Al-Qaeda to Yemen: "The time for the rule of Islam has come so that you could bask in the justice and tolerance it brings"

DUBAI, May 13 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda called on Wednesday for Islamic rule in Yemen and vowed to retaliate for what it said was the killing of civilians in clashes between police and locals in the south, where secessionist sentiment is strong.

The country in the Arabian Peninsula is trying to shake off an image of violence and lawlessness to promote tourism and foreign investment. It is battling al Qaeda, separatist calls in the south and Shi'ite rebels in the north.

"The time for the rule of Islam has come so that you could bask in the justice and tolerance it brings," Abu Basir Nasser al-Wahayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said in a recording posted on an Islamist website on Wednesday. "The injustice that befell you, God willing, will not pass without punishment. The killing of Muslims in the streets is a great crime that has no justification."[...]

President Ali Abdullah Saleh called on Yemenis earlier this month to hold a dialogue to maintain national unity following a a week of clashes in the south between the police and locals.

"As far as we are concerned, Ali Abdullah Saleh is an infidel and an agent ... and today he is using all forms of oppression with the pretext of preserving unity," said Wahayshi.

Saleh, who took power in the former North Yemen in 1978 and has been president since union with the south in 1990, has backed U.S. moves to crack down on al Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities...

Jihadists may have plotted terror attack from prison

Here is yet another example of prison being used as a laboratory for jihad.

ABC identifies the two men as French citizens, although it does note of Gendron that he is a convert to Islam. In not identifying them outright as Muslims, ABC is of course following standard journalistic practice, which proceeds on the assumption that jihad terror attacks are condemned by authoritative and mainstream Islam, and are a twisting and hijacking of the Islamic faith. It would be offensive to peaceful Muslims to identify these men as Muslims, we're told, despite the fact that they hatched this plot because of their understanding of Islamic texts and teachings.

Italian authorities on Tuesday delivered arrest warrants for international terrorism to two French citizens suspected of being important Al Qaeda representatives in Europe.

Dubbed the Sheik and the Engineer by the Italian press, the two men - Bassam Ayachi, 63, a Syrian-born with French citizen, and Marcel Gendron, 34, a French engineer converted to Islam - were already being held in prison in Bari, Italy on charges of organizing illegal immigration.
Investigators placed microphones inside the prison cell they shared.

According to the Italian paper La Repubblica, apparently aware that someone might try to listen, the men spoke in low voices and interrupted phrases and would turn up the volume of the TV in their cell at crucial times. Nonetheless a pool of 14 translators helped decipher the taped conversations in Arabic and French, which investigators say show the men were actively planning terrorist attacks in Europe -- with talk of "a ton of grenades" and a plane attack on Charles De Gaulle airport.

Particularly significant passages, according to Bari prosecutors' arrest warrant, obtained by Italian media:

December 14, 2008:
Ayachi: "Paris..."
Gendron: "There will be more, you have to leave"
Gendron: "We can do it"
Ayachi: "Either all or nothing, what do we do if the other fights"
Gendron: "We strike..we will do it, we will be everywhere"
Ayachi: "Of course, yes"
Gendron: "So, quick"
Ayachi: "I'll do the plane, strike the master"
Gendron: "I'll hit De Gaulle"
Ayachi: "we will hit there"
Gendron: "Let's widen up, that's all"
Ayachi: "in the evening, when there will be a lot of people"
Gendron: "I did the investigation, maybe you want to back out"
Ayachi: "This is all there is for peace"

Again, on January 25th, 2009 mention of using a plane:
A: "We will do this, it is a plane"
G: "A French plane"
A: "We will exterminate the others, I have to go exterminate them, you know of the millions of them leave, strike in the whole world"
Explosives Mentioned in Inmate Conversation
The explosives are mentioned in a conversation with another inmate:
Inmate: "don't worry, there was the other day, there, where I had gone, he offered us a ton of grenades for 5 euros a piece, at Riyadh we will go to the club, the other time you said there was no time to go to Iraq or other"
G: "did you see there, but afterwards he pays"
A: "in Paris you make money, we can explode once we have brought it, but we must make it unattainable for"

Investigators believe that these conversations and many others show the two men were actively planning future attacks....

We need to just kill all muslims. They are going to take over the world. That is their stated goal. Why will no one listen. And why do they have to kill all of us? Because it says to do that in their book, the koran, the terrorist training manual.

Somalia president signs Islamic sharia bill into law

MOGADISHU, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Wednesday signed into law a parliament-passed bill introducing the Islamic Sharia law in Somalia as eight people were killed and fifteen others were wounded in fresh fighting that erupted in Mogadishu between government forces and Islamist fighters.

President Ahmed said since Somalia has an Islamic law he sees no reason for the continuation of hostilities in the country where nearly a week of clashes raged between the government forces and allied Islamist fighters from the hardline Al-Shabaab movement and Hezul Islam faction.

The Somali parliament unanimously endorsed the implementation of the Islamic Sharia law in the war-torn country last month.[...]

Meanwhile, the secluded spiritual leader of Al-Shabaab, Sheikh Muqtar Abderrahman Abu Zuhayr, said the fighting in Mogadishu is between "Good and Evil" and urged local people to support his fighters.

Abu Zuhayr, who has never been seen in public and whose whereabouts is unknown, released an 11-minute audio tape to local radio stations in Mogadishu.

"There is no neutrality in this war. Mogadishu residents should support the Mujahedeens because you cannot be neutral when the fight is between Good and Evil," said Abu Zuhayr.

Abu Zuhayr, who is wanted by the U.S. for terrorism, warned local media to be "neutral and not to mislead people", saying if the media cannot tell the truth, it should stop "twisting the truth and misleading the people".

"Fear God and report the facts as they are," Abu Zuhayr added.

He said the media has a duty towards the people, urging it to "take part in the Jihad (holy war)".

"The journalist should observe the efficiency and fairness of his profession and should never spoil the history of Islam and the people and his own," he said.

Spoil the history of islam? Hmmm? You mean terrorism.

Danish bus firm tells Muslim women to remove their veils

Common sense: "it is normal that passengers holding photo travel passes should identify themselves to the driver or the conductor." However, the cries of "Islamophobia" are inevitable.

Copenhagen. Observant Muslim women in Denmark will have to remove their face veils when their travel passes are being checked, one of the country's leading transport operators Arriva said Wednesday AFP informs.

Danish bus companies have introduced the rule after two incidents where Arriva drivers refused to allow passengers wearing the face veil, or niqab, to travel on their buses.

"All bus companies have recently come to an agreement on this point as it is normal that passengers holding photo travel passes should identify themselves to the driver or the conductor," Arriva spokesman Martin Wex said.

Those passengers who refuse to show their faces will be forced to buy another ticket to get on board, he said, adding that the policy would also apply to some Arriva train services in Denmark.

It is about time. We have seen many muslims dress like a woman to rob banks and other businesses. If they want to wear a mask, fine, walk.

Illinois: Muslim student who faked hate crime seeks trial in mental health court

She fabricated an anti-Muslim "hate crime." Despite an abundance of evidence that the faking of such hate crimes for political purposes is a thriving industry, she is now claiming to be mentally ill.

A Muslim student who allegedly made a false claim last year that she was attacked on the campus of Elmhurst College by a masked man making anti-Islamic slurs applied today to have her disorderly conduct case transferred to DuPage County mental health court.

Safia Jilani, 19, of Oak Brook, reported on Oct. 9 that she was beaten by a man with a gun in the college's science center. Elmhurst police said no such attack took place, and charges were filed against her.

"This young adult has had medical issues in the past that could have led to this episode," said defense attorney Terry Ekl, who said he has turned over a medical report to prosecutors. He declined to specify the medical condition....

This is what all muslims say when they are caught when trying to scam people. Now she is mentally ill. Why was she not being treated before? Because she is only mental because she is a muslim. They are all mental.

Jihadist involved with Oregon training camp convicted on 11 counts

MANHATTAN (CN) - Oussama Abdullah Kassir aka Abu Abdullah aka Abu Khadija, a Swedish citizen who tried to establish a jihad training camp in Bly, Ore., was found guilty of supporting al Qaeda after a four-week jury trial in Federal Court. He will be sentenced on Sept. 2, and faces multiple terms of life imprisonment.

One of his co-conspirators faxed radical London cleric Abu Hamza a letter saying that the training camp took advantage of the fact that Oregon is a "pro-militia and fire-arms state" and that the property in Bly "looks just like Afghanistan," the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. The co-conspirator said the group was "stock-piling weapons and ammunition," prosecutors added.

According to the indictment and evidence at trial:

When he received this letter in late 1999, Hamza sent Kassir and his alleged cohort Haroon Rashid Aswat from England to Bly, where Kassir told witnesses that he supported Osama Bin Laden and had undergone jihad training in Pakistan. A witness saw him carrying a CD with instructions on how to make bombs and poisons.

After leaving the camp, Kassir and Aswat traveled to Seattle, where they stayed at the Dar Us Salaam Mosque. From there, Kassir gave lessons on "how to assemble and disassemble AK-47s and how to alter an AK-47 to launch a grenade."

He established at least six Web sites, featuring cyber-pamphlets such as "The Mujahideen Explosives Handbook" and "The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook." He operated the sites from 2001 until he was arrested.

The jury found Kassir guilty of all 11 counts, including providing support to al Qaeda, conspiracy to kill or maim people overseas, and distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction.

Hamza and Aswat are awaiting extradition proceedings, which are pending in the European Court of Human Rights, to be tried in the United States.

We need to just kill these people. Let them go and they win. They will take up arms where ever they go.

Amnesty International condemns amputations in Somalia, but sidesteps the role of sharia

Rather, the report attributes such punishments to the lack of the rule of law, ignoring the fact that amputation for theft is a mainstay of Islamic law. This underscores the obvious but crucial point that one man's "rule of law" is not necessarily equivalent to another's. A great deal depends on whose law, and whose idea of "justice" is being enforced. And political correctness aside, they are not all basically the same.

NAIROBI (AFP) — Islamist armed groups controlling Somalia's southern city of Kismayo have carried out amputations and unlawful killings, Amnesty International reported Thursday.

The London-based watchdog cited the case of Mohamed Omar Ismail, who one of his hands publicly amputated by local religious leaders as a punishment for allegedly stealing items worth around 90 dollars (65 euros).

Hundreds of residents attended the punishment, which was carried out in a place called "Freedom Park," Amnesty's statement said.

"Punishments like amputations and killings illustrate the extent to which violence still substitutes for the rule of law in many areas of Somalia," said Michelle Kagari, Deputy Director of Amnesty International?s Africa Programme.

The port of Kismayo, Somalia's largest southern city, was seized in August 2008 by a coalition of forces loyal to rebel leader Hassan Turki, and the Shebab, the country's main radical Islamist insurgent organisation.

Turki is listed as a terrorist financier by Washington.

The administration formed there began implementing a strict form of Sharia (Islamic law).

In October, a 13-year-old girl was stoned to death in public by around 50 men on one of Kismayo's main squares. She was accused of adultery by local hardline Islamists after reporting that she had been raped by three men.

Amnesty, which listed several other cases of unlawful punishment over the past year, called on the local authorities to condemn human rights abuses and on the United Nations to establish monitoring mechanisms.

Nope, this has nothing to do with the koran and islam. Hell, this is right out of the of the koran, the terrorist training manual.