary G. K. Pillai, Indian Express reported July 14. Pillai said information gathered from interrogations of David Headley, a U.S. citizen accused of helping plan the attack, indicated the ISI had planned the attack with Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Hafiz Saeed “from beginning to end.” He added that the ISI was not a peripheral player, but was controlling and coordinating the attack, and that Saeed also knew everything about the attack.

Honour killings and Canada

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It seems that Canada had yet another attempt at a Muslim honour killing of a daughter. The good news is Canada’s clear, unmitigated, non-politically-corrected, not-culturally-relativist (even if the good minister for women’s affairs cannot pronounce that word properly) policy making it perfectly clear that killing people is unacceptable and being a matter of culture or religion does not make it OK.

And below, the statement from the good minister for women’s affairs. As usual for these times, it takes a conservative to set truly liberal policies.

Somalia: Al Shabaab Threatens Burundi

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Somalia: Al Shabaab Threatens Burundi STRATFOR:
July 12, 2010
Al Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said the attacks in Uganda on July 11 were the beginning of plans to take revenge on African Union Mission in Somalia forces, Radio Simba reported July 12. He said the Ugandan people tested al Shabaab’s warnings and that Burundi could be next. In a comment addressed to the people of Burundi, he said, “You are softer than the Ugandans. We have repeatedly asked you to press your government to have your troops leave our country…but you still have a chance.

Iran close to having nuclear weapon capability: Medvedev

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XINHUA NEWS:

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MOSCOW, July 12 (Xinhua) — Iran is getting closer to acquiring the capability to build nuclear weapons, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.

He urged Russian ambassadors and permanent representatives to move away from simplistic approaches toward Iran’s nuclear problem.

“We need to finally abandon any simplistic approaches toward this problem. Iran is getting closer to possessing the potential that in principle can be used to create nuclear weapons,” Medvedev was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.

He reiterated Russia’s positions that sanctions would not produce the desired results, but Russia will consistently urge Teheran to show essential openness and cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Special Report: Iran Nuclear Crisis

Fury as Lockerbie bomber’s doctor admits terrorist could live for ten years – despite earlier three-month diagnosis

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Surprise Surprise Surprise…

From The Daily Mail.com

By Jack Doyle and Peter Allen
Last updated at 7:00 PM on 4th July 2010

The doctor who predicted the Lockerbie bomber would die within three months of his release from prison faced calls to apologise to victims’ families last night.

There was outrage after it emerged Professor Karol Sikora had admitted Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi could live for another ten years or more despite diagnosing him with terminal cancer.

Campaigners reacted with fury to his comments which they said raised new questions about the decision to send him back to Libya.

Megrahi at home in Tripoli with his family by his side. Some relatives of victims of the 1988 bombing claimed he was never as sick as he claimed to beMegrahi at home in Tripoli with his family by his side. Some relatives of victims of the 1988 bombing claimed he was never as sick as he claimed to be

Tory MP Ben Wallace, a former member of the Scottish Affairs Committee, said: ‘The doctor that carried out this diagnosis owes his regret to the families of the victims.

‘He should apologise to the victims for contributing to the release of a mass murderer, who is clearly alive and well in Libya.

‘Throughout this whole sorry affair the victim has been put last behind trade deals, Scotish Nationalist posturing and dubious medical diagnosis.’

Cancer specialist Prof Sikora admitted it was 'embarrassing' that Megrahi has lived much longer than expectedCancer specialist Prof Sikora admitted it was ’embarrassing’ that Megrahi has lived much longer than expected Continue Reading →

France’s top Muslim leader seeks doubling of country’s mosques to 4,000

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From The National Ae H/T Andrew Bostom

France’s top Muslim leader seeks doubling of country’s mosques to 4,000

Colin Randall, Foreign Correspondent

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    The Grand Mosque of Paris was built in 1922 with state funding to recognise North African Muslims fighting for France. Ed Alcock / The National

    PARIS // France’s most prominent Muslim leader has called for the number of mosques in the country to be doubled to 4,000, sparking fresh debate on the secular status established in French law a century ago.

    Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grande Mosque of Paris and formerly president of the French Council for Muslims, believes a sharp increase in facilities for worship is necessary to give Europe’s largest Muslim population a chance to pray in dignity and comfort.

    In a revealing interview in the daily newspaper France-Soir, the contents of which were confirmed by his office, the Algerian-born cardiologist stressed the social benefits of easing the “pressure, frustration and the sense of injustice” felt by many French Muslims.

    “Open a mosque and you close a prison,” said Dr Boubakeur. If this seems a colourful way of justifying a major programme of mosque-building, he can point to a powerful ally: the president, Nicolas Sarkozy.

    France jealously guards the principle of separation of religion and state set down in the 1905 law. This legislation, the bedrock of French secular society, expressly forbids the official recognition or state funding any faith.

    But in 2004, when he was the finance minister, Mr Sarkozy argued in a book entitled The Republic, Religions, Hope for an updating of the law to meet modern challenges.

    He said the provision of a mosque in every sizeable town would help counter the extremism fostered by self-styled, usually untrained imams holding prayer meetings in tower block basements and garages.

    France is estimated to have at least five million Muslims among a population of 63 million, and Islam is the most commonly practised faith after Roman Catholicism.

    Since becoming president, Mr Sarkozy has maintained his theme that “negative” secularism should make way for a positive brand. In 2008, while visiting Riyadh, he hailed Islam as “one of the greatest and most beautiful civilisations the world has known”.

    For French groups such as Riposte Laïque (Secular Response), which fiercely defends the church-state separation, Mr Sarkozy has defeated the spirit of the 1905 law by allowing it to be circumvented. Continue Reading →

George Galloway threatenes “10,000 dead bodies”

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Holy crap! Thanks Don

Man identified illegally entering US military base, not identified

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How odd. The identified man, still remains unidentified. If anyone cares to, the answer to this puzzle may lie in the Agenda and Views of this site page of Vlad Tepes.

Armed man arrested at US air base AWOL from military unit

The armed man who was arrested Monday at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida is currently AWOL from his military unit.

Military personnel inspect a vehicle with its doors open and contents removed at the entrance of MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. on Monday, June 14, 2010. An armed man, who was in the vehicle, was arrested and later found to be AWOL from his military unit.

AP Photo/The Tampa Tribune, Jason Behnken

By Reuters / June 15, 2010

Miami

A man who tried to enter a Florida military base with fake identification and a stash of guns and ammunition is a U.S. serviceman absent without leave from the military, base officials said on Tuesday.


But the unidentified man was not stationed at MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Florida, where he and a civilian woman were detained on Monday night for attempting to gain unauthorized access, Air Force spokeswoman Katherine Holt said. Continue Reading →

Khadr son charged with sexual assault

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The Khadr’s, Canada’s First Family of Terror, are a despicable lot. Not a year goes by without one of them appearing on the front pages, living out their Islamist customs and traditions. This time it’s Abdulkareem Khadr, the son of patriarch Ahmed, who was killed in a firefight near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Abdulkareem was left paralyzed from a bullet to his spine in this same firefight and after returning to Canada, now finds himself charged with sexual assault of a minor.

From The National Post

Khadr son charged with sexual assualt

Abdulkareem Khadr in 2008. Khadr, partially paralyzed after a firefight in Pakistan, is facing charges of sexual assault

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Abdulkareem Khadr in 2008. Khadr, partially paralyzed after a firefight in Pakistan, is facing charges of sexual assault

Stewart Bell, National Post · Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010

TORONTO — The partially paralyzed son of the late Canadian al-Qaeda associate Ahmed Said Khadr has been arrested in Toronto for alleged sexual exploitation of a minor.

Abdulkareem Ahmed Khadr, 21, was arrested 10 days ago by Toronto Police and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice on July 15.

“He has been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation,” Constable Tony Vella, a police spokesman, said on Monday. The alleged victim was a minor but is now 18 years of age, Const. Vella said.

Reached at the family apartment on Monday, Mr. Khadr said: “Don’t worry about it. I’m pretty sure the law is going to do what it’s supposed to do.”

The arrest is the latest chapter in the saga of the Khadrs, Canadian citizens who once lived in the same compound as Osama bin Laden but fled Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The family patriarch, Amhed Khadr, crossed into Pakistan, where he was killed in a shootout with Pakistani security forces in 2003. His son Omar is at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused of killing a U.S. soldier.

Another son, Abdullah, is in Toronto awaiting extradition to the United States, where he has been charged with smuggling weapons to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, while son Abdurahman has said his father tried to recruit him to become a suicide bomber.

The fifth of six Khadr children, Abdulkareem, who was born in Pakistan, was present when his father was killed near the Afghanistan border. Then 14, Abdulkareem took a bullet to the spine and is paralyzed from the waist down.

He returned to Toronto in 2004 using an emergency passport issued by the Canadian government. At the time, Stockwell Day, then an opposition MP and now International Trade Minister, said the Khadrs had lost the right to call themselves Canadians.

“They’ve expressed their allegiance to the principles of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden,” Mr. Day said. “That alone should be grounds to have their citizenship revoked.”

The mother denies the family has ties to al-Qaeda.

In 2006, Abdulkareem turned up in Brampton, Ont., to watch bail hearings for the Toronto 18 terrorists who plotted truck bomb attacks in southern Ontario. Two years later, he took part in a protest outside the United States consulate in Toronto to call for the release of his brother Omar.

On Monday, Abdulkareem said he was arrested at a police station in suburban Scarborough on June 4. “I went to go see what they were talking about, talk to them and that’s it,” he said. “They gave me the papers and whatnot and that’s it, they let me go.”

Mr. Khadr said he was unsure whether he would have to appear in court next month. “I might not need to appear, I might need to appear, it doesn’t matter,” he said. Asked if he meant the case might be resolved or the charges dropped before that date, he said, “yes.”

His sister Zaynab said she was unaware of any charges.

“He hasn’t been charged with anything, if there was any charges believe me I’d know about it,” she said on Monday. “I don’t know about any of that and believe me I would have known, I have a minor in the house.”

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