Militants occupy houses, shops of Sikh community

KALAYA: Armed militants Tuesday forcibly occupied three houses and 10 shops of the Sikh community in Orakzai Agency who failed to arrange the unrealistic protection money.

Sources said the houses of Sikh cloth merchants were located in the Qasimkhel while the shops were in the Ferozkhel area of Kalaya tehsil. The hapless 24-memeber family headed by Kalyan Singh was given shelter as a Pakhtun tradition by the Manikhel tribe who vowed to protect them against the odds after their forcible expulsion.

Sources said the Sikhs were forced to leave their homes leaving everything behind. Earlier, Kalyan Singh was kidnapped by armed militants 15 days back and after the intervention of the jirga of ulema and elders he was released.

However, his release was conditional as he was directed to arrange Rs13 million during the stipulated time. Kalyan Singh paid Rs3.5 million to his kidnappers while he could not arrange for the rest of the ransom as it was beyond his means. In return, the militants occupied the houses and shops of the family.

Sikhs had been living in the area for over a hundred of years and even after the partition of the sub-continent they did not move anywhere but preferred to stay in the area. Local residents of the area strongly condemned the move of the armed persons and termed it an inhuman act and against the rights of the minorities besides earning bad name for millions of Muslims of the country. The tribesmen of Manikhel later announced to protect the displaced Sikhs and gave refuge to all of the 24 Sikhs.

Jizya is straight from the koran.

Girl, 15, 'raped near Burnley mosque'

A 15-year-old girl was raped by a man after he dragged her down a Burnley back street late at night, a jury was told.

The girl, who had earlier been with friends at a youth club, was said to have been walking alone up the slope to Daneshouse Road, speaking to a friend on her mobile, when Muhaamed Ansari, 34, struck next to a mosque, Burnley Crown Court heard.

The hearing was told how the alleged victim, who told police she had had a litre and a half of vodka, was said to have arrived home just after midnight crying and shaking after the incident in February last year.

Ansari was arrested the next day when he pulled up to speak to a police officer who was driving the 15-year-old around the area to see if she could identify her alleged attacker. Ansari, of Allen Street, Burnley, denies rape.

The jury was told Ansari allegedly took the girl’s mobile phone off her, turned it off and gave it her back.

He is said to have raped her on a pathway which ran between the mosque and sheltered housing in Hebrew Road.

He is said to have asked her to commit a sex.

Yet another reason to kill all muslims.

North Carolina jihadist: "Anyone with eyes can clearly see that this new disease is a curse from Allah upon America. The Mujahideen and those who supp

Samir Khan is at it again, and no one seems to care. One wonders what the reaction might have been if a young man in North Carolina had been publishing information crowing about American losses, praying for God to destroy America, and openly supporting Hitler in 1942.

Everything comes from Allah.

Anyone who disbelieves in that statement is not a Muslim.

Anyone with eyes can clearly see that this new disease is a curse from Allah upon America. The Mujahideen and those who support them continue to ask Allah to destroy America. Allah responded. Today, they are being destroyed military, economically, and now they are being destroyed with a new disease that is spreading fast. May Allah protect the Muslims in the West from this disease and may this disease reach all the enemies of Allah so that the American Government can no longer move a finger against the Ummah! [...]

The people of the world should start realizing that the prohibition of pork in Islam has more benefits than harm. Islam is the only way out for success in both worlds.

In addition, Americans need to start realizing that their Government is fighting Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala in this bogus ‘war on terrorism’. The lesson of the day: if you fight Allah, Allah will terminate you in both worlds.

By the way, according to al-Jazeera, this flu has also reached Israel!

I ask my Rabb [Lord] to continue punishing America, her allies and Israel in ways we never expected.

Another muslim that just needs a good killing.

"Firearms training and lessons in hand-to-hand combat, horse riding and archery, as well as Quran study sessions..."

Evidently no one at the Qur'an study sessions ever stopped and said, "Wait a minute! This passage of the Qur'an teaches us to be peaceful and not to make war against unbelievers!"
Inside a jihad training camp in...Oregon.

"In conspiracy trial, dark tale emerges of jihad training," by Mike Carter for the Seattle Times, April 29 (thanks to James):

NEW YORK — Speaking publicly for the first time, former Seattle resident James Ujaama testified Tuesday about his efforts in 1999 to create a terrorist training camp in rural Oregon for would-be jihad warriors wishing to take up the fight against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.

Among the instructors would be Oussama Kassir, a Swedish jihadist who once bragged he had been a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.

Ujaama, appearing thin and graying and dressed in oversized prison overalls, took the witness stand in the terrorism conspiracy trial of Kassir, who is accused of traveling from London to the barren ranch in Bly, Ore., to help set up the training camp.

Ujaama is a key prosecution witness in Kassir's federal trial, having already pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges. He told the U.S. District Court jury in Manhattan that he hopes to get a "significant reduction" in his sentence in exchange for his testimony against Kassir. He faces up to 30 years.

"The best shrapnel"

Several other former and current Seattle witnesses also testified that they met Kassir and another man, Harroon Aswat, either at the Bly property or at the now-defunct Masjid Dar-us-Salaam mosque in Seattle's Central Area where the men stayed for about two months in the fall of 1999. Their testimony paints a darker portrait of those events than previously acknowledged by authorities or those involved.

They stayed in the mosque. But of course it is highly offensive to Muslims to suggest that there could be any reason for the FBI to be paying attention to anything going on in mosques.

Nathan Bishop, now 29 and living in Bahrain, was a member of the Masjid Dar-us-Salaam mosque in 1999, when he went by the name Abu Sufian. He said he attended a meeting at the Central Area apartment of another member in late 1999, where Kassir, flanked by Aswat, said he had come to the U.S. "to plan attacks [and] ... destroy."

"He said people are going to get hurt and people are going to die and that some of us would become martyrs," said Bishop, who testified that Ujaama was not at that meeting.

Still, he said, nearly a dozen people were there — most young, black Muslims — and Kassir told them that if they didn't want to be involved, now was the time to get up and leave.

"Nobody walked out," Bishop said.

Nobody thought that what was being said was incompatible with the true, peaceful Islam?

At another meeting at the mosque — after Kassir had shown them how to field-strip an AK-47 automatic rifle — Bishop said the topic of suicide bombers came up. Kassir "said suicide operations are acceptable."

"He said human bones are the best shrapnel," Bishop said.

Horses and jihad

Ujaama took the stand late in the afternoon and was walked through his conversion to Islam in the late 1980s and how he gravitated to Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri through a series of other increasingly radical Islamic preachers.

Abu Hamza is serving a seven-year sentence in Britain for inciting his followers to kill nonbelievers and has been indicted in the U.S. on 11 charges related to the planned development of the Bly site and for sending cash and volunteers to support al-Qaida and the Taliban. [...]

After visiting the 360-acre hardscrabble-and-hills ranch in Oregon in 1999, Ujaama sent a fax to Abu Hamza from a Kinko's in Tukwila. Ujaama, who has been described in testimony as a "businessman" and a "wheeler-dealer," started the fax off with a flier to distribute to Muslims at the Finsbury Park mosque, considered a hotbed of radical Islam in the Britain and Western Europe.

The flier for the camp promised firearms training and lessons in hand-to-hand combat, horse riding and archery, as well as Quran study sessions, all for about 600 British pounds, or about $878 U.S. There they would learn tactics to fight the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.

Ujaama also suggested that Abu Hamza himself eventually come to the property "as an attraction."...

Why are the Feds not investigating every mosque, communitee center, muslim school and these compounds? Why are we afraid to hurt feelings?

"The complete Islamization of Pakistan has been the genuine and long-standing demand of the overwhelming majority of Pakistanis"

Qazi Hussain Ahmad must be a Misunderstander of Islam: he seems to have gotten the idea somewhere that Islam, and specifically the Qur'an and Sunnah, entail a rejection of Western-style democratic pluralism, and the imposition of Sharia. Oh, Qazi, you Islamophobe!

"Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Former Emir of Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami: 'The Dawn of an Islamic Revolution is Around the Corner; This is the Era of a Global Muslim Renaissance – As Slavery's Shackles Are Breaking and the Enemies of Islam Are On the Retreat,'" from MEMRI, April 28 (thanks to James):

Qazi Hussain Ahmad, until recently the Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, a religious-political party in Pakistan, recently wrote an article that was published by the Pakistani daily The News. In it, he argued that since Pakistan's creation in 1947, the majority of Pakistanis have wanted an Islamic system of government in the country. [...]

Tiny Minority of Extremists™ Update:

"The complete Islamization of Pakistan has been the genuine and long-standing demand of the overwhelming majority of Pakistanis.

"This demand surfaced as soon as the inception of the country [in 1947], since the driving force behind the Pakistan movement was the need for a separate country for Muslims where they could protect and practice their Islamic ideology.

Read it all: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025882.php#respond

Paris: Leader of Muslim gang that tortured and murdered Jew smirks at victim's relatives and shouts "Allahu akbar!"

"Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans..." (Qur'an 5:82)

"Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say:
Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews." -- Sahih Muslim 6985

"Gang on Trial For Torturing French Jew to Death," from Reuters, April 29 (thanks to Bill):

PARIS (Reuters) - A self-proclaimed "gang of barbarians" accused of kidnapping a young Jewish man in a Paris suburb, torturing him for 24 days and killing him went on trial Wednesday.

The death of Ilan Halimi, 23, in 2006 horrified France and came to symbolize a rise in anti-Semitic violence in its poor, multi-ethnic suburbs.

The leader of the "barbarians," Youssouf Fofana, smirked at Halimi's relatives and shouted "Allahu akbar!" ("God is Greatest!" in Arabic) at them as he entered the courtroom.

Bearded and wearing a white tracksuit, Fofana gave his identity during formal questioning by the judge as "Arabs African revolt barbarian salafist army."

The 28-year-old said he was born on February 13, 2006, in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, the date and place of Halimi's death.

During his time in detention, Fofana, a young French man of Ivorian origin, has bombarded the magistrates investigating the case with letters full of anti-Semitic insults....

There should be no trial, just kill this muslim. I will be happy to shoot him.

Have female and children suicide bombings become common place for the Islamic world?

Talking about the recent female/child suicide attack in Iraq, this op-ed notes that, "This sort of act would have been worth a worldwide banner headline a decade ago. But now, it's just another demented Islamist senselessly slaughtering fellow Muslims. With her kid. Yawn." Indeed, contrast this indifference with the sort of media attention a Christian female/child suicide combo -- justifying their actions via Christianity -- would receive.

"Mommy blows up with toddler — this has got to be a new low for militant Islam," by Jonathan Kay for the National Post, April 28:

Having spent this morning catching up on my weekend reading, I came across this Page 4 article from Friday's New York Times. Here's the lead paragraph: "BAGHDAD — At least 80 people died and 120 others were injured Thursday in three bombings, one by a female suicide bomber in Baghdad who, Iraqi officials said, held a young child’s hand as she set off her explosives among a group of women and children receiving emergency food aid."

Even putting aside our baseline revulsion at terrorism, there are three especially hideous things that jump out from this:

1) A mother deliberately taking her (presumed) child with her as she immolates herself. For all the hundreds of suicide bombings that Iraq has already witnessed, this has got to be a first.

2) This was a line for food aid. Islamists have gone from attacking U.S. soldiers, to attacking Iraqi soldiers, to attacking police stations, to attacking the religious ceremonies of rival sects — on down the line of nihilism until, now, they are reduced to blowing up hungry people seeking sustenance.

3) This hideous crime was played on page four of The New York Times. And a quick scan of other media suggests it got similar B-rate treatment elsewhere. This sort of act would have been worth a worldwide banner headline a decade ago. But now, it's just another demented Islamist senselessly slaughtering fellow Muslims. With her kid. Yawn.

Says a lot about the world we live in, doesn't it?

No it says a lot about the muslim world. These people love death. They want to go to paradise. If they die in war the go straight to paradise. Well, lets declare war on all muslims. We kill them all and let them meet allah and Old Mo. Then the environmentalists will be happy, a 20% decrease in people. The West will be happy, we will not have to fight suicidal terrorists. I will be happy, I won't have to bring this blog to you all every day.

Breaking News: Taliban "deceives" Pakistani government

As Islam's prophet lived and preached, so war is deceit. Just another reminder of how futile the "Swat deal" -- supposed peace in exchange for sharia -- is; something the U.S. government should keep in mind as it prepares to hand over one billion dollars to Pakistan. "Taliban deceived govt, staged withdrawal drama: ISPR," from the Daily Times, April 29:

MINGORA/ISLAMABAD: Security forces backed by warplanes and helicopter gunships launched a new operation in Buner district near the Swat valley on Tuesday, bombing suspected Taliban hideouts in Kalil, Shera Turf, and Kandao areas.[...]

Nearly 300 Taliban entered Buner from April 2 to 4 and began to terrorise the locals, in violation of the Swat deal, Gen Abbas said. “The government warned the militants but they refused to listen and staged only a symbolic withdrawal. They [sic] government was left with no option expect to use force,” he said.

According to several news agencies, he said it would take up to a week to clear an estimated 500 Taliban from Buner...

Denmark: 55% of Muslims think criticizing religion should be forbidden, 64% support curtailing freedom of speech

Denmark: 55% of Muslims think criticizing religion should be forbidden, 64% support curtailing freedom of speech

More from the big DR survey of Muslims in Denmark, titled "Your Muslim neighbor" (DA). h/t Peter. The data published in different papers is different by one or two percentage points, but the overall direction is clear.

See also Denmark: Close to 90% of Muslims would vote for the Left for more on the survey.

Read it all:

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/04/denmark-55-of-muslims-think-criticizing.html

Muslim-owned shop bans customers wearing veils

A Muslim-owned jewellery shop has decided to ban customers wearing veils after being targeted by robbers disguised as Islamic women.

Muslim women in a niqab will be encouraged to telephone in advance to ensure that a female member of staff is present during their visit, to confirm their identities.

Everyone entering ATAA Jewellers in Glasgow must reveal their faces under planned new rules to protect staff from further attacks.

The store owners decided to act after two Asian men wearing traditional Muslim women's clothes – including niqab veils – made away with thousands of pounds worth of jewellery earlier this month.

The pair, who were also carrying handbags, pretended to be interested in buying some items but attacked staff with pepper spray when cabinets were unlocked.

Now the Sadiq family who run the shop are planning to put up a sign informing customers that they cannot wear any headgear that covers the face.

Any Muslim women who are more comfortable in a niqab will be encouraged to telephone in advance to ensure that a female member of staff is present during their visit, to confirm their identities.

"It is our safety that matters as well at the end of the day," Rukhsana Sadiq told the BBC Asian Network. "God forbid anything like this happening to anyone else."

The family said they accepted the policy may offend some Muslims, but expect other businesses to take a similar approach. Criminals wearing Islamic veils have carried out at least one other robbery in the city.

Local councillor Hanzala Malik backed the plan. "I know in Scotland that banks will not allow their customers coming in with motorbike helmets, I don't see why it should be different for people wearing the Niqab. It is an issue about identifying people," he said.

The disguise potential of traditional Muslim women's dress has been exploited several times in recent years. July 21 bomber Yassin Omar donned a burka as he fled after the failed attacks, as did BBC journalist John Simpson to gain entry to Afghanistan during the 2001 invasion.

Why do they have to wear masques? Oh, Old Mo said so.

Couple Killed

Here's one of so many stories we hear about on a daily basis: a person known to be violent is free to move about in society. The authorities do nothing until a calamity occurs. And even then, they do very little... The simplistic tone of the article is typical, in it's wearisome objectivity, of the way crime is reported in the press.

The northern city of Denain was holding its 106th carnival. Three kilometers away, at Douchy-les-Mines, a 62-year-old man named Ahmed Assous murdered a young French couple. Because their car was improperly parked. The regional paper La Voix du Nord reports:

While the Lithuanian majorettes and Flemish drumkorps were parading in the neighboring city of Denain, a crime without precedent took place in Douchy-les-Mines, in the former miners' village ("coron") of La Fabrique.

The cause of the murder was "a simple neighborhood quarrel", according to Jean-Michel Bérard, prefect of the region. (...)

But the fact remains that a sixty-year-old man suddenly killed a man and a woman, both in their early twenties, who had come to visit their family in La Fabrique. The young couple was taking advantage of Easter Monday to introduce their 10-day-old baby to an uncle and an aunt.

They had arrived around 4:30 p.m. A half-hour later they came out, without the baby, to better park their Peugeot that they had left in front of a neighbor's house. That's when they saw they had a flat tire. They called on Ahmed Assous, 62, who, by way of a response, took out his 30-30 caliber carbine rifle, a veritable war weapon. According to several sources not officially confirmed, the former municipal employee of the city of Denain also shot in the direction of a young man, 17, the couple's nephew, who was not hit. But signs of a bullet impact were found on the front door of a vehicle parked nearby.

Note: The article does not say why they went to Assous - was it to ask for help, or to question him about the flat tire? Nor does it say if they knew him.

A subsequent article, also from la Voix du Nord, indicates that Ahmed Assous was a truck driver, not a municipal employee.

When the Denain police and firemen from Douchy-les-Mines arrived a few minutes later, they saw two bodies, motionless and soaked in blood, but they could not intervene since the killer, assumed to be dangerous, still had his weapon.

The man, "who had a reputation for violence", according to the prefect, retreated into his house.

The article concludes with a description of the crime scene, the closing off of traffic, and finally the surrender of the killer, who put up little resistance.

The family was described as "stunned" ("hébété") by the killings.

The second article, linked above, describes Ahmed Assous as a man who did not like anyone to park in front of his house, which he regarded as his territory. In 1996 he had struck a neighbor on the head for leaning on a parked car in front of his house. Neighbors also knew about the death threats he made to his wife who recently divorced him. After the divorce, he sank into pathological aggressiveness, consumed alcohol regularly, and shot his rifle in the garden.

How does this guy have a gun? He is a nut job muslim.

Mahmoud Abbas: "A Jewish state, what is that supposed to mean?"

Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state poses temporal and religious problems for Abbas & Co.: Acknowledging and accepting Israel's Jewish identity disqualifies Muslims' future claims on the land for negotiation, armed conflict, the claim to a "right of return," and so forth. Doing so would also acknowledge the historical identity of the region as a Jewish homeland (as opposed to the revisionist story of the allegedly "uncorrupted" followers of a proto-Muslim Abraham). Lastly, it accepts something other than Islamic law as legitimate, which is out of step with the fundamental reason for waging jihad: Imposing Islamic dominion and law.

Ramallah, 27 April (AKI) - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday dismissed calls by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. He also said a halt to Israel's continuing expansion of illegal Jewish settlements inside the West Bank was a prerequisite for resuming peace talks.

"A Jewish state, what is that supposed to mean?," said Abbas, quoted by Israeli media. "You can call yourselves as you like, but I don't accept it and I say so publicly."

He also said it was not his job to define or name the Israeli state.

"Name yourself, it's not my business. Name yourself the Hebrew Socialist Republic. All I know is that there is the state of Israel, in the borders of 1967, not one centimetre more, not one centimetre less. Anything else, I do not accept."

Many observers believe the so called 'green line' – the pre-1967 Six-Day War ceasefire line between Israel and Jordan – should be the basis for an international border between Israel and the West Bank in the creation of a future Palestinian state.

Israeli daily Haaretz said last week that Netanyahu wanted to impose the precondition of recognition of Israel as a Jewish state in order to resume peace negotiations.

However, it is believed such recognition would block the Palestinians demand for the "right of return" of millions of refugees who fled or were expelled by Jewish forces, during the establishment of Israel in 1948 and subsequent wars. The refugees are now scattered throughout the Middle East.

Israel's hardline foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said last Thursday that the right of return is not up for discussion....

No right of return. In fact, the Jews need to expel every arab from all of Israel, Gaza, Judea, Sumaria, and the Golan.

"My Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish"

Islamic antisemitism, rooted in many Qur'anic injunctions, notably the charge that the Muslims' worst enemies will be the Jews (Qur'an 5:82), comes to Britain.

"Labour Party embroiled in race row after candidate told she was 'too white and Jewish' to be selected," by Emily Andrews in the Daily Mail, April 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):

The Labour Party has become embroiled in a race row after a prospective female councillor was allegedly told she was 'too white and Jewish' to be selected.

Elaina Cohen claims that Labour councillor Mahmood Hussain said he would not support her application for an inner-city ward because 'my Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish'.

Mrs Cohen, 50, has made an official complaint about the alleged remarks made by Mr Hussain, a Muslim and former lord mayor of Birmingham.

She said: 'I am shocked and upset that a member of the Labour Party in this day and age could even think something like that, let alone say it.

'People should not be allowed to make racist comments like that. If someone in the party feels I cannot represent them because of my colour or religion, that's ridiculous.

'I felt particularly aggrieved because I have worked across all sections of the community, particularly with the Muslim section, and have been on official visits to Pakistan.'
Mrs Cohen had applied to stand as a Labour councillor for the Birmingham ward of East Handsworth and Lozells, which has a high Asian and Afro-Caribbean population.

As one of Labour's safest seats on Tory-led Birmingham city council, the final candidate would be almost certain of victory at the June 4 by-election.

But when Mrs Cohen telephoned 57-year-old Mr Hussain for his support, she was astonished to be told that she was too 'white and Jewish' to be considered.

Lorraine Briscoe, who runs a local community association, was sitting next to Mrs Cohen when the conversation took place on speakerphone last Tuesday.

'I was disgusted that a councillor could make comments like that in 2009,' she said.
'He told her, "They will not vote for someone who is white and Jewish. My Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish".

'Elaina then asked him if he had talked to his Muslim members about it and he said, "I don't want to talk about it with you" and hung up....

Mr Hussain said yesterday: 'I would not make those sort of comments. The allegations are not true.'

Sure he would never make these comments. This is straight from the terrorist training manual, the koran.

Afghanistan: Airborne chemical attack on girl school; nearly 50 collapse

"Police said they had made no arrests and did not know who was responsible." Those wacky, anonymous "miscreants" must be at it again. "Girls collapse after suspected poison attack on Afghan school," by Ben Farmer in Kabul for the Telegraph, April 27:

Dozens of girls collapsed and needed hospital attention after a suspected airborne chemical attack on a school in northern Afghanistan.Five teachers and 40 pupils were overcome by fumes during a school ceremony in the capital of northern Parwan province.

Afghan officials said they were awaiting the results of blood tests to determine what had happened, but there were unconfirmed local reports a bottle had been thrown into the playground beforehand.Dr Abdullah Fahim, a spokesman for the public health ministry, said: "For the time being, it seems to be airborne poisoning. But it's not confirmed yet what the actual reason is."

One teacher at Sadiqi Padshah School in Charikar, who did not wish to be named, said the whole school had been standing in the playground listening to staff speeches when students began to collapse.

"We didn't know what was happening, all the children just went down and we took them to hospital." Victims were treated for severe headaches and streaming eyes after the attack on Sunday morning, 40 miles north of Kabul, but the provincial governor said all had made a full recovery.

Police said they had made no arrests and did not know who was responsible. While the growth of the Afghan school system is seen as one of the successes of the past seven years, Taliban-led insurgents opposed to the central government or girls' education continue to attack schools and teachers.

In 2008, there were 292 attacks on schools, with 92 people killed and 169 injured.

Last year in the southern city of Kandahar, men on motorbikes threw acid in the faces of girls walking to school.

However, Parwan, a Tajik-dominated province immediately north of Kabul, is considered relatively safe, with little Taliban activity.

See how well the world be run under sharia?

Taliban push Robin Hood image in Pakistan

The "Merry Men" of Sharia

"Its systematic. The Taliban move into an area, they use local existing resentments. They often go in with the guise of being Robin Hoods. They scare away some local thieves, they impose very, very quick justice, very harsh justice, and initially in some places they are even welcomed." Yet, unlike the English Robin Hood, these (sharia) justice seekers forbid women from appearing in public, throw acid on school-girls, and regularly persecute Christians: So the "Robin Hood" analogy may not be wholly accurate.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- In radio broadcasts and sermons, Taliban militants have been promoting themselves as Islamic Robin Hoods, defending Pakistan's rural poor from a ruling elite that they describe as corrupt and oppressive.

That message has been resonating throughout the Pakistani countryside, where the culture is deeply conservative and the people are desperately poor.[...]

Across this overwhelmingly Muslim country, there is widespread hope that adopting a strict code of law based on the Koran will transform a society where corruption is rampant and where at least a quarter of the population lives under the poverty line.

Enforcement of sharia law is the platform the Taliban have been using to justify recent land-grabs, such as last week's armed occupation of the district of Buner, some 60 miles from the Pakistani capital.[...]

"Its systematic. The Taliban move into an area, they use local existing resentments. They often go in with the guise of being Robin Hoods," said Amnesty International representative Sam Zarifi. "They scare away some local thieves, they impose very, very quick justice, very harsh justice, and initially in some places they are even welcomed."[...]

"We love the Taliban," announced one Pashtun farmer who asked not to be named. He called the militants heroes.[...]

But if farmer Babar Hussein has his way, Taliban justice would mean taking away freedoms from Pakistani women, like the right to have a driver's license.

"Women should not even come out of their houses. That's against Islam" he said, while complaining about the un-Islamic fashions he saw women wearing in Islamabad.

When Taliban militants overran Buner last week, they told women to stay indoors, warned men to stop shaving their beards, and threatened shopkeepers who sold movies and music.

In Pakistan's rural society, male strangers are not even supposed look at local women. And yet, some farmers enjoy blaring Bollywood music and even dancing on trailers full of hay, while driving their gaudily-decorated tractors.

If the Taliban's rural revolt succeeds, it could bring silence to the Pakistani countryside.

They are going to have nuke very soon. Wake up West. I honestly believe that a nuke will find its way into the US. Under the muslim in cheef's watch. But the media will find a way to make it Bush's fault.

Fort Dix jihadists sentenced to life of prison da'wa

A federal judge today sentenced three Muslim immigrants from South Jersey to life in prison for plotting to attack Fort Dix, saying radical ideology and hatred for America drove their plot to kill United States soldiers.

Gee, which radical ideology was involved?

The men, brothers from the Balkens [sic], were among five defendants convicted in December of conspiring to target the Burlington County military base in a crime prosecutors said was inspired by al Qaeda and proved homegrown jihadists were plotting inside America.

"Nothing has a greater impact on society than the crime of terrorism," U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler said before delivering the sentences in a heavily-guarded courtroom in Camden, crowded with government officials, reporters and the men's relatives.

The defendants - Dritan, Eljvir, and Shain Duka - sat quietly during the most of hearing, wearing dark-green prison jumpsuits and thick beards. Before being sentenced, they each delivered rambling statements -- lasting nearly 25 minutes -- saying the prosecution was riddled with lies.
"Me and my brothers are innocent," Eljvir Duka said....

Finally we get some real convictions of these sleeper cells in the US. Now how about raiding everyone of those muslim compounds that are spread around the US? The Feds think I am a bigger theat to the US than muslims.

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.