Television airs footage of Taliban beheading

Looks like the PC reporters and media in the US have failed to influence the Italian press, at least not all of them. As much as I would not want small children to be exposed to such slaughter it is important that we expose adults to the ugly truth of radical Islam. If beheading and other senseless acts of violence were a rarity we would not have to show these crimes. If our MSM did their jobs I wouldn’t spend my time blogging. Reality is violent acts are common throughout the Muslim communities and it crosses geographic and cultural boundaries. There is no large excepted Muslim group attempting to stop the slaughter and limit the spread of radical Islam. What groups there are simply do not have a global audience. Until they do people should be aware what Islam could bring with them. Check any globe, look for an Islamic country and attempt to find one without a problem with a non Muslim neighbor. Check the press next for violent acts committed in the name of Islam in non-Muslim countries. Go one more step and compare the numbers of violent acts and compare it to any other group or religion. See a pattern yet? If you do know a “moderate Muslim” hold him or her in high regard there are not many brave enough to stand up and be counted.

Edited (for your stomach) Video of Beheading :

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
The Times of India.
Rome — An Italian television channel has aired footage of the beheading of a driver of an Italian journalist, who was held for about two weeks by Afghanistan’s Taliban militants until Kabul negotiated his release.
The RAI-1 channel on Tuesday beamed images of Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his driver Sayed Agha and his interpreter Ajmal Naqshbandi, kneeling blindfolded before some gun-wielding militants.
It then showed Agha being beheaded following which a shaken Mastrogiacomo made an impassioned appeal to Italian authorities to “do something,” while underlining that the situation was “very difficult”.
The Taliban members have also beheaded Mastrogiacomo’s interpreter, who was also a journalist.
The Italian journalist was freed on March 19 after Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered the release of five Taliban prisoners under a controversial deal.
Kidnapping has increasingly become a tactic of the Taliban, who have been waging a guerrilla-style insurgency since they were ousted from power in late 2001 by US-led forces.
Ban condemns killings in Afghanistan
New York — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the “senseless murder” of an Afghan interpreter by the Taliban militants and attacks that killed Canadian troops, Afghan de-miners and civilians, including children.
Afghan interpreter Ajmal Naqshbandi, who was captured with an Italian journalist last month, was reportedly beheaded on Sunday in the southern Helmand province by Taliban militants while the journalist was freed.
Ban on Tuesday said in a statement that he “strongly condemns such acts of violence” and called on the Afghan government and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the country to redouble efforts to ensure stability and respect for human rights.
On Sunday, a bomb attack killed six Canadian troops of ISAF, and six Afghan de-miners were killed in the Farah province. On April 1, a suicide bomber killed nine civilians, including five children in Laghman province.

Shi’ites and Sunnis Lay Down Their Grievances???

Why can’t the Shi’ites and Sunnis just get along? Well, in this next article, it seems as if they have bonded against a common enemy…
‘Iranian Shi’ites help Iraq Sunnis’
April 12, 2007

BAGHDAD: The US military last night charged publicly for the first time that Shia Iranian intelligence agents were supporting Sunni extremists fighting US-led forces in Iraq.

Over the past two years, Washington and top US commanders have repeatedly accused Iranian elements of aiding Shia militias in their sectarian fight against Sunni Arabs in Iraq and in waging attacks on US troops.

But displaying what he said were newly manufactured Iranian weapons found in Baghdad, Major General William Caldwell said US authorities were now aware of Iranian help to the Sunni extremists who lead the insurgency.

“We do have now some information that Iranian intelligence agencies have supported some Sunni extremist groups,” the military spokesman said.

He did not name those groups but said the latest indication of Iranian influence on insurgents came after debriefing some security detainees.

“This training is provided by surrogates of (Iranian) intelligence services,” he said.

Al-Qaeda First Terrorist Group In Cyberspace?

Reading the following article, I can’t help but be overwhelmed with the sense that the U.S. Military is way behind the power curve when it comes to fighting this war on the Internet… And, don’t get me started on that comment about Al-Qaeda being the first terrorist group to go from physical space to cyberspace – that started back when the porn industry discovered the Internet…

U.S. Army: Enemy Posting How-To Manuals Online
5,000 Terrorist Web Sites Estimated
By MARK A. KELLNER, Arlington, Va.
Defense News

Al–Qaida and other terrorist organizations have created “more than 5,000 Web sites” that both spread jihadist messages and contain detailed instructions about how to attack targets in the Middle East and elsewhere, Lt. Gen. Steven Boutelle, the U.S. Army’s chief information officer, told the Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare breakfast on April 11.
“Al-Qaida is the first terrorist movement to go from physical space to cyberspace” in its warfare, said Boutelle, who retires from the Army in August.

He noted that one report said there was “a notebook computer under the arm of every second” member of the group, headed by Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden, as it fled Afghanistan during the 2001 American invasion.

“Instead of [each member] carrying incriminating information, it’s all online,” Boutelle said. Such Internet-enabled terrorism is “probably the greatest threat to this nation since the Civil War.”

Moreover, he added, suggestions that the Army move to somehow block Internet Web sites such as “Jihad Unspun”, which posts, among other items, videos of attacks on coalition forces “in theater,” may be unrealistic.

“How can you block what your enemy does?” he asked.

Instead, Boutelle suggested mining the data available from such sites and other sources.

Saddam Linked to Al-Qaeda

For those who are under the impression that Saddam did not have any ties with Al-Qaeda, I submit the following article (along with a humorous little photo I found while Googling around):

Cheney is Absolutely Correct
By Ray Robison

American Thinker

On the Rush Limbaugh radio program, VP Cheney restated his position that Saddam had ties to al Qaeda. The Vice President is completely correct. Specifically, he spoke of Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi’s presence in Iraq before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As much as a year earlier, al Qaeda affiliated jihadists lead by Zarqawi began aggressive attacks on the Kurdish regions in the north of Iraq. Why would this committed jihadist leader bring his fighters to Iraq to attack Saddam’s enemies?

While researching for our new eBook Both In One Trench we realized that there seems to be a confluence of prominent terrorists emanating from Kuwait after it was occupied by Saddam’s armies. Many of these men are of Palestinian ethnicity. The Palestinians living in Kuwait had favored Saddam because he was a prominent proponent of the Palestinian cause. Their allegiance to Saddam was so thorough that the Kuwaiti government kicked out its Palestinian population after liberation because they collaborated with Saddam. Saddam’s support of Palestinian terrorism is incontrovertible.

A large number of these Palestinians, over a hundred thousand, made their way to Jordan where they began to radicalize the moderate Jordanian population. One of these Palestinians – part of the Palestinian migration from Kuwait which has been termed the “returnees from Kuwait” – was Sheik Abu-Mohammed al-Maqdisi (or Isam Mohammad Taher al-Barqawi). He would later become a major al Qaeda leader.

Barqawi became the spiritual leader for the newly radicalized Jordanians like Abu Mus’ab Al Zarqawi. Zarqawi would organize a group of radicalized Jordanians and other “returnees from Kuwait” called tawhid, which would align itself with al Qaeda for the Millennium Plot (or before).

Want to Play a Terrorist?

Unfortunately, I haven’t been keeping up on the T.V. show “24” this year. But, when the DVD gets released, I’ll catch up on the series. Anyway, I was wondering about Muslim actors playing terrorist roles, and how that was affecting their psyche, when I came across the following:

Want to Play a Terrorist?
Actors Face a Dilemma
By NICK TIMIRAOS
April 11, 2007

The Wall Street Journal:  Jamie Harding, a British Muslim, feared his first Hollywood feature film would be his last. He played Ahmed al-Nami, one of four Sept. 11 hijackers in “United 93,” a 2006 docudrama about the passenger revolt aboard the doomed airliner.
“A lot of people were saying, ‘Why would you ever want to play one of the four most hated people in the world?’, and to some extent, you wonder if that’s going to be a career breaker,” says the 27-year-old, whose mother is Sudanese and father is British. Until “United 93,” he had acted mainly in theater and some small television parts.

But his risk succeeded, and soon he will be on U.S. screens again, when the European film “O Jerusalem,” comes to American theaters next month. This time he plays the brother of the Arab protagonist in a story about the friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

Roles for Middle Easterners in movies and TV shows have multiplied since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, bringing a jump in demand for actors who can play them. The catch: They are most often the bad guys. That is a dilemma for actors worried about being stereotyped or perpetuating a negative image of Middle Easterners. At the same time, it appears an initial wave of “us-versus-them” narratives is gradually being joined by more nuanced themes.