Hizbullah Responsible For Gaza Rocket Attacks

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's military has determined that Hizbullah wasfinancing Palestinian missile and rocket strikes from the Gaza Strip.Military intelligence has assessed that Hizbullah was equipping andfinancing Palestinian gunners to launch missiles, mortars and rockets intoIsrael. The assessment said the Hizbullah campaign was in contrast toefforts by the Hamas regime to achieve a lull in the war with Israel."Hizbullah and Iran want to use the Gaza Strip as a lever toweaken Israel," a military intelligence source said. "The fact that this isnot in Hamas's interests right now means nothing to Teheran."

Arab League says terrorism and Islam are different

Because Islam "is a religion that calls for love, tolerance, and civilized coexistence," you see. Yet they once again seem to be less concerned about the Muslims who clearly aren't interested in love, tolerance, and civilized coexistence -- and explain why they aren't using Islamic texts and teachings -- than they are in the unbelievers who have the bad taste to notice.

VIENNA, April 24 (KUNA) -- The Arab League called for differentiating between terrorism and Islam, which is a religion that calls for love, tolerance, and civilized coexistence.

Hold on, love, tolerance and civilized coexistence? I have read the whole book. It is full of hate and segragation, and zero tolerance.

Arab League Secretary General's Advisor for Legal Affairs Mohammad Ridhwan Bin Khadhra, at the 18th meeting of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) held here, said that the killing of civilians was rejected by religions and international conventions.

He said it was important to combat terrorism, deal with its reasons, and differentiate between it and people's right to fight invaders and external aggression.

In other words, the West must abandon Israel.

He called for holding an international conference under the supervision of the UN, or a special UN General Assembly meeting on terrorism, and urged the international community to approve the UN draft agreement on the issue....

The way the UN is now, such a conference would criminalize any discussion of Islamic jihad in connection with terrorism.

Muslim who called for engagement with Muslim Brotherhood to advise White House

Mogahed, along with John Esposito, cooked the results of a Gallup survey of Muslims to increase the number of "moderates."

Mogahed was also a member of U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, which called for engagement with Muslim Brotherhood.

The Muslim Brotherhood is dedicated, in its own words, to "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."

CAIRO - The first Muslim woman appointed to a position in President Barack Obama’s administration met with lawmakers Monday and discussed her role on an interfaith advisory board the new administration hopes will broaden dialogue and understanding.

Dalia Mogahed’s dimpled smile shined from under her hijab, the Muslim headscarf, as she addressed senate staff and think tanks at a meeting organized by the Congressional Muslims Staffers Association to discuss American Muslim public opinion in the wake of a recent survey.

"The key idea of the council is to tap into the energy and wisdom of religious organisations and leaders who focus on faith groups to solve common problems "Dalia Mogahed, White House advisor

The Egyptian-born American who heads the Gallup American Center for Muslim Studies a non-governmental research center providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world, became the first Muslim veiled woman to be appointed to a position in the White House.

"I am very honored to be given this opportunity to serve my country in this way," Mogahed, who will be Obama's window into the Muslim American community, told AlArabiya.net....

This is a hard liner that has no place in the government, but since Obama is really a muslim I can see why it has happened.

The next generation of the world’s most dangerous terrorists will be born, indoctrinated, and trained in Pakistan

There's one particularly disturbing aspect to this very likely scenario: “The geographic proximity of Pakistan’s nuclear programme to these sophisticated terrorists and the recent history of illicit transfers of material and know-how pose a unique threat.”

Report says fragile state institutions, weak leadership and inadequate resources limit ability of Islamabad to fight militancy.

LAHORE: If Talibanisation of Pakistan continues at the current pace, the next generation of the world’s most dangerous terrorists will be born, indoctrinated, and trained in Pakistan, the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think tank, warned on Tuesday.

“Today, Al Qaeda’s top leadership is most likely based in Pakistan, along with the top Taliban leaders,” the report – titled From AfPak to PakAf: A Response to the New US Strategy for South Asia – said.[...]

Groups like the banned Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, according to the report, are well resourced and interconnected and some of these appear to retain influence in state institutions and enjoy public sympathy on account of social services.

It says over the past two years, the security environment in Afghanistan and Pakistan has taken a significant turn for the worse destabilising the Pashtun belt in southern and eastern Afghanistan as well as western Pakistan.

“At the same time, a range of other violent actors from Punjabi anti-Indian extremists to Central Asian warlords-operate in the non-Pashtun areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan,” according to the report, adding Pakistan and Afghanistan offer these groups an unusually hospitable environment, one that complicates and magnifies the danger.

The report by Daniel Markey also says that: “The geographic proximity of Pakistan’s nuclear programme to these sophisticated terrorists and the recent history of illicit transfers of material and know-how pose a unique threat.”

The report concludes that fragile state institutions, weak leadership, and inadequate resources limit the ability of Islamabad and Kabul to fight militancy in the near term or to foster moderation.

If you think Iran with nukes is bad, this is worst.

Pakistani jihad leader wants Sharia "even in America"

He said it. And Muslim Khan also mentioned the need to collect jizya payments from the dhimmis.

MINGORA/LAHORE/NEW DELHI: Swat Taliban have said they are not bound to honour the peace accord between the government and cleric Sufi Muhammad, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.

According to the channel, they said the NWFP government had signed the deal with Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi, and not with the Taliban.

Taliban sharia: Although there was no official confirmation, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan issued a direct challenge to the legitimacy of Pakistan’s government in a telephone interview with the CNN, by demanding the imposition of the Taliban’s model of sharia throughout Pakistan and beyond, “even in America”.

Disagree: He also denounced any Pakistanis who disagreed with his interpretation of Islam, calling them “non-Muslims”. He also called for the imposition of jiziya, a tax to be levied on all non-Muslims in Pakistan....

As per Qur'an 9:29.

They want sharia all over the world. That is why we need to kill them all. They will never stop. But if they are all dead we will have no more problems.

Muhammad cartoons editor: There's a problem with Muslims in Europe

Flemming Rose, culture editor of Danish paper that published cartoons of Muslim prophet which led to riots, says clashes were attempt by Muslims to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim countries. He tells Ynet way to fight intolerance is by freedom of expression, not by limiting it.

Flemming Rose, culture editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten which published 12 cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad in 2005 that led to an outbreak of riots in the Muslim world in which over 50 people were killed, says he feels no remorse for his decision – but could not give a straight answer as to whether he would do it again.

Rose is currently in Israel as guest of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In an interview with Ynet on Tuesday he said, "If I said I wouldn't do it again, it would send a very bad message to those who committed crimes and intimidations, and would in fact be telling them: If you keep this up, we will do whatever you want.

"If I do say that I would publish the cartoons again, in light of what happened, people will think I am cynical and don't consider the repercussions of my actions. It's like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a revealing shirt for a Friday night out."

The crisis that was dubbed "the Muhammad cartoons controversy", broke out in two rounds.

The first was in 2006, after Muslim clerics spoke out against the publication of the 12 Muhammad cartoons in Denmark. The second time was in February 2008, after no less than 18 different newspapers published the most famous of the drawings, that depicted the prophet with a bomb in his turban, in response to a foiled attempt on the lives of the illustrators...

There is a problem with every muslim. Nothing new here.

Gays are tortured and then killed in Iraq....

Now if you think water boarding, making someone cold or hot, keeping them away, in awkward positions is torture. You are wrong. Read what a real torture is. And for no other reason than being gay.

"A prominent Iraqi human rights activist says that Iraqi militia have deployed a painful form of torture against homosexuals by closing their anuses using 'Iranian gum.' ... Yina Mohammad told Alarabiya.net that, 'Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus.' According to her, the new substance 'is known as the American hum, which is an Iranian-manufactured glue that if applied to the skin, sticks to it and can only be removed by surgery. After they glue the anuses of homosexuals, they give them a drink that causes diarrhea. Since the anus is closed, the diarrhea causes death. Videos of this form of torture are being distributed on mobile cellphones in Iraq.' According to this human rights activist, for the past 3 weeks a crackdown on homosexuals has been going on based on a religious decree that demands their death; dozens have been targeted. She says that the persecution of homosexuals is not confined to the Shiite clerics. Some Sunni leaders have also declared the death penalty for sodomy on satellite channels."

Obama refuses to meet with Netanyahu

He bowed to the Saudi King. He wants to meet with the Thug-In-Chief. He called Hugo Chavez "my friend." But Barack Obama has apparently refused to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday canceled his plans to attend the upcoming AIPAC summit, after it became clear that US President Barack Obama would not meet him during the conference.

Netanyahu announced that while he will not attend the conference in person, he will send a video-taped message to Washington....

I hate Obama. He is clearly a muslim. He will meet with the terrorists in Iran, Gaza and other places, but not Netanyahu.

Al Qaeda Calls for attack on Jerusalem

(IsraelNN.com) While the eyes of the world are focused on the Durban II racism conference in Geneva, the international al-Qaeda terrorist organization issued a new call for an attack on Israel.

The deputy al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, urged the group's Iraqi followers to sneak the borders and "liberate" Jerusalem in a new recording posted on the As-Sahab terrorist internet website on Monday.

Osama bin Laden's deputy also slammed Egypt for brokering talks between the Palestinian Authority's Hamas terrorist organization and its rival Fatah faction.

The talks are aimed at bringing the two groups together in hopes of rebuilding a PA unity government – a goal which has proven elusive thus far.

The Egyptian-born terrorist insisted in Monday's harangue, however, that the negotiations were actually intended to pressure Hamas into recognizing the State of Israel, which he warned the group not to do. He also called on PA Arabs to attack Israelis and their allies outside the country.

"If circumstances were difficult in one place they are easier in other places," he proclaimed. "Our enemies, crusaders and Jews are scattered everywhere."...

I love to hear these muslims use the term crusaders. I think what is needed is a modern day Crusades.

Man kills sister, niece, for "honor"

In Pakistan. "The accused, who had presented himself before the police after committing the crime, told the police that he had admonished the victims repeatedly but they turned a deaf ear to his advice." Evidently he thinks this sort of thing is exculpatory, the way Islamic jihadists start talking about the terrible provocations to which they have been subjected, and grievances they have, whenever anyone says something about, say, 9/11.

A MAN shot dead his sister and niece on suspicion in the Green Town police limits on Monday. Police said accused Zulfiqar Khokhar, a resident of 705-D-I, Green Town, suspected that his sister Shahnaz, 35, and his brother’s daughter Farah, 18, had developed illicit relationships with some locals. The accused, who had presented himself before the police after committing the crime, told the police that he had admonished the victims repeatedly but they turned a deaf ear to his advice. On Monday, the accused exchanged harsh words with the victims, which infuriated him and he opened fire at the women with a pump-action shotgun, killing them on the spot. Later, he presented himself before Green Town police and confessed the crime.

Police collected evidence from the crime scene and shifted the bodies to morgue. A case has also been registered against the accused on the complaint of his brother Jafar Khokhar, the father of victim Farah.

Talking to this correspondent, SP Sadr division Mansoorul Haq Rana said Zulfiqar had killed his sister and niece on suspicion. On Monday, the victims scolded the accused for admonishing them at this the accused killed the two women, the SP said. The assault weapon had been recovered, he added....

Sharia law will soon be the law of the land in Pakistan and honor killing will be ok.

Islam-critic receives death threats, cancels speaking engagements

Considering that he's not just another critic of Islam, but an ex-Muslim, an apostate, who, according to sharia, must be put to death, this, of course, is only to be expected. But that he taught at Sunni Islam's most prestigious school and was an imam only to turn around and criticize Islam, also gives him that much more authority (and his foes that much more reason to want to slay him).

Mark A. Gabriel, ex-Muslim and Islam-critic has gotten death threats and must cancel speaking appointments in the Netherlands.

The American terrorism fighting unit, the FBI, advised Gabriel to drop all public appearances in the Europe due to these death threats. He was escorted to the Schiphol airport by his contact person in the Netherlands, Jewish-Christian pastor Ben Kok. Gabriel had planned to be in the Netherlands till April 25.

Gabriel (51), his pseudonym for years, grew up as a Muslim in Egypt. He was a teacher at Al-Azhar University and an imam as well, but was disappointed with Islam, in particular due to its violent character. When he crossed over to Christianity, he had to flee. He now has asylum in the US.

We should have given asylum to Ayan Hirsi Ali.

Obama hides $200 million for Hamas in 'supplemental' Iraq and Afghanistan appropriation

I wonder if this is something else he promised when he bowed to King Abdullah at the G-20 in London.

President Obama has hidden a supplemental $200 million for the 'Palestinian Authority' in a 'supplemental budget' for American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. By putting the money there, it is less likely to be subject to congressional scrutiny. Given that Obama originally wanted to give the PA $800 million, I suppose we shouldn't complain too much.

Given that (a) in the past, money given to Fatah has been used to pay Hamas salaries, (b) money was last transferred to Gaza for that purpose in February, which means that the quarterly salaries are due, (c) at least 40% of the 'Palestinian Authority's 'budget' is spent in Gaza, and (d) the Netanyahu government is a lot less likely than its predecessor to transfer cash to Gaza, my guess is that a major chunk of this money is going to Gaza for 'salaries.

'But Omri at Mere Rhetoric has lots of interesting speculation about other ways the 'Palestinian Authority' may spend the money, along with some ways in which the American budgetary process is being used to hurt Israel, and you should definitely read the whole thing (Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit).

This is the transparentcy that our muslim president spoke so much about during the election. Remember it is ok for muslims to lie to non-muslims when it is good for islam. It is in their book, the terrorist training manual, the koran.

UK schools may close for Ramadan

Eurabia Alert. It makes sense, really: if more than 40 percent of the students are going to be absent anyway, why keep the school open? One may legitimately wonder, however, how sanguine that 40 percent will be about non-Muslim holidays once they take power -- since Muslim leaders have more than once expressed their distaste for non-Muslim observances.

Some schools in Britain could soon be allowed to close for non-Christian religious festivals, it has emerged.

The move comes as figures reveal a big increase in absences from city classrooms for 'religious observance'.

Under new council guidelines currently being drawn up, schools in Manchester where more than 40 per cent may be absent for a religious festival could decide to close.

Parents are legally entitled to take their children out of school for non-Christian religious festivals, such as Ramadan.

But because academic holidays are largely based on the Christian calendar, they can't do it without missing lessons.

Now headteachers could soon be timing teacher training days to coincide with holy dates such as Eid ul Fitr, Eid ul Adha, Yom Kippur and Diwali.

Schools must still be open for the legally-required 190 days a year so that no pupil misses out on teaching time.

Meanwhile, the traditional school calendar, with Easter and Christmas holidays, stays the same.

The changes are most likely to affect schools in areas such as Longsight and Cheetham Hill that have a large percentage of Muslim pupils....

This is the beginning of the islamization of the of Europe.

Church invites Obama's Muslim grandmother to Christianity; she declines and Muslims are up in arms

Projecting Islam's ways onto Christianity, Muslims insist the church is trying to convert Obama's grandmother "against her will... condemning the move as provocation."

NAIROBI: A Protestant church in Kenya is trying to convert US President Barack Obama's step-grandmother to Christianity against her will, a Muslim group said Monday, condemning the move as provocation.

The Seventh Day Adventist church in the western town of Kisumu had invited 87-year-old Sarah Obama -- a Muslim -- to a function on Saturday, where she was allegedly to be baptised.

According to relatives in her village of Kogelo, "Mama Sarah", as she is popularly known in the US president's paternal homeland, was surprised by the offer and declined to attend.

"I regret the attempt by the Christian religion to force her to convert," Sheikh Mohamed Khalifa, the organising secretary of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, told AFP.

"Why only her? Why not before Obama became president? Didn't they see her before he became president? We are ready to protect our religion," he said.

Said Obama, a step-brother to the US president, said the church pastors had approached Sarah Obama with news that she could become a Christian.

"Mama (Sarah) was born a Muslim and wishes to die a Muslim. The issue of conversion is neither here not [sic] there," he said.

Khalifa denounced the move as a "provocation."

"They don't have permission from Jesus to convert someone. I challenge them to quote a verse from the Bible allowing them to convert someone," he said.

Sarah became a national celebrity when her grandson visited the country in 2006 and her modest homestead has become a tourist attraction since the former Illinois senator's November 2008 election triumph.

The Kenyan government last month declared Kogelo a protected national heritage site.

I truly believe that Obama is really a muslim. He is trying hard to destroy the US financially.

Meet Ibrahim Lincoln!

Note that underneath the bluster of the claim in the press release's headline (below) is the Islamic dogma that everyone is born a Muslim. By such means Muslims can claim anyone's accomplishments. But the assertion that the abolition of slavery is in the Qur'an is false. The Qur'an takes slavery for granted, and it is no accident that there has never been a Muslim Wilberforce or Garrison.

Nor does the Qur'an teach equality of any kind between the Muslims, "the best of people" (3:110) and the unbelievers, "the most vile of created beings" (98:6).

"Abraham Lincoln was Born a Muslim, Says Film Maker," a press release from Hoo Productions, April 20

ATLANTA, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Barack Hussein Obama is not alone. The 16th President of The United States, Abraham Lincoln, was born a Muslim, says Faruq Masudi, producer and director of the new Islamic movie, Quran Contemporary Connections.

In a casting coup, Abraham Lincoln shares equal footage with luminaries of Islamic history like Saladin, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and the former President of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed. What do they have in common?

Faruq Masudi said, "According to the Quran, everybody is born a Muslim. It is only by his own free will that a man chooses a different course for himself. In that Abraham Lincoln was not only a born Muslim but he chose to live by Islamic edicts like abolishing organized slavery; establishing equality of all human beings, democracy and accountability to God and Man; core Islamic concepts as propounded in the Holy Quran."...

They claim that they were here before the white guys from Europe. Sure. Oh and Mecca is the center of the Earth. It has a zero magnetic field. It goes on and on.

Swat Valley invites Osama bin Laden and offers to "help" and "protect" him

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan was trying to end bloodshed when it let the idyllic Swat Valley fall under Islamic law last week. Instead, it has emboldened the Taliban to extend a hand to militants, including Osama bin Laden.Imagine that!

The local spokesman for the Taliban, which control the valley, told The Associated Press he'd welcome militants bent on battling U.S. troops and their Arab allies if they want to settle there.

"Osama can come here. Sure, like a brother they can stay anywhere they want," Muslim Khan said in a two-hour interview Friday, his first with a foreign journalist since Islamic law was imposed. "Yes, we will help them and protect them."

Khan spoke in halting English he learned during four years painting houses in the U.S. before returning to Swat in 2002. He averted his eyes as he spoke to a female journalist, in line with his strict understanding of Islam.

Pakistan reacted with alarm to his comments, saying it would never let him shelter the likes of bin Laden.Of course; one is not supposed to say such things, at least not publicly, definitely not when being interviewed by a Western kafira.

"We would have to go for the military operation. We would have to apply force again," said Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira. "We simply condemn this. We are fighting this war against al-Qaida and the Taliban."

But it is far from clear that the government has the means to do much of anything in the Swat Valley. It agreed to Islamic law in the region — drawing international condemnation — after trying and failing to defeat the Taliban in fighting marked by brutal beheadings that killed more than 850 people over two years.

"We lost the war. We negotiated from a position of weakness," said Afrasiab Khattak, a leader of the Awami National Party, which governs the province that includes Swat...

I forsee Bin Laden with nukes in the very near future. Put one in a container with a couple suicide bombers and there will be a huge mushroom cloud in some port. I just hope it is San Francisco.

Islamic cleric defends law sanctioning marital rape

More on the Afghan law sanctioning marital rape. Sharia Alert: "Afghan cleric defends controversial marriage law," by Atia Abawi for CNN, April 20

He is said to be the man behind the controversial Shia state law, a law critics say strips Afghan Shia women of many rights.[...]

"The law ... which I created I see as correct for both men and women," he said. "We have given rights to both men and women, even better than rights given to women in the West. We give women more in this law."

I asked him about reports that if a women does not comply in having sexual relations with her husband, then the husband can refuse to feed her. "Yes, I said that," Mohseni said looking me in the eye. "When a couple marries, sex is a part of marriage, and they agree to that."

Can she refuse to feed him? Uh, no.

He went on to explain that a woman isn't obliged to have sexual relations every single night or if she is told by her doctor to refrain. But otherwise it is her obligation and something she signed up for when she got married. He calls it the wife's duty.

Mohseni added that a wife wearing makeup "prevents a man from thinking about other women on the streets and he can just think of his wife."

He continued: "It is natural that women (wear makeup). Don't they in the West? Their women wear it on the streets and in shops. Women should put make-up on for their husbands as it will increase the love and attraction between the two."

The cleric also explained that a woman is not required to ask the permission of a man to leave the house if she has a job and needs to go to work. But they do need to get permission if they are leaving for other reasons.

More importantly, he said, a couple needs to make clear the day they marry whether or not she will need permission to leave the home. If they disagree then they should not get married.

"Like you are working for CNN," he said. "If your boss tells you you'll be working for 8 hours a day then you're responsible for that. It's the same here; they both have to agree on it."

According to Mohseni, the West is imposing its beliefs on the Muslim world because they don't understand.

It is certainly true that the West doesn't understand the Muslim world.

However, it's not just people in the West who are opposed to this law; many Afghans, men and women, have vehemently resisted it. They fear it will set women back after the progress that has been made in the last seven years.

Sima Samar, head of Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, has been working for a year now, trying to amend certain articles within the law.

"I feel discriminated. Clear-cut. I don't feel equal in this country," she told us.

Samar said the law does not represent Islam. It blatantly contradicts the constitution of Afghanistan, which states that men and women are equal.

We saw how much provisions of the Afghan Constitution that contradicted Sharia were worth when the government put Abdul Rahman on trial for apostasy, despite the fact that the Constitution contains language about religious freedom.

Critics have labeled the law as "Talibanistic" but Samar says even many of the Taliban's actions were not enshrined in law.

She admitted that a law for Shias is necessary but that it should be what is stated in Sharia or Islamic Law. "One of the very important pillars in Islam is justice, there is no justice in this law," she said.

Well, that all depends on what one thinks is the font of justice, no?

U.S. to boycott Durban II, Congressional Black Caucus "deeply dismayed"

Anything that pledges to combat "racism" can't be bad, right? Because everyone's use of the term and agenda for using it involves exactly the same, altruistic aims for equal rights, right?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States is boycotting a U.N. conference on racism next week over a document that "singles out" Israel in its criticism and conflicts with the nation's "commitment to unfettered free speech," the U.S. State Department said Saturday.

The Obama administration made the decision not to attend the Durban Review Conference in Geneva "with regret," a State Department statement said.

Two months ago, the administration had warned that it would boycott the conference if changes were not made to the document to be adopted by the conference. In recent weeks, discussions over the document have fueled several revisions, but the changes to the language didn't meet U.S. expectations, the statement said.

The current draft is "significantly improved," but "it now seems certain these remaining concerns will not be addressed in the document to be adopted by the conference next week."

State Department officials say the document contains language that reaffirms the Durban Declaration and Programme of Actions from the 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa, which the United States has said it won't support. The 2001 document "prejudges key issues that can only be resolved in negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians," the statement said.

Australia also said it would boycott the conference. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said the 2001 document unfairly "singled out" Israel.

""Regrettably, we cannot be confident that the Review Conference will not again be used as a platform to air offensive views, including anti-Semitic views," he said. [...]

Meanwhile, the Congressional Black Caucus said it was "deeply dismayed" by the decision made by the nation's first African-African president, saying it was inconsistent with administration policies.

"Had the United States sent a high-level delegation reflecting the richness and diversity of our country, it would have sent a powerful message to the world that we're ready to lead by example," the statement said. "Instead, the administration opted to boycott the conference, a decision that does not advance the cause of combating racism and intolerance, but rather sets the cause back."

Again, they are projecting the Western definitions and experiences of "racism and intolerance" as the universal understanding and usage of the terms. To broaden their view, they might ask the Arab League how it has regarded the "richness and diversity" of Darfur while crying "racism and intolerance" over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad.

The Congressional Black Caucus is itself a racist group. Why should there be a black only entitiy in the government?

Al-Qaeda to Somalis: "Increase your strikes against the crusaders at sea"

Perhaps al-Qaeda is trying to exploit Somali anger at the recent US-pirate standoff, and redirect it to the jihad? Not really: "interaction between pirate groups and Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked groups was first noticed about nine months ago."

Terrorist organisation trying to exploit anti-Western sentiment among well-armed youth with access to boats and maritime skills

LAHORE: A Saudi Al Qaeda operative has called on Somali comrades to step up their attacks on ‘crusaders’ in the Gulf of Aden, and in Djibouti.

“To our steadfast brethren in Somalia, take caution and prepare yourselves,” Sa’id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri says in an audiotape acquired by CBS News. “Increase your strikes against the crusaders at sea and in Djibouti.”

It was the first clear sign that Al Qaeda was trying to take advantage of anti-Western sentiment, and a ready supply of well-armed young men in Somalia with access to boats and maritime skills.
A maritime intelligence source told a CBS correspondent that interaction between pirate groups and Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked groups was first noticed about nine months ago.

The source said it was now ‘inconceivable’ that Al Qaeda would not benefit financially from the successful pirate hijackings.

Following the rescue of the Maersk Alabama by the US Navy, during which three pirates were killed and another captured, there were threats against any American crew members found in future hijackings.

Shihri, captured near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan in December of 2001, was among the first detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay. After being held without charge for almost six years, he was released to Saudi authorities and enrolled in a rehabilitation programme there.

Following his release, he went to Yemen and was subsequently described as a deputy leader in an Al Qaeda press release.

I love how they throw around the word Crusaders. They happened over 500 years ago. What we need now is a modern day Crusades. We need to just wipe them all out once and for all. Think about all of the violence in the world, you will find muslims involved.

Slumdog Millionaire star offered for sale by her father

A theology and culture that reduces women to commodities gives rise to this kind of thing. Islam Respects Women Update: "Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali for sale: Father tries to cash in on daughter's fame," by Mazher Mahmood for the News of the World, April 19

THE poverty-stricken father of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali plans to become a millionaire himself-by SELLING his nine-year-old daughter.

In a bid to escape India's real-life slums, Rafiq Qureshi put angel-faced darling of the Oscars Rubina up for adoption, demanding millions of rupees worth £200,000.

As he offered the shocking deal to the News of the World's undercover fake sheik this week, Rafiq declared: "I have to consider what's best for me, my family and Rubina's future."

Rafiq tried to blame Hollywood bosses for forcing him to put his daughter up for SALE.

As he tried to fix the illegal adoption deal, real-life slum dweller Rafiq declared: "We've got nothing out of this film."

Then, almost embarrassed to speak it out loud, he whispered to an accomplice the price tag he has put on his innocent young daughter: "It's £200,000!"

That was an astonishing FOURFOLD increase on his opening demand. But Rafiq's equally demanding brother Mohiuddin insisted: "The child is special now. This is NOT an ordinary child.

This is an Oscar child!"

I love the euphamism "adoption", he is selling her into a life of sexual slavery.