“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
This clip was sent to me by Don L and translated just this evening for us by Nonie Darwish (Thank you very much Ms. D) and while it is a year old or so, I think its important to have this sort of thing out there so anyone who still thinks that Islam means something other than this, well maybe this will shake them up a bit.
This is harsh. It is several people being doused in fuel and set alight. Please be warned.
from Jihad Watch
“We support personal freedoms, but there are places that have a special status,” said Sheik Mazin Saadi, a Shiite cleric from Kazimiyah, home to the double gold-domed shrine that is one of Shiite Islam’s holiest sites.
He said the area’s residents lobbied Baghdad’s local government to ban unveiled women from walking around the neighborhood, including its sprawling open-air market that attracts people from across Iraq. “The women started to follow to this order,” Saadi said.
Shiite is the key word. Both areas are Shiite areas and Iraqi clerics are doing their part to turn parts of Iraq into Iran. With a government that is in thrall to Iran, there isn’t much of an obstacle to clerical power. And it goes deeper than clerical police. Iraq is Iran’s other ace in the hole for bypassing nuclear sanctions.
But the biggest story may be the coming showdown over Kurdish oil.
Tariq al-Hashimi has been staying in Turkey.
The move is likely to add fresh tensions to relations between Iraq’s Shiite leadership and leaders in Turkey, where the Iraqi vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, has been staying with the apparent blessing of the Turkish government since he fled his refuge in northern Iraq last month.
PUBLISHED: 10:55 GMT, 10 March 2012 | UPDATED: 16:57 GMT, 10 March 2012
More than 90 Iraqi students have been stoned to death for their Emo haircuts by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after Iraq’s interior ministry dubbed it ‘devil worshipping’.
Iraq’s Moral Police released a statement on the interior ministry’s website condemning the ’emo phenomenon’ among Iraqi youth, declaring its intent to ‘eliminate’ the trend.
The move is part of a wider clampdown on young people taking on what government officials call ‘Western appearances’ in Iraq.
Iraqi activists said this unnamed teenager was brutally killed by religious police for having an ’emo’ hairstyle
‘The Emo phenomenon or devil worshipping is being followed by the Moral Police who have the approval to eliminate [the phenomenon] as soon as possible since it’s detrimentally affecting the society and becoming a danger,’ the statement read.
‘They wear strange, tight clothes that have pictures on them such as skulls and use stationary that are shaped as skulls. They also wear rings on their noses and tongues, and do other strange activities,’.
Since the statement was published religious extremists have been harassing and killing teenagers with ‘strange’ or ’emo’ appearances.
A group of armed men dressed in civilian clothing led dozens of teenagers to secluded areas a few days ago, stoned them to death, and then disposed their bodies in garbage dumpsters across the capital, according to activists, activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar website.
Partial article from:
Islamic Republic’s army chief warns US to keep its aircraft carriers out of Persian Gulf waters, says warning will not be repeated
News agencies
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Iran’s army chief told the United States that a Iran will not repeat its warning … the enemy’s carrier has been moved to the Sea of Oman because of Iran test-fires long range missiles
“I advise, recommend and warn them (the Americans) over the return of this carrier to the Persian Gulf because we are not in the habit of warning more than once,” the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Salehi as saying.
Iran’s military drill in Gulf 9Photo: MCT)
Salehi did not name the aircraft carrier or give details of the action Iran might take if it returned.
Iran completed 10 days of naval exercises in the Gulf on Monday, and said during the drills that if foreign powers imposed sanctions on its crude exports it could shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the world’s traded oil is shipped.
The US Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain, said
Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday that Iran was continuing to develop nuclear weapons and called for stronger sanctions against Tehran.
This is part of the story. Please click through here to Raymond Ibrahim’s site for the whole article.
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
December 21, 2011
Dear Reader:
If the ongoing eradication of Christians under Islam is of concern to you, please consider signing Christian Solidarity International’s petition urging President Barack Obama to present during his forthcoming State of the Union Address his “administration’s policy to prevent the eradication of the endangered Christian communities and other religious minorities of the Islamic Middle East.”
Sincerely –
Raymond Ibrahim
A recent Fox News report tells of how “a rash of attacks on Christian-owned businesses in northern Iraq has raised troubling questions about the future safety of the country’s shrinking Christian community, particularly as U.S. forces withdraw completely from the nation they’ve refereed since 2003.”
 Iraq’s Christians near extinction as the world silently watches. Woman grieves during mass for slain victims of Baghdad’s 2010 church attack. |
In fact, “questions about the future safety of the country’s shrinking Christian community” have been raised ever since the U.S. toppled secular strongman Saddam Hussein, thereby unloosing the forces of jihad previously corked. The report continues:
The attacks, which have received little international attention, raged through northern cities following a sermon last Friday by a local mullah. Video purportedly from the riots posted online shows mobs burning and wrecking businesses, which included liquor stores, hotels and hair salons.
Note the two important facts here that play over and over whenever Christians are persecuted under Islam: 1) Despite their frequency and severity, they “receive little international attention” (indeed, only the most spectacular of terrorist attacks on Christians—such as the 2010 Baghdad church attack which left some 60 dead—ever receive mainstream media attention); and 2) as usual, the attacks followed “a sermon last Friday by a local mullah” (in other words, are Islamic in nature).
As if the situation wasn’t bad enough, after pointing out that “Iraqi Christians … are living in fear,” U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf said:
“Now with the [U.S.] forces leaving … I think the Iraqi Christians are going to go through a very, very difficult time.” … He urged the Obama administration to do more to speak up on the issue. “They know this is a problem. Our government ought to be advocating and ought to be pushing.”
It’s been a brutal week for minority religions and spiritual movements in Islamist states.
The persecution of the Baha’i minority faith under the Iranian regime continues, according to Brazilian television.
Also, in Egypt this week the Salafi Party denounced the pro-democracy movement as — you guessed it — “Freemasonry” and “Zionism.”
In Iraq, liquor stores belonging to Yezidis (sun worshippers) and Assyrian Christians were attacked by mobs, set alight and destroyed. The violence erupted after Mala Ismail Osman Sindi’s Friday sermon. The imam has since been criticized for the attacks, but he insists that he “only said that instead of massage parlors, people should build mosques.” Continue Reading →
H/T Taffy in Canada
EDMONTON — Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa, a.k.a. Sayfildin Tahir Sharif, the Edmonton man accused of international terrorism, has been charged with aiding in the murder of five American soldiers in a suicide-bomb attack in Iraq in April 2009.
The charges are in connection with the deaths of Staff Sgt. Gary L. Woods, 24, of Lebanon Junction, Kentucky; Sgt. First Class Bryan E. Hall, 32, of Elk Grove, Calif.; Sgt. Edward W. Forrest Jr., 25, of St. Louis; Cpl. Jason G. Pautsch, 20, of Davenport, Iowa; and P.F.C. Bryce E. Gaultier, 22, from Cyprus, Calif.
‘Isa is also charged with conspiring to kill Americans abroad and providing material support to that terrorist conspiracy to kill Americans abroad. Continue Reading →
Many people wonder why Muslims would attack a mosque and claim its proof that this is not a religious issue and the problem can’t lie with Islam.
They think this because they do not understand the fundamental fact of Islam that Muslims do understand and occasionally even tell us.
Mosques are political institutions and the places from which military campaigns and terrorist activities are planned and often the weapons are constructed and stored in them. Mosques are not churches. The president of Turkey made this quite clear in his recent statement about Mosques being barracks, minarets being bayonets and Muslims being soldiers. So it is only surprising that competing flavors of Islam do not blow up mosques more often than they actually do, as they suffer no illusions about mosques as places of peaceful worship.
Nov 29 2011
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Picture of a 9 years old boy who blown up a Shia mosque in Iraq
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(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – According to an Iraqi security forces, police arrested a Wahhabi woman in Sunni dominated region of Diali who has sent her 9 years old boy to suicide in a Shiite mosque.
The arrested terrorist woman, S.Alabidi, confessed that in year 2006, she and her husband have wrapped their boy, Kadhim, with explosive belt to blow up Shiite mosque in Diali province.
In the attack 9 Shia martyred and 8 others injured.
There is a lot of great thinking about Obama’s policy of abandoning Iraq at this time. Mr. Gingrich touches on that along with other things.
Oh, but she had “a change of heart” right after she got out of the car and watched her son’s controller drive away with her bomb toting tyke. KGS
NOTE: The Palestinians would have named a summer camp after the boy and his mother’s chest would be covered with medals.
IRAQI security forces have arrested a woman whose boyfriend convinced her to send her little boy on a suicide mission and then failed to stop the attack after she had a change of heart.
Sunni widow Suad al-Obaidi, 47, was arrested on Friday along with her allegedly al-Qaeda boyfriend, a Diyala police officer said.
She was arrested in Diyala province, while the boyfriend, Hamid Alwan, 53, was detained in Baghdad.
According to the officer, Alwan convinced Obaidi to send nine-year-old Murtada Latif Kadhem to bomb a Shi’ite mosque in Khales, north of Baghdad, several years ago.
Alwan “took her son with her … by car to the Shi’ite mosque but, on the way there, she started to cry about her son,” the officer said.
“He put her out of the car, and took the son, who was wearing an explosive belt, to the mosque, where he blew himself up.”
Security officials said the December 29, 2006 attack killed at least nine people, including the imam of the mosque, and wounded at least eight.
