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Anti-Jihad News Bulletin w/c July 16th, 2007
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1. MOSQUE FUNDING MADNESS

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents
/holysmoke/june2007/mosquefundingmadness.htm

Why is the official body representing Britain’s Churches funding the activities of a radical mosque? Ihsan Mosque in Norwich posts some pretty strong stuff on its website, including an anonymous blog that sneers at ‘democracy’s decomposing entrails’ and calls on Muslims to ‘anticipate and pursue the demons in our midst’. But those demons presumably do not include the Churches’ Commission for Racial Justice, whose Racial Justice Fund subsidises children’s holiday activities run by the Ihsan Mosque. I discovered this when I read the fine print of the risibly politically correct media pack produced for the Churches’ Racial Justice Sunday on September 9. This describes Ihsan Community Project as ‘a vibrant voluntary project started by a group of Muslim women… who wanted to make a positive contribution to the wider community both as Muslims as well as Black people. Ihsan provide holiday projects for local young people, theatre workshops, education outreach in local schools…’. Outreach? I bet it reaches out, given the vigorously proselytising nature of some of the mosque’s material.

As for education, I wonder if that will include the claim, posted on Ihsan’s site, that non-Muslims who insult Mohammed are guilty of a crime or that Tony Blair is a ‘major prima facie war criminal’. Ihsan, I should add, is not an Islamist mosque: its members are mostly British-born converts to Islam who condemn terrorism. (I think they are Sufis, though they do not say so on the site; also, the pictures suggest that a majority of converts are white, so I’m not sure where ‘racial justice’ comes into it.) Whether that makes Ihsan ‘moderate’ is another matter. Under the ‘resources’ section of the website, the mosque advertises a book showing ‘how the Muslim community alone can identify the enemy of Islam and life itself, indicating the bankers as the force to be stripped of their power and their magical usury expropriation of our wealth.’ Doesn’t sound terribly moderate to me. What I don’t understand is why the Churches' Commission for Racial Justice, funded by the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church and the Free Churches, should be offering financial support to Ihsan’s holiday camps. Any ideas?

2. ABUSE OF BLASPHEMY LAWS TO PROMOTE ISLAM

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\06\11\story_11-6-2007_pg13_4

Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) additional inspector general Malik Muhammad Iqbal said on Sunday in many cases the people with religious sentiments pressure police to lodge the blasphemy cases. He said the religious sentiments were rampant in society and sometimes it was quite difficult to handle the situation sometimes. He cited the example of Imam-e-Kaaba’s visit. He said no one was invited to receive him, but thousands of people had thronged to receive him and offer prayers behind him. The CCPO said despite all the pressure the courts had been providing relief to the blasphemy-convicted people. He said no doubt people have been taking advantage of the blasphemy law, but this couldn’t be stopped without controlling religious sentiments. On the other side, the human rights organisations across the country have repeatedly been demanding the annulment of the law. On April 1 in Toba Tek Singh six Christians were charged with blasphemy under Sections 295 A, C, 452, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code without the inquiry by an SP. Younis Masih case was also lodged without following the due procedure.

According to the statement of Younis Masih’s counsel, a sub inspector completed the investigation within a day. From May 9 to June 9 three incidents have been reported in the press in which public pressure had been allegedly used to misuse blasphemy laws mainly to grab the property of the accused persons. The cases were lodged under public pressure claiming that the alleged blasphemers have hurted their sentiments. Younis Masih had been sentenced to death on May 30 on charge of blasphemy. Factory Area police had registered a blasphemy case under Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against Masih on September 10, 2005, after he had allegedly made derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) at a Qawali function on September 9, 2005. The lawyer of the accused said that Christians had arranged a spiritual gathering at Chungi Ammar Sidhu in September 9, 2005, at which a neighbour, Abdul Aziz, also a complainant in the case, had objected and demanded that they perform Islamic rituals instead of Christian rites.

The argument turned hot during which, the complainant alleged that the accused had used the derogatory remarks. On May 9, 79-year-old Walter Fazal Khan was bathing in the morning when Riaz, who lived at the same house, knocked at his door and told him that something was burning in the house. Later, they found a burnt book in the drawing room, which Riaz found to be a copy of the Holy Quran. Riaz ran out immediately, called local clerics and tried to beat Walter. Police were called and a case was lodged against Walter under Section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code. Walter was bailed out of jail on May 29. In a latest incident that happened on June 8 the Shahdara Town police registered a blasphemy case against a mentally- handicapped person Nadir Ali for allegedly burning his house, which had a few copies of the Holy Quran on June 9. The case was registered against Nadir under Section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code. Several neighbours alleged the complainant Shahid wanted to grab Nadir’s property. The police officer concerned told Daily Times the police had registered an FIR against Nadir under the public pressure. He admitted that there were reports that Shahid had wanted to grab Nadir’s property.

3. U.S. RAPS SEVERAL ARAB ALLIES FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Slavery is still a reality in many Muslim countries but the mainstream media deliberately ignore it because it would spoil the image of multicultural utopia they are so keen to promote.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1224927620070612

The United States accused its Arab allies Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar on Tuesday of being among the world's worst offenders in failing to prevent people from being sold into the sex trade and servitude. In its annual report on human trafficking, the U.S. State Department added the four to its list of 16 countries subject to possible sanctions, including the loss of U.S. aid and U.S. support for World Bank and International Monetary Fund loans. Algeria, Equatorial Guinea and Malaysia were also added to the bottom -- Tier 3 -- ranking of countries that failed to meet minimum U.S. standards on combating human trafficking or of making significant efforts to improve their record. The others in this category were Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. Under U.S. law, these countries have 90 days to improve their records or face sanctions.

The Bush administration can choose not to impose sanctions if it wishes. In presenting the report, U.S. Ambassador Mark Lagon told reporters it was ‘especially disappointing’ that many of the countries that slid into the lowest ranking were rich Middle Eastern nations that have the money to combat the problem. He noted that Saudi Arabia is on the bottom rung for the third year in a row. The annual ‘Trafficking in Persons Report,’ documents cases of girls sold into prostitution, boys compelled to become child soldiers, and adults and children forced to work on fishing boats that stay at sea for years, leaving them unable to escape and vulnerable to disease, starvation and physical abuse. The United States estimates 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year, roughly 80 percent of them women and girls and as many as half of the total minors. Rights groups say such U.S. blacklists sometimes appear politically motivated. Friendly countries with major trafficking problems such as India were not placed in the worst category, where U.S. antagonists like Syria, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela routinely appear.

The report includes three other categories: Tier 1 for nations that meet minimum U.S. standards; Tier 2 for those that are making significant efforts to do so, and Tier 2 ‘Special Watch List’ for those that deserve special scrutiny. Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who helped write the law mandating the report, said too many countries -- 32 of them this year -- are being placed on the ‘Special Watch List’ rather than being put in the lowest category. ‘We believe it is being misused to park certain countries like India, which the record clearly indicates ought to be on Tier 3,’ he said in an interview, saying he was considering amending the law to bar countries from being on the watchlist for more than three years. Lagon denied any political motivation and noted Zimbabwe, which has a poor relationship with the United States, escaped the Tier 3 ranking. He also noted improvements by Georgia, Hungary and Slovenia, which rose to ‘Tier 1’ this year. Last year the report for the first time acknowledged that the United States had paid contractors in Iraq who were later found to have abused laborers hired from abroad. The report criticized Iraq's government for failing to prosecute any trafficking cases, to protect victims or to take steps to prevent abuses ‘despite reports of a growing labor trafficking problem among women and foreign nationals.’ Iraq is not ranked in the report because of the turmoil its government faces in trying to quell the insurgency that erupted after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

4. KUWAIT BARS WOMEN FROM NIGHT JOBS

Further evidence of the appalling sexism of the Muslim world.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007
/June/middleeast_June201.xml§ion=middleeast&col=

The Kuwaiti parliament on Monday passed a law banning women from working at night, except those in the medical profession, and barring them from jobs considered ‘immoral.’ The law, which was passed unanimously, prohibits women from working between 8:00 pm and 7:00 am and in jobs that ‘contravene with public morals and in all-men service places at any time.’ Conservative and Islamist MPs, who form a majority in the 50-member house, said the law aims at protecting women from ‘being exploited in immoral activities.’ Kuwait is a conservative Muslim emirate where alcohol is banned, but it does not have a strict dress code for women such as that enforced in neighbouring Saudi Arabia. Kuwaiti women took part in parliamentary elections for the first time in June 2006, one year after they were granted full political rights following a struggle lasting four decades.

5. MINNESOTA MUSLIMS IN CULTURE CLASH AT AIRPORT

Further ridiculous arrogance from Muslims who expect us to adapt to their ways.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN3035513520070612?feedType=RSS

For Mahamed Jama, a Minnesota taxi driver, the Islamic restriction on drinking alcohol is a seamless rule for life. ‘He who carries alcohol, he who drinks and he who sells it are the same thing,’ he says. That belief could affect his livelihood. The commission that runs the Minneapolis airports in May began enforcing a new policy allowing it to revoke the licenses of drivers who refuse to ferry passengers carrying alcohol -- something that has happened to 4,854 travelers trying to get a cab at Minneapolis International Airport in the last five years. ‘The increased penalties appear to have brought drivers into compliance,’ airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said of the policy -- a 30-day license suspension for a first infraction and a two-year license revocation for a second. Although Hogan said the measure was implemented without incident, it has provoked outrage among some of the 900 cab drivers who work the airport.

About three quarters of them are Somali, most of whom are Muslim. ‘A few of them are really, really upset about it,’ said Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in neighboring St. Paul. ‘They believe they have been forced into something against their faith, something against their religion.’ Nevertheless, Jamal's group does not support the stand taken by the drivers. ‘We don't understand why they do this,’ he said. The issue is really ‘a process of getting adjusted to new territory, new culture.’ Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the drivers are using a ‘strict and rigid’ interpretation of Islamic law. But Stephen Cooper, former commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, said the change from the previous policy, in which drivers refusing a fare went to the back of the line, is unwarranted. ‘Five or six times a month, somebody will get the second or third cab, rather than the first cab,’ Cooper said. ‘That seems pretty minor.’

NO PORK

Culture clashes involving Muslims have been relatively rare in the United States, where Muslims are only a small fraction of the country's 301 million people. A recent Pew Research Center study estimated there were about 1.4 million U.S. Muslims age 18 and over, though this figure is debated. The same report also found Muslims were ‘largely assimilated (and) happy with their lives.’ The Minneapolis-St. Paul area, with its big Somali concentration and a Muslim community of 150,000 people out of a total population of 3.5 million, has seen its share. Recently, Muslim clerks at a Target Corp. store refused to handle pork products, such as bacon, at check-out counters. A spokeswoman for Target, which operates more than 1,500 stores in 47 states, said the company has a policy of accommodating such religious beliefs and said there was no indication the pork handling issue was a nationwide concern. Minnesota has the nation's first Muslim representative in the U.S. Congress, but Democrat Keith Ellison has not been vocal on such issues since going to Washington last year. Grappling with the issue of alcohol is a new phenomenon to many U.S. Muslims, said Abdi Ismail Samatar, a University of Minnesota professor, adding that Somali and other Muslim immigrants may not have even encountered alcohol before.

‘When I was growing up in East Africa in a Muslim community, I heard of alcohol but I never (saw) what it looked like until I came to the United States,’ he said. In a statement on its Web site, the Islamic Center of Minnesota seems to offer believers contradictory advice. It notes that the Koran prohibits believers to ‘sell, carry or profit’ from alcohol, but adds that in ‘certain situations’ Muslims may ‘do things which are forbidden based on the doctrine of necessity.’ Samatar said that deciding how to interact with people who drink alcohol is a personal decision that each Muslim immigrant must make. ‘There is a lot of soul-searching going on in the United States, not so much for drinking because that is forbidden completely, but how you relate to people who do so,’ he said. It is a ‘personal interpretation (of the Koran) more than anything else.’ Eltayeb Osman, a Muslim cabbie from Sudan, has negotiated his own rules for driving passengers who carry alcohol. He'll do it, but with certain restrictions. ‘Put it in the trunk, put it in your hand, whatever,’ Osman said. ‘I don't need to touch it myself.

6. EURABIA: 'CONSPIRACY' OR POLICY?

Conspiracy theory is something to be entered into with extreme care, but sometimes it is actually true.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/06/eurabia_conspiracy_or_policy_1.html

America must reckon with the reality of a long term project to create a Euro-Arab alliance based on far-reaching cultural integration measures. Yet some dismiss the warnings of those who speak of the dangers for America as the ravings of conspiracy theorists. Phillip Jenkins, in his recently released book God's Continent makes the following statement: ... the forces driving Muslim immigration were so overwhelming that there is no reason to imagine the conspiracy theory devised by Bat Ye'or and since popularized by Oriana Fallaci and others, which suggests that European elites collaborated with Arab states to create a Eurabian federation spanning the Mediterranean. Given the economic forces demanding labor and the political factors conditioning supply, it would be difficult to imagine any outcome much different from what actually occurred. Sadly, and not so ‘incidentally’, this reductio ad absurdum argument -- focused inappropriately on the secondary issue of immigration as if that were the sine qua non of ‘Eurabia’, and imbued with a non-sequitur, defamatory charge of conspiracism -- reveals little more than Mr. Jenkin's own thoroughly inept research. Despite its widespread usage, there is almost universal ignorance about the origins of the term ‘Eurabia’.

We'll get to that shortly. Here is a bit of historical context, to which Mr. Jenkins is completely oblivious, dating back to the early to mid-1970s, as characterized in meticulous (if dry and forbidding) detail in Bat Ye'or's seminal, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis. Born of the Arab League's October, 1973 defeat in their Yom Kippur war against Israel and the related oil embargo, The Euro-Arab Dialogue has created an alphabet soup of European Community, and later European Union-funded organizations charged with planning joint political, cultural, social, industrial, commercial, and technical-scientific projects. This entity first met officially at a ministerial level on July 31, 1974, in Paris, to discuss the Dialogue's organization. In attendance were the Secretary General of the Arab League, the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister, the President of the European Community Commission, and the President of the European Community. As Bat Ye'or observes, In the course of the meetings that followed, the European foreign ministers of the Nine [i.e., the original European Community member states] laid the foundations for their cooperation with the Arab countries, through an institutionalized structure linked to the highest authorities in each European Community country.

This...made it possible to harmonize the European Community policy of trade and cooperation with the Arab League countries. The Dialogue rapidly spawned a European Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation whose members represented a broad spectrum of European Community political groups. Biannual Euro-Arab Parliamentary meetings convened alternately in Europe and the Arab nations. Roughly 100 European and Arab members of their respective Parliaments attended, along with observers from the European Community/European Union Commission, the Arab League, and other international organizations. During an initial meeting in Damascus, September 14-17, 1974, the Arab delegates established their political preconditions for economic agreements with Western Europe, specifically demanding:

1. Israel's unconditional withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines

2. Arab sovereignty over the Old City of Jerusalem

3. Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) participation (lead by Yasser Arafat), in any negotiations

4. European Community pressure on the United States to detach it from Israel and bring its policies closer to those of the Arab states

Eurabia was the title of a journal published in the mid-1970s by the European Committee for the Coordination of Friendship Associations with the Arab World. Eurabia's editor was Lucien Bitterlin, President of the Association of Franco-Arab Solidarity; the journal was published jointly by Euro-Arab associations in London, Paris, and Geneva. Eurabia served as a Euro-Arab Dialogue mouthpiece. For example, the July 1975 issue published resolutions from the aforementioned Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation, and included an editorial underscoring ‘...the necessity for a political entente between Europe and the Arab world as a basis for economic agreements.’ The editors opined, Europeans must ‘...understand the political as well as the economic interests of the Arab world.’ The Euro-Arab Dialogue must express ‘...a joint political will’, and Europeans must create ‘...a climate of opinion’ favorable to Arabs.

The editorial admonished, If they really want to cooperate with the Arab world, the European governments and political leaders have an obligation to protect against the denigration of Arabs in their media. They must reaffirm their confidence in the Euro-Arab friendship and their respect for the millennial contribution of the Arabs to world civilization. The same July 1975 issue of Eurabia included findings from a Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association study advocating, A medium and long term policy must...be formulated in order to bring about economic cooperation through a combination of Arab manpower reserves and raw materials, and European technology and management. With regard to Israel-the linchpin political issue on which the Arabs demanded European acquiescence-the July 1975 edition of Eurabia also reproduced the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association resolution from its Strasbourg meeting one month earlier, insisting, per the disputed Arab interpretation of UN Resolution 242, that Israel withdraw to the 1949 armistice lines, that European governments recognize Arafat's PLO as sole representative of the Palestinian Arabs, and that each European Community nation oblige Israel to accept a Palestinian Arab Judenrein state in Gaza, and Judea/Samaria, i.e. the entire so-called ‘West Bank’. Let me illustrate but one of the alarming Euro-Arab Dialogue's conduit functions. During a 1974 Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting in Lahore, Pakistan, OIC general secretary Mohammed Hasan Mohammed al-Tohami highlighted two key related goals:

(1) Urgent [convening] of a meeting of specialists in the propagation of Islam on a world level, and the establishment of a Jihad Fund...this fund is open with no restrictions...in all fields of Jihad.

(2) Caring for the affairs of cultural centers in Europe, and the establishment of [additional] cultural centers in the continent The Euro-Arab Dialogue introduced European Islamic Centers' educational and cultural programs into European schools, reflecting one aspect of the Jihad to which al-Tohami alluded.

In conclusion, I refer to the April 26-28, 2006 celebration (i.e., 14 months ago, and cited in the Preface to the 7th printing of Bat Ye'or's ‘Eurabia’) of three decades of the Euro-Arab Dialogue, held at the Paris Institute of the Arab World. The event was touted as a Euro-Arab Dialogue Forum, with a theme entitled, ‘Prospects and Contents of a Euro-Arab Strategic Partnership’. Former President Chirac's Foreign Minister, Philippe Douste Blazy, delivered the final address at the April 26th Opening Session. The Forum's ‘Objectif’, according to the Forum website, stated: To relaunch the Euro-Arab Dialogue in conformity with new strategic perspectives in order to constitute the future bilateral pole of international equilibrium and to participate in the creation of a new world order. Clearly, Mr. Jenkins and those of his ilk who spray uninformed and unwarranted charges of ‘conspiracism’ at Bat Ye'or might do well to actually read Eurabia and the vast array of self-explanatory documents and public statements it contains. Thus far, that appears to be too much to ask of them.

7. RECOMMENDED READING

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades by Robert Spencer

http://www.bnp.org.uk/shopping/excalibur/item.php?id=689

The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, & Impact on the World by Serge Trifkovic

http://www.bnp.org.uk/shopping/excalibur/item.php?id=467

White Gold : The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves by Giles Milton

http://www.bnp.org.uk/shopping/excalibur/item.php?id=465