Abu Bakar Bashir Calls for Followers to “Beat Up” Western Tourists and for Young Muslims to Die as Martyrs

Unfortunately, the government of Indonesia refused to hand over Abu Bakar Bashir to the U.S. for his conspiratorial role in the Bali bombings… Had the U.S. gotten a hold of Abu Bashir, he would still be enjoying a glorious ocean-view cell at Gitmo.  As it now stands, Abu Bashir is a free man in Indonesia…

H/T – Warner

Bashir urges attacks on ‘infidel’ Australians
Natasha Robinson | March 24, 2008
The Australian

ISLAMIC cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to “beat up” Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs.

In the sermon, organised by an Islamic youth organisation and delivered a few kilometres from the home village of convicted Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, Bashir likened tourists in Bali to “worms, snakes, maggots”, and specifically referred to the immorality of Australian infidels.

The address was caught on video by an Australian university student.

“The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death,” said the cleric, who was convicted of conspiracy over the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, but was later cleared and released from prison.

“The young must be first at the front line – don’t hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness.”

Observers said the sermon’s content was a clear indication of what many terrorism academics have noted – that the accused spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiah has been emboldened by his release from prison last year after serving 26 months for conspiracy in relation to the Bali blasts.

“Immediately after Abu Bakar Bashir was released from incarceration he was very cautious in spreading hatred,” said Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. “The remarks show that Abu Bakar Bashir has gone back to the pre-incarceration period where he was in a very similar way urging JI members, encouraging JI members to move in the direction of violence, especially violence including terrorism.”

“Arab public opinion has turned against Islamic terrorists”

An interesting run-down of the enemies of Israel:

Aiming For the Brain
by James Dunnigan
Strategypage.com

As a democracy, Israel cannot ignore threats to its citizens. So the continued rocket attacks on southern Israel create a public outcry for a solution. Moving Israeli troops out of Gaza three years ago was supposed to be a solution, but it wasn’t. Israelis can access Palestinian media, and all they see is the same old “kill the Jews and destroy Israel” propaganda (from both Fatah and Hamas, although the Hamas stuff is more strident and abundant.) So Israel is increasingly applying the same tactics in Gaza (go after the terrorist leadership and technical experts) that worked to stop the Palestinian suicide bombing campaign that began in 2000 (and was defeated by 2005). Even most pacifist Israelis have given up on trying to make deals with the Palestinians. There are too many Palestinian factions, conditioned by a century of “kill the Jews” propaganda, that will not abide by any deal, and will keep trying to kill Israelis.

Defensive measures often have serious limitations. For example, the Palestinian rocket attacks on the town (Sderot) closest to Gaza, continue to kill and wound and Israelis. The “Iron Dome” anti-rocket system Israel is building will not, it turns out, protect Sderot, because the town is too close (two kilometers) to where the rockets are launched. Iron Dome is designed to take down missiles fired from at least four kilometers away. That might change, because the basic problem is time. Missiles fired from two kilometers away arrive in 9-10 seconds, which is before Iron Dome can react. Some Israeli army commanders want to reoccupy part of northern Gaza, to force the Palestinians to launch their rockets four kilometers from Sderot. In the last year, these rockets have killed two Israelis, and wounded dozens more. Israeli attacks on the terrorist groups responsible have left over 300 Palestinians dead. The Israeli shift to mainly targeting the terrorist leaders and technicians has the best chance, in the near term, of crippling the Hamas attacks. The increased Israeli attacks are apparently the result of improved intelligence within Gaza, probably the result of Fatah ordering its supporters there to aid the Israelis in targeting the Hamas leadership.

In the meantime, Israel continues its blockade of Gaza, allowing only food and medical supplies through. This has made Gaza Palestinians angry, but also apathetic and fearful. Hamas is running a police state, so the feelings of the average Palestinian have little impact. The blockade has enraged many Europeans, who are calling for diplomatic, economic and legal moves against Israel for “war crimes.” Many Israelis see this as the old European anti-Semitism, which led to the Nazi mass murder of six million Jews during World War II (with the cooperation of officials and citizens in many European countries). But the Palestinians see such support as one of the few weapons they have left. However, an increasing number of Arabs are getting tired of the Palestinian inability to work out a peace deal. These Arabs have come to recognize that the Israelis are trying harder to make a deal than the Palestinians are.

Muslim Militant with Links to al-Qaeda Arrested in Singapore

They’re everywhere….

Suspected Muslim militant, said to have trained with al-Qaeda, is arrested
TimesOnline.co.uk
March 24, 2008

A suspected member of an Islamic terror group who is said to have trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan has been arrested, the Singapore Government said yesterday.

Rijal Yadri Jumari, a 27-year-old Singaporean, was allegedly involved with Jemaah Islamiyah, a network of Muslim militants in South-East Asia, the Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement on its website.

His arrest was announced as a hunt continued for Mas Selamat Kastari, the suspected local commander of Jemaah Islamiyah, who escaped from a high-security Singapore prison last month.

Mr Rijal joined Jemaah Islamiyah’s Al-Ghuraba cell in Pakistan, the ministry said. “He was one of several students talent-spotted by the JI to be groomed to become a future leader in the organisation,” it added.

He was sent to Afghanistan for terrorist training at an al-Qaeda camp in Kandahar in 2000, the ministry said.

While there Mr Rijal was allegedly trained in weapons handling, explosives, surveillance and guerrilla warfare —- and met Osama bin Laden a number of times. (AP)

Exposing yet another UK Muslim Jihad Recruiter

Regular readers already know I think islamic recruiters are all cowards. If they really deeply believe their own crap they should go and fight the jihad themselves but these cowards choose personal safety and look for young enthusiastic and braver youths to fight for them. I have exposed minions for years and not once have I ever known of a muslim recruiter sending his own child into battle-I guess mohammeds instructions are not all inclusive.

This article appears in its entirety on the news of the world web site. I removed the links and most of the pictures to cut down the size but I encourage you to view the entire story. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/ they did a great job with this exposure of pious muslims going about their religious duties.

At some point the UK has to defend itself and stop encouraging these freaks by passing laws against their behavior but not arresting them for it all the while paying them to break the law. Stop the dole, arrest and imprison these minions.

By Lewis Panther, 22 March, 2008, News of the World
A FANATICAL preacher of hate has been recorded urging impressionable young British Muslims to go to WAR against our troops.

Yet, sickeningly, crazed cleric Anjem Choudary and his wife rake in more than £25,000 a year in welfare BENEFITS—while he plots to destroy British society.

-The original article had a link asking you to vote on if hate preachers should have government benefits removed. It was in the high 90 percentile that they should. There was also a link to this minions ranting, I removed that one because the purpose of this site is not to spread islamic hate and propaganda.

Now Choudary —who once called for the Pope to be executed and described the September 11 hijackers as “magnificent martyrs” — could face arrest under anti-terror laws for his evil ranting on the tape, which was passed to the News of the World.

After hearing his latest inflammatory remarks, terror experts asked: “What more does this man need to do before he is locked up?”

Brainwashed

Choudary, 41, was taped lecturing a secret meeting in west London earlier this month. On it he urges his Islamic followers to persuade would-be terrorists to sign up for killing campaigns.

The bearded mullah describes non-Muslims as “the enemy” and tells his sympathisers they should brainwash at least TEN Britons a month into becoming al-Qaeda supporters.
He also urges his clan to preach that:

FIGHTING jihad \ against Western society is an obligation.

BRITISH Muslims should travel abroad to fight our troops.

TERRORIST wannabes should “put fear into the hearts” of non-Muslims in the UK and spread al-Qaeda messages.

American Company deactivates website due to fear of Islam.

Face it, if Christians had complained about a film critical of Christ it is highly unlikely Network Solutions would have cared enough to remove the link.

Someone will step up ignore the minions and post Geert Wilders film. When it is available, we will be more than glad to post a link to the film. Censoring a film before even viewing because of a few protests is not just bad policy, it is simple cowardice.

If you agree that this film is important, you can contact Network Solutions at 1-800-333-7680. You might also consider calling all the sponsors listed on their website (http://www.networksolutions.com) and letting them know your thoughts. If this was all started because a few people complained then people with an opposing viewpoint should also complain.

I for one have added Network Solutions to a growing list of companies I will never do business with. Demand for this film has already dwarfed the numbers who have complained about it. I have always understood democracy to be the rule of the majority.

I suggest the management of Network Solutions reexamine basic American Values and if that doesn’t convince them to reverse their decision, they should implement strict sharia law for a single day. Maybe a brief look at seventh century values will show them why this film needs to be available. By censoring this film they are giving passive support to radical muslims and in doing so have earned the new title of dhimmi.

Passive support is still support.

23 Mar 2008
Protests against the release of a film thought to be critical of Islam have led to the deactivation of the website on which the film was to be shown.

At least 1,000 people took part in an Amsterdam demonstration against a new film by Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders, with protesters seen carrying placards reading: “Stop the witch hunt against Muslims.”
-If the film simply exposes core muslims beliefs then why are muslims terrified of the exposure?

And after alleged complaints, US-based web hosting company Network Solutions has deactivated the site on which Wilders planned to show his 15-minute film Fitna – a term from the Koran which denotes strife or discord, typically religious.

A message on http://www.fitnathemmovie.com said: “This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site’s content is in violation of the Network Solutions’ acceptable use policy.

“Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation.”

Pope Baptizes Muslim Convert to Christianity on Easter

It seems that all this blogging I’ve been doing, combined with a lack of exercise this past winter season (global warming my ass!) has added a few inches to my waistline. So, when I tried on my suit for Easter Sunday, it goes without saying that I was quite alarmed! Since Easter is tomorrow, and even if I ran to the Moon and back, I couldn’t sweat off those extra inches in one day – plus, I don’t have enough time to get lipo-suctioned at the mall (yeah, that was my first thought…), I did what any other self-respecting tub-of-lard would do and bought a new suit! So, I’m now ready for Easter in my big fat tent of a suit… And, Mrs. Bulldog has promised to crack the whip and get me back to exercising daily so I won’t have this problem again next Easter!

Anyway, I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Easter, and in keeping with the season I’m posting an Easter email that Warner sent us. I think he summed it up best when he wrote: “This’ll send them into apoplectic conniptions!”

Pope Baptizes Prominent Italian Muslim at Easter Vigil Service

March 22, 2008 – Fox News

VATICAN CITY —
Italy’s most prominent Muslim commentator, a journalist with iconoclastic views such as support for Israel, converted to Roman Catholicism Saturday when the pope baptized him at an Easter service.

As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Magdi Allam’s head and said a brief prayer in Latin.

“We no longer stand alongside or in opposition to one another,” Benedict said in a homily reflecting on the meaning of baptism. “Thus faith is a force for peace and reconciliation in the world: distances between people are overcome, in the Lord we have become close.”

Vatican television zoomed in on Allam, who sat in the front row of the basilica along with six other candidates for baptism.

An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Allam often writes on Muslim and Arab affairs and has infuriated some Muslims with his criticism of extremism and support for the Jewish state.

The deputy editor of the Corriere della Sera newspaper, Allam, 55, told the Il Giornale newspaper in a December interview that his criticism of Palestinian suicide bombing generated threats on his life in 2003, prompting the Italian government to provide him with a sizable security detail.

The nighttime service at St. Peter’s Basilica marked the period between Good Friday, which commemorates Jesus’ crucifixion, and Easter Sunday, which marks his resurrection.

Benedict opened by blessing a white candle, which he then carried down the main aisle of the darkened basilica. Slowly, the pews began to light up as his flame was shared with candles carried by the faithful, until the whole basilica twinkled and the main lights came on.

The Union of Islamic Communities in Italy — which Allam has frequently criticized as having links to Hamas — said the baptism was his own decision.

“He is an adult, free to make his personal choice,” the Apcom news agency quoted the group’s spokesman, Issedin El Zir, as saying.

Yeah, you say that now because everyone is watching, but how long before you try to kill him for apostasy?

Al Qaeda Cell Blamed for U.S. Embassy Attack in Yemen

Yup… No surprise here…

Yemeni soldiers stand at a check point at the site of explosion near the U.S. embassy in the capital of San’a, Yemen, Tuesday, March 18, 2008, where a Yemeni guard was killed.

Al-Qaeda behind Yemen US embassy attack

March 23, 2008

An al-Qaeda cell was behind this week’s mortar attack against the US embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, a state-run newspaper has reported.

“The al-Qaeda terror organisation was involved in the terrorist attack,” the al-Thawra daily said, quoting an unnamed police source.

The source identified one member of the cell as Hamza al-Dhaiani, who allegedly launched three mortar rounds at the embassy on Tuesday.

“He carried out the attack from a pickup vehicle,” the source said.

The shells apparently missed their target and struck the courtyard of a girls’ public school adjacent to the embassy’s compound in eastern Sana’a’s Saawan neighbourhood.

“Police bodies are still pursuing the terrorist al-Dhaiani who carried out the attack backed by several other terrorists,” the source added.

A Yemeni guard patrolling the back fence of the embassy was immediately killed and three colleagues injured. Thirteen female students from the nearby school were also injured in the attack.

Globalism squeezing West Bank

This article has it all-globalization, muslim victim hood, muslim whining, unfair trade practices and crap Chinese products.

BY KARIN LAUB and DALIA NAMMARI ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS
HEBRON, West Bank
Yasser Herbawi once supplied much of the West Bank and Gaza with black-and-white checkered scarves, the proud emblem of Palestinian identity made famous by the late Yasser Arafat.
-Arafat is shown above in his role as cyber jihadi and muslim apologist.

But most of his looms now stand idle, his product edged out by cheap imports from the world’s newest keffiyeh capital: China.

After a decade of being flooded with Chinese goods, the West Bank’s largest city is struggling to compete.
-Lol, the Chinese beat back the minions and on their own turf.

Two-thirds of Hebron’s textile workshops have closed and 6,000 shoe factory workers have lost their jobs in the last eight years, pushing unemployment to 30.5 percent.

Cheap imports have hit manufacturing towns across the world, but the economic decline of this city of 230,000 is particularly ironic. Hebron long adhered to what is now China’s recipe for success: work hard and sell cheap. And Chinese goods are imported to the West Bank by traders from Hebron, the city suffering most.

It’s hard to find an upside to globalization here.
-Or here at home

Old industries are being squeezed out, while Israeli restrictions on movement and land development limit the scope for new ventures. Israel’s measures to stop suicide bombers make it much harder to get goods into Israel, and West Bank manufacturers can no longer sell to Gaza, sealed off after the violent Hamas takeover there last year.
-Notice no muslims blame in any of that. Want to trade? Stop blowing shit up.

The door to China opened for Palestinians in the mid-1990s, after Israel and China forged diplomatic ties. The response among Palestinian business people was especially enthusiastic in Hebron.

Flights from the Middle East to China were soon packed with Hebronites, especially to big trade fairs. China operated a visa office in Hebron for several years, and even street vendors began pooling their cash to send representatives there to shop.

Eventually, more than 300 Hebronites had export offices in China, the mayor said.

“We have a love of adventure,” Maher Haimouni of Hebron’s chamber of commerce said of his fellow merchants.

Some of Hebron’s traders are defensive, stung by complaints that their Chinese imports are destroying the local economy.
-Damn, Chinese junk, lol

Hazem Natche, 38, took time out from unloading cartons of handbags just arrived from China to say he had no choice–his own handbag factory closed because of Chinese competition.

Only Mohammed Shiyoukhi, a member of a large clan that trades with China, was unapologetic. His store, selling toys, hats, footballs and, of course, keffiyehs, is named “Hong Kong.”

Customer Hanan Sharabati, 19, said she buys West Bank shoes because they’re better than the imports–a sentiment that merchants hope will get him through the bad times.

Kosovo’s unity under threat; world powers reconsider plans

Once again the U.N. backed by the U.S. has made a mess and can not seem to come up with a solution.

By Nicole Itano, March 22, 2008, McClatchy Newspapers
MITROVICA, Kosovo — One month after Kosovo declared independence, the unity of the former Serbian province is under serious threat as its Serb minority, actively backed by Serbia, tests how far the international community will go to ensure its current borders.

Heavily armed Serb protesters fought international forces here Monday in a clash that left a Ukrainian police officer dead and a French NATO soldier critically injured. Seven other French troops and dozens of UN policemen were seriously hurt, some requiring amputations from the blasts of at least 30 grenades.

The level of violence, on the one-month anniversary of Kosovo’s independence, and the direct involvement of the government in Belgrade shocked the international community. The major powers are now re-evaluating plans to transition power to the new Kosovo government, Western and UN officials said.

Among the open questions: Who will enforce Kosovo’s borders with Serbia and by what means? Who will secure the mainly ethnic Serb zone north of the Ibar River in Mitrovica, up to the border with Serbia? And will Serbs be allowed to turn what is already a “soft” partition into a permanent division in Kosovo?

Monday’s incident began about 5:30 a.m., when United Nations police tried to retake a courthouse that Serbian protesters had seized days earlier. They arrested more than 50 people inside, among them Serbian Interior Ministry officials — evidence, the UN says, that Belgrade played a direct role in orchestrating the violence.

The UN police, mainly from the Ukraine and Poland, came under attack by about 300 well-armed protesters. A convoy carrying some of the arrested was surrounded, its occupants freed.

Overwhelmed, the UN called in French NATO troops, who battled for hours to secure control of the courthouse. About 16,000 NATO troops are stationed in Kosovo, including troops from the United States.

“This was a real escalation of the violence,” said Major Etienne du Fayet, a spokesman for NATO troops in Mitrovica.

NY County Jail Now Serving Halal Food to Muslim Inmates

More Creeping Sharia brought to you by a bunch of Liberal wussies.

Prison is for criminals.  It’s not suppose to be all warm and fuzzy!  Sheesh!

To quote my favorite Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, “This isn’t the Ritz/Carlton. If you don’t like it, don’t come back.”

BTW – Sheriff Arpaio eliminated coffee for his inmates because, “it had no nutritional value…”

H/T – Warner

US jail reaches deal on meals for Muslim inmates
International Herald Tribune
VALHALLA, New York: A county jail has agreed to provide Muslim inmates with meats prepared according to Islamic law, ending a three-year-long legal fight.

Under a settlement approved by a federal judge in Manhattan on March 12, the Westchester County jail is serving four halal meat dishes a week for Muslim inmates who request them, the Journal News reported. “Halal” is an Arabic word that means lawful or permitted.

The change will cost the county about 15 cents per serving, said Richard Cohen, a lawyer representing nine Muslim inmates. Their lawsuit, which dates to 2005, claimed religious bias.

The inmates noted that the jail offered kosher meats for observant Jews, but generally only vegetarian meals for devout Muslims. Halal meat was served twice a year on religious occasions.

The jail’s imam, John Nashid, called the discrepancy “a discriminatory practice against the Muslim inmate population.”

County spokeswoman Victoria Hochman said the jail started offering halal meats in September. Like kosher meats, the halal dishes are served four times a week.

“We’re happy to have reached a settlement on this issue,” she said.

The inmates sought monetary damages but received none in the settlement. None of the plaintiffs is still in the Westchester jail.

New York City’s Rikers Island jail already serves halal meat, as do some other jails and prisons around the country.