UK: Jihadist ordered deported, but he's staying

Radical cleric Abu Qatada will stay in Britain for months despite a House of Lords ruling that he should be deported to Jordan where he faces terror charges.

The Law Lords said Qatada, dubbed "Osama Bin Laden's right hand man in Europe", could be sent back to Jordan where he faces terror charges after overturning a Court of Appeal decision..

But the extremist could still remain in the country for many months if he takes his case to the European Court of Human Rights.

The judgment is a victory for the Home Office in its long-running campaign to remove Qatada from Britain, which has cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds already.

The Law Lords also ruled in favour of the Government over its attempts to deport two other men to Algeria.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said a deportation order will be served on Qatada immediately.

However any attempts to remove him would be put on hold if the case goes to Europe.

Ms Smith said: "I'm delighted with the Lords' decision today in the cases of Abu Qatada and the two Algerians 'RB' and 'U'.

"It highlights the threat these individuals pose to our nation's security and vindicates our efforts to remove them.

"My top priority is to protect public safety and ensure national security and I have signed Abu Qatada's deportation order which will be served on him today.

"I am keen to deport this dangerous individual as soon as I can."

In a statement, Qatada's lawyer confirmed his intention to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

The move is likely to delay any moves to deport him for months and even years....

Isn't this amazing? This guy is ordered deported and he says "I refuse to leave?" The authorities need to just pick this monster up, send him on the first plane to Jordan and leave it at that. But no, the PC EU will likely say that he could possibly be tortured and that would violate some kind of rights that they think terrorists should be afforded. Better idea, he should have a deadly accident.

Top Pakistani cleric: Democracy is kufr (infidelity)

He was originally jailed in Pakistan for sending thousands of jihadis to battle the Americans in Afghanistan. Maybe if the Pakistani government hadn't released him in 2008, he wouldn't now be actively working for its destruction. "'Democracy is a system of Kufr’: Sufi Mohammad," from Geo Pakistan, february 18:

MINGORA: The chief of Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-i-Mohammadi (TNSM), Maulana Sufi Mohammad has said the concept of democracy is against the teachings of the Holy Quran and Sunnah.

In an exclusive interview with Geo news, TNSM chief said he regarded democracy a system of Kufr (unbelief). Maulana Sufi said he would remain in the troubled Swat valley till restoration of peace...

Look at this scholar. He looks like he got himself a good islamic education, nothing more than that.

ARAB LEAGUE CRITICISES TRUCE-SHALIT LINK

CAIRO, FEBRUARY 18 - Regarding today's decision of Israel's Defence Council to demand the release of corporal Gilad Shalit as a preliminary condition for a truce with Hamas, the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Mussa, said that the refusal of a truce by Israel "is part of the Israeli blackmail of not making concessions". Linking the truce to Shalit, according to Mussa "blocks the resolution of many questions". Regarding the inter-Palestinian reconciliation, Mussa said that "the possibilities for reconciliation have improved after the most recent meeting with the head of the political office of Hamas in Damascus", Khaled Meshaal.

Israel gave back many of terrorists to hezbullah for the mutilated bodies of two of their soldiers in 2006. It is about time that they grew some real balls to really demand for Shalit's safe return. I personally think he is dead.

Sweden: City council in jihadist enclave rules tennis match with Israel must be held without spectators

Instead of standing up to jihadist intimidation. Malmö, of course, is infamous as a jihadist enclave.

Sweden's upcoming Davis Cup tennis match against Israel will be held behind closed doors, Malmö city council ruled on Wednesday.

The match was scheduled to be played from March 6th to 8th at the Baltiska Hallen venue, which can hold 4,000 spectators. Police had said the match could go ahead and that the public could be admitted.

Despite this, Malmö council's sports and recreation committee voted on Wednesday to keep the public out, arguing the security risk would be too great if spectators were allowed.

The decision to ban the public was made after a Social Democrat and Left Party-led motion to have the match played in an empty hall was passed by five votes to four.

The Social Democrats and Left Party cited security concerns for their decision to vote in favour of a spectator ban, as proposed by the head of the sports and recreation committee, Bengt Forsberg (SocDem).

But local Moderate Party representatives were furious at the outcome of the vote, arguing that the match could have gone ahead with spectators and heightened security.

"I don't think we should allow anti-democratic forces decide how we run sporting events," John Roslund, a Moderate Party member of the committee, told The Local....

Uh, yeah.

So they surrendered to the jihadis? Great.