"Muslims believe the Quran is the word of God, so holy that people should wash their hands before touching the sacred book"

Thus, when the kuffir (you and me) touches a Qur'an, or even lets our shadow fall on it, the automatic insult machine kicks in, and people usually die.

In this case, two American mission members were gunned down in cold blood, shot in the back of the head.

This is Islam.


From CNN Feb 25 by NIck Paton Walsh and Masoud Popalzai


2 American officers killed in Afghan ministry
Kabul (CNN) -- A gunman who shot dead two American officers inside the Afghan interior ministry remained at large late Saturday as U.S. officials decried the attack in Kabul.


"This act is unacceptable, and the United States condemns it in the strongest possible terms," Defense Department press secretary George Little said in a statement.


The Taliban claimed responsibility, though NATO and Afghan officials are investigating and have not confirmed involvement by the Islamist militant group. A Taliban spokesman said the attack was in response to the recent burning of Qurans at a U.S. base.


The killing of the officers prompted Gen. John Allen to order all military advisers with the International Security Assistance Force to withdraw from government ministries in the Afghan capital as a precaution.


According to ISAF, initial reports indicated that "an individual" turned his weapon against NATO service members, later confirmed by an Afghan police official to be an American colonel and major.


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OIC condemns Qur'an burning, calls it "intolerant"

The irony is thick enough to cut with a knife.  The Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls the Qur'an burning in Afghanistan intolerant, yet Islam is, at its core the most intolerant religion on earth.  The OIC is also demanding that the perps be brought to justice and prosecuted for desecration.  This is another call for the enforcement of sharia on non-Muslims.


From FARS Feb 24


OIC Condemns Quran Burning by US Troops in Afghanistan 
In a statement on Thursday, Ihsanoglu described the incident as a "deplorable act of incitement", and said that the act runs "contrary to the common efforts of the OIC and that of the international community …to combat intolerance, and incitement to hatred based on religion and belief." 

The statement also called on "the concerned authorities to take swift and appropriate disciplinary action against those responsible." 

Also on Thursday, US President Barack Obama sent a letter to his Afghan counterpart, apologizing for the acts of desecration. 

The developments came as anti-US demonstrations are underway across Afghanistan over the burning of the Holy Quran at the US Airbase. 

Media reports said that at least twenty Afghans have been killed since the beginning of protests on Tuesday. 

Taliban wants Muslims to kill and beat Americans over Qur'an burning

As I pointed out, no amount of apologies will make this go away.  The religion of the perpetually insulted cannot let go of a fundamental tenet; you must behave badly when a symbol of that religion is treated in a disrespectful manner.  No other religion takes it upon itself to kill, maim and destroy if one of their holy symbols is desecrated.  They may moan, whine, complain, protest and picket, but they do not murder.  That is a fundamental difference between Islam and all the rest.

The Taliban are a declared enemy of the West, so this proclamation is so much window dressing.  Some Muslims will continue to make an uproar and stay on the killing path, and most of their victims will be of their own kind.  Practicing sharia begets poverty, and the violence supposedly directed against the infidel will take the innocents more often.


From CNS Feb 24 by Patrick Goodenough

Taliban's Response to Obama's Apology: 'Kill Them, Beat Them, Take Them as Prisoners'

(CNSNews.com) – In the wake of President Barack Obama sending a three-page letter to Afghan President Hamid Kharzai, apologizing for U.S. forces having mistakenly burned some Qur'ans at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan, the Taliban is calling on Muslims to kill Americans or beat them and take them as prisoners.

The call for violence against U.S. troops in Afghanistan came as Muslims in South Asia and elsewhere prepared for Friday prayers--a potentially volatile time.

Islamist groups in Pakistan, meanwhile, drummed up protests against the burning of the Qur’ans, with some leaders appealing for jihad against the United States.

Echoing incendiary calls by the Taliban for Muslims to react violently to the mishandling of the religious texts, militant leaders charged that the incident was a deliberate plot against Muslims.

Yes, we go out of our way to insult Muslims because we know they will react violently to whatever we do.  Sure, that makes sense.

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American-Muslim judge misunderstands free speech, sets Muslim attacker free and teaches the court about Islamic sensibilities

This is disgusting.  This judge, Mark Martin needs to be removed from the bench as soon as possible.  He is a danger to all who come through his court, and he is the perfect example of why we need anti-sharia legislation.  The judge also said that, on the one hand he supports the first amendment (really? ) but that the first amendment  is not designed "...to piss off other people and other cultures."  Judge Martin needs a swift lesson on why the first amendment specifically needs to be used to uphold speech which pisses off peoples and cultures.  He needs to be reminded that speech we all agree with needs no protection.


He is not the only judge with these bents, there are others, we just have not heard about them yet, as they have not risen to our radar screens by letting their mask slip.  


Prohibit sharia law on a federal level now.  The protections we need against such judges as Mark Martin have become necessary, otherwise we will see more sharia agitation from the bench.


From Jihad Watch Feb 24 by Robert Spencer

Why we need anti-Sharia laws: Muslim judge enforces Sharia in case of Muslim attacker on mocker of Muhammad

More on this story. Here is the audio of the court proceedings as a Muslim judge acquitted a Muslim attacker for attacking an atheist dressed as Muhammad in a Halloween parade. The victim is incorrect in claiming that the Qur'an says that Muhammad rose from the dead, but that is not important. What is important is that the judge has no interest in or real understanding of the First Amendment, and that he lectures Ernest Perce about Muslim sensibilities. What Perce did may have been offensive to Muslims. But that is not (yet) illegal in America.

Video courtesy Pamela Geller, who has much more here. Note also that in the videohere, the Muslim attacker says he called the police because he thought that mocking Muhammad was illegal in this country. In other words, he thought Sharia was already in place in this particular. And now, courtesy Judge Mark Martin, we are one step closer to that actually being true.

American Judge in American court (minute 29:50): "Our forefathers intended that we use the first amendment so that we could speak what's on our mind, not piss off other cultures..... Islam is not just a religion, it's their culture, their culture, the very essence, their very being. They pray five times a day, towards Mecca. To be a good Muslim before you die, you have to make a pilgrimage to Mecca unless you are otherwise told you cannot because you are too ill, too elderly, whatever, you must make the attempt. Their greetings salam alaikum, walaikum as-salam (as answered by voice), uh may god be with you. It is very common, their language, when they are speaking to each other, it is very common for them to say, uh allah willing, this will happen. It's they are so immersed in it. And what you've done is you've completey trashed their essence, their being. They find it very, very, very offensive. I am a Muslim. I find it very offensive ..... You are way outside your bounds of first amendment rights." (minute 31)

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"...it is not only Israel that is worried about an Iranian nuclear bomb"

Hmm, I wonder who it could be?


From the Mail Online Feb 24 by Michael Burleigh

Never mind Iran, is Saudi Arabia about to acquire a nuclear bomb?


Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud and Iranian President 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Riyadh

Both Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council maintain that they want a WMD-free Middle East. However, key members of the Saudi royal elite have recently signalled that if Iran develops a nuclear weapon, then Saudi Arabia will get one too. 

Speaking of signalling, they have also long indicated that if Israel were to overfly the desert kingdom to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, they would temporarily turn their radars off.

Saudi Arabia has signed nuclear technology agreements with several states: China, France, Argentina and South Korea, in order to address its need for research reactors, nuclear power plants and so forth. The latter will help slow domestic oil consumption, while boosting the amount of oil available for export. China alone is going to help build sixteen nuclear reactors.

Such projects would also enable the Saudis to enrich uranium, while they could obtain knowledge of the bomb and its relevant technologies from their Sunni allies in Pakistan.

Then there is the matter of delivery systems. The Saudi Air Force could adapt its fighter jets (Typhoons and F15s) to carry nuclear warheads. The Kingdom is also seeking to replace its existing Chinese CSS-2 medium range missiles with the more accurate Donfeng-21, which is launched from mobile trailers. 

These weapons are already targeted on Iran's major cities, notably Tehran, home to a fifth of the entire population. It is worth noting too that Russia decided not to supply Iran with $800 million worth of S-300 PMU missiles, one of the most advanced anti-ballistic missile defence systems.

Unsurprisingly, many US politicians are extremely worried about a Saudi bomb. As in the case of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia had what one might call 'fluid' ties to Islamist terrorists. 

It is also pursuing its own anti-Iranian agenda in both Syria and neighbouring Bahrain. 

The more Iran presses ahead with its semi-concealed nuclear projects - and they have just been highly uncooperative with the latest wave of IAEA inspectors - the more other countries in the region will seek to go down the same path. 

This is also a useful reminder that it is not only Israel that is worried about an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Stonewalling in Iran

The IAEA got nowhere, so they went home and Iran laughed all the way to the centrifuge.

Why we still believe that Iran would play fair is anyone's guess.  Too much Kool-ade, if you ask me.


From The Atlantic Wire Feb 22 by Dino Grandoni

 

UN Inspectors in Iran Throw Up Their Hands

It's official: The United Nations nuclear inspections many thought Iran wouldn't let happen, didn't happen. The International Atomic Energy Agency's announced that Iran wouldn't grant UN inspectors access toParchin, the place where Iran tests all those missiles it insists are not for nukes. The agency's press release on the matter was awfully curt ("terse" as The New York Times put it), which had reporters from AP, Bloomberg, and elsewhere cornering Herman Nackaerts, the IAEA's chief inspector, in Vienna's airport for elaboration. “We couldn’t get access and we couldn’t finalize a way forward" he said after two days of meetings trying to convince Iranian officials to allow him and fellow inspectors to see the missile site."It would now be up to the 35-nation IAEA board to decide on a response when it meets starting March 5," reports the AP.

And with Iran blocking inspectors' access to the missile site, it's hard to believe Ayatollah Ali Khamenei when he reiterates, as he did today, that "we are not seeking nuclear weapons," The Guardian reports. Especially only one day after the Iranian military went around saying it would consider preemptive strikes against its enemies if threatened itself.

Apology denied, infidel!

Everyone has apologized for the burning Qur'ans at Bagram AB in Afghanistan. From the general in command in Afghanistan all the way to the state department, the president personally and the administration as a official voice of the government.  Nothing helps, no amount of abject genuflecting or heartfelt penitence will assuage the feelings of the religion of the perpetually insulted.

With that, the Karzai government is demanding the people who burned the Qur'ans be tried according to sharia law.  Remember that it is not illegal to burn a book in a non-Muslim country, so what Karzai is doing  is demanding that NATO practice sharia.  What a friend he is, supporting sharia against us.  It's time to leave Afghanistan and let Karzai deal with his enemies on his own.


From Reuters/Yahoo Feb 23 by Mirwais Harooni and Amie Ferris-Rotman

Afghanistan demands NATO put Koran-burners on trial

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai's office said on Thursday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident.

It said NATO had agreed to a trial, but that could not be immediately confirmed.

Karzai had earlier accused a U.S. officer of "ignorantly" burning copies of the Koran, in an incident that has deepened anti-Western sentiment in a country NATO is trying to stabilize before foreign combat troops leave by the end of 2014.

Demonstrations have drawn thousands of angry Afghans to the streets, chanting "Death to America!" amid violence that has killed 11 people including two U.S. service personnel.

"NATO officials, in response to a request for the trial and punishment of the perpetrators ... promised this crime will brought to court as soon as possible," Karzai's office said in a statement.

President Barack Obama sent a letter to Karzai apologizing for the burning of the Korans, after Afghan laborers found charred copies while collecting rubbish at the sprawling Bagram air base.

Obama told Karzai the incident was not intentional.

The letter, which the White House said was a follow-up to a phone call earlier this week between the two leaders to discuss a "long-term partnership" between Washington and Kabul, was delivered to Karzai by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

Karzai's office said in a statement Obama had promised to investigate those involved in the incident.

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The Nigerian List

I have decided to post groupings of jihad in Nigeria, only because it is now such an almost daily occurrence.  It appears Nigeria is soon to go the way of Somalia, a sad situation as Nigeria is between Somalia and the center of Sub-Saharan Africa and with it in Islamic hands, the path is wide open for jihad to spread rapidly into the interior.

Here is today's Nigerian Jihad News;

From The Daily Star Feb 24

Gunmen burn schools in restive Nigerian city: official

Smoldering ruins, courtesy Islam                                    Photo; Reuters/Stringer

KANO, Nigeria: Gunmen burnt down a school in Nigeria's troubled city of Maiduguri, the second such attack in two days in an area rocked by Boko Haram Islamist raids, an official said Thursday.

A group of unknown gunmen stormed Budun primary school in central Maiduguri Wednesday evening and set fire to classrooms and a store after seizing the security guard at gunpoint, according to state education commissioner, Tijjani Abba Ari.

"The gunmen held the security guard at gunpoint and set fire to a block of four classes and an adjoining store which gutted the whole block," he said.

There is more...


From The Washington Post Feb 24

‘We will get you soon:’ Slaying of Christian in northern Nigeria increases religious tensions

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Police discovered the body of a 79-year-old Christian woman killed in northeast Nigeria, with a note in Arabic left on her chest reading: “We will get you soon,” a witness said Thursday.

The slaying raises religious tensions in Nigeria as a radical Islamist sect increasingly targets Christians in its bloody attacks. While police said they knew of no immediate suspects in the killing, witnesses blamed the attack on the sect known as Boko Haram, which has been blamed for killing at least 305 people this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

The dead woman was identified as Shetu Haruna Malgwi, a Christian living in the city of Maiduguri in Nigeria’s Muslim north. Assailants apparently attacked Malgwi on Wednesday, a day after she returned home from receiving an eye treatment in the city of Kaduna, Borno state police spokesman Samuel Tizhe said.

Her killers slit the woman’s throat, then wrote a note with red pen they left on her chest...

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Jihadist who shouted Allahu Akbar (God is great) on a flight from Portland to Houston was involved in a high speed car chase the day before

Yazeed Mohammed Abunayyan  was out on bail when he decided to exhibit his love of Islam on the airliner by disregarding the flight attendant's request and shout Allah is great before being subdued by passengers.  The day previous, he was in a high speed chase with police in my back yard, Medford.  He tried to deliberately run people down, damaged two police cars and wrecked his own vehicle before being arrested.


How many more times will episodes like this happen before we take seriously the threat from those who justify their actions through the doctrines of Islam?

The article below is an update of the original article here.

From The Smoking Gun Feb 22

Saudi Teen Caps Wild Week With Airplane Bust

FEBRUARY 22--The man who repeatedly yelled “Allah is great” as he was removed yesterday from a plane that was forced to make an emergency landing due to his unruly behavior is a 19-year-old Saudi Arabian who was arrested Sunday night after he led Oregon police on a drunken car chase that saw him ram two cop cars and attempt to run over pedestrians, The Smoking Gun has learned.

(...)Abunayyan, who is scheduled to appear later this afternoon before a federal magistrate, was arrested Sunday evening by cops after a wild car chase in Medford, an Oregon city 275 miles south of Portland.

Police reported that the intoxicated teenager led them on a 20-minute chase that ended after his Ford sedan got stuck on a dirt embankment. During the chase, Abunayyan was spotted driving in circles, attempting to run over pedestrians, and driving the wrong way on a street. He also rammed two patrol cars.

"It was like ‘Grand Theft Auto',” a witness told a local newspaper.

Abunayyan was booked late Sunday into the Jackson County jail on a variety of charges, including driving under the influence of intoxicants, assault on a police officer, criminal mischief, hit and run, and reckless endangerment.

He was freed from custody Monday around 6 PM after posting $65,000 bond. Which allowed him, a day later, to board Flight 1118, albeit briefly.

Question to authorities; why was he allowed to board the plane?

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Attempted jihad on a plane; passengers take charge and subdue the miscreant

The passenger refused a flight attendants request, and began shouting Allah is great (Allahu Akbar) before being subdued by the passengers.  It is nice to know that our fellow passengers are ready and willing to stand and put their lives on the line.  I hope I would do the same thing if the time came.

This episode will be ignored, and we will go back to our somnambulent ways, never really understanding why this happened.  Go back to sleep, nothing to see here...


From KHOU Feb 21 by Nakia Cooper


1 passenger detained after disturbance on Continental flight headed to Houston

HOUSTON— Passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight bound for Houston Tuesday sprang into action to help a flight attendant having trouble with an unruly passenger. Twenty minutes after the plane departed Portland, pilots returned to the city where the FBI was waiting.

Passengers said the unruly man was a problem from the beginning. After boarding Flight 1113, the man became upset because he was not seated next to his friend.

Then after the flight took off, he ignored the “No Smoking” sign and tried to light an electronic cigarette.

A flight attendant asked the passenger to turn off the cigarette, but he refused. The Middle Eastern man started screaming at the smaller woman.

“He was screaming, ‘Allah is great, Allah is great,’” said Nancy Haywood, passenger. “And it kind of worries you when that happens, but believe me, there were enough men to hold him down.”

And they did. Men on the plane jumped up and ran to assist the flight attendant.

“Every guy that was in my area was ready to go,” said Mark Foster, passenger. “It was not even a thought. You can tell buckles were off and people were already leaning toward the aisles.”

The men subdued the unruly passenger while the flight attendant ran to the back and retrieved plastic handcuffs and ankle cuffs.

They have hand and ankle cuffs on the planes now?  Cool!

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"Palestinian" cleric who called for Muslims to murder Jews to speak in Amsterdam

As long as you present yourself as a Muslim who wants "dialogue" there will be people who want to hear you speak.  Haitham al-Haddad has a history of making statements that are anti-Jew and pro-Islam, see here some of his outrageous, but perfectly in line with Islamic doctrine statements.


He is speaking in the Netherlands, at the invitation of the student association at  De Balie, a private school and quite exclusive.  They teach culture and politics, and now they can say they also teach hatred of Jews and Islamic hegemony.  


From the Jerusalem Post Feb 22 by Cnaan Lipshiz


UK-based Palestinian extremist speaks at Amsterdam venue
AMSTERDAM – A Palestinian cleric who called on Muslims to kill Jewish “enemies of Allah” spoke last week about Islam in Europe at one of Amsterdam’s foremost forums for political debate.

Haitham al-Haddad appeared there on Thursday night at the invitation of a student association of a major Dutch university.

“Islam became part of the landscape of Europe. Non-Muslims cannot dictate what Islam is,” Haddad – a Saudi-born Palestinian based in London – told the crowd at De Balie, a privately owned cultural and political institution in central Amsterdam.

“We’re very happy that you’ve agreed to talk to us in a setting like this with all the press present,” the director of De Balie, Youri Albrecht, told Haddad.

“You’ve had a long day, so a warm welcome, I would say, to Mr. Haddad.”

De Balie, situated at what used to be Amsterdam’s district court, often hosts public readings and debates with dignitaries and official guests of the Dutch Foreign Ministry. In November the ministry hosted Dr. Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, at De Balie.

“The best role for women to play is to be good mothers, supporting the family and supporting society through this. We are suffering from women who are abandoning their children or women who are following media,” Haddad also said at De Balie.

His address was part of a debate with Tofik Dibi, a member of parliament for the Green Left party, and Kustaw Bessems, a Dutch journalist for the freely distributed newspaper De Pers. Bessems arranged the event together with the Islamic student association of the Free University.

Haddad was scheduled to speak on campus, but the university canceled the talk after protest by the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, the Netherlands’ watchdog on anti-Semitism.

CIDI obtained a copy of an Arabiclanguage op-ed from 2002 carrying Haddad’s name that praises suicide bombers, describes “peace with the Jews” as “betrayal” and calls Jews and Christians “the enemies of Allah.”


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"A 16-year-old girl who refused to marry an al-Shabaab commander who was three times her age was killed by his men and beheaded. Her head was brought back to the school as a warning to others."

This is Islam.


From the Telegraph Feb 23

Al-Shabaab militia abducting teenage girls to marry fighters

Gunmen from the Islamist al-Shabaab militia have routinely abducted teenage girls to work as servants on the frontline and forced them to marry fighters, according to a new report documenting the abuse of children in Somalia's civil war.

The report by Human Rights Watch also found that as fighting has intensified over the past two years, al-Shabaab has increasingly targeted boys as young as 10 for action on the frontline to join its dwindling ranks. Whole classrooms have been forced at gunpoint to leave school and fight.

Researchers found that after several weeks of harsh training child recruits are sent for action where they often serve as "cannon fodder" to protect adult fighters.

"It is a new, disturbing pattern using children as human shields," said Laetitia Bader, one of the principal authors and researchers of the report.

Boys who escaped camps were either mown down or faced long and terrifying journeys to sanctuary elsewhere in Somalia or across the border in Kenya.

Girls who resisted capture can face the most appalling consequences, Human Rights Watch found. A 16-year-old girl who refused to marry an al-Shabaab commander who was three times her age was killed by his men and beheaded. Her head was brought back to the school as a warning to others.

"They assembled all of the girls and said 'this is an example of what will happen if you misbehave'," a teacher at the school told Human Rights Watch, which conducted more than 160 interviews with Somali refugees for the report, No Place for Children.

A 19-year-old student from the Bakara district of the capital Mogadishu described how girls were taken from his school.

"Girls were taken at gunpoint. One girl said she could not go and al-Shabaab shot her in the forehead in front of my class. They said that she was a spy for the government. She was 19 years old," he said.

The forced marriage campaign by the al-Qaeda affiliate is part of its effort to impose its harsh version of Sharia on every aspect of the personal lives of women and girls, according to Human Rights Watch.

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He didn't burn a Qur'an, but Muslims want him to burn anyway

Well, maybe sunny-side up.  Lars Vilks drew the cartoons of Muhammad that caused mass riots across the Islamic world in the late 2000's.  He has been the object of Muslim ire ever since.  This last public outing had Muslims launching eggs at Vilks, no injuries were reported.

Omlettes were served after the talk.


From DAWN Feb 22

Prophet Mohammad cartoonist attacked during lecture

Lars Vilks                                                                                                        Photo-AP

STOCKHOLM: The Swedish artist who created a blasphemous sketch of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has been pelted with eggs by a group of people during a university lecture on the limits of the freedom of expression.

According to a police statement, Lars Vilks was unharmed in the attack that occurred at Karlstad University in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday evening.

No one has yet been arrested for the assault, but police say they are investigating the incident.

The 65-year old artist has faced a string of threats over his 2007 sketch, which rekindled a debate over free speech and Islam that had raged a year earlier after a Danish newspaper printed 12 cartoons of Mohammad (PBUH).

Afghanistan: Protests over Qur'an burning continue,compound housing foreigners attacked

No other religion reacts this way when their God or prophet is offended.  Even something like the "Piss Christ" display garnered no more than strong condemnation from those believing in Jesus.  Only Muslims physically attack due to a perceived affront, and they do so with obscene regularity.

It is the "religion of the perpetually insulted."


From the Guardian Feb 22 by Emma Graham-Harrison

Qur'an protesters attack Kabul compound housing foreigners

Afghan protesters armed with stones and molotov cocktails have attacked a military base and a compound housing foreign workers in Kabul, in a second day of violence over the burning of copies of the Qur'an by foreign forces.

At least 16 demonstrators and one police officer were injured as enraged crowds took to the streets in central and eastern Afghanistan, shouting "Death to America" and "Death to Obama".

Police in Kabul used water cannon and fired guns into the air to deter the demonstrators, who were attacking shops and smashing car windows. Security guards in the compound that came under attack also opened fire with automatic rifles.

Destroy what little wealth there is that is your neighbors, that'll show 'em!

A military base was attacked on the outskirts of the capital.

Eleven men were treated for gunshot wounds in Kabul, said Kabir Amiri, spokesman for the city's hospitals. Another five people were injured in eastern Jalalabad, said Ahmad Zia Ahmadzai, spokesman for the provincial governor.

The demonstrations began in the early hours of Tuesday morning, afterAfghan workers at the sprawling Bagram airbase spotted copies of the Qur'an among waste paper sent for incineration.

They extinguished the flames and left the base with some of the damaged books, which had been taken from prisoners in a detention centre at Bagram.

A military official, who asked not to be named, said the books had been removed from the jail library because some had added inscriptions that appeared to be in use to "facilitate extremist communications" or were extremist "in and of themselves".

Nato-led forces rushed to apologise for the burning, which the commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, described as "not intentional".

Why would we "rush to apologize" if we had already thrown the Qur'ans in the trash, to be burned anyway?  And as for the claim that some of the writings were "extremist in and of themselves," could they have been talking about the Qur'an itself?

But damage to the Qur'an is a highly sensitive issue in Afghanistan and protests began almost immediately.

"When the Americans insult us to this degree, we will join the insurgents," said Ajmal, an 18-year-old protester in Kabul told Reuters.

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Qur'ans torched at Bagram air base had "extremist inscriptions" written in them, says military

You won't hear this by the MSM.  That is why it is vitally important to get as much information as you can,from sources other than the ones you usually turn to.  Funny how this is on CNN, yet no one knows.

The fact that these books, including Qur'ans had what amounted to jihadist exhortations makes them fair game for destruction.  The uproar over this is far overblown, but as Muslims are the new victim class it makes sense that we would apologize to the Afghan people form"insulting" them.

Islam, the religion of the perpetually insulted.


From CNN Feb 21

Official: Burned Islamic religious material had 'extremist inscriptions'

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Religious materials -- including Qurans that were burned at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, sparking Afghan protests -- were removed from the library of a detainee center "because of extremist inscriptions" on them, a military official said Tuesday.

There was "an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications," a military official said.

"Additionally, some of the documents were extremist in and of themselves, apparently originating from outside of Afghanistan," the official said.

The official said the material was burned, but authorities are attempting to determine how much.

The uproar prompted Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, to issue a directive "that all coalition forces in Afghanistan will complete training in the proper handling of religious materials no later than March 3," the NATO-led force said..

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More child bombers found, rescued

41this time, and it makes one wonder about the morals of the religion of peace.  As if we needed another reason to wonder about Islam.

Here is another recent example of child bombers and how they are told they will not die when they push the detonator.


From News24 Feb 20

Afghans rescue 41 child suicide bombers

Kabul - The Afghan government said on Monday that police had rescued 41 children from becoming suicide bombers as they were about to be smuggled across the mountains into Pakistan.

Interior ministry spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi told a news conference that the children aged six to 11 had been released on February 15 from the clutches of four insurgents in eastern Kunar province.

He told AFP their families "were fooled by terrorists", who promised to send them to seminaries in Pakistan where they would be "brainwashed" and "prepared for suicide bombings against Afghan and international troops in Afghanistan".

Police arrested the four suspects and the children were returned to their families, the spokesperson said.

The Afghan government has accused madrassas in Pakistan of teaching violent extremism and sponsoring Islamist violence, a legacy of Afghanistan's 1979-89 US and Pakistani-sponsored mujahideen uprising against Soviet troops.

On February 12, Afghan authorities announced the arrest of two 10-year-old would-be suicide bombers allegedly planning to attack Afghan and international forces in the southern province of Kandahar, the Taliban's birthplace.

They had been reportedly released last August, along with 18 other children, after receiving a pardon from Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The Taliban, which is leading a 10-year insurgency against Karzai's government and 130 000 US-led foreign troops, have reportedly used children and teenagers to conduct attacks on security forces.

Grocery jihad

The latest attempt at imposing sharia across Nigeria.


From Daily News Feb 21

30 killed in Nigeria market attack

Kano - Suspected Nigerian Islamists opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri on Monday, killing at least 30 people, a medic and a witness said.

Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram stormed the fish section of Baga market and sprayed stallholders and vendors with bullets, traders said, reporting that women and children were among the dead.

"The number of dead could not be less than 30," a Maiduguri hospital nurse said.

The military confirmed the assault on the market but denied any civilian deaths, saying security forces had killed eight assailants and safely detonated bombs planted by the attackers.

"At about 1.30pm (1230 GMT) this afternoon at Baga market of Maiduguri metropolis some gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram attacked and shot civilians at the market," Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, spokesman of a special military unit in the city, said.

He said several people had been wounded but that there was "no civilian death at this time".

The military "immediately came to the rescue of the situation and safely detonated three bombs planted by members of the sect and shot and killed eight members of the sect," Mohammed said.

However, one trader who have his name as Mairami, said six gunmen stormed the food and commodities market and "opened fire indiscriminately. At least 30 people including women and children were killed."

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