The Gaza Air Strikes: Why Israel Attacked

A future jihadi walks through the rubble of a Hamas building. Hopefully many muslims were under that rubble. They had to hit Gaza now before our muslim president Obama is sworn in.

Israel's strike on Gaza had been expected for days, but it was still a surprise when it finally came. Taking advantage of good weather, which is forecast to last at least three days, Israeli planes bombed some 40 Palestinian police stations, posts and other targets early Saturday morning, killing more than 150 people including a number of senior Hamas military leaders. The first strikes came in a coordinated three-minute blitz.
Israeli officials say the strikes were necessary to force an end to the rocket attacks from Gaza, which is ruled by the radical Islamist group Hamas after it split from the Palestinian Authority run by President Mahmoud Abbas out of the West Bank. Palestinian militants in Gaza have long launched Kassam and other rockets at Israeli towns across the border, and in the past six weeks the number of attacks has increased dramatically. After the attack, Israeli officials said the number of Palestinian rocket attacks could now spike to 200 a day. Hamas announced that it had sent a rocket toward Askelon; one man in the Israeli town of Netivot, east of the Gaza strip, was killed. Israel also expects Hamas to launch suicide attacks against Israel. A Hamas leader promised as much Saturday.
But Israel is prepared to ratchet up the pressure still further in the hope that it will force a workable ceasefire. Saturday's attack was authorized two days previously, and though no Israeli ground troops have crossed into Gaza so far, that remains an option according to Israeli officials. Dozens of Israeli air force planes remain in the skies above Gaza. "If they retaliate they will feel it stronger and the number [of casualties] on the Gaza side will rise", a senior Israeli military source told TIME.

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Two Palestinian girls killed in Kassam misfire

They even kill their own. But you have to remember that they are considered martyrs by the animalstinians.

Two Palestinian girls were killed Friday when a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists landed short of its Israeli target.
According to witnesses, the girls were immediately killed after sustaining a direct hit. Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moiaya Hassanain identified the two victims as 5-year-old Hanin Abu Khoussa and her 12-year-old cousin, Sabah Abu Khoussa. Three other young people were wounded, Hassanain said.
Hamas announced then that it planned to investigate the incident, which occurred in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya.

Witness describes Gaza attacks

The interview is with an english speaking female animalstinian. She even says that they did not expect Israel to retalliate so strongly. Hmmm? They keep firing rockets into Israel and they did not expect this? Also, keep an eye on the "victims" in the video, try to pick out how many you see with actual blood on them. I saw one. None of the "victims" actually look hurt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7801291.stm

Over 200 reported dead in IAF assault on Gaza

It is about time that they stuck back at the animals launching rockets daily. Still the Israelis are sending in food and fuel. That is just plain stupid. These people are brainwashed from the time they are in kindergarden. They need to be exterminated, just like all muslims.

Now we hear that the IDF has ammassed troops near the border with Gaza. At the same time Perez is saying that Israel will not invade. What they need to do is go in and wipe the palastinians out, every man, woman and future shahid.

Of course "World Leaders" are calling for a halt to the violence. Why do the "World Leaders" say nothing when the arabs launch rockets and mortars into Israel? Hmmmm?

Hamas: We can't believe they actually did it

Their surprise is entirely warranted, with Olmert still in power. In any case, their victimology mill is already grinding into high gear. Watch for staged photos of civilians being hit, coming soon from all the wire services.
"Hamas source: IDF strike unexpected: Organization admits Air Force offensive in Gaza caught its people off guard since no one thought Israel would strike on Shabbat," by Ali Waked for Ynet News, December 27 (thanks to Ruth King):
A Hamas source in Gaza confirmed Saturday that the Israeli Air Force attack on the Gaza Strip, caught the organization completely off guard. Hamas, said the source, did not believe the IDF would launch a strike on Shabbat.
Earlier in the week, many Hamas operative went underground, fearing an Israeli assault, but despite the precautions taken by Hamas, many of its police stations across the Strip were operating as usual, again – believing an Israeli attack will not begin over the weekend.
Hamas spokesman Fauzi Barhum told the media that the organization learned on Friday that Israel was not going to launch any military operation in Gaza. Egypt had recommended Hamas cease all rocket fire immediately, in order to allow Israel to postpone its planned offensive in the Strip.
According to a Hamas source, the organization believed an Israeli offensive would mimic past ones and target Hamas training and other minor facilities, and not offices meant to provide services to the general population.
Among the offices hit were the Gaza passport bureau and the Preventive Security Headquarters.
Hamas further said that the message sent by Israel was one stipulating that that are no more line in the sand, and therefore the organization's would respond accordingly.
Earlier Saturday, Hamas interior minister confirmed that all Hamas infrastructure in the Strip was hit during the string of IAF strikes. The Palestinians further reported that one of the strikes was aimed at a Hamas cadet course readying for its graduation ceremony. According to the Palestinian police spokesman in Gaza, many of the cadets were killed, including Tawfiq Jabar, commander of the Gaza Police.Eyewitnesses reported black smoke towering over the Gaza Harbor, as well as over several building used by Hamas' armed forces in the city. The Palestinian television is broadcasting images of dead bodied across the city, and of the wounded being rushed to medical facilities.Official Palestinian reports estimate 150 people were killed in the strike and 300 injured.

It is about time they hit the arabs. So, does anyone think that the rockets will stop? Not me. The arabs will not stop until they push the Jews into the ocean. This is their stated goal. This was just a set back for them.

Redefining hard intelligence

I love this story. How do you get a muslim male that has multiple wives to sell out his people. Give him a woody of course. Viagra a new tool to fight insurgents.

American intel operations have scored some successes in Afghanistan by helping tribal leaders score some as well. What do you get for the tribal leader that has everything, including multiple wives? A bit of youth in a little blue pill apparently works wonders for friendship — and cooperation:

The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.
Four blue pills. Viagra.
“Take one of these. You’ll love it,” the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.
The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes — followed by a request for more pills.
For U.S. intelligence officials, this is how some crucial battles in Afghanistan are fought and won. While the CIA has a long history of buying information with cash, the growing Taliban insurgency has prompted the use of novel incentives and creative bargaining to gain support in some of the country’s roughest neighborhoods, according to officials directly involved in such operations.

The success of this strategy makes some sense. People seem to think that we toss cash at people, but as Joby Warrick points out in this report, that can quickly compromise sources. People who get large sums of money tend to flash it, and it becomes clear who works with Americans and who terrorists will avoid like the plague in the future.
Intel operatives look for other, less obvious enticements, and few things would be more private in Muslim tribal life than bedroom performance. Many older tribal chiefs have multiple wives but may not have the physical ability to keep pace. Few items would make the kind of impression that Viagra does for men in that position, and it’s highly unlikely that they’d be chatting about it at the mosque. It’s practically designed for the mission.

3 Palestinians held for raping UN worker

Three Palestinian teens were under arrest Thursday for allegedly raping and robbing a 60-year old UNIFIL worker in her east Jerusalem home, police said.
The three suspects, including two minors, were arrested after the woman, who is from a Scandinavian country, filed a complaint with police, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
A fourth suspect remains at large.
The four Palestinians, who are residents of the West Bank and are not connected with the UN institution, are alleged to have carried out the December 4 attack and robbery at the woman's Beit Hanina home.
The two minors were remanded in custody by a Jerusalem court on Thursday for seven days, while the third suspect has been ordered held for eight days, police said.
The police plan to press charges against the suspects when they complete their investigation.

So, this white Infidel was over there helping the poor animalstinians and this is what she gets? Robbed and Raped. She is sixty years old. Was she dressed provacatively? Was she trying to convert muslims to Christianity? Probably not. All muslim men are animals. Two of them are minors. I wonder where they learned to hate Westerners? Israel needs to push all of the arabs out of Gaza, Judea and Sumaria. Let the muslim world take care of them.

Rockets Fired At Israel Ahead Of Aid Transfer

Just hours before a convoy of humanitarian aid was to be sent to the Gaza Strip, Gaza militants Friday fired a barrage of rockets at southern Israel, putting the transfer in jeopardy, media reports said.Five rockets and two mortar rounds were fired before dawn, but caused no casualties, an Israeli military spokesman said. Violence in and around Gaza has flared since a six-month ceasefire ended on December 19, and escalated dramatically Wednesday when nearly 60 rockets and mortars were fired into Israel.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Thursday rejected a call for restraint from Egypt and vowed the Jewish state would strike back at the Hamas rulers of the besieged Palestinian enclave.Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a "last-minute" appeal directly to Gazans to get Hamas leaders to stop the rocket and mortar attacks."Don't let Hamas, which is acting against the values of Islam, put you in danger," he urged. "Stop them. Stop your enemies and ours. Tell them to stop firing on innocent civilians."Meanwhile, it was reported that Israel has begun transferring humanitarian aid into Gaza despite the mortar fire on Israel's southern communities. The army said the first of an expected 90 trucks have started to deliver medicine, fuel, cooking gas and other vital goods to coastal strip. The move comes ahead of an expected Israeli incursion into Gaza to stop rocket launchings from the coastal strip.Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided late Thursday to open the Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings Friday to allow the transfer of humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip as part of its policy of avoiding a humanitarian crisis there.

What is wrong with the Israeli's? They are under fire from the very people that they are sending aid to. They are sending aid as the rockets and mortars are falling. Why? Just let these people starve and die. They are waging jihad against Israel and the West will not believe this.

When older men long for young girls in the name of religion

Muslim men are able to rape very young girls in the name of Islam. This pedophilia began with Old Mo himself taking Ayisha at the age of nine. The age of marrying in Iran and other muslim countries.

Zainab ran away from home, not because she was a rebellious child, a truant or a wayward girl. She was only 12 yeas old, and her parents had accepted her bride price from Alhaji Sabo, a man who was old enough to be her grandfather.
She ran away from home because she did not want to be married off. Zainab wanted to attend school and read to become a lawyer. But her culture and tradition frown on her dreams.
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In Northern Nigeria, especially amongst the traditional Hausa tribe, Zainab at twelve is ripe for marriage.
When Zainab ran away from Home, in protest of her cultural destiny, the leaders of her community cursed this age and time in which we live. Her parents would not fathom Zainab’s reasons for running away from home.
‘Alhaji Sabo was a rich man, he would have taken good care of Zainab and help us out of this poverty,’ her mother lamented.
The Islamic cleric too accused Zainab’s parents of bad child upbringing.
Young girls from the Northern Nigerian tribes are given into marriage at very young ages. Some are given into marriage as early as 11 years. It is believed that the longer a girl is unmarried, the higher the risk of her becoming promiscuous.
Some Islamic clerics say that it is in order to prevent the shame of pregnancy- out of wedlock, that they marry the girls off so early.
According to some Hausa/Islamic traditionalist, pregnancy before marriage remains the worst shame a girl could bring to her family, and to safeguard their honor, a family marries out their young daughter, once they began to develop sexuality.
For most of it, the less privileged families like Zainab’s, marry their daughters off to men with reasonable means of livelihood who can secure better living standards for the young girl and help bail them out of poverty.
Bizarre tradition
This bizarre tradition sees about 30 percent of pre-teen girls of the Hausa tribe of Nigeria given in marriage to much older men. The young girls are married off before they are old enough to get into high school.
This cultural and religious norm of the Hausa people is considered abusive and unhealthy for the child (female child) but it is highly encouraged by the Islamic clerics, parents and state parliamentarians in northern Nigeria.
This long-held cultural values - and poverty - now dictate the futures of most young girls of the Hausa tribe, including Zainab‘s.
Should UNICEF and other NGO’s back-off, or give up on the children (Female children) who have been denied and are being denied their rights to an education, their rights to a healthy life and their rights to protection, amongst other rights of theirs that is being abused under this traditional practice?
UNICEF, UNESCO and every other Organization concerned about children, must continue to find ways to rescue these young girls from such unhealthy practices.
According to some statistics, almost 12 million under fifteen aged girls are denied education because they are married off to satiate older men while their parents hope to gain some financial compensation.
Zainab found
Without education the lives of such girls are reduced to that of dependence and subservience. However, most of the girls who choose to flee their communities in order to avoid early marriage, like Zainab, face another chapter of problems and challenges.
From the torments of early and arranged marriage Zainab was later found on the ravenous streets, where she landed, begging for food and money. She was exposed to rape, sexual exploitation and all forms of danger. Her dream of reading to become a Lawyer could never be realized from the situation she had found herself.
All the twelve year old Zainab wants is a ‘normal’ life.
For the thousands of average Hausa girls facing this non-fictional challenge of legalised paedophilia, the society needs to draw a line between cultural norms and human and rights, between traditional practices and social/civil rights, in the dawn of the growth and development of humanity.

Hamas mocks Israel's nonresponse to Kassams

Islamic Jihad terrorists place rockets before firing them towards Israel on the outskirts of Gaza City.

Hamas on Wednesday remained as defiant as ever and said it would continue to fire rockets at Israel as an act of "self-defense."

Hamas also mocked what it described as the "state of confusion" in Israel over how to react to the latest spree of rocket and mortar attacks.
The movement also claimed that the Egyptians had given Israel a "green light" to launch a limited military operation in the Gaza Strip to overthrow the Hamas government.
"Israel will pay a heavy price for its crimes against the Palestinians," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum. "Israel's actions enhance our determination to pursue the path of resistance through all means available."

Barhoum said that Hamas has placed all its security forces and militias on high alert to thwart an IDF invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The armed wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam, said it would not be deterred by Israel's threats of a military operation. The group also threatened to expand the range of its rockets and missiles so that they would reach more Israeli communities.

"We won't succumb to the logic of threats made by the Zionist war criminals," the group said in a leaflet. "Today we are prepared more than ever to foil any aggression against our people."
The Hamas wing also warned that if Israel carried out its threats it would face a "volcano of fury that would turn the Zionists' tears into blood."
Boasting that it had fired dozens of rockets and mortars at Israeli towns in the past few days, the group pointed out that Israel was "hopeless and desperate" because it doesn't know what to do to stop the attacks.
"The enemy is in a state of confusion and doesn't know what to do," the leaflet read. "Their fragile cabinet has met in a desperate attempt to stop the rockets while thousands of settlers have found refuge in shelters which, by God's will, will become their permanent homes."

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Gaza families eat grass as Israel locks border

As a convoy of blue-and-white United Nations trucks loaded with food waited last night for Israeli permission to enter Gaza, Jindiya Abu Amra and her 12-year-old daughter went scrounging for the wild grass their family now lives on.
"We had one meal today - khobbeizeh," said Abu Amra, 43, showing the leaves of a plant that grows along the streets of Gaza. "Every day, I wake up and start looking for wood and plastic to burn for fuel and I beg. When I find nothing, we eat this grass."
Abu Amra and her unemployed husband have seven daughters and a son. Their tiny breeze-block house has had no furniture since they burnt the last cupboard for heat.
"I can't remember seeing a fruit," said Rabab, 12, who goes with her mother most mornings to scavenge. She is dressed in a tracksuit top and holed jeans, and her feet are bare.
Conditions for most of the 1.5m Gazans have deteriorated dramatically in the past month, since a truce between Israel and Hamas, the ruling Islamist party, broke down.
Israel says it will open the borders again when Hamas stops launching rockets at southern Israel. Hamas says it will crack down on the rocket launchers when Israel opens the borders.
The fragile truce technically ends this Thursday, and there have been few signs it will be renewed. Nobody knows how to resolve the stalemate. Secret talks are under way through Egyptian intermediaries, although both sides deny any contact.
Israel controls the borders and allows in humanitarian supplies only sporadically. Families had electricity for six hours a day last week. Cooking gas was available only through the illegal tunnels that run into Egypt, and by last week had jumped in price from 80 shekels per canister (£14) to 380 shekels (£66).
The U.N., which has responsibility for 1m refugees in Gaza, is in despair. "The economy has been crushed and there are no imports or exports," said John Ging, director of its relief and works agency.
"Two weeks ago, for the first time in 60 years, we ran out of food," he said. "We used to get 70 to 80 trucks per day, now we are getting 15 trucks a day, and only when the border opens. We're living hand to mouth."
He has four days of food in stock for distribution to the most desperate - and no idea whether Israel will reopen the border. The
Abu Amra family may have to eat wild grass for the foreseeable future.


Sure they do. There are many tunnels from Egypt that bring in drugs, cigarettes, food, fuel and even animals for the animalstinians to slaughter the islamic way. Then we here about this crap that they are eating grass. Well, if they were not busy spending their money on RPGs, AK-47s and explosives they could eat better.

WINGEING MIGRANTS GIVEN BIGGER HOUSES

SIX moaning asylum seekers have landed bigger council houses after winning a legal battle with taxpayers’ cash.

The Somalians were given free homes shortly after they arrived in Britain.But they soon complained the accommodation was too small after their families arrived from abroad.One refugee was in a two-bed flat, but a year later was joined here by his wife and six children. Another was also joined by his wife and six children before she gave birth to another child. They took their demands to court – using legal aid cash – after Birmingham council said it had no accommodation left.But yesterday it was revealed they been moved into bigger houses after winning the action. One got a five-bedroom mansion, four got four-bedroom homes and another received a three-bedroom house.Birmingham councillor Malcolm Davis slammed the decision as “unbelievable”.He said: “A two-bedroom flat for one person is over the top already when there is such a chronic shortage. It would appear that the fact they are asylum seekers has helped them qualify for legal aid.”None of the asylum seekers is bel-ieved to be working and all were said to be living off welfare benefits. Migrationwatch chief Sir Andrew Green said: “This may all be perfectly legal but it leaves the long-standing residents of Birmingham aghast at the manipulation of the system.”The council plans to appeal against the ruling at the House of Lords next year.

Spencer: Muslims in the U.S. convicted of jihad, Muslim leaders furious -- at the government

The Fort Dix jihad plotters are guilty, and Muslim spokesmen in America are outraged – not at the plotters who have ostensibly "hijacked" their religion, but at the officials who secured the convictions.
They wanted to burst into Fort Dix and murder as many American soldiers as they could, but it was all a joke, you see: so said Mohamed Younes, president of the American Muslim Union. "I don’t think they actually mean to do anything," he asserted. "I think they were acting stupid, like they thought the whole thing was a joke. They don’t look like the type of people to do something like this."
Unfortunately, Associated Press reporter Wayne Parry doesn’t seem to have followed this up by asking Younes exactly what "the type of people to do something like this" actually do look like. It might have been interesting to see a Muslim leader in the United States engage in what could be regarded as "racial profiling," but it would, of course, have been far too politically incorrect for AP to print.

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024043.php#more

Georgia: Police to get sensitivity training after arrest of headscarf wearer

Victorious

Originally AP reported that "Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said after they arrested her Tuesday." Now, apparently, that policy is out the window, and court officials are in full retreat before the specter of being accused of "racism" and "bigotry."

DOUGLASVILLE, Georgia (CNN) -- The Douglasville Police Department said Monday its officers will undergo "sensitivity and cultural diversity training" after a Muslim woman who refused to remove her head scarf at a courthouse was jailed. Lisa Valentine has been shaken "to her core" by her arrest last week, her lawyer says.
"We never want this to happen again. It's not our intent to embarrass anybody," Police Chief Joe Whisenant said at a news conference.
The judge who had the woman jailed briefly for contempt of court will also take part in the training, Whisenant said.
The incident took place December 16 when Lisa Valentine, who also goes by her Muslim name, Miedah, accompanied her nephew to a hearing at Douglasville's municipal courthouse. The scarf, called a hijab, covered her hair but not her face. It is part of her religious belief that her hair should be covered in public, as a form of modesty.
In an interview with CNN's Rusty Dornin, Valentine said a bailiff told her she could not enter with her head scarf.
"I didn't pose a threat to anybody," Valentine said. "So I got really angry. I told her that was discrimination, and I said it was b.s. -- and I used the full term of the word."
She tried to leave, but the bailiff demanded that she appear before the judge, and pulled on her arm, Valentine said.
"I was right near the door. I said, 'Don't touch me.' And so she got in front of me," Valentine said. "... She called for a guard or a police officer. He came and then he just was near me, and was like, 'You're going to do what you're told to do.'
"And then he grabbed my arm, and of course instinctively I pulled it away. So he's like grabbing me and bending my arm, like you see people who are resisting arrest, and trying to get really physical with me. ... Then I said, 'OK, OK,' and I let them put the handcuffs on me."
Valentine said she would have had no problem with allowing a female officer to check under her head scarf to make sure she did not pose any danger.
Valentine said that when she told the judge what had happened, he sentenced her to 10 days in jail for contempt of court.
At the jail down the street, Valentine had to change into a jumpsuit. Her mug shot was taken -- without her head scarf.
She was let out of jail later that day. Her attorney, M. Khurram Baig, said he does not know why she was released so quickly.
"It's been devastating for her," Baig said. "We're talking about a major life-altering event for somebody to realize that everything they thought they knew about our justice system may not actually be the case. So she's been shook to her core."
Douglasville authorities describe the day's events somewhat differently.
In a news release, police said Valentine repeatedly used the expletive, told the bailiff that the judge was "racist," pointed her finger toward the officer, and "became loud enough that she attracted the attention of another officer."
The news release said an officer did tell Valentine she could not leave, "and placed her hand on Mrs. Valentine's wrist."
"Mrs. Valentine resisted the officer's efforts by stiffening her arm, but did not physically fight with the officer," the release said.
When Judge Keith Rollins was told of the incident, the news release said, he ordered her jailed for 10 days....
When word of the incident spread, groups across the country weighed in on Valentine's behalf, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Civil Liberties Union.
On Friday, about 50 people demonstrated outside the courthouse. Speakers called Valentine's treatment a violation of the Constitution and called for Rollins to step down....

Indian pol: "There is a sinister ploy to link terrorism with Islam"

All right, you "Islamophobes." Knock it off. Stop trying to link Islam with terrorism. Everyone knows there are just as many Methodist terrorists worldwide as there are Islamic terrorists. Just as many Quaker terrorists, just as many Episcopalian terrorists, just as many Baptist terrorists -- what's that? There aren't? The only global network of terrorists justifying their actions by reference to their religion's texts and teachings is Muslim? And only Islam has a developed doctrine, theology and legal system mandating war against and the subjugation of unbelievers?

You mean -- the truth is "Islamophobic"?

"It's sinister to link Islam with terrorism: Pranab," from PTI, December 21:

Kolkata, Dec 21 (PTI) External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said there was a sinister design to link Islam with terrorism.

"There are some scholars who had coined the term Islamic terrorism. Islam is a religion of love and compassion. There is a sinister ploy to link terrorism with Islam," the minister said here at a seminar organised by a city-based trade body.

There may be some socio-economic indicators which may lead to some frustration among some Muslim youths who had gone astray. "These are exceptions," he said.

He described terrorists as the "biggest violators of human rights having no religion or boundary." The minister also strongly endorsed the view of founder president of the trade body Feroze Ali that India was not a 'soft state' and was determined to fight the menace of terrorism.

Saudi court says no to divorce for eight-year-old girl

She has to wait until puberty.

RIYADH (AFP) - A Saudi court has rejected a plea to divorce an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man who is 58, saying the case should wait until the girl reaches puberty, a lawyer involved told AFP.

"The judge has dismissed the plea (filed by the mother) because she does not have the right to file such a case, and ordered that the plea should be filed by the girl herself when she reaches puberty," lawyer Abdullah Jtili told AFP in a telephone interview after Saturday's court decision.
The divorce plea was filed in August by the girl's divorced mother with a court at Unayzah, 220 kilometres (135 miles) north of Riyadh just after the marriage contract was signed by the father and the groom.

"She doesn't know yet that she has been married," Jtili said then of the girl who was about to begin her fourth year at primary school.

Relatives who did not wish to be named told AFP that the marriage had not yet been consummated, and that the girl continued to live with her mother. They said that the father had set a verbal condition by which the marriage is not consummated for another 10 years, when the girl turns 18..

The father had agreed to marry off his daughter for an advance dowry of 30,000 riyals (8,000 dollars), as he was apparently facing financial problems, they said....

Lawyer Jtili said he was going to appeal the verdict at the court of cassation, the supreme court in the ultra-conservative kingdom which applies Islamic Sharia law in its courts.

Arranged marriages involving pre-adolescents are occasionally reported in the Arabian Peninsula, including in Saudi Arabia where the strict conservative Wahabi version of Sunni Islam holds sway and polygamy is common....

Muslim Congressman's Hajj paid for by Muslim Brotherhood front group

The Muslim Brotherhood "must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991.

What does that have to do with Congressman Ellison? Everything. The Muslim American Society paid for his Hajj. And what is the Muslim American Society? The Muslim Brotherhood.
"In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation's major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members." -- Chicago Tribune, 2004.

Imagine if a conservative Congressman had taken a trip that had been paid for by a Christian group that was, according to one of its own documents, dedicated to "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house" so that Christian law would replace the U.S. Constitution.

"Ellison: Hajj was transformative," by Mitch Anderson for the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune, December 18 (thanks to T.K.):

WASHINGTON - There was no fanfare, no press release when Keith Ellison made the pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca last week....
Why not? There should have been a big media circus over it.

While he consulted the State Department over any potential danger, Ellison said, he wasn't worried about his safety. He traveled mainly with fellow members of his Minneapolis mosque; no security guards went along. His expenses were paid for by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.

Ellison said he'd like to make the journey again with his family. His wife is not a Muslim, but their four children are being raised as Muslims....
The Star Tribune doesn't mention that non-Muslims aren't allowed into Mecca, so that what Ellison is saying is that he wants to convert his wife to Islam and then go on the Hajj with her.

Minnesota Islamic center, imam implicated in Somalis' leaving U.S. to join jihad in Somalia

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The FBI and members of the Minneapolis Somali community say they want to know what happened to several Somalis who have disappeared during the past few months.

Many people in the Twin Cities said they suspect the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center and its iman [sic] are influencing Somali youth to become jihadists in an Islamic holy war overseas, or possibly in the United States, a charge the mosque denies, USA Today reported Friday.

"They are very powerful, whoever got into his mind and got him to do this," says the grandmother of one person who disappeared and eventually called her from Somalia. "We were forced out of our country one time. We don't want to be forced out of here."
Community activist Abdizirak Bihi says all of the youth who disappeared were raised by single mothers and spent a lot of time at the mosque.

"We are wanting the government and politicians to investigate who is responsible for sending our kids and we are requesting the American government to help us to get back our kids." Bihi said.
FBI Special Agent E.K. Wilson of the Minneapolis office wouldn't tell USA Today whether his agency is investigating the mosque, but said the agency knows that Muslims have been going overseas to fight.

"We're aware that a number of Somali men have traveled from around the United States, including Minneapolis, to potentially fight overseas," Wilson said.

The OIC calls on the media to suppress the truth

On 2 December 2008, the General Secretariat of the OIC released a statement that is utterly breathtaking in its duplicity. The statement is entitled “Islam, the Religion of peace, tolerance and compassion”. It begins:

“With the multiplicity of terrorist attacks perpetrated recently by deviant and fanatic individuals, the General Secretariat of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has noticed a tendency of a section of the media, to interpose the word “Islam” in reporting these incidences.”

“Noted a tendency”? Whyever could this possibly be? Could it perhaps be because the terrorists shout “Allahu Akbar!” when launching their attacks? Or leave video testimonies calling for all Muslims to join them in a Holy War against the infidel while calling for the establishment of a global caliphate? Might this perhaps have misled some commentators into believing that these “deviant and fanatic individuals” have something to do with Islam? Or, perhaps they have been misled by the slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood, “Death in the path of Allah is the greatest glory,” into thinking that Allah has something to do with Islam.

The OIC statement continues:

“Islam, the religion of peace, tolerance and compassion, that sanctifies the human soul, and whose universal message is one of mutual peaceful coexistence among all the peoples of the world, regardless of their ethnicities, race, religions, and which calls for kind reasoning and dialogue with all their fellow human beings, abhors and despises all such criminal acts and had enacted the utmost severe punishment for their perpetrators.

”But peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims only ever applies as long as they show their submission to Islam by paying the jizya, protection money, and accept their state of dhimmitude, and maybe not even then. Evidence the million Jews who have been forced from their homes in Arab lands and the 400,000 Christians who have been driven from Iraq by Islamists (who of course have nothing to do with Islam) since the American-led invasion.

The Terrorist Training Manual

The biggest problem in our world today is this book. It is the koran. Made up by mohammed back in 7th century arabia. It is a book that is about arab supremacy. It is amazing to see how many people convert to this horrible ideology and then take up arms against family and country. This book tells muslims not to take non-muslims, kafirs, as friends. It allows men to marry upto four women and divorce any of them by stating "I divorce thee" three times. If they want to get remarried, the woman must marry another man, sleep with him, wait the three months waiting period to prove she is not pregnant, have the other guy divorce her and then they may remarry. A man may marry a baby, just not have sex with her until she is old enough. In the muslim world, old enough is nine. These are just a few of the goodies in the muslim "holy" book.