IT IS THE TIME...

Just a quick note before going dark for the move - especially since my laptop has well and truly taken a crap on me (this comes to you from the Lord and Master's keyboard) Everytime I open it up a siren sounds for about two minutes then it boots up normally - the keyboard is still wigging out as before, only worse with more keys involved. So it's become a problem to be addressed on the other end and that means being pc-less for at least three weeks - or more.

To make matters more, a-hem, challenging, my busted wing is back in the form of a pinched nerve with accompanying muscle spasms. This has rendered my left arm useless and me moaning and whimpering in pain. Geez. Like I don't need both arms these days.

Oh, and it just started raining....

Anyways, I wish you all well in my absence and will be joining you again from Denver in a few weeks. Best wishes - Dinah.

Busy dways aroundw the Lordw manse

Blogging will be light this week - movers arrive on Mondway and that means DWinah has got her handws full with her dway job.

To further complicate blogging matters, I'm sure you have noticedw that every time I type a 'dw' a w appears. For example: dwhimmi, dwelinquent,dwawa, dwwarf, dwiscipline, etc.

I couldw go on, but you get my dwrift.

Wish me luck on the move, possums andw keep up the goodw fight against the evil jihadww.

Unindicted co-conspirators CAIR need your help...

What if CAIR launched a jihad and nobody came? (tip of the green eyeshade to Patrick over at Existential Space.)

That seems to be the case this month, as CAIR's finances continue to plummet.

Two weeks ago at the end of June, I observed ("A Bad June for CAIR") that CAIR raised less than one-fourth of their monthly budgeted goal of $250,000 for that month. This month, however, things appear to have gotten worse.

Half-way through July, CAIR has raised less than 1/100th of what they need to make budget (0.969%), bringing in less than $2,500. If last month fundraising had come to a trickle, they have now come to a very, very slow drip. I'm sure being named unindicted co-conspirator in a terror finance trial didn't help last month. Almost makes you sorry for the poor soul responisble for their fundraising. Almost.

Muslim scientific breakthrough!!!!!

Finally, a cure for chapped hajj thighs? (tip of the Thigh-Master to the Religion of Peace)

HELP is being offered to Muslims afflicted by chafed thighs during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Worshippers at the annual event are to be offered "seamless trousers'' for the first time to guard against chafing, the , the Saudi Gazette reported today.

The trousers are designed to be worn under the "ihram'', the loose-fitting white robe worn by Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage.

"Pilgrims often complain of sore thighs because of friction as a result of long walks. The trouser will protect the thighs,'' the paper said.

Mahmoud supports the Fair Tax

Call for Fair Taxation.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called for fair taxation system to encourage timely payment.“One of the factors which motivate timely tax payment is levying taxes on a fair basis. Tax payers should be encouraged to contribute to estimating taxes and making payments voluntarily,“ said Ahmadinejad in an address to a group of tax collectors, IRNA reported.

President Ahmadinejad also called on respective officials to build the culture of voluntary tax payment among citizens.He regretted that there is a popular misconception that oil revenues are infinite and the country’s oil earnings far outweigh national expenditure. “Everyone should know that oil revenues will come to an end one day and if we spend oil earnings today, they will not be sufficient for paying all our expenses,“ he said.

Calls on media to grease the skids and tell the citizenry to get ready to bend over:

Ahmadinejad further said that media play a significant role in preparing the people to pay taxes and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting should include more programs on taxation.

When Harry met Sally...

Do you think he has a Napoleon Complex by now?

Ahmadinejad to visit Syria Thursday.





Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to pay a day-long visit to Syria on Thursday to congratulate President Bashar al-Assad on the beginning of his second seven-year term in office as Syria's president.



President al-Assad is officially to swear in for his second term in office on Tuesday.

Taliban behind attack at Iranian Consulate.

Proving once and for all that allegations by British and US officials regarding Iran's role in Afghanistan are baseless!

The Taliban were behind the recent terrorist attack on Iran’s Consulate in Kandahar, said an informed source in Foreign Ministry. He noted that it was the second terrorist attack on Iran’s diplomatic mission in Afghanistan after the bombing of a car belonging to Iran’s Consulate, Fars reported.

The source described such hostile measures by Taliban against Iran as evidence that allegations by British and US officials regarding Iran’s role in Afghanistan are baseless.

Here's the real funny:

The British and the US media, including Jane’s Terrorism and Security Monitor (a subsidiary of Jane’s Defence), have expressed doubt about the allegations of US military officials on Iran’s interference in Afghanistan. The deny seeing any evidence of Iranians’ assistance to Afghan opposition groups.

Spain and Morocco to step up terror surveillance.

I'm so glad that pulling out of Iraq thing worked for them. )Do you think the Dems are paying any attention to this? Nope, me either.)

Spain and Morocco will step up surveillance of the surge in summer tourists travelling across the Strait of Gibraltar because of concern about potential terrorism attacks by al-Qaeda.

According to the Spanish daily newspaper, 'El Pais', the Spanish and Moroccan authorities are deploying thousands of police to check documents and vehicles, and patrol various 'hotspots' along the tourist route that connects the two countries.

Codenamed 'Operation Strait Passage', the joint exercise is designed to stop terrorist organisations from exploiting the congestion caused by the huge influx of people and vehicles entering Spain and the rest of Europe during the next two months.

Spain's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Miguel Angel Moratinos, and a representative of Morocco's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Taieb Fassi Fihri, met in Madrid on Tuesday to discuss the joint operation. "There is no concrete information about possible attacks in Spain or Morocco," said Moratinos. "But the situation that exists in the world today means we must enforce the greatest scrutiny."

However...

Every year from June to September the Strait of Gibraltar is a 'bridge' for more than a million people and ferries are filled with hundreds and thousands of vehicles. Many Moroccans and Africans who live in France and Spain return home for their summer vacation. According to Spanish data, this year's traffic is expected to increase by 6 per cent - with 730,000 vehicles crossing the strait and more than 1.5 million people.

In recent days, Rabat has raised the security alert amid fears that al-Qaeda will try and send terrorists to Europe.

According to 'El Pais', police will be reinforced in the Moroccan port cities where vehicles disembark - Malaga, Alicante Algeciras, Ceuta e Melilla and Tarifa.

Last month the newspaper released details of a confidential police report which said Spain was at a 'high' risk of a terrorist attack and intelligence services were concerned about growing extremism among 'second generation' immigrants

Scotland: State funded Madrassas?

Och. If you can't beat them, join them?


Recent remarks by a spokesman for Scottish education secretary Fiona Hyslop supporting state-funded Muslim schools has sparked a fresh debate in Scotland over the question. Islamic schools raise a series of issues relating to equal opportunities, integration and school autonomy, the Youth Counselling Services Agency (YCSA)'s chief executive Anwari Din told Adnkronos International (AKI).


"It certainly is an issue of granting equal opportunities for all, but we must also be aware of the risk of such schools becoming divisive,” Din told AKI.“However, if people want these schools, then the provision of public funding might constitute an important form of check on their curriculums,” she added.


More at the link.

Dinah is just spinning with this news - she better put up a kilt photo STAT!

Big, fat, phoney NOW beyotches...

And look who's got their camel toe under the tent. Listen to this sh^%.

A long-legged woman posing playfully in a martini glass. A bikini-clad bottom gyrating for smirking men. A woman in a hijab looking forlorn and oppressed. (ed.note: That's because she IS forlorn and oppressed)

Those images are all too common in American media, according to the National Organization for Women. And it's time they change. How women are portrayed in the media was the focus of several forums at the NOW national convention Friday at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn.

"It's important to identify our similarities instead of our differences," said Rana Abbas, who helped lead a forum on issues facing Arab-American women.

A Muslim of Lebanese descent, Abbas said that many people assume that reactions in this country to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks mostly affected Arab men. "It's the women who truly have suffered," said Abbas, noting that it is the women who must stay behind and raise the family when husbands are targeted by ethnic profiling and deported.


Like I said - sh^&.

In Iran: There ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues

Equal opportunity oppressors - now they're going after the dudes.

Police to start crackdown on young boys.

With summer time heath (sic) reaching new peaks, the commander of Tehran Police announced new crackdowns, this time targeting mostly young boys wearing “perverted western dress and hairs cut according to “pervert western models”.

From the first of Mordad (the Iranian month starting on July 23) police numbers will double to confront immoral behaviour", Tehran police chief stated, quoted by the media.

Boys with shorts panties, dresses having “pervert western marks and hairs cut using western pervert styles would be arrested, taken to special police detention centres where they would have to give the name of the hair dresser who has cut their heirs (sic)using “pervert western patterns” before asking their parents to come for taking them away, the Commander said, quoted by “Aftab” news website.

If the boy has a “perverted western hair dress, the parents have to take him to a hair dresser to arrange his hairs “normal looking”. If he is wearing “perverted western dress”, like short pants, or dresses having “western pervert marks”, the parents have to bring with them “normal clothing” to be changed at the detention centre before taking their progenitor away.

Hoo-boy. There's more about the 'monkerat'(morality po-lice)at the link.

And not so fast there, Missy. We aren't forgetting about you! Government to put more pressure on women's covering. And it's like something out of a spooky science fiction movie.

During an ongoing exhibit titled “My Land’s Women,” deputy governor of Tehran announced, “200 new chador designs, 50 superior hejab designs and 60 new dress designs, which have all been approved by university professors, will be unveiled for female participants at the exhibit.”

North Korea = No Karaoke

or Internet cafes, either.

North Korea's security agency has ordered the shutdown of karaoke bars and Internet cafes, saying they are a threat to society, according to reports in a South Korean newspaper on Wednesday. 'It is so promulgated under the mandate of the Republic in order to crush enemy scheming and to squarely confront those who threaten the maintenance of the socialist system,' the daily quoted the ministry directive as saying.

Those who violated the order could face a range of punishments, including being exiled to different regions of the country, reports say.

UK: Lock 'em up and throw away the key...

Now here's a War on Terror idea that I can really get behind... Gitmo on the Thames. After all, Germany is now talking about doing the same thing.

Police in Unlimited Detention Plea.

Police chiefs are demanding the power to lock up terror suspects indefinitely, it has emerged. Reopening the debate over detention without trial, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) called for some suspects to be held for "as long as it takes".

al-Guardian's take. Complete with outraged lefty response.

The lefties are going to bellyache about this for a while so they might as well lock up this guy in the interim. Fixer for 7/21 plot free in London.

A SUSPECTED Al-Qaeda operative who is believed by MI5 to have played a key role in the events leading up to the July 21 failed bombings is at liberty and living in east London. Mohammed al-Ghabra, a 27-year-old Syrian who has been given British citizenship, is said by security sources to have arranged for the leader of the failed 21/7 London suicide attacks to travel to Pakistan for terrorist training.

Laying Siege to the Queen

I saw this headline and thought, "Oh, they must be increasing security around the Queen, what the Rushdie affair and increased AQ/Islam-o-nutter chatter and all.

Imagine my surprise to find out that they were talking about Gordon Brown laying siege to her powers.

MEMBERS of Parliament will no longer have to swear allegiance to the Queen under constitutional reforms put forward by one of Gordon Brown’s closest advisers.

The blueprint, produced by the Prime Minister’s special adviser Michael Jacobs, would also turn the British into “citizens,” rather than “subjects,” and could even spell the end for our national anthem.

Downing Street last night distanced itself from the controversial ideas, saying there were no plans to adopt them. A spokesman said Mr Jacobs advised the Prime Minister on environmental issues (ed.note: Figures.) rather than constitutional affairs.

But critics pointed out that Mr Brown had already moved quickly to adopt key parts of the Jacobs plan, including ending the Royal Prerogative and having the Gov­ernment’s programme laid out by the Prime Minister in the Commons rather than the Queen at the annual state opening of Parliament.

Royal sources said the Queen was already alarmed by the pace of change under the Brown regime.

( One can only wonder what she thought of Jacqui Smith's liberal display of cleavage during her first speech to Parliament... "Labor," she said with a sniff.)

In other UK govt news: Race chief may quit in row over Brown's All White cabinet.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, also criticised the Prime Minister after he appointed two Muslims as Ministers but failed to give them ministerial salaries.

Paging Dr Zawahiri...

The Dr. is in...Pakistan's Red Mosque

According to senior intelligence officials, the troops who finally took control discovered letters from Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. They were written to Abdul Rashid Ghazi and Abdul Aziz, the brothers who ran the mosque and adjacent madrasah.

Government sources said up to 18 foreign fighters — including Uzbeks, Egyptians and several Afghans — had arrived weeks before the final shootout and set up firing ranges to teach students, including children, how to handle weapons.

Happy Bastille Day.

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it."-- Marge Simpson

And then there's this...

The world's tallest man, Bao Xishun today shook hands with He Pingping who claims to be Earth's shortest.


Now I'm just being silly. More at the link.

Iran: Pipsqueaks can't jump.

Mahmoud meets members of the national basketball team.

(Tip of the roundball to Kamangir.)

Getting pretty squirrely over in Iran

Remember Rahman J Squirrel?

Well, 14 Squirrels are now rumored to be in Iranian custody.

Police in Iran are reported to have taken 14 squirrels into custody - because they are suspected of spying.The rodents were found near the Iranian border allegedly equipped with eavesdropping devices.

There she blows!

Thousands flee as volcano spews lava, ash.

A rumbling volcano in eastern Indonesia spewed ash and lava Thursday, as authorities expressed fears that a shift in winds could send hot clouds of volcanic debris onto villages below.

Thousands of people have been evacuated and others have been told to stay away from the eight-kilometre danger zone along the mountain's slopes, said Saut Simatupang of the government's volcano monitoring agency.

Mount Gamkonora on Halmahera island has put authorities on the highest alert since Monday, and lava and debris have spilled from its mouth for days. Hot clouds of ash were shooting more than 1,000 metres into the sky on Thursday, a slight decrease in activity.

Tajikistan: No hijab for you sister. Not if you want to go to college.

Court does not permit a Moslem girl to wear hijab to the college

"I'm not through with them yet!" she vows.

BBC reported the lawsuit filed by Davlatimo Ismailova against the Tajik Ministry of Education and her college administration dismissed. Administration of the Foreign Languages College in Dushanbe does not permit Ismailova to wear hijab, the traditional Moslem scarf.

The plaintiff told judges that the ban on hijabs encroaches on her freedom to worship.

"The case is dismissed because the plaintiff failed to present any evidence," Reuters quoted Judge Abdullo Rahmatov as saying. "The Ministry of Education bases its instructions on the accepted educational norms and standards."

"I was expecting it. All the same, I'm not through with them yet. I will complain to the municipal court first and to the Supreme Court after that. If it comes to that, I'll appeal to international courts," Ismailova told BBC.

(The hijab is banned at state, secular, and educational establishments. )

"This decision is illegitimate because it collides with the constitution which allows citizens of Tajikistan to wear whatever takes their fancy," Kudratov said.

Minister of Education Abdujabbor Rahmonov never doubted the verdict would be favorable. He views hijab wearers as promoters of religious ideas.

Ismailova in the meantime is told to stay away from the college as long as she wears hijab.

buh-bye.

Do the burka crime. Do the time.

Dinah has long called for the hijab/burka/niqab to be banned.

(And barring that idea, it should only be allowed to be worn in parades.)

Well, it seems like Geert Wilders has another idea.

INCARCERATION.

A right-wing Dutch lawmaker wants women jailed for wearing the head-to-toe Islamic robe known as a burqa, calling it a "symbol of oppression."

Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party has nine lawmakers in the 150-seat lower house of Dutch parliament, filed a proposal Thursday to make wearing a burqa in public a crime punishable by up to 12 days jail.

"The burqa and niqab are a symbol of oppression of women," Wilders told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He said burqas and the niqab — a full-faced veil with only a slit for the eyes — hindered integration of Muslim women into Dutch society and also posed a security risk.

An Islamic community spokesman, Ayhan Tonca, called Wilders' proposal "totally out of proportion" and accused him of seeking to broaden a rift between Muslims and the rest of Dutch society.

Last November, the Dutch government said it was drawing up legislation to ban burqas, but that administration was defeated in elections the same month. The new centrist coalition of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has no plans to implement a burqa ban, meaning Wilders' proposal has little chance of becoming law.

Your Muslim Representative at work...

Ellison compares Bush to Hitler. 9/11 to Reichstag.

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., told a group of atheists earlier this week the actions of the Bush administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks remind him of the Nazis' use of the burning of Berlin’s Reichstag parliament building in 1933 to expand their power.

Ellison, at a noontime speech before Atheists for Human Rights, told the Minneapolis-based group, "You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists."

The congressman talked to the group of over 100 meeting in the Southdale Library in Edina about a number of topics – impeaching Vice President Cheney, Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, the war in Iraq and the 2001 attacks by al-Qaida.

Speaking of the destruction of the World Trade Center and the damage to the Pentagon, Ellison said, "It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.

Then he tries to weasel out of it...sort of.

On Tuesday, Ellison attempted to further clarify his Reichstag statement by telling the Minneapolis Star-Tribune he was making the point that "in the aftermath of a tragedy, space is opened up for governments to take action that they could not have achieved before that."
When asked for examples of such Nazi-like action in the wake of 9/11, Ellison cited the Iraq war, certain provisions of the Patriot Act and Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence.

Yep, Scooter Libby's sentence commutation - I'd rank that right up there with Dachau for sure. What a dangerous fool this man is.

The Continued Adventures of an Episcopalian Priest in Muslim drag.

What a drag! (not.)

(a tip of the mantilla to the lovely and gracious Lady V over at Spanish Pundit.)


She's suspended, given time off to "reflect on the doctrines of the Christian faith, her vocation as a priest and conflicts inherent in professing both Christianity and Islam..." I should certainly hope so, 'cause she's definitely gone round the bend.


An Episcopal priest, who announced last month that she is also a practicing Muslim, has been suspended from the priesthood and other Episcopal leadership roles for a year. The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding should “reflect on the doctrines of the Christian faith, her vocation as a priest, and what I see as the conflicts inherent in professing both Christianity and Islam,” Bishop Geralyn Wolf of Rhode Island wrote in an e-mail to other church leaders. Redding was ordained by a former bishop of Rhode Island 23 years ago and remains under the authority of that diocese.

Redding told the Seattle Times she removed her priest’s collar in a meeting with Bishop Wolf last week. The two will continue to communicate and revisit the issue at the end of the year. One of Reddings options, she said, is to voluntarily leave the priesthood. According to The Associated Press, Redding is scheduled to start teaching part time at Jesuit-run Seattle University this fall but Bishop Wolfs decision has barred her from teaching, preaching or working at any Episcopal church or institution.

Redding told the Seattle Times she has been a practicing Muslim for 15 months after she was profoundly moved by an introduction to Islamic prayer. She maintains that she has not violated any of her baptismal or ordination vows. She claims she has since become a better teacher, preacher and Christian.

Forget Islamophobia, today's the day for triskaidekaphobia

triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun:


A morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th.

CAIR Helps OH hijab wearing women to get license.

Ooh boy, this got my blood boiling. CAIR Helps OH Muslims Obtain Driver Photos with Hijab

The Cincinnati office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ohio chapter (CAIR-Ohio) announced today that two Muslim women in that city were able to have driver's license photographs retaken with their Islamic headscarves, or hijab, after initially being asked to remove the scarves.

CAIR says Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) employees had insisted that the women remove their headscarves for their driver's license photographs despite regulations requiring an exemption for religious head coverings.

According to a 2004 CAIR study of such policies nationwide, Ohio grants exemptions for 1) wigs or hairpieces if customarily worn by the applicant, 2) a head covering worn for recognized religious purposes, or 3) a head covering worn in conjunction with recognized medical treatments.

Most States Allow Muslim Scarves in Driver Photos

CAIR-Ohio's Cincinnati office contacted the BMV and arranged for the photographs of the two women to be retaken free of charge. BMV authorities also sent a reminder to all deputy registrar offices about the exemption for religious head coverings.

"We thank BMV officials for handling this issue in a timely and professional manner," said Karen Dabdoub, executive director of CAIR-Ohio's Cincinnati office.

CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties and advocacy group, has 33 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

We are doomed.

Glasgow: Martian Woman arrested in bombing. Released.

Glasgow Terror Bomb: Woman Released

Muslim not mentioned once.

Marwa Asha, 27, was arrested with her husband, Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on the M6 motorway in Cheshire on June 30.

see related: Veil wearing Martian arrested in UK bombings.

German arrests at protest against E Berlin mosque

This is not good. Tarring the protesters with the Neo-Nazi brush.

German police have arrested 15 far-right extremists and five counter-protestors in the latest round of clashes over the controversial construction of the first mosque in the former East Berlin.

Some 340 police were deployed to deal with almost 600 demonstrators taking part in a protest on Wednesday night against the planned Ahmadiyya mosque in the Pankow-Heinersdorf neighborhood.

It ended in violent clashes between police, protestors and counter-protestors, police said on Thursday.

Officers said that the troublemakers, believed to be far-right extremists, now face charges of assault, disturbing the peace and resisting the police.

A point of contention...

Although the debate has been hijacked by the far-right, the main objections come from residents who insist their opposition is not ideological. They say they oppose the mosque purely on the grounds that there are no Muslims in the neighborhood and therefore no need for a mosque. Others say they fear an "Islamization" of the area, and that the new building will turn a quiet part of Berlin into a racial trouble-spot.

Muslim authorities argue that the mosque near the city's Tegel airport had become too crowded and that land in Pankow-Heinersdorf, which used to belong to the communist East German state, was cheap.

Dinah joins the Krewe of Iris

Today I sent off my application to ride on a Mardi Gras float in the Krewe of Iris.

I'm totally psyched.

Founded in 1917 and named for the Goddess of the Rainbow and Messenger to the Gods, the Krewe of Iris is now New Orleans' sole parading Carnival organization exclusively for women and the largest ladies' club in Carnival history. The Iris tableau ball was the first such event to ever be televised.

The Krewe prides itself on strictly following the traditional customs of full-length Carnival masks and white gloves.

The Captain of the Krewe of Iris throws her own special 10-guage doubloons...unique items of chartreuse and lavender with freshly-minted 10-guage blue and silver aluminum.

The oldest of female krewes and the largest female parading organization in Carnival history, this krewe takes its name from the Greek goddess of rainbows and messenger to the gods. Iris is known for presenting her court with great finery on a series of mini-floats, as well as her former queen and king who ride in convertible automobiles.

The Krewe's motto: “Pour La Joie de Vivre” (“For the Joy of Living”)

Olympic Mega Mosque linked to recent UK bomb plots

Way to go, Always on watch. This is a great find. Olympics mega-mosque linked to London and Glasgow car bomb plots: Arrested suspects radicalised by mosque promoters Tablighi Jamaat

“Government must ban construction of mega-mosque” says Cllr Alan Craig

Newham councillor Alan Craig today called on the government to formally ban the construction of a massive mosque on a site less than a mile from the main 2012 Olympic stadium at Stratford, east London.

Reports that Tablighi Jamaat - the fundamentalist Islamic sect who propose to build the mosque as their international headquarters - are directly responsible for radicalising two of the London and Glasgow car bomb suspects has added to suspicions that the sect are not the peaceable group they claim to be.

“The dangerous truth about Tablighi Jamaat is coming out. We must watch the gap between what they say and what they do,” said Cllr Craig, leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance group on Newham Council, who lives with his young family a mile from the mosque site.” It will be a horrendous security nightmare if they are allowed to build this large mosque so close to the Olympics.”

The family says that these guys changed after hooking up with this bunch. Read it all at Always on Watch.

Italy: Hitting women is a 'Sicilian-Pakistani" tradition.

No God authorizes a man to hit a woman. Them's fighting words, pardner.

Italy's interior minister Giuliano Amato, a renowned jurist and experienced politician, stunned colleagues across the political spectrum on Wednesday after saying that violence against women is a "Sicilian-Pakistani tradition.""No God authorizes a man to hit a woman," Amato, a leading member of the centre-left government coalition, told a conference on 'Islam and integration' in Rome.

"It is rather a Sicilian-Pakistani tradition which wants us to believe otherwise."In his speech at the conference, the minister - a native of the northern city of Turin, which attracted economic migrant workers from the island of Sicily in the south throughout the last century - stressed that traditions rather than religions are to be blamed on many occasions

.Amato said that up until the 1970s Sicily had traditions that were not very different from the ones imported in Italy by some Muslim immigrants today. "We must avoid blaming on God - the God of Christians and Muslims, who in reality is the same - what should instead be blamed on men," Amato said.

His words however drew the ire of lawmakers, particularly members of the conservative opposition and Sicilian natives."Amato talks carelessly. He should immediately apologize to Sicilians or I will sue him," said ex equal opportunities minister Stefania Prestigiano, a member of the largest opposition party Forza Italia and a Sicilian.

The Pakistanis couldn't be reached. They were too busy building a car bomb with the Minister's name on it.

Little sympathy for Mosque devils...areas of seething persist

Little sympathy for mosque rebels

ISLAMABAD: People in the Pakistani capital showed little sympathy for militants in a mosque compound that security forces stormed yesterday but feared for the safety of women and children believed to be in the complex.

“It had to happen one day, but thank God it’s over,” said Shazia Khurram, an Islamabad teacher, “Everyone’s worried about the women and innocent children. It will be very tragic if something happens to them.” (editor's note: these were the stick-wielding hijab wearing banshees that attacked discos, cd shops, massage parlors etc. pictured above.)

“The people in the Lal Masjid had become terrorists,” said Sohail Iqbal, a salesman at a book shop less than a kilometre from the mosque.“They held women and children hostage and even threatened to kill them if they left,” he said.

We have the Blame Bush crowd? Well, Pakistan has the Blame Pervez crowd - although it sounds like they DO have a point.

“If they acted then, a lot of lives could have been saved today,” said government employee Mumtaz Qureshi.Instead, the authorities had tried to appease the students after they mounted a vigilante anti-vice campaign, kidnapping women they accused of prostitution. They threatened shops selling Western films and abducted policemen.

Raja Asghar, 62, a retired government official, said he failed to understand how the militants stockpiled arms and ammunition in a mosque in the centre of the capital. “People would be right in thinking if such a thing can happen in Islamabad, how much worse is it elsewhere?"

Tailor Shaukat Ali in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, also blamed the government.“Almost every one agrees mosques and madrasas are for imparting Islamic education and should not be used for militancy ... (but) the government is responsible. Why did they allow it to go on for so long?” Ali said.

Warning: Muslim seething zone ahead.

In conservative areas on the Afghan border, where support for militants is rife, the assault was seen as an attack on Islam and an attempt to pander to the United States. “This is an attack not just on the Lal Masjid but on our religion, Islam,” said shopkeeper Malik Gul Maroof Shah in the town of Miranshah in North Waziristan.“We condemn the attack. Everything Musharraf does is to please the Americans,” said electronics shop owner Amir Hamza.–

Iraq: A Fatwa on your carp!

It does sound pretty gross. River's abundance of corpses ruin Iraqis appetite for fish.

Dead bodies frequently pulled from the River Tigris have dulled the Iraqi capital's appetite for masqouf, its popular dish of grilled carp, after it was reported that clerics had warned that the fish dined on rotting corpses."

They spread rumors about the fish, that they eat the bodies of drowned people, but this is just a rumor," said fisherman Hussein Ahmed, 62, after setting his nets within sight of the heavily fortified Green Zone compound on the banks of the Tigris.

Scores of corpses turn up every week in Baghdad, victims of unrelenting violence between majority Shiites and minority Sunni Arabs.Many are dumped in the Tigris, which flows through the heart of the city and was once lined with restaurants specializing in the masqouf people loved to eat on Friday nights.

Most riverfront eateries closed after they became magnets for insurgents' bomb attacks.

A fatwa, or religious edict, forbidding Iraqis to eat fish from the Tigris was reported by Iraqi media recently, but tracing its original source has been tricky. Prominent Shiite clerics in the holy southern city of Najaf yesterday denied any knowledge of the edict. Officials from the government office representing imams who run Iraq's Sunni mosques were not available for comment.

Pakistan: Temporary burial for Red Mosqueteer Ghazi. Mom takes 3 bullets.

Pakistani Supreme Court orders temporary burial for Lal Masjid deputy chief

I wonder why a "temporary burial"? For future enshrinement?

The Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered a temporary burial for Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, deputy chief of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, local Pakistani TV channel DAWN NEWS reported Wednesday. Arrangements will also made for Ghazi's close relatives at the burial, according to DAWN NEWS.

Spokesman of the Ministry of Interior Brig (R) Javed Iqbal Cheema on Wednesday said that the body of Ghazi would be transported to his ancestral village for burial.

There's this info about Moslem burials from About.com. It's a stag party of course and ick - "no coffins if permitted"???? No embalming???? How about joining the 21st Century, guys?

The deceased is then taken to the cemetery for burial (al-dafin). While all members of the community attend the funeral prayers, only the men of the community accompany the body to the gravesite.

It is preferred for a Muslim to be buried where he or she died, and not be transported to another location or country (which may cause delays or require embalming the body).

If available, a cemetery (or section of one) set aside for Muslims is preferred. The deceased is laid in the grave (without a coffin if permitted by local law) on his or her right side, facing Mecca. At the gravesite, it is discouraged for people to erect tombstones, elaborate markers, or put flowers or other momentos. Rather, one should humbly remember Allah and His mercy, and pray for the deceased.

It looks like Ghazi's Mom took three bullets and bought the farm with her son at the Red Mosque. Looks like she should have tried to sneak out with her other son instead of hanging around. Body of Ghazi’s mother not identified yet.

Update: Hoo boy. It looks like they are bickering over the body now.... Family demands Ghazi's burial in Jamia Faridiya.

Iranian Jews will not trade their identity for money

I readily admit my cluelessness about this situation but it sure caught my eye.

From Mehr News: Iranian Jews will not trade their identity for money

The Society of Iranian Jews issued a statement on Tuesday dismissing reports that Iranian Jews have been offered money to immigrate to Israel. The statement said Iranian Jews would not “exchange their Iranian identity for any sum of money.”

“The Iranian Jews are the oldest Iranians, and if a group has embarked on immigration, it is not an issue separate from other normal migrations by other Iranians,” it added.

The statement, which was signed by MP Morris Mo’tamed, who represents the Jewish community in the Majlis, and Dr. Siamak Sedq, the chairman of the Tehran Jewish Association, said Iranian Jews love their Iranian culture and identity and “threats and immature political enticements” cannot create a crack in their Iranian identity.

The statement followed a report in some newspapers on Monday saying Israel is trying to lure Iranian Jews to Israel by offering individuals a payment of $10,000.

The Jewish news outlet TJA recently ran a report on its website claiming that Israel has allocated $1 million to encourage Iranian Jews to immigrate to Israel.TJA said the fund was amassed by Jews of Iranian descent living in Israel. To entice Iranian Jews, Israel has increased the payment from $5000 to $10,000, TJA reported.

However, TJA has acknowledged that Iran’s over 20,000 Jews have shrugged off the offer.

Third US aircraft carrier heads for the Gulf

Anchors Aweigh! And Grand Ayatollah? "Regular deployments of the strike groupd to the Middle East are not designed to provoke any of the Gulf countries..." Although it would be nice if it did...Bring it, Mahmoud so we can counter your assertive, disruptive and coercive behavior.

Another US Navy aircraft carrier is heading towards the Middle East, boosting the number of the giant warships in the region to three, the navy said in a statement on Tuesday. The nuclear-powered USS Enterprise and its strike group will join the USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz in the navy's Fifth Fleet area of operation, which includes Gulf waters off Iran.

"The Enterprise is heading to Fifth Fleet waters and is not replacing any other ships in the area," a US Navy spokesperson told AFP without elaborating. The US Navy has significantly beefed up its presence in the region recently amid growing concerns in the West that Iran is secretly developing a nuclear weapons programme -- an accusation Tehran strongly denies.

The Enterprise "provides navy power to counter the assertive, disruptive and coercive behaviour of some countries, as well as support (to) our soldiers and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan," Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgrifff said in the statement. "Regular deployments of the strike groups to the Middle East are not designed to provoke any of the Gulf countries," it added.

Grand Ayatollah: Wah! UK provoked us with that Rushdie business

Sky News:

Britain has provoked al Qaeda into a possible terror attack by knighting Salman Rushdie, one of Iran's top religious leaders has exclusively told Sky News. The terror group has warned there will be a retaliatory strike against the UK following the novelist's honour. In response, Iran's Grand Ayatollah Saanei has told Sky News:

"When your Queen awards Salman Rushdie and turns him into a knight, what do you expect? This is a blasphemy. This is an insult to all the prophets of the world. Apart from the fact that this issue insults all the religions of the world, the terrorists can use this as a pretext and do something against Britain. This act of the Queen was a very, very vast action against Islam."



There's video of this joker at the link. As I was watching it all I could think about was hitting him right in the old mufti with a cream pie. How's that for provocation, possums?

And isn't it about time????

Pakistan: New banking unit to curb terror funding.


Pakistan's State Bank has introduced new checks on money transactions which may be used to monitor the funding of mosques and seminaries across the country. The bank said it had decided to establish a Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU) to curb money laundering and terrorist financing.The move is considered significant as it came while the military operation against militants holed up in Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa was at its peak and showed the government’s concern over the flow of funds to seminaries.


Follow the money...don't make me show the bagman again!


Senior bankers said that people who provided funds to the Lal Masjid and other mosques and madrassas or Islamic seminaries through cheques could be traced.“An incident like Lal Masjid could put the donors into a difficult situation,” said a senior banker. The head of Lal Masjid, Maulana Abdul Aziz, has already disclosed names of some people who have been providing funds to his madrassas.


There's more work to be done - as usual the legislators are the caboose bringing up the rear of the train.


“The scope of FMU will be further enhanced once the legislation on anti-money laundering is passed."

The Wahabis are coming! The Wahabis are coming!

Too late. It sounds like they are already there... Balkans: Wahabis seen as regional growing threat.

Tensions between Wahabis and mainstream Muslims have been simmering for the past 18 months as Wahabis seek to gain influence in Bosnia-Heregovina and also in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. In the past months, seven suspected militants were arrested in southern Serbia and a radical Islamist training camp and weapons cache uncovered. Evidence, the Serbian interior ministry says, that Wahabis are trying to recruit potential terrorists and plot attacks.

How do you tell a Wahabi? Look for long beards, short pants, and psychotic mindsets. And mosques? They don't need no stinkin' mosques.

Visibly identifiable by their ankle length trousers and beards, Wahabis have campaigned to do away with with what they see as heresy, attempts that have erupted into violence several times. Asked if the Islamic community can solve the problem of Wahabi radicalism, Zukorlic replied: "They no longer pray in mosques."

The Wahabi movement first emerged in the Balkans during the 1992-1995 civil war in Bosnia, when thousands of mujahadeen fighters from Islamic countries came to fight on the side of local Muslims. Many have remained in the country since the war, and according to foreign intelligence sources have been indoctrinating local youths and even operating terrorist training camps.Because of the Wahabi military support in the 1990s, the Bosnian government has been reluctant to crack down on Wahabi religious and military training efforts, analysts say. The Wahabis, who believe they are carrying out God's will, refuse to crack down on the alleged terrorists in their midst, stoking tensions between the Wahabis and the government.

Despite moderate mufti Zukorlic's assertion that the "Wahabis remain a small group with no significant influence in the region and the Wahabis claim that they are 'merely religious activists'. In my view, this tells the story about the Wahabis presence.

Only the funeral of former Bosnian Muslim leader and wartime Bosnian president, Alija Izetbegovic went down with a bigger crowd and more security than that of the unofficial leader of the Wahabi sect in Bosnia, Jusuf Barcic,, in Tuzla following his death in a car crash in April. Barcic's funeral threatened to become a serious incident as more than 3,000 Wahabis from Bosnia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Sandjak gathered at the event, refusing journalists access to the mosque. More than 50 uniformed and undercover police reportedly monitored the funeral. Police were reported to have taken no action when Palestinian Karray Kanel Bin Ali, the alleged 'mastermind' of the Wahabi sect in Bosnia, threatened to smash cameras and ordered a journalists to be removed from the spot.

Somebody should give Karray Kanel Bin Ali a wedgie in his short pants and then send his a$# back to Saudi Arabia.

Well, that's a fine how do you do...

Who knew the Army of Islam had a Complete Etiquette Guide to Hostage Taking?

It seems that certain members of the Army of Islam have their kaffiyehs in a knot at Alan Johnston's for not being sufficiently grateful to them for being held captive at gunpoint for four months. "He didn't even say thanks," they grouse.

The kidnappers expressed bizarre resentment that Johnston, 45, had done nothing to thank them for their hospitality while they held him at gunpoint in a tiny cell.

“We used to give him everything he wanted,” Abu Zobayer, an aide to Dagmoush, said.

“We spent £70 on his food every week. The Matouk restaurant [one of the best eateries in Gaza] got rich because we had to feed him.”

Johnston has said that he fell ill from the food he was served. Zobayer commented: “It’s not our problem that we gave him everything and he only ate a little.”

Although they did not torture him physically, the kidnappers seemed to have no concept of the psychological torture they were inflicting on the BBC correspondent.

“We had people with him all the time to try to help him to relax,” said Zobayer.

“We gave him a radio so that he could listen to his own channel. I myself sat with him to try to make him feel comfortable and feel that he will be released.”

Thailand: Hot for teacher...

Violence against schools and teachers in Thailand continues unabated. Teachers in Thailand's restive southern provinces seeking transfers...by the thousands.

Several thousand school teachers in Thailand's three troubled southernmost provinces have asked for transfers to posts elsewhere in the country, a senior teacher said Friday.

Why? Insurgents/Militants (read Muslims) attacks have increased.

There are more than 1,600 schools in the troubled provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat at present. Security measures for schools in the three provinces and some districts in nearby Songkhla province have been revised in order to better protect teachers, with military units from the Fourth Army Region, responsible for providing security in the South, being assigned to the schools, Mr Sa-nguan said earlier. However, given the continuing daily toll of death and destruction, it would seem that the added security is not effective. (ed. note: No sh^8, Sherlock.)

Zachary Abuza's fine post, A Week in Southern Thailand up at the Counterterrorism Blog, reports what happened just in ONE week:

Five soldiers on teacher protection detail were wounded when a bomb hidden in the ceiling panel of the teacher’s room was detonated. Seven soldiers on teacher patrols were killed by a bomb or shot by insurgents after being thrown from their vehicle... in another case militants opened fire on a “pickup truck school bus” wounding two, including a student. In one of the more planned ambushes, a 10-man police convoy for teachers was ambushed, wounding one, and a roadside IED placed for the group of soldiers coming as reinforcements, detonated wounding one...Two schools and a sub-district office were arsoned.

And about that security? He adds this:

The security presence in the south was minimal. In five days of driving, last week, I rarely witnessed patrols. The vast majority of security forces, including army, police, rangers, and border patrol police were in fixed static positions, usually behind sandbags and concertina wire. Checkpoints are unmanned during the days, and only once was my vehicle stopped and searched. The security forces tend to go out only in reaction to events, rather than on active patrols. In only one case, did I see five soldiers on foot patrolling/searching. Most of the soldiers who are killed or wounded are on security detail for teachers; hence they do not like to leave their barracks. Despite the fact that there were two schools arsoned that week, and more than 200 altogether, I did not see a single security detail in front of a school. Not one school had even the slightest deterrent to attack.

If you guessed Iraq. Or Pakistan - you guessed wrong!

Guess where this is:

In all 32 people and three militants were killed, and 94 were wounded. There were 23 IEDs detonated and three defused. A bomb in ******* killed four and wounded 26. Five soldiers on teacher protection detail were wounded when a bomb hidden in the ceiling panel of the teacher’s room was detonated. Seven soldiers on teacher patrols were killed by a bomb or shot by insurgents after being thrown from their vehicle. In other roadside IED incidents, a total of ten bombs wounded six soldiers, nine police and six rangers. Several bombs had no casualties. In one instance, a second IED was placed to target first responders. In another incident an IED was placed en route to the scene where a family of four was shot dead; four police were wounded. Most of the victims were killed by gunshot, including, four headmen, 14 civilians, and a female ranger. Other security forces came under fire, wounding, two border patrol police, three police and several soldiers, and one village defense volunteer. In one instance, suspected militants opened fire on a teashop killing a woman, wounding a police and a civilian; and in another case militants opened fire on a “pickup truck school bus” wounding two, including a student. In one of the more planned ambushes, a 10-man police convoy for teachers was ambushed, wounding one, and a roadside IED placed for the group of soldiers coming as reinforcements, detonated wounding one. In other violence, there were grenade attacks on a mosque and a teashop, wounding six civilians. One civilian was hacked to death and his corpse burnt; another civilian was shot, before his body was burnt. Two schools and a sub-district office were arsoned and train tracks were sabotaged: between 55-65 bolts were removed.


No, it's not Baquba or Baghdad, Fallujah or Tikrit. It's a week in Southern Thailand.

Okay, here's another one. Guess where this is?

On 4 July, 11 suspected militants were arrested during a raid at the ********** Islamic School, in ******** district. Some 600-700 students tried to block the security forces from entering the compound. Some 108 items, including gun and bomb-making materials were seized. Several days later, authorities shut down the school.

No, it's not another radical madrassa in Pakistan ala the Red Mosque. It's Islam Burapha Islamic School, in Narathiwat’s Muang district, only five kilometers away from the Taksin Royal Palace.

About King Taksin (and if I were the short, bearded one in the Members Only jacket I just might want to read this).

The fate of King Taksin is often left undiscussed by online histories. The few online documents that look at the causes of King Taksin's downfall attribute his problems to mental health. Evidently King Taksin began to believe that he was a second incarnation of Buddha. He stopped governing the country and removed himself to a monastry. The ensuing chaos as government broke down led to riots. The execution took place on April 6, 1782. King Taksin was 48 years old and had been king for 15 years.

How do they execute a Thai King?

"(King Taksin) was deposed by his ministers, who then executed him in the custom reserved for royalty -- by shackling his hands and feet with gold restraints, sewing him into a velvet sack so that no royal blood touched the ground, then beating him to death with a sandalwood club.

UK: Juror held in contempt for music under hajib (sic)

Hey, It's The Sun, what do you expect?

ANOTHER indication of the respect the average Muslim has for the United Kingdom and it's laws.

A MUSLIM woman juror could be facing jail after she was arrested in court for apparently listening to music during a murder trial.

She is said to have used a traditional hijab headscarf to hide earphones to her MP3 player while ignoring vital evidence from a retired businessman who brutally bludgeoned his disabled wife to death.

She has been accused of contempt, an offence which can carry an unlimited fine and indefinite imprisonment.

More about this "unidentified due to legal reasons" piece of work at the link - and she is definitely a piece of work. It did my heart good to at least see that they used the word "Muslim" in the piece - even if they did spell hijab wrong.

Hah! I keep a framed needlepoint of this verse...

on the dresser in my room.

I definitely need to step up my game.

Sheik Google.

Just one more reason for me to hate Google: Modern Militant recruits himself.

According to an analysis from the Australian Federal Police counter-terrorism division, presented to a terrorism course in Sydney this week: "These extremists are previously unknown to authorities, exhibit no prior extremist tendencies publicly, do not associate with known extremists and are assimilated into the greater community. From all appearances and actions they are moderate members of society."

Their indoctrination and expertise comes from "Sheik Google" and the world wide web. "To a large extent, the internet has replaced actual training camps as a source of instruction and inspiration for militant Muslims," says the AFP analysis.

Everything they need can be found on the hundreds of extremist websites: how to make bombs, avoid surveillance, achieve physical fitness and justify violence on religious grounds
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The internet is now "the greatest enabler of teaching, nurturing and sustenance of extremist jihadi ideology".

This was evidenced by recent terrorism raids in Australia, which recovered hundreds of "terabytes" of material - enough to fill several rooms up to the ceiling - downloaded from the internet.

It's sad but true. I hate google and yet, I use it shamelessly and boldly. Even worse - here I am on blogger! (although I've been thinking of moving onto another platform-warning techtard alert.)

Why do I hate Google? 9 times out of 10 I am unable to access Little Green Footballs when I click on an LGF link. Same with Power Line. But let a Jihadi scumbag try and hook up with say - plans for a nuclear bomb and bang! (literally) - they've got it. And I know it's because Google wants it that way.

Why do I use it shamelessly? Unfortunately, it's the only game in town.

I think there will come a time when the Crusaders (that means you and me, white man) will have to come up with an alternative. Until then, I say, Google be damned. Let's take the fight to the enemy using every tool at our disposal.)

And then there's wICKipedia. Sometimes you'll find me playing in that fever swamp.

UK bombings: Follow the money...Mohammed Haneef

Current jihadi money man
Former Walmart greeter

Did they find the bagman?

AUSTRALIAN authorities are investigating whether Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef is part of a national sleeper cell of foreign doctors established here to fund overseas terrorist activities including the botched bomb attacks in the United Kingdom.

Federal and Queensland police are currently tracking overseas and local transactions from the bank accounts of Indian-born Dr Haneef who was the eighth suspect arrested over the attacks in London and Glasgow late last month, law enforcement sources said.

Each overseas transaction is believed to be below $10,000 which would avoid any scrutiny from AUSTRAC – a Federal Government regulator of transactions of $10,000 or more.

If the funds can be directly linked to terrorist activity, UK authorities could extradite Dr Haneef, 27, who remains in custody at the Brisbane police watchhouse.

Yesterday, as a bomb squad opened his locker at the Gold Coast Hospital, it turned out not to be his and it turned out to be clean. This is most interesting:

The Sunday Mail can also reveal that police are examining signature stamps found in computer software on Dr Haneef's laptop which was seized during raids at his Gold Coast unit last Tuesday. Police suspect the stamps, believed to be of Indian origin, may be from an overseas university.

Law enforcement sources said the discovery of the stamps has sparked concerns that they could be used to falsify documents. It is understood an AFP officer will travel to India to trace the origin of the stamps.

God bless the Aussies. It sounds like they are all over this guy like a cheap suit.

Dr Haneef's every association and movement since his arrival in Australia last year will come under scrutiny as police seek to determine whether a terror cell had taken hold here. With no scenario ruled out, flight schools will be contacted to see if Dr Haneef was taking flying lessons and Gold Coast internet cafes will be checked.

Up to 50 specialist investigators from Queensland police's State Crime Operations Command and forensic units are working on the investigation with the Australian Federal Police.

The FBI yesterday confirmed a report Dr Haneef had sought to work at a US hospital last year prior to coming to Australia.

Haneef and Jordanian neurologist Mohammed Jamil Asha (the islam-o-nutjob arrested with his wife in Manchester), tried to work the Philadelphia angle to get into the US.

We keep getting better and better at rounding them up, now we need to get better at keeping them from even getting started. A.) Don't let them in. B.) Stop accommodating the ones that are here. Any other suggestions?

Glasgow: Bomber so burnt his mobile melted into his body.

That's hot!

Kafeel Ahmed - 1986

or so says The Times of India.

They also keep throwing the word "allegedly" around when they describe the actions of this evil idiot. Like we didn't all see him doing it! Sometimes they really carry this presumed innocent business too far especially when it comes to acts of terror. It if walks like a duck, etc.

Kafeel Ahmed, the Indian engineer who allegedly drove a blazing jeep into the Glasgow airport, had left a suicide note at his house, a media report said on Sunday amid claims that he had links with a senior Al-Qaeda operative.

Old Kafeel was "allegedly" radicalized by Hizb ut-Tahrir back in 2004 while he was doing research at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He's chummy with Al Qaeda bombmaker Abbas Boutrab and they may have belonged to the same AQ cell in "the quiet base" of Ireland. Oh and he also had jihadi materials in his possession.

More juicy bits at the link, including this:

...The disclosure will raise fresh questions over the extent of information held by Mi5, the British Intelligence Service, on suspects involved in the attempted car bomb attacks.

... Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command SO15 is understood to have uncovered evidence that in the months leading up to the attacks one or more of the suspects communicated by telephone or e-mail with terrorist leaders in Iraq.

....Details of the Al-Qaeda role in the three failed car bombings are expected to emerge over the next few days.

...The development suggests that intelligence received by Mi5, British Intelligence Service, earlier this year about a possible Al-Qaeda attack to mark Blair's departure was accurate. A report in April by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) warned that a senior Iraqi Al-Qaeda commander had outlined details of a big attack in Britain. The report said the commander "stressed the need to take care to ensure the attack was successful and on a large scale". It was aimed "ideally" to take place before Blair stepped down. It said JTAC which is based at Mi5's London headquarters, was "aware that AQ-I (Al Qaeda in Iraq)... networks are active in the UK".

The breath of the beast

And you don't need two guesses to figure out what BEAST we're talking about.

It's the hot, fetid blast of noxious evil that emanates from all things Islam and Yaacov Ben Moshe has put up a powerful post up at his blog Breath of the Beast. that nails it.


Hop over and check it out.

Libby pays $250,000 fine with a check

It turns out to be a cashier's check. And here I was hoping it would be a personal check. I love the thought of Scooter paying his fine with a personal check. I once worked with a guy named Scooter. He was a wild man of the first order and as a result, I have always had a fondness for the name. I've always had a fondness for guys who can write personal checks in the amount of $250,000, too.

Morocco out of Iraq now!

Moroccan security forces put on maximum alert.
RABAT (AFP) - Morocco's security forces were on maximum alert on Saturday after "established terror threats" by what experts said was the regional branch of Al-Qaeda.

Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa informed the country's security experts on Friday of a "current threat" against the north-west African country.

"Reliable information relayed in recent days to the interior ministry described the preparation of acts of terrorism in Morocco," a Moroccan security source told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Morocco is cooperating fully with foreign police services," the source said, adding that in the face of the threat, Morocco "is putting itself in a situation of extreme vigilance."


Funny. FBI Director Robert Mueller was in Rabat just last Friday. What a coinkydink.

Iran: Electricity Rationing up next?

According to Rooz, the bearded, short one in the Members Only jacket is calling for it.

A week after launching his gasoline rationing scheme, which led to violence across the country, president Ahmadinejad announced his desire to replicate to replicate the idea for electricity as well. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of Shahid Reyis Ali Delvari dam in Bushehr province, he referred to gasoline rationing and announced, “This type of conservation could also be applied to electricity consumption.”

They're producing record amounts - but...

The president of the Islamic Republic spoke of the need to conserve electricity at a time when just last week the minister of power boasted a record amount of electricity produced in the country last year. “If no unexpected problem occurs and power consumption does not radically change during peak hours, we shall not have the expected power breaks,” he said.

Who you gonna believe? The minister? Or the black outs?

These words of the minister of the ninth Islamic government were made at a time when during the past recent weeks the country experienced extensive black outs, which experts have attributed to the run-down and limited capacity of the power grid, “parts of which are over 50 years old, requiring renovation.”

Especially when the minister appears to be talking out of both sides of his mouth...

The president’s comments gain weight when one notes that just last week the ministry of power called on the public to conserve on power consumption warning that if they did not, they would face power cuts.

Faster please, on the sanctions.

Iowahawk strikes again...

and he does not disappoint.

UK warning: Look out for people doing things.

"...On Tuesday, new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with representatives of the medical and car communities and announced that the government would henceforth prohibit occupational and transportational profiling by public officials. Brown said further government communications would prohibit the use of certain prejudicial words like "doctor," "Vauxhall," "podiatrist," "propane," "Asia," "drive," "ticking noises," "panic," and "the." Brown also announced the formation of a blue ribbon multicultural community advisory board chaired by Dr. Mohammed Ibn-Yasin of the UK Islamic Podiatric and Car Bombing Club..."

UK Dhimmis spring into action! Can't bend over fast enough.

From the Scotsman: Muslims are welcomed as the 'latest of Jock Tamson's bairns.'

KENNY MacAskill, the Cabinet secretary for justice, embraced Scotland's muslim community as "the latest of Jock Tamson's bairns" yesterday in an attempt to heal any divisions caused by the terrorist attack in Glasgow. (this in itself is ludicrous on its face.)

Mr MacAskill praised the muslim community during a visit to the Edinburgh Central Mosque, insisting that Scotland had a long history of welcoming people from different countries and religions.

He said he wanted "to pay respect to the muslim community in Scotland, to recognise they are a vital factor in 21st century Scotland, they are just the latest of Jock Tamson's bairns."

The Justice Secretary also condemned acts of retaliation and vandalism against the muslim community after the Glasgow airport attack. Mr MacAskill said: "Any incident is an incident too many.

"Police, prosecution and government will not countenance anybody seeking to vent their racist spleen on individuals."

Oh, cry me a river you big bunch of Muslim babies.

So what's been happening in the racist spleen dept that required a "special meeting"????

A MOSQUE was targeted in a revenge attack for the Glasgow strike, it was feared yesterday. An estate agents next to the Islamic centre in Bathgate, West Lothian, was attacked on Sunday night when what appeared to be a petrol bomb was thrown through a window...

Shami Khan, a community activist and an Edinburgh city councillor until the May elections, said last night: "People will be victimised and there will be a backlash after the Glasgow attack."...

Jalal Chaudry, a spokesman for the Edinburgh Muslim community, said anti-Muslim graffiti had been spotted in Edinburgh. He had been to an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders, also attended by Alex Salmond and the justice minister, Kenny McAskill, in Glasgow on Sunday.

The wICKipedia entry for Jock Tamson's bairns here.

Live Earth non-update.

Via Mark Steyn over at the Corner:

I don't know about the rest of the gang but I was kinda looking forward to spending the weekend doing cracks about rock stars taking their private jets halfway round the world to tell the little people why they need to sell the second-hand Honda Civic and get back on the bus. But to be honest my heart's not in berating the rock colossi for their carbon footprints of clay.

The way this thing's going it looks like, thanks to Al Gore, all-star charity galas will be joining the polar bears on his endangered species list.

I want to bequeath the wonders of this earth to the next generation, but I worry that my grandchildren will never know the feeling that you've totally demonstrated your tremendous concern and commitment to taking action just by going to a concert and staying until halfway through the George Michael set when he started doing stuff from the new album. I worry that my grandchildren will never know the thrill of being hectored by Bono and Bob Geldof, and that many already rare species will simply vanish from the earth - Seventies supergroups who've not yet had a long-awaited charity-gala reunion, hot young acts who haven't had the chance to cover 'Imagine' with the lights down and everybody in the stadium holding disposable lighters, Eighties girl groups who've not yet reunited for a Playboy shoot, the last three celebrities who haven't duetted with Elton John, bald-headed Eagles doing the 50th anniversary performance of 'Hotel California'...

On the other hand, if Cat Stevens goes down well, Jihad Aid might have legs.

It's not the jihad but it reminded me of Al Qaeda in Iraq

Dinner guest finds host's wife, son in freezer.
A Belgian man appeared in court on Friday after a woman at his dinner party found the bodies of his wife and stepson in the freezer as she put away the leftovers, prosecutors said.

The woman went to the police after discovering the 46-year-old woman and her 11-year-old son and officers arrested the man in the town of Verviers, near Liege in east Belgium, on Wednesday.

Man, you can't make this stuff up!

Also from Kamangir.

This is a screenshot of the the Islamic Republic national television. As of what is going on here, the guys in the back are playing music and the one seated on the front is singing. If you, like probably many others, like to know what those blue barriers are doing on the stage, I should tell you that they are protecting the Sharia. The fact is, according to many top clerics, and that I believe includes the Supreme Leader, showing musical instruments in the television is a sin. So, the guys are playing the rich Iranian music “in hiding”.

Sharia, Music and Creativity.

Iran-US Face-Off goes Sci-Fi: Spy Squirrels and Godly UFOs

No lie this is from Kamangir.

You can relax about that whole nuclear Iran thing, Rocket J Squirrel is on the job.

And the Mahdi? He is going be arriving in a UFO.

According to IRNA, the official Islamic Republic news agency, the national Police chief has implicitly verified the news about the confiscation of a number of squirrels, equipped with eavesdropping devices, on the Iranian borders. He has declined to give any more details, but, reportedly, when asked about the confiscation of 14 spy squirrels, he stated, “I have heard about it, but I do not have precise information”. IRNA adds, “These squirrels were equipped by foreign intelligence services, but were captured two weeks ago by the Police”.

2- The Iranian blogger Gameeron reports that he has heard on a state-run radio station that a cleric has been talking about the twelfth Imam, who is supposed to rise and make earth all Godly. He has reportedly mentioned, “It is not like Imam will use his sword to defeat the enemies. Have you not heard about the occasional news about the UFOs which are spotted in the sky? We know nothing about the passengers of those objects. Maybe, Imam will use UFOs to attack his enemies. Because, when the time comes, he will call you guys and will tell you, ‘You! Go and become the governor of London, You! Go and become the governor of Shicago. You! Go and become the governor of Berlin. You have to be ready for the time, when he calls on you to become the governor of Paris’”.

Unh-huh. The governor of Shicago.

Al Qaeda going low tech? And high nuke?

From the Anti-Mullah

US intelligence sources have indicated that US counter-terror analysts were looking at what they felt were “changes” in targeting and methodological doctrine by al-Qaida-linked jihadist terrorist groups. In particular, the translations of the information on the website which provided the basis for the assessment were believed to highlight a new “low-tech terrorism” against targets in the West.

Confirmation of a single nuke? That's what they're saying...

Read it all.

Joe Lieberman calls Iran on the Persian carpet for their proxy wars

From the WSJ via Iran Focus. Yeah, what he said.


While some will no doubt claim that Iran is only attacking U.S. soldiers in Iraq because they are deployed there -- and that the solution, therefore, is to withdraw them -- Iran's parallel proxy attacks against moderate Palestinians, Afghans and Lebanese directly rebut such claims.


Iran is acting aggressively and consistently to undermine moderate regimes in the Middle East, establish itself as the dominant regional power and reshape the region in its own ideological image.


The involvement of Hezbollah in Iraq, just revealed by Gen. Bergner, illustrates precisely how interconnected are the different threats and challenges we face in the region.


The fanatical government of Iran is the common denominator that links them together.


No responsible leader in Washington desires conflict with Iran. But every leader has a responsibility to acknowledge the evidence that the U.S. military has now put before us: The Iranian government, by its actions, has all but declared war on us and our allies in the Middle East.


Gen Bergner's claims.
Iranian outrage and denial.

Goldman Sachs - the next target?

You know Dinah used to have a life on Wall Street so you can imagine how her Islam-o-radar went off upon reading this post by Watcher over at Eye on the World.

It became a two alarm Islam-o-alert in the comments section over at MNM where herroyalwhyness brought up those dastardly Muslims, the Islamic Thinkers Society (hah - as if). Those dirtbags in NYC that went to town on a US flag - stomping all up on it and then setting it alight. Grrr. Don't watch it if you don't want your blood pressure to go up. Mine does just thinking about it.




A version of Goldman's response from Mayor Mike's cash cow, Bloomberg News. (And yes, once upon a time I worked with Mike Bloomberg.) Disgruntled employees and customers are being checked first, extremist groups of unmentioned religions, I guess that will be whenever they get around to it...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the world's biggest securities firm, said law-enforcement authorities don't consider letters making threats against the company to be credible.

About 20 letters were sent to different newspapers on or around June 27, said Thomas Boyle, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspectors in New York. The letters say that ``hundreds will die'' and ``we have people inside Goldman Sachs,'' he said.

``We are working closely with the law-enforcement authorities, who tell us they don't believe the threat to be very credible,'' Michael DuVally, a Goldman spokesman in New York, said in an e-mailed statement.

``We take any threat to the safety of our people very seriously.''

A team of postal inspectors is working with Goldman Sachs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Joint Terrorism Task Force to try to identify who sent the letters, Boyle said.

Authorities don't know whether they are terror-related or come from someone with a direct connection to the firm.

Text of entire company response here.


Goldman - Downtown NYC

Oddly enough, Goldman did not receive the letters. Where the letters were sent:

The letters were sent to newspapers in areas including Seattle; Boise, Idaho; Corpus Christi, Texas; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Bayonne and Newark, N.J.; and cities in Vermont, Ohio and North Dakota. The Star-Ledger of Newark is the largest newspaper to have received one of the letters; theirs was postmarked June 27.

The newspapers notified law enforcement agencies after receiving the letters and in some cases alerted Goldman Sachs directly, law enforcement officials said. Officials said they have no reason to suspect the newspapers that received the threatening letters have been targeted.

Goldman Sachs did not receive any of the threatening letters, Boyle said.

The copy of the letter is from CNN.

On a personal note...

Dinah is doing Denver!

Yep. We finally sold our house. Finally.

We've found a place just south of Denver so I am in the throes of that packing thing.

Blogging might be lighter than usual over the next few days. Or I might be going at it like a gerbil on crack. You know my blog addiction is severe.

Anywho - back at it. The jihad never sleeps.

The difference between us and them...

From the off-duty officer that hosed off the Muslim petrol bomber:

Bravo, Officer Ferguson...well done.

"...Ahmed, 27, who doused himself in petrol and set himself alight in the attack, was saved by an off-duty British police officer who hosed him down.

'It never entered my consciousness to walk away from the guy - I would have been failing in my duty to preserve life - and it doesn't matter whose life that is at the end of the day,' the officer, Stewart Ferguson, has said.

Also from the article...Australian hospitals searched, laptops seized. Looks like there are doctors in the house.

Investigators in Australia, where Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, 27, is being held, Friday searched hospitals in connection with the botched attacks.

They said laptops and telephones were seized in Perth and Sydney as counter-terrorism police investigated a possible network of Muslim militants.

But Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty stressed that only one person was in custody and that no charges had been brought.

And in India...
Indian police Friday questioned the families of three Indian suspects as the authorities in Bangalore said they had launched a full investigation into the terrorist plot.

You've got to read it all...

How Scotland beats terrorism
by Mandleigh Wells.

A fanatic muslim *******
Wiz doin what he'd planned
And intae Glesca's departure hall
A Cherokee he'd rammed.
A big Glaswegian polis
Came forward tae assist
He thocht "a wumman driver"
Or at least someone half-pissed
But to his shock nae drunken
JockEmerged to grasp his hand
But a flamin Arab loony
Frae Al Qaeda's band

(h/t to The Corner and of course, Robbie Burns.)

Iran: Ouch! Those sanctions do hurt!

Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hameneh speaks out about the sanctions - don't look for him to be oil minister for long....

Iran admitted on Tuesday that international sanctions imposed over its controversial nuclear programme were harming its ability to invest in oil infrastructure, the backbone of its economy.

"The problems that they have made for banks have troubled financing of some projects," Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh told the official IRNA news agency. He said that the government was attempting to use its own resources, built up from windfall receipts resulting from the high world oil prices of recent years, to make up for the shortfalls in foreign investment.

Hamaneh's admission contrasted with comments by hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday in which he insisted that Iran was unfazed by the prospect of further sanctions. "They cannot hurt us, not that they don't want to but because they are incapable of doing do as they are in a difficult situation," he said.

In other Iranian oil related news:

Mortar aimed at gas station in Tehran fails.

80 arrested in fuel protests.

Hugo to the rescue. Venezuela to sell Iran some gas.

Khamenei speaks: Women - don't play with sharia law

you'll get lashed.

Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and ten lashes.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also lambasted the West for using women as a tool to advertise products, make money and to satisfy "disorderly and unlawful sexual needs," state television said.

He was addressing a group of women, most dressed conservatively in head-to-toe black chadors, in Tehran ahead of Thursday's anniversary of the birth of Prophet Mohammad's daughter, Fatima, when Iran honors mothers and women.

The Islamic Republic rejects allegations it is discriminating against women, saying it follows sharia law.

(Sharia law = The official handbook of the 'He-man-woman-hater's-club also known as Islam'.)

More on Delaram Ali, the protestor who is going to feel Khamenei's lash.

Another dowry issue: This gal has spunk!

Indian woman strips in dowry row.

A woman in western India has stripped to her underwear in public to protest over alleged abuses from her husband's family for not providing a dowry. Her in-laws were questioned by the police and have been released on bail.

The Hindu woman shocked residents of the normally conservative city of Rajkot in Gujarat state, by her half-naked parade through the street.

More about the dowry: It's been illegal in India for more than 40 years but continues unabated. 7000 women are killed EVERY YEAR by their spouses and inlaws because of dowry problems. (and those are only the ones they catch!)

India: Baby girl survives being buried alive...

"Oh, poor thing," I'm sure you're thinking. "It must have occurred in a natural catastrophe or accident of some kind. .."

Wrong.

She was buried by her grandfather, Abdul Rahman, who said he "couldn't afford to marry off his four daughters, much less another granddaughter." There was no word on the role of the mother.

Think he's Muslim? We'll never know from the article which goes on to cite the "rural nature' of female infanticide and foeticide.

The hijab is the 'flag of Islam", represents Muslim life, scorn of Western Civ

Iran: Majlis Speaker says Iran defies West on women rights

Oh God. Just read it all - it's making my head spin but this neatly sums up why the hijab should be banned IMO:

"... the hijab (Islamic dress) is the “flag of Islam” and represents “Muslim life” and any woman who wears hijab it means that she has scorned Western way of life."

Just more women's rights Iranian style.

UK's Brown: 'I now propose to surrender..."

This guy is even worse than I thought.

Hat tip Free Republic... Brown surrenders war powers to Parliament.

In his first statement to the House of Commons since assuming power last week, Brown said he would surrender to Parliament 12 powers traditionally reserved for the prime minister under the "Royal prerogative," including the power to declare war, along with the power to dissolve the House, and the right to appoint judges and bishops.

"I now propose to surrender or limit these powers to make for a more open 21st century British democracy which better serves the British people," he told MPs, to loud Labour cheers.

Red Mosque leader tries to flee in burka

His pot belly gave him away.

And in other Muslim men wearing burkas to get away with things news: Men disguised as women rob bank.

Pakistan: Red Mosqueteers are at it again.

Mosque Students, security forces exchange fire. At least two people were injured and dozens of girls enrolled in a madrassa religious school fainted as security forces and militant students exchanged fire at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Tuesday. Clerics of the Red Mosques also asked the students to take up their positions and prepare to carry out suicide attacks, local reports said.
Soldier killed, five wounded. Jihadettes faint. Muslims seethe. Dog bites man.

Get the Rangers in a circle, Pilgrim. Pakistan had on Monday deployed more forces near the mosque to tighten security around it, Dawn newspaper reported on Tuesday. The move has brought the total number of Rangers deployed around the mosque to 1,500, with 500 police commandos in support. The newspaper quoting informed sources said the authorities of the mosque have also reinforced security of its brigade, which is equipped with advanced weapons and wireless systems, and threatened to raid more massage centres in the city.

Dare I say it? Sure I will. Musharraf is a pussy. President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that the potential loss of human lives was preventing him from taking any action against the Lal Masjid, while adding that suicide bombers from Jaish-e-Mohammad were also hiding in the mosque.

“We are afraid of the baton-wielding madrassas who will stand by Lal Masjid if we launch action,” he said, while addressing the concluding ceremony of the National Media Workshop organised by the National Defence University. He said the female students of the Lal Masjid’s adjoining madrassa were “prepared for suicide attacks” and up to 500 children “were being used as human shields” to stop the government from contemplating any operation.

He said members of Jaish-e-Mohammad, the banned militant group linked to Al Qaeda, were also hiding in the mosque, adding that they were all capable of suicide attacks. “How can I take action?” he said. “Action is ready but will be taken at a right time.”

He goes on to add: that the government would take action against the Lal Masjid if the media guaranteed that it would not show any of the bodies of those killed during the operation.

Jihadis from all over the region are reported to be riding to the rescue. Contacts in jihadist circles told Asia Times Online that there will be a reaction all over the country, including in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. They claimed that more than 1,000 jihadis were already on their way to the capital.

And all 'peace agreements' are off. The jihadi contacts also said any peace agreements with the government in Bajur agency and the Waziristan tribal areas would be terminated. After a series of disastrous military offensives to try to contain militancy and Taliban activities in the tribal areas, the government made several deals under which it withdrew its troops and made peace deals.

Not only are the Red Mosqueteers against vice and modern life, at issue is a fatwa (again with the fatwas!) that provoked the reaction against the Pakistani military. The decree mandated that people were not allowed to say funeral prayers or bury soldiers in Muslim graveyards if they were killed fighting against the Taliban.

Taxi driver helps fill in the blanks in Scottish blast

Tax-i!

As the evening wore on, it transpired that a local taxi firm, Paisley Cab Company, had been unwittingly transporting the alleged bombers in the days leading up the attack.

One member of staff said: "The police interviewed us and put some names to us. They wanted to know if they had used our services in the last five or six weeks. I was able to confirm they had."

One suspect is understood to have made a total of 19 journeys with the company, between 21 May and 28 June.

The majority were taken to and from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and an address in nearby Houston, with one journey to Glasgow airport on 13 June.

Want to contact Paisley Cab and thank them for their help in the War on Terror? Click here.

Salman Rushdie to divorce...

Wifey says I'm not waiting for the other fatwa to drop, I'm outta here.

I don't know, I'm not feeling too charitable after that Glasgow bombing

Islamic Relief launches Action for Africa appeal. Take their case to Scottish Parliament.

Officials from British Muslim charity, Islamic Relief, have appealed to the Scottish parliament to help raise awareness of the humanitarian impact of conflict and famine in areas such as Darfur, Niger, Mali and Somalia. Makki Hamid, Islamic Relief’s Head of Africa Region, was part of the team briefing Scottish MPs after returning from Darfur, Niger and Mali.

"The situation in Darfur is chaotic - at least 20 groups are fighting each other, while the ancient reconciliation process based on the traditional tribal system has been destroyed by years of military regime,” Hamid told Adnkronos International (AKI) in an interview."Contrarily to how it is portrayed in the media, this conflict is not a religious one, such as the one in Southern Sudan, where it is Muslims against Christians. This [Darfur] is Muslims fighting other Muslims over resources and unresolved land disputes between farmers and nomads,” he said.

Oh - like that makes it different? It's still Muslim nutjobs going off. Even worse, listen to this reference to the dhimmis in Westminister.

The visit to the Scottish parliament, which was promoted by the first Muslim Scottish MP, Bashir Ahmad, included a presentation of the charity’s activities in Africa and a questions-and -answers session with a group of parliamentarians.Habib Malik, Islamic Relief’s coordinator for Scotland, welcomed the opportunity to speak at the Scottish Parliament and said this kind of initiatives should be “of inspiration for what is done down at Westminster (Seat of the English parliament).”

And get a load of this line of Islamospeak...

“Islamic charities can play a fundamental role there because they have a better understanding of people’s needs, and not only the material ones.” “We use quotes from the Koran to persuade them that Islam does not support any of their violence,” he said.

Charity begins at home. Perhaps instead of going to Africa they could use some of those quotes on the ones who are blowing all that stuff up in the UK.

Father of Taliban denied British Visa

Jesus. I should hope so.

The British High Commission in Islamabad has denied visa to the hardline Muslim senator and chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Samiul-Haq.

Dubbed "the father of the Taliban" because many Taliban, including Mullah Omar, were schooled in a madrassa he ran, Haq had applied for the visa to attend the multi-party conference scheduled to be held in London this month. A press release issued in Peshawar on Sunday said the High Commission had given Maulana Haq a charge sheet and even barred him from filing an appeal against the decision. The party has requisitioned a meeting of the Standing Committee of the house to discuss the issue.

(So pretty, isn't he? He also advocates the killing of Salman Rushdie and is one of the dirty nutbags calling for the knighting of OBL.)

Salman Rushdie linkage to UK bombings? Gee, ya think?

The real reason the Muzzies hate Salman? They're jealous of his lovely wife, Padma

It has become quite clear that the media would rather play up the Iraq-War-terror-tactic-moving-to-our-shores angle than focus on the Salman Rushdie angle.



Despite things like this:



Police say there was no prior indication of a possible terrorist threat - yet it has emerged that a message appeared on a popular jihadist website on Thursday night seemingly predicting an attack.


Hours before police dismantled the first car bomb, a posting on the Al Hesbah chat forum pointed to an imminent Al Qaeda bombing in London.


The message, posted under the name Abu Osama al-Hazeen, gave the invasion of Iraq and the recent knighthood for Salman Rushdie as justification for a fresh terrorist attack on Britain.



Al-Hazeen wrote: "Is Britain longing for Al Qaeda's bombings? We, and the whole world has seen what Britain has done ... their intention to honour Salman Rushdie who insulted and slandered Islam. This 'honouring' came at a crucial time, a time when the whole nation is reeling from the Crusaders attacks on all Muslim lands.



"The British capital has witnessed blessed operations that shook it to its foundations. This was because the British had attacked the lands of Muslims and Al Qaeda is still threatening to strike against Britain to throw it out of the lands of Islam. But now, there's yet another reason for Al Qaeda to carry out such threats; the honouring of the apostate Salman Rushdie by the Crusaders ... Rushdie who insulted Islam ... and this reason has led Muslims to become even more sympathetic with the Mujahideen.


"The question now is: Has London longed for the bombings of Al Qaeda? We say to Britain, the Emir of Al Qaeda, Sheikh Osama, has once threatened you, and he carried out his threats.
"Today I say: Rejoice ... By Allah London shall be bombed."


Another poster on the forum responded: "Amen - we pray to Allah that the development of such operations would be under way." "Amen - O Allah make us witness this soon."


Al-Hazeen replied: "Victory is very close - but you are just rushing it!"

I'd like my Muslim terrorist extra crispy

Veil wearing Martian arrested in UK bomb plot

Veil wearing Martian

They'll say she's a Martian before they'll cop to the fact that it's a Muslim terror plot through and through.

You know it's true.

(P.S. I heard that both the M6 suspects were forced to strip, their clothes were confiscated and they had to put on paper suits. Still looking for a link. Has anybody else heard this?)

The poodle gets his chutzpah back!

Tony Blair , aka "George W Bush's poodle" rips off the political muzzle and goes after "absurd British Islamists with their false sense of grievance" in his new role of envoy.

Sic 'em, Tony.

One Night in Bangkok...

Round 'em up. I love the smell of fresh terror detainees in the morning!

Security forces raided a village in the South on Sunday and detained 50 men with bomb-making equipment, an army spokesman said.

The detainees were taken for questioning to an army camp in Narathiwat, one of three provinces where more than 2,300 people have been killed in a three-year separatist insurgency in the Malay-speaking region.The dawn raid, which involved 100 troops and police, followed tipoffs from villagers that a group of militants were hiding in the village, Col Atthadej Mathanom said.

The detainees can be held without charge for 28 days under an emergency law.Last month, the army detained 160 Muslims after rebels intensified attacks on government schools, civil servants and security forces.

Sudanese Rape injustice - I'm smelling sharia law

And it stinks - even more alarming? I actually find myself in agreement with people like Gov. Bill Richardson of NM and Refugees International ....I'm telling you, you'd better repent for the end is surely near...

The Washington-based organisation Refugees International today has released a report - "Laws Without Justice: An assessment of Sudanese laws affecting survivors of rape" - looking into the Sudanese legislation. The analysis came to shocking conclusions on how rape victims in Sudan are denied justice, especially in war-ravaged Darfur.

The study resulted from a January meeting between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. During this visit, the officials in Sudan's Ministry of Justice extended an invitation to analyse the government's purported efforts to address sexual violence against Sudanese women. Refugees International president Ken Bacon, who was in the Richardson delegation, accepted this invitation, and lawyer Ms Fricke and Amira Khair, a Sudanese human rights advocate, met in Khartoum in March to interview people with knowledge about the crisis of rape in Darfur. "

After a week, the Sudanese government turned uncooperative and gave 24 hours to leave the country," the organisation however claims.

Rape of Darfuri women on a mass scale is one of the hallmarks of the conflict in Darfur. Several analysts claim it is part of a calculated plan to destroy communities and contributes directly to ethnic cleansing.

If a woman cannot prove that she did not consent to intercourse, she can be accused of adultery - a crime that carries a sentence of one hundred lashes or even stoning - even if she was raped.

Sudan's laws also grant immunity to members of the military, security services, police and border guards. Many members of the Janjaweed militias that carry out the worst atrocities in Darfur are integrated in the Popular Defence Forces, which is also exempt from prosecution. The Khartoum government also was said to "harass organisations who work with rape victims and doctors who provide medical treatment to raped women."

The dead giveaway this study and article was written by a bunch of lefty sympathisers?

The word Muslim Mohammedan was not mentioned ONCE despite the fact that Sudanese rape laws are clearly based on Sharia law and the Janjaweed are Mohammedans.

What to wear to a Glaswegian Airport Bombing.

I do like the kilts.

New 'do for the Islamic Rage Boy...

He's shaved his head...wanted to look extra good for the cameras.

A Kashmiri supporter of a hardliner faction of the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference (APHC) shouts slogans against the Indian security forces during a protest in Srinagar June 29, 2007. The hardliner faction of the APHC

Have you seen these men?

BOLO
(Be On the Look Out)

Scotland Yard said they are anxious to trace Lamine Adam, 26, and Ibrahim Adam, 20, and a third man, Cerie Bullivant, 24, who went missing this week. The Adams are the brothers of Anthony Garcia, 25, who was jailed for life last month after being convicted at the Old Bailey of conspiring to commit a terrorist attack in Britain.

The orders on the three were imposed under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. Lamine Adam is 6ft (1.82m) tall, with a slim build, light complexion and short dark brown hair. He was last seen with a short beard or stubble.

Ibrahim Adam is 6ft 2in, slim, and has a light complexion and short dark brown hair.
Cerie Bullivant is white, 5ft 7in, slim with brown receding hair and brown eyes. He is thought to now have short hair.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the confidential AntiTerrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.

.

Tell me Islam is not a mental condition...

Now that's what I call Crazy.

One eyewitness at yesterday’s attack in Glasgow, Jackie Kennedy, 46, a beautician from the city, described how she watched one of the occupants of the car douse himself in petrol and set himself alight.

“He had a big smirk on his face. He lifted up what appeared to be a five-litre drum, which I think had petrol in it, and set himself on fire,” she said. “His clothes were melting in front of my very eyes. "

What? Mahmoud's not ready for his close up?

From Kamangir:

Mehdi Kolhar, Ahmadinejad’s media adviser, said “Ahmadinejad rejected Oliver Stone’s request [to make a film about Ahmadinejad]”.

He said “I sent Dr Ahmadinejad’s rejection to Oliver Stone because even though he is in the opposition in the states, but even the opposition in the states is a part of the big satan”.

He added “We believe that the American movie-production system does not contain any element of culture or art and is only a tool”.

“I must add that Dr Ahmadinejad was personally against this”. He concluded, “However, it is very clear why Stone asked for doing the movie. He [Ahmadinejad] is an appealing figure in the world and the Americans always look for what can return their investment”.

Hey Hollywood! You're all capitalist tools... (h/t Gateway Pundit)

Italy: Standing up for Hina

Demonstrators at Hina's Trial

From: Stop Honour Killings.

Taking it to the streets.

Hundreds of immigrant Muslim and Italian women on Thursday protested outside a courthouse in the northern city of Brescia, where a preliminary hearing was held in the case involving Hina Saleem, a 20 year old Pakistani woman allegedly murdered by her father Mohammed and three other male relatives.

Hina, who dressed in western clothes, worked in a pizzeria in the northern town of Sarezzo and lived with Tempini was found with her throat slit buried in the garden of her family home, her head facing Mecca. Prosecutors allege she was murdered by Mohammed with the aid of other male relatives after they had decided to kill her for having 'dishonoured' the family.

It seems her murder had been lovingly planned (and executed) by her family:
The wound to Hina Saleem's throat was a sole gash, inflicted by a meat knife. The murder had been long prepared: the grave in the back garden, in which Hina's body was sepulchred - and from where it was recovered, wrapped in rubbish bags - was already dug a metre-and-a-half deep, awaiting her.

I think Souad might be delusional when she says it has nothing to do with religion.
"Religion has nothing to do with our struggle. We just want to say no to violence - that which Italian women also endure. We completely oppose Islamic law," said ACMID president Souad Sbai in a statement ahead of Thursday's hearing."We have no political axe to grind. Our members come from across the political spectrum," Sbai added. Hina is the fifith Muslim woman to be the victim of an 'honour killing' in Italy.

More about Hina's murder and about Brescia can be found here. Some of the choice bits:
The province of Brescia is home to Italy's highest immigrant population - 14 per cent (and much higher in the city centre), increasing by 1 per cent annually. That accounts for legally documented regolari, for each of whom, say rightwingers (and others concur), there is an illegal clandestino to double that percentage - those who slip the net, maybe surviving the perilous sea crossings from Africa for employment in what Italians call lavoro nero (undeclared labour). The workforce in the engineering industry is 34 per cent legal immigrant (plus those unregistered) - mostly Pakistani, North African and Senegalese - while nearly 100 per cent of those tending animals on farms are immigrants, mostly Sikh. Almost all of those working as domestic servants in 30,000 of Brescia's homes are from Asia or Africa, and invariably clandestini.

Sounds like a charming spot, doesn't it?

Within 17 days (of Hina Saleem's murder) another six people had been killed across the city, some murders so savage as to defy the imagination. A 23-year-old woman was strangled to death in a church by the sacristan, from Sri Lanka, while trying to light a candle to the Madonna - her corpse hidden behind a pulpit while Mass continued over two days. Next day, a renowned Lombard painter was stabbed to death by a youth from Morocco, whom he had admitted into his home. A Pakistani man was knifed to death in the street and an entire family - father, mother and son - was ritually tortured and executed, the woman and child having their throats cut in front of the father who was left to die slowly from a slash to his own throat.

Iran: 3rd phase of "moralisation campaign" to kick off.

Primavera - Botticelli

Going to the mountains? Or a park? Singing? Laughing out loud?

You're busted, buddy.

A new phase of the Iranian government's moralisation campaign is due to kick off on Friday, and "is set to intensify over summer" said police chief General Ahmad Reza Radan. "The third phase involves the cleaning up of our parks and of our mountains of immoral elements which prevent families from passing their weekends peacefully."

Behaviour in holiday spots, which is not in adherence with strict Islamic morality, will be punished. As well as dressing in appropriately, this could involve listening to music, singing or laughing out loud or walking hand in hand.

And don't EVEN be thinking of going to a promiscuous party.

140 young people, both male and female, were arrested during "promiscuous" parties organised in private homes.

Some interesting numbers from the article. Up to this point almost 63,000 women have been arrested for being "malveiled", half of them "business women" (uppity beyotches). 2500 businesses, internet cafes and restaurants have been closed down and over 8000 "offenders of public morals" have been arrested, 2000 remain in custody. 350,000 indecent and offensive CD's and DVDs have also been destroyed.

And how about this?

The news agency FARS, which is close to the Tehran government, also reported that some 175 'indecent' paintings and sculptures at Tabriz, the capital of Iranian Azerbaijan. Among those seized in a shop there was a reproduction of the famous Primavera by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli which has near naked figures cavorting in a pastoral scene.

Ahmadinejokes and armed guards at gas stations

From the article: Iran curses Ahmadinejad over petrol rationing.
"On the orders of President Ahmadinejad, those who are short of petrol can have a ride on the 17 million donkeys who voted for him."

Get used to it Iranians: Tighter rationing controls on the way.


Smart Money: The Smart Card system used to monitor gas usage costs 70 million to install.

From the article: Iranian leaders defend fuel rationing. It will make them INVINCIBLE!

The government began fuel rationing Wednesday, driving angry Iranians to smash shop windows and set fire to more than a dozen gas stations in the capital Tehran and several other cities. With armed guards protecting gas stations, the country calmed down the next day, but Iranians have continued to criticize the new measure, prompting Saturday's defense.

Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that reduced reliance on imported gasoline would make the country less vulnerable to international pressure, at a time when Iran is at odds with the West over its nuclear program. "Enemies have confessed to this important reality that if fuel consumption is contained and reduced, Iran will become invincible,'' Ahmadinejad was quoted by the broadcast as saying.

And not only will they be INVINCIBLE - they will be GREEN.

And oh so courageous. Khamenei says: Gas rationing move "brave" (and if the Iranian people think the money saved on gasoline imports will be spent on improving their living conditions - well, that joke is on them...)

Khamenei suggested the money Iran could save through the scheme -- gasoline imports cost it $5 billion last year -- should be used to improve living conditions."If this huge amount decreases eventually, certainly it will be spent on issues related to people's lives, employment and building roads and schools," he said.

Speaking of the people, they are saying, “cannons, tanks, fire arms / Ahmadinejad must be dead.” Gasoline rationing causes chaos in Tehran.

From the dissident ranks: Petrol in the Flames of War.

...And so the “kind” administration in Iran is spending the wealth and resources of the people for an unequal war, while zooming its eye on the leadership of the Islamic world and the toppling of the “infidels”.

And that's no joke!