The Scriptorium

A mob of angry Muslims, who were led to believe that a Koran had been desecrated by Pakistani Christians, went on a rampage today and burned down 40 Christian homes, burning several Christians alive. We all need to keep our Christian brothers and sister living in Arab countries in our prayers. While the world pretends that Islam is a religion of peace (“pieces” is more like it), Christians continue to die over stupidity like a rumor, which turned out to be a lie, that an unholy Koran had been somehow desecrated. As the son of Hamas’ founder, a converted Christian, once said, Islam is a plague and a sickness.

Paramilitary troops patrolled the streets of a town in eastern Pakistan yesterday after Muslim radicals burned to death eight members of a Christian family, raising fears of violence spreading to other areas.

Hundreds of armed supporters of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed Islamic militant group, burned dozens of Christian homes in Gojra over the weekend after allegations that a copy of the Koran had been defiled.

The mob opened fire indiscriminately, threw gas bombs and looted houses as thousands of frightened Christians ran for safety. “They were shouting anti-Christian slogans and attacked our houses,” Rafiq Masih, a resident of the predominantly Christian colony, said. Residents said that police stood aside while the mob went on the rampage. “We kept begging for protection, but police did not take action,” Masih said.

Police and local officials said that at least eight people, including four women and a child, were killed in the fires. Two others died of gunshot wounds. Residents said that the casualties were much higher; one claimed that the number of dead could be in the dozens as many bodies were still buried under the rubble. Shahbaz Bhatti, the Minister for Minorities, said that 40 Christian homes were torched in rioting. He said there was no truth to allegations that a Koran had been defiled, and accused the police of ignoring his appeal to provide protection to Christians.

Tension started mounting last week after Muslims accused three Christian youths of burning a copy of the Koran. They denied the allegations, but clerics called for their death. On Saturday, hundreds of supporters of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed Sunni sectarian group, poured into the town from surrounding districts. The group is believed to have close links with Al Qaeda and has been involved in several terrorist attacks targeting security forces in recent years.

Television footage showed armed men running through the streets, gunfire, and women and children wailing. Blackened furniture lay outside burning homes, while a group of people rushed a man suffering from burns on a cart through the streets. Rehman Malik, the Interior Minister, said that the paramilitary troops were sent after police and the local administration failed to control the situation. Security forces were also placed on high alert to prevent violence from spreading to other towns of Punjab.

CAIR was so inspired by Obama’s recitation from the Quran during his Cairo speech that they have launched a campaign to give all state and federal leaders in the U.S. a copy of the Quran in English. They say the move is purely educational, and is in no way proselytizing or a campaign or project to convert people to Islam. Sure it’s not. And I’m sure the ACLU will see that way, as well. Christian organizations should organize a campaign to do the same with the Bible, and see how fast the ACLU files a “separation of church and state” law suit against everyone involved. Of course, such a Christian campaign would never happen. Christians are too busy not reading their Bibles, not teaching their kids, and being afraid to contend for their faith. Sad, but true.

Prompted by President Obama’s speech directed to the Muslim world in Cairo in early June, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today launched its “Share the Quran” campaign distributing free Qurans to local, state, and national leaders across the United States.

The organization’s spokesperson said it will also send a copy to Obama and Vice President Biden.

“This is pure educational. I want to make it clear that this is not proselytizing or a campaign or project to convert people to Islam,” said CAIR’s director Nihad Awad today at a press conference. “We want people to be aware and informed about Islam.”

Awad said the idea to gift high-end Qurans ($78 each) to American legislators, law enforcement officers, media leaders, governors, local elected and public officials, was directly inspired by Obama’s Cairo speech:

“We were astonished he quoted the Quran.” Awad told ABC News. “We know it. But I think the majority of Americans have no idea that maybe these quotes are direct from the Quran, they’re unequivocal, and they cover the issues of . . . values we need today, in order to work together, fight extremism and terrorism, and turn the page. And bring the relationship to its rightful position between the American and Muslim world.”

The “rightful position”, according to the Quran, is for Islam to be the only religion on Earth. Bringing this about is to be every good Muslim’s goal. I’d say they are off to an effective start, wouldn’t you? Just look at the number of Sharia courts now established in Britain.

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Yet another example of how the Bush Administration kept us safe from another Jihadist attack on the homeland.

A federal jury on Monday convicted five men of conspiracy to kill American soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder, according to the Associated Press.

The jury deliberated for six days before returning its verdict against three brothers — Shain, Eljvir and Dritan Duka — and two other defendants, Mohamad Shnewer and Serdar Tatar.

The men, all Muslim immigrants who lived in Philadelphia’s southern New Jersey suburbs, face a maximum of life in prison.

Federal prosecutors said that the five men were planning to attack Fort Dix and the military personnel within it, and had taken concrete steps to train and arm themselves. During the men’s trial, prosecutors argued that evidence, including hundreds of secretly taped conversations between the defendants and F.B.I. informants, jihadist propaganda videos recovered from one suspect’s computer, and videotapes of an illegal purchase of several machine guns, showed they intended to carry out an armed assault on the base.

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They are living among us, and we can’t afford the Left’s denials that the War on Terror even exists.

Before anyone feels sorry for the terrorists locked up in Guantanamo Bay, or supports closing the facility and releasing the terrorists held there, they should read this and ask themselves if they really want these people running loose.

But the picture inside Guantanamo is often an ugly one. Some prisoners do all in their power to violate the guards.

“What they do is stuff that you and I would find despicable. They save up their bodily fluid, feces and so on, and then when the guard comes to deliver food, they get a feces cocktail thrown in their face.”

It’s something Zanetti says occurs almost daily, and weighs heavily on the guards, who are tasked with feeding and clothing the prisoners and tending to them when they are sick. Hospital staff get the worst exposure of all from the detainees, he said.

“You ensure that their life is as comfortable as possible while the detainees are trying to make the guards’ life as miserable as possible.”

Those daily doses of hatred are a stark reminder about some of the men locked up inside the camp, including Mohammed, who has claimed responsibility for decapitating Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.

“We have more than our fair share of Hannibal Lecters around here,” Zanetti said.

The war on terror is kind of a joke,isn’t it, if we’re giving money to companies that promote Jihad and fund Islamic terrorism?

Thomas More Law Center filed suit Monday morning against the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board. Law Center president Richard Thompson is asking the court to halt all bailout funds from going to American International Group, Inc. (AIG). Thompson explains why.

“Because that company has a branch that is controlled by Islamic scholars and who basically support the religion of Islam through Shariah and ultimately finance terrorist activities,” he says.

That gives the government an 80-percent stake in the business, which in part has a religious orientation — which raises constitutional questions, says Thompson. “[I]t also shines a light on serious national security issues that our own government has created by direct financial support and ownership of a business that supports anti-American, radical Islamic activities,” he states in a press release.

According to that release, AIG employs a three-person Shariah Advisory Board in its promotion of Shariah-compliant businesses and insurance products. Dr. Muhammed Imran Ashraf Usmani, the Pakistani member of that board, supports the belief that Muslims in Western countries have an obligation to wage violent jihad against their host country.

The American people better wake up and ask themselves if they really know the man who is running for President on the Democrat ticket. The Washington Times is finally reporting today on Obama’s campaign activities in Kenya in 2006. Barrack actively campaigned for and supported a man who caused the deaths of thousands of Christians, promised to impose Sharia law and make Islam the official religion of Kenya if elected, and promised to regulate and restrict all other Religions in Kenya. This article is a must read for every American who plans to vote. We can NOT elect a man to the most powerful office in the world who supports a murderous tyrant like Odinga. It’s truly disturbing that many Americans are, only now, finding this out.

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.

The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.

By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama’s father.

Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya’s Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.

The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of “Islam as the only true religion,” Islamic leaders would have an “oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original],” installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who “allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists,” adoption of a women’s dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

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I wonder how many liberals would maintain their position that American’s are the real terrorists if they knew what’s in store for them should the terrorists win the war on terror. “Schmoozing with Terrorists”, a new book by Aaron Klein, documents the terrorist’s plans for America in their own words, as recorded in numerous interviews with terrorist leaders. If Hollywood only knew that they are at the very top of a long list of American’s who would be immediately stoned to death, should Al Qaeda win the war and conquer America for Islam. Would liberals be so eager to blame America for the Muslim world’s evils if they knew their sympathy and support is to be rewarded with a mandatory head covering for all women as a means for stopping “public nudity”, and public stoning for engaging in premarital sex? Secular society thinks that exposing someone to even the IDEA of abstinence is a form of persecution and intolerance. Maybe they’d prefer men having four wives as the “obvious solution to prostitution (premarital sex)”, as one terror leader proposed. Sadly, the secular liberals in this country will have to learn this lesson the hard way. Terrorists have been admitting to their evil acts for decades, and liberals still think they’re being compassionate and tolerant for disbelieving them.

Madonna and Britney Spears stoned to death? Bars and clubs closed down? Church bells banned? That’s just a taste of what Americans have to look forward to if terrorists ever took over the U.S. and imposed Islamic law, according to a new book.

In one chapter of the recently released “Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, JIhadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!” author and WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein petitioned Mideast terror leaders to describe day-to-day life in the U.S. if al-Qaida won the war on terror.

“Once Islam dominates, anyone living inside the Islamic state must abide by our rules. There is no choice. You will abide or face the punishment,” said Muhammad Abdel-El, the spokesman and a senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror organization.

Sheik Abu Saqer, a prominent Gaza-based preacher, a founder of the Sword of Islam terror group and a subscriber to the ideology of al-Qaida, explained if Islam controls the U.S., all American women, whether Muslim or not, must cover their hair.

“This is the demand of our religion. Being and walking naked doesn’t mean that you are enjoying more freedom; it means that you are going against Allah’s laws and you are serving the enemies of Islam who want to empty our Islamic society from its values. Uncovered heads is a form of nudity.”

Here are some of the headlines I’ve seen this morning concerning the war in the Middle East.

Blair in push for peace in Middle East
Big power diplomacy to stop the fighting in Lebanon ground into gear yesterday as Britain and other European states pushed hard for the deployment of an international intervention force on the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Arab world fed up with Hizbullah
With the exception of the Palestinians, the Arab world appears to be united in blaming Iran and Syria for the fighting in Lebanon. Until last week, Arab political analysts and government officials were reluctant to criticize Hizbullah in public. But now that Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and his top aides are in hiding, an anti-Hizbullah coalition is emerging not only in Lebanon, but in several other Arab countries as well.

Diplomacy Gains Traction in Mideast Crisis
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Diplomatic efforts to end Israeli-Hezbollah fighting gained traction Monday, with Israeli officials saying they would agree to halt fighting if their two captured soldiers were returned and Islamic guerrillas withdrew from the border.

New York Jews rally in support of Israel
Thousands of American Jews clogged the streets leading to the United Nations building here in a massive show of support for Israel on Monday afternoon. The turnout was particularly impressive for a weekday and one of the hottest so far this summer.

Americans, Europeans Begin to Evacuate Lebanon Amid Mideast Conflict
Lebanon — Westerners fled by land, sea and air as Israel launched three waves of bombings on southern Beirut and on a Lebanese army base in the early hours Tuesday.

Congress Considers Resolutions Supporting Israel
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are preparing to vote this week on resolutions backing Israel and condemning Hezbollah, which last week kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, sparking violence across the Israel-Lebanon border.

Iran parliament speaker: No part of Israel safe
Iran’s parliament speaker warned Tuesday that no part of Israel is safe during Hizbullah’s battle with Lebanon – a statement made despite Iran’s claim that it is not aiding the guerrillas in their fight.

Here are more headlines and links concerning the war in the Middle East.

Hezbollah Rockets Hit Nazareth
By Sher Zieve – Hezbollah rockets are reported to have struck upper Nazareth, Sunday night. Reports are that the attacks also hit 5 other close by towns.

Israel strikes back after Haifa attacked
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — The Israeli military and Hezbollah traded deadly attacks for a fifth straight day on Sunday, with the Lebanon-based militants striking Haifa and other towns deeper inside Israel.

U.S. Evacuation Teams Arrive in Lebanon
U.S. security teams landed at the American embassy just outside Beirut on Sunday to plan the evacuation of some of the estimated 25,000 U.S. citizens living in war-torn Lebanon.
Witnesses said two helicopters flew in from over the Mediterranean and landed on the embassy grounds, located on a fortified hilltop in the north Beirut suburb of Aukar.
“The arrival of the teams is an important first step in facilitating the safe departure of Americans who want to leave Lebanon,” the embassy said in a statement.

Rockets hit Haifa, Tiberias, Safed, Karmiel, Acre
A barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon hit the Haifa region Monday afternoon.
A rocket hit a building in Haifa causing it to collapse. Two people were evacuated by medical personnel and others have been trapped beneath the rubble.
Two of the rockets landed before the city’s warning siren was sounded.
Rockets landed in Tiberias and adjacent Lake Kinneret beaches, Acre and Safed as well. In addition, rockets were fired for the first time on communities in the southern Golan Heights.

Hezbollah Appears in Control of Lebanon
Hezbollah and its backers, not the government, now appear in control of Lebanon’s fate.
After moderating their stance in recent years, the guerrillas surged back to the war front with a surprise attack on Israel and a sophisticated arsenal, leaving Lebanon’s politicians and army looking nearly powerless. The government seems paralyzed over how to deal with Hezbollah, whose Shiite Muslim fighters have had near autonomy in the south for more than a decade.

Syria vows to respond directly to any Israel strike
Syria has warned it would respond directly and by all means necessary to any Israeli attack on its territory, in its first official reaction to Israel’s offensive on neighbouring Lebanon.
The warning Sunday coincided with a similar threat by Damascus’s key ally Iran, and came amid rising fears that the Middle East is being dragged deeper into the spiralling conflict sparked by the capture of Israeli soldiers by militants linked to Hamas and Hezbollah.

Iran heaps praise on Hezbollah fight against ‘tumour’ Israel
TEHRAN (AFP) -Iran has rallied behind allies Hezbollah and Syria, praising the Lebanese Shiite militant movement’s battle against “infected tumour” Israel and warning the Jewish state against widening the conflict.

Ground troops enter southern Lebanon
A government spokesman said Monday afternoon that IDF ground forces have entered southern Lebanon to attack Hizbullah bases along the border in order to push the terrorist group out of rocket-firing range.
In addition, the IDF has denied Lebanese news reports that an Israeli F-16 jet was downed near Beirut. Virtually all Lebanese news agencies were showing unclear video footage of what was claimed to be the downed jet.

Things could escalate rapidly in the Middle East.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today an Israeli strike on Syria would be considered an attack on the whole Islamic world that would bring a “fierce response,” Haaretz reports.
“If the Zionist regime commits another stupid move and attacks Syria, this will be considered like attacking the whole Islamic world and this regime will receive a very fierce response,” Ahmadinejad was quoted by Iranian state television as saying in a telephone conversation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Israel has blamed Syria and Iran for the Hezbollah rocket attacks on towns and cities in northern Israel. In recent weeks, Israel has buzzed the palace of Assad with fighter-bombers as a warning against hostile actions.
Ahmadinejad has called repeatedly for the destruction of Israel – or for moving the Jewish state to Europe. Iran is believed to be developing a nuclear weapons program and has long-range missiles capable of striking the Jewish state.
Hezbollah rockets today rained down on northern Israeli towns as the Jewish state’s warplanes carried out strategic strikes against the Hezbollah’s infrastructure and the Beirut International Airport. A total air and sea closure was imposed over Lebanon.
Hezbollah threatened to use longer range rockets against the major northern port city of Haifa, in which case military officials tell WND Israel would likely launch a major ground invasion inside Lebanon.
The fighting today was instigated by a well-orchestrated Hezbollah attack against Israel’s northern border yesterday in which two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped and three others were killed.

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Here are the latest headlines concerning the developments in the Middle East.

US says Israel has right to defend itself
ROSTOCK, Germany (Reuters) – The United States, reacting to escalating violence between
Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, on Thursday urged restraint on both sides but said Israel had a right to defend itself.
In a widening of reprisals after Hizbollah guerrillas captured two soldiers in a border clash, Israel aircraft attacked Beirut airport and blockaded Lebanese ports.
“We are urging restraint on both sides, recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself,” a U.S. administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Lebanon braces as Israel responds to attack
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon braced for spiraling violence on Thursday a day after Israel vowed a severe response to Hizbollah attacks in which two Israeli soldiers were captured and eight killed by the Syrian-backed group.
A statement issued by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s cabinet after an emergency meeting on Wednesday night said that Israel held the Lebanese government responsible for the attacks and for the safe return of the seized soldiers.
But it offered no details about what type of action would be taken.
Hizbollah’s bold attack drew Olmert into a second crisis over captured soldiers. Israel is engaged in a military offensive in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants captured a soldier on June 25.
Israeli aircraft attacked the Palestinian Foreign Ministry in Gaza City on Thursday, causing a fire in the building, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Israel killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, including nine members of one family in an air strike that destroyed a house where the army said senior Hamas commanders were meeting.
Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the soldiers had been seized to force Israel to release prisoners, but Israel state says the attack was an act of war and that it would not swap prisoners.
“You don’t negotiate with terror organizations,” Gideon Meir, senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official, told Reuters.

Syrian VP blames Israel for escalation amid worry over Israeli retaliation
Syria’s vice president blamed Israel for the escalating violence in Lebanon and Palestinian territories Wednesday, and Arab countries worried over possible Israeli retaliation against Syria after the capture of two Israeli soldiers by its ally, Hezbollah.

Ahmadinejad: World will soon witness the demise of Israel
Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the world will soon witness the demise of Israel, the government-run news agency Fars reported.
“In the near future we will witness the rapid collapse of the Zionist regime”, Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the north-western city of Jolfa.
“The nations of the region will record the names of states that support the Zionist regime alongside the Zionist’s crimes”, he added.
Ahmadinejad caused an international furore last year when he publicly declared that the Holocaust was a “myth” and said that Israel must be “wiped off the map”.

Even ignoring the Biblical aspect of the withdraws, we have already seen that it hurts Israel security rather than helping it.

KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel – A group of prominent rabbis is calling on President Bush to refuse political and financial support for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan to evacuate most of Judea and Samaria, stating the withdrawal is against U.S. interests, and that it violates basic tenets of Jewish law.
“U.S. interests are being impacted by Israel’s proposed retreat from terrorist strongholds in Judea and Samaria. In addition, as rabbis our obligation is to teach, guide, and lead our congregations to conduct their daily lives in accordance with Jewish Law. This holds especially true in a matter of life or death threatening the residents of Israel,” stated a letter sent to Bush and signed by leaders of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, a coalition of over 1200 rabbinic leaders and pulpit rabbis.
Congress members include some of the most esteemed Orthodox rabbis in the Jewish world.
Olmert is attempting to push through a withdrawal from most of Judea and Samaria, mountainous territory that is within rocket firing range of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Israel’s international airport. The territory is also commonly called the West Bank.
The rabbis point out in their letter to Bush that villages slated for withdrawal from Judea and Samaria are mentioned throughout the Torah.
They state a withdrawal from the area violates Jewish law because an evacuation will lead to massive violence.
“There is a clear definitive ruling in the Jewish Code of Law ‘Orach Chaim’ Chapter 329 which rules that it is strictly forbidden to give up even one inch of a Jewish border town to foreigners because it will lead to bloodshed. How much more so regarding retreating from holy land that enemies bent on your destruction have already stated will be used to launch attacks against Jews,” states the letter to Bush.
The rabbis wrote to Bush that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza last summer has already impacted regional U.S. interests and that Olmert’s proposed Judea and Samaria evacuation will have “disastrous” consequences for the American-led war on terror.
“Israel’s 2005 retreat from Gaza has been perceived as a cave-in by the role-model of counter-terrorism. It paved the road to Hamas’ electoral victory and upgraded the posture of Islamic Jihad and al-Qaida, thus providing friendly platforms for Iran, Syria, Sudan, Yemen and the pro-Saddam elements. The Gaza retreat has established the largest terrorist base in the Middle East, threatening accelerated anti-U.S. terrorism.
“Bolstering the Palestinian profile by enforcing a withdrawal in Judea and Samaria constitutes a present and immediate lethal danger to pro-U.S. regimes in Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf states and will establish an enormous terror sanctuary threatening US troops in the Gulf area. It would also undermine Israel’s posture of deterrence, which is critical to the enhancement of regional stability.”
The rabbis urged Bush against “morally or financially supporting Israel’s disastrous withdrawal plan.”

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This is an interesting development. I like it though.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli forces rounded up Palestinian cabinet ministers and legislators from the Islamic Hamas, increasing pressure on militants to release a captured Israeli soldier and witnesses said tanks moved into northern Gaza, widening Israel’s largest military operation in the year since Israel pulled out of the seaside territory.
Adding to the tension, a Palestinian militant group said it executed an 18-year-old Jewish settler kidnapped on the West Bank of the Jordan River. Israeli security officials said Eliahu Asheri’s body was found buried near Ramallah. They said he was shot in the head, apparently soon after he was abducted Sunday.
Palestinian security officials said Israeli forces detained Palestinian deputy prime minister Nasser Shaer and three other cabinet ministers, as well as four legislators in Ramallah. Two others were arrested in the town Jenin they said and Israeli news media reported a roundup of Hamas legislators in Jerusalem and other locations. More than 30 legislators were detained, Palestinian security officials said.
Army Radio said the arrested Hamas leaders might be used to trade for the captured soldier. Israel had refused earlier to trade prisoners for the soldier’s release.

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Oh this was just choice. As if anyone was willing to believe that pali terrorist actually could carry out a threat like that. Anyway, suckering teens into blowing up innocent Israelis is more their speed anyway.

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – A threat by a militant group to use biological and chemical weapons if Israel invades the Gaza Strip is probably a bluff, an expert here said on Monday.
The Al-Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades (the militant wing of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction) said it would surprise Israel with new kinds of weapons if Israel invaded the Gaza Strip.
“With the help of Allah, we are pleased to say that we succeeded in developing over 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons…after a three-year effort” the group said in a leaflet distributed on Sunday.
“We say to Olmert and [Defense Minister Amir] Peretz: Your threats of invasion do not frighten us. We will surprise you with new weapons you have not faced until now,” they said. “As soon as an [Israeli] soldier sets foot on Gaza land, we will respond with a new weapon.”
The group said that it would declare “open warfare without limits” if Israel invaded the Gaza Strip.
But Israeli counter-terrorism expert Dr. Ely Karmon described the statements as “wishful thinking.” They already indicated that they had chemical weapons in 2003, he said.
It’s “psychological warfare,” said Karmon. Hamas tried to put chemicals in explosive belts worn by suicide bombers and it didn’t work, he said.

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This is the security Israel got in return for evacuating their territory. Also, who in their right mind is going to believe a slimy pali terrorist anyway?

On Wednesday, Israel informed Hamas Authority leader Haniye that he himself could be the next target of Israeli missiles if the Kassam rockets don’t stop. According to some reports, Haniye ordered them stopped.
At the same time as Ismail Haniye was supposedly ordering Hamas terrorists in the field to lay down their rockets, Hamas administrators were preparing a ceasefire offer to Israel: Israel must stop all targeted killings of terrorists, and Hamas will cease its rocket fire. However, Hamas is not the only terrorist group in Gaza, and in fact Islamic Jihad, Fatah and the Popular Resistance Committees have not agreed to stop their attacks on Israel.
After firing more than 100 rockets from Friday through Tuesday, Hamas was, in fact, quiet yesterday. Only one Kassam was fired in the course of the day – an Islamic Jihad affair that landed close to a strategic infrastructure just south of Ashkelon. The rocket caused no damage.
Israeli officials have implied all along that Israel would not initiate an escalation in hostilities, but would only respond to attacks by the terrorists.

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As this is being posted late Saturday night (PDT), this is actually old news. Therefore, I won’t spend much time on it. However, we shouldn’t overlook that Canadian authorities have arrested 17 homegrown would-be terrorists who were loaded to the gills with explosives. What do this Canadians have in common with other terrorists around the world today? Yup, they’re Muslims. The “religion of peace” suffered from bombus interruptus thanks to the Canuck Mounties. Good on ya, eh?

Canadian police foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects, apparently inspired by Al Qaeda, who obtained three times the amount of explosive ingredients used in the Oklahoma City bombing, officials said Saturday.

The FBI said the Canadian suspects may have had “limited contact” with two men recently arrested on terrorism charges in Georgia. About 400 regional police and federal agents participated in the arrests Friday and early Saturday.

“These individuals were allegedly intent on committing acts of terrorism against their own country and their own people,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement. “As we have said on many occasions, Canada is not immune to the threat of terrorism.”
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Alvin Chand, a brother of suspect Steven Vikash Chand, said outside the courthouse that his brother was innocent and authorities “just want to show they’re doing something.”

“He’s not a terrorist, come on. He’s a Canadian citizen,” Chand said. “The people that were arrested are good people, they go to the mosque, they go to school, go to college.”

Benedict is continuing Pope John Paul’s approach to Islam and hosting a gathering with Islamic leaders where they will promote an interfaith approach to the gospel. I wonder if the “interfaith dialogue” with Kahled Troudi will address the cartoon Jihad, or the hoards of Muslims who held signs calling for the destruction of the West during recent riots around the world, or Surah’s in the Quran that instruct Muslims not to take Christians as friends and to slay them if they refuse to convert to Islam? Somehow I doubt it. After all, the Bible is just an optional guideline and “thou shalt not kill” is just a Christian thing. It might be offensive to demand that Muslims accept our beliefs over theirs. Also interesting is the title of the conference, “Revering Mary: Islamic & Catholic Perspectives in
Dialogue”. If they made Jesus the topic of the gathering, they might have to actually listen to his teachings. It’s no wonder we get so many e-mails from Muslims who think that Christians believe in Mary as part of the trinity. (Hat Tip: LGF)

Wednesday, May 24th

“Revering Mary: Islamic & Catholic Perspectives in
Dialogue ”
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm (two 20-25 minute presentations,
followed by Q&A, and a light non-alcoholic reception)

Speakers:
Fr. Francis Tiso works on interfaith dialogue in the
Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs
at the USCCB and is responsible for representing the
American bishops in dialogue sessions with Muslims.

Khaled Troudi will be the speaker from The
International Institute of Islamic Thought. IIIT is
located in Herndon, VA.

2 Corinthians 11:3-5
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

John 5:39-43
You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternnal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. I do not accept praise from men, but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

Galatians 1:6-9
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel– which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The most loving thing the Catholic church could do would be to lead them to Christ rather than encourage them to continue following a false teacher and a false Christ.

The cartoon jihad rages on. Al Qaeda is jumping on the band wagon, now. Not wanting Iran’s president to get all the attention for threating to blow up entire countries, Al Qaeda has called for the destruction of Denmark and France over the evil line drawings of blasphemy. Why don’t Islamic leaders just draft a letter threatening the destruction of every country on the planet that isn’t run by a Muslim nut case and get it over with?

Responding to the publishing of cartoons depicting Islam’s prophet Muhammad, a video posted on the Internet by an al-Qaida member calls on Muslims to attack Denmark, France and Norway.

“Muslims avenge your prophet,” said Libyan Muhammad Hassan, who escaped from U.S. custody in Afghanistan last July.

“We deeply desire that the small state of Denmark, Norway and France … are struck hard and destroyed,” he declared, according to Agence France-Presse.

Liberals keep telling us that Muslims in the U.S. are moderates. I’m confused. Why are these moderate Muslims holding up signs telling us that the “mushroom cloud is on its way”, and cheering for another holocaust? Maybe it’s just me, but their protest looks an awful lot like those Al Qaeda tapes Al Jazeera runs periodically. Signs also read “Islam will dominate” and one featured a picture of the White House with an Islamic flag flying on top.

The clueless half of the country better wake up. The terrorists are living among us and it’s only a matter of time before they start using suicide bombers here. The “activists” at this protest wouldn’t hesitate to volunteer for such a mission.

A New York rally by the Islamic Thinkers Society outside the Israeli consulate yesterday featured chants of “The mushroom cloud is on its way! The real holocaust is on its way!”

The demonstration by the Queens-based group was monitored by the Investigative Project on Terrorism whose members noted signs including “Islam will Dominate” and a picture with an Islamic flag flying over the White House.

The chants were in Arabic and translated by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, headed by Steve Emerson, a former reporter for CNN.

Here are some excerpts from the chants:

Leader (in Arabic): “With our blood and our lives we will liberate al Aqsa!”

[The rest also respond in Arabic:] “With our blood and our lives we will liberate al Aqsa!

Israeli Zionists What do you say? The real Holocaust is on its way”

“Takbeer!”

Response: “Allahu Akbar!”

“Takbeer!”

Response: “Allahu Akbar!”

“Zionists, Zionists You will pay! The Wrath of Allah is on its way!

Israeli Zionists You shall pay! The Wrath of Allah is on its way!

The mushroom cloud is on its way! The real Holocaust is on its way!”

“Israel won’t last long … Indeed, Allah will repeat the Holocaust right on the soil of Israel”

“Takbeer!”

Response: “Allahu Akbar!”

According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the Islamic Thinkers Society is an offshoot of London’s Al-Muhajiroun, a group that celebrated the 9/11 attacks, referring to the hijackers as “the Magnificent 19,” and posting a burning picture of the Capitol on its website.

If anyone thinks the crisis with Iran is going to be settled through diplomacy, they’re just as nuts as Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinnerjacket considers himself a major player in Islams end-times events, and just like the terrorists his regime funds and supports, the more infidels they can kill along the way, the better. I sincerely hope that all options really are still on the table.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during an armed forces parade on Tuesday that any aggressor would regret attacking the Islamic Republic, which is embroiled in a nuclear dispute with the West.

The president declared Iran a nuclear power last week after he said it had successfully enriched uranium to the level used in power stations. Iran insists its program is civilian despite accusations by the West that it wants atomic bombs.

The United States has said it wants a diplomatic solution to the standoff but has not ruled out military action.

“Today, Iran’s army is one of the most powerful armies in the world and it will powerfully defend the country’s political borders and the nation,” Ahmadinejad said in a brief speech before troops and missiles took part in an annual parade.

“It will cut off the hands of any aggressors and will make any aggressor regret it,” he said.

Ahmadinejad took the salute of thousands of army, navy and air force troops. Battle tanks were towed past on trucks, while helicopters and Russian-built warplanes flew in formation overhead. Parachutists sailed down from the sky.

Torpedoes and small submarines were also towed before the president, as were Nazeat 10 and Zelzal 1 missiles.

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Analysts say much of Iran’s military equipment is outdated but that its forces could still disrupt oil shipping routes in the Gulf, which they said was the message behind the man oeuvres.

That Iran will cut off shipping routes in the Gulf, is a real risk. It’s a risk the anti-war types will never consider. They will never give a second thought to the little guy who will be hurt by sky rocketing oil prices. They don’t care that grocery stores, small businesses, and low to middle income families will be affected greatly by an oil shortage. The corporations the left hates so much will be hit hard by this economic catastrophe and jobs will be lost. Liberals aren’t really the compassionate souls they like to portray themselves as. They’re heartless, self absorbed, and delusional. They don’t care who suffers as long as they get to have their issue, and they can feed their BDS.

The religion of peace continues to kill people over “offensive” line drawings. Coptic Christians have been persecuted in Egypt for a long time, so the cartoon jihad is really nothing new for them. Just as is always the case in Islamic countries, the authorities responded to the incident by making excuses for the murdering Jihadists and threatening to crack down on those who threaten unity in their country – unity under Islam, that is. The murder of innocent civilians isn’t the problem. The problem is the Christians who won’t convert to Islam when threatened with death.

Police fired tear gas on Saturday to stop clashes between Christians and Muslims which broke out during the funeral of an elderly Copt killed in Alexandria a day earlier, witnesses said.

Hundreds of Christians turned out for the funeral of the 67-year-old Coptic man, who died on Friday after he was stabbed by a Muslim in an attack at two churches. Five other people were knifed and wounded in the attack.

[. . .]

An Interior Ministry source said the 25-year-old man who carried out Friday’s attack said he was taking revenge for insults to the Prophet Mohammed — a reference to cartoons published mainly in European newspapers lampooning the Prophet.

The authorities say the attacker is mentally ill.

But Christian demonstrators in Alexandria said the authorities were trying to make excuses for what some Copts saw as increasing attacks by Islamists on Copts.

And, here’s the familiar spin that liberals choose to believe despite the death and destruction around the world that proves it’s a lie.

President Hosni Mubarak said Egypt would confront any attempts to harm national unity.

“Egypt is considered a model of national unity and religious tolerance,” Mubarak said in comments published in state press. “The occurrence of an individual incident or problem cannot disturb the serenity and strength of this relationship between the two elements of the nation,” he said.

I see. It was the dead guys fault. His murder disturbed the Islamic serenity in Egypt.

Iran’s unbalanced, unhinged, hardline Muslim president is flapping his gums again about destroying Israel. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes that the Twelfth Imam, Imam Madi, will arrive on the earth following a global jihad. He sees himself as the one who can bring this about. You recall that he previously stated that Israel should be “wiped off the map.” He’s still unhinged:

TEHRAN, Iran — The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on Friday and said it was “heading toward annihilation,” just days after Tehran raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it successfully enriched uranium for the first time.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a “permanent threat” to the Middle East that will “soon” be liberated. He also appeared to again question whether the Holocaust really happened.

“Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation,” Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the Palestinians. “The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.”

Ahmadinejad provoked a world outcry in October when he said Israel should be “wiped off the map.”

On Friday, he repeated his previous line on the Holocaust, saying: “If such a disaster is true, why should the people of this region pay the price? Why does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land occupied?”

Many in the MSM have tried to “mainstream” Hamas since they gained control of the Palestinian Authority. They want us to believe that Hamas really ISN’T a terrorist organization. After all, they primarily kill innocent Israelis – not Westerners. In the realm of the MSM, this is an important distinction. However, Hamas continues to prove they are NOT simply a political party. How many political party leaders make a point of meeting with Al Qaeda leaders?

In an another sign of the Palestinian leadership growing alliance with al-Qaida, Damascus-based Hamas head Khaled Mashaal recently met in Yemen with a representative of Osama bin Laden’s organization who is wanted by the US for his involvement in supporting and funding global terror, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

During a visit to Yemen two weeks ago, the local Hamas branch organized a fund-raising event to recruit financial aid for the new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government. During the event, Mashaal met with Sheikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani – suspected by the US as being a “loyalist to Osama bin Laden and supporter of al-Qaida” – who even donated 200,000 Yemenite rials to Hamas, the equivalent of a little over $1,000.

“This meeting reinforces the fact that Hamas and al-Qaida come out of the same ideological well-spring of global jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood,” said former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, whose Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs carefully followed the meeting and recently published a paper on the Hamas-al-Qaida alliance. “They still share the same financial infrastructure to this day.”

At the fund-raising event, Zindani praised Hamas suicide bombers and called on his followers to donate money to assist the Palestinian people. “The Hamas government is the Palestinian people’s government today,” he told the crowd of several thousand. “It is the jihad-fighting, steadfast, resolute government of Palestine.”

In 2004, US authorities designated Zindani as a terror supporter and a spiritual figure for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Zindani, the authorities claimed, played a key role in the 2004 purchasing of weapons on behalf of al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.

“The US has credible evidence that Zindani, a Yemeni national, supports designated terrorists and terrorist organizations,” a statement released by the US Treasury Department said. “Zindani has a long history of working with bin Laden, notably serving as one of his spiritual leaders. In this leadership capacity, he has been able to influence and support many terrorist causes, including actively recruiting for al-Qaida training camps.”

Senior IDF officers have confirmed that al-Qaida has already established terror cells in the Gaza Strip and has begun working on creating a similar infrastructure in the West Bank. Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Harel, head of the IDF’s Planning Directorate, told the Post recently that al-Qaida was operating within the PA territories.

This is a perfect example of the double standard in this country when it comes to religion. It’s perfectly acceptable to offend Christians with truly offensive images of our Savior, offensive artwork, and hate speech, but a simple line drawing of Muhammad is forbidden. No one has a problem with Muslims censoring them by threatening Jihad and mass murder in retaliation. Even more absurd, many on the left will say that Christianity is the more intolerant religion.

The Comedy Central television network barred its popular “South Park” series from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in last night’s episode but allowed a scene in which an image of Jesus Christ defecates on President Bush and the American flag.

Earlier today, conservative weblogs speculated about whether the episode’s reference to censorship was part of the edgy cartoon show’s gag, but a Comedy Central spokesman told Stephen Spruiell of National Review’s Media Blog the network itself made the decision to not show the image.

The network issued a statement, saying: “In light of recent world events, we feel we made the right decision.”

In the second of a two-part episode, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker played on the Danish newspaper’s publishing of caricatures of Muhammad, which sparked widespread rioting by Muslims earlier this year who considered it blasphemy.

In last night’s episode, “South Park” character Kyle tries to convince a Fox network executive to air, uncensored, an episode of “Family Guy” that includes an image of Muhammad.

“Either it’s all OK, or none of it is,” Kyle said. “Do the right thing.”

A clip can be viewed here, via Michelle Malkin’s weblog.

Many Muslims love to point out that the Qur’an states that there is no compulsion in Islam. In doing so, they are quoting from Surah 2:256 which states, “Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things” (Noble Qur’an, Yusuf Ali translation). Yet it seems the Muslim clerics in Afghanistan have been paying more attention to verses such as Surah 4:89, “They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah’s way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.” They also rely on portions of the hadiths like this: “Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn ‘Abbas, who said, ‘Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, “Don’t punish anybody with Allah’s Punishment.” No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, “If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him”‘” (Volume 4, Book 52, Number 260, Narrated by Ikrima). In choosing the later verses preaching violence over the earlier verses preaching tolerance, the clerics are properly utilizing the principle of naskh. Let’s hope they don’t get to fulfill their wishes against the Muslim convert to Christianity currently fighting for his life.

Senior Muslim clerics demanded Thursday that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to “pull him into pieces.”

In an unusual move, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned President Hamid Karzai on Thursday seeking a “favorable resolution” of the case of Abdul Rahman. The 41-year-old former medical aid worker faces the death penalty under Afghanistan’s Islamic laws for becoming a Christian.

His trial has fired passions in this conservative Muslim nation and highlighted a conflict of values between Afghanistan and its Western backers.

“Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die,” said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a moderate and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hard-line regime was ousted in 2001.
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Is this what we want from the new Afghan government? I thought we expelled the Taliban. The U.S. needs to withhold financial aid from nations that would do this.

Why does this not surprise me? The Catholic church is supporting a call from radical Islamic groups to have an hour of Islamic teaching each day in Italy’s schools.

The Vatican has disconcerted Italian politicians – and some of the Roman Catholic church’s most senior prelates – by endorsing a proposal by radical Muslims for a weekly “Islamic hour” in schools with a strong Muslim presence.

“If in a school there are 100 Muslim children, I don’t see why their religion shouldn’t be taught,” said Cardinal Renato Martino, a minister in the Vatican’s government, the Roman Curia.

The speaker of the Italian senate, Marcello Pera, who has launched a movement for the defence of Europe’s Christian values, said the suggestion was “the diametric opposite of any kind of attempt at integration”. In a note posted on the internet, he said it “tended, on the contrary, to reinforce the idea of an autonomous Muslim community inside the Italian state”.

Several commentators reacted by calling for an equal degree of freedom for Christians in Muslim countries. The archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, a candidate for the papacy last year, said religious freedom was “the greatest of all liberties”. The call for an Islamic hour was among the first products of a new Islamic Council, a consultative body set up last year to improve relations with Italy’s Muslim inhabitants who now account for almost 2% of the population.

Cardinal Martino’s idea won backing from two parties with a strong Catholic component: the National Alliance, which grew out of Italy’s main neo-fascist party, and the Democracy and Freedom party. The Vatican is known to be deeply concerned about the spread of tensions between Christians and Muslims, especially since the riots that followed the recent publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.

What worried many observers was the way in which Cardinal Martino, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, appeared to be offering support to radical Muslims while undermining moderates.

Dark days are ahead for Europe if they continue to use appeasement as a defense against Islam.

A Yemeni court used Muhammed as an example to support sentencing the editor of a Yemen newspaper to death for offending Islam. Now there’s a nice religion. The life of the founding prophet can be held up as reason for putting people to death over a cartoon. A CARTOON!

Yemeni prosecutors have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says.

Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his publication, the Yemen Observer, showed the Danish cartoons in February.

He denies the charges of offending Islam, under which he is being tried.

The English-language newspaper has had its licence to publish suspended, although its staff have continued to produce material online.

Prosecutors reportedly requested that the Yemen Observer be closed permanently and have its property and assets confiscated.

The paper’s website reported that the prosecution lawyers cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.

The trial was adjourned until 22 March.

It wasn’t good enough for the Muslim murderers to kill Christians and Jews. They had to blow up Hindu innocents again.

At least 12 people have been killed after triple blasts rocked parts of Varanasi on Tuesday evening.

Several others have been injured in the blasts, which took place between 6:15-6:30 pm (IST).

The Home Ministry has confirmed the blasts occurred at Sankat Mochan Temple and the railway station in the cantonment area. The third blast reportedly took place on the Shiv Ganga Express.

The injured have been taken to the SS Hospital in the Benaras Hindu University campus.

Senior officials of the district administration have reached the spot and the affected areas have been cordoned off.

The Uttar Pradesh government has announced a compensation of Rs five lakh for the dead and Rs one lakh for the seriously injured.

The first explosion took place outside the temple just after 6 pm (IST) when a large number of devotees were present at the aarti time.

Minutes later, another blast took place outside the room of the stationmaster of the cantonment railway station.

The third blast took place on the Shiv Ganga Express, which was leaving for New Delhi.

The blast at the temple triggered panic and a near-stampede situation as devotees scrambled to rush out to safety. Four bombs were also recovered at the Dashaswamedh Ghat, two kilometres away from the temple.

Did you ever notice that when a non-Muslim religious site gets blown up, it’s referred to as a church, a temple, or a synagogue. But, when a Muslim religious structure is bombed (usually by Muslims), it’s referred to as a holy shrine, the 33rd most holy site, or some similar holy name, while the most holy site in Judaism (the temple mount) is always reported as the third holiest site in Islam. . To the media, a violent, bloody religion like Islam is holy, while peaceful religions are not.

An Imam right here in the United States is calling for the death of anyone who insults Islam and Islam’s prophets. Judging by his narrow view of what constitutes “harming” a prophet of Islam, most of the bloggers in the blogosphere and people like Ben and I, who run an apologetics website, should be killed. For those who comfort themselves by believing these radical Imams are only operating in Middle Eastern countries, this is yet another wake up call. With Islam’s leaders calling for the murder of Americans that criticize their violent religion, how long do you think it will really be before the deadly riots and targeted killings start here? This Imam is inciting Muslims to murder Americans. Freedom of speech rights don’t include death threats, and this guy shouldn’t be allowed to continue indoctrinating people into the death cult we’re fighting a war against. Sadly, you’ll here similar speech at conferences held regularly in Chicago and other American cities.

A Muslim leader of a Michigan mosque with links to a man who taught confessed shoe-bomber Richard Reid at the Finsbury Park Mosque, has called for the “physical death” of those who “defile” the Prophet Mohamed and other Prophets of Islam, describing it as “blasphemy”.

Hanafi Abdul-Malik, Imam of the downtown Flint Michigan mosque Muslim House made the statements to a reporter for the Flint Journal.

The article in the Journal quotes Abdul-Malik as saying:

“Muslims respect God and all his prophets,” Adbul-Malik said. “We would not bring harm to any of them.”
“For anyone to defile any of them as has been done to the prophet Muhammad is blasphemy,” he said. “We think the consequence for doing so is physical death.”

Read more at Lauramansfield.com

Muslim leaders just don’t get it. They’re asking the United Nations to ban any criticism of Islam. I don’t doubt that the U.N. would love to end freedom of speech and start prosecuting people in the ICC for saying anything negative about their pet religions, but it’s not going to happen. Even Europe hasn’t been dhimmified enough to do away with freedom of speech to that extreme. Well. . . . .PARTS of Europe haven’t stooped to that level of Dhimmitude. Germany is already locking people up for insulting the Religion of Pieces. Canada would also likely support any resolution that might satisfy the Muslims in their country. However, if these Islamic leaders think their riots, death, and destruction will scare countries like the United States into giving up the freedoms they fought and died for, they’re sorely mistaken. There is no universal right to not be offended. Get over it.

The Organization of the Islamic Conference, a 57 member Muslim voting block, has asked the United Nations to take measures against what they call “Islamophobia.” Thomas Jacobson is with Focus on the Family Action

“What the Arab nations are asking the UN to do is to protect them from any criticism against their religion. And that is not something that the UN should do.”

Jacobson says the United Nations would be opposing the tenants of its founding.

“They should not be suppressing human rights, they were formed to protect and preserve human rights and to encourage countries to do the same.”
Sources say there is little chance the UN will adopt the Islamic program, which include a new definition of freedom of speech. Jared Leland of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

“I doubt that the United States would sign an international agreement binding them to something that in essence would place a burden or restrict First Amendment rights over here.”

Future Jihad author Walid Phares warns the United Nations about turning a theological issue into a political one.

“If we open that Pandora’s Box then all religious groups are going to come and transform all legal systems, including international law.”

Phares believes the request puts the UN at “a moment of truth.”

The AP via ABCNews.com has revealed a sad and disgusting bias. They didn’t cover the Muslim attacks on Christians in Nigeria. Some of the attacks were sparked by the Danish cartoons, and involved Muslims killing Christians and burning churches:

Nigeria’s unrest was the bloodiest and most sectarian yet seen, with crowds in the mainly Muslim north turning on the Christian minority.

In Maiduguri, the capital of the state of Borno, Muslims turned on local Christians after police broke up a rally against the drawings, burning shops and churches and killing 15 people, police spokesperson Haz Iwendi said.

At the same time, in the city of Katsina, police opened fire into a crowd of stone-throwers, killing one and injuring others, he said. Churches were also burned in Katsina, he added, but could not say how many.

Another story (not at ABC or AP) found that some Christians were burned inside the churches:

At least 17 people, including a Catholic priest, were killed and 30 churches burned in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri when Muslims protesting cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad turned on local Christians, police said.

Nigerian police spokesman Haz Iwendi said a crowd of protesters in the predominantly Muslim city targeted the Christian minority, burning and looting their shops and churches on Saturday.

“We can confirm that 17 persons were killed, 30 churches and five hotels were also burnt,” Iwendi told IRIN.
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Felix Usman, the priest in charge of St Augustine’s Catholic Church in Maiduguri, said he was lucky to escape when his church was attacked and burned by protesters. Another colleague, Matthew Gajere, in charge of St Rita’s Catholic Church, was burned to death by rioters inside his church, Usman said.

Sadly, a large majority of the MSM was absent during this anti-Christian violence. However, now that Christians have responded to these attacks, the MSM is on the job. This AP article on ABCNews.com, entitled, “Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly” starts off:

Christian mobs rampaged through a southern Nigerian city Tuesday, burning mosques and killing several people in an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence that followed deadly protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad over the weekend.

Residents and witnesses in the southern, predominantly Christian city of Onitsha said several Muslims with origins in the north were beaten to death by mobs which also burned two mosques there.

Yup. Now that Christians can be portrayed as the bad guys here, the MSM is ready to jump into the fray. Disgusting.

Michelle Malkin and Gateway Pundit have managed to keep their lunch down and write on this as well.

More words will be censored to avoid hurting the feelings of sensitive, rioting, decapitating, church burning Muslims. Yahoo now prohibits using the word Allah in an e-mail address because, of course, it would be blasphemous. However, Jesus, God, Messiah, Buddha, and Satan are perfectly acceptable. How long before American women are required to wear a head covering and walk ten paces behind men so as not to cause Muslim men hurt and anguish?

Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names – even if the letters are included within another name.

This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.

Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters “allah”.

Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.

Ed Callahan told us: “On one level this is just silliness. But we have a war on terrorism and it’s migrating to be a war on Muslims – this just shows the confusion there is between the two and how pervasive this is.”

The Callahans are still waiting to hear back from Yahoo!

A spokesman for Yahoo! UK said: “This sounds like a glitch. But we will get back to Ed and Lindy Callahan with a full answer as soon as possible.” .

More from the blogosphere here.

In light of the media’s recent over reaction to Cheney’s hunting accident, their complete or near blackout of any Cartoon Jihad coverage is very telling. You would think the rampaging, killing, and religious cleansing going on in Islamic countries would be a bigger story. When Christians are being killed, though, it’s always ignored. And, anything that might make Islam look like the death cult that it is, is always censored. Unfortunately, too many people are completely unaware that they’re being misled. If more people had a clue about the news that can be found on the internet, the MSM would be history and the world MIGHT not continue to ignore the Muslim extermination of Christians and Jews.

I know, I have written about this before. At that time a Nigerian left this comment on my site:

This REFUSAL of the press to mount a HUGE OUTCRY is GETTING US KILLED. . . . If they’d all come out in unison and HOWLED THEIR DISGUST, it might have quelled the riots and shamed the Muslims into ceasing this obscene behaviour. As it is, Muslims see nothing is going to happen to them for howling and they are going to up the ante. The REAL STORY IS THE PRESS REFUSAL TO COVER THIS. WHY?

Now, oh, my God, the machetes have come out. Remember Rwanda? Christians again are murdered (not by Muslims!) in their churches.

You really want to cry? The poor Christians apparently knew what was coming and tried appeasement. On Feb. 3, the BBC reported:

Nigeria’s Christians back Muslims

An umbrella Nigerian Christian body based in the majority Muslim north has condemned the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Now they realize that it was the wrong move, as their appeasement has been interpreted as weakness. Indeed, the cartoons are used to further the goal of turning Nigeria into an Islamic state.

This should be a lesson to all of us. Muslims only understand strength. Appeasement only encourages them to keep the Jihad going (see Israel for the perfect example).

You give them freedom of speech, and they use it to threaten to join Al Qaeda and kill you. In Afghanistan, Muslims are threatening to become terrorists as a protest against “offensive” cartoons. At least they no longer have direct access to Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Hundreds of Afghan students shouted support on Monday for
Osama bin Laden and threatened to join al Qaeda during a protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

In an attempt to cool the controversy after a weekend of rioting in countries including Nigeria, where 28 people were killed, and Libya, where 11 died,
Pope Benedict said the world’s religions and their symbols had to be respected.

Pakistan’s main Islamist alliance vowed to broaden its campaign with more protests targeted at the U.S. and Pakistani presidents.

The protest in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad passed off without violence. Students gathered at the university campus chanted “Death to Denmark,” “Death to America” and “Death to France,” a witness said.

They also shouted support for al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri.

Shouting “Death to Karzai,” they demanded President Hamid Karzai close the embassies of Denmark, the United States and France and expel their forces from
Afghanistan.

“If they abuse the Prophet of Islam again we will all become al Qaeda,” the students shouted.

As the cartoon Jihad continued to claim lives and property today, the Pope chimed in with a bit of ecumenism and a giant diversion from reality.

In a speech to the new Moroccan ambassador to the
Vatican, the Pope said: “In order to promote peace and understanding between peoples and mankind it is both vital and urgent that religions and their symbols are respected and that believers are not the object of provocations that wound their religious feelings.”

“However, intolerance and violence can never be justified as a response to any offence, because it is a response that is incompatible with the sacred principles of religion,” he added.

Intolerance and violence IS compatible with some religions, and especially Islam. I’m so tired of hearing about wounded feelings as if it’s the most tragic thing to happen to human beings since the Holocaust. There is plenty of REAL persecution in this world. Christians are being murdered in Nigeria, China rounds up Christians regularly and sends them to reeducation camps where they’re tortured, and Christians in Africa are being driven off their land and killed. None of these things are addressed by world leaders, commented on with such urgency by the Pope, or reported by the MSM. Offend a Muslim with a stupid drawing, though, and everyone has a statement and a call for unity, harmony, and tolerance. Dead Men, women, and children in every Muslim country on the planet is a tragedy. Hurt feelings among fanatical killers is NOT.

Angered over an “intolerant” cartoon, Muslims are showing us all how to be tolerant by attacking Christians in Nigeria, and burning down Christian churches. The wide spread nature of these riots, attacks, and killings is proof that Islam is not, and never has been, a religion of peace. If there really are moderate Muslims, where are they? Why aren’t they speaking out against this death and destruction?

Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings.

It was the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa’s most populous nation. An Associated Press reporter saw mobs of Muslim protesters swarm through the city center with machetes, sticks and iron rods. One group threw a tire around a man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze.

In Libya, the parliament suspended the interior minister after at least 11 people died when his security forces attacked rioters who torched the Italian consulate in Benghazi.

Right-wing Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli resigned under pressure, accused of fueling the fury in Benghazi by wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with one of the offending cartoons, first published nearly five months ago in a Danish newspaper.

A T-shirt with a supposedly offensive cartoon upsets them, but killing innocent people, burning down churches, and threatening to exterminate people is okay. This world better wake up soon. Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a plague.

The cartoon Jihad continues to cause death and destruction around the world. Islam is revealing its true colors and even people in liberal Seattle are finally getting it. Muslims are ruining years of liberal excuse making. How will President Bush and the Dems convince us Islam is a religion of peace with Muslims calling for all of us to be slaughtered in the name of Allah?

Cartoon Jihad kills 9 in Libya

Cartoon rage reaches New Mexico, USA

The sign below is from a protest in New York City, where 3,000 people died because of Islam.

A NYC Muslim Group Warns U.S.: ‘Your Days are Numbered’

Cartoon Jihad in the Philippines:

It’s reports like this that make me think not much has really changed since 9/11. It’s possible the feds are fully aware of these training camps and aren’t taking action because the camps are an intelligence source, but it’s creepy just knowing that there are jihadists training for war right here in America. How long before we learn first hand what it’s like to be Israel.

The Pakistani terrorist group Jamaat ul Fuqra is using Islamic schools in the United States as training facilities, confirms a joint investigative report by an intelligence think tank and an independent reporter.

A covert visit to an encampment in the Catskill Mountains near Hancock, N.Y., called “Islamberg” found neighboring residents deeply concerned about military-style training taking place there but frustrated by the lack of attention from federal authorities, said the report by the Northeast Intelligence Network, which worked with an Internet blogger, “CP,” to publish an interim report.

The neighbors interviewed, who asked not to be identified, said they feared retaliation if they were to make a report to law enforcement officials.

“We see children – small children run around over there when they should be in school,” one neighbor said. “We hear bursts of gunfire all of the time, and we know that there is military-like training going on there. Those people are armed and dangerous.” . . . . .

Read it all.

Muslims continue to over react because of a few stupid cartoons. Muslim imams in Pakistan are salivating over the opportunity to continue killing people in the name of Islam. They’ve announced a one million dollar award for whoever murders the Danish cartoonists who drew pictures of their prophet. (I refuse to call him “the prophet Muhammad” as the media does, as if he really is a prophet) They must have run out of 8 year old boys to kill.

A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country.

Police confined the former leader of an Islamic militant group to his home to prevent him from addressing supporters over the cartoons, amid fears he could incite violence, after riots this week killed five people.

Security forces were out in strength, particularly around government offices and Western businesses, as Muslims streamed onto the streets after Friday prayers. More than 200 people were detained, but most gatherings were peaceful.

Right, the “gatherings” were peaceful. . . .except for the signs calling for mass murder and the extermination of all Westerners. At least AP is now occasionally calling these “gatherings” riots.

In neighboring India, police used batons and tear gas to disperse thousands of angry worshippers who rioted in the southern city of Hyderabad. They burned Danish flags, pelted police with stones, and looted shops. Hundreds more protested in Bangladesh.

In the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, prayer leader Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi announced the bounty for killing a cartoonist to about 1,000 people outside the Mohabat Khan mosque.

Qureshi said the mosque and his religious school would give $25,000 and a car, while a local jewelers’ association would give another $1 million. No representative of the association was available to confirm it had made the offer.

“This is a unanimous decision by all imams (prayer leaders) of Islam that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize,” Qureshi said.

hmmmmm. . . .that just doesn’t sound so peaceful to me.

The world, including the U.S., can no longer make fun of the French. European nations, Africa, Canada, President Bush to a lesser extent, and several other countries have sent a message to the rampaging Muslims of the world. We surrender and submit. Here’s a round-up of the submission to Islam:

A voluntary vow of censorship from the EU.

Franco Frattini, the European Union commissioner for justice, freedom and security, revealed the idea for a code of conduct in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. Mr. Frattini, a former Italian foreign minister, said the EU faced the “very real problem” of trying to reconcile “two fundamental freedoms, the freedom of expression and the freedom of religion”.

Millions of European Muslims felt “humiliated” by the publication of cartoons of Mohammed, he added, calling on journalists and media chiefs to accept that “the exercising of a right is always the assumption of a responsibility”. He appealed to European media to agree to “self-regulate”.

Accepting such self-regulation would send an important political message to the Muslim world, Mr Frattini said.

By agreeing to a charter “the press will give the Muslim world the message: we are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of free expression, we can and we are ready to self-regulate that right”, he said.

Basically, a new freedom, the freedom from being humiliated or offended, is created, and that negates any right to freedom of speech and expression. We’re free people as long as Islam doesn’t get upset. That’s pretty scary considering Islam is a religion that advocates cutting peoples hands off, beheading infidels, and killing Jews and Christians. What I find most perplexing about this surrender from liberal governments is that most women in these countries obviously have no problem with it. Islam is also a religion that won’t allow women to drive in Islamic countries, forces women to walk 10 paces behind men, gives women no rights in marriage or divorce, and allows mercy killings if a woman is unfortunate enough to be raped. This is the religion that is now being allowed to dictate what our freedoms are and how they will be regulated.

Malaysia shuts down newspaper for printing cartoons

The Malaysian government shut down on Thursday a local newspaper after it published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the official Bernama news agency said. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also the internal security minister, ordered the indefinite shutdown of The Sarawak Tribune with immediate effect, Bernama said. “Internal Security Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today ordered Sarawak Tribune’s publication permit to be suspended indefinitely with immediate effect for reproducing controversial caricatures of Prophet Mohammed on February 4,” it said.

Even the POSSESSION of the cartoons was banned in Malaysia.

Yemen shut down a newspaper for printing the cartoons, and issued a warrant for the editor’s arrest.

South African courts outlawed the cartoons, effectively eliminating freedom of the press in that country. Apparently, the Muslim Judicial Council is now making the rules in South Africa.

The South African Freedom of Expression Institute says a judgment by the Johannesburg High Court which prevents the publishing of cartoons found offensive by the Muslim community is a major threat to press freedom. The Freedom of Expression Institute argues that while the cartoon should not be published, that decision should be made by newspaper editors not the courts.

The Muslim Judicial Council applied to the High Court for an interdict to prevent two of South Africa’s largest media houses publishing the offensive cartoons.

Ukraine apologized to Muslims for offending them.

Poland apologized for reprinting the cartoons.

A university in Canada reprinted the cartoons in the schools newspaper, and campus police promptly confiscated all 2,000 copies.

Sweden is shutting down websites that reprint the cartoons. Islam was able to do in Sweden what the U.N., China, Iran, and other oppressive governments haven’t been able to do – end freedom of speech on the internet.

Of course, Koffi and the U.N. criticized the evil cartoons and called on everyone to be sensitive and submit to Islam’s will for us.

While President Bush did condemn the riots, he also condemned the media and suggested they have a responsibility to be thoughtful and considerate. In other words their freedom of speech comes with limits, and those limits are set by people who threaten to kill you every time they are offended.

Lebanon formed a committee to monitor all “hostile campaigns” against Islam.

Singapore won’t allow the publication of things that might offend Muslims. Singapore’s prime minister believes “racial harmony is a higher priority than freedom of expression”. How many more freedoms will be given up in the name of racial harmony?

Mark my words. The internet will be next. When riots begin over websites that have offended the Muslims of the world, the filtering and censorship of the internet will begin. Now that the Islamists know rioting works, they can bring Shariah to all of us riot by riot.

The EU is giving the rioting, murdering Muslims what they want. . . .again. In response to death threats, threats of terrorism, burned down embassies and government buildings, and several deaths, the EU will get rid of their free press and tradition of freedom of speech to be replaced with the beginning of Shariah law in Europe. Muslims have seen terrorism rewarded in Israel and now in Europe, so we can expect the riots, hostages, mass murder, and bombings to continue. Bit by bit, and just as they planned, the Islamification of non-Muslim countries is succeeding.

This quote says it all:

“The press will give the Muslim world the message: We are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of free expression,” he told the newspaper. “We can and we are ready to self-regulate that right.”

They are ready to submit to Islam and throw themselves headlong into Dhimmitude.

There has been one set back in the Imam’s plans for the world, however. The Danish aren’t so willing to roll over and take it. Their public schools will no longer be serving meals to students that are sensitive to the needs of Muslims. All they got for their tolerance were riots and terrorism anyway, so I don’t blame them.

Buy Danish! The buy Danish campaign is working! I had Havarti cheese and crackers tonight in support of Denmark.

Students in the Copenhagen council schools shall no longer be denied the choice of pork when they buy their daily hot lunch in the school’s canteen.

Out of consideration to pupils with a moslem background there is presently only halal-butchered meat – and no pork at all – in the daily hot meals which are offered at a price of 15 kroner (appr. 2,35 US $) in the canteens of the 49 schools run by the council of Copenhagen.

A political majority in the council’s committee for children and youngsters now demand that porkchops and meatballs be introduced on the menu.

“We need to see more freedom of choice in the canteens. It’s fine with me that the ethnic minorities can have halal-meat but those who want pork should find it available. When it comes to food there are many minorities and they should all be accomodated”, says Jan Andreasen, spokesman on educational issues for the [ruling] Social Democrats.

Go Denmark!