U.S. Defense Secretary: Swat-style Afghan truce acceptable

For the record, "Swat-style" truce refers to the recent capitulation of the Pakistani government when it gave in to the Taliban's demands to enforce sharia law -- which is, after all, the ultimate motivation of jihadis everywhere. More troubling is the fact that, according to this report, NATO hopes to begin relying on Iran to stabilize Afghanistan, not "immediately," of course, but "at a certain stage" -- you know, some time after Barack and Hillary have endeared the entire Muslim world to the West, and all these silly misunderstandings, suspicions, and jihadi blood-lust just go away.

Gates says political reconciliation has to be part of long-term solution

KRAKOW: Washington could accept a political agreement between the Afghan government and Taliban along the lines of the truce in Pakistan, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.

Gates’ comments at the close of a NATO meeting contrasted with those of Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, who said he was worried that the peace deal was tantamount to surrender by Pakistan.

“We have said all along that ultimately some sort of political reconciliation has to be part of the long-term solution in Afghanistan,” Gates said.

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said at the defence meeting that a broader regional approach was needed to help put down the insurgency in Afghanistan. The focus would be on more involvement from Pakistan, but could include Iran one day, he said.

He said the suggestion does not mean that NATO plans to enter into dialogue with Iran immediately but that Tehran could be involved “at a certain stage ... in a regional approach toward Afghanistan”.

Gates told reporters in Krakow, southern Poland, later that up to 20 nations have offered to boost their civilian or military commitments to Afghanistan and more are likely to do so soon.

The Paki's have lost all control of their country. The have now let the Taliban have their way in the northwest territories. The jihadis will soon have nukes. This is not good. Now we are talking about allowing the same thing in Afghanistan? Isn't this what we destroyed in Afghanistan? And people say that I am crazy for believing Obama is a muslim. His actions are proving me correct.

Cute kid in football jersey wants a place to pray; what could be wrong?

This is the kind of story that is designed to tug on the heartstrings: here is a good boy, a pious boy, and all he wants is a few minutes out of the school day to fulfill his religious obligations, but the soulless wheels of bureaucracy turn in vain, and the whole thing has become a snafu. Why do things have to be this complicated? Can't you just let the boy pray?

Unfortunately, however, there are other issues involved. The ACLU has been working for decades to keep Christian prayer out of public schools. Now, as you can see in this article, school officials are anxious to be accommodating of Muslim prayer in this public school. The bottom line is that policies should be formulated and enforced consistently; the fact that Islam has obligatory prayer at specified times and Christianity does not should not become a pretext to allow Muslim students privileges in public schools that Christian students do not have.

WAYNE — Rola Awwad wants a private space for her 10-year-old son at Albert Payson Terhune Elementary School to exercise his right to Muslim prayer.

The school district had offered to let him pray at recess — either outside or in a classroom while classmates are there. And that, says Awwad, is "unacceptable."

All students are constitutionally guaranteed the right to pray during the school day as long as it doesn't interfere with learning. But Wayne is struggling with what accommodations to make if a Muslim student requests privacy for prayer.

The answer in other North Jersey districts ranges from providing access to the principal's office, to providing a spare room. But school administrators in suburban Wayne have been weighing the question since fall, when Awwad asked the principal to allow her son, Adam, a few minutes of privacy each afternoon to pray.

The district says it's concerned about allowing a young pupil to be unsupervised, even for a short time, and Awwad said her request was met with resistance.

"Why can't he be on his own for five minutes praying?" said Awwad, a Palestinian who moved to the United States from Jordan 11 years ago.

Read it all:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024959.php#respond

This is another example of sharia creep. He is just a little boy that needs a place to pray by himself. What ever happened to the separation of church and state that the ACLU uses against the Christians and Jews? Why is islam the protected religion that is good for all public school children to be exposed to?

British Muslims providing Taliban with electronic devices for roadside bombs to kill British troops

With fellow countrymen like these, who needs enemies?

Electronic devices such as "mobile phones filled with explosives, which could kill or seriously injure British soldiers patrolling on foot, and more sophisticated devices that can be used against military vehicles." Quite ingenious these British Muslims; combining their Western heritage (e.g.., technology) with their jihadi blood-lust, they can sure be quite creative.

British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs for use in attacks against British forces serving in southern Afghanistan, The Telegraph can disclose.
The devices, which enable Taliban fighters to detonate roadside bombs by remote control, are either sent to sympathizers in the region, or carried by volunteers who fly to Pakistan and then make their way across the border.

Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier this week.

In a briefing on British operations in southern Afghanistan by Brigadier Gordon Messenger, the Royal Marine commander of the British battlegroup, Mr Miliband was shown examples of the crude, home-made devices that are being used in attacks against British patrols.

They included mobile phones filled with explosives, which could kill or seriously injure British soldiers patrolling on foot, and more sophisticated devices that can be used against military vehicles.

Explosives experts who have examined the devices say they have found British-made electronic components that enable Taliban insurgents to detonate their home-made, road-side bombs by remote control.
The electronic devices smuggled into Afghanistan from Britain range from basic remote control units that are normally used to fly model airplanes to more advanced components that enable insurgents to conduct attacks from up to a mile away from British patrols.

"We have found electronic components in devices used to target British troops that originally come from Britain," a British explosives officer told Mr Miliband during a detailed briefing on the type of improvised explosive device (IED) used against British forces.

When asked how the components had reached Afghanistan, the officer explained that they had either been sent from Britain, or physically brought to Afghanistan by British Muslims who had flown over.

The disclosure is the latest in a string of suggestions from British commanders about the connections between British Muslims and violence in Afghanistan...

The koran, the terrorist training manual, makes it obligatory for all muslims to wage jihad in whatever way that they are able. Some will go and fight, others will fund it and others will enable it with supplies. This is one of the reasons the West needs to ban islam and deport all muslims. If they have citizens convert, they must be stripped of their citizenship. We also need to change the interpretation of the fourteenth amendment so children of illegals are not considered citizens of the US by birth.

Norway: Islamic Council says female agents shouldn't arrest men

Norway: Islamic Council says female agents shouldn't arrest men

Female Muslim police agents should primarily not arrest men, thinks imam Ahmed Esmaili, head of the imam committee at the Islamic Council of Norway (IRN).

"If she must arrest, and she is alone or together with other women, then she can do it. But if she is together with other colleague, who can take this part of the work, she isn't required to do it," says Esmaili to VG.

The reason being that Muslims shouldn't have physical contact with people of the opposite sex who are not family.

According to justice minister Knut Storberget's (Labor) letter to the police directorate 'covering of the hair will be given a humble scope'. That's not enough, thinks Esmaili.

"It's not enough with just a headscarf. Hijab is a garment which covers the entire body, except the hands and face. It's an obligation and a decree from Allah," says Esmaili.

Then go live in a country that really cares about your religion. If this is so important, don't be a cop.

Hey EU wake up. You give them a millimeter they want a kilometer.

Pennsylvania: Muslim students intimidate Jewish classmates, but attempts to take action lead only to calls for "education" and "dialogue"

In any event, the ban on kaffiyeh headscarves came as "an attempt to diffuse tension between Jewish and Muslim students, after three students wore shirts to school saying 'RIP Israel'."

The men in the picture above are wearing kaffiyehs. You can see what they are used for. They are the symbol of jihad and Jew hating.

Wearing the scarves was politically motivated, and designed to intimidate. But no, those scarf-bereft students are the real victims here. Victims of bitter headscarf-phobes clinging to guns and religion. "Pennsylvania High School Rescinds Ban on Muslim Scarves," by Diane Macedo for Fox News, February 18:

A Pennsylvania high school is permitting Muslim students to wear scarves known as kaffiyehs in school just a day after ordering two students to remove them for class.

Gateway High School officials met with parents Wednesday after seniors Mohammad Al-Abbasi, 18, and Ahmad Al-Sadr, 17, left school Tuesday after refusing to take off the checkered scarves, believed by some to be a symbol of terrorism.

District spokeswoman Cara Zanella told FOXNews.com the ban was an attempt to diffuse tension between Jewish and Muslim students, after three students wore shirts to school saying "RIP Israel."

The students removed the shirts when ordered to do so but the incident led to a petition from Jewish students saying they felt threatened, Zanella said.

A student then wrote an article in one of the local newspapers about Muslim dress, reportedly caling the scarves "hate" clothing.

"As a result then the tensions started to escalate between the two factions," Zanella said. "So the principal went back to the students and said, 'We're trying to get everyone on the same page here. Could you agree not to wear the scarves for the time being because the tensions are escalating?'"

The students agreed and complied until the incident Tuesday.

In response the principal gathered the students in question Wednesday along with parents, school officials and a number of faith based organizations to find a resolution to the matter.

"It was agreed upon today in the meeting that the students would be allowed to wear the scarves," Zanella said. "They also wanted the students to speak in a group session with one another — the 35 Jewish students that signed the letter to the principal, the students who were wearing the scarves, and the student that did the article."

"I think everyone there recognized there's some tensions in the school and also amongst the community,” Al-Abbas’s mother Loretta Riggs told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. “We recognize the need for further education and further dialogue. We were very happy that the school district acknowledged this. They're willing to hold such future dialogues."

So, arab students wear hateful tshirts and are told to take them off. They then come back with the headscarves that are even worst. The pricipal gets everyone together and now everyone is happy. Sure. They were definately trying to intimidate the Jewish kids. We need to keep muslims from coming to this country and deport the ones already here.

Muslim with suicide bomber vest arrested in secular, moderate Kosovo, where there is no jihad

A Kosovo Albanian from the city of Kacanik has been arrested in a cafe in the southern village of Strpce in Serbia’s province of Kosovo report police spokesman Arber Beka.

The arrested Albanian wore a suicide vest loaded with explosives.

He was arrested in the cafe called Kvatro around 8:00 pm today. Police and NATO troops have surrounded the perimeter and are investigating.

The arrest came after a cafe patron spotted that one of the three Albanians who just walked into the cafe had wires under his jacket.

The police was immediately called in and after a search, the police found explosive in a suicide vest on the body of Arben Husi, one of the 3 ethnic Albanians who came into the cafe.

In addition to the explosives, the police found a grenade and a Kalashnikov....

I remember the good old days when the Serbs had the muslim issue under control. They realized that the only peaceful muslim is one that is dead and they were working towards that goal. Then Bill Clinton needed a war to get Monica out of the picture. He got rid of Milosevich and they gave this Christian country to the muslims. The muslims are getting money and help from the Saudi's.

UK: Muslim preacher calls for people who get drunk to be flogged

Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary has called for people who get drunk to be flogged.

The lawyer, who recently praised the Mumbai terror attacks, said anyone becoming intoxicated by alcohol should be given 40 lashes in public. He claimed alcohol was "the root of all evil".

The 41-year-old made the remarks on his website Islam4UK, which argues that Britain should become an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law....

He wrote: "Under Islam, all harmful intoxicants will be banned unequivocally, regardless of their classification or their profitability in retail marketing.

"The Final Messenger Muhammad condemned the manufacturing, transporting, retailing and consuming of alcoholic beverages over 1,400 years ago and equated it with being one of the roots of all evils.

"Islam additionally imposes 40 lashes in public for deliberate intoxication, followed by 80 lashes in public if repeated for a second time."

Mr Choudary argued that alcohol should be "removed from society".

He also wrote that everything would be "sound" and "put right" if Sharia law was introduced in the UK, adding: "Islam is undeniably the only real solution for Britain's problems."

It is not the only real solution, but it is going to be a reality if these idiots don't wake up and deport or jail people like this. Better yet someone needs to kill him. Let him be a martyr and go hang out with allah and Old Mo.

"Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" gets $3,600 from European Court of Human Rights

"Qatada issued a 1995 fatwa or religious edict justifying the killing of converts from Islam, their wives and children in Algeria. In a 1999 sermon he called for the killing of Jews and praised attacks on Americans." Pay some more money, Eurodhimmis!

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has been awarded 2,500 pounds (3,600 dollars) in compensation by the European Court of Human Rights. The court's judges ruled on Thursday that his detention without trial in the United Kingdom under anti-terrorism laws had breached his human rights.

After his arrest last year, he was subjected to a domestic curfew and then detained in London's Belmarsh high security prison.

On Wednesday, the upper house of the British parliament , sitting as Britain's highest court, unanimously ruled that Abu Qatada could be deported from the UK to his native Jordan where he faces jail for terrorism....

The 48-year-old cleric, once described by a judge as 'Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe' is still in London's Belmarsh prison. Britain's interior ministry has long campaigned for Qatada's deportation....

Rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch criticised the Brtitish ruling, saying there was a real risk that Qatada would be tortured.

Qatada was first arrested in the wake of Al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on the United States amid allegations that he was one of the most influential Islamist preachers in Europe.

The Jordanian father-of-five, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, claimed asylum when he arrived in Britain in September 1993 on a forged passport.

Qatada issued a 1995 fatwa or religious edict justifying the killing of converts from Islam, their wives and children in Algeria.

In a 1999 sermon he called for the killing of Jews and praised attacks on Americans. The same year, Qatada was convicted in his absence of planning terrorist attacks in Jordan.

This guy just needs a good killing. Why are they keeping him in the UK?

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.

Hitchens on Iranians

"Estimates differ, but it seems quite plausible that Iran will be able to make some such announcement before the end of this year. That would mean that all international agreements, all negotiations with bodies like the European Union, all "inspections" by the International Atomic Energy Agency had been, in effect, farcical and void. It would mean being laughed at by the mullahs in the here and now. And it would involve, for the rest of the future, having to treat them with exaggerated politeness. What a wonderful world that would be."

Iran had two earth quakes in a remote area over the last year and a half. These could have been underground nuclear tests. They have launched many rockets and destroyed them in midflight. They now put a satelite in space. I just read an assessment from Israel that they could be just wanting to use an EMP, electromagnetic pulse, to destroy all of the electronics in whatever country that they choose to explode the warhead over. Israel first? I hope so. That would give us time to kill every muslim in the US. It would also let us nuke every muslim in the middle east. If it is the US first, all bets are off for any muslim staying alive in the US. And I hope to hell we just decide to blow the shit out of the middle east. Kill every muslim.

CAIR gave award to moderate Muslim who beheaded his wife

Moderate Beheading Update: "Muzzammil Hassan receives award from CAIR-PA Chairman Iftekhar Hussain and CAIR National Chairman Parvez Ahmed."

Of course, CAIR didn't know he was going to behead his wife. But if, say, Geert Wilders had given an award to some anti-jihadist who ended up beheading his wife, do you think the media would have been as indifferent as they have been in this case?

Of course CAIR will not say a word about this good muslim.

Gitmo detainee: "I do pose a threat to the United States and its allies.... I am a Muslim jihadist"

"But despite his statements and some potential evidence — he was captured with a bag of various currencies and passports from several countries — some legal experts say it may be difficult for the United States to bring charges against him under the law as it stood in 2001."

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — In a small room at Guantanamo Bay, plain white except for an American flag hung on the wall, Abdul al Rahman al Zahri sat shackled in front of three military officers at a hearing to determine whether he continued to pose a threat to the United States and its allies.

Zahri, a Yemeni captured in Afghanistan in 2001, was clear on that point. “I do pose a threat to the United States and its allies,” he said, according to a transcript of the 2006 hearing. “I admit to you it’s my honor to be an enemy of the United States. I am a Muslim jihadist, and I’m defending my family and my honor.”

Zahri may have been unambiguous about his state of mind, but the question of whether he can be charged with any crime is murkier. Complicating matters for the administration is the fact that he has made sometimes flatly contradictory statements about his loyalties, at one point condemning bin Laden as a “heretic.”

Zahri said he heard the call to jihad outside a mosque in Yemen in early 2001, and he decided to go to Afghanistan as a trainee to eventually fight Russian forces in Chechnya, according to military documents. Within a week, he met bin Laden at an al-Qaida guesthouse, one of 10 meetings that military officials allege he had with terrorist leaders.

“The detainee stated he attended a meeting prior to 11 September 2001 in which an upcoming operation was discussed,” according to military documents.

We need to just kill these guys when we find them. I say cut off their heads and video tape it. Put it on Islamictube. Yes there is an Islamictube. The HNIC is planning on closing GITMO. I honestly hope DC or San Fransisco get hit. I also hope that this stimulus bill fails. 2010 is the year that the Republicans can take back both the house and the senate.

"Jailhouse Islam" claims another cop's life

Senselessly murdered by a prison convert to Islam

PHILADELPHIA - The fact that Rasheed Scrugs allegedly announced he was going to kill a cop and then shot Philadelphia Police Officer John Pawlowski with a gun hidden inside his coat pocket has detectives digging deeper on Scrugs.

They're still gathering evidence and trying to unravel why Friday night's senseless murder happened, Fox 29's Dave Schratwieser reported.

"Pawlowski didn't stand a chance," Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Monday, as Philadelphia continued to reel over the killing.

A key witness went public Monday with the chilling words he heard the gunman say before the shooting.

"If you call the cop, I'll kill you and kill the cop," said Manuel Dias, who works in a newsstand at Broad Street and Olney Avenue, repeating what he told detectives.

Police believe Scrugs planned to shoot officers when they answered a 911 call about a fight on the highway at Broad and Olney at 8:20 p.m."This individual was very violent and was bent on killing someone," Ramsey said.[...]

Ramsey told Fox 29 News that police are now trying to determine if Scrugs -- who also goes by the alias Rasheed Abdulghaffer -- may have converted to a radical form of "jailhouse Islam" during his years in prison.

It is time to prevent any dawa in prisons. They need to segregate any and all muslims from the general population. We also need to keep any and all muslim imams from going into the prisons and converting these criminals to the death cult of islam.

Lovers caught in Malaysia's anti-Valentine drive

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Authorities in Malaysia arrested 26 unmarried Muslim couples in hotel rooms during Operation Valentine - aimed at curbing illegal premarital sex in this conservative country, an officer said Monday.

The couples, most under 30 years old, were detained for sharing rooms early Sunday in the beachside town of Kuantan in eastern Pahang state, said Badaruddin Ahmad Bustami, enforcement assistant director with the state's Islamic department.

State authorities carry out raids each year on Valentine's Day in this Muslim-majority country, where sharia laws make it illegal for unmarried Muslims to meet behind closed doors, Badaruddin said. Doing so constitutes a crime known as "khalwat," or "close proximity," which carries a maximum fine of 1,000 ringgit (US$280) and up to six months in prison.

The sharia laws apply only to Malaysia's Muslims, not to Christian and Hindu citizens who together make up about 40 percent of the population.

Badaruddin said the couples were released but may be charged later with khalwat.

"We don't agree with Muslim couples celebrating Valentine's Day because it's not Malay culture," he said. "Every Valentine's Day, many couples come here and they commit big mistakes under Islam."

Vaccines Spark Controversy In Nigeria

LAGOS, Nov 6 (IPS) - The government of Nigeria has rushed health workers to Daramba, a village on the border with Niger, following an outbreak of whooping cough - one of the six main killer diseases for children.

Health officials blame the outbreak on the attitude of villagers who have shunned routine immunisation. "The people of the area often reject immunisation on the grounds that it is not safe," says one health official, who refused to be named.

The villagers have latched onto a statement by a popular medical doctor in the northern state of Kano who has openly condemned the immunisation programme. Dr Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, a respected figure in northern Nigeria, which is predominantly Muslim, claims the vaccines could cause infertility and AIDS.

About 80 children in Daramba have been infected with whooping cough. The village also has recorded two cases of polio this year.

Ahmed, who is also a member of the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria, declared earlier this year that the vaccines being administered to children contained anti-fertility agents. He called for their suspension until they were fully investigated by competent authorities, and found to be safe.

His theory is shared by Abdul Hakeem, chair of the Lagos State chapter of the Movement for Islamic Culture and Awareness. Although Islam is not against immunisation, Hakeem says, there are concerns in the Muslim community that it is being used for an alleged plot by the United States to reduce the population of developing countries.

''We live in a society where anything goes. We read about how HIV/AIDS was transmitted through vaccination. Muslims are concerned about the actions of the United States on Muslim countries across the world. Muslims fear what the United States can do with such vaccines," Hakeem told IPS.

If only we did start the AIDS epidemic. One that would only go after muslims would have been better. The one thing we really do need to do is thin the heard of muslims. I think nuclear, biological or chemical weapons are a better idea.

Livni: "We need to give up half of the Land of Israel"

The Land-for-Peace delusion never seems to die, no matter how often it is made clear that jihadists will take advantage of any concession by Israel to strengthen their position further, and that they will continue to press on until Israel as a whole is obliterated. As the Hamas Charter says, quoting Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan Al-Banna: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."

JERUSALEM – Tzipi Livni, who hopes to be appointed Israel's prime minister-designate, said Monday Israel must give up considerable territory in exchange for peace with the Palestinians, drawing a clear distinction with her rival, Benjamin Netanyahu.

She told a convention of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations, "we need to give up half of the Land of Israel," using a term that refers to biblical borders that include today's Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.

She explained that such a withdrawal would be for the good of Israel, to maintain it as a Jewish state....

This brainless wonder is one of those liberals that want to roll over and take it up the ass from the muslims that want to kill her and every other Jew in the world. Why? She does look stupid.

Afghanistan: 20-year prison sentence for Qur'an translation upheld on appeal

KABUL (AP) — An appeals court in Afghanistan upheld 20-year prison sentences Sunday for two men who published a translation of the Quran that drove religious leaders to call for their execution.

The controversial text is a translation of Islam's holy book into an Afghan language without the original Arabic verses alongside. Muslims regard the Arabic Quran as words given directly by God. A translation is not considered a Quran itself, and it is believed a mistranslation could warp God's word.

A host of Muslim clerics in this conservative Islamic state have condemned the translation — which was published in 2007 and handed out for free — as blasphemous and accused its publishers of setting themselves up as false prophets.

Critics have said the trial illustrates the undue influence of hard-line clerics in Afghanistan's fledgling legal system.

The appeals court found the men guilty of modifying the Quran — a crime punishable by death.

I just love this one. No translation into arabic in the margins and they get to die? My koran is from CAIR and is only in English. The world's language for just about everything.