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The Indonesian officials can't put to death the convicted killers - who took part in the Bali bombings on innocent tourists - because of the threat of Islamic violence - who's controlling who? Bali, 21 August (AKI) - The three Islamic militants convicted of the 2002 Bali bombing have been given a stay of execution due to the upcoming holy fasting month of Ramadan in September.Fearing a backlash fr

A series of bombing attacks in two major cities in India has been caused by members of a group who call themselves the “Indian Mujahedeen.” At least 29 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in m ore than a dozen co-ordinated bomb attacks in the western Indian city of Amedabad. The series of [...]

Mothers for jihad.A burqa-clad woman attends a gathering with her children at the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad July 9, 2008. About 2,000 Islamist women gathered at the Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday and vowed to raise their children for holy war, days after a suicide bomber killed 18 people after a [...]

Turkey, a vacation destination for many Israelis and the home of newly launched talks with Syria, is experiencing an upsurge in Islamist programs targeting Israel for destruction.According to Turkish web site Velfecr.com, radical Turkish Islamists have been organizing nightly programs in cities across Turkey under the slogan, “A free Al-Quds [the Muslim term for Jerusalem], A world without Israe

Caza de brujas en Europa: Fiscales y policías recrudecen la persecución contra periodistas y dibujantes de prensa críticos con el islam.Leedlo entero. Os dejo lo que me ha parecido más importante:En el Reino Unido, la policía de la región inglesa de las West Midlands dio el año pasado un extremadamente inquietante paso: denunció a Channel 4, no por un presunto delito concreto, sino por lo

Ignore at your peril the enemies in our midst. I first learned of this petition while listening in to the May 14 ‘08 segment of Conservative Political Pistachio Radio at Blog talk Radio. It was mentioned and listeners were directed to A NEWT ONE to learn more. I had nearly forgotten about it till I [...]

UN-sponsored talks between Somalia's transitional government and the Union of Islamic Courts scheduled to be held in neighboring Djibouti broke down when the UIC refused to meet the government face-to-face. After four days meeting UN diplomats in Djibouti, the two sides agreed to attend further talks in two weeks time. The opposition insists it will not engage in direct negotiations until the gove

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP, May 01) : The man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia was killed in an overnight airstrike along with 10 other people, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday.The spokesman for the Islamic al-Shabab militia, Sheik Muqtar Robow, said the strike killed Aden Hashi Ayro, his brother, another commander and six others at his house in the central Somali town of Dusamareeb, about 300 miles north of Mogadishu. Six more people were wounded, two of whom later died, said resident Abdullahi Nor."Our brother martyr Aden Hashi, has received what he was looking for — death for the sake of Allah — at the hands of the United States," Robow told The Associated Press by phone."This would not deter us from continuing our holy war against Allah's enemy; we will be on the

One of the more interesting things to me in the recent spate of statements by Ayman al-Zawahiri and other al Qaeda leaders is al Qaeda's need now to constantly and viciously attack other Islamist tendencies, particularly Iran and Shities, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Brotherhood-linked Hamas. In addition to the attacks, the recent communications show two things: a clear awareness of current events, and the ability to comment on them quickly; and a clear lack of understanding of how the world really...(read more)

The Guardian, Nairobi (April 15 2008) - A British headteacher who was shot dead in Somalia by Islamist insurgents may have been targeted because he was a Christian convert, his wife said yesterday. Daud Hassan Ali, 64, was killed outside the Hiran community education project English school in Beledweyne in central Somalia late on Sunday night, along with Rehana Ahmed, 33, a fellow British Somali teacher. She was reported to have been shot in the head.Militiamen from the Shabab rebel group also killed two Kenyan teachers after forcing them out of their houses at the school, 190 miles north-west of the capital Mogadishu. A senior commander with the Shabab yesterday claimed the teachers had died in crossfire.Ali, the school's headmaster and founder, moved to Britain in 1967, and worked as a t

Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and Gaza. Ehud Olmert appears to be the best friend Islamists have. During the interview, Livni was asked about the possibility of Israel making concessions to Syria on the Golan Heights and responded by saying that she is "not interested in negotiating the specific conditions of any peace agreement but [is] able to indicate that Israel is interested

During the last fortnight, the 'Student Islamic Movement of India' (SIMI), the radical outlawed Muslim student outfit, has received major setbacks when Madhya Pradesh State police have rounded up over 30 active cadres including its chief Safdar Nagori and Shibly Peedical Abdul from Rajgarh, Ujjain and Indore since March 27. Nagori was reportedly planning a series of major terror strikes across India. The interrogations revealed two vital developments: SIMI has plans to indoctrinate and train school...(read more)

CAIR has co-sponsored and taken part in multiple Islamist conferences in the United States, while at the same time condemning and seeking to censor more moderate Muslims. Those actions are described in today's installment in IPT's comprehensive 10-part series on the group. Among the highlights: In May 1998, CAIR co-sponsored with IAP, HLF, MAYA and others a rally at Brooklyn College where speakers spewed anti-Jewish rhetoric. Radical Egyptian cleric Wagdy Ghoneim -- denied entrance to Canada earlier...(read more)

Great news for Turks battling with Islamists who want slowly re-institute Islamic Law in Turkey one law at a time. As you know, Turkey is a secular nation with a secular military, but has come under increased pressure to instill more pro-Islamic laws throughout now that a Pro-Islamist Prime Minister (Erdogan) and Pro-Islamist President [...]

Liveleak has pulled “Fitna”, the new Geert Wilders movie after reveiving multiple death threats to their staff.  You can still find the video on Google for now.  Click here to watch. Here is their statement: “Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media [...]

They say some polls are unreliable, and the one spoken about here by Patrick Poole, which took place at Wright State University, was certainly unreliable, because it was rigged by its Islamist launcher, who intended to use it for promoting the extremist agenda of the Islamist group he led, for starters by trying to use it in order to get a Mosque-style prayer room on campus. The way he conducted

This weekend’s election in Malaysia dealt a tremendous electoral defeat for the ruling coalition government, both at the federal and state level. The United Malay National Organization (UMNO) is the lead partner in a coalition government (called the Barisan Nasional - or United Front) that includes the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) and the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA). Historically together these three parties can control anywhere from 66 to more than 80 percent of parliament. In the...(read more)

On November 18, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), published by Dow Jones , is sponsoring a conference in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on "Islamic and Ethical Finance" to "examine the huge opportunities presented by this high-growth sector". The Wall Street Journal's "Chief Shariah Officer" for this November 18 conference is Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, who has worked for the pro-Wahhabist International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) organization and who was secretary of the Fiqh Council of North...(read more)

I have followed some more about the worrisome rise of political parties with shady and questionable credentials such as the BNP, Vlaams Belang and Sweden Democrats on sites like Hot Air and Little Green Footballs, and there's more available here and here. And frankly, I can only conclude that these parties are no better than the Front National in France, which thankfully ran out of luck in the

>... "Islamist scarecrow". The term is meant for the ears of the West as well, and suggests that the autocratic governments play on the fear of the West that an Islamist rule will be the alternative if those regimes fall, so that by waving this "scarecrow" around, and alluding to the ominous repercussions of reform for Western interests....>>

The forces ordered Mogadishu-based Simba Radio off the air and arrested its chief Abdullahi Ali Farak and a journalist, according to a reporter who works there. The radio on Wednesday evening interviewed Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, a radical Islamist leader, who said he was behind a suicide attack earlier in the day on an Ethiopian army base near a hotel where Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi was staying.Sheikh Mukhtar -- also known as Abu Mansur after training in Afghanistan and fought alongside the Taliban in the early 2000s -- presented himself in the interview as a spokesman for the Somali Islamist movement in Mogadishu, but he has commanded numerous other militia fighters over the past decade.Last month, Somali security forces besieged and opened fire at Shabelle radio, destroying equipment and forcing it to close for 15 days after they accused one of Shabelle reporters of hurling a grenade at a police patrol.

See Video.Voice of Reporter: ... The people are not only Somalis. Among them is this American, who says that he heard the call for the Somali Jihad when he was away from America.Abu Mansur the American: Oh muslims of America, take into consideration the situation in Somalia. After 15 years of chaos and oppresive rule by the american-backed warlords, your brothers stood up and stablished peace and justice in this land.Voice of Reporter: Abu Mansur is not only a fighter, but also the military instructor of the Islamic Courts Union fighters...Via Solomonia

Memri Blog - The mainstream, top selling Turkish daily Hurriyet published today photos taken from an Islamist CD that is selling like hot cakes in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, for about $1.50 each.The video depicts dhikr rituals where the Islamist sheik and his helpers are mutilating the bodies of their disciples by inserting metal skewers into their heads and bodies, as well as making young children eat long fluorescent light bulbs. More...

"We're fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here" has become a hymn for the American right and an abominable lie to the left. But drowned out by all the noise is the fact that "they" are here already, having landed a long time ago and gotten very busy indeed constructing the American wing of jihad.Have you watched the Arabic Channel, also known as TAC, which serves the New York region? Probably not, as most New Yorkers neither understand nor speak Arabic. But if you are among the estimated 1 million viewers — legal and illegal, new and old Arabic-speaking immigrants to the tri-state area — who tune in daily to Channel 507 on Time Warner Cable, this is what you can get: A daily dose of Islamic jurisprudence from an Egyptian sheik, Amr Khaled, who comes direct from Cairo as TAC's prime advocate of "peaceful jihad," on how the duty of every Arab-American is to become first, second, and only a member of the Muslim Ummah. More...

The following article/outline was recommended to me by Canadian Anvil reader Sounder and appears to be the creation of another but as yet unknown Canadian. I think it does an excellent job of expanding in greater detail on ideas that I have myself outlined here on the Anvil before, so it is worth reposting here. Take a look (I have edited it slight for better clarity): Based On The Evidence Of 1200 Years Of Islamic History   Introduction: FACT #1: The goal of Islam is the subjugation of the entire world to Islam through the establishment of a global Islamic rule and the eradication of all non-Islamic populations, cultures, religions, thoughts, knowledge, symbols, traditions and ways of life. This goal is non-negotiable in fundamental doctrines of Islam and in the eyes of true Muslims. FACT #2: Islamists will not stop their assault (open or clandestine) on the non-Muslim world as long as they have not achieved Islamic rule. FACT #3: IN ISLAMIC TEACHING, THE END ALWAYS JUSTIFIE

This email just in from the UAC: The United American Committee, America’s largest educational grassroots organization against the threat of radical Islam, is planning a counter protest on Sunday, September 9th of an annual parade in New York City which in years past has attracted thousands of Islamist extremists carrying signs and chanting for the destruction of America. The parade, titled the Annual Muslim Day Parade, is sponsored by several Islamist organizations deemed by many Americans to be radical and a danger to freedom. Past parades have included such extremists as Ashrafuzzaman Khan, accused death squad leader, as well as Siraj Wahhaj, unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The Parade route will head South, starting at Madison & 41st street and ends at Madison & 23rd. The parade starts at 12 Noon. UAC is urging all concerned Americans to join with them and several other unannounced partner organizations for a peaceful demonstration. Attende

  “If public schools become places where children learn that, fundamentally, they are not American, there will be no reason for taxpayers to continue supporting them. And there will be little to hold society together.” - Albert Shanker Stop The Madrassa Community Newsletter: The Stop the Madrassa Coalition demands the resignation from the KGIA Advisory Council of Imam Talib Abdul-Rashid, Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, Harlem. The Imam is unfit to serve in any capacity in a public school system, since he insists on teaching that Muslims came to America before other explorers and derides any other history as “European imperialistic notions of history rooted in White Supremacy,” as well as opposing celebrating Thanksgiving as “European colonial misguidance.” Separatist views completely re-writing our history, have no place in an American public school. Who are they trying to kid here? Honestly I have had it. I am sick of Americans being taken for fools

CAIR has reached an all-time low today. In an article on the CAIR website, the Islamist propaganda machine has actually referenced kooky Jim Sutter’s smear campaign as work to be taken seriously in the effort to shut down the free speech of author Robert Spencer and a circle of bloggers of which I am a known part. In my opinion CAIR is on the run now. Such poor judgement in what allies to reach for in their constant efforts to staunch criticism of Islam and Muslims in the United States shows absolute desperation. This means that sites like Jihad Watch and the Anvil are having a positive effect. If we were not CAIR would not be making such fumbling errors. From a statement by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch: CAIR may be interested in knowing more about their new friend the “Rev.” Jim Sutter, a somewhat pathetic character who, according to this website, was ordained by mail-order, is a convicted felon, claims to have degrees he doesn’t have and honors (incl

One can hardly imagine the growth of radical Islam and its jihadi organizations in recent years without the immense reach, impact and capabilities of the Internet. The threat posed by Islamist websites has recently been demonstrated by three cases: the case of the New Jersey group that planned a terrorist attack on Fort Dix; the planned terrorist attack on JFK; and the attempted car bombings in the UK. According to media reports, the terrorists in all three cases were inspired by jihadist websites. There were also two recent court cases in Britain and Switzerland in which terrorists were convicted of using Internet sites to promote terrorist activities.The jihadist terrorist organizations utilize the Internet for two main purposes: for operational needs, and for indoctrination and da'wa (propagation of Islam). More...

Vasko Kohlmayer of FrontPage Magazine has written an article on the recent conviction of “would-be suicide bombers” in the UK that ends with very insightful warning: Countering this evil effectively will require that we fundamentally change the way we approach this problem. To begin with, western democracies will have to start crafting legislation aimed specifically at the destructiveness and murderousness peculiar to their Muslim residents. At the same, restrictions will have to be placed on Muslim immigration, for it is difficult to see how we can survive continued inflows of those who are not only hostile to the way we live, but are so willing to repay with evil the goodwill of their hosts. Remind you of anything you may have read here at the Anvil from my own keyboard? From my article ‘The Threat Worse than Islamic Terrorism’: The worst threats to our way of life as Westerners come from subversive means both overt and covert. Examples of this includ

Counteracting The Influence Of Saudi MoneyIn Funding Forms Of MadrasasVisit: http://stopthemadrassa.wordpress.com/From the National Review:Unless we counteract the influence of Saudi money on the education of the young, we’re going to find it very difficult to win the war on terror. I only wish I was referring to Saudi-funded madrassas in Pakistan. Unfortunately, I’m talking about K-12 education in the United States. Believe it or not, the Saudis have figured out how to make an end-run around America’s K-12 curriculum safeguards, thereby gaining control over much of what children in the United States learn about the Middle East. While we’ve had only limited success paring back education for Islamist fundamentalism abroad, the Saudis have taken a surprising degree of control over America’s Middle-East studies curriculum at home.How did they do it? Very carefully…and very cleverly. It turns out that the system of federal subsidies to university programs of Middle East Studies

Islamist Win Turkish ElectionTurkish Interverntion in Northern Iraq seems more likely after these election results providing yet another obstacle to future stability in Iraq and the possibility aof larger regional conflict seems to loom. The U.S. has said little other than warning Ankara not to invade Northern Iraq but quite possible has privately agreed to turn a blind eye on Turkish incursions into Northern Iraq . The Turks want to hit PKK rebel bases and have long made it know it would not except a independent Kurdish state on its border.Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party won parliamentary elections by a wide margin Sunday, and the prime minister pledged to safeguard the country's secular traditions and do whatever the government deems necessary to fight separatist Kurdish rebels.Kurdish Rebel Leader Expects Turk AttackKurdish rebels of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, are seen near the Turkish borderKurdish rebels of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, or

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology - I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy. By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this “Blair’s bombs” line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology. The attempts to cause mass destruction in London and Glasgow are so reminiscent of other recent British Islamic extremist plots that they are likely to have been carried out by my former peers. And as with previous terror attacks, people are again saying that violence carried out by Muslims is all to do with foreign policy. For example, on Saturday on Radio 4’s Today progra

The successes of Indonesia's Partai Keadilan Sejahtera or Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) and Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP), for instance, have convinced Malaysia's PAS, especially the professionals and the young ulama, that this is also the way to go for the party.Both the PKS and the AKP emphasize the substance rather than the form of political Islam, leading to a de-emphasis in the Islamic state agenda in favor of universally-shared values such as democracy, human rights and justice.The PKS has even fielded non-Muslim candidates in national elections, specifically in areas with significant non-Muslim populations.

Algiers, May 12 (DPA) Six suspected Islamist terrorists were killed by security forces in two separate clashes in Algeria, the country’s media reported Saturday. An Algerian soldier was also killed in the fighting, which took place Friday near Tizi Ouzou, 115 km east of Algiers, and in Saida, 440 km further southwest. Meanwhile, one policeman was killed and two wounded in a bomb attack in the town of Jijel. Algerian forces have been in continual conflict with Salafist terrorists, who are part to the Al Qaeda terrorist network.

It should come as no shock to anyone even slightly to the right of Vladimir Lennin that the American media have become apologists and facilitators for Islamic extremists. In an ever increasing spiral of political correctness even moderate muslims are not given a chance to speak their piece because the MSM is afraid of offending the radical Islamists. That's sort of like not letting church goers have their say about the Ku Klux klan because it might offend the Klan. Think about it before you dismiss it please. What is the difference? It is both matters of silencing moderates for fear of offending extremists. Or is extremism ok as long as its...dare one say... brown people?  And when it comes right down to it PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are the worst of the worst. And it is no coincidence they are the most liberal networks in the country as well. Good going PBS! You show your true selves to people more and more with every stupid escapade of this type.  ~RJH

The Islamist front is clearly on a widespread charm offensive. The results are impressive. We have the Foreign Affairs piece, op-eds in both the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal, the friendly forum for 4.5 hours of undisputed discourse from Tariq Ramadan at Georgetown University and the upcoming “What Does it Mean to Be Muslim [...]

The Islamist front is clearly on a widespread charm offensive. The results are impressive. We have the Foreign Affairs piece, op-eds in both the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal, the friendly forum for 4.5 hours of undisputed discourse from Tariq Ramadan at Georgetown University and the upcoming “What Does it Mean to Be Muslim [...]

In the past few months, Islamists engaged in “media jihad” have increased their efforts to expose as broad a Western audience as possible to their jihad films, which purport to document the growing success of the mujahideen in Iraq and Afghanistan. As part of this endeavor, they have posted jihad films on popular [...]

In one of my earlier posts today I defended Islam by saying that it gets a bad reputation for being a violent religion. This story however, does nothing to help my cause. A man killed his family (wife and four daughters) in their sleep to “protect” them from westernized lifestyles. He was also upset that his daughter wanted to become a fashion designer. It happened a few months ago, but this report came out today. For the longest time I have maintained that Islam is not responsible for events like this. Rather, horrible acts are done for different reasons and masked by religion. But this story and stories like this one make it hard to accept that. It should also be noted that Islam is a relatively young religion. While Christianity is often regarded as a peaceful religion, it wasn’t always like this. Christianity has had its share of bloodshed. It would be wrong to take the position that Islam fosters violence while being blind to the violence that has been bro

Celebrating Valentine's Day is sinful and forbidden for Muslims, an Indonesian Islamic leader warned yesterday."This celebration comes from another religion and has no legal basis in the Islamic Sharia law," said Muslim Ibrahim, who is chairman of the highest authority on Islamic affairs in Aceh province."Therefore, taking part in celebrating the day of love is haram (forbidden) for Muslims," Ibrahim told the state Antara news agency.