Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis

arun · Post by **arun** » 02 Jul 2013 08:32

Christist cleric belonging to the Catholic sect beheaded by Mohammaddens in Syria:

Francois Murad, Catholic Priest 'Beheaded By Jihadist Fighters In Syria'

The video itself is posted at Liveleak. URL is below. WARNING! GRAPHIC!:

Syrian rebels beheads bishop François Murad

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 03 Jul 2013 06:15

A British Lard expounding on the application of British invention of "Rule of law" with respect to terrorist problem to the West emanating from Af-Pak.

On an unrelated note i am quite in awe of RT which in such a short period since inception gained so much ground (especially its reporting on Middle east is widely appreciated these days) .

When can india have a similar channel for itself I soch - only then can we shove BBC 's propagandu back into its throat as effectively as Russia does with RT . But it wont be possible with the current GoI in place - recently read that the already unnaturally high stakes, foreign interests are allowed to have in our media is set to raise further by increasing the FDI cap to beyond 75 % from the current 49%. This is same as selling our soul for the highest bidder .

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 04 Jul 2013 22:36

The X-RATED PARADISE OF ISLAM

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 05 Jul 2013 23:32

Indian Islamic website banned in Pakistan because it is too moderate -

The Entire New Age Islam Website Is Banned In Pakistan Now: New Age Islam Readers Understand Why?

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 06 Jul 2013 01:43

One type of neurotic exces ultimately opens the door to and attracts another type of neurotic excess. A classic abreaction stalking Western society in its love affair with Islamism.

Chronicled in Leftist rag Salon:

One Woman's Modesty Experiment

Writer Lauren Shields shunned makeup and stylish clothing and covered hair for nine months as part of a project to reject conventional beauty standards and discover her true self-worth. Currently writing a book called "The Modesty Experiment,” she chronicled her “frightening and liberating” journey this week on Salon.

My year of modesty

I swore off makeup and covered my hair, arms and legs for nine months. It was frightening -- and liberating

arun · Post by **arun** » 07 Jul 2013 09:11

Mohammaddens run amok in Nigeria and target school killing 42:

Islamists 'kill 42' in Nigerian school attack

arun · Post by **arun** » 07 Jul 2013 09:39

Abrahamic on Abrahamic religion inspired violence in Egypt sees Mohammadden’s targeting cleric adhering to Christism:

Coptic Priest Killed In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood Blamed For Sectarian Violence

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 08 Jul 2013 08:11

Islamic lynch mob waving Al Qaeda banners throw terrified teenage boy off 20ft ledge before beating him to death

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2YQ4h0bnP

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 09 Jul 2013 00:22

Israeli comics exhibit gives offended Muslim student new thing to destroy

A Muslim student at the University of Duisburg-Essen in western Germany ripped up part of a graphic novel exhibit featuring artwork by notable Israeli artist and Tel Aviv resident Rutu Modan.

The female student was not identified by German media beyond her gender, reports The Jerusalem Post.

The exhibit, entitled “What Comics Can Do! Recent Trends in Graphic Fiction,” opened at the end of May in the library of the university that enrolls close to 40,000 students.

Late last month, the offended Muslim student used scissors to cut certain images from a collage including parts of Modan’s most famous graphic novel, “Exit Wounds” (called “Blutspuren” in German).

One feature of the montage related to Modan was a peace demonstration set in Israel. The collage also included a poster with the word “Shalom,” a Hebrew word signifying complete peace.

As a result of the student’s handiwork, school officials promptly closed the exhibit.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 09 Jul 2013 03:01

Secunderabad hotel building collapse thought to be linked to oven on roof top for cooking haleem!

Did haleem making oven cause hotel building collapse?

BTW, 13 people were killed not six.

Did 'haleem'-making kiln atop caused hotel collapse?

Monday, Jul 8, 2013, 21:40 IST | Place: Hyderabad | Agency: IANS

The hotel owner had reportedly taken up the construction of a "bhatti" (a kiln made of brick and mud) for cooking "haleem", a popular dish made especially during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Did the construction of a kiln for making "haleem" -- a thick beef stew -- atop the building lead to the collapse of the City Light Hotel in Secunderabad Monday morning, where at least six people were killed and many others were feared trapped under the debris?

The hotel owner had reportedly taken up the construction of a "bhatti" (a kiln made of brick and mud) for cooking "haleem", a popular dish made especially during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The hotel management had hired labourers for the making the temporary structure, to get it ready in time for Ramadan, beginning in two to three days.

Commissioner T. Krishna Babu of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) said the construction of the "bhatti" and the use of large quantities of water for it may have weakened the structure, leading to the mishap.

"It was being constructed on top. It may have increased the pressure on the building," Babu said.

The municipal commissioner, however, said the exact reason of the collapse would be known only after thorough investigations.

He clarified that City Light hotel was not among the old buildings issued notices by the GHMC. He also denied that it was a dilapidated building.

"The outward appearance was fine. It seemed to be a reasonably stable building. In the recent pre-monsoon survey, it was not identified for demolition," he told reporters.

Krishna Babu said 57 buildings in Secunderabad were issued notices and 15 of them were demolished by the GHMC in the past month.

"Old building does not mean it is dilapidated. There are more than 100-year-old buildings and heritage buildings which are strong," he said.

City Light was a famous Iranian cafe, serving the popular Irani tea, biryani and other lip-smacking dishes.

Not anymore I guess. They might re-build with stronger structures.

arun · Post by **arun** » 09 Jul 2013 19:56

The onset of the Mohammadden holy month of Ramadan aka Ramzan is marred by violence perpetrated by Mohammaddens targeting both co-religionists and also “Kaafir” followers of other religions. A Religion induced festive spirit of peace distinctly seems to be in short supply

.

Thailand:

Pre-Ramadan bomb wounds 8 soldiers

Lebanon:

Beirut: Ramadan Car Bomb Targets Hezbollah’s Shiite Stronghold

Somalia:

At least one killed by Shebab Mogadishu market bomb

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 11 Jul 2013 01:15

As Cairo residents, get attacked by their own kind - their primary concerns are worthy of note:

Cairo residents: ‘Heavily armed Islamists attacked us’

Residents say the attack began just minutes after the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Mohammed Badie, gave a fiery speech to Mursi supporters camped out in Cairo’s Nasr City, which was broadcast live on television.

“The attack came minutes after Badie’s speech. They treated us like infidels. They were chanting ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is greatest) as they were shooting us,” said Ahmed Fattouh.

As Robert Spencer puts it...

"They treated us like infidels." In other words, Ahmed Fattouh, who is not otherwise identified in the story, believes that it is perfectly acceptable to chant "Allah akbar" and shoot at Infidels, but to do such things to fellow Muslims, that's going too far!

This kind of attitude is of course commonplace in other Muslim countries such as we see here Kasabs home village slams Mumbai conviction

“Look, dont blame him. There is nothing wrong if he did it with good intentions against an infidel country like India,” said Amjad Ali, a 60-year-old farmer with white hair.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 11 Jul 2013 01:25

Belgium: The Name Mohamed Strongly Associated With Academic Failure

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Jul 2013 01:40

See the faithfools can decide who is an infidel and attack them. To a "dark black" (Taliban) all shades of green(Deobandi to Ahle hadith to RAPE) are infidels.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 11 Jul 2013 03:05

Saudi to expel foreigners disrespecting Ramadan

"Non-Muslim residents in the kingdom must not eat or drink in public during Ramadan, in respect to the holiness of Ramadan and the feelings of Muslims," said an interior ministry statement published by the official SPA news agency.

Foreigners caught breaking the fast in public "will be subject to deterrent measures that include terminating their employment contracts and expelling them from the kingdom," the ministry said.

It added that "companies, corporations and individuals are required to inform their employees" of the rules.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Jul 2013 03:47

Anindya, The Saudi regulation on Islamist thought control remind one of the orangutangs in the "Planet of the Apes".

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 11 Jul 2013 20:07

A Mosque in Reykjavík Threatens Icelandic Culture
10.7.2013

Former mayor of Reykjavík claims a mosque will threaten Iceland’s culture and safety. Ólafur F. Magnússon, who was mayor for little less than 7 months in 2008, is highly pessimistic about plans of a mosque being built in the open space of in the eastern part of Reykjavík, Eyjan reports.

City council approved of the plans last week, after Muslims in Iceland having waited 13 years to get a property to raise the first mosque in Iceland. Ólafur writes in Morgunblaðið today, expressing his concern about the matter.

“It is worrying that Muslims here don’t seem to have any difficulties financing the project, receiving aid from Muslim organizations abroad. Those organizations might want to increase the influence of Islam in Iceland, as well as in other countries.”

Instead of a mosque, Ólafur suggests a temple of the Nordic gods to be built in the plot. “Such a cultural gem would bring joy to the majority of the city’s residents, as well as other Icelanders, and wouldn’t be as out of place as a mosque would."

http://grapevine.is/Home/ReadArticle/A- ... ic-Culture

arun · Post by **arun** » 11 Jul 2013 21:24

arun wrote:The Government of Sudan gives short shrift to the attempt of some of their Mohammadden co-religionists who are trying to peddle a bowlderised version of Jihad by admitting the violent nature of that religious doctrine:

Sudan urges mosques’ imams to call for jihad against rebels

May 10, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s High Committee for Mobilisation and Alert has held a meeting with mosque imams to discuss the implications of the recent attacks in South and North Kordofan states by the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) and to call for jihad (holy war). ………………..

The spokesperson for the Popular Defence Forces (PDF), Mohamed Ahmed Haj Majid, warned against the actions of the SRF which he said aims to disrupt national unity and break up the country, calling on imams to encourage people to engage in jihad and to fight in the name of Allah. …………….

arun wrote:Mohammadden cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi by calling for Jihad in Syria joins the Government of Sudan in giving short shrift to the attempt of some of their Mohammadden co-religionists who are trying to peddle a bowlderised version of Jihad by admitting the violent nature of that religious doctrine:

Leading Sunni Muslim cleric calls for "jihad" in Syria

DOHA | Sun Jun 2, 2013 7:41am IST

(Reuters) ……………….

His website said Qaradawi had "called on all those able to undertake jihad and fighting to head to Syria to stand by the Syrian people who are being killed at the hands of the regime and are now being killed at the hands of what he called the party of Satan".

In what seems to be a frequently repeated pattern, two members of different terrorist groups that claim to operate on behalf of adherents of the Mohammadden faith invoke that religions doctrine of “Jihad” to incite violence in two geographically widely separated Mohammadden majority countries, namely Syria and Indonesia. The above two calls yet again gives short shrift to the attempt of some of their Mohammadden co-religionists who are trying to peddle a bowlderised version of Jihad by admitting the violent nature of that religious doctrine:

American al Qaeda member Gadahn calls for Syrian jihad in video

Most wanted Indonesia militant urges jihad in video

Above specifically yet again belies the attempt by Mohammaddens to soft peddle the violent aspect of the religious doctrine of Jihad to Kaafir Non-Mohammaddens with advertisments such as these:

arun · Post by **arun** » 12 Jul 2013 07:45

Apparent case of Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden violence in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the first day of the Mohammadden holy month of Ramadan / Ramazan / Ramzan sees the demonstration of the IEDology of Pakistan targeting a Mosque:

Remote-controlled blast: Explosion outside mosque kills two in Kohat

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 12 Jul 2013 21:52

Teachers 'denied schoolboy, 10, water on the hottest day of the year to avoid upsetting Muslim pupils during Ramadan'

Kora Blagden claims her son was told he could not drink water
She says teacher told him it could be unfair to fasting classmates
Said teacher made decision on Thursday when temperatures hit 28 degrees

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... madan.html

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 13 Jul 2013 01:31

Preposterous, if true. But I suppose he could drink and eat like a pig after dark...as long as he didn't eat one.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 13 Jul 2013 01:41

Muslim Economic Activity in the UK

Kaam Hai Haram: Work is Waste: Welfare In Taste

Politicians constantly argue that immigration brings economic benefits. Even if that were true in general, it clear that Muslim immigration does not.Here are links to a few relevant sources of information on the subject:MigrationWatch reports that:
"For example, compared with the UK average of 22% of the working age population being economically inactive, Somali, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Iranian immigrants are likely to be 81%, 56%, 55% and 48% economically inactive respectively"The Daily Mail has a similar report here.These figures come from the Institute for Public Policy report "Britain's Immigrants: an economic profile" which can be downloaded for free here.According to the document Briefing on British Muslims: Socio-Economic Data and Attitudes:
MashaAllah,AllhamdoKillah, Paki Brain in Britain
"More than half of all Muslims are economically inactive (52 percent)."
The Equalities Commission report "How Fair is Britain?", published in early 2011, contained some interesting observations about Muslim unemployment levels in the UK.In the UK only 47% of Muslim men and 24% of Muslim women are employed.The Wikileaks cables also contained some interesting revelations about the levels of "disability" among Muslims in Britain. Muslims were also found to have the highest disability rates - with 24 per cent of men and 21 per cent of women claiming a disability - while the cable also cited statistics claiming Muslims were also the most likely group to be unavailable for work or not actively seeking employment due to illness, their studies or family commitments.The original source for this information seem to have been this page on the Office of National Statistics website. It notes that "Muslim males and females in Great Britain had the highest rates of reported ill health in 2001."Unsurprisingly, the Muslim-friendly Guardian, although at the forefront of the Wikileaks revelations, did not see fit to print this one, although the Daily Mail did.Labels: Muslim benefits fraud, Muslim economic contribution, Muslim economic inactivity in the UK, Muslim incapacity benefit claimants, Muslim unemployment

arun · Post by **arun** » 14 Jul 2013 17:15

The body count of Green on Green Intra Mohammadden violence during the month of ramadan aka ramazan aka ramzan which followers of Mohammaddenism consider holy, piles up.

On Friday, also the day of the Mohammadden Sabbath, in Kirkuk:

Bomb attack in Iraq kills at least 31

On Saturday in Baghdad:

13 killed in bomb blast at Sunni mosque in Baghdad

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 15 Jul 2013 23:05

INTERVIEW
‘We’re Building Fences, Protecting Our Race, Religion’
The Myanmarese monk whose movement is seen by some as a hate campaign against not only Rohingyas but against all Muslims
EAINT THIRI THU INTERVIEWS BHIKKHU WIRATHU

Bhikkhu Wirathu, 46, is one of the most talked about figures in Myanmar. He is a monk in the New Maesoeyin Monastery in Mandalay. All journalists in Myanmar know what Wirathu stands for. However, liberals who want to see Myanmar emerge as an inclusive, pluralistic democracy shy away from him, politely turning down requests by foreign journalists to help interview Wirathu, the spiritual leader of the 969 movement. Wirathu claims his movement is intended only to safeguard Buddhism and Buddhists in the country. His campaign and sermons have been gaining popularity in other parts of the country. But many others, particularly Myanmarese Muslims, see his nationalist movement as a hate campaign against not only Rohingyas but against all Muslims, and say it plays a key role in creating the climate for the country’s anti-Muslim riots. This has not only led sections in the media, particularly the western media, to describe him as the ‘Burmese bin Laden’ but also to raise serious concern about the rise of militant Buddhists in Myanmar and elsewhere in the region. The Bodh Gaya attack on July 7, some felt, was in response to what was happening to Muslims in Myanmar, an angle that Indian investigators are seriously looking into. Yangon-based journalist Eaint Thiri Thu interviewed Wirathu on behalf of Outlook. Excerpts:

What is your 969 campaign all about?

It’s all about protecting our religion and race.

The campaign talks about a Myanmar where Muslims almost have no place. Or do they?

No, you cannot look at it like that. The campaign is mainly to build our own fences and to protect our race and religion from outsiders. It is similar to Gandhi’s call for a boycott of foreign products.

What are the reasons for Buddhist-Muslim clashes?
There are a number of reasons. The Arakan state has been violated by outsiders several times. Muslims in Myanmar are trying to intimidate and create problems for Buddhists. Local Buddhists now attempt to resist those attacks.

Should Rohingyas be treated as nationals and enjoy citizens’ rights?

I am willing to accept them not only as citizens but also support them in getting other rights if they live peacefully, like Indian Hindus do. If they do not create problems, they should enjoy all rights.

You’ve been pushing for ‘safeguarding the National Identity Law’ that proposes a ban on inter-faith marriages, and prevents Rohingyas from having more than two children. What other curbs should be placed on them?

The answer depends on the government; the authorities would have to decide if any further curbs are required.

Should these curbs be extended to all Myanmarese Muslims?

That too will depend on the government.

Are Muslims a threat to the country’s security and sovereignty; do you see them encroaching on Buddhists’ rights?

Those believing in jehad and extremism under foreign influence are a threat to Myanmar’s security. They’re destroying our religion; they’re trying to swallow up our race through cross-marriage. Though they live here, they’re doing nothing good for Myanmar.

How does the 969 movement propose to bring an end to the ongoing violence?

By means of the 969 movement, we can build our fence firmly and protect our race and religion. Then, we can’t be violated and attacked by them. But from our side too, we don’t need to respond against them by resorting to unlawful means.

How do you justify violence in the name of the Buddha?

There are no provisions for violence and revenge in any religion. If a religion provides such things, it cannot be treated and respected as a religion.

You have probably heard of the blasts in Bodh Gaya and the suspicion that some Islamists upset with the treatment of Rohingyas in Myanmar may have caused it. What are your reactions?
I am sure they did it. They are trying to take over Myanmar by violent means, like what they tried in Southern Thailand. Unrest in Myanmar is almost over, peace is returning to the country, but extremist forces are trying to use the clashes in Myanmar to justify violent activities elsewhere, like they did in Bodh Gaya.

Tension between Buddhists and Muslims has also been reported from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh and elsewhere. Do you think Indian Buddhists should be careful?

Sure. Not only Buddhist but other religions should also be careful. They all are in danger.

Can India get caught in the flames emanating from Myanmar?

The ongoing clashes in Myanmar stem from the actions of those hungry for blood and revenge. They use Myanmar’s name to cover their threat, justify their action.

Where did your epithet the ‘Burmese bin Laden’ come from? How do you react to it?

From Muslims posting views online. People in Myanmar call me by my real name, Wirathu.

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?286845

arun · Post by **arun** » 16 Jul 2013 20:47

X Posted from the “Oppression of minorities in Pakistan” thread.

The issue of adherents of Mohammaddenism in the UK with roots to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, indulging in paedophilic sexual grooming, comes in for comment by Soeren Kern of the think tank, the Gatestone Institute. In the process a new Jihad term, namely “Rape Jihad” is coined joining others like “Love Jihad”,“Sex Jihad” etc:

Britain: "Rape Jihad" Against Children

Also from the Gatestone Institute an article about the Mohammaddens of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan persecuting their Abrahamic religious cousins, namely the followers of Christism:

Pakistan: Violations against Christians Soar

arun · Post by **arun** » 16 Jul 2013 21:01

X Posted from the “Oppression of minorities in Pakistan” thread.

The month of Ramadan aka Ramazan aka Ramadan which Mohammaddens consider holy was not enough to stave off yet another bout of Green on Green religion inspired sectarian Intra-Mohammadden killings. In the present case, members of the minority Shia sect of Mohammaddenism are murdered by co-religionists of the Sunni sect ironically in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country that claims it was formed as a “safe haven” for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent:

‘Sectarian attack’: Four Hazara traders shot dead in Quetta

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 16 Jul 2013 23:57

Imam: Moving Mosque Could Ignite Violence

NEW YORK -- The imam behind a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero cautioned Wednesday that moving the facility could cause a violent backlash from Muslim extremists and endanger national security.Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told CNN that the discourse surrounding the center has become so politicized that moving it could strengthen the ability of extremists abroad to recruit and wage attacks against Americans, including troops fighting in the Middle East.
"The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack," he said, but he added that he was open to the idea of moving the planned location of the center, currently two blocks north of the World Trade Center site."But if you don't do this right, anger will explode in the Muslim world," he later said, predicting that the reaction could be more furious than the eruption of violence following the 2005 publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.Opponents say the center, which would include a Sept. 11 memorial and a Muslim prayer space, should be moved farther away from where Islamic extremists destroyed the World Trade Center and killed nearly 2,800 people. Supporters say religious freedom should be protected.Rauf, 61, has largely been absent since the debate over the center erupted earlier this year. He has been traveling abroad, including taking a State Department-funded 15-day trip to the Middle East to promote religious tolerance.
In the interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien, his first since returning to the U.S. on Sunday, Rauf responded to a number of questions that have been raised about the project.Rauf said that, in retrospect, he might have chosen a different location for what he described as a multifaith community center."If I knew this would happen, if it would cause this kind of pain, I wouldn't have done it," he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/09/im ... z2ZEgkbUGE

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 17 Jul 2013 00:08

Should be

instead of

The guy is threatening the US and CNN is lost in freedom of expression!

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 17 Jul 2013 00:15

Standard "moderate Muslim" operating procedure - insist that one's intentions are benign, but claim that one's compulsion is due to the rage of a billion unwashed abduls.

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 17 Jul 2013 01:11

Sudan tracking down converts from Islam in purge of Christianity

Sudan has not executed anyone for apostasy in nearly two decades, but in 2011 and 2012 nearly 170 people were imprisoned and/or charged with the “crime,” according to USCIRF.

Harassment, arrests and persecution of Christians have intensified since the secession of South Sudan in July 2011, when President Omar al-Bashir vowed to adopt a stricter version of sharia (Islamic law) and recognize only Islamic culture and the Arabic language.

South Sudan’s secession has served as a pretext for Bashir’s regime to bulldoze church buildings once owned by South Sudanese and to deport Christians based on their ethnicity, sources said. In a report issued in April, Christian Solidarity Worldwide noted an increase in arrests, detentions and deportations of Christians since December 2012.

The organization also reported that systematic targeting of Nuba and other ethnic groups suggests the resurgence of an official policy of “Islamization and Arabization.”

Due to its treatment of Christians and other human rights violations, Sudan has been designated a Country of Particular Concern by the U.S. State Department since 1999, and in April USCIRF recommended the country remain on the list this year.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 17 Jul 2013 01:26

Worst part is these guys actually belive that Asli Malsi is actually Salisi like JLo. Rauf is a perfect example of man losing its soul and intelligence without even realizing it.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 17 Jul 2013 03:20

The organization also reported that systematic targeting of Nuba and other ethnic groups suggests the resurgence of an official policy of “Islamization and Arabization.”

The Sudanese will be the new Bilals after Islamization and Arabization.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 17 Jul 2013 03:29

Tunisian imam threatens non-fasting Muslims

Salafist preacher Adel Almi threatened Tunisians who fail to fast during Ramadan, starting Wednesday (July 10th), Ansa reported. He called on Tunisians to photograph and report fellow Muslims who break the fast, Assabah reported. Going to the beach during Ramadan is another offence, according to the salafist cleric.

He also urged Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou to take a firm stance against such "abuses".

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 17 Jul 2013 03:45

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... ks-nigeria

Western education is all a terrible konspiracee onlee ......

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 17 Jul 2013 06:54

“No such thing as Islamic terrorism,” delegate tells UN confab on religious sensitivities

Nations attacked the West for wrongly associating Islam with terrorism at a June 19-21 international conference in Geneva organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, part of the U.S.-Turkish led “Istanbul Process,” an intended Western-Islamic framework for détentecreated by a 2011 UN Human Rights Council resolution to “combat intolerance, discrimination and incitement to hatred and/or violence on the basis of religion or belief.”

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A central theme of the conference was how to balance freedom of speech with freedom of religion. Many countries argued for protecting “religious sensitivities.” Indonesia stated that freedom of speech is not absolute, and that it must come with restrictions based on legitimate grounds.

Egypt said that freedom of opinion is a manifestation of social freedoms – and is therefore the mother of all rights – but that the freedom of religion must also be considered in light of basic human rights, given the fact that Articles 19 and 20 of the ICCPR impose duties and responsibilities.

Mr. Taskin Soykan, an adviser on combating intolerance and discrimination against Muslims at the OSCE, said that freedom of religion is “sacrosanct but not absolute,” and that individuals have responsibilities in exercising the right.

Western states emphasized the need to protect free speech. United States Ambassador Eileen Donahoe paraphrased Hillary Clinton: ‘Is our faith so weak that we can’t discuss and question it?:

US Ambassador Michael G. Kozak touched on America’s historical familiarity with blasphemy laws. He cited the 1798 “Alien and Sedition Acts” that facilitated deportation and prohibited public opposition to government. Mr. Kozak made the point that intolerance is often more likely to be stifled by protecting free speech rather than by banning it, and expressed his hope that focus would remain on how to better implement the prescriptions currently contained in Resolution 16/18, instead of adding new measures designed to further restrict free speech. When free speech is criminalized, violence becomes the only option. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion could strengthen one another.

...Another topic of concern was the image globally projected of Islam and its frequent association with violence. Muslim panelists and member-state representatives insisted on the inherently peaceful character of their personal faith and state religion.

Slimane Chikh, Ambassador of the OIC’s UN mission in Geneva, stressed that Islam is a religion that accepts dissent.
In a debate on the implementation of Paragraph 5 (e) of Resolution 16/18, Ambassador Ömür Orhun, the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the OSCE, regretted use of the term “Islamic terrorism” by the Western media following terrorist attacks like the 2005 London bombings. “There is no such thing as Islamic terrorism,” he said.

US Ambassador Kozak responded that terrorists are often labeled as such in Western countries precisely because this is what they term themselves. Most “Islamic terrorists” are self-proclaimed as such. To successfully disassociate Islam from terrorism, the OIC would need to address such issues.

There was disagreement over what violent incidents can be attributed to “Islamophobia.” The OIC’s Slimane Chikh listed the 2011 Norway attack by Anders Breivik among recent terrorist events motivated by Islamophobic sentiments.

The following day, during a panel discussion on the implementation of Paragraph 5 (h) of Resolution 16/18, UN expert Doudou Diène mentioned the Norwegian attacks in the same breath as the Srebrenica massacre, in which Bosnian Muslims were deliberately targeted as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing. In the subsequent open forum, the Italian representative denounced the association, saying that the Norwegian slaughter included victims from the perpetrator’s own country and ethnicity, and that simply sourcing such an atrocity to a Western identity crisis in general, and Islamophobia in particular, would be inappropriate and misleading.

Concerns were also voiced that the OIC tends to be preoccupied with offences committed against Muslims abroad without paying attention to discrimination and incitement to hatred against minorities in Muslim-majority countries. In discussing the need to “adjust to changing realities,” the representative of Pakistan invoked recent media coverage of U Wirathu, dubbed ‘the face of Buddhist terror’ by Time magazine, who was also featured in the International Herald Tribune of that day.

Regrettably, the conference turned a blind eye to terrorism committed by Islamist extremists even as it met. On June 19th, the conference’s opening day, The Times reported that 16 students had been shot dead in Nigeria by suspected Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, whose name roughly translates as “Western education is sin.”

Suggestions were given on how to move forward with the Istanbul Process. One was that an international observatory, in the form of an “umbrella NGO,” should be set up to supervise the implementation of Resolution 16/18. This arose in response to qualms that most NGOs focusing on this area are based in the West – even Muslim-oriented think-tanks tend to be subsidiaries of larger Western organizations, it was said.

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On the third and final day, States gave closing remarks. US Ambassador Kozak warned against the dangers of spending too much time on technical debates regarding the definition of “incitement” and other such terms instead of focusing on actual instances of violence. He also expressed concern that the conference’s overall narrative was unhelpfully framed in terms of “the West versus the rest,” with prime focus on the West’s failure to enact prohibitions on free speech; and this despite the fact that the countries where the most religious violence takes place tend to be those that have blasphemy laws in place.

Pakistan reacted indignantly, dismissing the Muslims in America that had been cited by the US delegation as having praised American tolerance as merely “rented Muslims” – a term that Ambassador Kozak rejected.

arun · Post by **arun** » 17 Jul 2013 08:18

The anaesthetic effect of the Mohammadden religion on basic human decency on display in this incident of the head of a Mohammaddenism religion based political party being sentenced for genocide targetting co-religionists, that too on behalf of an alien though Mohammadden religion following country:

Bangladesh Jails Islamist Politician for War Crimes

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 17 Jul 2013 08:40

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Saudi Arabian Airlines is discriminating against Israeli citizens by refusing to fly them from US airports — even when passengers are simply looking to transfer in Saudi Arabia to another country, The Post has learned.

The airline’s Web site asks for citizenship to book a ticket but has no option on a drop-down menu for anyone holding an Israeli passport. The oversight doesn’t appear accidental — the drop-down menu is so thorough it even has an option for Antarctica.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 18 Jul 2013 02:13

Malsi Morphing , Modernising Itself for21st Century: Core remain Core

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 18 Jul 2013 03:37

nageshks wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... ks-nigeria

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Boko Haram leader calls for more schools attacks after dorm killings
The leader of Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram has called for more attacks against schools, describing western education as a "plot against Islam", in a video released days after his fighters killed 46 students in an assault on a dorm.

In the 15-minute recording released at the weekend, Abubakar Shekau said schools would continue to be targeted "until our last breath".

"Teachers who teach western education? We will kill them! We will kill them in front of their students, and tell the students to henceforth study the Qur'an," he said, gesticulating energetically while dressed in military fatigues and a traditional hat.

Shekau denied that his fighters killed children. "Our religion does not permit us to touch small children and women, we don't kill children," he said, reading from sheets of paper as he cradled a Kalashnikov. He also dismissed talk of a ceasefire. Last week the government said it had signed a deal with Shekau's second-in-command.

With its ability to launch attacks reduced by a military crackdown, Boko Haram is redrawing the battle lines in Nigeria's four-year insurgency by going after softer targets. A recent spate of attacks on schools is part of a two-pronged strategy that plays up the extremists' ideology against western institutions while also providing a stream of potential new recruits as frightened parents pull their children out of education.

Unschooled and unemployed children are increasingly being recruited – sometimes forcibly – to fill the ranks of Boko Haram and unleash violence against their peers, the Guardian has learned. Witnesses say many are plied with dates stuffed with tramadol – a narcotic used to tranquilise horses – before being sent on missions. {Ahh, the little joys worth killing for in a desert - dates in this life and Raisins in afterlife !!}

Just after dawn on 6 July, a school dormitory was doused in petrol and set alight in north-eastern Yobe. Those trying to flee the flames were shot. The attack left 46 dead, mostly students. More than 300 classrooms have been torched in the remote, arid state since 2009, according to official counts.

Hundreds of families have fled the region. "This really shook us up. Students being attacked in their sleep is too disgusting for us to even imagine," said Adam Mohammed, a textiles trader visiting neighbouring northern Kano state, where he relocated his family for safety reasons. "It was hard, but I feel I made the right decision to leave Yobe. I'm a father of three and when I think of what those parents must be going through …" He shook his head mutely.

Last month 16 students were gunned down in consecutive strikes on a secondary comprehensive in Yobe and another school in Borno, Boko Haram's spiritual home. In April two attacks on a university left 16 dead.

A state of emergency has been in place for two months in three north-eastern states. Soldiers pouring into Yobe and Borno have dismantled urban cells, but Boko Haram has responded by changing tactics. Previously it had attempted to ignite a sectarian war by bombing packed churches.

Closing down mobile phone services is thought to have reduced the insurgents' ability to co-ordinate attacks, but it has also had unintended deadly consequences. "I saw the gunmen sneaking into the school compound in hordes but I couldn't call any soldiers for help," said Ahmadu Sani, whose farm borders the school grounds where 46 were killed. "The police cannot be everywhere so they should restore the connections even if there's a state of emergency."

Northern Nigeria has some of the highest unemployment and school dropout rates in the world, despite the country being the eight largest oil exporter. At one of the many checkpoints around the Yobe capital of Damaturu, a soldier said the number of children hawking on the streets had ballooned in recent weeks.

"As they are no longer in school, their parents send them to sell groundnuts or boiled eggs on the long queues of vehicles created by the stop-and-search," said the soldier, who like others had removed his name tag from his uniform. "We know they are paid by the Boko Haram to spy on us."

Mohammed, a gardener working in the economic capital of Lagos, said he had fled from his village of Dikwa, a few miles from a large Boko Haram camp. "The Boko Haram were everywhere. They collected taxes from us. They stripped one Muslim girl naked and beat her because they said she didn't cover her ankles," he said, looking nervous at the mention of the militants.

He said two men had turned up at his grass-roofed house in May. "They said the almajari [religious school] my son was going to was haram [forbidden] because the imam used prayer beads. They gave me all kinds of warnings. They said that I shouldn't cross my arms when I was talking to them because crossing the arms is haram too."

The final straw had come days later when his family were awakened by a neighbour's wailing. "[Boko Haram] told her they took her son to their camp to fight for Allah," Mohammed said. "They said the boy's family is now the Boko Haram. My wife said we should leave that very day."

At the defence ministry in the capital, Abuja, a senior official showed footage found on the mobile phones of alleged Boko Haram members. In one, a suicide bomber barely old enough to be out of primary school showed off his new sunglasses and joked in rapid slang with fellow teenage members as he got behind the wheel of a car packed with explosives. A few minutes later, his friends filmed the car blowing up outside an army barracks.

"Our structure has never been geared towards the current challenges – suicide attacks, IED attacks. These are tactics that until very recently we only saw on television, just like the US was rudely awakened by planes entering into buildings," the official said. "It's not just about training Nigerians how to shoot. We need to look at what terrorism will look like in 20 years from now."

Vigilante groups armed with sticks and machetes prowl the streets of Borno and Yobe, complicating efforts to flush out the insurgents. "They want to help out but they're also a nuisance," said a soldier based in Borno. "They're not professionals and they're not trained for a job like this. They're too many of them and it's hard to manage them."

"The problem is some of them have lost their loved ones during the course of the insurgency and they're looking at vigilantism as a way to get revenge. The bad guys have been pushed out of the towns. They're resorting to ambushes from the villages now, and that is a different kind of warfare."

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 18 Jul 2013 05:42

G’Day Damascus: Australians Are Joining Syria’s Rebels in Surprising Numbers

A surprising number of foreign fighters joining the rebellion in Syria against the regime of President Bashar Assad hail from Down Under.

Surprising estimates suggest that Australians now make up the largest contingent from any developed nation in the Syrian rebel forces. There are around 120 French fighters in Syria, about 100 Britons and a handful of Americans — but there are at least 200 Australians, according to a public statement made by David Irvine, director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). The total may appear small, but it is growing rapidly, having doubled since the end of last year — and when looked at as a proportion of the Muslim population of Australia, the figure is startling. The French, British and American rebel fighters are drawn from communities that number 4.7 million, 2.7 million and 2.6 million respectively. The Australian contingent is drawn from a Muslim population of just 500,000, and is causing concern to a government that fears the homecoming of a battle-hardened group of radicalized Islamists when the conflict ends.

Norwegian terrorism expert Thomas Hegghammer released a paper showing that 1 in 9 Westerners who fight in foreign jihadist insurgencies ends up becoming involved in terrorist plots back home.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that ASIO’s estimate may even be conservative. “The number of Australian fighters in Syria is far higher than a few hundred,” says Jamal Daoud, a Jordanian migrant who stood as a candidate for the New South Wales (NSW) legislature during the last state polls. “I have been talking to community members for years now. So many times people have told me ‘my neighbour is fighting in Syria’ or ‘I am selling our furniture so I can go fight in Syria.’”

Barton points out that many of the Australians who have traveled to the war zone come from the northern Lebanese immigrant community — a group that has “experienced disproportionate problems” with organized crime. Nick Kaldas, an Egyptian-born counterterrorism expert who now serves as the NSW deputy police commissioner agrees that there are “people involved in crime who are using the conflict in Syria as an excuse or pretext to carry out more criminal acts.”

Nonetheless, it is clear that most fighters are motivated by religious extremism — and they and their followers are impatient to start the fight even before they leave Australian shores. The Sunni-Shi‘ite sectarianism of the Syrian conflict is now causing violence in the sprawling suburbs of Sydney. The Shi‘ite owner of a juice bar in the suburb of Auburn says constant harassment and assault by Islamists forced him to close shop. In Bankstown, a chicken shop built by a Shi‘ite city councillor was firebombed two days before it opened. Last year in Lakemba, a 29-year-old man who made pro-Assad comments on Facebook got a knock on the door from a gunman who shot him twice in the legs, while the Sunni strongholds of Greenacre and Punchbowl have allegedly become no-go zones for Shi‘ite.

The violence has spread to other cities. In Melbourne, two prayer rooms belonging to the Alawite sect, a Shi‘ite store and a car yard owned by a Sunni have been firebombed. And in the most brazen attack to date, a group of 40 men stormed the Syrian embassy in Canberra and trashed it as staff huddled in terror.

Moderate Sunnis have also fallen into the firing line. NSW legislature hopeful Daoud claims thugs forced him to abandon his campaign for the seat of Auburn during the 2011 poll because he refused to support the war in Syria. “We could not distribute leaflets or stand in the street without getting attacked,” he says. “I received death threats against my wife and children, calling me a Shia pig even though I’m Sunni.”

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Latina Converts to Islam Growing in Number

For one woman it started with a quest for a closer connection to God. For another it was the surprising discovery that Islam might help her resist the domination of her Catholic father. First of two stories for Ramadan about Muslim women in the U.S.