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Policeman kills Christian on Egypt train http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110111/wl ... tianattack
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^^^ Meanwhile the Egyptian Government has decided that the best way out of a spot of embarrassment caused by incidents of religious intolerance is to work up a fit of righteous indignation at being criticised:

Egypt recalls Vatican envoy over pope remarks
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Never knew that the Shia / Shiite sect of Mohammaddenism is banned by law in Mohammadden majority Malaysia:

In otherwise tolerant Malaysia, Shiites are banned
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When a Mosques was demolished recently in Delhi by a court order because it was built illegally on an encroached land, Indian Muslim violently protested it as insensitive interference in their faith. They even did not check the facts and their moral obligation of civic responsibilities but demanded to rebuild the mosque immediately and the Delhi CM dared to say otherwise. Look at Malaysia, the so called advance Isalmic country, as debated by some hyper delusional mind previously, the Hindus here received death threats and violent protest by the majority Muslim just to build a temple to one of their neighbourhood. In the picture it shows the angry Muslims mob carrying a Cow head littered with blood to the same spot the Hindus wanted to build the temple and no police or Govt. authorities take any action against it. Compare it with Muslim appeasement in India.

http://undhimmi.com/2009/08/30/muslims- ... e-protest/
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/104560/tase ... s-exposed/

Taseer’s assassination: Extremism of British Pakistanis exposed
A crowd gathers outside the mosque and all the men agree that Taseer’s murder was justified.
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http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... nment.html
--But there’s more, and worse, to come. An extraordinarily important fatwa has been issued by Dr. Imad Mustafa, the professor on that subject at al-Azhar University, the world's most important Islamic university. He began by stating the well-known doctrine of “defensive jihad,” that is Muslims must go to war against infidels who attack them. Of course, the word “attack” is often spread rather thinly to justify aggression.

But now Mustafa is publicly and explicitly proposing a new strategy for those hitherto seen as reliably pro-government clerics who were seen as relativley non-threatening. This trend, little noticed in the West, has previously non-Islamist clerics increasingly sounding like al-Qaida.

He explains:


“Then there is another type of fighting against the non-Muslims known as offensive jihad…which is to pursue the infidels into their own land without any aggression [on their part]….

“...Two schools [of Islamic jurisprudence] have ruled that offensive jihad is permissible in order to secure Islam's border, to extend God's religion to people in cases where the governments do not allow it, such as the Pharaoh did with the children of Israel, and to remove every religion but Islam from the Arabian peninsula....”

What does it mean about extending "God's religion," i.e., Islam? On the surface, "where the governments do not allow it" and the reference to Pharaoh seems to imply the complete prohibition of Islam.

But in the current context, I think this means that it is permissible to wage jihad on a country.if anything "necessary" to Islam according to (hardline) clerics' interpretations is blocked (polygamy, child marriage, special privileges at work places, building mosques anywhere, permitting the wearing of headscarves or burqas, and so on).

In practice, according to this doctrine, then, any non-Muslim can be attacked anywhere in the world. Thus, mainstream, powerful clerics are now calling for a seventh-century-style Jihad against non-Muslim lands even if the victims cannot be accused of attacking Muslim-ruled lands! Merely to "extend God's religion" to others is a sufficient motive. Mustafa says that two of Islam's main schools have always endorsed offensive Jihad but I doubt if he would have made that argument ten or twenty years ago.

Of course, that doesn't mean most Muslims will accept this new stance. But it does mean that radical groups now have mainstream support for their most extreme, aggressive behavior. Even if nobody repeats Mustafa's statement publicly--if for no other reasons than it is bad public relations in the West--this idea will be more and more taken for granted. Presumably, Mustafa won't be forced to retract this fatwa by his colleagues or Egypt's government. Moreover, we probably won't see senior clerics denouncing and rejecting the doctrine of offensive Jihad.

This is a development of stupendous proportions that will probably not even be covered in the Western mass media. If this view point continues to spread--along with the growing al-Qaida type doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood--it could be a historical turning point that will greatly intensify revolutionary Islamist terrorism and attacks on the West. Watch this trend very carefully.
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A_Gupta ji,

Thanks for the above article. It is a very significant development. It also means the need to insulate Subcontinental Islam from such winds of aggression have increased.
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Radical Muslims in America
All the Benefits and Still Turning to Jihad

ecent remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder on the threat posed by "radicalized" American Muslims are revealing—not just because of what they say regarding the domestic situation, but for their international implications as well. According to Holder:

"[T]he threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is constant. The threat has changed … to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens—raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born. It is one of the things that keeps me up at night. You didn't worry about this even two years ago—about individuals, about Americans, to the extent that we now do." Holder noted that while he was confident in the United States' counter-terrorism efforts, Americans "have to be prepared for potentially bad news…. The terrorists only have to be successful once."

Holder's assertion that "the terrorists only have to be successful once" has important implications: aside from the obvious—that it only takes one strike to create devastation on U.S. soil—it is also a reminder that when people argue that most American Muslims are moderate, and only a few are radical, it does not help our security. It took nineteen to commit 9/11; and we have already seen that some American Muslims are radical. According to Holder, in the last two years, 50 of the 126 people charged with terrorism were U.S. citizens.

Conversely, Holder's point that "You didn't worry about this even two years ago—about individuals, about Americans, to the extent that we now do," is odd. Why should Americans not have been a worry two years ago? Anyone even moderately familiar with Islamist ideology knows that it allows for absolutely no national allegiance. The notion that some American Muslims could become radicalized should have been a concern since 9/11—nearly a decade ago, not two years ago. It should have been a concern when it became obvious that American Muslims—like John Walker Lindh, Gregory Patterson, Levar Washington, Kevin James, Christopher Paul and Jose Padilla—were turning to violent jihad.

More significantly, the fact that Americans are being radicalized not only bodes ill for U.S. security; it also suggests that American efforts in the Muslim world are doomed to failure. Consider: if American Muslims, who enjoy Western benefits—including democracy, liberty, prosperity, and freedom of expression—are still being radicalized, why then do we insist that importing these same benefits to the Muslim world will eliminate its even more ingrained form of "radicalization"?

After all, the mainstream position, the only one evoked by politicians, both Democrat and Republican, is that all the sacrifices America makes in the Muslim world (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), will pay off once Muslims discover how wonderful Western ways are, and happily slough off their Islamist veneer, which, as the theory goes, is a product of—you guessed it—a lack of democracy, liberty, prosperity, and freedom of expression. Yet here are American Muslims, immersed in the bounties of the West—and still do they turn to violent jihad.

In short, America needs to rethink its strategy for the war on terrorism—both at home and abroad. Domestically, this means cracking down without compunction on anything that smacks of Islamist activity, without fear of being "politically incorrect;" it means better monitoring of jihadist websites which play a major role in radicalizing American Muslims, such as Inspire (which was started by a North Carolina Muslim); and it means exercising prudence when granting visas to people from dubious backgrounds. Internationally, it means understanding that the one solution to war promoted by most Western politicians—spreading Western values and ways of governance—is no solution at all.

Raymond Ibrahim is associate director of the Middle East Forum, author of The Al Qaeda Reader, and guest lecturer at the National Defense Intelligence College.

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Islamophobia debate after UK minister's remarks
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron has distanced himself from comments made by the only Asian member of his cabinet, Saeeda Warsi, that Islamophobia had become acceptable in British society.

Pakistan-origin Warsi made the comments in a speech at the University of Leicester on Thursday. Warsi sparked controversy when she declared that prejudice against Muslims had "passed the dinner table test" and was now seen as socially acceptable.

She said the practice of describing Muslims as either "moderate" or "extremist" fosters prejudice against all Muslims. Cameron's official spokeswoman refused to answer when asked repeatedly if the Prime Minister agreed with Lady Warsi.

"The Prime Minister thinks this is an important debate. We want to see that debate continue. We're looking forward to hearing what she has to say," said the spokeswoman.

Studies have indicated that Islamophobia had risen in Britain after September 11 and the London Tube bombings. Philip Hollobone, a Conservative MP who has called for a ban on Muslim women wearing the burkha in Britain, said Warsi had not described the reality.

"One of the difficulties with Muslim communities is that a lot of people feel that they adapt least to our way of life. That is a perfectly legitimate concern to raise at the dinner table or anywhere else," he told the Daily Telegraph.

"There are other groups who are facing increasing prejudice in Britain today, not least Christians. It would be refreshing if Sayeeda Warsi came out to condemn that at the same time as condemning Islamophobia," he added.

Lord Tebbit, former Conservative chairman, also suggested that Lady Warsi had been wrong to speak out.

"The Muslim faith was not discussed over the dinner tables of England, nor in the saloon bars, before large numbers of Muslims came here to our country. She might consider who is in need of her homilies on prejudice," he said.

"A period of silence from the baroness might not come amiss." Michael Nazir-Ali, a Church of England bishop, insisted that the distinction between extremist and moderate Muslims was valid.

However, Muslim commentators backed the speech. Ghaffar Hussain of the Quilliam Foundation think tank said the speech would help address prejudice.

"While Islamist terrorism and Islamist extremism pose a clear danger to our society that needs to be tackled, this cannot justify the demonization of Muslims as a whole. British Muslims have a right to live their lives without fear of attack and without being discriminated against because of their religion," said Hussain.

In a BBC interview, Warsi stood by her central argument about the spread of Islamophobia.

"It has seeped into our society in a way that it is acceptable to have these conversations where anti-Muslim hatred and bigotry is openly discussed. This is not about controlling the conversations that go on in peoples homes. This is about drawing a line as to the state of anti-religious hatred or bigotry in Britain today," said Warsi.
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Her Barren-ness smt (W)arsi is doing more to bring that particular topic to dinner tables by opening her mouth than by keeping it closed, I suspect. Anyways, time will tell - such tactics can only minorly delay the inevitable. Socioeconomic forces are at work here and psychohistory can show where it leads to.... I discern a small civil war in the medium term.... /snark.
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/pu ... detail.asp
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About the 'Muslim Problem'
As President Obama does everything in his power, using every resource and every propaganda ploy to diminish the “Muslim problem” that exists, not only in the United States, but around the world, the truth remains, fundamentalist Islam is a problem that is growing, not diminishing. Many on the Left and in the Progressive camp insist that the number of people within the Islamic religion who practice fundamentalist Islam – radical Islam; those who, when asked, champion the violent element within their religion, are but a scant ten percent. But when we put that percentage in realistic terms, realizing that nearly one-fourth of the world’s population is Muslim (1.57 billion adherents) and that the number of those following the Islamic religion grows by 1.84% annually, we can divine that ten percent of the Muslim population – those who subscribe to fundamentalist Islam and violent jihad – amounts to 157,000,000 people and growing. That number, to equate it to something tangible, is over one-third of the population of the United States of America.
According to the poll, 68 percent of the French and 75 percent of Germans believe Muslims are “not well integrated into society.” German chancellor Angela Merkel went as far as to say that the notion of “multiculturalism” in German society – given the issue of non-assimilation by foreigners – had “utterly failed.” Germany has one of the largest Muslim immigrant populations in Europe at 4.3 million. The Muslim immigrant population in France is 7 million and the British come in at 2.4 million. Experts say that almost 85% of the population growth in Europe, as a whole, was due to Muslim immigration and that the Muslim population alone will double by 2020.The poll goes on to say that:
“...55 percent in France and 49 percent in Germany believe the ‘influence and visibility of Islam’ is ‘too large’, while 60 percent in both countries say the reason for the problem is Muslims’ own ‘refusal’ to integrate...Just as crucially, 42 percent of French and 40 percent of Germans consider the presence of Islamic communities ‘a threat’ to their national identities.
“An editorial in Le Monde adds: ‘As Islam becomes a permanent and increasingly conspicuous fixture of European societies, public opinion is clearly tensing up...’”
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Hari Seldon wrote:^^??
kindly put inside url tags with some description etc only.
Hariji These are the rare photographs of the "The Great Calcutta massacre", I am trying to post them in full, any way I am still trying,But warn you these are not for the weak hearts.

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For a picture like that you ought to put up big bold warnings!!! what is wrong with you, just posting that picture without even a single word about them!!
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arjunm wrote:
Hari Seldon wrote:^^??
kindly put inside url tags with some description etc only.
Hariji These are the rare photographs of the "The Great Calcutta massacre", I am trying to post them in full, any way I am still trying,But warn you these are not for the weak hearts.
First add some description and link and then post the photographs. Just posting photos without description or context, or where they are sourced from is just pointless. And if these photos are from any particular site, it is better to mention that too to avoid any copyright issues later on
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Yeah, sorry I was juts trying first how to put these photographs and completely forget the narratives=

Yes, these are the rare photos of "The great Calcutta Killings", I believe in 1946-

Calcutta Communal Riot or Great Calcutta Killings - August 1946
Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the Great Calcutta Killing, was a day of widespread riot and manslaughter in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India.

The region most affected by the violence was the densely populated sector of the city bounded by Park Circus and Lower Circular Road on the south, CIT Road on the east, Vivekananda Road on the north and Strand Road on the west. Official estimate put the casualties at 4,000 dead and 100,000 injured. Other sources put the death toll at 7,000–10,000. Some authors have claimed that most of the victims were Hindus. However, others indicate appreciably more Muslims were killed than Hindus.

Skirmishes between the communities continued for almost a week. Finally, on 21 August, the Muslim Laegue govt was dismissed and Bengal was put under Viceroy's rule. 5 battalions British troops, supported by 4 battalions Indians and Gurkhas, were deployed in the city. Lord Wavell alleged that more British troops ought to have been called in earlier, and there is no indication that more British troops were not available.The rioting reduced on 22 August. More on Wikipedia
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Turns out the Sufi’s, the poster girls for those seeking to downplay the role of religion in Islamic Terrorism, are after all not as peace loving as made out.

Article names a bunch of Sufi Muslim clerics like Baba Ilyas-i-Khorasani, Baba Ishaq, Amadu Baba, Mirza Ali Khan and Sibghtullah Shah Badshah who were actively involved in instigating violence:

Are Sufis essentially non-violent?
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Southern Sudan Votes For Secession

A wise decision by the Christian and Animist “Kaafirs” of Southern Sudan to secede. The fate of being “Dhimmi’s” in a majority Arabised Islamised Sudan was an invitation to be religiously purged and ethnically cleansed.
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There are more than half a million Muslims in Greece, yet the country still lacks an official purpose-built mosque. For years, the Greek Orthodox Church stood in the way of plans to build a mosque in Athens. But even now, as the church supports the idea, hostile public opinion whipped up by far-right political groups could still block construction.

Greeks Divided On Mosque Construction
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Some rather antediluvian beliefs such as that somehow the presence of women at men's sporting events is apparently not compatible with Islam and that the presence of women at movie theaters increases inappropriate behaviour:

Women soccer fans in Iran may be banned from live broadcasts
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The frequent episodes of burqa clad suicide bombers blowing themselves up and such like appear to have an impact on perceptions.

Australian artist Sergio Redegalli puts up a mural calling for the ban of the burqa which predictably attracts the ire of Mohammaddens:

Sculptor Sergio Redegalli defies 'bullies' and refuses to take down anti-burka mural
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Don't know how banning burqa will help in reducing suicide attacks!
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It will close off one of the avenues of disguise. Not much different from un-burqaed folks having to submit to belt and shoe removals, gloved fist inquiries into various orifices at airports and so on.
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partha wrote:Don't know how banning burqa will help in reducing suicide attacks!
Some instances from around the world where a Burka / Burqa has provided cover for acts of Islamic Terrorism of the suicide bombing variety to help you change your mind.

Pakistan, 2010:

Burqa-clad suicide bomber kills 40 in Pakistan

Iraq, 2010:

54 killed by burqa clad female suicide bomber

Afghanistan, 2008:

Burqa-clad suicide bomber kills 16 in Afghanistan--governor
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arunji, JEMji,
While I have many problems with burqa, I feel it is the right of a woman to wear whatever she wants. What was the suicide bomber who killed Rajiv Gandhi wearing? Why not ban that too?
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We have to recognize the truth: There are no women suicide bombers in the West, because of skimpy clothes and bikinis onlee! A long time ago the West recognized the subversive nature of women, and neutralized any threat from that quarter. Now Western women are even required to shave their armpits and other places, all for a reason - so that no bombs can be hidden in the arm pits! Last but not least, think why Western governments have financed the campaigns for shaven-headed women! Hain ji?
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partha wrote:arunji, JEMji,
While I have many problems with burqa, I feel it is the right of a woman to wear whatever she wants.
Why the sexism?? Is it not the right of a man to wear whatever he wants in public as well, including completely covering himself inside a space-craft like bubble with no body parts visible at all, if he wants to ? :lol:
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hehe..sure. everybody should be free to wear whatever they want :)
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Freedom of choice can only be guaranteed if there are no social or other retribution for choosing an option. Can such freedom from retribution be guaranteed for any female member of any Muslim family anywhere - even in a society that is largely non-Muslim and preaches or allows different standards of female attire?
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Beginning in 2004, in four separate attacks twelve Chinese lost their lives on Pakistani soil. In addition, on occasions China warned Pakistan that Xinjiang separatists in collaboration with local militants planned to kidnap Chinese diplomats in Islamabad. Such warnings were at their highest during the Beijing Olympic games in 2008 and at the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic in 2009. However, timely coordination of the intelligence agencies of the two countries and Pakistan’s pre-emptive security measures prevented such plots from realization. Whether targeted attacks on Chinese in Pakistan had links with India or were collaborative efforts of local militants and Uyghurs – two convenient excuses from the Pakistani authorities – they did affect Sino-Pakistan relations. Beijing initially showed restraint, but as the attacks continued, it left diplomatic courtesy and went public pressuring Pakistan to ensure the fullest security of its nationals. Pakistan sensed the concerns of its trusted ally and provided extraordinary armed security for most of the 10,000 Chinese invited by the Pakistani government. These measures successfully prevented further attacks since the last incident in July 2007, in which three Chinese were killed.

Similarly, the liaison between Pakistan-based militants and Uyghurs and the latter’s sanctuary in Pakistani tribal areas was yet another issue on which Beijing had strong reservations. To address this issue, Pakistan intensified its crackdown against the Uyghur militants. The major breakthrough came in October 2004, when the Pakistani army shot dead Hasan Mahsum, head of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). Over the years, Pakistani forces have eliminated, arrested and extradited a number of Uyghurs, claiming to have broken the backbone of the militant Uyghur groups in Pakistan. The exact number of those killed or extradited is unknown, but Pakistani measures have seemingly satisfied the Chinese authorities.

In the post-9/11 period, China also openly sought Pakistan’s support on the issue of Muslim separatism in Xinjiang. Beginning in December 2001, the then Chief Executive of Pakistan, General Musharraf, visited the Grand Mosque of Xi’an at China’s request and asked the Muslims to be loyal to the Chinese government. This was the first time a Pakistani leader went public to endorse China’s polices on Xinjiang. Pakistan has since backed Beijing on this issue. The most significant display of this support came during the July 2009 riots in Xinjiang in which almost 200 people were killed. Pakistan not only endorsed China’s measures to quell the riots but used its clout to prevent certain Islamic countries to take the issue to the Organization of Islamic Conference, thus saving Beijing from embarrassment.
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Domodedovo airport in Moscow suicide bombed in a suspected act of Islamic Terrorism:
35 killed in Moscow airport suicide bombing

Dmitry Zaks and Anna Malpas
January 25, 2011 - 1:09PM

A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded over 130 in the packed arrivals hall of Moscow's largest airport in an attack slammed by the Kremlin and the world as an act of terror. ............................

Russian investigators found a head of "Arab appearance" that is presumed to have belonged to the suicide bomber responsible for setting off the blast, Interfax said.

According to preliminary information, the bomber was a resident of the overwhelmingly Muslim Northern Caucasus region, Interfax said.......................
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35 killed in Moscow airport suicide bombing
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This is important, since demographics are a huge part of the confidence of Islamists, and the fears of Islamophobes.

The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030
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80 percent of US mosques controlled by radical imams

Next month, House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King (R-NY) will hold hearings on the domestic threat posed by Muslim Americans. Echoing McCarthyist rhetoric of the 1950s, King recently argued that Muslims aren't “American” when it comes to war.

King’s quest to lay collective blame on Muslim Americans has inspired other House Republicans as well. Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Allen West (R-FL) are also calling for hearings on the “creeping threat of Sharia law.” With the three congressmen sitting on separate committees, we could see a triumvirate of investigations in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.
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the british newpaper, telegraph carries an article on the russian slavic convert to islam behind the airport bombing. worth reading in full, am posting excerpts:
Staring out from the front pages of their newspapers this weekend is not the usual dark-skinned, heavily-bearded Islamist terrorist they have come to expect and fear but an ethnic Russian who looks like millions of Russians' brothers, sons or husbands.

The suspect, 32-year-old Vitaly Razdobudko, is one of the growing number of Russians who have embraced radical Islam, creating a security nightmare for Russia's anti-terrorism squads.

Inured to more than a decade of terrorist attacks on their trains, planes, schools, hospitals and theatres, ordinary Russians are facing up to an uncomfortable truth: the terrorists are now drawn from their own ranks, rather than exclusively from the impoverished Muslim population of the country's North Caucasus region.

"The appearance of Slav Muslims in the terrorists' ranks is threatening to become a tendency," said Andrei Kuznetsov, a commentator on the lenta.runews portal.
He (Razdobudko) is not the first Slav-Islamist terrorist. These are people who converted to Islam in the chaotic 1990s when it became clear to people living far from the capital that the future was not bright. They preferred to embrace radical Islam rather than rot in an alcoholic delirium or a heroin-induced stupour."

Vitaly Razdobudko appears to have become disenchanted at a young age.

A native of the pretty southern spa town of Pyatigorsk 800 miles south of Moscow, he studied at a local technical university and then went on to try his hand at a number of businesses including tourism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... pines.html
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Adam Serwer's take on this rang true: "I tend to think this would be more frightening if it were comprehensible, but it's a symptom of a basic problem which is that several basic heuristics conservatives use for slotting things into 'good' and 'bad' categories are clashing with each other. So democracy is supposed to be good, but Muslims are bad, liberals are bad, and if Muslims are bad and liberals are bad, then the {Egyptian, Tunisian, Jordanian} protests must be some kind of combined Marxist-Islamist conspiracy that will lead to Islamists and Marxists splitting the globe between each other
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Very sad incident, But all is maaf in the garb of religion when it is these scums.

40-yr old man beds 14-yr old girl, clerics crack whip to kill

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/40yr- ... ll/745653/
It is being reported that the girl may just have been a rape victim, but fell prey to mullahs' machinations
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Why I am getting a feeling that this ongoing and continuos violence will lead many muslims to get out of Islam. I see a violent and nuclear death for this tool of 'Arabian empire'
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