Spencer: The Somali Pirates Are Jihadists

This week, we celebrate the Navy SEALs’ rescue of American ship captain Richard Phillips.

Their action, from the night airdrop that delivered them to the waiting warships to the split-second action in which three of the pirates were killed, was what we expect from our best special operations troops.

But while we praise their skill, let’s not lose sight of who Phillips’ captors were. His Somali pirate captors are Islamic jihadists, dedicated to the same goals as Osama bin Laden and other jihadists around the world.

In August 2008, when the pirates became especially active off the Horn of Africa, Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, declared that Al-Shabaab, a group of jihadists in Somalia, use piracy to fund their jihad: “According to our information, the money they make from piracy and ransoms goes to support al-Shabaab activities onshore.”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025686.php#more

Pakistan: Sikh families leave area after Taliban demand jizya

A few years back a prominent moderate Muslim denounced the "fear-mongering of those obsessed with jihad, shariah, and the dhimma." He said that the dhimma was a thing of the past and should stay that way, and that "the dhimma is now held out by a demagogic element in the West as a terrifying symbol of Islamic domination, and Western advocates of any rational approach to Islam short of a crusader war are regularly insulted as dhimmis, or people who have surrendered to Muslim rule."

But it is not demagoguery. The jizya, mandated by Qur'an 9:29, is a central part of the dhimma, and it is still very much alive.

HANGU: Sikh families living in Orakzai Agency have left the agency after the Taliban demanded Rs 50 million as jizia (tax) from them, official sources and locals said on Tuesday.

Residents of Ferozekhel area in Lower Orakzai Agency told Daily Times on Tuesday that around 10 Sikh families left the agency after the demand by the Taliban, who said they were a minority and liable to pay the tax for living in the area in accordance with sharia.

Locals said the Taliban had notified the Sikh families about the ‘tax’ around a week ago. They said of the 15 Sikh families in Ferozekhel, 10 had shifted while the remaining were preparing to do so.

The locals said the families were impoverished and had left the area to avoid any Taliban action.

Jizya is right out of the muslim play book, the koran, the terrorist training manual.

Jihadist pirates: rocket attack on US ship was revenge

Somali pirates have attacked an American freighter with rockets to "destroy" the ship in revenge for an operation that freed a US captain last weekend, one of their commanders says.

The freighter escaped the attack late on Tuesday (local time), but more vessels have fallen into the hands of marauding Somali bandits.

"This attack was the first against our prime target," pirate commander Abdi Garad said of the attack on the Liberty Sun late on Tuesday.

"We intended to destroy this American-flagged ship and the crew on board but unfortunately they narrowly escaped us.

"The aim of this attack was totally different. We were not after a ransom. We also assigned a team with special equipment to chase and destroy any ship flying the American flag in retaliation for the brutal killing of our friends."...

Time to go muslim hunting off the coast of Somalia.

Sudan: Husband attacks and evicts wife, a convert to Christianity; brother beats and tries to knife her

Meanwhile, another woman "who left Islam is under a kind of house arrest by her family members for converting to Christianity... 'I find life very difficult,' she said. 'I feel lonely and isolated. How long will I have to live in this state?'”

Probably for a very long time. Evidently her Sudanese family is adhering to the more "lenient" Hanafi madhhab (school of jurisprudence) which, unlike the other three orthodox schools, does not kill the female apostate out right, but rather recommends imprisoning and beating her until she sees the error of her ways (see Al Siyar Al Kabir, vol. 4, p.162).

Christian woman run out of home – and beaten – while another is prohibited from leaving.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, April 13 (Compass Direct News) – When Halima Bubkier of Sinar town converted from Islam to Christianity last year, initially her husband accepted it without qualms. News of her conversion spread quickly, the 35-year-old mother of three said, and last Sept. 14 she came face to face with Islamic hardliners who felt her conversion to Christianity was an act of betrayal.

A few weeks later, during the daily fasts and nightly feasts of Ramadan, the Islamists blocked her husband from the communal meals because of her change in faith; he subsequently attacked her and threw her out of their home. She decided to run for refuge to her older brother, Nur Bubkier – who, having been informed of her conversion, responded by thoroughly beating her and trying to knife her.

In Sahafa, five kilometers (three miles) south of Khartoum, another woman who left Islam is under a kind of house arrest by her family members for converting to Christianity. Senah Abdulfatah Altyab was formerly a student of laboratory science at Sudan University of Technology, but today she is out of touch with the outside world.

Her education came to an end after a film about Jesus Christ led to her conversion. “I find life very difficult,” Altyab said. “I feel lonely and isolated. How long will I have to live in this state? Life without education is miserable.”

It is hard to believe that in the twenty first century that people are being killed for changing a religion. Oh wait. This has to do with islam. Never mind. It makes sense now.

Harvard Muslim chaplain sees "wisdom" of Islamic death penalty for apostasy

But of course it was all a misunderstanding. And that's no surprise. When has a Muslim spokesman in the West who espoused traditional Islamic teachings ever been understood correctly? The poor lambs are forever being misunderstood and misconstrued.

Note also the Muslim student who said Abdul-Basser shouldn't be chaplain, but "asked that he not be named to avoid conflicts with Muslim religious authorities." Diana West has some keen observations about that.

Harvard Islamic chaplain Taha Abdul-Basser ’96 has recently come under fire for controversial statements in which he allegedly endorsed death as a punishment for Islamic apostates.

In a private e-mail to a student last week, Abdul-Basser wrote that there was “great wisdom (hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital punishment [for apostates]) and so, even if it makes some uncomfortable in the face of the hegemonic modern human rights discourse, one should not dismiss it out of hand.”

The e-mail was forwarded over Muslim student e-mail lists and later picked up by the blogosphere, sparking debate and, in many cases, criticism of Abdul-Basser from those who have interpreted his statement as supporting the execution of those who leave the Islamic religion.

“I believe he doesn’t belong as the official chaplain,” said one Islamic student, who asked that he not be named to avoid conflicts with Muslim religious authorities. “If the Christian ministers said that people who converted from Christianity should be killed, don’t you think the University should do something?” [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW]

According to the student, many of Abdul-Basser’s other views are “not in line with liberal values, such as notions of human rights. He privileges the medieval discourse of the Islamic jurists, and is not willing to exercise independent thought and judgment beyond a certain limit,” the student said. [...]

A Muslim student at MIT, who also asked to remain anonymous to preserve his relationship with the Islamic community, said the chaplain’s remarks wrongly suggested that only Westerners and Westernized Muslims who did not fully understand Islam would find the killing of apostates objectionable.

“If what he said was what I thought, then it is very shocking and not something that I would expect or want coming out of a chaplain at any major American university,” he said.

But relax. It was all just a function of the inevitable misunderstanding by Islamophobic idiots of these abstruse and complex thinkers:

Abdul-Basser wrote in a later e-mailed statement that he “never expressed the position that individuals who leave Islam or convert from Islam to another religion must be killed. I do not hold this opinion personally.” He explained that he was not advocating for the positions mentioned in his e-mail, but rather “addressing them in the context of the evolution of an Islamic legal doctrine.”

“[Abdul-Basser] was speaking as a chaplain to a student in a private e-mail exchange. One of these e-mails was misinterpreted, misconstrued, and posted on the blogosphere,” said Harvard Islamic Society spokesperson Nafees A. Syed ’10, who praised Abdul-Basser for promoting diversity within HIS and the campus at large.

“His immeasurable contributions should not be overlooked in this matter,” she said....

CLARIFICATION: The April 14 article "Chaplain's E-mail Sparks Controversy" included a quotation from a named Harvard student, who was later granted anonymity when he revealed that his words could bring him into serious conflict with Muslim religious authorities.

I went to a university in the 1980s. I do not remember all of these unions on campus. There was no such thing as a university chaplin. Why can't kids just go to fucking school anymore? Why do they need liberal indoctrination and islamic indoctrination? Why is a religion allowed to be so influencial? Oh yeah, it is islam. They are special. Like Jerry's kids.

Pakistani jihadist says "we'll continue our struggle" to impose Sharia on all of Pakistan

And he said: ‘‘People who opposed sharia were neither sincere to Islam nor the nation.’’

He said it.

Honest Ibe Hooper, please go to Peshawar and straighten this guy out. Teach him about the Peaceful, Pluralistic, and Democracy-Compatible Islam in which you so devoutly believe.

PESHAWAR: Radical cleric Sufi Muhammad-led Tehrik Nifaz-I-Shariat-I-Muhammadi (TNSM) and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan have welcomed imposition of sharia in NWFP’s Malakand division, saying the ‘‘struggle’’ would continue to implement Islamic law in other parts of the country....

Sufi Muhammad vowed to extend full cooperation to the military and the government. ‘‘Our struggle has achieved success. We’ll now extend our full cooperation to the government,’’ he said. Sufi Muhammad called upon the armed men to surrender their arms and end their activities. ‘‘I’ll visit various districts to monitor it.’’ Sufi Muhammad made it clear that his cooperation would depend on sharia’s implementation in ‘‘letter and spirit’’.

Talking to TOI from an undisclosed location, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan echoed Sufi Muhammad’s call for implementation of sharia across Pakistan. ‘‘Our demand for Sharia wasn’t Swat-specific. We’ll continue our struggle for implementation of sharia outside the Pashto-speaking areas,’’ he said. Khan said Taliban would ‘‘make Swat a model of good governance and soon people in other areas will also demand the same set-up’’. He said Swat people had sacrificed for the sharia cause. ‘‘People who opposed sharia were neither sincere to Islam nor the nation.’’

Khan contradicted Sufi Muhammad’s pledge to disarm. ‘‘Taliban will neither abandon their organisation nor weapons. Laying down arms wasn’t part of the peace deal,’’ he said. Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari approved sharia law for Malakand division on Monday after the national assembly passed it.

The Taliban is going to take over Pakistan. When that happens jihadis will have about 100 nukes. Just what the world needs.