Flying Imams trying to pull another fast one

The flying Imams secretly try to get the public barred from having access to the case.

They were DENIED.

Bwa-ha-ha.

A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit filed by six Muslim men who were removed from a US Airways flight last fall has declined to limit public access to the case.

Omar T. Mohammedi, a New York attorney for the six Muslim scholars, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he sought limited media access because he felt some of the coverage of the case has been biased against his clients.

"When you think of the media, and the way they have been portraying this case, it has not been very helpful. It has been biased," Mohammedi said. "That has caused a lot of stress, a lot of stress on our clients, as well as made it difficult for us to handle this case ... in a manner that it should be handled."

In a letter dated Tuesday and addressed to Mohammedi, U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery noted that Mohammedi had requested that the court remove members of the media from an electronic distribution list, bar members of the media from attending hearings, and hold proceedings in closed session.

"The Court declines to treat this case in the extraordinary manner that you request," the judge wrote. She added that the public and press have an interest in full access to judicial proceedings under the First Amendment. You have provided no legal authority supporting your request to limit public access to this case," Montgomery wrote. "While it is regrettable that anonymous individuals have threatened violence, the Court Security Officers will insure that the United States Courthouse here in Minneapolis is secure."

The judge's letter was entered in the case file, and it noted that further communications on the matter should also be filed through the court's electronic database.

The letters previously submitted on the issue were filed off the record and were not made public. Judge Montgomery said through a law clerk that she would have no comment beyond her letter.

Flying Imams and their car bomb chasing attorney = pwned.

Iran: 10 more troublemakers to be executed...

Mullah's apply GOD'S VERDICT to combat society's insecurity.

Tehran, Iran, Jun. 30 – Iran said on Friday that it would execute at least 10 “trouble-makers” in the coming days to combat “insecurity” in society.“Within the next several days, God’s verdict will be applied in the cases of more than 10 trouble-makers”, said Seyyed Ibrahim Re’isi, Iran’s deputy judiciary chief. He said that the sentences of these individuals had already been upheld by the State Supreme Court.“In order to root out insecurity once and for all, there must be an unrelenting campaign to combat this problem”, he said at Friday prayers in Tehran. His remarks were reported by the official news agency IRNA.

San Fran Nan: Drain yer own swamp, Missy.

We have listened ad nauseum to San Fran Nan talk about draining the Congressional swamp. Now we learn that La Pelosi has holdings in Alcatel-Lucent.

Dump that stock Nan, or we'll have to start calling you Sudan Nan....

According to Divestterror.org, a citizens group pushing a South Africa-style disinvestment program to discourage companies from doing business in terror countries, Alcatel-Lucent’s investments in terror countries are so extensive that it is included on the organization’s “dirty dozen” list of offending companies. The organization estimates that the company has invested upwards of $300 million in terror sponsoring nations during the past five years.

According to Divestterror.org, Alcatel is aiding Iran’s terrorist activities by providing state controlled companies with data transmission and switching network capabilities. “These contracts have reportedly included the provision of hardware, software, technologies, and training to Iranian companies.” It is also installing an undersea telecommunications cable in Iran.

Prior to his overthrow, Alcatel carried out major fiber optic products for dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq, despite U.S. government warnings to the French company that the project could advance Iraqi military capabilities.

Alcatel is currently “involved in similar telecommunications projects ranging from upgrading networks to the installation underwater fiber optic cables” in Sudan and Libya.

Criticizing Alcatel, former House Armed Services Committee Chairman and current GOP presidential contender Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) expressed his worry over Alcatel’s activities in a letter to President Bush. In it, he wrote, “I am concerned about potential transfers of technology or sensitive information to other countries with which Alcatel has business dealings, which have included Burma, China, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.”

Sadr puts off march to Sunni Samarra

Big bad Mookie al Sadr has evidently decided not to march to Samarra. Why not?

BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT WOULDN'T SECURE THE ROUTE.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha.

Hey Mook. Why don't you go hide in a cave someplace? That's what all you big brave Mohammedan warriors usually do....

Mahmoud TV

Not only is Mahmoud ready for his close up on the big screen he's going to have his own TV station

Ahmadinejad's English Language TV ready to launch.

Monday July 2 is launch date. Their slogan?

All taquiyah. All the time.

Iran: Gas pains to continue despite protests and riots

The plan will cause no problems for the people...The rationing was something which had to be done and will eventually be to the benefit of all people and also reduce air pollution...we cannot spend major parts of our oil revenues for importing petrol..."

Iran will continue petrol rationing despite protests and riots throughout the country, Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said Friday.

'This decision has been approved by the parliament and therefore the government is determined to implement it,' the minister told Mehr news agency.

In the Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati called on the people to remain calm.

Since rationing took effect on Wednesday, the capital Tehran faced a visible decrease of traffic jams and also the air was much cleaner in the last 48 hours, realising at least two of the main aims of the rationing plan. (this smells like taquiyah to me-yah)

Hey, quit your bellyaching! You're going nuclear!

Oliver keen to make film on Ahmadinejad

From Mehr News. Oliver is keen to make film on Ahmadinejad

Oscar-winner Oliver Stone has sent a letter to the Iranian president’s office requesting permission to make a docudrama on President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, stated an Iranian producer who is regularly consulted by the president’s art and cultural advisors. The request was made three months ago by Stone, the famous U.S. filmmaker, who has directed numerous films with socio-political themes over the past few years,” Alireza Sajjadpur told the Persian service of the Iranian Students’ News Agency on Friday. I think it is a good proposal and I would like the request to be accepted,” he added.

Oliver Stone is among the film directors who have been against the warmongering policy of the U.S. He has made a film about Fidel Castro which has generally been well received and I found it interesting.” As far as I know, it takes time to receive a response to such a request and the president’s office is considering it.”

Ollie Riefenstahl.

Mitt's Dog: Really, he loved it.

Hearing his explanation makes me like him even more.

UK: Another honor killing?

Sana Ali: Before

Sana Ali: After

Magistrate walks out on "Shocked, Distressed Veil-Wearing-"

ZOOBIA HUSSEIN

MOHAMMEDAN MISFIT!

(First off, I'd like to hear more about the charges against Zoobia.)

A magistrate refused to deal with a defendant wearing a veil it has been revealed.

At Manchester Magistrates Court Ian Murray walked out of the case because Zoobia Hussain, 32, of Crumpsall, was covered. Ms Hussain's lawyer, Judith Hawkins, said in a statement "She Hussain remains shocked and distressed.

"She feels that the court's treatment of her was insensitive, unacceptable and against the traditions of fairness and equality that we have come to expect from our system of justice.

"She is angry that, as a result of the ensuing publicity, she has now had to explain to her children what happened."

Hussain, was charged with criminal damage, covered her entire face apart from her eyes when she faced the magistrates. However, Mr Murray felt the veil raised identity issues and left the hearing without explaining why.

Mr. Murray attempts to cover his a&& with veiled apology.

The Judiciary of England and Wales said: "Mr Murray is concerned about questions of identity when the full veil is worn in court.

"However, he agrees that he acted unwisely in disqualifying himself without giving reasons, and acknowledges that he should have sought the advice of his legal advisor in court, and discussed the provisions of the national guidelines with his colleagues on the bench, before taking action.

"Mr Murray is supportive of those of different faiths and cultural traditions and acknowledges and regrets his action could be misinterpreted."

Hussain's case was dealt with immediately after Mr Murray withdrew and was adjourned until July 18.

I'd say see you in court Zoobia, but with you wearing that rig I don't think I will...

About Crumpsall

(from wICKipedia): The area came to unwanted national prominence in 2004 when Detective Constable Stephen Oake, a Greater Manchester Police officer was fatally stabbed whilst arresting a suspected terrorist in a house on Crumpsall Lane. DC Oake therefore became the first British national to be killed by terrorists in the "War on Terror" on UK soil, a tragic distinction.

Heaton Park on the borders of Crumpsall has been used as the location for the "Red Rec'" on Granada's Coronation Street. Additionally, the UK TV drama 'Queer as Folk' was partially filmed in the terraced streets off Cravenwood Road.

And from Manchester Online there's this about Crumpsall:

There was a well-publicised case of a girl who was tragically burnt to death by her teenage boyfriend, who was living in a hostel. A gangland stabbing in Crumpsall Park and the burning down of part of the Abraham Moss Centre were enough to send out very negative signals.

The Abraham Moss Centre not only burned at the hands of drunken teens it denied a two year old entrance to a swim class because she wasn't Muslim.

Pakistan: Red Mosque de-recognized by clerical board

According to Qari Mohammed Hanif Jalandhry, a member of the central council of Ittehad Tanzeemat Madaris Deenia and a group of Muslim clerics has travelled to Washington DC this week to brief US lawmakers, officials, academics and other members of the American society on the state of religious schools in Pakistan.

The Red Mosque has evidently been a hot topic - although I've yet to find anything in the US press about the delegation or the individuals they have been "briefing." Why am I thinking of the Muslim delegation that went round the world inciting the Mo-toon riots when I read about this delegation???

I say BFD. Especially when they are peddling this kind of malarkey:

"While we sympathise with several of their demands, we strongly disagree with their method of achieving those objectives. Islam does not condone coercive measures..."

"Other issues that US lawmakers showed keen interest in included the concept of jihad in Islam, particularly the difference between jihad and terrorism, suicide attacks, and the Taliban movement in Afghanistan." (editor's note: they don't freaking know this already????)
“It is wrong to blame a nation or a religion for the crimes committed by a few individuals,”

It isn't wrong to blame or nation or a religion for the crimes committed by a few individuals if their nation or religion does nothing to STOP IT!!!!

Pelosi, Reid to announce new cut and run plans

Mark your calendars.

It seems only too appropriate that the date they've chosen is April Fool's Day, 2008.

Four Iraq related amendments are to be introduced, two different withdrawal proposals, another deauthorization of the Iraq War proposal and proposals to prohibit the creation of permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, and a "readiness" initiative limiting deployments of U.S. soldiers and marines in Iraq by requiring the Pentagon to keep military units from being sent back to Iraq until they have been stateside as long as they were in the combat zone. John Murtha has a few tricks up his appropriations sleeve as well.

The stench of surrender is thick in the Demo caucus:

"The surge is a failure, it isn't working," said a Democratic aide familiar with the new initiative. "We just can't leave American soldiers out there dying and not do anything."

When Hugo met Vladi-

Trouble on the hoof.

Hoo boy.

It's good to be Russian King, says Pooty-Poot. Check out Air Borscht One, Putin's jet here.

Philippines: Empowering muftis...

And it's sponsored by the Brits and the Dutch????

They must be drinking the same Kool-Aid as W.

Holy freaking state-sponsored dhimmitude!

A simple launch of a not so simple project”. This was how Ms. Amina Rasul described the forum that transpired last June 8 at the University of the Philippines’ Institute for Islamic Studies. The “Empowering the Ulama and Muftis of the Philippines” project, jointly supported by the British Embassy through their Engaging the Islamic World Programme and the Royal Netherlands Embassy, will be managed by the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID)-Magbassa Kita Foundation, Inc.

It must have gotten pretty deep in the meeting:

For his part, His Excellency Mr. Peter Beckingham, the British Ambassador to the Philippines related that the increasing number of Muslims in the United Kingdom makes them the largest ethnic minority in Britain. The contribution of Muslims in Britain have been great as many are members of the House of Commons, have businesses and are involved in media, sports and entertainment. As example, Mohammed Al Fayed, whose son Dodie had been linked with Princess Diana, owns the famous Harrods of London.

(Gee, he forgot to mention the London bombers.)

And there's this from the Poor little Dutch Boy:

The Ambassador of Netherlands to the Philippines, His Excellency Mr. Robert Vornis recounted the successful partnerships between his country and PCID in the past especially in terms of human rights and gathering the ulama in 2005. It was in that workshop where the idea of a united ulama summit was first put forward. Ambassador Vornis expressed his thanks and appreciation for being part of this important project and hoped that the project would be successful. He said that although the problems in Mindanao are alarming, he remains optimistic that with the empowered ulama, peace and development will once again have the chance to reign in the region.

About the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID)-Magbassa Kita Foundation, Inc?It looks like they are part of the searching for root causes crowd. They blame the "intrusive West."

More on the Iranian gas pains...

Iran Police on Patrol after Petrol Rationing Protests

Iranian police were on patrol in Tehran on Thursday on alert for any further violent protests over the introduction of petrol rationing in the world's fourth largest oil producer.

A dozen petrol stations were set ablaze in violence that erupted late Tuesday and angry motorists queued for hours throughout Wednesday to fill up their tanks after the government's sudden announcement. But on Thursday, state-run television said the streets were calm and no further trouble had been reported near petrol stations despite long lines of cars still waiting at the pumps.

"The situation in the city is calm and the police are patrolling the city's main roads and squares," Tehran metropolitan police spokesman Mahdi Ahmadi was quoted as saying by Iran's energy news agency Shana. "Thank God there was not any report of any kind of unlawful act in Tehran last (Wednesday) night."

More...

Meanwhile, behind closed doors: Majlis holds unofficial session behind closed doors

And Negative Stories about the rationing are banned. Oh, and the number of stations burned is now up to 19.

Saudi Arabia: Young Men Not Allowed

"And it's the young women who are to blame"

This is a sign that proudly hangs at the entrances of supermarkets and shopping malls across Riyadh, and is directed at all men above the age of 16. It is an annoying sign for many, especially since in some parts of the Kingdom this rule is not adhered to.

Many youngsters are fed up and are calling on security guards and the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice to give them a break. One high school student told Arab News: “This is something we see wherever we go. Is this rule only applied to Riyadh? In Jeddah and the whole of the Eastern Province the situation is quite different.”

Speaking about the situation in Jeddah, he said: “Youngsters in Jeddah are free to go anywhere. Why is that? Are we all bad in Riyadh? Why is it that all Saudi young men in Riyadh are punished because of the wrongdoings of a few?”

The youngster, who did not want to be named, said the situation was unfair. “We feel wronged because women are the source of problems and can go anywhere they want wearing fashionable clothes under their abayas. They wear provocative clothes and the only people who are punished are the ones who bother them. Young women are to blame,” he said.

More emasculated, frustrated, complaining Sons of Allah at the link.

Romney strapped dog to car roof. Dog craps. Peta atwitter.

It was 25 years ago.

I guess it's a good thing for Teddy that Mary Jo wasn't a Maltese...how long ago was Chappaquiddick???

I'd like to thank the Media Research Center...

for reminding me about this. How quickly we forget trash talking women of low breeding and no taste.

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, has called on Americans to stop conservative Ann Coulter’s “hate words.” But when that campaign hired two hateful, anti-Christian bigots as “official” bloggers, Mrs. Edwards did not object and the campaign decided to give them a “fair shake,” as John Edwards said. The bloggers resigned in February only after their bigoted writings were exposed by other bloggers and conservative talk radio, causing a huge embarrassment. ABC, CBS, and NBC interviewed Elizabeth Edwards this morning to allow her to further complain about Coulter’s “hate words,” but none mentioned the Edwards campaign’s bigoted bloggers.

Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. (Remember these two?)

From Ms. Marcotte: Sen. Rick Santorum talks about sex “lest his lack of self-control be manifested by f***ing his desk on the Senate floor.”

From Ms. McEwan: “When CNN invited Ann Coulter to comment on the 2004 presidential debates, I sniffed, ‘I didn’t realize they had officially transformed into the C*** News Network.”

And how on earth did I forget this one? Elizabeth Edwards scared of Rabid Republican Gun Toting Neighbor?

"I wouldn't be nice to him anyway," Edwards said in an interview. "I don't want my kids anywhere near some guy who when he doesn't like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out. It scares the business out of me. Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.

Bonus : The best little tidbit I've heard about this whole exchange? During the course of the call, do you remember hearing a deep male voice booming out the $69,000 question: "Why isn't your husband making this call????"

Well, that was none other than FReeper Extraorinaire, Kristinn.

Way to go Kristinn. Your well timed salvo was clearly the turning point - where it really started to go bad for the Edwards'. Such a pity.

I predict this political stunt will go down in the annals of campaign history screw ups.

Even better it looks like the Edwards campaign has a trifecta going. We've just witnessed Elizabeth's hypocritical jawboning for John, and before that there was the ill-considered protest-the-war-and-diss-the-troops-on-the-day-we-set aside-to honor-their memories strategy. And who can forget the old War-on-Terror-Bumper-Sticker maneuver?

My new slogan for the Edwards campaign.

Vote for John and Elizabeth. Just Because.

(We really do know better than you.)

The truly sad thing? One of Ann Coulter's past beefs with John Edwards is his exploitative use of his dead son's memory in furthering his political career. Me, I'm watching the way this is going down and I have this creepy feeling that I am watching Candidate Edwards exploiting Elizabeth and her situation as well. How can you possible debate poor, brave Cancer Victim Elizabeth without looking like Cruella Deville? Especially when you're that evil, "crazy" Ann Coulter. You wait - they'll be questioning her virtue next. Or who knows? They just might decide to go the "unnatural woman, frigid routine". You can bet that somewhere at Edwards HQ there's an aide sitting in his cube and lamenting the fact that Ann didn't grow up in a trailer park.

(Here's what I mean when I say the Edwards are working it:)

They have made the incident the centerpiece of their fund raising efforts, the campaign has produced a heavily edited You tube vid of Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's been making the rounds of the morning "news" shows)

Ms. Coulter's response: That was no lady, that was my husband.

House Members: They have some nerve, don't they?

House Members decide to give themselves a raise.

They must figure their approval rating can't possibly get any lower.

Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year's elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000.

The cost-of-living raise endorsed Wednesday evening gets lawmakers back on track for automatic pay raises after a fight between the parties last year and again in January killed the pay increase due this year. That was the first interruption of the annual congressional pay boost in seven years.

The blowup came after Democrats last year fulfilled a campaign promise to deny themselves more pay until Congress raised the minimum wage. Delays in the minimum wage bill cost every lawmaker about $3,100 this year.

On a 244-181 vote Wednesday, Democrats and Republicans alike killed a bid by Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Lee Terry, R-Neb., to get a direct vote to block the COLA, which is automatically awarded unless lawmakers vote to block it. The Senate has not indicated when it will deal with a similar measure.

As part of an ethics bill in 1989, Congress gave up its ability to accept pay for speeches and made annual cost-of-living pay increases automatic unless the lawmakers voted otherwise.

The annual vote on the pay hike comes on an obscure procedural move - instead of a direct up-or-down vote - and Democratic and GOP leaders each delivered a majority of their members to shut off the move to block the pay hike.

This year's vote was made ticklish by last year's battle. Republicans said Democrats broke a promise not to use the pay raise issue against GOP lawmakers in campaign ads and therefore were, generally speaking, more reluctant to supply votes.

Fairness doctrine in action... Hoyer and Blunt put the arm on House members. Working through Blunt, Hoyer forced twelve (!)Republicans to switch their vote.

The COLA raise is estimated to come in at 2.7% or $4460. The only good news - Dick Cheney gets a raise, too. House leaders and the Supremes will get more $, too.

Like I said, some nerve.

Words fail me...

From left: Fran Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, NSC Senior Director for European Affairs Judy Ansley, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes, attend the rededication ceremony of the Islamic Center of Washington.

This is wrong on so many levels.

Atlas has a killer post up over at MNM that talks about this latest dhimmi travesty: Bush's Enormous Misstep.

(What I want to know is why the black chick in the black doesn't have to wear a schmatta and the rest of the women do. What's up with that?)

Iranian police chief: WTF are you doing?

Police Chief: Gasoline rationing implemented suddenly

Police Chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam complained on Wednesday gasoline rationing was implemented suddenly and without prior notice. Speaking on the sidelines of the Sixth International Police Safety and Security Equipment Exhibition (IPAS 2007), Ahmadi-Moqaddam noted that miscreants who attacked gas stations will be confronted, IRNA reported.

“The government was supposed to inform people at least 24 hours before enforcing the rationing scheme which, unfortunately, did not happen,“ he said. The police chief also told reporters that the police came to learn about gasoline rationing like other people through the media. “This is while we had a security plan ready before the implementation of gasoline rationing,“ he said.

Ahmadi-Moqaddam pointed out that the police personnel were called in for implementing security measures after the scheme was scheduled.

This is a good one - the attacks on gas stations and banks(!) didn't have anything to do with the rationing scheme. Yeah. Right.

Commenting on incidents that erupted after gasoline rationing went into effect, including the torching of gas stations and attacks on banks, Ahmadi-Moqaddam said these incidents did not have anything to do with the rationing scheme. “Most of these incidents happened in Tehran and 17 gas stations were set on fire, several cars were torched and some banks and commercial units were damaged,“ he said.

Philippines: New Abu Sayyaf leader is 'Islamic Scholar'

Trained in Syria.

The Abu Sayyaf, the smallest and most deadly Muslim militant group in the Philippines, has chosen a Syria-trained Islamic scholar as its new leader, a senior general said on Wednesday.
Lieutenant-General Romeo Tolentino said the new militant leader, Yasser Igasan, was chosen three weeks ago after a straw poll by Abu Sayyaf field commanders at a rebel base on the southern island of Jolo.

"We believed that Igasan has taken over the leadership due to his religious background,"
Tolentino told reporters after meeting U.S. military officials at the army's main base in Manila.
"He's not new to the organization. He was among the original founders of Abu Sayyaf, together with the group's first leader, Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani."

Igasan would replace Janjalan's younger brother, Khaddafy, killed in a clash with Marines in mountains on Jolo in September 2006. Khaddafy's death was confirmed only in January after DNA tests by U.S. authorities. He was the second leader of the group after his brother was killed in December 1998.

He may be an Islamic scholar be he has NO job security. Bwa-ha-ha.

Speaking of getting busy...enter Syria. Into Lebanon.

Lebanese PM says Syria sending arms across the border. And even Ban Ki-Moon says the Lebanese Syrian border is completely porous.

From the Beiruter. Hizbullah preparing for next war with Israel.

And then there's the Australian boxer that was arrested in Lebanon. On terror charges.

The good news: 300 militants killed in Lebanon camp. (militants aka Mohammedans)

In my own backyard...

And I had to go over to Eye on the World to find out about it. Sheesh. Thanks EOTW!

A Bucks County father was accused of going to extremes to break-up his daughter's romance.Police said the father and his son tried to kidnap her fiancé by beating him up and tossing him into a sport utility vehicle.Robert Webber, of Middletown Township police, said he thought he was being dispatched to a Bucks County diner Friday night for a fight but once he got there he was in the middle of a family disagreement turned violent."The victim advised me that his fiancée's family was trying to kill him, drag him into a car and take him somewhere, where he believed he was going to be killed," Webber said.Webber said the alleged victim told him his fiancée's family was upset the two had moved in together.He said there were cultural differences and that's why 48-year-old Mohd Nasher and his son 20-year-old Mohammed Nasher were allegedly gunning for the fiancé.

Check out the pictures at Eye On The World.

Egypt: Deny, deny, deny.

Iran? I don't see Iran. per Hosni Mubarak.

In an interview with the Egyptian national television, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has predicted that Hamas-Fatah disputes would be settled in four weeks, the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Alawsat said on Wednesday.

In response to a question about the role of Iran and Syria in Gaza, he said, “There are many rumors but we have no solid evidence in this regard and I can not accuse anyone.”

However, the Egyptian foreign minister had earlier said that Iran’s moves had encouraged the Hamas to do what happened in Gaza, and this is a threat to Egypt’s national security as the distance between Gaza Strip and Egypt is very short.

Those Beyotches from the Red Mosque are back.

The things you see when you don't have a gun.

Women Pledge to army of Islamic Vigilantes.

A 6,000-strong army of young women wielding bamboo sticks and covered from head to toe in black is vowing to enforce the Islamist moral vision of their teacher, Abdul Rashid Ghazi. For now, they are content to kidnap prostitutes — releasing them hours later after stern lectures on Islamic morality — and attack music video stalls and other targets. But Mr. Ghazi, who runs a madrassa, or Muslim seminary, attached to Islamabad's Red Mosque, warns that his female students will send suicide bombers into the fray if authorities lay a hand on them.

Chemical Ali to hang in Halabja

And I couldn't be happier.

The people of Halabja got really screwed - judicially speaking, that is. Their village suffered many casualties at the hands of Chemical Ali but for some reason they were left off the judicial complaint. So many genocides, so little court time, I guess. It is now poetic justice that Hajalba will be known throughout history as the place where Chemical Ali had his genocidal necktie party. God bless them.

Ali? I spit on you. Halabja: The legacy of Chemical Ali. (warning: graphic images.)

As The Religion of Peace says, "Hanging this bastard just isn't enough."

Zimbabwe: A snapshot from Cathy Buckle

Anonymous mentioned that he/she thought that it might be a good idea if Iran was reduced to the economic status of Zimbabwe in a previous comment. I thought it might be a good idea to give you an indication of what he was talking about.

From Cathy Buckle's Letters.

From her letter of June 16, 2007

Dear Family and Friends,
I stood for over forty minutes in a line at the bank to withdraw my own money this week - its not unusual to have to queue for even longer than this. There was no electricity - again - so the ATM machines were not working - again. Even if the ATM's were working, those queues often need an hour and a half to get to the front. Because of the oppressive, iron-fist regulations from Harare, individuals are only allowed to withdraw one and a half million dollars at a time from the bank - even if they have just deposited a hundred times that amount the same day. The bank charges a 'handling fee' for the withdrawal of amounts of one and a half million dollars or less but you can cannot withdraw more without applying for permission from the Reserve Bank in Harare.

To put all these figures in perspective, let me explain! You have to stand in a queue in the bank for four days in a row - each day drawing out the maximum amount, each day paying the 'handling fee," in order to purchase one tank of fuel for your car .

Three days of maximum withdrawals will give you enough for one filling at the dentist. By the time you've got enough money together, the prices will have gone up again but for most of us all these things are just dreams anyway because now even a visit to the dentist has become an unaffordable luxury. Who would ever have imagined that a dental visit would be thought of as a luxury!

And this from her latest one - dated June 23, 2007.

...Government agricultural voices have begun warning that quelea birds are preparing to decimate the country's winter wheat crop - the crop that either wasn't planted in the first place or hasn't been watered because there's been no electricity for the irrigation pumps.

We are told that there is only one aeroplane in the country that can be used to spray the birds and apparently four are needed to "cover the whole crop". Its not being said if the whole crop consists of 8 thousand hectares spread out in lots of little squares or if its actually 76 thousand hectares.

Keeping up with both the facts and the propaganda about events in Zimbabwe has become almost impossible as electricity cuts silence all but the most determined and innovative lines of communication. It took a message from outside of Zimbabwe to tell me what our Minister of Lands said this week and for millions of cold, tired and hungry Zimbabweans, they are sickening words. Lands Minister Didymus Mutasa said: "The position is that food shortages or no food shortages, we are going ahead to remove the remaining whites. We would all rather die of hunger but knowing full well that the land is in the hands of black people."
Until next week, thanks for reading, love cathy.

Hard to imagine, isn't it?

Indian Male wears burka in shrine - hoo boy!

He's in trouble now!

Wore it to keep adoring fans at bay but that don't matta! He offended the Muslim male's fragile sexual psyche! Just the thought of it! Needless to say he can't apologize and grovel fast enough...

A popular Bollywood male singer has apologised for wearing a burqa to pray in a famous Muslim shrine in India. Himesh Reshammiya said he was sorry if people were "offended" by his dressing as a woman to enter the Ajmer shrine.

The shrine's prayer attendants have defended the singer, saying he put the burqa on because he wanted to offer prayers without being mobbed by fans.

Last year the shrine was in the news because a Bollywood starlet - gasp! Wore a skirt!!!!

As if Somalia didn't have enough trouble...

Locusts devastate orchards of north Somalia

As if war and hunger were not enough, swarms of locusts have appeared in Somalia, blotting out the sky and destroying orchards.

Millions of the insects appeared three days ago in the semi-autonomous northeastern province of Puntland, stripping bare hundreds of acres of mango, orange and pawpaw farms.

Iran getting busy in the region, US politely ignores it.

Iran sure is getting busy over there. They're busy in Iraq. They're busy in Afghanistan. They're busy in Gaza. Hijole! They're even getting busy against Spanish UN soldiers in Lebanon! (courtesy of Spanish Pundit and a sassy hat tip to Lady V.)

Now they're getting busy in the Gulf? Iran seizes three UAE boats.

What are WE doing about it???? Politely ignoring it, I guess. That good talking to we gave them last month sure worked.

Update: 8:20 pm. Even Investors Business Daily has noticed.

Reports of Iranian forces crossing the border into Iraq have gotten a bit of — though not enough — media attention this week. But this is nothing new for a regime with a nasty habit of meddling in the region.

What's it going to take to stop them? And who is going to do it?

"Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Israel" - Rembrandt van Rijn

Epaminondas checks in over at MNM and asks "what will it take" for the US to get off the dime with regard to Iran. Good question, Epa. I've been wondering that myself.

Epaminondas also blogs over at Villagers with Torches.

Iran: Rationing sparks anger (and fires at the pump!)

Iran fuel rationing sparks anger, pump stations burnt

Angry Iranian motorists queued for gasoline on Wednesday hours after the world's fourth largest oil exporter imposed fuel rationing, sparking chaotic scenes and the torching of two pump stations in the capital.

Drivers raced to fill up their tanks late on Tuesday after the Oil Ministry announced the delayed scheme would finally go ahead at midnight after months of confusion and conflicting statements, forming lines that stretched hundreds of meters.

"Gas, tanks, fireworks, Ahmadinejad must be killed." was the chant.

Gateway Pundit has video here.

Update: Iranian Parliament convenes emergency session.

The Iranian parliament has convened an emergency session attended by the interior and oil ministers to discuss the riots sparked late on Tuesday by the introduction of petrol rationing and price hikes aimed at ending Iran's dependence on imported petrol. A group of MPs has tabled an urgent motion proposing an immediate halt to the limit on private drivers of 3.3 litres of petrol per day, terming the measure unpopular and provocative. The government fears the United Nations may cripple the Iranian economy by introducing fresh sanctions sharply curbing exports of Iranian crude oil and fuel imports.

Cutting the rose - Somalia's the place.

Somaliland now center for illegal female cutting.

Hargeisa, the peaceful capital of the self-proclaimed state of Somaliland, has become a new centre for the Somali Diaspora wanting to perform female genital mutilation (FGM) on their daughters. Most live in countries where FGM is strictly forbidden, including when this is done abroad.

A team from the Norwegian public broadcaster 'NRK' last week visited Hargeisa, where it easily found practitioners of the outlawed practice of FGM (also referred to as "female circumcision" or "female cutting"), which is widely condemned as strongly harmful to women and girls, also by many Muslim religious leaders.

The Somalilander women performing FGM did so privately or in open cooperation with public health facilities in Hargeisa, where most worked as midwifes. Among Somalis, female genital mutilation is very widespread and the UN estimates that 98 percent of women in Somaliland and Somalia have been subjected to the harmful practice.

In most countries where the large Somali Diaspora is represented, however, FGM is strictly outlawed. Research nevertheless shows that a majority of Somali parents living abroad ignore the laws of their host country and continue exposing their daughters to this culturally based practice.

And as southern Somalia remains an unsafe destination, peaceful Somaliland has emerged a safe haven for Somalis wanting to visit friends and family. Or wanting to stick to traditions.

The 'NRK' team met with ten FGM practitioners in Hargeisa saying they had performed the cut on at least 185 Somali girls living in Norway. The practitioners further confirmed that Norway-based parents were popular clients as they paid "well", typically euro 20 each girl. European summer holidays were seen as the top season for these women performing FGM.

Based on these data, it is estimated that thousands of young girls are brought to Hargeisa each year from Europe alone to undergo the mutilation. Somali women rights organisations all over Europe and North America have for years tried to address this practice, knowing that each summer holiday, hundreds of young girls are taken to Hargeisa for just this reason.

In Norway, this revelation caused a public outcry and fuelled the debate about how to better enforce national legislation outlawing FGM. Politicians have proposed anything from information campaigns targeting Somalis in Norway, to obliging medics to report cases they come over to the police and introducing obligatory health tests for girls returning from summer holidays in Somalia.

While Somali parents living abroad can be taken to court for child abuse after having taken their daughters to Somaliland to undergo FGM, the Hargeisa practitioners operate in full legality. Attempts to outlaw FGM in Somaliland have so far failed.

AQ in Iraq claims Baghdad hotel bombing.

Bastards.

Shaking hands with the devil...with the blue dress on.

But who was wearing the blue dress? Khatami!

As you know, ex-Iranian prez Khatami has been brought up on legal charges for shaking hands with a woman. He denies the claim, asserting that the tape had been edited to make it appear that he shook hands when really he didn't. Not to be outdone, the Iranian press claimed that he fell prey to a CIA plot. Well, the videographer is speaking out although no one has explained what a couple of grappa heiresses are doing attending a Khatami speech.

Man who filmed ex-Iranian president and grappa heiress speaks.

Video footage showing former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, a Muslim Shiite cleric, shaking hands with several women - a taboo gesture for Islamists - including two Italian grappa heiresses, has provoked controversy in Iran. But the man who filmed the scene, Marco Orioles, a university sociology lecturer from the northeastern Italian town Udine, has told Adnkronos International (AKI) he didn't want to provoke a commotion. Khatami's office has denied that the cleric during a trip last month to Italy intentionally shook hands with women - as shown in Orioles' footage broadcast on the 'YouTube' website.In a statement the cleric's office said that the footage had either been edited to give a false impression, or else Khatami had shaken the hands of people in a crowd without realising they were female."None of the 67,000 people who in the first few days viewed the 'incriminating' footage will have had any doubt as to its authenticity," Orioles told AKI. He was referring to the number of times the footage was viewed.

Regarding the CIA allegations:

"I think the CIA only discovered it had a modest sociology lecturer as an agent in Udine, the day after Kayhan published its editorial," Orioles said.

Pretty funny that.

Drat and double drat.

Looks like Harry Reid's clay pigeon worked.

Senate votes 64 - 35 to proceed to vote on immigration bill on "clay pigeon" rule

Muslim or Mohammedan?

From the old Aladdin casino in Las Vegas.

There's an interesting debate in the comment sections over at Gates of Vienna about the phraseology used at the end of the manifesto accompanying the Danish torching of the Mohammed effigy. (for some reason I am having trouble with the embed code so we'll have to make do with a still photo and the linky. I apologize for the technical difficulties.)

The discussion focuses on the use of the phrase "A MOHAMMEDAN FREE DENMARK."

Evidently, Mohammedan is a term that is associated with the far right wingers of Denmark and is comparable to the use of the N word.

From commenter Mikael:

And that last salute was the nail that just blew my tire. In Denmark, Muhammadan is used by the Extreme Right. Kinda like the N-word would be used by the KKK in the States.It's stupid, it's perceived as racist, and I'll have nothing of it!

The Baron replies:

I didn't know that about the word "Muhammedaner". In English the word "Mohammedans" has no special connotation, except for being somewhat archaic (although not as archaic as "Mussulmen").

Mikella amplifies:

The Danish term "muhammedaner" certainly is generally percieved as a derogatory term in the Danish public debate. In itself it has no intrinsic derogatory meaning (it just means a follower of Mohammed, as Christian or Jesuit means a follower of Christ/Jesus...), but due to usage and the linguistic developments in Denmark (and much related to the usage of the term by a Danish politican named Mogens Glistrup) it has attained - deservedly or not - a negative connotation. In effect, it is probably somewhat comparable to the term "nigger" in English, though in my view "muhammedaner" has no direct racist connotations. It's indeed a derogatory term, but only related to the religion and not the skin-colour of the group referred to.

I'm tending to come down on the side of Whiskey_199

Seeing as how Muslims call us non-Muslims "kaffirs" which literally translates to "unclean" I have no problem calling Muslims "Mohammedans." Particularly since they object to it.Those who are truly offended of course have the traditional option of leaving for Muslim lands. Where no Christians or non-Muslims of any kind exist to trouble their egos in any way.

There's more at the link. Check it out. (From now on, I'm thinking of using Mohammedan and Mohammedaneer. What say you?)

Hijacked Danes run out of food and water

Remember these guys? Danish sailors "doing well" after Somali hijacking. Well, the situation is not looking too good for them after their weeks of captivity.

"Hijacked Danes "run out of supplies" off Somalia.


A Danish cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates earlier this month has run out of food and fresh water at sea, a Kenyan maritime official said on Monday.

The MV Danica White and its five Danish crew members were carrying building materials from Dubai to Kenya when it was seized off Somalia in the world's most dangerous waterway.

"The news we are getting is that food has run out in that ship and there is no water," said Andrew Mwangura, director of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme. The vessel's generator had apparently broken down, Mwangura told Reuters, so its water purification equipment also failed.

Is Mahmoud feeling a little bit of heat?

Come on Mahdi, light my fire...

Speaking of Mohammed and going up in smoke... Back on June 16 Mahmoud rejected economic policy criticism leveled in an open letter from 57 Iranian economists.

Iran's president made clear in comments published on Saturday the government would not change its economic policies in response to criticism in an open letter from dozens of Iranian economists.

Today he softened his position and agreed to meet with his critics.

The Iranian president today extended a surprise olive branch to his domestic critics by agreeing to meet experts who warned his economic policies risked plunging the country into financial chaos.

In a marked departure from his usual abrasive approach, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wants "dialogue" with 57 economists who criticised him in an open letter, for policies that they claimed fuelled inflation, hurt the poor and laid the seeds of future crises.

Gee, I hope those police guys that wear hoods and masks aren't at the meeting. You know the ones that made guys with long hair suck on the "restroom jerrycans" Iranians use to wash their bums. (Just goes to show you another reason we will win this war. Can you say, wet wipes?)

Mahmoud's Ick-onomic Policy

Methinks, the littlest theocrat is in over his wee head. I smell panic.Iran's financial system suffered a fresh jolt yesterday with panic selling on the stock market after the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, abruptly ordered banks to cut interest rates sharply, despite surging inflation.

Mohammed burns. Come on baby light my fire.

Burn baby, burn. Hat's off to Dirty Kuffar for posting at Youtube.

(Happy belated Saint Hans' Eve. I swilled champagne and did the frug around FOB Kitchen Table as I watched Mohammed go up in flames. Light my fire is the soundtrack.)

Let the seething begin!

Update: Dymphna over at Gates of Vienna has the translation of the Danish text at the beginning of the vid.

Saint Hans’ Eve has always celebrated the tradition of burning away the evil, in earlier times symbolized by the witch, who was supposedly directly connected to Satan. And if the witch was not burned then the harvest could not be safely brought into the house.

Now a new evil has arrived in Europe, an evil that lies and kills in the name of their so-called God. An evil that springs from the so-called Prophet Mohammed.

Therefore, in our time, it is he who symbolizes evil and it is not just one harvest that will disappear, but all of Western Europe’s future that will vanish if this evil is not dispatched to Hekkenfeldt [i.e. Hell, literally the Hekla volcano in Iceland — BB]. (ed. note: a possible explanation for my volcano fixation?)

Therefore will we burn the so-called Prophet Mohammed, on June 23, 2007, in three nameless places.We burned Mohammed in three different places across the country. We now release the video from the first burning.

The next videos will be released on July 23 and August 23.

For a Mohammed-free Denmark!!!

Iran: To run out of cash to import gasoline in August

Time for plan C? (Plan B didn't work. Neither did Plan A. And whatever happened to the Iranian petro bourse?)

Iran, which imports more than 40 percent of the gasoline it uses, will run out of funds to import the commodity in early August, forcing the country to either increase its budget for imports or start rationing.

More than $1.5 billion of the $2.5 billion budgeted for gasoline imports this year has already been spent, Hojatollah Ghanimifard, National Iranian Oil Co.'s executive director for international affairs, said today to Shana, the Iranian oil- ministry's press agency. The rest will be spent over the next 1 1/2 months, he predicted. In 2006, Iran's parliament had to approve an emergency budget extension of $2.5 billion to bridge the gap. The Islamic republic has tried for more than a year to implement a gasoline-rationing program to curb consumption. Demand is buoyed by subsidies and supply is restricted by waste and scant refining capacity. Service stations in Iran offer the fuel at 1,000 Iranian rials a liter, or about 42 U.S. cents a gallon.

Earlier this month, Iran pushed back a rationing plan until late July to give the government more time to agree on a quota for drivers. An initial plan to limit consumption to as little as three liters a day per car was dropped last September because of fears of popular discontent.

And it looks like some of the remoter areas of Iran are already having gas pains... Rural Gas Distribution Criticized.

Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh will attend a Majlis session today to respond to a number of questions on poor gas distribution to rural districts. Lawmakers are critical about the ministry’s performance in supplying gas to remote and deprived villages, Mehr reported on Monday.

Hmm. What will August bring? Will it suddenly get awfully hot in the Straits of Hormuz?

Update: Japanese banks curb loans to Iraq - and they're refusing to pay for their oil imports in currencies other than US dollars. Arigato gozaimasu, Japan.

Japan’s banks are stepping up financial pressure on Iran - restricting loans and rejecting an Iranian request to pay for oil imports in currencies other than dollars, Britain’s Financial Times quoted banking and official sources as saying.Three Japanese banks - Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, and Sumitomo Mitsui – had informed the Iranian authorities in April that they would not conduct new business in Iran, the FT quoted a senior banker as saying.

Oh, those cheeky Danes!

La Mahoma aka Mohammed

Batten down the hatches! Look for the Muslim street to erupt! According to just about everybody (LGF, JAWA, Gates of Vienna et al.) a group of Danes burned Mohammed in effigy at their midsummer's festival - traditionally a witch would be used. Gates of Vienna is now confirming that a vid has been made. Stay tuned! Until then I thought you might like to peruse some images of Mohammed at the Mohammed Image Archive.. Learn about another festival in Spain that burns mohammed in effigy - or used to before they became so totally dhimmi:

Certain towns in southern Spain hold an annual festival called "Moros y Cristianos" ("Moors and Christians"), which celebrates the Reconquista -- the recapture of the Iberian Peninsula by Christian Spaniards from the Muslim colonizers who had invaded centuries earlier. In some locales, at the climax of the festival, townspeople burn Mohammed in effigy. The Mohammed figure, called La Mahoma, is usually bigger than life-size and in full costume. The picture here shows La Mahoma from the 1920 Moros y Cristianos festival in the town of Biar, near Alicante. But according to this site, some of the villages are planning to tone down their celebrations this year by not having La Mahoma at all. And artists in the city of Valencia are now afraid to make sculptures that mock Mohammed in their annual satirical Fallas festival.

Gotta love those Danes. Sammenhold baby.

Yon: Drilling for Justice

Drilling for Justice: Michael Yon's latest from Baquba and Operation Arrowhead Ripper, an operation that might have gotten ripped because of remarks made by senior military officials. Unfortunately, it sounds like they were ours. The 24 hr media and satellite dishes and all. There's a question of how many of the AQI leadership escaped because of it...there are also incredible stories like these:

Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) had tarnished its name here by publicly attacking and murdering children, videotaping beheadings, all while imposing harsh punishments on Iraqi civilians found guilty of violating morality laws prohibiting activities like smoking. The AQI installed Sharia court had sanctioned the amputation of the two
“smoking fingers” for those who violated anti-smoking laws. In part because local sentiment was shifting against it, AQI synthesized with other groups and undertook an image makeover, christening itself “The Islamic State of Iraq.” But the new name was just lipstick on a pig here.

On the evening of the 24th I spoke with a local Iraqi official, Colonel Faik, who said the Muftis would order the severance of the two fingers used to hold a cigarette for any Iraqis caught smoking. Other reports, from here in Diyala and also in Anbar, allege that smokers are murdered by AQI. Most Iraqis smoke and this particular
prohibition appeared to have earned the ire of many locals. After an American unit cleared an apartment complex on the 23rd, LTC Smiley, the battalion commander, reported that residents didn’t ask for food and water, but cigarettes. In other parts of Baqubah, people have been celebrating the routing of AQI by lighting up and
smoking cigarettes.

Other AQI edicts included beatings for men who refused to grow beards, and corporal punishments for obscene sexual suggestiveness, defined by such “loose” behavior as carrying tomatoes and cucumbers in the same bag. These fatwas were not eagerly embraced by most Iraqis, and the taint traveled back to the Muftis who sat in supreme judgment. Locals, who are increasingly helpful in pointing out and celebrating the downfall of AQI here, said that during the initial Arrowhead Ripper attack the morning of the 19th, AQI murdered five men. Townsend’s men found the buried corpses behind an AQI prison, exactly where they’d been told to look for the group grave. Locals also directed Townsend’s men to a torture house. Peering through a window, American soldiers saw knives, swords, bindings and drills. AQI is well-known for its macabre eagerness to drill into kneecaps, elbows, ribs, skulls, and other parts of victims.

There's so much more at the link. God bless the troops.

A Mighty Heart Farce...

Youssef Ibrahim on A Mighty Heart.

If I were a Muslim who had just watched "A Mighty Heart" in a theater in Dearborn, Mich., Karachi, or Cairo, the only impressions that I would probably be left with is that the man got what he deserved and that Karachi is really one hell of a messy place. Beyond that, I would not have a clue that my Muslim compatriots had anything to do with it.

UK: Sham marriages for immigration purposes.

Staggering. Quarter of marriages revealed as sham as rules are tightened.

The full scale of England's bogus marriage scandal has been revealed, a special investigation shows. One in every four couples tying the knot at register offices in the capital may have been a sham to get around immigration rules.

In the London borough of Newham, the number of register office marriages plummeted by 72 per cent when laws to stop bogus unions were introduced two years ago.

Across the capital, register office unions fell by more than a third, according to an investigation by the Evening Standard.

The number of marriages, including those at churches, plunged by at least 10,000.

Shadow immigration minister Damian Green said: "These figures are astonishing and reveal for the first time how Britain's immigration rules have been breached on an industrial scale.
"It is deeply worrying that the number of marriages which may be bogus now appears to be on the rise again in some boroughs."

More at the link.

And more about Newham:

Newham had the highest proportion of non-white population in the country at the 2001 Census. Also, the borough contains the second highest percentage of muslims in Britain (24.3%). According to a study carried out in 2006 for a Channel 4 television programme, it is the "4th worst" place to live in the UK; the study took into account crime rates, school results, pollution, economic activity and property prices. In the same study, neighbouring Tower Hamlets and Hackney came in at 2nd and 1st place respectively.

It is home to the 2012 Olympics and proposed home of the Mega-mosque.

Iran: First we had the religious police, then the fashion police, now the text message police

Iran to reward denouncing of 'immoral' text messages.

Iran is encouraging people who receive “immoral” messages on their mobile phones to report them to the judiciary and receive a reward, a press report said on Sunday. “There are rewards for those who report senders of immoral MMSs to the judiciary,” the head of Iran’s telecommunications company, Vafa Ghaffarian was quoted as saying by the Etemad daily.

Iran has said it would seek to block and censor immoral multimedia messages which have recently become available in Iran, where text-messaging is already massively popular.

Iran applies tough censorship on cultural products and internet access, banning thousands of websites and blogs containing sexual and politically critical material as well as women’s rights and social networking sites. Mobile phone owners can put in an official complaint against the senders of offensive messages who will be fined and lose their subscription.

During a recent crackdown on vice and unIslamic dressers, there were reports of police checking mobile phones in some parts of the capital in search of illicit content.

Iranian officials have acknowledged there is a problem with the clandestine videoing of women in swimming pools, changing rooms and other private situations in a country where there is strict segregation of sexes.

ugh. The Religion of Pervs?

Saudi Arabia: No more Hanky Panky in the Bank

Saudi Arabia to separate men and women in Bank HQs

Saudi authorities have ordered banks to separate female and male workers at their headquarters in a new setback for women's rights in the conservative kingdom. Banks are one of the main employers of women in Saudi Arabia. Though women are already separated from male employees in branches, they have up to now worked together in bank headquarters. Under the new system, women employees in bank headquarters could now be obliged to work on separate floors and use different lifts, entrances and canteens from men.

Meanwhile a law has been passed in Kuwait that restricts women from working between the hours of 10 pm and 7 am and bars them from 'arduous and dangerous' jobs. Oh, and jobs where they provide services to men only.

Ridiculous.

Another country heard from: Germany protests huge mosque.

Something stinks in Cologne: Huge Mosque stirs protest.

The construction of one of Europe's biggest mosques near to a globally famous Christian landmark has sparked a furious row in Germany.

Immigration and integration are hugely sensitive questions in Germany, which is home to a Turkish community of several million. But almost within the shadow of Cologne Cathedral, political correctness has now been replaced by bitter confrontation as the city's Muslims begin to build a 2,000-capacity mosque with twin minarets that will reach 170ft.

"Muslims have been here for 40 years, yet people are praying in back rooms," said Seyda Can, an Islamic theologian at the Turkish Islamic Union in Cologne. "There are 120,000 Muslims in Cologne, that's 12 per cent of the population. We should not hide."

Work will begin in the autumn on the £15 million mosque, which will include huge glass and stone cupolas and two six-storey minarets.

And in a case of the lion laying down with the lamb:

"It's not a popular plan," said Joerg Uckermann, the district's deputy mayor. "We don't want to build a Turkish ghetto in Ehrenfeld. I know about Londonistan and I don't want that here."

Mr Uckermann is part of a curious coalition of protest that has united Jewish intellectuals and neo-Nazis. Leading the charge is Ralph Giordano, a prominent Jewish author, who wrote recently that Germany was witnessing a "clash of two completely different cultures" and questioned whether they could ever be reconciled.

Stating that he had received death threats for his opinions, he added: "What kind of a state are we in that I can face a fatwa in Germany?"

Indeed.

A mighty shame...

The scales fall from the eyes of another liberal...Daniel Pearl's friend tells her side of the story in A mighty shame.

Lost in the PR machine and the heroism hoopla is Danny, whose death is at the center of the story. After all, as one person involved in the production candidly told me: Danny can't do interviews. So in the Associated Press review, he amounts to nothing more than a parenthetical phrase.

Read it all. A Mighty Heart. It was so not Danny.

Around the Horn in Africa

11 Bombs timed to go off exactly at curfew rock Mogadishu. Five districts hit, no reported casualties or injuries. There's inter-clan warfare in Kismayo. Al Qaeda has formed a new group in Somalia named Shabbab. They're long on fanaticism, short on skills according to this report.

A Somali MP escapes assasination attempt. First assassination attempt on a Somali parliamentarian since the Ethiopian-backed Somali government routed out the Union of Islamic Courts.

Secret SAS mission to Somalia uncovers Brit terror cell members. Fortunately they were already dead. Turns out to be kind of a CSI:Mogadishu mission to take DNA samples on 5o terrorists killed in raids on Al Qaeda training camps. The US was also involved. More detail at the link.

The border between Kenya and Somalia closed again for security purposes. The escape of the Islamists into Kenya has long been a concern. So has their (in)effective border security - something the US can relate to.

You know I had to go for a looksee after seeing this. Sudan: Strange Bedfellows in Khartoum. I'll say it's strange.

Washington continues to face a contradiction in dealing with Sudan. The US administration is genuinely concerned about the Darfur tragedy, but it also needs Khartoum's support in the long war against al-Qaeda. Hence the high-level CIA presence at a somewhat surreal intelligence summit earlier this month in the Sudanese capital...

Top western spooks mingled fraternally with their opposite numbers in Sudan's National Security and Intelligence Service (NISS). Its chief, Salah Al-Din Abdulla Mohamed, was in good spirits, back-slapping his western counterparts and even dancing on stage, while a band entertained the visitors at the imposing new intelligence headquarters in Khartoum.

Speaking of music, a Musical Exchange took place between the troops and some native Djiboutians at Camp Lemonier and it sounds like a good time was had by all. Trying to imagine them all standing around singing John Lennon's "Imagine" but that's what they did!

Hamid passes pipe to Canadian Public Safety Minister.

He takes a big hit and then calls the report of a wave of AQ suicide bombers heading to Canada and the US a "PR move". All in the interest of public safety, I guess. Can't get the sheeple spooked. Day downplays warning 300 suicide bombers to target West, including Canada.

US Homeland Security takes a quick toke and then chimes in with a pr move of their own: Homeland Security Official: No imminent threat - that we know of.

The reporters in the room must have gotten a contact high over at alJazeera magazine. It sounds like they forgot to write the rest of the story in their report. And it's like they had too much fun then crashed and burned in the Western media. They pretty much ignored the whole thing!

Who know's what John Edwards was thinking smoking when he came out with that American "bumper sticker' theory deal about the War on Terror. Good luck with that one, John. I don't think its working out so well for you. Just sayin'. That and consorting with Danny Glover on the campaign trail. The same Danny Glover who is making movies with Hugo Chavez (he got paid $18 mil for the first one) and is on the board of Hugo's tv station. The same station who has hooked up with al Jazeera to beam out anti-democracy messages across Latin America.

Note to John Edwards: Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas...

CAIR not right said Fred.

Town Commons has a good post up about Fred Thompson and CAIR. Which got me to wondering if CAIR has had anything to say about Fred. So I went over to the CAIR site and before I could enter Fred in the search box this caught my eye:

CAIR - MN: Charge of harassment in Blaine resolved.

The harassment? A middle school Muslim student was called "a terrorist". Two others allege that food was thrown at them. OOOH. Those poor widdle muswims! Not to worry though, The Sharia Republic of Minnesotastan is happy to make sure our Islamic overlords get the proper respect and treatment from all dhimmis.

The outcome:

In an agreement announced Thursday, the school will incorporate information about world religions into its geography curriculum, assign a diversity coordinator and create a "school climate task force" of students and faculty.

"They have really made a wonderful effort," said CAIR Vice Chair Thasneem Ahmed. "We are very pleased with the steps they have taken."

Don Helmstetter, superintendent of the Spring Lake Park School District, said he still regrets that the matter reached the complaint stage but is happy with its resolution.

"I feel bad when any parent has an issue that they need to take to an outside party," he said. "But the good news is that the people at CAIR know who we are now, and they know that if they have another issue, they can call us up and feel that we will deal with it quickly and appropriately."

That's a good dhimmi, Don.

Oh, and my search for Fred over at CAIR yielded zip.

But I did find the original Right said Fred vid of I'm too sexy. This is for all you out there waiting for Fred to take his turn on the catwalk, the campaign catwalk...

Hamid, don't bogart that crack pipe.

Hamid Karzai: Taleban not long term threat.

In an interview with the BBC, a defiant Mr Karzai dismissed threats from the militant group that it plans to step up attacks on the capital, Kabul. Mr Karzai also said international forces in the country should do more to avoid civilian casualties.

Aid agencies say foreign and Afghan forces have killed at least 230 civilians this year.

Earlier, a Taleban spokesman, Zabiyullah Mujahed, told the BBC the militant group was changing its tactics to mount more attacks on Kabul. But Mr Karzai said previous Taleban and al-Qaeda rulers had been thrown out and could not seriously challenge the Afghan government.

"All that they can do is to blow bombs and not really have the guts to confront us," he said. "So it is not a threat to the survival of Afghanistan, its government, its future objective."

Until one of their bombs hit you, Hamid.

(The article detailing the Taliban's plan to shift their focus to Kabul can be found here.)

In other Taliban news:

Women under siege in Afghanistan. I bet Afghan female MP Shukria Barakzai thinks the Taliban is a long term threat. For 3 months she has received a letter saying she may be targeted by a suicide bomber in the next six months.

I'd imagine the little boys of Tank who have been kidnapped by Taliban forces to become recruits are considering the Taliban to be a long term threat.

No doubt the civilians who had their throats slit by the Taliban for failing to fight the infidel consider the Taliban to be a long term threat.

Good morning, Islamabad! No doubt the proponents of the Fairness Doctrine will rejoice at this news: Taliban Radio Station back on the Air.

Paki appeasers cave into Red Mosque demands

Pakistan appeases Red Mosqueteers. Will close down all mixed sex massage parlors. No lady on man acupuncture either.

A top cleric at the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) said they were freed after the authorities gave assurances they would shut down mixed-sex massage parlours.

"After the administration assured us they would close down the massage parlours in Islamabad, and in view of the Pakistan-China friendship, we are releasing all nine men and women," said Abdul Rashid Ghazi, deputy head of the Red Mosque.

He said the massage of men by women was "not allowed according to the values of Islam".
The Interior Ministry said the abduction was a "shocking and unlawful act".

The mosque has been openly defying the government for months, resulting in a tense stand-off.
Officials have tried to appease the mosque and its students with talks and concessions, saying they do not want to use force against the women and in a holy place.

But critics have attacked the government for failing to enforce its authority in the capital.

Palestine: Iran's fingerprints are all over it.

Palestinian Intelligence fingers Iran in Gaza Seizure. Why are we not surprised? Why are we even less surprised when Iran issues denials and blames it all on the Zionists and America?

Iran played a "big role" in Hamas's seizure of Gaza from Palestinian security forces earlier this month, Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfiq al-Tirawi charged on Sunday.

The Islamists swiftly dismissed the accusation as "lies".

"According to our information, Iran has played a big role in what happened in Gaza. Dozens of members of Hamas have been trained in Iran, and Hamas smuggled in weapons through tunnels not to fight Israel but against the Palestinian Authority," Tirawi told a news conference.

"The whole plan has been carried out in coordination with Iran, and Iran has been informed of every step," he added.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas previously accused "foreign elements from the region" of orchestrating Hamas's bloody takeover, but it was the first time that a senior official explicitly blamed Iran.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri retorted that "Tirawi's accusations are lies", while acknowledging that Hamas enjoys good relations with the Islamic republic as well as other Muslim states. "It is known that Hamas has balanced relations with all Arab and Islamic countries," he told AFP. "Hamas is proud that it enjoys this strategic depth in the Arab and Islamic world at a time when Tirawi's friends are vaunting their relations with the (Israeli) occupation and the United States."

Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit last week levelled similar accusations against Iran, charging that it had encouraged the Palestinian Islamist movement to seize the neighbouring Gaza Strip.

Iran hit back against the minister's comments on Sunday, insisting that it, unlike Egypt's Western allies and Israel, had been careful not to fan the factional conflict. "It is surprising that some Arab countries ignore the Western countries, the United States and the Zionist regime... and point an accusing finger at us who have had the most responsible approach," foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said.

Iran is one of the most vocal backers of the Islamic Resistance Movement and pledged millions of dollars in 2006 to help the Hamas government through a funding drought caused by Western aid cuts. But Hosseini said Iran supports Hamas "politically and spiritually" and that the "humanitarian aid would be provided through channels that benefit all Palestinian people."

Tehran has always insisted its support for Palestinian militant groups is moral in nature and does not extend to arming or training fighters.

Moral in nature? Don't make me laugh.

Iran launches its answer to CNN and BBC World.

Number one goal: To break the media stranglehold of the West.

Iran's state broadcaster is to launch "Press TV" on July 2 at a time of mounting international tension over its nuclear program, complete with international journalists brought in from foreign countries including Britain.

The Tehran-based channel is promising the usual diet of on-the-half-hour news bulletins, talk shows and documentaries familiar to viewers of established names like CNN and BBC World but with a distinctly Iranian spin.

"To break the global media stranglehold of Western outlets," is the number one goal listed on the new channel's website.

In other words, the world according to Shia.

"Since September 11 [2001], Western bias has divided the media into two camps: those that favor their policies make up one group and the rest of the media are attached to radical Islamic groups like al-Qaeda," he said. "We want to show that there is a different view. Iran and the Shiites in particular have become a focal point of world propaganda. From the media point of view, we are trying to give a second eye to Western audiences," Sarafraz told a news conference to mark the channel's launch.

Scotland: Hijab team gets red card

Hijab ban for Muslim team.

SCOTLAND'S first female Muslim football team has been prevented from playing competitive matches after soccer chiefs imposed a worldwide ban on wearing religious headdress during games.

Ansar Women's FC (Ansar as in Ansar al-Islam, I wonder?) from the east end of Glasgow, were looking forward to their first league games this summer, until it became clear they could not play while wearing their hijab headscarves.

Ruling sparks backlash.

Malik added: "This is going to throw up all sorts of difficulties for Asian players throughout Scotland and across the world. It will have massive consequences."

Atta Yaqub, who starred in the acclaimed Ken Loach film Ae Fond Kiss, was outraged by the ruling. The actor was a founder member of Glasgow Asian soccer team Ansar FC and is an active supporter of Muslim women's football.

"It is appalling that people can be effectively banned from playing competitive football for observing their religion.

Hey Atta, you ought to hear what they do in Muslim countries to people observing their Christian religion. Now that's what I call appalling.

UK: Muslim peer says Sir Salman is like Osama

I say: First of all it's an interview with Le Figaro. How red can you get? Then to say the things he did?

UK - get rid of these people. D-E-P-O-R-T them or bring them up on charges.

A Muslim peer compared Salman Rushdie to the September 11 hijackers yesterday as protests over the author's knighthood escalated. At Regents Park Mosque in London, demonstrators held up placards saying "May God curse the Queen" and one speaker said that should Tony Blair become an envoy in the Middle East he should be sent back "in a bag".

The Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, who was interviewed in Le Figaro newspaper in France, added fuel to the row. "This honour is given in recognition of services rendered to Great Britain," he said. "Salman Rushdie lives in New York. He is a controversial man who has insulted Muslim people, Christians and the British. He does not deserve the honour.

"Two weeks ago Tony Blair spoke about constructing bridges with Muslims. What hypocrisy. What would one say if the Saudi or Afghan governments honoured the martyrs of the September 11 attacks on the United States?"

Much more at the link.

Pakistan: Radicals Kidnap Chinese Workers.

More Red Mosque Shenanigans. Students, including 10 burka clad, baton wielding Muslimas storm acupuncture clinic. Or brothel according to the Red Mosqueteers.

Students from a radical mosque raided an acupuncture clinic allegedly being used as a brothel in the Pakistani capital and kidnapped five people, including three Chinese women, a security official said. The abductors, including 10 burqa-clad women students, were armed with batons when they broke into the clinic in Islamabad's affluent F-8 neighbourhood at around 1am, the official said.

The incident is another embarrassment for Pakistan's embattled military leader President Pervez Musharraf, and comes amid angry protests by hardliners against Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.

A member of the pro-Taliban Red Mosque said that the raid by some 30 people was part of an anti-vice campaign.

"This place was used as a brothel house and despite our warnings the administration failed to take any action, so we decided to take action on our own,'' the Red Mosque representative, who spoke by telephone, said.

The senior security official said the students arrived at the clinic in three cars before entering the premises. They fled, taking their captives to their mosque in central Islamabad.

"The local administration is negotiating with the mosque to secure the release of the abducted people,'' the security said.

Police officer Mohammad Naeem confirmed the incident.

"We have registered a case against the mosque administration for the kidnapping,'' he said.

The Red Mosque has a history of kidnappings and raids. Read it all.

The Red Mosque: Their business is jihad.

Sir Salman: It's all a wicked conspiracy

UK Muslims urged to act with dignity to thwart Rushdie Conspiracy.

Paranoia will destroya.

British Muslims are being urged not to be provoked into any violent action in the face of the deliberate provocative political decision to confer a knighthood on apostate author Salman Rushdie.

"This ill advised decision approved by the Prime Minister should not divert you from your course of peaceful protest in the face of this deliberate provocation," said Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Secretary General Abdul Bari.

"Indeed, it should be used as an opportunity to correct the maligning of the character of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in the book which earned its author his notoriety," Bari said in a letter to some 500 mosques and local organisations affiliated to the MCB.

The MCB urged Muslims to act with "dignity and wisdom and channel their hurt towards positive and peaceful actions" and resist efforts by fringe groups to inflame and exploit the situation.

The mainstream umbrella organisation also asked Britain two million British Muslim community to convey their feelings through letter to parliamentary representations and through the local and national media "at all times observing propriety and restraint." "Muslims can only see this action as an attempt to create deep offense to Muslims and divert their attention from contributing to community cohesion in this challenging time," said Bari.

Meanwhile, the weak sisters are starting to shake out. Listen to this Muslim apologist and his line of ds (dhim sh*$)...

On Wednesday, Conservative MP Stewart Jackson joined the outcry, saying the knighthood was 'gratuitously offensive' and should be reviewed. "If the senior officers of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were not able to use their knowledge of the Islamic world to consider the likely ramifications of this decision, then I'm extremely concerned," Jackson said.

His remarks are amplified here. Clueless.

And he's scary. Especially when you discover that he is the chairman of the all-party group on Pakistan.

"I have tried to read one or two of his books myself, and I would have got more stimulation from the Yellow Pages," chairman of the all-party group on Pakistan, Tory MP, Stewart Jackson said.

He's concerned about "the Eastern Europeans" in his migrant hot spot. His district is a "migrant hot spot" and he's looking for more money to throw at them.

Friday night Prayers Porn

Thank God her face is covered.

Porn for the Taliban.

In a dark tea room amid the dusty Kandahar, 23-year-old Latif stares with mouth agape.

A young boy smiles and giggles nervously as he stares at a pair of nude breasts; he has never seen anything like this as far as he can remember. Satellite receivers arrived to the conservative town Kandahar in northern Afghanistan with the allied troops and, along with them, documentary films from Lithuania, Polish educational program and Catalan soap operas. All this is utterly new to the residents, as is pornography.

It is therefore no surprise that the first encounters with satellite channels that offer 100% hardcore porn are the equivalent to the close encounters of the third kind. Men from Kandahar, cut off from the outside world for decades, accustomed to conflicts and uncompromising Taliban laws, have never seen anything like this, even though it is in fact exceptionally soft porn by western standards, usually aired between hotline ads.

A strange discomfort can be felt everywhere: This is not good for our society, says a 26-year-old man; people should not watch things like that, it is not right.

There is, however, no shortage of curious glances. A group of Taliban wearing overgrown beards are sitting in a bar with their eyes riveted to the screen. A western woman enters the room and one of them frantically changes the channel.

Hah! This is just begging for an Iowahawk style parody. Anybody want to give it a go? Scott?

More Iranian gas pains

Stockpiling, fights and fires break out in advance of the decision.

Iran will decide next week on when to start rationing subsidised gasoline, Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said on Thursday, two days after a lawmaker said the controversial scheme would be delayed until late July.

The minister's comments came after reports over the past week of Iranians stocking up on gasoline and fights breaking out among some queuing motorists amid uncertainty over when the plan would take effect.

Rationing for government employees took effect last month.

Khatami in the dock...for shaking hands with a woman.

The horror!

An Iranian religious tribunal will try former president Mohammad Khatami, a moderate Muslim cleric, and possibly ban him from preaching over a handhsake with two women during a recent trip to Italy. The court, which is charged to rule on crimes committed by clerics, will examine the lawsuit presented by a group of talabeh, theology students, from Mashhad, Iran's holiest city. Another lawsuit has also been filed by paramilitary militia Hezbollah, present in all major Iranian cities.

Political prostitute? That's harsh.

In a statement distributed to the press Wednesday, the clerics ask for Khatami's conviction for shaking "impure hands, contradicting the sacred principles of Islam"and compare the former president, who ruled from 1997 until 2005, to a "political prostitute."

Khatami claimed the footage seen on Youtube (at about the 4:20 mark) was edited to make it look like he was shaking hands with a woman.

Or he unknowingly shook her hand in a crowd.

Tell it to the judge, Mohammed.

Iran: Festival honoring hijab and chastity...

A pearl nesting in its shell...

(or cover it and clam up, be-yotch.)

Iran's first festival to celebrate the Muslim headscarf and chastity, entitled 'A pearl nestling in its shell' is due to take place in Birjand in the western Khorasan region. There will be close to 200 talks and over 60 poetry readings, as well as 43 photo exhibitions and viewings of the work of 13 painters, as well as 5 multimedia installations. The event will close with a fashion show of more than five hundred garments which in the eyes of the organisers will show that chastity and elegance are not incompatible.

Britains 1st Muslim MP to quit - getting death threats from ... fellow Muslims

Britain's first Muslim MP is being hounded out of office by death threats.

Labour MP Mohammad Sarwar says he is stepping down after his family received the death threats linked to a gang he helped convict for a racist murder. The 54-year-old has told party activists he will not be contesting his Glasgow Central seat at the next election.

He says the gang is linked to racist murderers Imran Shahid, Zeeshan Shahid and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq.

The three were jailed for life last year for their part in the killing of Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in Glasgow in 2004.

No he's not! According to IRNA he's retiring but he's not recieving death threats. Who ya gonna believe?

Straight from the Boar's Mouth

Courtesy of Emperor Misha of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler. There's a story.

LC 0311 Crunchie went hog-hunting with a few friends in order to have proper food for a party for his son (aka Crumb Crunchie) who is off to join the Corps, and a great time was had by all. Well, except for the hog, of course, who didn’t much appreciate the stabbing, but that was her problem.

And, being the faithful souls that they are, they naturally brought a koran with them for spiritual guidance. But what to do once the hunt is over?

If you’ve got a koran and a dead hog, what could you possibly come up with?

More photos at the link.

God Speed Crumb Crunchie.

Sir Salman's Day of Rage in pix

Islamic Rage Boy




Do yourself a favor and hop over to Snapped Shot and peruse the
"Sir Salman Rushdie Day of Rage" edition.

Islamic Rage Boy is back!

Operation Arrowhead Ripper

Michael Yon checks in with his latest dispatch Surrender or Die where he's hooked up with a 3-2 Stryker Brigage in Baqubah.

This Brigade has much recent combat experience, and is expertly commanded. A
person does not need to even meet the commanders (though I do each day) to know they are running a tight ship. The professionalism of 3-2 is particularly high, and they are very competent fighters who are maximizing their assets, including the incredible Stryker vehicles.

He adds this. Save our Strykers!

While the name “Stryker” is on the table, apparently controversy is brewing back
home whether Strykers should be in our arsenal. The answer is YES: we need all
we can get. The Stryker might be the finest all-around combat vehicle in Iraq.

More on the fighting can be found here: Al Qaeda fight to death in Iraq bastion.

A mighty smackdown for CAIR

Jewish activist attacks Muslims at Mighty Heart screening. With a headline like that you had to know this was from the al-Guardian. Especially when you read about the nature of the "attack":

At a post-film panel discussion featuring representatives from Muslim, Jewish and Christian groups, a Jewish activist denounced the event saying, "The only reason [Muslims] like this film is because it's about a dead Jew."

The activist said the participation of members of The Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) was like "David Duke co-sponsoring Schindler's List", referring to the former Klu Klux Klan Grand Master and Louisiana politician.

More details and the identity of the smackdown artist here:

Allyson Rowen-Taylor, who has been involved in orgs such as the American Jewish Congress and Stand With Us. The activist found out about the event from a friend who's a member of the Academy and immediately expressed her outrage to Judea Pearl, father of the late journo Daniel Pearl.

"This is Hollywood's idea of a 'dialogue,' " he wrote in an email obtained by Daily Variety. Pearl was traveling Thursday evening and could not be reached for comment. In the email, he said he was not consulted by Par Vantage about CAIR's involvement, a fact the studio confirms. "That hasn't really been the nature of the campaign," a rep said, pointing out that Daniel Pearl's parents and widow hadn't been intimately involved in marketing decisions.

"Vantage went into the screening tonight with the best intentions," the rep said shortly before the pic was to begin unspooling on the lot. "Like the film, this was designed to celebrate dialogue of people of diverse backgrounds and faith."

You mean like those diverse backgrounds of faith that prompted security concerns and required you to move the production to India? You mean like the faith that celebrated Daniel Pearl's beheading?

Winterbottom tried to shoot those scenes in Karachi, but security concerns and official permissions proved problematic, so he moved camp to India, where he and the cast and crew shot the bulk of their scenes on location in a Pune neighborhood known as Sindh Society.

You can read the unindicted co-conspirators invitation to the screening here . The kicker? The title of the post screening discussion. BUILDING UNITY AND UNDERSTANDING IN TODAY'S WORLD.

Right. Until the infidels are gone and then its:

Building bombs and torture chambers for today's infidels....

Kuwaiti diplomat attacked by mob in Iran

Who done it?

KUWAIT: Bruised and battered, a Kuwaiti diplomat attacked by a mob in front of the Kuwait Embassy in Tehran returned home to Kuwait yesterday. Mohammad Al-Zobi, third secretary to the Kuwait Embassy in Tehran, flew home on a government jet sent by the HH Amir after the Tuesday assault. Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammad Al-Salem Al-Sabah slammed the assault and labeled it a political act.

"The assault on Mohammad Al-Zobi is not an attack on a person, but an attack on Kuwait."

Specifics about the incident remain unclear. On Tuesday, as he was returning the embassy, Al-Zobi was set upon by a pack of angry Iranians. An unconfirmed report claimed that the attackers were members of the Basiji, a hardline state-sponsored Iranian militia. However, neither the Kuwaiti nor the Iranian government has provided an official explanation of the attack.

Another unconfirmed report suggests that the attack was in response to an attack on an Iranian official in Kuwait a few weeks ago. No such attack was made public at the time and no details of any such incident were available.

Kuwait Times could not confirm either report yesterday. The Kuwait's Foreign Ministry summoned Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Ali Jannati to complain yesterday morning and demanded an investigation and a written apology. "There should be an investigation and punishment to whomever is behind the incident," he said."Let me be blunt, we believe whoever is behind the incident who wants to damage Kuwaiti-Iranian relations also damages Arab-Iranian relations in general," said the foreign minister, noting the recent rise in Sunni-Shia tensions throughout the Gulf.

When asked if Kuwait would recall its officials from Iran or close the embassy, Sheikh Dr Mohammad replied, "No, but we are taking security procedures."

Kuwait and Iran, who were at odds during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War during which time there was at least one confirmed attack on the Kuwait Embassy in Tehran, have recently enjoyed good relations with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and Interior Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah recently stating Kuwait would not allow the US to use Kuwaiti territory to launch an attack on Iran.

Iranian Speaker of Parliament Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel recently visited Kuwait during which time the states discussed regional issues. Regional tensions have flared since Iran's disregard for UN calls for a halt to its continued uranium enrichment programs.

Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammed, who met Al-Zobi at the airport, said, "We thank with gratitude our Arab brothers that did good work during this problem and especially my brothers the Foreign Ministers of Bahrain and Syria who have made direct communications with the Iranian Foreign Ministry to resolve the problem."

Spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Muhamed Ali Hosseini said, "We regret this incident," and furthered, "We are investigating the details. We are looking forward so that this will be an isolated incident and will be dealt with seriously by our friends in the Islamic Republic of Iran."

...Insert more diplospeak here...

Looks like the Kuwait street is getting restless.

But tensions remained high, with Kuwaitis demonstrating a palpable sense of fury across the country yesterday. "Kuwait is very angry about what happened," said Sheikh Mohammad. "It represents an assault on a diplomat from a country that has nothing but goodwill towards Iran and is always keen on improving relations between Iran and Arab states, and the GCC countries especially."

House urges UN to charge Ahmadinejad

Did someone put viagra in the water in the House Cloak rooms or what?

The US House of Representatives urged the UN Security Council Wednesday to charge Iran's president under genocide conventions. The non-binding resolution, initiated by Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), passed by 411-2. It cites an October 27 speech in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad allegedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and calls for the Security Council to charge him under its 1948 convention for the prevention of genocide.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) attempted to read into the record alternate translations of Ahmadinejad s remarks that suggest the Iranian leader was calling Israel to come to an end through democratic means, and not through violence.

"I am unequivocal in my support for the security and survival of Israel, and I do have serious concerns with the remarks made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran," said Kucinich, a long-shot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. "But I object to resolutions that lay the groundwork for an offensive, unprovoked war."

One of the alternate translations was by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
Kucinich and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a long-shot contender for the Republican presidential nomination, were the only votes against. The sponsors of the resolution cited the UN charter to support their argument that Ahmadinejad should be charged.

The charter - which Iran has accepted - requires all UN member states to 'refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.'

"When the leader of an armed nation such as Iran calls for the destruction of a fellow member state of the United Nations, the UN must prosecute and punish him," Rothman said. "It is my hope that this resolution will effectively increase pressure on the United Nations to hold Iranian President Ahmadinejad accountable for his genocidal words and prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons."

La Pelosi to get her wings clipped?

Dear Colleagues

Dear Colleague:

House Republican wants to restrict Pelosi's travel.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will not be permitted to use State Department funds to travel to nations that are known to have sponsored terrorism if a Republican amendment to appropriations legislation passes the House on Thursday.

The amendment to the $34 billion State and Foreign Operations bill, offered by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), prohibits funds to be used to travel to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria.
In a “Dear Colleague” letter released earlier today, King said Pelosi had overstepped her constitutional role as Speaker when she traveled to Syria in April.

“Taking her cue from the Iraq Study Group’s recommendation that the U.S. enter into talks with Syria to forge a new way forward in Iraq, Speaker Pelosi decided to ignore the requests of the President that she refrain from traveling to the terrorist state,” the letter said.

King told The Hill that he believed Pelosi was in violation of the Logan Act, a 1799 law signed by President John Adams that prohibits unauthorized U.S. citizens from interfering with relations between the United States and foreign governments.

“I was one of the members of Congress that was incensed the Speaker had taken it upon herself to conduct foreign policy,” he said. “It was a blatant violation of the Logan Act.”

No one has ever been prosecuted under the 208-year old law, according to the Congressional Research Service.

He said that it was not the visit that caused him to introduce the measure, but Pelosi’s decision, in his perception, to act as a diplomat that made him take action. “She carried a message from Israel to Syria and that message according to representatives of both Syria and Israel wasn’t consistent with what one of them agreed to … these are the kind of problems you get,” he said.

A spokesman for Pelosi brushed off the amendment as a partisan attack.

“How can anyone take this amendment seriously, especially when it comes on the same day that Bush Administration officials are in North Korea? And why would anyone think it is responsible to restrict the ability of the Speaker of the House to bring the concerns of the American people to foreign leaders? It is part of the Speaker’s job,” said spokesman Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for Pelosi. “This amendment is a cheap political stunt that just won’t fly.”

And hopefully neither will Nan...

Yeehaw! Bali Bomber Noordin Top captured

Well, reported captured anyway. Indonesia: Fugitive Bombing 'Mastermind' Arrested.

Indonesian police have arrested key Bali bombing suspect, Malaysian national Noordin Mohammed Top, the well respected Detikcom news agency reports. He is considered the mastermind behind a series of bombings in Indonesia, including the 2002 and 2005 Bali nightclub attacks which killed over 250 people. Police arrested Top on 14 June, in Brebes Central Java and intend to announce this on 1 July - national police day in Indonesia, Detikcom said, quoting an unnamed source.

The report of Top's arrest follows that of the arrest of Abu Dujana, the alleged military commander of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist network and Zarkasih, believed to be JI's supreme leader. Zarkasih (also known by the aliases Nuaim, Abu Irsyad and Mbah). Both men were seized on 9 June in an anti terrorist police raid in Banyumas, central Java, the chief of indonesia's anti-terrorist unit announced last Friday.

Indonesia's most wanted fugitive, Top was once one of the leaders of JI. According to experts, the Malaysian is believed to have created his own splinter group, after JI expressed a preference for preaching instead of armed struggle.

JI is responsible for a string of deadly terror attacks in Indonesia in recent years including the 2002 and 2005 Bali attacks and bombings of the Marriott Hotel and the Australian embassy in Jakarta.Noordin is now believed to be the head of the group known as Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad - which is said to be the original name of al-Qaeda.

UK stands by Sir Salman

Those two in the lower right hand corner look awful cozy!

Let the seething continue!

We stand by Rushdie knighthood.

The Home Secretary has refused to apologise for or back down over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood today despite mounting protests in the Muslim world.

John Reid said the knighthood for the Booker Prize-winning author was an example of traditional British tolerance. "I think we have a set of values that accrues people honours? even when they don’t agree with our point of view. That’s our way and that’s what we stand by," he said.

International protests continued today with both the Iraqi Foreign Minister - visting London - and protesters in Malaysia joining Pakistani and Iranian campaigners in criticising the UK Government.


Sit back and enjoy the sheer idiocy of these islaimiacs. Death to the Infidel. Tell me again, what pillar of Islam does that fall under again?

In Multan, central Pakistan, about 300 people chanted "Death to the British queen" and "Death to Rushdie." They burned a British flag and effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and Rushdie.

In Islamabad, a pro-Taliban cleric said Rushdie should be killed. "Whoever is in position to kill him, he should do so," said Abdul Rashid Ghazi, a cleric at the capital's Red Mosque.

Several hundred people, including members of the provincial parliament, protested in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

In Cairo, an Egyptian parliament committee urged the Egyptian foreign affairs ministry to ask British officials to reconsider "out of concern for the feelings of the people of Islamic countries and for the love of peace."

Egypt: Universities can't bar niqab

These gals look a little hot under the curtain to me.

From Newsweak but worth a longer look if the thought of the niqab makes you crazy. More at the linky.

It was a risky—and frightening—experiment. Taxis refused to stop for me, but male drivers kept pulling over to compliment my eyes (the only part of my body on show) and inviting me into their vehicles. Others just stared. Why the unwelcome attention? Because I was wearing a niqab, the full face veil, on the streets of Cairo. Egypt may be a Muslim country, but its government places numerous restrictions on those who make this religious commitment. That, however, may be about to change in the wake of a decision earlier this month by Egypt’s High Administrative Court.

Egypt’s battle against the niqab has a long history. Authorities originally banned students from wearing it to school in 1994, saying that it violated security standards. Dozens of pupils were suspended in the decade that followed. In nearly all cases however, the court overturned the decision and allowed the girls to return to class. More recently, Cairo University, with the highest enrollment in Egypt, has allowed students to attend wearing the niqab. However, the American University stayed firm, refusing to permit even the niqab-wearing mothers of graduates to attend the commencement ceremony, according to some students. (A more lenient attitude is taken toward the hijab, which covers the hair but leaves the face visible.) The university says the decision is not a religious one, but was made “because all members of the AUC community have a basic right to know with whom they are dealing, whether in class, labs or anywhere else on campus.”

Some women insist that it is nothing more than an “outfit.” One even suggested to me that if young women in the West can mimic the fashions of pop icons “like Britney Spears,” she too should be able to dress like her icon—the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. “We are not coming from a repressed household or a repressed society,” says Sarah El-Meshad, a graduate of the American University in Cairo who took on the face veil after graduation. “This is just a little something extra I am doing for my religion, but I am no different from any other girl.”

That's been brainwashed and repressed by a death cult. Keep putting it out there for Allah, honey.

Burkas, bullets and Bikinis

Bullets and bikinis in North Lebanon (h/t Beirut Spring)
Girls in bikinis sunbathe on the beach by Tripoli, Lebanon's second and Sunni-dominated city, while barely 15 kilometers (10 miles) further north, a battle rages between the army and Islamists linked to Al Qaeda.

"I've come here with my parents to stay in our seaside bungalow to swim, sunbathe, have fun with my friends, and forget the war," says Sarah, whose pink two-piece swimsuit hugs the curves of her adolescent body.

She spends her holiday time at one of the numerous seaside resorts around Tripoli, the main city of the north.

This 16-year-old schoolgirl, daughter of a senior official from a conservative Sunni family, says she wants to live a Western lifestyle, while being free to mix among her own circle.

"The Islamists tried to carry out a coup d'etat in Tripoli and impose Islamic Sharia [law]. We are practising Muslims, but like most Tripolitans we reject fanatacism," she adds.

Her friend Rania is a blonde, blue-eyed, Muslim girl, not an unusual sight in Tripoli where crusaders entered between the 11th and 13th centuries, leaving historic evidence of their presence like the citadel of Saint Giles whose ruins still perch on a hill today.

"We were afraid when some Islamists infiltrated Tripoli - supported by Fatah Al Islam hidden in the Nahr Al Bared refugee camp - and started to open fire on security forces," she confessed.

She said she wanted the army to achieve a "crushing victory" against the extremists "who want to indoctrinate by force the Sunnis in a holy war against Christians and Shiites," two other major elements of Lebanese society.

About Tripoli. Some snippets:

Tripoli, a port city with avenues lined with palm trees and acacias, has a modern ambiance with its multi-storey buildings overlooking the sea. It is famous for its oriental patisseries, fish restaurants that serve alcohol, and its cabinetmakers.

Home to some 400,000 people, of whom about 5 percent are Christians compared with 20 percent at the start of the civil war in 1975 (gives you an idea about the numbers of Christians fleeing the Muslim world), the city is also graced by medieval souks (markets) from the Mamelouk era of the 13th to 16th centuries.

"Tripoli, which has suffered from 29 years of Syrian presence, has expressed its allegiance to the moderate Sunni movement of the Hariris, despite the growth of Islamic fundamentalist networks in its entrails," said a Tripoli historian who asked not to be named. Now, says the historian, "extremist ideas are hatching" among the poor and in intellectual circles due to "anti-Sunni" US policies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. Tripoli's beaches may resemble other Mediterranean resorts, but further inside the city bearded men in traditional dress, accompanied by women in the all-enveloping niqab (Muslim women's headscarves) are common sights.

Another work accident for the Religion of Peace.

Lebanon: Another Palestinian "refugee swamp camp".:
Looks like Mohamed and his cousin won't be down for breakfast this morning...

An explosion ripped through a tire shop in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh as extremist militants of Jund al-Sham tried to prepare a bomb, killing two people and wounding three. Lebanese security officials said the late Monday afternoon blast went off as some of Jund al-Sham members were extracting TNT from a 107 mm shell, apparently to use it in making a bomb. Among those lightly wounded was a leader of Jund al-Sham, Shehadeh Jawhar, according to residents and Abu Sharif, the officials said.

About Jund al-Sham:
Jund al-Sham, which is Arabic for Soldiers of al-Sham -- an old Arabic word for the region of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan -- is a splinter group from another Palestinian militant group called Asbat al-Ansar based in Ain al-Hilweh.

Jund al-Sham's fighters battled Lebanese troops earlier this month, killing two soldiers, as the army fought Fatah al-Islam terrorists in the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. Another group using the name Jund al-Sham has carried out attacks in Syria, seeking to topple its secular regime, but it is not known whether it is connected to the Ain al-Hilweh group.

Iran: Where there's rationing there's fire.

New Gasoline Rationing behind widespread fires in Tehran.

A fire at a house in Tehran’s Modarres Freeway inflicted heavy burns on a woman and a child. Fires have increased in Tehran during the past week, as temperatures have gone up and people have begun to store gasoline in their homes, ahead of a new government plan to ration the fuel.

Since last Thursday, more than 200 counts of fires have been reported in Tehran. Though Tehran’s Fire Department has not yet released official figures, one firefighter told Rooz, “In the past five days, the number of our missions to battle fires has increased. Most of the fires are due to explosions connected with gasoline storage.”

Meanwhile, there's still mass confusion over the rationing plan itself. Confusion over sweeping new plan to ration gasoline.

Just because its my blog and I can

Fishing Geeks snag a freak.

Identical twins in Canada who target behemoth trout and call themselves The Fishing Geeks may be destined for a more complimentary moniker after their most recent milestone — the world-record rainbow.

Adam and Sean Konrad, 26, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, each have line-class records for rainbow trout as recognized by the International Game Fish Association. But Adam was the lucky angler who hooked into their largest rainbow trout the evening of June 5 at nearby Lake Diefenbaker, while Sean was targeting walleye on this reservoir system of the South Saskatchewan River.

The final tally after the 20-minute tussle to get the bruiser 'bow to shore: 43.6 pounds, 38.75 inch in length and a girth of 34 inches. Should the numbers stand, Adam Konrad will hold the all-tackle world record for rainbow trout, eclipsing the 42-pound, 2-ounce standard that was set by a boy, David White, in June 1970 on Alaska's Bell Island.

"I call it a freak of nature, but that's what we were looking for," Konrad told

Hijabberwocky 2

This hijabberwocky is coming from Azerbaijan and it looks like the curtain munchers are winning with their argument that the hijab = religious freedom and the Azerbaijan Civil Liberties Union or DEVAMM at their beck and call. “Echo”: Hijab Related Problem in BP

DEVAMM (Center for protection of freedom conscience and religion) got information that “BP-Azerbaijan” has some problems connected with freedom of religion. Thus, number of information agencies informed that girl practicing Islam and wearing headscarf in accordance with her religious beliefs was dismissed from BP. Particularly, it is reported that it was Esmira Heydarova’s religious beliefs that caused her dismissal. She worked for Sangachal terminal “BP-Azerbaijan”. It is also reported that the dismissed was warned on the part of leadership to come to work without headscarf. In response, Esmira Heydarova, declared that her clothing is expression of freedom of religion that is why she can’t take off headscarf.

Sir Salman: Has the backpedaling begun?

Rushdie furor stuns honours committee.

The committee that recommended Salman Rushdie for a knighthood did not discuss any possible political ramifications and never imagined that the award would provoke the furious response that it has done in parts of the Muslim world, the Guardian has learnt.

It also emerged yesterday that the writers' organisation that led the lobbying for the author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses to be knighted had originally hoped that the honour would lead to better relations between Britain and Asia.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. Liberals...

Around the Horn - Somalia 06.19.07

The Somali Islamists are granted amnesty, unless they have international connections. Whatever that means. Then the Islamists turn around and dis the reconciliation process. Islamists Oppose Reconciliation Conference, Discredit Ethiopia's Role And there's an assasination attempt on the Somali President. His spokesman is shot twice.


I was going to post something really snarky about Jonathan Edelstein and his bio but had second thoughts and have decided I will leave you to your own devices in: Somaliland? The Kurds of Somalia.


MSNBC shills for Ted Turner and the UN here: Shortfall will hit UN missions


The Religion of Peace up to their old tricks. Hiding bombs in garbage to kill innocents. What pillar of Islam is that again? Bomb kills 2 children in Somalia.

From Somalipress a blog on the Islamic Coarts (sic):

Sadly, by a mere donning of the ghutrah (head-covering) we witnessed former anarchists, murderers, and thugs ushered in as Mujahidiin! It was at this point that people began to wonder about the Courts' credibility. And it was at this point that I was jolted out of my pleasant anticipations. A rude awakening! And to have thought the Courts were Allah's gift to the long suffering people of our nation! Cheated and heartbroken, the country once again plunged deep into yet another round of hopelessness. Somalia's sorrow can not be summed up in a few lines, however, the following lines should give a glimpse of the heartache I personally felt at the realization that ‘the men of God' were anything but mindful, being as keen for the world as their ignorant counterparts.

Happy Birthday Sir Salman!

Lost in all the Islamobaloo over his knighthood

is the fact that today is Sir Salman's Birthday.

Cheers, Sir!

The real reason the Mullahs hate him: His wife Padma.

The seething. The whining. The never ending drone

of the perpetually offended Muslim.

They're like liberal weenies on steroids for crying out loud!

Fury as Indian women urged to drop the veil.

The leading candidate for the Indian presidency has enraged Muslim leaders by urging her fellow women to stop wearing the veil. Pratibha Patil claimed that veils were only introduced to India in the 16th century to protect women from Muslim invaders, and were no longer needed.

Ms Pratil, 72, a moderate Hindu and Congress party member who is one of the governors of the state of Rajasthan, has been selected by India's governing coalition as its nominee for the mainly ceremonial role of head of state.

But today several Muslim leaders were calling for the Indian Prime Minister to find another candidate before the nominations deadline, accusing Ms Pratil of of insulting Islam.

Is it an insult if it's true?

How many days til the Queen apologizes?

Seriously.

Will Sir Salman have to give his Sir back?

Will it be before or after Friday prayers?

And I REALLY wonder what Bonny Prince Charles is saying these days?

Islamic group takes over Nursery school

From the Copenhagen Post. No singing, no dancing and don't even think about SANTA CLAUS hats! They want their kids "to grow up Muslim and so they don't run around and behave like apes."

Members of the fundamental Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir with children at the Salam day care centre in Copenhagen have taken control of its operations by obtaining a majority on its parental committee, according to Berlingkse Tidende newspaper.

In February the group took over after the school's two female administrators quit in protest of the difficulties Hizb ut-Tahrir parents were creating for the centre's operations. The Islamic group was refusing to allow the school's 25 Muslim children to participate in singing and dancing and required both an Islamic dress code and boys and girls to be segregated.

It was revealed that after a Christmas trip to Copenhagen Zoo, during which the children were given Santa Claus hats to wear, the committee members required the hats to either be thrown out or cut into pieces, claiming they forced Christian traditions onto the children. The group has allegedly been operating the school according to traditional Islamic law since the two administrators quit.

Since that time, the formerly private-run centre has no longer been receiving state funding and is now being administered by the City of Copenhagen. The city is still trying to find new leadership for the school and has sent letters to the children's parents informing them that they must either allow the city to run the centre or it will be closed.

More detail here at Islam in Europe.

The case exploded in December, 2006. In a call for help to the municipality, the kindergarten's personnel said that Hizb ut-Tahrir was taking over the administration. They came up with twenty parent's signatures to have new elections.

On election day at the end of January they Hizb ut-Tahrir criticized the new rules, saying that children were taught equality and a democratic spirit.

A pedagogic consultant from Frie Børnehaver, an association for private kindergartens, was present at the elections meeting. She had never experienced anything similar and she asked for a meeting with the municipality.

Four new parents were chosen to the administration, with completely different attitudes to raising kids than the existing administration. The consultant had the impression that there were no other candidates because the older members were threatened to stay away. She wrote that the voting was completely unpleasant. A new member of the administration said that his children will not be raised to have understanding for democracy.

Whirling dervishes and spinning Christians

Middle East News has got the spin machine working full time for the Christians in Gaza.

Compare this piece of dhimmitude from the head of the Catholic community in Gaza, Father Mussal. (He's sounding like a battered woman to me)...

"We have solid relations with Hamas and they intend to compensate us for the damage," Mussal said. Bassem Naim, a minister in both Hamas-led governments, "promised that such an incident would never happen again and that Hamas will be the guardian of the Christians and their holy places," Mussal added.

With this from the Islamist leader of an Islamic "outreach" group (the group who shot up a UN school last month because girls and boys were on the same sports teams)...

Christians can only continue living safely in the Gaza Strip if they accept Islamic law, including a ban on alcohol and on women roaming publicly without proper head coverings, an Islamist militant leader in Gaza told WND in an exclusive interview. Christians in Gaza who engage in "missionary activity" will be "dealt with harshly."Abu Saqer accused the leadership of the Gaza Christian community of "proselytizing and trying to convert Muslims with funding from American evangelicals.""This missionary activity is endangering the entire Christian community in Gaza,"

Listen to these poor deluded souls:

"I don't really think our situation will change much or that Hamas will try to impose Islamic practices on us, because they'll be frightened about causing a worldwide scandal," said Iyad. Issa Tarazi, a doctor, said that his fellow Christians "will adapt to the new order. I don't think they will impose restrictions on the Christians."

Gee. Ya think?

Muftis miffed by bald actress.

Sharifah and her dad

It's unIslamic. And sinful.

An award-winning Malaysian actress who shaved her head for a film role has attracted criticism from influential muftis who say her act is unIslamic and sinful, a report said Thursday. Sharifah Amani Syed Zainal Rashid, 21, drew widespread shock and interest after she went bald Tuesday, with photos of her splashed across the front pages of Malay-language newspapers a day later. But muftis in the conservative Muslim country have called on authorities to issue guidelines to prevent Malay Muslim artistes, especially actresses, from extreme behavior or dressing, the New Straits Times reported. "Unlike Muslim men, going bald for women is forbidden in Islam. It is sinful for men to act or behave like a woman and vice versa," the mufti of central Selangor state, Mohamad Tamyis Abdul Majid, was quoted as saying.

The mufti of northern Perak state, Harussani Idris, said Muslim artistes were becoming increasingly daring and warned them against being influenced by the actions of their foreign counterparts. "As Muslims, we should not sacrifice our religion for the sake of wanting to be popular," Harussani was quoted as saying. "I have been observing that nowadays our artistes are becoming too open and daring, either in their actions or attire," he said. "It is only appropriate for the relevant authorities such as the information ministry to introduce regulations to make them toe the line."

A well-known actress, Sharifah Amani is featured in current perfume advertisements with her long, straight hair. She shaved her head for a role in a movie by critically-acclaimed Malaysian independent filmmaker, Yasmin Ahmad.

Yasmin's first and best known film, Sepet, broke social taboos by depicting an inter-racial romance between a Muslim Malay girl, also played by Sharifah Amani, and a Chinese boy. The film was attacked by film industry leaders, who said the movie threatened Malay Muslim culture and could corrupt Muslim audiences.

Commenting on her decision to go bald, Sharifah Amani was quoted as saying in the New Straits Times Wednesday: "I have no regrets. My hair will grow back."

On a personal note: I curse the ignorant mufti and all that he stands for. My soul sister and my sister in law are both bald because of their chemo treatments. My former best friend, the witchy woman immortalized in Lois honey, is that you? was bald. I say let's wrap his ass in a niqab and make him stand in the damn hot corner on one leg. In heels. And control top panty hose.

Love Afghani Style

Talk about robbing the cradle.... (h/t Religion of Peace)

Gulghoti is a beautiful young woman of 25. Her dark eyes soften, then fill with tears as she looks at Hekmat, a quiet, skinny six-year-old who lives with her. "I have brought him up since he was three," she said, her voice breaking. "I even used to feed him."

The boy is not her child, her brother, or even her stepson. He is her husband.

"My life is just one big problem," she said. "Please tell other people not to do this." Six years ago, Gulghoti, who lives in southern Helmand province, had married another man to whom she had been betrothed since they were both children. Once the parents had agreed on the match and the terms, the deal was almost impossible to break, even after her fiancé was seriously injured in an accident. Her father died when she was young, and her widowed mother did not have the means to resist pressure to honor the contract. Gulghoti duly married her disabled fiancé when she was 19, but he died after a year, leaving her a widow.

According to custom in this predominantly Pashtun region, once a woman marries, she remains more or less the property of her husband's family. If she is widowed, she will commonly be married off to a relative of her deceased husband.

"I had to obey these rules, and marry my husband's younger brother," said Gulghoti. This happened despite the fact that Hekmat was only three at the time. "They forced me to marry this baby," she said. "By the time he reaches adolescence, I will be an old woman."

Hekmat does not understand that the woman who bathes him, looks after him, and prepares his meals is actually his wife. He calls her khala - "auntie." He is small and shy, and shrinks away from strangers. He does not attend school - no one in his family is literate.

In Afghanistan, parents sometimes betroth their children almost as soon as they are born. There are cases of 10-day-old children being engaged or even married to each other, despite legal and religious prohibitions against underage marriages.

Jihad can be hazardous to your health

"Militants" have work accident in Waziristan.

An unspecified number of militants were killed Tuesday in North Waziristan when explosives they had stored for terrorist activities was blown in an accident, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. Spokesman Maj. Gen. Wahid Arshad told private GEO TV that an explosion had occurred in explosives stored by militants at the village of Zakhekhel in North Waziristan near Pakistan-Afghan border. He denied reports that the explosion was caused by a missile fired from Afghanistan on the militants hideout.

"The militants were apparently making some explosive devices which blew accidentally killing an unspecified number of people," he said.

Gaza: Christians must accept Islamic rule

Christians must accept Islamic rule. Hey, I thought there was no compulsion in Islam...

Christians can only continue living safely in the Gaza Strip if they accept Islamic law, including a ban on alcohol and on women roaming publicly without proper head coverings, an Islamist militant leader in Gaza told WND in an exclusive interview. The militant leader said Christians in Gaza who engage in "missionary activity" will be "dealt with harshly."

The threats come two days after a church and Christian school in Gaza was attacked following the seizure of power in the territory by the Hamas terror group.

"I expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace in Gaza," said Sheik Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadia Salafiya, an Islamic outreach movement that recently announced the opening of a "military wing" to enforce Muslim law in Gaza.

Jihadia Salafiya is suspected of attacking a United Nations school in Gaza last month, after the school allowed boys and girls to participate in the same sporting event. One person was killed in that attack.

"The situation has now changed 180 degrees in Gaza," said Abu Saqer, speaking from Gaza yesterday.

"Jihadia Salafiya and other Islamic movements will ensure Christian schools and institutions show publicly what they are teaching to be sure they are not carrying out missionary activity. No more alcohol on the streets. All women, including non-Muslims, need to understand they must be covered at all times while in public," Abu Asqer told WND.

"Also the activities of Internet cafes, pool halls and bars must be stopped," he said. "If it goes on, we'll attack these things very harshly."

Abu Saqer accused the leadership of the Gaza Christian community of "proselytizing and trying to convert Muslims with funding from American evangelicals."

"This missionary activity is endangering the entire Christian community in Gaza," he said. Abu Saqer claimed there was "no need" for the thousands of Christians in Gaza to maintain a large number of institutions in the territory.

About 2,000 Christians live in the Gaza Strip, which has a population of over 1 million.

Abu Saqer said Hamas "must work to impose an Islamic rule or it will lose the authority it has and the will of the people."

Blames church attack on Fatah.

Abu Saqer claimed he had "good information" that the attack really was a robbery aimed at the church's school computers, even though bibles and Christian holy objects were destroyed.

Sir Salman: a disgusting corpse

Hoo boy! If we'd only known what a huge stinkeroo knighting Salman Rushdie would cause the ummah we could have done it sooner, no? Here's more Iranian seething, using more or less the same phrases to describe the knighthood. Although, I have to give the Vice Speaker of the Iranian Parliament style points for this:

Vice-Speaker of the Iranian Parliament said the efforts made by Britain's Queen Elizabeth or other senior officials to revive Salman Rushdie would fail as the historical verdict issued by Imam Khomeini against him has already turned Rushdie into a disgusting corpse.

Iran: We'll use oil as a weapon!!!!

Go ahead. Make my day.

Iran will not rule out using oil as a weapon if the United States resorts to military action against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, an Iranian oil official said in remarks published on Tuesday."When the Americans say that military action in regard to the nuclear issue has not been put aside, Iran can also say that it will not put aside oil as a tool," Iran's OPEC governor, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, told Iran's Sharq newspaper.

A vote for Hill is a vote for Che!

New activity at Kilauea Volcano

Somethings got to give...

The lava pond in the East Pond vent on the eastern side of the Pu'u 'O'o crater yesterday was considerably lower than it was here on June 13.

Kilauea Volcano's vents at Pu'u 'O'o continued their dramatic collapse yesterday while the earth nearby expanded, both clues that an underground flow of magma has probably been diverted and might burst to the surface in a new area, scientists said.

Immigration and Harry Reid's Clay Pigeon

Go figure.

Only in the arcane world of the U.S. Senate could a quirky gambit known as a "clay pigeon" make the difference between passage of an important immigration measure and its death at the hands of opponents.

Democratic leaders hope the complex manoeuvre, which makes use of the Senate's labyrinthine rules to insist on votes on amendments, will frustrate conservatives' attempts to derail the embattled immigration bill, instead putting it on a fast track to passage next week.

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he would revive the bill to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants late this week. To do so, though, he needs backing from 60 senators, and a way to guarantee votes on a tentative list of 22 Republican and Democratic amendments whose consideration is seen as vital to satisfying key waverers.

The so-called clay pigeon is how he's expected to do it, under a strategy that was still taking shape Monday.

The tactic gets its name from the target used in skeet shooting, which explodes into bits as it is hit. In the Senate, an amendment is the target, and any one senator can demand that it be divided into separate fragments to be voted on piecemeal.

Under the tentative plan, Reid as early as Friday would launch his target - an amendment encompassing all 22 proposals - and shoot it into its component pieces. The Senate would then vote on ending debate on the immigration measure, which would take 60 votes and limit discussion of the bill to 30 more hours. After that interval, all 22 amendments would have to be voted on, with little opportunity for foes to interfere.

Ironically, the move is usually used by mavericks - not leaders - to slow down legislation, not free it from a procedural thicket. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) used it last year to protest a bill he complained included excessive spending. By offering and then dividing an amendment that targeted 19 items he deemed offensive, Coburn was able to insist on votes on individual projects.

"It's a brilliant way to gum up the works," said Robert Dove, a Senate rules expert who was the chamber's referee for 36 years. The manoeuvre appears to be a relatively modern innovation; Dove said he first became aware of it in the early 1970s, when then-senator Jim Allen (D-Ala.), a master of parliamentary procedures, used it against a bill pushed by the then-majority leader, Senator Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.)

"I remember people being dazzled when he did this," Dove said.

Reid's plan has its risks, chief among them further inflaming the vocal conservative opponents who have vowed to do whatever they can to kill the immigration measure.

"I've seen ideas like this really backfire. You pay a price for this kind of thing," Dove said, noting that the Senate functions almost entirely on consensus. "It can be done - I've seen it done - but it's a difficult manoeuvre. "

Cuba's Unofficial First Lady dies.

Huh. Who knew? Per al Reuters:

Vilma Espin, sister-in-law of convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro and one of the most powerful women in Cuba's political leadership, died on Monday in Havana. She was 77.
State-run Cuban television said Espin died from complications from a long-standing illness, but did not give further details.

A key figure in advancing equality for women in Communist Cuba, Espin was married to Castro's younger brother Raul, who took over as acting president in July 2006 after the elder Castro underwent emergency intestinal surgery and was sidelined from power.

Espin, who was rumored to be ill for more than a year, was Cuba's unofficial first lady because Fidel Castro has always kept his private life out of the public limelight and his wife Dalia Soto del Valle has never played any official role.

Espin is the most important symbol of the Cuban revolution to die since Celia Sanchez, one of Castro's closest confidants, passed away in 1980.

Out of Africa

Somalia in the eye of the storm. It's the Beeb so the US is to blame of course. The money quote:

"Washington's approach to Islamism seems to involve containing, or attempting to contain, Islamist organisations while targeting individual terrorist suspects."

Meanwhile, the janjaweed continue to spread their unique brand of terror into Chad. But no one wants to admit it just yet. From Chad: Protection is the issue but from whom?

It was typical of countless acts of violence that have taken place in eastern Chad over the last three years. Armed men on horseback rode through Goz Amir refugee camp last December, hacking and shooting at least 15 men and women to death. And like many of the attacks, it was not immediately clear who the attackers were and what had motivated them to kill.

Yesterday, we had Russ Feingold. Today Bill Nelson weighs in: Swath of Africa could become terrorist haven.

A prime minister's office scarred by a recent al-Qaeda bomb attack. Families separated while fleeing from genocidal murderers in their hometowns. And employees of an international company kidnapped from a heavily guarded oil-rich area. No, this isn't Iraq or the Middle East -- it's an impoverished region of Africa where chaos is breeding a new brand of Islamic terrorism allied with Osama bin Laden.

British charity OxFam pulls out of Darfur region. It's the largest camp in Darfur and get this - "this report does not reflect the view of the United Nations." Sweet Jesus! These people wouldn't say shit if they had a mouthful!

Oxfam has decided to permanently close down its humanitarian operation in the town of Gereida in Sudan's western region of Darfur, citing reluctance by authorities there to improve security and stop attacks on aid workers.

The Hottie Competition: Zionist v Jihadist

Jihadist National Costume

Zionist National Costume

vote for your favorite.

National Lampoon's 72 virgins

H/T The boys over at The JAWA Report. God bless 'em.

In honor of the prophet Mohammed (Panties Be Upon Him)

Which pillar of Islam do rocket propelled grenades fall under?

Gaza's Christians fear for their lives.

Father Manuel Musalam, leader of the small Latin community in the Gaza Strip, said masked gunmen torched and looted the Rosary Sisters School and the Latin Church.

"The masked gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades to storm the main entrances of the school and church," he said. "Then they destroyed almost everything inside, including the Cross, the Holy Book, computers and other equipment."

Musalam expressed outrage over the burning of copies of the Bible, noting that the gunmen destroyed all the Crosses inside the church and school. "Those who did these awful things have no respect for Christian-Muslim relations," he said.

He estimated damages at more than $500,000.

Fatah officials blamed Hamas militiamen for the attack on the church and school. However, Islam Shahwan, spokesman for Hamas's Executive Force in the Gaza Strip, denied responsibility.

He nevertheless admitted that a large group of Hamas militiamen had been near the area during the attack. "We have instructed all our men to withdraw from the area," he said. "We will punish anyone who targets churches and public institutions."

Unh-huh.

"Salman Rushdie, one of the most disgusted persons

in the Islamic societies..."

This from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed-Ali Hosseini at his weekly press conference.

"The move showed violating the sanctities of Islamic holy sites is not accidental but organized and is conducted with the support and under the guidance of certain Western states," Hosseini said.

"Honoring a hated apostate will definitely put the British statesmen against the Islamic societies because it has once again hurt their (Muslims') feelings," the spokesman added.

Wah. Waaaah. Waaaaah.

Funny. The statement issued by the Iranian Organization of Culture and Islamic Communication says the very same thing!

"Honoring a hated apostate and one of the most disgusted persons in the Islamic societies is a clear sign of Islamophobia among high-ranking British officials."

"In the current world, the necessity of understanding and peaceful co-existence between religions and different ethnic groups are being underlined, but Rushdie's being knighted by the government of Britain has hurt Muslims' emotions and is contradictory to the principle of respecting other nations' beliefs," the organization said in the statement."

The OCIC called on international community, Islamic centers, ulema, statesmen and all Muslims to condemn the action by British government and underline the necessity of respecting religious beliefs of divine religions.

Let us contemplate how the Iranians respect religious beliefs of divine religions, say like Christianity, shall we??

They restrict church membership and worship. They close churches. They confiscate Bibles. They kill 'apostates'. They assasinate Christian leaders.

Iranian Weapons, Agents and Terrorists in Iraq

In Iraqi schoolyard. A schoolyard.
Coalition forces uncovered half a dozen Iranian-made rockets in a Baghdad schoolyard earlier this week, the U.S.-led military said on Monday.Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers and aviation assets discovered the six rockets in a schoolyard in the Iraqi capital’s Rashid District on June 17, the Multi-National Corps – Iraq (MNC-I) said in a statement.

In Kirkuk, an Iranian agent with Mookie al Sadr connections is detained.
Iraqi security forces have arrested an individual in the northern city of Kirkuk for facilitating the travel to and from Iran of insurgents belonging to the al-Mahdi Army, the armed militia of firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

And the Coalition has put the kibosh on 20 terrorists smuggling weapons from Iran...
“Coalition Forces killed at least 20 terrorists, wounded six suspected terrorists and detained one suspected terrorist during operations targeting Secret Cells operating in Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir”, said a statement by the Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I).

Hold up. Those aren't terrorists, says Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Hosseini. Heck no. They're undocumented pilgrims! I kid you not.

New lows in dhimmitude...

From the UK: Muslim is first on the beat donning hijab.

And so I decided to wear a headscarf. You can't cherry pick when and where to wear it. That would be hypocritical, wouldn't it?"

Rukshana contacted Cambridgeshire Specials Coordinator Shahana Ahmed, herself a Muslim.

At the time, last autumn, hijab was not issued as part of standard uniform. So the constabulary set about getting a scarf designed and made specially for Rukshana.

Sourcing various examples, from the few UK forces which provide hijab, they came up with the finished design earlier this year - with safety in mind. While most headscarves are held in place with pins, Rukhsana's is fastened with a strip of poppers. Should an assailant grab her hijab, while on duty, it will simply pull apart. Made to order by a tailor in Yorkshire, from a special stretchy material, the scarves cost £15 each to buy.

Appease, accommodate, bend over backwards and kiss their a$$ in Macy's window - that's the special treatment Muslims want. Disgusting. Not half as disgusting as this comment:

I think it's a very positive thing," says Shahina. "The Chief Constable, Julie Spence, has been supportive from day one. But we did have some resistance from members of the force, asking 'Do you want to put your officer at risk?' I don't see it that way* people have to accept you for who you are."

Or these:

Our staff represent the many communities we serve, and we respect and always try to accommodate any adaptation staff with particular beliefs may want to make to their uniform," says Deputy Chief Constable John Feavyour.

"Uniform is obviously there to serve a purpose in terms of identity and safety, and all changes to uniform are made in line with guidelines that ensure the officer or staff member is able to conduct their normal policing or other duties safely and effectively."

They come right out and claim to be "instigators".

Her efforts have also been welcomed by the wider Muslim community in Cambridge. Abdul Arain is coordinator of Cambridge Muslims Online and a leading member of the Abu Bakar Siddiq Mosque on Mawson Road in the city. He says: "Muslims in the UK are active supporters of and instigators in the positive progress of British society.

They should be able to fully integrate with every section of that society, including the armed forces, the police force and all the other institutions which exist. So this is definitely a step in the right direction."

Integrate, not assimilate. That's the problem. But wait! There's more accommodation in the works. The bowler hat will just not do. Oh no, no, no. The MUSLIMA walking the beat needs a specially designed skull cap.

Ibrar Hamed, of the Association of Muslim Police in London, says the Met are currently in the process of introducing hijab as a standard uniform option. While Rukshana will wear a protective bowler hat on top of her hijab when necessary, to protect her head from potential blows, the Met's aim is to provide a special skull cap instead, which can slot under the
scarf.

"In brief, the policy states there is a need to risk assess the officer's tasking," adds Ibrar. "If the risk assessment indicates a bowler hat would normally be required, then the officer can obtain a protective insert for her hijab from clothing stores.

She should not normally be forced to wear a bowler hat over her hijab but has the choice to do so."

Just like Christians have a choice in Muslim countries. A choice to be beheaded, tortured, killed, raped and persecuted. Speaking of hypocrisy, Rukshana...

A Royal Flush

France's Royal splits from partner.
Defeated French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal has split from her partner, party leader Francois Hollande, accusing him in a new book of having an affair.

"I have asked Francois Hollande to leave our home, to pursue his love interest which is now laid out in books and newspapers and I wish him happiness," Royal said in an interview for the book to be published Wednesday.

Excerpts were released as Socialists celebrated a better-than-expected performance in France's parliamentary elections on Sunday.

Speculation about the couple has been rife for months.

Royal did not name the other woman in Hollande's life but said she and the Socialist leader "remain on good terms. We talk to each other. There is mutual respect."

Royal asked that Hollande no longer be described as her "partner" because, she said: "That is no longer the case."

Killing, looting and praying: The Religion of Peace in action

(H/T The Religion of Peace.)

Hamas (the party of "Islamic Resistance") parades several Palestinian men through the neighborhood before shooting them to death in front of their wives and children. Afterwards, the gunmen kneel in prayer to Allah!


Killing, looting and praying.

Out of Africa - Somalia

Danish sailors kidnapped off Somali coast doing well. Although really - how well would YOU be if YOU were kidnapped by Muslim pirates?

40 Sheiks apprehended in Mogadishu. "Frog-marched" them out of the mosque, too. (The only time I've ever seen frog marched in a sentence without Karl Rove in it.)

On Friday there was a grenade attack on a Somali cinema. 5 people were killed, 9 injured. 'Eyewitnesses say the video hall, known to have shown films that have had naked scenes, was packed with people."

Russ Feingold speaks. I wonder, how do you say yadda-yadda-yadda in Somali?

Somalia Islamists show missile in video. No doubt they were aiming it at a UN aid plane or something. That's the Religion of Peace for ya.

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Why I hate the hijab and all it symbolizes.

The reason? Just read the words of this so called American Muslima in:

Stars, stripes and the crescent: the foundations

In her university which has tens of thousands of students enrolled, Naiyerah Kolkailah is the only girl one can see wearing a hijab. A very distinctive trait, one can easily point her out in the crowd. When I was interviewing Naiyerah for this article, I asked her, how does it feel to be the only person in hijab on the university campus? She replied "Its constant dawah".

(Dawah = the call, or the summons. Often used in the context of preaching.)

Let's start here: Hijab defines her as a Muslim. Period. End of story. America? Feh. She pretty much spits on her.

Everything else, whether it’s being of Egyptian decent, an American, or Californian, is all secondary to her. She doesn't associate herself with any culture or tradition, her association is only to Islam and her loyalty only to the Almighty. She thinks of herself as an activist, an activist in hijab. When she is involved in community work, whether it’s feeding the homeless or volunteering in a health fair, her hijab is a constant reminder to people around her that she is a Muslim. She says it’s a non-stop representation of Islam.

Hijab: Putting yourself out there for Allah.
They put themselves out there even though the reaction to a girl in hijab is not the best in the world. Even after facing problems because of their decision to wear their hijab, both girls, keep it on, not because it makes a political or social statement, but because it is an order from Allah. The socio-political statement is just a healthy by product of following the commandment of Allah.

She knows her rights and feels she is breaking "the cultural chain"
She knows her rights, and unlike the rest of the women in society, she does not have to demand them. Her rights have already been given to her by Islam. She understands the boundaries of her religion, and at the same time is not scared to break down the taboos created by cultures. Breaking cultural chains is one of the biggest boons of the American Society. With the assimilation of different cultures, education and the search for a Muslim identity, she has discovered herself to be just a Muslim.

And therein lies the first problem. She pledges no allegiance to America.

Here is the second problem. She is also the sixth pillar of Islam:

It is no exaggeration to call the Muslimah “the foundation” of Islam in America. She is the one who teaches her children to become the pillars who will support this mighty cause. She is the leader, she is the scholar, she is the teacher, she is the mother, and she is the foundation. A foundation that is based on the Quran and Sunnah alone, and is not corrupted to a harmful extent by the clout of culture. She is brave, strong, has a clear vision and is not scared to take the leap for the cause of Allah.

They are the American Muslimahs, the foundation of Islam in Modern America. I salute them! Would you not?

No, I would deport them. Serious.

Missiles and Honeymoons

Aunty Dhimmitude forwards a link US, Israel reach smart bomb deal and poses the question:

Why are we proposing to sell state-of-the-art weaponry to Saudi Arabia?

Good one, Aunty. I wish I knew. You'd think we'd have learned enough about the law of unintended consequences by now. (But then again, silly me, I'm still trying to figure out why the British arms firm BAE Systems secretly paid nearly £250,000 for Prince Bandar's daughter's honeymoon. Who says big business is cold hearted?)

We got in bed with the House of Saud a long time ago. That 'petrodiplomacy" thing, I guess. I'm sure there are those more well versed in the game of Stratego that would say that by providing the Saudis with the missiles the US is just covering some of its middle Eastern flank.

Nowadays, The Princes of the Kingdom are trying to be good Arabs but also want nothing to do with that Mahdi chit the Iranians are peddling.

Or so they say.

The Iranians, with all their grand ME superpower aspirations, why they'd like nothing better than making a move on the Kingdom.

(Right after they wipe Israel off the face of the map, of course. Oh, and don't forget bringing the great Satan to its knees.)

Do you have a theory?

Update: Now it begins. Picking a fight with the Saudis. Shia style.

"If I were a Shi'ite from Saudi Arabia, I would flood Saudi Arabia and the world with the facts about the overall atmosphere that is pressuring the Shi'ites in Saudi Arabia today. The ugliest of these facts is what occurred in the 1979intifada of the Shi'ite regions, in which dozens were killed, hundreds were imprisoned, and their regions were blockaded for more than four consecutive months.

Somalia to extend olive branch to Islamists?

And the US is paying for it???? Big MISTAKE.

The Somali interim government has proposed to pardon Islamists who were jailed after government forces, with help from the Ethiopian army, launched a military operation against them in January. Under the proposal, the government would pardon Islamists who have been fighting the government for months, and release jailed Islamists.

Government spokesman Abdi Haji Gobdon told the media this plan had been discussed by cabinet ministers in order to “extend an olive branch” to former fighters from the Union of Islamic Courts, other anti-government fighters and politicians from the opposition.

The decision for a pardon would likely require parliamentary approval. The number of imprisoned Islamist fighters is unknown. Somali has not had a stable government since 1991.

Last week a United Nations-backed reconciliation conference between the government and the Islamists was postponed for a month for the third time, due to insecurity and lack of funds.

Washington has released $1.25 million to fund the July 15 conference.

Philippines: 9 dead in bus bombing...

Nine Dead in Philippine Bus Bombing Protection money? OR JIZYA? You make the call.

MANILA, Philippines, June 16--The death toll from a bus bombing in a southern Philippine town rose to nine Saturday, after three wounded people died in hospital overnight, police said.

The blast Friday in Bansalan, Davao del Sur province, came about five minutes after a bomb went off inside a bus owned by the same company in another southern city, causing little damage and no injuries, AP reported. At least 14 other people were wounded in the Bansalan blast.

Extortion appeared to be the likely motive since a group has been demanding 2 million pesos ($40,000) in “protection money“ from the People’s Transport Corp., which operates the buses, regional police director Chief Superintendent Andres Caro II said.

Last week, an explosion ripped through another bus and wounded 11 people in Matalam township in nearby Cotabato province.

Wait for it -

The criminal group, however, could have links to al-Qaida-related terror cells responsible for other bombings in the country, Caro said. "These are not ordinary criminal elements because they know how to make these types of bombs used only by terrorists, and who must have some formal training in constructing and handling these types of improvised explosive device," he said.

Well, well, well. Looky here. Muslims! What a surprise. (not)

Aside from al-Qaida-linked militants, Muslim separatist rebels who have been fighting for a separate homeland in the south for more than three decades, also operate in the area where many bombings have occurred in the past.

Americans to the rescue...again. Even though the Filipino official is very quick to distance himself....

American soldiers arrived here Saturday to help probe the latest in a rash of deadly bus bombings which claimed eight lives.The US bomb experts, who have been training local forces in counter-terrorism, examined the scene after the explosion in Bansalan town late Friday.Small groups of US troops have been serving in Mindanao where they train local soldiers to battle Muslim extremists such as Abu Sayyaf, which both Manila and Washington have linked to the al-Qaeda terror network.

Caro stressed, however, that the police did not ask for any assistance from the Americans or from any foreign forensic experts. “We have not requested for any help from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) or any other foreign group with the incident. We were expecting only the team from the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame,” Caro said.

Thinking of traveling to the Philippines? You might want to read this.

Scotland: Young Muslims to air their "concerns"

Glasgow: Another Muslim whinefest Great.

Young Muslims from all over Scotland will on Monday voice their concerns over a range of issues, including harrassment experienced since since al-Qaeda's 11 September 2001 attacks on US cities, growing Muslim disaffection with British society, stereotyped media portrayals of Muslims as terrorists, as well as employment, education, training, religion and way of life.

The venue is the first ever Young Scottish Muslims Conference, taking place in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow."This is exactly the type of forum we need to provide to the Muslim youth to address the issues of identity, belonging, faith, culture and integration," conference keynote speaker Farooq Murad told Adnkronos International (AKI).

Murad is chairman of the charity Muslim Aid (click on the link for a message from JERMAINE JACKSON!!!!) and founder president of the Young Muslims UK (click on this link to get an idea of their youth recruiting strategy) and the Islamic Society of Britain. (click here to read how they urged 11 year olds to take up the jihad.)

The Gov't Dhimmis are going to be in attendance preaching their multi-culti jumbo....there's more at the link. Read til your eyes glaze over. Looks like Scotland is lost too...

My reply:

Okay, you bunch of Islamowhingers - what about the isolation and disenchantment that Christians experience in your Muslim countries???? You know, the beheadings, torture, killings and raping?