Egyptian cleric: The Jews "are enemies not because they occupied Palestine. They would have been enemies even if they did not occupy a thing."

They keep telling us that it isn't about "stolen land," and that land concessions and even the creation of a Palestinian state will not end the conflict. And we keep refusing to believe it.

Muhammad Hussein Ya’qoub: If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving them? Of course not. We will never love them. Absolutely not. The Jews are infidels – not because I say so, and not because they are killing Muslims, but because Allah said: “The Jews say that Uzair is the son of Allah, and the Christians say that Christ is the son of Allah. These are the words from their mouths. They imitate the sayings of the disbelievers before. May Allah fight them. How deluded they are.” It is Allah who said that they are infidels.

That's Qur'an 9:30.

Your belief regarding the Jews should be, first, that they are infidels, and second, that they are enemies. They are enemies not because they occupied Palestine. They would have been enemies even if they did not occupy a thing. Allah said: “You shall find the strongest men in enmity to the disbelievers [sic] to be the Jews and the polytheists.”

Qur'an 5:82.

Third, you must believe that the Jews will never stop fighting and killing us. They [fight] not for the sake of land and security, as they claim, but for the sake of their religion: “And they will not cease fighting you until they turn you back you’re your religion, if they can.”

Qur'an 2:217.

This is it. We must believe that our fighting with the Jews is eternal, and it will not end until the final battle – and this is the fourth point. You must believe that we will fight, defeat, and annihilate them, until not a single Jew remains on the face of the Earth.

It is not me who says so. The Prophet said: “Judgment Day will not come until you fight the Jews and kill them. The Jews will hide behind stones and trees, and the stones and tree will call: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him – except for the Gharqad tree, which is the tree of the Jews.” I have heard that they are planting many of these trees now. [...]

Hating Jews and other unbelievers is the root to islam. The only good unbeliever is a dhimmi. I don't plan on being a dhimmi. There will be blood in the streets before this happens in the US.

Afghanistan: University students protest alleged Qur'an desecration, chant slogans against Obama

Anti-Obama slogans? The students at Nangarhar University might find themselves charged with blasphemy.

But seriously, these kinds of protests once again raise the question: is the West going to accept Islamic standards of blasphemy and refrain from speaking about Islam (including jihad aggression) in a manner that Muslims consider insulting? The implications of that are ominous.

JALALABAD (SANA): Hundreds of students of Nangarhar University in eastern Nangarhar province held a protest demonstration against the alleged desecration of holy Quran in southern Ghazni province.

The angry students also blocked Kabul-Jalalabad Highway and chanted slogans against America, Obama, coalition forces and Israel.

Protest dispersed peacefully after passing a resolution asking Afghan government and international community to compel Americans to leave Afghanistan and stop insulting Islam....

Sifatullah, a law student said that ISAF soldiers should not only apologize to Muslims but should also bring the perpetrators to book.

Samiullah, a student of Agricultural Faculty said we strongly criticize coalition forces humiliating and disgracing approaches toward our religion, women and entire nation.”...

It is to be mentioned here that Polish soldiers on Friday in southern Ghazni province have allegedly insulted Quran while searching various Mosques.

Subsequent protests in Ghazni left scores of protestors injured as they engaged in a scuffle with police.

A soldier insulted the quran? How do you insult a book? Again ignorant people with twenty first century weapons are very dangerous. I just wish we would leave the middle east. Then the sunnis and shia can all be happy killing each other.

Fort Dix jihad convictions upheld, jihadists respond, "Allahu akbar!"

They yelled "Allahu akbar" not because they approved of the upholding of their own convictions, but because they accept all events as manifestations of Allah's perfect will, and probably also because they subscribe to Muhammad Atta's view: "Shout, 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers."

Also, this is noteworthy because many commentators, as might be expected, denied at the time of the trial that there was any actual jihad aspect to this plot.

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A judge in New Jersey has upheld guilty verdicts against five Muslim immigrants convicted last year of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers.

The men's lawyers argued that the federal government's claims against their clients were not supported by evidence.

But a federal judge in Camden disagreed and has ruled the jury was right to convict them in December. He said the men received a fair trial.

Relatives and several of the men yelled, "Allah akbar" (AH'-lah AHK'-bar) — Arabic for "God is great" — in the courtroom after Thursday's ruling....

Aren't these guys great? I just love the mindset of a muslim.

Afghanistan: "Violence is tolerated or condoned within the family and community, within traditional and religious leadership circles"

Two aspects of Islamic teaching figure prominently in this story. One is domestic violence, endorsed by Qur'an 4:34 . The other is child marriage, made sacrosanct by Muhammad's own example through marrying Aisha when she was 6, and consummating the marriage when she was 9.

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Rapes targeting girls as young as seven are on the increase in Afghanistan where conditions for women are little better than under the Taliban, the U.N. and rights groups say."

In its annual report on human rights, the U.N. warned conditions were deteriorating in the war-ravaged country despite U.S.-led efforts after the 2001 removal from power of the hardline militia.

"Violence is tolerated or condoned within the family and community, within traditional and religious leadership circles, as well as the formal and informal justice system," said Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.

The "Afghan government has failed to adequately protect the rights of women despite constitutional guarantees."

With a resurgent Taliban targeting NATO forces, government security forces and civilians, violence has been on the increase in Afghanistan..

The number of civilian casualties in 2008 totaled 2,118 -- the highest number recorded since the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, the U.N. said, urging greater protecting for ordinary Afghans.

Violence against women comes in the form of rape, "honor killings," early and forced marriages, sexual abuse and slavery, the report says. "The security is the big issue," said Suraya Pakzad, founder of the Voice of Women Organization, which promotes education and awareness of women's rights and protects women and girls at risk in Afghanistan.

"Because of security we, unfortunately, day by day, we have to pull out of areas where last year we operated, we have our operations. We were able to work with the women, but this year we cannot," she said.

"We have to leave the area because security is getting worse day by day."

"Rapes in the country have been growing tremendously, particularly child rapes within the ages of 9, 8, 7, even lesser than that," said Wazhma Frogh, director of Global Rights Afghanistan.

"So these are the issues that are all born by this lack of security where women have no place in ... security decisions."

Domestic violence against child brides is widespread, said Suraya Pakzad, the founder of the Voice of Women organization, who was married at age 14 and has six children. She said girls as young as 10 face "violation" by husbands 40 years their senior. "By the end ... women, or girls, run away."

But women without husbands, especially widows, may have it even worse in Afghanistan, the report says. Without a spouse, the women are reduced to begging to feed their children.

Options outside the home are limited where the Taliban holds sway in Afghanistan. The Taliban's interpretation of strict Islamic law, or sharia, has included banning girls from school and the workplace.

Even in areas not overrun by the Taliban, women face risks outside the home.

"The assassination of the most prominent national female senior police officer, in Kandahar in September 2008, underscores the tremendous risks faced by women in public life," the report says.

So, the sharia is the law of the land in Afghanistan and the Somalis are fighting to be ruled by sharia. See how well islam treats its women? They are just property of muslim men. They can be baught from their fathers for the dowry. They can be divorced at the drop of a hat. They are not allowed out of the house without their guardian. This is what they would like to see in the West. We had better wake up.

Pakistan urges West, EU to shun Islamophobia

Instead, it urges the West to focus on "the root causes of terrorism, poverty, injustice and deprivation." Odd, however, that even though billions of peoples around this world suffer from "poverty, injustice, and deprivation," the Islamic world has the lion's share of terrorism. To be sure, Latin American (e.g., Cuba) and non-Muslim Asian countries (e.g., China) have their fair share of oppressive, authoritarian regimes, of poverty, and of all the rest that the Muslim world suffers. Yet there are no records of, say, practicing Christians or Buddhists crashing explosives-laden vehicles into Cuban or Chinese Communist government buildings all while screaming “Jesus is great!” or "Buddha is great!” Why?

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Kashmir Affairs has urged Western countries, especially the European Union (EU), to shun ‘Islamophobia’ and try to promote a better, broader and more realistic image of Islam and Muslims in media.

Agreed: the media should definitely be dedicated to promoting "a better, broader" but above all "more realistic image of Islam and Muslims."

This was observed during a meeting between the committee and the Foreign Policy Committee of the Danish Parliament on Thursday. The Senate committee, led by Senator Mushahid Hussain, called for addressing the root causes of terrorism, poverty, injustice and deprivation, to eradicate it...

Yes it is islamophobia that is causing the muslims to riot and kill people. It is never the fault of the muslims. They are the best people on the earth. That is right from the koran, the book of hatred.

Somalia: Thousands demonstrate in Mogadishu in support of Sharia Law

While this Somali report is up front that thousands of Somalis demand sharia, Western media spin-offs, such as MSNBC's, title their version of the story, "Thousands of Somalis demand peace at rally," with little focus on sharia per se.

Horseed Media - On thursday, thousands of people took to the streets in the Somali capital Mogadishu in support of introducing the Sharia law.

The demonstrators gathered in Mogadishu Stadium, where Sheikh Ahmed Dahir Aweys the brother of opposition leader Hassan Dahir Aweys told the crowds to support the implementation of sharia law in the country.

He said it was a religious duty which should be uphold in all times.

“…the sharia is pure justice that fights with everything that is evil….” Says Sheikh Ahmed Dahir Aweys.

Today’s demonstrations was in support of the decision of the Somali religious council who last week released an advisory report calling for the new government to introduce the sharia law in the country.

The religious council said the Federal Parliament should approve the sharia law within months.
The Somali religious council also called for the African Peacekeepers AMISOM to withdraw their troops in Mogadishu within 120 days.

Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the newly elected Somali President in a press conference last week said, he was not against the introducing of the Sharia law and that he was ready to accept a cease fire with armed groups in Mogadishu.

This is worst than communism. Once islam gains a foot hold in more countries we are going to see the re-emergence of the caliphate. Then they will be pushing for borders of muslim countries to be eliminated. The goal is one giant islamic nation. Then they will really persue the rest of the world.