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"Ooooh! Mom! Take me there!"
Amygdala for some reason links to a description of Stalinworld, built by a "canned mushroom mogul" in Lithuania.
What next? Infernoland? (Yes, he was a mogul before they canned him. Don't ask again.)
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I hÞpe yÞu're hÊppy nÞw, BjÞrn.
In respÞnse tÞ his grumbling, I fixed the spelling Þn BjÞrn StÊrk's nåme.
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#1  Ah, the majestic Møøse...
Posted by: mojo || 06/29/2004 17:40 Comments || Top||

#2  can I buy an Umlaut?
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Omigawd.
The Little Woman had her hair done. Now she looks like... this.
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Afghanistan
Taliban and al-Qaida thumped in Gardez province
  • U.S. warplanes and helicopters opened a new offensive Saturday against Taliban and al-Qaida believed regrouping in Afghanistan's eastern mountains in an air assault backed by Afghan forces on the ground. Pakistan sealed its border to prevent escape by any al-Qaida fleeing the fight. U.S. military helicopters rushed late Saturday toward the snowy mountains where the battle was under way. "We have surrounded the al-Qaida and Taliban," said Saif Ullah, a member of the local governing council in Gardez.

    Six hundred Afghan fighters, moving with 60 American forces, were on the ground, said Saif Ullah and Wazir Khan Zadran, a local commander. Enemy forces were defending their high ground with mortars, killing one U.S.-allied Afghan fighter and injuring five. There was no word on Americans taking part in any ground fighting. However, a dozen U.S. military helicopters took off from a landing strip in Logar province south of Kabul late Saturday. They included at least one transport helicopter.
    Just a little reminder that we're not done yet. Not dealing with stragglers would be a good way to fight the same war five years later.
    FoxNews reports one US soldier dead in the attack, plus several wounded. Estimated enemy force strength is 4000.
    Posted by Fred 3/2/2002 4:13:41 PM
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    Caucasus
    Chechnya and Russian-US relations
  • This apparent willingness to reevaluate Russian operations in Chechnya intersected with Russian politicians' escalation of rhetoric against the separatists. In Germany following 11 September, Putin stated that "with terrorists, we cannot come to terms, we must leave them no peace," asserting that Islamic militants and terrorists funded the Chechen rebellion against Russia. Even Russian reformist Boris Nemtsov declared that instead of talks with the separatists, "the very term 'negotiations' should be dropped. All talks should be conducted in the language of Kalashnikovs."

    Russia views the revival of U.S. criticism on Chechnya as a betrayal of the post-11 September understanding for the Kremlin's fight against terrorism. A Russian Foreign Ministry statement on 25 January made the point: "It is surprising that the US administration, which says it is necessary to fight any manifestation of terrorism all over the world, is actually encouraging Chechen extremists, whose direct connections with Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are constantly being proved." Yastrzhembsky's office responded to renewed Western criticism of Russia by stating: "It is impossible to successfully fight Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and at the same time actually encourage its actions in Chechnya."
    Bush's positions post 9-11 has been very principled, one reason he enjoys so much support within the country. With regard to Chechnya, we can only assume he's operating on bad data - it's not the most talked about subject in the US press and even within intel circles it's not usually at the top of the list. I believe two issues are tangled here:

    One issue is the very justifiable Russian determination to crush the separatists. In this case, they're right, the U.S. is wrong. Letting them thrive endangers the entire Caucasus and Transcaucasus region. See any description of what happened in Dagestan.

    The other issue is the human rights issue, which seems to be what's driving the U.S. opposition. The Russians are in a very tough position, in that the situation is set up by the banditi to produce the maximum number of civilian casualties - this pushes the "us/them" division.

    The U.S. position is complicated because the Chechen banditi really aren't an al-Qaeda operation, but one running in parallel, a similar group but not the same one. Khattab's ("amir" of the Foreign Mujahideen in Chechnya) roots are in the Arab Brotherhood, through Abdallah Azzam, bin Laden's partner in Maktab al-Khidamat (Services Office), which helped funnel fighters and money to the Afghan resistance from Peshawar. Bin Laden split with Azzam in the late 1980s. His intent was to extend his mujaheddin campaign to all corners of the globe, to accomplish which he formed al-Qaeda in 1988. Azzam was killed by a car bomb in late 1989 – one of those little occupational hazards which got him conveniently out of the way - and the MAK split. The world-wide extremist faction joined al-Qaeda and the anti-Russian faction went its own way. With al-Qaeda (and the Taliban) now clobbered, the new wave of gunnies making their way to the Caucasus represents more a pool of trained and battle tested recruits, rather than a consolidation of a single organization. They still need rubbed out, but the target is the Khattab/Muslim Brotherhood operation. Binny and his staff, if they're there, are there as "guests", just like theyw were with the Taliban.
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    India-Pakistan
    Fernandes sez train attacks were "pre-meditated"
  • Defence Minister George Fernandes endorsed BJP's contention that the attack on the Sabarmati Express passengers, mostly Ram Sevaks, at Godhra railway station looked "pre-meditated". Chief Minister Narendra Modi earlier stated that the attack on train passengers was not spontaneous and was carried out in a clinically precise manner under a pre-planned strategy.
    Hardly takes a genius to figger that out. Now figure why they were pre-meditated, and after that figure whodunnit.
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    Vajpayee: Riots are a national disgrace
  • "This is a disgrace to the whole nation," Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said in a broadcast on Indian national TV after the worst sectarian clashes to hit the country for nearly a decade claimed more than 300 lives. "I am telling my countrymen that whatever the provocation, please keep calm," Vajpayee said.
    This week's statement of the obvious. Who're the ringleaders? Suman Palit believes the actual impetus isn't religious, but business:

    "Notice that all the news articles coming out of that region are all about shops, businesses and homes gutted by mobs. The mobs are not meeting on some giant urban battlefield to fight for their honor. They are systematically targeting the other sides economic base - and claiming the moral high ground using the Koran and the pillars of Ayodhya."
    NYT has the toll up to 415... and rising.
    Posted by Fred 3/2/2002 7:38:21 PM
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    Qazi's Plans
  • Charles, at LGF, has a fascinating excerpt from an interview with a buddy of Jamaat-i-Islami leader Qazi Hussein on what sort of state they want Pakland to be:

    "Presently our ideas is that the entire top leadership of JI as well as all three military Generals will be part of the presidium for which the Qazi will be the Kalifa. We are keenly watching the progress of Taliban and learning from it. We are impressed with the Taliban on the women issue, minorities issue and law and order issue. Mullah Omar is a great friend of Qazi. Omar had visited his house many times. In the tentative talks, we had decided to form union of Pakistan and Afghanistan once the right conditions are set in Pakistan (i.e. the JI government in Pakistan). Our motto is Constant Jihad. The idea is to keep Pakistan in a constant state of Jihad all the time. Qazi's vision is that Pakistan will be center of the new Islamic Empire that stretches from Burma to Afghanistan and from Srilanka to Tajikistan including Kashmir. Towards that end, Jamaat will use all tactics from terrorism in the kafir-controlled areas to negotiations in the Muslim controlled areas."
    What an enormous Taliban-flavored nightmare. "Constant Jihad" sounds a lot like Mao's idea of permanent revolution. JI is so tightly intertwined with the jihadi groups that there's no effective difference - the Sinn Fein to the jihadis' "IRA." Only worse.
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    "Our motto is constant Jihad" --- In India










    Hindu
    Sitah



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    Jihad"  in India
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    Please read the Interview and know the Diabolic Plans of Islamic Org's to
    Swallow India and convert into Islamic State by breaking into pieces,
    they are not content with Kashmir - - -ARAISE AWAKE ?:- - -YOU
    HEARD ANYTHING OF  OPERATION TOPAC
    .



    -- Circulate as widely as Possible . . .
    C.Nagesh Bhushan :
    Hindu
    Sitah






    Interview with Nawabzadaa Nabiullah Khan?- - 
    style='color:tomato'>"Jamhooria Islamia"




    "Jamhooria Islamia", a monthly Baluchi magazine published
    from Panj-gar, published an interview with Nawabzadaa Nabiullah Khan, a

    confidant of and adviser to the leader of one of the prominent Pakistani
    Islamic
    militant outfits, Jamaat-e-Islami, which was conducted by Jalil Amir. Thefollowing constitutes the text of that conversation which reveals the
    fundamentalist ideology and designs of the organisation and its leader .



    Q: Please tell us about your stay with Qazi Hussain Ahmed.



    A: Qazi has two bungalows in Peshawar. We spent a lot of time in both the
    houses. The first house is where his family lived and the second house was his
    office and rest-house. But he used to meet all his friends and relatives and 
    political workers only in his family house. He made sure that, at least for 3
    days in a week, Qazi and his close friends used to spend time in his rest-house.

    Unlike his family house, the rest-house had all the amenities that one can
    think
    of. It had a 36-inch television, 2 satellite dishes to receive all kinds of
    telecasts from all over the world. He had made extensive notes on all the
    telecasts. We used to discuss all the things under the sun in his rest-house. 


    I had a habit of drinking small amounts of wine. Qazi never drank or smoked.
    Qazi knew about my weakness for wine. He advised me not to drink and asked me
    to
    follow the steps of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). Though I had a habit of drinking
    only very small amounts of fine wine just before dinner, on Qazi's insistence,
    I
    left that habit. When I was studying in engineering college, I  had started the

    habit of smoking too. I left that habit after Qazi's advice on smoking.
    I stayed with Qazi for almost 6 years in Peshawar. I did not agree to some of
    the strategies used by JI during the after-Zia years. Qazi is a very practical
    man while I was more of an idealist at that time. I was insisting that the JI
    should not rely on ballot as the only route to power. Qazi was insisting that
    ballot is the only way for JI to come to power in Pakistan. This introduced a
    sense of alienation between Qazi and me. Hence when I went to Baluchistan to
    meet my parents, I stayed back rather than going back to Peshawar. Even though
    almost weekly once we talk over the phone, Qazi never called me back to stay
    with him and I found my work as the Jamaat teacher in Quetta where I stay now
    with my parents and family.  Yet, my years with Qazi in Peshawar and around the world with him were the most
    satisfying years in my life intellectually.



    Q: What are Qazi's views on Islam and Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)?



    A: Qazi was a great admirer and student of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). He modeled
    his whole thoughts and life on the life and teachings of Mohammad (PBUH). I was
    astounded many times by Qazi when he did a small thing and he immediately
    compared that incident with an incident in Al-Hadith and explained that he did
    what Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) did 10 centuries ago. I had never seen a person
    who
    had modeled his whole life on the sayings and teachings of Prophet Mohammad
    (PBUH) like Qazi.



    Q: The women issue is very controversial nowadays. Taliban and some
    fundamentalist organizations restrict the freedom of women while some progressive Muslim intellectuals are insisting that the women are equal
    to men in all spheres. What are Qazi's views on women? 




    A: As I said earlier, the Prophet Mohammad's (PBUH) views on women are the
    exact
    views of Qazi. Equality of men and women is stupidity. What men can do, women
    cannot do and what women can do, men cannot do. Women are weak physically and

    mentally compared to men. For this we do not need any proof other than to just
    look at men and women. Men have to take care of women all the time. If some
    women do not have any male relatives, then they have to find a man and marry
    him
    so that he will take care of her. Women should not have a life outside the
    family. Education can be provided to them, but not to compete with men in

    public. Neither they can fight in war nor they can be of use in peacetime
    politics.



    Qazi had said once that when JI comes to power in Pakistan, he will abolish the
    voting rights of women and minorities. Only the Muslim men can participate in
    voting or standing for elections. When I asked the proof from Hadiths, he had
    quoted many Hadiths in support of that. I asked him why is it that it is never
    talked about openly in the public by the Jamaat? Qazi had said that the hints
    are all over the place. But JI did not make it a big issue since the women who
    currently have the voting rights may vote against JI in the elections if such a

    thing is said openly. I was against this, for in my opinion, since all the main
    leaders of the Jamaat believe that women will not have voting rights after they
    come to power, they should openly say that. If you do not say it now and then
    you remove the voting rights later when you come to power, that is going to
    build a resentment among the people. But Qazi was firmly of the opinion that JI
    should not say that now.



    Q: That brings us to the question of minorities. Will they have to pay
    Jizya

    tax?




    A: Yes. They have to pay the tax. As explained by Qazi, the idea of Jizya is
    not
    protection money. But it is a monetary force on the non-Muslim to convert to
    Islam. Once the Jamaat comes to power, the minorities will be induced (forced)
    to become Muslims either by monetary or psychological factors. JI is already
    equating India with Hindus so that the Hindus of Pakistan will be forced to
    become Muslims. This was a very successful strategy during the Babri Masjid
    riots. JI was actively involved in destroying the Hindu temples in Punjab and
    Sindh. We ordered the destruction of the Hindu family property too. But our
    main
    aim was to destroy the Hindu temples. We wrote in the JI pamphlets that
    destroying each pagan temple makes a Muslim move closer to the heaven of Allah.
    We used the Hadiths in all the pamphlets. Babar destroyed the Ram temple in
    Ayodhya because he was a true believer. The same way, every Muslim should take
    it upon himself to destroy the Hindu temples in Pakistan. O!
    ur idea was to encourage the Muslims of India also to destroy the Hindu temples
    in India. But this was not met with much success since the Hindu police in India
    started attacking the Muslims who were doing Allah's duty. 



    Q: What kind of government does JI envisage for Pakistan?



    A: It will be the Sharia government. Sharia will be made our constitution so
    that the eminent Muslim scholars who had completed the schooling in Madrasas
    will be appointed as the Judges in every court. Qazi wanted to make the
    presidium on the same model as the Khalifa. Presently our idea is that the
    entire top leadership of JI as well as all three military Generals will be part
    of the presidium for which the Qazi will be the Khalifa. We are keenly watching
    the progress of Taliban and learning from it. We are impressed with the Taliban
    on the women issue, minorities issue and law and order issue. Mullah Omar is a
    great friend of Qazi. Omar had visited his house many times. In the tentative
    talks, we had decided to form a union of Pakistan and Afghanistan once the
    right
    conditions are set in Pakistan (i.e. the JI government in Pakistan). Our motto
    is "Constant Jihad". The idea is to keep Pakistan in a constant state
    of Jihad

    all the time. Qazi's vision is that Pakistan will be!
    the centre of the new Islamic Empire that stretches from Burma to Afghanistan

    and from Srilanka to Tajikistan including Kashmir 



    Towards that end, the Jamaat will use all tactics from terrorism in the
    kafir-controlled areas to negotiations in the Muslim controlled areas. Already
    the Jamaat leaders of Bangladesh and Jamaat leaders of India have accepted the
    primacy of Pakistani leadership in this regard.



    Q: Do they come to Pakistan?



    A: Yes. We had made arrangements once in Peshawar and another time in Multan
    during the Zia time. But the understanding remains even now.



    Q: What about Srilanka and Burma?



    A: Both are Buddhist nations. For that matter even Baluchistan and Afghanistan
    were Buddhist once while Sindh and Punjab were Hindu earlier. Buddhists are
    generally weaker in matters of faith. Hence we hope they will become Muslim
    with
    a little pressure. But that will happen only after Jamaat conquers first
    Pakistan and then India.



    Q: What are the plans for India? It looks like the entire India policy
    of the

    Jamaat revolves around Kashmir.




    A: Yes that is true. But that is for a very good reason. See Kashmir is like a
    keystone that sits on top of the arch. It is true that the arch holds the
    entire
    weight of the keystone. But if you remove the keystone, then the whole arch
    falls down. That is why it is called the keystone. Kashmir is the keystone for
    India. Once you remove that, then India can no longer be secular and it will
    not
    be a united country either. Like the stones of the arch, all the bricks will
    fall down. Qazi impressed this idea upon Zia. Hence Zia started the 
    Operation  Topac
    . Operation Topac's idea is not to get Kashmir for Pakistan as thought of
    by Indian analysts. Operation Topac is much more.




    The ultimate aim of Operation Topac is to make India a million pieces so that
    it
    is easy for Pakistan to swallow India once piece at a time.
    That is why
    Pakistan
    was encouraging the militancy movements all over India. Once Kashmir is taken
    out, these militancy movements will break India by asking the similar freedom
    for Nagaland, Kerala, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Assam, Jharkand, Tamil Nadu,
    West Bengal and Khalistan. But Benazir destroyed our whole plan by giving away
    the details of the Operation Topac to Indian government led by Rajiv Gandhi.
    That was a big set back for our vision. But yet we are moving ahead.



    Q: I heard that she gave away only details about the Khalistan
    movement.




    A: That is true. In my opinion, that is why I think the damage is limited.
    India
    thinks and deals with separatist movements in different parts of India as if
    they are genuine movements even now. In that way, I say, the damage is limited.



    Q: Do you think if the States in India became independent countries, no
    such

    similar movement will start in Pakistan itself?




    A: No. Jiye Sindh movement and small separatist movements in Baluchistan and
    Peshawar are contained. We are not going to deal with the separatism in
    Pakistan  as India treats the separatists. It will be Taliban style. Actually we do not
    foresee any position for opposition in JI ruled Pakistan. Hence the BNP and
    Pakhtoonkwa leaders will be made irrelevant.



    Q: Coming back to the same point, if India was to become many
    countries, how do

    you deal with the individual Hindu States? They may even become big
    enemies of Pakistan. Or they may again re-group to challenge Pakistan.




    A: Qazi and other people had already discussed this possibility. In our
    opinion,
    such a thing is not possible since the language and cultural differences
    between
    States in India are enormous. There is no language like Urdu to bind all
    Indians. English, and not Hindi, is common language among all the States of
    India. Hence we have planned to start riots in each State against the
    neighborhood State people so that the States will always be in the state of
    war.



    For example, there are a lot of Kannadigas in Tamil Nadu and Telugu in Madras.
    We will start the anti-Telugu riots in Madras, which will keep Andhra Pradesh
    and Tamil Nadu fighting. If we keep a bomb in the Telugu Cinema Theater in
    Madras and keep a bomb in the Tamil Movie Theater in Andhra, the war between
    Tamil Nadu and Andhra will run for eternity. Similar things can be done in the
    Assam Cultural Center in Bengal and the Hindi Prachar Sabha in Orissa.  Given the differences between the nationalities in India, the options for

    Pakistan are endless. Qazi's vision is to make the entire India a 100% Muslim
    Nation. A United India, where Hindus are majority is an impediment to that.
    Like
    Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) made Muslims out of pagans of Arabia, Qazi also wants
    to
    make Muslims out of the pagans of India.



    Q: This is a great vision since this was not even possible for the
    Muslim

    dynasties and Moguls who ruled India for the last 700 years.



    A: True. That is because they had never really established the Muslim Empire.
    Though the Kings were Muslims, they had entertained the Hindus in positions of
    power. When you make an unequivocal statement that only Muslims are voters and
    declare that India is an Islamic Republic, then automatically the people will
    become Muslims. Little bit of terror had to be applied to the heart of Hindus
    and Christians. I will give you a best example. The portions which now
    constitute Pakistan had 25% Hindu population before Independence. After

    Independence, a lot of Hindus migrated to India. Yet after the migration, the
    Pakistani Hindu population was 15%. Do you know what is the percentage now? It
    is less than 1%. How was this made possible? How did the Hindus convert to
    Islam
    in a short span of 20 years whereas for 700 years they had never converted to
    Islam? That is purely because of the terror of the Partition.





    That terror forced the Hindus who remained in Pakistan to become Muslims. Pure
    and simple. JI used similar techniques in Punjab and Sindh. Each time a riot
    breaks out in India, we had used that pretext to strike terror among the
    Hindus, Christians and Ahmaddiahs
    . The similar terror will be at the heart of
    every non-Muslim, both Hindu as well as Christian, in the coming years in the
    entire of India. Qazi is an analytical genius who knows every strategy that was
    used by Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and which will be and should be used in India
    to
    achieve the total submission to Allah
    .





    Q: Do you envision a possibility that when Kashmir becomes part of
    Pakistan,

    there could be large-scale riots in India against Indian Muslims? Hence unwittingly Kashmir could lead to more deaths of Indian Muslims and
    damage Islamic Ummah.




    A: Yes that is a possibility. But our ideology is based on Quran and Hadiths.
    Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in numerous Hadiths and Allah in Quran had said that
    any
    Muslim who associates with a polytheist is a polytheist. Muslims cannot be
    friendly with a non-Muslim. This includes the Christians, Jews and Hindus. Also
    Mohammad (PBUH) says that even if the Muslim ruler is not good, the Muslims
    stay

    with the ruler rather than go out to a non-Muslim country. Hadiths and Quran
    are
    very explicit regarding this. All the Muslims who did not migrate to Pakistan
    during Partition are in essence Hindus. They may think that they are Muslims.
    But not before Allah.



    They are as self-deluded as the Ahmaddiahs who think they are Muslims when
    everyone knows that they are not Muslims. Hence the Muslims of India who had
    decided to stay in India during Partition are not Muslims and their progeny are
    not Muslim (since they did not migrate to Muslim lands).



    Another thing that I noticed in my journeys in India is that the Hindu farmers
    generally offer their entire harvest to their gods at the end of their
    harvesting season. This makes the entire crop as haram for Muslims. Yet these
    so-called Muslims of India are forced to eat this food which was already
    offered
    to some other God other than Allah. This is explicitly forbidden in Quran. And
    this is one of the serious problems of living in non-Muslim countries. Prophet
    Mohammad (PBUH) knew such things; that is why he ordered Muslims not to live in
    non-Muslim areas. Yet knowingly these so-called Muslims live in India. Again,
    all the Muslims who migrate to other countries and US are non-Muslims. Only the
    Muslims who intend to come back are Muslims not the ones who decide to stay in
    such countries. Hence we do not care if such Indian Muslims die in the riots.



    But due to strategy reasons we do have excellent relations with these Muslims.
    All the Muslims who work for Pakistan and for the glory of Ummah are real
    Muslims. They are our front line troops in non-Muslim countries. Hence we have
    to distribute the arms and ammunitions to these real Muslims in case riots come
    to their door.



    The Kashmiri Muslims are pure Muslims who are toiling under the yoke of Hindu
    rule. They are victimized by the international conspiracy to keep them under
    the
    Hindu rule. That issue is part of the incomplete Partition, whereas the Indian
    Muslims have accepted Partition and stayed on in India knowingly. 



    Q: Yet the popular uprising in Kashmir was missing in 1965 as well as
    in 1948.




    A: That is true. That may be because of the clout of Sheik Abdullah of Kashmir
    during the 1948 war. Actually the Muslim population in Jammu Kashmir was only
    marginally higher than Hindus. Muslims constituted 58% while the non-Muslims
    constituted 42%. Hence Operation Topac aimed at eliminating the Kashmiri
    Pandits
    from the Valley
    . We thought all of them will go to India. Instead, many went to
    Jammu and only very little went to India. Hence we had to ask Harkatul to start
    terrorising the Hindus in Jammu. We also expected large-scale war against
    Muslims in Jammu as well as in all the parts of India because of the killings.
    The Indian government suppressed these information. Another thing that was not
    done was the complete removal of Buddhists and Hindus from Jammu and Kashmir.
    We
    could do only in the Valley and not in Jammu and Ladakh. Hence the population
    of
    Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir is around 65% only according to Harkatul.



    Q: Tell us about your stay in Saudi Arabia.



    A: We embarked on an Umra as a team of JI leaders. Of course, Zia had arranged
    every convenience for us. We were accommodated in a Sheik's house. He is one of
    the richest builders in Saudi Arabia. He owns few gold shops in Qatar too.
    Sheik
    was a personal friend of Zia Ul Haq. During the time of Zia, we were not
    politically active. Since Zia did whatever Qazi wanted, there was no need for
    political power either. Hence we had a lot of time. That is the main reason why
    we stayed 3 full months in the Sheik's palace.



    This Sheik comes from a Bedouin family of southwestern Arabia. He had the habit
    of drinking camel urine and camel milk early in the morning. I asked him why
    does he do that? He replied that it is the family tradition as well as Islamic
    practice that is supported by Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). I was astounded. But
    Qazi explained to me that it is true. He told me three or four Hadiths in which
    the camel urine and camel milk drinking is suggested. So Qazi wanted to drink
    the camel urine and camel milk along with the Sheik. Since I could not bring
    myself to drink the camel urine, I drank only fresh camel milk, which was thick
    and frothy. But Qazi drank the camel urine and camel milk in the same amount
    and
    at the same time as the Sheik. Qazi astounded me in this incident. I am amazed
    by the fact that Qazi was ready to go to any length to mould his life in the
    teachings of the Prophet.



    Q: Does he continue to do that even today?



    A: No. He bought a camel after coming to Pakistan. Three years later, he had
    kidney stones problem. As per the doctor's advice he had to stop drinking the
    urine while he continued drinking the camel milk. The doctor advised him to
    stop
    drinking the milk as well since the camel milk is rich in calcium compared to
    the cow milk. I think he stopped drinking any milk or milk products. But he had
    said that once JI comes to power in Pakistan, he will popularize the camel milk
    and camel urine drinking in Pakistan. But I doubt he can do that. In my
    opinion,
    only camel milk can be popularized.



    Q: That is quite news to me. How was your stay in Arabia otherwise?



    A: First I have to tell you that Saudi Arabia, as the country's name, is wrong.
    It is just Arabia. Only that Saudi dynasty rules over some parts of Arabia. You
    cannot put your name before a holy land as if you own that land. For Pakistan,
    if Nawaz rules it, will it become Sheriff Pakistan and tomorrow Bhutto rules
    it,
    will it become Bhutto Pakistan?



    Anyway, one thing we noticed is that the Arabians own slaves. Though Allah says
    that the slaves should be treated in a nice manner, he did not advocate the
    abolition of slavery. If slavery is bad as considered in today's world, Allah
    certainly would have said that slavery is wrong. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) also
    said that the slaves should be treated in a good manner and the slaves should
    be
    released often. But if there is no slavery, how can anyone release slaves?
    Hence
    the re-introduction of slavery in Pakistan is one of the future plans of the
    Jamaat. All the captured Hindu Indians and Srilankans will be made slaves to
    work for Pakistani Muslims. Every God-abiding Pakistani Muslim will get slaves
    once we conquer India.



    All the slaves who embrace Islam will be set free. Slavery is Islamic. Jamaat
    is
    the only political party, which does not voice any opposition to the slavery of
    Harees (defeated) in Pakistan.
    We went around all over Arabia. We were surprised to know that there are some
    Hindus in Yemen. These ancient Yemeni Hindus are not Indians. In my opinion,
    these Hindus are traders from India in the ancient times. I was also surprised
    to know that they have a Shiva temple in Yemen. Qazi was very unhappy over
    this.
    When he talked to the Yemen leaders, he broached this subject. But the Yemeni
    leaders refused Qazi's suggestion of forced conversion of these people to
    Islam.
    I don't know why they refused. I think it may be due to the large population of
    Hindus from India who work in Yemen and Arabia. He disliked the current
    leadership of Arabia for this reason.



    In his opinion, Arabia should not allow any non-Muslim into the holy lands of
    Arabia. Arabia should be 100% pure. A large number of Hindus in Arabia is
    corrupting the Arabians. Though they live as contractors, they have the
    potential to corrupt the minds of the Arabians. One such thing is the presence
    of Arabians in the Qatar Hindu temple. First the king allowed the Hindus to

    build a temple and church in the holy lands, thereby polluting the Holy Land.
    Second is that even a member of the Royal family visited that temple to
    inaugurate that temple. To the horror of Qazi, he had learnt that one of the
    powerful members of the Qatar Royal family is a devotee of a god called
    Aayappan. This news resolved Qazi to fight the force of the devil thousand
    fold.



    Q: Such things happen in Pakistan today. I mean a friend of mine goes
    to a Hindu

    temple. Another friend goes to church meetings.




    A: Yes. One of Qazi's relatives wanted to become a Hindu. He did not have a
    child for many years and it seems he had prayed to a Hindu God and got the
    child. Hence he felt thankful to that god and wanted to become a Hindu. Qazi
    got
    to know of this and called him and threatened him with dire consequences. That
    relative did not become a Hindu. But that incident made Qazi read more about
    apostasy.
    Quran and Hadith clearly say the punishment for abandonment of Islam is death.
    Since Sharia is not the law in Pakistan, and the current Pakistani Constitution
    grants the right to change religion, it is legally correct to declare oneself
    as
    Hindu or Christian. But once the JI takes over the government, it will make
    Sharia as the Constitution. Then Pakistan will also legally execute any person
    who leaves Islam and joins Ahmaddiah, Christianity or Hinduism the same way
    Iran
    and Taliban treats its apostates. He also opined that the  presence of the Hindu
    temples in Pakistan is the root cause of the problem and hence we want to
    destroy all the Hindu temples and Churches in Pakistan.



    Q: This brings us into another area. Right now the Internet is becoming
    widespread. Even Saudi Arabia is connected with the outside world.
    Destroying the temples may be good, but how can we insulate the Pakistani and Muslim
    people against the corrupting knowledge totally?




    A: JI had taken a principled stand on the matter of science and religion.
    Religion is far superior to science. Whatever man needs to know is in the Quran
    and Hadiths. Knowing more will create problems like the Atom bomb and
    Television. Quran and Hadiths are explicit in denouncing pictures. Yet the lure
    of Satan in the form of photography and television is eating our lives. 



    Music previously was confined only to the vocal singing. Now science and
    technology made the music widespread at a cheaper price. These are the lures of
    Satan. We have to be on guard against these harami things.



    Hence, more science and technology is bad for the civilization. I had completed
    civil engineering. Hence I am privy to scientific knowledge. I can tell you how
    corrupting that is. It even makes you question the glorious Quran. There are
    many Hadiths, which say that the earth is flat. But any science will tell you
    the earth is a sphere. But you can use the same science like the relativity
    theory to prove that the earth is flat. It is the same case with evolution. But
    the point being that doubt is sown in the minds of the people on the validity
    of
    the Quran as the word of God. More and more we work hard to prove the Quran's
    scientific correctness, more and more people will get apprehensive of the truth
    of the Quran. This is an abomination. This is why when we talk of education, we
    talk of religious education and not scientific education. 






    It is true that science grew after the Prophet's revolution in Arabia. That was
    the start of science. Now each and every science is filled  with anti-god stuff.
    If you want to become a doctor, you have to read evolution. If you have to read
    any engineering, you have to believe in the billions of years old universe
    theory which effectively says that human beings came to the world only just one
    or two million years back.



    Q: But we still need the arms and knowledge of the Western world, which
    believes

    in science. And again you had referred to television as evil. If we
    abolish photography how can we have passports or identification cards?




    A: Yes. That is strategic. With the help of Allah, we will be given oil for
    them
    to run their cars and we will have arms in that place. We will use their arms
    to
    destroy them in the course of time. As far as photos are concerned, they will
    be
    banned as it is done in Afghanistan. If there is no need for people to go out
    of
    Pakistan, where is the need for the passports? For those who have to travel to
    other countries like the leaders of the revolution, they only will be given the
    passport with photos. For that, we will allow limited photography licensed only
    to the government. And the biggest corruption in today's Pakistan is Indian
    satellite TV and Indian cinemas and Indian songs. We have to abolish these too.



    Q: Currently we have a lot of opposition from Mohajirs regarding
    reservations.

    What kind of reservation policy will the JI will have in Pakistan?




    A: We approach that problem as the problem of language. Urdu-speaking Muslims
    and Sindhi-speaking Muslims are fighting now. We plan to abolish all the
    regional languages like Pashto, Sindhi, Baluchi, Urdu, Punjabi and Brahvi. We
    want all the people of Pakistan to speak Arabic which is our divine language.
    This will make everyone equal before everyone else and there would not be any
    need for language or region based reservations. We also hope that this will
    make
    the Quran and Hadiths easier to understand and will make the people follow the
    Quran and Hadiths to the letter.



    Q: There could be language riots. One such language riot resulted in
    Bangladesh.




    A: Bangladesh was not a result of language riot. The very idea that they are
    Muslims will bring the Bangladeshis to Arabic. We already fund heavily the
    Arabic language courses all over India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. From Morocco
    to
    Iraq speaks in Arabic, I don't see any reason why from Morocco to Burma we will
    not bring Arabic to the people. Even Bangladesh will start speaking in Arabic.

    That time there won't be any Bangladesh where the country name itself has the
    name of the language. Yes. Right now our aim is just for reunification without
    touching on the language issue of Bengali. JI of Bangladesh is working towards
    this aim.



    Q: The secular journalists of Pakistan oppose the JI. For example the
    Dawn and

    News are very critical of the JI. How do you see their role in the
    future?




    A: Ardheshir Cowasjee is able to work only because of the present Constitution
    of Pakistan. When Sharia becomes the Constitution, he cannot even approach the
    court, as he is a kafir. We see secular journalists as our main enemy in the
    current struggle to reach power. These secular journalists are digging our
    statements we made during the pre-Independence days and trying to beat us. Of
    course we opposed the creation of Pakistan during the British times. But that
    was a different Jamaat. Our history starts with Independence. Secular

    journalists are not Muslims even though some of them are carrying Muslim names.
    Let them come to us and let us ask questions on the Quran and Hadiths. We will
    prove each and every thing we say is from Quran and Hadiths. Let them prove
    what
    we say as wrong from the Quranic angle. Then we will accept them. But they
    cannot. They cannot match us in any debate concerning the Quran and Hadiths. We
    can comprehensively prove that they are indeed non-Muslims.!
    They are like Quadianis who say that the Muslim need not take up Jihad as an
    obligation. That is pure nonsense.



    Q: What is your plan in Quetta?



    A: I have family in Panj-gur. I have my work in Quetta. Hence I travel all the
    time. Though I am a close friend of Qazi, and though he  asked me to take up
    organizational work, I refused that since I am not really good in
    organizational
    work. There are very good people who are very good in organizational work in
    Quetta. I am being contented with the closeness of Qazi and being an ideologue
    of JI. Sometimes I speak in the Jamaat meetings. Otherwise my time is spent in
    reading and sending notes to Qazi.



    Q: Thanks for your time.



    A: May Allah's blessings be with you.



     



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    Bihar town resists Gujarat lunacy
  • While Gujarat was burning, a small town in Bihar set an example of communal amity, when a group of Hindus got together and protected a mosque from being vandalised. During Friday's bandh in Muzzaffarpur, called by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to protest the Godhra carnage, a group of hooligans tried to enter the Company Bagh mosque and vandalise it.

    A senior police official, who was present on the spot when the incident occurred, said that when the word spread about the bid by the hooligans to enter the mosque, almost 100 Hindus converged on the spot from the nearby Goriamath and Sariyaganj area and challenged them. A tussle broke out in which quite few Hindus were injured while guarding the mosque, but the hooligans had to beat a hasty retreat in face of stiff resistance, he said. By the time police reinforcement came in, the hooligans had done the vanishing act.

    Muzzafarpur has the distinction of never having witnessed a communal riot.
    Gee, what boring place to live. No riots, just some fist-fighting without a single person burned alive. Shucks, they probably don't have a decent turban in the whole town.
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    Terror Networks
    Makedonskis bump off seven... Paks?
  • Macedonian police are reported to have shot dead seven suspected foreign militants in a shoot-out in the suburbs of the capital, Skopje. Interior Ministry officials said the men had opened fire on a police patrol with machine guns in the early hours Saturday. No police officers were hurt. Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski said the dead men were "probably Pakistanis" and had been planning attacks on vital installations and embassies. "That terrorist group was in the area with the aim of attacking vital installations, Macedonian officials and the embassies of Germany, Great Britain and the US in Skopje," said Mr Boskovski.

    Police officials said they had found AK-47 rifles, grenade launchers and grenades in or near the van used by the rebels. Forensic experts described the dead as "dark-skinned" and police video footage show to the press showed what appeared to be identity cards with the names Omer Farooq and Bilal Hussain. Police also said they had found uniforms of the now-(supposedly)-disbanded ethnic Albanian rebel group, the National Liberation Army (NLA).
    Y'see, they made a wrong turn at Lahore, and they thought Skopje was Poonch... Mmmm, no. That probably won't wash. Too bad they're not ticklish anymore. Bet the Macedonians would have liked to ask them a few questions.
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    Osama McLaden targets Brit Bigs
  • An English-born member of the Scottish Parliament has attacked well, verbally, anyway the group who claimed responsibility for toxic packages sent to his assistant and the prime minister's wife, Cherie Blair. Mike Rumbles, a Liberal Democrat member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, believes he may have been targeted by the Scottish National Liberation Army (SNLA) because he was born and educated in the North East.

    The parcels were recovered after a man claiming to be from the SNLA - whose members have been dubbed the 'tartan terrorists' - made an anonymous phone call to Scotland Yard. Police are trying to trace up to 14 other packages containing the poison, caustic soda, disguised as aromatherapy oil.
    Yes, a Telling Blow Against English Imperialism, laddie. Next they're gonna kidnap Patty Hearst and knock over a few banks.
    There may be a bit more bite than meets the eye. A quick Google on the SNLA would make them look to have a bit more oomph than the 70s SLA you're quipping about in yellow.

    However, they don't have anywhere near the IRA's base and seem to pose no long-term threat to stability. The SNLA does has their own analog to Sinn Fein, the legal Scottish Separatist Group.

    Posted by Mark Byron [markbyron.blogspot.com] 3/2/2002 3:02:10 PM
    'Formed in 1980 in response to "mass English immigration", the group has spent years making hoax bomb threats to blow up Queen Elizabeth and her daughter Princess Anne.'

    Notable for picking a fight with the CPGB: 'Donald Anderson of the SRSM was blustering that “if Delargy [a CPGB supporter - MF] wants to jump the hospital queue, then he is sending out the right signals. How else does he think this will be resolved? Does he think we’ll send him a lawyer’s letter?”'

    (Vaguely) suspected in the assassination of William McRae.

    I see a wannabe IRA/Sinn Fein without the brains - and I never think of the IRA as being very smart. What have I missed?
    Posted by Fred 3/2/2002 7:03:18 PM
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    13 killed in Jammu & Kashmir
  • Thirteen people, including five snuffies, three children and a woman, were killed and two wounded in violence in Jammu and Kashmir, where a self-styled supreme commander of Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen was among 12 arrested by security forces since Friday night.

    Three militants, including a Pakistani national, were killed in an encounter with security forces during search operations at Wahabpora in Badgam district of central Kashmir on Saturday. A woman was also killed when she was caught in the shootout, the spokesman said. He said two Lashker-e-Taiba terrorists were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Magota village of Rajouri district early on Saturday. The militants were identified as Tahir Tabasum and Mohammad Qasim both residents of Chakwal in Pakistan.

    In another incident, three children were killed when a bomb exploded in a cattle shed in Ghambir Muglan area in border district of Poonch on Friday evening, the spokesman said.

    A couple was found killed by militants in Udhampur distric on Saturday. A Special Police Officer Jalaluddin was shot dead by some unidentified hard boys in Gool area of Udhampur.
    The Tehreek appears to be the shock troops of Lashkar-e-Taiba. They have more sophisticated equipment and better training.
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    Ramallah celebrates new boomer attack
  • FoxNews reports ten dead in East Jerusalem, including three infants, as another Palestinian did what Palestinians do best.
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    US pressures Paks for Kandhar hijackers
  • The US is reported to have asked Pakistan to hand over the hijackers of the Indian Airlines plane in 1999 and the three terrorists, including Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, freed by India to secure the release of hostages at Kandahar. Besides Azhar and Sheikh Omar Saeed, the third terrorist released by India to end the hijacking was Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar. Pakistani weekly Independent reported that besides Omar, the US wanted the extradition of eight Pakistani nationals including the terrorists released by India and the hijackers of the Indian Airlines plane.

    The US is also reported to have handed over to Pakistan a draft MoU to formalise cooperation between the two countries to curb international terrorism and terrorist networks. Washington wanted Islamabad to sign the MoU that would enable the concerned anti-terrorism agencies of the two countries to work together in targeting international terrorism.
    Oooh. That's neat. We asked for Omar Sheikh and they're obfuscating and mumbling and evading, so we ask for more. Sounds like the Don Vito school of diplomacy. Wonder if ISI is noticing?
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    Three Jaish hard boys nabbed in Cuttack
  • Three alleged terrorists suspected to be involved in the attack on the United States Information Service office in Kolkata have been arrested and police are probing their links with Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has been blamed for the attack. A joint police team of Orissa and Kolkata arrested the suspects from the Pir Bazar area of Jagatpur locality in Cuttack on Friday evening, the police said. The joint team is interrogating the trio.
    Betcha those boys are wishing they were back in Pakland about now.
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