The Crescent and the Swastika

What is wrong with this picture?

It was taken in Egypt, and the crowd is mainly young Muslim males between the ages of 18 and 45.  Oh, and the Nazi flag, right.

From AlMasryAlYoum May 25

After fall of Mubarak, group announces intent to form Nazi party

A group of Egyptians have announced their intent to establish a Nazi party with "a contemporary frame of reference," an independent Egyptian news website said on Wednesday.

Al-Badeel, a leftist news portal, quoted founding member Emad Abdel Sattar as saying the party would bring together prominent figures from the Egyptian society. The party’s founding deputy is a former military official.

The party believes in vesting all powers in the president after selecting him or her carefully, Abdel Sattar said, adding that preparations are underway to choose the most competent person to represent the party. 

The Nazi party operated secretly under former President Hosni Mubarak, whose regime prevented party leaders from carrying out their activities freely.

Although Al-Masry Al-Youm could not verify the news reported by Al-Badeel, two Facebook pages have appeared recently under the title of "the Egyptian Nazi Party".

The two pages attracted around 70 followers, who mostly posted questions about the party's ideas and policies and requested details on how to join.

Abdel Sattar told Al-Badeel that members are increasing at an unexpected rate, and several people came to ask about the nature of the party and its plans.

The party has a one-year plan to develop Egypt, unlike the "marginalized liberal parties, which are like dead bodies,” he said.

A source from the proposed party told Al-Badeel the idea to start it came after some fundamentalist religious waves emerged, which, according to the source, created a state of chaos and led to the burning of churches, the destruction of shrines and assaults on unarmed civilians.

The founders want to avoid media attention until they are fully ready, the source said.

Islamists reject statue of Mother Teresa

Kosovo Muslims, whom Bill Clinton supported against Chechens are now in a snit because an American-Albanian group plans to erect a statue of Mother Teresa.  Isn't it strange that a true saint among the poor, who saw no religion in anyone she cared for would be regarded as unfit for public display.  A tribute to a woman who gave her life, literally for the care and feeding of the most desperately poor, Muslims included rejected due to Islamic sensibilities is an affront to all Muslims claim Islam stands for. 

This is just another in a long line of continuing the hegemonic decisions driving Islam and Muslims.


From BalkanInsight May 26 by Petrit Collaku

Kosovo Muslims Resent New Mother Teresa Statue

A Muslim youth group in Peja, the Muslim Youth Forum, has asked the mayor to withdraw the decision, saying it does not represent the interests of the Muslim community and is an insult to a town that is 98 per cent Muslim.

The group said it had collected 2,000 signatures already on a petition opposing the statue, and if statues were to go up at all, they should be of heroes from the independence war with Serbia.

"This decision by the authorities has been lobbied for and financed by the Catholic Church's service service, Opus Dei," Noli Zhita told Balkan Insight.

He said that many Muslims of Peja felt insulted by the decision, which formed part of an ongoing plan to Christianise the public space in Kosovo.

The youth group said a further point was that Mother Teresa was neither a true Albanian, nor from Kosovo.

"She was of Vlach origin, born in Macedonia. She is not an Albanian," Zhita said.

(.)Mayor Ali Berisha...downplaying the relevance of Mother Teresa's religious identity, said her work for the poor and dying transcended the whole issue.

“I think that there should not be a religious connotation to this question, but a humanitarian one alone,” Berisha told Balkan Insight.

Nice sentiments, Berisha but do you really believe that Islamists and jihadists will follow Western definitions of humanitarianism, and if so, can you show us where in the Qur'an it says that?

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The Taliban once again in power

We are waging a fools war in Afghanistan now.  The Taliban are taking back those parts of Afghanistan we took from them back in 2001-2005.  We cannot do anything about it, and should let it go back to what it was: tribal, Islamic and hardline sharia.  The greater the Taliban's power grows, so does their ability to push us out, or worse.

It is time to come home.


From the BBC May 25 by Jill McGivering

Taliban seize district in eastern Afghan province  

Officials in Afghanistan say insurgents allied to the Taliban have taken another district in a strategically important province in the north-east.

Nuristan Governor Jamaludin Badar told the BBC that 10 insurgents and three policemen had been killed.

Nato-led forces now say they and Afghan troops provided air support on Wednesday.

Local officials say they are trying to re-take the western district of Doab which Nato denies is in Taliban hands.

At least three districts in Nuristan are now under Taliban control. In others, the government presence is either weak or limited.

"We had intelligence reports that close to 500 Arabs, Chechen, Pakistani and Afghan fighters wanted to attack and take the districts," Mr Badar told the BBC.

"The fighting is still going on. Our weapons are no match to those of the insurgents. We have no hand grenades, mortars or heavy machine guns.

"We have asked for help from the defence ministry but they have not responded to us."

The insurgents control key routes into the provincial capital, Parun, allowing them to impose a blockade on the city.

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Florida honor killing cover-up

The official report says Fatima Abdallah died by repeatedly hitting her head on a coffee table.  I am trying to imagine myself banging my head on a hard surface until I died.

What do you think?


From Jihad Watch May 24 by Robert Spencer

Islamic honor killing covered up in Florida? 

Pamela Geller has the extremely strange story of Fatima Abdallah, a Muslim woman in Florida who -- according to the official story -- committed suicide by repeatedly hitting her head against a coffee table. Oh, and coincidentally, she had just come through a divorce that "dishonored" her family:

AFDI/SIOA is working with an extraordinary patriot, David Caton, who has exposed the possible honor killing covered up by law enforcement in Florida. I reported on it here. The cover-up is criminal, and we must protest the silence and complicity of Florida law enforcement. Atlas readers, start contacting the emails listed below. Now.

A Muslim woman shunned by her devout Muslim family for her "shameful" divorce dies a sudden death after "throwing herself on the floor" in front of her family. Florida Law enforcement classified it an accidental suicide. No one was charged in the death of 48-year-old Fatima Abdallah in Florida.

This is the sharia in America. The idea that a woman would die after she "threw herself to the floor" or hit her head repeatedly on the coffee table is institutionalized gender apartheid, the sharia. The idea defies logic, belies reality.

Deputy Police Chief Marc Hamlin said, "the bottom line is, no matter how long you investigate and no matter how much you investigate, it's not going to overrule the competent medical evidence that it was an accident." How do they know that? How is it more likely that she threw herself to the floor than she was fatally thrown to the floor? A Tampa Police report states that Fatima Abdallah repeatedly beat her head against a coffee table until she died. Tampa Rescue calls the TPD explanation illogical, says she looked like someone beat her up.

My hat's off to conservative activist David Caton, who pursued the truth, the evidence, and assembled it in an extraordinary file here. Fatima's death cannot be swept under the rug. This reminds me of the lawsuit that was filed in Dearborn charging that the city was covering up "honor killings." He has put together an extraordinary file, a criminal file on the case.
I urge all Atlas readers with experience in forensics to review the photos and the evidence. Click here to send your email urging State Attorney Mark Ober and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn to conduct a thorough and proper investigation.

IAEA says Syrian site bombed by Israel was a nuclear plant

"...the confidential IAEA report, obtained by the BBC, says the bombed building was similar in type and size to a reactor and that samples taken from the site indicated a connection with nuclear activities."

"War is deceit"


From the BBC May 24

IAEA: Syria site bombed by Israel 'was likely nuclear'

The International Atomic Energy Agency has been investigating US claims that Syria was building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korean help.

The strongest IAEA report yet on Syria came after several years of blocked investigations, and is likely to increase the pressure on Damascus.

Israel bombed the remote desert site of the alleged reactor in September 2007.

Syria says the site - near Deir Alzour in the country's remote north-east - was an unused military facility under construction. It also denied having any nuclear links to North Korea, which has itself denied transferring nuclear technology to Syria.

But the confidential IAEA report, obtained by the BBC, says the bombed building was similar in type and size to a reactor and that samples taken from the site indicated a connection with nuclear activities.

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Flash! Hamas and the PA continue jihad against Israel!

Nothing less than the destruction of Israel and the scattering of the remaining Jews to the four winds will satisfy Hamas and the PA.  The annihilation of the Jewish people is or paramount import, both from a political and Islamic viewpoint.  One only needs to read the Hamas Charter to see where the hatred stems, and the goal of Islam through Hamas. 

So it is no surprise to anyone that the overtures Netanyahu made recently have been rejected outright.  There will be no real peace until Islamic doctrine is defeated, and Hamas and the PA are no more.

"We must work to adopt an Arab and Palestinian strategy based on the right of resistance." 

They said it.



From AP/Yahoo May 24 by Mohammed Daraghmeh

Palestinians: Netanyahu peace outline unacceptable 

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's parameters for a peace deal, outlined in a speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, fell far short of what is needed to resume negotiations, Palestinian officials said.

Nabil Shaath, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Netanyahu's insistence on keeping key parts of the territories the Palestinians want for their state is a "declaration of war against the Palestinians."

Hmm, methinks it should be the other way around.  "Declaration of war against Israel by the Palestinians via islam".

Israeli settlers, the Islamic militant Hamas and Netanyahu's moderate parliamentary opposition also expressed criticism.

The Palestinians want to establish their state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. They have said they are ready for minor border adjustments through land swaps, to enable Israel to annex several of the largest of the dozens of Jewish settlements it has built on war-won land since 1967.

Netanyahu said Tuesday that he is willing to make "generous" territorial concessions, but also told Congress that Jerusalem must remain united as Israel's capital and that Israel wants to keep key areas of the West Bank where tens of thousands of Jews have settled, as well as areas of strategic importance.

Abbas is set to meet with leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization and his Fatah movement on Wednesday to discuss their next move. The Palestinians have developed an alternate strategy to moribund negotiations, largely on hold since 2008, and have said they will seek U.N. recognition of their state in September.

Shaath said the Palestinians would continue to pursue these strategies. "We have nothing but to continue our struggle in the international arena and to continue building our state and to continue our popular struggle," he said, referring to demonstrations and protests against Israel. "We don't have a partner for peace," he said.

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A new meaning to "giving the finger" in Pakistan

300Kg of explosives makes a big impression but leaves little organic tissue.  The homicide bomber who blew up a police station left the most ironic piece of evidence he could.

I wonder if he was holding it up while he pressed the detonator button.


From AKI May 25 by Syed Saleem Shahzad

Pakistan: 'Only finger' of bomber found after suicide blast flattens police station  

Peshawar, 25 May (AKI) - At least 4 people were killed and 20 others severely wounded early Wednesday in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan when a truck carrying explosives rammed into a police station destroying the building.

The Pakistani Talibani claimed responsibility of the attack.

Bashir Bilour, the senior member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly, confirmed that the attack was carried out by a suicide car bomber.

“About 300 kilograms of explosives was used in the attack. The engine of the bomber’s car landed 350 feet away and his body was blown to bits. Only one finger of the bomber has been found,” Bilour told reporters after visiting the site of the attack.

A variation of the old "bury me face down so all my friends can kiss my ass goodbye" ploy. 

Only two days after militants brazenly attacked Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi’s naval base, the truck crossed through at least 50 checkpoints including red zone areas and targeted the high profile police intelligence office known as the CID centre.

“After Karachi’s incident we relocated all our strength to airports, key strategic installations and military offices. Militants took advantage of the situation and targeted the CID’s office,” the inspector general of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province told the reporters after blast.   

Which terrorists? Is it those pesky Mennonites again?

The inability to identify truthfully the perpetrators of "terror" attacks leaves me wondering: who are they, really?  Sometimes we will see something about Muslim-Christian strife, implying that Christians are as much to blame as Muslims.  In reality there is little to give the reader information on who the actual attacker is beyond a few non-descript nouns.

This article goes on to quote the police, who claim that it is "too early to speculate on motives for the attack".  Of course the motives are cloudy, Muslims would never practice anything but peace with it's non-Islamic neighbors.


From The Jakarta Globe May 25 by Farouk Arnaz

Breaking News: Indonesian Police Targeted in ‘Terror Attack’Indonesian antiterror police have been dispatched to Palu, Central Sulawesi, following an apparent terrorist attack that left two police officers dead and a third injured on Wednesday.

A source within the National Police’s elite antiterrorism unit Detachment 88 told the Jakarta Globe that they were “pretty sure what happened today was a terrorist attack.”

“They want revenge and attacked our officer,” the source said. “We have dispatched our officers to investigate this incident.”

The attack comes on the same day firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged spiritual leader of regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, read his defense statement in the South Jakarta District Court.

Palu, an area where JI has been known to operate, is a restive district that has seen repeated incidents of religious violence. Between 1999 and 2001, more than a 1,000 people were killed in violence that spread through Central Sulawesi. Sporadic attacks has continued since.



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7 churches closed in Algeria: No Christians allowed as per Allah

Christians, as Jews are "people of the book" in Islam, yet they have virtually no rights as we know them in the West.  Algeria is a country where the constitution says Islam is the official religion.  Christians can apply for a permit to be a Christian, but the cannot try to convert to, or speak about Christianity under penalty of....well, death.  This is another clear example of sharia law applied with Islamic precision against the dhimmi non-believer. 

North Africa is soon to be entirely pure Islam, and after that comes the march South until the whole of the continent will be under the spell of Muhammad. 


From ANSAmed May 24

ALGERIA: CLAMPDOWN ON PROTESTANTS, 7 CHURCHES CLOSED

(ANSAmed) - ALGIERS - A new clampdown on Christian protestants in Algeria. The Algerian 'wilaya' (province) of Bejaia has ordered 7 places of worship of this religious group to be closed.

The measure, el Watan reports on its website, was issued on May 8. It was made executive on the 22nd and announced yesterday. Sources in the Vatican nunciature in Algiers have told ANSAmed that Catholic churches are not affected by the measure, and that the measure does not regard national territory.

Mustapha Krim, president of the Protestant Church in Algeria, has appealed against the measure, which speaks in general terms of the closing of places of worship ''for religious worship other than the Islam''. Krim has said that he has visited the Ministry of Religious Affairs in an attempt to postpone the implementation of the measure. He underlined that he has not been informed about it in time.

Protestants, a rapidly growing movement in Algeria, has been targeted for several years by the Islamic religious authorities and civilians. The government accuses the Protestants of proselytism, a serious crime in a country where Islam is the State religion and Muslims are not allowed to convert to other religions.

And we are constantly told that Islam regards all other religions as equal, and that "...there is no compulsion in religion..."(2-256)

In Algeria, other religions than the Islam can register and obtain an official status, provided they will not try to recruit new followers among the local population.

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A tangible way to support our troops

Long-time readers will agree that I have never promoted or sponsored a cause, but this one is so important I cannot ignore it.  Whatever you may think of our men and women who put on a uniform, they deserve our continued support for doing a job most of us would not do.  They are unsung heroes, all of them.

Through Jihad Watch and Robert Spencer this blog is now part of the "Troopathon 2011" campaign which sends care packages overseas.  These are packages containing items which the soldiers need but do not have.  Comfort items and personal items which give a sense of home, and a feeling of support by those they are charged to protect.

Please, go to The Campaign Store and choose the care package you want to have sent.  Please include a personal note to the soldiers, a kind word goes farther than a wrapped package so send them your best wishes.

Please go to Jihad Watch to see who else is on our team.  There are currently 9 blogs on the "Anti-Jihadists" team, led by Spencer.  We are in some good company including Atlas Shrugs, Creeping Sharia and D.C. Watson. 

Come on everyone, lets show our troops we care, we are behind them and we want them to be safe and comfortable as possible. 

I have done my part and sent a large pack but I am just one man on a fixed income.  I do what I can, please do what you can. 

God bless our troops.

Enforcing the Pact of Umar in Egypt

Salafis, along with their new partner the Muslim Brotherhood, by not allowing the church to rebuild are following the Pact of Umar, which prohibits the building or repair of churches in Islamic lands.  It is a 1400 year precedent which is not going to be challenged or disputed.  Coptic Christians are dhimmis, and not to be accorded any kind of equal rights under Islam.

Say goodbye to another piece of Christian history in the land of Jesus.


From AINA May 24 by Mary Abdelmassih
Muslims Surround Church in Egypt, Prevent Its Reopening

AINA) -- On the morning of May 19 two Coptic priests went to St. Mary and St. Abraham Church in Ain Shams and opened it together with some of the Coptic residents, but later in the day thousands of Muslims surrounded the church to protest its opening, hurled stones at the church building and the Copts, who responded by throwing stones. The army and the police stood there watching and did not intervene (video).

Unable to secure the church, the army and police closed it and arranged for a "reconciliation" meeting between the Coptic priest and the Salafi sheikhs. They also arrested eight Copts, one of them 13-years old, and three Muslims. They were all charged with rioting, violence and causing injury to citizens. Three Copts were also charged with having cartridges but no guns and one 15-year-old boy with possessing two knives. The 3 Muslims were charged with throwing stones at the army.

Father Filopateer Gameel, one of the organizers of the Maspero sit-in, said that during a meeting with the Minister of Interior he was told he cannot choose the churches to be reopened because it was all "planned with the Salafis and the security authorities so that when we go, there will be no problems." He confirmed the minister had himself suggested the names of the three churches to be reopened.

The "reconciliation" session was held in a tent by the Islamist imam Kerdassi, the main opponent of the reopening of the church, who also recently built a mosque facing the church. Next to the tent was another one hosting Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi sheikhs, among them the renowned Salafi sheikh Hassan and over 3000 guests all chanting "Islamic, Islamic."

(.)"The atmosphere of the meeting was belligerent," said attorney Ashraf Edward, "and one of the sheikhs threatened us by saying that should the church be opened without their permission it would end up like the church in Soul which was demolished by Muslims....

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UK: Jihadists attack teacher because he taught girls

Another example of how Islam does not allow Western secular law to interfere with the directives from Muhammad.  Males are not allowed to teach females unless they are pre-pubescent, especially about Islam or religion. 

'The defendants held strong religious beliefs and they chose him because they did not approve of his teaching.'

This is Islam.


From the Mail Online May 24

Muslim gang launched horrific attack on religious studies teacher they did not want teaching girls

Scene: Burdett Road, East London, where the gang ambushed

Mr Smith.

A gang of four Muslim men launched a horrific attack on an RE teacher because they did not approve of him teaching religious studies to Muslim girls, a court heard yesterday.

Gary Smith, 28, was left with facial scarring, both long and short-term memory loss, and now has no sense of smell.

He became depressed after his face was slashed and he suffered a brain haemorrhage, fractured skull and broken jaw following the attack.

The men were said to have attempted the assault several times, ‘lying in wait’ for Mr Smith before successfully ambushing him on his way to work on July 12 last year.

The gang was recorded planning the attack by detectives who had bugged defendant Akmol Hussain’s car over an unrelated matter. They were taped saying they wanted to hit or kill the teacher just because he was the head of religious studies at the Central Foundation School for Girls in Bow, East London.

In one recording Hussain said: ‘He’s mocking Islam and he’s putting doubts in people’s minds . . .  How can somebody take a job to teach Islam when they’re not even a Muslim themselves?’

Armed with an iron rod and brick, they punched, kicked and attacked Mr Smith, leaving him unconscious covered in blood on the pavement in Burdett Road, Tower Hamlets, East London. Mr Smith was taken to hospital after he was found by two passers-by, and only regained consciousness two days later.

(.)Two other attempts, on on July 8 and one on July 9 last year failed when Mr Smith did not take his usual route to work. 

Akmol Hussain, 26, of Wapping, Azad Hussein, 27, of Bethnal Green, Sheikh Rashid, 27, of Shadwell and Simon Alam, 19, of  Whitechapel, all in East London, admitted GBH with intent.

A fifth defendant, Badruzzuha Uddin, 24, also of Shadwell, admitted assisting the thugs by hiding blood-stained clothing.

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Israeli Balls

Netanyahu should be elected leader of the world.  I would vote for him.


From AP/Google May 24

Netanyahu: Militant Islam threatening the world

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel's prime minister, in an address to Congress on Tuesday, held out the threat of a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, saying the only time Iran halted its nuclear program was when it feared such an attack.

Benjamin Netanyahu did not go so far as to say Israel would carry out such an assault. But he told Congress that militant Islam was threatening the world and urged the U.S. never to allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

"The more Iran believes that all options are on the table, the less the chance of confrontation," Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu has said before that Iran won't curb its nuclear ambitions unless it thinks it is threatened with military action.

Israeli officials have said repeatedly that Iran must not be allowed to become a nuclear power and that all options to prevent that must remain on the table. But they have never explicitly said Israel would carry out such a strike.

Although, if push comes to shove the Star of David will end the possibility that Iran will use a nuclear weapon against it.

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A Muslim David taking on the Saudi Goliath

I hope Manal al-Sherif won't take offense giving her a male moniker, but it seems to fit.  For a second time she has been arrested by Saudi religious police for driving without a male, or for being a female behind the wheel.  Either one is a major offense in Saudi Arabia, but Manal al-Sherif is determined to change the law.  You can find her, and many other supporters on Facebook and YouTube. I urge you to support her in her battle against Islamic subjugation of women.

Here is the update on her long journey into the light, and how the Saudis are reacting to all this. 

Not well, not well at all.


From AP?Yahoo May 23 by Maggie Michael

Wary of wider defiance, Saudis arrest woman driver

CAIRO – A Saudi woman was arrested for a second time for driving her car in what women's activists said Monday was a move by the rulers of the ultraconservative kingdom to suppress an Internet campaign encouraging women to defy a ban on female driving.

Manal al-Sherif and a group of other women started a Facebook page called "Teach me how to drive so I can protect myself," urging authorities to lift the ban and posted a video clip last week of al-Sherif behind the wheel in the eastern city of Khobar.

The page was removed after more than 12,000 people indicated their support for its call for women drivers to take to the streets in a mass drive on June 17. The campaign's Twitter account also was deactivated.

Al-Sherif, a 32-year-old IT expert, was arrested at dawn on Sunday and accused of "violating public order," according to a security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. She was ordered held for five days while the case was investigated; her brother, Mohammed al-Sherif, who was in the car while she was driving, also was taken into custody.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans women — both Saudi and foreign — from driving. The prohibition forces families to hire live-in drivers, and those who cannot afford the $300 to $400 a month for a driver must rely on male relatives to drive them to work, school, shopping or the doctor.

Saudi clerics, from the hard-line Wahhabi school of Islam that is the official doctrine of the kingdom, insist the ban protects against the spread of vice and temptation because women drivers would be free to leave home alone and interact with male strangers. King Abdullah has promised reforms in the past and has taken some tentative steps to ease restrictions on women. But the Saudi monarchy relies on Wahhabi clerics to give religious legitimacy to its rule and is deeply reluctant to defy their entrenched power.

(.)Al-Sherif faces accusations of "violating the rules and the system by driving her car and roaming the streets of the province," the prison chief in Khobar, Ayoub ben Nahit, was quoted as saying in the daily Al-Watan. He also accused her of "inciting public opinion" by posting the video clip.

Uh oh, watch out for those Saudi women who are "roaming the streets of the province" without a male driver at the wheel.  You never know when they might try to apply make-up while changing lanes!  (Calm down, ladies, it's just a little sarcasm, OK?)

(.)There is no written Saudi law banning women from driving, only fatwas, or religious edicts, by senior clerics that are enforced by police. No major Islamic clerics outside the country call for such a ban.

The religion of tolerance makes the rules.  That is called sharia.

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The clash between North and South Sudan

The Sudan has been flaring for years, most recently with the separation vote between North and South Sudan.  The North, a pure Islamic country wants the infidel South all to it's own, even after the vote.  What a surprise.  Now it appears the pretenses are over and Bashir, President of the North has sent his jihadists into the South to do what Muhammad told them to do.  You know, the usual: rape, pillage, burn and loot.  It is a continuation of what happened in Darfur a few years ago, the only difference is that this time we are not looking at the dreaded Janjaweed on horses, but mechanical warfare on a much more massive scale.  20,000 displaced, an entire city burned and the UN issues a strongly worded letter, complete with finger-wagging.  Next will be an even stronger letter, and more vigorous wagging.


From the BBC May 23

Sudan Abyei dispute: Gunmen burning and looting - UN

The town and surrounding area are claimed by both Khartoum and by South Sudan, set to become independent in July. The town was captured at the weekend by northern troops.

The UN has urged Sudan's government in Khartoum to withdraw its forces.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir later said that Khartoum wanted to resolve the issue peacefully.

South Sudan's secession follows decades of north-south conflict and some fear this dispute could reignite the war.

'Act of war'

In a statement, the UN Mission in Sudan (Unmis) said it "strongly condemns the burning and looting currently being perpetrated by armed elements in Abyei town".

It stressed that the northern troops were "responsible for maintaining law and order in the areas they control", urging Khartoum to "intervene to stop these criminal acts".

South Sudan earlier denounced the Abyei takeover on Saturday as an act of war.
A southern military spokesman told the BBC the north had attacked the area with 5,000 troops, killing civilians and southern soldiers.

 

Some 20,000 people, almost the whole population of the town, had fled, aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) told the BBC.

Khartoum has said it acted after 22 of its men were killed in a southern ambush last Thursday. The northern troops were travelling in a UN convoy.

UN officials have described the incident as "a criminal attack" and the US called on South Sudan to "account" for the assault.

South Sudanese forces have denied responsibility for the incident.

Since then, both UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU top diplomat Catherine Ashton have condemned the violence in the region.

On Sunday, UN Security Council envoys said during a visit to Khartoum that the north should "withdraw immediately" its troops from the Abyei region. The diplomats have now arrived in South Sudan.

Tension over Abyei - a small town claimed by a southern group, the Dinka Ngok, and northern nomads, the Misseriya - has been rising since a referendum on its future scheduled for January was postponed.

Since then there have been fears clashes in the region could spark a new war between the northern-based government of Sudan and the soon-to-be independent South Sudan.

Also, the South has all of Sudans oil reserves, a prize which Bashir will not take his eye off of.

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Obama's statement on Israel "jars" refugees sensibilities

It would seem Obama's words have struck a sour note with Islam and the refugees.  The refusal to recognize Israel and the demand of "right of return" are as concrete and immutable as ever, and with that comes the continued clash between Israel and Islam.


From AP/Yahoo May 23 by Josef Federman

Obama's 'Jewish state' reference jars Palestinians  

JERUSALEM – U.S.-Israel tension over Barack Obama's endorsement of Israel's pre-1967 borders is obscuring a flip side of the Middle East coin: The past days' speeches by the U.S. president contained difficult challenges for the Palestinians as well.

Addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Sunday, Obama reiterated his request that the Palestinians drop their plans to appeal for recognition at the United Nations this fall, and — as he did in another Mideast speech Thursday — raised tough questions about an emerging Palestinian unity government that is to include the Hamas militant group.

Most difficult for Palestinians is Obama's call to recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland, essentially requiring the Palestinians to accept that most refugees will be denied the "right of return" to what is now Israel.

There is no right of return for a people who are Arab, not Palestinian.  There is no historical record(coin, seat of government, official papers or archaeological ruins) showing there ever was such a thing as a "Palestinian" people.  The assignment of the name "Palestinian" to a group of people happened in 1967, and the creation of that "Palestinian" people is nothing more than a political construct designed exclusively to demonize Israel by creating a false history.  The "Palestinian" people are a great lie, perpetuated on the masses by the Arab League and other Arab handlers.  Anti-semitism and hatred of the Jews is what drives the "Palestinians", Islam is the doctrine which defines the "Palestinians".

Perhaps for this reason, the Palestinians have remained largely quiet about the substance of Obama's speeches, seemingly content to watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clash with the U.S. administration over Israel's future borders.

"It's really premature to jump into any of these details," said Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, when asked by The Associated Press about the demands Obama made of the Palestinians.

The fate of Palestinian refugees is one of the most emotional and explosive issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians either fled or were expelled during the war surrounding Israel's creation in 1948. Today, the surviving refugees, with their descendants, number several million people.

No mention of the hundreds of thousands of Jews expelled from Arab lands after 1948.  I wonder why that is.

The Palestinians claim they have the right to return to their family's lost properties. Israel rejects the principle, saying it would mean the end of the country as a Jewish democracy. Israeli leaders say the refugees should be entitled to compensation and resettled in a future Palestine to be established next to Israel, or absorbed where they now live.

No, force them to take the land originally deeded to them: most of Jordan and a small slice of Syria.  You are not allowed to double-dip your bisquit by getting a right of return AND a future land next to Israel from where more jihad attacks will emanate.

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Jihadist stowaway makes it to Newark, Feds baffled as to how he did it

Ah yes, here we have a clueless FBI and DHS, not to mention the Port Authority in New Jersey, aimlessly walking in circles while a known jihadist who has a history of firing on Americans in Fallujah easily penetrates our secure borders and holes up in an abandoned warehouse, not far from those oil refineries bin-Laden wanted to attack.  Our problem with illegal immigration is that we like illegal immigration, it brings in votes for the liberals and Democrats, and a few Republicans as well. 

Are there others that came with Asem Ellbahnsany Haroonon on that un-named Italian freighter, and if so, where and who are they?  Is this a lone wolf operation, or a larger, planned assault by co-ordinated jihadists?  Is anybody asking?  Does anyone care?


From the New York Post May 23 by Philip Messing

Stowaway at Port Newark sparks terror probe

 
A shadowy man suspected of fighting against US soldiers in Iraq has sparked a far-flung terror probe after entering New York Harbor as a stowaway aboard a freighter and taking up residence in a fenced-off Port Authority warehouse, The Post has learned.

Asem Ellbahnsany Haroon, 26, managed to easily infiltrate Port Newark -- where there are just the kind of oil refineries that Osama bin Laden talked about blowing up as part of a global-chaos plot in papers found in his Pakistan hideout.

"There have been reports . . . that indicate al Qaeda is trying to use explosive to blow up oil tankers to disrupt the world's economy. What's right next door to Port Newark? All of these oil refineries that line the highway there," said one law-enforcement source.

Authorities are now scrambling to figure out how Haroon managed to elude border checkpoints at the port -- and they are also nervously wondering whether he came here with others who have yet to be caught.

Damage control alert. 

Haroon was arrested Jan. 31 after Port Authority cops found him hunkered down near the waterfront inside a warehouse that has remained unoccupied for about a year.

When Haroon was found, it appeared he had been squatting inside for several days and had set up a makeshift camp.

"When I first saw him, he was so weak," a law-enforcement source said.

"But he might be a terrorist and possibly be a threat because none of the answers he gave ever made any sense."

Haroon told investigators that he was an Iraqi citizen who had arrived at Port Newark two weeks earlier on an unspecified Italian freighter.

It turns out he's an Egyptian who was once denied a visa to enter the United States.

Federal authorities told a judge that Haroon "had fought as an insurgent against the American forces in Fallujah."

 

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Thank you, Captain Obvious

Of course it is Islam driving the "Arab Spring".  It has always been Islam, despite claims of "nationalism" or fighting the infidels or our "crusader attitude". 

1400 years of Islam and counting.

From the FARS News Agency May 24

TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Palestinian figure in Lebanon said that popular uprisings and the growing awakening among the regional nations are inspired by Islam and the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

"We are witnessing an Islamic spirit in the Arab revolutions, and I prefer to call them Islamic Revolutions," Head of the Palestinian Islamic Council in Lebanon Sheikh Mohammad Nimr Zaghmout told FNA on Monday.

"This has been the divine power and the power of Islam which has led the revolutionary people in the regional countries to victory," Zaghmout stated, underlining the Islamic nature of the regional uprisings.

He also stressed the spiritual influence of Iran's Islamic Revolution on the recent and current uprisings in the region, and added, "I would like to emphasize the point that we wouldn't have witnessed such revolutions and Islamic awakenings today, if an Islamic awakening had not taken place in Iran 32 year ago and if the Islamic Revolution (of Iran) had not achieved victory."

Late in April, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underscored the profound and vast influence of Iran's Islamic Revolution on the growing wave of Islamic awakening in the region, and voiced confidence about the desirable outcomes of the current popular uprisings.

"Thanks to Islam and Islamic Revolution, a public Islamic awakening has happened in the region today, which will definitely yield its results as it has already yielded its results in certain points," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a group of Iranian people here in Tehran.

"The more the people's determination, faith and readiness for sacrifice grow, the higher the chances of victory will be," the Leader continued.

Ayatollah Khamenei also stressed that recent developments in the region have surprised the US, European and Zionists, and warned that the arrogant powers have conspired plots to gain control over these developments.

As regards the outcomes of the recent Islamic awakening in the region, Ayatollah Khamenei assured that "this movement will eventually serve the interests of the people of the region in future".
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Shocking! Muslim cab driver found with "suspicious materials"

In the home of Sharif Ahmed Nour, police found potentially dangerous explosive materials.  Muslims are not generally known to keep stuff like that around, so the police and other law enforcement officials must be Islamophobes!

Quick, call CAIR and Ibrahim Hooper!


From DallasNews.com May 23 by Matt Peterson

Crime blog: Irving cab driver arrested after bomb squad removes suspicious materials from home

A cab driver from Irving was arrested Sunday after a bomb squad removed suspicious materials from his apartment.

Sharif Ahmed Nour, 41, was initially going to be charged with possessing bomb-making components, but that was amended to possession of prohibited weapons, according to WFAA-TV (Channel 8).

Irving firefighters found the unspecified items after extinguishing a small fire at Nour's home in the 3600 block of Brock Drive. The FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force have since joined the investigation.

"At this point we're taking every precaution necessary," Irving police Officer John Argumaniz told Channel 8. "That's why we've called in the joint task force to assist with the investigation."

Nour is originally from Somalia and has been driving cabs at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport for years, a friend told Channel 8.

Hamas asks the PA to make peace with Israel....temporarily

Islam makes peace with non-Muslims by agreeing to a temporary truce.  It can last for up to ten years, at which time Islam decides whether to re-negotiate the treaty or commence with war.  A truce or treaty is done when Islam needs more time to re-arm or gain strength for battle. 

It would appear someone thinks their partner in the destruction of Israel needs a little time to gain strength.


From M&C May 22

Hamas calls on PA to "reconsider" peace process with Israel  

Gaza City - The de-facto Hamas government in Gaza on Sunday called on the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank to reevaluate its stance in favour of peace negotiations with Israel.

'The Palestinian Authority (PA) is asked to seriously reconsider and reevaluate its positions,' Gaza's Foreign Ministry, led by the Islamist movement, said in a statement.

It should do so following remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.

On Friday, Netanyahu said after meeting US President Barack Obama that Israel would not withdraw to the borders of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967.

'This clearly shows that Israel continues with its hostile policies, which reject any peaceful solution whatever its shape and content,' said the Hamas Foreign Ministry statement.

'For Netanyahu, the priority is to build more settlements, annex more lands and change the demographic features of the Palestinian territories to impose facts on the ground,' it said.

Hamas refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist and has demanded a Palestinian Islamist state stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Yep.

Its leaders have said in recent years that it would be willing to temporarily accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza only, not in exchange for an end to the conflict, but in return for a long-term truce lasting several generations.

Then, the jihad against Israel picks up where it left off.

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