the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, just declared that he will "achieve the Islamic conquest (fath) of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Islam, or else pay the jizya," the additional Islamic tax, or financial tribute, required of non-Muslims, or financial tribute.
In a brief report written by Samuel al-Ashay and published by El Bashayer on May 27, Morsi allegedly made these comments while speaking with a journalist at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, adding "We will not allow Ahmed Shafiq [his contending presidential candidate] or anyone else to impede our second Islamic conquest of Egypt."
After his interviewer pointed out that the first Muslim conquest of Egypt was "carried out at the hands of Amr bin al-As [in 641]," he asked Morsi, "Who will the second Islamic conqueror be?" Morsi, replied, "The second Muslim conqueror will be Muhammad Morsi," referring to himself, "and history will record it."
When asked what he thought about many Christian Copts coming out to vote for his secular opponent, Ahmed Shafiq, Morsi reportedly said, "They need to know that conquest is coming, and Egypt will be Islamic, and that they must pay jizya or emigrate."
If this interview is accurate, certainly Morsi would not be the first political Islamist in Egypt to say he wants to see the nation's Christians subjugated and made to pay jizya (see here for more examples).
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Muslims should pay tribute, convert or cease existing. Sounds fair to me.
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If they'd just learn to shoot the "Holy Men" that pop out these moronic statements, they'd have a lot less trouble. Start with the Imams and work down through the layers of sycophants and outright loons until you strike sanity.
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A few more public utterances like this and Mursi will soon be surrounded by a vast expanse of green radioactive glass.
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Isn't this the definition of ethnic cleansing?
Alan, it's different when Arabs do it. Oppressed peoples are always allowed to threaten genocide. It's somewhere in Alinsky's book. Or the Koran. Or some college treatise.
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If they'd just learn to shoot the "Holy Men" that pop out these moronic statements, they'd have a lot less trouble. Start with the Imams and work down through the layers of sycophants and outright loons until you strike sanity.
The problem isn't with the holy men. They only feed the population what they want. The problem is with the Sunni populace, which has, over decades, been whipping itself into a frenzy of religious ecstasy, acted out through persecutions and mass murders of apostates and infidels. There's a mass psychosis going on in the West right now - we are trying impose a Sunni government in Syria, in a world that already has too many Sunni governments (and too many Sunnis). Whatever happened to divide and conquer?
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Whatever happened to divide and conquer? Dunno, it seems to be working quite well on the US electorate. Who cares what those 'wogs' are up to, anyway?
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood candidate in Egypts presidential election run-off sought to broaden his appeal yesterday, promising he would govern in coalition with others and would not impose Islamic strictures such as the veil on women.
Not until after he wins...
Mohamed Mursi, 60, who is competing against former air force chief Ahmed Shafiq, 70, a former cohort of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, listed concessions to win support from rival politicians and groups.
I am committed to the presidency being an institution. It will never be an individual, Mursi told his first news conference since the election committee confirmed on Monday he was in the run-off vote.
In a bid to win the backing of competitors who lost the race, he said he wanted to appoint vice-presidents from outside the Brotherhoods Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and said the prime minister need not be a member either. The Cabinet would be a coalition of all groups represented in Parliament, he said.
Mursi, a stocky, bespectacled man who has often appeared stiff in public but seemed more animated and relaxed than at previous events, pledged to quit the FJP if elected.
Though he and his rival Shafiq each took almost a quarter of votes cast, a big chunk of Egypts 50 million eligible voters are wary of having either a conservative Islamist or a former military man linked to Mubarak in charge. Some say they will not vote in the run-off on June 16 and 17.
An arson attack on Shafiqs campaign headquarters and criticism of Mursi have highlighted the polarization and disappointment of many ordinary Egyptians, adding tension in the final stages of a formal transition from the army rule to a new president by July 1.
Mursi pledged to implement Islamic sharia law during public rallies, although he gave few details about what that would mean in practice. This has worried Christians, who make up a tenth of Egypts 82 million people, many of whom backed Shafiq. More liberal-minded Muslims are also concerned.
When asked whether a Mursi presidency would seek to impose the veil, which is worn by most Muslim women in Egypt, he said: No one compels anyone about clothes. Anyone who wants to wear hijab (the veil) is free to, or to wear whatever she sees fit from her point of view.
But he also said that behavior in general not only in clothes should be dealt with according to the law if it damaged society, without giving further details.
And that's the real answer to a good Islamicist...
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* DAILY TIMES.PK > PAKISTAN HEADING FOR NEW FIANCIAL CRISIS. Budget Deficit forecasted to rise to 7.0% of GDP from 6.6% vee last year, + Islamabad is running out of ways or schemas to fund itself.
Unpopularity of US Drone Strikes + NATO Supply Routes + creation of new Pak Provinces seen as a US-NATO-India attempt to break up Pakistan + ongoing severe National Power-Energy crisis repor threatening to overshadow the anti-Militant War = MORE EVIDENCIA/INDICIA THAT ANY US-IRAN WAR MAY NOT NECESSARILY BEGIN IN IRAN = PERSIAN GULF PROPER.
* IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS [old] > US HAS PLAN TO SECURE PAKISTAN'S NUKES USING MILITARY FORCE.
[Yemen Post] Europe started measures to freeze assets of Yemen's ex-president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and his relatives holding posts in the army and other public offices, coinciding with a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss a report on Yemen on Tuesday, Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper reported.
The London-based newspaper quoted a Western diplomat as saying that European banks and financial institutions are currently conducting intensive investigations to identify the source of the assets of Saleh and his family to freeze them in case the UN Security Council decides to punish them.
Earlier this month, the US president Barrack Obama gave an executive order to freeze the assets of Yemeni officials obstructing a power-transfer deal, which was brokered by the GCC and backed by the UN in November after mass protests against the Saleh regime. After the US move, Europe hinted to punish Yemeni officials behind instability and acts affecting the implementation of the deal.
Some military commanders, including Saleh's relatives, have rebelled against decrees replacing them, which were issued by new president Abdrabu Mansour Hadi. Some of them gave up, but Tariq Saleh, a nephew of Saleh, has been refusing to hand over the third brigade.
The UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Beomar has failed few times to convince Saleh to hand over this brigade, and on his last visit to the country, he warned to submit his report on the situation in Yemen including suggestion to punish officials affecting the transition.
"The insistence of Saleh and his family on staying in power and ignoring the terms of the power-transfer deal despite all efforts and agreements after the unrest has already been as a roadblock to a smooth transition in the country," the Western diplomat said, according to the newspaper.
"Because of arrogance and not respecting the UN resolutions and regional agreements over Yemen, the EU and other countries have decided to freeze the assets of Saleh and his family," the source continued. "Harder sanctions will be taken if officials continue to affect the transition in Yemen as some European countries have already planned to freeze assets".
Separately, the newspaper quoted an informed source as saying that Saleh and his family have exploited the time since the deal was signed to transfer their assets from Western countries into regional countries.
The wealth of Saleh and his family has been estimated at $50 billion, including assets which have been transferred from the West to Asian countries to avoid punishments, the source said, according to the paper.
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And what is the Saleh family supposed to do for a living now?
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Britain's Supreme Court upheld the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden over alleged sex crimes on Wednesday.
Seven judges at the country's highest court rejected by a majority of 5-2 that Assange's claim that a European Arrest Warrant under which his extradition is sought was invalid.
Two lower courts have already ruled he should be extradited. Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange over claims of rape and sexual assault made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers, and he has been fighting a lengthy legal battle against extradition since his arrest in Britain in December 2010.
It'll now go to some European Court of Even Higher Appeal which will take a decade or so to figure out whether Assange risks being tortured if he's extradited to Sweden...
The former computer hacker gained international prominence in 2010 when WikiLeaks began releasing secret video footage and thousands of US diplomatic cables about Iraq and Afghanistan, in the largest leak of classified documents in US history.
That made him a hero to anti-censorship campaigners but a menace to Washington and other governments.
Assange also faced widespread criticism that he had put lives at risk by blowing the cover of sources who spoke to diplomats and intelligence agents in countries where it was dangerous to do so.
Since then, WikiLeaks has faded from the headlines due to a dearth of scoops and a blockade by credit card companies that has made donations to the site almost impossible. Assange's personal standing has been damaged by the Swedish sex case and he has lost support from most of his celebrity backers. Since his detention, he has mostly been living under strict bail conditions at the country mansion of a wealthy supporter in eastern England. His associates say that amounts to 540 days under house arrest without charge.
First in a series. An excerpt: With a near-nuclear Iran at the tip of the spear exploiting a mutual hatred of the U.S. and its representative democratic, free-market system in order to galvanize the mullah-caudillo alliance in the Western Hemisphere; and its premier Shi'ia terrorist organization, Hizb'allah, well expanded from its key operational base in the Tri-border Area (TBA) working the narco-terrorist nexus to facilitate ever innovative terrorist operations, is the U.S. really staring down a clear and present danger to its national security?
The Pentagon is turning to the private sector, universities and even computer game companies as part of an ambitious effort to develop technologies to improve its cyberwarfare capabilities, launch effective attacks and withstand the likely retaliation. Get the Best and the Brightest!
The previously secret unreported effort, which its authors have dubbed Plan X, marks a new phase in the nation's fledgling military operations in cyberspace, which have focused more on protecting the Defense Department's own computer systems than on disrupting or destroying those of enemies. Plan X is a project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The five-year, $110 million research program will begin seeking proposals this summer. Among the goals will be the creation of an advanced map that details the entirety of cyberspace -- a global domain that includes tens of billions of computers and other devices -- and updates itself continuously. Such a map would help commanders identify targets and disable them using computer code delivered through the Internet or other means.
Another goal is the creation of a new, robust operating system capable of launching attacks and surviving counterattacks.
Plan X is part of a larger DARPA effort begun several years ago to create breakthrough offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. With a cyber budget of $1.54 billion from 2013 to 2017, the agency will focus increasingly on cyber-offense to meet military needs, officials say.
DARPA's research is designed to foster long-shot successes. In addition to helping create the Internet, the agency's work gave rise to stealth jet technology and portable global-positioning devices. Al Gore invented the internet - everyone knows that!
A commander wanting to hit a computer that controls a target -- a strategically important drawbridge in enemy territory, for example -- should be able to predict and quantify battle damage while considering the timing or other constraints on a possible attack, said Dan Roelker, Plan X program manager. Dream on.
Cyberwar experts worry about unintended consequences of attacks that might damage the flow of electricity to civilian homes or hospitals. A targeting system also should allow operators to stop a strike or reroute it before it damages systems that are not targeted -- a fail-safe mechanism that experts say would be very difficult to engineer. Can't be killing the virtual baby ducks and fluffy bunnies!
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Syrian rebels on Wednesday gave President Bashar al-Assad a 48-hour deadline to abide by an international peace plan to end violence or face consequences, a rebel spokesman said.
"The joint leadership of the Free Army inside Syria announces that it is giving the regime a final 48 hour deadline to implement the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council," Colonel Qassim Saadeddine said in a statement posted on YouTube.
"It ends on Friday at 1200 (0900 GMT) then we are free from any commitment and we will defend and protect the civilians, their villages and their cities."
[Ynet] The joint US and Arab military exercise "Eager Lion" that ended in Jordan on Sunady included a simulation of fighting militias attempting to take over weapons arsenal, specifically chemical missiles in Syria, a senior diplomatic source told the London based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
More than 12,000 soldiers took part in the war games, representing 19 countries, including Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... , Leb, Pakistain, Qatar, Britannia, La Belle France, Italia, Spain and Australia.
The beginning paragraphs of a 3-page report from the Washington Post. It wasn't just about Israel after all.
In November, the tide of daily cable traffic to the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan brought a chilling message for Ambassador Matthew Bryza, then the top U.S. diplomat to the small Central Asian country. A plot to kill Americans had been uncovered, the message read, and embassy officials were on the target list.
The details, scant at first, became clearer as intelligence agencies from both countries stepped up their probe. The plot had two strands, U.S. officials learned, one involving snipers with silencer-equipped rifles and the other a car boom, apparently intended to kill embassy employees or members of their families.
Both strands could be traced back to the same place, the officials were told: Azerbaijan's southern neighbor, Iran.
The threat, many details of which were never made public, appeared to recede after Azerbaijani authorities rounded up nearly two dozen people in waves of arrests early this year. Precisely who ordered the hits, and why, was never conclusively determined. But U.S. and Middle Eastern officials now see the attempts as part of a broader campaign by Iran-linked operatives to kill foreign diplomats in at least seven countries over a span of 13 months. The targets have included two Saudi officials, a half-dozen Israelis and -- in the Azerbaijan case -- several Americans, the officials say.
In recent weeks, Sherlocks working in four countries have amassed new evidence tying the disparate liquidation attempts to one another and linking all of them to either Iran-backed Hezbollah snuffies or operatives based inside Iran, according to U.S. and Middle Eastern security officials. An official report last month summarizing the evidence cited phone records, forensic tests, coordinated travel arrangements and even cellphone SIM cards purchased in Iran and used by several of the would-be assailants, said two officials who have seen the six-page document.
Strikingly, the officials noted, the attempts halted abruptly in early spring, at a time when Iran began to shift its tone after weeks of bellicose anti-Western rhetoric and threats to shut down vital shipping lanes. In March, Iranian officials formally accepted a proposal to resume negotiations with six world powers on proposals to curb its nuclear program.
[Reuters] Some witnesses indicated that the Shabbiha came from the surrounding area, but more investigation is needed, Colville said. The information came from U.N. Sherlocks at the site as well as other sources whom he declined to identify.
The Syrian government has blamed Islamist beturbanned goons for the killings in Houla.
U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Tuesday that the army and militia supporting Assad were probably responsible for the killings with small arms and knives.
"Part of the victims had been killed by artillery shells, now that points ever so clearly to the responsibility of the government. Only the government has heavy weapons, has tanks, has howitzers," Ladsous told news hounds in New York.
"But there are also victims from individual weapons, victims from knife wounds and that of course is less clear but probably points the way to the (pro-Assad) shabbihas, the local militia," he said.
Initially, when U.N. Sherlocks reported a total of 85 bodies photographed in a morgue on Saturday, they included 32 children under the age of 10, according to Colville. He did not know the ages of all 49 children now known to have been killed.
Separate U.N. rights Sherlocks led by Brazilian expert Paulo Pinheiro, had said in a report just days before the Houla killings, that government forces executed entire families in their homes - often entering a town with a list of wanted.
Karen AbuZayd, the senior American investigator with Pinheiro, said that their team of about 15 experts may try to probe the Houla killings as part of their next report.
"We are discussing with UNSMIS over the next days to see whether we can also have a look and maybe corroborate with information we get from outside the country," AbuZayd told Rooters on Tuesday, speaking from a neighboring country where she is interviewing Syrian refugees who have fled the conflict.
Referring to the Houla massacre, she said: "This is certainly something new and that is why the perpetrators need to be further investigated before blame is assigned.
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[An Nahar] U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... peace envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... urged Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... to "act now" to end 15 months of bloodshed, during a meeting in Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... on Tuesday.
"I appealed to him for bold steps now -- not tomorrow, now -- to create momentum for the implementation of the plan," Annan told news hounds in the Syrian capital.
Annan arrived in the country on Monday for talks with Assad, the opposition and representatives of Syrian civil society.
In his meeting with Assad, Annan conveyed "the grave concern of the international community about the violence in Syria, including the recent shocking events in Houla."
The U.N. human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... agency said most of the more than 108 victims of Friday to Saturday's massacre were executed, and cited local residents as attributing responsibility to pro-regime paramilitary groups.
"We are at a tipping point," said Annan, who has previously warned that Syria might slide into civil war should abuses continue.
"The Syrian people do not want the future to be one of bloodshed and division. Yet the killings continue and the abuses are still with us today," he added.
In protest at the recent repression and killings, several Western countries expelled Syrian diplomats on Tuesday, prompting the main opposition coalition to reiterate calls for the international community to use "necessary force" against Assad's regime.
"As I reminded the president, the international community will soon be reviewing the situation," Annan said.
"The government, and all government-backed militias could stop all military operations and show maximum restraint... I also appeal to the armed opposition to cease acts of violence."
Annan said he and Assad "agreed on the importance of humanitarian aid flowing to all parts of the country, including unfettered access for the U.N. and aid agencies."
He also "urged the president to respect freedom of peaceful protest," one of the stipulations of the beleaguered six-point plan, and which regime forces have systematically broken in recent weeks by firing on demonstrators to repress dissent.
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"We are at a tipping point," said Annan, who has previously warned that Syria might slide into civil war should abuses continue.
Woah! Not that!
This clueless dunce should've stayed in Obscurity where he belonged. People almost forgot what an idiot he was.
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"They need to know that conquest is coming, that Egypt will be Islamic, and that they must pay jizya or emigrate," Morsi reportedly said.
[Yemen Post] Europe started measures to freeze assets of Yemen's ex-president 
[Reuters] Some witnesses indicated that the Shabbiha came from the surrounding area, but more investigation is needed, Colville said. The information came from U.N. 
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
