Two Yemeni airfreight parcel bombs intercepted en route to Chicago synagogues, one of them for gay Jews

 The bombs sent from Yemen were intercepted on a UPS cargo plane in England,³ and at a Fedex facility in Dubai,³ after a Saudi tipoff.⁴

 Although the bombs were sent to Chicago synagogues,³ one which was Or Chadash that serves gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jew,¹ British Prime Minister David Cameron said the bomb found in England was designed to explode on the plane.³

 Around 60 per cent of US bound cargo is flown in on passenger planes, meaning the bombs, which were powerful enough to bring down a plane, could easily have brought down one of them.³

 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula is suspected of being behind the plot since PETN explosives, used by them in the past, such in Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab's failed under wear bomb,² was also used this time in one of the bombs, placed inside a computer² printer's ink tonger cartridge.⁴

 Hanan Al-Samawi,² a fifth-year Engineering student at Sanaa University, in the Yemeni capital, has been arrested under suspicion⁵ of mailing the packages. Her mother, Amatulillah Mohammed, has been detained along with her.²

Sources: 1. Chicago Tribune, 2. CNN, 3. 4. Daily Mail (UK) 5. Time (Magazine)

Western couple called "swine" & "infidels" during Islamic marriage renewal ceremony in Maldives

 The couple were unaware the "Islamic blessing"³ ceremony was a fake, with the marriage celebrant Hussein Didi² speaking insults in the native Dhivehi² language while pretending to perform the ceremony. There were insults throughout the ceremony, including during Islamic prayer with hands raised^1,2 and while speaking in Islamic chants tone^1,2 as if reciting the Koran.¹

 Didi called the couple "swine"^1,2 and told them their children will be "bastard swine".^1,2 He said their marriage was not "valid"^1,2 since one of them was an "infidel"^1,2 and the other was likely an atheist that "does not even believe in an infidel religion."^1,2  He told them to keep "fornicating"^1,4  and spreading "hatred".^1,4

 Also included in the insults were; that homosexuals frequently fornicate,^1,2 that Westerners "bugger"¹ chicken and were "familiar with the taste of the ****holes of chicken",¹ and complaints about employment conditions.¹

 Apart from Didi, there were 10-15 other employees²  of the Vilu Reef Beach and Spa Resort^1,2 where the ceremony took place, who witnessed the events but non intervened. Instead some of them took to rudely² discussing the woman's breasts and questioning whether she was wearing a bra.^1,3 One of them joined in by denigrating kissing, calling it mouth sucking.^1,2  It seems everyone thought it was funny since it only became public after one of them posted the video of the incident on Youtube as a “a joke”.^1,2

 The video with English subtitles can be viewed on Youtube at this link.

Source: 1. Minivan Daily (Maldives), 2. The Daily Mail (UK), 3. The Daily Telegraph (UK), 4. The Sun (UK) 

Al-Shabaab executes two "evil" teenage girls alleged to be spies and "enemies of Islam"

 Ayan Mohamed Jama and Horiyo Ibrahim were executed by a firing squad in the Somali town of Beledweyne.⁴ The town's residents were forced to watch the execution.¹ Al-Shabaab commander Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ugas said the girls were "evil"³ and "enemies of Islam".²

Source: 1. AP, 2. BBC, 3. CNN, 4. The Daily Telegraph (UK) 

Body of George Azzi dug up from Christian cemetery and disfigured in Lebanese Muslim town

 The body was severely beaten, it's face disfigured and dumped outside the cemetery gate by unknown attackers, in a third such incident in a decade. Father Selim Nammur from Jiyyeh, where the attack took place, said it was not sectarian, but had kept quite to avoid portraying it as such. During the bloody sectarian civil war that ended in 1990, such incidents were more common.

[Although Father Nammur said it wasn't sectarian, Muslims, who do much worst to the living, as evidenced even by what little is recorded here on this blog, must be suspected. The Father might simply be trying not to be provoked.]

Source: AFP 

Pakistan born Muslim US citizen Farooque Ahmed charged with conspiring to bomb train stations in US

 Ahmed, 34, and an associate wanted to wage “jihad” and kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and were seeking terror contacts in January⁶ when FBI was tipped off by a contact in the Muslim community.¹ A sting operation was then launched with FIB agents posing as al-Qaeda terrorists,⁶ asking Ahmed to carry out surveillance of Arlington Cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City and Court House train stations,⁷ used heavily by military and civilians working for the Pentagon, for bombings in 2011.⁶ He complied and handed over videos,⁶ images⁴ and sketches of the targets, and suggest when and where to place explosives to cause maximum casualties.⁶ He even recommended putting explosives in wheeled suitcases instead of backpacks and offered a $10,000 donation.⁶

As preparation for jihad overseas, Ahmed had trained himself in martial arts, use of firearms, knife and gun tactics.⁶ He had planned to participate in next month's Hajj to complete all five pillars of Islam before waging jihad in which he was willing to die a martyr.⁶

Ahmed was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and came to the US in 1993, becoming a citizen in 2005.³ He has a computer science degree and works in telecommunications.⁶ He and his wife Sahar Mirza, who is from Birmingham in Britain, have a young son.⁵ The family wears traditional Muslim clothing,² with Mirza always wearing full hijab.⁵ Mirza is a co-organiser of a self help group for Muslims called Hip Muslim Mums, which she describes as "today's mom's nurturing tomorrow's ummah".⁵

 The identity of Ahmed's associate has not been made known by authorities.⁶

Source: 1. AP, 2. AP, 3. AP, 4. U. S. Department of Justice, 5. The Telegraph, 6. The Washington Post, 7. The Washington Post 

Imam warned to be "different" when reporter visited hate mosque, says Ex-Muslim

 Ex-Muslim Christain Zakaryia Ezzat, now a young man, said when he was a Muslim, "mosques fostered an incredible hatred toward Jews and America", but during a visit by a Reno Gazette Journal reporter for a story on Islam, a friend told him "'I had to warn the imam to be different.'" He also said if there was freedom "many people will leave Islam and it will cease as the dominant religion". Zak and other ex-Muslims will be speaking at "The Forum for Middle East Understanding" to be held on Nov. 21 in Killeen, Texas, near Fort Hood. 

Source: WorldNetDaily 

Arab-Israeli human rights activist, Amir Makhoul, pleads guilty to spying for enemy of Israel

 A leading² Arab-Israeli human rights activist,⁵ Amir Makhoul, 52, who has said attacks on Israeli civilians are not war crimes,³ has admitted and pleaded guilty to "contact with a foreign agent"⁵ and "conspiring to assist an enemy during a time of war",⁵ as part of a plea bargain. The prosecution in return has dropped the charge of “assisting”^2,5 an enemy during war, which could have resulted in a life sentence if found guilty.² Charges specifically linking his activities to Hezbollah has also been dropped.³ Makhoul now faces only up to 10 years in prison. The State Prosecutor's Office said the guilty plea puts an end to unfounded allegations that the charges were politically motivated and that wrongful means were used to acquired the confession.⁶

  The charges against Hakhoul includes meeting Hezbollah agents during his travels,⁶ including to Denmark,⁵ and passing information to them on at least 10 occasions,⁶ [including] “street address, directions, and security arrangements for several strategic locations, including Shin Bet offices, Mossad offices, the Nachshonim military base, the Rafael weapons systems factory, and the home of Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin.”³ During the 2006 war with Hezbollah, he is alleged to have passed on the location of rocket strikes in Israel³ [probably] so Hezbollah could calculate the accuracy of it's attacks,⁴ and where he believed captured Lebanese fighters were held.¹ He allegedly also tried to pass on a video of a failed terror attack against a Haifa mall.⁶

Makhoul was a former director of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and had also been chairman of High Arab Monitoring Committee's panel on defending Arab citizens' freedoms.⁶ [He most likely used the knowledge gained from serving in these posts to aid terror,] as he is also accused of giving Hezbollah a list of Arab-Israelis potentially willing to be recruited.³ One of his alleged terror contact was Hussan Jaja, a fellow community activist in Jordan, to whom he is said to have sent information using sophisticated encryption programmes² or a coded email program.¹ Another political activist, Omar Sayid, who was arrest along with Makhoul, had also had been charged with spying² but has been released after pleading guilty to a lesser charge.⁵ MK Azmi Bishara also faced charges of spying but has fled the country and there have been other less well known cases of Arab-Israelis betraying to the terrorists.³

Sources: 1. AP, 2. BBC, 3. Israel National News, 4. Reuters, 5. VOA, 6. Ynetnews

“Death to terrorists”, shouts nationalist Jews in protest against Islamic Movement “cancer” in Israel

  Around sixty² admirers of rabbi Meir Kahane² chanting “death to terrorists”² have marched on the outskirts of Umm el-Fahm, one of the largest Arab communities² in Israel and a stronghold of the radical Islamic Movement,^1,2 whose leader Sheikh Raed Salah,³ has called for a third Intifada.^1,2,4 They called for the Islamic Movement to be banned,² saying it was a “fifth column”,⁴ “Trojan horse”,⁴ and a “cancer”³ that seeks to destroy Israel from the inside.³ They said it deserve to be banned “1,000 times”² more than Kahane's Kach Party, which is banned. They also spoke out against the “State's helplessness“² in dealing with the radical group and said Israeli's were the only “suckers”⁴ that allow in their country a movement that calls for it's destruction. Some 350 Arab residents¹ rallied against the protest and there were clashes between rock throwing Arab youths and the police.¹ 

Sources: 1. AP, 2. Daily Mail, 3. Reuters, 4. Ynetnews 

Germany to punish forced marriages, common among Muslims, with 5 years jail

The German government is to make forced marriages, especially common among Turkish and Arab Muslims,¹ a crime punishable by up to five years in prison. Currently it is treated as a form of coercion.² Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said culture should not be used to excuse something which is wrong.² Once parliament approves the proposal, it will become law.

Source: 1. The Canadian Press, 2. Reuters

US Muslim Abdel Shehadeh charged with taqiyya over his attempt to join terrorists in Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia

  Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, a US citizen born and raised in New York, flew to Islamabad in June 2008 to join terrorists but was denied entry to the country when he landed there. He lied about the purpose of his trip by saying it was to attend a madrasa (Islamic school), or an Islamic university, and to attend a friend's engagement party.

He then tried joining the US army in October 2008, hoping to get training, a weapon and be deployed to Iraq where he planned to commit “treason” by deserting to join terrorists. This also failed when recruiters discovered he lied by not telling them of his trip to Pakistan. He also showed them an old passport without the record of his travel to Pakistan saying he could not find his new one. He later admitted to the FBI that he had ripped out the Pakistani visa for his trip from his new passport.

Later that month, Shehadeh flew to Amann, Jordan, a country which borders Iraq, but was denied entry to the country.

 Shehadeh went to Honolulu in April 2009 and from there tried to fly to Dubai in June, intending to travel on to Somalia via Djibouti from there. He was unable to board the flight however as his name was on the “No Fly” list.

In October 2009, Shehadeh went to SWAT gun club in Hawaii and paid to fire various weapons.

In 2010, Shehadeh tried to have his name removed from the “No Fly” list by claiming he had renounced violent jihad and offering to be an FIB informant. He told them he once believed he would get 72 virgins if he died fighting jihad.

Shehadeh also ran websites, sunnah101.com at first then later civiljihad.com and mymekkah.com, and had a Youtube account sunnah101, where he posted videos and other materials advocating violent jihad, including those by al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, Anwar al-Awlaki and Adam Gadahn. There was also a link to al-Awlaki's website at anwar-alawalaki.com. His email at civiljihad.com was mujahideen@civiljihad.com. Mujahideen means jihad warrior. In a message posted on muslimrevolution.com, the website of a New York based group that agrees with the ideology of Muslim terrorists, Shehadeh urged Muslims to exercise their free speech by speaking up. He also admitted that “in the land of the enemy of the mujahideen, Muslims can speak up and practice Islam freely.”

 Shehadeh also encouraged one friend to follow him to Pakistan, another to travel to Somalia and a third person to learn Arabic “on the battlefield” in Yemen. He told the first friend that “war is deception” and discussed a hadith [probably Bukhari 4:52:269] on the use of deception during jihad. He advised the third person to put porn and music on his computer before traveling to deceive airport security in case he was searched. These three became FBI witnesses and revealed Shehadeh true jihad terror motives.

Shehadeh was arrest in Hawaii but will face charges in New York.

Source: Arrest warrant for Abdel Hameed Shehadeh as posted on CBS News 

Christians evicted from Church in Sudanese capital by Police in Muslim's attempt to seize land

 Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) had a contract to lease the church compound to Muslim businessman Osman al Tayeb for 80 years, but only after SPEC leaders give final approval. Fearing a permanent loss, final approval has not been give yet. Muslims do not want churches in Northern Sudan and have used similar tactics to seized other Christian properties in order to stop Christians from reaching Muslims.

Source: Compass Direct 

Somali pirates flee German cargo ship Beluga Fortune after crew disabled it and hid as rescuers approached

 With the ship disabled and it's crew hiding in a purpose built barricaded room, the pirates were neither able to control the vessel nor take hostages. The pirates left before military rescue arrived a few hours later.

Source: AP 

Democracy and demographics in Bahrain election

 Shiites make up about 70 percent of the population but only contested and won 18 out the total 40 parliamentary seats during the election. They complain the minority Sunnis maintain control by gerrymandering and giving citizenship to Sunnis from elsewhere in the Middle East. The country is ruled by a Sunni dynasty and all important decisions rest with the King.

Source: AP 

A suspected Boko Haram member killed in failed attack on police station

 Suspected members of Boko Haram tried to torch a police station in the town of Bara in Nigeria's Yobe state but were repulsed. Boko Haram means "Western education is sin"¹ or "Western education is sacrilege"² in the local Hausa language.

Source: AFP 1. AP 2. 

A 14-year-old dead, 5 wounded by Moroccan police in Western Sahara

 Police claim they returned fire after shots fired at them during clash as they tried to enter a protest camp near Laayoune in Moroccan occupied West Sahara.

Source: AP 

Dutch NGO aid worker for the disabled, Afghan driver, kidnapped in Afghanistan

 The abduction took place in Khan Abad district of Takhar province.

Sources: AFP, AP 

Roadside bomb kill 2 civilians on motorcycle in Helmand, Afghanistan

 The explosion took place in Now Zad district.

Sources: AFP, Reuters 

Suicide bomber kill 2 civilians, 1 police, injures 5 civilians and 5 police in Khost, Afghanistan

 The attacker was targeting a checkpoint in Tani district, Khost province.

Sources: AFP, Reuters 

Roadside bomb kill 3 civilians, injure 2 others on a van in Pakistan

 A road side bomb has struck a van traveling near the village of Tanda in Pakistan's Orakzai tribal region, killing 3 civilians and injuring 2 others, according to Aurangzeb Khan, a local government administrator.

Source: AP 

6 dead, including 2 women, 13 others injured after Sufi shrine bombed in Pakpattan, Pakistan

The bombing of a Sufi shrine in the Pakistani city of Pakpattan has killed at least 6 people,¹ two of them women,² and injured 13 others.³ The bomb was placed inside a milk churn on a motorcycle parked outside the gate of the shrine,⁴ where a 12th century saint, Baba Farid, also known as Ganjshakar is buried.⁵ Three of the wounded were women.⁶ Taliban, which has carried out attacks against Sufi shrines in the past,⁷ and Sunni extremists vehemently oppose Sufi Islam and consider their shrines idolatrous.⁸ In July, two suicide bombers killed 42 at Data Darbar shrine in Lahore and on October 7, nine worshipers, including two children were killed by two suicide bombers at Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine in Karachi.⁹

Source: AFP 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9. BBC 4. Reuters 1,7.

Freedom of religion don't actually exist in Muslim Middle East, says Pope Benedict

 The pope said "true freedom to live and profess one's faith" don't actually exist in Muslim countries of the Middle East. He said while there is freedom of worship, the actual freedom to do so "is many times very limited". He said freedom of religion is a fundamental human right which all states should respect and should be subject of dialogue with Muslims. The comments were made at the end of a synod of Catholic bishops at the Vatican to discuss the future of embattled Christians in the Middle East. Conflict, discrimination and economic problems have forced Christians to leave the region, resulting in their ever decreasing presence there.

Source: AP 

Islamic dumbing down - Restrictions on 12 un-Islamic university subjects in Iran

 Iran has announced a ban on universities from opening new departments¹ in 12 humanities subjects considered too “Western”² and not in “harmony”³ with Islam. It also plans to revise the content of existing courses in these subjects by up to 70 per cent⁴ to make them “compatible”⁵ with Islam. The subjects targeted includes human rights, law, management, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology and women's studies.^6,7 The move comes after Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for action saying the many humanities subjects based on “materialism disbelieving the divine Islamic teachings”⁸ will lead students to “doubt”⁹ Islam. Two million out of a total of 3.5 million Iranian university students are studying humanities.

Sources: AP 1, 3, 4, 7. Reuters 2, 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Somali pirates seize LPG tanker York off Kenya

 A Greek-owned but Singapore-flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker, York, with a crew of 17, has been seized by Somali pirates off the coast of Kenya. The fishing vessel, Golden Wave, also seized by pirates on the 9th of this month was seen nearby. The two seizures are believed to be related. A pirate, Hasan told Reuters by phone that the tanker was heading towards Garad in Somalia. Currently 19 vessels with 428 hostages are held by Somali pirates.

Sources: AFP, Reuters 

Iran cut off a second robber's hand for the month

 Iran has cut off the hand of a 32-year-old man, know only as M., after he was convicted of four robberies in the city of Yazd. Another robber received the same punishment in Mashhad earlier this month, as did five others for theft in July at Hamedan. The rise in poverty has been suggested as the reason for increasing crime.

Source: AFP 

American Muslim convert al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn urges Trojan horse Muslim immigrant jihad terror

 American Muslim convert and al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Yahiye Gadahn¹ has urged Muslims in “the states of the Zio-Crusader coalition”² to carry out “individual obligation of jihad”³ terror attacks against the host countries, in a video released on jihadist forums on October 23, 2010.⁴ He said Muslim immigrants living on the “margins of society in the miserable suburbs of Paris, London and Detroit”⁵ or who are in Europe or America to “study in its universities”⁶ or to “seek their daily bread in the streets of its cities”⁷ should use the opportunity to strike against the enemy “on their own soil”,⁸ just as “Muhammad Atta and ... Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, Faisal Shazad and hundreds of others”⁹ have done, if there is “no covenant between you and them”.¹⁰ He said the attacks should avoid harm to Muslims and their properties.¹¹ He also spoke out against moderate Muslims trying to supress "jihadi awakening."¹²

Sources: AFP 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11. AP 3, 12. CNN 9. SITE Intelligence Group 4. The National Counterterrorism Center 1. 

Terrorist fail: Motorcycle suicide bomber explodes prematurely and other bombs defused in Afghanistan

 A motorcycle suicide bomber has exploded prematurely in the center of Kandahar city killing one civilian and injuring two others.¹ The provincial governor's spokesman, Zelmai Ayubi, said a checkpoint was the intended target.² He also said bombs in two cars and a motorcycle, left on main roads in the city were safely defused after suspicious citizens called police.³

Sources: AFP 1. The Canadian Press 2, 3.

Four Taliban suicide bombers dead in attack on UN base in Herat, Afghanistan

 Four Taliban suicide bombers have died in an attack on the UN base in the Afghan city of Herat. At least one of the attackers was wearing a burqa, while the rest wore Afghan police uniforms.¹ A car bomber and one other attacker blew themselves up at the gate of the UN compound, while another blew himself up inside and a fourth was shot and killed.² There were body parts, probably of the attackers, strewn around the gate after the attack.³ Three security guards were injured⁴ but no UN staff were hurt. Taliban claimed responsibility through spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi⁵ and a commander, Mullah Bilal.⁶ Taliban declared earlier this year that all foreigners, including diplomats and aid workers, along with Afghans working for them were legitimate targets.⁷

Sources: AFP 3, 4, 5, 7. Reuters 1, 2, 6.

Court rules judges in Wilders trial suspected of bias, new trial ordered

  A new trial has been orderd for Geert Wilders after an independent appeals panel of judges headed by judge G H Marcus¹ found there was an “understandable”² suspicion of “a degree of bias”³ by trial judges after they made an “incomprehensible”⁴ decision to disallow the recalling⁵ of a key witness⁶ by the defence.

  Hans Jansen⁷ was a defense witness as an Arab⁸ or Islamic culture expert,⁹ who has said that one of the judges in the trial, Tom Schalken,¹⁰ had tried to convince him during a dinner party that prosecuting Weilders was a correct decision.^11,12 Weilders has brought charges of legal interference against Schalken¹³ for the improper contact.¹⁴

  The case against Weilders was only brought after the prosecution was forced to do so by a court.¹⁴ The prosecution does not believe Weilders has a case to answer and has asked the court to dismiss the case in this trial.¹⁵

  Wilders had earlier tried unsuccessful for the judges' recusal after one of them said he was avoiding debate by exercising his right to remain silent in court.¹⁶

  Wilders is facing five counts of offending and inciting hatred against Muslims and non-Western immigrants, especially Moroccans.¹⁷ He faces up to¹⁸ a year in jail or 7,600-euro fine.¹⁸ Weilders maintains he is only exercising his right to free speech in a debate on “the dangerous totalitarian ideology called Islam”.¹⁹

Sources:

AFP 1-5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20
AP 9, 10, 12, 14, 17, 21
BBC 6, 18

Pakistan mosque bombing kills 4, including children aged 7 and 10

 A 1.5 kg improvised-explosive device (IED) explosion near a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers, which usually attract the largest crowd, in Pushta Khara neighborhood of Pesahwar, Pakistan, has killed at least four, including a seven-year-old boy and 10-year-old child, while injuring 22 others. Police official Ejaz Ahmad said the bombing may have been a response to recent crackdown on militants in the area.

Source: 1. AFP, 2. AP 

US should invade if Pakistan continue supporting terror, says Muslim former US ambassador to Afghanistan

 The former US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the UN, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, who is a Muslims, says the US should give Pakistan "a stark choice" between receiving US aid and support and fighting terror, or face an invasion. Despite receiving billions in aid, Pakistan provides sanctuary and support to Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani terrorist network, planning to use them as Pakistan's proxies in Afghanistan once the US withdraws. Khalilzad says the US should invade and attack terror bases in Pakistan if the country doesn't shut them down and stop supporting them.

Source: 1. The New York Time, 2. The Atlantic Wire 

$2 billion more in US military aid for a Pakistan that doesn't fight terror

 The US is to give Pakistan $2 billion in military aid from 2012 to 2016.¹ Nearly $5bn has already been given from 2005 to the last financial year. A White House report to Congress earlier this month said Pakistan avoids direct military action against Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda in North Waziristan, not for lack of military resources only but also for political reasons.²  

Source: 1. AP, 2. BBC 

Pakistan Foreign Minister says nearly 37,000 killed by terrorists in the country

 Terrorists "that offers no quarter, obeys no law and holds nothing sacred" have killed nearly 30,000 civilians and nearly 7,000 soldiers and police in Pakistan, according to the country's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

Source: AP 

Muslim censorship: Journalist Juan Williams fired for expressing worry of Muslims on planes

 National Public Radio (NPR) news analyst Juan Williams, who is black, has been fired after saying that although he is not a bigot and has written books on civil rights movement, he "get worried" and "nervous" at seeing people on the same plane as him that "identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims" by wearing "Muslim garb".  The comments were made on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" to host Bill O'Reilly. NPR's reason for firing Williams was that the comments were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."

Source: WorldNetDaily (WND) 

US to sell Saudis $US60 billion worth of arms

 The Obama administration plans to sell the Wahabbi Saudi Arabian absolute monarchy military equipments which includes 84 F-15s, 70 Apaches, 72 Black Hawks, several Little Bird helicopters and upgrade of 70 used F-15s. The Saudis are anxious of Iranian Shiite theocracy's missiles and this deal is aimed at countering Iran. The sale will be spread over 15 to 20 years and will need to be approved by Congress first.

Source: AFP 

23 percent of Afghan parliamentary election votes declared invalid

 1.3 million out of the 5.6 million votes cast during the recent Afghan parliamentary election has be declared invalid by the Independent Election Commission (IEC). 224 candidates out of a total of 2,500 who stood for seats in the election had also been identified as "suspicious" due to allegations of fraud. 

Source: AFP 

At least 10 killed, mostly women and children, by roadside bomb in Afghanistan

 At least 10 people, most of them women and children have been killed by a roadside bomb planted by "enemies of Afghanistan" when it was hit by a vehicle carrying a family to a wedding. Abdul Jabar Purdili, police chief in western Herat province said four others were also injured.

 According to eruonews, the death toll was 13, with 5 children, 5 women and 3 men killed, with the bride among the dead.

Source: AFP, euronews 

8 children dead after roadside bombing in Afghanistan

 A school bus carrying female students from a wedding party has hit a roadside bomb planted by insurgents in Afghanistan, killing nine, eight of them children. The incident took place on Wednesday in Khash Rod district of Nimroz province as the victims were traveling towards Shindand in western Herat province. 

Source: Reuters 

White American Muslim convert Zachary Adam Chesser pleads guilty to terror charges

 Chesser aka Abu Talhah Al-Amreeki has pleaded guilty to providing material support to Al-Qaeda-inspired al-Shebab and making threats against South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.¹ Chester had warned that Stone and Parker risked the same fate as Theo Van Gogh for depicting Mohammed in South Park and posted their office addresses online.¹ He also posted the personal information of those who joined the Facebook group "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" on jihadist websites saying it was "a place to start."¹ According to the FBI, he also posted online the U.S. Army Ranger Handbook in order to help terrorists target U.S. Airlines.² Chester also admitted placing fake suspicious packages around to make police drop their guard when dealing with such reports so that there would be a "Boom! No more kafir" while inspecting a real one.^1,2 He made two attempts to travel to Somalia to join al-Shebab in jihad terror and was arrested on his second attempt.¹

 Chester seems to have converted to Islam after dating a Muslim girl in school.² He broke up with her after a brief period but married another Muslim woman soon after and quickly had a child with her. A high school friend Drew Harrington said Chester was "always trying to find himself" and "just wanted to be part of something".²

Source: 1. AFP, 2. Washington Post

Atmosphere of terror as 52 killed in 4 days of ethno-political violence in Karachi

 Fifty-two people have been killed in four days of ethno-political violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi. A local resident Mohammad Sadiq said there was an "atmosphere of terror" in the city. In one attack, 11 people, including 8 ethnic Baluch were shot to death. Most of the killings have been blamed on gangs allegedly controlled by political parties. There had already been 300 "targeted killings" in the first half of this year. The current round of violence stems from the bye-election for the seat of assassinated MQM MP, Raza Haide. The secular MQM blames the Pashtuns based Awami National Party, which has boycotted the election, for the Talibanisation of the city.

Source: Press Association, AP

Was race a factor in the murder of a Black man treated like a slave by the homosexual Saudi prince?

 Homosexual Saudi prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud has be found guilty by a London jury of murdering his alleged male partner Bandar Abdulaziz, who is Black, and has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison. Saud claimed they were "friends and equals" when it really was a "master-servant relationship". A witness, George Koni, told the court that Abdulaziz was treated "just like a slave". This is consistent with other evidence such as the beatings caught on camera and other injuries found on Abdulaziz's body. Although race does not appear to have been mentioned in court, it could be that Saud's behavior was born partly out of racism and that he was using the Black man as both a physical and sexual slave.

Source: The Daily Mail

Femal genital mutilation and being sold into marriage as a young girl in film of Waris Dirie

 Graphic re-enactment of female genital mutilation (FGM) suffered as a child and of being sold off into marriage as a barely pubescent girl are included in the new film "Desert Flower", set for release in February next year. The film is based on the autobiography of Somali model and social activist Waris Dirie, who fled the marriage, came to the West and became a fashion model.

Source: Reuters

Muslims profit from terror; New US military aid for Pakistan, on top of annual 2 billion, 7.5 billion pledged and 400 million flood aid

 As part of a "strategic dialogue", Pakistan is in talk with the US for new military equipments to fight Muslim terror.¹ Pakistan currently receives $2 billion² in military aid for this and last year Congress pledged 7.5 billion³ over five years to build schools, infrastructure and democratic institutions to turn people away from terrorism. The US has also donated about $400 million⁴ in flood relief for those effected by the recent flood.

 This shows the injustice of how Muslims profit from terror. Due to Muslim terrorism, the US and others have to give aid and assistance to bribe and improve Muslims, in order that they will be pleased and will hopefully become a bit smarter and so will not support or become terrorists. At the same time, other more deserving people also in need of help gets ignored, or are denied of help they would otherwise have received, since it has gone instead to the Muslims, as there is no threat of terrorism from the non-Muslims.


Sources: 1, 3. AFP, 2. Reuters, 3. AP

Pakistan says it will only fight terror if it serves national interest

 Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while speaking at Harvard university, said that Pakistan was committed to fighting terrorism but was "first and foremost, like every nation on earth, committed to preserving our national interest". A recent White House report to Congress said Pakistan avoids direct action against Afghan Taliban in order to gain influence there. India also says Pakistan should do more against anti-Indian Muslim terrorists, like those who carried out the 2008 Mumbain attacks.

Source: AFP

Hugo Chavez and Iran in an Unholy alliance

 Left-wing Americanphobic Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said on his ninth visit to Iran that he will support Tehran "under any circumstances", and that they were in a "holy" cooperation against "imperialists". The two countries have been trying to increase energy and trade ties. Chavez supports Iran's nuclear program and has recently signed a deal with Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Venezuela.

Source: AP

Video shows barbaric torture of Black Papuans by Indonesian occupiers in West Papua where genocide has already killed a fifth of the population

 The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has made public a video it received showing the recent torture of Black Melanesian West Papuans by Indonesian soldiers in the Tingginambut area near Puncak Jaya in West Papua. The video shows soldiers kicking the head Papuans sitting on grass, slapping and threatening one with a knife to the face and throat, and stepping on the chest of a tied up naked man lying on the ground before burning his genitals with a burning stick while he screams.

 West Papua has been under a genocidal Indonesian occupation since 1963, when the Dutch left. Over 100,000 or a fifth of the population has been killed by military action since then. Journalists, human right workers and academics are barred from traveling there. Although the area is rich in resources, the people there live in poverty under brutal repression where peaceful expression of opinion, rallies or raising pro-independence flags results in long prison sentences.

The torture video can be viewed here at this link.

Sources: AP, BBC, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)

Magnetic "sticky bomb" attacks against Iranian pilgrims in Baghdad

 Two buses carrying Iranian pilgrims have been attacked with magnetic "sticky" bombs that sticks to vehicles in Baghdad injuring 12. Sticky bombs have become increasingly popular among the terrorists.

Source: AFP

Bomb attack against UN envoy to Iraq

 The convoy of Ad Melkert, UN's special representative to Iraq, was attacked by a roadside bomb while leaving Najaf after a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Melkert was unharmed. Reuters reports one policeman killed and three injured, but city police officials deny the attack even took place.

Source: The Canadian Press, Reuters

Bomb kills baby, her parents and five other family members in Iraq

 A bomb explosion near the house of policeman, Lt. Col. Qais Rashid, in the Iraqi town of Tikrit, has killed his parents, sister, two brothers, their wives, and 6-month-old niece. Insurgent terrorists frequently target police.¹

There is also another AP report saying the baby was a boy and that only three others were killed. It is possible that this story is an earlier report that has been corrected.²

Source: 1, 2. AP

Pakistan involved in Mumbai terror attacks according to David Headley

 David Headly, who has pleaded guilty in the US of "laying the groundwork" for Mumbai terror attacks, told interrogators that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency virtually runs Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group blamed for the attacks, and was involved those attacks. Headly is a US citizen¹ and was born Daood Sayed Gilani to an American mother and a Pakistani father.² He said his handler in Pakistan was Maj. Iqbal, who taught him how scout locations for terror attacks, gave him counterfeit Indian currency once, $25,000 in 2006, and suggested how best to get to Mumbai by sea - the actual method later used by terrorists. He went on nine spying mission to India, including to Taj Mahal Hotel which was later attacked, and provided Iqbal with photos and videos.

Source: 1. AP, 2. The Daily Telegraph

Terrorists shouting Alluha Akbar attack Chechnyan Parliament; 6 dead with body parts and a severed head

 A suicide bomber has blown themselve off at the gate of Chechnyan Parliament in Grozny, and at least two other gun men attacked inside shouting "Allahu akbar!" meaning "Allah is great!". The attack killed six, including three attackers, injured 17 and left body parts scattered on the ground, including a severed head, which probably is that of the suicide bomber.

Source: AP

Black Muslim convert jihadists convicted of plot to bomb NY synagogues and shoot down US military planes

 Four Black Muslim converts,¹ James Cromitie (aka Abdul Rahman), 44, David Williams (aka Daoud), 29, Onta Williams (aka Hamza), 34, and Laguerre Payen (aka Amin), 29, have been convicted by a Manhattan jury of a jihad^2,3 terror plot against Jews and the US. Payen is a Haitian citizen while the rest are Americans.⁴ The terrorists planned to bomb the Jewish Riverdale Centre and Temple in the Bronx, New York⁵, and shoot down cargo planes at the Air National Guard base in Newburgh⁶, north of New York city, with Stinger missiles.⁷  The men carried our surveillance at the airport and were video taped practicing with the missiles. They were finally arrested after planting bombs at the Riverdale Temple. Although the terrorist thought the bombs and missiles were real, they were fakes secretly provided by the FBI in a sting operation also involving an informant Shahed Hussain who pretended to be part of the plot. The terrorists will be sentenced on March 24.

Sources: 1,3,5,6. Daily Mail, 2,7. AFP, 4. BBC

UN say Afghan insurgents mostly responsible for death of over 1,000 civilians in first half of 2010

 The U.N. says Afghan insurgents were mostly responsible for the death of over 1,000 civilians in the first half of 2010.

Source: AFP

Possible wife burning - Pregnant Pakistani woman found burned to death in Britain

 A 23-year-old woman from Pakistan, believed to be five months pregnant, has been found with severed burns in the garden of a house in Cloudsdale Avenue, West Bowling, Bradford, UK and pronounced dead a short time later. It was understood she had been on fire and that the fire was confined to her. According to neighbors, she came from Pakistan less than or around a year ago and lived at the address with her mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law, and has not been seen much. Investigations are continuing.¹

 The practice of bride burning is found in the Indian sub-continent countries such as Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, where the husband or his family burn unwanted wives to death and make excuses such as that an exploding stove caused the fire.²

Sources: 1. Telegraph & Argus (A Bradford newspaper),  2. Wikipedia.org

UAE supreme court rules Sharia allows wife and child beating if no marks left

 The supreme court of United Arab Emirates has ruled that Sharia gives men the "right to discipline" his wife and children by beating, if admonition and not sleeping with his wife does not work, as long as it leaves no physical marks. The ruling was on a case involving a man who slapped and kicked his 23-year-old daughter, and slapped his wife. Chief Justice Falah al Hajeri wrote that, the man in the case was guilty however since his daughter was left with "bruises on her right hand and right knee", while his wife's lower lip and teeth were injured, meaning physical marks were left. He also wrote that the man was not entitled to beat his daughter since she has reached the age of puberty and so was no longer a child.¹

 The verse on wife beating in the Koran can be found at 4:34² (Chapter 4, Verse 34)

 Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme.

Translation by Dawood, 1995.

Source: 1. The National (Abu Dhabi newspaper) , 2. Answering-Islam.org

Link to the same story covered by AP

Tourist with head injuries after leftists encouraged Palestinian stone throwing

 Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood have cause head injuries to a tourist. Left wingers were blamed for encouraging the Palestinians, who also threw stones at a house.

Source: Ynetnews

Secular Shiite Ayad Allawi says Iran definitely finances terror

 Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite and leader of a bloc with the most, though not a majority of seats in Iraqi parliament said in a TV interview that Iran was creating unrest in Iraq, Lebanon and among the Palestinians and that the Middle East was "falling victim to ... terrorists who are definitely Iran-financed." Unlike Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, he said he would not be "begging" Iran to agree to his attempt to form a government.

Source: AP

Gunmen kill 29 in Karachi during bye-election for assasinated MP's seat

 Gunmen have killed at least 29 people in the Pakistani city of Karachi during a bye-election for the parliamentary seat of Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) assassinated Raza Haider. A hundred people have already died in the week following the assassination. MQM represents the Mohajirs who are  descendants of Urdu-speakers who moved to Pakistan after the partition from India, and they have blamed the killings on Pashtun-based Awami National Party (ANP), which has boycotted the bye-election.

Source: Reuters

Boko Haram aka Nigerian Taliban blamed for killing 2 police, lastest in string of attacks

 Gunmen have killed 2 police manning a checkpoint at night in northern Nigerian town of Bauchi and authorities there have banned motorcycles between 6 pm to 6 am. Previous attacks also blamed on Boko Haram includes the killing of a police officer in the same city and the torching of a police station in Maiduguri, Borno state, where there is already a similar ban on motorcycles statewide.

Source: AFP

UN's Western Sahara envoy in Algeria for talks between Morocco and Polisari

 UN secretary general's special envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, is in Algeria for talks with Morocco which annexed Western Sahara 1975 and Polisario Front independence movement. Morocco is only prepared to give widespread autonomy to the territory while Polisario wants the option of independence in a referendum.

Source: AFP

Turkish ultra-nationalists and religious fanatics blamed for Bishop's murder and other killings

 Turkey's top Roman Catholic bishop Monsignor Ruggero Francheschini has told the conference of Catholic bishops from the Middle East at the Vatican that Turkish nationalist and religious fanatics were responsible for the murders of bishop Luigi Padovese, a priest in 2006 and three Christians in 2007.

Source: AP

Hezbollah gave Ahmadinejad gun not from 2006, claims Yediot Aharonot

 Yediot Aharonot newspaper claims rifle given to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was "most likely" a FNFAL 7.62 not used since 1974 by the Israeli military, contradicting Hezbollah's claim it was taken from Israeli soldiers during the 2006 conflict.

Source: AFP

Iraq Awakening Council members switching to Al-Qaeda

 The New York Times reports, citing unnamed Iraqi government officials, that possibly hundreds of the US affiliated Awakening Council members have switched loyalty to Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia in recent months. Part of the reason for this is due to the belief that the Shiite-led government is working against them. Officials also claim that possibly up to thousands of others on government payroll covertly supports insurgency.

Source: AFP

Man's hand amputated for two robberies in Iran

 Authorities last week have cut off the hand of a man convicted of two robberies in the Iranian city of Mashhad.

Source: BBC

Iranian chocolate robber's hand to be amputated

 A Tehran court has ordered the amputation of a 21-year-old man's hand after he admitted robbing a candy store.¹ Police found a large amount of chocolate in his car when he was arrested in May.²

Source: 1. AP, 2. BBC

Briton kidnapped in Somalia and reportedly taken to Islamist al-Shabab controlled area

 A British security consultant has been kidnapped in Adado, while accessing the security situation there for the charity Save the Children. He has been take to an area said to be controlled by al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab. Adado is also closely linked to Somali pirates.

Source: BBC

Multiculturalism utterly failed in Germany, say German Chancellor Merkel

 German chancellor Angela Merkel said in a speech to younger members of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party that the "approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other... has failed, utterly failed." and that immigrants should do more to integrate instead. There has been a heated debate recently on this issue since August when Thilo Sarrazin said "no immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime".

Source: BBC

Muslim convert terror suspect Jason Walters apparently renounces Islamic radicalism

 Muslim convert and terror suspect Jason Walters, 25, serving 15 yrs jail in the Netherlands for a grenade attack, has written an open letter to the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, renouncing his former Islamic radicalism and warning others not to be mislead. Walter's father is an American, while his mother is Dutch.

Source: AP

Dutch prosecutors ask judges for Geert Wilders acquittal

 Dutch prosecutors have argued that Wilder's comparing of Islam to Nazism and Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf, and urging it's banning, and to stop Muslim immigration were "within the legal bounds of public debate". They also argued there was "insufficient proof to convict him of trying to polarize Dutch society into antagonistic groups". They have asked for him to be acquitted on all charges but judges can disagree with prosecution in the Dutch legal system. Wilders has never called for violence.

Source: AP

77,000 deaths and 120,000 wounded during Iraq war according to US military

 According to the US military, 76,939 Iraqi security officials and civilians were killed and 121,649 wounded between January 2004 and August 2008. Iraq's Human Rights Ministry counted 85,694 killed from start of 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008, and 147,195 wounded. Iraq Body Count estimates between 98,252 and 107,235 Iraqi civilians were killed between March 2003 to Sept. 19, 2010.

Source: AP

Ahmadinejad in Lebanon promises Zionists and filth of occupation will disappear

 Ahmadinejad, during his visit to Lebanon, told a crowd of thousands in the village of Bint Jbeil, located two miles from the Israeli border, that "Zionists will disappear" and "occupied Palestine will be liberated from the filth of the occupation".

Source: The Washington Post

Old man marries off young daughter to buy car in Saudi Arabia

 There is report of an old man marrying off his young daughter for a car in Saudi Arabia, according to Al-Watan Arabic, a leading Saudi Arabian reformist newspaper. According to ArabNews.com, the story was written by three Al-Watan reporters, Abdullah Al-Nahdi, Aziza Yami and Badour Al-Asiri.

Source: ArabNews.com

Jihad warriors attack shadow puppet shows in Indonesia

 Laskar Jihad [warriors of jihad] have been attacking shadow puppet shows in Sukoharjo, a town south of Solo by throwing rocks, brandishing swords and shouting "Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is great!"). Some witnesses suggest the drinking of alcohol by some spectators might have been the cause.

Source: Jakarta Globe

Aid agencies to ask US to give aid anonymously due to terror threat to US aid

 Leading aid agencies, including Save the Children, Oxfam, and World Vision are to ask the US not to "brand" or add labels such as "from the American people" to the aid it provides, due to concern it would attract terror attacks.

Source: BBC

Sudanese soldiers shoot in Abyei, attempting to provoke war to stop Southern Independence

 Four Sudanese soldiers went on a random shooting spree in Abyei city market, Souther Sudan, wounding a trader, in order to provoke a clash to use as pretext for war. The shooting stopped due to UN intervention. The incident is an attempt by the Muslim north to stop a January referendum to decide Southern Independence and whether Abyei should be part of the north or south.

Source: BBC

Egypt charge Shias with insulting religion & denying tenets of faith

 At least four Shias have been arrested and charged with "insulting religion and denying the tenets of faith" in Egypt. Seven others are also in detention, held since mid-2009 charged with "forming a group trying to spread Shi'ite ideology that harms the Islamic religion."

Source: AFP

Muslim immigrant a proud traitor to US, pledge to wage terrorist jihad for global Islamic domination

 Saudi Arabian Muslim immigrant¹ and US passport holder, Samir Khan, declares he was "proud to be a traitor to America" and has vowed to wage "jihad for the rest of our lives until either we implant Islam all over the world or meet our Lord as bearers of Islam".² The comments were made in the second issue of Inspire, a magazine published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The magazine also urges Muslims to "mow down the enemies of Allah" with pickup trucks.²

Sources: 1. Daily News (New York), 2. FoxNews.com

Sickening Muslim child sex abuse, homosexuality, and Liberal-Left's Denialism

 Saudi prince Saud Abdulaziz Bin Nasir Al Saud is on trial in London for physical abuse, sexual abuse and murder of his alleged homosexual partner.¹ Regarding the issue of sexual repression, violence and homosexuality in Muslim countries, Carol Hunt wrote the following in Sunday Independent.

""In Dr Nancy Kobrin's book, The Sheik's New Clothes: The Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Suicide Terrorism, barbarous family and clan dynamics are described in which "children, both boys and girls, are routinely orally and anally raped by male relatives; infant males are sometimes sadistically over-stimulated by being masturbated; boys between the ages of seven and 12 are publicly and traumatically circumcised; many girls are clitoridectomised; and women are seen as the source of all shame and dishonour and treated accordingly"."²

"Consequently having sex with boys, or effeminate men, is seen as a social norm in strict Islamic cultures. Paradoxically, homosexuality is banned, on pain of death, yet men penetrating subordinate men or children becomes a manifestation of male power."²

 Carol Hunt also criticized in the article those who label people speaking out against such issues as "racist, Islamophobic or sectarian".

Sources: 1. Daily Mail (DailyMail.uk), 2. Sunday Independent (Independent.ie)

Girl, 12, marries man, 55, in Saudi Arabia, following example of Muhammad's marriage to Aisha, 6

 A 55 year old man has married a 12 old girl in Jazan province, Saudi Arabia. She was married to the man by the local Muslim cleric Sheikh Saeed bin Masoud Al Yami, after she and her father gave consent. Her uncle however alleges the man took advantage of her father's financial difficulties and that she was actually sold for 40,000 Saudi dollars. The Muslim cleric said there was no law against such marriages and that he has also married a 10 year old girl to a 30 year old man two years ago.¹

 There are also reports, probably referring to the same as the case mentioned above, of a mazoun or a marriage official in Najran city, Najran, Saudi Arabia, marrying a 12 year old girl and consummating the marriage two months later, at the urging of his mother, despite the father of the girl asking him to wait a year before having physical realtionship. Many in the country, including senior clerics such as the Grand Mufti of the nation, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al Sheikh, supports child marriages, citing Muhammad's example.²

Islamic prophet Muhammad married six year old Aisha and consummated the marriage (had sex with her) when she was nine, according to Sahih al-Bukhari 7:62:64³

Source: 1. Emirates247.com, Dubai Media Incorporated, 2. TheNational.ae, Abu Dhabi Media Company, 3. University of Southern California

Muslim immigrants make Amsterdam 'gay'-bashing capital of Europe but Media and Liberal-left ignore it

Due to 'gay'-bashings by Moroccan and Turkish Muslim immigrants, Amsterdam, once the 'gay' capital of Europe ten years ago, has now become the 'gay'-bashing capital of Europe instead.¹ An "offender study" by the university of Amsterdam suggests there may have been up to 5000 attacks on 'gays' in 2007.¹ Despite these, the media pays little attention to it, similar to silence among Canadian feminists on Muslim honor killings, unless if the attacker is a straight white male.¹ Islamophilia is nothing new among the liberal-left. Eight years ago, a former Marxist² and 'gay' Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by a left-wing, animal rights activist and environmentalist³ terrorist Volkert van der Graaf for criticizing Islam as a "backward culture".⁴

Sources: 1. Toronto Sun, 2. 3. 4. BBC

Nominee for Chief of Indonesian police reportedly a founding member of extremist Islamist group

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's nominee for chief of Indonesian police, General Timur Pradopo, 54, was reportedly a founding member in 1998 of the stick-wielding Islamic extremist vigilante group Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). Timur attended FPI's anniversary celebrations earlier this year. Corruption is a problem in Indonesia with an "oligarchy" of mainly Javanese businessmen and generals, having influence from behind the scenes.

Source: AFP

Israeli cabinet approves requiring new citizens to swear allegiance to Jewish and democratic state

 The Israeli cabinet has approved a plan to require non-Jewish citizens to swear pledge of allegiance to the country as a "Jewish and democratic state". It will become law once approved by parliament.

Source: AFP

Muslim violence and discrimination causing Christians exodus from Middle East to be discussed at Vatican synod

 A synod of Catholic bishops from the Middle East has opened at the Vatican. Issues discussed will include Muslim violence and discrimination forcing Christians to leave the the region, resulting ever decreasing Christian presence. Special attention will be given to the situation in Egypt, Iraq and Turkey.

Source: AFP

Religious scholar, former district chief shot dead while praying in mosque in Afghanistan

 Gunmen have shot dead religious scholar Molvi Mohammad in a mosque during Friday prayers in Kandahar city, Afghanistan. On Monday, a former district chief Habibullah Aghonzada was also shot dead while praying in a mosque in Kandahar.

Source: AP

Mosque blast during Friday prayer kills Kunduz governor and at least 19 others

 A bomb blast inside a packed mosque during Friday prayers at Shirkat mosque, Takhar province, Afghanistan, has killed the governor of neighboring Kunduz province, Mohammad Omar, along with at least 19 others.

Source: AP

Suicide bombing kills child and 5 family members die from roadside bombing in Afghanistan

 A suicide car bombing killed a child bystander in Mandozai, Easter Knost province, on Sunday, while in eastern Paktia province, a roadside bomb killed five members of a family.

Source: AP

EDL Leister protest, stones bricks thrown at them, Rabbi will join next protest

 Anti-Islamic extremism group English Defence League (EDL) has held a static (standing only without marching) protest in Leister city, England. Around 2000 people participated. Unite Against Fascism (UAF) held a counter demonstration by around 600 people. Stones and bricks were thrown at two coaches carrying EDL supporters after the protest.¹ Despite accusations of racism, Californian Orthodox Rabbi Nachum Shifren will be joining an EDL protest planned on October 24th outside the Israeli embassy in London.²

Source: 1. BBC, 2. EDL (English Defence League)

Update: Linda Norgrove killed by grenade thrown by rescuers during rescue attempt in Afghanistan

 News update: It has now emerged that Linda Norgrove died from the blast of a grenade thrown by those attempting her rescue.¹ This corrects the earlier reports that her captors killed her during the rescue operation.²

 Despite this unfortunate accident, the rescuers should be commended for risking their lives in attempting to save Linda's. She also should not have put herself in danger by traveling to such a dangerous region of the country.

 Linda was kidnapped last month and held hostage by Mullah Bair and Mullah Keftan, who were themselves killed in the operation.² Before being kidnapped, Linda worked for the aid organisation DAI, and was involved in a US funded project to reduce reliance on opium economy.³

Sources: 1. The Daily Mail 2. CNN 3. DAI (dai.com)

Link: A Facebook page which appears to be that of Linka Norgrove

Muslim terrorists kill 3 Buddhists, 2 Muslims, over 100 chickens, according to Thai police

Suspected Muslim terrorists in southern Thailand have killed 3 Buddhists transporting chicken.¹ Over 100 chickens also died in the attack.¹ Muslim terrorists on motorcycles are also blamed for killing two Muslims, one of them shot three times in the head.¹ Muslim separatist violence in the region has killed over 4300 people in the last six years.²

Sources: 1. AFP, 2. Bangkok Post

Muslims angry Coptic Bishop Bishoy said they were guests in Egypt and questioned Koran 5:7

 Muslims protested in Egypt and insulted Christians by throwing shoes¹ at picture of  Coptic pope Shenouda III in Alexandria, after Coptic Bishop Bishoy reportedly said they were "guests of the Christians,"² and suggested Koran verse 5:17 was inserted by Caliph Uthman¹. Islamic Research Council of Al-Azhar university¹, a key learning centre of Sunni Islam³ also issued a “Statement to the Nation”¹ saying such comments crossed "a red line" and that Christian should accept accept Islamic dominance as Dhimmis, similar to Christians of Najran, Medina, during the rule of Muhammad.¹ The Coptic pope has issued an apology for the comments.³

 Despite the typical hypocritical Muslim anger over the comments, Christians were the original inhabitants of Egypt² prior to the invasion, conquest, and occupation by Muslim Arabs in the 7th century A.D., which continues to this day. While Al-Azhar denounces others, it has also been accused of challenging and ridiculing other religions since it's founding in 972 A.D., including by Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the current head of it's Islamic Research Council that issued the criticism of Bishop Bishoy, who challenged the validity of the Bible on TV.¹

Sources: 1. Continental News (ContinentalNews.net), 2. AFP, 3. BBC

Still no sign of Somali Christian convert girl kidnapped by al Shabaab

 Anab Ghelle Hassan, 15, was kidnapped by al Shabaab terrorists on 15-Feb-2010, according to relatives who witnessed the event. Her family, which converted to Christianity in 2001, immediately left Dhusa Mareb, Galgaduud region, Somalia, after learning of it, fearing they would also be targeted next. Al Shabaab bans all religions except Islam.

Source: Compass Direct News (CDN)

German Muslim convert terror suspect Sascha Alessandro Boettcher deported from Kenya

 German Muslim convert and suspected terrorist Sascha Alessandro Boettcher had been arrested and deported from Kenya. He was reportedly heading to Somalia to join the terrorist there, and had left a note for his mother saying he would not return home alive.

Source: AFP

2 Algerian Christain converts acquitted of eating during Ramadan; 2 more cases still pending

 Recent Christian converts Hocine and Salem Fallek has bee acquitted of "offending Islam" by eating during Ramadan. The prosecutor had asked for a three year sentence for the Algerian couple in Ain El Hammam, Kabylie, Algeria. Two other cases are still pending.

Source: AP

Failed Times square car bomber sentenced to life, admits Taqiyya

 Convicted Trojan horse Muslim immigrant terrorist Faisal Shahzad admitted in court to using Taqiyya to gain US citizenship, so he could cowardly kill unarmed innocent Americans civilians. He confessed that he "did not mean it"¹ when he swore the pledge of allegiance. 

 In a video¹ apparently made by him while in Pakistan with other terrorists, he also said, holding a Koran in one hand, that "Our way is with the sword.", likely suggesting Islam is violent as commanded by the Koran, and that it will spread war all over the world, presumably to violently force Islam on the world. 

 The 30-year-old came to US from Pakistan to study when he was 18, and gained citizenship in April 2009. Prior to becoming a terrorist, he lived an apparently normal comfortable life²  in the US with his Pakistani-American wife and two children.¹  This contradicts the claim by ideologically motivated social determinist apologists of Islamic terrorisms that the reason people become terrorists is due to poverty.

 For the failed attempted car bombing of the New York's Times square, the terrorist was sentenced to life in prison², meaning the same people he hates and tried to kill will be paying for the cost of keeping him in prison for the rest of his life.

Sources: 1. AFP, 2. AP

A burnt Koran among torched Ahmadiyah mosque and houses in Indonesia

 A burned section of the Koran was found near a torched Ahmadiyah mosque in Cisalada village, Bogor, Indonesia. This Ahmadiyah village was attacked by a mob of around 200 shouting "Allahu Akbar". The mosque and two houses were burned down, while 17 houses were damaged and looted. A kindergarten, an Islamic elementary school, a car and seven motorcycles were also destroyed. The police chief suggested the attack was either due to resentment by mainstream Muslims or was related to the stabbing of an Ahmadiyah from this village by someone from another village.

Ex-Islamic extremist reveals Jihad meant violent enforcemnt of Islam

 A former Indonesian Islamic extremist, Habib Munzir, 37, explained that "“Before, my views of Islam were more anarchist; Islam had to be enforced via jihad, through whatever means,”". He now believes that "jihad does not simply mean going to war", but can also be waged "through means of thought and wealth".

Canadian Islamists allegedly using Taqiyya to influence and infiltrate

""In the past few years we have seen the so-called Islamic History Month turned into a propaganda machine for the Islamists in Canada who wanted to introduce sharia law and who wish to hide behind the cover of teaching history to infiltrate the highest levels of government in Ottawa," MCC vice president Salma Siddiqui told AFP."

Islamists chop off hand and foot of accused robber in Somalia citing Koran

 Somali Islamists from Al Shabaab have publicly cut off the right hand and left foot of an accused teenage robber Hashi Farah, in the village of Buloburde, Hiran, Somalia. He apparently confessed to robbing buses and trucks. Shariah judge Sheikh Mika’il ordered the punishment reciting Koran 5:38, "As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. ... Allah is Mighty, Wise."

Boycott Allah's Halal meat secretly being sold without labeling

 An investigation by the Daily Mail newspaper has found that "most British supermarkets were secretly selling halal meat – especially lamb – without telling customers". 

 It is bad enough being deceived, but what's most disturbing is that "the prayer ‘In the name of Allah, who is the greatest’ is said at the time of slaughter" for halal meat.

 Non-Muslims should be greatly offended by this foisting of Islam on unsuspecting customers.

 So next time you go shopping, ask if something is halal if there is no label. If you find a company selling halal without labeling it, write down it's name, complain to the store and the company, and avoid the companies involved.

 If they are secretly selling hala, God knows, what else they might also be selling secretly. It's just not safe. So stay away from such deceiving companies with no ethics whatsoever. Don't give them a cent.

 Alert such practices to the regulatory bodies, decision makers, your friends and family. Avoid halal and try to have compulsory labeling in place.

 And where may I ask are the Islamophiles and Christianohobes, who are always trying to separate Christianity from everything, in case it offends non-Christians? Where's the outrage?

 And where those over sensitive Muslims, who are oh so offended by anything un-Islamic, even though they are immigrants in non-Muslim countries, and are always demanding things be set aside for Muslims? How about some angry violent protests?

Monument for Christian behaded by Chechen Muslim terrorists on video

 A monument for Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Rodionov has been set up in Kuznetsk, Russia.

 Rodionov was an 18 year old Russian conscript, captured by Muslim Chechen rebels in 1996, while serving in Chechnya. He, along with three others were held hostage for "100 days of torture, beatings and starvation".

 On his 19th birthday, he was "invited" to convert to Islam and given a chance to live if he would take off his silver cross necklace and become a Muslim, according to his mother, who went to Chechnya and through bribes and investigations, recovered Rodionov's remains. He refused and as a result was beheaded by his Muslim captors, who recorded it on video.

 The video, apparently of the beheading can be viewed at the link below. Be warned though, as it is very graphic.

 Click on this link to see the beheading video.

Islamists massacre a Christian family of 7 including children in Pakistan

 A Christian family of seven, including children aged 6 to 17, were killed "execution style" by bearded Islamic militants wearing turbans, in Haripur, Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. 

 Attorney and evangelist Edwin Paul, who along with his wife and children were killed, had agreed to take the case of a Christian who was charged a discriminatory 500 percent interest on a loan by Muslim lender Noor Khan. He was warned by armed men to leave town within 24 hours on the day prior the shootings. Included in the warning was a mention of religiously cleansing "Hazara land" of Christians.

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