[Tolo News] During his trip in the southern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province on Tuesday, Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai remarked that foreign forces should fight Islamic fascistioutside Afghan borders
Hence the CIA UAVs hunting jihadis in Pakistan... not to mention Special Forces hunter-killer teams and that invisible unit of Afghan Special Forces who've been wandering somewhere doing something, probably something unpleasant for the recipients.
To prevent Islamic myrmidon's attacks carried out by Afghan Taliban is duty of Afghan government, not the responsibility of foreign forces, President Karzai said.
So true, dear. We look forward to the day y'all are capable of that.
"We will cooperate with international community so that they start fighting beturbanned goons in their hideouts. There is no al-Qaeda among our people," he said.
No? But there certainly are Taliban and other jihadis, some of them not native -- or near-native -- Pakhtons/Pashtuns. Many of them are in organizations affiliated with Al Qaeda. The governments of Turkey and Germany, among others, are not pleased about this.
"So war among our people and villages does not make sense."
Tell your people and your villages to call the international forces when the Islamic myrmidons come calling, and that little problem can be made to go away prettydamquick.
He said that "he has started detailed talks with the US government regarding the issue."
Once again President Karzai called on the Taliban to renounce violence and join the political process. "Once again, I call on the Taliban not to increase pain and sorrow of their country and instead make it happy prosperous," he said.
He cited illiteracy as the root of miseries and urged residents of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... to do their best to get their children educated.
It would help if the Islamic myrmidons gave up destroying schools on both sides of the border.
It is believed that in most restive parts of the country where there is less control of central government, teenagers and youths especially girls do not have access to education.
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Al-Qaeda is poised to overrun five states in North Africa and the Middle East, creating terrorist safe havens from which the network can launch attack on the West, Europe and the US have been warned.
Mauritania, Mali and Niger have seen a steady escalation of al-Qaeda activity targeting Western aid workers and experts. Somalia, to their east, has disintegrated in the face of Islamist assault. In Yemen, across the Red Sea from Somalia, security forces have been waging a losing battle against resurgent jihadist armies that have claimed the lives of dozens of troops.
Amadou Marou, the President of Niger's National Consultative Council has been in Europe with a grim message for governments. "Somalia got away from us", he said, "and northern Mali is in the process of getting away from us".
Mohamed Abdillahi Mohamed, Somalia's new Prime Minister, has also called on the US and Europe to "step up to the plate". Aid to Somalia, he said, "is not an option, it's a necessity. We are dealing with al-Shabaab, who are extremists and seeking to take their war throughout the world".
At one time he supported the fatwa calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie. However, when asked about his statement he said he was just joking. Seems he learned taqqiya well during his coversion.
[El Universal] Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz said on Tuesday that Arturo Cubillas, an alleged member of Basque terrorist group ETA, will appear at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday in the Attorney General Office to testify as a witness.
Ortega Díaz added that the ETA suspect will appear in the Public Prosecution Office to reaffirm the request he made when he asked the Venezuelan agency to investigate his case, following a public complaint against him.
The Attorney General stressed said that her agency has not received a formal notification from the Spanish authorities requesting the extradition of the alleged ETA member, who resides in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan official said that Spanish authorities have made several statements on the issue, but the Venezuelan Attorney General Office has not received any official information.
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(KUNA) -- North Korea is believed to have produced some 40 kilograms of plutonium, the main ingredient of an atomic bomb, and to be miniaturizing nuclear weapons to improve their mobility, South Korea's defense minister said Tuesday, local media reported.
"We believe that North Korea owns 40kg of plutonium and continues attempts to miniaturize atomic weapons," Defense Minister Kim Tae-young told politicians in Seoul, according to Yonhap News Agency. The US believes North Korea had produced about 50 kg of the weapons material, which experts say would be enough for six to eight atomic bombs.
Kim said North Korea's ballistic missiles could be used as "useful means" to carry nuclear bombs along with its fleet of bombers, according to the report. North Korea, which conducted two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, has shown no signs that it owns a working nuclear bomb. Asked about the possibility of another nuclear test by North Korea, Kim replied, "There is a possibility, but no clear signs (of a third nuclear test) have been observed yet." North Korea has also made progress in its uranium enrichment program, which could give Pyongyang a second way to develop nuclear weapons in addition to the plutonium-based program, Kim said.
North Korea officially quit six-party talks, a forum aimed at ending its nuclear development in exchange for incentives, in April last year and conducted the second nuclear test a month later. The six-party talks, which also involve South Korea, China, the US, Japan and Russia, were last held two years ago.
Chances of their resumption have been dim after Seoul blamed Pyongyang for sinking one of its warships in March, which killed 46 sailors. North Korea has been beckoning other members recently, saying that it is willing to rejoin the forum. South Korea demands that the communist neighbor shows in action its willingness to denuclearize and apologize for the ship sinking.
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Which may be linked to
To wit,
* WORLD NEWS > [Isarel IDF] MI HEAD: IRAN CAN ALREADY PRODUCE NUCLEAR BOMB.
and
* SAME/TOPIX > OUTGOING IDF INTEL CHIEF: HEZBOLLAH CAN TAKEOVER LEBANON IN A DAY ["Day" = matter of Hours]. Hezbollah has no real opponent in Lebanon to stop it from doing so iff it so desired.
SYRIA = is repor engaged in MASSIVELY BUY OF RUSS MIL WARES AS SOON/FAST AS RUSSIA CAN MAKE OR PRODUCE SAME, espec ANTI-IDAF ADMS = S-300's, ISRAEL MAY NEED LONGER THAN 48 HOURS TO ACHIEVE AIR SUPERIORITY N A WAR AGZ SYRIA.
Suspended for 48 hours while they check through the contents of the post offices, to find and disarm black powder-containing letter bombs, probably not connected to the PETN-containing AQAP printer cartridge parcels.
In all, Greek officials dealt with nine confirmed bombs four on Monday and five on Tuesday. Greek officials said they had charged two young men who were arrested Monday with committing terrorist acts. At least one of them was suspected of being tied to radical leftist organizations.
(Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry is expecting a report of demolition experts, who are examining the bomb found in the Russian embassy in Greece. The ministry will draw conclusions when the report is ready.
A small parcel was delivered to the Russian embassy in Athens on Tuesday afternoon, the ministry said.
"Regular precautions were taken, and the parcel caught fire. When the fire was put out, bomb elements were revealed. The embassy staff called for Greek police, who started initial investigation," the ministry said.
"Similar attempts of terrorist acts were taken in Athens on Tuesday. Luckily, casualties and damage were avoided in each case," the ministry said.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen said on Monday Germany's ban on cargo flights coming through it was hasty, strange, exaggerating, harming its counterterrorism efforts and only serving Al-Qaeda.
An official said the move, taken after the mail bombs sent to the United States of America onboard planes that originated in Yemen and that were seized in London and Dubai, was a collective and illogical punishment of Yemen, which refuses terrorism and is launching an unabated war against it.
Yemen is one of the countries most affected by terrorist acts by local and foreign Islamic fascistiwho come to bomb and do other destructive acts inside it, the official said, adding that Yemen's friends should support it in this case as it is determined to continue the war on terror despite all consequences.
On Monday, a front man for the German Transport Ministry said in a presser that his country expanded the ban on freight flights coming through Yemen and tightened security measures at airports after it had discovered a suspicious package passed through its western part.
The decision is indefinitely valid, he said, pointing out that all Yemeni airplanes flying to Germany were handed a copy of it.
Now, German aviation companies should prevent direct and indirect flights coming through Yemen from landing at local airports, he made clear.
"Moreover, Germany is currently considering banning cargo flights from other countries within the framework of a comprehensive security review."
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Good !
This is, no doubt, a decision taken following the stupid ban of Yemeni prime minister on any western forces landing to investigate the perpetrators and hunt the Al-Kaida forces down.
The Bozo has constantly impeded any western forces efforts to close down on Terrorist activities in his stone-age "kingdom" piece of the desert which is practically a safe haven to the Al-Kaida vermin.
I hope this ban will be expanded and extended indefinitely to give him a taste of his own medicine.
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*YAWN*
When the majority of Yemenis practice a sane religion, they can talk about "strange" and bitch about "collective punishment". Until then... just WTF do they call dhimmitude if not "collective punishment"?
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I ask again: how much air freight traffic is there between Germany and Yemen in the first place? Seems like the Germans have figured out that they can live without it, however much it is.
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I ask again: how much air freight traffic is there between Germany and Yemen in the first place?
After looking up Yemen in the CIA Factbook and Wikipedia, the only possibilities for exports to Europe would seem to be handicrafts and recordings of Al-Awlaki sermons. They've got a small amount of oil and just opened a liquified natural gas processing plant last year, but not enough of either to send all the way to Europe.
[Iran Press TV] Canada has agreed to allow the repatriation of Toronto-born Guantanamo detainee Omar Baby Face Khadr after he finishes a year of incarceration in the United States.
"The American government agreed that Omar Khadr return to Canada and we will implement the agreement between Mr Khadr and the US government," Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon told the country's parliament on Monday.
Ottawa's decision comes a day after a US military panel sentenced Khadr to 40 years in prison. However, The infamous However... the 24-year-old will only serve up to eight years behind bars under a plea bargain.
Last week, Khadr agreed to plead guilty to US military charges of murder in violation of the laws of war, providing material assistance to a terrorist organization, and espionage, in exchange for a sentence of eight years that will see him freed in 2018.
A plea bargain is a legal strategy often employed by US government prosecutors to force a guilty plea on defendants in controversial cases where the evidence against them are either lacking or not convincing. In such cases, defendants are coerced into admitting to government charges in exchange for a milder punishment, or face the likelihood of a much harsher sentence.
The US Judiciary considers the use of the strategy very effective in claiming legal victory and legitimacy in convicting many defendants that insist on their innocence. US media and rights groups have reported on a number of legal cases in which the plea bargain has been abused.
Part of the agreement was that he would be transferred to Canada to complete his incarceration after he finishes a year in US custody.
Khadr has already spent more than eight years in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
He was jugged by the US military in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was only 15 years old.
The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, Amnesty International, and other human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... groups have condemned Khadr's continued detention and called on the US government to consider his status as someone who was originally nabbed as a child soldier and release him immediately.
Moreover, they have rigorously complained that much of Khadr's confessions were rendered under torture and duress.
Khadr is the third Guantanamo detainee to plead guilty and the fifth to face court proceedings before military commissions, which are George W. Bush-era war tribunals, supposedly reformed and reinstated by US President Barack B.O. Obama.
Khadr is the last citizen of a Western country held prisoner at the Guantanamo facility.
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Good luck in the repatriation. Repatriation doesn't equal rehabilitation, ya know.
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His entire family is openly hostile towards the west and fro some reason canada can't boot. Do I have to mention that they are on government assistance.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism is the non-profit research group founded by Steven Emerson, the one who CAIR got blackballed at National Public Radio for revealing that which ought to remain concealed from the kufr. Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace site has regularly and frequently published articles from them on various subjects related to Islamism and Islamist organizations, individuals and propaganda memes. This particular article highlights the many individuals recently arrested for jihad activities who were connected to the RevolutionMuslim.com website, to which the recently convicted Zachary Chesser was a frequent contributor. A read through the IPT archives (click on the icon at the link) will amply repay the reader, I think.
Oklahoma is set to become the first state in America to outlaw Sharia law.
Voters were expected to rule it illegal for judges to rely on the Islamic code when ruling on cases following a state-wide ballot.
Proponents of the ban said it was a preemptive strike to stop Oklahoma suffering the same fate as European countries such as Britain, where Sharia is routinely used in Muslim communities.
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An amendment to the constitution of a US state should be a bigger issue by far than an unfashionable bitter clinger's publicity stunt involving the burning of korans.
Will Obama, Clinton, Gates, Petraeus, Rasmussen et al promptly condemn this vote and apologize to the Afghan people and muslims in general?
If they won't then moderate Afghans might be driven into the arms of the extremists.
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There's a legal problem. While you can ban State judges from considering international law in their decisions, you have to also ban "religious" law, not just Sharia law, from their decisions.
But the real issue is not what State judges do, but what religious people do "on their own dime", as it were. For a long time, for example, Jews have been allowed to have their own religious courts, to settle disputes between Jews in an *consensual* manner. It is almost never an issue to the rest of the public.
But when Muslims demand the same right, to have *consensual* courts with Sharia Law, just for them, they are invariably *not* consensual, but coercive, and even threatening. To not use such a court once it is established, or to reject its decision means at a minimum being ostracized by their community, more likely to be menaced with, or physically attacked, or even killed.
Unfortunately, our legal system is as of yet incapable of distinguishing the difference between religious court systems. In short, there is no way Sharia Law courts can be tolerated in the US, where coercion would not be a factor. Even if they had to conduct their courts under the watchful eyes of non-Muslims, they would still engage in coercion outside of the court.
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there is no way Sharia Law courts can be tolerated in the US, where coercion would not be a factor. Yes. It is pitiful that the electorate is so profoundly ignorant of its own interest.
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Sharia law courts tend to set up a dual legal system wherever they are. They are subversive in nature in that they intend to supplant the existing legal system by stealth. I would think there is considerable opposition in the U.S. to Sharia law courts.
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Other areas of ignorance include the traditional Islamic response to: adultery, blasphemy, apostacy, dissing the Prophet, opposing a jihad, etc., which is always & everywhere: the death penalty.
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The Sharia issue is not about whether Muslim communities should be allowed to adjudicate their internal affairs according to their traditions.
It is about whether non-Muslims in the West should be subjected to Sharia restrictions of their civil and human rights.
That is the official demand of the OIC, including liberated Afghanistan, liberated Iraq, NATO ally Turkey, moderate Jordan etc.
Sadly, as of 2010, major institutions in the US are observing Sharia restrictions (Yale, Comedy Central, nearly all of the MSM), and the American and NATO political establishment resorted to open intimidation and harassment to coerce an American citizen into 'voluntarily' waiving his constitutional rights and paying obeisance to Islam and Sharia.
Whatever the direct legal implication of the Oklahoma vote may be, the political message is clear: Defiance in the face of creeping Rushdie rules.
The big question is this: Will this vote trigger an international crisis, and how will the political class in the US and other Western countries react?
For a long time, for example, Jews have been allowed to have their own religious courts, to settle disputes between Jews in an *consensual* manner. It is almost never an issue to the rest of the public.
It must not be an issue because most people probably have no idea it's going on. I think this is a mistake if it's happening. There should be only one legal system in this country, applicable to everyone. If certain people object and don't like it, they need to remove themselves to the countries that do allow those religious courts. I really believe that. This is America, the same law applies to everyone here or we're just asking for trouble.
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I think a lot of people are misreading this.
The referendum only refers to the deliberations and decisions of government judges. If people use arbitration or mediation, whether it is religious or non religious, that seems to be as permissible as it was before the referendum.
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Okay, I didn't know what these religious courts were. Now that I do, I still think they're not okay. How can you allow this and not allow sharia? No wonder Britain has a terrible problem on its hands.
Every Orthodox Jewish community has religious tribunals, composed of three, or sometimes four rabbis. These rabbinical courts, called Bet Din, Hebrew for House of Judgment, are intended to settle every disagreement within the community and only rarely choose to report cases to secular judicial authorities. Its a matter of protecting the community, explained Yaakov Schonberg. By handling problems yourself, you prevent the others from knowing about those problems and from using them against you. Breaking the rule and reaching out to secular authorities when there is a problem within the community, according to Schonberg, will get you excommunicated more often than not. Excommunication means that someone will not be allowed in any synagogue of the community, his/her children wont be accepted in any yeshiva, and shopkeepers will refuse to do business with that person. The pressure on the family is huge! added Yaakov Schonberg.
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The plaintiffs father said he had also been under pressure during the month before the Lebovits trial began. As soon as the date of the trial was officially announced, I received calls from everywhere, even from Israel! He said people were calling to ask him to drop the case and go to a religious tribunal instead. But you have to understand, rabbinical courts used to mean something, Yaakov Schonberg said. They used to have real authority and real moral superiority in the community. Now it has become a business, a way to make money! Schonberg explained how thirty years ago, there used to be only one Bet Din in Borough Park and another one in Williamsburg, and how now, there were dozens in each neighborhood. Now, its usually three young rabbis who know very little, fresh from rabbinical school, and they call themselves rabbinical court! he said, gesticulating vigorously. He paused and added: They dont have to be approved by anyone, there is no election, no nomination, no validation whatsoever. They just open an office, put a sign that says Bet Din, and charge each plaintiff $100 an hour!
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Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, who has for over ten years been strongly encouraging victims to bring sexual offenders before a secular court, said he was now considered an outcast in Brooklyn. He was excommunicated two years ago after he launched a hotline to teach victims and their relatives how to react when they are confronted with a sexual abuse situation. Today, there isnt one synagogue in this borough that will accept me, even the most liberal ones, Rosenberg said. Such pressure has been made on every rabbi in Brooklyn that now I have to go pray in Manhattan, and even there, my rabbi received several calls from leaders in Williamsburg asking him not to let me in anymore. But he answered No one rules in my synagogue but me!
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And how is it okay that we let Catholic priests go to prison and get killed in prison for their offenses and other people are not subject to our laws? I think it's bizarre.
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Sadly, as of 2010, major institutions in the US are observing Sharia restrictions
Don't forget major international banks offering Sharia-compliant instruments.
Separately, Black Charlie Chinemble5313, the entire point of the article you link is that secular law overrides the Bet Din, and that is acknowledged by the Jewish community where the abuse happened, even if they don't like it at all. The perpetrator was convicted once somebody stood up to accuse him, and the rabbi who encouraged the victim has found a congenial congregation to accept him, even if it is in the next borough.
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I understand, trailing wife, that this article is about what happened in this one instance. But from what I'm reading, the pressure is so intense that this is an unusual case and going to secular authorities is very rare.
I guess the mistake of the Catholics was just that the hierarchy didn't enforce enough pressure on the victims to stay shut up.
I honestly don't believe it's okay for people to have no access to our legal system due to communal pressure. And this system can't possibly be considered voluntary even for arbitration or mediation...it doesn't sound voluntary at all. Shopkeepers won't even do business with them for crying out loud.
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But from what I'm reading, the pressure is so intense that this is an unusual case and going to secular authorities is very rare.
Agreed. Rarer than in more normal communities, where standing up to testify is already rare. I don't like it, either. But our ancestors came here because they didn't like the pressure to remain whatever they were over there. These people can do the same, and all they have to do is leave Brooklyn. Yes, it's risky and uncomfortable and all that, but this is still a free country, and it's easier than moving to a new continent. In fact, that's what the young man who testified did -- he left the community, but not Judaism. Voluntary means accepting the difficulties of doing what one thinks is necessary, and doing it anyway.
What isn't mentioned in the article is that these communities lose members at a fairly constant rate, just like the Amish, exactly because they won't put up with that crap.
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I don't mean to criticize other peoples way of life. This is just rather shocking to me to hear about. I am really concerned about the fact that it sounds like nothing is going to be able to be done about sharia law unless a body happens to show up!
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Oh yes....and kudos to the rabbi in Manhattan!
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[Dawn] Pakistain's prime minister says he sees no chance of midterm elections or a military coup in the country.
They usually don't ...
Pakistain's unstable political scene and media frequently throw up rumors that the army may intervene to get rid of the elected government as it has done in the past. There is also speculation that opposition parties may demand fresh elections before President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari's term ends in 2013.
Pak Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told politicians on Tuesday that the army was "pro-democracy" and would not impose martial law.
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PAK PM GILANI
Versies
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > {JEI J & K] GEELANI: HINDUS, MUSLIMS ARE SEPARATE NATIONS.
[Iran Press TV] Paleostinian Authority (PA) Caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh has pledged that East al-Quds (Jerusalem) would be the capital of the future Paleostinian state.
East al-Quds "will be the capital of our independent state," he said after inaugurating a renovated school in Dahiyat al-Barid.
He made the remarks after Israel barred him from opening another project, which was a reconstructed road in al-Quds, for political reasons.
Last week, Feyadh announced plans to inaugurate two renovation projects in the Israeli occupied and annexed East al-Quds, both of which are located on the West Bank side of Israel's separation barrier running through the city.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement on Monday ordered officials "not to let the Paleostinian Authority conduct events and ceremonies" in al-Quds.
"We have already rehabilitated 14 schools in Jerusalem in less than four months as well as several roads, and we will continue to work towards our goal of establishing an independent state," Feyadh was quoted as saying by AFP.
"Today we declare our victory and the victory of our projects against the occupation and the terrorism of the settlers," he added.
Israel seized East al-Quds during the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it -- despite opposition from the international community -- in line with plans to grab the entire al-Quds as what it refers to as its "eternal, indivisible capital."
In 2002, the Israeli regime started a massive separation wall through the West Bank in a bid to keep Paleostinians out.
The wall cuts through parts of al-Quds' eastern sector that despite being under Israeli control, receives little funding. The PA has stepped in on several occasions to fund the renovation of schools or furnishing of roads.
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ION HAARETZ > LEBANON SOURCE: HEZBOLLAH PLANNING COUP IFF CHARGED IN HARIRI MURDER. Takeover of Lebanon.
MEMRI translates, so we don't have to. Further discussion of the topic at Big Peace.
One dominant theme during Ramadan in the Arab world is the discussion, in the media and in religious circles, of the commandment of jihad and the obligation therein to wage war against the infidels.[1] Two articles, in the Saudi and Egyptian press respectively, spoke out against this "offensive jihad."
Columnist Khaled Al-'Ghanami wrote in the Saudi daily Al-Watan against extremists who call for jihad against the infidels and claim that it is the preferred way to propagate Islam. He said that today's media offers a variety of ways of spreading the message of Islam, so that there remains no justification for waging war to do so. Al-'Ghanami divided supporters of offensive jihad into two groups: those who call for immediate jihad, and those who think that as long as Muslims are weak there is no point in discussing jihad.
In his column on the Koran and Sunna in the Egyptian daily Al-Gomhouriyya, 'Abdallah Al-Naggar wrote about preachers who focus on offensive jihad during Ramadan, referring particularly to preachers in Egypt who stress this issue on 10th day of the month of Ramadan -- the date in the Islamic calendar on which Egypt marks the "victory" of the 1973 war with Israel. He suggested that in our time it is best to emphasize jihad as self-defense, not as offensive, adding that the Muslims currently don't have the strength or faith that will enable them to institute Islam worldwide (This puts him in the second of Al-'Ghanami's categories).
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What does the White House have to do with YouTube? YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, right? Shouldn't the Brits just complain to YouTube or to Google? Isn't there an on-line form or something?
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Is this, possibly, an accidental ray of sunlight into a mechanism normally held from our sight? That this approach worked speaks volumes.
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From Electronic Telegraph today:
An MP stabbed by a high-flying university student inspired by al Qaeda told how it was like a "bolt out of the blue".
Stephen Timms backed calls for an overhaul of websites hosting terror videos as he said Roshonara Choudhry's online radicalisation was "puzzling and alarming".
Mr Timms was knifed twice by Choudhry at a constituency surgery in east London in May.
An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery and helping kill her husband, will be executed on Wednesday, according to a statement by a group that opposes stoning in Iran.
"The Islamic regime of Iran plans to execute Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani immediately," said a statement on the International Committee Against Stoning (ICAS).
The group didn't give details on the method that will use to execute Ashtiani, but following an international campaign , Iran in July said a stoning sentence had been suspended.
Ashtiani was convicted of adultery in 2006 and according to human rights activists forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes. She later recanted that confession and has denied wrongdoing.
Ashtiani's son and lawyer have been arrested and tortured by Iranian authorities, ICAS has said.
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Update:
TEHRAN has accused the West of trying to pressurise it over the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, as an exiled activist said the woman was not executed today as feared.
"They (Western nations) have become so shameless that they have turned the case of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, who has committed crime and treason, into a human rights case against our nation," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.
"It has become a symbol of women's freedom in Western nations and with impudence they want to free her. Thus, they are trying to use this ordinary case as a pressure lever against our nation," he was quoted as saying by ISNA news agency.
"The other side is only looking for pretexts against the Islamic establishment and if ... we give into their demands they will assert, so there will be nothing left of the revolution and the establishment," Mehmanparast said on state news agency IRNA.
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A lot of Islamic apologists will say that stoning for adultery isn't in the Quran and thus it is unIslamic to punish adulterers that way.
Here are some thoughts on that:
1. If so, why aren't all the other Islamic nations crying out against this particular case? Why is it only the "western" nations that are bothering Iran about it?
2. There is a famous (or infamous) Hadith in the collection of Bukari (whose work is beloved by both Shia and Sunni) which specifically says, Stoning is for all non-sanctified sexual activity. FWIW, some say that it was given before a verse from the Quran that prescribes 100 lashes without mercy for adultery (Q 24:2).
3. There are other hadiths that prescribe stoning for activities similar to adultry e.g., Acquire it from me, acquire it from me. The Almighty ALLAH has revealed the directive about women who habitually commit fornication about which He had promised to reveal. If such criminals are unmarried or are the unsophisticated youth, then their punishment is a eighty stripes and exile and if they are widowers or are married, then their punishment is a hundred stripes and death by stoning.
Sahih Muslim
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[Al Arabiya] Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad has come under unprecedented criticism from the Revolutionary Guards, the elite military force usually considered his staunch supporter.
A harshly worded article in the Guards' monthly magazine echoes criticism of Ahmadinejad from other parts of the Iranian establishment and shows attempts to mend rifts within the Islamic Theocratic Republic's ruling elite have yet to work.
Ahmadinejad and his close aides have faced criticism from politicians, the judiciary and some powerful holy mans for saying parliament is no longer at the centre of affairs and promoting an "Iranian" rather than an "Islamic" school of thought.
In an article entitled: "Is parliament at the centre of affairs or not?", the magazine, Payam-e Enghelab (Message of the Revolution), asked: "Does being on top justify whatever action the government thinks is right, disregarding the law?"
Re-elected in June 2009, Ahmadinejad faced down huge demonstrations from an opposition movement which says the vote was rigged, something he denies. Divisions among the hardliners have become more apparent in the months since the protests were put down, through sometimes violent repression.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has its own navy, air force and command structure separate from the regular armed forces. Along with its voluntary militia, the Basij, it played a key role in quelling the post-election unrest which was the worst seen since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The rifts prompted Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to call for all branches of government to support the president whose government he has hailed as extremely successful.
"National unity is very important and must be strengthened with every passing day... and by that I am addressing both officials and ordinary people," Khamenei said during his recent visit to the holy city of Qom.
But Payam-e Enghelab's criticisms were similar to those voiced by parliament, the judiciary and holy mans.
"Dealing with marginal and unnecessary issues by some politicians has become the country's main issue," the magazine said, referring to the controversy about the "Iranian" school of thought which many of Ahmadinejad's fellow conservatives say smacks of secular nationalism.
"Adopting these kinds of stance has no benefit but creating separation and division in the Islamic theocracy front and casting doubt about fundamental stances," it said.
The harshest words were about Ahmadinejad's remark about parliament's reduced power, which some critics have said was a contradiction of the stance of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini -- the deeply revered late leader of the Islamic theocracy.
"The superficial interpretation of Imam Khomeini's remarks and changing them in a way that meets a few people's interests for a short time is an irreparable mistake," it said.
Indignation about Ahmadinejad's apparent disregard for parliament has pushed some former rivals within the legislature -- in the hardliner "principlist" camp and more moderate "reformists" -- closer together.
"The prominent figures of principlists and reformists have formed an unwritten alliance," Ali Motahari, a prominent hardline MP who is an outspoken critic of Ahmadinejad, was quoted as saying by the reformist Sharq newspaper on Tuesday.
The pressures on Ahmadinejad from within the hardline camp at home comes as Iran faces tighter economic sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear programme which some countries fear is aimed at making a bomb, something Tehran denies.
Iranians are also bracing themselves for the impact of Ahmadinejad's cornerstone economic plan: slashing billions of dollars of subsidies for essentials like food and fuel.
Economists outside Iran have said sudden hikes in prices of items like gasoline -- likely to happen in the coming weeks -- could reignite popular unrest. Politicians within the Islamic Theocratic Republic have warned of "economic sedition" as opponents of the regime seek to stir trouble.
Mirhossein Mousavi, the opposition leader who lost the 2009 election, said an increased police presence in recent days was a government attempt to intimidate anyone thinking of protesting. The police have said it is conducting a crackdown on crime.
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I suspect that anticipated budget cuts for the IRG are the real reason for the nastiness between A-jad and the IRG.
Nobody knows exactly how bad the Iranian fiscal situation is but between the corruption, the allocation of productive resources to the various nuke programs and other 'prestige' projects of dubious merit and the unhappiness of the mercantile class, the situation must be pretty poor.
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And considering that the IRGC also controls a significant swath of the Iranian economy, it's going to be a double-whammy for them.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem ... Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... repeated on Tuesday the party's position that it is not concerned with the international investigation in the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
He told BBC Arabic: "We have nothing to say over what we will do if the indictment were to accuse Hizbullah members because there are several possibilities. All we know is that such a decision is the beginning of possible unrest and danger in Leb."
"Hizbullah has refused since Ramadan the list of members that Special Tribunal for Leb wants to investigate with," he added.
He also reiterated Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's statements that Prime Minister Saad Hariri had informed him that the indictment will accuse party members.
Furthermore, Qassem denied that a Nasrallah-Hariri meeting will take place soon, saying: "There is currently no need to hold such a meeting, but we don't mind holding one at the other side's request."
The Hizbullah official added that at the moment the party will not propose a governmental change or amendment.
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ION STRATFOR > HEZBOLLAH THREATENS "EXPLOSION" IN BEIRUT OVER [Hariri] TRIBUNAL.
* WAFF > MEMRI TV VIDEO= [Late/Deceased] EMIR OF ISLAMIC MOVEMENT OF UZBEKISTAN TELLS OF HIS ENCOUNTERS WID OSAMA BIN LADEN. Emir Taheer Yuldashev on Osama's departure from Sudan, MOM PROPHECY.
ARTIC > YULDASHEV = ISLAM ONCE CONQUERED + RULED OVER OTHERS, NOT IT IS THE ONE BEING LED BY OTHERS [mostly Infidels = Undeserving]; the US, EUROPE, NATO, RUSSIA + CHINA ALL FEAR THE [stereotypical][stalwart = Allah-fearing]ISLAMIC MUJAHID ARMED WID AN AK-47 AS A SOLDIER-SERVANT OF GOD DESPITE THE MUJAHID NOT POSSESSING ANY ATOMIC/NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR ADVANCED TECHS, AS THE MUJAHID SERVES GOD + HEAVEN + ISLAM, NOT MATERIAL OR HUMAN THINGS;
[An Nahar] Today, Premier Saad Hariri has become a dictator, because all state authorities are under his control, Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah charged Tuesday.
"The energy and water ministry had submitted a project on gas-powered vehicles eight months ago. Why hasn't the government endorsed it yet? We say that Leb is a looted country," Aoun told news hounds after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting.
Asked about FPM's campaign regarding alleged violations in the finance ministry, Aoun said: "Some politicians have been saying that we are putting ex-PM Rafik Hariri on trial. The truth is that we're trying to retrieve the stolen money."
"Those who have been indulged in wrongdoing since 20 years won't be able to correct things today; the approach of the past has fallen and change and reform are coming."
Tackling the issue of the Special Tribunal for Leb, Aoun said: "Since 2005 up till now, we've been living in the shadow of the tribunal and trials, and it (STL) aims to cripple the country ... we can't live according to the tribunal's mood."
Furthermore, Aoun announced that he will boycott Thursday's national dialogue session "if the false witnesses issue was not settled" during Wednesday's cabinet session
On the other hand, he hoped Tuesday's meeting of the ambassadors of Soddy Arabia, Syria and Iran on Tuesday would yield "positive results."
Aoun condemned Sunday's Storied Baghdad church attack and held "the U.S. tutelage authority responsible for what has happened in Iraq" so far.
Earlier Tuesday, Aoun said ex-PM Rafik Hariri "is not responsible for the ongoing wrongdoing, but rather those who had succeeded him in power."
"The country is living in financial chaos," he added.
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[An Nahar] The Syrian-backed Opposition reportedly plans to take control of Beirut in the event an indictment by the international Tribunal was issued.
Pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Tuesday quoted a well-informed Lebanese source as saying reports were being circulated among Lebanese security authorities that Hizbullah and AMAL Movement as well as other forces allied with Syria have been holding extensive, periodic meetings to discuss "coordination" in the presumed battle for the control of Beirut.
It said the meetings discussed "zoning" of the areas such as each group will have its own confrontation zero hour map.
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